Film/Movies Thread
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Barney said:
@BShark I have always been a big fan of Bogart, Casablanca being my favorite. I enjoy some current films but I find excessive CGI a turnoff and a poor substitute for good story telling and writing. I realize I sound like and old fool.
Not at all. So many modern films are style over substance imo. I am also a fan of using practical effects over CG.
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@jaybate-1-0 Thank you for the recommendations. Out of the Past was excellent.
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@Barney “I find excessive CGI a turnoff and a poor substitute for good story telling and writing. I realize I sound like an old fool.”
They also have taken to burying the dialogue in overwhelming music and blaring sound (I wish we had close captioning at the theater sometimes). Ridley Scott did it as an innovative sound technique by making conversations just barely audible against the background ship noises to enhance the anxiety level in Alien, but now they do it because they can’t write worth crap.
I guess there are lots of us old fools around!
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My top 5 favorite movies:
- Pulp Fiction
- Fight Club
- Shawshank Redemption
- Princess Bride
- Matrix (inspite of Keanu) bullet time is still pretty darn cool
Next five:
- Patton
- Deadpool
- A Christmas Story
- Back to the Future (I’ll watch this anytime it’s on)
- Ghostbusters
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Yeah the first Matrix movie is a really good flick.
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My top 5 superhero movies:
- Batman (with Keaton)
- The Dark Knight
- Iron Man
- Captain America: The Winter Soldier
- Avengers
Deadpool would be #1 for me but was on my top movies list.
Top 5 Vampire movies:
- From Dusk till Dawn
- Interview with a Vampire
- Nosferatu
- Daybreakers
That’s all I’ve got. I was tricked into reading the first Twilight on a fligh. Worst written book I’ve ever spent more than 10 minutes with…so Twilight not so much. Glitter vampires, ‘nuff said.
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You don’t like the terrible Dracula movie from the 90s?
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Sharing that movie with anyone is a privilege. Glad you liked it. It inspired Roger Ebert to write a famous criticism of it in which he said the characters dueled by smoking at each other, or something vaguely like that!!
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@jaybate-1.0 That’s funny.
I have some others you recommended that I haven’t seen yet on my short list.
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Idk if I could come up a top 10, lol I’ll try.
- The Green Mile
- Good Will Hunting
- Shawshank Redemption
- Blue Chips
- Baseketball
- Uncle Buck
- Planes, Trains and Automobiles
- The Dark Knight
- Wyatt Earp
- Man on Fire
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kjayhawks said:
Idk if I could come up a top 10, lol I’ll try. 5. Baseketball
I’m dyyyyying.
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@BShark I know it wasn’t popular but I love it, I think it’s one of the funniest movies I’ve seen.
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@kjayhawks It’s one of those movies that critics are going to hate but yeah it’s funny and just a good time.
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Top 5 basketball movies (not including Blue Chips)
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Hoosiers
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He Got Game
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White Men Can’t Jump
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Coach Carter
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Love and Basketball
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@kjayhawks I love The Green Mile and Goodwill Hunting also! Fantastic movies; can’t believe I omitted them.
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The Hitman’s Body Guard is pretty darn funny if you haven’t seen it yet.
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@dylans It’s hard to come with just 10, I probably omitted several that aren’t on my mind. I haven’t seen that, maybe I’ll get a chance. Most of my movies these days are Disney with my little guy, I seldom get to sit and watch a movie. I’m lucky to watch the hawk games lol.
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10 is basically impossible. There are more old Japanese films I’ve watched THIS YEAR that I love than that. Lol.
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@kjayhawks I’ve seen enough of Curious George this week for a lifetime.
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@BShark Yeah, I’ve got 1474 movies on VUDU. I’m not claiming they’re all good though. Like @kjayhawks kids and work have been very intrusive on the ol movie time.
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Like paintings, movies need a person to be at the right time of one’s life to receive their emotional truths, not just kinetic impacts.
I watched Sam Fuller’s THE BIG RED ONE when it came out in my late 20s/early 30s and disliked it and Mark Hamill.
But when I watched at 60, I decided it was one of the best war movies ever made. Every scene drips with the emotional truth of a man looking back on the major formative drama of his life.
Until I knew the feeling of looking back to youth and trying to make sense of what I had experienced, I could not get the full impact of the truth Fuller had wrung from himself and expressed on strips of film.
He knew he was the end of that wwii generation, and of those movies to have been made by those that really knew what it felt like, and of the medium of analog celluloid cinema. He knew TV was just the start of a new era.
The Big Red One is a good war movie, but it is a monument to the end of the analog age. It is like a modern Beowulf marking the end of one age, and the start of another unknown age he knew he, Fuller, would not be a part of.
It was one of those rarities that happens.
But as a war movie, only, I had seen others I found better when I was 30. At 30, war movies greatness were about new levels of reality in kinetic action and understanding my father’s war experience; that was what I could make mine then. And THE BIG RED ONE did not satisfy me on those levels.
But at 60, it hit me between the eyes, as a man trying to make sense of what I had lived through; this I could make mine, and on that level the movie came for me to have greatness.
I put this out there not to help you see in the Big Red One what I see, but rather to encourage you to give yourself and all supposedly great films you find not so great, a second chance later, sometimes 30 years later. It only takes an hour, or two, and once in a while you are moved to your core, not because you missed it the first time, but because you are now aware of what it explores.
My idea of a great death would be to appreciate one last great movie for the first time, because I’m on the cusp of dying and can finally know what the movie explored. Maybe THE SHOOTIST by John Wayne will work that way for me some day.
Rock Chalk!
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@jaybate-1.0 I will have to re-watch Big Red 1 again, as you say a different point in life.
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@kjayhawks What about the Fish that Saved Pittsburg and Fast Break???
“Trade Me!!!”
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If you want a decent college basketball movie, try One on One with Robie Benson and Annette O’Toole.
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Probably this is influenced by my Chicago roots, but I think the best basketball movie of all time is Hoop Dreams.
Favorite baseball movie Pride of the Yankees
Favorite War movie To End All Wars (Dunkirk honorable mention)
Favorite Comedy The Blues Brothers (Chicago connection) (Bernie-Honorable Mention)
Favorite quirky movie Napoleon Dynamite
Favorite Western “Shane”
Favorite musical Singin in the rain
Favorite stupid movie What about Bob
Favorite Football movie When the Game Stands Tall
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Blues Brothers is a great film. The sequel not so much lol.
