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Old 04-14-2023, 09:32 AM   #14681
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This movie is too sweet.
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Old 04-14-2023, 10:20 AM   #14682
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If you want a good Jimmy Stewart film, check out 'Shenandoah;' both a western and a civil war film.
It’s already on the list. I basically only have the epics, the 2-3 hour blockbusters and a handful of Jimmy Stewart, Richard Widmark, Gregory Peck and Burt Lancaster films left.
I’m saving “Paint Your Wagon” for a drunk day.
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Old 04-14-2023, 10:21 AM   #14683
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Richard Widmark might take a week or two because I have purposefully left him out until now. I just felt like Randolph Scott was clearly the main man so he got most of my attention early on.
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Old 04-14-2023, 10:44 AM   #14684
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Widmark is the man. Randolph Scott can go suck a lemon.

In regards to Gregory Peck, I hope 'The Big Country' is on your list. It also has Jean Simmons and the mighty Charlton Heston in it. Good stuff.
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Old 04-14-2023, 12:10 PM   #14685
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Charlton Heston is the least talented big star to ever make a Western. I’ve got Major Dundee on the list because it’s Sam Peckinpah. Gregory Peck was once my favourite actor from the golden age but I am not keeping my hopes up for his Western output. He has the persona of a carpet bagger, and as we all know the good guys in Western movies are almost guaranteed to be former Confederates.
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Old 04-15-2023, 02:00 AM   #14686
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John Wick: Chapter 3 - 7.5/10

I remember not being so impressed by the first one, and then really enjoying the second one and being excited to see where it went from there..... but then I never watched the third until now.

Rewatched 1 and 2 as well (not today). Think I enjoyed the first one more the second time around, maybe I just "knew what to expect" this time, dunno. Still really enjoyed the second.

Third was good, but I think I still like the second one more. Felt myself getting "tired" at some of the action scenes in the third... but then also others being really freaking sweet....

Will try to go to see the 4th one before it is out of the theaters...
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Old 04-15-2023, 02:25 AM   #14687
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Baby Driver - 8/10

As far as the plot i concerned this is a film we've seen before. Its an amalgam of every chase film we've ever seen. Of course its not the plot that makes this film so good.

What makes this stand out, primarily, its the synchronicity between the visual and the auditory. The complexity of these practical cars and all the moving parts being so tightly choreographed against the soundtrack of this film. And the way the world moves in tune with the sounds. Gun fire being on time with the bass. Doors shutting to the beat. A hundred small nuances that move in time.

This marriage of both senses is outrageous because the bulk of this work had to begin on the page and carry through the entire process. Its an astounding achievement in directing and certainly editing as well. Immediately during the credit roll we're given a pretty lengthy oner (its actually two shots masked as one but the cut is well hidden,) and during this shot we're given a clear taste for what this film is aiming for. Complexity and unity across every available spectrum. Its a big goal. One i think the cast and crew were up for the challenge.

The cast is all standout. Ansel Elgort and Lilly James have a magnetic chemistry that instantaneously inspires you to root for them. John Hamm goes from friendly to menacing on a dime and works at both levels. Id say Jamie Fox took a chracter that on the page is excellent and some how got less out of it though. Id have gladly traded him for more John Bernthol.

Im a huge lover of practical car stunts and the lack of cgi is very appreciated. Just metal on metal carnage. Very appreciated. It would have been cheaper to do most of this digitally and there will come a day insurance companies demand it be done digitally so enjoy every frame while you can.

All said this film isnt about the beats of the story but the rhythm of experience. As far as the chase film genre goes this is very high end work.
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@lock jaw ive never seen john wick 1. Should i?
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I just went through my posts in this thread and if you only count films i was rating for the 1st time and not films that i had previously seen that had come up in conversation in the 16 years this thread has been going ive given 16 films a 10. Seeing a single 10 a year seems high to me. Maybe im not harsh enough.

Was interesting to see some films on first viewing id rate differently now (not just 10s.) And in all fairness the 10s i give to spider-man movies are openly not critical evaluations and are purely running off fanboyism. That would lower my 10s per year .75 which does sound a bit more realistic.

I saw 2 last year though. Rashomon and Ikiru.
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@lock jaw ive never seen john wick 1. Should i?
If you've already seen other ones I'd say there's no need.... it really is just a very very basic movie that just "lays the foundation" for the world...
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No ive never seen any. I would never watch an iterative without seeing the original...maybe on a plane or something...
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Then I would still definitely start from the first one, yeah... it's a pretty quick watch and "sets the tone"
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John Wick is a film for Destor for sure.
Destor once fucked a guy up for life for looking sideways at his dog.
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ive had...many.

my favorite dumb fight story is i used to live in a suburb. nieghbors on both sides. good back yard space but not much to either side. one day ive got the windows open and the dogs out. she was on a runner. tons of room but completely confined into my property. dogs barking. could be a squirrel. i dont think anything of it.

i hear someone say "you come near me im going to kick the shit out of you." i walk aroun the corner and tell this guy he thinks of kicking of my dog ill shove his own foot up his ass. he tells me "you aint gonna do shit." fair enough i guess.

without a second thought i calmly walked up to him. did a go-behind. dumped him on his head. and stretched him until he very literally cried. including making sure the heel of his boot touched his ass.

all the while the guy, who after i suplexed him was now very much i side her radious, was being bitten by my 11lb asshole of a dog. best dog i ever had.

anyways cop shows up. asks me what happened. i spell it out for him. he tells the guy to stay off of and to not threaten to harm my property. and leaves.

If a guy did this to me I’d assume he had already seen John Wick.
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Haha...totally. i'd think the same...same pinch
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I skipped wick because of the dog. I can watch basically anything except bad things happening to dogs
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Yeah! Totally...they don't show anything happen to the dog :wink: :wink:
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I think it did a good job of balancing between characters you're rooting for to survive and those who you want to see get eviscerated.

Unlike the most recent chainsaw massacre, where everyone is awful so you don't even care if anyone dies.
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That’s the worst movie title of all time. So unwieldy…
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I think the guy's 'irl' title was The Vatican's Exorcist, but gotta save that for the sequel.
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Saw "Black Adam". Wasn't bad.
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Counterpoint: Yes it was. Still makes me "mad" to think about it.
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Counterpoint: Yes it was. Still makes me "mad" to think about it.
Can you share your viewpoint? I'm not very familiar with Black Adam or the JSA.
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In the comics it's a complex story regarding the nature of heroism and what it means.

Then the movie it's a barely put together plot where The Rock gets to barely act, kill some generic bad guys, and at the end fight a new generic big bad and soulless army.

If they even TRIED to do a half decent adaptation of the JSA storyline "Black Reign" it could have been amazing, and warranted Black Adam actually having his own solo movie. The fact that they didn't even try and just put the JSA in the movie "just because" was infuriating.
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In the comics:

SPOILER: show
Hawkman and Nabu (the being inside Dr. Fate's Helmet) were both in Ancient Egypt with Black Adam and had a "history" together. But sure, just throw them in the movie and ignore all of that and just barely explain who they are.

In the present day Black Adam joins the JSA for a while trying to prove that he is turning over a new leaf as a good guy. He strikes up a pretty good friendship with Atom-Smasher. Eventually stuff happens and Black Adam decides the JSA isn't tough enough on crime, and he decides to go on his own and he's going to start by taking over his home country of Khandaq and getting rid of the corrupt government.

He convinces Atom-Smasher to go with him, along with a few other young JSA allies. Together they take over Khandaq. Atom-Smasher is morally conflicted about killing, but Adam convinces him via showing him things like women and children in forced labour shops.

The JSA naturally find out and go into Khandaq, wanting to stop Black Adam and also t reclaim Atom-Smasher and their other young allies and try to get them back on the right path and away from Black Adam's influence.

They battle in the streets, and the people of Khandaq take Black Adam's side because he liberated them from the terrible corrupt gov't. The JSA even start to wonder what they are doing here, are they the good guys... but Hawkman tells them Black Adam has to be stopped, he's seen him unleashed in ancient times and knows what Adam wants...

Eventually the fight is only stopped by Atom-Smasher, who has been conflicted the whole time, convincing everyone to stop fighting and making Black Adam promise to just stay in Khandaq and not expand his "campaign of justice" to other countries like he was saying he would.

But in the movie, let's just replace the "legitimate" rulers of Khandaq with a literal gang of criminals who took over because that is less morally troubling than attacking a nation's army and institutions. Then let's jut ignore all the complex moral stuff with Atom-Smasher and just toss him in the movie too. Then instead of really focusing in on the relationships and the whole "nature of heroism"/"what is too much, what is too little, what can we do, what can't we do" quandaries, let's just toss in a generic demon big bad for Adam to fight and clearly just be "the hero".

Maxine Hunkle didn't exist at this point in the comics and was probably also just tossed into the movie because they wanted a female member of the team and couldn't put in Stargirl. It was good to see her, especially since she also didn't exist for like a decade until she was brought back recently.
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In the comics it's a complex story regarding the nature of heroism and what it means.

Then the movie it's a barely put together plot where The Rock gets to barely act, kill some generic bad guys, and at the end fight a new generic big bad and soulless army.

If they even TRIED to do a half decent adaptation of the JSA storyline "Black Reign" it could have been amazing, and warranted Black Adam actually having his own solo movie. The fact that they didn't even try and just put the JSA in the movie "just because" was infuriating.
That's a reasonable take
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This is lockjaws greatest cinematic disappointment and i respect that
I really love the JSA, so to see them tossed into this movie, not treated with any sort of respect, and probably having it ruin the chances of any sort of future JSA movies/content really "cheeses me off"
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The Fablemans (2022) - 9/10

Out of the nominees for best picture of 2022 i can say with relative ease this was it and its a travesty it got completely snubbed. Spielberg has made a career out of making movies. Great movies too. Some say Jaws stands as a perfect movie. Then there's Close Encounters of the Third Kind/ET/Indiana Jones/Jurassic Park/Saving Private Ryan etc etc etc just a string of wonderful movies.

Spielberg has gotten serious a few timesand ventured out of movies and into film. The previously mentioned Private Ryan, a telling of his fathers war. Again in Schindler's List, a telling of his people's war. The Fablemans is his telling of himself. Its without question his most personal picture and he does it by making a really intimate movie that works in the light way that he likes but in a very serious dramatic level and its able to nimbly weave through these lanes at will.

And it mages to capture whats special about film. How it exposes truth. How it delights. How it inspires. How it hurts. How its makes us laugh, love, cry. How art moves us. This is Spielberg at his most authentic. No doubt the efforts of man who is looking back and missing those he's lost along the way.

And most importantly sometimes the horizon goes in the middle even if the academy cant see it.
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