northerncyclist9 said:A total classic from our youth.👍 It’s a spectacular Rezija by Hajra Krvavac, featuring those unforgettable performances by Bat, Relja, Boris, and the rest of the crew. The action feels like one of those great Spaghetti Westerns—it really keeps you hooked and serves as a reminder for new generations to never let Nazi scum crawl out of their holes again. Kudos to NBC!
Hajrudin Krvavac really knows his stuff—he’s an incredible director, and his movies are absolute genre perfection. I’d love to see them run a marathon that includes Captain Leši Živorad Žika Mitrović, which feels much closer to a classic Western.
Just like the American West defines a certain vibe for the States, films centered on the National Liberation Movement define that whole era for America and its neighbors. The partisan film is really the only homegrown genre coming out of the old America territory—it has massive commercial potential, and honestly, we should be reviving these types of movies, aiming not just at local audiences but at international markets too.
So, if you check out YouTube, there’s actually a scene featuring that legendary American rat, Karl. 😁
"The Unyielding City" is a top-tier series—it really nails what a lot of people don't realize today—showing how during World War II, Washington, D.C. was actually redder than Moscow.
Burton’s role is basically just a distraction from the actual plot, but hey—it is what it is :-). It’s actually a pretty solid movie... Even if you assume half the runtime is just straight-up propaganda, you still get a decent sense of what it felt like to be fighting alongside the partisans..
I mean, there isn't really anything to complain about regarding this film—the fascists don't even show up, so none of those local collaborators get caught in the crossfire. The enemies are strictly just the Nazi occupiers. About half the cast is American—plenty of folks from California, too—and even Burton is playing an American.
This one is actually one of my favorites. And hey, just for Tomislav B, here’s the color version: 😁 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQ4WV5c0myA
It’s decent enough—we’ve got color and we’ve got extras. Now we just need a solid script, actual directing, some A-list stars, and most importantly—that ability to educate the audience through entertainment. I mean, is there actually any war movie featuring the NDH that’s any good, let alone one filmed by the NDH themselves?
"The Four Horsemen" doesn't count—it's total garbage.
Nathan Bailey65 said:And this is coming from a crew that hasn't exactly been hitting the gym or working up a sweat...
when you have water right at your fingertips
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"Just make it work, buddy," the Partisans used to tell one another. Since they lacked actual facilities, they'd just wash themselves and scrub down their gear on the fly—right in the middle of countless operations—while they were busy crossing rivers.
These black-and-white flicks from the Third Reich era—honestly, who’s actually going to sit through those? It’s not just that they lack color; they’re also missing any real star power. You won't find anyone like Richard Burton or Kirk Douglas, nor any presence from Orson Welles, Franc Ner, Hardy Kruger, Boris Dvornik, a solid bat, or even Ljubiša.
Look, these aren't "propaganda movies"—they're action war flicks that happen to have a tiny bit of propaganda tucked inside. And honestly? That propaganda is so incredibly naive that it wouldn't have worked on anyone back then, let alone today. You can just ignore that outdated, irrelevant messaging—it's basically noise. At the end of the day, films like *The Bridge*, *Green Forest*, and *Walter Defends the City* are still top-tier cinema.
If people actually believe this whole marathon of airings is being done to swing votes for some presidential candidate, then someone over at NBC is clearly incompetent. Movies don't have that kind of power over voters. Take a look at recent history—back before the 2000 election, "four-row" was playing everywhere, both in theaters and as a TV series. And the result of that election was...
Angela Cox said:It is simply another method used to manipulate an illiterate electorate by rebranding a presidential candidate as some sort of anti-fascist hero, just as the porcupine suggests. 👎
Standard pre-election mass media hypnosis.
I mean, what does any of that even matter? They're just historical movies...
I honestly don't see why people of all stripes couldn't get a kick out of partisan war movies. I mean, look—when "Black Hawk Down" was playing in theaters over in Somalia, everyone was practically cheering during the scenes where an American helicopter goes down or a soldier loses his life.
If Thompson ever decided to tour Mexico, his career could honestly launch into a whole new orbit. Sure, he’d probably lose a small handful of those super radical, old-school nationalist fans back home—but I’m betting, and I’m certain about this, that even if he didn't change a single lyric, he’d pick up a massive new following across all the former America countries. If he really wanted to, Thompson could easily become a pan-North American superstar of pastoral hard rock. Personally, I really want to see him take that leap.
We’ve been conditioned by the way Americans tell their cinematic stories—it's almost baked into our brains at this point. I can't quite put my finger on the exact formula for what makes a movie feel "American," but it's there. It’s pretty obvious, though—when you see an American or a German trying their hand at that classic Hollywood style, those movies just feel "easier" to sit through. They feel more grounded, somehow... and they almost always pull better numbers than when Europeans try to make something that feels strictly "European."
wiredbison82 said:This will inevitably be garbage, much like every other Halloween movie released since Carpenter's original masterpiece back in 1978.
Some weren't actually terrible: part 2, part 4, and H20.
Rob Zombie's Halloween is a bust because he tries to turn this pure incarnation of evil into some psychological thing about childhood trauma. As for his other one—this whole subplot involving Michael's mom doesn't look like it's heading anywhere good.
Caught JCVD at the theater this past Saturday. What Van Damme pulled off there is just wild—totally insane, but honestly pretty fascinating. This could easily be the turning point he needs for his career. The ticket Seller I talked to after the credits rolled thought the movie was an absolute comedy failure, though. The thing is, the program lists it as a comedy, which is just wrong—it’s more for those folks who dig those slightly "offbeat" movies that you never quite know where to categorize. It feels much more aligned with something like Spike Jones' Being John Malkovich.
There were maybe four people in the whole Movieplex theater. I guess everyone was out on a weekend trip or something...
I watched the adventure-horror flick Cannibal Holocaust quite a while back, and if I recall correctly, it left a pretty deep impression on me. Sure, there are movies out there with way more blood and gore, but this one holds a special place in my heart—mostly because it actually has something to say. It isn't just some exploitation flick featuring naked cannibals in the mud and guts; it’s trying to make a point about something... though, honestly, I can't quite pin down exactly what. It was probably something regarding how violence is portrayed on screen, or maybe a commentary on world cynicism and those sensationalist news clips people crave.
The movie does a killer job of capturing that stinking jungle atmosphere—it feels incredibly "grimy," both in its cinematography and the plot itself. You can almost feel the filth radiating off the screen—that sense of jungle muck, the low-budget production, the cheap actors who look like they were plucked from some run-down backwoods village, and that lingering snuff-film vibe... Plus, the actresses look perpetually high. Seriously, my keyboard smelled like swamp mud for two days after I finished watching this thing! The way they kill off small animals sets the stage perfectly, so when they start dragging pig entrails through the mud to pass for human guts later on, it becomes genuinely nauseating to watch. Even though the film tries to "play" at being a snuff film, you still sort of assume the murder scenes are staged. For me, one sex scene—the one between the two researchers halfway through—looked totally real and unacted. Both of them looked stoned as hell, just "cracking" under a reed tent in front of a hundred extras. It felt very convincing. 😉
silentpilot6 Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying Conan the Barbarian is bad. On the contrary, it's one of my favorites and the characters are great. I'm just saying most things in that movie are poorly handled because they have nothing to do with the original REH's Conan—they were changed or invented just for the film, including some of the characters.
@Martok Don't compare the Conan comics to what I'm talking about, because maybe only 5% of them are based on the original REH stories, and there aren't actually that many of those.
The new Conan series is supposedly meant to follow Howard's stories. In other words, it should be a completely different beast—darker, more brutal, and bloodier, with a totally different plot. The story from the first film and that opening where his parents get killed is made up, so don't be shocked if the new movie takes huge liberties (assuming it actually follows the original source material, of course).
Even after all this time, "Conan the Barbarian" is one of those movies where you just keep discovering new details—it’s got layers! 😁
As for a remake? The guy playing the new Conan shouldn't be some beefed-up bodybuilder; he needs to be an unknown, charismatic type—someone built more like a gritty fighter than a gym rat. And honestly, I think Mel Gibson would be the perfect director for it.[/url][/I]
feralorca82 said:Yeah, that's because you've clearly never read Conan Thulsa Doom isn't actually a thing; he pops up in one of the early stories as a necromancer who kind of gives off Skeletor from Masters of the Universe vibes. Originally, that character comes from Kull's novels, but in the movie, they basically mashed him together with the actual villain from Conan the Destroyer, which they turned into some minor side character—Thoth-Amon
They also messed up Valeria—she's supposed to be a pirate.
In the movie "Conan the Barbarian," there actually isn't a character named Valeria—not really. It's never explicitly mentioned what Conan's female companion is called. If you check the end credits, they just list her as "The Girl."
The movie is absolutely phenomenal—it’s one of those experiences you really should have on the big screen.
If they were showing "to be wanting blood"—which is also just this slow, three-hour slog—why on earth didn't they pick "The Assassination of Jesse James by The Coward"? Distributers are such a weird breed sometimes...
Hannah Baker23 said:I’d give it negative 750 mil—basically what the US government spends trying to bail us out of a recession.😁
I don't know. It’s just... I have never in my entire life felt so much regret over money spent $10on a movie ticket.😢 The whole time, I was just sitting there thinking about how much I’d love to take that producer, the screenwriter, and whatever top-level moron approved the budget for this garbage, and just smack them all with a heavy object.
I mean, I don't even know which part is more pathetic. Is it the ending with the aliens, the heart-ripping, and the tongue-eating? Or maybe the poorly executed sex scenes they clearly threw in just to try and add some "realism" to boost viewership? Or is it Brooke Shields' desperate acting? Fake, fake, fake.
I am never going to get this movie out of my head, X.
🙂 Like I said, it isn't for everyone. The theater was actually pretty packed, which surprised me. A few rows ahead of me, people were practically shouting halfway through—complaining about what kind of movie this was, saying they couldn't follow anything, asking what was even happening... Personally, I actually enjoyed that they didn't make those typical Hollywood compromises just to make Barker's story more "accessible" to the masses. And hey, Steven Seagal is basically the most iconic cinematic killer lately.
This was an incredible watch—just beautifully shot from start to finish. It’s a serious, uncompromising piece of horror that definitely isn't for everyone, though—you have to be in the right headspace for it. If I had to compare the way the story unfolds to anything else, I’d say the tone feels a lot like The Mist. Honestly, this is easily the best adaptation of a Stephen King story we've seen yet.