What?!
I don’t even understand what the point of either movie is. Is it the jets? Watch Independence Day. Is it Tom Cruise? Watch War of the Worlds. Know what’s in both of those movies that neither Top Gun movie has? Aliens!
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but top gun has multiple scenes of topless men
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So does the WWE and I don’t have to pay money to see that in a theater or log into a YouTube account to confirm I’m over 18.
… I may have said too much.
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People like competition films and the 86 film is one of the best competition films ever (there aren’t many outside of sports flicks). The music was fantastic. The flying was cool. The actors did a good job capturing the full blown arrogance of jet drivers (compare the bar scenes from the two movies and it becomes clear how well this was done in the first one). The volley ball scene is loved by straight girls, gay guys, and even straight guys everywhere. The movie didn’t test well bc of a lack of romance so they went in and added the love scene to further develop that (that’s why it’s blue filter, the girls hair was black bc she was already working a new movie). I guess people like Tom Cruise; I don’t really, but he fits the role. It was also the first movie about fighter pilots flying their planes. That had just never been seen before in a movie, so I’m sure that helped it do well.
I think you need to go watch it again 
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Saw Elvis my mom today.
It started off a little slow and there were some odd jumps back and forth between the ‘40s and ‘50s before it settled on the linear progression of time for the last 20 or so years of his life. From 1958 on though? Absolutely incredible.
Glitz. Glamor. Sex. Drugs. Rock and Roll. “Baz Luhrmann fever dream”. A little dose of mid 20th century American cultural and political history. Race relations and their influence on Elvis’ career. You name it, this film probably has it.
I don’t get the criticism of Tom Hanks’ Colonel Parker but I could be less cinematically refined than most. 
I loved that he was the narrator but also a lot of what he did on screen happened in the background; the more in focus he was, the more sinister the scene was portrayed as.
Austin Butler deserves an award or at least a nomination. The beginning of the film seemed kind of nervous to show him off so it takes some time to really feel his portrayal. Once the film shows his first performance, you almost experience the same animalistic instincts that swept up repressed 1950s America. By the end, the film is so confident in him they even mix in clips of real life Elvis to show how accurate Butler was.
My mom turned to me after and said that she lived all of the things they showed and it was the best movie she saw in long time. She’s got a bad back and is constantly shifting in her seat when watching things, especially long things like this movie. She also tends to lose interest every now and then or get tired and she said she didn’t move an inch or question when it was going to be over. It’s also the first time she’s really been out of the house (and especially to the movies in a while) because of the pandemic. So, even if I didn’t like it, her enjoyment would’ve been enough.
9/10
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I think it is because it has hard for a lot of people to see Hanks perform someone like The Colonel. Hanks is usually the nice guy and/or the American everyman sort of person not some oleaginous and disingenuous record producer.
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That’s stupid. People are stupid. I can see why actors are so afraid of being typecast.
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They are stupid and it is, indeed, one way that actors become typecast in rolls that being said Hanks has had no issue with being pigeonholed as the nice guy. That being said if I heard he was playing the Colonel I would doubt his ability as well. Villains seem out of his range as an actor but if he wanted to give it a shot I can’t blame him. He could retire tomorrow and leave behind a huge body of exemplary work.
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Then again, often times the best actors to cast in a role are those who are in real life the furthest from being like the role they’re playing. Two good examples of this that come to mind are DiCaprio as Calvin Candy, and Donald Sutherland as President Snow. It’s possible that, if given the right one, Hanks could play outside his usual field as someone totally unlike how he really is. It’s the mark of a good actor.
DiCaprio? I am sure he has played villains before he played Candy and done them well. President Snow is a role I remember Sutherland playing well but it was nothing revelatory even if I ignored the writing and direction.
For DiCaprio, he could not relate to the extreme racism exuded by the Candy character, and Donald Sutherland is actually a very gentle man who despises facism, and Snow is exactly that.
No sane and well-adjusted person could relate to him but it isn’t hard to play a racist, racists are simple idiots no matter how refined they might be. Candy is just one of DiCaprio’s roughish villain roles only he is racist.
I mean I can’t remember those movies so I am going to take you point.
@Accidental_Kills98
Dicaprio plays a bad guy in Catch Me if you Can, Wolf of WallStreet, Django, and Gangs of New York and he also plays J Edgar Hoover and Jay Gatsby as well as Han Solo type guy in Blood Diamond. Often when he plays a bad guy he’s an antihero though and you’ll find yourself pulling for his character. Additionally he plays a total jerk in Dons Plum but there isn’t really any good guys in that movie or any plot. It’s just a bunch of friends in their 20s doing what they know they can get away with.
That’s still only 8 films out of the more than 30 he has starred in.
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And all of those roles are some of his best so clearly being a villain isn’t out of DiCaprio’s range as an actor.
But I really don’t want to debate acting especially since I thought I was done doing it yesterday. I have already moved on at the end of the day Tom Hanks, DiCaprio and whoever else are going to do what any good actor does: Any role that earns them money to buy sports cars, earns them little statues and lets them stay in the Screen Actors Guild for another year.
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While I’m stuck in quarantine, ive decided to watch some movies that were on my list for a while.
Dog Soldiers was pretty good, a Werewolf Movie from 2002 or so and while it wasnt as good as Ginger Snaps its quite entertaining.
Falling Down from 1993 with Michael Douglas is a very good movie. Who doesn’t dream about just stepping out of their car and start a rampage? 
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Uh the people that made Falling Down? Isn’t that film supposed to be about how emotionally immature, emotionally unsatisfied and petulant spree shooters are?
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While I’m deliberately stuck in my room, I’ve decided to watch some movies that were on my list for a while. Watched 5 movies last week.
Dr. Strangelove: How I learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (196x)
Dr. Strangelove was hilarious, though thinking these fears were actually at high stakes back in the day makes me quite sad. Kubrick did a darn good job showing the film from the American POV without supporting it, and the dark comedy hereby shows how wars get started (Some retarted asshole tries to be a hero over nonsense) and how the effect is.
The Fault in Our Stars (2014)
The overall was quite good, but I can take out two points:
- Augustus’ character was displayed with advanced levels of Hollywoodic “teenage boi” cliché.
- The story seemed like a few unconnected strings, like they’d fast forwarded it. Reading the book (which I have already started) probably helps with it.
Wargames (1983)
Top Gun style 80s popular culture where generals go “mericaaa!!!” but at least they brought the point that “In a game of Thermonuclear war, the best move is not to play”.
Fargo (1996)
“Yeah, I die, you die, we all die! Yeah!”
This is Fargo in a nutshell.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (2012)
The book was better.
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So… anyone here has letterboxd? This is mine: Mehdi’s profile • Letterboxd
For those who don’t know, its a cool app where you con sign up and rate movies… and of course follow your friends.
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If ever we had a chance to know each other better i can completely explain the meter and criteria i have for movies, because cinema is sth for me that I am following seriously for a long time… but for now if you scroll down and see my ratings, you would probably know my taste better, for example, i prefer classic movies… But thanks bro…