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  • Posts: 12,526
    Star Wars Rogue One.

    Hats off to Disney on this. I was very impressed and surprised at how much I enjoyed this movie. The film did not end how I thought it would in one respect but I welcomed it and thought the whole thing was fantastic!
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    When Harry meet sally god what a good rom com I genuinely wonder why rom coms are not made like this anymore
  • BondJasonBond006BondJasonBond006 on fb and ajb
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    OMG

    The best film of this decade has just won EVERY Golden Globe possible.

    My faith in human kind has just been restored.

    LA LA LAND forever
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    It thoroughly dominated. Hope it does the same at the Academy Awards.
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    Watched ghostbusters (1984) also last night with my wife... again the original is brilliant. And I just don't get why it had to be remade... also me and Amanda picked out ten movies we feel the other needs to see so I will have two raking lists on this thread (though possibly more depending on what other franchises I get to) but the 2 so far this year will be the Mission Impossible one and the 20 films me and my wife choose to watch this year

    1. Ghostbusters
    2. When harry meet sally
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    Elle won two Globes so the Oscars have missed out on quality, Verhoeven finaly got his due.
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    When Harry met Sally is a brilliant little movie about relationships and funny as hell. Anybody not liking it has no romantic part in soul.
  • edited January 2017 Posts: 7,653
    Birdleson wrote: »
    I didn't care tis much for ELLE, I'm not averse to any subject matter, but the repeated rape scenes became tiresome. I can't get in the filmmakers' he'd, but it seemed indulgent and gratuitous rather than feeding any art or story.

    Paul Verhoeven might be too much for you stick with his action output even if I have to warn for for some hidden messages he did put into those movies. He prefers gratuitous human interaction over crazy OTT shootings. Verhoeven always showed flesh in his movies and I prefer boobs and buns over guns everyday.

    PS one should never feel comfortable with rape if you do or it bores you, you need urgent help.
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    Birdleson wrote: »
    I'm not to much of an "action films" guy. I've been following Verhoeven since my mid-20s (around '87), so I'm very aware of his body of work.

    And don't try to analyze my reactions, you don't know me. And anything can get boring if it is repeated enough on screen.

    Not analyzing you, but on the subject of rape in movies I always feel something is wrong with you if you get used or even bored with it. Rape is a horrible crime and that was why I really took my time watching this movie as it is essentially about rape which is not about sex but about power over another human being. It is the worst thing that can happen to a woman .......

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    Birdleson wrote: »
    It's the "wrong with you" part I'm taking umbrage from. You don't know what is behind how we get from her ego there in our opinions. I can divorce reality form fiction.

    You can take all the umbrage you will about my reply. I would have said the same to people who thought that Schindlers list was a fantastic movie, as I see very little fantastic about the subject matter if you know what the real story is about.

    If you had said that you felt that Verhoeven could have handled the subject matter in a better way because it would have enhanced the story for you I would not have minded that. But that is me.

  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
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    I feel that 'Schindler's List' is a fantastic movie. Does enjoying the subgenre of WWII filmography, particularly 'Schindler's List,' make me pro-Holocaust or something? I enjoy the topic and the history of it, for sure, and it's always incredible to see a great WWII movie come around every so often. It was an incredibly well made film, meant to deliver an emotional experience for the viewer, obviously. I loved this year's 'Hacksaw Ridge,' as well.

    I'm in the same camp of "I'm able to separate reality from fiction." It's film.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    Yes, a film can be fantastically produced, but with earnest subject matter. Apocalypse Now is a fantastic examination of wartime psyche and what we do to soldiers, but defining it with that adjective doesn't mean you support its content.

    I think some are in danger of being too easily "triggered" or outraged by other's language that they subconsciously know isn't meant to be rude or sickening, by that their mind takes that way nonetheless. Everything is so damn hyper-sensitive now, where if you so much as make a joke a shade off color to the gallows you go.

    They you've got to listen to people mewling for "safe spaces" and at that point I want to choke on a gun barrel.
  • BondJasonBond006BondJasonBond006 on fb and ajb
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    Some films that I regard as masterpieces I could not watch a second time.

    AMERICAN HISTORY X is such a film.

    There is one scene that traumatised me quite a bit. I think I can separate reality from fiction, but I can't take the cruelty that lies in some scenes.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
    edited January 2017 Posts: 28,694
    Yes, there's some films I love that I haven't seen in over five years, simply because they emotionally exhaust me. Some movies have content in them that you shouldn't watch unless you're ready to be traumatized by it all, and as humans and inherent hedonists, obviously we're seldom if ever desiring that kind of mood to take us over. But some films are worth it, as their messages need to be witnessed and talked about.

    But with so much tragedy in the world, it gets harder and harder to want to make time for those kinds of films. We are already faced with darkness every time we put on the news, so why seek out more of the same on film when we can instead use them to escape to happier thoughts? Hence the everlasting vitality of films like James Bond. We will always need movies like that to get us away when we need them most.
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    Creasy47 wrote: »

    I'm in the same camp of "I'm able to separate reality from fiction." It's film.

    I recall seeing real life footage in a documentary about and shot by NAZI filmers in about the concentration camps and I know several lads got suspended because in their view was just a film and they could easily separate reality from fiction.

    Watch Nacht und Nebel and learn that the reality about certain subjects is not that separated from fiction.

    "Schindlers list" was an impressive movie well made and sometimes to too Hollywood for my taste but not a movie that made me feel good about mankind. Movies like that are meant to make you think about the evil in man. Not to separate reality from fiction. concentration camps are still around today as is inhuman behaviour. Shit the US still has a prison camp in which they keep so called dangerous men who have not been granted their day in court because they would not be found guilty based upon evidence as anybody in a democracy should be freed or convicted on. And yet people blindly accept this and are in favor because it is them and not me.

    There are plenty of movies that are easily enjoyed and their message is not existent, there are movies that are made with a message and that is not to know the difference between fiction and reality. But to think about the content of a story and those movies are more difficult to label than fantastic or boring.

    For me the Schindler List was not about the look of the movie but the content and the story about what has happened and can still happen today.

    The story about Elle is not the how it is made or if it is boring, but the act itself and how women could cope and if they should cope. And not about sex but about power.

    But each to his own. Some movies are for watching and some for experiencing and more thought.

    Hotel Rwanda I can never see again without remembering this refugee I worked with having a panic attack and the wounds on his body caused by manchete and knifes, he survived where the rest of his family did not. It does alter the image you have with certain topics.

    Just as I have had too many female friends who suffered sexual attacks too relax with a movie with that as a subject. This was the Verhoeven film I was not looking forward to as the subject of the movie is largely taboo and subject of too many moral male and female presumptions and stereotypes.

    Nice too see him winning with this particular movie.

  • It's such a crime that we've seen so precious little of Verhoeven lately!
    I see a movie in 2016, 2012, then nothing since 2006, then 2000, and so on!

    I've long dreamed of a RoboCop sequel done by him which picks up 30 years later- it completely ignores everything after the first.... just thinking of the fun ideas they could play with after so much time has passed makes me DROOL.

    I doubt Peter Weller would be interested but one can dream.
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    The Equalizer.

    Denzel is great. I enjoyed this one a lot.
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
    edited January 2017 Posts: 23,883
    I've always been partial to Total Recall , Hollow Man and Basic Instinct personally. I also like Black Book for more serious fare.
  • Starship Troopers stands as my favorite. Works perfectly as both brainless entertainment and tongue-in-cheek war satire. Remarkably good late 90s CGI that holds up today and original arachnid designs. Michael Ironside doing what Michael Ironside does best. Neil Patrick Harris before Neil Patrick Harris was Neil Patrick Harris. Blink-and-you'll-miss-it Amy Smart cameo, for what it's worth. Casper Van Dien and Denise Richards pretending to be high school graduates. 23rd-Century Bowie cover. Basil Poledouris's most heartful, most rousing score this side of Conan. And "Buuuuuuugs!!" (Seriously though, that Whiskey outpost siege is pretty unrivaled as far as cinematic war sieges/slaughters go.)
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    @bondjames
    Glad to see you enjoyed CASABLANCA. Easily one of the greatest films in cinema history and rightly deserves it's praise.
    I remember my Dad taking me to see a double bill of CASABLANCA and TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT when I was 13, and it was one of the best memories I ever had going to the cinema. The audience really got into both films, cheered, laughed at the funnier lines and made the experience memorable. . Prior to this I had been getting into the more noirish Bogarts : THE MALTESE FALCON and THE BIG SLEEP, so these films had a slightly different tone. It was also cool seeing Hoagy Carmichael in TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT along with Bogie, Walter Brennan and Lauren Bacall. After seeing Hoagy's scenes it was cool to have an idea what Fleming was describing when he gave Bond the slight resemblance to Carmichael. Great decade the '40s!
  • BondJasonBond006BondJasonBond006 on fb and ajb
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    Starship Troopers is a cult film, even if it was highly successful commercially.

    I got it on Blu-ray and the picture quality is great, the CGI stuff has aged much better than some of that same era.

    Casper Van Dien was bloody hot and everybody wanted to be like him. He was simply made for that film.

    What @Some_Kind_Of_Hero didn't mention (what a scandal!) is Dina Meyer, the female lead of the film.
    Back then I was torn back and forth between her and Casper. To this day Dina has remained one of my guilty pleasure actresses.

    Neil Patrick Harris is great. And now after seeing him having danced and sung through countless Award shows it is even more a treat to watch him in Starship Troopers.
    Who would have thought back then....!
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    Starship Troopers is a cult film, even if it was highly successful commercially.

    I got it on Blu-ray and the picture quality is great, the CGI stuff has aged much better than some of that same era.

    Casper Van Dien was bloody hot and everybody wanted to be like him. He was simply made for that film.

    What @Some_Kind_Of_Hero didn't mention (what a scandal!) is Dina Meyer, the female lead of the film.
    Back then I was torn back and forth between her and Casper. To this day Dina has remained one of my guilty pleasure actresses.

    Neil Patrick Harris is great. And now after seeing him having danced and sung through countless Award shows it is even more a treat to watch him in Starship Troopers.
    Who would have thought back then....!

    I saw this when it came out. We had a blast.
    Casper was pretty big then- up and coming. I remember when he played Tarzan. He even played James Dean with Robert Mitchum in a cameo. I believe he married Mitchum's granddaughter as well.
  • bondjamesbondjames You were expecting someone else?
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    @ToTheRight, shamefully I've not seen any of the other films that you mentioned. I'm well behind on the classics and have a lot of catching up to do. I'm pretty sure you can name a film from the 40's or 50's and I probably haven't seen it (except for the Hitchcock films). I'm trying to pick them up slowly when they go on sale and broaden my filmic horizon.
  • 0BradyM0Bondfanatic70BradyM0Bondfanatic7 Quantum Floral Arrangements: "We Have Petals Everywhere"
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    ToTheRight wrote: »
    @bondjames
    Glad to see you enjoyed CASABLANCA. Easily one of the greatest films in cinema history and rightly deserves it's praise.
    I remember my Dad taking me to see a double bill of CASABLANCA and TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT when I was 13, and it was one of the best memories I ever had going to the cinema. The audience really got into both films, cheered, laughed at the funnier lines and made the experience memorable. . Prior to this I had been getting into the more noirish Bogarts : THE MALTESE FALCON and THE BIG SLEEP, so these films had a slightly different tone. It was also cool seeing Hoagy Carmichael in TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT along with Bogie, Walter Brennan and Lauren Bacall. After seeing Hoagy's scenes it was cool to have an idea what Fleming was describing when he gave Bond the slight resemblance to Carmichael. Great decade the '40s!

    Lauren and Ingrid. It seldom gets better, and to have them back-to-back in a theater presentation? I'd die and go to film heaven.
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    bondjames wrote: »
    @ToTheRight, shamefully I've not seen any of the other films that you mentioned. I'm well behind on the classics and have a lot of catching up to do. I'm pretty sure you can name a film from the 40's or 50's and I probably haven't seen it (except for the Hitchcock films). I'm trying to pick them up slowly when they go on sale and broaden my filmic horizon.

    Pretty much my favorite period in film was between the 30's and 50's. I liked everything from the Bogart films, James Cagney, Lauren Bacall, Cary Grant, Jane Russell, Robert Mitchum, Jimmy Stewart to the Universal classic monsters, and Abbott and Costello. Marilyn Monroe, I love it all really..............then came Bond who continues to hold down the cinematic fort constantly bring old school classic heroics with a contemporary edge.
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  • Starship Troopers is a cult film, even if it was highly successful commercially.

    I got it on Blu-ray and the picture quality is great, the CGI stuff has aged much better than some of that same era.

    Casper Van Dien was bloody hot and everybody wanted to be like him. He was simply made for that film.

    What @Some_Kind_Of_Hero didn't mention (what a scandal!) is Dina Meyer, the female lead of the film.
    Back then I was torn back and forth between her and Casper. To this day Dina has remained one of my guilty pleasure actresses.


    Neil Patrick Harris is great. And now after seeing him having danced and sung through countless Award shows it is even more a treat to watch him in Starship Troopers.
    Who would have thought back then....!

    A scandal indeed! Dina Meyer sure was perfect as Dizzy. Rico choosing Carmen over Dizzy was Starship Troopers' equivalent of the old slasher flick idiom "He's right behind you!" only here it was "She's right in front of you!" Meyer never really got bigger than Starship Troopers, but you're right, I can't imagine a better Dizzy.
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    ToTheRight wrote: »
    @bondjames
    Glad to see you enjoyed CASABLANCA. Easily one of the greatest films in cinema history and rightly deserves it's praise.
    I remember my Dad taking me to see a double bill of CASABLANCA and TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT when I was 13, and it was one of the best memories I ever had going to the cinema. The audience really got into both films, cheered, laughed at the funnier lines and made the experience memorable. . Prior to this I had been getting into the more noirish Bogarts : THE MALTESE FALCON and THE BIG SLEEP, so these films had a slightly different tone. It was also cool seeing Hoagy Carmichael in TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT along with Bogie, Walter Brennan and Lauren Bacall. After seeing Hoagy's scenes it was cool to have an idea what Fleming was describing when he gave Bond the slight resemblance to Carmichael. Great decade the '40s!

    Lauren and Ingrid. It seldom gets better, and to have them back-to-back in a theater presentation? I'd die and go to film heaven.

    The theatre that played those at the time only showed double bills. Often stuff like and Elvis double feature, Indiana Jones, Hitchcock, George Romero Night of the Living Dead/Dawn of the Dead, sometime foreign films and art films.
    The theatre itself was a very cool old building with the perfect atmosphere for a Bogart double feature. Sadly I never saw any Bonds there, but many friends who had would boast about it.
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    Starship Troopers is still one of THE most missunderstood movies in the history of Hollywood IMHO, it is just a superb film and a perfect double bill with Robocop as some of the themes overlap very nicely.
  • I like how we're simultaneously having two different conversations on two of the greatest war films ever made: Casablanca and Starship Troopers :D
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