Recommend (or don't) a movie thread v2

[dino7c]

Originally Posted by Weitz

Wrath of man was fantastic. Best movie I’ve seen in a while.

Seems like your taste in movies is the same as your taste in hockey teams

[flames_fan_down_under]

Originally Posted by KTrain

Heat is the best modern crime movie of all time. If Heat is a 10/10, this is a 6/10.

This was entertaining but the dialogue is sooooo bad. Cliche after cliche after cliche. It had a great framework for a crime/heist/revenge movie but it really felt low budget.

To tie in with the Nolan commentary earlier I just wanted to talk about the relationship between Heat and Nolan. Heat in particular is a movie that influenced a lot of what Christopher Nolan was doing in the Dark Knight. He made the department heads for the Dark Knight watch Heat before production and you can definitely see the movies share a lot of stylistic elements. Even William Fichtner being in the Dark Knight is a nod to Heat.

“I’ve drawn inspiration from it in my own work,” the “Dark Knight” director said.

https://variety.com/2016/film/in-con...my-1201854410/

Nolan is quoted in GQ as saying, "We’re going to shoot in a real city, with real streets and real buildings, because the scale of that can be massive. We are going to use IMAX cameras so we can shoot the full height of the buildings and we’re going to give you an antagonist who’s interfering with the very fabric of the city. Just from the way we shoot it, the Joker walking down the street will be a huge image. Heat was very much an influence, because Mann is a fanatic for architecture, too; he understands the grandeur of a city and how it can become a kind of epic playground."

https://nofilmschool.com/heat-nolan-batman

[djsFlames]

Originally Posted by dino7c

Seems like your taste in movies is the same as your taste in hockey teams

Why do I feel like the Fast and Furious series is close the hearts of a lot of Coil faithful.

[btimbit]

Originally Posted by dammage79

Just finished watching the new Clancy movie on Amazon "Without Remorse"

One of my favorite books ever was Rainbow Six and they just ties in a post credit scene teasing a Six movie.

Tap that s*** right into my veins right effing now.

Getting a Rainbow movie, for me is like getting Iron Man or the 1st Xmen or LOTR.

Just stick to the damn book though! Please don't butcher it, no creative license allowed. Follow the book!

[Strange Brew]

Originally Posted by btimbit

Just stick to the damn book though! Please don't butcher it, no creative license allowed. Follow the book!

I am a fan of pretty much all of his books. But a little less of a fan ever since I saw him interviewed several years back. He was a bit of a loonie.

[dammage79]

Originally Posted by btimbit

Just stick to the damn book though! Please don't butcher it, no creative license allowed. Follow the book!

Id like to see a Marvel univesre type build into Rainbow. An Amazon flick for each team member.

Some things would have to change for a movie adaptation of the book. Like none of this can happen at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney etc etc.

Either way. Rainbow is going to be epic.

I wonder if you could get Alec Baldwin back to reprise his role as Jack Ryan. Timeline wise, he would be the perfect age for a Rainbow movie.

[Strange Brew]

Those Who Wish me Dead

Sums up how the audience feels about the makers of this film. Pretty much pure pulp, surprised at the talent attached to it.

[1_Flames_Fan]

The Unholy - Not Good.

[djsFlames]

Originally Posted by 1_Flames_Fan

The Unholy - Not Good.

JDM carried that film with his sleepwalking-like performance.

Sweet 90s Doom looking CGI though.

[Cheese]

Originally Posted by Two Fivenagame

The Father

Really good. Hopkins was simply amazing. Like I was watching my own grandfather as dementia slowly ate away at his faculties. Just heartbreaking.

Would recommend.

Originally Posted by dammage79

Wrath of Man was great. Maybe even Guy Ritchies best to date.

Had that Micheal Mann Heat level of grit to it. Seeing as Heat is one of my top 5 all time movies, thats a compliment.

Highly recommend.

I liked this movie as well!

[GordonBlue]

I occasionally like to watch parts of the Rocky movies. (except Rocky 5)

I only watch them alone so I can fast forward through most of the scenes that are not training sequences or in the ring.

I don't think I could ever again watch one all the way through. especially rocky II

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

You'd think someone would have made a supercut of all the Rocky and Creed movies that cuts out 85% of the runtime. Not that they're all bad movies, but that would be kind of fun to watch.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

You'd think someone would have made a supercut of all the Rocky and Creed movies that cuts out 85% of the runtime. Not that they're all bad movies, but that would be kind of fun to watch.

Uh...no.

One does not simply 'cut' a 1980s era Rocky Training Montage where he helps out kindly Russian farmers by pushing their cart out of a snowbank.

[CorsiHockeyLeague]

I wouldn't have thought so, no... that would be part of the 15%. I assumed that went without saying.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague

I wouldn't have thought so, no... that would be part of the 15%. I assumed that went without saying.

I only mention it because I think most of the Rocky movies were about 50/50 in terms of musical montages and actual scenes.

You could probably combine them all into one film with a standard theatrical runtime.

Or you could hire Zack Snyder and it would be 80 days long.

[Fuzz]

The original Rocky is a great movie all the way through.

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Rocky and First Blood have almost nothing in common with their sequels.

Rambo II went pretty quickly into mindless action territory. Rocky II was ok and it wasn't until III that we hit full on garbage. By IV it was well into borderline self parody and so bad it's good territory.

[Fuzz]

Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger

Rocky and First Blood have almost nothing in common with their sequels.

Rambo II went pretty quickly into mindless action territory. Rocky II was ok and it wasn't until III that we hit full on garbage. By IV it was well into borderline self parody and so bad it's good territory.

Rambo III went directly to parody mode, and it's amazing. Just a masterpiece.

[sleepingmoose]

Originally Posted by zamler

Spoiler!

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Start with a foundation of Moulin Rouge, 17 other random genres against the backdrop of a Quasi period piece and you have Cruella. It was enjoyable but utterly predictable I recommend.

I enjoyed Cruella - predictably predictable since it's essentially an origin story, but I liked a few of the twists throughout. A decent way to spend an evening.

[DownhillGoat]

Originally Posted by Cecil Terwilliger

Rambo II went pretty quickly into mindless action territory.

What did you expect? He died at the end of the first movie based on the source material. The only reason there was a part II is because the studio wanted a mindless action series, as was fashionable at the time.