Movie News, Reviews, and Discussion Super-Thread

[Madrun Badrun]

Frankly HBO, I don't give a damn. 

[Tasty]

I like it.

[Madrun Badrun]

Gone with the Wind is a great movie and I like the part where the black women goes I don't know nothin' about birthin' no babies. 

[EchoRin]

I don't know why, but my mind always confuses "Gone with the Wind" with "The Sound of Music". I guess I see the image of main lady in the open grassy hills of Switzerland or wherever and think it must be windy.

"Shut up Echo, that's dumb as hell  "

  I know

[Tasty]

I always confuse Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, The Sound of Music, and Mary Poppins, so you're not alone.

[team filler]

both are about farts, easy to confuse 

[Leadbelly]

How have I only found this out today?



So I am watching some 70s trash sci-fi movie, Zardoz, and I'm like, 'wait... that's Sean Connery'.

That's got to be the g.ayest I've ever seen Sean Connery. I did like a double take.

Quite literally – the writer, producer and director, John Boorman, later stated that he himself didn’t understand parts of it.

https://www.considerable.com/entertainment/retronaut/sean-connery-in-zardoz/

[Leadbelly]

I feel like even Nic Cage would hesitate at that outfit.

And he was in some decent movies before The Untouchables. He was in, for instance, what I consider one of the greatest movies ever made, The Man Who Would Be King. That was 1975. Only year after this.

[Great Rumbler]

Zardoz is amazing, just stone-cold insanity. Also, it gave us Sean Connery in a wedding dress:

[EchoRin]

Things I saw yesterday:

The Lego Movie - aye, pretty good

Yellowstone Cubs - Amazing. The level of cub abuse is off the charts. Must watch. Watch two cubs almost die several times on a little boat and then have shit thrown on you constantly. 1963 baby. This is a much watch if you have Disney +

Girls! Girls! Girls! - Elvis Presley. Just watch the final song. Where he keep saying "girls girls girls". It is insane. Absolutely insane.

Go to like 1:46. "mm girls, mm girls, mm girls, mm girls, mm girls, mm girls, mm girls, mm girls, mm girls, mm girls, mm girls, mm girls, mm girls, mm girls, mm girls, mm girls, mm girls, mm girls, mm girls, mm girls, mm girls, mm girls, mm girls, mm girls, mm girls, mm girls, mm girls, mm girls, mm girls, mm girls, mm girls, mm girls, mm girls, mm girls, mm girls, mm girls, mm girls, mm girls"

It just never ends! What in the fuck is up with the delivery of those lyrics? 

[Transhuman]

Yellowstone Cubs - Amazing. The level of cub abuse is off the charts. Must watch. Watch two cubs almost die several times on a little boat and then have shit thrown on you constantly. 1963 baby. This is a much watch if you have Disney +

They edited out a butt but kept that?

Plus removed episodes, dialogue, etc

[Nuitangg]

Da 5 Bloods is terrible.  Don't understand the praise.

[Nintex]

https://twitter.com/nytimesarts/status/1271465790726905858

Hollywood be like:
Increase funding for minority film directors 

Cast a token Asian character for the Chinese market to win an Oscar

[Don Rumata]

https://twitter.com/nytimesarts/status/1271465790726905858

Hollywood be like:
Increase funding for minority film directors 

Cast a token Asian character for the Chinese market to win an Oscar

Too lazy to read the article, is this just for American movies? 'Cause like, Parasite was all Koreans. 

[Tasty]

Cape Fear

Perfect movie

Will watch today.

[Joe Molotov]

Jodorowsky boxset coming in August.

[Tuckers Law]

One of these days I’ll finally get around to watching some Alejandro Jodorowsky.  Shit looks wild.

[EchoRin]

El Topo literally made me go through like 4 different emotions several minutes after I left the theater (some hipster theater screening. Not like I'm some old fart that was alive when it originally came out). I can't even explain what triggered it, but it's almost like it put some spell on me that hit after the movie. Weird. Excellent movie.

[Joe Molotov]

Probably the psychomagic taking hold.

Psychomagic, A Healing Art  is an intimate exploration of the visionary director's theory of trauma therapy. Jodorowsky's unique concept of healing uses performance art as a vehicle to counter deep, debilitating psychic suffering with literal "acts of confrontation" in real world applications. Drawing from a life-long study of philosophy, psychology, ethnology, and world religions, from Freud to Shamans, from Kabbalah to Gurdjieff and everything in between, Jodorowsky works directly with people in pain who are eager to face, resolve and transcend their personal dilemmas through the use of radical performative art therapy. The  film illuminates the Maestro's vision with themes evident since the start of his career, while contemporaneously breaking the wall between reality and performance. His healing concepts extend beyond the individual to the global, offering humanity a collective catharsis to a higher consciousness.  "The world is ill, we need to make therapy pictures," said Jodorowsky of his work. "If art is not a medicine for society, it's a poison."

[team filler]

https://twitter.com/DecaturDane/status/1272651584997068802

 

[Steve Contra]

How have I only found this out today?

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So I am watching some 70s trash sci-fi movie, Zardoz, and I'm like, 'wait... that's Sean Connery'.

That's got to be the g.ayest I've ever seen Sean Connery. I did like a double take.

Quite literally – the writer, producer and director, John Boorman, later stated that he himself didn’t understand parts of it.

my favorite part of Zardoz is when Sean Connery is running down a hill and it’s clearly not Sean Connery it’s some dude wearing black tennis shoes and his legs are painted black to mimic the boots.
https://www.considerable.com/entertainment/retronaut/sean-connery-in-zardoz/

[Mandark]

Cinemax has Sneakers so you can stream it if you've got that Hulu add-on.

[Tasty]

Ended up watching this Crispin Glover gem last night. Dude's a fucking american gem.

[BlueTsunami]

Watched Villeneuve's Enemy for the first time. What a mind fuck. What I love about auteur films like these is how they really mine the tension in a scene. Going from simply uncomfortable to absolutely disconcerting.

[D3RANG3D]

[Tasty]

I can't stand that guy's schtick. And I've tried watching multiple videos from him.

[Great Rumbler]

Gone With the Wind was just the Avatar of the 30s. Don't @ me.

[D3RANG3D]

He's basically Scottish Mr. Plinkett. 

[Tasty]

He's basically Scottish Mr. Plinkett. 

So played

[toku]

Rewatched Ronin. I think my favorite part is the bromance/friendship between Jean Reno's character and De Niro's character.

[EchoRin]

Cinemax has Sneakers so you can stream it if you've got that Hulu add-on.

River!!! Haven't seen it since high school when a teacher played it for us for whatever reason.

[Joe Molotov]

Been watching a bunch of Godzilla movies recently. I think Destroy All Monsters is my favorite that I've watched so far.

[Akala]

Uncut Gems was I think the best movie I've seen this year. 

[CatsCatsCats]

I watched Bloodsport last night

I’m confused what’s the one with the golden dragon and the glass gloves lol?

[D3RANG3D]

I watched Bloodsport last night

I’m confused what’s the one with the golden dragon and the glass gloves lol?

Kickboxer has the glass gloves don't know about the golden dragon, The Quest maybe?

[Don Rumata]

Yeah The Quest has the golden dragon.
Also the best one out of the three, for me.

[MMaRsu]

My favorite Bloodsport Rambo inspiration 

[Tektonic]

so i watched Albert Pyun's Nemesis series ... Nemesis is fun, and then... oh boy

Why does every sequel have multiple titles? and those recaps of the past movies, so much padding.

looking forward to nemesis 5, exec produced by Albert... and now i'm reading cyborg etc all are linked? cyborg cinematic universe!

[CatsCatsCats]

Thanks for clearing that up

And I actually watched bloodsport because that’s what Netflix suggested when I searched for Rambo

[VomKriege]

so i watched Albert Pyun's Nemesis series ... Nemesis is fun, and then... oh boy

Why does every sequel have multiple titles? and those recaps of the past movies, so much padding.

looking forward to nemesis 5, exec produced by Albert... and now i'm reading cyborg etc all are linked? cyborg cinematic universe!

Nemesis is actually decent yeah, with some real great stuff in it. Can't imagine any of the sequels are though

[MMaRsu]

Lmao I gotta see this

[toku]

so i watched Albert Pyun's Nemesis series ... Nemesis is fun, and then... oh boy

Why does every sequel have multiple titles? and those recaps of the past movies, so much padding.

looking forward to nemesis 5, exec produced by Albert... and now i'm reading cyborg etc all are linked? cyborg cinematic universe!

Yeah Nemesis was probably the last movie he was able to get a decent budget for. His later stuff..his more recent stuff is super bad and really really fucking weird.

Every single Albert Pyun movie feels like a fever dream though so

[Joe Molotov]

Albert Pyun made some solid b-movies in the 80’s and early 90’s, like The Sword and the Sorcerer & Radioactive Dreams. The years haven’t been kind, though.

[Tektonic]

Nemesis 5: The next Model

you know you are in for a treat when the 3 minute text scrawl that opens the movie gets basic nemesis lore confused. Basic story beats from previous movies are reversed, which doesn't bode well for the next 70 or so minutes. Neither does the 2! distinct credits scenes that run in the first 10 minutes. One consists of shots of de-saturated desert scenes, the other with some ridiculous music & cgi graphics.

before/during this, we get a shoddily shot fight scene between an ageing Alex (Sue Price), now back to her Alex Sinclair moniker, and a cheaply-designed cyborg. Thankfully, the horrible gunshots make way to a fistfight, complete with generic stock punching noises that sound like they've been recorded off a 240p Youtube video. Cue small child training montage, then a re-shoot/remake of the original Alex Rain Nemesis reveal, except the whole "Goddamn Cop"/"Goddamn Terrorist" line makes no sense, because the "New Model" isn't a cop.

also: bad toy guns, ripoff of the two twin cyborgs from Nemesis 3 -except they are worse actors, terrible adobe photoshop burn holes on walls from those guns, scenes that have re-dubbed/re-voiced audio and on-set audio, terrible acting, vhs quality filming

i mean, you could do better on an iphone in 2017... five stars

   

[Great Rumbler]

so i watched Albert Pyun's Nemesis series ... Nemesis is fun, and then... oh boy

Why does every sequel have multiple titles? and those recaps of the past movies, so much padding.

looking forward to nemesis 5, exec produced by Albert... and now i'm reading cyborg etc all are linked? cyborg cinematic universe!

Nemesis 3 was made from unused footage shot for Nemesis 2.

[EchoRin]

A Whisker Away – A teenage girl has a crush on her classmate, but doesn’t feel she can get close to him. One day she stumbles upon a magical cat that allows her to change into a cat and back. She uses this ability to turn into a feline and then hang out with said crush. However, what she doesn’t know is that she might lose her human form in time. 

The movie deals with topics such as being a child of a divorced family, sense of abandonment, unreciprocated love and general inability to express one’s feelings for one reason or another. The movie doesn’t just stay in a more grounded slice of life. The supernatural aspects of the movie really start to come out in full force in the second half and give it that more “only possible in an animation” feel.

In a sense it’s a movie about confronting one’s self and to remember that the grass is not always greener on the other side. Pretty okay anime film.

[paprikastaude]

The Hunt (2020)  - This movie was fun (not to be confused with the autobiography of Nintex starring Mads Mikkelsen).   

But Mads is actually innocent in that story.

[Tektonic]

The Hunt (2020)  - This movie was fun (not to be confused with the autobiography of Nintex starring Mads Mikkelsen).   Over the top political humor actually worked pretty well here for me and the action is actually pretty good as is the gore.   And the main actress has a smoking body, although the wife and I both complained they had her wearing clothes that weren't flattering.

army pants aren't flattering?
poster looks like that French actress, Melanie Laurent... but Betty...

[Don Rumata]

The Hunt (2020)  - This movie was fun (not to be confused with the autobiography of Nintex starring Mads Mikkelsen).   

But Mads is actually innocent in that story.

Nintex the martyr.  :'(

[Dickie Dee]

[Akala]

I finally got my wife to watch grave of the fireflies and now I'm not allowed to pick the next one.  :'(

[Madrun Badrun]

if the DCCU merges with Burton's

[Tasty]

if the DCCU merges with Burton's

Already vaguely connected due to Crisis on Infinite Earths... There was a newspaper article about Keaton's Batman as a cameo (I think Bruce Watne married Selina Kyle?), and DCEU Ezra Miller () Flash met DCTV Grant Gustin () Flash.

[Joe Molotov]

Sadly, Ezra Miller was erased in a freak Speed Force accident.

[chronovore]

A couple years back, I watched The da Vinci Code with my mother. I laughed so hard my mother got upset, saying, “I didn’t realize this is a comedy.”

I caught a stomach bug yesterday, and was not up for anything challenging, so I watched Angels and Demons, the second film in the series. There is some fantastic Catholic word salad going on in that movie, but the bigger thing is how utterly contrived all of the mystery elements are. Hunting down clues in this is about as believable as Adam West’s Batman TV series. Ron Howard knows how to shoot a beautiful film, it’s too bad they are having him spend his time, and a number of wonderful actors’ time as well, on this dreck.

[VomKriege]

A couple years back, I watched The da Vinci Code with my mother. I laughed so hard my mother got upset, saying, “I didn’t realize this is a comedy.”

I caught a stomach bug yesterday, and was not up for anything challenging, so I watched Angels and Demons, the second film in the series. There is some fantastic Catholic word salad going on in that movie, but the bigger thing is how utterly contrived all of the mystery elements are. Hunting down clues in this is about as believable as Adam West’s Batman TV series. Ron Howard knows how to shoot a beautiful film, it’s too bad they are having him spend his time, and a number of wonderful actors’ time as well, on this dreck.

Angels & Demons is my favourite, it's so incredibly dumb and it goes Z-movie territory at points.
The sequel after that, Inferno, is a real let down. Annoying, abrasive and not a lot of fun.

[Tasty]

Have you seen the Hammer Dracs?

[Tasty]

That's fair, especially if you're a source purist.

From a film production standpoint they're very impressive to me though.

[Tasty]

Sadly, Ezra Miller was erased in a freak Speed Force accident.

Emphasis on "freak."

Edit- This isn't disparaging on his LGBTQ+ stuff. I've just always kinda thought he was a total weirdo.

[toku]

only posting for fellow gentlemen horror boreans (chrono, tasty  )

https://twitter.com/HorrorHammer1/status/1275182932295069696