Space Cowboys Clint Eastwood,Tommy Lee Jones,James Garner.
I enjoyed it. The story is a bit unbelievable. But it was fun seeing these old guys attempt another action movie.
Garner didn’t get much screen time. Imdb said he had a shoulder injury during filming. That may have restricted his work.
Rambo Last Blood 2019
What a disappointment. Wikipedia says this was in development for a decade. Sly was reluctant to end this character’s story. I expected something better thought out and planned.
I guess some people want to see a 70 year old man slice and dice members of the Mexican cartel. It does deliver a lot of action. Rambo gets his revenge.
Sly’s current project, Tulsa King on Paramount+ is much, much better. He plays a **well-read Mafia guy that sets up a new operation in Tulsa. I’ve watched season one twice.
**The character had a lot of time to read in prison.
We just adopted two cats named Maude and Harold, so we watched Harold and Maude. What a strange but entertaining movie, if you can remember that it was made in 1971. It’s certainly a product of its time, including the Cat Stevens soundtrack.
I saw it when it first came out and it was good fun, but it would be scientifically impossible for the old coot to make it to the Moon in one piece , and since that was so integral to the ending, it kinda spoiled it for me.
After reading the thread about John Carpenter’s The Thing, and holing up in a place for a couple days without any TV, I found Dark Star on Youtube (Carpenter’s first ‘film’). I’d heard a little about it and it’s “cult” status.
What complete and utter shit. I made it in about a half hour, and decided that shoveling snow would be a better use of time. Snow that really didn’t need to be relocated for any reason. But it was better than watching that movie.
I loved Dark Star, but I was a SciFi loving surfer in the Seventies. The debate with the bomb was hilarious. And it’s the first story I encountered that explored just how mind numbingly boring space travel could be.
Just watched The Sea Beast on Netflix. I dug it. Not sure why. Although it’s animated and has a child as a lead character, It’s almost certainly not a film for very young kids.
Women Talking (Amazon Prime). Just like it says on the tin, it’s 90 minutes of women talking. But it’s refreshing to see a film that’s about ideas, and one that makes you think and not just stare blankly at a screen.
Just watched the new Ant Man movie. You can add me to the list of people who don’t get what the negative reviews were about. It’s the best MCU flick I’ve seen in a while.
Looks like Turner Classic is hosting “Bed-Sore Sunday”. They played Dr. Zhivago followed by Gone With The Wind. You ain’t gettiing up anytime soon.
But they dropped the ball. They could have tacked on Lawrence of Arabia and Apocolyps Now (Director’s Cut), and spilled over to “Morgue Monday”.
I’m in the middle of Gone With the Wind right now (literally - Intermission just started). It’s one of those movies that I could answer trivia questions about but I’ve never really seen the whole thing.
How is it? I’m not even kidding, I’ve never seen more than a few minutes of it here and there. Is it any good?
I’ve seen “GWTW” probably a half-dozen times in the last 50 or so years, several times in theaters. It’s an outstanding motion-picture in many ways, perfectly cast and epic in scale, even if it really amounts to an antebellum soap opera.
I’m of the belief that you shouldn’t judge the art of a previous era by the attitudes of today, but there are parts of “GWTW” that now make me cringe.
Impressive cinematography, corny 30’s emoting, epic story, drags at times, turns on a dime and becomes a different movie for a little while, but all in all, my opinion is that Scarlett O’Hara is a completely manipulative twat whom I can’t understand why anyone would even like, let alone love.
I do recommend a viewing though.
She and Ashley deserved each other. Rhett Butler could’ve done much much better.
Mandela effect in action. I would’ve made a bet that, “Frankly my dear, I don’t give a damn,” was the last line of the movie, when it is actually, “Tomorrow is another day.”
I only know this because of UHF.
Shooter, Mark Wahlberg. Another clunker that started out okay, but fell apart.
Thank you. I saw it for the first time on a high school field trip (the Carthay Circle theater was showing it, so we got to see it on the wide screen). By the intermission, I was wishing I was one of the dead soldiers. I’ve never been a Clark Gable fan, so that didn’t help. Generally, I like Vivian Leigh, but Scarlett O’Hara is so toxic, the character ruined it for me. Kind of garish technicolor.
They don’t, not once they finally figure out who she is (Melanie and Charles both die without ever really understanding her).
She’s vital, determined, vivacious, and sexy, and so all her suitors view her as the woman they want her to be. Ashley thinks she’s a tower of strength although fundamentally somewhat earthy and coarse (which also makes her smokin’ hot to him, in ways he’s resolved not to act on). Rhett thinks she’s passionate and free-spirited, though somewhat warped by her restrictive upbringing, but with an innate largeness of soul underneath a layer of cynical pragmatism like his own. Once Rhett fully realizes that she’s basically a selfish bully and coward, although with some redeeming features in her audacity and dedication, he quits her.
Mind you, most of that is the view from the book, but IIRC the movie is fairly faithful to it. To me, the core of the novel is Mitchell’s observation early on that “at no time, before or since, had so low a premium been placed on feminine naturalness”. Scarlett is misread as a heroine by modern readers because she (sort of) openly resists all the performative femininity that Southern-belle culture mandated. But she’s not really a good or loving person underneath.
Agreed that the book and movie are still both hella racist in very many ways, though.