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Post by Pittsnogle_Goggins on Feb 10, 2021 15:18:56 GMT
The Great Santini. First watch. Duvall is obviously great here, what a year for him. The movie dragged a bit a parts but Duvall and O’Keefe to a lesser extent delivered so much it doesn’t really matter.
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Post by stabcaesar on Feb 10, 2021 15:26:39 GMT
Soul - Beautiful. The epiphany scene is one of Pixar's finest moments. The message is not groundbreaking, but it was conveyed effectively. Probably Pixar's best since WALL-E. 9/10.
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Post by Mattsby on Feb 10, 2021 19:03:32 GMT
The Killing Floor (1984) rewatch, 7/10 or more. Set in 1910s Chicago, it's a labor drama but more than that... as loyalty is kept the point of tension here, in terms of race, unionizing, and in a smaller cleverer way, romance. Those factors are always mixing here and the movie, forgivably take-you-by-the-hand in its conveying certain points, is boosted by the supporting cast. Dennis Farina, Alfre Woodard, a searing Moses Gunn, and Mary Alice who in only two scenes proves why she's a legend.
American Playhouse put out a lot of gems in the 80s, some marred by budget constraint, some so accomplished they'd go to theaters before tv broadcast (Testament w/ Jane Alexander, for example). This is somewhere between that, in terms of quality (more Norma Rae than Matewan) - and it was just recently remastered, now on the Criterion channel.
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Post by madmonsterparty on Feb 10, 2021 22:46:01 GMT
The Heavenly Kid - 1985
I'm not sure how many remember this one (or have heard of it in the first place), but I have always thought of it as a fun 1980's comedy. Very fun, sweet movie.
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Post by wilcinema on Feb 10, 2021 23:01:22 GMT
The Fountain: This movie didn’t deserve that soundtrack.
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Feb 11, 2021 9:25:47 GMT
Spree - One of the dumbest things I've watched in a long time. You are not Chayefsky... despite trying so hard to be.
Annndddddd of course it's positive on RT.
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Post by pacinoyes on Feb 11, 2021 11:31:13 GMT
Southbound (2015) - 7.5+........inching towards an 8.0 (not kidding) Ok, maybe I just missed this on MAR......but this is a US horror movie that I don't recall ever being discussed on here? On top of that it's an anthology like Creepshow or Spirits of the Dead and I am crazy about that format - because I have a short attention span, and yet I write really long posts that I expect YOU to read (ah, the irony!). PTA raved this movie - do a Google search people - but as expected horror fans maybe don't (just 5.9 on IMDB, but 81% RT) - like Springsteen said tramps like us baby we were "born to run" because this is all about passengers driving down a creepy road ........but maybe more like Johnny Thunders would say "born to lose" because this is a dark and despairing road too. No one finds happiness on the road ............only ...........the horror, the horror! ![:uhoh:](//storage.proboards.com/6692321/images/c8bbBnLz3a98Jzy_29H2.gif) The segments overlap and are not just stand alone ........some of this is cheesy (there are monsters/special gore effects a la Tremors!), and some of it is disturbingly realistic......it's all compulsively watchable and like the great and ominous The Kirlian Frequency there's a (foul mouthed) DJ (voiced by Larry Fessenden) and it's weirdly illogical (not much is explained, all the better). @horror peeps Mattsby , Tommen_Saperstein , cheesecake who have all probably seen this (damn you!) and if not Halloween is a mere 8 months away..... ![](https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91iCwxxlRGL._SL1500_.jpg)
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Post by Pavan on Feb 11, 2021 19:03:52 GMT
The Count of Monte Cristo (2002)-
An old fashioned swashbuckling adventure with a great source material that you have to be incompetent to make a bad film out of it. Kevin Reynolds was up to the task and he mostly did a good job. Jim Caviezel and Richard Harris excellent in their roles. Unfortunately it didn't leave a big impact on me as i had already seen a south Indian film adaptation of the book in my childhood. My memory was constantly recurring to that robbing me some of the entertainment i was getting from this film. Nevertheless a pretty good watch. Also Dagmara Dominczyk, what a beauty!- 7.5/10
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Post by Mattsby on Feb 11, 2021 20:04:33 GMT
Pressure (1976) a bit higher than 7/10. "What's wrong with bacon and eggs and Gary Glitter?" Barely funded by the BFI (half the crew worked for free) and completed in '74 but sat on and not properly released in the UK until '78. It's a coming of age story around the black power movement of the West Indies culture in London. Very proto Small Axe - McQueen didn't give enough credit on his press tour to this and Wolcott (1981). The best asset here is how the movie takes its time, as the lead (Bruce Lee poster above his bed, Mick Jagger biography in his hand) deflects from race issues until he's wrapped into it. It's a strong movie but....some of the perfs aren't very good, the interesting pop culture side never reconnects, and the third act makes sudden jumps, with a grotesque out-of-nowhere dream sequence.
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Post by Mattsby on Feb 11, 2021 21:31:26 GMT
A Man There Was (1917) 7.5/10. Joaquim stephen therealcomicman117I haven't seen much from the.... '10s.... but this may be my new fav. It's crisply made by Victor Sjörström, shockingly so for the time, and the rhyming intertitles (an Ibsen poem) give it a great touch of the sea shanty.
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Post by cheesecake on Feb 11, 2021 21:34:25 GMT
Southbound (2015) - 7.5+........inching towards an 8.0 (not kidding) Ok, maybe I just missed this on MAR......but this is a US horror movie that I don't recall ever being discussed on here? On top of that it's an anthology like Creepshow or Spirits of the Dead and I am crazy about that format - because I have a short attention span, and yet I write really long posts that I expect YOU to read (ah, the irony!). PTA raved this movie - do a Google search people - but as expected horror fans maybe don't (just 5.9 on IMDB, but 81% RT) - like Springsteen said tramps like us baby we were "born to run" because this is all about passengers driving down a creepy road ........but maybe more like Johnny Thunders would say "born to lose" because this is a dark and despairing road too. No one finds happiness on the road ............only ...........the horror, the horror! ![:uhoh:](//storage.proboards.com/6692321/images/c8bbBnLz3a98Jzy_29H2.gif) The segments overlap and are not just stand alone ........some of this is cheesy (there are monsters/special gore effects a la Tremors!), and some of it is disturbingly realistic......it's all compulsively watchable and like the great and ominous The Kirlian Frequency there's a (foul mouthed) DJ (voiced by Larry Fessenden) and it's weirdly illogical (not much is explained, all the better). @horror peeps Mattsby , Tommen_Saperstein , cheesecake who have all probably seen this (damn you!) and if not Halloween is a mere 8 months away..... This one I saw back when it came out but I need to give it another go, I don't remember it too well, unfortunately.
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Post by stephen on Feb 11, 2021 21:56:59 GMT
A Man There Was (1917) 7.5/10. Joaquim stephen therealcomicman117 I haven't seen much from the.... '10s.... but this may be my new fav. It's crisply made by Victor Sjörström, shockingly so for the time, and the rhyming intertitles (an Ibsen poem) give it a great touch of the sea shanty. I adore this film.
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Post by DeepArcher on Feb 12, 2021 4:16:16 GMT
The Heartbreak Kid (1972): Hilaaaaaarious stuff. I've seen few things in film as satisfying as Eddie Albert absolutely dropkicking Charles Grodin's gaslighting douchebag with some of the most eloquent insults ever put to film.
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Feb 12, 2021 6:40:06 GMT
The King of Staten Island - very funny first hour or so but then just comes to a crawl. Burr was pretty excellent though.
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Post by stabcaesar on Feb 12, 2021 19:01:59 GMT
Nomadland - It got better towards the end. The final 10 minutes or so are very strong. The rest wasn't super engaging to me, though. I can see why it's won many hearts, but it didn't strike a chord with me (nor did The Rider, tbh; this kind of Malick-esque visual poem never will I suppose). That said, there's no denying that McDormand was good and the cinematography was gorgeous. 7/10.
Sound of Metal - This I just don't get. The transition from the first to second act was really abrupt imo. Like out of nowhere Olivia Cooke had to leave for Europe and Riz Ahmed was ok with living with other deaf people because Olivia Cooke left for no reason? It might have worked better if his time as a musician was played in flashback. Amalric also had the most random and frivolous arc. I found the narrative tonally and structurally uneven. Ahmed and Raci were good though, especially Raci. Hope he wouldn't be snubbed at the Oscars. 5.5-6/10
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Post by Lord_Buscemi on Feb 13, 2021 4:39:38 GMT
Can't Get You Out of My Head: An Emotional History of The Modern World - 9/10, first masterpiece of the decade
"Pessimistically opening with The Specials' 'Do Nothing', an evocative summation of the subjects of Can't Get You Out of My Head's powerlessness rage to change the world, Adam Curtis' latest work is a towering, kaleidoscopic journey through life in the modern era - from the collapse of the British Empire to Brexit, from the radicalism of China's Cultural Revolution to its modern surveillance state, from the original Black Panthers to BLM - posing its central question early on: does anything really change? Curtis posits that the individual has become disillusioned with wanting to bring revolutionary change and, through the shifting power dynamics, populism has weaponised that disenchantment with a desire to return to a nostalgic fabrication of the past created by the elites. Chronicling decades of separate people's outlooks for the future in a richly interwoven tapestry of stories, soundtracked to recognisable Curtis favourites (Aphex Twin, Burial, Nine Inch Nails) and with his usual penchant for kitsch pop culture - never has Curtis so ambitiously undertaken a mammoth project this vast in scope and density, one closely teetering on the edge of incoherence with its array of ideas, but his style is a perfect articulation of the overwhelming complexities that engulf contemporary society and why, in the face of such looming odds, the individual grows apathetic that they themselves can make a difference for a collective group. It isn't all fatalistic, with Curtis ending on an optimistic note by proposing that the social reorganisation the visionaries always dreamed of just may be possible in a post-pandemic world."
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Feb 13, 2021 8:52:38 GMT
Slumber - Good horror film in the vein of Dark Skies and Insidious. I liked the hell out of it.
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Post by cheesecake on Feb 13, 2021 16:12:34 GMT
Willy's Wonderland (2021). ![](https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/53bd8c2de4b0b59a66e6a8b6/1452221506384-WO36G1I8TB871UYJOZDH/?content-type=image%2Fgif) That's the most angry I've been in a long time.
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Post by Pavan on Feb 13, 2021 18:07:28 GMT
Talk to her (2002)-
Some coincidences aside this was pretty good. Odd friendships and the thin line between love and obsession is well depicted. Not easy to get empathy of out such stories but Almodovar succeeded in doing that- 7.5/10
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Post by Tommen_Saperstein on Feb 13, 2021 19:53:36 GMT
Willy's Wonderland (2021). That's the most angry I've been in a long time. oh come on it's Nic Cage meets Five Nights at Freddy's, how bad could it be? I mean, really bad probably, but isn't it at least fun?
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Post by cheesecake on Feb 13, 2021 21:56:30 GMT
Willy's Wonderland (2021). That's the most angry I've been in a long time. oh come on it's Nic Cage meets Five Nights at Freddy's, how bad could it be? I mean, really bad probably, but isn't it at least fun? There is not even one moment of a joy. Such a mess. Proves that you can really screw up a concept that sounds like such a fun slam dunk.
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Post by jakesully on Feb 13, 2021 23:36:20 GMT
Jungleland 1st time watching this and it was definitely intense all around. I liked both Charlie & Jack as brothers in this film. Highly recommend this film if you dig gritty features like Warrior ![](https://tv-fanatic-res.cloudinary.com/iu/s--RzuAqs2h--/t_full/cs_srgb,f_auto,fl_strip_profile.lossy,q_auto:420/v1604655456/jungleland-movie-poster.jpg)
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Post by wilcinema on Feb 14, 2021 8:52:34 GMT
Zodiac (REWATCH): Something strange is happening. I'm developing for this movie the same obsession Robert Graysmith had for the Zodiac killer.
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Post by theycallmemrfish on Feb 14, 2021 9:03:37 GMT
Devil's Gate - horrible. That's my review.
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Post by stabcaesar on Feb 14, 2021 18:16:48 GMT
The Nest - Unfortunately no amount of Carrie Coon and Jude Law could elevate the weak script. Everything in this film just amounted to nothing. 5/10.
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