The Movie Thread

[ed plrbs unm]

A quick shout out to 28 Days Later, which I just watched again.

The opening scene is really disturbing; the following scene where we meet main character Jim is haunting and really sets a tone. Overall a great intro to a zombie horror movie.

Avoiding any spoilers, it gets kind of retarded in the second half (if you've seen it, you know what I mean) but the first part is as good as any zombie fare out there.

Spoiler: opening scene

Spoiler: we meet Jim

 

[Read_Lives_of_Saints]

Focus on older movies, as they used flight-capable replicas and even genuine WW2 aircraft, not CGI slop. And stick to the Pacific theater to avoid fratricide glorification.
Best of both (IMO) is the 1970 movie: Tora! Tora! Tora!

I highly recommend Dam Busters (1954), which is closely based on a true story from WW2 set in the European theater. It's a real gem with some great models for on-screen effects and the plot focuses on solving real-world physics and engineering problems. Very few chicks in the flick, but has one very special dog as a mascot

 

[expectation]

Prometheus and Covenant were hot garbage. There's an interesting thematic connection that ties them to the original Alien and Blade Runner, but overall, they're not good.

I recommend you watch Romulus. It was pretty good, a spectacle in the theater.

Thanks for sharing. Romulus was a refreshing joy. The girls just couldn't catch a break towards the end!

 

[GodfatherPartTwo]

Thanks for sharing. Romulus was a refreshing joy. The girls just couldn't catch a break towards the end!

It was even better in the theater. The sound design was amazing. Even the part with the ship lifting off was fun to watch.

The "holy horror" that it was going for was pretty interesting. I guess they're doing a sequel but with a different director.

 

[Eagle3]

Thanks for sharing. Romulus was a refreshing joy. The girls just couldn't catch a break towards the end!

Agreed Romulus was a surprise for me. When I first saw the cast, I thought it'd be another woke, girl-boss Hollyweird crap. They even had the tough-looking Asian girl with the bald head and the usual white-girl/black guy duo. But it turned out to be quite entertaining because it had none of the woke-stuff. Even the relationship between the white girl & black guy was one of brother/sister. It was also a very nice tribute to the first 2 Alien movies. Enjoyed it.

 

[Read_Lives_of_Saints]

Cross-posting this from another thread.

I guess I've never seen this movie. Crazy!

It's become a classic coming of age film that Francis Ford Coppola made in 1982, where he scoured the nation for all the best young male actors, and a couple of girls. It's based on a novel that a girl (S.E. Hinton) who was in high school in Tulsa, Oklahoma wrote around 1962, where the school was divided between to different socioeconomic classes, the greasers and the soc's (sew-shuhs), who lived on different sides of town, but mixed at school, often fought it out in the mean streets of Tulsa. It's interesting that a 16 y.o. girl wrote all her main characters as male.

S.E. Hinton wrote a few novels with similar themes that were adapted into movies. They feature older siblings who had to fill the role of absent parents and coming of age among friends with different backgrounds.

Tex (1982) starring Matt Dillon and Emilio Estevez
The Outsiders (1983) starring Matt Dillon, Emilio Estevez, Ralph Macchio, C. Thomas Howell, Tom Cruise, Diane Lane, Rob Lowe, Patrick Swayze
Rumble Fish (1983) was filmed at the same time and with the same cast as The Outsiders.
That Was Then... This Is Now (1985) starring Emilio Estevez

Out of all of these, The Outsiders is the best, but avoid the 90 minute theatrical release version and instead go for the 114 minute "The Complete Novel" version that was released in 2005.

 

[Cuchulainn]

I highly recommend Dam Busters (1954), which is closely based on a true story from WW2 set in the European theater. It's a real gem with some great models for on-screen effects and the plot focuses on solving real-world physics and engineering problems. Very few chicks in the flick, but has one very special dog as a mascot

I remember a BBC interview of Colin Powell where he was asked about his favourite war films. He replied that his favourite was The Dambuaters. The interviewer said that they couldn't make it today and Powell asked why. The reporter then mumbled about the dogs name and Colin Powell just laughed at him. Different times.