Talk About Movies: Part 4
Somehow threads merged, so here's part 4 of our ongoing movie discussion.
Days of Thunder is so much fun to watch. From the makers of Top Gun, a movie that spawned infinite "Let's make Top Gun but with (insert vehicle/war machine here)." Follows the same beats as Top Gun, it shouldn't work, but it works. The "Gimme Some Lovin" montage sequence is ****ing cinema: Rowdy Burns hazing Cole Trickle on the track, pit crew taunting and mocking Trickle, Trickle learning the ropes of NASCAR, the lows that come before the highs, all to the sweet tunes of The Spencer Davis Group, that bass line hitting my chest like a hammer. Gimme Some Lovin has to be in the top 10 hall of fame needle drops. Would love to put together a list because that **** gets me hyped up.
On a rewatch, yes the movie lulls in the middle after the crash. It's pretty cringe that Trickle sexually assaults Dr Lewicki in front of his team while they all laugh, then he follows her to her car to make moves on her, then kisses her while she's examining him to find out whether she can medically clear him to continue to race. BRO this was so hard to rewatch, and she falls in love with him!
Also hard to believe Duvall is 59 years old here. Tom Cruise as of this writing is 64 years old and still jumping off cliffs, hanging onto planes and being an absolute madman all in the name of cinema. He's a 1 of 1. Days of Thunder is the ultimate dad movie and I'm here for it.
All Tom Cruise movies are the same: https://youtu.be/v-tU2KIAMrs?si=5WkRb_I7...
Y Tu Mama Tambien - Right there on Netflix. I'm sure everyone here has seen it, but my 1st complete viewing. Early Cuaron road trip movie. Explicit. Sensual and comedic. Sad/Tragic as well.
Love this movie. I remember watching it and thinking how it felt so preferable to the Americanized movies I was usually watching - just some characters and a simple plot, a movie about people’s lives
Will have to go back and rewatch it
Thinking about Ye Tu Mama Tambien the last few days. About early friendships at meaningful times. Fade away to distant memories. Though none quite like that IYKWIM.
Mind wants to compare YTMT to Anora, but not quite there. Common thread: the uselessness of the adolescent male.
My preference for his early work is BY FAR Amores Perros...
This movie is so graphically realistic and honest in it's narrative.
Thinking about Ye Tu Mama Tambien...
Mind wants to compare YTMT to Anora...
Common thread: the uselessness of the adolescent male.
I dont get that ^ equivalency... the two films seem vastly different in their scope.
My preference for his early work is BY FAR Amores Perros...
This movie is so graphically realistic and honest in it's narrative.
I dont get that ^ equivalency... the two films seem vastly different in their scope.
Iñárritu is on the list.
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Agree, was thinking on comparing Anora and YTMT, but they don't really. Except for the young men's sex skills.
xactly!
My Darling Clementine by John Ford
Henry Fonda and Walter Brennan star as Wyatt Earp and the patriarch of the Clantons.
For me, though, the real highlight of the film is Victor Mature playing Doc Holiday who's dying of tuberculosis. There's a great scene in which Mature ends Hamlet's "to be or not to be" soliquiy for a drunk actor.
Like so many Westerns, Clementine speaks of the coming of civilization to the West. It's one of Ford's greatest films, of which there are many.
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I just watched that the other day... I thoroughly enjoyed it, again.
However, it left me wondering if someone who had no idea of who those actors were, would actually like the Film on it's own merits.
My conclusion is that they probably would not and what you and I experience was more so, nostalgia.
Days of Thunder is so much fun to watch. From the makers of Top Gun, a movie that spawned infinite "Let's make Top Gun but with (insert vehicle/war machine here)." Follows the same beats as Top Gun, it shouldn't work, but it works. The "Gimme Some Lovin" montage sequence is ****ing cinema: Rowdy Burns hazing Cole Trickle on the track, pit crew taunting and mocking Trickle, Trickle learning the ropes of NASCAR, the lows that come before the highs, all to the sweet tunes of The Spencer Davis Group
great movie, feel like rewatching it asap now. and yeah gimme some lovin is awesome
i like p much all of scott’s movies so ymmv, but i think the fan with deniro and snipes is underrated
That's probably my favorite western
Dern might be the GOAT of that type of character. Stephen King wanted Dern & Jill Clayburgh for The Shining, which at a minimum would’ve been much closer to the book.
Speaking of which, I really want to read the sequel to Election, which might be the best book-movie combo.
Speaking of which, I really want to read the sequel to Election, which might be the best book-movie combo.
I was very disappointed by the sequel to Election, although I never even read the original book tbh, just love the movie. I have liked a lot of Tom Perotta's novels though, have read most of them, even Joe College! (which I recommend) Little Children is a very good book-movie combo btw.
Tracy Flick Can't Win I'd place below his previous work Mrs. Fletcher, and not just by a hair either.
Even though it's not a movie, The Leftovers on HBO is a great series. The final episode might be one of the best I've ever seen.
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Gimme Some Lovin has to be in the top 10 hall of fame needle drops. Would love to put together a list because that **** gets me hyped up.
So I'm watching Kindergarten Cop, and there's a scene where some of the moms are talking about this new teacher they've been hearing about. When one of the kids points Arnold out, the moms are speechless. One of them freaks out because she doesn't want Arnold to see her without her makeup on. Then I realized that women are hot for him in all of his movies. There's that scene in Terminator 2 when he's walking into the bar, and the biker waitress goes "Roar!" And there's the part in Jingle All the Way where his wife sees him in the Turboman costume and is like, "Ooh, Arnold." He's with two hot chicks in Total Recall...
I haven't gone through every movie, but I'm sure there are more instances of this. Was Arnold really considered a sex symbol, or were his characters just written that way? Always feels like a plot hole.
Even though it's not a movie, The Leftovers on HBO is a great series. The final episode might be one of the best I've ever seen.
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i liked it but always felt like it was on the cusp of greatness but just stood still and ended up being a massive disapointment
There’s a great over the top movie to be made about an escalating war between lunch wagons that culminates in them having Road Warrior style rigs.
Little Children is a great book/movie combo, JHE a phenomenal casting coup.
