SHAMEFUL: The greatest movies you've never seen

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gohuskies: Oct 23, 2010; I spend a lot of time making posts to justify why I'm not a self centered shithead that just wants to act like COVID isn't a thing.

marioinblack posted:

Das Boot

My favorite character was the engine room dude who has a nervous breakdown and then pulls it together to do his duty and save the sub. It's terrifically tough to imagine the stress that U-boat crews (and all submariners, sailors, soldiers, marines and airmen) must have gone through at their most difficult moments, and Das Boot makes it so clear and easy to feel, it really shakes you up.

# ¿ Feb 9, 2016 07:46

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# ¿ Apr 25, 2024 00:58

gohuskies: Oct 23, 2010; I spend a lot of time making posts to justify why I'm not a self centered shithead that just wants to act like COVID isn't a thing.

Basebf555 posted:

Last night I watched The Eiger Sanction, and it was one of the more ridiculous movies I've ever seen. I mean that mostly in a good way, Eastwood was clearly trying to make his own version of a James Bond movie here. Every single character is straight out of some bizarre alternate Bond film, from the physically frail head of the agency, to the multiple women Eastwood beds without even trying. There's a large breasted assassin who tries to kill Eastwood after sleeping with him. Overall its not what I would call a "good" movie, but I'm glad I saw it because I doubt Eastwood ever made anything else quite like it.

Eiger Sanction has some of the best climbing sequences in a movie and certainly the most realistic - they filmed on the actual Eiger in very dangerous conditions. One crew member was killed by rockfall on the second day of filming, another was put in a wheelchair, and a third was also seriously injured with a broken pelvis. Eastwood did his own climbing stunts as well, at no small risk.

# ¿ Jun 21, 2016 20:27

gohuskies: Oct 23, 2010; I spend a lot of time making posts to justify why I'm not a self centered shithead that just wants to act like COVID isn't a thing.

the_tasman_series posted:

Jackie Brown. This was my poo poo. I like pulpy movies, I like pulpy funk n soul, I like snappy dialogue, I like watching drugs and sex and guns going off onscreen. I really liked Sam Jackson going "is that rutger hauer?" at the screen, and that line having no bearing on the plot whatsoever. It was a lot of fricken fun.

This film was a fast burn - I loved it while watching but haven't thought a lot about it since. Good movie, and kind of a departure from Tarantino's other movies in a way that I can't quite put my finger on. Perhaps it was more relaxed and less bloody than is usual. I can't believe I'm saying that about a movie that has 4? shootings in it.

I love Jackie Brown - it's the only movie Tarantino adapted from a previous work, a book by Elmore Leonard named Rum Punch. Having that not-Tarantino guidance really changes the shape of it.

# ¿ Apr 25, 2017 05:52

gohuskies: Oct 23, 2010; I spend a lot of time making posts to justify why I'm not a self centered shithead that just wants to act like COVID isn't a thing.

Zogo posted:

Die Another Day - It's another somewhat fresh Bond story dealing with genetic modification and identity theft. After Bond is tortured in North Korea for a year or so he's released and forced to go rogue once again as in Licence to Kill (1989).

His latest task is to eradicate an Elon Musk look-a-like who wields a weapon that looks similar to an NES Power Glove. I find that many Bond films have decent twists but they lose some of their luster when each film pulls two or three big ones. There are the usual spectacles (this time involving hovercrafts) and it kind of jests at how governments lie to their citizens. I suppose a more serious contemporary of this film would be Joint Security Area (2000).

When Madonna appeared in the film I remembered back to the missed opportunity of A View to a Kill (1985) not having a Duran Duran cameo.

PS I remember reading that Halle Berry almost got her own Jinx spinoff. I suppose I would've watched it.

Perhaps the kindest review of Die Another Day ever written!

# ¿ Jan 13, 2021 08:43

gohuskies: Oct 23, 2010; I spend a lot of time making posts to justify why I'm not a self centered shithead that just wants to act like COVID isn't a thing.

Samuel Clemens posted:

Princess Mononoke was actually the first Miyazaki film to receive a release in the US. (Nausica� made it stateside, but only in a heavily recut version that bore little resemblance to the original.) So most Americans at the time had no prior knowledge of Miyazaki or his style. That said, I definitely recall stories about people taking their kids to see the film because they expected anything animated to be family friendly and checking out after the first decapitation scene.

My parents rented Akira for my sister and I when we were like 8 and 11. They similarly assumed all animation was Disney type stuff, saw a Japanese anime at the video store, and thought to try it out without paying too much attention to the box. I think we made it like 10 minutes in.

# ¿ Jul 6, 2021 17:25

gohuskies: Oct 23, 2010; I spend a lot of time making posts to justify why I'm not a self centered shithead that just wants to act like COVID isn't a thing.

Zogo posted:

American Hustle - This one centers around FBI agents and reluctant art cons teaming up to take down politicians. Things get a little out of hand as there are lots of layers of deception and misdirection among the principal characters. Most of them are overdressed in these garish getups. So there's some unintentional comedy at times.

It becomes a question as to just how many big politicians should be targeted as the bribing gets more extravagant. Jeremy Renner's character seems inspired by Rod Blagojevich.

It was based on the real life "Abscam" operation conducted by the FBI in late 70s and early 80s and Renner's character is based the IRL Mayor of Camden, NJ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abscam

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gohuskies: Oct 23, 2010; I spend a lot of time making posts to justify why I'm not a self centered shithead that just wants to act like COVID isn't a thing.

Zogo posted:

It's a Gift - It looks like it may be time for another film starring W.C. Fields. 12/27/21

WC Fields might have movies that are better as pure comedies (thinking of Bank Dick here) but he has no movies that are all-around better than It's A Gift. It's my dad's favorite movie, I've probably seen it a dozen times and some of the scenes still work every time.

For me -
Casino Royale 1967 - I love Bond movies, but I've never watched this strange early one outside of the Eon system.
Life Aquatic - I've enjoyed some Wes Anderson before like Royal Tenebaums but never went out of my way to watch this.
Dune - the 2021 version, I have no excuse for missing it. I like big sci-fi stories, I was just scared of COVID to watch it in the theater and haven't done it since.
Tenet - another pandemic theater movie I missed and haven't caught up to that should be up my alley.
Knives Out - recent actors I like, what's the deal?
Bad Day At Black Rock - I really like old westerns, this is one I haven't seen.
Duel - it put Spielberg on the map, it must be okay.
Le Samourai - I've enjoyed some of the 70s "birth of cool" movies but this is supposed to be the king of them all.
Sorcerer - Wages of Fear is one of my favorite movies, this should be similar.
Get Shorty - technically I already saw this as a kid, my parents showed me for reasons unknown, but I remember almost none of it except that it is supposed to be the height of cool adult humor. It probably isn't, but has a weird thing in my head now.

# ¿ Mar 29, 2022 07:49

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