Movies

[Jett129]

@Giles Had to google it because I had forgotten about all the stuff they did. My response given the current climate in the US,would probably not be Forum appropriate.

[IrishHeart]

@endo in addition to others mentioned:
Michael Collins (1996) based on the life of a leading figure in Irish history at the time of the Easter Rising in 1916
Hunger (2008) about the 1981 hunger strikes with Michael Fassbender playing Bobby Sands

[Chap]

@RobeOfTheMagi said in Movies:

@Chap Is it really worth it if you already know Vol. 1 and 2?

Probably not (unless you are a hardcore fan like my son who went to cinema in his yellow replica Kill Bill leather jacket)

[endo]

Sitting here in the cottage, had a lovely meal, a nice Pinot Gris, and smoked a little weed, and was wondering which film I really want to watch again. Turns out it's Ferris Bueller's Day Off. It's aged well.

[endo]

Goes well with a White Russian, by the way. And, Ferris is kind of the Dude's son, isn't he?

[Bridger]

Both movies consist of scenes that can be watched independently of the rest of the film. There's a hotel in Berlin that has TBL on a dedicated channel on repeat 24 hours. You can turn it on and watch a few scenes at any point, and it makes sense. I think Bueller would work the same way.

[Heritage_Guy]

I just watched Under the Silver Lake and it is a wild neo noir. Personally I love Chinatown and Nightcrawler , any movies set in Los Angeles where the setting is another character in the movie. This movie had a cryptographer listed in the credits and with the nature of the movie there is an active sub reddit with crazy fan theories. I think movies that have legs are great. Another that comes to mind is Primer, the fan theories on that one make you want to keep rewatching. I am going to rewatch Under the Silver Lake again and jump into the rabbit hole. It's on Netflix.

[Matt]

I wasn’t familiar, thanks for the rec.

[mclaincausey]

@endo I showed that one to my 5yo daughter. I’d forgotten the cursing (which I only care about because I don’t want my kid to “corrupt” other, more puritanical parents’ spawn) but, as expected, she loved it.

[endo]

@mclaincausey well done, all my children watched it with me when they were young and they loved it. It emphasizes freedom and joy.

[mclaincausey]

@endo the fact that people in church thought it was a bad influence when I was young supports this truth. I remember there was also a pamphlet decrying the Dead Kennedys because they wanted to “Kill the Poor.”

whoosh

[endo]

@mclaincausey Irony is obviously not the strongest trait of many churchgoers.

[Matt]

Which is in and of itself pretty ironic.

[Matt]

Took my 14 yo and 6 of her friends to the theater last night to see Backrooms. It was intense. The movie was scary too.

[1WayTrip]

@Matt I went to see it the other night. Still not managed to process that film

[SKT]

@Matt saw the trailer last night and it totally freaked us out. I really want to see but the kids not so much

[Matt]

It wasn’t especially gruesome, but definitely tense. You don’t need to watch the original YT videos from the director but it’s fun and adds a little to it. I enjoyed it.

[Matt]

[WhiskeySandwich]

Got pretty psyched when i saw this pop up. Lots of names from the real car scene. Made by and starring the dude who played Han from the fast and furious franchise, not as part of the franchise, but as a indie/grassroots love letter to the scene that they started.

[endo]

Heard a lot about it but only saw it for the first time recently. You have to cut it some slack given that it came out in 1988; some of the dialogue might seem a bit wooden by today’s standards. Above all, though, it’s superbly shot and features a gripping story—told in an unusual way, right down to the ending. I’ve heard the 1993 US remake is crap. But if you enjoy watching older films that have aged well and haven’t seen this one yet, I highly recommend it.