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Huntn said:

The Lost City of Z (2016)- Story of Percy Fawcett sent to South America to draw a boundary between countries, discovers artifacts of an ancient civilization, and an abbreviated chronicle his continuing attempts to find the City of Zed. This story feels historical, but ultimately it is grim, nothing that I would describe as memorable. You may enjoy it. :)

Large lost settlements since then have been found in the Amazon in the vicinity of where Fawcett was looking for his city. It has been speculated that disesase brought by Spanish Conquistadors may have caused the collapse of this civilization to re absorbed by the jungle.

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Good watch a firm favourite :)

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The Wild Geese (1978)
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A superb romp, simply a great action film with a hard pay off.

The Dogs of War (1980)
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A harder watch, more brutal in execution, deeper in content.

Dark of the Sun (1968)
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Not an easy find, Dark of the Sun is named all too well and closer to the fact...

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Planet Of The Apes (2001)- Wow, this movie got terrible reviews, but I found it to be worthy, ok not as good as the original, but I liked the portrayals, ape humor, and the gist of the story, other than the off the wall ending. :D Paul Giamatti is great. Things were looking up, if I had been Wahlberg, I’d have considered staying. :) The original’s ending was much more profound.

You know this is a spoiler. ;)
“You maniacs! You blew it up!
Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!”​
 
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After taking my daughter to see Hamilton this past weekend, she is now wanting to see more musicals. And since the next musical coming up is Wicked, we're prepping our daughter for that with the classic:


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Huntn said:
Planet Of The Apes (2001)- Wow, this movie got terrible reviews, but I found it to be worthy, ok not as good as the original, but I liked the portrayals, ape humor, and the gist of the story, other than the off the wall ending. :D Paul Giamatti is great. Things were looking up, if I had been Wahlberg, I’d have considered staying. :) The original’s ending was much more profound.

You know this is a spoiler. ;)
“You maniacs! You blew it up!
Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!”​
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I prefer the original, the 2001 reboot was a misfire, not a bad film yet not remotely close to the first film that stands up very solidly.

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Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (2002)- 6 amazing sequences in this one movie:
  • The opening sequence- whoop’n Belrog buttocks.
  • The White Wizard
  • Exorcising King Theoden of Sauroman’s bewitchment.
  • Battle of Helmsdeep
  • The Ents march on Isengard
  • A blinding light shines on Helmsdeep.
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Titanic (1997)- Evidence as to why James Cameron is a movie making genius, further evidence: Aliens, The Abyss, Terminator 2, True Lies, and Avatar. Growing up A Night To Remember (1958) was the Titanic Movie. So I originally walked into this thinking 2 hours of ho-hum melodrama and 1 hour of excitement. Well, I was wrong, the story pulled me right in, especially because it was woven around a research vessel exploring the wreck. From the sighting, hard over, the engine room is amazing, reversing an engine, and the collision is brilliantly portrayed, ice on the deck, bursting seams, relatively young love trying to survive.

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Huntn said:
Titanic (1997)- Evidence as to why James Cameron is a movie making genius, further evidence: Aliens The Abyss, True Lies, and Avatar. Growing up A Night To Remember (1958) was the Titanic Movie. So I originally walked into this thinking 2 hours of ho-hum melodrama and 1 hour of excitement. Well, I was wrong, the story pulled me right in, especially because it was woven around a research vessel exploring the wreck. From the sighting, hard over, the engine room is amazing, reversing an engine, and the collision is brilliantly portrayed, ice on the deck, bursting seams, relatively young love trying to survive.

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Personally I far prefer A Night to Remember (1958) being more contemporary, less Hollywood if you will. Cameron's version remains to be a good film, yet adds colour where it was never needed. The star of the show was always the Titanic not the supporting cast and their distractions.

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Lord of the Rings: Return of the King (2003)- The Climax, great!
  • Lighting the Beacon of Gondor.
  • Gandalf covers the retreat from Osgiliath.
  • Faramir’s charge to please his father.
  • Aragorn recruits the ghosts of Dunharrow. “The dead do not suffer the living!” “ You will suffer me,”
  • Nazgûl swarm Minus Tirith.
  • Shelob.
  • The Battle of Pelennor Fields.
  • The charge of Rohan!
  • The Charge of Elephants!
  • Legolas dances on an elephant. “That only counts as one!”
  • Eowyn “I am no man!“
  • The Back Gate “Certainty of death, small chance of success, what are we waiting for?”
  • The longest movie prolog ever made. :)
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Halloween [2018]
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We’re almost halfway into the month of October and nobody has any Halloween movies yet?

So in anticipation of ‘Halloween Kills’ that opens next week, I followed up again with this film from 2018.

I liked it. I’m a huge aficionado of the Halloween/Michael Myers movies in general, [With the Rob Zombie versions of 2007 and 2010 being my favorites.]

Basically, the premise of the movie is that Michael Myers escaped from a mental institution after a transport accident, then he sets on his path of vengeance to find his sister, obviously that’s played by Jamie Lee Curtis.

As many times as there has been Halloween movies, you’d think they would be exhausted now to the point where they’re just silly. But somehow this particular one actually was a decent film with the right amount of gore, but not over the top where Michael Myers is any less intimidating.

Now of course, the grand finale allegedly is coming next week, which I’m curious to see and how they tie this movie in with the finale.

Oh, and if you’re like me, and you enjoy the Halloween movies in general, do yourself a monumental favor, and completely avoid Halloween:Resurrection with Busta Rhymes and Tyra Banks. That movie should have never been made, directed, produced, acted, well….you get the point. 😁
 
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I'm fan of the mindf*ck movie genre and yesterday I watched one from 2011 that I had never heard of (thank-you streaming services) titled Enter Nowhere.

It clearly has a very low budget, but what a great screenplay! Rod Serling or M Night Shyamalan would have been proud to pen this one. I won't spoil it by going into details about the plot, and I highly recommend you don't read anything about it if you intend to give it a watch.

Enter Nowhere is an example of the exact opposite of most modern mainstream movies which spend millions of dollars on production and FX and then throw on a 5 cent screenplay as an afterthought.

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bobob said:
I'm fan of the mindf*ck movie genre and yesterday I watched one from 2011 that I had never heard of (thank-you streaming services) titled Enter Nowhere.

It clearly has a very low budget, but what a great screenplay! Rod Serling or M Night Shyamalan would have been proud to pen this one. I won't spoil it by going into details about the plot, and I highly recommend you don't read anything about it if you intend to give it a watch.

Enter Nowhere is an example of the exact opposite of most modern mainstream movies which spend millions of dollars on production and FX and then throw on a 5 cent screenplay as an afterthought.

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Quite a lineage of those three actors: daughter of Sam Waterston, son of Clint Eastwood, and distant cousin of Bill Paxton.
 
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Relentless Power said:
Halloween [2018]
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We’re almost halfway into the month of October and nobody has any Halloween movies yet?

So in anticipation of ‘Halloween Kills’ that opens next week, I followed up again with this film from 2018.

I liked it. I’m a huge aficionado of the Halloween/Michael Myers movies in general, [With the Rob Zombie versions of 2007 and 2010 being my favorites.]

Basically, the premise of the movie is that Michael Myers escaped from a mental institution after a transport accident, then he sets on his path of vengeance to find his sister, obviously that’s played by Jamie Lee Curtis.

As many times as there has been Halloween movies, you’d think they would be exhausted now to the point where they’re just silly. But somehow this particular one actually was a decent film with the right amount of gore, but not over the top where Michael Myers is any less intimidating.

Now of course, the grand finale allegedly is coming next week, which I’m curious to see and how they tie this movie in with the finale.

Oh, and if you’re like me, and you enjoy the Halloween movies in general, do yourself a monumental favor, and completely avoid Halloween:Resurrection with Busta Rhymes and Tyra Banks. That movie should have never been made, directed, produced, acted, well….you get the point. 😁
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Nope. This is a planned trilogy. Halloween Ends is coming next year....
 
JBGoode said:
Nope. This is a planned trilogy. Halloween Ends is coming next year....
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Honestly, you shouldn’t have told me this. Because I was going into this ‘Halloween Kills’ film released next week with the expectation this was the finale, seeing how it will play out. But now that there’s a third installment for 2022 to plan, now my mindset automatically knows that there will be no ending to the 2021 film.

I’ll still watch Halloween Kills, but you get the point.
 
Queen6 said:
The Craft (1996)
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Ginger Snaps (2000)
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Jennifer's Body (2009)
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SIREN (2016)
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The Void (2016)
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All Hallows Eve approaches... :cool:

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‘Jennifer’s Body’ with Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried is so underrated. I talked about that movie somewhere in this thread a few years back, and the storyline is really catchy, and has a solid gore vibe, almost (Fright Night-ish), but it’s just fun with the high school horror theme and the CGI was actually really well executed.

[And, there’s one particular scene I thought this movie was going to turn into porn, but I’ll just leave it at that.😁]
 
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Relentless Power said:
‘Jennifer’s Body’ with Megan Fox and Amanda Seyfried is so underrated. I talked about that movie somewhere in this thread a few years back, and the storyline is really catchy, and has a solid gore vibe, almost (Fright Night-ish), but it’s just fun with the high school horror theme and the CGI was actually really well executed.

[And, there’s one particular scene I thought this movie was going to turn into porn, but I’ll just leave it at that.😁]
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Way more to come...

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I Am Mother (Netflix 2019)- 3/5s SciFi. After a world human extinction event, in a facility with a 50k embryos, a robot is tasked with repopulating the Earth, raises a girl with an extensive education. Life gets complicated when a stranger knocks on their door. Reality slowly comes into focus.

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