Movies

[bojan]

On 3/1/2025 at 8:48 PM, Stefan Fredriksson said:

Harakiri (1962)....

Fantastic.

Well, as you have noticed, except fight scenes.

[Ivanhoe]

For you fans of Sharknado, Sharknado 2, and Sharknado 3;

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4060576/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_1

Lavalantula

There is also 2 Lava 2 Lantula!

[Stargrunt6]

TN watchstream party to laugh at this thing, when?

https://x.com/nonregemesse/status/1900217535410094563

 

[Stuart Galbraith]

Surprised nobody flagged this up yet.

 

[sunday]

On Bondarchuk's War and Peace

 

[rmgill]

On 9/24/2024 at 5:06 PM, sunday said:

Allow me to disagree - here it is shown how a railway workshop works, plus a lot of signalling. While there is some of the later in Runaway Train, and more modern, no shop works are shown.

The Train, 1964. 

It shows shops, control systems, switching, the works. AND WWII German armored trains, attacks and even shows Burt Lancaster pouring Babbit bearings on a rod bearing. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Train_(1964_film)
 

 

 

Edited March 16 by rmgill

[sunday]

48 minutes ago, rmgill said:

The Train, 1964. 

It shows shops, control systems, switching, the works. AND WWII German armored trains, attacks and even shows Burt Lancaster pouring Babbit bearings on a rod bearing. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Train_(1964_film)
 

 

 

A movie loved by railway engineers, the same as The China Syndrome is loved by nuclear engineers.

[Stuart Galbraith]

The saddest thing of all, all those locomotives were already out of service and given a last hurrah by SNCF. But not a single one of that class was preserved, which considering they came through the real war intact is a bit of a shame.

Saw it over Christmas again, it was an awful lot more intricate and interesting than I remembered it. But then Lancaster rarely made bad movies.

[Stargrunt6]

Blink twice if you need help, Alec.

 

 

[Soren Ras]

Ouch. That is brutal.

LOL. Guess he should have stayed in the Film Actors Guild.

[sunday]

1 hour ago, Soren Ras said:

Ouch. That is brutal.

LOL. Guess he should have stayed in the Film Actors Guild.

He is the FAG!

[Ivanhoe]

2 hours ago, Stargrunt6 said:

Blink twice if you need help, Alec.

 

 

In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk. Rita Rudner

Marriage is an adventure, like going to war. Gilbert K. Chesterton

Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and give her a house. Lewis Grizzard

[Stargrunt6]

That last one killed me.

[Ivanhoe]

If you haven't read Grizzard, he's worth a look.

[Yama]

Mickey 17 was quite good for 3/4th through, but the ending took it down a notch. Not horrible, but it became too underlining and contrived. Up until that it was weird and fun.

Robert Pattinson did great job playing two characters of the same person. It's funny how both Twilight leads were panned for their performances, so that they became sort of industry standard of how not to act, and nowadays they're both esteemed actors.

[Ssnake]

2 hours ago, Yama said:

It's funny how both Twilight leads were panned for their performances, so that they became sort of industry standard of how not to act, and nowadays they're both esteemed actors.

I guess we have to account for the influence of a movie's director. If actor performances are wooden and contrived although they demonstrated capability to do better, there's a good chance that they acted wooden and contrived because the director told them to.

[Ivanhoe]

Also keep in mind that an editor can fix wobbly timing of lines, or ruin perfect timing of lines.

Editors apparently were unable to fix this one;

 

[Stargrunt6]

He who controls the Suez controls the universe. 

https://x.com/Satvik_Pen/status/1903292698229870996

5 hours ago, Ivanhoe said:

Also keep in mind that an editor can fix wobbly timing of lines, or ruin perfect timing of lines.

Editors apparently were unable to fix this one;

 

Aptly put

[Stargrunt6]

 

[Yama]

On 3/23/2025 at 10:53 PM, Ivanhoe said:

Editors apparently were unable to fix this one;

 

Seems to be doing ok in the box office, though. Actually this is a pattern for pretty much all Disney's "live action" remakes, they are panned, and crowds flood to watch. I once tried to watch the new 'Lion King', but couldn't - it was so drab, dull and lifeless. 

I find it quite dumb to mock the new movie for the lead supposedly not being pretty enough, however. 

Edited March 28 by Yama

[Angrybk]

36 minutes ago, Yama said:

Seems to be doing ok in the box office, though. Actually this is a pattern for pretty much all Disney's "live action" remakes, they are panned, and crowds flood to watch. I once tried to watch the new 'Lion King', but couldn't - it was so drab, dull and lifeless. 

I find it quite dumb to mock the new movie for the lead supposedly not being pretty enough, however. 

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/is-snow-white-box-office-bomb-1236170816/

[R011]

One is supposed to think she's "fairest of them all" when compared to Gal Gadot.  She's a very pretty girl, but no.  Now if they had cast someone like Susan Sarandon as the Evil Queen, it would have worked.

[sunday]

6 hours ago, R011 said:

One is supposed to think she's "fairest of them all" when compared to Gal Gadot.  She's a very pretty girl, but no.  Now if they had cast someone like Susan Sarandon as the Evil Queen, it would have worked.

That lead actress would have needed someone like Rosie O'Donnell!

[R011]

10 hours ago, sunday said:

That lead actress would have needed someone like Rosie O'Donnell!

 

10 hours ago, sunday said:

That lead actress would have needed someone like Rosie O'Donnell!

She's still a very attractive young woman.  To say that Gal is clearly prettier isn't exactly scathing criticism.

[Stargrunt6]

https://xcancel.com/vikare06/status/1905659784528908581#m

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