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

[Chukchi Husky]

I thought The Warriors was based on a story of a group of Greek soldiers who ended up stranded in Persia.

 

[PhroX]

I thought The Warriors was based on a story of a group of Greek soldiers who ended up stranded in Persia.

Yep, it's based on Xenophon's Anabasis (well, the book of The Warriors was, the film is based on the book....)

 

[EgonSpengler]

Right, Anabasis. I haven't read the novel the movie is based on (I haven't read Anabasis, either, only about it), but I don't buy it. The film version of The Warriors makes more sense as an adaptation of The Odyssey to me.

 

[Kyriakos]

Exorcist III also has Fabio, of all people
And, much more annoyingly, a scene was filmed in the Hagia Sophia.
(re)Watched most of it now. It's meh.

 

[Kyriakos]

Hostel III.
Shows that if your premise is bad, you don't need money to make pretty much the same dumb movie as when the director did inject money into it.

 

[Kyriakos]

Eric Cantona in a movie.
It's not a terribly bad movie (has some very famous actors too). Still, Eric Cantona?

 

[EgonSpengler]

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Eric Cantona in a movie.
It's not a terribly bad movie (has some very famous actors too). Still, Eric Cantona?

He should do a movie with Vinnie Jones in which they beat the [stink] out of each other and it ends in a draw.

 

[EgonSpengler]

They Cloned Tyrone (2023) is at least as good as I hoped it would be. I'm Gonna Git You Sucka meets Stranger Things. It more than passes the Six Laughs Test. Great cast, great attention to detail, great soundtrack. I don't recommend watching the trailer, it gives away too much.

 

[Kyriakos]

Equalizer (1).

It's like there's a contest in Holywood for who will make the dumbest movie ever.

 

[thetrooper]

The Nightingale

Jesus, I just lost my last hope in humanity.

Oh, and eff you colonial bastards

 

[EgonSpengler]

I told my watchlist to hit me again:

Captain Fantastic (2016) was very good. Good cast giving good performances.

A Call to Spy (2020) was almost very good. Like Operation: Mincemeat (2022) and Munich - The Edge of War (2021), it was fine, but something was holding it back from being great, and I'm not sure what it was. I kind of had the same reaction to the series Transatlantic (2023) earlier this year: It was good, but it wasn't quite what I hoped it would be. Something about these WWII spy dramas is eluding Netflix. None of them are quite as nail-biting as I feel they should be. Transatlantic was almost happy-go-lucky, and for a moment I thought it was following in the footsteps of Stephen Fry's Bright Young Things (2003), but it couldn't quite get there, either (I do recommend that movie, if you haven't see it).

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The Nightingale

Jesus, I just lost my last hope in humanity.

Oh, and eff you colonial bastards

Read about it. Not interested in being traumatized. I hear it's good, though.

I'm looking forward to the movie adaptation of Kristin Hannah's 2015 novel The Nightingale which may be coming out this year. A drama about two sisters in Occupied France during the Second World War, being played by Dakota and Elle Fanning. Just have to be careful not to watch the wrong Nightingale by mistake.

Come to think of it, All the Light We Cannot See was supposed to be released this year, too. Mark Ruffalo, iirc. Lots of novels about people caught up in WWII being made into movies.

 

[lymond]

I told my watchlist to hit me again:

Captain Fantastic (2016) was very good. Good cast giving good performances.

Really enjoyed it!

Been a few years since I saw The Nightingale but recall liking it. Very good performance by the lead actress. I recall thinking "I've seen her somewhere". Turns out she played Laura Stark in GoT, who we basically only see in her birth/death bed scenes with young Ned. Not a particularly pleasant film but well done and interesting, if disturbing, bit of history.

 

[bene_legionary]

Operation: Mincemeat

I didn't see the movie but I did see the theatre production while I was in London. It was probably the best show I saw there. The movie was talked about, too, but I wasn't aware of it.

 

[EgonSpengler]

I didn't see the movie but I did see the theatre production while I was in London. It was probably the best show I saw there. The movie was talked about, too, but I wasn't aware of it.

The play - a gender-swapped musical comedy - sounds better. The movie plays it straight(-faced).

 

[Takhisis]

Over the weekend:
a) double-feature - trenchcoat-less films noirs
1) Pursued (1947) directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Robert Mitchum as a cowboy. Flashbacks included!
2) Reign of Terror (1949), directed by Anthony Man, starring Robert Cummings and Arlene Dahl! Everyone chases a McGuffin in Paris under mob rule.
b) See for me (2019), a suspense film about a blind girl finding herself housesitting in a home that's invaded by burglars.

So mystery films all around.

 

[Kyriakos]

I'd be nice if Furlong ever makes a comeback. Too bad the holywood life ruined him, but hopefully he can bounce back.

 

[Kyriakos]

Hm, that was a rather forgiving and polite predator. Also one without knowledge or care about how its own laser targeting system worked ^^

 

[EgonSpengler]

Hm, that was a rather forgiving and polite predator. Also one without knowledge or care about how its own laser targeting system worked ^^

I don't know about "forgiving and polite." I had the sense that

Spoiler :

the Predator was young, maybe not as skilled as those we'd seen previously. I was reading into it a bit, but I had the sense that Naru and the Predator were on parallel journies, each on their own "kuhtaamia."

But yeah, the bit with the lasers didn't totally hold together. I was left scratching my head a little, but it didn't detract much from the film overall, for me. I think it's the only 2022 movie that I've already rewatched.

 

[Kyriakos]

The Thinning (2016)

I like that the movie starts trying to be about math - the point is that students have to get good enough grades in the annual test, otherwise they are executed - and so mentions the product rule for derivatives, and then you see the test, which has the lowest of linear algebra (well, tbf, I am currently watching, so maybe some other question is more complicated; still, does not really compute to have such disparity in one test)
Movie is dumb, and funnily enough has a known youtuber clown in a starring role (tbf, he isn't bad in it).

 

[Caesar of Bread]

Watched Amadeus last night. One of the best movies I’ve ever seen