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crandc said:
Finally saw Good Morning Vietnam. One of Robin Williams's best. Funny, but serious subject. Not easy to do, treating serious subjects with humor often trivializes them.

Watching Hurt Locker.

Next on list is Zero Dark Thirty but how many consecutive war movies can I watch? Flipping order to see Dead Poets Society.
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Good Morning Vietnam is probably the only good movie that I've seen Robin Williams do.
While I was over there I listened to Adrian Cronauer as an Air Force DJ in Vietnam.
 
Rastapopoulos said:
"Cunt" is used gender-neutrally in England (and Australia, I believe). It's basically a more offensive version of "dick". Probably the first time I heard it was when I was 11 and one of my friends went up to an older kid (about 15 or 16) and said "Excuse me - are you wearing Harmony Hair Spray". "You cheeky cunt!" was his response, and he chased us halfway around the school.
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I was in my 70s the first time
 
Lanny said:
Good Morning Vietnam is probably the only good movie that I've seen Robin Williams do.
While I was over there I listened to Adrian Cronauer as an Air Force DJ in Vietnam.
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Amazing.
 
I Was a Male War Bride, undoubtedly Cary Grant's funniest movie and perhaps the funniest movie of all time. Cary Grant once declared it his funniest movie and that's saying something.
 
SlyPokerDog said:
Wrath of Man - Guy Ritchie - Worst Guy Ritchie movie ever! Void of Ritchie's dialog, plot twists, and dry sense of humor. Really feels like he had one last movie to make to fulfill his contract or something. It's very average revenge movie for the genre buy you expect more from a Ritchie movie. 5/10.
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It is a pretty generic revenge movie but it was well done. I liked it better than The Gentlemen.. But I've never been a huge fan of Ritchie's usual style, with a couple exceptions. Snatch being the main one.
 
Rastapopoulos said:
I forgot Burn After Reading - THAT'S Brad's best...
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Fightclub gets my vote for his best work but I haven't seen his Hollywood Tarantino movie yet ...
Pitt said in an interview with Ed Norton that Fightclub is the best movie he's ever made in his own opinion.
 
In the last month:

Army of the Dead - 3.5/5
I love Zack Snyder's style. The opening sequence was phenomenal. Great action sequences. It's rare when an action movie gets you invested in more than one or two characters, and this did that with minimal dialogue.

Tenet - 3/5
I finally got around to watching this recently and was pretty disappointed. I'm not a movie goer who absolutely needs to understand everything, but this was just too abstract and didn't make up for it in other areas. It's not horrible though.

Bacurau - 4/5
Brazilian movie, starts out weird and kinda slow but picks up and finishes with a bang.

The Hitman's Bodyguard - 3.5/5
I only watched this because the sequel is coming out soon and there's still slim pickings with movies to see. It was much more enjoyable than I was expecting from the reviews. It's your typical action comedy but Reynolds and Jackson have great chemistry and the action sequences are decent.

A Quiet Place Part II - 4/5
Just a fantastic sequel.
 
VanillaGorilla said:
In the last month:

Army of the Dead - 3.5/5
I love Zack Snyder's style. The opening sequence was phenomenal. Great action sequences. It's rare when an action movie gets you invested in more than one or two characters, and this did that with minimal dialogue.

Tenet - 3/5
I finally got around to watching this recently and was pretty disappointed. I'm not a movie goer who absolutely needs to understand everything, but this was just too abstract and didn't make up for it in other areas. It's not horrible though.

Bacurau - 4/5
Brazilian movie, starts out weird and kinda slow but picks up and finishes with a bang.

The Hitman's Bodyguard - 3.5/5
I only watched this because the sequel is coming out soon and there's still slim pickings with movies to see. It was much more enjoyable than I was expecting from the reviews. It's your typical action comedy but Reynolds and Jackson have great chemistry and the action sequences are decent.

A Quiet Place Part II - 4/5
Just a fantastic sequel.
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I'll echo what you said about The Hitman's Body Guard.
 
crandc said:
Watching The English Patient, and I always knit while watching TV, realized how hard it would be to knit without thumbs.
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What does that have to do with the movie? Does the movie have a Nazi SS officer in it?
 
crandc said:
Watching The English Patient, and I always knit while watching TV, realized how hard it would be to knit without thumbs.
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That's a great movie....I watched Razor's Edge again the other night....another movie I really love.
 
The Handmaiden, not to be confused with The Handmaid's Tale. Rather confusing as everyone was double crossing everyone else plus having to follow subtitles. But I liked the ending.
 
My mom had never seen Burn After Reading, so I watched that with her the other night. Was a little awkward when Clooney unveiled is homemade sex machine, but she thought it was pretty funny. It's up there with The Big Lebowski as far as comedies go. Any film suggestions in that same sort of vein?
 
Shaboid said:
My mom had never seen Burn After Reading, so I watched that with her the other night. Was a little awkward when Clooney unveiled is homemade sex machine, but she thought it was pretty funny. It's up there with The Big Lebowski as far as comedies go. Any film suggestions in that same sort of vein?
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Coen brothers comedies:

Oh Brother!

Fargo!

Hudsucker Proxy!
 
Just saw In the Heights. Really fantastic. Exuberant, fun, happy.

And we saw it in an actual theatre! Woo hoo!
 
Just watched Rob Roy again. Hadn't seen it in a long time. Loved it, loved it, loved it even with all the emotion control in it.
 
I watched Pixars "Inside Out" a few weeks ago and it is honestly one of the most brilliantly done movies I've seen.
 
I watched the precurssor to the Mel Gibson movie "Payback". It was titled Point Blank and starred Lee Marvin and Angie Dickenson.
 
Best Enemies with 'Sam Rockwell...true story of a KKK leader in Durham SC and an integration activists.in 1971..powerful story of how we made one of the first leaps in racial integration from a surprising source....Highly recommended but it's not a hollywood movie at all...brilliant film
 
The Salesman. In Farsi with English subtitles. Tells story of husband and wife pair of actors in Iran who are starring in production of Death of a Salesman. Shortly before opening night, the woman is attacked in their apartment. The man then works to learn who did it and why. Tells what happened when he found out.
 
The Captain
A true story about a German WWII private deserter who happens to find a German half track shot up by allied airplanes and a dead Captain. The guy puts on a Captain's uniform and impersonates a Wehrmacht Captain. He is successful by telling people he is on a mission directly from Hitler. He is so successful that he is able to enforce Nazi law including murdering about a hundred prisoners that were deemed Wehrmacht deserters. He even makes others believe that he is more important than about five other Captains that he finds in control of the small prison camp.
He is eventually found out and at a tribunal where they are so impressed with his ability to restore some sort of order that they let this 21 year old private go.
There's more but I've got to some of the story.
There's another story The Captain but it's a fictional account of a Chinese airline pilot that is really lousy.
I enjoyed the first The Captain and it showed the horrors of war.
 
Anyone here have The Criterion Channel? They have a Judy Holliday collection, and I'd never heard of her but have fallen in love. Ranking the ones I've seen:
1. Born Yesterday (she beat out Gloria Swanson (Sunset Boulevard) and Bette Davis (All About Eve) for the Oscar, and deserves it)
2. It Should Happen to You (with Jack Lemmon's first film appearance)
3. The Solid Gold Cadillac
4. Phffft! (second team-up with Jack Lemmon)
5. Bells are Ringing (musical with Dean Martin - tragically she would die of cancer shortly after this was released)

Check 'em out - perhaps start with The Solid Gold Cadillac - it's a good taster.
 
Lanny said:
I watched the precurssor to the Mel Gibson movie "Payback". It was titled Point Blank and starred Lee Marvin and Angie Dickenson.
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Surprisingly psychedelic! An early John Boorman (whose films only got weirder, especially Zardoz:
 
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