I just got completely blindsided by "One Life". Great Rotten Tomatoes score at 90% and Anthony Hopkins, figured I should check it out. Powerful story, Hopkins plays a man who is incredibly humble and downplays the things he did before the 2nd World War to save hundreds of lives. Hopkins is incredible, the flashbacks were intertwined perfectly along with the pacing. Just a great film done very, very well. 8/10
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The real travesty is not having Rocketman on this list. Should be top 5 even.
That's a hot take. Rocketman as a top 5 musical of all time.
also a bad take. Rocketman shouldn't even sniff the top 20 or 30, even on a day where we're being generous.
I actually love me a musical. Everyone in the fam loved Sound of Music when I was a kid, and then it expanded into Oklahoma and Carousel (love Gordon McRae's voice) and State Fair.
Then my sister introduced me to Newsies, which I still love to this day. The Broadway version is pretty awesome too, but Christian Bale singing and dancing? Sold.
That's a hot take. Rocketman as a top 5 musical of all time.
also a bad take. Rocketman shouldn't even sniff the top 20 or 30, even on a day where we're being generous.
Ya these "classics" like West Side Story or Singing in the Rain? Yawn.
Give me a sweet musical about Elton John any day of the week.
I watched the original 50s version of 12 Angry Men Monday night. It was so good I watched it again last night. Made in the 50s but wow, does it hold up well today. The characters, the dialogue, the slang, the camera work, the story. Everything is awesome about it. I watched the HD version and I swear it could have been made recently, it was so well shot. Amazing movie.
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I watched the original 50s version of 12 Angry Men Monday night. It was so good I watched it again last night. Made in the 50s but wow, does it hold up well today. The characters, the dialogue, the slang, the camera work, the story. Everything is awesome about it. I watched the HD version and I swear it could have been made recently, it was so well shot. Amazing movie.
Sidney Lumet. A very underrated director (also directed Serpico, Network and Dog Day Afternoon). Beautiful camerawork considering it was a one room drama.
It's so ####ing good. I love it when people discover great older films. Now go and watch Inherit The Wind, directed by Stanley Kramer and starring Spencer Tracy. A slightly fictionalized version of the famous Scopes Monkey Trial in the 1920's.
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Huge recommendation to Late Night With the Devil. I know many people in this thread will love it. The level of tension and unsettling feeling during the entire movie is off the charts. It was so well done, with some terrific acting performances. I had trouble sleeping last night after seeing it, that hadn't happened to me in years. I still felt in a hypnotic state of suggestion. It's not scary in a sense, but may leave you traumatised.
I also saw Winnie the Pooh: Blood and Honey II which also may leave you traumatised for other reasons... it's a step up from the first, yet still quite terrible. It has a bigger budget, and the gore/splatter gets an upgrade, and they're building a universe. Yet it's still quite terrible. If they used the characters properly there might be a movie there. They don't do that... it's basically just guys in costumes ripping off better horror movies. Trash. There's so much you could do ripping off these characters, yet they don't do that; it feels like a massive waste of an opportunity.
See Late Night With the Devil though. In theatres if possible, with an audience. That's the way it's meant to be seen.
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Sidney Lumet. A very underrated director (also directed Serpico, Network and Dog Day Afternoon). Beautiful camerawork considering it was a one room drama.
It's so ####ing good. I love it when people discover great older films. Now go and watch Inherit The Wind, directed by Stanley Kramer and starring Spencer Tracy. A slightly fictionalized version of the famous Scopes Monkey Trial in the 1920's.
I need to see that.
The original Caine Mutiny with Bogart is a great courtroom drama. The new one directed by William Friedkin is also worth watching. He, along with Lance Reddick, died before it was released.
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How is Sidney Lumet underrated? He's pretty widely accepted as a great director.
I suspect it's one of those things that as time goes on, and we get further away from New Hollywood, any of those era of filmmakers that aren't still alive or working aren't thought about much by younger folks. Some folks probably only know Marty because of that Marvel quote from a few years back.
Hell, Billy Wilder and James Whale are amazing directors, freaks like us know them. General movie appreciators, less so.
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I suspect it's one of those things that as time goes on, and we get further away from New Hollywood, any of those era of filmmakers that aren't still alive or working aren't thought about much by younger folks. Some folks probably only know Marty because of that Marvel quote from a few years back.
Hell, Billy Wilder and James Whale are amazing directors, freaks like us know them. General movie appreciators, less so.
Yes, thank you. That was sort of my point. Lumet is regarded highly for film buffs and anyone over 50, but he's being forgotten by the masses. That was my implication.
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Yes, thank you. That was sort of my point. Lumet is regarded highly for film buffs and anyone over 50, but he's being forgotten by the masses. That was my implication.
related I'm pretty sure there are folks who have seen Eyes Wide Shut and don't know who Sydney Pollick is besides his role in that movie.
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Underworld is one of the last hurrahs for the action film genre before the dawn of the comic book movie age. The film packs loads of hyper-stylish action sequences, and boasts an admiral commitment to world-building.
What rather caught me off guard was its weird blend of practical effects, grungy CGI, and gothic tone that surprisingly holds up after two decades.
It's deserving of appreciation for its earnest dedication to gloomy and unwavering seriousness.
Underworld is one of the last hurrahs for the action film genre before the dawn of the comic book movie age. The film packs loads of hyper-stylish action sequences, and boasts an admiral commitment to world-building.
What rather caught me off guard was its weird blend of practical effects, grungy CGI, and gothic tone that surprisingly holds up after two decades.
It's deserving of appreciation for its earnest dedication to gloomy and unwavering seriousness.
Go watch the original Crow with Bruce Lee's kid
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For local film fans - 2001: A Space Odyssey is playing at the Plaza! This MUST be seen on a big screen a least once. I'm taking my wife and offspring and hoping they'll be both amazed and massively confused.
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I'm surprised you're so positive about the 4K release, apparently all 3 of the Cameron remasters (Aliens, The Abyss, True Lies) have been botched with bad AI denoising to the point of waxy visuals throughout.
Maybe The Abyss is the best looking of the 3, because these look like they're from a videogame:
Edit: Yeah, looking deeper it sounds like there's evidence that The Abyss had a new 4K scan at least, and as a result had better AI results. Whereas Aliens and True Lies were just upscales from their previous 2K scans, so the DNR applied causes much waxier results.
I honestly don't see the point in any 4K remasters. New movies shot in 4K are fantastic and there's a clear difference between them and 1080p versions, but I have yet to see any older movie with a 4K remaster that actually made a difference. I downloaded a 4K remux of Back to The Future and did a comparison to the 1080p version I already had, couldn't tell them apart. It just seems pointless when most 4K TV's already do a great job of upscaling 1080p content
