What is the best recent movie you’ve seen.

[EagerBeaver]

Beirut

I saw Beirut, starring Jon Hamm, this afternoon. This movie is a taut, well acted international political thriller. Hamm plays a retired American diplomat now working as an arbitrator in labor disputes in Boston, who is suddenly summoned back into diplomatic service due to his connections with a kidnapping situation in Beirut. It's a really good part for Hamm, as he plays a character struggling with alcoholism and haunted by his past, much like his character Don Draper in Mad Men. I highly recommend it.

 

[bruno2000]

King Dave was fucking awesome... un de mes films préférés et quelle performance de l'acteur principal

 

[bignasty]

Do not see "Chappaquiddick". It sucked. Nothing new and boring as hell. Go see any documentary on YouTube about Chappaquiddick and you will learn all you need to know. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SEOd7AOR6ic

 

[Romeo99]

Molly's Game.
Great story and great actress too!

 

[EagerBeaver]

Did any of you guys see Mission Impossible- Fallout? I heard it was the best ever opening weekend for a Mission Impossible film. I did not see the last one but I did see Ghost Protocol, which was good, although somewhat unbelievable in all of its scope. How does this one compare? Isn't Tom Cruise getting a bit old for action films? Schwarznegger was basically done with action films by his mid 50s. Cruise seems like he wants to push the envelope in passing himself off as a younger man.

 

[Red Paul]

That envelope is getting punished. Cruise is now 56. Somebody pointed out that Wilford Brimley, when shooting Cocoon (comedy-drama about old geezers in Florida), was 51.

 

[charmer_]

Did any of you guys see Mission Impossible- Fallout? I heard it was the best ever opening weekend for a Mission Impossible film. I did not see the last one but I did see Ghost Protocol, which was good, although somewhat unbelievable in all of its scope.

I did, it's definitely up there in quality with the last two movies. Tom Cruise is great in it. Some of the stunts he does in the movie are pretty incredible.

You should watch the previous one (ie. Rogue Nation) though. Fallout's almost a direct sequel to it, and there's stuff you'll miss out on, if you don't see it beforehand.

You should also watch the new one in IMAX (if you're able to).

 

[E. F. Hutton]

Murder on the Orient Express - Recent remake.

 

[A12B]

Watched Skyscraper and Equalizer 2 lately. Both great summer movies. Skyscraper in 3D is awesome with the height effects. As I like both my feet on the ground, this movie got me worried couple of times, lol !! EQ2 is not really a direct sequel from the first. It's whole different story. Both recommended for summer amusement !
I will go for Mission Impossible this week before they take it off IMAX.

 

[Behaved]

That envelope is getting punished. Cruise is now 56. Somebody pointed out that Wilford Brimley, when shooting Cocoon (comedy-drama about old geezers in Florida), was 51.

I don't know. I think as long as he can pull the stunts himself, I have no problem with it. It's not like he's using some cheap tricks to fake being in shape. I agree that he's getting there, and that Ethan Hunt should be about to retire, but I'm still fine with it. Cruise has that wiry quality.

It's like Marisa Tomei in Spider-Man: Homecoming, they played her as a cool, sexy aunt, and she must also have been 51 during filming, but it works because she still looks good.

 

[Doc Holliday]

Get Out. I watched it last week.

I loved it!

Last night i watched Roman J. Israel, Esq.

Didn't like it so much but Denzel Washington was great in his role, as always.

 

[EagerBeaver]

In what media did you see Get Out? Netflix?

 

[Red Paul]

It's not like he's using some cheap tricks to fake being in shape.

True, and I have nothing against the idea of geezers being attractive (I'm skeptical, just not against the idea). Still, his hair looks dyed, and the contrast with an increasingly aged face is kind of tacky.

 

[EagerBeaver]

Cruise also looked too old for the part in his two Jack Reacher movies, although I thought he generally did well with that part and enjoyed the films. But I agree with RP that he is at this point really pushing the envelope.

What Cruise really needs to do is let his career come full circle. Does anyone remember "The Color of Money" in 1986, when the aging Paul Newman (then in his early 60s) played an old veteran pool player and Cruise played the talented brash new pool talent in town? In the next Mission Impossible film, Cruise needs to retire and mentor his replacement in an updating of "The Color of Money" but applied to secret agents. Then Cruise will have seen his career come full circle and perhaps he can have a recurring role in future films, where he is called in to mentor and give orders, leaving the action and fight scenes for younger actors better suited to handle them.

In the end of this scene in Color of Money the young Cruise harasses the older Newman, hurling age related insults at him:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv_OZBBh4-w

 

[Behaved]

In the next Mission Impossible film, Cruise needs to retire and mentor his replacement in an updating of "The Color of Money" but applied to secret agents. Then Cruise will have seen his career come full circle and perhaps he can have a recurring role in future films, where he is called in to mentor and give orders, leaving the action and fight scenes for younger actors better suited to handle them.

That what I was thinking. He should become the handler and have minimal ''field presence'', although he could have his token ''the base of operation is under attack'' action scene every movie or something. Kind of like they did with Judy Dench in Skyfall, where she wasn't actively seeking danger but she wasn't going to let herself get killed without a fight. Except it's Tom Cruise, so he ends up leaving on a motorcycle.

 

[charmer_]

True, and I have nothing against the idea of geezers being attractive (I'm skeptical, just not against the idea). Still, his hair looks dyed, and the contrast with an increasingly aged face is kind of tacky.

Honestly I can't think of anyone else in Hollywood (young or old) that's willing to hang onto a plane during take off, Halo jump out of a plane over and over, leap from one building to another (which he broke his ankle over), or fly a helicopter for an action sequence. The only person that comes close would be Harrison Ford back in the day, and he's way past that age now.

As long as Tom Cruise is in shape and is still willing to pull off these stunts, he should go for it. He's probably got at least one or two more M:I movies in him, IMHO.

 

[Red Paul]

That's cool. As long as he doesn't dye his hair.

 

[Doc Holliday]

In what media did you see Get Out? Netflix?

Watched it on one of the Movie Channels on my satellite dish.

 

[EagerBeaver]

Aquatic Attack Film Week

To celebrate Aquatic Attack Film Week, I saw two aquatic attack films, one a current release movie, and one recent classic from 2010. Both of these films paid homage to the seminal aquatic attack film, Jaws:

The Meg- saw this in the local movie theater yesterday. We missed the 3D showtime, so me and a friend settled on the 2D. It's an okay film. My buddy who went with me remarked, it's "like a good made for TV movie", and that is probably a good summary. It's about a 75 foot long prehistoric shark, released from a subterranean body of water beneath the Pacific Ocean, that terrorizes a team of marine research scientists. Although there are some imaginative action sequences, the film suffers from substandard special effects for 2018, a low body count and a general lack of gore, bespeaking its PG-13 rating, which usually signals a tame aquatic action film. It's reasonably entertaining and well paced, if you can get by the genre-specific flaws I mentioned. The Jaws homage scene is a beach scene towards the end of the movie.

Piranha (2010) 3D - this cult classic aquatic action horror film opens with a scene featuring Richard Dreyfus, the actor who played the hero or co-hero in the original Jaws film. There are at least 2 other Jaws homages during the film. Much like the basic plot of The Meg, a natural disaster releases and unleashes, from a subterranean lake, prehistoric, giant prehistoric era piranhas . The piranhas then hunt and kill humans in packs at a resort lake. The situation quickly spirals out of control. This film contains a lot of black humor, and is far superior to The Meg in the genre essentials of high body count and graphic, shocking gore. The latter includes many disturbing images including humans eaten to the bone, and a penis bitten off its owner's torso, only to be belched and spat out by a sickened piranha. This film is a much more representative entry in this genre, and rightfully earns its status as a cult favorite aquatic attack film.

 

[heliragedeleted]

That's cool. As long as he doesn't dye his hair.

That won’t happen.
Actually out of all the scenes I thought the highlight of this film was the bathroom fight scene, with Superman himself, Cavill and cruise against yang playing the decoy. The intensity of this fight scene was incredible, it was excellently coordinated and orchestrated. With a touch of humour as yang finally gets bested by the mi6 operative.
I’ve rarely seen a fight scene this well put together.