Talk About Movies: Part 4
Somehow threads merged, so here's part 4 of our ongoing movie discussion.
it was actually hard finding negative reviews based on the merits of the quality of the film because most negative reviews were from the irish calling it evil perpetuation of dumbass stereotypes of the irish
cv, according to this movie, if your friend chops all his fingers off for the lols you won't be concerned but instead just have a good laugh with him about it in the pub later that night - because you're just a bunch of simple dumb irish who just want a pint ldo
Saw an oldie 70's flick called Eureka last night I had never even heard of. Total bomb at the box office but apparently became a cult classic later on. A young Gene Hackman, Theresa Russell, Rutger Hauer.
A hard ass miner strikes gold in Alaska, based on a true story, then kind of goes off the deep end as the bad guys plot against him on a private island he purchased in the tropics. Based on a real unsolved murder of Sir Harry Oakes, who made one of the biggest gold strikes in history. All the earmarks of a mob killing as he was at odds with the Lansky crew for not cooperating with their casino plans on his islands. Joe Pesci in a very early mob role.
A grisly miner's ice pick and torch murder, apparently true to life, and some nudity and sex scenes landed the movie with off and on R and X ratings, accounting for the total bombing at the box office.
Good movie, good theme, good title. A little bit like a Howard Hughes character.
Watched The Lady in the Lake (1946). It is a quasi Christmas movie in that it takes place during Christmas. But in reality its a Chandler/Marlowe crime noir. Stars (and directed by) Robert Montgomery but its shot uniquely. During the bulk of the movie Marlowe is the camera meaning all the actors interact with the camera and we see everthing through his point of view.
If you like noirs and Chandler dialog its okay. If not its an easy pass.
it was actually hard finding negative reviews based on the merits of the quality of the film because most negative reviews were from the irish calling it evil perpetuation of dumbass stereotypes of the irishcv, according to this movie, if your friend chops all his fingers off for the lols you won't be concerned but instead just have a good laugh with him about it in the pub lat
When I first saw the trailer I felt it looked pretty stereotypical and the "diddly idle" part of your linked review kinda confirmed my suspicion. (Dunno if you're aware but Diddly idle or diddly idle-dee is Irish slang for stereotypically Irish, it's a play on the sound of traditional Irish music).
I always found the McDonagh Brothers overrated tbh. I personally found In Bruges, Seven Psychopaths and The Guard merely okay but nothing special. I'm also not a fan of Barry Keoghan although I'm happy for the guy as like me he's originally from a really crappy neighbourhood in Dublin and he also had a troubled childhood, so I found his rags to riches journey heartening. That said the only thing I liked him in was in an Irish tv crime drama called Love/Hate, where he did a good portrayal of a low key urban psychopath and I've noticed he deliberately softens his hardass ghetto Dublin accent in interviews lol
Bullet in the Head is great too.
That's the order I would rank them in, btw. And some of the Better Tomorrow sequels I'd rank higher than the original.
I was thinking of running a Hong Kong bracket for Christmas, but I'm not sure how to make it work, and I'm not sure how many crazies are left on the forum to vote.
It sure is. There's a transition cut in it (I'm not sure of the proper name for this kind of cut, but a fade from one image to another) that's one of the most moving cuts I can recall.
I’m going to go to The Whole Bloody Affair at noon today rather than try to watch my large fantasy golf final round at a bar on NFL Sunday (I don't own a TV).
I liked Don't Look Now oldie last night. Donald Sutherland and a babe who I mistook for Jill Ireland (but it isn't). Gonna have to watch it again as I had a terrible free stream just butchering the flow.
finally found a netflix account and watched train dreams
pretty slow - good film but not entertaining imo
some of it didn't make much sense, especially in regards to
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never finding the corpses of his family - that's not how that works in fires - especially since the blaze was not so extreme that he wasn't able to get to the cabin himself
also it really toned down everything, with all the violence against the chinese, i wondered if they included that for the film and it wasn't in the novella - something you regularly see (like in news of the world) and found it was rather the opposite, that the film was a very sanitized version of the book, leaving out a lot of the edgier and seedier parts of frontier itinerant life and even swaps the protagonist from the person who committed an atrocity to someone who attempted to prevent it in the film
overall a decent film but nothing special
City On Fire (1987) Directed by Ringo Lam.
You haven’t visited your grandmother!
Revolver on police cruiser violence!
Inspector Chow brought in a kid today to replace me!
CYF holds and smokes cigarettes differently than Bogie: But he gets to dance more!
You set the date and now you want to change it!
Skulls in graveyards; Bowling lockers; Bowling lockers II.
They’re having a party!: Christmas music!
You won’t be afraid when you’re doing it. Get some sleep!: I’m going to find my wife in Hawaii!
There are a lot of police cars headed this way!
- Maybe too intense to watch alone! Sharks feeding on sharks: Blood in the water!
- The best down-escalator scene in the movies. CYF gets to do a lot of physical stuff he doesn’t normally get to do!
- Real hot chicks -- not girls next door -- not eye candy -- real women in real relationships: an oft underexamined pillar of filmmaking.
- I don’t see the point in ranking stuff, but this is one of the best of the Hong Kong Noirs. Absolutely superb! Check it out!
The best part:
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Bloody Affair quite good, flows much much better. Nothing jaw dropping added really imo, but certainly a must see for serious movie buffs.
Edit: not jawdropping but an important continuity scene is added near the end.
FWIW the Heckle & Jeckle cartoon is their debut from 1946.
I liked Don't Look Now oldie last night. Donald Sutherland and a babe who I mistook for Jill Ireland (but it isn't). Gonna have to watch it again as I had a terrible free stream just butchering the flow.
Julie Christie, here at 25 in Doctor Zhivago.
Jill Ireland at 25 in So Evil So Young
The trailer for Marty Supreme looked fun with gambooling & implied Gwynnie cougarness.
I’ll be disappointed though if the first line isn’t “here’s the thing”.
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Rounders Gump!?
The Tin Drum (1979) A creepy ass kid decides to stop physically growing in 1924, constantly bangs his tin drum and shatters a lot of glass with his high pitched wailing, while observing the rise of Nazi Germany in this overlong and just plain weird arthouse flick, that ultimately didn't really do anything for me. And those Nazis were real jerks.
I think this is my favourite Germ
Christiane F!
Firm handshake to Ryan Coogler and PTA for including Native Americans in badass roles in their films this year. I'm Native Canadian, so I'm always eager for representation.
Being from Ireland, I particularly liked how the Native Americans in Sinners were Choctaw, who helped the Irish during the potato famine, which led to a lasting friendship between us. I reckon Coogler knew
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First overall pick too!
You're a cyborg if this didn't at least mist up your eyes. Banshees is incredible from top to bottom. Razor sharp writing, deeply rooted characters and some of the most beautiful landscapes I've seen in recent years. The cast is aces.
I loved it. And I got to see the house that was built for the set on Inishmore last summer.
Besides, how can anyone not like the donkey in the house?
Well, there goes that dream!
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For some reason I had never seen Children of Men until the other night.
Prescient.
Is Emanuel Lubezki the greatest cinematographer around?
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For some reason I had never seen Children of Men until the other night.
Prescient.
Is Emanuel Lubezki the greatest cinematographer around?
Interesting movie. I quite like this one, but haven't watched it in many years.
I rewatched Children of Men recently and prescient is a great way to describe it. Unfortunately feel the film is less enjoyable now than when I first saw it.
In 2006, it was a fascinating dystopian story. In 2025, it’s like turning on the evening news. Incredible filmmaking, nonetheless.
