Author Topic: Movies you've seen lately (Read 591765 times)

panzer · « **Reply #850 on:** January 04, 2019, 02:53 PM »

Mystic river
Prisoners
Gone baby gone

panzer · « **Reply #851 on:** January 12, 2019, 05:20 AM »

Don't Breathe

galactus · « **Reply #852 on:** January 15, 2019, 01:28 AM »

Godzilla: Planet of the Monsters - very cool Godzilla anime hosted on Netflix.

Stoic Joker · « **Reply #853 on:** January 15, 2019, 06:39 AM »

Christmas Chronicles was unexpected and a real treat!
-wraith808 (December 27, 2018, 09:21 PM)

I caught that one, and started watching with more than just a bit of trepidation. But Kurt Russel did a fantastic Santa Claus!

It's a new favorite for me.

mwb1100 · « **Reply #854 on:** January 15, 2019, 10:30 AM »

I agree with the Christmas Chronicles posts - pleasantly surprised.

panzer · « **Reply #855 on:** January 16, 2019, 05:08 AM »

Leave no trace
Isle of dogs

panzer · « **Reply #856 on:** January 28, 2019, 07:44 AM »

The Big Heat

Cadfael (TV series)

The Triplets of Belleville

The Croods

Spirited Away

Attack on Precinct 13 (1976)

Bomb City

Calibre

Song of the Sea

The Survivalist

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Kiss Me Deadly

I'm Alan Partridge (TV series)

Chronicle

Wreck -It Ralph

IainB · « **Reply #857 on:** February 04, 2019, 11:33 AM »

I've been watching a lot of movies lately, but I had to share the news about this doco that I saw on a friend's system yesterday: Hoaxed (2019) (click on the link to see the list of people interviewed).
I have never seen a film quite like this before, nor one as well-constructed and powerfully done as this movie. The only movie I can think of that comes close is the superb documentary The Corporation (2003) (download it here), which was a hit in the film festivals in 2003 and was (for me) a real eye-opener.
I rate them both as 5 out of 5 stars, where 5 is "excellent and I would like to watch it again to see what I missed the 1st time around." They both break all kinds of thought/preconception barriers.

As for Hoaxed, some people have suggested that it may even reprogram your brain and cause you to weep (though it's very rational and neither makes nor suggests any emotional appeals to the viewer) - especially after watching the final 11 minutes or so, which includes the philosopher Stefan Molyneux's enactment of Plato's Allegory of the Cave. (One of my 17 y/o daughter's philosophy class favourites.) The first parts of the movie build towards this rather climactic finish - a sort of gestalt dénouement or epiphany.

The movie is a prime example of good investigative journalism - a documentary. It is balanced and fair, and illustrates and perfectly encapsulates and then reframes what I was trying to articulate with the satirical cartoon (which I built all by myself!) The Evolution of the Three Wise Monkeys.

Hoaxed makes it fairly plain:

There is no left or right - there is only freedom and tyranny, truth and lies.
The media have been caught out many times producing fake news, but have never owned up to it.
Their methods include attacking anyone uttering speech contrary to their determined political agenda and narrative control.
It has been said that "fake news is the enemy of the people", and it would seem to be true.
Journalists and fake news media have apparently betrayed the American people by breaking the journalistic trust and letting political agendas distort the facts.
Although a lot of it might threaten existing paradigms (and thus a bit of a hard pill to swallow for some), knowing the truth in the end will liberate your mind.

(The same/similar points could be made about The Corporation, but in a different context, of course.)
Hoaxed is both entertaining and highly Informative, but we might never have known that except by WOM (Word-of-Mouth), because mainstream news will (ironically) probably label this movie as "propaganda", and try to bury it.
Watch this movie!
(And if you haven't already watched The Corporation (2003), then watch that too!)

panzer · « **Reply #858 on:** February 04, 2019, 03:29 PM »

A Few Good Men

The Shining

Blue Ruin

IainB · « **Reply #859 on:** February 06, 2019, 04:00 PM »

@panzer:

A Few Good Men

The Shining

Blue Ruin
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-panzer (February 04, 2019, 03:29 PM)

If you keep doing detailed reviews like this, people may start to think you've got too much time on your hands...

panzer · « **Reply #860 on:** February 06, 2019, 04:09 PM »

Sorry, other projects have priority ...

panzer · « **Reply #861 on:** February 20, 2019, 03:24 PM »

Kingdom (TV series)
The Wandering Earth

IainB · « **Reply #862 on:** February 22, 2019, 05:38 PM »

WARNING: Not for the faint-hearted. Possibly the most gruesome stomach-churning non-fiction movie you are ever likely to see:

Gosnell - The Trial of America's Biggest Serial Killer (2018) (Abortionist murderer docu-drama) IMDB 7/10 Stars (my personal rating= 5/5 Stars).
Not only is this a movie about a murderer, it is also a de facto social commentary and indictment of a coldly negligent society and its health and social welfare services that permitted Gosnell to practice unchecked as a horrifically callous abortionist for 30 years and for him being deliberately left unaudited for the decade prior to his arrest/conviction. The reason for this laxness seems to have been fear of some perverted kind of political correctness.

I would like to apologise here for pointing to it in 2013 as a black humour joke about what appeared to be the MSM's deliberate self-censorship by not turning up to report on the trial:

A picture worth a thousand words?
Photo: Empty 'Reserved Media Seating' at Abortion Doc Gosnell's Murder Trial
...The trial that wasn't?
-IainB (April 13, 2013, 07:07 AM)

The media's avoidance behaviour and the solitary blogger who was reporting on the trial and who took the photograph of the empty reserved seats are featured in the movie. The blogger was effectively the only journalist there, at first, but the photo she took, when circulated on the Internet, ensured that the MSM could ignore the trial no longer.
If I had known more about the seriousness of the crimes/trial, I would not have made a flippant joke about it like that.

In the movie credits there's a link to the image of "Baby Boy A" - a photo taken by an assistant/nurse of a live baby that had been murdered by Gosnell and which was estimated by a neonatologist to be at least 32 weeks, if not more, in gestational age. This was apparently a very difficult piece of evidence for the jurors to have to examine, but it proved to be crucially important in securing a conviction.

Contro · « **Reply #863 on:** February 25, 2019, 09:44 AM »

Mi querida señorita by Jaime de Armiñán

My Dearest Senorita

Is an old movie. With a good sensibility.

holt · « **Reply #864 on:** March 22, 2019, 10:06 AM »

'girl faints in lunchroom Desktop'

Her friends help and are very sensitive, alert, and solicitous of her sudden unexpected condition, and even catch her before she can fall out of her chair and hurt herself. They obviously know her, and there is no suggestion of anorexia or drug abuse. I suspect she is at that age where young teens grow taller so fast that it is known as the 'growth spurt' and they can be subject to this. I wouldn't mind finding a copy w/o 'grindhousehorror' superimposed.
edit: I respect this girl's honor, and everyone's privacy, and I or the forum Mod will remove this video if anyone objects at any time for any reason, Thank you.

holt · « **Reply #865 on:** April 02, 2019, 03:08 PM »

Cloak & Dagger (1984 film)
An adorable film about a lonely and troubled boy who lives in an imaginary world in which his own real father -Dabney Coleman- plays a secret agent visible only to the boy.

tomos · « **Reply #866 on:** April 03, 2019, 01:00 PM »

Binge watched these two lately:
Outlander 2013
Vikings 2014 (imdb links)

both start impressively, interesting to be confronted with such different worlds.
The main character in Vikings is intriguing: Ragnar Lothbrok (Travis Fimmel), although it took me a good while to get used to (and not annoyed by) the eternal half-smile he has on his lips.
Floki (Gustaf Skarsgård) is a great character, the unpredictable jester.
It lost steam, I can remember when exactly, I gave up on it sometime in the third season.

Outlander got very tiresome in season two (meaningless intrigue looking for meaning).
Third season going well, currently at episode 6 of 13.

Both fairly quickly started using flawed plot lines -- things that were unbelievable to me, or simply didn't make sense. I dunno, I guess they get too bogged down in the huge act of making something like this and forget about the details.

holt · « **Reply #867 on:** May 13, 2019, 12:27 PM »

Is Paris Burning? (1966) Book and movie. Hitler ordered Paris to be burned, and the top German general had an inner battle with his own conscience whether to follow orders or not. Some rare actual war footage skillfully blended into this historic extra-long movie.

holt · « **Reply #868 on:** May 18, 2019, 07:19 PM »

Bastille Day (2016)

holt · « **Reply #869 on:** May 30, 2019, 11:21 PM »

Unbroken (2014)
Opens with very realistic B-24 WWII bombing run, and fairly decent treatment, nicely lacking in the usual Hollywood war flick absurdities.
Directed by Angelina Jolie.

Marnie (1964) with a cameo appearance at the beginning by Alfred Hitchcock, who Produced it.
An awesome psychological thriller starring Tippi Hedren and Sean Connery.

Ghost Recon Alpha - Official HD Film
Intense 23:57 of live action game play or game intro (like continuous cutscenes w/o actual hands-on game play).

MilesAhead · « **Reply #870 on:** September 26, 2019, 02:59 PM »

Uncanny is a cute Indie flick you can watch free on the IMDB site. For those who can enjoy dialog based stories with virtually no special effects.

holt · « **Reply #871 on:** November 22, 2019, 01:30 AM »

Sea Hunt (YouTube Series Index) with Lloyd Bridges, whose real life wife Dorothy and young son Jeff appear in this episode.

mouser · « **Reply #872 on:** November 23, 2019, 02:13 PM »

It's a beautiful day in the neighborhood:
https://www.rottento..._in_the_neighborhood

All I can say is be prepared to make some phone calls afterwards to patch things up with estranged friends and family members.

IainB · « **Reply #873 on:** November 28, 2019, 05:30 PM »

@mouser: is that a movie? ~~I can't seem to find it on IMDB.~~
EDIT: Found it A BEAUTIFUL DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD
Sorry, must have mistyped the search in FARR the first time.

mouser · « **Reply #874 on:** November 28, 2019, 11:12 PM »

The Irishman (netflix):

3.5 hours long and worth every minute.