Talk About Movies: Part 4

It is, and it’s a lot closer to Alien/Aliens than whatever is next closest to it, but Prey is pretty spectacular in many ways; did the grrl power thing without hamhanding modern values, HOF lead debut by a teenager, incredible cinematography, GOATy dog—an untrained rescue!

You have a treat in store.

Crime 101 was enjoyable.

Its no The Town though, and certainly not Heat. But im a sucker for this genre

Chris Hemsworth character was pretty bad, idk what they were thinking with that. Flesh it out a little bit atleast

And no one plays an old over the hill cop like Mark Ruffalo

I also enjoyed Crime 101, there was a lot to like:
- good LA cinematography, like a cross between Heat and Collateral
- strong cast. Haven’t seen Nick Nolte in a long time!
- decent writing, plot (mostly)

Except for the ending - DO NOT CLICK if you haven’t seen this yet:

The Long Goodbye (1973) dir. Altman

Opens with the famous cat scene. 3 AM. Looks through the trash.

Jim Bouton and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Who knows what history has in store for these two? Curry Brand cat food !

Thanks a lot but they hurt my teeth. He’s a real smart-ass, Lieutenant!

I’m Sorry, Marlowe!

What are you sorry about?

My husband has a drinking problem: Dried apricot?

I live across the street from Richard Nixon: That’s why I’m in perfect physical condition!

Roman Polanski played by Mark Rydell! Check!

That’s someone I love: You, I don’t even like.

Harry, in case you lose me in traffic, here’s the address where I’m going: Button your clothes, be neat, and go sit in the car!

I think they’re lesbians: No, they’re doing yoga.

It’s like being impotent: I understand what that’s like, too!

Malibu Colony Marlboro Man: Aquavit ftw!

Now we’re in Mexico! Now we’re back in Malibu Colony!

Now we have a really good scene where Sterling Hayden wades out into the surf!

Everybody take off your clothes! Arnold jumps on it!

So the guy who goes to the store at 3 AM for cat food solves everything with a gangland-style execution back in Mexico. Like all Chandler, it’s perfectly styled and plotted unfathomably. And yet it all makes perfect sense from beginning to end.

Very fast paced. I never knew Altman could be this disciplined. There’s not a second of down time or exposition. It’s all go, go, go.

A magnificent picture! One of Atman's best! Check it out!

The Long Goodbye is my favorite Altman and my favorite Gould

This is far and away my favorite Gould. He is still alive, btw, despite spending the entire movie, with the exception of a 5-second transition in an ambulance, with a cigarette glued to his lip.

I like all of Altman's stuff. This is my favorite until I see McCabe & Mrs. Miller again. Then it will be.

It’s a solid 7/10. I didn’t like the ending that much and there were a few other scenes that were poorly written. But there were plenty of decent/good stuff to keep it interesting. I’m also a sucker for these kinds of movies.

Agree with all the comments about Crime 101. I liked a lot of it, but the ending did have me rolling my eyes.

Also noticed that it's made by the guy who did American Animals a few years ago, which is a bit of an overlooked gem imo. The thieves in that one are most definitely not professionals though lol. True story, and Barry Keoghan is in that one too.

Criminally overlooked. I just rewatched it over the past weekend. Capital F film that's hard to capture in words. Makes one ponder.

Send Help (2026)
This wasn't bad and I'm glad to see Raimi return to Horror after such a long break, but I wanted to like it more than I did and was expecting it to be better and found it merely watchable.

Scream 7 (2026) This was bad, a messy edition with an absolutely lazy and kinda pointless killer reveal. I hope they put this franchise to bed.

Hollow Man (2000)
Hadn't seen this in years and it's a really entertaining b flick from Paul Verhoeven, infused with his trademark sleaze and has some decent FX for its time.

Demonwarp (1988)
Utter trashfest that's nonetheless rather entertaining for what it is. Not even gonna attempt to describe the plot, but suffice to say it manages to shoehorn in Zombies, Aliens, Satanists, demons and um, wer-bigfoots. Also has George Kennedy and plenty of bewbs.

I watched a reaction to Scream 7, and agree it was really bad.

Send Help was good fun, gory fun. Rachel McAdams is chewing the scenery like nobodies' business

Mike&Nick&Nick&Alice is a complete missfire. Fun cast, fun idea, but the filmmaking is a bad flashback to 80s-era straight to video crap. Bad slo-mo, that stupid effect where there are missing frames so it's a little blurry and stacatto - you know, the one that 90s music videos stopped doing for being too cheesy?

Just a bad, bad movie.

"The Long Walk" is adapted from a Steven King book written in the late 1960's. For comparison, this is like The Hunger Games books written decades before The Hunger Games books, where there is a annually televised competition where a group of boys walk until there is only one left walking. Something as basic as boys walking down a street mile after mile after mile was brought to film well. Walk or die is depicted well. Simple concept movies still work with the right cast, dialogue and a sense of urgency.

"A House of Dynamite' is done well. The sense of urgency is done well. Recently I re-watched an enjoyable move from the middle 1980's called, "Comfort and Joy" about two rival ice cream companies set around Christmas time. The backdrop of "Comfort and Joy" was hearing on the radio constant news updates about a world at war trying to at least have some peace for Christmas. Pick a movie from any decade and this damn planet is likely at war. "A House of Dynamite" shows nothing has changed and the planet is still way too close to the tipping point of no return. After World War 2 and the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, in an interview with Albert Einstein, he was asked how World War 3 would be fought. Paraphrasing, Einstein said he didn't know how World War 3 would be fought, but that World Would 4 would be fought with sticks and stones or rocks. "A House of Dynamite" show that we are scary close to a world wide disaster and the starting incident could be from a rival super power, rogue state or whoever. And that on our side you have doves saying wait to truly see what the heck is going on versus the hawks saying **** it, even if you don't know who hit you, quickly retaliate against the whole world lest you look weak and lose. Currently, I can easily think of at least four world leaders that worry me...and they all have nuclear warheads.

I had never seen Expendables 4 so I decided to marathon all 4 of the series. It had been a while since I had seen 1, 2 or 3. They are very entertaining and over the top in both action and casting. Just about every 80's or 90's action hero shows up somewhere.

It was a fun watch with the first 3 but 4 the one I hadn't seen before really kinda sucked. None of the "new" Expendables from 3 showed up and half of the originals were gone. Expendables is a fun and enjoyable series but it ran out of gas in the 4th installment.

I had a lot of fun with Send Help. It was interesting to see Rachel McAdams play the frumpy office nerd, knowing she’s one of the most beautiful women in Hollywood. Felt like a nice return to form for Sam Raimi.

Wow, Pig was quite an interesting experience, to say the least! Nicolas Cage blew me away yet again with another otherworldly role!!! He has to be one of the most underrated actors Hollywood has to offer, right, I am thinking of his early funky debuts with performances like in Wild at Heart, Raising Arizona, to then the more acclaimed, but yet still off-the-wall, characters in Leaving Las Vegas, Adaptation, Bringing out the Dead, Bad Lieutenant ; to the recent Maddy and The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, wowww, what an unmatched filmography ♥

I may be one of the few people here, maybe the only one, who saw Comfort and Joy in a theater.

Probably the best movie ever about rival ice cream vendors.

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Me and my 89-year-old mom are watching Moonstruck tonight. I practically have it memorized, but it's so good I won't even mind. Not that I'm bragging about what an awesome son I am, not at all.

So good

The Drama is absolutely delicious. See this film ASAP.

Had she seen it before? We were just talking Nic Cage here...

Funny thing, I knew for a fact she'd seen it at least twice before. She went from contending "never seen it" even while we were watching to "oh I remember now" toward the last. She did sleep thru part of it (she'd worked 3 or 4 hours outside in her garden earlier) but very successful movietime overall.