What Movies Are You Watching Lately

[Van Veen]

The Incredibles 2.

Would recommend. Not as good as the first but it definitely met expectations.

 

[Blake Stitched Blues]

OHMSS is one of my favourites. I really like The Living Daylights also, and think it's a shame that Timothy Dalton didn't get to chance to make another film after the disastrous LTK. Never did like Brosnan and none of the Daniel Craig films other than Casino Royale are very good. QoS is unwatchable.

 

[wojt]

Very good family movie with great practical effects that still hold up pretty well.

First time viewing and it's classic for reason. A great film noir.

 

[SixOhNine]

In the states, I think he’s (still?) famously known as the worst bond —-

I thought the consensus on the worst Bond was Timothy Dalton. He was grim, wooden, and utterly uncompelling. The only good thing about The Living Daylights was the theme song by A-ha. License To Kill didn't even have that.

 

[noob in 89]

He did seem a bit nice and unsalacious for a Bond, I guess, but the first one (as I remember) was full of great locations, inventive action ,and it still had that magical 80s flare to it. (This was the one where he rode a cello, yes?). Maybe the Bond was a little weak, but overall, I think it was a solid movie — definitely preferable to the 90s Brosnan flicks. And he got two films!

 

[Van Veen]

When I first saw it at least 15 years ago, I wasn’t able to appreciate how great this film is. It takes the cliches of hard boiled noir detective films and fuses them with elements of thriller and horror. A modern classic, and (of what I’ve seen) David Fincher’s best.

 

[jcman311]

I thought the consensus on the worst Bond was Timothy Dalton. He was grim, wooden, and utterly uncompelling. The only good thing about The Living Daylights was the theme song by A-ha. License To Kill didn't even have that.

My god don't get me started on Dalton's terrible (yet trend appropriate) suits. They looked almost like pajamas because they were so baggy. However he did have some of the best arm candy in Carey Lowell and Maryam d'Abo.

 

[Numbernine]

My god don't get me started on Dalton's terrible (yet trend appropriate) suits. They looked almost like pajamas because they were so baggy. However he did have some of the best arm candy in Carey Lowell and Maryam d'Abo.

Looks like the action figure makers agree

 

[noob in 89]

Whelp, the wife is gone for the week, leaving me in the super-enviable position of being able to recommend some totally serviceable cable fare.

Succession: is a great show you should watch. I don’t think there’s been a bad HBO show since that one about the guy on a beach about 20 years ago.

American Made: Tom Cruise plays a totally amoral and efficiently Tom Cruise-like pilot caught up in what would become the Iran Contra scandal. Fans of Entourage or drugs might get a kick out of the Medellin scenes. This one was surprisingly OK.

Jack Reacher: Never Look Back: ...or...something. The sequel no one demanded hits the small screen. Cruise plays a former army major (as the film likes to remind you every five seconds) in what I like to call competency Appreciation: a completely absurd, yet oddly reassuring take on the man’s man, someone equally adept at thrift shopping and living a romanticized drifter’s life as he is at killing. When a hot woman is framed for espionage, Reacher gets ample opportunity to act smug, solve crimes, and flex his nuts. If it sounds bad, it is, but this too held my interest til the implausible end.

Next up: Doogie Howser, M.D.

 

[Kaplan]

For me, the second Jack Reacher film was toe curling embarrassing pretty much all the way through; really one of the worst movies I can remember seeing recently. Extra disappointing as I really liked the first one - Werner Herzog's villain was super chilling, especially on the first viewing.

Maybe I should give American Made a chance, which due to the decrepitude of Reacher 2 and The Mummy I haven't so far...

 

[noob in 89]

I was sailing on the good vibes of the first Reacher for sure; the whole fantasy world where he’s able to carve out the life of an ancient Nordic hero — health insurance be damned — yet still benefit society and have all his physical and emotional needs met, because he’s just so skilled and Zoolander good-looking. Particularly the thrift store scene, where five minutes yields him a crisp white tee and tailored leather jacket. I remember a noob asking in the thrift thread whether that was really possible.

American Made has enough small things going for it to make for good tv viewing, I think. Tons of great supporting roles, and kind of a Forrest Gump-like vibe throughout, where this one rube ends up shaping big events, with some funny cameos (like a young dubya) thrown in.

 

[edinatlanta]

So last night Videodrome, Atlanta's only video shop, continued their theater screening series with Les Temps Morts and a 2k restorations of Fantastic Planet. If it's not the greatest animated film ever (and I absolutely adore Princess Mononoke, Yellow Submarine, the Lion King and 101 Dalmatians) it's up there. Possibly one of the greatest films of all time?

Before the film started, Videodrome's owner said the film showed that animation is a medium not a genre and I have to say dude was correct. Film was some weird ****, yes. It was gorgeous, universe creating and I'm incredibly glad I saw it on a big screen. I

t's funny because I was watching it I realized that so many of the superhero/blockbusters that are produced now, honestly, they don't need to be seen on a big screen. Sure the FX are great but there's no subtlety where a close up makes passing moments more emotional, no unknown places, no real surprises, fights that are powerful no matter what.

 

[noob in 89]

#53 INTO THE NIGHT (1985)

The rare 80s movie I haven’t seen manages to answer the question why: it’s a complete mess.

Jeff Goldblum plays Ed, an aerospace engineer whose job boredom and suspicions of infidelity lead him to insomnia. One night, he happens upon a young Michele Pfeiffer, and the two embark upon what promises to be a series of zany misadventures. So far, so good. Unfortunately, a keenly observed opening quickly segues into a melange of 80s tropes that don’t quite fit together. At first glance, Pfeiffer seems to be the kind of Something Wild-ish, manic pixie dream girl to cure Goldblum’s button-up ways, but that never pans out. The pair have zero chemistry, and at many points seem to be inhabiting different films. They spend the rest of the movie avoiding Iranian assassins and bumping into celebrity cameos — directors like David Cronenberg and Roger Vadim — many of whom could’ve made this into a better film, but didn’t.


Early me: ___ Current Me: 3

 

[wojt]

Some passable movies for a change:

The structure is much like Singing in the rain but with worse acting(Cyd Charisse is a graceful dancer and I loved her bit in Singing in the rain but I begin to see why she rarely got leading roles..), not nearly as funny, fewer memorable songs and absolutely no chemistry in romance department. It's not a bad movie, but frankly it doesn't live up to the hype.

Awfully bad. Not that I hold Spielberg in super highesteem but this felt like watching B-movie unaware of the fact that it is a B-movie.

Sequel to Dirty Harry is more cliche(like absurd airport scene) and less exciting story but it's still a serviceable action movie. Original was great imo, this is good but nothing to be excited about.

 

[suited]

Some passable movies for a change:

Awfully bad. Not that I hold Spielberg in super highesteem but this felt like watching B-movie unaware of the fact that it is a B-movie.

We saw the new one last night. The expansion of dinosaurs that were featured was neat, but beyond that it was not good. The previews were promising and original. There's a fresh summer blockbuster coming - people will never see the ocean the same way after it hits theaters. I won't give away too much, but the idea is - Large shark terrorizes community.

Someone mentioned the movie Wild to my wife and I because they knew we liked backpacking, so we watched it a few weeks ago. It was pretty good.