What is the best recent movie you’ve seen.
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If you don't mind reading subtitles, the Korean movie "Parasite" is really good. Won an oscar too, not that it really matters.
The Town was pretty good and certainly worth watching.
Earlier I reported on A Simple Favor as a quirky thriller/comedy that I really liked. I have two more recommendations along this line. I strongly recommend The Nice Guys with Ryan Gossling and Russel Crow as private investigators. It's a pretty good thriller with comic relief. It is worth watching twice. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_nice_guys
I also liked The Spy Who Dumped Me with Mila Kunis. It is more of a silly comedy but most of the humor worked on me. I actually laughed. Kate McKinnon was hilarious. It got mixed reviews but for free on Amazon, it was worth the price. https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_spy_who_dumped_me_2018
Parasite was highly recommended. It was hinted that there was a surprise ending. I kept waiting through the slow and boring first hour to hour and a half. Actually saw a couple walk out at that point. The poor Korean family highlighted in the movie were a bunch of despicable assholes, to put it mildly. At the 2/3rds point of the movie I'm thinking "how the hell did this win an academy award?". Then after the gruesome conclusion my opinion was "you got to be kidding me." Can anyone explain why this movie won an academy award? I'm baffled and I am actually pissed off at the friend who recommended this movie to me so highly.
I just revisited one of my ATF’s with my friends Yueng and Ling last night. Forgot how much I loved “Tropic Thunder”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HW_3erMg1sI
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=HW_3erMg1sI
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How Parasite beat out 1917 is one of the great mysteries, up there with Shakespeare in Love winning Best Picture over Saving Private Ryan. My guess is the Academy was looking to send a message, which is a shame. That said, 1917 is fantastic.
I liked it because I enjoy slow and methodical movies. Other good examples of this type of movie are "Rosemary's Baby" and "Memento". I can see why some might find it boring but I disagree. The movie is full of suspense, and it rises steadily until the climax, I admit that the ending was a bit strange but a lot of Korean movies have goofy and usual aspects, they don't follow the same formulas as American movies. I'm not saying its better than 1917, but they are completely different movies. I do think 1917 is a masterpiece in "Screenplay".
The family in the movie is despicable because they are poor and desperate to leave their life of poverty even if it means fucking over other people in the process. But you can see the kids starting to question their own actions by the end and realizing that they have gone too far. The weakest part of the movie was the ending, but overall an enjoyable movie in my opinion, but its not a movie for everybody. 1917 definelty has a higher watchability to a wider audience.
Dunno, I've heard really great things about Parasite. I couldn't care less about subtitles or whether its foreign....will check it out for myself and see. Still have to see 1917, but if it's on the same level as Saving Private Ryan, then it must be great.
It's not a new film (2016) but in honor of the excellent south coreans cinema : The Handmaiden. Beautiful cinematography, great acting with a very good plot twist from one of the best directors.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whldChqCsYk
If you like this movie, I'd suggest to look at other movies from Chan-wook Park
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whldChqCsYk
If you like this movie, I'd suggest to look at other movies from Chan-wook Park
It's not as good as Saving Private Ryan but it is along those lines. It really brought WWI back to life for me. If you are a WWI or military history buff I strongly recommend. Just the authenticity of it all. It's about the retrograde movement that the German's made in in 1917 to get behind the stronger Hindenburg line. At the same time a British was advancing the next morning because they thought that they had the German's on the run. This same unit was not privy to recent aerial reconnaissance and the Germans had successfully cut the telephone lines to that unit so they had to send two runners to get through to them.
I'm a huge military history fan. I recently got into WWI after listening to Dan Carlin's Blueprint for Armageddon https://www.dancarlin.com/product/hardcore-history-50-blueprint-for-armageddon-i/ and then visiting Ypres after I literally fucked myself out in the NRW and needed something else to do. I went to this place: The Menin Gate where they play the Last Post which is a tribute to the MIA for the UK only in the Ypres sector. The wall bears the names of 54,000 men who have no known graves (they were blown to smithereens and there was nothing left to identify, wounded and drowned in the mud of Flanders, where killed in the middle of the No Man's Land and couldn't be reached and identified for 4 years etc) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aO0XzauTgms. They play The Last Post as a tribute to these men every night at 8PM since the monument was built in the 1920's. There was a brief respite during the Nazi occupation but the Last Post was played during the Polish Liberation of Ypres during WWII in the midst of the fighting before the town was even secured. I met a few men there during my tour. One produced a letter from his Great Uncle who is MIA in Ypres. He was a boy of 18 years and 3 months. He wanted his mom to send him a tin of pan drippings and some lollipops and was killed a month later due to friendly fire (it was a gas attack and the wind direction changed).
I tell you all this because this movie made WWI come back to life for me. For the combatants, the world has not known such terror either before after WWI.
Went to see Harley Quinn last night, entertaining, not too much lag time. Helped a lot that the theater had a superb sound system.
The Irishman on Netflix....long movie but incredibly well done. I also did not care for Parasite and truly boggles my mind on how that won. 1917 was wonderful as well, but IMHO no film can come close to Saving Private Ryan in terms of capturing the grit of combat during the WWs. The Pacific and Band of Brothers series on HBO come close are well done.
Not sure if this is true. But Wikipedia quotes the budget at 7MM. That is very low budget for a big studio
Sometimes those low budget movies wind up being the biggest hits...focus on the story vs special FX.
How much special effects do you need to film an invisible man? By definition aren’t you filming empty air which costs nothing to do?
The original Invisible Man with Claude Rains in 1933 mostly featured an out of body voice and air, did it not? In the beginning of the movie Rains has bandages and he takes them off and his clothes off to prove he is invisible. How much money is needed to film such a thing?
Here is the famous “I’ll Show You Who I Am!” Scene with Claude Rains from the original 1933 film:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KXMOURHEMpY
How much do you guys think it costs to shoot that scene?
The original Invisible Man with Claude Rains in 1933 mostly featured an out of body voice and air, did it not? In the beginning of the movie Rains has bandages and he takes them off and his clothes off to prove he is invisible. How much money is needed to film such a thing?
Here is the famous “I’ll Show You Who I Am!” Scene with Claude Rains from the original 1933 film:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=KXMOURHEMpY
How much do you guys think it costs to shoot that scene?
I agree that 'Saving Private Ryan' and 'Band of Brothers' were masterpieces in the art of moviemaking & storytelling. But i didn't like 'The Pacific' much. I found it difficult to follow. Maybe it's because my expectations were very high due to how much i had enjoyed 'Band of Brothers'. I've re-watched 'Band of Brothers' at least 7 or 8 times since it first came out. What a great, great miniseries!
Same here. I'm a history buff & always been. I still have great memories of studying 'The French Revolution' and 'The Russian Revolution' back in high school history class. I also studied "The History of the United States" in grade 13 history & found it fascinating. I've probably watched & bought every great documentary made about WWII. 'The World at War' still ranks among my favorite WWII documentary series. I've seen & purchased many good to great WWII movies. 'Saving Private Ryan' was the icing on the cake for me in terms of 'great' war movies.
A few years ago i began researching WWI and have been hooked since! I have viewed several great documentaries about this awful war. I have also read many books about it & strongly recommend reading "The Guns of August" by Barbara Tuchman. There's been several movies made about WWI but not as many as WWII. One great WWI movie is "All Quiet on the Western Front", which i purchased a year ago but still have yet to see it. I have seen "Paths of Glory" and liked it. But i have a feeling that '1917' will rank among the best WWI movies along with a few others. By the way one very good movie with the war as it's background is "Passchendaele", a Canadian movie which came out about a decade ago or so. It was directed by and stars Paul Gross (The Mounty) and Caroline Dhavernas. "Legends of the Fall" starring Anthony Hopkins, Brad Pitt & Aidan Quinn also ranks among my favorite movies with WWI as its background.
I went to see 1917 this past weekend. I saw it in IMAX, which i always love. I'll be honest & admit that my initial reaction to the movie was that i found it so-so. Usually when i see a great movie (like Dunkirk a couple of years ago) in terms of great moviemaking i end up buying the bluray or in 4K when it comes out. But after 1917 i figured i had seen it once & probably wouldn't feel like seeing it again. However yesterday i changed my mind after reading a few reviews of the movie. Let me explain why:
The best thing about the movie is it's great cinematography. It's extremely realistic, especially when you watch it in IMAX. I also loved the many cameos of great actors in the movie who appear less than a minute each in the entire movie. It was also a very good story and the acting performances from the two main actors were brilliant, especially George Mackay's, whom i also loved in the extremely good movie "Captain Fantastic" which starred Vigo Mortensen. But one thing about the movie that i missed when i saw it a few days ago is that director Sam Mendes shot the movie to look like it was one continuous shot for the entire movie!!! Of course there's a little of CGI involved in order to make it appear this way but i read that many scenes were actually shot for approximately 10 continuous minutes at a time without any breaks or interruptions and the next scenes were spliced together using CGI in order to make it appear into one continuous shot for the entire movie!! That's absolutely brilliant moviemaking and why i now must have to see it again!! I've always been a sucker for great moviemaking & great cinematography and that's where this picture has really got my attention!
Why this movie didn't earn its share of Oscars indicates to me that once again the fix was on.....just like in past years when Harvey Weinstein was still the main player in Hollywood & not in prison. Had Weinstein been behind 1917 i'm 100% certain that it would have won best movie & best movie director. I'm certain of this. But this time it would have been 100% deserved. However, i'm saying this without yet having seen 'Parasite', which i will be seeing either later today or within the coming days since i just received my movie order from Amazon which includes 'Joker', 'Yesterday', 'Ford vs Ferrari', 'Parasite' and 'Midway'.
For myself, the most enjoying movie i've seen this year has to be 'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood'. It's such a good movie! Well made, great storytelling, great acting and the movie that finally convinced me that Quentin Tarentino is indeed a moviemaking genius!
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