Talk About Movies: Part 4
Somehow threads merged, so here's part 4 of our ongoing movie discussion.
seems that Disclosure Day is getting fairly bad user reviews. Honest question...does it have any connection to Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)As a ute, I saw Close Encounters with my family over Christmas back when it came out. We all thought this movie was great. But...there was one scene that scared the s**t out of me as a ute viewer (I would have been around Barry'
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Finally got around to watching Marty Supreme.
Don't know about the rest of you, but I think it's the best film I've seen in the last year or so. Great cast. George Gervin!
It reminds me of The Hustler and Requiem for a Heavyweight. There are sports involved but none are really sports movies.
Anthony Quinn lowers himself to become a wrestler in Requiem, and Paul Newman basically doesn't give a **** at the end of the Hustler. Marty seems a combination of those two characters.
And that final shot.
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Finally got around to watching Marty Supreme. Don't know about the rest of you, but I think it's the best film I've seen in the last year or so. Great cast. George Gervin! It reminds me of The Hustler and Requiem for a Heavyweight. There are sports involved but none are really sports movies.Anthony Quinn lowers himself to become a wrestler in Requiem, and Paul Newman basically
Ehhhhhhhhhhhh. I thought there was probably a good movie in there somewhere with some good editing but there was too much needless crap muddying the waters and making it a bloated mess.
Strange coincidence. The first song in Marty Supreme is Forever Young by Alphaville, which I had never heard. I run out to the store and I'm playing a Pet Shop Boys station. The next song is Forever Young by Alphaville.
Too strange.
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Watched Song Sung Blue (Netflix). I really wanted to see this in the theater but ultimately said "nah". Glad I took that pasadena. I love Neil Diamond and thought this sounded fantastic. It was okay but ultimately disappointing. I liked it but had it built up in my mind for greatness and it didn't reach that, Jackman and Hudson were both great though.
If anyone never got around to Bob Dylan's slice of life biopic A Complete Unknown then you should watch it. In no particular order...
The cast is amazing. The choice for Bob Dylan (Timothée Chalamet), Joan Baez (Monica Barbaro) and Johnny Cash (Boyd Holbrook) were damn near perfect. And depending on your choice of music, you might not know Pete Seeger, but if actor Edward Norton is in a movie, then just go see it.
The music is presented well. It includes more than just Dylan songs. And if you don't know the story, it tells how a choice by Dylan profoundly, fundamentally, and suddenly changed and completely altered the landscape of folk music.
The only gripes I think some might have about the movie is it not being gritty enough or the pacing. We are talking about the early to middle 1960's. There was ugly items like several assassinations of political and social leaders, as well as, brutal fights for civil rights, etc. That is given light treatment happening in the background. Also there is the pacing. I will binge watch 8 episodes of a TV show, therefore the length or pacing of some movies doesn't bother me, but others might think the movie is a little slow paced.
All around great movie.
Watching again for maybe the tenth time a movie I saw when I was nine years old and again in a theater for its 50th anniversary in 2012: Lawrence of Arabia.
David Lean made Brief Encounter and Lawrence of Arabia, Great Expectations and The Bridge on the River Kwai, Hobson's Choice and Dr Zhivago.
I saw the epics when I was quite young and the small masterpieces when I was older.
Lean is without a doubt a great director.
For me, Lawrence of Arabia is in my top ten of all time. When I was nine I walked two miles to see it. My parents would give me the fifty cents to go to the movies almost every Saturday. Most of the time it was to see Roger Corman's Edgar Allen Poe movies, but Lawrence stuck with me. I was amazed that the story could start with Lawrence's death and continue to tell the rest of the story.
In eighth grade, Anna Dias wrote a paper predicting what the future would hold for us. Anna said I would be a Hollywood producer. She was close. I didn't marry the girl she thought I would, and I didn't become a producer, but I did wind up teaching film.
I guess many of my classmates knew even then I was a film nerd, if not a total nerd.
If you haven't seen Lawrence of Arabia, see it. It's streaming on Netflix, overture and intermission included.
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When I was young, I always liked films with intermissions. It signaled that they were taking themselves seriously and were spending the time to tell the story right.
Lawrence is one of my top 10's as well, just an amazing epic.
Rewatched Bridge on the River Kwai just last week and greatly enjoyed it again.
I need to watch more of Lean's filmography.
Yup, Lawrence of Arabia definitely a GOAT movie and need to (re)revisit it, especially now that I know that it is on Netflix 
Yup, Lawrence of Arabia definitely a GOAT movie and need to (re)revisit it, especially now that I know that it is on Netflix
Do not watch it if you're somewhere hot and have no aircon. It's torture under those conditions 😀
Do not watch it if you're somewhere hot and have no aircon. It's torture under those conditions 😀
No air con, but winter has arrived in Lima, so it is finally crisp 
Strange coincidence. The first song in Marty Supreme is Forever Young by Alphaville, which I had never heard. I run out to the store and I'm playing a Pet Shop Boys station. The next song is Forever Young by Alphaville.
Too strange.
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Baader-Meinhof? There is almost 0 chance you have never heard that song before.
Just came back from watching Tuner and wow, it is my favourite movie since Sinners and I believe that I prefer it to the latter as well, albeit I will have to sit on it for a few days before assessing that high... It holds 94%/94% on RT which is a rare occurrence that both the critics and audiences score it that high, albeit I really don't get how 6% of critics gave it a negative review, tbh... It has remnants of Drive, Perfume : The Story of a Murderer and The Pianist.
Just came back from watching Tuner and wow, it is my favourite movie since Sinners and I believe that I prefer it to the latter as well, albeit I will have to sit on it for a few days before assessing that high... It holds 94%/94% on RT which is a rare occurrence that both the critics and audiences score it that high, albeit I really don't get how 6% of critics gave it a negat
If there’s no kids exploited or killed, hardcore gay sechs, corprophilia, Sean Penn, or genital mutilation, count me out.
The only movie featuring Jennifer Connelly & a Motorhead song is playing here on 7/3.
Unfortunately, the contemporaneous album the song was from is No Remorse, not March Or Die.
I accept the Baader-Meinhof phenomenon, but I am convinced I never heard the song before. I played it for two friends my age who say they never heard it either.
But now I have.
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I don't think I've ever heard it either. When you guys were talking about it I thought I had, but I was thinking of the Rod Stewart song.
I don't think I've ever heard it either. When you guys were talking about it I thought I had, but I was thinking of the Rod Stewart song.
I was thinking of this version.
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and Lawrence is also in my top ten of all time. And along with In the Mood For Love, Blade Runner, Local Hero, and Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the only ones that have a permanant spot in my top ten.
My Letterboxd Top 4 are: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Do the Right Thing, The Thin Red Line, and The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. TCM is the latest entry for me, the prior 3 have been there since I can remember. Can't see myself changing these ones. I definitely need to watch Lawrence of Arabia again. My first time viewing was at a local screening and I remember thinking that provided the blueprint for so many filmmakers.
