Rate The Last Movie you Watched

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The Right Stuff (1983). Philip Kaufman’s classic telling the story of US pilots first breaking the sound barrier and then going to space as the first US astronauts. Full on America-propaganda and entertaining as hell with a great cast. Three hours and ten minutes long, and it just flies by. I can’t understand how, but it feels like about 90 minutes. Chuck Yeger outlived Sam Shepard who plays him in this by three years which is something. There’s a quote in the film about US test pilots having a chance of one in four of dying every time they got up there.

Mad_Cyril

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Have you read ‘failure is not an option’?

Amps

LT42 post number 1, your sandle trabs

As I have made abundantly clear, they were a joke for the thread opener, I clearly don’t own those! 😆

LT42

Amps sure we all say that, Amps

Smallman1

Millsy lol doom scrolling past Smallsy’s Kermit’s at breakneck speed like some sort of digital flickbook of abject horror.

Lol!

Homegrove

Mad_Cyril nope. Putting it on the list.

C_J

Amps i remember tom cruise going on the graham norton show to plug this movie. they’re selling the whole “he actually looked like your twin” bit and how its completely fine that the characters are talking english rather than german, and i’m like “naaah fuck off, this will be pure shite!”

decided to see it anyway. loved it.

Mad_Cyril

C_J
I can’t detach from reality enough to watch a film with Tom Cruise in it.

Amps

C_J completely fine that the characters are talking english rather than german

I don’t mind subs but if you’re doing ‘tales of daring do in WWII’ you don’t need that level of historic accuracy. Cruise’s German would probably have been Pitt’s Oirish levels of bad. Germany might have invaded somewhere again off the back of it.

Amps

Mad_Cyril He doesn’t exactly ‘Tom Cruise the fuck out of it’ in this one, which helps.

C_J

Wouldn’t have guessed that would ever be an issue tbh

Mad_Cyril

Amps I struggle with the small person / massive cunt paradigm

Amps

Mad_Cyril I struggle with the small person / massive cunt paradigm

Like some sort of human manifestation of an Escher picture.

Mad_Cyril

Amps Exactly.

I also meant paradox, not paradigm. But will leave for posterity (and Hugo to base a descent into the weeds in)

Wasily

Companion 6.5/10

Hard to give a synopsis without a spoiler. Young man takes ‘girlfriend’ to country house. Bad shit happens.

This is a pretty amusing in parts but forgettable movie. It has Sophie Thatcher who did a decent turn in Heretic and who is good in this too, as well as Jack Quaid (the irritating B male Hughie from The Boys). There are some amusing scenes in German and it’s time not wasted on a rainy weekday so all in all came out pretty satisfied with it, but it’s nothing special.

Amps

Mad_Cyril (and Hugo to base a descent into the weeds in)

You lucky thing you!

BlainSA

rhouses Mohicans quite a bit cheesier than I remembered, but just about holds up. ( 7.1 / 10 )

Just gave it another go after a couple of decades. Should’ve just left it.

Watched The Substance. Got about halfway through it. It looks, sounds and feels great, but could see where it was going and just didn’t keep me interested enough despite all the tits and muff.

Homegrove

Where Eagles Dare (1968). Should not have mentioned this yesterday, had to watch it today because of that. Holds up in case you’re wondering, but the 2010 Blu ray I own barely looks better than a DVD. There was a story a few years back that Clint Eastwood has approved a bunch of 4K remasters of his old movies including Dirty Harry, Pale Rider and this. Since the first two are getting released now I hope this also gets a new release. It deserves it.

@Amps I’ve also not seen The Great Escape. It got a new 4K release from Arrow Video. I’ll get it next time they do a sale.

Amps

Homegrove I’ve also not seen The Great Escape

Shirley this is impossible if you live in continental Europe? Are you a bot?

Smallman1

Homegrove I’ve also not seen The Great Escape.

Stallone and Pele, what’s not to love!

Homegrove

The Order (2024). Really good. Not perfect. Pretty unbelievable thing happens right at the end that sort of takes you away from what was a really realistic film until that point, but hey it’s the movies. A reminder that we used to get these sort of excellent thrillers all the time, now maybe a good one comes out once every few years. Jude Law channels Gene Hackman in Mississippi Burning pretty hard, and actually sells it.

I wish this had been in the theatres in Finland too instead of straight to streaming.

mjh

Homegrove

Broadsword calling Danny Boy. What a great film.

The cable car fight scene is a classic.

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