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Which movie did you watch today and how would you rate it?

 
 
 
hurtinbuckaroo said:
spikepipsqueak said:
12 Angry Men was really good. I have probably mentioned before that I saw the play, when I was a kid, inside Pentridge Prison acted by prisoners and staff. Gives the thing a certain piquancy.

Another good film from that era was Fail Safe. Am I the only person in the world who remembers it? I was quite young but have never been able to forget it.
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Fail Safe had the misfortune of being released shortly after “Dr. Strangelove”, which took a slightly different approach to nuclear annihilation. I have read that Columbia Pictures bought the distribution rights for Fail Safe so they could delay its release until after Dr. Strangelove’s debut. It came out nine months after Strangelove.

Sidney Lumet directed 12 Angry Men and Fail Safe. They’re very similar in style.
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I'm astonished. I'd always assumed that Strangelove was a parody of Failsafe.
 
hurtinbuckaroo said:
TV and credit cards said:
spikepipsqueak said:
Another good film from that era was Fail Safe. Am I the only person in the world who remembers it? I was quite young but have never been able to forget it.
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I have a list of movies like this. Take Paris Trout for example. See what I mean? So forgotten, it's not even on Dennis Hopper's Wikipedia filmography list. If I knew how to edit that damn thing, I would. Dennis Hopper, Barbara Hershey, Ed Harris; unforgetable!
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Paris Trout was apparently a “made for TV” movie, which could explain it low profile. It’s on Hopper’s IMDB list.
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Oh, premiered on Showtime. I had to look it up because there is a scene where Dennis Hopper assaults Barbara Hershey with a soda bottle.
 
Wiploc said:
hurtinbuckaroo said:
spikepipsqueak said:
12 Angry Men was really good. I have probably mentioned before that I saw the play, when I was a kid, inside Pentridge Prison acted by prisoners and staff. Gives the thing a certain piquancy.

Another good film from that era was Fail Safe. Am I the only person in the world who remembers it? I was quite young but have never been able to forget it.
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Fail Safe had the misfortune of being released shortly after “Dr. Strangelove”, which took a slightly different approach to nuclear annihilation. I have read that Columbia Pictures bought the distribution rights for Fail Safe so they could delay its release until after Dr. Strangelove’s debut. It came out nine months after Strangelove.

Sidney Lumet directed 12 Angry Men and Fail Safe. They’re very similar in style.
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I'm astonished. I'd always assumed that Strangelove was a parody of Failsafe.
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Naw. Dr. Strangelove was a parody of the Cold War as a whole.

Both provide a unique and viable perspective on the Cold War.
 
TV and credit cards said:
spikepipsqueak said:
Another good film from that era was Fail Safe. Am I the only person in the world who remembers it? I was quite young but have never been able to forget it.
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I have a list of movies like this. Take Paris Trout for example. See what I mean? So forgotten, it's not even on Dennis Hopper's Wikipedia filmography list. If I knew how to edit that damn thing, I would. Dennis Hopper, Barbara Hershey, Ed Harris; unforgetable!
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I have edited Wikipages.

Keep looking, you'll find an edit tag somewhere.
 
Wiploc said:
hurtinbuckaroo said:
spikepipsqueak said:
12 Angry Men was really good. I have probably mentioned before that I saw the play, when I was a kid, inside Pentridge Prison acted by prisoners and staff. Gives the thing a certain piquancy.

Another good film from that era was Fail Safe. Am I the only person in the world who remembers it? I was quite young but have never been able to forget it.
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Fail Safe had the misfortune of being released shortly after “Dr. Strangelove”, which took a slightly different approach to nuclear annihilation. I have read that Columbia Pictures bought the distribution rights for Fail Safe so they could delay its release until after Dr. Strangelove’s debut. It came out nine months after Strangelove.

Sidney Lumet directed 12 Angry Men and Fail Safe. They’re very similar in style.
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I'm astonished. I'd always assumed that Strangelove was a parody of Failsafe.
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Dr Strangelove was based on a novel called Red Alert by Peter George (AKA Two Hours to Doom by Peter Bryant - a pseudonym). It differs from the novel in that the novel was a straightforward serious work, whereas Strangelove is of course a black comedy. The endings are also different (and yes I have also read the novel).
 
Spacetime Inhabitant said:
Wiploc said:
hurtinbuckaroo said:
spikepipsqueak said:
12 Angry Men was really good. I have probably mentioned before that I saw the play, when I was a kid, inside Pentridge Prison acted by prisoners and staff. Gives the thing a certain piquancy.

Another good film from that era was Fail Safe. Am I the only person in the world who remembers it? I was quite young but have never been able to forget it.
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Fail Safe had the misfortune of being released shortly after “Dr. Strangelove”, which took a slightly different approach to nuclear annihilation. I have read that Columbia Pictures bought the distribution rights for Fail Safe so they could delay its release until after Dr. Strangelove’s debut. It came out nine months after Strangelove.

Sidney Lumet directed 12 Angry Men and Fail Safe. They’re very similar in style.
Click to expand...

I'm astonished. I'd always assumed that Strangelove was a parody of Failsafe.
Click to expand...
Dr Strangelove was based on a novel called Red Alert by Peter George (AKA Two Hours to Doom by Peter Bryant - a pseudonym). It differs from the novel in that the novel was a straightforward serious work, whereas Strangelove is of course a black comedy. The endings are also different (and yes I have also read the novel).
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According to the Wiki for Fail Safe, Kubrick and the author of Red Alert sued the producers of Fail Safe for copyright infringement.
 
spikepipsqueak said:
12 Angry Men was really good. I have probably mentioned before that I saw the play, when I was a kid, inside Pentridge Prison acted by prisoners and staff. Gives the thing a certain piquancy.
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It'd probably be considered too woke nowadays. Juror 6 would be considered a "beta cuck".
 
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I just watched Happiness (1998), a black comedy-drama. It gets 7.7 IMDB and 82% RT with its "grimly humorous script and fearless performances" despite being "far from a cheerful viewing experience." I do NOT want to "spoiler" the movie. If you want more info, this review -- "this film is very bizarre, disturbing, off kilter and downright weird." -- outlines the plots.

I don't know how to rate this film. Black comedy drama is a genre I like, but this one has much blackness and about zero comedy to laugh at. I will never rewatch the movie but its unforgettable and I don't regret spending the time to watch. Its very bizarreness makes it an All-Time Great! I'll give it 8.0. It will be interesting to see how others react to this film.


ETA: FWIW I found both Failsafe and 12 Angry Men tedious and uninteresting. But that's just me.
 
How many of us rewatch a movie that we like, maybe rewatch it multiple times?

I certainly do. I even rewatch movies like Sixth Sense or Memento which lose their impact when you already know the twist at the end.

My sister watched Butch Cassidy at least a dozen times when she was a young teenager -- she had a crush on Paul Newman -- and that was back in the days when rewatching meant another trip to the theater and shelling out another four bits. But my two adult children almost never rewatch a movie.

Is this a generational thing? With hundreds of movies available with a Netflix click, why not try something new every time?

I've composed a list of my 80 favorite movies, and perusing it just now I see I've rewatched almost every single movie on the list -- many of them I've rewatched several times. The one exception is Goodfellas -- watched only once -- but come to think of it, it doesn't really belong on the Top 80 List anyway.

Yet here comes a movie I'm adding to the Top 80 (filling the slot just vacated by Goodfellas), while knowing I will never want to watch it again. Wow!!!

Swammerdami said:
I just watched Happiness (1998), a black comedy-drama.
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I will never rewatch the movie but its unforgettable and I don't regret spending the time to watch. Its very bizarreness makes it an All-Time Great! I'll give it 8.0. It will be interesting to see how others react to this film.
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Wow.
 
Swammerdami said:
How many of us rewatch a movie that we like, maybe rewatch it multiple times?
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Life is too short to watch everthing new that I want to. So I make it a policy not to waste time rewatching stuff. But I have forgotten a lot of movies, and they seem new to me.
I rewatch 'Across The Universe' and 'Yesterday' occasaionaly. I recently bought 'Sixth Sense', 'Fifth Element', and a few other DVDs to rewatch.
I used to have a whole wall of self-taped VHS Sci-fi. Everything sci-fi that was broadcast. Hardly rewatched any. But left the tapes all behind in a move, in 2008. Vowing to kick my OPD, Obsessive/Posessive Disorder (collecting).
Since 2020 I have bought only about 3 dozzen DVDs. Mostly new, but several older ones to rewatch. And I occasionaly cull the ones I think I will never watch again. (and I probably won't watch most of them again)
Life is too short.
 
It was another "bored at work" experience, and the movie of choice was "Tron Legacy." Meh.

I gotta admit that I wasn't a hundred percent engaged with the movie, but again...it didn't exactly hold my interest. The de-aged Jeff Bridges was weird, the whole thing was a CGI action-fest with a protagonist (the son of the original protagonist) who was not terribly compelling, and the thing that mostly caught my eye was Olivia Wilde. She really is a striking looking person.
 
There are few I will rewatch. The good ones I might purchase especially when they fall into the five dollar category. Lincoln, Gangs of New York, The Insider, I bought on Apple TV a couple years back because they were dirt cheap and I knew I'd rewatch them at some point. Plus they were like four dollars to rent or five to purchase so I figure, what the hell, might as well buy them.

I was just reading an article where Netflix wants to reiterate the plot three or four times because people are losing their ability to pay attention. Streaming movies at home will do this. More distractions than a theater: kids, pets, phones, etc. I liken it to listening to an album rather than streaming music. There is a focus, a command of one's attention when listening to an album. Oh well. This is us and our distracted lives. One cure is is to rid yourself of these distractions like I did but that might not be for everyone. The kids, dog, and spouse might take exception.

They should just make more time loop movies.
 
Colonel Sanders said:
Bugonia

This film is brilliant. It's difficult to describe anything about it without giving at least something away, but here goes: a high powered CEO is kidnapped by two conspiracy theorists. Utter insanity and suspense ensues. It's well layered and twists abound. It stars Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons.

This is not the typical kidnapped person type of flick at all. When I see a movie featuring X person taken by bad guys and subsequently rescued by Y hero, I won't bother to give it a chance. I had no idea what the movie was about and I'm glad because I probably wouldn't have watched it.

See it.

9/10
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I completely agree. Fantastic movie.

Emma Stone is becoming a Hollywood powerhouse of an actor.
 
Ford said:
It was another "bored at work" experience, and the movie of choice was "Tron Legacy." Meh.

I gotta admit that I wasn't a hundred percent engaged with the movie, but again...it didn't exactly hold my interest. The de-aged Jeff Bridges was weird, the whole thing was a CGI action-fest with a protagonist (the son of the original protagonist) who was not terribly compelling, and the thing that mostly caught my eye was Olivia Wilde. She really is a striking looking person.
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I watched most of it during a flight. There was about 15-20 minutes left when the plane landed. I haven't felt compelled to see the ending.

For a long time this seemed like a franchise that's been put in the wrong hands; that it's a continual lost opportunity. At this point though, I'm beginning to wonder if it's just a bad concept for a movie.
 
Back in 1985 at the cinema I watched Kurosawa's movie 'Ran'. At that time I thought it was brilliant. Now I have watched it again for the first time since then, and it simply did not have the same impact. It's good but I personally am not as impressed as I was then. 7/10.
 
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