Which films have you seen lately? ΚΓ' - The thread is your movie hegemon.

[EvaDK]

I can sit though Troy just to watch Peter O'Toole and Brian Cox. Okay, looking at Brad and Eric doesn't hurt my eyes either.

Agreed on Debecki. Samantha Morton was on screen for less than ten minutes in the Harvey Weinstein scandal film She Said, but she was the best thing in it.

Like Pattinson, Kristen Stewart also broke free of the Twilight phenomenon and did good stuff in some smaller indie films, latest with Love Lies Bleeding.

 

[Voidwalkin]

Yeah, I liked Troy. I wish they'd have made Achilles into an even more raging narcissist than they portrayed him as being. Granted, that's not the story, but I wish Homer woulda written that way too.

Interstellar I thought kinda overrated, but still decent. I like how it ridiculed the climate movement's position on spaceflight a little at the start(I realize this is a hot take)

 

[Clubber Lang]

Clubber, don't get the Punisher reference for Pattinson.

Doh!...Corrected.

 

[Gori the Grey]

There's also a black Athena, because it helps.

Maybe it's a nod to Martin Bernal's Black Athena.

Homer's Achilles is a raging narcissist, @Voidwalkin.

 

[Voidwalkin]

Maybe it's a nod to Martin Bernal's Black Athena.

Homer's Achilles is a raging narcissist, @Voidwalkin.

I see you do not recall I thought it'd have been a better story if Achilles woulda refused Priam the proper burial of Hector.

I did kinda write it confusingly, on reflection. I didn't mean to imply he wasn't. I mean to imply I wish the movie woulda made him an even bigger jerk than the book did.

 

[EvaDK]

Homer's Achilles would know that the Gods were in favor of Priam's request. His entire life has been about elevating himself to Godlike status.

It's a strike of Greek irony that he does achieve a form of immortality in the end - by dying.

In a modern context, Achilles would be that guy that would sacrifice his wealth and life itself, for fame.

 

[Voidwalkin]

Achilles would be that guy that would sacrifice his wealth and life itself, for fame

(best served by defying the gods and combatative behavior)

 

[lymond]

I can sit though Troy just to watch Peter O'Toole and Brian Cox. Okay, looking at Brad and Eric doesn't hurt my eyes either.

Agreed on Debecki. Samantha Morton was on screen for less than ten minutes in the Harvey Weinstein scandal film She Said, but she was the best thing in it.

Like Pattinson, Kristen Stewart also broke free of the Twilight phenomenon and did good stuff in some smaller indie films, latest with Love Lies Bleeding.

Really miss O'Toole and Cox makes everything better. I'd say Morton is one of my favorite actresses. She has done a lot of great stuff in smaller films. It is kind of a bizarre indie from years ago but check out 1999 "Jesus' Son" with Billy Crudup - practically an unknown film that was on many top 10 lists that year. A young Morton was fantastic.

Doh!...Corrected.

Ah yeah, that makes sense. He was the best Punisher. Really miss those shows, though I think Daredevil may come back on Disney

 

[Clubber Lang]

Daredevil has been re-born -

Post in thread 'Superheroes!'

Jan 15, 2025

"It’s not entirely unpleasant seeing you again."

• Clubber Lang

• 

 

[Sommerswerd]

Sleepless and Project Power, both starring Jamie Foxx. Watched both with wife this weekend.

Sleepless was OK. It reminded me alot of the Denzel Washington film Out of Time, in that it was about a cop who was in over his head and having to do all kinds of shady stuff to get himself out of the mess he'd gotten himself into. Pretty fast paced action, hostage-for-MacGuffin storyline where the MacGuffin of the story was a pretty straightforward "bag of drugs", in this case, cocaine, (as opposed to "bag of money"), no frills or thrills with the MacGuffin itself, no mysterious powers, or thumbdrive with secret formula, equations, data or other world-threatening info or any kind of other magic involved. The action was just a kind of basic, lower grade Mission Impossible, style of progression where the hero is sneaking around, tricking people, faking identities, etc., always just one step or split second ahead of disaster, occasionally having a karate battle, shootout, or getting caught, but then escaping. The end is the classic "double-cross" where "it was the trusted friend all along". Pretty mundane and predictable, but still very entertaining.

About halfway through Project Power, I realized that I'd seen it before. It was OK, kind of an X-Men/Heroes/The Boys knockoff basic premise. It also reminded me alot of the Denzel Washington film Out of Time, only this time, the MacGuffin is a hybrid hostage situation, with the magic drug that gives superpowers, where the hostage is the source just like in X-Men: The Last Stand. It used the concept that the show The Boys would borrow, of the characters popping a dose of the super-power drug to get charged with random superpowers. Much like Sleepless, the movie was very entertaining, with good action and some humor, but it did admittedly feel very derivative, like everything that they were doing reminded me of some other famous film I'd already seen, without anything that felt entirely fresh, new or innovative.

 

[Henri Christophe]

I don't like to watch movies at all, but my girlfriend loves, and I want to find something good to her.
Someone know where find a good terror movie for free online? Is her favorite movie gender

 

[Clubber Lang]

^

 

[Kyriakos]

I liked Pitt as Achilles, although in the Iliad Achilles is bigger and stronger than everyone else. Still, this wouldn't work in a movie - for the same reason Tom Cruise sold more tickets as Reacher than - eg - Lundgren would.
Sean Bean as Odysseus was also cool -at the time Bean had great presence.

Homer's Achilles would know that the Gods were in favor of Priam's request. His entire life has been about elevating himself to Godlike status.

It's a strike of Greek irony that he does achieve a form of immortality in the end - by dying.

In a modern context, Achilles would be that guy that would sacrifice his wealth and life itself, for fame.

Maybe metaphorically, yes. But Achilles dies, like everyone else, and is later met in Hades by Odysseus (who isn't dead but went there).
Besides, his mother was a demigod, which in no way would mean he would become immortal. Compare to Herakles whose father was Zeus himself (and he still went through hell to reach apotheosis).

 

[Arakhor]

Achilles and Alexander (the Great) are both archetypes of the candle that burns twice as brightly burns half as long. Achilles is certainly a prima donna, but I don't think he's a narcissist, otherwise he wouldn't have been so upset at the death of Patroklos.

 

[Clubber Lang]

Standard Hollywood ancient broom helmets...

Move over, Ridley Scott: Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey is the latest film criticized for poor historical accuracy following first look​

Matt Damon's helmet is causing quite a stir

Universal Pictures unveiled the first look at Matt Damon in Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey earlier this week – and with the movie having only started filming in January, none of us expected to get a glimpse of it so soon. With that, the internet went wild for the early image, though now it appears not everyone was thrilled with what they saw...

Based on Homer's epic poem of the same name, The Odyssey will follow Damon's Odysseus as he sets off on a 10-year journey from Troy, in the hope of reuniting with his wife Penelope and their son Telemachus. Along the way, though, he encounters all sorts of otherworldly threats including a cyclops and a sea monster.


"The Iliad literally describes Odysseus wearing a kino leather helmet adorned with boar tusks, but Hollywood can never resist the siren song of the generic ancient broom helmet. This helmet is like cocaine to costume designers," one disgruntled fan said of Damon's costume.

Another took to X to echo the criticisms, tweeting: "The Odyssey is set during the age of [heroes] (aka the Mycenaean period) some time around 1200 BC and so the helmets would have been of the boar tusk style, not the corinthian style. The corinthian helmet didn't come into use until the Archaic period, around 700 BC."

Others made clear they weren't bothered either way, however, with a third writing: "I really couldn't care less that the helmet Matt Damon wears in the Odyssey movie is 'historically inaccurate.' News flash: it’s a story! The whole thing never happened!"

As with Nolan, historians recently called out Ridley Scott for the artistic licenses he took with Gladiator 2. "It always amuses me when a critic says to me, 'This didn't happen in Jerusalem.' I say, 'Were you there? That’s the fudging answer'," the filmmaker candidly told Total Film back in November 2023.

The Odyssey releases on July 17, 2026. Benny Safdie, Himesh Patel, Elliot Page, Will Yun Lee, Lupita Nyong'o, Jon Bernthal, Mia Goth, Samantha Morton, Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Robert Pattinson, Charlize Theron, and Tom Holland are all lined up to star alongside Damon.

​

 

[Smellincoffee]

Lunatic Farmer, 2025. Part-biopic, part documentary about Joel Salatin’s Polyface Farms, which is organically and traditionally oriented.

Silence of the Lambs, 1991. An FBI trainee with a promising background is asked to profile a notorious serial killer and cannibal, only to realize she’s been sent in to convince said cannibal to help the FBI profile another serial killer currently at large. Great character drama and thriller: I’m a Jodie Foster fan and enjoyed her West Virginia accent. It sounded like she’d worked on it.

 

[BenitoChavez]

I saw Anora today. It's getting a lot of Oscar buzz and I thought it was good but not great. I've never seen Pretty Woman but I've heard it basically this generation's version of it. Anyway, the movie gives a humanizing look the lives of sex workers. I definitely sympathized with Anora, probably because she's the most well adjusted character in the movie despite being lower on the societal totem poll than everyone else. The dynamic between the Armenian henchmen and Anora were great. The first half of the movie was basically a sex/drugs/party montage which dragged on too long for me.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Trial by Fire. True crime about the State of Texas and its executions. Netflix. Rivetingly good.

To Catch a Killer. A sniper is on the loose in Baltimore. Pretty good crime drama on Netflix. Worth the time if you like police action films.

 

[Kyriakos]

He can also sue for rights, including that he is mentioned as a co-author of the script.

Too bad they managed to even misspell the Iliad - there is no epsilon iota there.

 

[Sommerswerd]

Captain America: Brave New World - Perfectly fine superhero film. No new or innovative ground broken here, just a pretty straightforward, paint-by-numbers Marvel movie, that does not add much to the overall storyline, other than that Sam is firmly established as the new Captain America, permanently. Mackie filled the role well, lived up to his prior performances, and had great rapport with his supporting cast, including Shira Haas, who was a little quirky/awkward, but still acceptable, and actually a little funny (dry humor) as the replacement "Black Widow" (replacing the niche/role on the team, not the actual original character). One drawback, is because they played it so safe with the plot, and used unfamiliar villains and supporting cast, there wasn't much tension.

Another thing about the movie, is that if you haven't seen a bunch of other entries in the MCU, most notably, Falcon and the Winter Soldier, as well as Eternals, you will be a little lost. I was even out-of-the-loop as to certain characters, the villains in particular, who were, pretty forgettable/underwhelming. I don't know if they are from MCU stuff I missed, don't remember, or just new additions from the comics, but it is certainly implied that they were from prior MCU content. EDIT: I just remembered that Samuel Sterns was originally featured in The Incredible Hulk, and I'd assumed that he was dead, which is a part of a plot twist in this film. However, its not at all unusual for the MCU villains to be lackluster... that actually had been an ongoing criticism of MCU and one of their biggest weaknesses... a lack of compelling villains. An interesting sidenote, is that Giancarlo Esposito as Sidewinder, is almost indistinguishable from his Stan Edgar character in The Boys dystopian superhero series.

All things considered, after seeing the film, I'm eye-rolling all the controversy and hate surrounding this latest MCU installment. There really is no grounds for it. The movie is a perfectly mediocre, passable Superhero film. The biggest awkward factor for me was Harrison Ford, who performed well, of course, but was distracting... and a little immersion breaking as Thunderbolt Ross. Usually, the replacement of a minor/side character isn't particularly noticeable or problematic, but because its Harrison freaking Ford, its impossible to ignore. The mitigating factor, was that he was pretty easy to believe as POTUS, given his iconic role in Air Force One. In fact, I daresay that Ford was probably a better fit for that particular aspect of the role than the late William Hurt, who Ford replaced.