Super Sweet Movie Discussion Thread

[TLDR20]

Based on the Mitch Rapp series by Vince Flynn (RIP and fuck cancer).

I have a lot of hopes for this movie, it could be a great series if they do it right. A few things that concern me with modern day Hollywood though:
- The actor looks like a scrawny douche, Mitch was a tall beast.
- Vince made it very clear that Islamic terrorists were a major threat
- I had reservations with Stan Hurley being played by Michael Keaton, Bruce Willis was originally slated. Hopefully Keaton can pull it off.
- Some people are pissed that the incident that makes Mitch Rapp join the CIA has been modernized. I've no problem with that. You had to do that or the story could not take place in modern times.

Fingers crossed. I just saw that Kyle Mills signed a deal to do 3 more Rapp books. It's his series now, I guess.

A few more things that concern me. That movie looks like trash. It is being produced by CBS studios, which makes trash. If Jerry Bruckheimer was doing it, or Ridley Scott, or Peter Berg, I might see it. It looks nothing like the books, which I loved. I hate to be that guy but at least translate them halfway decent...

 

[Blizzard]

I don't go to many movies. But this looks promising:

American Assassin

American Assassin

I just go back to that still shot promo that @Ooh-Rah posted awhile where the dude wasn't even close to using his sights correctly...that sealed it for me before even seeing the trailer. The star, whoever he is, just isn't the least bit convincing. I'm with @TLDR20; it looks like trash. Hard no from me.

On the other hand, I'm checking out Logan Lucky later today... :)

 

[Ooh-Rah]

@Ooh-Rah posted awhile where the dude wasn't even close to using his sights correctly[/QUOTE]

LOL.

I forgot about that, here it is again. My cartoon bubble saw this pic and thought, "that'll leave a mark!"

 

[Devildoc]

Eh. I'll still watch it. Maybe Red Box, though.

 

[Frank S.]

Not even close to 2017, but I could watch this coffee shop scene over and over again. And I do.

I think we are getting very close to exhausting all that is truly exciting to watch this year. So why not mention the 2017 Criterion release of Tarkovsky's "Stalker" (1979)?
Here is a link to a much, much better review of it than I could hope to write:
Why Andrei Tarkovsky’s interminably dull 1979 sci-fi masterpiece “Stalker” is the movie we need right now

The film feels longer than it is. Here is an excerpt from the review:

Mark Le Fanu describes the Strugatsky bros.’ source book as a hard-edged genre piece. “Yet hovering beneath the surface,” Le Fanu writes, “one can discern a difficult-to-define tenderness of outlook.” The same holds true for Tarkovsky’s adaptation.

Le Fanu’s phrasing is curious. Typically things are said to hover over other things, as hydrofoil may be said to hover above the miry waters of a Florida swamp, or Criss Angel, festooned in pewter jewellery and dense coils of bandanas, hovers an inch above a sidewalk on the Las Vegas Strip, for the amusement of some easily-amused tourists. Things don’t usually hover under. Underneath things are more likely to teem or coil or seethe, like those chittering bugs at the beginning of “Blue Velvet.” The underneath is gritty, ugly, hostile, nurtured by decomposing dead things and other stuff best left unseen. Not in “Stalker.” Midway through the film, when Stalker prays for the pliancy necessary to make it through his journey, he looks not towards the heavens but down into a well, into the depths of the earth itself. In “Stalker,” the landscape itself offers a faint promise of our innermost desires registered in mundanity.

The film is composed of about 145 shots only. To those who are given to contemplation, and have an appreciation for Terrence Malik's films, this is great cinema. Tarkovsky is way up there with Bergman, Ford and Kurosawa.

 

[Frank S.]

This looks promising.

 

[Blizzard]

Saw Logan Lucky last weekend. It was entertaining. Funny prison scene. It's worth watching but it's not a run out and see it now movie.

On the other hand, just got back from Wind River. It was out-fucking-standing! I won't say much other than just know it's not necessarily a feel good date movie.

 

[SpongeBob*24]

Lucky Logan is really funny if you are into Redneck humor...and Elvis's granddaughter is beautiful....

 

[Salt USMC]

LOL.

I forgot about that, here it is again. My cartoon bubble saw this pic and thought, "that'll leave a mark!"

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I'm sure that there's a joke about how he's getting sight picture with his third eye or his brown eye or something, but that would require someone far more capable than I.

 

[Ooh-Rah]

Huh. This could have potential....

Last Flag Flying

 

[Red Flag 1]

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[CQB]

Just saw The Kings Choice regarding the King of Norway and his decision to resist Nazi invasion.

 

[Frank S.]

I don't care for Schwarzenegger, but I'll Netflix this:

 

[Frank S.]

Just saw The Kings Choice regarding the King of Norway and his decision to resist Nazi invasion.

Great find. I added this to my saved queue.

 

[Deleted member 2517]

I don't care for Schwarzenegger, but I'll Netflix this:

That looks fucking great.

 

[Ooh-Rah]

This reviewer HATED American Assassin for all the reasons I want to love it. Gives me hope!

http://www.vulture.com/2017/09/american-assassin-is-not-a-movie-we-need-right-now.html

 

[SpongeBob*24]

I been wanting to watch American Assassin for a hot minute...........

 

[Kraut783]

Me too....not what I pictured what Mitch Rapp looked liked while reading the books....but I am looking forward to the movie.

 

[amlove21]

Saw American Assassin and give it a solid 2 thumbs up. Well done, engaging storyline, wholesale slaughter. All around good action flick.

Michael Keaton was GREAT too.

 

[Ooh-Rah]

Saw American Assassin and give it a solid 2 thumbs up. Well done, engaging storyline, wholesale slaughter. All around good action flick.

Michael Keaton was GREAT too.

This post makes me so fucking happy. I've been reading the books for years, thrilled that we might have a decent movie series coming out.