Watched "Child 44" yesterday. Very well done. Stars Tom Hardy.
Movie/film suggestions.
While this is of course a forum for the discussion of all things audio/hi-fi and music, pretty much all of us are also lovers of movies, the enjoyment of which is effected by the reproduction of the sound they contain (with the exception of silent movies 
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I've been focused on David Lynch movies since his death, but with current events so much a part of our lives at the moment, I plan on re-watching a movie I’ve seen only once, and years ago. That movie is:
The Madness Of King George. Apropos, no?
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That was a pretty good movie on several levels, @slaw ; after it got going it wasn’t quite what I expected, but it did make me laugh several times. It was well cast; Woody gets into his roles and Elias Koteas did a good job as a corrupt cop. (He was why I was expecting the dark comedy that did not exactly materialize. But it did make me laugh, and overall I’d say it was dark.) The crack addicted prostitute, Kat Dennings, made me think of Cedar Rapids (Ed Helms, John C. Reilly, Isiah Whitlock, Alia Shawkat) which was another entertaining movie, but in a different manner. |
@slaw , I found it on Tubi. I watched about the first five minutes, and that was enough to be able to tell that it should be dark and funny. My kind of movie. I may stay up late tonight and watch it, but if not tonight, definitely later this week. Thanks for the tip. |
I'll see if I can find that one, @slaw , Woody can be very good. He did an outstanding job with his role in No Country For Old Men. |
I stayed up late last night and watched what I thought was a real good movie on Tubi. Limbo (1999) was so good that maybe it was better than real good. David Strathairn and Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio played the leading roles, and Kris Kristofferson (who did not dominate the movie) played a smaller role that turned out to be critical to the movie. The movie lasted two hours but it kept me so engaged that it didn’t seem that long; the first hour set up the second hour, and in case anyone has not seen it and wants to, I will not spoil it, but it went somewhere different than where I thought it was going when it got started. I did a google and apparently Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio did her own singing, and she has a very nice voice. |
Oh hell yes! Good pick, @slaw ! What a cast: Pacino, Lemmon, Spacey, Ed Harris, Alec Baldwin, Alan Arkin. . . . I haven't watched Pacific Heights recently, but that's another one I've watched more than once. Matthew Modine and Melanie Griffith with a particularly good performance by Michael Keaton. |
I don’t know why I had avoided or put off watching these two before, but this week I finally watched Kill The Irishman and The Doors. I guess I finally watched them due to Val Kilmer’s recent death. I thoroughly enjoyed Kill The Irishman, and I do remember when I was a teenager hearing about all the bombings that were happening in Cleveland sometime in the ’70s, so I also enjoyed it for that reason. As far as The Doors, other than Wonderland, I was never a big fan of Val Kilmer. However, I thought that his portrayal of Jim Morrison was at least okay if not better. I guess one of the reasons that I put off watching that movie for over 30 years was that I remember reading Nobody Gets Out Of Here Alive on a 747 over the Pacific in ’83 when I was in the Air Force and after reading that I always felt that I did not need to see the Hollywood version. I remember after the movie first came out, I was talking to one of my old Air Force buddies on the phone and he was telling me what a good movie it was; I remember telling him that after reading Nobody Gets Out Of Here Alive and watching the VHS tape of The Doors Live At The Hollywood Bowl I didn’t feel the need to watch actors do a portrayal of the group. The movie touched on a lot of what was in the book in some way/shape/form and for the most part it held my interest. On edit: I just now did a google of Val Kilmer movies, and although his part does not stick in my mind on these two, I also enjoyed True Romance and Masked And Anonymous.
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Agreed, @slaw . I liked him in most everything I’ve seen him in. Almost Famous and The Ides Of March immediately came to my mind, but there are so many others. |
Okay, @thecarpathian , I was not aware of that, and I will look for that from now on. As I typed, if he did, that was not a part that I remember. But I can see where it could have been worked in. Basically he plays the role of this teenager’s mentor/role model for the summer. As I typed, he is a water-park employee, and as such he acts goofy and irresponsible and he plays pranks and can be quick with one liners and he has a relationship going on with the female manager of the water-park, so I can see where having a scene where he does some type of dance (I would think it would have been an exhibition of silliness) could have happened. |
I totally agree, @slaw ! Foxcatcher was one of my previous picks. Besides Steve Carrel’s excellent portrayal of the increasingly unhinged heir to the Dupont family fortune, Mark Ruffalo and Channing Tatum were good together as David and Mark Schultz (Olympic wrestlers). I didn’t know it until I googled it a while back ago, but the surviving brother, Mark Schultz, played a role in the movie as a weigh in official. But Steve Carrel was great in that one--he is versatile. |
If he did, @thecarpathian , I do not remember that part. Did he have a famous dancing scene in another movie he was in, or was that a not serious question? (I am not super familiar with most of his movies..) Anyway, in The Way Way Back, Rockwell portrays the nonchalant cool guy role, a water park employee, who takes a teenager under his wing for the summer. So you can probably tell where that movie was going. But there are a lot of heart warming moments for those of us who like having our hearts warmed, and as I typed, Steve Carrel's portrayal of the controlling condescending a-hole boyfriend of the teenager's mother was what I found interesting. |
Speaking of Sam Rockwell, I watched The Way Way Back some time ago and I really enjoyed it. It urns out to be a feel food drama with some moments of comedy woven in. Sam Rockwell of course plays a laid back protagonist, but the role I was really interested in seeing was Steve Carrel's who basically played the antagonist of the story. |
So many I could suggest. Will limit to just 3: IT FOLLOWS: Not a big budget & no big names (though Maika Monroe has come on strong in subsequent films) -- but a brilliant & deeply observant SciFi concept here https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3235888/?ref_=fn_all_ttl_1 UNDER THE SKIN: More brilliant sci-fi. The movie is stunning; so's the soundtrack. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-e&q=under+the+skin BURNING: One of the most mysterious, haunting films ever. I still think about the ending. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-e&q=under+the+skin |
A Portland-based radio station has a segment called The Score. KQAC 88.9. Nothing but great movie music with excellent commentary by the host Edmund Stone. Airs Saturday and Sunday afternoons at 2pm. You don't need to be local, I believe they are the largest classical streaming station. I listen all the time. Great programming. |
@bdp24 , I think I saw it at the movies, then just one more time after that. Time for me to see it again, too. As to Casablanca, it has some of the greatest lines in movie history. I can watch it over and over myself. |
Damn @thecarpathian, I wasn't even close! Wrong continent, wrong century, wrong war. Now I REALLY want to see it again.
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@bdp24 , Great movie! But...It takes place in 1945 on the Channel Island of Jersey off the coast of France. It won a serious amount of awards, yet I don't know a lot of people who have seen it. |
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For those whose taste runs to Gothic Horror, I heartily recommend The Others. It stars Nicole Kidman as a mother with two children suffering from an odd malady (an aversion to sunlight), living in an old Southern mansion, waiting for her husband to return from fighting in the United States Civil War. The story slowly (but not boringly) unfolds as strange things start happening in (and around) the house, all leading to a surprise twist ending. Very spooky and chilling!
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@aewarren: I've lost count of how many times I've watched Casablanca, but when I see it coming up on TCM I watch it again every time. A top 10 movie of all time for sure. Same with Sunset Blvd., The Apartment, Dr. Strangelove, Chinatown, The Last Picture Show, a couple dozen more. A few dozen in my all time top 10? Sure, why not?
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