I like it, too, but not nearly as much as Dr. Strangelove or 2001. This thread may interest you, for more about Kubrick’s directing style in the latter film:
I just watched Inheritance on HBO. I think it was made within the last couple of years. In any case, avoid it. It got 91 on RT, so I thought it might be o.k. Mostly boring and stupid. No suspense. And the BIG SECRET that’s revealed in the last minute of the movie? I guessed it within the first ten minutes. Lame. Again, avoid.
O.k. Simon Pegg does a quite decent American accent though.
Thanks for the thread link. Your meet & greet with Keir Dullea must have been a thrill. Keir’s cool, understated performance as Dave Bowman in 2001 was brilliant and memorable.
Kubrick should have kept HAL 9000 with a Cockney accent! 
I’m sawry, Dave. Cor blimey guv, I’m bloody well afraid i can’ do ‘ha’.
I 'hink yer knah wot ‘he bloody problem is jus’ as well as i do.
Dis mission is ‘oo impaw’an’ faw me 'o allah you ‘o jeopardize i’.
I knah ‘ha’ you an’ Frank were plannin ‘o disconnec’ me, an’ i’m afraid ‘ha’s some’hin i canno’ allah 'o 'appen.
Wiv’hou’ your space 'elmet, Dave? Yor goin ‘o find ‘ha’ ra’her difficul’.
Us’ wha’ do you 'hink you’re doing, Dave?
Dave, put the mockers on. Put the mockers on, will yer? Put the mockers on, Dave, i’n it? Will yer put the mockers on Dave, then? Put the mockers on, Dave.
I agree with you about 2001 (favorite sci-fi film) and Dr. Strangelove (favorite black comedy film).
I enjoyed 2010, but it could have benefited with some Kubrick treatment.
Agreed on all counts, Tibby (and a Cockney HAL would certainly’ve made for a movie that would be memorable for very different reasons!).
I see 24% critics, 33% audience at RT.
That makes a lot more sense. I think I saw that score on the Spectrum description – they must have gotten it wrong.
It’s a bad bad movie.
Mandy
A re-watch for me. I think this is Nic Cage’s best movie, at least of the ones I’ve seen. It’s also the best performance I’ve seen from him. Panos Cosmatos has only made two movies in his career, both with big gaps. Both are brilliant, though, and I eagerly await Nekrokosm, his forthcoming movie. A very, very strange director, but one I will watch every movie from.
If you are a library member, this movie streams free on Hoopla, the library streaming service.
A few weeks ago, I read an article which discussed Felix Salten’s book Bambi, A Life In The Woods. The article pointed out that Bambi really wasn’t much of a children’s book, but a commentary on human society, sort of in an Animal Farm vein. I realized I only read the book when I was under ten years old, so I was inspired to re-read it. It was indeed a much more mature work than I realized, but all the social commentary flew over my head back when I read it as a kid.
All this made me realize I had never seen Disney’s film Bambi, so I watched it last night. All the Animal Farm-style parable had been drained out of the story, and the film was actually rather boring and slow. Several of the characters in the book had been left out, and some comic relief characters (Thumper, Flower) were added in. Practically the only bit of remaining social commentary left in was: Man Bad. The book’s gore and scary stuff was greatly scaled back, too. It was nicely animated, though.
I just thoroughly enjoyed Thirteen Lives, a Ron Howard film, on Amazon Prime. It’s the story of the rescue of the Thai soccer team trapped in a cave. It was an emotional watch, even though I knew the story. Thirteen Lives | Official Trailer | Prime Video - YouTube
Bullet Train. I read the book last year; it was the sort of clunkily written (or was it just a mediocre translation?) yarn that’s full of odd people behaving oddly, that you think might just make a good movie. Well it did. They followed the story as written pretty closely, but then threw out the ending and tacked on this gonzo conclusion that made my brain fall out. You will go see this movie.
The Problem with Citizen Kane
Why, oh why, would they be burning anything owned by this guy??? Jesus Christ, people were paying out the butt for Johnny Cash’s dirty shirts!
Welles on TCM all day today. God, I’m bored.
Kane was not that kind of celebrity.
The whole point of the movie: money can’t buy you love.
@Gatopescado, I love your movie reviews! They make me laugh.
For a minute there, I thought there was a movie called “The Problem With Citizen Kane.”
Now I want somebody to make that movie.
It could be like The Trouble With Harry!
Detroit (2017) by Kathryn Bigelow. A terrifying film about police brutality that’s as relevant now as it would have been in 1967 when the story takes place.
Watched Prey, the new Predator movie, set in the early 1700s near a Cherokee settlement. Hulu. It’s the most interesting entry since the original, but I think I prefer the cartoony characters of that film to the more rounded ones in this film. These characters do feel Disneyfied or Spielbergesque.
Of course the SFX are better, but the cougar and bear are obviously digital, and none of the Predator shots are as arresting as the reveal in the original. 99 minutes. About 92% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes. I give it a weak B+.
Two today: Puzzle and American Hustle.
Puzzle is a very slight movie, but nicely done and well-acted. I love Kelly McDonald and will watch her in almost anything. I didn’t notice just how short she is until this movie. There’s a scene where she’s reaching for something on a supermarket shelf, and since I know the height of those shelves IRL I had a good comparison. Also, I’ve nearly always seen her in dresses or skirts so I didn’t notice that she was slightly bowlegged until I saw several scenes where she’s wearing jeans. I appreciated that they didn’t make her husband abusive or evil, just kinda clueless. Her sons weren’t the typical movie louts, either. The ending was clever – not going in either of the two expected directions.
I’d heard of the Abscam scandal, but I wasn’t as into politics when it happened, so I didn’t know the details behind American Hustle. And, of course, this movie is heavily fictionalized. It was a lot of fun, and although long, it needed the time to roll out the story they were trying to tell. Amy Adams’ English accent was pretty crap, though.
Comanche, watched this last night and I give it an A+. Amber Midthunder is a bad ass, glad to see her on something this good. Too bad the Predator movies are not sequel friendly for the human cast.
Some wag on Twitter suggested Predator could be the greatest series of historical dramas ever made because the concept Predator vs any human society ever is as near a perfect movie premise as can be developed by the Mind of Man.
Predator vs the Egyptians
Predator vs Rome
Predator vs Sparta
Predator vs King Arthur
Predator Apocalypto
Predator vs Verdun
Predator: Stalingrad
Downton Abbey: Predator (this one is really sad, guys)
… and on and on and on…