Isaac wrote: Tue Oct 28, 2025 9:27 am
Watched the Nebraska Springsteen film last night.
If 80% more of it had been about the making of album (and what became the start of Born in the USA) I would have enjoyed it 100000X more. Those brief scenes were cool.
Short King looks nothing like The Boss. I couldn't shake that watching the movie. Just never bought in on it. I went with two friends and the theater was empty so we did have a lot of fun watching it. But man.
Yeah I'm gonna wait for this one to hit the streamers/Plex. I too think JAW looks nothing remotely like the Boss.
Ditto on both.
Re: Movies you have watched thread.
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2025 12:25 pm
by enframed
Isaac wrote: Tue Oct 28, 2025 9:27 am
Album that I'd also truly want a deep dive on? TUNNEL OF LOVE.
I'd be more interested in this, but a doc. I don't know why exactly but I can't watch a bio-pic.
Re: Movies you have watched thread.
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2025 12:31 pm
by Teacher's Pet
enframed wrote:
Three Days of the Condor, very good, except the love story part.
I watched this recently as well! Faye Dunaway rules in this despite the twisted script/story.
This came out the same year I was born, and, yeah, it's "of its time" I guess.
I'm a sucker for anything that includes 1970s NYC, especially if it's UWS where I grew up. Throw in some spy stuff, I'm 100% sold.
This started me on a string of macho 1970s war/spy/cop movies, mostly terrible but still fascinating:
The Wild Geese
The Day of The Jackal
The Odessa Files
Operation Daybreak
Force 10 from Navarone
Crazy Joe
Code Name Emerald (1985 but it snuck in there)
Re: Movies you have watched thread.
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2025 12:35 pm
by jfv
Isaac wrote: Tue Oct 28, 2025 9:27 am
Watched the Nebraska Springsteen film last night.
If 80% more of it had been about the making of album (and what became the start of Born in the USA) I would have enjoyed it 100000X more. Those brief scenes were cool.
Short King looks nothing like The Boss. I couldn't shake that watching the movie. Just never bought in on it. I went with two friends and the theater was empty so we did have a lot of fun watching it. But man.
Going to see it on Thursday and will report back. But, yeah, agree with everyone above that Jeremy Allen White as the Boss seems like a hard sell.
enframed wrote:
Three Days of the Condor, very good, except the love story part.
I watched this recently as well! Faye Dunaway rules in this despite the twisted script/story.
This came out the same year I was born, and, yeah, it's "of its time" I guess.
I'm a sucker for anything that includes 1970s NYC, especially if it's UWS where I grew up. Throw in some spy stuff, I'm 100% sold.
This started me on a string of macho 1970s war/spy/cop movies, mostly terrible but still fascinating:
The Wild Geese
The Day of The Jackal
The Odessa Files
Operation Daybreak
Force 10 from Navarone
Crazy Joe
Code Name Emerald (1985 but it snuck in there)
Dunaway is so hot in this.
Will make a note of those other films, thanks.
Re: Movies you have watched thread.
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2025 4:05 pm
by Iancee
Just came across this showing at my local cinema -
It looks so stupidly cheesy I’m almost tempted - on a pure WTF basis
enframed wrote:
Three Days of the Condor, very good, except the love story part.
I watched this recently as well! Faye Dunaway rules in this despite the twisted script/story.
This came out the same year I was born, and, yeah, it's "of its time" I guess.
I'm a sucker for anything that includes 1970s NYC, especially if it's UWS where I grew up. Throw in some spy stuff, I'm 100% sold.
This started me on a string of macho 1970s war/spy/cop movies, mostly terrible but still fascinating:
The Wild Geese
The Day of The Jackal
The Odessa Files
Operation Daybreak
Force 10 from Navarone
Crazy Joe
Code Name Emerald (1985 but it snuck in there)
Dunaway is so hot in this.
No one has ever looked better in a silk blouse than Faye Dunaway in the 1970s.
Re: Movies you have watched thread.
Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2025 6:14 am
by Bernardo
Saw Paul Schrader's Affliction, it's brutal.
I tried watching Beau is Afraid and thirty minutes if its three hour runtime I already thought "this is not going to happen". Stuck around for more forty minutes, on the strength if my love for Aster's previous two films, but couldn't continue. It felt like a not particularly good Daniel Clowes six page cartoon stretched into infinity.
Used up the rest of the running time to see Haneke's Benny's Video, which was much better.
Re: Movies you have watched thread.
Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2025 5:33 pm
by rsmurphy
I rewatched Se7en not too long ago and finally had a longstanding question answered: what was the thing John Doe had attached to the john in the punishment for lust. I could never make out what it was in previous viewings because of my eyesight but this time I watched it with glasses lol. Used to think it was some severe hardcore nipple clamp thing which made sense because the john was hysterically screaming to "get this thing off of me." I mean, like, couldn't he have just as easily slipped off a strap-on knife hisself Anyway, that was fucked up.