Super Sweet Movie Discussion Thread

[Devildoc]

Bought a few movies that I've been wanting to see.


Casino Royale is the best Bond movie since Die Another Day, I'll have to watch the rest of the Craig movies. Also watched Man on Fire, great movie. Sometimes I forget how awesome Denzel is then I watch a movie of his and it all comes back to me, need to get around to watching Book of Eli, The Equalizer and Fences.

All excellent movies. As for Bond, my fave of Craig was Skyfall.

I am waiting for Mile 22:

 

[CQB]

continuing my temporary Tom Cruise man-crush. If you are a fan of the films, this is 30 minutes well spent. Dude has seeds....

Your man crush is well deserved. I saw MI5 today & I was really gobsmacked by the stunts, due to TCs' involvement, let alone his technical savvy which is evident in the clip. The Paris car chase was really cool & I particularly liked the reverse handbrake turn down a little flight of stairs, (not in the clip) but that didn't prepare me for what came after. The Kashmir helo sequence was amazing. Due to insurance, the leads don't usually do their own thing, but cheat certain aspects. The fall from the chopper & the overall sequence therein looked about as real as it gets. Given his age, this may well be the last you'll see of TC doing a lot of his own groove thang, but perhaps a pared down version. Five stars for stunts alone.

 

[amlove21]

Damn it. I sometimes feel like I agree with @AWP too often, so in respect @SaintKP I did a side-by-side comparison.

But come on man....Olga Kurylenko is not even in the same league with Monica Bellucci, much less the amazing Eva Green.

Watch Hitman, then punch yourself in the face. Monica Bellucci is 137 years old.

Eva Green- I got nothing. She's an angel.

 

[Poccington]

I would crawl through a mile of broken glass just to hear Eva Green fart through a walkie talkie.

Real talk.

 

[Blizzard]

Olga, Monica, and Eva are good looking (I'd take Olga from that trio)...but if we're gonna talk Bond girls, then we need to look back further and judge them in the context of their time because there are some absolutely smokeshows in some of the old Bond films.

 

[SpongeBob*24]

Watch Hitman, then punch yourself in the face. Monica Bellucci is 137 years old.

Eva Green- I got nothing. She's an angel.

Watch also Max Payne.

Olga top 10....Eva top 3....Monica..maybe top 10 15 years ago like Matrix Timeframe.

 

[BlackSmokeRisinG]

I am waiting for Mile 22:

Definitely doable.

There's enough explosions in that trailer to get CTE.

**I want to add that I'm weary of Chinese production companies and what it means for futre political influence through media, we have enough idiots getting brainwashed by Hollywood as it is**

 

[SaintKP]

@AWP The people have spoken. Gram Gram Bellucci isn't even in the running. Grannyporn is sooo 2003 and Not Work Safe - . get with the times.

Watched Upgrade, pretty fun movie all around if you liked Hardcore Henry' wackiness and ultra violence you'll like this.

 

[Ooh-Rah]

The people have spoken

Ummm....if you consider @SpongeBob*24 and @amlove21 “the people”....well, you are beyond any help I can offer you.

 

[ThunderHorse]

Definitely doable.

There's enough explosions in that trailer to get CTE.

**I want to add that I'm weary of Chinese production companies and what it means for futre political influence through media, we have enough idiots getting brainwashed by Hollywood as it is**

Sort of like when the UAE fund an anti-fracking movie? Was great that I dated a petroleum engineer a year later and learned how safe fracking is.

 

[amlove21]

Ummm....if you consider @SpongeBob*24 and @amlove21 “the people”....well, you are beyond any help I can offer you.

Yeah- he's right here.

 

[BlackSmokeRisinG]

Sort of like when the UAE fund an anti-fracking movie? Was great that I dated a petroleum engineer a year later and learned how safe fracking is.

For Mile 22 the premise is about some Asian gov't plotting to poison America, which would keep the U.S. population on guard about trusting any Asian politics, but just as easily a decade down the road we could be seeing some anti capitalist, pro-commie BS pushed down our throats.

So many people get their ideas about life from TV/movies and celebrities. Imagine when big Chinese firms partly owned or ran by PRC are putting together screenplays.

 

[ThunderHorse]

For Mile 22 the premise is about some Asian gov't plotting to poison America, which would keep the U.S. population on guard about trusting any Asian politics, but just as easily a decade down the road we could be seeing some anti capitalist, pro-commie BS pushed down our throats.

So many people get their ideas about life from TV/movies and celebrities. Imagine when big Chinese firms partly owned or ran by PRC are putting together screenplays.

I mean it's already happening. IIRC Star Trek was mostly funded by a Chinese company. I wonder how Ocasio-Cortez got her views...

 

[R.Caerbannog]

For Mile 22 the premise is about some Asian gov't plotting to poison America, which would keep the U.S. population on guard about trusting any Asian politics, but just as easily a decade down the road we could be seeing some anti capitalist, pro-commie BS pushed down our throats.

So many people get their ideas about life from TV/movies and celebrities. Imagine when big Chinese firms partly owned or ran by PRC are putting together screenplays.

Flipping love this! Honestly think that our greatest strength and weakness is the American public. If our enemies can't win against us conventionally, they'll just poison our image and demoralize us via misinformation or stupidity on our part.

There was culutral anthropologist (think his last name was Gumpta) that mentioned that cinema was one of pathways in which culture is exchanged. I remember Gumpta not being a fan of western media, as it contributed to the 'mcdonaldization' of world cultures or some shenanigans. Anyways, considering how successful films like Rambo and Rocky have been in spreading American culture, it makes perfect sense for our adversaries to want to get in on the movie making racket.

 

[Ooh-Rah]

Yeah- he's right here.

Are we talking in third person now?

 

[AWP]

@AWP The people have spoken.

The people are idiots.

 

[Deleted member 2517]

The people are idiots.

#electoralcollege

 

[Gunz]

So Quantum of Solace is the weakest of the Craig films. But it objectively, by all quantifiable forms of measurement has the best Bond girl. It's not even a contest.

I really enjoyed the rest of the movies though and Skyfall was gorgeous/amazing.

1. Casino Royale & Skyfall
2. Spectre
3. Quantum of Solace

Spoiler

But only because of my future ex wife, olga kurylenko

I think the Craig/Bond films are the best ever. I rate them:

1. Casino Royale
2. Skyfall
3. Spectre
4. Quantum of Solace

My problem with Spectre was Christoph Waltz. He wasn't scary. He'd been over exposed since Inglorious Basterds...Green Hornet, Horrible Bosses II, Django Unchained...and the stupid dentist chair just to inject Bond with a needle?

Waltz couldn't revive the sinister menace he absolutely killed in Inglorious Basterds.

 

[Deleted member 2517]

Mile 22 was very good, or to put it more academically- “badass as fuck.” Sure it has a 21% on the Tomato Meter, but it still features a dude getting his throat slit on a broken window and Maggie from Walking Dead is the depressed crazy woman of my dreams. Oh and Marky Mark finally got rid of his “Dorchest-a kid” accent (I know I shouldn’t besmirch my own people but it had to be said). Also B Co 1/75’s old 1SG runs the company that did the advising and training for the film.

 

[Ooh-Rah]

Anybody go see The Meg yet?

Worth checking out in the theater?