Nope. Your kid would love it if he’s into that staff though. It’s a movie that’s 98% men just talking science and politics.
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I’d say not. It’s very dialogue heavy with a large array of characters. Requires close attention.
Structure is also challenging, story unfolds in several different time periods at once.
Boom Tish…
I know it’s the movie thread but read the book as well. Movie one of the best ever made but the book is better.
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Ditched a pretty good game of footy tonight for Captain Phillips on Fox (Tom Hanks feature channel this month).
Seen it once before and really enjoyed it. Saw that it had just started and flicked over. Looking forward to a rewatch.
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Gladiator
Rusty Crowe
It still stacks up as a blockbuster, but maybe not an epic. Great acting, decent fight scenes, engaging story
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Rewatched it just the other day with the young bloke.
Utter cracker.
So glad they never went through with the sequel they had planned - Rusty balls returns from the dead as an immortal then lives through all the big points in history.
Ridley Scott not involved.
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Barbie - 8/10
Oppenheimer - 8/10
Talk to Me - 7/10
To Live and Die in L.A. - 9/10
The People Under the Stairs - 6/10
The Edge - 8/10
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We watched a lot of movies since covid started, and I’m running low. If there’s any decent movies, maybe ones that have flown under the radar over the years that people can recommend. Please share.
Any genre except horror.
Bloody hell, the kids have already decided tonight weRE watching Weekend at Bernie’s. The barrel is being scraped FFS
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Ok, this looks like my kind of movie.
Indonesian James Bond/Rambo/007 Stallone and Mr T lookalikes from Wish.com…
I went and saw About My Father with a couple of mates, one Italian, yesterday.
A couple of funny moments involving a tennis balls to the nads, and the hero having his bits exposed to the in-laws during some water sports, but dear me…De Niro must just be doing movies for the dough now.
I’ve been reluctant to go to Hollywood movies for a while and this won’t help.
0.5/10
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Ok. So this is the most brilliant Aussie movie I’d never heard of until recently.
The man from Hong kong.
Essentially a Kung Fu Movie set in Sydney, but there’s also a fight on top of Uluṟu.
All star cast, including George Lazenby and Jimmy ■■■■ Yu, Toecutter from Mad Max. Some seriously good fight scenes and car chases for the time. Plenty of casual racism.
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Dracula, The Last Voyage of the Demeter. 2023 118 min 7/10.
It is a long time since l las t saw a vampire movie, the last one might have been the Klaus Kinski remake of Nosferatu, so uhm yeah, it has been a while. This one was my wife’s choice for our anniversary. She like scary movies, or so l was led to believe, but when the inevitable attacks were about to happen she buried her face into my shoulder. The story is told in flashback, so there are no surprises, are there ever any in a Dracula movie anyway? This one is freely adapted from a minor entry in the original Bram Stoker novel.
The only member of the cast l recognized was Liam Cunningham (Sir Davros from GOT), who plays the captain of the Demeter. Since there are no surprises the director has to turn to other methods to maintain interest, since we know in advance the end result of the voyage. The vampire itself is an impressive work of art and characterization, its presence on screen is as menacing as it is meant to be. The film is well done without being outstanding in any way and just long enough. Set up for a sequel if it sells enough tickets. Fans of the genre will be impressed.
Edit, just stumbled across this related article.
In the summer of 1890, Irish novelist Bram Stoker was on holiday in the seaside town of Whitby. Despite spending barely a month there it left a deep impression on him and his later novel Dracula was heavily influenced by it. Perhaps already researching his famours novel Stoker visited the Whitby Museum, the local library and the harbor. He was particularly interested in shipwrecks in the area, especially the Dmitry, a ship that had been shipwrecked five years earlier.
The Dmitry was a cargo vessel that had set sail from Narva, modern-day Estonia, in 1885. On October 24, the Dmitry was one of two ships run ashore at Whitby by a violent storm that came out of nowhere, according to newspaper reports at the time. The crew of the Dmitry remained onboard the ship hoping for an opportunity to dock. Onlookers watched from the shore as “the sea beat savagely against the vessel. Her masts gave way and fell with a crash over her side, and the vessel herself began to break up.”
There is no account of how but all seven crew members of the Dmitry were saved. The Dmitry would later serve as the inspiration for The Demeter, the ship in Stoker’s Dracula that brings the titular character to the shores of England.
In the novel the Demeter originated in Varna (an anagram for Narva, where the Dmitry originated), and similarly carried “ballast of silver sand, with only a small amount of cargo—a number of great wooden boxes filled with mould.”
Stoker interviewed fishermen in Whitby harbor, where he was told of mysterious and not so mysterious deaths at sea. From the fishermen and gravestones in the local cemetery Stoker reportedly made note of some 90 names to use in his story, including the surname “Swales.” In the novel Dracula Stoker writes “Mr. Swales was found dead… his neck being broken.”
Photo: The wreck of the Dmitry at Tate Hill Beach in Whitby in 1885, by Frank Meadow Sutcliffe.
Source:
The little-known shipwreck that inspired Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’, by Melissa Sartore for Nat Geo.
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Super Mario Bros
7/10
A fun 90mins on a quiet Sunday afternoon trying to forget what transpired the night before in the game. Im a bit of an 80s Nintendo tragic and it did plenty for my near 6 year old daughter. Jack Black was very good as Bowser. Worth a watch with a young family.
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What a relief to see there’s a movie made recently that isn’t 140 minutes long or more
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The DeNiro I saw was only 70-80 minutes…thankfully.
Watching this. Bit of a dogs breakfast, but funny and worth a look.
Son: ‘it’s all in Icelandic, except for the swearing…’
Nekk minnit ‘Jesus ■■■■■■■ Christ you ■■■■■■■■’
Me ‘you’re not wrong’
It’s your usual cop movie crossed with Zoolander, I guess. Main guy gets a new partner, because no one else will work with him. Tough as nails chief of police. Everyone plays bad cop / bad cop. There’s a few twists on the stereotypes. But good action and stunts.
Sorcerer, 1977, 118 mins 9/10
I found this on You Tube after having it recommended by a mate. This is a William Friedkin remake of The Wages of Fear from the 1950’s. This one has more of a back story to the main characters which takes up the first half of the movie. Not as much time spent on the actual driving sequence, but there is an outstanding set piece, where they have to drive two trucks over a decrepit bridge in a storm, it is a brilliantly executed scene. Overall, l still like and admire the original version more.
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All on blitz can see the captain’s wife burying her head into his shoulder. Back row, nice and quiet, nudge nudge say no more, know what I mean?
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Third row from the back actually, but they are small cinemas and there are only about 6 rows of seats in each.
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