Saturday Evening Movie Thread [moviegique]: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga

As I said to The Boy this very day, "My lack of devotion to franchises has saved me a lot of grief over the years." I never cared about Wars or Treks or Runners or Dunes or superheroes. (I could've been roped into a DC Cinematic Universe, but whatever Zach Snyder is putting down is not interesting to me and is so far removed from the characters I grew up with, it acts as anti-nostalgia.) Now, what about Mad Max: Was I fan?

I'm gonna say no, not in the current sense of the word. I might have used the word 40 years ago, were I not nearly 29, but here's what it would mean: "If a new Mad Max movie comes out, I'll go see it. If one is on TV at the moment, I might watch it." (The latter statement hasn't been relevant since I cut the cord over a decade ago.)

I love movies, but my interest in anything serial is likely to wane quickly. One bad movie is enough to end it. It's why I don't watch TV. (My children are savages in this regard. Ten minutes into The Hobbit and they were whispering, "We're not seeing the sequels.") There's just not ever, in my opinion, a way to sustain the talent, the budgets and the very mechanics of the universe itself. (The Toy Story series is a miracle in this regard, and I stopped watching those with #3.)

So, I don't really care about The Mad Max Universe, and I went into Furiosa thinking, "Well, George Miller is a good director and I've liked all the movies so far, so let's see this one." The kids, who have only seen Fury Road were reluctant. The Flower, who has more important things on her mind these days, opted out completely. And I had to encourage the Boy mightily.

The Verdict? Among the five movies, I would rank it at the bottom, tied with the original Mad Max, even though it's about as far from that movie as you could get.

Don't try to loom, honey. You're a fine actress but you just can't loom.

Unfortunately, the first thing we have to look at is the politics of things. I loathe this, but it's impossible for me to evaluate the movie without context. (This is not the first time for me: I will often just skip a movie if the buzz is too hot, and it needn't be for political reasons, either.) Miller's not a hack and Furiosa is no "girl boss". That said, the opening sequence with the women in The Green Place, when Furiosa is kidnapped, goes too far.

We see Furiosa's mother rescue her, and she's tough and resourceful, as is Furiosa (who is, like, nine years old). I liked this, I liked this, I liked this, and then Furiosa's mother is set on fire and she doesn't even react. I get what Miller was going for here: She waits until she's out of danger, then she jumps off the motorcycle and puts out the fire, but it just went a wee bit beyond plausibility. Was it some kind of messaging about tough women? I don't know, but we both felt it was too much, too superhuman.

Another thing that was probably not messaging, but could sort of come across that way, is the casting of Anya Taylor-Joy. Make no mistake the actress is up for the part and fully capable of acting. But her slight build made the final scenes where she confronts her kidnapper and arch-nemesis (played by Chris Hemsworth) rather less impactful, in multiple senses of the world.

And as long as we're talking negative things, one of the great things about the previous film was its skillful integration of CGI into predominately practical set pieces. The initial scenes of this film felt so fake, they pulled me right out. And a later scene taking place in a construction area were so preposterous as to do the same thing.

The Aussie version of "Life of Brian" just dropped.

Why does audacity work so well for Fury Road and not for Furiosa? Beats me. There's a line (we all draw in different places), and this stepped outside the that line. Look at it like Indy 1 versus Indy 2: I hated Indy 1, because I had the line drawn in one place, and then Indy straps himself to a submarine. Indy 2, I realized "okay, this is supposed to be dumb" so the raft didn't really bother me, and to this day I still don't get why people prefer one movie over the other.

Fury Road works hard to win us over, I think, whereas Furiosa feels like it's taking that for granted a little.

Now, Furiosa works well in a lot of places. It is very much "Thunderdome" to Fury Road's "Road Warrior". (The Boy just watched MM:BT and informs me it's cheesy and tonally weird. So.) It's world-buildy and saga-esque. Actually, one other negative is that it's rather too epic, as we see young Furiosa grow from Alyla Brown to Anya Taylor-Joy, and this is a revenge story that lacks the focus of, say, the original Mad Max.

The overarching world event involves Dr. Dementus (Hemsworth), a warlord whose goal is to take over the post-apocalyptic world of The Gas Town, The Bullet Farm and The Citadel. He's not much of a warlord, but he's cunning and ruthless enough to be able to take over Gas Town with a few men. He runs it into the ground because, hey, warlord, not governor. His solution is to capture The Bullet Farm, and to mismanage that until the only thing left for him is to capture The Citadel. We liked this a lot: Dementus feels like a real-world current day politician who knows how to do one thing (get elected or, in this case, capture a city).

His destiny meets its fate, as it were, when a couple of lower-than-lowlifes capture Furiosa, and he takes her on as a surrogate daughter. Then he sells her to Immortan Joe in the Citadel. She escapes her fate as a breeder to join a work crew in The Citadel. This part, the main plot, while having many good aspects, is a little weak.

I get that you're tough, but he looks like he could literally swallow you head first.

The Boy and I agreed that the movie didn't really engage us very well. We found ourselves talking about all the cool little details, the backstory, the world, and really enjoying that aspect of it. But we always ended up tripping over things we didn't like, and those things were more important to the story.

Like, it's very cool that young Furiosa was so resourceful, but she ended up feeling not human. The idea behind the construction-site action scene was cool, but the CGI made it a little silly. Furiosa has a Mad-Max-like love interest, Praetorian Jack (Tom Burk, Only God Forgives), which is where we first get to see some humanity, but he dies really fast.

The whole revenge plot, for that matter, is more interesting than engaging. That is, the first movie (which is just Australian Death Wish, remember) shows the crime and Max's vengeance all compressed within a pretty short length of elapsed time. If there are questions about how this changes Max, or what becomes of him afterwards, they are not significant in terms of screen time. Well, by the fifth movie, we have a pretty good denouement where Furiosa confronts Dementus, who has his own tragic backstory (unless he's lying) which does not buy him any mercy.

So, there's an interesting statement about revenge here, but if we examine it, we then have to examine why we watched a 150m movie where the protagonist spends her whole life in pursuit of revenge. In a savage, post-apocalyptic world, how do we even begin to judge such a thing? Are we having fun or are we just blowing 1/4 billion dollars of other people's money?

Miller probably won't make another Max movie. If he did, we'd still go see it. But I don't care (or much trust) what the ratings' sites said. A whole lot of the Fury Road magic is missing, and we are not given replacements.

Oh, this guy with Furiosa seems interes—oh, he dead.

RECENTLY WATCHED

La Chimera: If I told you that it was really obvious a woman directed this, would that be sexist? This flick, about genuine archaeological raiders (Italian lowlifes pillaging ancient sites) is not bad, but it is slow and ennui-ridden. Smothered in awards.

Boy Kills World: This is the one with H. John Benjamin serving as the internal voice of a young man trains his whole life to get revenge on an evil queen who murdered his family. Our bar was low going in, but the movie cleared it handily with exuberant over-the-top action-gore. Goofy fun.

The Fall Guy: And speaking of goofy fun, Ryan Gosling and Emily Blount provide the charm that keeps this silly stunt-fest afloat. Enjoyable enough with some amusing meta-humor. But I ask myself "Would I spend $150M on this?" and the answer is "No, I would not."

The Roundup 4: Punishment: We call these Ma-Dong Seok movies "Police Brutality: The Movie" because they're made with that old-school value that the cops are the good guys, they know who the bad guys are, and they're only hamstrung by civil rights laws. This one goes considerably lighter than the last, and as a result is way more fun. Much punching ensues.

Following: A peeping real estate agent finds himself in the soup when the influencer he's snooping on is violently murdered. Now, he's a Korean peeper, which means he's not spying on people having sex—there is no sex or nudity in this movie—but he follows them around, gets into their apartments and looks through their things, and steals something meaningless for his trophy room. A pretty good thriller which actually pretty poses the question "What the hell is social media really about?"

Run Lola Run: Franka Potente runs through the streets of Berlin, turning back time in this now classic indie/experimental film. Enough of the tropes here were successful that it doesn't really seem experimental any more. And the characters, while lowlifes, have more depth than is generally found in a Hollywood Oscar drama.

In A Violent Nature: Ever wonder how Jason Voorhees feels? No, because you're selfish. Cute, but drawn out, film which explores the teen-camper-slasher genre from the perspective of the beleaguered slasher. Probably too low-key if you're not steeped in the genre.

Robot Dreams: Whimsical, charming "silent" film (no dialogue) about a lonely dog in New York City (ca 1985) who buys himself a robot pal only to "lose" him when he rusts at the beach. Nominated for best animated feature Oscar.

X: The Boy and I caught the re-release of this film, the first in Ti West's trilogy (X, Pearl, MaXXXine) which was put back in theaters as advertising for the upcoming final entry. Ti West has a style: His movies tend to develop character and plot, only to destroy all that in a flurry of horror and violence. This entry, about a crew of Southerners determined to make their mark in the burgeoning video porn industry, has some of the best developed characters I've seen in recent movies. The over-confident producer, the cameraman who defends his "art" to his reluctant girlfriend—only to convince her all too well—and the hyper-creepy Pearl and Howard, old folks trapped in a '20s farmhouse. Seldom do we see a single horror movie with a real theme, much less a trilogy. (The theme here is vanity, and it's enhanced by Mia Goth being both the porn star and the old lady.)

The Lovers: Speaking of ennui, Louis Malle's early film about a bored housewife was quite controversial back in the day. But sort of like Belle De Jure, in these latter days when the sex is relatively tame, does the movie have much else going for it? It's fine, but rather trivial.

Treasure: The Barbarienne is a Stephen Fry fan so we went to see this Holocaust-themed movie (sub-genres, "children of survivors", "Poland"). Lena Dunham is his fat, dull-witted daughter—so dull-witted she doesn't get why he might not want to do a tour of Poland in trains—determined to discover where her parents came from, and wrapped up in self-absorption because her parents chose not to talk a lot about their time in Auscwhitz. She pulls it off, not being completely obnoxious all the time and showing growth. Fry is terrific of course, but I'm always left wondering why the people who were in the camps seem like way better people than their children (and grandchildren!) who weren't!

Thelma: Delightful romp with 93-year-old June Squibb playing 93-year-old Thelma, who loses ten grand to telephone scams and goes on a quest to get the money back! Final role of the great Richard Roundtree. Skillfully treads the line between "fun" and "farce", mapping a lot of senior citizen tropes to action movies—especially the Mission Impossible movie series.

A Hard Day's Night: Comedies don't typically hold up well, but this 60-year-old debut of the Beatles mostly does. They Fab Four come off as kind of mean jerks, which is a combination of going for a Marx Brothers feel and the Beatles actually being mean jerks. Music's okay, too, but the movie leans too heavily on it.

Me, nearly 29, sleeping sound in the fact that that I'll never turn into me, nearly 59.

Posted by: Open Blogger at 07:12 PM

Comments

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1 I'll cover one of the "RECENTLY SEEN" movie in my next post, if people see something interesting in there.

Posted by: moviegique at June 29, 2024 07:30 PM (asXVI)

2 Watched a video on making Silent Running today, I loved that movie as a kid though only seen it twice. It was done for a million bucks on a shoe string budget

Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2024 07:31 PM (fwDg9)

3 I'm trying to remember if I liked Thunderdome or not.

I know I saw it, but can't remember if it sucked.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at June 29, 2024 07:33 PM (5p7BC)

4 Furiosa will come on regular TV someday and will watch it, I am a self declared Anya fan

Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2024 07:37 PM (fwDg9)

5 I still haven't seen "Silent Running" and it was kind of a watch-word when I was growing up. That and "Day of the Dolphin" which I also haven't seen.

I liked Thunderdome, but the reactions were largely negative.

Posted by: moviegique at June 29, 2024 07:37 PM (asXVI)

6 Saw Run Lola Run once, long ago but think I liked it

Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2024 07:38 PM (fwDg9)

7 My favorite aspect of thunderdome is, of course, the joke:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2y-e1wht0Q

Posted by: moviegique at June 29, 2024 07:40 PM (asXVI)

8 At least Furry Road 2 Ice Queen boogaloo did not falsely claim to be a mad max film that then had the titular character reduced to a mere extra...

It is funny that they are functionally cribbing off of video game notes at this point.

Posted by: Sven at June 29, 2024 07:44 PM (8gTX/)

9 Speaking of Hollywwod, the debate. SPOILER ALERT!!! They blame CNN.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 29, 2024 07:45 PM (L/fGl)

10 Lots of thought went into your synopsis but mine will keep in short. Mine is shorter, only three words. And for the record, I disagree with you.

Girl Boss movie.

Posted by: Tracy at June 29, 2024 07:46 PM (axHFI)

11 I might be willing to see Anna Joy Taylor in something I'm interested such as iShakespeare ( not that anyone is going to make a movie of an actual Shakespeare play currently) but girl heroine in some weird setting who has to fight various villainous men has no appeal for me and-as shallow as this sounds, AJT just looks odd to me like some much much nicer version of a human and a flounder spawn.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2024 07:46 PM (xBUfs)

12 3 Dave in fla,

It was the original "Mad Max Holiday Special," that said it sucked less than the new stuff...

Posted by: Sven at June 29, 2024 07:46 PM (8gTX/)

13 Forgot to post these links to Hollywood.

https://is.gd/Z7uPLX

https://is.gd/wy6kDy

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 29, 2024 07:48 PM (L/fGl)

14 Saw Horizon today and meh.

Some stuff ripped right out of Blood Meridian.

Posted by: Mr Gaga at June 29, 2024 07:48 PM (3kHkl)

15 10 Tracy,

Quite "you see boys the vagina has a phantom weight of ten tons so the lass is 22098 pounds of rage..."

//geo miller

Posted by: Sven at June 29, 2024 07:48 PM (8gTX/)

16 Mad Max The Road Warrior and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome are the only two worth watching or owning.

All the others are runny doggie droppings.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at June 29, 2024 07:50 PM (elaR+)

17 I'll probably catch "Horizon" tomorrow. I'm going in with low expectations.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at June 29, 2024 07:50 PM (kpS4V)

18 She's literally not ever anyone's boss. She goes from slave of one guy to slave of another to slave of the same guy in a different role.

But I get it.

Posted by: moviegique at June 29, 2024 07:51 PM (asXVI)

19 Ma-Dong Seok ?

Is he related to the other Ma-Dongs,

Lik Ma-Dong?

Pul Ma-Dong?

Posted by: Noam Sayen at June 29, 2024 07:51 PM (YEeds)

20 The fall guy is another symptom of what ails Hwood, incapable of actual creation the activist "writer" class instead "updates" old properties actively sullying all things that made them great.

Posted by: Sven at June 29, 2024 07:51 PM (8gTX/)

21 We Don't Need Another Hero is a great original movie song.

I don't know if I can think of a better one.

Posted by: jimmy at June 29, 2024 07:52 PM (AVyeO)

22 Now that I am thinking about it, I think I liked Tina Turner in Thunderdome.

Clearly, the movie was very memorable for me *rolls eyes*

I literally remember more of Waterworld.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at June 29, 2024 07:53 PM (5p7BC)

23 I'm trying to remember if I liked Thunderdome or not.

I know I saw it, but can't remember if it sucked.
Posted by: Dave in Fla

It was a huge disappointment after The Road Warrior but, in fairness, not a bad movie. Actually, not two bad movies.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 29, 2024 07:56 PM (L/fGl)

24 Oh, just noticed. My hash didn't change

Posted by: Dave in Fla at June 29, 2024 07:56 PM (5p7BC)

25 Lol Fen, ATJ looks both weird and beautiful at the same time.

My mom didn't get Scrattle Johansson at first.

There are some women that are like that.

Posted by: jimmy at June 29, 2024 07:57 PM (AVyeO)

26 18 movie que,

She is tougher than ANY of her "masters" from what I gathered...

Remember the modern coin of the realm is "victimhood."

Mad Max the original was a much more complex character study.

Posted by: Sven at June 29, 2024 07:58 PM (8gTX/)

27 The fall guy is another symptom of what ails Hwood, incapable of actual creation the activist "writer" class instead "updates" old properties actively sullying all things that made them great.
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I don't think there's any connection between the two beyond the name of the character and the theme song used at the end credits.

But this is what took me so long to go see it. I didn't want to encourage any idea that I went to see it because "REMEMBER THE '80s?"

I never watched the show. So...who is this recycling-the-title business for?

Posted by: moviegique at June 29, 2024 07:58 PM (asXVI)

28 Posted by: jimmy at June 29, 2024 07:57 PM (AVyeO)

Maybe this is a reaction that mostly men have because she just looks elegantly presented weird to me.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2024 08:01 PM (xBUfs)

29 She is tougher than ANY of her "masters" from what I gathered...
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Her toughness is on display but there's no indication that she's tougher than, e.g., Hemsworth or Immortan Joe.

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Remember the modern coin of the realm is "victimhood."
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But the weird thing, and perhaps why the movie doesn't work very well, is that she's NOT particularly a victim. I mean, sure, she loses her mother and weirdo wants to make her a sex slave (which she escapes) and at some point she loses an arm...but it's the APOCALYPSE. Literally =everyone= has a similar story.

That's the punchline, even! Hemsworth has his own tragic backstory, and Furiosa looks like a maniac for pursuing this vengeance.

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Mad Max the original was a much more complex character study.
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Was it? Maybe. I recall that one being "good guy turns bad-ish", like "Death Wish.

Posted by: moviegique at June 29, 2024 08:03 PM (asXVI)

30 I never saw Mad Max. The last dystopian film I saw was "The Book of Eli" which I quite liked but dystopian movies are not really my thing.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2024 08:03 PM (xBUfs)

31 There are only three Mad Max films.

Although Fury Road had the potential to be a good film but seeing as they largely pulled a bait and switch and relegated Max to 2nd fiddle in his own franchise before jettisoning him altogether.

And it's not like it can get any better as George Miller has stated numerous times he's not doing a Max film with Mel and he seems committed to a Girl Boss dominated WasteLand.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 29, 2024 08:03 PM (XV/Pl)

32 So when Biden Strokes Out will the Demoncrats ditch Hooker Harris for Buffalo Butt Hillary ????

Posted by: George Hillman at June 29, 2024 08:03 PM (hbjSA)

33 Mad Max defined much of my life. He was the baddest dude in the wasteland
I adopted a cattledog mostly because of Dog in Mad Max 2
I still can't watch the demise of Dog.
I'll drive that truck.

The moment of the shotgun into the windshield is iconic, nobody can claim any more badass moment in cinema than that.

BOOM

Posted by: LenNeal at June 29, 2024 08:04 PM (bFId9)

34 I liked "Silent Running". It has Bruce Dern against type and the cute robots. The whole premise is depressing though. MST3K owes a lot to it.

Posted by: fd at June 29, 2024 08:05 PM (vFG9F)

35 Caught a clip from Poso and Sorbo about a movie coming out in April. True story about a guy arrested in Indonesia, put on death row, and eventually executed.

While in prison he finds Christ, becomes the pastor for the prison, converting many of the prisoners and the guards as well.

Looked interesting.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at June 29, 2024 08:05 PM (5p7BC)

36 To me they should have named it Furiosa: Fury Road and left it at that.

Speaking of Mad Max I think two of Mel Gibson’s best movies came out over 30 years later

Blood Father and Get the Gringo. Two must watch films IMHO.

Posted by: polynikes at June 29, 2024 08:05 PM (SHMXB)

37 27 movie que,

The fall guy as an 80s show was about a stuntman who was getting long in the tooth and bounty hunted as a side hustle...

He interacts with starlets some has a dopey sidekick etc etc...think hooper meets the hunter.

They recycled the name, lost about 2/3ds the point and is anti nostalgia...probably dropped the overt bounty hu ter angle because "politics of incarceration" so he is never officially a bond agent which makes it kind of scooby doo with stunts

Posted by: Sven at June 29, 2024 08:06 PM (8gTX/)

38 I just recently discovered FlixFlare. Free movies, no ads. In the last week I watched:

What About Bob?
The Rover
Risen
Late Night with the Devil
Galveston

In my queue:

Furiosa
Hit Man
The Book of Eli
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
The Fall Guy
The Aviator

https://tinyurl.com/t2suya7u

Posted by: chris+opher at June 29, 2024 08:06 PM (dSco/)

39 Mad Max the original was a much more complex character study.
Posted by: Sven

Speaking of character studies . . .

Ro Khanna
@RoKhanna
Rocky wasn't the most eloquent in speech. But he was a fighter. His character conveyed his eloquence. Our message: Biden's character is his eloquence.

-
I see him more as Rambo.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 29, 2024 08:07 PM (L/fGl)

40 Yet another Jollywood blockbuster I'm not seeing.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 29, 2024 08:07 PM (hLUfO)

41 The Rover is my favorite Australian post semi Apocalyptic movie.

Posted by: polynikes at June 29, 2024 08:07 PM (SHMXB)

42 Thanks for watching and reviewing the garbage made by people who hate me and want me dead.

Posted by: Frasier Crane at June 29, 2024 08:07 PM (CWMF2)

43 How far I am from dystopian movies is shown by the fact that I am going to next watch a movie with Jimmy Stewart and Paulette Goddard about a guy who falls in with some Irish musicians .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2024 08:07 PM (xBUfs)

44 Err coming out in August.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at June 29, 2024 08:08 PM (5p7BC)

45 When Max leans out of the truck and blows away the pursuit car through the windshield, there is no finer moment in Action Cinema.

Posted by: LenNeal at June 29, 2024 08:08 PM (bFId9)

46 RoKhanna
Rocky wasn't the most eloquent in speech. But he was a fighter. His character conveyed his eloquence. Our message: Biden's character is his eloquence.

-
I see him more as Rambo.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 29, 2024 08:07 PM (L/fGl)

Rambo :Last Blood is the most gruesome , bloody mainstream movie I’ve ever seen. I loved it.

Posted by: polynikes at June 29, 2024 08:09 PM (SHMXB)

47 "Would I spend $150M on this?"

Dang. Theater prices have really gone up in the last couple of years.

Posted by: GWB at June 29, 2024 08:09 PM (AWrpC)

48 Well what does everyone have to go resee No Blade Of Grass? It's like I've never talked movies.

Posted by: LenNeal at June 29, 2024 08:09 PM (bFId9)

49 Comparing Biden to Rocky?

Ok, let's go with that.

Did anyone have "movie comparisons to heroes who were utterly humiliated, yet found a way to crawl back" in the betting pool last week?

Posted by: Dave in Fla at June 29, 2024 08:10 PM (5p7BC)

50 So, there's an interesting statement about revenge here, but if we examine it, we then have to examine why we watched a 150m movie where the protagonist spends her whole life in pursuit of revenge.

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Because John Wick did great, and John Wick is a man, so...

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Trump has more balls than an alley cat with two peckers at June 29, 2024 08:10 PM (36sk4)

51 yeah, 80's Fall Guy was good goofy fun. Lots of guest stars, lotsa fights but still a lighthearted tone throughout. I can't see them doing that today. For TV fans of the time, it played off the fact that everyone knew Lee Majors as the star of the stunt-filled 6 Million Dollar Man.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 29, 2024 08:10 PM (S6gqv)

52 The editing in Mad Max 2 is second to none.

Posted by: LenNeal at June 29, 2024 08:11 PM (bFId9)

53 Anna Joy Taylor was in a pretty good Halloween movie called Witch. It's slowly disconcerting.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 29, 2024 08:11 PM (Cp1vk)

54 Oh, yes. We apparently have/ son's choice not a movie by the entire series of Black Adder with Rowan Atkinson. I have never seen it but I think he's a brilliant comedian.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2024 08:11 PM (XpZXx)

55 Thought Taylor-Joy was terrific in the Netflix mini-series of The Queen's Gambit; my guess is she's probably quite watchable in Furiosa, but I have no plans to see Furiosa. Didn't care that much for Fury Road, so unless Miller manages to get Mel Gibson back for a Mad Max flick, I'm outta there.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 29, 2024 08:12 PM (q3u5l)

56 Black Adder is a lot of fun and you'll enjoy it, especially if all you're familiar with is Mr. Beane.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Trump has more balls than an alley cat with two peckers at June 29, 2024 08:12 PM (36sk4)

57 The Small Guy, The Six Milometer Man.

Posted by: davidt at June 29, 2024 08:13 PM (SYTee)

58 So when Biden Strokes Out will the Demoncrats ditch Hooker Harris for Buffalo Butt Hillary ????
Posted by: George Hillman

Ted Cruz says it'll be Big Mooch. Makes a certain amount of sense. Obozo can continue to be the power behind the throne.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks, Free the Trump 45! at June 29, 2024 08:13 PM (L/fGl)

59 And I will go see- unless it's gone now/ "Sight" by the same studio which did "Sound of Freedom".

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2024 08:14 PM (XpZXx)

60 I have seen a couple of Carousel Pictures films recently. Cute little stories, Wholesome.

One about the son of a knight that goes of to save a princess from a dragon.

The dragon is protecting the princess and both the dragon and its baby live.

The other about a young man from Georgia that inherits a church in a small village in England.

We are living in post-Republic America. These are the escapes that I enjoy.

Posted by: No one of any consequence at June 29, 2024 08:14 PM (VuZH8)

61 48 Well what does everyone have to go resee No Blade Of Grass? It's like I've never talked movies.
Posted by: LenNeal at June 29, 2024 08:09 PM (bFId9)
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That was a grim one, but good. I've seen it on TCM twice.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at June 29, 2024 08:14 PM (kpS4V)

62 John Wick was awesome.

The sequel was very mediocre.
The next two were pure garbarge.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at June 29, 2024 08:14 PM (elaR+)

63 Lee majors was a certified action star gosling not so much aaron taylor johnson is who hd is supposd to be subbing for the future bond dubiously although hr wasnt terrible in bullet train

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 29, 2024 08:14 PM (PXvVL)

64 I went to see Lorenzo's Oil with a cousin who was pregnant and that movie scared the living shit out of us both. We left the theater in shock.
I delivered her back to her husband and THAT movie has power.

Posted by: LenNeal at June 29, 2024 08:15 PM (bFId9)

65 I liked Mr Bean. Son tells me the later series of Black Adder are better than the first season which they're watching now.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2024 08:15 PM (XpZXx)

66 Posted by: No one of any consequence at June 29, 2024 08:14 PM (VuZH

I would probably like those as well.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2024 08:18 PM (XpZXx)

67 Black Adder is hilarious.
The toll inbreeding takes on the royalty comes to show over time.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at June 29, 2024 08:18 PM (elaR+)

68 Also Moron Robbie Movie Review:

We went to see Pixar's Inside Out II. I didn't realize it was a Disney movie and told the family to be ready to leave at the first sign of any gay stuff in this kids movie. A couple of families around us said they would do the same. Incredibly, there was not one single Team Rainbow thing the entire movie that I was aware of, and no cursing, either. A really good family movie about a little kid turning into a teenager and developing different emotions.

A bit of a tearjerker for the adults at the end, too. I won't spoil it but it was really well done. Nothing really tragic or anything like that, it just makes an observation that most adults could relate to. I heard quite a bit of sniffling after that part.

Good movie.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Trump has more balls than an alley cat with two peckers at June 29, 2024 08:18 PM (36sk4)

69 My two recommended movies for those under 29 because you may not have seen them is :

Sean Penn’s Bad Boys
Al Pacino’s Sea of Love

Posted by: polynikes at June 29, 2024 08:18 PM (SHMXB)

70 She had a smaller role in amleth a story that nore likely was the way hamlet might hace happened

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 29, 2024 08:19 PM (PXvVL)

71 After all of this time I finally decided to dive into the John Wick series. Just finished with part 4 last night. While I really enjoyed the experience I was somewhat taken aback by the "copy and paste" nature of the productions. At times I felt like I was watching scenes that were recycled throughout. Same for the basic premise/plot for each of the four, with the finale finally providing a bit more creativity. Having said all of that, I had fun.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 29, 2024 08:19 PM (mH6SG)

72 I will say that the tone of the "Fall Guy" movie was fairly light-hearted. And the director seems to understand the power of attractive, charming people trying to find love.

I mean, to type it out feels like "low bar", since I've described 95% of the movies made in the '80s, but here we are in the '20s, and it's too human for most filmmakers.

But $90M domestice--slightly worse than "Bob Marley: One Love"--and good enough for the current #10 slot?

Hollywood is screwed.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at June 29, 2024 08:19 PM (asXVI)

73 Latest movie my wife and I watched was "Wolf Children." Even if animation is not your thing, it's worth watching.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 29, 2024 08:20 PM (lXCUP)

74 65 I liked Mr Bean. Son tells me the later series of Black Adder are better than the first season which they're watching now.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2024 08:15 PM

I love all 4 seasons of Black Adder, but it did develop and get more polished as it went along, and the character of Black Adder is notably different in each "lifetime". My favorite is the Elizabethan period (2nd Series) with Miranda Richardson as the most hilarious version of Queen Elizabeth every portrayed!

3rd Series (Georgian) with Hugh Laurie as the Prince Regent also has some all time great episodes, and the most intelligent and cunning of the BlackAdders.
4th Season, WW1 is the darkest, because of the topic. And yet the last episode was voted the Best Season and Series Ending of all time by the British Public. You wouldn't think that the ending of a comedy series could bring as many tears to your eye as that one does, but I guarantee it will.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 29, 2024 08:21 PM (S6gqv)

75 The last season of blackadder with that grim ending which the previous iterations did not

Interesting hugh laurie wrote a comic spy tale called thd gun seller a lighter take on what we saw in the night manager

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 29, 2024 08:21 PM (PXvVL)

76 John Wick was awesome.

The sequel was very mediocre.
The next two were pure garbarge.
Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale

-

The first one was one of, if not the, most perfect revenge-movie setups I've ever seen. This happens, then this happens, then this final straw happens, and this man - who happens to be the best assassin in the world - is now suicidal with nothing to live for, and you can *almost* accept the insane amount of luck involved to accomplish the desired goal.

The motivation is completely absent in Part II, much less Part V, but there were billions of dollars to be made.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Trump has more balls than an alley cat with two peckers at June 29, 2024 08:22 PM (36sk4)

77 The most memorable movie I've ever seen was in Budapest, exiting Balkan War, Lady From Shanghai.
I had a fractured skull from a bullet, was so underweight I could barely eat, I couldn't walk 50 meters without resting.
There was an Art Theater up the street so I went to movies.
That one freaked me out with the hall of mirrors.

Posted by: LenNeal at June 29, 2024 08:22 PM (bFId9)

78 || She had a smaller role in amleth a story that nore likely was the way hamlet might hace happened ||

When I saw her in "The VVitch" by the same director, I thought, "oh, they got a model, that's pretty smart. There's not a lot of dialogue and she mostly just has to emote and look vulnerable."

And by the Hamlet story, "The Northman", I'm like, "Damn, she can really act."

But I wouldn't have spent $90M of my own money to make that film either. It's nuts.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at June 29, 2024 08:23 PM (asXVI)

79 Well the second fleshed out the world building about the continentsl system santino is a standin for the bratva bosses son you relish him dying even if breaks the rules

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 29, 2024 08:25 PM (PXvVL)

80 Movie que,

Yes the original Mad Max was a very elegant study in the psychology of martial service in a dying civilization, Miller masterfully used visual cues and subtle hints Bubba Zinetti rode a cop bike, and looked like he wore cop leather...Max feared he was simply an ineffective social order's own go ganger...

Of course that Miller was much more telling a story rather than MESSAGING "the message."

Posted by: Sven at June 29, 2024 08:25 PM (8gTX/)

81 Kinda liked No Blade of Grass (though I could have done without Roger Whitaker (?) doing the title theme).

Liked John Wick 1 & 2. 3 was way too long for the story -- so many fight scenes that they started to feel like padding. Haven't seen 4 and may not.

Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 29, 2024 08:25 PM (q3u5l)

82 I never watch a movie in which the stars need a bath.

Posted by: Braenyard at June 29, 2024 08:25 PM (0b3lL)

83 Also, Dirty Pair.
Silly fun.

Posted by: LenNeal at June 29, 2024 08:25 PM (bFId9)

84 But the third one ok how does he find his way to casablanca and back if he is fair game for every assasin in the world even if the high table offers some protection

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 29, 2024 08:27 PM (PXvVL)

85 I have a small list of movies that I call "Airplane movies"

If I'm on a long flight with nothing to do, those are my go to films, because I know I will enjoy them, even though I have watched them many times now.

Draft Day
Edge of Tomorrow
Yesterday

Gran Turismo is starting to creep up to that status.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at June 29, 2024 08:27 PM (5p7BC)

86 Beatles. Back in the 19 mumblemumble the band I was in learned a lot of their songs, not for the music, but for the girls. Our lefthanded bass guy looked exactly like McCartney. Like bees to honey or whatever.

Posted by: Eromero at June 29, 2024 08:27 PM (LHPAg)

87 Latest movie my wife and I watched was "Wolf Children." Even if animation is not your thing, it's worth watching.||

Wolf Children is terrific. Hosoda's best.

I wrote a salty review about it 11+ years ago. I was salty about (then new) TV shows "Falling Skies" and "The Walking Dead". Which were the last contemporary TV shows I ever watched.

https://moviegique.com/2013/11/wolf-children/

Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at June 29, 2024 08:28 PM (asXVI)

88 Yes that one from the guy who did the light house

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 29, 2024 08:28 PM (PXvVL)

89 81

What is her name, utterly gorgeous girl. Married to Peter Sellers.

Posted by: LenNeal at June 29, 2024 08:28 PM (bFId9)

90 Posted by: Tom Servo at June 29, 2024 08:21 PM (S6gqv)

Thanks for the brief synopsis of the series. It sounds good!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2024 08:28 PM (oUxZc)

91 Evening.

Posted by: Robert at June 29, 2024 08:29 PM (c4J8K)

92 Wait, I just realized Dave In Fla posted!

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Trump has more balls than an alley cat with two peckers at June 29, 2024 08:29 PM (36sk4)

93 Hollywood stopped making movies in the late 90s.

Now they are all just CGI fuckfests. We're currently headed into the realm of AI cluster-fuckfests.

In two years, James Bond will be a shape-shifting assassin with a fat cock and pussy, and a taste for muslim cock.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at June 29, 2024 08:29 PM (dmXQN)

94 Watched Day Of The Wolves.

Posted by: LenNeal at June 29, 2024 08:29 PM (bFId9)

95 John Wick was awesome.

The sequel was very mediocre.
The next two were pure garbarge.
Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at June 29, 2024 08:14 PM

But he does use an H&K P30L, a very significantly under appreciated handgun.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 29, 2024 08:29 PM (UdzhC)

96 And by the Hamlet story, "The Northman", I'm like, "Damn, she can really act."

But I wouldn't have spent $90M of my own money to make that film either. It's nuts.
Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!)

She's a good actress but I find it hard to look at her. Those wide set eyes. I think someone here once quipped that her eyes are in different zip codes.

Posted by: Tuna at June 29, 2024 08:30 PM (oaGWv)

97 75 The last season of blackadder with that grim ending which the previous iterations did not

Interesting hugh laurie wrote a comic spy tale called thd gun seller a lighter take on what we saw in the night manager
Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 29, 2024 08:21 PM (PXvVL)

why the grim ending of the last series worked so well, and hit so hard - one of the running jokes was that at the end of each series, the characters died horribly and awful things happened, because it was intended to be a total spoof on historical dramas. (Don't drink the wine!) This changed a bit at the end of the Georgian series, where BlackAdder got a very successful ending.

But at the end of the 4th series, when every fan was expecting something ridiculous to happen, the producers and directors said "No. We know this is World War One, and in fact this was not funny at all, it was all too real." and they gave it a very touching, real, and honest ending, fading away to the Poppies in Flanders Fields. It was one of the most honest endings of any series that I have ever seen.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 29, 2024 08:30 PM (S6gqv)

98 Hey Robbie

Posted by: Dave in Fla at June 29, 2024 08:30 PM (5p7BC)

99 || Yes the original Mad Max was a very elegant study

Surprisingly, it's not being shown anywhere this year that I can see. (45th anniversary!)

It'll turn up, maybe at the Beverly, and I'll give it a watch on the big screen.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at June 29, 2024 08:30 PM (asXVI)

100 89 len Neal,

Britt Eckland

Posted by: Sven at June 29, 2024 08:30 PM (8gTX/)

101 Franka Potente was great in the first Bourne movie.

Posted by: davidt at June 29, 2024 08:31 PM (SYTee)

102 Has anyone seen The new Nicholas Cage post apocalyptic movie Arcadian ?

Posted by: polynikes at June 29, 2024 08:31 PM (SHMXB)

103 "In two years, James Bond will be a shape-shifting assassin with a fat cock and pussy, and a taste for muslim cock."

But enough about Daniel Craig

Posted by: Dave in Fla at June 29, 2024 08:31 PM (5p7BC)

104 The first one was one of, if not the, most perfect revenge-movie setups I've ever seen. This happens, then this happens, then this final straw happens, and this man - who happens to be the best assassin in the world - is now suicidal with nothing to live for, and you can *almost* accept the insane amount of luck involved to accomplish the desired goal.

The motivation is completely absent in Part II, much less Part V, but there were billions of dollars to be made.
Posted by: Moron Robbie

I am soooooo sick of the unstoppable one man killing machine movies.
It's always the same formula.
No one can shoot straight but him when it counts.
No one but him is the best fighter when it matters.
Etc., etc.
And the 4th one where his primary nemesis is a blind guy? GTFOH with that braindead Hollywood BS.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at June 29, 2024 08:31 PM (elaR+)

105 No different

Posted by: LenNeal at June 29, 2024 08:32 PM (bFId9)

106 Ekland...Britt Ekland

Posted by: Sven at June 29, 2024 08:32 PM (8gTX/)

107 Lynne Frederick.

Posted by: LenNeal at June 29, 2024 08:33 PM (bFId9)

108 A Dave in Fla sighting.

Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory, deplorable clown at June 29, 2024 08:33 PM (qZEuM)

109 Miranda McMillan then

Posted by: Sven at June 29, 2024 08:33 PM (8gTX/)

110 >> Like bees to honey or whatever.

The raw sexuality on display in "Hard Day's Night" is kind of amazing. And they don't really hide it.

>> Lady From Shanghai

Classic. I would watch anything by Orson Welles and anything WITH Rita Hayworth in it. Put 'em together and I'm...well, probably a little confused but going with it.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at June 29, 2024 08:33 PM (asXVI)

111 It's weird because I really enjoy all-CGI movies like Toy Story, Inside Out, We are the Strange (anyone else ever see that?), but I intensely dislike CGI in real-life movies. I get that it could be used to enhance practical effects here and there, but watching Big Hollywood Movies filmed entirely in front of greenscreens in air conditioned warehouses doesn't give me the same joy as a stop-motion monster.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Trump has more balls than an alley cat with two peckers at June 29, 2024 08:34 PM (36sk4)

112 It's pouring down here

Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2024 08:34 PM (fwDg9)

113 Taken.

Posted by: No one of any consequence at June 29, 2024 08:34 PM (VuZH8)

114 "Mandy" is one of m favorite psycho-delic flicks, and I'm reading that Panos Cosmatos is doing an 80's style vampire movie and a phantasmagoric sci fi, so I have that to look forward to.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at June 29, 2024 08:34 PM (kpS4V)

115 Britt Eckland is the tramp Michael Caine kicks into a river in Get Carter.
Lynne Frederick is a surviving lovely girl.

Posted by: LenNeal at June 29, 2024 08:35 PM (bFId9)

116 Heh, hey MAF

I'll probably be around for the ONT tonight. I have a night with no plans.

Posted by: Dave in Fla at June 29, 2024 08:35 PM (5p7BC)

117 102 Has anyone seen The new Nicholas Cage post apocalyptic movie Arcadian ?

Yeah. I talked about it briefly a while back.

The capsule is: It's not a movie that makes much sense, but as long as Cage is around, it works. He gets conked out at the end of the first act, and the movie becomes a kind of YA thing until he comes back in the third act.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at June 29, 2024 08:35 PM (asXVI)

118 "The raw sexuality on display in "Hard Day's Night""?

Huh?

I liked the Indian woman in HELP!

Posted by: No one of any consequence at June 29, 2024 08:36 PM (VuZH8)

119 Panos Cosmatos is doing an 80's style vampire movie and a phantasmagoric sci fi, so I have that to look forward to.||

You son of a bitch! I'm in!

Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at June 29, 2024 08:36 PM (asXVI)

120 95

Oh here we go.

Posted by: LenNeal at June 29, 2024 08:36 PM (bFId9)

121 Recommended TV series is another Australian based series.

Mr. In Between

Posted by: polynikes at June 29, 2024 08:36 PM (SHMXB)

122 I am soooooo sick of the unstoppable one man killing machine movies.
It's always the same formula.
No one can shoot straight but him when it counts.
No one but him is the best fighter when it matters.
Etc., etc.

-

That's what made me irritated about the Wick sequels. He was no longer suicidal, no longer motivated, and not only was HE incredibly lucky while just coasting in his day to day life but he was able to team up with a female version of himself that was also equally skilled and lucky AND could not only keep one dog alive but two, and she fought with them, too!

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Trump has more balls than an alley cat with two peckers at June 29, 2024 08:37 PM (36sk4)

123 The peacock prequel series the continental didnt really capture the vibe till the last 20 minutes its hard to have anyone measure up to mcshane in his prime so they dont even try

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 29, 2024 08:37 PM (PXvVL)

124 >> Huh?

You heard me.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at June 29, 2024 08:37 PM (asXVI)

125 87 Wolf Children is terrific. Hosoda's best.

I wrote a salty review about it 11+ years ago. I was salty about (then new) TV shows "Falling Skies" and "The Walking Dead". Which were the last contemporary TV shows I ever watched.

I liked your review. The thing I loved about the movie was that the focus was on this young woman who was suddenly widowed and having to raise two children in a farming community. The shapeshifting was a secondary consideration.

As for "The Walking Dead," I gave up on it after the farm story. If those are the kind of people that survive an apocalypse, I'm rooting for the zombies.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 29, 2024 08:37 PM (lXCUP)

126 Dirty pair might make a good movie,

Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2024 08:38 PM (fwDg9)

127 Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at June 29, 2024 08:35 PM (asXVI

Thanks I’ll think I’ll pass until it’s free.

Posted by: polynikes at June 29, 2024 08:38 PM (SHMXB)

128 Right? There are certain directors whose works I will always see. Even if they're not great, they're different, and the directors have an identifiable style.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at June 29, 2024 08:38 PM (kpS4V)

129 I don't watch anything that doesn't reinforce my fixed values.

Posted by: LenNeal at June 29, 2024 08:38 PM (bFId9)

130 My sister went to Balboa stadium in '65 to see the Beatles. It was just like that. Everyone screaming.

I think John Lennon did a concert at Candlestick Park and said to the effect of "I want them to listen to the music."

Posted by: No one of any consequence at June 29, 2024 08:39 PM (VuZH8)

131 And my son inevitably gets from the library films which I have never seen-often foreign ones. We also have on top-"The Dance of Reality" by someone named Alejandro Jodorowski and something called Koyaaniuaatsi. No clue what they're about.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2024 08:39 PM (oUxZc)

132 "...and something called Koyaaniuaatsi. No clue what they're about."
----

Prepare to be Philip Glassed!

Posted by: All Hail Eris at June 29, 2024 08:40 PM (kpS4V)

133 126

All is online for free.
Much of it is not dubbed or subtitled, but who watches Dirty Pair for the plot

Posted by: LenNeal at June 29, 2024 08:41 PM (bFId9)

134 121 Polynikes,

One of the best series of the last decade...a thinking man's just wick

Posted by: Sven at June 29, 2024 08:41 PM (8gTX/)

135 I guess you had to be a young woman in 1965 to understand.

I was a 10 year old boy.

Posted by: No one of any consequence at June 29, 2024 08:41 PM (VuZH8)

136 lol & g'night everyone ... hitting the hiking trail @ dawn if all goes well

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at June 29, 2024 08:42 PM (tQtDb)

137 Prepare to be Philip Glassed!
Posted by: All Hail Eris at June 29, 2024 08:40 PM (kpS4V)

He's odd. I don't know if I'll watch it, but dad will dutifully watch it with son.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2024 08:42 PM (oUxZc)

138 Why movie am I looking forward to? "The King of Covent Garden" starring Anthony Hopkins as G.F.Handel. It's going to be about his composing of The Messiah. I know the Brits will do justice to the sets and costumes just please, please I hope they don't race switch any of the other actors.

Posted by: Tuna at June 29, 2024 08:42 PM (oaGWv)

139 131

I have sworn to never return to NYC but I want to see this.

Posted by: LenNeal at June 29, 2024 08:43 PM (bFId9)

140 Khodorowsky a chilean born avante gard director of the 60s and 70s of ukrainian background his stuff was really out there he attempted a really insane version of dune with many of the technical crew behind alien orson welles was going to play the emperor salvador dali was ggoing to have a role

Posted by: Miguel cervantes at June 29, 2024 08:43 PM (PXvVL)

141 I'm getting excited for MaXXXine. Evening knowing the premise and likely outcome going into X, it was still extremely satisfying and I giggled with glee at first blood. Pearl was great, too, so I have fairly high expectations. I just hope Mia Goth doesn't end up typecast since she seems fairly talented as far as acting goes.

Posted by: She Hobbit at June 29, 2024 08:43 PM (ftFVW)

142 131

OMG

jodoriwsky is he polish git up the street

Posted by: LenNeal at June 29, 2024 08:44 PM (bFId9)

143 Mandy" is one of m favorite psycho-delic flicks, and I'm reading that Panos Cosmatos is doing an 80's style vampire movie and a phantasmagoric sci fi, so I have that to look forward to.
Posted by: All Hail Eris at June 29, 2024 08:34 PM (kpS4V)

If you liked the cinematography and weirdness of Mandy you would like Valhalla Rising . I think Cosmato borrowed a lot from Refn . A lot.

Posted by: polynikes at June 29, 2024 08:44 PM (SHMXB)

144 Posted by: Tuna at June 29, 2024 08:42 PM (oaGWv)

Thanks ;I had not heard of that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2024 08:45 PM (oUxZc)

145 I guess I'll just shut up. It would appear that I am not very good at evaluating movies. I can live with that. Have fun, folks!

Posted by: Notorious BFD at June 29, 2024 08:46 PM (mH6SG)

146 "Koyaanisqatsi" means "life out of balance", and it compares the rhythms of the natural world to the cacaphony of modern living.

Anyway, saw it with a friend when it came out, and after an eternity of droning chants of Koyaanisqatsi Koyaanisqatsi Koyaanisqatsi he began chanting in my ear "pao hana cocktail" so we left for a bar. 😆

Posted by: All Hail Eris at June 29, 2024 08:46 PM (kpS4V)

147 Britt Eckland
Posted by: Sven

MMMMM. See The Wicker Man. The original one.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 29, 2024 08:46 PM (Cp1vk)

148 137

No joke

JESUS CHRIST

Posted by: LenNeal at June 29, 2024 08:46 PM (bFId9)

149 I have a new standard for cinematic awfulness: Godmonster of Indian Flats.
One of the Horde mentioned it last night, so I looked it up.
It's available for free on Tubi and Pluto, but I rented it so I could avoid all the commercials featuring mulatto homosexuals. I also got the RiffTrax version, hoping it would ease the pain. It did not.
The original Mad Max was a low budget, roughly edited, poorly scripted horror movie. Compared to Godmonster, it is a masterpiece.

Posted by: Idaho Spudboy at June 29, 2024 08:46 PM (6if7h)

150 consideration.

As for "The Walking Dead," I gave up on it after the farm story. If those are the kind of people that survive an apocalypse, I'm rooting for the zombies.
Posted by: NR Pax at June 29, 2024 08:37 PM (lXCUP
I thought TWD was the best laid out zombie story, but I missed the last 4 years. Too many unanswered questions, but I did consider the show a McGuffies Primer for the coming burning times.

Posted by: Eromero at June 29, 2024 08:46 PM (LHPAg)

151 Latest movie my wife and I watched was "Wolf Children." Even if animation is not your thing, it's worth watching.
Posted by: NR Pax at June 29, 2024 08:20 PM (lXCUP)

Wolf Children is freakin' outstanding.

You are now an anime weeb.

Next up for you is Kiki's Delivery Service.

Posted by: Robert at June 29, 2024 08:46 PM (UEv0E)

152 Thanks ;I had not heard of that.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Still in pre production so it will be a while. Still, it's something to look forward to.

Posted by: Tuna at June 29, 2024 08:46 PM (oaGWv)

153 || Thanks I’ll think I’ll pass until it’s free.

Wise choice. Cage's agent wrote the script.

|| Even if they're not great, they're different, and the directors have an identifiable style.

I would go see a John Carpenter movie if he made one today.

With reminds me, the new Yorgos Lanthimos movie dropped. 2:44, which makes it shorter than "Horizon" and that new hot Telugu movie. Which I now can't find and I'm wondering if I Bidened myself.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at June 29, 2024 08:47 PM (asXVI)

154 137 Prepare to be Philip Glassed!
Posted by: All Hail Eris at June 29, 2024 08:40 PM (kpS4V)

He's odd. I don't know if I'll watch it, but dad will dutifully watch it with son.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2024 08:42 PM (oUxZc)

I absolutely love that, but it is the ultimate Art Movie. All pictures and music. Not everyone is into Philip Glass, but I am. (he's a bit repetitive, of course) At the time this was made the cinematography was cutting edge, it's been copied a lot so it's kind of familiar now. The message seems quite prescient today.

If you want dialogue, well the only spoken dialogue are a few chanted words in Hopi, so be forewarned.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 29, 2024 08:48 PM (S6gqv)

155 Anya Taylor Joy should not have makeup around her eyes. She already looks a bit frog-curious, don't emphasize it.

It's like putting huge red wax lips on Pee Wee Herman. Just don't.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 29, 2024 08:48 PM (CHHv1)

156 "Cute, but drawn out, film which explores the teen-camper-slasher genre ... "

that whole genre is why I will never, ever walk more than 50 feet from a paved road without at least one [pistol, knife, flashlight] [bonus points for redundancy, plus matches, phone, ham radio]
started with "Deliverance", & just kept on building ...

& now rly g'night!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at June 29, 2024 08:48 PM (tQtDb)

157 Polynikes,

One of the best series of the last decade...a thinking man's just wick
Posted by: Sven at June 29, 2024 08:41 PM (8gTX/)

Disappointed it only went 4 seasons but I think the star/creator wanted to quit while he was ahead.

Posted by: polynikes at June 29, 2024 08:48 PM (SHMXB)

158 Polynikes, that was some freaky shit. "Don't be around shrooming vikings" is the lesson I gleaned.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at June 29, 2024 08:48 PM (kpS4V)

159 || The Dance of Reality" by someone named Alejandro Jodorowski and something called Koyaaniuaatsi. No clue what they're about.

lol, Fenelon, seriously?! Jodorowski?

Oh, you're in for...something.

Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at June 29, 2024 08:48 PM (asXVI)

160 I better call it a night
Hope everyone has a great evening

Posted by: Skip at June 29, 2024 08:48 PM (fwDg9)

161 I hope they don't race switch any of the other actors.

The "Much Ado about Nothing" with Denzel Washington was great.

Posted by: No one of any consequence at June 29, 2024 08:49 PM (VuZH8)

162 I really became a cynic when I was sitting in the 2nd Transformers movie and it dawned on me that I was watching a movie based on an action figure.

Posted by: SMOD at June 29, 2024 08:49 PM (GITLP)

163 Servo, I love Philip Glass. Akhenaten is one of my favorite operas.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at June 29, 2024 08:49 PM (kpS4V)

164 Disappointed it only went 4 seasons but I think the star/creator wanted to quit while he was ahead.
Posted by: polynikes

I thought for sure Mr In Between was an Aussie based on his accent. Turns out he's from Lawrence, Kansas.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 29, 2024 08:50 PM (Cp1vk)

165 Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at June 29, 2024 08:48 PM (asXVI)

Well, I think I said that my knowledge of many movies ends with the 1960's.

I'm getting a feeling it may be too weird for me to watch.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2024 08:50 PM (oUxZc)

166 155 Anya Taylor Joy should not have makeup around her eyes. She already looks a bit frog-curious, don't emphasize it.

It's like putting huge red wax lips on Pee Wee Herman. Just don't.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm

Yep. When I watched "Queen's Gambit" I just could not keep from zeroing in on those eyes.

Posted by: Tuna at June 29, 2024 08:50 PM (oaGWv)

167 I have to think Fen's kid is punking her.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at June 29, 2024 08:50 PM (kpS4V)

168 I hope they don't race switch any of the other actors.

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It's pretty safe to assume which ones won't be.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Trump has more balls than an alley cat with two peckers at June 29, 2024 08:50 PM (36sk4)

169 147 Britt Eckland
Posted by: Sven

MMMMM. See The Wicker Man. The original one.

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IT'S NOT HER! SHE HAD A STUNT BUTT!

Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at June 29, 2024 08:51 PM (asXVI)

170 163 Servo, I love Philip Glass. Akhenaten is one of my favorite operas.
Posted by: All Hail Eris at June 29, 2024 08:49 PM (kpS4V)

yes I like that one as well!

maybe someone else will stand out sometime, but for now I think Glass stands as the last serious American Composer.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 29, 2024 08:52 PM (S6gqv)

171 huh.

I'll give that a try, Eris

saw Glass live w/CSO back n the Before Time ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez - they have been lying to us for decades at June 29, 2024 08:53 PM (tQtDb)

172 I really became a cynic when I was sitting in the 2nd Transformers movie and it dawned on me that I was watching a movie based on an action figure.
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Ha. I saw the trailer for the new Transformers. It's the backstory of Megatron and Optimus Prime. Spoiler alert: They were nerdy, whiny garbage droids. Then they went to the surface of their planet and were given magic powers, and then they were able to transform into human vehicles from an unknown planet and that were completely unsuitable for their own environment.

Because shut up, they/them explained. Everything you like has to be destroyed.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Trump has more balls than an alley cat with two peckers at June 29, 2024 08:53 PM (36sk4)

173 Given the movie who's title has been mentioned more than any other movie in Threads here on ye olde AoSHQ, The Horde's Director of Choice has to be Ridley Scott.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at June 29, 2024 08:54 PM (UdzhC)

174 Watched a movie last week called "No One Lives" with Luke Evans (the bowman dude from Lake Town in the Hobbit movies) that I really liked.

It was one of those "random couple traveling runs into evil gang of evil assholes, whoops! turns out the couple isn't what the evil folks think!" movies.

This thing went so hard off the rails so quickly and then just kept flying so far into bonkers land that it was really something to see. Recommended for much violence and some great bad guy kills. Just nuts.

Posted by: Sharkman at June 29, 2024 08:54 PM (/RHNq)

175 Posted by: All Hail Eris at June 29, 2024 08:50 PM (kpS4V)

No, he's just very interested in offbeat and foreign films. He reads about them on the internet and then tries to get them from the library.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 29, 2024 08:54 PM (oUxZc)

176 I'm getting a feeling it may be too weird for me to watch.
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Fenelon, watch "Jodorowsky's Dune" instead (already mentioned upthread). It's delightful and cinematic history and I couldn't help thinking, I wish he had actually made the picture, it would've been a car crash of epic proportions.

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167 I have to think Fen's kid is punking her.
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Right?

Mmmm. Philip Glass...40 minutes of C-chords. "Einstein on the Beach," anyone?

Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at June 29, 2024 08:55 PM (asXVI)

177 45 When Max leans out of the truck and blows away the pursuit car through the windshield, there is no finer moment in Action Cinema.
Posted by: LenNeal at June 29, 2024 08:08 PM (bFId9)

In T2 when Arnold climbs onto the hood of the semi and unloads the clip thru the windshield is right up there

Posted by: A dude in MI at June 29, 2024 08:55 PM (/6GbT)

178 If you want a headache, watch "Eraserhead".

Posted by: Deplorable Ian Galt at June 29, 2024 08:56 PM (ufFY8)

179 Speaking of Denzel, saw "The Little Things" again the other night ("It's the little things that get you caught"). He's so good, as are Leto and Malek.

I remember when Leto was a teen heartthrob ("My So-Called Life") and now he's the movies' go-to freakazoid.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at June 29, 2024 08:57 PM (kpS4V)

180 Posted by: Sharkman at June 29, 2024 08:54 PM (/RHNq)

Yeah twisty twist . I’m glad I didn’t know Luke Evans was homo before I watched it. I liked it a lot.

Posted by: polynikes at June 29, 2024 08:57 PM (SHMXB)

181 Britt Eckland
Posted by: Sven

MMMMM. See The Wicker Man. The original one.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 29, 2024 08:46 PM

Of interest to The Horde, Britt Eckland's character in The Wicker Man was named Willow.

Posted by: Wesley Crusher at June 29, 2024 08:57 PM (UdzhC)

182 || It was one of those "random couple traveling runs into evil gang of evil assholes, whoops! turns out the couple isn't what the evil folks think!" movies. ||

Red-Letter media did a "Best of the Worst" with the Leo Fong movie, "Showdown," the premise of which is supposed to be that a biker gang invades a town full of retired mafia hitman.

It's not that, sadly, but what a great idea!

Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at June 29, 2024 08:58 PM (asXVI)

183 Sharkman @ 174-
I like movies where bad people get killed by good, semi-good, even marginally bad people.It makes me feel good maybe because not enough of it happens in real life. Think of the possibilities.

Posted by: Eromero at June 29, 2024 08:59 PM (LHPAg)

184 I watched the Man From U.N.C.L.E movie on a flight last week. It was good enough for a watch but probably will not rewatch it.

I did not know that Armie Hammer is the great grandson of Armand Hammer.

Posted by: MAGA_Ken at June 29, 2024 09:00 PM (2fIO4)

185 100 89 len Neal,

Britt Eckland
***************
She was also in The Wicker Man.

Word has it, her ass wasn't good enough for the director to be shown nude in one crucial scene, so he hired a double.

Britt was pissed.

Posted by: Noam Sayen at June 29, 2024 09:00 PM (YEeds)

186 MMMMM. See The Wicker Man. The original one.
Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 29, 2024 08:46 PM

Of interest to The Horde, Britt Eckland's character in The Wicker Man was named Willow.
Posted by: Wesley Crusher at June 29, 2024 08:57 PM (UdzhC)

I saw an interview with Christopher Lee who said that a good 30 minutes of the film had been lost forever because of idiotic studio execs who did a bad edit and threw away the extra footage. That's why the movie starts basically 15 minutes in, with the protagonist flying to the island already and none of us knowing why. He was pissed because some of it was what he thought was one of his best scenes.

Posted by: Tom Servo at June 29, 2024 09:00 PM (S6gqv)

187 I like movies where bad people get killed by good, semi-good, even marginally bad people.
Posted by: Eromero

Among my most memorable villains is Bruce Dern in Cowboys. He's also the protagonist in Silent Running.

Bruce got it good in the Cowboys.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 29, 2024 09:02 PM (Cp1vk)

188 Been a while since I watched the Mad Max or Terminator flicks, but thinking about nifty action sequences... some of Burt Lancaster's work in The Train were awfully good too. And fight scenes -- Rod Taylor vs William Smith near the finish of Darker Than Amber (no stunt doubles and not all the blood was fake -- that sequence was just brutal).

Posted by: Just Some Guy at June 29, 2024 09:03 PM (q3u5l)

189 I like movies where bad people get killed by good, semi-good, even marginally bad people.
Posted by: Eromero

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It's brutal and full of nudity and horrible language, but you might enjoy Deadwood if you haven't seen it.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Trump has more balls than an alley cat with two peckers at June 29, 2024 09:03 PM (36sk4)

190 I like movies where bad people get killed by good, semi-good, even marginally bad people.
Posted by: Eromero

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It's brutal and full of nudity and horrible language, but you might enjoy Deadwood if you haven't seen it.
Posted by: Moron Robbie - Trump has more balls than an alley cat with two peckers at June 29, 2024 09:03 PM (36sk4)

Brutal? Nudity? Foul language?

I sold.

Posted by: Robert at June 29, 2024 09:04 PM (H/zBy)

191 I reviewed "The Wicker Man" here. It was the last film in the theater's "Throwback Thursdays" and the end of an era.

https://moviegique.com/2019/08/the-wicker-man-1973/

Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at June 29, 2024 09:05 PM (asXVI)

192 The Last Hard Men with Charlton Heston and James Coburn is a good bad guy movie. James Coburn is the bad guy with laser focus on revenge.

Posted by: polynikes at June 29, 2024 09:06 PM (SHMXB)

193 Watching Knox Goes Away
Michael Keaton is a contract killer who gets mad cow disease - very rapid dementia
Directed by Keaton

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 29, 2024 09:06 PM (Ka3bZ)

194 OT but I just bought the pup a new toy. It was a little expensive but rated 9 out of 10 on the toughness scale. The little stinker has had it for an hour and he's already got one of the squeakers torn out. Now he's got that "What'd I do?" Look on his face. Grrrr....

Posted by: Tuna at June 29, 2024 09:07 PM (oaGWv)

195 Directed by Keaton
Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion

Is good?

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 29, 2024 09:07 PM (Cp1vk)

196 My daughter wants to see Longlegs, the new Nic Cage horror movie. It's supposed to be the scariest movie of the year. I'm not sure why she wants to see it with me because I'm a big scaridy cat but I like good horror movies.

Posted by: Megthered at June 29, 2024 09:07 PM (49Sxk)

197 Would anyone mind terribly if they gave me a thousand dollars? The B&N Criterion sale is going on and I want to get everything in my wishlist.

Posted by: Robert at June 29, 2024 09:08 PM (H/zBy)

198 Brutal? Nudity? Foul language?

I sold.
Posted by: Robert
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Ha. It really is a fantastic series, and one of the only ones I can remember watching where I felt kind of weird realizing that I was supporting the bad guy because he was slightly more honorable than the worse bad guy.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Trump has more balls than an alley cat with two peckers at June 29, 2024 09:08 PM (36sk4)

199 Tuna, he is protecting you from evil toys

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 29, 2024 09:08 PM (Ka3bZ)

200 Yep. When I watched "Queen's Gambit" I just could not keep from zeroing in on those eyes.

"She has the Innsmouth look."

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 29, 2024 09:08 PM (CHHv1)

201 The Missing >>> Bone Tomahawk

Posted by: polynikes at June 29, 2024 09:09 PM (SHMXB)

202 "In a savage, post-apocalyptic world"
The movie or USA now?

Posted by: jimmymcnulty at June 29, 2024 09:09 PM (eOwsH)

203 202 "In a savage, post-apocalyptic world"
The movie or USA now?

I am convinced the original movie wasn't even meant to be sci-fi. The '70s were apocalyptic (ask the women of Iran) and they're BACK, baby!

Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at June 29, 2024 09:11 PM (asXVI)

204 I watched Vinegar Syndrome's lovingly restored disk of "Godmonster of Indian Flats." You want a mutant sheep creature, even an awkward muppet reject, killing people? You'll have to wait for a different movie, this one's all about land-grabbing and....sigh...how racist we all are. From 1973.

This being Vinegar Syndrome, the film looks and sounds absolutely outstanding. But the movie itself, pass.

Edit out the monster stuff and it's sure to premier on Disney Stupid.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 29, 2024 09:11 PM (CHHv1)

205 I got around to Dune part 2. It is not as good as part 1 but it was very good.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 29, 2024 09:13 PM (lhenN)

206 || Word has it, her ass wasn't good enough for the director to be shown nude in one crucial scene, so he hired a double.

The story has shifted over time. She was pregnant (but all of three months) and she claims now she didn't =know= about the nude scenes.

Which I find implausible. Did she not read the script? If she did read the script, did she not wonder why she wasn't in certain scenes her character was in?

Posted by: moviegique (buy my book!) at June 29, 2024 09:13 PM (asXVI)

207 That's what made me irritated about the Wick sequels. He was no longer suicidal, no longer motivated, and not only was HE incredibly lucky while just coasting in his day to day life but he was able to team up with a female version of himself that was also equally skilled and lucky AND could not only keep one dog alive but two, and she fought with them, too!
Posted by: Moron Robbie

Agreed many times over.
It had no heart and was formulaic crap.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at June 29, 2024 09:14 PM (elaR+)

208 Is good?
Posted by: Blutarski,

So far
Mid-way right now

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 29, 2024 09:15 PM (Ka3bZ)

209 Which I find implausible. Did she not read the script?

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I'm going to be playing James Garfield in a Coen brothers film!
- Bill Murray

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Trump has more balls than an alley cat with two peckers at June 29, 2024 09:15 PM (36sk4)

210 Ooh, "Godmonster of Indian Flats" is on YouTube! I know what I'm watching right before bed!

Posted by: All Hail Eris at June 29, 2024 09:16 PM (kpS4V)

211 *Imagines Bill Murray gorging himself on lasagna*

Posted by: Robert at June 29, 2024 09:16 PM (f2ldV)

212 Another series of movies I hate?

A Quiet Place

Interesting premise- horrible execution.

Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at June 29, 2024 09:16 PM (elaR+)

213 169 147 Britt Eckland
Posted by: Sven

MMMMM. See The Wicker Man. The original one.

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IT'S NOT HER! SHE HAD A STUNT BUTT!
Posted by: moviegique

You're just a constant dark cloud.

186: Tom Servo, So 'The Wicker Man' (original) could have even been better. It's already a damn fine, creepy, little movie. Damn shame.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 29, 2024 09:17 PM (jrKun)

214 Nood ONT is up

Posted by: Corgi at June 29, 2024 09:17 PM (QXQ4l)

215 got around to Dune part 2. It is not as good as part 1 but it was very good.
Posted by: BourbonChicken at June 29, 2024 09:13 PM (lhenN)

Wanted to like it but it was boring to me . Also didn’t like Zendaya and how she played Chani. Not necessarily her fault.

Posted by: polynikes at June 29, 2024 09:17 PM (SHMXB)

216 186: Tom Servo, So 'The Wicker Man' (original) could have even been better. It's already a damn fine, creepy, little movie. Damn shame.
Posted by: Puddleglum at work

The recent Midsommer gave me the same creepy vibe.

Posted by: Blutarski, Gradually then Suddenly at June 29, 2024 09:18 PM (Cp1vk)

217 I am waiting for a horror movie to get released on dvd - Abigail
It's about a vampire ballerina who gets kidnapped by some thugs

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 29, 2024 09:18 PM (Ka3bZ)

218 Speaking of movie series...

I've never seen Beverly Hills Cop.

Actually I think I saw most of the third one on HBO when I was a kid but that's about it. I decided to get me the Blu-ray set to rectify this.

It's waiting for me. Waiting with so many other things.

And booze.

God, I could use a drink.

Posted by: Robert at June 29, 2024 09:19 PM (f2ldV)

219 Thanks movigique

Posted by: Moron Robbie - Trump has more balls than an alley cat with two peckers at June 29, 2024 09:20 PM (36sk4)

220 210 Ooh, "Godmonster of Indian Flats" is on YouTube! I know what I'm watching right before bed!
Posted by: All Hail Eris at June 29, 2024 09:16 PM (kpS4V)

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Opens with a lovely chorus...some sheep...and now we're in RENO!

The YT print looks good, actually. I'm sure the VS one is amazing.

Frank Hennenlotter took a break from making classics like "Basket Case" and "Frankenhooker" to start "Something Weird" video and they did some good work.

Posted by: moviegique at June 29, 2024 09:21 PM (asXVI)

221 187 I like movies where bad people get killed by good, semi-good, even marginally bad people.
Posted by: Eromero

Among my most memorable villains is Bruce Dern in Cowboys. He's also the protagonist in Silent Running.

Bruce got it good in the Cowboys.
Posted by: Blutarski,

The unnamed killer in the first Dirty Harry movie. Andrew Robinson played that part to the absolute hilt! Amazing performance and a satisfying ending. You REALLY wanted that guy dead at the end.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 29, 2024 09:21 PM (jrKun)

222 Also didn’t like Zendaya and how she played Chani. Not necessarily her fault.
Posted by: polynikes at June 29, 2024 09:17 PM (SHMXB)

Zendaya sucks. That is entirely her fault.

Posted by: Robert at June 29, 2024 09:22 PM (f2ldV)

223 WTH? The ONT at 6:21?!

I feel like I got the hook!

Thanks everyone for stopping by. See you ... on the 20th!

Byeeee!~

Posted by: moviegique at June 29, 2024 09:23 PM (asXVI)

224 Zendaya sucks. That is entirely her fault.
Posted by: Robert

I'm not a fan either

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 29, 2024 09:25 PM (Ka3bZ)

225 Guys, watching Godmonster...you will be disappoint.

Posted by: BeckoningChasm at June 29, 2024 09:25 PM (CHHv1)

226 I like movies where bad people get killed by good, semi-good, even marginally bad people.
Posted by: Eromero
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Beatdowns are always entertaing too. Yesterday 'The Thing' was a topic for a bit, which reminded me that James Arness played the 'Thing'. Worth a watch is this short compendium of Matt Dillon giving the backhand to bad guys:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPPgcq-wWqc

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 29, 2024 09:26 PM (XeU6L)

227 Mad Max The Road Warrior and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome are the only two worth watching or owning.

All the others are runny doggie droppings.
Posted by: Erebus- ex-killer whale at June 29, 2024 07:50 PM (elaR+)

The 1st movie, "Mad Max", is worth watching just for the set-up for "The Road Warrior." "Mad Max" isn't a great movie but it does have a certain authentic grittiness where civilization is grinding to a halt.

The best is "The Road Warrior." I do give that one repeat viewings.

Posted by: Retired Buckeye Cop is now an engineer at June 29, 2024 10:02 PM (pJWtt)

228 Most people really don't get what the Mad Max films are. The first one is an extended metaphor for being a closeted gay man (yes, seriously. The subtext isn't sub, it's super. It's so super it should be flying around in a pink cape singing "HERE I come to save the GAYYYYY"). The rest are all a collection of vignettes about life in the post-apocalyptic wasteland with Max acting only as a framing device. It's why he doesn't really do anything or affect anything, and the majority of what happens isn't about him.

The original 1990s Hong Kong action films, especially the ones where the moral difference between the gangsters and the cops is razor thin, are a good oeuvre to delve in to. They're where the John Wick films come from.

Posted by: Daniel Ream at June 30, 2024 01:39 AM (0Go0g)

229 In before the book-thread Tolkien geeks?

Damn it!

Posted by: Dr. Bone at June 30, 2024 01:45 AM (dmXQN)

230 WTF, as an Aussie I may be biased, ok yes guilty I am biased but the first one was the best. Loved the old Ford Falcon & Holden (GM) V8's.

Mad Max 2 less so.

Beyond Thunderdome an improvement on the 2nd but still not the original.

However the woke you go girlzzz recent ones, yeah na.

Take it into the back paddock and put it out of its misery.

Posted by: Rockdoctor at June 30, 2024 05:05 AM (qYnEp)

231 Wait--you HATED Raiders of the Lost Ark? You know, that submarine is never shown submerging (they were racing to get the ark delivered, through pre-WW2 peacetime waters with no nautical enemies to avoid). Apparently there's a deleted scene explicitly showing Indy riding the top of the at-surface sub clinging to the periscope but even as a kid, on first viewing, I never got the impression the sub had submerged.

Posted by: Harrison Bergeron at June 30, 2024 11:15 AM (JuaQi)

232 I like Beyond Thunderdome but I think Bartertown is the most interesting part of the movie, after Max is kicked out it gets pretty "meh."

Posted by: ObsidianKnife at June 30, 2024 11:03 PM (1Xis7)

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