Also worth watching, Knife in the Water ( first film, in Polish), Cul de Sac
But Chinatown is the perfect film, ranks with The Third Man
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I agree about both of those. Haven’t seen them since student days in the Union Theatre. 
I second this. Surprisingly confronting for something made in 1965.
Once seen, never forgotten.
I mean if you comparing it to almost anything that has won an academy award or movie critics favorites it’s terrible.
As an 80’s action movie it’s an all time great.
Many lines still quoted to this day…
“This is my weak arm Sully!”
A follow up at this stage will likely be actually terrible.
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Only realised this after watching the video Bullwinkle posted earlier, but the groan Sully made when he was falling was identical to the one the same actor made when Swan threw the knife at him in The Warriors.
Commando is one of those 1980s guilty pleasures. Not groundbreaking, but entertaining enough if only for a few laughs. I found the Rob Lowe ice hockey tour de force, Youngblood, to be of a similar ilk.
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Annie: hey sully, remember when I promised to kill you last
Bad guy: yeah, yeah you did matrix
Annie: I lied!
“ drops him to his death
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honestly, the interwebs has everything
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Now this was would make for an interesting sequel/cross over for Commando
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Don’t think I have seen them. Saw Chinatown when it first came out. In iso once again so just watching some oldies but goodies.
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Knife in The Water is another l found on DVD in China. I bought it on the strength of the director. A very interesting little black and white movie. It is packed away right now, but l will have to fish it out again at some stage to watch again.
Alan Arkin died, that sucks
Loved watching him. His performance in little miss sunshine was soooooo funny
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Indiana Jones Dial of Destiny.
Went in with zero expectations, and maybe with that in mind ended up really liking it. The first 1/3 and 3/3rd in particular. The middle (Morroco section) is kinda rough but was mostly best case scenario for an 80 year Ford playing an action star at this point. I was worried that Phoebe-Waller-Bridge was going to derail the movie at the mid point, but ended up really enjoying her chemistry wiith Indy and you need her energy to drive the movie in a way Ford can’t anymore. I also find her weirdly attractive, so that helps. The de-aging is the best i’ve seen. You are basically looking at a 40 year old Ford in the first 40 minutes with his voice the only giveaway. Its quite surreal and kind of fascinating/troubling that at somepoint in the near future that they’ll be able to make an entire film around a digitally composed aged or even dead actor and you won’t be able to tell the difference. The last 30 mins has a pretty big zag that will either work or won’t for people, but it worked for me and was actually quite poignant for the character. Anyway, not a masterpiece by anymeans but a solid 6.5 crystal skulls out of 10.
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Hot Tub Time Machine
- 2000 and something.
If a review needed to be done in four words, it would be “hot tub Time Machine”
5 hot tubs out of 10
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Blade Runner - Final Cut
One of the classics. But seriously, how did people watch movies before sun titles. This movie absolutely needed them.
Is this to shine a light on what’s going on?
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Yes.
But seriously SUB TITLES make everything better.
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U-571 was one sub title. Das Boot another.
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Hunt for Red October was a great sub title.
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