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 Lathe Biosas wrote:

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
It’s also got a kickass Basil Poledouris score.

I just looked it up and he also did Robocop, Starship Troopers and Conan the Barbarian

He also did the music for Cherry 2000, a pretty trippy post-apocalyptic movie about a man who has to brave the lawless wilds to find a part to repair his girlfriend-robot. Yes, it's as weird as it sounds.

On the subject of Red October, that movie is the only one to do Tom Clancy's material any kind of real justice. Most of the others were meh to terrible.

 ZergSmasher wrote:

 Lathe Biosas wrote:

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
It’s also got a kickass Basil Poledouris score.

I just looked it up and he also did Robocop, Starship Troopers and Conan the Barbarian

He also did the music for Cherry 2000, a pretty trippy post-apocalyptic movie about a man who has to brave the lawless wilds to find a part to repair his girlfriend-robot. Yes, it's as weird as it sounds.

On the subject of Red October, that movie is the only one to do Tom Clancy's material any kind of real justice. Most of the others were meh to terrible.

You weren't a fan of Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger?

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Highlander 2

But 16 minutes in? I…I don’t get how this is meant to be a sequel to Highlander. .

Nobody else ever has either.

 A Town Called Malus wrote:

 ZergSmasher wrote:

 Lathe Biosas wrote:

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
It’s also got a kickass Basil Poledouris score.

I just looked it up and he also did Robocop, Starship Troopers and Conan the Barbarian

He also did the music for Cherry 2000, a pretty trippy post-apocalyptic movie about a man who has to brave the lawless wilds to find a part to repair his girlfriend-robot. Yes, it's as weird as it sounds.

On the subject of Red October, that movie is the only one to do Tom Clancy's material any kind of real justice. Most of the others were meh to terrible.

You weren't a fan of Patriot Games and Clear and Present Danger?

No, as a matter of fact, I wasn't. If nothing else, I don't feel like Harrison Ford made a good Jack Ryan. They should have stuck with Alec Baldwin. I know that's perhaps a controversial opinion, but it is my opinion.

I agree with you.

How about The Sum of All Fears with Affleck? I have to admit, I hardly recall it at all!

That was the one critics blasted for being too unrealistic. Wealthy white nationalist fascists moving the levers of power in the West? Ridiculous!

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
That was the one critics blasted for being too unrealistic. Wealthy white nationalist fascists moving the levers of power in the West? Ridiculous!

Sounds like someone missed their interval today...

Prozium - The great nepenthe. Opiate of our masses. Glue of our great society. Salve and salvation, it has delivered us from pathos, from sorrow, the deepest chasms of melancholy and hate. With it, we anesthetize grief, annihilate jealousy, obliterate rage. Those sister impulses towards joy, love, and elation are anesthetized in stride, we accept as fair sacrifice. For we embrace Prozium in its unifying fullness and all that it has done to make us great.

I like sum of all fears. It’s a bit more tweaked due to the change of Jack back to a younger character, but it was tense enough and hit the main stilly points.

 Flinty wrote:
I like sum of all fears. It’s a bit more tweaked due to the change of Jack back to a younger character, but it was tense enough and hit the main stilly points.

Did you like the Chris Pine - Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit movie?

Not seen that one. I started to get into the John Krazinski series, but got distracted.

 Flinty wrote:
Not seen that one. I started to get into the John Krazinski series, but got distracted.

It's not bad. Has Kiera Knightly in it.

 Lathe Biosas wrote:

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
That was the one critics blasted for being too unrealistic. Wealthy white nationalist fascists moving the levers of power in the West? Ridiculous!

Sounds like someone missed their interval today...

Prozium - The great nepenthe. Opiate of our masses. Glue of our great society. Salve and salvation, it has delivered us from pathos, from sorrow, the deepest chasms of melancholy and hate. With it, we anesthetize grief, annihilate jealousy, obliterate rage. Those sister impulses towards joy, love, and elation are anesthetized in stride, we accept as fair sacrifice. For we embrace Prozium in its unifying fullness and all that it has done to make us great.

I have been feeling out of equilibrium.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:

 Lathe Biosas wrote:

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
That was the one critics blasted for being too unrealistic. Wealthy white nationalist fascists moving the levers of power in the West? Ridiculous!

Sounds like someone missed their interval today...

Prozium - The great nepenthe. Opiate of our masses. Glue of our great society. Salve and salvation, it has delivered us from pathos, from sorrow, the deepest chasms of melancholy and hate. With it, we anesthetize grief, annihilate jealousy, obliterate rage. Those sister impulses towards joy, love, and elation are anesthetized in stride, we accept as fair sacrifice. For we embrace Prozium in its unifying fullness and all that it has done to make us great.

I have been feeling out of equilibrium.

You win!

The Killer’s Game

Dave Bautista John Wick Type Action Comedy.

And to be honest? I think that alone sums this movie up. If like me you’re a fan of Mr Bautista’s work, and competent but not exactly remarkable action flicks? Stick this on/

It’s not doing anything new, but it’s doing what it does competently. And I’ll take that.

Wait….wait. It’s just been massively elevated. Drew McIntyre has a supporting role, and he and his buddy’s Scots dialect is translated into polite English. Which has given them free reign to use patter, and it’s wonderful.

Ok, I've killed to birds with one stone. I watched an animated movie I had zero interest in watching but was tired of being browbeaten by every single parent that I've talked to for the last decade... and now I've also seen a film with Jack Whitehall in it.

So yeah, I watched Frozen.

Yay.

Now all I have to do is watch 7 more Harry Potter films (I watched 2 of them... the one with Gary Oldman and the Ringwraiths from Lord of the Rings, and the one with the guy who swears he loves animals and comes to America to release a bird, only to release it in the wrong place so it will die.) and my checklist of movies watched due to peer pressure will be complete.

I think I need a drink and a Gerald Butler film as a palate cleanse.

You realise that having watched Frozen you now have to watch Frozen 2


Also I hope you've been keeping up with animations in general! Watership Down; Ghibli films should be on your watch list.

Sounds like you watched one of the Harry Potter prequels on accident. That’s a painful mistake.

The only Harry Potter films I’d recommend to non-fans would be the second one, Chamber of Secrets, which is a tightly written, well executed fantasy story, and The Order of the Phoenix, with the only villain in the franchise who is actually menacing.

The only Disney movie since Leelo and Stitch I’d recommend is Tangled, but it’s not a must-watch.

You watch Frozen 2 for the art style. The story is meh, but the songs are awesome and by odin’s mighty horn, the colour palette and visuals are glorious.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Sounds like you watched one of the Harry Potter prequels on accident. That’s a painful mistake.

The only Harry Potter films I’d recommend to non-fans would be the second one, Chamber of Secrets, which is a tightly written, well executed fantasy story, and The Order of the Phoenix, with the only villain in the franchise who is actually menacing.

The only Disney movie since Leelo and Stitch I’d recommend is Tangled, but it’s not a must-watch.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, Wreck-It Ralph was great, and Moana was pretty fun too (and it has my favorite Disney song, sung by none other than Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson!). Frozen, I'll very much agree, was massively overrated, but it's not terrible really.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:

Spoiler:

The Killer’s Game

Dave Bautista John Wick Type Action Comedy.

And to be honest? I think that alone sums this movie up. If like me you’re a fan of Mr Bautista’s work, and competent but not exactly remarkable action flicks? Stick this on/

It’s not doing anything new, but it’s doing what it does competently. And I’ll take that.

Wait….wait. It’s just been massively elevated. Drew McIntyre has a supporting role, and he and his buddy’s Scots dialect is translated into polite English. Which has given them free reign to use patter, and it’s wonderful.

I remember getting a good laugh out of that bit. Probably the best part of the movie for me.

 ZergSmasher wrote:

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
Sounds like you watched one of the Harry Potter prequels on accident. That’s a painful mistake.

The only Harry Potter films I’d recommend to non-fans would be the second one, Chamber of Secrets, which is a tightly written, well executed fantasy story, and The Order of the Phoenix, with the only villain in the franchise who is actually menacing.

The only Disney movie since Leelo and Stitch I’d recommend is Tangled, but it’s not a must-watch.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, Wreck-It Ralph was great, and Moana was pretty fun too (and it has my favorite Disney song, sung by none other than Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson!). Frozen, I'll very much agree, was massively overrated, but it's not terrible really.

I forgot Wreck It Ralph was Disney. I’d add that one.

Moana was tolerable, but I’d only recommend it to the kind of people who post Disney memes daily.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
The Killer’s Game

Dave Bautista John Wick Type Action Comedy.

And to be honest? I think that alone sums this movie up. If like me you’re a fan of Mr Bautista’s work, and competent but not exactly remarkable action flicks? Stick this on/

It’s not doing anything new, but it’s doing what it does competently. And I’ll take that.

Wait….wait. It’s just been massively elevated. Drew McIntyre has a supporting role, and he and his buddy’s Scots dialect is translated into polite English. Which has given them free reign to use patter, and it’s wonderful.

And then flipping Dylan Moran turns up. I got whiplash in the change of tone after about the 40 minute mark when it so desperately wanted to be bullet train. Only watch this if you are drunk or you are comfortable with the idea that frag grenades going off right next to you just lead to dramatic minor facial nicks and slightly mussed hair.

It's not good.

Oh it definitely lacks realism, but I still found it enjoyable. Though, was it not for the free use of Pattern, thoughtfully and I suppose accurately translated into plain English subtitles, this would only be comfortably middling.

But it did. Making it a rare gem.

The Damned (2024)

A 19th century remote fishing village is facing calamity when an event occurs that sees the village haunted by a Draugar. It begins by the Draugar haunting the dreams of the crew, then the crew begin to go mad and start dying. I thought’d be or get scarier, but it was more of a psychological horror. There’s a few scenes that are spooky, but it never seems to get right into straight up horror.

7/10.

The Warriors

You know, being a huge Anabasis nutter, it still took me a long time to watch the closest thing we have to it in cinema form.

I can really see why this is super popular. It is very stylized and dripping with "cool". The scenes with the Riff's leader are awesome sauce. The DJ as narrator is brilliant.

The action is quaint for modern viewers, and the characterizations are broad archetypes at best. However, that's what you need in a heroic fantasy like this. I think it is still pretty great.

The Silencers, The Ambushers, the Wrecking Crew, etc.

I have also been working through the old "Matt Helm" super-spy movies from the 60's. Dean Martin plays photographer and super-spy Matt Helm. He takes on a variety of villains and capers, all for an excuse to show scantily clad 60's women, colorful sets, exotic locales, drink booze, smoke cigarettes like a chimney, play his pals songs, and just be a bit goofy.

Honestly, I think Austin Powers took more from Matt Helm movies than Bond movies. Features Tina Louise and Anne Margret and many, many more.

Good schlocky fun and great background movies.

The Warriors is a classic.

If you enjoyed it, I highly recommend Streets of Fire if you haven’t seen it yet.

The Warriors rocks. Streets of Fire is one of my top 3 favourite films. Maybe it's just because I've seen The Warriors at the cinema and Streets of Fire only on my TV....but maybe the Warriors is even cooler? That migth be sacrilege though. No, Streets of Fire is even better. Kinda. Well. Either is cool. So full of youth and vitality and on the other hand classic, basic characters.

@Flinty:

And then flipping Dylan Moran turns up.

This really had me laugh out. Never seen the film. Just imagining a film starring Dave Bautista (and with Drew McIntyre in a small role) was funny already. But your addage of Dylan Moran showing up makes for a very funny picture. Doesn't sound very good as a film though. Reminds me of that action film starring Wade Barrett I once happened across. He wasn't bad, but the film was. And it looked incredibly cheap. The digital sort in which they tint everything blue.

 BobtheInquisitor wrote:
The Warriors is a classic.

If you enjoyed it, I highly recommend Streets of Fire if you haven’t seen it yet.

Oh yeah, I have seen that many, many times. However, The Warriors was a big gap in my catalog.

I love Dylan Moran. Comedy Genius. And the poor guy has to try and style out being a total non-sequitur. An Irish catholic priest turning up in what I think is supposed to be rural Hungary. It’s the very definition of Ryan George’s “so the film can happen”. He almost makes it too. I really hope he got a decent pay day. I’m feeling more angry now about it than when I watched it.

 Flinty wrote:
I love Dylan Moran. Comedy Genius. And the poor guy has to try and style out being a total non-sequitur. An Irish catholic priest turning up in what I think is supposed to be rural Hungary. It’s the very definition of Ryan George’s “so the film can happen”. He almost makes it too. I really hope he got a decent pay day. I’m feeling more angry now about it than when I watched it.

Oh, I love Dylan Moran as well. Went to see him live in Vienna in 2018, it was just such a funny addition to that film which I just didn't see coming. It also helped that I imagined him showing up as Bernard Black in between Drew McIntyre and Bautista.