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Post by toshtego on Feb 22, 2021 19:38:02 GMT -5
Are you serious? People rave about it? Sure. It is a Howard Hawks film. It is considered part of a trilogy with "Rio Bravo", "El Dorado". I like Hawks but not his Westerns, including "Red River".
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Post by toshtego on Feb 22, 2021 19:38:36 GMT -5
See comments in "General Discussion".
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Post by zambini on Feb 22, 2021 23:12:14 GMT -5
Invasion (2020). Russian film more interesting in order to see their version of the propaganda sci-fi and action films usually espouse. Given the money they were working with, the special effects are something else. It's part 2 in the Attraction series but they recap everything that happens in the first one so don't worry about it.
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Post by Plainsman on Feb 24, 2021 19:28:05 GMT -5
Watched GOOD FELLAS last night. Pesce is always fun to watch. Good film. Have to admit what I probably shouldn’t… DeNiro’s a**holery recently has cooled me on him. Played too many gangsters and now thinks he’s one. Paul Sorvino is a prize-winner IMO. 8/10.
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Post by toshtego on Feb 24, 2021 20:52:56 GMT -5
Watched GOOD FELLAS last night. Pesce is always fun to watch. Good film. Have to admit what I probably shouldn’t… DeNiro’s a**holery recently has cooled me on him. Played too many gangsters and now thinks he’s one. Paul Sorvino is a prize-winner IMO. 8/10. I like the prison cooking scene...
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Post by urbino on Feb 24, 2021 21:14:41 GMT -5
I've never liked that movie. Plenty of folks do, obviously, and it's a classic. Just not my taste, I guess.
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Post by Plainsman on Feb 24, 2021 22:40:06 GMT -5
Tonight I watched KUNDUN (1997), for the first time. No way you could ever guess this was a Martin Scorsese film. I haven’t researched it at all but I’m betting it did not go over well in the US. But it is a very impressive piece of work. I was quite taken with it. It’s a beautiful production and masterfully photographed with an excellent cast. I recommend it. 9,5/10. (The opening sequence is composed of sand mandalas, as is the closing. Strangely, Eli watched the first 15-minutes very intently, something he never does with films. He’ll watch the first few seconds and then go to his couch and go to sleep. But tonight he sat next to my chair and watched with unwavering attention. Perhaps he is a Buddhist. If so, he is a warrior monk.  ...)
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Post by Plainsman on Feb 25, 2021 9:33:07 GMT -5
Yep. Just checked. Cost 28M, made a little over 5. Scorsese was very diplomatic and careful, but the upshot was Disney did not promote it out of fear of offending China.
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Post by toshtego on Feb 25, 2021 11:19:15 GMT -5
Tonight I watched KUNDUN (1997), for the first time. No way you could ever guess this was a Martin Scorsese film. I haven’t researched it at all but I’m betting it did not go over well in the US. But it is a very impressive piece of work. I was quite taken with it. It’s a beautiful production and masterfully photographed with an excellent cast. I recommend it. 9,5/10. (The opening sequence is composed of sand mandalas, as is the closing. Strangely, Eli watched the first 15-minutes very intently, something he never does with films. He’ll watch the first few seconds and then go to his couch and go to sleep. But tonight he sat next to my chair and watched with unwavering attention. Perhaps he is a Buddhist. If so, he is a warrior monk.  ...) I enjoyed that movie. Very different style of picture for S.
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Post by toshtego on Feb 25, 2021 11:21:19 GMT -5
I've never liked that movie. Plenty of folks do, obviously, and it's a classic. Just not my taste, I guess. It is violent and depicts some Italian Americans not in the best light. It is based on a true story and there are people who behave like that.
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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 25, 2021 12:04:16 GMT -5
We saw Kundun at the theater when it came out. Don't remember much but we liked it.
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Post by urbino on Feb 25, 2021 19:52:48 GMT -5
I've never liked that movie. Plenty of folks do, obviously, and it's a classic. Just not my taste, I guess. It is violent and depicts some Italian Americans not in the best light. It is based on a true story and there are people who behave like that. All of this is known to me. There's just something about that movie -- and a lot of Scorsese's work, actually -- that puts me off. Taxi Driver is okay. Gangs of New York and The Departed are pretty good. The Last Waltz is good, but that's a different kettle of fish, obviously.
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Post by zambini on Feb 25, 2021 20:33:44 GMT -5
Tonight I watched KUNDUN (1997), for the first time. No way you could ever guess this was a Martin Scorsese film. I haven’t researched it at all but I’m betting it did not go over well in the US. But it is a very impressive piece of work. I was quite taken with it. It’s a beautiful production and masterfully photographed with an excellent cast. I recommend it. 9,5/10. (The opening sequence is composed of sand mandalas, as is the closing. Strangely, Eli watched the first 15-minutes very intently, something he never does with films. He’ll watch the first few seconds and then go to his couch and go to sleep. But tonight he sat next to my chair and watched with unwavering attention. Perhaps he is a Buddhist. If so, he is a warrior monk.  ...) I was 13 and hiding out in the theater when I saw it but I remember it being a really slow movie. I'm guessing I wasn't the target audience. Scorsese has a couple of films like that one where he slows things down and tries to center on nature, textures and colors. I'm thinking of Silence and that other one with Deniro as a priest in the woods.
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Post by Ronv69 on Feb 28, 2021 20:29:32 GMT -5
Just watched a movie that bigwoolie would like. Out of the Wild on Prime. Based on a book by a famous horse trainer who supervised it's production. About a down on his luck cowboy, who gets a job on a dude ranch. 9/10
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Post by Gandalf on Mar 1, 2021 22:07:36 GMT -5
I watched "Coming to America" (1988) today. I hadn't watched it in a long while. Hilarious.
I guess they are about to release a brand new sequel soon. It'll be interesting to see how the "cancel culture" receives it.
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 4, 2021 10:52:32 GMT -5
We just watched Idaho:The Movie. I have never even given a thought to Idaho. Now I want to go there. Beautiful.
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Post by Plainsman on Mar 4, 2021 12:31:35 GMT -5
Watched THE MULE last night. Clint Eastwood. Enjoyable. Clint sure has come a long way from Rowdy Yates. (He’s a 90YO drug-deliverer for a cartel.)
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Post by toshtego on Mar 4, 2021 15:26:25 GMT -5
We just watched Idaho:The Movie. I have never even given a thought to Idaho. Now I want to go there. Beautiful. Idaho is one of the Whitest places I have been. I mean it so white it is scary. Like the movie "Village of the Damned".
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Post by toshtego on Mar 4, 2021 16:04:49 GMT -5
Blond hair and blue eyes everywhere.
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Post by Plainsman on Mar 4, 2021 16:08:10 GMT -5
Blond hair and blue eyes everywhere. Joost like old country, Sven.
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Post by Darin on Mar 4, 2021 20:06:21 GMT -5
Blond hair and blue eyes everywhere. I resemble that remark! Hahaha About 15 years ago, I spent a few months in Idaho and there's some beautiful scenery there. Good people and bad, just like everywhere.
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Post by Gandalf on Mar 4, 2021 20:25:46 GMT -5
We just watched Idaho: The Movie. I have never even given a thought to Idaho. Now I want to go there. Beautiful. I've thought about Idaho. If I were single, I'd probably buy a piece of land there - or somewhere like it - and live pretty much "off the grid".
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Post by Gandalf on Mar 4, 2021 20:40:44 GMT -5
Watched THE MULE last night. Clint Eastwood. Enjoyable. Clint sure has come a long way from Rowdy Yates. (He’s a 90YO drug-deliverer for a cartel.) That was a good movie - based on a true story.
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 4, 2021 20:47:18 GMT -5
We just watched Idaho:The Movie. I have never even given a thought to Idaho. Now I want to go there. Beautiful. Idaho is one of the Whitest places I have been. I mean it so white it is scary. Like the movie "Village of the Damned". I was in Rolling Meadows, a suburb of Chicago, in the late 70s and I thought the same thing. Not a hint of color anywhere.
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Post by Plainsman on Mar 4, 2021 23:12:26 GMT -5
Watched DUNKIRK tonight, for the second time. Was very disappointed the first time through. Same reaction this time. A disjointed film with no clear focus. About 330,000 men were rescued from Dunkirk but the director chooses to rely on long shots of almost empty beaches. A line here, a line there. Squads, platoons, companies (maybe that many) but nowhere does he bring our attention to the sheer masses that were taken off the beach. Some really exciting aerial stuff takes up a large part of the film. Superb footage of Spitfires in action. But as great as that was, that was NOT the drama of Dunkirk. The whole film feels small, miniature, constricted. With small, miniature episodes about relatively small events. Entertaining as a film, but a failure as a depiction of Dunkirk IMO. See it, by all means. But don't expect too much.
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Post by Ronv69 on Mar 4, 2021 23:16:44 GMT -5
I too was disappointed with Dunkirk. I read a very good book about it last year and I was expecting more. I guess it is hard to capture, but looking at movies like "The Longest Day" and "Midway" I think a different director could have done better.
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Post by Plainsman on Mar 4, 2021 23:33:43 GMT -5
I too was disappointed with Dunkirk. I read a very good book about it last year and I was expecting more. I guess it is hard to capture, but looking at movies like "The Longest Day" and "Midway" I think a different director could have done better. Nolan had a real problem: How to show the scope and the masses of Dunkirk. No budget for 100,000 extras (and costumes!) evidently. (Where is Cecil B. DeMille when you need him?) But considering some of the wonderful CGI in the aircraft sequences you would think he could have pulled off a couple of longshots showing the massive compaction of panicked humanity waiting to be taken off and THEN done the small-group stuff. The closest he comes is with scenes of the packed mole, but even they don't really come off. Lots of continuity confusion, too. One scene is in bright daylight and the one immediately following is nightime. The final Spitfire scene, with Tom Hardy as Farrier the pilot, shows him running our of fuel as the hero-civilian yacht captain heads back for England. The yacht arrives in England at night and then we shift back to Farrier, in daylight, finally landing his fuelless Spit on the beach at Dunkirk. Creative transitions, I suppose, but they are jarring and just plain do not work. Such potential, but kinda frittered away. Maybe I've read too much about the actual events to be a good critic of this film.
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Post by Plainsman on Mar 5, 2021 23:23:44 GMT -5
Watched ARKANSAS tonight. These guys thought they were making a significant piece of filmic art. They were wrong.
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Post by Gandalf on Mar 5, 2021 23:28:50 GMT -5
I too was disappointed with Dunkirk. I read a very good book about it last year and I was expecting more. I guess it is hard to capture, but looking at movies like "The Longest Day" and "Midway" I think a different director could have done better. I didn't like the way it was filmed. Wasn't in chronological order. They kept jumping back and forth. Hard to follow. Love the original Midway. People don't understand that Midway, even though early in the war in the Pacific, sealed the fate of the Japanese. The Japanese navy never recovered.
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Post by toshtego on Mar 5, 2021 23:42:48 GMT -5
You might want to watch the 1958 version with Dicky Attenborough, John Mills, Bernard Lee, Lionel Jefferies.
I found it more interesting since the principal actors went through the war.
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