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

[Clubber Lang]

^ A kinda earlier version starring Burt Lancaster and directed by Aldrich, 'Ulzana's Raid' (1972) -

 

[lymond]

Hostiles (2017)
If you like films with native americans & some typical western elements, this one should be bullet proof

There barely was a boring moment..it's not revolutionary story telling, but with top class character development.
This one took it's time to make viewers care about people, from both sides.

I saw this one a while back...good one!

 

[BenitoChavez]

Mission: Impossible - Final Reckoning - The stunts in this are great. Two sequences in particular, the submarine and airplane sequences, stand out. The rest of the movie is kind of blah. Not much good in the way of plot, character, or dialogue.

Sinners - Now this was a movie with good plot, characters, dialogue. I never cared so much about the opening of a bar juke joint. Oh yeah the vampire stuff was pretty fun too.

Thunderbolts* - A good Marvel movie?? What is this 2018?

 

[Gori the Grey]

I rewatched The Breakfast Club.

What I hadn't remembered is that the only grounds on which the students can come together is that it turns out they all have bad relations with their parents.

That's plausible. Kids that age routinely have strained relations with their parents. But it just felt like lazy storytelling. Think up another couple of ways that kids can connect with one another.

 

[Smellincoffee]

She's All That, 1999. Another movie from my youth that I didn't see. Was amused to see Matthew Illiard, aka That Guy from Scream. The story is a loose adaptation of Pygmalion: after he's dumped by his Mean Girl girlfriend, Big Man on Campus makes a bet that he can make any girl the prom queen. He chooses a clumsy art girl and finds himself developing Feelings for her.

 

[lymond]

She's All That, 1999. Another movie from my youth that I didn't see. Was amused to see Matthew Illiard, aka That Guy from Scream. The story is a loose adaptation of Pygmalion: after he's dumped by his Mean Girl girlfriend, Big Man on Campus makes a bet that he can make any girl the prom queen. He chooses a clumsy art girl and finds himself developing Feelings for her.

Well, also based mostly on My Fair Lady (a classic and 1965 Oscar winner for Best Picture), which was, yes, based on Pygmalion

 

[EvaDK]

Bring Her Back

2025 Australian horror by the Philippou brothers that also brought us Talk To Me in 2022.

Disturbing more so that scary with some rather gruesome imagery. I got Hereditary and C-u-c-koo vibes early on in the first act, which also meant that I guessed where the story was going, anticipating a specific reveal. Still quite effective, although not as original as their debut feature film. Great performance from Sally Hawkins.

 

[Smellincoffee]

Jules et Jim, 1962. Two men in 1912 meet and become instant friends, even through they fight on different sides in the Great War – Jules is Austrian. They meet a woman – Catherine – and are enchanted by her, though Jules, knowing Jim’s penchant for womanizing, asks him to leave Catherine alone. The film follows the three’s relationship for ~ ten-fifteen years. It’s hard to tell other than the War ending and a child appearing. Catherine, who begins the movie as kind of a manic pixie dream girl, bringing out these guy’s personalities, proves to be more troubled than either of her admirers could imagine. Lovely music, especially when Jeanne Moreau sang.

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[Kyriakos]

 

[EvaDK]

Didn't he already develop a 'toilet franchise' with his Transformers films?

 

[Kyriakos]

Didn't he already develop a 'toilet franchise' with his Transformers films?

Skibidi is different due to how recent it is - transformers arguably had their heyday decades ago

 

[Kyriakos]

:/
Too bad SMG's character is dead.

 

[Smellincoffee]

My cinema friend resolved to "treat" me to another Fellini film tonight. "Oh, joy!", you should be saying, he said. The film was Amarcord, a 1973 movie that follows a year in an Italian village sometime during the Mussolini regime. I think it was 1920s, as there's no sense of a war on. Weirdly, although fascism features in the movie, it's not the point of the movie. I can't see a film of this type being made in 1970s Germany. The film is mostly follows one family, and specifically a young man within the family, as the seasons change and various drama goes on. We witness schoolboys misbehaving in the classroom, boys pining for not just girls, but women, the family dealing with a mentally ill uncle, that sort of thing. Sometimes an older and very merry historian wanders through telling us about the buildings around us. It's a very....male movie, I will say, in terms of story and where the camerman's eye drifts. There's one scene where Mussolini visits: after he leaves there's still a giant composition of his face made of roses, and two teenagers get "married" in front of it. I've been reading up on the film and evidently it was Fellini's attempt to capture the nostalgia of his youth on camera, complete with old folk traditions like setting an effigy of a witch on fire to invite the onset of spring.

The two other Fellini movies I've watched have been La Dolce Vita and Nights of Cabrini. The attachment is possibly the weirdest moment of the movie, which my friend's record of Rocky Horror Show made even stranger.

Too bad SMG's character is dead.

To the extent I remember the original movie, it's purely for Jennifer Love Hewitt.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Amarcord,

Was a great movie in its day.

 

[Smellincoffee]

Was a great movie in its day.

Knowing that it's meant to be a fanciful recapturing of his childhood makes some things make more sense, like the HUGE bonfire and the characters who go to extremes.

 

[Smellincoffee]

Midnight Cowboy, 1969. Jon Voight plays a Texan who believes he is God's gift to women and makes his way to New York, there to seduce rich ladies and get money. Instead, he finds himself bankrupt and living in an abandoned building with Dustin Hoffman, a hustler and pickpocket who obviously isn't doing too well. The two strike up an unlikely friendship, but as Dustin Hoffman's health continues to deteriorate, they try to make their way for Florida. There are lots of scenes that mix Voight's anxiety about the present with trauma from the past. Given the new rating "X" at the time for some sex scenes, later reduced to "R". The source of the "I'm walkin' heah!!!" quote that, judging by YouTube, really annoys New Yorkers.

 

[Birdjaguar]

Another great movie!

The song during the opening credits was a huge hit too. (begins 1:00 in).

 

[Smellincoffee]

As I told my friend, I'll never hear that song the same way again!

Twelve Angry Men, 1954. A rewatch for me. I've seen it multple times but it's been a while. I forgot what a phenomenal character-drama movie this is.

 

[Clubber Lang]

^ That's one of those movies that leaves an impression on everyone.
The 97 version had a stellar cast appear and should be watched just for that, but the black-n-white version hit's harder.

Jury 58

Jury 97

 

[Kyriakos]

^ That's one of those movies that leaves an impression on everyone.
The 97 version had a stellar cast appear and should be watched just for that, but the black-n-white version hit's harder.

Jury 58

Jury 97

I agree, the original is far better. I also didn't find some of the changes in the 90s one to be making much sense (black supremacy was a strange choice).
The 90s cast is excellent, of course.