briskhound2 said:I was just waiting for someone to bring him up. 😁
I believe we’ve already had a brief debate regarding DK 😁. Look, when a movie jumps to the number one spot on IMDb right overnight, knocking the godfather and Shawshank off the pedestal, the bar has been set extremely high. Batman Begins is barely even in the conversation at this point. 😛
p.s. please, let's not spiral into questioning IMDb's credibility.
George Alvarez3 said:Maybe he wanted a little less philosophy and a little more action, haha. You know how hard it is for audiences to follow along these days.
Interesting, though I was actually expecting the exact opposite.
I’ll maintain my stance: this movie should be prescribed instead of antidepressants. I absolutely love it, but the more I revisit it, the more certain flaws start to grate on me:
1.) That subplot involving the little drummer boy feels a bit too saccharine for my taste. 2.) By the end, everyone at the airport is grinning ear to ear, blissfully in love—except for Sarah and Karl. She’s the one who sacrificed everything, spending her entire life caring for her ailing brother, yet she ends up without any romantic connection. Meanwhile, that obnoxious British guy manages to charm several American women just by leaning into his accent. Personally, I think the director threw that in as a deliberate reality check amidst all this sugary sentimentality. 😉 3.) There is a blatant anti-American undertone here. Given that the Italian Prime Minister and the French President struggle to keep their composure in real life, seeing the American President portrayed as such a pushover is quite telling. I suppose Americans are simply the easiest target for resentment. 🤷
Regardless, it remains one of the best feel-good movies out there. 👍
I watched Occupation, and it was alright enough. I also checked out Angel's Bite, which is 🤮 (noting it isn't available here). Lordan mentioned that after watching it, a friend told him, "Fuck Lordan, I wouldn't even let you look at my lungs after seeing that." 😬
I'd really like to catch the End of the Century 🍿-style.
More recent Oscar winners: Gladiator, Braveheart, LOTR, Titanic...They aren't bad, per se, but nowadays when they come on TV, I just change the channel.
goldenhound32 said:While I have a certain amount of respect for Slavoj Žižek, I’ve always been skeptical of analyses that completely ignore the director's original vision.
I recall reading somewhere that certain self-proclaimed "analysts" pushed this theory that the shark was essentially the Jaws symbol of capitalism. I believe Steven Spielberg's reaction was something along the lines of, "Are you kidding me?"
Dennis Doyle3 said:If you haven't watched a single documentary about Adolf Hitler besides this one, then I don't see how it could be considered useless. Look, just because something is bad doesn't mean we shouldn't talk about it. Someone once pointed out that if people are making films about Hitler, why on earth wouldn't they make them about Adolf Hitler too? Poisoning teenagers with something from sixty years ago? Since when is that considered poisoning? What’s your take here—shouldn't we be able to make documentaries about people and events from the past? Or is it only okay to make them if you personally approve of the subject matter? Censorship is never the answer.
I couldn't agree more. We produce documentaries about Stalin, Hitler, and Ceausescu. So why wouldn't we do the same for Pavelić 🤷?
The only real questions are how objective the documentary will actually be—though that’s the gamble with any documentary—and whether the production quality holds up. I have my doubts on the latter, given that Jack Sedlar 😉 is the one calling the shots.
I'll give it a watch, simply because I've never seen a documentary on Pavelić before.
The Rock, The Maltese Falcon, The Third Man, Treasures of the Sierra Madre, It's a Wonderful Life, Casablanca... It is a rather sobering realization that I have managed to include three films starring Humphrey Bogart in this list.😁
Anthony Smith3, that’s an impressive (and exhaustive) list. Every single cast 👍
There is just so much here... He decided on Hot Shots, Airplane!, The Naked Gun, Top Secret!, and Life of Brian. Honestly, I watched most of those films when I was just a kid, so I wonder how much they would actually land for me now 🤷. Though, I suspect they still would...
Mmmmmmm.......Ripley....... I was planning on posting that one image that’s been burned into my brain forever, but it looks like Schwaler beat me to it. 🙂
This time, my humble self is (almost) signing off on your post before even finishing it. So, I went with Stalag 17, Empire of the Sun, The Deer Hunter, and The Great Illusion.
😁 The Great Illusion I haven't watched it yet, even though The Great Escape has been sitting on my hard drive for months. Two and a half hours feels like a massive commitment, and honestly, what am I going to do when I’m already such a lazy slob? 😬 Anyway, first item on my shopping list is... Escape from Sobibor Thanks, briskhound2. I’ve been digging into the actual facts surrounding this event, and I have to say, it's going to be on my watchlist starting tomorrow. 🙂
Edit: Does anyone know of any movies about an escape, or an attempted escape, from the Siberian gulags? The only one that comes to mind is this one: As far as the feet will carry you.Look, a frozen wasteland isn't exactly the ideal setting for an Escape, but I've read that people still managed to pull it off.
Well, just like always, I only realized after the fact that one of the classics was actually available. VictoryTrash, where Sylvester Stallone plays a goalkeeper. Regardless, that movie stuck with me. When I was a kid, I must have watched it five hundred times, mostly because our local TV station played it on a loop like that. It was during the war years, and we’d sit there in the shelter, passing the time by obsessing over stories from the film—like how Pele scored that goal with nothing but a pair of scissors. It’s definitely not a masterpiece, but that movie will always stick with me... Ah, childhood. 😢 😬
To be honest, Stalag 17 is the clear winner here. Though, I haven't seen it in ages, so I really ought to brush up on it. As for the others, I cast my votes for Life is Beautiful, Empire of the Sun, and The Deer Hunter. Mind you, I have to admit I haven't actually sat through most of them.
briskhound2, you should probably run these polls more often. You’ve got a knack for it. 👍