Niiiice! Yeah, I’ve found that this movie already seems to be leaving theatres. That feels like a small theater run, only one month?
When we went and saw it the other day, we found it was no longer on the schedule at our local location, so we had to go elsewhere (for their one and only 7:30 evening showing)
Oh yeah and the film has a great licensed soundtrack too, really nice hip hop and rap tracks in there…
This track is gorgeous.
The track that introduces the main villain is so dang good
His theme at the end is so good.
Here’s some clips from the TMNT movie to show you how unique its style is.
Please go seek it out and watch it!
I recognized the voice of my childhood hero Jackie Chan, googled and confirm it. Will surely watch it when I get a chance.
My journey on european movies continues …
Blood and Gold a german movie
Available in english and regional audio dub.
(Personally I try to avoid subtitles, as I miss the actor’s expression and small details, on a tradeoff miss the original voice).
I liked the unpredictable multiple twists of the plots. The story and character development was really nice. The makeup of nazi officer’s face was unique. Liked the presentation and all the actors role.
On a side note, it was a bad time in Germany at WW1, WW2. Movies like this one, Valkyrie, All Quiet in West Front etc etc depicts that.
I am not from Germany but personally I dont like video games and movies referring the word ‘german’ to enemies, they can use the word ‘nazi’/‘ss’ instead. I may be wrong but it feels racism, they must replace these words in today’s games and media (come on, it is year 2023). At that time and before that (and now even), there were so many intelligent, learned and talented stars from Germany - Albert Einstein, Ludwig Van Beethoven, Rudolf Diesel, Werner Heisenberg, Karl Marx, Benz … etc etc. How can the world judge a community based on just one person and forget the contribution of the above people to mankind at that time - there were even several assassination attempts on that dictator from the inside without outside intervention.
This is just my personal opinion to future media industry to remove any community name from antagonist depicted in any historical record, you may agree to disagree with me
The Covenant with Jake Gyllenhall.
It’s about an Afghani interpreter who saves a U.S. Soldiers life but then is hunted by Taliban and has to go into hiding. The Solider decides to go get him out on his own. It’s pretty far fetched but is a super powerful movie. I like movies where the good guy clearly doesn’t want to do the right thing, but he knows what he must do, so he does it anyway.
I’m also a fan of any movie with a C-130 in it, and this one had a great AC-130 scene
That’s all I need to know to decide to watch it.
I also watched the movie a few weeks back.
Really liked the acting, Especially during the almost entirely silent bringing back to base, also just after the ambush, where you can see Ahmed wanting to say something, before deciding not to
There are the usual “mhm” moment about some of the details/portrayal, especially since it’s supposed to happen in 2018.
But once you go beyond that, Understand that it was all necessary to theme and the story, it’s an excellent show don’t tell of the story they wanted to tell.
(soundtrack is also a nice background when reading)
@Rimland, I also recommend. It’s a simple, straightforward movie, but I say that affectionately.
Watched yesterday Saw X, it was a fucking blast, can not believe Tobin Bell is 81 years old, he did a great job portraying Jigsaw.
Traps were a lot of fun (except for eyeball), victims were the shittiest people in the series, seriously some next level of being an awful person, scamming people with cancer is beyond awful.
I was actually hoping a bit for Gaberiella, out of the bunch, she was the least bad, doing it to fulfill her addiction, disappointed that Cecilia murdered her.
Cecilia surviving her test felt bad, she deserved to die, damn what an awful person, was not rooting for her at all.
It actually hit me that the lethal gas hole in the wall trap was actually the plan b, the reason there were two spots on that board is to trap both Cecilia and Parker, the fake money bag was just a plan b in case they’d get the upper hand, which is a throwback to when Jigsaw told Hoffman that he doesn’t make the traps in a way they supposed to go, he just lets whatever happen happen, he just made sure that both Cecilia and Parker would end up in a trap together.
Just watched The Fast and the Furious for the first time. That… was a thing. It had a lot of shaky camera, quick cuts, loud dramatic shouting that sounded phoned-in, people who looked way too good for what they were doing in the setting they were doing it, and the plot was all over the place. Other than cars going fast and people looking angry, I honestly couldn’t tell you what any of it was about. From my understanding, it only gets more ridiculous going forward. If I’m gonna pick from the early 2000s flashy cars going fast in a grungy criminal background film, I think I’d rather watch The Transporter and Gone In 60 Seconds.
You watched the first movie, The Fast and the Furious, not the confusingly titled fourth movie, Fast and Furious? The movies do get more ridiculous, but in different ways, I’d say the fifth movie, Fast Five is when the template for all the later entries is set. 2, 3, and 4 are all a bit different in ways before 5 really finds the formula.
Also, if I had to throw it out there, you might like the third movie, Tokyo Drift. A bit of an oddity in the series, it doesn’t have Vin Diesel or Paul Walker or basically anybody from the first 2 movies. An American teenager is forced to move to Tokyo to live with his dad, a boy racer who has to learn how to do drift racing in the Tokyo streets while the Yakuza starts causing problems. It’s actually really good I think, totally different from the rest of the series, might be more up your alley?
He could also watch Point Break (the original one) instead which is just The Fast and The Furious but with surfing instead of cars (and being really good to boot).
That does seem to be the joke with the original Fast and Furious, I really need to watch Point Break at some point.
Let’s just say, after seeing that movie, and knowing they made ten more, including a spin-off, if I hear anyone badmouth the Resident Evil and Underworld films again, I’m gonna point to this series and ask them to think again.
I mean, if you want, but my point is that the first movie isn’t really a true representation of what F&F would become. Oh, it gets far dumber, but the films really become proper action flicks with stories out of wrestling and shonen anime.
If they are still this ridiculous, it doesn’t really matter if their genre changes along the way. Although, on the other hand, I love heist movies.
Fast Five is a heist movie, so you might like that. It is incredibly stupid but also very entertaining romp, and the film that is the first true modern F&F movie.
Doesn’t the whole series evolve (devolve?) into heists with cars?
Eh, yes and no. For the record, I’ve only seen FF1-7, I really need to catch up with the rest of the films as FF11 is meant to be the final one. FF5 is definetly the heist movie one, as the plot is that the crew wants to rob a bank vault held by the Brazillian police so that they are able to retire in secrecy. One of the cool things about FF5 is that the film is about getting a crew together to pull it off, like Ocean’s 11, which means they recruit characters from FF1-4 to help pull off the plot, which forms the crew that will be a mainstay through the rest of the movies.
From FF6 onwards, it becomes more about the crew being pulled into doing stuff by other parties and to protect themselves from what are basically car based supervillians. In those plots, they may do something like a small heist to get a plot important object, like in FF7 they have to raid a moving convoy to get an important bit of cargo off in the first half. I mean guess you could say it is part of it, but FF5 is the true heist movie of the lot I would say, and the one that begins the start of modern Fast and Furious. If you don’t like FF5, you probably won’t like the rest. And like I said earlier, FF3: Tokyo Drift is special because it basically has nothing to do with the rest of the other movies and is a bit underrated because of it.