Movies Talk! What have you watched lately?

[Cadeauxxx]

Watched Cop Land recently. Can't believe I never seen this movie as it had an all star cast for 1998. Featuring Stallone, DeNiro, Harvey Kietel, Robert Patrick and even some other lesser famous actors like Frank Vincent having a part in it.

Great underrated movie. Pretty accurate depiction of small town police corruption and how they take over towns. Stallone can act, pretty surprised this movie was met with negative reception when it first came out.

[TLMorgan]

A few movies I've been watching doing our quarantine time;

Bloodshot: Wasn't too bad. Not as much action as I thought would be in it.

Invisible Man: Saw it in theaters, but rented it again. A great movie 

Just Mercy: A great true story movie and I prefer Brie Larson was a blonde.

Been watching a lot of 80's and 90's action movies as well.

[TLMorgan]

I watched Chris Hemsworth's new movie Extraction on Netflix and it was great in terms of action, but the story was a bit weak.

[Nidhogg]

Sorry for necroing, but I reasoned it was best to use the existing movie-thread instead of creating another one.

Watched Ti West's X last week. I really liked that someone found back to making gritty and sleazy 70/80's horror movies again. It's nicely shot, it's got a great cast and has lots of gore (although I don't think it went nearly as far as it should). Since it's produced by A24 people will no doubt be expecting something "deeper", but it's a pretty straightforward slasher.

It stars Mia Goth, Jenna Ortega and Brittany Snow, and in style of the eighties "sexploitation" flicks X pays homeage to, they aren't afraid to show off their bodies.

[NBK_Throw]

Watched "Sorry to bother you"
Such a crazy random film lol idk what the hell was happening but it was brilliant.

[Nidhogg]

Nightmare Beach



I'll never stop loving cheesy eighties slasher movies. So much fun and creativity, not to mention shameless fanservice. You can always bet on the killer having the weirdest motivations and murder weapons (an electric-chair motorcycle!).

[Viri]

Top Gun Maverick is good

Go see it

[Cadeauxxx]

With the news on James Caan's passing, I wanted to make a quick post about the movie 'Thief'.



Thief is a forgotten 1981 crime movie directed by Michael Mann (his first movie). It's probably more notable to synth nerds for the score by Tangerine Dream.

Caan plays a thief, as the title suggests. True to Michael Mann's style of film making, there's an incredible attention to detail with lighting and specific details that wouldn't catch your eye at first. Caan underwent firearms training to do this movie (before Mann produced Miami Vice and put his actors through that). The highlight of the film is the heist sequence which I won't spoil. The attention of detail comes up multiple times in this scene especially.

Willie Nelson and James Belushi are also in this movie. It's pretty funny to think that this movie came out 41 years ago and even back then Willie Nelson was being called an old man.

RIP James Caan, you will be missed.

[Nidhogg]

This was fucking hardcore! If you're familiar with movies like Funny Games, Killing Ground and Eden Lake you should know what you're in for. It's the epitome of "feelbad" filmmaking that will destroy your soul and ruin your day.

It's very satirical though, and I suspect some of the aspects will fly over the heads of non-Scandinavian viewers, especially when it comes to character motivations and reactions of which I've already seen some criticism.

[Nidhogg]

Everything I wanted from an Evil Dead movie. It's my favorite movie franchise, and they've yet to deliver a weak instalment.

Kind of a heartbreak too as the movie deals with a family-situation.

[TLMorgan]

Been watching a couple of horror movies every night. Last night I watched Saw 4 and a movie I haven’t seen since the 90s called Campfire tales with James Marsden, Amy Smart, and Christine Taylor from Hey Dude.

[Sign54]

I saw Smile 2. Naomi Scott with short hair is so yummy.

[Cadeauxxx]

I've been watching classic movies for the past few months with my girlfriend. She reminded me of Turner Classic Movies still having a channel on cable TV that shows full length movies commercial-free and uncensored. Most of these are from the golden era of Hollywood.

Every week, we spend at least one night together watching a classic movie and then spend the weekend talking about it.

My favorite era of films was always the 30s-50s. The Film Noir era had a huge influence on my writing when I was first starting out. So I am fortunate to get a reminder of this recently, and a bit of a 'back to basics' thinking on character driven narratives.

Anyways, enough of my rambling. I want to talk about this fucked up movie we found this week.



Conflict is a movie from 1945 with Humphrey Bogart in his prime, just a few years off from Casablanca and The Maltese Falcon. Enough articles are out there about his important movies that made him a legend, but he left behind a massive filmography with stuff that don't get talked about much. This is one of those gems that is overlooked and worth checking out if you like classic Film Noir.

Bogart plays a married man who has become bored in a stale marriage to the point that he's openly lusting for his sister-in-law (played by Alexis Smith)

Instead of getting a divorce and trying to pursue his wife's sister, he hatches a lazy plan to murder his wife in a car accident in the woods. He escapes the wreck with only a broken leg, yet don't call the police to inform them of what happened. With his wife out the way, he can now try to hook up with her sister.

What follows next is a series of events that leads Bogart into thinking his wife has a spirit haunting him or she may have even survived. Sydney Greenstreet is in this too and has some good clips of screentime.

This is the kind of movie that modern Hollywood would never make, so you don't have to worry about it ever being remade. It's an incredible movie though and worth checking out.

[DanielO]

I couldn't live without Turner Classic Movies. If you love noir you should check out Noir Alley, which TCM airs every Saturday night at midnight, then replays Sunday morning at 10 AM. Host Eddie Muller introduces and gives the background on each film, some classic, some minor or obscure, always worth watching.

[Cadeauxxx]

I couldn't live without Turner Classic Movies. If you love noir you should check out Noir Alley, which TCM airs every Saturday night at midnight, then replays Sunday morning at 10 AM. Host Eddie Muller introduces and gives the background on each film, some classic, some minor or obscure, always worth watching.

All the classics are on there.

I used to collect these movies on DVD when I was younger. I was obsessed with classic films, mainly Noir and timeframe of the 30s to the 50s. There's an alternate universe where I never picked up erotic writing and went straight to noir.

Watching TCM again has had me re-discovering my love for old films and all the vintage stars.