Recommend (or don't) a movie thread v2

[Yeah_Baby]

Originally Posted by Engine09

I absolutely loved Flower Moon, it's different than anything else Scorsese has done, maybe Gangs of New York is the closest. DeNiro makes up for all the garbage he's done recently, he reminds us he's incredible and plays a hell of a character.

I'm not sure if Scorsese is working on anything else right now but at 80 years old he has to be winding down. If we're lucky we'll get 1 more.

I think he's in preproduction of another David Grann adaptation.

[nik-]

Originally Posted by Engine09

I absolutely loved Flower Moon, it's different than anything else Scorsese has done, maybe Gangs of New York is the closest. DeNiro makes up for all the garbage he's done recently, he reminds us he's incredible and plays a hell of a character.

I'm not sure if Scorsese is working on anything else right now but at 80 years old he has to be winding down. If we're lucky we'll get 1 more.

He's doing a Goodfellas spinoff that deep dives into the life of Spider.

[ResAlien]

Originally Posted by Engine09

I absolutely loved Flower Moon, it's different than anything else Scorsese has done, maybe Gangs of New York is the closest. DeNiro makes up for all the garbage he's done recently, he reminds us he's incredible and plays a hell of a character.

I'm not sure if Scorsese is working on anything else right now but at 80 years old he has to be winding down. If we're lucky we'll get 1 more.

Snow Dogs 2

[bluejays]

Originally Posted by Engine09

I absolutely loved Flower Moon, it's different than anything else Scorsese has done, maybe Gangs of New York is the closest. DeNiro makes up for all the garbage he's done recently, he reminds us he's incredible and plays a hell of a character.

I'm not sure if Scorsese is working on anything else right now but at 80 years old he has to be winding down. If we're lucky we'll get 1 more.

I don't know if it's Scorsese himself or the industry titans not trusting Directors enough to do things a certain way? It seems like the industry itself is boxoffice driven and 95% is junk - "make a big marketing trailer whereby it sells the explosions. By the time they come to the threatre who cares, they paid". Certain directors like Scorsese and Eastwood and Tarantino have the FU money and a name, where they are trusted to put out a good script and probably given the time to follow through with their vision, instead of filming and piecing in the editing room. Most else probably not (even Christopher Nolan has put out crap recently).

[Yeah_Baby]

Originally Posted by bluejays

I don't know if it's Scorsese himself or the industry titans not trusting Directors enough to do things a certain way? It seems like the industry itself is boxoffice driven and 95% is junk - "make a big marketing trailer whereby it sells the explosions. By the time they come to the threatre who cares, they paid". Certain directors like Scorsese and Eastwood and Tarantino have the FU money and a name, where they are trusted to put out a good script and probably given the time to follow through with their vision, instead of filming and piecing in the editing room. Most else probably not (even Christopher Nolan has put out crap recently).

I'll give you Tenet but Oppenheimer was great!

[dammage79]

I didn't know Killers of the Flower Moon was based on some of the shadiest, shi**y things white America ever did to first nation's ppl. The real history is pure malevolence.

[bluejays]

Originally Posted by Yeah_Baby

I'll give you Tenet but Oppenheimer was great!

Tenet I still have no idea what was going on.


Oppenheimer wasn't crap but it also was unnecessarily dialogue heavy with dialogue you couldn't hear. I look back on it now and it was good, but not the movie of the year (definitely wasn't crap though). Now, Dunkirk - definition of overrated.

[habernac]

Originally Posted by bluejays

Tenet I still have no idea what was going on.


Oppenheimer wasn't crap but it also was unnecessarily dialogue heavy with dialogue you couldn't hear. I look back on it now and it was good, but not the movie of the year (definitely wasn't crap though). Now, Dunkirk - definition of overrated.

I don't get the hate for Dunkirk. I am a sucker for WW2 movies, but I thought it was great.

[Engine09]

I wanted to like Tenet and was excited to see it, f'ing hated it. Convoluted garbage with incoherent dialogue.

Oppenheimer was disappointing, of course it's well done and acted but it's focus was far too narrow. That story could have been told better and executed better by another director, I'm not a fan of Nolan's choices.

Looking back I didn't really like Inception that much. The Prestige is the only movie of his I really love, that goodwill has run out.

[habernac]

Originally Posted by Engine09

I absolutely loved Flower Moon, it's different than anything else Scorsese has done, maybe Gangs of New York is the closest. DeNiro makes up for all the garbage he's done recently, he reminds us he's incredible and plays a hell of a character.

I'm not sure if Scorsese is working on anything else right now but at 80 years old he has to be winding down. If we're lucky we'll get 1 more.

Saw an interview with him. He lamented that his time is almost up and he still has more stories to tell. Hope he gets some of them out there.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by ResAlien

Snow Dogs 2

An instalment in the Air Bud Franchise where he plays Lawn Bowling?

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

Just edging out Porky's

"There's so much wool in there you could knit a sweater."

Porky's was Canadian, though? I had no idea. I've seen that movie a million times. We had it on Betamax. I like to think it helped shape me into the man I am today.

[Red Slinger]

I thought Killers of the Flower Moon was very good. The story was immersive, the acting was great, characters were 3 dimensional but... like with many Scorsese movies, it felt longer than it needed to be. There were some scenes where they could have had the same impact but been significantly shorter.

[Sliver]

Totally Killer is pretty great (it's on Amazon Prime). Mash up between Back to the Future and Scream.

[DownInFlames]

Originally Posted by Sliver

Totally Killer is pretty great (it's on Amazon Prime). Mash up between Back to the Future and Scream.

I really liked it, but I thought referencing both of those movies was a little too on the nose. The best parts were the Gen Z girl dealing with 80s culture and technology.

[DownInFlames]

Originally Posted by Sliver

"There's so much wool in there you could knit a sweater."

Porky's was Canadian, though? I had no idea. I've seen that movie a million times. We had it on Betamax. I like to think it helped shape me into the man I am today.

A Canadian company produced it but the cast, crew, and locations were pretty much all American. I think Kim Cantrell is the only Canadian in the movie.

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by DownInFlames

I really liked it, but I thought referencing both of those movies was a little too on the nose. The best parts were the Gen Z girl dealing with 80s culture and technology.

Yeah, they played all that stuff and just how lax our culture was back then so perfectly. Kept having to pause it and tell my kids it actually was like that. My kids are 16 and 17 (grades 11 & 12) so their weird little Gen Z brains were perfect to watch it with.

[White Out 403]

Old dad's is hilarious

[SutterBrother]

As a result of this thread, I started rating movies on IMDB again. One fallout effect was it recommended a couple older ones to me.

The Verdict (1982) with Paul Neuman (and oddly enough Lindsay Crouse from Slapshot) as an alcholic lawyer who takes on a hospital negligance case. The opposing lawyer is played by James Mason. It's incredible to watch an actual story with actual acting.

The Big Short (2015) Ryan Gosling, Steve Carrel, Christian Bale. It's funny... which is wierd because it's about the 2008 housing collapse. Feels a lot like Wolf of Wall Street. They were clever about how they explained the financials (Margot Robbie in a bubble bath). Moves quickly, but so much of it is about the characters.

[SutterBrother]

Originally Posted by White Out 403

Old dad's is hilarious

(I am out of thanks, but I'll hit you later)

I hated that pre-school principle more than I have hated a movie character since... Nurse Ratched in "One Flew Over"?

I think you have to be a GenX Dad with a kid in Elementary or below to really get that movie.