Film you recently watched: part 3

It's often spoken about as a one of the first anti-Vietnam war (My Lai) films.

 

I’m waiting for Apocalypse Now! to be denounced as ‘woke’ for presenting sociopathy unfavourably.

 

Coppola's original plan was that 'that film' was the play in one cinema. An especially built cinema with a bespoke, state of the art, sound system in the centre of the US on a continuous loop so theatregoers could experience his true vision of what the film is...

 

Bit of a WTF moment as I saw this headline in this morning's Guardian:

Breaking the Waves review – Emily Watson adds brilliance to von Trier’s windup of a movie

The word 'recently' in the thread title is doing a *lot* of heavy lifting as I actually last saw this film 27 years ago (I watched it three times, over consecutive nights in Vilnius - it's that good).

Really, really deserves to be seen on the big screen the word 'masterpiece' is banded about a lot - this truly is. Much of Von Trier's output is good (and I like most his Dogme 95 stuff - don't worry 'Breaking the Waves ' is proto-Dogme 95).

 

Haven’t seen it for years, but loved it at the time.

Simple Minds enjoyably revisited the theme tune on Later recently. Yes, the bloke singing who looks like Rab C Nesbitt really is Jim Kerr and the drummer really is that fabulous. Give it some welly.

 

Watched it at the weekend. Gripping stuff! Thanks for the tip

If you liked that you might enjoy this

 

Saw it tonight. Absolutely outstanding, and what a cast (only knew about Tommy Shelby) in fact maybe my watching was slightly disjointed by the star-spotting. "Hang on, that's Tom Conti playing Einstein...Robert Downey Jr...is that Kenneth Brannagh as Niels Bohr?...Emily Blunt...Harry S Truman looks familiar, oh it's Gary Oldman...Josh Hartnett...Matt Damon looks a bit chunky...Matthew Modine looking exactly the same as in Stranger Things...Florence Pugh in the nuddy...and, finally, my personal favourite, James Remar, Ajax from The Warriors!

 

Whatever happened to Allie Sheedy? She was in War Games with Matthew Broderick, but other than that?

 

I'll shove that bat up your ass and turn you into a popsicle.
I'm now going to have to watch that or look for the book

 

She did an awful lot of off-, off-, off-, Broadway theatre and became a involved in academia.

 

A little late to the party but Barbie… what the **** was that all about. Utter drivel

 

You actually paid hard earned cash to watch a film called "Barbie" ?

 

Just watched *A Monster Calls" on Netflix (US). One of the best movies I've seen in a long time. Highly recommended.

 

Of course Kubrick spent years of his life on a Napoleon movie to the extent that when he died his biographer looked round his library and saw a whole section was dedicated to Napoleon.

He canned his film when he learned of a rival Napoleon movie . As a Kubrick fan I’m happy to have done some work on Ridley’s film although it could never compare with something that Kubrick had made .

 

Any way of getting to Netflix US as it doesn't appear to be on the UK version, (apart from being in the States)!

 

Yep, Skyla is right....you just need a decent non-free VPN that can get a US IP.

Free ones are generally blocked from streaming services.

 

It's on Disney if that helps. Disney is on offer about 2.99 a month right now

 

An absolute gem.

 

Just watched John Wick 3 and 4 on Prime. First two were excellent - last two were rubbish

 

Not a film I've watched, but a general question... Why does anyone enjoy horror films?

Trauma, suffering, gore, extreme violence - what's the entertainment?

 

Agree, don't get it either. You could put it down to twisted USA culture, but look at awful nonsense like Hammer Horror from years ago.

On the few occasions I've watched these sorts of films, I've definitely found myself cheering on the monster against the oh-ma-gawd-ing yankee teenagers.

 

Not really but there must be an audience for them which is why Saw is on its 326th iteration. Watched one and just didn’t see the point

 

John Wick 4.

Fan of the series. Got about halfway through and gave up.
Little story and the fight coordination was dreadful.

The last Matrix film was ******** as was the Bill n Ted. Keenoo needs to step up his game.

 

TBH I think all of the John Wick movies are overrated. They added little that 80s action movies didn't do already so I just feel like I've seen it all before.

 

Enjoyed the first and second was good..by the last two it was a combination of hundred of baddies with the worse aims in the world and martial arts choreographed like dance scenes

Rambo did the first and Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon did the latter far far better

 

"Stick a chick in it and make her gay!"

 

I love a good horror film. Not slasher type films with American teenagers get stabbed to death by a bloke in a mask, but zombie films, Saw, Hostel, It, Shining etc

 

I watched the Spanish film called "Nowhere" on Netflix last night, quite an interesting storyline though the script could have been a bit better it's made up by a great performance from Anna Castillo.

 

Watched the "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Mutant Mayhem" last night, was surprisingly entertaining and I loved the graphic approach.... lots of suprising people voice acting in it.

While commenting on enjoyable films with great annimation, the two Spiderman Spiderverse cartoons are excellent