I was waiting for someone else to mention it. It kind of had an Independence-Day-meets-Starship-Troopers vibe to it. I wasn't overly impressed, but the cast was good and I liked it for the most part. (I *really* don't like lazy overuse of CGI, and sadly this did that in spades.)Watched “The Tomorrow War” on Netflix yesterday. Good mindless Sci fi summer blockbuster type flick with lots of rediculous parts. Was entertaining the way Independence Day was rediculous summer action/Sci Fi entertainment.
I'd agree, but keep in mind that you have something like 107 years of cinema to sift through. You could, starting today, only watch pre-2010 stuff for the rest of your life and still not see everything.
You thankfully have a lot less movies to watch pre-1960, seems like the tidal wave really began once TV got big and everything was in color by default. By far, my to-watch list has the most films from 1970-2000. I'm never going to see them all.
More than enough to keep you occupied, definitely. I've compiled year-by-year lists and still am completely sure I'm never going to see everything. Although I'm a rare case and am interested in EVERYTHING. I spent a lot of my youth rereading, over and over, movie reviews off of a CD-ROM program called Cinemania '95 (IMDb has since made it obsolete).True, but there's a lot of garbage out there. How many movies are out there that are as good as The Wild Bunch or Apocalypse Now?
Gilliam's early stuff (Holy Grail, Jabberwocky, Time Bandits) seemed to almost be Monty Python adjacent...like, to a point where I consider his early stuff almost to be by a different director.Oh yeah he did do 12 Monkeys. That was actually a pretty solid movie that looked like a younger director made. There were so many interesting movies in the 90s, it's hard to remember all of them. If that movie came out today it'd be a breathe of fresh air.
Fear And Loathing was alright, but as I recall the cinematography wasn't that great. But at least they went for it. Book was better though.
I've never heard of Time Bandits and Fisher King is overrated from what I've heard.
As far as Altman goes I'll have delve deeper into his filmography. California Split looks decent and I've heard Bret Easton Ellis rave about Mcabe and Mrs. Miller, so I'll prob watch those at some point. One thing you can say about Altman is that his stuff is certainly cinematic.
Warren Oates and Harry Dean Stanton are two of my favorite actors, so I'll watch anything with them in it. They appeared together in a great movie called Cockfighter. It was directed by Monte Hellman, who also did Two-Lane Blacktop. Hellman was also a mentor to Tarantino and was a producer for Reservoir Dogs. Cockfighter is based on a book by Charles Willeford, one of my favorite fiction writers. He is probably best known for the Miami Blues series, which was made into a movie starring Alec Baldwin. I like to think that the training montage from Rocky was inspired by Cockfighter!I finally watched Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia. Peckinpah said this was the one movie that he had full artistic control. I loved it, but it's not for everyone. It's pretty weird. And it's Peckinpah, so of course there's sudden bursts of violence.
When it first came out the critics hated it, except for Ebert. I think it's a masterpiece that is up there with the Wild Bunch.
The Wild Geese (1978)I watched Dark Of The Sun last night and Play Dirty today. Works great as a double feature.If you're into mission movies like Dirty Dozen and Inglourious Basterds these are both worth watching.
Dark Of The Sun even has Jim Brown in it. Brown plays a native soldier of some African country, but does he bother to use an accent? No, of course not. So Jim Brown and a white mercenary played by Rod Taylor fill up a train with a Nazi and a bunch of soldiers and head to some town to pick up some diamonds. Along the way there are a lot of gun fights. There's even a fight involving a chainsaw. Great flick with lots of violence.
Play Dirty. Michael Caine is a WW2 British Officer in North Africa. He's assigned along with a mercenary along with a bunch of ex-cons to go blow up an oil depot. The cinematography is great and the dialogue is pretty good as well. The final gunfight is also excellent.
If anyone can recommend other movies like this I'm all ears. Where Eagles Dare is a favorite of mine.
The villains are aliens In Russia who wage war six days a week and rest on the seventh day. The anti christian overtone is not very subtle.I was waiting for someone else to mention it. It kind of had an Independence-Day-meets-Starship-Troopers vibe to it. I wasn't overly impressed, but the cast was good and I liked it for the most part. (I *really* don't like lazy overuse of CGI, and sadly this did that in spades.)
It appears to be angering the woke crowd for not being woke enough, so...I guess that's good?
In case it wasnt mentioned...I watched Dark Of The Sun last night and Play Dirty today. Works great as a double feature.If you're into mission movies like Dirty Dozen and Inglourious Basterds these are both worth watching.
Dark Of The Sun even has Jim Brown in it. Brown plays a native soldier of some African country, but does he bother to use an accent? No, of course not. So Jim Brown and a white mercenary played by Rod Taylor fill up a train with a Nazi and a bunch of soldiers and head to some town to pick up some diamonds. Along the way there are a lot of gun fights. There's even a fight involving a chainsaw. Great flick with lots of violence.
Play Dirty. Michael Caine is a WW2 British Officer in North Africa. He's assigned along with a mercenary along with a bunch of ex-cons to go blow up an oil depot. The cinematography is great and the dialogue is pretty good as well. The final gunfight is also excellent.
If anyone can recommend other movies like this I'm all ears. Where Eagles Dare is a favorite of mine.