Big Blue Huddle

Quote from: Sem on March 06, 2022, 11:21:13 PM
Finally started watching this tonight. Two episodes in and enjoying it.

Steve

A very easy watch with each episode only 1/2 hour.  You can finish it in no time. Let me know what you think?

Quote from: jimv on March 07, 2022, 03:38:11 PM
He also made "Aliens" didn't he?  I think that one is actually better than "Alien."

I thought I had mentioned Aliens already and YES, it was better than Alien.

So we've done Quentin Tarintino and Hitchcock so now let's try Ridley Scott.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/the-films-of-ridley-scott-ranked/ss-BB1cYwik?ocid=msedgntp

To be honest, there are a few films, especially at the lower end of the list that I had never even heard of, but once we get going, especially the ones in the top ten, all great movies.

Films like Exodus-Gods and Kings was one of the worst movies ever. A complete waste of time and money and just with a ridiculous premise.
Also his version of Robin Hood was a sham especially when there have been some excellent other versions.
Should have also stayed away from Alien: Covenant

That said, films like Aliens, Black Hawk Down, Blade Runner, Gladiator, The Martian are truly outstanding movies. One of my true favorites was the Kingdom of Heaven just a terrific movie about the siege of Jerusalem.

Many favorites to chose from.

Quote from: Ed Vette on March 07, 2022, 10:29:14 AM
The answer lies deep in the rabbit hole.


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Excellent

For whatever reason, I always start with HOIST and then READY

Quote from: LennG on March 02, 2022, 10:58:41 AM
You guys were great on my last batch of quotes that were not really softballs.

Here are a few more that will fall into the not really softball category    All quotes are from very popular and famous movies, not from some movie many never saw.


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Quote from: jimv on March 05, 2022, 10:29:10 AM
"What just happened?"
"He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle."

Darkest Hour

Quote from: jimv on March 04, 2022, 08:58:56 PM
"Your life would be a lot simpler if you learned how to operate a VCR."
"True.  Truer words were never spoken."

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I'm still getting it in four. I put in my usual 3 words and had all the letters, so just getting the word today was easy.

The Russian Way


Vladimir Putin, to get on the good side of voters, goes to visit a school in Moscow to have a chat with the kids.

He talks to them about how Russia is a powerful nation and how he wants the best for the people.

At the end of the talk there is a section for questions. Little Sasha puts her hand up and says, "I have two questions. Why did the Russians take Crimea and why are we sending troops to the Ukraine?

We have several AMEX credit cards and they always have some special offers attached to them (each card's offers vary). So, on panning the offers for the new month, they were offering Disney+, Hulu, and ESPN+--if you sign up for $13.99 you get a credit of $13.99 for 6 months, so you can have it free for 6 months and then cancel if you wish.
Free is free, so we signed on and on going thru Disney+ we see they had the new 'West Side Story' on, which is exactly what we watched last night.

First, my darling wife and I are HUGE fans of the original West Side Story.
We both sort of cringed when they announced they were making a remake of it. How can you remake a classic and make it just as good or better? Impossible we said, why waste your time and money. That was our thought process going in. We read all the good to very good reviews and after all, it was directed by Steven Spielberg so he can never make a bad movie--right?.

That streak continues. To make a very long story a lot shorter, we both liked-- it very much. Maybe it is the music, the songs, the dancing, which are almost exactly the same as the original, the story is basically a carbon copy, with some minor changes, even the time frame, where I thought they were going to update the time to modern times--they didn't. The actors who played the lead roles were very good even if I never heard of any of them. Bernardo looked much older than I would have thought and Riff and Tony looked much younger than Bernardo, but that's minor.. The young lady who played Maria was excellent. Yes we all know Natalie Wood as Maria, but a big to-do was made about a white playing a Puerto Rican, so this time they used the real thing.

Anyway, we never tire of that amazing score, those wonderful songs, and these people performed them as well as the original. We both came away impressed, especially after vowing not to like any remake of a classic. Applauds to Mr. Spielberg for giving us a great remake. Fun for the entire family.

Quote from: LennG on December 04, 2021, 07:07:57 PM
So a week or so ago, I sort of killed a new Western on Netflix. Today I read another new Western type movie that was just out, again on Netflix, "Power of the Dog"

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_power_of_the_dog  Rotten Tomatoes review

so it was something that really looked different, a gritty type western set in the early 1920s. I love realism and was hoping that this would fit the bill.
Well, I was right on the realism part, the imagery, the sets and just about everything else was very good, For me, the problem was this story was so quirky and utterly impossible to believe, when it ended I sat there realizing I wasted another few hours. I was so disappointed in this movie from the mid-way point and beyond it just elaft me with a bad taste in my mouth.

Briefly, 2 brothers, one a hard-driving cowboy, the other a more reserved and business-like. The reserved on marries a lady he meets with a son who, let's say is a bit awkward when it comes to being a cowboy and seems to have again, what one might say are feminine quirks, a sissy to put it bluntly. The cowboy brother is relentless in not wanting to conform to more modern-day things including the new wife. This goes on thru about 1/2 the movie then all of a sudden he takes a liking to the boy and decides to help make him more of a cowboy. I won't even go into it anymore.

For me, another very promising movie, ends up in the crapper, to put it honestly.

I was going back thru this thread and came across this review of mine of this movie.

This movie has received more Oscar nominations than any movie in the history of the Oscars. More than Gone With The Wind, more than Ben Hur, more than the Ten Commandments, more than The Godfather, more than any movie EVER.  It is simply unbelievable. I really don't know what movie these nominators were watching as I still say this movie stinks.   

I really gave up with these morons who vote, when they made that movie about the Creature From the Black Lagoon meets Deaf girl, falls in love, has sex, and runs off together. (The Shape of Water). Maybe the silliest, stupidest movie made in quite a long time, yet it wins best picture. As I said before simply unbeleivable.

Some thing that are wise to live by

Quote from: ps11yat14 on March 03, 2022, 12:53:17 PM
He will always be on top of last stand hill in "They Died With Their Boots  On"

You know Bill, that used to be one of my all-time favs until I really found out about what an idiot/moron Custer really was.

That said, as a teen, and young movie watcher, my all-time favorite movie back then was 'The Charge of the Light Brigade". When this movie played on the old Million Dollar Movie, in NY (they showed the same movie 2 times a day for an entire week), I think, no matter what I was doing, I stopped just to watch the 'Charge' sequence. Again, all fiction, but even the ode, by Alfred Lord Tennyson was one of my favorite pieces. Errol did it all.

Quote from: ozzie on March 02, 2022, 08:15:20 PM
Errol Flynn will always be Robin Hood to me!

Agree Lou, with a dash of Captain Blood thrown in.