Movies

[sunday]

25 minutes ago, Yama said:

No way Jose!

I did not say anything.

[Stuart Galbraith]

2 hours ago, Yama said:

Jaws 3 better than 2? No way Jose! I'd also disagree with Temple of Doom being as good as Last Crusade.

Also for me, second Batman was way better than first (this applies both to original and Dark Knight trilogies).

I quite liked Jaws 2. Particularly when he ate the Helicopter. I wouldnt say it was the best jaws film mind.

Yeah, last crusade I think was better than the previous 2, which I think owes a lot to Connery.

[Yama]

Jaws 2 is okay in my books except for a fact that it doesn't do anything new compared to first, just does everything bit lamer. Jaws 3 tries new things to its credit, unfortunately all these new things blow.

I think Last Crusade is ever so slightly overrated - some of the scenes are way too long, and ending with the knight is quite silly. But I agree it is one of Connery's best roles, if not the best. Temple of Doom looks pretty racist by todays standards, and Indy's sidekicks suck, but it is more colourful and exotic than LC.

 

[Stuart Galbraith]

Apparently its quite good, though Ive not seen it. Personally im going to miss OJ getting blown up.

[Ivanhoe]

I have a hard time believing that we needed a Naked Gun remake, though if anyone can pull off the deadpan humor it'll be Neeson.

 

[NickM]

12 hours ago, Yama said:

Jaws 2 is okay in my books except for a fact that it doesn't do anything new compared to first, just does everything bit lamer. Jaws 3 tries new things to its credit, unfortunately all these new things blow.

I think Last Crusade is ever so slightly overrated - some of the scenes are way too long, and ending with the knight is quite silly. But I agree it is one of Connery's best roles, if not the best. Temple of Doom looks pretty racist by todays standards, and Indy's sidekicks suck, but it is more colourful and exotic than LC.

 

I hated Temple of Doom,, not just for the icky faux Indian cooking but I was visiting Sweden at the time and to chaperone my buddy's middle school aged sisters and their girlfriends to see it 4 or 5 times. All the squealing and flailing about in terror left me bruised 

[Stargrunt6]

3 hours ago, NickM said:

I hated Temple of Doom,, not just for the icky faux Indian cooking but I was visiting Sweden at the time and to chaperone my buddy's middle school aged sisters and their girlfriends to see it 4 or 5 times. All the squealing and flailing about in terror left me bruised 

That was like me with War of the Worlds with Tom Cruise.  Hearing Dakota Fanning shatter glass got old.

[Tim the Tank Nut]

two notes:

The trilogy meter does not have The Lord of the Rings trilogy maxed out in blue.  This is an error.

Second, while I respect Liam Neeson trying to fill Leslie Neilson's shoes is simply suicide.  It isn't possible.

 

At a later time, Liam Neeson will be able to say: "I realize that, now".

[NickM]

13 minutes ago, Stargrunt6 said:

That was like me with War of the Worlds with Tom Cruise.  Hearing Dakota Fanning shatter glass got old.

Except this was in person.  The default for Swedish middle school girls was to hug each other when frightened or at least hold hands..  I was seated between them so hands from the right, hands from the left. I got smacked silly

[Ivanhoe]

3 hours ago, Stargrunt6 said:

That was like me with War of the Worlds with Tom Cruise.  Hearing Dakota Fanning shatter glass got old.

A classic proof that Hollywood knows nothing about human behavior. Children go silent when in danger, its a survival thing from a million plus years of evolution.

[Stuart Galbraith]

For any writer, the lesson is to create as much conflict as possible ,because conflict creates drama. The problem is, and you can see this in scores of dire TV programmes and unsucccessful films, is when they try to create conflict and drama when the circumstances are inherently dramatic anyway, and make it over the top.

I can recall a drama made about the medical bay of HMS Victory in Trafalgar some 20 years ago, and they STILL tried to create heightened tension via conflict. There they are, below the waterline in a bloody wooden ship in a sea battle, like you need to add more already?

 

Edited August 1 by Stuart Galbraith

[NickM]

16 hours ago, Ivanhoe said:

A classic proof that Hollywood knows nothing about human behavior. Children go silent when in danger, its a survival thing from a million plus years of evolution.

But Newt only screamed when she had to==it probably explained why she survived as long as she did. 

[Stargrunt6]

On 7/31/2025 at 1:49 PM, Ivanhoe said:

A classic proof that Hollywood knows nothing about human behavior. Children go silent when in danger, its a survival thing from a million plus years of evolution.

*takes long drag from cigarette, flicks ashes*

It's just their usual antinatalist propoganda.  They want to convince America that kids are a massive inconvenience, especially during a crisis.  The next step is to create the crisis.

*flicks cigarette*

[Tim the Tank Nut]

As the man says:

"Please disperse, nothing to see here.  Please disperse."

[Stargrunt6]

Savage

 

 

[Ivanhoe]

https://pagesix.com/2025/08/16/entertainment/gal-gadot-says-pressure-to-speak-out-against-israel-caused-snow-white-movie-to-flop/
 

Quote

 

Gal Gadot revealed she believes the “pressure” placed on celebrities to speak against Israel played a role in her Disney film, “Snow White,” tanking at the box office.

“I was sure this movie was going to be a huge hit. And then it happened,” she said, referencing the Oct. 7 attacks, in a clip from her interview on Israeli TV.

The video which started circulating on social media Friday showed Gadot speaking to a room of young people where she explained her stance on the controversial film.

 

Hollywood continues its ongoing failure to "read the room."

 

[Stuart Galbraith]

The Lord of the Rings sequel we never knew we needed.

 

[Stargrunt6]

On 8/17/2025 at 10:44 AM, Ivanhoe said:

https://pagesix.com/2025/08/16/entertainment/gal-gadot-says-pressure-to-speak-out-against-israel-caused-snow-white-movie-to-flop/
 

Hollywood continues its ongoing failure to "read the room."

 

No amount of bondo was gonna save that turd though.  Sir Laurence Olivier's AI ghost couldn't pull that show out he gutter, even if Steven Spielberg was directing and John Williams was doing the soundtrack.

[Stuart Galbraith]

The 1978 remake of 'The Big Sleep'

 

[Ivanhoe]

I'm still waiting for someone to make a good Chandler movie. 

[Stuart Galbraith]

It's not bad, though I think the original was better. But yes, I think it fair to say Chandler fans are still waiting for a definitive version.

[Stuart Galbraith]

Oh, and here is farewell my lovely. its very good, but its still not quite...

 

[Ivanhoe]

Mitchum was well past his prime. Marlowe was in his 30s, more or less, and still athletic. 

[Ivanhoe]

So this could be good;

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1312221/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_1

Directed by Guillermo del Toro. 

Ordinarily I would be tempted to see it at the local theater, but the cashless ticket thing is such a monstrous hassle that I am more likely to wait until it hits the streaming channels. 

 

[DougK]

Fifty-five years ago I was screwing around between H.S. and the Army when an early TV news documentary like "Sixty Minutes" or "20/20" aired this story from 1969. There was a riveting 20 segment on "The Strange Last Voyage of Donald Crowhurst", the mysterious entrant in Golden Globe round-the-world single-handed yacht race. It was real ghost-ship-at-sea drama. 
Then, I arrive in VN and there are often boxes of free, overstock books for the taking. One of these was the book by the same name as above, which I read (and still have, but it emits a yellow cloud of suspcious composition when you thumb the pages now).
Then, with most of the principals still living, a GREAT documentary history decades later was done. I approached it with some trepidation, but it really lives up to the story, tragic though it is.
So, it's here in it's entirely if you can't find elsewhere.
 

 

Edited October 5 by DougK