Movie Thread

[Dickie Dunn]

It was a lot of fun. Channing Tatum does dim witted comedy well.

[mikey]

Wasn't feeling so hot after 4 straight days of drinking heavily and eating fried food, so I banged out some movies yesterday...

Predator
Demolition Man
Predator 2
Ned Kelly

They're listed in the order of how good they are...Ned Kelly is a horrendous movie. And Jagger puts on a community theater level act...just brutal. It was my first time seeing that and my first time seeing Predator 2. The other two I just hadn't seen in a long time...

Sandra Bullock almost tanked Demolition Man for me...weak performance, but aided by some pretty flimsy different-for-the-sake-of-different writing for like one generation in the future... people won't forget what sex and toilet paper are one generation in the future...I still know what an answering machine is and I never ****** one of them...

[RonnieFranchise]

Hitchcock marathon on Showtime today. The usual suspects and some lesser known ones. Might have to take unplanned PTO.

Torn Curtain
Rope
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Vertigo (my favorite, Kim Novak, yum)
Rear Window (never cared much for this one)
Psycho
The Birds
Marnie
Frenzy
Vertigo again

NXNW is the only major miss IMO but I own it so no biggie.

[NTP66]

Predator 2 is underrated, IMO.

[nocera]

I really love Rope. James Stewart puts on a master class and takes what is essentially a stage play and makes it absolutely riveting.

[eddy]

Agree on rope and predator 2. Great movies

[RonnieFranchise]

I really love Rope. James Stewart puts on a master class and takes what is essentially a stage play and makes it absolutely riveting.

It has become one of my favorites, and seems like over the past few decades has become generally thought of as one of his top works, more than it was when I first started watching. Stewart is great as always, and John Dall just slays me as Brandon. So slimy.

[Gaucho]

Many of Hitchcocks's pre Hollywood films are outstanding, too. Some people even say pre-Hollywood Hitchcock is superior Hitchcock. I do love Hollywood Hitchcock, though, including Rear Window.

[RonnieFranchise]

Many of Hitchcocks's pre Hollywood films are outstanding, too. Some people even say pre-Hollywood Hitchcock is superior Hitchcock. I do love Hollywood Hitchcock, though, including Rear Window.

Sabotage is probably my favorite British-era Hitchcock film. And of course the 39 Steps.

The reviews were mediocre but I also enjoyed the biopic with Anthony Hopkins. Hitch was so badass. He'd be on my short list of people I'd love to sit and talk with for an hour.

[LeopardLetang]

I haven't seen most of them yet (just vertigo, nxnw, psycho and frenzy) but I really enjoyed Frenzy. Rewatched it a little after the first viewing even. Something easy and fun about it. I plan to watch most of his stuff

[tifosi77]

Sabotage is such a good movie. It was made in the goddamn 1930s, before Gone With The Wind and The Wizard Of Oz; you just kind of have to remind yourself how old it is. From the perspective of craft and all the boring technical bits, it doesn't feel like a movie that was already rather old by the time Hitch made much more well known stuff like Psycho or NXNW or The Birds.

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

I miss Chris Tucker. I know Ruby Rhod is a controversial character but I love him in it

[Kane]

[NTP66]

I agree, MIMH.

[shafnutz05]

I didn't even know the character was controversial. She's great.

[eddy]

Freeze those knees my chickadees

[eddy]

Movies!

[nocera]

The Searchlight logo without FOX is still so weird.

[count2infinity]

I love Colin Farrell. Can't wait to watch that.

[mikey]

Looking for a rec: Best movie (not too fantastical/made-up) for the origins of Las Vegas - like the mob-run Vegas early days?

[nocera]

It's not really the origin but the best mob Vegas movie is Casino and it's not even close.

[skullman80]

Casino is top notch.

[dodint]

Helldorado?

Probably too far back.

[tifosi77]

Casino is top drawer, but it doesn't really get into the origin story of Vegas. Bugsy isn't a very good movie, but it's all about the creation of the city in the desert. L.A. Confidential touches on it briefly (like hardly at all), but it's another excellent film.

Then there's also Showgirls.

[tifosi77]

Movies!

Having a really hard time seeing those two on camera and not running In Bruges quotes through my head.

"If I'd grown up on a farm........."