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Movie Thread #50: Godzilla gives us permission to nuke our enemies

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The Brawler

Chuck Wepner, basically a nobody, gets a shot at Ali, who was currently the heavyweight champ, in 1975.

Aside from Zack McGowan, who portrayed Wepner, the acting was PUTRID. McGowan did awesome, reminded me a lot of Liev Schreiber. The story was good, made you feel for Wepner yet be disappointed in him as well. It definitely connected you with the person. It's worth a look-see, I suppose, just for the story.
 
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Gilda:
A small-time gambler hired to work in a Buenos Aires casino learns that his ex-lover is married to his employer.

Rita Hayworth (obligatory hummina hummina hummina) plays her part to perfection. I really dug this movie. Deceit, love, subplots...highly recommend.
 
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You guys need to add the platform on which you viewed :)
 
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Oddly, Gilda was just on TCM. I reviewed it last week. Wonderful film.
 
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The topic of classic films came up at GPL. Not necessarily the best but some of my favorites:

The Godfather
Psycho
Lawrence of Arabia
Breakfast at Tiffany's
West Side Story
Dracula/Frankenstein/The Wolf Man
Laura
It Happened One Night
Seven Samurai
Carnival of Souls
North by Northwest
La Dolce Vita
Roman Holiday
On the Waterfront
12 Angry Men
L’Inferno
The Haunting
 
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How can neither of those lists contain The Towering Inferno nor Earthquake?!? :confused:
 
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12 Angry Men is a rare classic that gets even better when viewed through a 21st century lens. Most movies lose a bit of their shine in modern context, particularly when you consider the sexual norms of the day (Connery Bond forcing himself on anything in a skirt, for instance).
 
FadeToBlack&Gold said:
12 Angry Men is a rare classic that gets even better when viewed through a 21st century lens. Most movies lose a bit of their shine in modern context, particularly when you consider the sexual norms of the day (Connery Bond forcing himself on anything in a skirt, for instance).
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Tying in with the baseball thread:
Juror #7: You a Yankee fan?

Juror #5: No, Baltimore.

Juror #7: Baltimore? That's like being hit in the head with a crowbar once a day.
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SonofSouthie said:
Terminator: Dark Fate (1st trailer)

https://slate.com/culture/2019/05/terminator-dark-fate-trailer-hasta-la-vista-reboots.html
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Speaking as someone who likes all the Terminator films in some capacity (and obviously to various levels) this looks good. I think people need to calm down about how this looks so much better than the other films based on this trailer...it looks exactly like them outside of having Hamilton in it and Cameron listed as producer.

I am in for it.
 
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Handyman said:
Speaking as someone who likes all the Terminator films in some capacity (and obviously to various levels) this looks good. I think people need to calm down about how this looks so much better than the other films based on this trailer...it looks exactly like them outside of having Hamilton in it and Cameron listed as producer.

I am in for it.
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I will not CALM DOWN!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;)
 
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At least they didn't have Linda use the line, "Come with me if you want to live!" when she stepped out of the SUV :p

This is one that I'll wait for some trusted reviews before plopping down cash for it...
 
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Most movies lose a bit of their shine in modern context
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I literally could not disagree more. This is exactly, exactly wrong.

One of the greatest values of older movies is they're a window onto a different mindset. They are one of the precious few chances we have to escape the bleak conformity of currentism. Even in reading old books we plow most of the sense under, rewriting it with the plodding sameness of our Weltanschauung. There is nothing more boring and soul-destroying than the anesthetic gas of our values and norms that surrounds us and is so unconscious and unexamined we're not even aware of it.

A contemporary director has to be a genius to actually look at the world differently than the universal brainwashing of the times. An archaic director only needs to have captured their own age succinctly. The irritation and the feeling of being akilter when viewing these movies can be generated by even a marginally decent film. Think of just how f-cking weird something like King Kong is to us. It's as far from the lowest common denomination of our culture as German Expressionism was from it. That's part of what makes it so interesting. It's anthropology.

It's important to remember that everything we think is just a phase. In 50 or 100 years people will view our artifacts and be offput by how weird and screwed up we seem compared to them -- not because they're better but just because the reroll of the cultural die has generated new seed values.

It is all just hemlines.
 
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