There was an 80s sci-fi movie about a man who discovered he was actually a Terminator robot as he was hurt. Broke a leg and the leg turned out to be a robotic leg. The movie ended with him surviving a stroll in a gas chamber, going full robot. What movie was this?
Oh man, some awful looking movie trailer popped up on Netflix. Step Sisters or some other straight from the year 2000 garbage. It appears to be about a black student who has to help a white sorority win a charity step competition (dancing?) so she can get in to Harvard. It appears the have the expected "you flat bootied white girls can't dance!" stuff, and I'm going to take a wild guess and say that they defeat her old step team at the end and become friends through the power of dance.
@TexiKen are you going to watch this? I feel like you watch these things so we don't have to.
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Oh man, some awful looking movie trailer popped up on Netflix. Step Sisters or some other straight from the year 2000 garbage. It appears to be about a black student who has to help a white sorority win a charity step competition (dancing?) so she can get in to Harvard. It appears the have the expected "you flat bootied white girls can't dance!" stuff, and I'm going to take a wild guess and say that they defeat her old step team at the end and become friends through the power of dance.
@TexiKen are you going to watch this? I feel like you watch these things so we don't have to.
Something else from that which I thought was very funny. While Hauer does a bit of slight of hand to disguise flipping the the cigar the intent of the scene is that he puts the lit end into the guy’s mouth. (Complete with “putting out cigar sound effect). The guy just fucking smokes it anyway and Hauer is suitably confused
The hiss effect happens at least twice before Hauer gives him the cigar, so I'm not sure that's not just a background noise that happens to line up.
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There was an 80s sci-fi movie about a man who discovered he was actually a Terminator robot as he was hurt. Broke a leg and the leg turned out to be a robotic leg. The movie ended with him surviving a stroll in a gas chamber, going full robot. What movie was this?
One of the Cyborg movies maybe?
No, it was set in modern times. Modern being the 80s.
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It looks like the conversation has moved on, but to say one last thing about the HP movies, often my enjoyment of adaptation films is based mostly on how well they adhere to my expectations. And I know that you have to make sacrifices to condense the novel or TV or video game or whatever format to the silver screen, but there are still core elements that I expect. For HP, the books I think set up a great relationship between Harry, Ron, and Hermione were they’re somewhat dependent on one another. Specifically Hermione is super competent but scared to buck authority or act independently. In the movies she doesn’t have this flaw and imo it strains the relationship. Like, why does she hang around those other two losers? That’s what soured me on the series. I’m sure I had other qualms as well, but that’s what has stuck with me in the 13 years since I saw it.
Now if it wasn’t Harry Potter and instead some independent work I’d probably judge it differently. But as it was I was looking for the movies to provide the same experience in a different format. That might be an unreasonable prejudice to carry on my part, but those are my feelings on the matter.
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I actually just re watched all the HP movies. Except for the last 2. I just didn't care for those.
I'm an outlier because I liked them all. Not as much as the books but enough to watch them occasionally.
Watching them again with a 6 year old just getting into reading is a treat.
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Oh man, some awful looking movie trailer popped up on Netflix. Step Sisters or some other straight from the year 2000 garbage. It appears to be about a black student who has to help a white sorority win a charity step competition (dancing?) so she can get in to Harvard. It appears the have the expected "you flat bootied white girls can't dance!" stuff, and I'm going to take a wild guess and say that they defeat her old step team at the end and become friends through the power of dance.
@TexiKen are you going to watch this? I feel like you watch these things so we don't have to.
I saw that and laughed and laughed at how they must have found a script for like 5 bucks in garage sale fo someone who didn’t make it in Hollywood.
I would only watch it if they stomp, clap, stomp stomp clap the Birds of War entrance song
Biggest wtf so far: who the hell takes a 5-year old to a college drinking party?
They needed a designated driver.
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Darkest Hour was bloody fantastic. Honestly I kind of hadn't expected that. Even if someone else, even someone else rather less talented, had played Churchill, it still would have been really good; but with Gary Oldman in transcendent form, it's so awesome it's actually surprising.
It focuses on Churchill's first three weeks or so as Prime Minister, in May of 1940. Neville Chamberlain has lost the confidence of Parliament, as the Nazis steamroller their way across Western Europe, and opposition leader Clement Attlee proposes a grand coalition of the UK's political parties, the country uniting to counter the Nazi threat rapidly approaching. The only leader the opposition can get behind is Winston Churchill. In those weeks, France, Belgium and Holland all fall to Hitler's forces, Chamberlain and others still want to come to a diplomatic solution with the Third Reich, and the entirety of the British Army is cornered on the French coast, at a place called Dunkirk. You may have heard of it.
It's fortuitous that this movie should arrive a few months after Dunkirk, as it provides a completely different perspective on that event and especially the lead up to it, and I think having seen Nolan's film first enhances this one.
Oldman is absolutely the central focus, and he gives us many facets of Churchill; not just the famous bloody-mindedness or sometimes caustic nature but, at the behest of his wife Clemmy (the always terrific Kristin Scott Thomas), a warmth and a kindness that even seems to surprise him. There's even some very light touches of levity, just enough to show a little light, glimmers of hope in amongst the deadly grave proceedings. King George VI (a remarkable turn from Ben "Director Krennic" Mendelsohn) is initially reluctant and unconvinced by Churchill, but eventually comes around too; their scenes together are some of the film's best.
And when finally the most famous of speeches rolls around, you can't help but hold your breath.
Oldman will get the lion's share of the plaudits, and deserves that long-awaited Oscar - this is a performance that is magnificent even by his lofty standards - but the rest of the movie deserves to be up for a bunch of nods as well.
I feel like I need to see that just to get the trainwreck of John Lithgow as Churchill out of my mind.
I always briefly confuse John Lithgow for John Lovitz whenever I see their names, I dunno why... It was quite shocking to think of Lovitz playing Churchill. Lithgow I imagine isn't much better, but probably better than Lovitz.
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Tonight I think is a sad movie night. I've got 5cm per Second, Garden of Words, The Wind Rises, and then I'll take recommendations on Netflix or Amazon. For some reason I can't find my go to Grave of the Fireflies, which is probably for the best.
Tonight I think is a sad movie night. I've got 5cm per Second, Garden of Words, The Wind Rises, and then I'll take recommendations on Netflix or Amazon. For some reason I can't find my go to Grave of the Fireflies, which is probably for the best.
Wow, watching two Makoto Shinkai films back-to-back would be more than enough for most people...
If you haven't seen it, watch The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness on Netflix. Maybe before The Wind Rises? Maybe afterward?
Tonight I think is a sad movie night. I've got 5cm per Second, Garden of Words, The Wind Rises, and then I'll take recommendations on Netflix or Amazon. For some reason I can't find my go to Grave of the Fireflies, which is probably for the best.
I didn't realize 5cm/s was so short... it's only 63 min... or 18.9 km total. I think that's to its detriment, I didn't really feel connected enough with any of the characters to feel any sense of loss. While the pangs of unrequited love can be sharp, I think as we age we gradually realize that there are too many real tragedies in life to worry over what might have been. I think I'll skip straight to The Wind Rises and save Garden of Words for another night.
Fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck. The Wind Rises BluRay broke at 53:30. It freezes and won't play past it, even when I try the chapter select. This is awful, I'm not sad at all. Sad movie night has been ruined. I'm going to go laugh myself to sleep I guess.
Tonight I think is a sad movie night. I've got 5cm per Second, Garden of Words, The Wind Rises, and then I'll take recommendations on Netflix or Amazon. For some reason I can't find my go to Grave of the Fireflies, which is probably for the best.
You know what everyone should watch? Ichi the Killer. It's a rollicking good time by famed children's movie director Takashi Miike. He makes good wholesome movies fit for the whole family.
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Den of Thieves was actually a really good movie, filled with clichés but they address them head on and then switch up some other parts with decent deadpan humor. It never tries to think it's something more than a crime thriller, it's just told really well. Comparisons to Heat seem off, it gives off much more of a Dark Blue, Triple 9 and The Town vibe, even some Sicario-ness. If the barometer for comparisons is just touching on light scenes like a bank robbery and protagonist/antagonist face-offs, then yeah, but it pulls from a lot of places that would spoil the film were I to write them.
Some ex-marines and college jocks rob an armored truck just for the truck, killing the guards due to one of them being jittery. The LA Sheriff squad dealing with special cases look into it, consisting of Mike Banning whose personal life is falling apart. He puts the heat on Ice Cube Jr. who is working with the robbers in order to get information about what they have planned, which is to rob the LA Federal Reserve and take 30 milly of money that is to be destroyed. Ptew ptews, FBI trying to harass the Sheriffs, the Sheriffs harassing the LAPD, tats and beards everywhere.
The setup for the robbery is done well and the actual robbery is very well done, relying on tension and not guns outside of three set pieces. That's sort of the quiet theme here, no one is really looking to make it go-time, but when it does, it goes indeed. Butler's solid as the lead cop, letting the hints of corruption exist without actually showing it because it's more apparent he's letting the carte blanche of his unit destroy everything not related to the case. The real standouts are Pablo Schrieber and O'Shea Jackson; the former showing that like in 13 Hours he's really good at being believable ex-soldier supporting actor material who knows when his chain is being yanked by Butler, and the latter being the rare instance where his built-in Hollywood Nepotism (TM) doesn't seem to be that much in play, he does have talent and a aura of believability of being this guy getting in over his head without thinking he has to be the center of attention in every scene like his dad does. The film's biggest fault is being 2 hours when it could have been 15 minutes less simply by removing some outside scenes showing the personal lives of Butler, Schreiber, and Curtis James Jackson III; in the grand scheme any characterization it provides doesn't build on anything with real payoff.
In all, if you like crime/thriller movies this is a good one worth a look, especially for an on-demand rental. This, Paddington 2, and Polka King have made January 2018 3/3 so pound sand May, thinking you're all that with "blockbusters," moer like crockbusters.
It's not like the original is perfect. There are a bunch of jokes that don't land, it's slow to get going, Mr Body's ADR work is somewhat shoddy and obvious, etc. But still.
I can imagine it now. Tina Fey is Mrs White and does a 'funny' accent, Will Ferrell is Professor Plum and improvises half his lines, there's a James Franco cameo, etc.
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One of the Cyborg movies maybe?
@TexiKen are you going to watch this? I feel like you watch these things so we don't have to.
I think there's a whole series of those movies.
The hiss effect happens at least twice before Hauer gives him the cigar, so I'm not sure that's not just a background noise that happens to line up.
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No, it was set in modern times. Modern being the 80s.
The disc is worth tracking down, Warwick Davis provides a great commentary track on it.
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Now if it wasn’t Harry Potter and instead some independent work I’d probably judge it differently. But as it was I was looking for the movies to provide the same experience in a different format. That might be an unreasonable prejudice to carry on my part, but those are my feelings on the matter.
Watching them again with a 6 year old just getting into reading is a treat.
I saw that and laughed and laughed at how they must have found a script for like 5 bucks in garage sale fo someone who didn’t make it in Hollywood.
I would only watch it if they stomp, clap, stomp stomp clap the Birds of War entrance song
Biggest wtf so far: who the hell takes a 5-year old to a college drinking party?
They needed a designated driver.
Fortunately it was the only plot hole in the movie. Just a tour de force from start till end. What an amazing piece of cinema
It focuses on Churchill's first three weeks or so as Prime Minister, in May of 1940. Neville Chamberlain has lost the confidence of Parliament, as the Nazis steamroller their way across Western Europe, and opposition leader Clement Attlee proposes a grand coalition of the UK's political parties, the country uniting to counter the Nazi threat rapidly approaching. The only leader the opposition can get behind is Winston Churchill. In those weeks, France, Belgium and Holland all fall to Hitler's forces, Chamberlain and others still want to come to a diplomatic solution with the Third Reich, and the entirety of the British Army is cornered on the French coast, at a place called Dunkirk. You may have heard of it.
It's fortuitous that this movie should arrive a few months after Dunkirk, as it provides a completely different perspective on that event and especially the lead up to it, and I think having seen Nolan's film first enhances this one.
Oldman is absolutely the central focus, and he gives us many facets of Churchill; not just the famous bloody-mindedness or sometimes caustic nature but, at the behest of his wife Clemmy (the always terrific Kristin Scott Thomas), a warmth and a kindness that even seems to surprise him. There's even some very light touches of levity, just enough to show a little light, glimmers of hope in amongst the deadly grave proceedings. King George VI (a remarkable turn from Ben "Director Krennic" Mendelsohn) is initially reluctant and unconvinced by Churchill, but eventually comes around too; their scenes together are some of the film's best.
And when finally the most famous of speeches rolls around, you can't help but hold your breath.
Oldman will get the lion's share of the plaudits, and deserves that long-awaited Oscar - this is a performance that is magnificent even by his lofty standards - but the rest of the movie deserves to be up for a bunch of nods as well.
It really is a fantastic film.
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I always briefly confuse John Lithgow for John Lovitz whenever I see their names, I dunno why... It was quite shocking to think of Lovitz playing Churchill. Lithgow I imagine isn't much better, but probably better than Lovitz.
Wow, watching two Makoto Shinkai films back-to-back would be more than enough for most people...
If you haven't seen it, watch The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness on Netflix. Maybe before The Wind Rises? Maybe afterward?
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So fucking awful. Like, he rendered every scene he was in nearly unwatchable because he was just so distractingly awful.
And he got nominated for a goddamn Golden Globe for that role.
Anyway my recommendation is Wolf Children
Is it possible that Winston Churchill may have been unwatchable in real life, and Lithgow was really good at portraying him?
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I don't think Lithgow can actually play someone as unwatchable if he's actually trying to.
He was kind of a dick in real life, but I've heard radio broadcasts of him, and he was a great speaker
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Some ex-marines and college jocks rob an armored truck just for the truck, killing the guards due to one of them being jittery. The LA Sheriff squad dealing with special cases look into it, consisting of Mike Banning whose personal life is falling apart. He puts the heat on Ice Cube Jr. who is working with the robbers in order to get information about what they have planned, which is to rob the LA Federal Reserve and take 30 milly of money that is to be destroyed. Ptew ptews, FBI trying to harass the Sheriffs, the Sheriffs harassing the LAPD, tats and beards everywhere.
The setup for the robbery is done well and the actual robbery is very well done, relying on tension and not guns outside of three set pieces. That's sort of the quiet theme here, no one is really looking to make it go-time, but when it does, it goes indeed. Butler's solid as the lead cop, letting the hints of corruption exist without actually showing it because it's more apparent he's letting the carte blanche of his unit destroy everything not related to the case. The real standouts are Pablo Schrieber and O'Shea Jackson; the former showing that like in 13 Hours he's really good at being believable ex-soldier supporting actor material who knows when his chain is being yanked by Butler, and the latter being the rare instance where his built-in Hollywood Nepotism (TM) doesn't seem to be that much in play, he does have talent and a aura of believability of being this guy getting in over his head without thinking he has to be the center of attention in every scene like his dad does. The film's biggest fault is being 2 hours when it could have been 15 minutes less simply by removing some outside scenes showing the personal lives of Butler, Schreiber, and Curtis James Jackson III; in the grand scheme any characterization it provides doesn't build on anything with real payoff.
In all, if you like crime/thriller movies this is a good one worth a look, especially for an on-demand rental. This, Paddington 2, and Polka King have made January 2018 3/3 so pound sand May, thinking you're all that with "blockbusters," moer like crockbusters.
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"Kind of a dick" doesn't do him justice. He was an absolute, grade-A bastard. The Bengal famine alone...
Anyway, movies.
Watched Hunt for the Wilderpeople. Really excellent - made me think of Moonrise Kingdom, but better.
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Maybe if he has clones of 80s era Tim Curry and Christopher Lloyd
I can imagine it now. Tina Fey is Mrs White and does a 'funny' accent, Will Ferrell is Professor Plum and improvises half his lines, there's a James Franco cameo, etc.
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