Topic: The Movie Thread

@GirlVersusGame My Lovely Horse . Yeah I know it . I so need to rewatch that show. The line “We’ve got to loose that sax solo” and “We want to stay away from the whole area of being in love with the horse” . I can literally play them in my head .

It’s a bit tricky since one of the creators is basically “not great”. Another case of love the art, not the artist (same with The IT Crowd, I was in IT for 35 years, and I lived in one of those nerd dungeons for about 7 of them , Silicon Valley too, I was never a web developer, more BI/MI/Database Development but that is one of the best shows I’ve ever seen about the growth of IT companies).

And yeah, Hail Mary Pass was a sweet film, not what I expected at all. Basically Interstellar with a smile

@Metonymy Yeah, Tony was my favourite of the two; I've found something to like in most of his movies and the one-two punch of The Last Boy Scout and True Romance (my favourite Tarantino film by a huge margin) solidified him in my mind as one to follow. Following those two up with Crimson Tide didn't hurt, either 😉

@JohnnyShoulder Yeah, those aerial sequences are what my mind goes back to when I listen to the soundtrack. The opening track - "Hig's First Flight" - encapsulates the mood of the film so perfectly, in my opinion. Great stuff.

@GirlVersusGame I remember Dogtanian (and Vicky The Viking & Robo Story) from when I was a kid You got some classic TV show there. I liked ATHF too. My icon is from The Venture Brothers which is also worth a watch (about a has been super-scientist and his two dorky sons), and if you like metal music, Metalocalypse is worth a watch. The first four seasons are great, I wasn't a huge fan of the two movies though

Amazon added the first four Rambo movies on Prime Video, so I've watched them now for the first time.

The first one was decent enough, but I wasn't expecting it to take place in the U.S. as I was picturing Rambo as a commando soldier in Vietnam. Fortunately, the second one delivered on that expectation (somewhat) and that movie was fantastic. The third one taking place in Afghanistan was also rather interesting.

The fourth one didn't really feel like a Rambo movie at first as there was just too much talking and not enough action as you'd expect from this franchise. Fortunately, the last half hour had the best scenes of any of the first four movies. Absolutely brutal stuff with very impressive effects. Watching a turret shoot large holes in bodies and tear limbs off, the visuals were just something else. This part pretty much saved the movie for me. Also love Sly's quote from this movie: "Live for nothing or die for something". Good stuff.

@FuriousMachine Yeah, that’s quite the run, isn’t it? True Romance is probably his best film, but my personal favourite is (surprisingly) his last, Unstoppable, with Man in Fire close behind. They just do everything I think a Tony Scott movie should in such a refined way 😄

@Neuromancer I didn't even knew there was a 5th movie until last week, but I can imagine it not being good. I'll heed your words, thanks for saving me some time.

@Neuromancer I loved that episode too, and I love that I heard Dermot Morgan's voice while reading it too. Also a fifth Rambo was news to me too, I'd seen Four and liked it, mainly because of the intensity he brought to the Director's chair. I wasn't expecting him to turn people into paste either. My favorites are a mix of the first one of Three, mainly for Colonel Zaysen. It had that Spies Like Us energy, a little of that Living Daylights energy too, I don't dislike America, I just enjoy a little of that old rivalry in movies. They made it more fun than serious, I'm living it now and can still appreciate the older flair, the humor works. Also I had and still have the biggest crush on Dan Aykroyd, you should hear the man speak on his real passions, he's so intelligent, his interview on Ufology was lightening in a bottle.

It's a documentary so it's on-topic.

• May 12, 1929, Sydenham, Ontario

Four cars, all black, all polished for the trip from town, roll down the long lane to the farmhouse, the crunch of gravel beneath the tires momentarily silencing the birds. Dust settles on the gleaming finishes of the automobiles and they pull up beside the farmhouse, parking randomly on the grass: a Whippet, a Durant, a Willys-Knight, and a Dodge. The occupants alight. Four men in three-piece suits with well-shined shoes form a little knot. The women, four of them as well, all in black with stylish hats, form a companion group.

The faces are familiar. I have seen them all before. At church or in town, these people always have something friendly to say to me. But from here, in my hiding place among the newly budding lilac bushes, they appear unapproachable. Their minds are on something else.

I slip unobserved across the lawn to the back of the house and toward the outside cellar entrance. The cellar stairs are damp, and as I pull open one side of the heavy horizontal doors, I smell the rich, loamy scent of ripened apples. The rest of the family is puzzled by my favored mode of entry, but I am quite content entering the house this way. It gives me access to experiences I might otherwise miss. At age 7, I am as curious as they come.

I cross the cellar, which is dimly lit by the slanting sunlight entering through the outside door. I climb up the inside cellar stairs and kneel patiently on the top step, waiting. The cellar door is open a crack. From here I can see the kitchen in one direction and, in the other, the fireplace and the table in the parlor. I can hear the voice emanating from the Philco radio. It is crisp and clear as it delivers the news: A man named de Valera has just been sentenced to 1 month in prison in Northern Ireland, and a singer named Josephine Baker has been banned from the stage for something the newscaster calls “indecent behavior.” He doesn’t elaborate.

“Please hold hands around the table. Try to think positive thoughts. Pray silently, if you wish.”

The young man stubs out his Turret cigarette. He leans back, closes his eyes, and slips into a trance. In the deafening, pin-drop silence, it is as if some curtain is about to rise into some invisible arch in the ceiling. But the show is an unusual one. These guests have not traveled from town to see a play or hear a concert. This is a meeting of Dr. Aykroyd’s Circle. A séance is about to begin, and the people present are here to engage in an unusual form of communication.

• They have come from town to talk to the dead.

watching the rest of Highlander 2 the Renegade Cut on Tubi. that version of the movie only makes the movie worse than it was originally lol.

@Metonymy Man on Fire is one of my favourites as well. I'm not sure I ever saw Unstoppable, but will rectify that ASAP now

@FuriousMachine Hi by the way, I'm due some modern movies soon. I'm not being purposefully distant either, I've just been watching a lot of strange old movies and knock-offs, the Italian Aliens was a shot for shot word for word recreation, some of the Maxploitations were very good, some of the Sword and Socery's too, but all of these new ones like Project Hailmary? it will be a Hail Mary if I finally get around to them, I feel like the list has already gotten so big. Would that be the best film of the year do you think? Weapons and the dancing Vampyre one (I should remember the name, I'm tired) those were two of my favorites from last-year. Also Man on Fire is one of my favorite movies too, I've read the book too, the topic is very close to home, the emotions in one viewing are astronomical but I think it captured humanity in a really unique way. Lisa Gerrard on the score was the cherry on the top.

@Metonymy Snap, Man of Fire is one of my faves too. Those kind of films are a dime a dozen these days it seems and I am a bit fed up all the John Wick clones that are out there.

@GirlVersusGame Hello to you too
Project Hail Mary is definitely on track to be one of my favourites of the year, but considering the two you mentioned as your favourites from last year were horror movies (I assume the "dancing vampyre" was Abigail?) I would absolutely recommend checking out both Obsession and Hokum, which are my two favourite horror movies of the year (thus far). If I were to compile a top 5 list right now, those three would be on it.

EDIT: So I decided to do just that; compile my top 5 of the movies I've seen at the cinema so far this year:
1: I Swear
2: Project Hail Mary / Rental Family (tie)
4: Obsession
5: Hokum

@FuriousMachine I checked 'Sinners', it was classed as something different in so many different regions, Horror, a Musical, etc. Hokum I've heard mentioned from multiple people. Obsession I think so too, if I'm right and it's about a man who uses witchcraft to win someone over, if so it's definitely on my list. Abigail I don't know, when it has one innocent sound singular name it usually means it's actually got some good scares. It's strange and a little worrying how quickly a person can go to film obsessed to one day watching all of those new releases roll on by, I don't think a person can mature out of film or out of music so it's not that. I think it hearkens back to what I said about seeing the behind the curtain methods change so drastically. I should make an effort though, perhaps I'll aim for Project Hailmary some day soon. And your top Five? you know your stuff so that definitely makes me more likely to try. Just like Ravix was right about Drive, I'll see what happens, perhaps while I play a survivor-like or Mewgenics, something casual.

@GirlVersusGame Hope you'll enjoy them, if you get around to watching them. Our tastes in movies have overlapped on several occasions, so might be that you'll like them

@FuriousMachine @JohnnyShoulder Some very good taste, love to see it 😄

[edited to avoid celebrating the work of a sub-human monster]

@Neuromancer Oh. I didn't know that. Thanks, and I'm sorry for bringing it up.

@Werehog To be honest that's the case for most of Hollywood. I don't like dropping names but one Director I liked and thought was very friendly person was Bryan Singer, he Directed The Usual Suspects, do you know what it's like to feel a bad energy off someone? He has charges for some very bad things. His friend from the X-men movie commentary was on the registry when Singer put him on that DVD commentary, and gave him screen-time in X-men. Then there's Charlie Sheen who I met through Slash's tour (guns n roses guitarist) Sheen was a nightmare both nights, he was hanging off balconies completely gone on something. He had that energy too, then I heard what he did to Corey Haim. What I'm saying is Hollywood is full of skeletons, I loved the film industry until I got to America. I'll never say what I saw, none of it, just that even today I struggle to watch modern movies. It means something else in England, the studios here were and are still magic, some of the biggest names in Hollywood have charges pending or they will.

Don't let it get to you, it's impossible to love cinema and not have watched something that was tainted, it's one big open secret. Except I'll never speak a word of it. I'm never going back to America and when I played Grand Theft Auto Five I could hardly handle being in digital Los Angeles. You can't avoid it, it's an epidemic. And you know this saying it takes one to know one? I have finely tuned senses in that department now. I've been around it so much in my own life that I senses it off those same people. It comes with the territory because everyone there wants to be a star and they'll do anything to get there. One of the first things someone in the industry told me was that 'everyone in this industry is a prostitute', the next thing she told me is that when she was my age she'd never walk with her back to traffic. It's because girls were being lifted right off sidewalk, Los Angeles is to me Hell on Earth. It's soulless, it hurts people.

im going to be quite busy watching movies and tv shows on Tubi etc

watching Warlock 3 on Tubi tonight right now

along with the new horror movie Hokum fort DVD
the former ECW WCW wrestler Raven documentary on Tubi