Which Films have you seen lately? 19 - Get Your Film's Name Outta Your Mouth

[Terxpahseyton]

..

 

[EvaDK]

How many parsecs is that for Han Solo?

* the starships in STAR WARS actually travel between the stars much, much faster than the speed of light, but that's another discussion for another day.

 

[Takhisis]

I'll chalk a point up for myself, then.

Wasabi (2001), starring Jean Reno as a badass with a deep voice and a crooked nose who gets saddled with watching over a Japanese teenager just a few days away from becoming of age. It's amazing that Ryōko Hirosue

Spoiler :

didn't speak any French and learned her lines by phonetics only

, because you really cannot tell.

For our Englisch poster, yes, I watched it in French.

 

[thetrooper]

Lilja 4-ever (2002)

Really depressing stuff.

 

[Kyriakos]

Lilja 4-ever (2002)

Really depressing stuff.

 

[Zardnaar]

Withdrawal from Kharkiv apparently.

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-europe-61441664

 

[Kyriakos]

Withdrawal from Kharkiv apparently.

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-europe-61441664

You see it all like a film

 

[Zardnaar]

You see it all like a film

Wrong thread my bad. Derp I blame the French

 

[EvaDK]

Lilja 4-ever (2002)

Really depressing stuff.

Not only did Lilja has to suffer all the crap she went through in that film. Jason Bourne also killed her parents and staged it like murder-suicide. The girl can't catch a break.

 

[thetrooper]

Uh, I think you lost me there Eva af kongeriget Danmark.

 

[EvaDK]

Uh, I think you lost me there Eva af kongeriget Danmark.

Oksana Akinshina (Lilja) unexpectedly made an appearance in The Bourne Supremacy.

 

[thetrooper]

Ah, ok. Thanks!

 

[EvaDK]

Ivanhoe (1952) - love it. Joan Fontaine and Elizabeth Taylor in their prime omg. For the big siege scene, they actually built an entire full scale partial castle set in England... a country full of real Medieval castles.

Also a bit of casting news: screen legend Christopher Walken has been cast as Emperor Shaddam IV in DUNE: Part II.

 

[EgonSpengler]

Catch the Fair One (2022) - A retired pro boxer tries to find her younger sister, who's been taken by a human trafficking ring. The star, Kali "K.O." Reis, is a champion boxer irl. This isn't Taken though, despite the similar premise, or Soderbergh's Haywire. Reis doesn't just wade in and start knocking people's heads together, Hollywood-style, like Neeson and Carano do. Instead, she lets herself get taken by the same sex-trafficking ring, and when the violence does start, it's more nasty than fun. There's a subplot about the sex-trafficking ring specifically targeting Native American girls and women (Reis is Cherokee, Nipmuc, and Seaconke Wampanoag, and works with Murdered and Missing Indigenous Women organizations) and the ending is less than cathartic. (I was also thinking about Wind River as I was watching this, a very different take on the issue of missing and murdered indigenous women.) So while it's good, it's not exactly enjoyable, if you know what I mean.

Spoiler :

I did like the ambiguous ending. Sometimes those aggravate me, sometimes they work.

fwiw, I'm counting this as a 2022 movie, even though some places say it's 2021. It premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival last Summer, but didn't get distributed until this year.

---

Logan (2017) - A Top-5 superhero movie and a great neo-Western, with a subplot about caring for an elderly parent, too (an elderly parent who's outlived many of his children, just to make matters even more terrible). Highly recommended to anyone who likes graphic violence, lots of swearing and screaming, and bittersweet endings. If you like the occasional superhero movie, if you prefer to watch the cream of the genre and skip the rest, this is one of the ones you're saving yourself for. It's bleak, bloody, and definitely the most depressing superhero movie I've ever seen.

Spoiler :

The whole purpose of the X-Men stories, from when Stan Lee invented the characters in 1963, was to be a parable for the Civil Rights movement. A persecuted minority nevertheless maintaining faith that they could coexist harmoniously with humankind, even going so far as to using what makes them different to protect people from the genuine threats out there. Prof. X and Magneto were obvious analogues for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr and Malcolm X (or W.E.B. Dubois and Marcus Garvey, if you prefer), the integrationist and the separatist, the one who had faith in humankind's dignity and benevolence and the one who thought violent conflict was inevitable.

In Logan, we learn that Magneto was right all along. Humanity - perhaps specifically the United States, it's hard to tell - cannot abide mutants and has hunted them to extinction, when it wasn't subjecting them to inhumane experimentation and exploitation. The United States has become a place where people who are different simply have to flee for their lives. The struggle was all for nothing, the bad guys won. Our MLK figure ends up buried in an unmarked grave somewhere in the forests of North America and his legacy is as dead as he is. You can take Abraham Lincoln's "better angels" and shove them up your tailpipe.

On the bright side, it's thought-provoking, filmed well, with great performances and excellent fight choreography. (I note that Dafne Keene was only 11 years old when they filmed this. She must still be in therapy.)

I have no idea why I watched these two movies, back-to-back. I'm totally wrung out. I need a drink.

 

[Takhisis]

(I was also thinking about Wind River as I was watching this, a very different take on the issue of missing and murdered indigenous women.) So while it's good, it's not exactly enjoyable, if you know what I mean.

I was thinking of Wind River as I read your description! I'll try and watch it when it comes on (US film studio-owned) cable.

 

[Kyriakos]

Happy that I never watched any of this series.

 

[tjs282]

Last week: Into the Spider-Verse

Yesterday (technically this morning, but it was before I went to bed, so still yesterday as far as I'm concerned): Birds of Prey

Thumbs Up to both, though Miles wins by some distance.

 

[Takhisis]

All that Heaven Allows (1955), directed by Douglas Sirk, starring Jane Wyman and the great Rock Hudson.

 

[BenitoChavez]

Dr. Strange In The Multiverse Of Madness - This is the first movie I've seen in a theater in 2 1/2 years. The visuals were spectacular. The story was mediocre.

Spoiler :

• Elizabeth Olsen was wonderful once again as Wanda, but Wanda goes from being regretful about Westview to full on crazy mode really quickly.
• That sequence were America and Strange go through a bunch of universes was awesome.
• At the end when Christine gives Strange a good pep talk and all of a sudden he can control the demons was an eyeroll moment. Then within a few minutes Strange gives America a good pep talk and all of a sudden she can control her powers.

 

[r16]

saw most of Any Given Sunday . Not my type of sport , not that am any kind of sports guy but ı got old , so like can follow the story . Saw the beginning of Quantum of Solace , the Bond movie with Kurylenko ; the bonux being ghe Palio , that horserace thing in Siena which ı had read about in a book , Winds of War by Herman Wouk .