Posts by Patrick Martin

Nah, there’s zero chance of that happening here. These guys are actually playing chess while everyone else is playing checkers.

cosmiclynx57 said:😂🙂...honestly, you should be the one kicking things off since, for crying out loud, you started the thread

and then you'd just have that one single post before the whole thread goes bye-bye,
that's just how things go, man ☕

Rush, Prisoners, Gravity 👍

OGF 👎

analogpanther55 said:Honestly, it’d be a damn shame if you skipped over the 1960 version of The Magnificent Seven just because of that one thing. Seriously, don't let it trip you up.☕
Man, I gotta tell you, I’m actually pretty jealous. It would be absolutely killer if you could just hit a reset button on your brain and experience all those movies for the first time again. Total dream scenario.😍

Man, I’ll get around to checking that out when I actually have a spare second. 😘

Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef, and Gene Hackman

Holy crap, man, I was cracking up during that Tucson sequence 😂

Seriously, this is easily the most epic one in the Western Trilogy. It’s hands down the best, too—even though the whole North vs. South thing is basically just background noise for the actual story here.
I think I just watched Eddie Wallach's performance for the first time, and honestly? I'm done. I don't ever want to see him again. I can't risk ruining the absolute perfection he pulled off here. You just don't get lightning in a bottle like this twice.

Man, what a career-defining role. 🙏
Clint is just on another level.

Sergio Leone is a straight-up genius behind the camera. I've gotta sit down and marathon his entire filmography now. No question.

That scene where they're running circles in the cemetery? Totally out of this world. 🙏
And those battle scenes... man, the sheer number of extras, plus the costumes and sets were just top-tier. 🙏

The soundtrack is phenomenal. Like, you can't even decide which track from the trilogy is the best. It's all gold.

☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆☆

Look, it’s fine, we all know you totally flooded 🙂

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coppersailor28 said:Exactly. They should have shown that scientist immediately going out to pet that first-ever alien "snake" 🙄

You wanted to stroke her head? Ha! What a load of absolute garbage.

He was just trying to bait some kind of reaction, prove he actually exists—that’s the classic move scientists always pull when they're desperate for attention. But here's the kicker: even he doesn't realize just how dangerous she really is.

coppersailor28 said:The sequence... and that manufactured tension (which doesn't even exist at this level in the film, given how it handles previous situations compared to the intensity shown in the trailer/since the movie isn't a direct continuation of those specific scenes)...

What is a trailer if not bait?

The whole franchise is messed up because of the sequencing🤷

And where does it say the sequence has to match the movie exactly?
As if they’re gonna sit there and summarize the entire plot from A to Z in bullet points for us, right?🙄

Besides, the tension builds perfectly fine in the trailer, just like it does in the actual flick.☕

coppersailor28 said:The sequence... and that manufactured tension (which doesn't even exist at this level in the film, given how it handles previous situations compared to the intensity shown in the trailer/since the movie isn't a direct continuation of those specific scenes)...

What is a trailer if not bait?

It's "bait" when they take the absolute best scenes from an otherwise hollow movie.
This trailer didn't even come close to hitting its best scenes, let alone trying to.

Where's the red part?
It’s looking way more pink 😬

James Perez3 said:Prometheus is definitely my number one. Honestly, I was all about that After Earth vibe when the first trailer dropped, but then the actual movie? Ugh, barely made it through. It was such a struggle to sit through.

Look, Prometheus has one of the absolute best trailers ever made,
what kind of lies are we even telling here? Total garbage.

Prometheus full length trailer [HD]

Can someone please tell me what's supposed to be fake about it? Or where the bait is?

Timothy Taylor42 said:I can't believe a total cinephile like you hasn't sat through this at least three times by now.

It totally slipped under my radar,
honestly, I have zero clue how or why I missed 🤷

but in a weird way, maybe it's actually better that I haven't experienced all that magic yet.

Finally got around to watching the Western Trilogy.

Honestly, it’s better than just some random cash grab by a few percent—I’m actually speechless at how much I loved this. These movies are absolute masterpieces; their influence is massive. Sergio Leone is officially moving into my top tier of directors, right up there with the legends. This is pure filmmaking school. It’s so simple, yet hits like a freight train.

That feeling at the end... 🙏 🙏 🙏 thank you mister leone thank you 🙏 🙏 🙏

music 👍

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Honestly, it feels like the producers just forced him to cash in on the franchise as fast as possible, even though the sequel,
is slightly more polished, still felt like a total grind for me.

James Wan really needs to take a breather, man. The guy has serious talent, and it would be such a damn shame if he just completely lost his edge and went downhill.

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Andrija Čordaš

man, this is enough to make you weep...

They seriously need to film some mindless, trashy commercial where she’s just whipping around and riding horses in a gladiator chariot
set against these wild waves made of literal gold Hollywood coins,
and she’d be striking that signature pose of hers in those massive stilettos
where she just looks absolutely unhinged, like she’s lost her damn mind 😵

(I'm done, peace)

frozenraven39 said:Anne Hathaway isn't some cookie-cutter cash grab from modern Hollywood, because
a) She's an actress who really cut her teeth in British cinema before hitting the big time here.
B) "New Hollywood" refers to a specific era, roughly from the late 60s through the early 80s. That was basically the last time you could find actual auteur-driven films being made in the States. That whole movement got shut down after those massive flops like Ciminov's Gates of Heaven and Coppola's Coppola, which convinced the big studio suits that giving directors total control was way too risky. After that, they pivoted toward chasing blockbuster franchises—stuff they can churn out endlessly just to guarantee a return on investment. It’s kind of ironic since the shift actually kicked off with one of the New Hollywood heavyweights, Spielberg, and his hit Jaws. So yeah, "New Hollywood" has absolutely nothing to do with the modern Hollywood trash this post is complaining about.

Man, you really shut me down there. 🙏 🙂

I've been following her (sort of) since Pearl Harbor
and ever since then, she just can't seem to shake that... let's call it a "suggestive" look off her face.🤷,
And alright, fine, maybe "modern corporate Hollywood" is a better way to put it than what I said earlier
but whatever, I think I made my point pretty clear the first time around.☕

Casey Cox2 said:This easily lands in my top 5 Henry fund movies of all time. Those blue eyes... what a killer role for him:
Claudia: absolute knockout:
Best conducted soundtrack ever, hands down.
Definitely Leone's best work—just a notch ahead of for a dollar more.

totally ☕

Man, all those looks they give each other 🙏 🙏 🙏

Honestly, you can't even tell which one of those four is the best.

I’ve sat through my fair share of movies in my time—tons of 'em, really—but this one? This one hits different. It’s something else entirely.
It’s like these characters aren't even acting, you know? Like they actually exist, like everything we just saw actually went down,
somewhere out there in the past...

Man, I just can't get this movie out of my head, it's driving me nuts

The lighting, those shots, the characters, the actual plot... everything about it

Man, I am absolutely stoked—finally sat down and actually watched it. All I ever remembered from being a kid was that killer opening sequence; I never actually finished the rest because, let’s face it, I was just a hyperactive brat back then and long-form movies weren't really my vibe. So, I never gave it a fair shake until last night.

I'm definitely going to be diving much deeper into Sergio Leone's work from here on out. ☕