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

[Broken_Erika]

 

[Manfred Belheim]

Terminator, Predator, both had Arnie ^^

Plot-wise, apart from the general simplicity, I didn't like that the predators are apparently a tribal society which randomly has some high-tech too. I preferred to think (from the classic first movie) that it was just a member of the species that was into interstellar blood-lust for their personal reasons.

It's as silly as Klingons turning out to be not just an expansionist society with an aggressive military, but one in which every single member is 100% dedicated to be an honourable warrior and nothing else.

 

[Kyriakos]

It's as silly as Klingons turning out to be not just an expansionist society with an aggressive military, but one in which every single member is 100% dedicated to be an honourable warrior and nothing else.

The allure gets significantly diminished by "humanizing" the Predator, imo. It was much more charming an idea back when nothing was known about it. And as noted, what was now told about it is simply underwhelming; we didn't need another "oh-so-human alien"
But the movie doesn't try to hide that it is cheesy. I think it was primarily meant for 14-year-olds or similar.

 

[Kyriakos]

I didn't like Bugonia, the latest movie by Anthimos. Although it was funny to see Halkias in it.

 

[Broken_Erika]

 

[Clubber Lang]

Jimmy Cliff
R.i.P
(1944-2025)

Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican reggae singer, actor and cultural icon, dies aged 81​

Jimmy Cliff, the singer and actor whose mellifluous voice helped to turn reggae into a global phenomenon, has died aged 81.

He is one of just a handful of musicians, alongside Bob Marley and others, to be awarded the Jamaican Order of Merit.

The Harder They Come review – Jimmy Cliff falls hard in visceral revenge western​

Fifty years on, this crime drama of a headstrong singer shooting for his chance of success is as raw and energetic as its reggae soundtrack

Perry Henzell’s visceral 1972 Jamaican crime drama exists between the two moods of its two most famous tracks: the aspirational lesson of You Can Get It If You Really Want and the disillusioned downfall-premonition of the title song. The desperado here really wants it, really gets it, comes hard and falls hard. It’s a movie with Arthur Penn’s Bonnie and Clyde in its DNA, as well as Sergio Corbucci’s spaghetti western Django, which in one scene is shown getting a rowdy screening at a Kingston cinema.

Singer Jimmy Cliff plays Ivan, a gawky country boy who comes to the Jamaican capital Kingston yearning to be a famous reggae star, having lived with his grandmother who has just died; he is virtually penniless after handing over to his mother the paltry amount remaining from his grandmother’s estate, having assured her that this surprisingly small sum is due to her having wanted a “big funeral”. Swaggeringly laidback Ivan gets a job in a repair shop on land owned by the local church and soon takes a shine to Elsa (Janet Bartley), the demure young orphan parishioner being kept, or rather groomed, as a virginal “ward” by a hectoring, controlling preacher (Basil Keane) who is creepily planning to marry her.

Ivan and Elsa start their secret affair as Ivan begins his twin careers in music and crime, only to be strangled in both by monopolistic capitalism. He records a catchy single, The Harder They Come, for local recording studio boss Hilton (Bob Charlton), who forces him to accept a flat buyout fee of $20 and blocks him from selling his single directly to radio stations and clubs. When pop stardom fails to materialise, Ivan gets into the ganja distribution business in a small way, retailing pre-rolled spliffs, only to find that the colossally lucrative US export action is sewn up by top mobster Jose (Carl Bradshaw) who collects protection money on behalf of crooked cop Jones (Winston Stona).

Ivan is humiliated and traumatised by corporal punishment handed down by the courts for a first offence, eight strokes of the tamarind switch – a horribly explicit scene. He then goes on a violent cop-killing rampage to promote his single, which duly becomes a massive hit and he sends photos of himself in cowboy-gunslinger poses to the papers. As the army closes in, Ivan has a new plan, to escape by boat to Cuba, where they will appreciate his radical outlaw vocation: “Revolutionary to Ras …”

The reggae soundtrack throbs and crunches and shudders in concert with the raw energy of Henzell’s storytelling and Cliff’s performance, but this doesn’t preclude a shrewdly self-aware debate about representation. At one point Hilton demands to know from Jones if they are banning Ivan’s single. His reply is: “Yes, if it glorifies crime.” Hilton responds: “Banning it from the hit parade? That’s when you make the guy into a big deal.” Of course, it is in Hilton’s interests for Ivan to be a big deal, although unlike the American papers who published what Bonnie and Clyde sent them, the Jamaican press is far more obedient.

When pious Christian Elsa tells her big-talking boyfriend that he is a “dreamer”, Ivan snaps back: “Who’s a bigger dreamer than you? Always talking about milk and honey in the sky. Well, no milk and honey in the sky! No, not for you, not for me. It’s right down here, and I want mine now, tonight!” Ivan may not be an existential hero, but he knows he is going to die in the very near future, and this conviction accelerates his celebrity and his fanatical devotion to the swiftly dwindling present moment of defiant self-awareness: he daubs graffiti all over town proclaiming that he is there. His fall is indeed hard (though no harder than those of his police officer victims whose deaths are heartlessly all but ignored). Like the cowboys he watches on screen, Ivan has a blood-in-the-sand reckoning with fate.

''Well, they tell me of a pie up in the sky
Waiting for me when I die
But between the day you're born and when you die
They never seem to hear even your cry

So as sure as the sun will shine
I'm gonna get my share now, what's mine
And then the harder they come
The harder they fall, one and all
Ooh, the harder they come
The harder they fall, one and all...''

 

[Klaus Hergersheimer]

So this weekend I saw Sisu 2 but not 1. Is 1 supposed to be a comedy as well? Because this one was pretty funny. I almost lost it when his hand got stuck in a mousetrap after escaping a very grueling torture.

 

[Kaitzilla]

I saw the new Running Man (2025).

The first 2/3rd's was great I thought, but I'm a sucker for action movies.
Not sure where it missed greatness.
Maybe the ending?

 

[Kaitzilla]

Wow, Netflix has a movie called Escape Room (2019) that is leaving in a few days.

It was great!
9/10

Wikipedia says it made $155 million on a $9 million budget.
Spawned a sequel too.

Kind of reminds me of Cube (1997), an amazing old death trap movie.

 

[Fippy]

Oh i saw that too, remembering it as very creative.
The ice room scene was intense.

 

[lymond]

Wow, Netflix has a movie called Escape Room (2019) that is leaving in a few days.

It was great!
9/10

Wikipedia says it made $155 million on a $9 million budget.
Spawned a sequel too.

Kind of reminds me of Cube (1997), an amazing old death trap movie.

I've not seen it but browsed passed it a few times. I saw Cube years ago, which was very good despite some not so great acting. (It did have a pre-Dead Zone Nicole de Boer)

Re-upped with Max on their black friday deal (2.99/year). Looking forward to seeing 'Weapons,' which has Oscar buzz, oh and "Sinners" which does too.

 

[Kyriakos]

'Weapons,' which has Oscar buzz

That is surprising, not just due to being a horror movie but arguably not a particularly good one - despite the lead actress being one of the best of her generation.It did go viral, however, so it has popular appeal.
I hope she does eventually get an oscar.Substance was a much better film than this and it (very ironically, might I add) only won the oscar for "best make-up and hairstyling".

 

[lymond]

Yep..Julie Garner is becoming a star. She was great on Ozark. She even played Silver Surfer in Fantastic 4

 

[Broken_Erika]

Here's something obscure

Miami Connection. Sure, 100s of movies have followed the same basic premise of martial-arts oriented orphan rock band who sing about events that haven't happened yet while being targeted by ninja bikers and TJ Miller for dubious reasons. But Miami Connection is the movie that does it the most.

 

[lymond]

I saw "Sinners" and "Weapons" over the last few days. I enjoyed both.

"Sinners" is a vampire horror. However, I probably enjoyed the non-horror elements more. The setting (Jim Crow Mississippi), cinematography, and the Blues were well done. Hailee Steinfeld (she sings on the soundtrack too) and the great Delroy Lindo had roles too, which I did not know going into it. Typical vampire tropes but with some slight twists. As a whole, it is entertaining and different. Michael B Jordan shines in a dual role as twin brothers and gangsters returning home from Chicago to start up a juke joint. (Make sure if you see this one that you stay past the initial end credits)

"Weapons" was just excellent. I'd classify it more of a thriller than a horror, though there are certainly horror elements. A lot of subtexts, some very subtle and some obvious. Great script and acting. Has a bit of dark humor. Interestingly, the bidding war for this movie was one of the biggest in recent memory. Jordan Peele lost out on the bid and fired his management as a result. (Though very different movies, I could not help to think of "Get Out" here, i.e., this is def a Peele type of movie) The story is told from the point of view of several characters, progressively. Some scenes overlap or go back in time, but the movie is excellently edited, so it is not like we are just reliving stuff over and over. What I think really worked for this movie is that, although early on, the story is shrouded in mystery, about a little past halfway through, the story is laid out quite clearly with the baddie front and center - a type of character that often remains in the shadows. We have an Amy Madigan as you've never seen before..ha.

Both of these movies were hugely successful and have some Oscar buzz. I could see both in the running for noms, but I'd put all my money on "Weapons". Weapons sticks with me more, though, and I'm still thinking about it.

 

[Birdjaguar]

House of Dynamite on Netflix. Two hours of intensity about a nuke strike on the US. Excellent. All too plausible.

 

[Clubber Lang]

Quentin Tarantino’s KILL BILL: THE WHOLE BLOODY AFFAIR unites Volume 1 and Volume 2 into a single, unrated epic—presented exactly as he intended, complete with a new, never-before-seen anime sequence. Uma Thurman stars as The Bride, left for dead after her former boss and lover Bill ambushes her wedding rehearsal, shooting her in the head and stealing her unborn child. To exact her vengeance, she must first hunt down the four remaining members of the Deadly Viper Assassination Squad before confronting Bill himself. With its operatic scope, relentless action, and iconic style, THE WHOLE BLOODY AFFAIR stands as one of cinema’s definitive revenge sagas—rarely shown in its complete form, and now presented with a classic intermission

First look at Quentin Tarantino’s ‘YUKI’S REVENGE’, the chapter of ‘Kill Bill’ that was never filmed

• Follows Yubari’s sister as she travels to America to hunt down The Bride

• Uma Thurman returns as The Bride

• Animated by Fortnite & releasing in the game on November 30

Full Video -

Quentin Tarantino had a dream of a Kill Bill chapter that never made it to the silver screen, a chapter known as “Yuki’s Revenge.” Over 20 years later, Tarantino and Epic have come together to bring the story to life in Fortnite!

 

[Kyriakos]

I don't like Tarantino at all. Recently he made another negative splash, by going out of his way to announce that he regards Paul Dano as a very bad actor.

 

[Sommerswerd]

That was playing at the theatre near me this weekend, but I couldn't get past the 4-plus hour runtime. It was split up into 2 movies for a reason.

I went to the movies with my son and he picked Now You See Me: Now You Don't instead. It was OK. A little campy, cliché and predictable, but still entertaining. I tend to enjoy Ocean's 11/Mission Impossible type movies, so this movie delivered.

I wanted to see the new Predator, but neither of my kids were interested so, oh well... I'll wait for streaming.

 

[Sommerswerd]

House of Dynamite on Netflix. Two hours of intensity about a nuke strike on the US. Excellent. All too plausible.

+1, Excellent. *Chef's kiss