• DagwoodIII@piefed.socialEnglish
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    4 months ago

    The old one you never heard of.

    “Report To The Commissioner” 1970s Time Square movie about a police involved shooting leading to a hostage situation. Has one of the most hair raising chase scenes ever filmed.

    “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” I get that everyone was sick of Brangelina by the time the movie came out, but it’s got enough comedy for a comedy movie, enough action for a thriller, and enough romance for a dozen rom-coms.

    “Honey, please don’t undermine me in front of the hostage.”

    • moonshadow@slrpnk.net
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      4 months ago

      Waterworld slaps, considering checking out Postman on your recommendation but kinda biased against book adaptations

    • BoxOfFeet@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Waterworld is amazing. I ordered the Arrow blu-ray release the day it came out. Having an HD, official release of the Ulysses Cut is pretty cool.

  • whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    4 months ago

    Pontypool, great concept and execution for a low budget horror, Canadian zombies with a twist

    The Man from Earth low budget sci-fi about a guy who’s been alive for thousands of years, mostly just character development and story telling through actually story telling.

    Deep Blue Sea 3, 1 was great b movie shark horror, 2 was garbage, but 3 knew it was on the back foot and just goes all in, not a great movie but after 2 definitely underrated.

    • Teh@sh.itjust.works
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      4 months ago

      Sneakers is a lot of fun, but there’s one scene that just irks me. In the beginning of the film, the main character is picking up a check from a bank teller after their “white hat” elite team stole (then returned) untold millions from the same bank. The teller cuts him a check and asks what he does. He gives a short explanation and he says “it’s a living”. She looks at the check and back at him saying “not a very good one”. It’s clear that she’s a low level employee and there were 4 or 5 people on the crew, and she’d have no idea how much work went into the job. Even at minimum wage, it would have been a pretty nice paycheck and she would have had no idea whether it was a good amount, nor whether it was just one guy getting paid the amount on the check. The comment makes no sense.

  • masta_chief@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    4 months ago
    1. It’s the funniest movie ever made.

    Came out in 1979, Spielberg directed, Zemeckis wrote it, John Williams did the score, it has John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Christopher Lee, Toshirô Mifune, among others.

    It was way way ahead of its time. There are more jokes and setups & payoffs than entire decades of more recent movies (I’m not even exaggerating much). The practical effects are awesome and they blow up tons of stuff for real. It’s refreshingly anti-war. It has absolutely bonkers set pieces. You might recognize things they try that you see in Spielberg’s and Zemeckis’ later movies. Can’t reccomend it enough.

    Make sure to watch the extended cut because it just includes all the missing scenes from the theatrical, which just has gaps and loose ends.

    • D_C@sh.itjust.works
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      4 months ago

      I read the book before watching the film and, as usual, the book was better.

      Yet the book is based on the movie! Just goes to show how much the mind helps when reading.

    • masta_chief@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Wait wtf is this

      I tried to put 1941 with a period at the end. Did the period do some weird syntax thing? Oh looking again looks like it’s just cut off weird on voyager. Anyone else see this?