Hardkore Posted January 14, 2018 Report Share Posted January 14, 2018 (edited) A Night To Remember (1958) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Night_to_Remember_(1958_film) I heard about this sometime back and finally got to see it. People were saying it was better than James Cameron's Titanic. Well, I had to see that for myself. I have agree with them. In fact I think JC saw this and copied a good portion of it for his version. 4.5/5 Edited January 14, 2018 by Hardkore Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom@LCO Posted January 15, 2018 Report Share Posted January 15, 2018 A night to remember is way better imo if you're interested in something straight forward and to the point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guested Account Posted January 17, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2018 Winter War (2017) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6353716/ French film about the events surrounding the battle for the French Alsace region during World War 2, where the First French Paratroopers regiment along with American infantry units were assigned the task to hold the town of Jebsheim and take the neighboring forest Failure to do so will result in German units using the forest to bypass the region and encircling advancing French and Allied units and cutting them in half. https://standwheretheyfought.jimdo.com/alsace-2011-the-battle-of-jebsheim-jan-24-feb-2-1945-then-and-now/ This battle was part of a larger 4 months long campaign referred by the French as the "Alsatian Stalingrad". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colmar_Pocket#The_push_to_the_Colmar_Canal_and_the_battle_for_Jebsheim It also involved French young men who were conscripted into the German Wermacht and SS units against their will and forced to fight against French and American units. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malgré-nous Historically accurate, bloody, violent and realistic without the chest thumping glorification and the constant in your face lecturing of Allied are good and here to save the world and German forces are all evil madmen that are too often found in many of today's Hollywood World War II films. 4/5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guested Account Posted January 25, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 25, 2018 (edited) Murder On The Orient Express (2017) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3402236/ If you read the book or have seen the 1974 excellent movie adaptation, you already know how this movie ends. But like most things in life, it's not the destination, it's the journey and in both the book and the 1974 movie, the journey is filled with suspense and tension accompanying a great build up prior to the big reveal. In this 2017 remake, nothing like that. This could had been a made for TV/Cable TV/NetFlix movie. All the characters [or suspects if you will] are not given much to do, and seeing that the movie is produced and directed by Kenneth Branagh, with him starring in the main role of Hercule Poirot, I think this was a case where the producer/director/main star was given too much Carte Blanche to do everything he wanted: the opportunity to show himself off and make the entire movie about him while forgetting the source material and neglecting the rest of the cast. It's a damn shame too because the cast is composed of some great actresses and actors including Dame Judi Dench, Michelle Pfeiffer, Daisy Ridley, Willem Dafoe, Derek Jacobi and many others. I had high hopes for this movie when I saw the first trailer for it months ago. Now I can't find words to describe how disappointed I am by this final product without venturing into 4 and 8 and 13 letters profane words. I will leave it to my friend to put my disappointment into words for me: Agatha Christie has got to be rolling in her grave!! 2/5 Edited January 25, 2018 by j7wild Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guested Account Posted January 26, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2018 (edited) The Final Girls (2015) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2118624/ Well made PG-13 horror movie paying great homage to the 80's slasher films, featuring a nostalgic 80's soundtrack, and a story with lots of heart and warmth usually missing in any horror films. They left the ending open for a sequel and I hope there will be one. 4/5 Edited January 26, 2018 by j7wild Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guested Account Posted January 28, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2018 (edited) Chasing The Dragon (2017) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6015328/ Fact based crime epic about the rise and fall of a ruthless drug lord in the Kowloon Walled City of Hong Kong from the 60's to the 70's. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kowloon_Walled_City (can't believe people lived in there ) It was alright! Despite being one of the top 5 Hong Kong films of 2017, this was not one of Donnie Yen's and Andy Lau's best films. 3.5/5 Edited January 28, 2018 by j7wild Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom@LCO Posted January 28, 2018 Report Share Posted January 28, 2018 From your description sounds like an Asian Scarface. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guested Account Posted January 28, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2018 47 minutes ago, Tom@LCO said: From your description sounds like an Asian Scarface. Without the 226 you know what word that were in Scarface Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom@LCO Posted January 28, 2018 Report Share Posted January 28, 2018 Yeah I agree. That was way too many. I think after awhile they just got blurred into fudge mentally like in A Christmas Story. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morph Posted January 28, 2018 Report Share Posted January 28, 2018 I've never actually realised it was said so many times! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guested Account Posted January 28, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 28, 2018 4 hours ago, Morph said: I've never actually realised it was said so many times! Once every 1.32 minutes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guested Account Posted January 29, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 29, 2018 I had nothing to watch so I thought I'll give this a glance: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4556370/ She has gotten old!! Starship Troopers 1997 Wild Things 1998 James Bond #18 Tomorrow Never Dies 1999 Altitude 2017 In 1999, she was barely 28 when she played a Nuclear Physicist in Tomorrow Never Dies. The critics and the Bond fans complained that she was not believable in the role being she was so young and her acting was like a High School kid. She was only cast because of her prior roles in Starship Troopers and Wild Things brought her attention and fame at the time. Now in this new Altitude movie, she plays an FBI agent. She is 46 now and I can find her being an FBI agent a bit more plausible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guested Account Posted January 29, 2018 Author Report Share Posted January 29, 2018 Altitude (2017) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4556370 I've seen 1000's of movies in my life including many direct to video titles and many of them were bad, but this one takes the cake! Being able to enjoy a movie requires being able to defy some belief but with this particular film, you also have to forget that you have a brain while at the same time, being insulted by how stupid and laughable this movie is. That's Kelsey Grammer's daughter by the way. Guess having the Grammer name is not helping her acting career move up faster and she has to take whatever roles that comes her way including being in crappy movies like this one. 0.25/5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom@LCO Posted January 29, 2018 Report Share Posted January 29, 2018 lol I saw that one. Yeah 5 out 5 poo poo's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guested Account Posted February 2, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 2, 2018 Crooked House (2017) [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1869347 This film adaptation of Agatha Christie's 49th book, which is considered by many as one of her 7 best books, fails miserably. The stellar cast of Christina Hendricks, Gillian Anderson, Glenn Close, Terence Stamp, Max Irons, Julian Sands and Stefanie Martini are not given much to do with their paper thin characters from a very shallow script. The story revolves around the mysterious death of the Patriarch of a wealthy family and possible foul play is suspected. The granddaughter of the deceased hires a private investigator, a young man she once had a brief affair with, to help her look into her grandfather's death. She doesn't want to call the Police because that will involve Scotland Yard and draw unwanted attention to the family by the press. The suspects are all family members of the deceased: his mother, his grandchildren, his daughter in laws, his ex-wife, his 2 sons, etc, etc. They all have one thing in common: they are fighting for the family fortune. But the story doesn't really go anywhere and doesn't do much build up. In the nearly 2 hours running time, the viewer is not really enticed to care about any of the characters. When I was watching this, my thoughts should had been on which one of them may be a murderer and which one of them should I be rooting for to be innocent. But there was on the screen narrative that made me care for any of them. The director didn't develop the characters to establish a connection between them and the viewer. When the killer is finally revealed and the movie abruptly ends and I don't say that lightly, my immediate thought, when I saw the final frame fade to the "Directed By" credit, was: that's it? It's over? This is the 2nd film adaptation in 2017 of an Agatha Christie's novel that fails to deliver. 3/5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guested Account Posted February 5, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2018 It's the CUCKOO guy again!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Guested Account Posted February 14, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 14, 2018 Double Indemnity (1944) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036775/ Insurance agent gets involved with a woman who plans to kill her husband to collect on a $100,000 insurance claim. Intelligent, well written, well acted, suspenseful and there is no special effects, foul language, violence, blood and gore. Nominated for 7 Awards Awards including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor. Deemed "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant" by the U.S. Library of Congress in 1992, Double Indemnity was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry. In 1998, it was ranked #38 on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 best American films of all time, and in 2007 it placed 29th on their 10th Anniversary list. I did some research. $100,000 ($1.7 million by today's money) is a lot of money for 1938, the year the story of this movie is set in. A lb of sirloin steak was 40 cents, a lb of bread was 8 cents (guess they didn't sell sliced loaves yet?), a gallon of gasoline was 21 cents, a basic small 4 cylinder car was $1,000, the cost of a median home in Houston was about $5,100, one night stay in a hospital was $7, a high school teacher with 4 years of post high school education earned $1,912 a year average. The murderous wife's home used in the movie for the exterior scenes is still there According to Zillow it's now worth over $2,100,000. It was built in 1927, 4 bedrooms, 3 bath, over 3,000 square feet and sold for around $28,000 brand new. So considering that the average home was in 1938 was $5,100; this house being $28,000 in 1927, it was considered a mansion then. the current owner bought it in 1996 for $585,000. The apartment complex the insurance agent lived at is also still there 4.5/5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guested Account Posted February 15, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2018 Darkest Hour (2017) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4555426/ Nominated for Best Picture, this is a good movie in its own right but I still think out of all the other Best Picture nominations: Call Me by Your Name, Dunkirk, Get Out, Lady Bird, Phantom Thread, The Post, The Shape of Water, and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, the latter is still the best movie of them all. 4/5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom@LCO Posted February 15, 2018 Report Share Posted February 15, 2018 I thought Darkest Hour was great and Gary Oldman has a great shot at an Oscar. Dunkirk was good too but not as good imo as Darkest Hour. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guested Account Posted February 15, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 15, 2018 Dumbkirk was a joke and an abomination and an insult to everyone who was there and to everyone who died there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guested Account Posted February 17, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 17, 2018 (edited) The Satan Bug (1965) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059678/ Based on another Alistair MacLean's (The Guns Of Navarone, Ice Station Zebra, Where Eagles Dare) novel, with a screenplay by James Clavell (The Great Escape), and directed by John Sturges (The Great Escape, The Magnificent Seven 1960, Ice Station Zebra, The Eagle Has Landed), this was a good movie. A former intelligence agent is brought out of retirement by the U.S. Government to catch the thieves who stole a top secret biological weapon and are threatening to unleash it on the world. A weapon that is capable of wiping out every living thing on Earth within months. Suspenseful, intense, thrilling, intelligent without any violence, blood and gore, foul language - there were scenes that had me grinding my teeth and gripping the sofa cushion. 4.5/5 Edited February 19, 2018 by j7wild Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guested Account Posted February 17, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 17, 2018 (edited) Alice Through The Looking Glass (2016) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2567026/ Not sure why this sequel to the 2010 Disney's Alice In Wonderland did not receive the good reviews its predecessor did. It is not bad! 3.75/5 Edited February 19, 2018 by j7wild Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guested Account Posted February 22, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2018 The Killers (1964) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058262/ The remake of the 1946 classic film noir, based on a story by Ernest Hemingway, this time with Lee Marvin, Clu Gulager, John Cassavetes, Angie Dickinson, Norman Fell and Ronald Reagan. Originally a made for TV movie (the very first one), NBC deemed it too violent for broadcast and it was released to the movie theaters. This film contains the kind of sadism and nastiness and grittiness and violence only director Don Siegel (Dirty Harry, Invasion of the Body Snatcher, the Beguiled, Coogan's Bluff, Madigan, Charlie Warrick and Telefon)) could deliver. It's been said that Quentin Tarantino based the characters of John Travolta and Samuel L. Jackson in Pulp Fiction on Lee Marvin and Clu Gulager from this film. This was Ronald Reagan's only bad guy role and also his last movie role before entering politics to be in the running to become the Governor of California in 1967. Ronald Reagan said he hated this movie because there was one scene where he had to slap Angie Dickinson for real to make it look realistic. This is also one of the many movies (and TV shows) from the 60's to the 70's I've seen where Norman Fell either plays a good guy, usually a cop, or a bad guy: To me he will always be Mr. Roper on Three's Company. Angie Dickinson as the scheming double crossing Femme Fatale was a looker back then. 4/5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guested Account Posted February 23, 2018 Author Report Share Posted February 23, 2018 Perfetti Aconosciuti (2016) aka Perfect Strangers (in Italian with English subtitles) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4901306/ 7 long time friends: 3 husbands and wives couples (including one newlyweds) and a single man get together for dinner. They decide to play a game while eating their meal: put all their cell phones on the dining table and share with each other every text message, every email and every phone call, by putting it on speaker phone for all to hear, that they receive during the course of the meal. What happens next in this well written, well acted, intelligent Italian cinema film - you will have to find out for yourself. 5/5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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