Movies

[Archie Pellagio]

Spy game is one of those funny movies that for all the terrible hollywood-ness of it all, manages to nail some things so well.

 

Same for that Colin Farrell/Al Pacino movie 'The Recruit'

[Stargrunt6]

Just saw Spy Game by the same director, totally unrealistic ending but overall worth watching. Robert Redford completely steals the show.

 

He does. And I really liked that they didn't go all "action hero" with this movie. A guy like Redford's character is going to do what he knows best: forge documents and faxing them. Wait, was that a spoiler?

[Stargrunt6]

Just saw "Tangled" last night. Very fun and well-done movie from the mouse. The old drunk was my favorite character (as usual?).

[Doug Kibbey]

Newish "Wolfman" with Benicio Del Toro and Anthony Hopkins. Nuthin' special. "Wolf" was much better as a film, and Michelle Pfeiffer as the babeage.

[Stargrunt6]

Russel Crowe wants another "Master and Commander" movie. Loved "Far Side of the World," I hope they do another one. They still have that French ship to go after (I know, it was originally American).

[Rubberanvil]

Bah, they should just make Battlefleet Gothic movie...

Pre-dreadnought's in space in infinitely better then dreadnoughts in space.

Closest you are going to to a War Hammer 40k BFG movie is Ultramarines: The Movie and cut scenes from 40k Firewarrior, and other WH40k games.

 

 

Russel Crowe wants another "Master and Commander" movie. Loved "Far Side of the World," I hope they do another one. They still have that French ship to go after (I know, it was originally American).

Should have been done when they had the whole gang together right after the first one.

Edited December 8, 2010 by Rubberanvil

[Fritz]

Didn't know Ultramarines was finished, anybody seen it? Is it any good?

[bojan]

Didn't know Ultramarines was finished, anybody seen it? Is it any good?

 

From what I have heard voice acting is good, everything else sucks.

[Jim Martin]

Went over to Dad's and watched Tora, Tora, Tora with him for Pearl Harbor Day. That movie never gets old.

[JWB]

Went over to Dad's and watched Tora, Tora, Tora with him for Pearl Harbor Day. That movie never gets old.

Same for Patton for which there is a new 2 disc remastered soundtrack just released.

 

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/12/03/PKA71GFSA9.DTL

[Corinthian]

Caught the second half or so of the movie Defiance. I dunno how accurate the last bit was (I figured it's typical Hollywood ending), but the film looked quite good.

[X-Files]

South Park & Cthulhu

http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s14e12-mysterion-rises

[Doug Kibbey]

Same for Patton for which there is a new 2 disc remastered soundtrack just released.

 

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/12/03/PKA71GFSA9.DTL

 

But it's just the soundtrack, which I take to mean, music only, given all the hype for Jerry Goldsmith.

[Ivanhoe]

Defiance was pretty good.

 

I picked up The Happening (another Night Shamalayan film) out of the $5 bin at Wally World. Should have been in the $1 bin.

 

 

I would love to see another M&C film, regardless of how much the writers butcher the novel storylines. Beats the hell out of Hollywood's incessant remakes-of-remakes.

[Jim Martin]

Insomnia last night (can't wait to go back on days) had me watching The Magnificent Seven, The Green Berets, and finally Ben Stein's documentary, Expelled. It's an interesting documentary, regarding the refusal of academia to allow discussion of Intelligent Design in the classroom. The people Stein interviews are not proselytizing fundamentalists, but serious scientists, molecular biologists, geneticists, all who have had themselves silenced or ostracized by academia in general for raising questions about the things we're learning about the functioning of life. A good number of the scientists said that straight-up Darwinism, undirected evolution, left a lot of holes in modern knowledge; one scientist said if you get some molecular biologists together for drinks, after 3 or 4 they'll admit that the field is "in crisis" due to so many unknowns, yet they will not allow debate on the idea that perhaps there was some direction, some engineering, involved in life function. A big "?" is howintheheck did life even start? Nobody has a good answer for it, some weird theories, Dawkins discusses Panspermia (where space aliens seeded us), but that still leaves the question of where THAT life started. None of the people interviewed were espousing Judaeo-Christian Creationism, they were suggesting that we are leaving out some possibilities to explain some unexplainable things in biology and nature. Also delves into bioethics, and where atheistic Darwinism took us in the first half of the 20th Century. Hitler wasn't the only eugenecist, only the most enthusiastic and energetic....

Edited December 15, 2010 by Jim Martin

[Stargrunt6]

Insomnia last night (can't wait to go back on days) had me watching The Magnificent Seven, The Green Berets, and finally Ben Stein's documentary, Expelled. It's an interesting documentary, regarding the refusal of academia to allow discussion of Intelligent Design in the classroom. The people Stein interviews are not proselytizing fundamentalists, but serious scientists, molecular biologists, geneticists, all who have had themselves silenced or ostracized by academia in general for raising questions about the things we're learning about the functioning of life. A good number of the scientists said that straight-up Darwinism, undirected evolution, left a lot of holes in modern knowledge; one scientist said if you get some molecular biologists together for drinks, after 3 or 4 they'll admit that the field is "in crisis" due to so many unknowns, yet they will not allow debate on the idea that perhaps there was some direction, some engineering, involved in life function. A big "?" is howintheheck did life even start? Nobody has a good answer for it, some weird theories, Dawkins discusses Panspermia (where space aliens seeded us), but that still leaves the question of where THAT life started. None of the people interviewed were espousing Judaeo-Christian Creationism, they were suggesting that we are leaving out some possibilities to explain some unexplainable things in biology and nature. Also delves into bioethics, and where atheistic Darwinism took us in the first half of the 20th Century. Hitler wasn't the only eugenecist, only the most enthusiastic and energetic....

 

BTW, a BUNCH of people (including myself) had insomnia last night, I have no idea why.

 

Good to know that movie was better than how most critics rated it. I took a class in Evolution, and it was taught by one of the most rational, fairminded profs out there. We of course got into Darwin, but talked about the holes in the theory pointed out by Stephen Jay Gould. The latter was one of the greatest scientists in our time, but of course you don't hear much about him (btw, he was an atheist himself).

[Jim Martin]

BTW, a BUNCH of people (including myself) had insomnia last night, I have no idea why.

 

Good to know that movie was better than how most critics rated it. I took a class in Evolution, and it was taught by one of the most rational, fairminded profs out there. We of course got into Darwin, but talked about the holes in the theory pointed out by Stephen Jay Gould. The latter was one of the greatest scientists in our time, but of course you don't hear much about him (btw, he was an atheist himself).

 

 

The only problem I had was that they only showed outtakes from his interviews with these guys. I'd have loved to be able to sit in on them in their entirety. Very smart guys talking about very interesting questions. Classic remark from one of the microbiologists: "Dawkins? Very smart. A little reptilian, but smart."

 

The interview with Dawkins left me feeling much the same way. There's something rather snakelike about his demeanor.

Edited December 15, 2010 by Jim Martin

[Archie Pellagio]

The only problem I had was that they only showed outtakes from his interviews with these guys. I'd have loved to be able to sit in on them in their entirety. Very smart guys talking about very interesting questions. Classic remark from one of the microbiologists: "Dawkins? Very smart. A little reptilian, but smart."

 

The interview with Dawkins left me feeling much the same way. There's something rather snakelike about his demeanor.

 

[Stargrunt6]

People who knew him personally say he's changed a WHOLE lot. They say he's more bigoted and stuck up these days, esp to clergy or anyone religious. Probably ever since he started seeing Mr./Ms. Garrison.

[Corinthian]

Saw this last night on TV. One of the worst movies I watched.

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1182921/

[Doug Kibbey]

Saw this last night on TV. One of the worst movies I watched.

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1182921/

 

The synopsis and cast should have been a big tip-off.

[RETAC21]

This should help you clear the bad memories, Tomas:

 

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099622/

 

They will be replaced with even worse memories.

 

 

[Ivanhoe]

Speaking of bad movies, y'all reminded me of this classic; Liquid Sky.

 

Here's the trailer;

[Mike Steele]

Speaking of bad movies, y'all reminded me of this classic; Liquid Sky.

 

Here's the trailer;

 

We could have a thread on "Bad Movies we have known"

like this one:

[Doug Kibbey]

We could have a thread on "Bad Movies we have known"

like this one:

 

 

Now just a damn minute there! We're talking about '50's classics, we can't judge those masterpieces through modern (or adult) lenses.

 

 

I nominate pretty much anything with Dolph Lundgren in it.