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I mean, sure I did see the movie when it originally came out in theaters, but sometimes I have a hard time understanding why fans of both properties dislike the movie as I wanted to understand what was wrong with the film.

I just realized the movie came out 20 years ago, and it was for that reason that I still had difficulty understanding why the movie was criticized as back then, I sometimes heard criticism from again fans of Alien and Predator, but I would like to know why the movie was a big letdown for them.

Am I alone in thinking that this movie is truly brilliant? The acting, the script and, controversially, the music, is amazing!

Tarantino must have been involved. The film is so on the nose Tarantino that it should be considered a rip off. I love Ritchie, and even this movie, but it just isn't him. Maybe Tarantino wasn't on set every day, but he was all but surely communicating with Ritchie before putting his final touches on it.

I could give dozens of examples from the movie itself, but you all know the similarities. Business wise, Tarantino has some sort of affinity for his "final film" that couldn't be another WWII flick. The writers don't really have the history of something like this, and it even went to distribution through Lionsgate. Finally (and you could blame COVID), Tarantino doesn't wait this long between releases--2024 fits perfectly. Til Schweiger being in both is alsointersting; we know how tight these little circles can be for casting.

Do people really think Ritchie paid homage to his still-living peer with something so perfectly Tarantino. It just doesn't make sense for his career trajectory or fit within his style.

Edit: You can disagree without being a jerk about it.

Not necessarily great films, but those movies where not a SECOND or FRAME is wasted. And it's paced to near perfection.

For me it's Unbreakable.

There are better movies out there but on its own it is a very very good film. But the pacing is excellent. You are hooked from the very start to the very end. Not a single frame or scene is wasted.

What are yours?

In A Quiet Place: Day One, the aliens arrive on earth and land on Manhattan. Manhattan is an island, the bridges are blown up, and the aliens can't swim. How do they make it to the mainland so that the stories of AQP1 & 2 can take place?

I am sure bond lairs are the first thing to come to mind but I am curious if people have others on their radar

how often do two ladies in their 70s carry a movie? Page is phenomenal as a murderous lady of the house and Gordon is always awesome as Page's antagonist.

Page's imperious, haughty shit stirring is just so delightfully hate inducing. Like you just HATE this woman! LOL.

Its not flawless, it drags at times but its is absolutely 100% worth it just to watch Page's masterful performance. Also, no botox, no fillers. These ladies look like...I don't know...regular humans? Instead of weird bloated aliens that too many actresses look like today.

LOVED the ending when Spoilers

Reading about it after the fact, some writers act like there was some kind of revolutionary tornado outbreak at every cinema where it was screened. Obviously the numbers don't lie and it's legacy and impact are far-reaching, but I guess what I'm asking is, did it have the same kind of vibe as something like "The Exorcist", "Smells Like Teen Spirit" or "The Blair Witch Project" where people were like "you've got to check this shit out."?

In 1981, Steven Spielberg and George Lucas (known for their previous work on, "Jaws", and "Star Wars", respectively) made the film, "Raiders of the Lost Ark". It follows the story of Indiana Jones, part-time college professor, part-time adventure hunter, as he tries to obtain a mythical artifact before the Nazis beat him to it.

This was followed by a prequel and several sequels.

I think this is a really good movie franchise with a great spirit of adventure, an impeccable score, and a memorable lead character.

So I was wondering, why is this movie not very much beloved?

We see that other films made by Lucas and Spielberg, like E.T., Star Wars, Jaws, or the Empire Stikes Back, have achieved that status. So why hasn't that been the case for Indiana Jones?

Why has it not sat well with audiences across decades?

Basically I ask because I had noticed that a lot of military movies such as Full Metal Jacket revolve around male soldiers, but then it got me wondering if there was ever a movie about a female soldier who wants to join the military, but has a hard time fitting in because most of her comrades are male.

It can be Any Movie, from The Original Japanese Films from the 1950s to Modern Hollywood with Godzilla x Kong

I'm talking movies like Lost in Translation, the Royal Tenenbaums, Harold and Maude, Her, Little Miss Sunshine; movies that are definitely funny and mostly pretty light but with a pervading air of melancholy. Not really depressing or zanily dark, like Dr. Strangelove or Trainspotting, just sweetly melancholy

As a milsimmer and an appreciator of the armed forces and the men and women who serve, I am oft infected by the camraderie that is present in the armed forces. Whilst I'm certain there are no shortage of good, more serious films, there's a certain itch that I'm having at the moment, namely for comedies, preferably those involving the modern armed forces.

Any suggestions?

Whatever your feelings of the three Ti West ‘X’ films, there’s no doubt that Mia Goth delivered in every way…except MaXXXine.

After rewatching all three films, Mia’s ‘Pearl’ is one of the strongest characters. I feel this because upon rewatching all three films, it was Pearl that stood out. Of course Maxine is still a good character who depicts confidence and drive without the necessity of becoming a Mary Sue, but MAXXXINE didn’t really give Mia Goth anything powerful to work with. Mia Goth acted her ass off on all three roles: old Pearl, Maxine and young Pearl and I believe it’s the Pearl iterations that show Mia Goth as a strong actress.

Pearl depicts the fantasy, the want and desire for a better life but it’s prevented by circumstance and the unfortunate decisions which bring Pearl to her downfall; the murder and hatred of people and animals, but for Maxine there’s not really anyone round her that influences her emotionally or physically, no attachments that Pearl had.

All the scenes we get of Pearl, they show off her deeper emotions on all levels be it whimsical, fantastical, happy, sad, furious and angry. The characters close to Pearl have impact on her. In MaXXXine almost every conversation Maxine gets, Mia never gets to show off the talent nor share any inner feelings other than “being a star” and scenes we get of her with other characters she is tone-deaf and hardly speaks, plus no one really has an impact on her other than her father and even then there’s no emotion.

Overall, I do love both characters for allowing Mia Goth to play in that sand box and eras, but naturally, it’s Pearl that gets the 5/5 character-wise.

Inside Llewyn Davis, a Coen bros. film about a down-on-his-luck folk singer in 1960s New York, is a downer of a movie. We follow Llewyn (Oscar Isaac) for a few days in February of 1961, and nothing goes right for him. At one point, he is invited to record a novelty song as "The John Glenn Singers" with Jim Berkey (Justin Timberlake) and Al Cody (Adam Driver).

The scene in question had me laughing the entire time. Adam Driver is doing these lip acrobatics, singing random phrases in a ridiculously deep voice (OUTER....SPACE), and keeping a serious face the entire time.

The first time I saw this movie, I remember this scene to be amusing, but not necessarily hilarious. So what changed between my first watch and my recent rewatch? Was it Adam Driver going from "Hey, it's that guy from Girls" to "Hey, it's Oscar-nominated actor and Star Wars villain Adam Driver"? Was it knowing that this was the most levity we were going to get in the movie? Did other people find this scene to be as funny as I did or was it just me?

Unpopular opinion but I don’t find sex scenes to be necessary in movies or shows. I have never seen a movie or show where the sex scene furthered the plot in any way. I can think of one: Six Feet Under. To me, that show had very necessary sex scenes.

As someone who likes sex and watches porn, I just don’t see the point.

Do you feel sex scenes are necessary? If so, why?

Do you agree they are unnecessary?

What’s a movie or show with a sex scene(s) that was relevant to the plot?

I've seen people say Yes and No and I want to know which answer is true!!

And why do you consider it cheesy?

Everytime I watch Con Air I’m impressed with how they treat the Reynoli Santiago character of Sally Can’t Dance. Clearly a character that identifies as a woman. Not one of “worst of the worst” members of society ever make fun of her. In fact they all kind of seem to support her. I always thought that was a pretty progressive take for a cheesy 90’s actioner.

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Hope you all doing fine.

I have a question. I know that Fight Club definitely have references to Taxi Driver and King of Comedy: “two of the names Marla lists as his aliases (Rupert and Travis) are the same as the characters Rupert Pumpkin and Travis Bickle from King of Comedy and Taxi Driver respectively.”

Is there any more specific references to Fight Club like the ones I showed?

Recently I rewatched Gladiator, ahead of Gladiator II coming out. And hear me out but – I think Gladiator is basically a sports film. It follows all the rules: Maximus works his way up the "leagues" from Africa to the Colosseum by winning in the arena, and becomes a much-loved popular figure who can use his platform to challenge the emperor, who is himself trying to use sports to make his regime more popular with the Roman mob. He's trained and mentored by a coach (Proximo) and has teammates (Juba and the German guy whose name I can't remember right now).

It's also a lot of other things, too, for sure – a war film, a swords-and-sandals epic, a political and psychological thriller – but it fits the bill for "sports film" extremely well.

I wrote a much longer explanation of why I think it is a sports film here if anyone wants to read it, but essentially: what do you guys think? Sports movie or no?

characters can you think of whose entire personalities revolve around having weird little dicks?

I thought of Fargo, Part 2. Gunderson, Lundegaard, Grumsrud, Scotty Lundegaard, Stan Grossman and Shep Proudfoot are still alive.

I’m not sure why but it is, thanks for reading.

I’m not sure how historically accurate it was, but as a Time Machine which transports us to 1975 New York, I thought Jason Reitman did a brilliant job. It wasn’t quite as funny as I would’ve hoped, but I loved just how tense and chaotic the movie was, and the ensemble cast really fit into their roles for me. Here is my review of the movie: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=UHcmFWuyjQ8&t=0s. What are your thoughts on the movie?

The Man From Earth is one of those movies that keeps showing up in reddit movie recommendation threads.

The premise is simple enough - a limited set film (basically just a cabin and its surroundings) where a history professor is moving on, his academic friends (and a student in an inappropriate relationship with a teacher) throw him a little going away party... and he reveals that he's actually a perfectly regenerating Cro-magnon (so he has no scars), and also no real proof of his claims.

The film was shot on a low budget and I won't give it any faults for that, I've enjoyed plenty of low budget, limited set films.

But this movie just has absolutely nothing interesting to say.
Every one of caveman John's guests exists more to fulfil a role (the doubter, the believer, the religious one, the 'innocent') than to be a character - which is fine as a starting point, but doesn't really grow from there. The religious character, Edith, is also treated without respect - written as a 'Christian literalist' who's hypocritical about what parts are literal - a character who was a Biblical scholar and was aware of comparative religion would have made for a stronger character.

Nobody actually asks interesting historical questions of John, so that side of the premise is essentially wasted.

A bulk of the movie is basically spent on saying "Jesus was just a guy trying to spread his understanding of Buddhism, and the church made up legends later". Sure, fine, I believe that myself (not the Buddhism, just the "just a guy" part), but the movie acts as if this could be some kind of shocking revelation instead of an understanding that faiths tend to have basics of morals/ethics in common.

By the end of the movie, we have no questions left unanswered, either - I won't totally spoil the ending if you've gotten this far, without watching it, but it's made clear to the viewer that John really is who he says he is, and isn't making everything up.

It's a 'philosophical thought experiment' movie... that asks no interesting questions, and leaves the viewer with nothing to think about.

One other negative review I saw suggested it's a "average person's idea of what a smart person's movie is". A movie of nothing but people talking in a room can absolutely be riveting - but this one sure wasn't.

+1 you disliked.

I know this is basically impossible for any of us who are movie lovers, and probably a topic that comes up a lot but I'm always curious what people are liking right now. I'll go first. This is just my top five, with the ranking being arbitrary. I love them as a group.

1. Last of the Mohicans
2. Heat
3. Jackie Brown
4. Mandy
5. Cloud Atlas

Hey guys do you know any nostalgic movies from the 2000s that give you a weird sence of nostalgia. I don't mean comedy movies like legally blonde or 10 Things I Hate About You. I mean more of a feeling i cannot explain like the kind of movies that make you sad about the time that has passed away or make you feel like you will never experience it again like eg. The matrix, Lotr movies, green Street hooligans, life of pi, I robot, kontrol, tron legacy etc. it could also be movies about the future that never came to be. Or time put in a box never to be opened again.

Brilliantly bleak film with fantastic performances and dialogue. Can’t believe I waited so long to watch it but I’m so glad I did.

I need more recommendations that have the same style and atmosphere that this movie has. The movies can be from any era (would love recommendations from the 40s or the 50s).

Thank you!