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  • CraigMooreOHMSSCraigMooreOHMSS Dublin, Ireland
    edited March 2019 Posts: 8,216
    Creasy47 wrote: »
    CraigMooreOHMSS wrote: »
    Creasy47 wrote: »
    SaintMark wrote: »
    Sicario: day of the soldado ; while the first one was really impressive Mr. Brolin and Mr. Del Toro do deliver a decent movie this time. It is supposed to be the middle one of a trilogy (what is not these days a bloody trilogy) and that shows and feels like it. Nice but just not as brilliantly as the first one. I will however admit looking forward to the next installment.

    I think the director switch really, really hurt this one. It felt so painfully generic and middle of the road to me, as well.

    I found it mostly too efficiently directed to be generic. It didn't attempt to lazily remake the first and that was a good call, I think. Sollima's certainly got chops when it comes to letting things breathe and heightening tension and I thought he did a good job of it overall considering how daunting it must have been to take the project on. Tonally and atmospherically the film was very consistent with the first.

    I don't rate Villeneuve as highly as most others do (though I do like him a lot), so perhaps the change wasn't a big deal for me.

    The script, however, was too haphazard in its final third to allow me to put the film up with the first one.

    Funny you mention that, because that's my biggest issue with the film and it has absolutely nothing to do with Sheridan's script: you have the director to thank for that, hence my issues with Sollima here. It had the same artistic style to the first one, which I loved - brooding soundtrack, lots of lengthier, tense moments inside cars and big landscape shots of the desert - but the third act is where any semblance of enjoyment, for me, completely evaporated. I'm not sure what Sheridan's finale would've contained, but since I'm a big fan of his and the first film was so killer, I can only surmise it was leagues better than the tweaks Sollima made.

    I don't think Sollima made any significant changes to Sheridan's screenplay, honestly. Sheridan's an esteemed writer at this stage and Sollima, talented as he is, wasn't proven in Hollywood at the time.

    This is the first time I've heard otherwise. I read an early draft, which wasn't too dissimilar to the finished product, but can't seem to find anything about later drafts online - you have my curiosity peaked.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
    edited March 2019 Posts: 40,968
    I've heard the same thing echoed a few times since release, and given that most of the fan reviews I've seen consistently note the third act as being the weakest portion of the film, I'd believe it. I can't seem to find an official confirmation through a given article or news site, so I suppose it's best to take that with a grain of salt, but again: I'd totally buy that being the case. Either way, you're right, can't seem to find an easy access to the script, past translated scripts, which would assist with the confirmation. Shame.
  • bondsumbondsum
    edited March 2019 Posts: 3,333
    Creasy47 wrote: »
    SaintMark wrote: »
    Sicario: day of the soldado ; while the first one was really impressive Mr. Brolin and Mr. Del Toro do deliver a decent movie this time. It is supposed to be the middle one of a trilogy (what is not these days a bloody trilogy) and that shows and feels like it. Nice but just not as brilliantly as the first one. I will however admit looking forward to the next installment.

    I think the director switch really, really hurt this one. It felt so painfully generic and middle of the road to me, as well.
    I really enjoyed it. I thought it was one, if not the best movie of last year, alongside MI.
  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
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    Raiders of the lost Ark one of the greatest films ever made
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
    Posts: 40,968
    The 39 Steps

    One of those "first time viewings" that's really my first rewatch of a film I hadn't seen in so long, I forgot just about everything about it (sans the opening scene, somehow). Easily the most exciting, witty and clever screenplay and film I've witnessed in quite some time, with such a cool and infallible performance by Robert Donat. One of many masterpieces from Hitchcock.
  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
    Posts: 25,095
    Creasy47 wrote: »
    The 39 Steps

    One of those "first time viewings" that's really my first rewatch of a film I hadn't seen in so long, I forgot just about everything about it (sans the opening scene, somehow). Easily the most exciting, witty and clever screenplay and film I've witnessed in quite some time, with such a cool and infallible performance by Robert Donat. One of many masterpieces from Hitchcock.

    Brilliant film I have watched it hundreds of times over the years there are not many films that have the atmosphere that The 39 Steps has. Another great pre Hollywood Hitch film The Lady Vanishes is equally as good.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
    edited March 2019 Posts: 40,968
    Fire_and_Ice_Returns wrote: »
    Creasy47 wrote: »
    The 39 Steps

    One of those "first time viewings" that's really my first rewatch of a film I hadn't seen in so long, I forgot just about everything about it (sans the opening scene, somehow). Easily the most exciting, witty and clever screenplay and film I've witnessed in quite some time, with such a cool and infallible performance by Robert Donat. One of many masterpieces from Hitchcock.

    Brilliant film I have watched it hundreds of times over the years there are not many films that have the atmosphere that The 39 Steps has. Another great pre Hollywood Hitch film The Lady Vanishes is equally as good.

    Excellent stuff, I've had that one on the list for a while now. I figure the next Hitchcock film I watch will either be that one, The Lodger or Notorious, but I'll get around to that one very soon.
  • CraigMooreOHMSSCraigMooreOHMSS Dublin, Ireland
    Posts: 8,216
    Haven't posted my recent watches here in a while, so there's been a few.

    Cape Fear (1962)
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    Carlito's Way
    Snake Eyes
    The Untouchables
    Triple Frontier
    All The President's Men
    Captain Marvel
    Creed II
    Widows
    The Last Boy Scout
    Die Hard with a Vengeance
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    Tried watching MONSTER FAMILY, but gave it up halfway through.
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  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
    edited March 2019 Posts: 40,968
    I've also got too much to share in great detail, but I've either seen these for the first time/rewatched these in the past week or two:

    The Kid, The Delicious Little Devil, The Ace of Hearts, Modern Times, The Circus, The Pawnshop, Videodrome, Triple Frontier, For All Mankind, Le Havre, My Dinner With Hervé, Harakiri, Hell or High Water, Carnival of Souls, All That Heaven Allows, House of Games, M, and TMWTGG.

    Also, I finally watched Alfred Hitchcock's Notorious and it's quite striking how, of all films, Mission Impossible 2 is essentially a beat for beat remake of it. Incredibly odd.
  • LeonardPineLeonardPine The Bar on the Beach
    Posts: 3,996
    The Mule (2018)

    Really enjoyed this up to a point. The film kind of fizzles out by the end instead of building to the expected pitch.

    Eastwood who also directs is excellent as usual and he is surrounded by a really good cast. Barely recognized Andy Garcia as the head of the drug cartel.

    Easy undemanding viewing.
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
    Posts: 40,968
    LeonardPine wrote: »
    The Mule (2018)

    Really enjoyed this up to a point. The film kind of fizzles out by the end instead of building to the expected pitch.

    Eastwood who also directs is excellent as usual and he is surrounded by a really good cast. Barely recognized Andy Garcia as the head of the drug cartel.

    Easy undemanding viewing.

    I've enjoyed seeing Garcia pop up in more stuff lately, I heard he was solid in this film. I've yet to see it, one of the few films of 2018 I still need to see but I know it's out on DVD/blu-ray/4K in a matter of days so I should cross it off the list soon.
  • RemingtonRemington I'll do anything for a woman with a knife.
    Posts: 1,534
    Just saw It Follows for the first time. I recommend it. It looked, sounded, and felt like a John Carpenter film.
  • FoxRoxFoxRox
    Posts: 12,466
    Remington wrote: »
    Just saw It Follows for the first time. I recommend it. It looked, sounded, and felt like a John Carpenter film.

    Love that film. One of my favorite modern horror films easily.

    I’ve had interest in seeing Us and Pet Sematary. Hopefully more good horror films. The genre’s had something of a comeback the last few years.
  • j_w_pepperj_w_pepper Born on the bayou, but I now hear a new dog barkin'
    edited March 2019 Posts: 9,028
    Not really a "movie"...but my wife and I are inching our way, two episodes at a time, through the entire The Persuaders! again. Last night we had the Episode Someone like Me, in which Lord Brett is being re-programmed by some baddies to kill an old friend, played by Bernard Lee in a surprisingly small role. Dated without end, at times with cheap-looking sets, but still a lot of fun.
  • Risico007Risico007
    Posts: 9,846
    Starting my Batman series with 1989’s Batman yes I am aware of the 1940’s serials and the 1960’s movie and I might go back to them but I want to try and do just the official series and a few films to mirror almost movies.. the official series are those produced Michael Ulsan who is the Eon productions of the Batman universe producing or executive producing ever Batman film since 1989 including Batman v Superman


    I will be judging each film on one extra element of how close it is to my Batman

    I love how Keaton poses with the cape to make gain bat and I love the tools the Battarang the opening attack so fucking cool


    The way Keaton delivers I’m Batman is soooooo cool to think it was a joke at first but it Buttons the scene so well

    I like Nicholson Jack Napier
    I also find Knox to be not as annoying as I thought as for Billy de Williams I wonder how he would of played dent


    I am surprised that the film is kind of well tightly scripted showing for example the scene in the parade

    I will say this Keaton debut was really well realized up next Batman returns
    Films I saw in 2019


    1. Casino Royale
    2. Across the Universe
    3. Licence to Kill
    4. Batman
    5. Beverly Hills Cop 2
    6. Casino Royale 1954
    7. Highlander Endgame
    8. Oliver Stone The Doors
    9. Highlander
    10. Moonstruck
    11. Hitman agent 47
    12. Highlander 3 The Final Dimension
    13. Walk the line
    14. Highlander 2
    15. Highlander the source

    Batman series
    1. Batman

    Highlander series
    1. Highlander Endgame
    2. Highlander
    3. Highlander the final Dimension
    4. Highlander 2
    5. Highlander the source

    Bond series
    1. Casino Royale
    2. Licence to Kill
    3. Casino Royale 1954

    Jukebox
    1. Across the Universe
    2. Oliver Stone The Doors
    3. Walk the line




  • FoxRoxFoxRox
    edited March 2019 Posts: 12,466
    Went ahead and saw Us (2019). Very enjoyable film! Almost as great as Get Out! Highly recommended.
  • BMW_with_missilesBMW_with_missiles All the usual refinements.
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    Got to see an advance screening of Shazam! It was fantastic, had great humor, and Zachary Levi is awesome as always. I highly recommend it.
  • FoxRoxFoxRox
    Posts: 12,466
    Been marathoning through the Star Wars episodes. Just finished Return of the Jedi - a movie I love more than most. My slightly unorthodox ranking of the first six:

    1. The Empire Strikes Back
    2. Return of the Jedi
    3. Star Wars / A New Hope
    4. Revenge of the Sith

    5. Attack of the Clones
    6. The Phantom Menace
  • Crazysoul95Crazysoul95
    Posts: 3,336
    Finished the Harry Palmer trilogy this week. I had already seen The Ipcress File, 3 years ago so i skipped that one. Can't remember much about it though other then thinking it was just okay. This week i watched Funeral in Berlin and Billion Dollar Brain. Funeral in Berlin had some interesting bits, but the plot got pretty messy as the film moved along. Billion dollar brain was very bad. Overall a pretty mediocre trilogy

    1. The Ipcress File
    2. Funeral in Berlin
    3. Billion Dollar Brain
  • Crazysoul95Crazysoul95
    Posts: 3,336
    Recently finished watching all the films i had planned for 2018. Therefore i can now post my top 10 list of 2018.

    1. Mission: Impossible – Fallout
    2. BlacKkKlansman
    3. Black Panther
    4. A Star Is Born
    5. Upgrade
    6. Love, Simon
    7. A Quiet Place
    8. First Man
    9. Incredibles 2
    10. Green Book
  • Crazysoul95Crazysoul95
    Posts: 3,336
    Captain Marvel (2019)

    My first trip to the cinema this year. Felt i had to watch this before Endgame. One of the weakest movies in the MCU so far. Only made to present Captain Marvel as she will probably have a bit to do in Endgame. A seemingly irrelevant story in the big picture of things. Yawn.
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
    Posts: 45,489
    Crazysoul95 wrote: »
    Captain Marvel (2019)

    My first trip to the cinema this year. Felt i had to watch this before Endgame. One of the weakest movies in the MCU so far. Only made to present Captain Marvel as she will probably have a bit to do in Endgame. A seemingly irrelevant story in the big picture of things. Yawn.

    I still haven t made up my mind if I should go see it or not.
  • GerardGerard
    Posts: 5,993
    Durnign my vacations, I brought my Blu-Ray player with me to catch on some movies and TV series (Doctor who, both classic and modern). So, in no particular order, I saw :

    Horror of Dracula : The movie that made Christopher Lee a star. Still as good now as it was in the fities.

    Dr. Terror's House of Horrors : The first of the Amicus portmanteaux movies. Two things to note (apart from saying that the stories are really good) : in the second story, an unexpected guest star : Bernard Lee himself (guess the head of MI6 had another job on the side). And the third story was reused as an episode of Scooby-Doo.

    The Fabulous World of Jules Verne : If Méliès had done talkies, this is the kind of movies he would have done. Great work of art.

    And I also caught on my viewing of the Sherlock Holmes movies with Basil Rathbone, with Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon (done during WW , and it shows), Sherlock Holmes in Washington (the same), Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (interesting plot), Spider Woman (a great vilainess, and one scene that would have made a great serial cliffhanger), and The Pearl of Death (frankly, Holmes acted like a moron in that one, there's no denying it. But the appearance of Rondo Hatton was a great bonus).
  • BMW_with_missilesBMW_with_missiles All the usual refinements.
    Posts: 3,000
    Crazysoul95 wrote: »
    Captain Marvel (2019)

    My first trip to the cinema this year. Felt i had to watch this before Endgame. One of the weakest movies in the MCU so far. Only made to present Captain Marvel as she will probably have a bit to do in Endgame. A seemingly irrelevant story in the big picture of things. Yawn.

    It definitely was a “meh” film. I certainly hope she doesn’t just swoop in and save the day in Endgame. Introducing a character at the 11th hour to have them fix everything and steal the show would be very cheap.
  • ThrasosThrasos
    Posts: 1,469
    Gerard wrote: »
    And I also caught on my viewing of the Sherlock Holmes movies with Basil Rathbone...
    Those are great! (the ones you mention), and I think my favorite is Dressed to Kill, the one about the music boxes. A TV station I get has started airing The Expendables movies. I hadn't seen them before and I'm enjoying them. I don't know which is my favorite--they all have good parts, and Expendables 3 sure has a great battle sequence at the end, though maybe it goes on a bit too long. Plenty of testosterone all around.

  • bondsumbondsum
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    I’ve just come back from watching Jordan Peele’s Us. To say that the director has gone and done a M. Night Shyamalan and produced a self-indulgent piece of garbage would be an understatement. This is so laughable, it’s not remotely scary... but it’s funny... and not in a good way. In fact I’d argue that M. Night Shyamalan‘s The Happening is vastly superior in every conceivable way. Strangely his movie unjustly garnered only 18% on Rotten Tomatoes but Peele’s Us received a whopping 94% fresh. Go figure. Seriously there’s no justice on RT. Coincidentally the criticism of The Happening was that it begins with promise, but unfortunately descends into an incoherent and unconvincing trifle. The very same description could easily be applied to Jordan Peele’s Us. It’s total dreck. Lupita Nyong’o gives two performances in this movie. The first as a married mother is quite good, if not a little too tearful and doesn’t make a lot of sense when you consider the final movie’s closing reveal. The second as a soul-fighting doppelgänger is jaw-droppingly awful. Her fake scary voice might scare a 5-year-old but not anyone older. Oh, and that final shot (I won’t reveal it here) I predicted long before it was shown. I’m just hoping that the new Twilight Zone isn’t as god awful bad as this.
  • LeonardPineLeonardPine The Bar on the Beach
    Posts: 3,996
    Aliens

    A magnificent piece of filmmaking from James Cameron. And if you haven't seen it then what are you waiting for?

    It has dated a little, yes, in the technology and dialogue, but still a thrilling science fiction actioner with a career best performance from Sigourney Weaver.

    One thing I did notice that was odd. The Sulaco was left orbiting the planet with no crew on board....? What if there was like, an emergency....?
  • Creasy47Creasy47 In Cuba with Natalya.Moderator
    edited April 2019 Posts: 40,968
    @LeonardPine, I always think the reason they leave no one behind in case of an emergency is because the film takes several efforts to show you how absolutely nobody believes Ripley and they all underestimate her warnings of danger; thus, there's no forward planning for an emergency of that magnitude, even though there should be.
  • cooperman2cooperman2 Uk
    Posts: 380
    While i fully agree that Aliens is a masterpiece of sci-fi action cinema, it comes with one big caveat for me. It has to be the1986 theatrical cut. It is by far the better version of the movie, sharper, pacier and far less predictable than the so called special edition. Also it is actually
    Camerons directors cut of the film. He did many interviews in 86 explaining why he cut the scenes that he cut and he felt it made it a tighter movie. Theres a reason its called the special edition rather than a directors cut and its because its not Camerons version. So i will always stick with the original cut
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