Whatcha watching?

[jerry]

I'm the opposite of you in this case. I watched Rumble Fish because of The Outsiders, but found The Outsiders more relatable. I never watched Rumble Fish again, but I'll watch The Outsiders anytime I get a chance.

-Mike

I dug both of those movies and One From The Heart with Teri Garr that also came out around the same time. Its been a long time and I need to re-watch all of them. One of the things I dig about this thread is a reminder of a lot of great movies I've forgotten about.
Its handy when I'm looking for something to watch and don't want to scroll the streaming channels for an hour to find something worthy to watch.

 

[MJ5150]

That's the same reason I visit this thread too @jerry.

-Mike

 

[Elk]

I always felt Coppola made better B-movies, than A-movies

Is Apocalypse Now an A or B? When it finished I didn't even leave the theatre. Just hopped in line to see it again.

 

[Elk]

I encourage anyone who hasn't seen the Coen Brothers debut, Blood Simple, to make it top of their watch list. In hindsight, it is obvious why something as sacrosanct as the work of Cormac McCarthy was entrusted to the Coens for a film adaption (No Country for Old Men).

 

[Wood and Wire]

Is Apocalypse Now an A or B? When it finished I didn't even leave the theatre. Just hopped in line to see it again.

Ha! I guess Hearts Of Darkness would be the B-Movie for that one.


What I meant was, there was a period where he was basically making two movies at the same time - or a low budget movie with the scraps of the budget from A-movie.

The A- movies were great, but I thought the B's were better, and more re -watchable (in part due to being shorter, less intense, and easier to just stick on without having to mentally brace yourself for the effort).

 

[Wood and Wire]

I encourage anyone who hasn't seen the Coen Brothers debut, Blood Simple, to make it top of their watch list. In hindsight, it is obvious why something as sacrosanct as the work of Cormac McCarthy was entrusted to the Coens for a film adaption (No Country for Old Men).

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Apparently they're revisiting that territory, for their new horror movie, which is their first picture together since they parted company to go solo.

Still haven't managed to see Joel's Macbeth adaptation.

I did see Ethan's Drive-Away Dolls, and kind of wish I hadn't (ok it wasn't that bad, but it was kind of a sub-par mess - and I say that as someone who loves Crimewave).

They get a free pass for life, as far as I'm concerned, for gifting Raising Arizona to the world.

 

[Elk]

and kind of wish I hadn't

LOL. Intolerable Cruelty was also.... interesting.

They get a free pass for life

As long as they don't "do a Ridley Scott" they're sweet. I would give him a pass for life for Blade Runner but his last 3 movies have been total dog

 

[jerry]

LOL. Intolerable Cruelty was also.... interesting.


As long as they don't "do a Ridley Scott" they're sweet. I would give him a pass for life for Blade Runner but his last 3 movies have been total dog

The Last Duel was a good concept of the three different points of view and even bringing in director/writer Nicole Holofcener to write for the woman, but yeah, a swing and a miss.

 

[WG Plum]

Lioness

 

[DWBass]

Becker

 

[Elk]

The Last Duel

I forgot about this one. Sheesh. I think Ridley needs to give the historical fiction stuff a swerve. Blade Runner was magic. Alien is a classic. Then the wheels came off with 1492 me thinks.

 

[FilterFunk]

College football conference title games. Last week was traditional rivalry games.

 

[WG Plum]

Lioness is effing intense.

 

[Atonalmodal]

Lioness is effing intense.

 

[Wood and Wire]

Question :

I'm assuming this was country specific, but did anyone outside the U.K. who happened to see "The Holdovers" (which was set in 1970) notice that after the era appropriate Universal Pictures logo :

The films age restriction was an era appropriate British Board of Film Classification card (or Censors, as was) :

As I said, I'm assuming the USA version had an era appropriate MPAA card, France, Germany, Spain, Japan presumably all had there own version.


Anyway, believe it or not, The Holdovers is the first AA movie I've ever seen in my life, and it was a real (and entirely unexpected) nostalgic thrill to see that BBFC card before the movie.

As a kid, I was primarily interested in AA, and X rated movies - which no cinema in the land was going to allow a child access to ;

by contrast this could never have happened in the U.K. (in spite of the need to educate the children about the very real possibility of this exact scenario playing out, because of...science? Or something?...)



So, I only ever got to see U, and A rated movies, and through gritted teeth sit through the trailers for movies I desperately wanted to see, but couldn't.

I'd then send adults to go see Alien, Mad Max, Mad Max 2, The Thing, Blade Runner etc, and then re-tell me the movie, over, and over.

Even by the time the BBFC changed the rating system from U, A, AA, X, to U, PG, 15, 18 at some point in 1982, I was still far too young to be allowed access to a "Double-A film", so not only did I never see one at the time, I'd never even seen that BBFC card before.


Anyway, if you haven't seen The Holdovers, it's basically a cross between Dead Poets Society, and The Shining.

(I enjoyed it.)

 

[MJ5150]

Trading Places.
Oh my, Eddie Murphy is the best. I forgot how funny he is.

-Mike

 

[friskinator]

Girls Gone Wild: The Untold Story on Peacock. I didn't know much of the backstory, but Joe Francis was (and is) a true dirtbag.

 

[FilterFunk]

Trading Places.
Oh my, Eddie Murphy is the best. I forgot how funny he is.

-Mike

Eddie Murphy in his prime? He really was all that.

 

[roccobass]

 

[Geogio]

I watched the 2014 Sci fi release of Lucy, it was okay. The ending was okay, kind of reminded me of a Kubrick 2001 Space Odyssey as Lucy went back in time in her now expanded 100% utilize cerebral cortex. I wouldn't call it great film but it was okay I guess.