Talk About Movies: Part 4
Somehow threads merged, so here's part 4 of our ongoing movie discussion.
Is horse racing a sport or a gambling activity? I would say Seabisquit and Secretariat are great sports movies and Let it Ride is a great gambling movie.
Don't forget Hard 8 on the gambling side. If Bull Durham is a sports movie and not a rom-com, I suppose Tin Cup is as well.
Major League, Caddyshack, et cetera--many end up being in the "enjoyable to watch, but not a great movie" category too.
there's actually a restaurant called seabiscuit on mackinac island and they play the movie 24/7
I not a sports guy at all. I used to love Hockey but all my favorites have long since retired and I haven’t kept up to know who are the best right now. Never gave a **** about any other sport aside from MMA and that was a fairly small window. Same as with Hockey, the fighters I liked are gone, or should be.
That said, I kind of love a lot of sports flicks. Love Slap Shot and also love the original Longest Yard. Any Given Sunday is awesome. Wildcats is an all-timer for me. So is the original White Men Can’t Jump. Bull Durham and Moneyball are great. I think BasketBall is one of the best comedies ever made. Basketball is my least favorite of the big 4 but I’ve seen The Last Dance 3 times and own 4 pairs of Jordans. Tons of the PG-rated flicks are always fun. I’ve seen all of the above multiple times.
The only ones I don’t really like are the ones with an “deeper” emotional throughline. Rudy is great, but once was enough. Field of Dreams is probably as good as I’ve heard but I don’t care to see it, knowing the ending already. I guess I just like sports comedies, dramas and documentaries and stay away from “heartfelt” lol
Warrior definitely deserves a mention as far as sports movies go.
Phar Lap is another great horse racing movie.
The Cooler (2003) is a great gambling movie if you're being a bit loose with the definition, as of course is Casino (1995).
They're certainly as much about gambling as Bull Durham is about baseball.
I loved The Cooler.
The Sting was always overrated. Maybe if I watched it when it came out I would've found it impressive, but there's just too much ridiculousness for it to be a good movie now.
The Cooler (2003) is a great gambling movie if you're being a bit loose with the definition, as of course is Casino (1995).
Love both.
Warrior is absolutely amazing and perhaps Nick Nolte's best performance ever... Or at least that drunken scene is an absolute classic and one of my favorite single scene
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along with a couple of unforgettable ones in True Romance
To be fair every movie you listed (besides possibly Rounders) is critically acclaimed and well regarded by non-gamblers
Yeah, I was thinking exactly the same ; of course we are speaking of the 1974 James Caan The Gambler, even if Mark Wahlberg's was a guilty pleasure if me, if obviously (much) critically inferior.
Just watched "Freelance" with john cena, allison brie, alice eve and christian slater.
Action comedy set in a country having a coup.
Actually had surprises in the plot.
It wasn't bad as action comedy, it actually gave a realistic picture of how governments can be worked over, which a couple of folks watching with me said was unbelievable.
I had them look up Saddam Hussein and Manuel Noriega.
They couldn't believe it could happen.
Side note: Christian Slater looks really good for his age, unfortunately Alice Eve and Allison Brie......
But time catches all of us.
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I can not wait for the BHS documentary...
Just watched "Freelance" with john cena, allison brie, alice eve and christian slater.
Action comedy set in a country having a coup.
Actually had surprises in the plot.
It wasn't bad as action comedy, it actually gave a realistic picture of how governments can be worked over, which a couple of folks watching with me said was unbelievable.
I had them look up Saddam Hussein and Manuel Noriega.
They couldn't believe it could happen.
Side note: Christian Slater looks really good for his age, unfortunately
lol I just watched the trailer...Alison Brie and Alice Eve look perfectly fine...beuaitful women.
Great sports movie that is a great rom-com and a great satire is Semi-Tough, based on a Dan Jenkins novel, starring Burt Reynolds, Kris Kristofferson, and Jill Clayburg.
One of the great lines in any rom-com is Jill Clayburg character saying to Burt Reynolds's
"How come we never ****ed?" To which Reynolds replied, "Didn't we?"
Pure rom-com. Many of us have those exact kinds of relationships.
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Evil Does Not Exist 2023 Directed by Ryūsuke Hamaguchi (Drive My Car). I needed watched to watch a director's interview to help understand it. The title seems to refer to the idea that when wild animals harm each other it is not considered "evil". Maybe this should be true in some situations for humans as well. The story takes place in a remote village in the moutain woods of modern Japan. The conflict is between the villagers and a company that wants to build a tourist site there. The vilagers think it will harm the environment and the ecology. The movie starts out slow in the first hour by dwelling on the peacefulness and beauty and harmony of the location and the villagers. This is backed by an excellent musical score. Then there are interesting conversations especially inside moving cars. The events of the final ten minutes are unexpected although they were foreshadowed. The ending has baffled reviewers but the movie has still been well-received. I don't want to spoil. I give it a grade B, worth watching but it is a bit dull and enigmatic.
This might be a good place to post new trailers.
Civil war was a decent movie.
Dune 2 was pretty great.
Looking to see the new mad max movie Fieriousa
Finally got to see The Mother and The Whore on Criterion . It's one of those films that's been nearly impossible to see. Plot involves one man, his live-in girlfriend and another woman he pursues. Eventually they all end up in the same bed, but it's not a menage a trois in the usual sense.
There's a great monologue at the end of the film by the woman who is being pursued.
I think the film speaks to a post May '68 malaise when the '60s become the '70s.
Satirical, biting, and uncomfortable, it's very French. It may be a great film, and at nearly four hours it doesn't drag.
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I've always never wanted to see that.
I watched Close Encounters of the Third Kind again. Still a terrific movie, and I love the references to Hitchcock's North By Northwest, the notes to the theme from Jaws played by the alien ship, and "When You Wish Upon a Star" played by one of the kid's toys.
I think it's one of those movies that you need a heart of stone not to like it.
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I have a thing for visiting shot locations when convenient. For example, coming back from NE last summer, stopped in Joliet and saw the state prison from the opening of The Blues Brothers (and Field of Dreams later that day, but that did less for me).
Anyway, some years ago, I climbed up the exact same little hill where Dreyfuss and Dillon got their first view of Devils Tower. That was pretty cool to me.
You seem to have some impossibly high standards. Allison Brie and Alice Eve still look incredible.
No i just think they aren't as attractive as they once were, which happens.
I bet if they were asked if they look just as good as they used to at their best years, you honestly think they will say they do?
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okay, I just finished the preposterously bad but still entertaining shark-in-the-Seine movie, Under Paris, about a giant shark who starts munching on triathletes, climate activists, and various police in and, well, under Paris.
Was not expecting that kind of ending lol.
But I have a question:
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What the hell made Paris flood? The bridges collapsing? The detonating shells? the sharks? None of that makes a lick of sense. So I'm befuddled.
Been going through a long list of new stuff and rewatches. Did Little Miss Sunshine last night, and forgot how enjoyable it was. The casting was fantastic yet having said that, it was even better than the sum of all its parts. Great movie.
remember enjoying it when it came out - felt a bit contrived - ie people don't actually interact that way
however, the what really annoyed me the most was i remember a lot of the complaints about it were people saying "it was dumb because how would he not know he was color blind, especially since that's so important to him with his desire to be a pilot"
but that's basically how most people in the USA find out, by happenstance where they coincidentally see a color blind test and fail it - it's how i found out and how most people i spoke to found out as well
