Favorite Movies

[chuck]

Paths of Glory and Schindler's List are great films but a little too intense for repeated viewings. I "got it" on the first viewing.

Blade Runner 2049 was worth seeing and I will watch it again to try to catch stuff I missed on the first viewing. They had to walk a real tight rope in terms doing a sequel to a truly iconic original. My main disappointment was with the music. Tough to top the original.

Shape of Water is basically old school B movie horror show, an homage to creature from the black lagoon with the twist of the monster gets the girl. There is s lot of subtle detail work in the film the viewers are supposed to sense/feel rather than process on a higher level.

My daughter is a member of the ADG and we got to see a panel discussion with the production designers and set dressers for Beauty and the Beast, Dunkirk, Darkest Hour, Blade Runner 2049, and The Shape of Water. B&B and Darkest hour were the same team.

And yes, Jared Leto's character is one of the creepiest bad guys ever. No redeeming qualities whatever. You want to go take a shower after his scenes.

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Blade Runner 2049 was worth seeing and I will watch it again to try to catch stuff I missed on the first viewing. They had to walk a real tight rope in terms doing a sequel to a truly iconic original. My main disappointment was with the music. Tough to top the original.

I still thought that they at least tried to stay "true" musically...and overall, the movie was just darker....

And yes, Jared Leto's character is one of the creepiest bad guys ever. No redeeming qualities whatever. You want to go take a shower after his scenes.

Absolutely. And he was on the screen for only a short bit in just 2-3 scenes....

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Does anybody here pay attention to "Rotten Tomatoes, home of the "Tomatometer" ? Apparently , Hollywood does. Even Spielberg has made comments about it.

Theirs is a consensus website. It very much pays to read a critic you like. I really miss Siskel & Ebert, who I watched from their Sneak Previews days on PBS.

Attention? No. Look at it now and again, yes. I'd rather formulate my own opinions as opposed to being told by others what to think or like.

I heard about it for the first time, yesterday, on one of those before-the-Oscars talk-shows and was wondering what you thought.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

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And yes, Jared Leto's character is one of the creepiest bad guys ever. No redeeming qualities whatever. You want to go take a shower after his scenes.

Now, that's a recommendation, right there, as far as I'm concerned. Seriously. When our emotions get affected by a movie - and revulsion can be one of them - I get involved and intrigued.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Blade Runner 2049 was worth seeing and I will watch it again to try to catch stuff I missed on the first viewing. They had to walk a real tight rope in terms doing a sequel to a truly iconic original. My main disappointment was with the music. Tough to top the original.

I still thought that they at least tried to stay "true" musically...and overall, the movie was just darker....

And yes, Jared Leto's character is one of the creepiest bad guys ever. No redeeming qualities whatever. You want to go take a shower after his scenes.

Absolutely. And he was on the screen for only a short bit in just 2-3 scenes....

Now, I KNOW I'll be watching for that movie!

[Rufus T. Firefly]

Blade Runner 2049 was worth seeing and I will watch it again to try to catch stuff I missed on the first viewing. They had to walk a real tight rope in terms doing a sequel to a truly iconic original. My main disappointment was with the music. Tough to top the original.

I still thought that they at least tried to stay "true" musically...and overall, the movie was just darker....

And yes, Jared Leto's character is one of the creepiest bad guys ever. No redeeming qualities whatever. You want to go take a shower after his scenes.

Absolutely. And he was on the screen for only a short bit in just 2-3 scenes....

Now, I KNOW I'll be watching for that movie!

One warning --- it's a loooooong movie.....

[MurphOnMillerAve]

I'd be very curious to hear what those here who were in military service in Vietnam think of these movies:
The Deer Hunter
Full Metal Jacket
Apocalypse Now
Platoon

...if you wish and will permit my asking.
Murph

[MurphOnMillerAve]

90years of Going to the Movies was just on the Oscars show, tonight. While watching the allegro retrospective collage, which was composed of 3-5 second moments from numerous movies, I knew the exact movie title every time I saw each clip. I honestly wasn't aware the movies had penetrated that deeply into my memory.

I think that, perhaps, theme songs, like the theme from "Titanic," from movies, as well as remarks and lines that have become iconic, like, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a dam," or "You're gonna need a bigger boat," or "and your little dog, too," have the same effect - instant recognition of the movie.

Any thoughts about this?

[HONDO74]

Apocalypse Now. One of the best scenes from that movies, Playmate Scene - Flash Cadillac - Susie Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cs2Fa0cQa90

I have Apocalypse Now Redux. It's a 2001 re-edit version with 49 minutes added. This version has nude and sex scenes with the playboy bunnies.

Fun time with the playmates
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTRY07DzoFo

[Rufus T. Firefly]

.......remarks and lines that have become iconic, like, "Frankly, my dear, I don't give a dam," or "You're gonna need a bigger boat," or "and your little dog, too," have the same effect - instant recognition of the movie.

Any thoughts about this?

I'll provide a line from one of my favorite movies, "That is an amazingly stupid question."

[rex desilets]

[robert.]

Apocalypse Now. Not a scene from the movie. A scene from my house as a 9-12 year old. Not sure of the exact year. This movie had just come out. My uncle (moms brother) knocks on the door. He is standing there in tears shaking. He came in and had an hour long talk with my mother how Nam. took away his teenage years. Then he went to my aunts house(moms sister) and had that same talk. He never mention the war before or after to them. Something in that movie got to him

[robert.]

You want me to hold the chicken!

[v8vega]

I'd be very curious to hear what those here who were in military service in Vietnam think of these movies:
The Deer Hunter
Full Metal Jacket
Apocalypse Now
Platoon

...if you wish and will permit my asking.
Murph

I barely escaped having to go to Vietnam. Wasn't Platoon the one where they shot up a town and captured a young girl? Extremely left wing liberal view of our military

[HONDO74]

i RECEIVED MY DRAFT NOTICE IN THE FALL OF 1964. At the induction it was almost like a high school reunion with a lot of the guys I graduated with. As for me, because I had a cocci cavity in my left lung caused by valley fever and would sometimes puke blood, I was reclassified 1Y. They sent me a new draft card and I never heard from them again.

At our actual 10 year reunion they had a memorial for those that had been killed in action. As I recall it around 10% of the graduating class had perished in Vietnam.

And for what, to stop communism from spreading. And today look at all the crap that Americans buy from the biggest communist country in the world. CHINA.