Which Films have you seen lately? Number K'. Someone was spreading lies about Joseph 20

[Takhisis]

Obligatory Simpsons reference.

 

[thetrooper]

The Handmaiden (2016)

Wonderful movie.

 

[Josu]

Errementari (2017)
Watchable, not a masterpiece. Weird adaptation of one tale I was told when I was a kid.

 

[Kyriakos]

:/
Who do they think they are, Civilization?

 

[Takhisis]

There's a Civ7 in the works… ooooh, I see your meaning.

 

[BenitoChavez]

Well Civ VI is the best Civ I don't want to hear nothing about III and IV. Stop living in the past people!
Star Trek VI was one the best Star Trek
Mission Impossible 6 is considered the best Mission Impossible

So maybe Scream VI has a chance?

 

[Fippy]

VI was the best cartoon style Civ, so maybe Scream 6 can also be the best social media Scream.
Now back to real games and movies..

 

[FriendlyFire]

Well Civ VI is the best Civ

Civ2 4 life

 

[Atimati]

Meet Joe Black

 

[warpus]

Watched Wakanda Forever last night. I haven't really liked the last bunch of MCU movies all too much. The best one I saw was probably the multiverse and that was kind of average. Spiderman was decent. I noticed that the Wakanda sequel was up on Disney+ and put it on to see if it's any better.

Well, this movie was visually stunning and fairly entertaining! I had a fun time watching it and really liked the new blue peeps. It was refreshing to watch a MCU movie in which half the characters or so were new. Ancient central American history is interesting to me, so I liked them from that pov too. I bet they were lifted from a comic book and not invented by Disney+, but we can overlook that. From my pov they were original and interesting.

I realize that this is sort of a general MCU thing, but this movie was just.. too long. The whole story they showed us could have been edited down to about an hour and a half. Would have been more concise and would have flowed better. I got a bit bored and zoned out a bit during the slow sections, usually when Wakandan characters were in deep conversations about whatever. I would get excited whenever the blue dudes got the spotlight instead, because they talked less, and did more.

I thought the guy who could fly cause he had wings on his feet was stupid. In the grand context of the MCU, not so much, but here he just seemed a bit out of place. Yeah, I get that he's modelled on an old central American god and so on, but he just seemed out of place a bit.

I also never liked token white guy. His presence in these movies is just.. unnecessary. Let's focus on the Wakandans and the blue folk and whoever else will show up in the next movie.

These aren't movie-breaking faults, and I did enjoy it overall like I said. Pretty entertaining and visually stunning. I would rate it at about a 6.4/10. An entertaining romp through a visually pleasing landscape, but nothing amazing, and overall a more or less average storyline.

 

[EgonSpengler]

Watched Wakanda Forever last night. I haven't really liked the last bunch of MCU movies all too much. The best one I saw was probably the multiverse and that was kind of average. Spiderman was decent. I noticed that the Wakanda sequel was up on Disney+ and put it on to see if it's any better.

Well, this movie was visually stunning and fairly entertaining! I had a fun time watching it and really liked the new blue peeps. It was refreshing to watch a MCU movie in which half the characters or so were new. Ancient central American history is interesting to me, so I liked them from that pov too. I bet they were lifted from a comic book and not invented by Disney+, but we can overlook that. From my pov they were original and interesting.

I realize that this is sort of a general MCU thing, but this movie was just.. too long. The whole story they showed us could have been edited down to about an hour and a half. Would have been more concise and would have flowed better. I got a bit bored and zoned out a bit during the slow sections, usually when Wakandan characters were in deep conversations about whatever. I would get excited whenever the blue dudes got the spotlight instead, because they talked less, and did more.

I thought the guy who could fly cause he had wings on his feet was stupid. In the grand context of the MCU, not so much, but here he just seemed a bit out of place. Yeah, I get that he's modelled on an old central American god and so on, but he just seemed out of place a bit.

I also never liked token white guy. His presence in these movies is just.. unnecessary. Let's focus on the Wakandans and the blue folk and whoever else will show up in the next movie.

These aren't movie-breaking faults, and I did enjoy it overall like I said. Pretty entertaining and visually stunning. I would rate it at about a 6.4/10. An entertaining romp through a visually pleasing landscape, but nothing amazing, and overall a more or less average storyline.

Agreed, on pretty much everything. I did like Martin Freeman in the first Black Panther, but he didn't add anything to this one, and they had too much going on. Freeman and Julia Louis-Dreyfus should've ended up on the proverbial cutting-room floor.

As to Namor, I think he might be the oldest character in the entire Marvel Comics universe* (irl, I mean, not canonically), having been introduced in 1939, even before Captain America. He predates Marvel Comics itself.** He was mainly known as The Sub-Mariner, a name I don't think was ever mentioned in Wakanda Forever. However, I think Marvel-Disney actually did introduce the Mesoamerican elements. Until Wakanda Forever, the Sub-Mariner was from Atlantis. It's possible Marvel felt obliged to distinguish him from Warner Bros. Aquaman, but if so, I think they really benefited from the decision. Anyway, they were kind of 'stuck' with the pointy ears and winged feet. I suppose they could have given him boots or greaves that had decorative wings on them, but I admired the stones it took to go ahead with the ankle-wings, and I thought they did a good job with them.


* Actually, Namor is the 2nd-oldest character in the MCU. Sharp-eyed viewers may have seen the original Human Torch on display in a glass display case at the 1943 Stark Expo in Captain America: The First Avenger.
** The comic he first appeared in was an anthology titled Marvel Comics, published by Timely Comics. Timely Comics became Atlas Comics, which then became Marvel Comics.

 

[Kyriakos]

Watching The Whale.

Mmmm, KFC bucket
Though last time I ate from a KFC bucket, my weight was 55-60 kilograms and I was 18-19

 

[Broken_Erika]

Watching The Whale.
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Mmmm, KFC bucket
Though last time I ate from a KFC bucket, my weight was 55-60 kilograms and I was 18-19

Some people actually are very sensitive to what they eat weight-wise. I went to highscool with a girl who could barely control her weight. She'd gain weight from eating salad.......
Personally i didn't start gaining weight until my 30's......

 

[Kyriakos]

^Me too.

 

[Broken_Erika]

Tom Sizemore: Saving Private Ryan actor dies at 61 after brain aneurysm​

US actor Tom Sizemore, known for roles in Saving Private Ryan and Black Hawk Down, has died at 61, his manager says.
Sizemore found fame in the 1990s, often playing supporting roles as tough guys - usually military, police or criminal. His other credits included Natural Born Killers, Pearl Harbor and Heat.
But he also had drug problems and served jail time for domestic violence.
Sizemore had been in a coma since suffering a ruptured brain aneurysm on 18 February.

His manager, Charles Lago, said he died on Friday at a hospital in Burbank, California, with his brother Paul and twin boys Jayden and Jagger, 17, at his side.
"The Sizemore family has been comforted by the hundreds of messages of support," Lago said.

He said Sizemore's sons were devastated, and asked that their privacy be respected.
His brother, Paul Sizemore, said: "I am deeply saddened by the loss of my big brother Tom. He was larger than life. He has influenced my life more than anyone I know.
"He was talented, loving, giving and could keep you entertained endlessly with his wit and storytelling ability."

Born in a working class area of Detroit, Sizemore obtained a masters degree in theatre before his Hollywood break arrived with a bit part in Oliver Stone's Born on the Fourth of July in 1989.
That work led to bigger roles in 1990s dramas such as Tony Scott's True Romance, Devil in a Blue Dress, opposite Denzel Washington, and the biopic Wyatt Earp, alongside Kevin Costner.
Stone cast him again in the controversial Natural Born Killers as the violent Detective Jack Scagnetti; and he played a henchman to Robert De Niro's criminal in Heat.

In the Oscar-winning film Saving Private Ryan in 1998, he was at Tom Hanks' side as the loyal Sergeant Horvath.

Sizemore was nominated for a Golden Globe for playing a mobster in the 1999 TV movie Witness Protection, and provided the voice of mafia boss Sonny Forelli in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City in 2002.
With fame and money came a heavy drug habit, and he wrote in his autobiography about addictions to heroin and crystal meth.
He recounted how De Niro pushed him into one of his stints in rehab in 1995, telling Sizemore he would have him "arrested for heroin possession" if he didn't go into a treatment centre. Sizemore chose rehab.
When Saving Private Ryan came along, director Steven Spielberg reportedly threatened to fire the actor at the first sign of drug use and reshoot the film without him.

But Sizemore struggled to stay clean. And there were other "personal demons".

In 1997, he was arrested on suspicion of assaulting his wife, actress and tennis player Maeve Quinlan. They divorced two years later.
In 2003, he was sentenced to six months in prison for beating up his girlfriend, the former Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss, and was ordered to complete more rehab and anger management.
Ms Fleiss testified that he had also stubbed a cigarette out on her, knocked her to the ground outside his home, and made more than 70 obscenity-laced phone calls.
He said at the time that he had "permitted my personal demons to take over my life".

In 2005, he went back to jail for violating his probation by failing a drug test, after being caught trying to use a prosthetic penis to fake the results. According to prosecutors, Sizemore had been caught once before trying to use a similar device.
Two years later, he was sentenced to 16 months for violating the terms of his probation, and was also arrested for driving under the influence.
"I was a guy who'd come from very little and risen to the top," Sizemore wrote in his 2013 autobiography.
"I'd had the multimillion-dollar house, the Porsche, the restaurant I partially owned with Robert De Niro. And now I had absolutely nothing."

"I've led an interesting life," he wrote. "But I can't tell you what I'd give to be the guy you didn't know anything about."
A 2007 documentary series, Shooting Sizemore, chronicled his efforts to reclaim his life and career.
While he never regained the roles of the '90s, in recent years he made a guest appearance in the Netflix hit Cobra Kai and had a recurring role in the 2017 revival of David Lynch's cult TV show Twin Peaks.
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-64721187

 

[Kyriakos]

Hm, didn't know any of that (assaults etc). Sounds pitiful.
I remember being very surprised by how massively he had changed (looks-wise) in that reboot of Twin Peaks.

 

[Kyriakos]

I watched The Whale.
Overall, although I wanted to like it coming in, I didn't.
Aronofsky has fallen from grace far ago, and was mocked (rightfully so) for Mother. This isn't a disaster of the scale of Mother, it's not even a disaster at all, but it's not good either.

 

[Clubber Lang]

Tom Sizemore R.I.P

Tom Sizemore: the tough guy who held his own opposite Hollywood’s biggest names​

In a career which often saw him play characters with a streak of ruthlessness, it was as a soldier with a heart of gold in Saving Private Ryan that he truly excelled

Perfect casting is something that happens rarely in the career of any actor – starring or supporting – but it happened for Tom Sizemore in the late 90s, just as he was getting to be known for amoral tough guy roles, but also for drug abuse in his personal life. Steven Spielberg offered him the part of Sgt Mike Horvath in Saving Private Ryan, and told him that he would be given a drug test at the end of every day of principal photography and his scenes would be re-shot with someone else if he failed even one.


Sizemore stayed clean and played the tough, beefy, courageous soldier who is to be the loyal subordinate of Capt John Miller, played by Tom Hanks, Miller being the high-school teacher in civilian life who in 1944 is entrusted with the almost hopeless, quixotic mission of rescuing a certain private in occupied France on compassionate grounds because all three of this man’s brothers had been killed in action. All the tricks and mannerisms that Sizemore had been cultivating for his tough guy crime roles, his faintly sweaty and pop-eyed relish for action and violence, his disdain for the rulebook and streak of ruthlessness, all these character traits were reversed and redeemed and even ennobled by his persona as a dedicated military man.


He was a badass, sure, but now he was a badass for Uncle Sam, fighting the Nazis. Sizemore was the friend and confidant of Hanks’s thoughtful officer, and ready to pull a gun on any of his platoon who presumed to question his captain’s orders. Of that platoon: Jeremy Davies, Barry Pepper, Giovanni Ribisi, Adam Goldberg, Vin Diesel, Edward Burns and Sizemore, perhaps it’s Vin Diesel who’s gone on to the movie big time, but at the time it was Sizemore who was the standout, because he had what he had never had before and was never really to have again – a heart of gold.

As well as Spielberg, Sizemore had another important ally and friend: Robert De Niro, who would later be instrumental in forcing Sizemore to go to rehab: Sizemore had acted with De Niro in Irwin Winkler’s interesting and underrated Hollywood “red scare” movie Guilty By Suspicion in 1991, in which Sizemore played the bullying apparatchik of the House Un-American Activities Committee, based on Roy Cohn. De Niro got him a part in Michael Mann’s mighty action epic Heat in 1995, playing Michael Cheritto, one of the crew working for De Niro’s Napoleon-of-crime super-thief, Neil McCauley. Sizemore was tough, grizzled, loyal and he looked the part, but he was always going to be upstaged by Al Pacino and De Niro.

He had a more interesting bad guy role in Oliver Stone’s Natural Born Killers in 1994, based on the story idea by the up-and-coming crime auteur Quentin Tarantino. Sizemore played Detective Jack Scagnetti, a sinister and obsessive cop on the killers’ trail with a personal reason for being obsessed, and one with a violent streak himself. It might have been interesting to see Sizemore cast in Tarantino’s Reservoir Dogs along with Michael Madsen and Chris Penn.

Sizemore carried off a lead role as a cop in the horror drama The Relic in 1997, opposite Penelope Ann Miller, a role once pencilled-in for Harrison Ford, who rather sunk the movie on declaring that he was not interested: Sizemore filled in at short notice and did his professional best with a movie which wasn’t a hit, but not the bomb everyone feared. But then the 90s were over and Sizemore’s career was on a downswing.

Ridley Scott’s cacophonous war movie Black Hawk Down in 2001 gave him another military role as the capable, cynical Lt Col Danny McKnight – but without the character-interest of those dialogue scenes with Hanks that he had in Saving Private Ryan. Sizemore was a casualty of the industry, a casualty of drugs, a casualty of the roaring 90s and it was a shame he couldn’t find a director to develop the gentler, sweeter side of his perfoming persona. But Saving Private Ryan wouldn’t have been as good without him.

 

[EgonSpengler]

Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) and Cloverfield (2008) both hold up pretty well, imo.

I was sure I'd seen Precinct 13 when I was in high school, but I didn't remember any of it. There's a lot I don't remember from when I was in high school, but the movies I saw are frequently seared into my brain. I also thought it took place in Detroit, for some reason. So maybe this was a first-watch, after all. I wonder now if there was another movie that was kind of like this, that took place in Detroit, or if I'm just completely misremembering. Also, did you know the police station isn't really Precinct 13? At the beginning of the movie, Officer Friendly is directed to "District 13, Precinct 9." Think about that, for a minute. Those gangsters might've been attacking the wrong police station the entire time. It was all just a big mixup. Here's some trivia for you: Laurie Zimmer, who played Leigh, abruptly retired from acting not long after this movie. A couple decades later, the director of one of her other movies went to look her up, just to say hi and catch up, and couldn't find her. So she made a movie about trying to find her, called Do You Remember Laurie Zimmer? (2003).

Cloverfield might be my favorite kaiju movie. I know that'll rile up the Godzilla fans, but afaik, I think only Cloverfield and the original Godzilla have some real-world resonance, which I think makes them better. It's both a 9/11 parable and a view of war that most Americans haven't seen. I like that this movie doesn't do anything from the monster's perspective. It never looks like it's playing in a miniature city and it's never given any motivation or characterization. We're never supposed to understand it. I'd forgotten how long the faux young-adult drama plays out at the beginning. There was a moment where I found myself kinda getting into it before I remembered 'oh wait, half these people are about to get eaten by a monster. I shouldn't get too attached.' Theo Rossi is in it. He's one of the people at the party. I'm not sure he has any lines. We never see what happened to him, but I like to think he made it. Also, do we think the Army would deploy to one of our big cities that fast? I liked the scene where Our Heroes get separated across the width of a Manhattan side street, because there's a full-on firefight raging. I've never been in a real firefight, so I can't vouch for its authenticity (aside from the 100-foot monster, I mean), but I remember how loud it was in the theater. Like, really loud. Are those guns that loud irl? Maybe they would be on a narrow urban street like that, with the sound rebounding off the walls. Do a lot of soldiers come home with hearing damage, even if they weren't otherwise wounded? Still, even if they turned up the volume to represent what it would feel like to a civilian caught in the middle of a war zone, I thought it was effective.


p.s. With the earthquakes in Turkey in the news, and other natural disasters around the world since the movie came out, I was thinking about the fact that one could view Cloverfield as a parable about traumatic natural disasters. I decided that, no, it's a war movie to me. It came out in theaters a few years after Hurricane Katrina and the big tsunami in Southeast Asia, and I didn't really think about it in that context at the time, either.

 

[GoodEnoughForMe]

Watched Hit The Road (very good), and In Front of Your Face (fantastic).