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Movies 52 - 1917: Sonic the Bad Boys of Prey

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Scarlet said:
I forgot about Tequila Sunrise. That was a good movie.
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Body Heat (1981) -- Extremely stupid but loads of fun: Noir Roadhouse

Cutter’s Way (1981) -- Never seen it

Blade Runner (1982) -- Simple genius; the sequel never happened

To Live and Die in L.A. (1985) -- Never seen it

Tequila Sunrise (1988) -- Never seen it

Harper (1966) -- Meh version of the Lew Archer story and why TF change the name?

Point Blank (1967) -- Never seen it

Warning Shot (1967) -- Never seen it

Get Carter (1971) -- Never seen it

The Friends of Eddie Coyle (1973) -- Never seen it

Chinatown (1974) -- Overrated but Jack is highly entertaining

Blood Simple (1984) -- Saw it so long ago I can see it again with no memory

Night Moves (1975) -- Never seen it

Mona Lisa (1986) -- Never heard of it
 
Kepler said:
I've been learning that the reddit Left is just like this. The motto is "Bonum Perfectum Adversarii Face."
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It is not just reddit...but yeah. I always got the feeling that they are addicted to the dopamine shot they get when they mob up on someone who never saw it coming. Like the ones who went after Lin-Manuel Miranda. (who should have never apologized)

The only way to stop this crap is to just not engage with it. They have the attention span of gnats.
 
Handyman said:
The only way to stop this crap is to just not engage with it. They have the attention span of gnats.
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That's probably true. They do it so often everybody except them is tried of it and ignores it. If you wait one news cycle they are on to the next crusade. But if you react then it's the Streisand Effect.

It is mildly surprising that this kind of behavior is common to both the Right and the Left. Typically our higher level of intelligence and education, not to speak of our commitment to facts and fairness, instead of force and money, mean our people behave much better. But we have idiots too.
 
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The Innocents
The Nightcomers

Both films are based off The Turn of the Screw with the former mostly using the novella in whole, while the latter is an adapted prequel based off the same characters.

The Innocents was tremendous. It creeps you out sans gore & violence - a total mind f**k throughout. Possibly in my Top 5 for horror movies all time. The Nightcomers? Ugh. Don't bother.

For TV: Home Before Dark. Not a big fan of Jim Sturgess in this series and the Season 1 finale was clunky, but into S2 now and I've really enjoyed it. Kepler be damned, Brooklynn Prince who plays the main protagonist that is now all of 11 is one hell of an actor. She's got tremendous range, delivery and her ability to convey feelings with facial expressions alone makes her a tour de force.
 
Slap Shot said:
The Innocents
The Nightcomers

Both films are based off The Turn of the Screw with the former mostly using the novella in whole, while the latter is an adapted prequel based off the same characters.

The Innocents was tremendous. It creeps you out sans gore & violence - a total mind **** throughout. Possibly in my Top 5 for horror movies all time. The Nightcomers? Ugh. Don't bother.
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The Innocents is amazing, and Kerr is perfect in that movie.

The worst version I have seen is The Others. I do not understand how Nicole Kidman ever got an acting job. She must have been amazing on the casting couch.

I need to find the cite for this fascinating feminist essay I read on Turn of the Screw. It's brilliant and it goes very deeply into the history of the way the story has been interpreted. It's basically the history of women's mental health treatment in the last century.

The story is a very good read. It's what they mean when they say William James does psychology like a novelist and Henry James writes novels like a psychologist.
 
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Kepler said:
The Innocents is amazing, and Kerr is perfect in that movie.

The worst version I have seen is The Others. I do not understand how Nicole Kidman ever got an acting job. She must have been amazing on the casting couch.

I need to find the cite for this fascinating feminist essay I read on Turn of the Screw. It's brilliant and it goes very deeply into the history of the way the story has been interpreted. It's basically the history of women's mental health treatment in the last century.

The story is a very good read. It's what they mean when they say William James does psychology like a novelist and Henry James writes novels like a psychologist.
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I couldn't believe I wasn't aware of The Innocents until I researched The Haunting of Bly Manor from Netflix. This is a film I will have no problem watching every few years.
 
Slap Shot said:
I couldn't believe I wasn't aware of The Innocents until I researched The Haunting of Bly Manor from Netflix. This is a film I will have no problem watching every few years.
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Bookend it with The Haunting (1963), the scariest ghost story I have ever seen.
 
I would absolutely watch this.

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That is about the only way I would watch it. Or make him one of the crooks who keeps having Deja Vu but can't figure out why.
 
imho some of the more underrated acting roles:

Kevin Bacon - Murder in the First
Jimmy Stewart - Vertigo
Joan Allen - The Contender
Robert De Niro - The Fan
Robert Shaw - Jaws
Robert Mitchum - The Night of the Hunter
Juliette Binoche - Blue
Jeremy Irons - Dead Ringers
Michael Shannon - Take Shelter
 
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imho some of the more underrated acting roles:


Jimmy Stewart - Vertigo
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I can't see this being called an underrated role. It is Stewart's signature character (granted, he's usually the exact same guy) and well celebrated.

I would call Hitchcock's casting of Stewart for that role the brilliant move. It's as if Stewart practices in every other movie for that one perfect role. All the rest of his portrayals of this character, even the great ones (Wonderful Life, Liberty Valance, Rear Window) are cloying but in Vertigo his off-centered aloofness is ideal.

Every time I see Vertigo I am more impressed with Hitchcock. It's a masterpiece. It's the greatest art house film made by an American studio, and it is deeply subversive in that 99% of the people who see it are consciously unaware of what it is doing and yet it reaches them unconsciously.
 
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Kepler said:
I can't see this being called an underrated role. It is Stewart's signature character (granted, he's usually the exact same guy) and well celebrated.

I would call Hitchcock's casting of Stewart for that role the brilliant move. It's as if Stewart practices in every other movie for that one perfect role. All the rest of his portrayals of this character, even the great ones (Wonderful Life, Liberty Valance, Rear Window) are cloying but in Vertigo his off-centered aloofness is ideal.

Every time I see Vertigo I am more impressed with Hitchcock. It's a masterpiece. It's the greatest art house film made by an American studio, and it is deeply subversive in that 99% of the people who see it are consciously unaware of what it is doing and yet it reaches them unconsciously.
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I might be out of the mix but it seems to me that this role is rarely mentioned in the same breath as some of those with most notoriety.
 
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I might be out of the mix but it seems to me that this role is rarely mentioned in the same breath as some of those with most notoriety.
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If you are comparing it to say Bogey in Casablanca, then yeah. But it is in that second tier -- Bogey in The Big Sleep. It's not an obscure or underrated role, IMO.

Stewart is hard, too, because all his roles run together. He's just not a very good actor, which is why Vertigo is so wonderful -- it's made for him. Hitch is excellent at doing that -- Grant in North by Northwest, Peck in Spellbound, Cotten in Shadow of a Doubt, Fontaine in Rebecca, Bankhead in Lifeboat. Every one of those roles has to be that actor -- it wouldn't work with anyone else. The scene in Rebecca where Fontaine breaks the figurine and shoves it in her desk -- for my money the single greatest moment in any Hitchcock movie, as it communicates what hours of scene setting and dialog could only approximate and in a way that stabs you in the heart and puts you completely in her corner for the rest of the film -- would never have worked with any other actress. Imagine how unconvincing and manipulative it would have been for Kelly or Bergman (and how laughably unbelievable for Novak).
 
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Black Widow was very good. Top 5 Marvel I'd have to say. Stay for the end credits. Especially if you've stayed current with the TV Shows.
 
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