#4502260 - 01/01/20 05:12 PM
Re: Movies you are confident will never be exceeded
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I haven't seen the original Fail Safe, but the 2000 TV play version of it (it was sent live when it was broadcast) was good. It also had a stellar cast.
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#4502272 - 01/01/20 06:36 PM
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Modern-era western: Open Range. Love that movie. "Open Range" was good. One of only a few (IMO) really good performances by Kevin Costner. Of course, Robert Duvall rarely if ever turns in a bad one.
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#4502311 - 01/02/20 12:09 AM
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I have never been disappointed by Robert Duvall. He’s always great even when he’s been in mediocre movies like Days of Thunder.
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#4502312 - 01/02/20 12:19 AM
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Modern-era western: Open Range. Love that movie. I just watched it maybe a week ago, and it was a very good movie.
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#4502356 - 01/02/20 12:21 PM
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Swords and Sandals or Epics- Gladiator and Troy. Man, i love those two movies. Gladiator is absolutely perfect on every level even with all of the historical inaccuracies. Troy was pretty good but I don't think it was nearly as compelling.
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
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#4502405 - 01/02/20 05:03 PM
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My 'Waiting for Clod' thread: http://tinyurl.com/bqxc9eeAlways take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.Elie Wiesel. Romanian born Jewish writer, professor, political activist, Nobel Laureate, Holocaust survivor. 1928 - 2016. Indeed the safest road to Hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts. C.S. Lewis, 1898 - 1963.
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#4502408 - 01/02/20 05:10 PM
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It's my second favorite Wolfgang Petersen movie, and it deserves more recognition IMO. Where does "The Never Ending Story" fall in that list?
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#4502409 - 01/02/20 05:15 PM
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I absolutely loved how the invincibility of Achilles was visualized not by showing his skin to be stabbing proof, but by having him always stay clean even after a day of battle, and surviving by superior agility. It's my second favorite Wolfgang Petersen movie, and it deserves more recognition IMO. What I liked about the Achilles angle is how it gave the myth of his invulnerability to weapons credibility. Early on the young attendant mentions it and he discounts it, insisting on wearing his leather armor into battle. When he's killed he's shown to pull out all the arrows except the one in his heel. Fires are burning and it's reasonable to assume that by the time he's found the only wound visible would have been the stone arrowhead still lodged in his heel.
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#4502415 - 01/02/20 05:29 PM
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I haven't seen the original Fail Safe, but the 2000 TV play version of it (it was sent live when it was broadcast) was good. It also had a stellar cast.
I saw that too, very impressive that the whole thing was broadcast live! However, it didn't scare the poop out of me like the original.
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#4502416 - 01/02/20 05:30 PM
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It's my second favorite Wolfgang Petersen movie, and it deserves more recognition IMO. Where does "The Never Ending Story" fall in that list? If you have kids, "The Never Ending Story" is a wonderful, imaginative classic they should see. Great film for what it was. Concur about Troy. Not a bad film, but not amazing either. Gladiator was better.
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#4502620 - 01/04/20 06:58 AM
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Modern-era western: Open Range. Love that movie. "Open Range" was good. One of only a few (IMO) really good performances by Kevin Costner. Of course, Robert Duvall rarely if ever turns in a bad one. Yep. Plus, it has some of the most beautiful cinematography in any western I’ve seen.
In all my years I've never seen the like. It has to be more than a hundred sea miles and he brings us up on his tail. That's seamanship, Mr. Pullings. My God, that's seamanship!
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#4502646 - 01/04/20 05:37 PM
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The Lion In Winter. Patrick Stewart made a very good attempt in the remake, but the original had Peter O’Toole and Katherine Hepburn and ain't nobody topping them.
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#4502662 - 01/04/20 11:17 PM
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#4502665 - 01/04/20 11:56 PM
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All of the Predator sequels have ranged from outright bad to forgettable. Predator 2’s only redeeming quality is Bill Paxton’s over the top yet great performance. “Predators” is simply forgettable. Who the hell decided that it was a great idea to cast Topher Grace in a Predator film?? And then “The Predator” from 2018 was just simply moronic.
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#4502666 - 01/05/20 12:04 AM
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The Lion In Winter. Patrick Stewart made a very good attempt in the remake, but the original had Peter O’Toole and Katherine Hepburn and ain't nobody topping them. That film simply had the proverbial “lightning in a bottle” when it came to the cast. Everyone remembers O’Toole and Hepburn of course but Anthony Hopkins and Timothy Dalton were outstanding as well. Oh and this film has a connection with Excalibur. The actor who played Arthur in Excalibur also played one of Henry’s sons in Lion in Winter.
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Exodus
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