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    Smorgasbord aka Cracking Up

    I think this was the movie that introduced my younger self to Jerry Lewis's movies. Still makes me laugh out loud. Something that modern comedies don't do to me.
  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
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    Starry Eyes 2014 a horror of sorts, I got that it was a commentary on how the lust for fame can corrupt the soul. Ultimately the film was quite dull I found Neon Demon more interesting which is very similar conceptully.
  • DarthDimiDarthDimi Behind you!Moderator
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    @Fire_and_Ice_Returns
    I'm happy you appreciate THE NEON DEMON. It's a film I have grown quite fond of. Visually impressive to say the least.
  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
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    DarthDimi wrote: »
    @Fire_and_Ice_Returns
    I'm happy you appreciate THE NEON DEMON. It's a film I have grown quite fond of. Visually impressive to say the least.

    I watched Neon Demon on Netflix though I will certainly buy it on Blu ray at some point, its definitely worth a revisit I would be interested to listen to any commentary's or documentary's on the film.
  • peterpeter Toronto
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    Getting ready for Sicario: Day of the Soldano, I re-watched the first one last night, a film my wife had yet to see.

    Cracked open a beautiful bottle of red (Stag's Leap Cab/Sauv 2015-- for anyone who loves wine, this'll knock your tastebuds through the roof), and joyfully watched this masterpiece unfold.

    It's as good now as the first time I watched-- just as chilling/shocking. My wife was floored by the tension and she did something unexpected: she was talking to the screen, scolding Josh Brolin at every turn (she especially hated how he was chewing his gum-- wonderful performance!)
  • mattjoesmattjoes Julie T. and the M.G.'s
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    SharkBait wrote: »
    Smorgasbord aka Cracking Up

    I think this was the movie that introduced my younger self to Jerry Lewis's movies. Still makes me laugh out loud. Something that modern comedies don't do to me.
    I haven't seen it in full, but the part with the sheriff, the obese fellow and the car is hilarious.

    Interestingly, your first Lewis film was the last "true" Lewis film.

    By the way, I've got something half-written on Which Way to the Front?. I'll finish it and post it one of these days. I think it's a very underrated film. Sadly, Lewis stopped making movies at a potentially very interesting stage of his career.
  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
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    The Empire Strikes Back and Conan the Barbarian, two of the greatest films ever made in the fantasy genre,
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    The Empire Strikes Back and Conan the Barbarian, two of the greatest films ever made in the fantasy genre,

    Oh yeah. I'd add in Superman: The Movie to that...
  • ThunderfingerThunderfinger Das Boot Hill
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    The Empire Strikes Back and Conan the Barbarian, two of the greatest films ever made in the fantasy genre,

    And James Earl Jones is one of the great things about both.
  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
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    chrisisall wrote: »
    The Empire Strikes Back and Conan the Barbarian, two of the greatest films ever made in the fantasy genre,

    Oh yeah. I'd add in Superman: The Movie to that...

    absolutely all great films
    The Empire Strikes Back and Conan the Barbarian, two of the greatest films ever made in the fantasy genre,

    And James Earl Jones is one of the great things about both.

    I thought that during the end scene of Conan..., Thulsa Doom and Vader two of the greatest villains in cinema.
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    The Strangers (2008). This was really disturbing. Should have gotten better reviews IMO; an extremely unsettling, brutal film. Flawed, but effective.
  • peterpeter Toronto
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    FoxRox wrote: »
    The Strangers (2008). This was really disturbing. Should have gotten better reviews IMO; an extremely unsettling, brutal film. Flawed, but effective.

    Scared the hell out of me. Very well done, and not your typical slasher. Turned my stomach upside down.

    It was plain evil @FoxRox. No reason for this terrorism they brought down on the couple.

    I got around to finally watching Creed. I love the Rocky franchise like I love a well made and cheesy pizza. They are quintessentially "guy" films and know how to hit all the right cords in us.

    I was concerned that without Rocky as the lead protagonist, Creed wouldn't be a Rocky film.

    My concern was ill-founded. Apart from the ridiculousness of that swollen eye in the final fight, this was a 4 out of 4 pleasure. Sly continues to be able to capture and bring humanity with this role he created way back in '76.

    And Michael B Jordan is quite the leading man. In another thread I was complaining that "real" men are hard to find in the upcoming generation of actors. This guy leads the charge by a long-shot (I haven't seen BP yet (I do feel superhero fatigue), but will now surely see it soon since I was blown away by his on-screen magnetism). Jordan was dynamic and energetic, and most of all genuine. This guy has a long future ahead of him.
  • edited June 2018 Posts: 3,333
    Have you seen Them (2006) @peter? I was always under the impression that The Strangers (2008) was simply a US remake of the French film until I read something by the director Bryan Bertino claiming that it was based upon combining his haunting childhood experience with the tragic Manson murders. By the way, Bertino's haunting childhood experience bares no similarity to The Strangers whatsoever. I've always felt this was very disingenuous of Bryan Bertino not to give credit where credit was due and come straight out and say that his movie was an Americanised version (knockoff) of Them (Ills in French).
  • peterpeter Toronto
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    No @bondsum, I haven’t seen Them, nor did I know about it. If Them is even more harrowing than The Strangers, I will have to man-up and watch it one of these days!

    But you’re right when you say give credit where credit’s due (but then you have, of course, lawyers and agents saying be careful of what you say or else you will (be sued; share credits (loss of income)).

    I’m also curious to see what the director’s childhood experience was now! I’ll give it a google search!
  • edited June 2018 Posts: 3,333
    It's very good and very tense @peter... and original!! I much preferred it as it involved a group of faceless, hooded feral youths rather than the obligatory novelty-masked assailants that are so rote in Hollywood movies. Of course, you're right about the shared writing credit thing, which is why I believe Bertino conjured up the childhood experience story and then tagged on the Manson murders as a break-in example as a reason to wriggle out of paying up. Yes, it made visible changes (different masks and it's more convoluted) but they were cliched changes that the French movie did so much better.

    Bryan Bertino's childhood experience was this: “As a kid, I lived in a house on a street in the middle of nowhere. One night, while our parents were out, somebody knocked on the front door and my little sister answered it. At the door were some people asking for somebody who didn’t live there. We later found out that these people were knocking on doors on the area and, if no one was home, breaking into the houses”
  • peterpeter Toronto
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    That childhood "experience" sounds quite lame... Come up with something with a little more jazz, Mr. Bertino!

    I think you, me, and many on this forum, @bondsum, have more frightening tales from our youths!

    You've made Them sound like a film I must see soon, bondsum. I kid you not: I'll have to wear my big boy pants and muster up the courage (I get deeply affected by senseless evil depicted in these types of films; the memory of them seems to crawl all over my body, making all hairs stand on end for weeks!)!
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    Ha ha. I entirely agree @peter. It's such a lame story.

    Them is a great little French thriller which has a slightly shorter running time of 77 minutes compared to The Strangers 88 minutes. There's no padding. It's just a straight edge of your seat thriller-come-horror movie. The main difference was that I felt Them felt more credible and real and didn't rely on the gimmick of designer masks and Jason Voorhees theatrics. You should definitely check it out.
  • peterpeter Toronto
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    I hold you responsible for my nightmares to come, @bondsum !
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    I had been meaning to watch the Strangers for a really long time, and when I got around to it at 3 AM last night, it didn’t disappoint at all. It was late and storming - perfect atmosphere. Definitey an underrated, modern horror classic. The concept is so terrifying - being out in the middle of nowhere like that, no way to escape or contact anyone. The ending was unsurprising but insanely brutal all the same. Won’t be leaving my mind anytime soon.
  • peterpeter Toronto
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    The Brothers Grimsby

    do I feel good about my mental health after seeing this? No. I lost brain cells watching it (didn't have a lot to begin with).

    So why was I laughing so damn hard (I haven't smoked weed in 20 years, wasn't drinking...)?...

    Daniel Radcliffe and Trump getting AIDs in one film?... Elephant vaginas and ejaculate?... Shooting kids?... Oh boy, I need to see a specialist for this one. All of it--

    ALL
    OF
    IT

    Was wrong and my mother taught me better...
  • DaltonCraig007DaltonCraig007 They say, "Evil prevails when good men fail to act." What they ought to say is, "Evil prevails."
    edited June 2018 Posts: 15,715
    Sicario 2: Day of the Soldado (2018)

    Fantastic film. Not as action heavy as the trailers indicated (but still plenty of very, very brutal action set-pieces, mostly gunfights with a huge body count), but jesus was this film intense. From the opening scene to the very last moment, I was gripping my seat. Benicio Del Toro and Josh Brolin once again deliver insane machismo and charisma. The rest of the cast was very good too - special mention to Isabela Moner who plays the girl seen in the trailers, she was much better here than in last year's Transformers 5. Great soundtrack, the gorgeous cinematography of the previous film is present in this sequel too. The end very much indicates a Sicario 3 is coming - and I need it now!

    If Sicario (2015) was a 10/10 for me, Sicario 2: Day of the Soldado is a solid 8.5/10.
  • peterpeter Toronto
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    @DaltonCraig007 -- looking forward to Soldano and warmed up last weekend re-watching Sicario with my wife.

    I'm happy to see you had a strong viewing experience.
  • peterpeter Toronto
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    Cleansing my soul from TBB... I am now jumping back in to the Boyle anthology, starting with...

    Steve Jobs....

    Holy...

    S***...

    Danny Boyle takes the life of a genius/asshole and turns it into a film you can't help but watch and somehow root for.

    What he pulls from his actors is UNREAL... The visuals and story-telling via the camera-work is a thing of art; he makes the most mundane conversations into a tight-wire of tension.

    This man is a great and energetic story-teller through and through... and seriously-- did anyone see that was Kate Winslet (for at least the first five minutes??)?????

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    Incredibles 2 (2018). Second time in theaters, and it’s very rare for me to see a movie more than once at the theater these days. Very impressive.
  • chrisisallchrisisall Brosnan Defender Of The Realm
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    Predator (1987). Non-PC macho junk. I love it.
  • peterpeter Toronto
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    chrisisall wrote: »
    Predator (1987). Non-PC macho junk. I love it.

    Absolutely-- the 80s were the best for popcorn films (last two SW films, Indy films, Lethal Weapons, the first DH, Commando (triple the cheese factor), Goonies, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Breakfast Club, Weird Science...)
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    I've just started watching 'The Snowman'.

    Fassbender looks great,even as a piss-head cop.
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    barryt007 wrote: »
    I've just started watching 'The Snowman'.

    Fassbender looks great,even as a piss-head cop.

    Barry, do you think he'd make a good Bond?
    Of all the names been thrown around, he would be the one I would be intrigued to see!
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    Mathis1 wrote: »
    barryt007 wrote: »
    I've just started watching 'The Snowman'.

    Fassbender looks great,even as a piss-head cop.

    Barry, do you think he'd make a good Bond?
    Of all the names been thrown around, he would be the one I would be intrigued to see!

    He would be PERFECT as Bond ,better than Craig even,Mathis.

    Its just convincing him to take the role .
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    Is Val Kilmer being dubbed here ?
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