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Which films have you seen lately Vol.22 Now with Smell-O-Vision.
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Shelley Duvall, Robert Altman Protege and Tormented Wife in ‘The Shining,’ Dies at 75
The versatile actress, also memorable in 'McCabe & Mrs. Miller,' 'Nashville,' 'Popeye' and '3 Women,' produced TV series for kids as well.
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Rip. Creep Kubrick ruined her.
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Gladiator II look's weak, trailer music sucks...
Shelley Duvall, Robert Altman Protege and Tormented Wife in ‘The Shining,’ Dies at 75
The versatile actress, also memorable in 'McCabe & Mrs. Miller,' 'Nashville,' 'Popeye' and '3 Women,' produced TV series for kids as well.
Rip. Creep Kubrick ruined her.
Not really.
Untreated mental illness lasting decades, ruined Shelly Duvall and made her a recluse. In one of her last interviews, she only had nice things to say about shooting The Shining and her co-star Jack Nicholson.
Brewster McCloud, 1970. A young man named Brewster is working on a project to create a pair of working wings for individual humans. He is also suspected of strangling a series of people, and is guarded by Hotlips Hoolihan whose mysterious black bird is always involved in the stranglings. Unrelatedly, Brewster meets a young Shelly Duvall in her debut film (Duvall recently died, hence our watching this), who he falls in love with despite being told by Hotlips that his project will be doomed if he makes love with a woman. The ending is a bit surreal. A fun enough movie – great cars & car chases – but very strange. One of the early smothered victims is the Wicked Witch from Oz, and amusingly she’s wearing red heels. Rene Auberjonois (Constable Odo in ST DS9) also appears as someone lecturing on bird behavior throughout the film. Quote my friend: “How the hell can you find either Star Trek or Sopranoes actors in EVERY THING WE WATCH?!”
Duvall was an awesome actress and her children's shows wonderful for kids.
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Triple Frontier (2019) is a decent enough action-thriller, starring a bunch of my guys: Oscar Isaac, Ben Affleck and Pedro Pascal, plus Adria Arjona, who I feel like I've been tripping over a lot lately, Garret Hedlund, and Charlie Hunnam, whose American accent is just terrible. A couple good gunfights, and it was fun hearing Isaac, Pascal and Arjona speaking Spanish, which I don't think I ever had before. (Fun fact: Affleck is actually fluent in Spanish, irl.) Isaac plays a retired US Special Forces soldier working as a contractor for the Colombian police. He gets his old team together to rip off a drug lord; take a Bad Guy off the board and everybody walks away with a few mil, easy-peasy. Everything goes exactly according to plan and the movie's over in an hour, the end.
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This was quite creepy and unsettling, as suggested by the trailers released. Perkins know exactly how to construct dread. I'm particularly impressed with how he creates dread in empty spaces; something that David Lynch and Mike Flanagan masters. As in, a scene where Maika Monroe is in the foreground facing us at her desk, while you can just make out some detail in the rooms in the darkly lit background. Is someone standing there, looking at her? I'm not sure...
Excellent cinematography, score, sound design and just overall production design. Performances are good; Maika Monroe and Perkins must be fans of Nordic Noir, because it seems she is channeling Lisbeth Salander (The Girl With The Dragon Tatoo) and Saga Noren (The Bridge) a bit; she's... off. Her voice is monotone and the performance is understated. Cage, Witt and Underwood are also fine; Cage manages to balance his 'Cageness' with the silent and creepy just enough to not go overboard.
My main criticism of the film, would probably be that the storyline/plot and the investigate aspect of the FBI characters, feels underdeveloped. There's not a lot of investigation going on; it seems the hunt for the killer is almost entirely based on Lee Harper's 'instinct'. In that regard, it tolerates little comparison to films such as SotL, Se7en and Zodiac.
I really liked it and I will be getting it on disc; but I also understand why it might not work for other viewers. Also, if you are a fan of certain types of horror tropes and expected those tropes in this film, you might be disappointed. It's a slow paced, creepy psychological thriller.
4/5
This was quite creepy and unsettling, as suggested by the trailers released. Perkins know exactly how to construct dread. I'm particularly impressed with how he creates dread in empty spaces; something that David Lynch and Mike Flanagan masters. As in, a scene where Maika Monroe is in the foreground facing us at her desk, while you can just make out some detail in the rooms in the darkly lit background. Is someone standing there, looking at her? I'm not sure...
Excellent cinematography, score, sound design and just overall production design. Performances are good; Maika Monroe and Perkins must be fans of Nordic Noir, because it seems she is channeling Lisbeth Salander (The Girl With The Dragon Tatoo) and Saga Noren (The Bridge) a bit; she's... off. Her voice is monotone and the performance is understated. Cage, Witt and Underwood are also fine; Cage manages to balance his 'Cageness' with the silent and creepy just enough to not go overboard.
My main criticism of the film, would probably be that the storyline/plot and the investigate aspect of the FBI characters, feels underdeveloped. There's not a lot of investigation going on; it seems the hunt for the killer is almost entirely based on Lee Harper's 'instinct'. In that regard, it tolerates little comparison to films such as SotL, Se7en and Zodiac.
I really liked it and I will be getting it on disc; but I also understand why it might not work for other viewers. Also, if you are a fan of certain types of horror tropes and expected those tropes in this film, you might be disappointed. It's a slow paced, creepy psychological thriller.
4/5
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Yanked from the television thread, since these are all movies...
King Kong (2005) was okay, and I remember liking King Kong (1976) when I was a kid, but I haven't seen it since then. King Kong (1933) would be worth watching if you're into the classics, or you're into seeing the history of movies with your own eyes. It was the first "kaiju" movie. Godzilla (1998) gets a lot of stick, and I won't say that it's a good movie, but it's a fun '90s-'00s disasterpiece. Dante's Peak, The Core, and The Day After Tomorrow are some low-brow disaster movies from that era that I really enjoy, and I'd put '98 Godzilla with those. Godzilla (1954) is worth seeing, if you haven't. I've never seen the 1956 American version with Raymond Burr. Cloverfield (2008) is probably the best American Godzilla movie. I mean, it's not literally a Godzilla movie, but it's a Godzilla movie. Godzilla Minus One (2023) is also excellent. I've seen several of the Toho movies from the 1960s-1970s, and I can say they were all bad but fun when I was 8-14 years old. I haven't seen any of them as an adult. Toho rebooted the series in 1984 and did a bunch of movies through 2004, none of which I've ever seen. They tried to reboot it again with Shin Godzilla (2016). I've heard it was okay, but I guess it didn't kick-start a new series like they hoped it would, because Godzilla Minus One seems to have restarted the franchise again.
The American Godzilla (2014) and Kong: Skull Island (2017) were both pretty good, with good casts, and are the prequels to Monarch. I would recommend those two, if you like Monarch. The other movies in that series - Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019) and Godzilla vs. Kong (2021) - are trash and don't have any of the same characters. The story in Monarch uses something from Godzilla vs Kong, but you don't need to have seen that movie to understand it. I haven't seen Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire (2024), but I recently heard someone say that it might be the worst movie he's ever seen.
King Kong (2005) was okay, and I remember liking King Kong (1976) when I was a kid, but I haven't seen it since then. King Kong (1933) would be worth watching if you're into the classics, or you're into seeing the history of movies with your own eyes. It was the first "kaiju" movie. Godzilla (1998) gets a lot of stick, and I won't say that it's a good movie, but it's a fun '90s-'00s disasterpiece. Dante's Peak, The Core, and The Day After Tomorrow are some low-brow disaster movies from that era that I really enjoy, and I'd put '98 Godzilla with those. Godzilla (1954) is worth seeing, if you haven't. I've never seen the 1956 American version with Raymond Burr. Cloverfield (2008) is probably the best American Godzilla movie. I mean, it's not literally a Godzilla movie, but it's a Godzilla movie. Godzilla Minus One (2023) is also excellent. I've seen several of the Toho movies from the 1960s-1970s, and I can say they were all bad but fun when I was 8-14 years old. I haven't seen any of them as an adult. Toho rebooted the series in 1984 and did a bunch of movies through 2004, none of which I've ever seen. They tried to reboot it again with Shin Godzilla (2016). I've heard it was okay, but I guess it didn't kick-start a new series like they hoped it would, because Godzilla Minus One seems to have restarted the franchise again.
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Longlegs ($22.6m projected opening weekend) could surpass I, Tonya (2017; $30m domestic) and Parasite (2019; $53m domestic) as Neon's biggest US box office success.
A24 gets all the buzz for indie movie studios lately, but Neon has done some good stuff. I've only seen a handful of Neon films, but I've liked all of the ones I've seen: Colossal (hey, another kaiju movie); Wild Rose; Portrait of a Lady on Fire; Palm Springs was my favorite movie of 2020; Pig; and The Worst Person in the World were all good-to-great.
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The Day After Tomorrow is one of my all-time favs, so that's promising.
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Finally convinced my 15 year old daughter to watch a movie with substance. So I let her choose from one of my many boxes with old DVDs and she picked up Gladiator (2000). Surprised, and proud, that we watched the whole movie without too many interruptions.
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Just in time for Gladiator 2, which is sure to be just as substantial.
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What could possibly go wrong?
Imo the movie wasn't that great, but Cage did well in it
Save me from this hell I'm living, etc.
Vicky Christina Barcelona, 2008. Two American women who are friends go to Barcelona for a little vacation. One is looking for Something Special, the other isn't. One Spanish painter gets a relationship with both of them, though not (as he wishes) together. Interesting enough film, mostly because of Scarlett Johannson and Penelope Cruz.
Boogie Nights, 1997. Star-filled cast explores 1970s/1980s porno with Mark Wahlberg. Appearances by Burt Reynolds and a bunch of known actors. Nice music. Cars were tolerable. Dug the chick on rollerskates.
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