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Wayoftheredpanda

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Yes, but one can barely see it. I wonder what it meant- did 'Mom or Dad' knock it out of orbit?
According to what’s commonly accepted by fans it bonked Clover on the head sleeping at the bottom of the Atlantic and it didn’t take it very well
but wouldn’t the water have caused it to lose velocity until it was just gently sinking?
 

kingricefan

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According to what’s commonly accepted by fans it bonked Clover on the head sleeping at the bottom of the Atlantic and it didn’t take it very well
but wouldn’t the water have caused it to lose velocity until it was just gently sinking?
Don't over think it. It's just a movie. :biggrin-new:
 

Wayoftheredpanda

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Don't over think it. It's just a movie. :biggrin-new:
One thing I think it did right that other Kaiju movies fail to do is to focus on the event from a citizen's perspective instead of government shenanigans, it brought much more tension and you got to see a better view on what a creature that size wreaking a major city would really look like. You just want to watch gargantuan beings absolutely wreck havoc upon everything in their path, not the government talking about it.
 

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But already eight years before there had been Kubrick's 2001, which is way ahead of every sci-fi film made at that point. It's amazing that came out in the same year as Planet of the Apes and Barbarella.
Apparently it took a long time before anyone else was able to reach the standard of the look of 2001. Star Wars seems to have been the first one that was able to do it.

I'm a little cynical about this, but just a little. The main technology that made 2001 - and I'm old enough to have seen it when it first came out - was 1) the use of detailed models for satellites and spaceships when people generally stuck fins on a tube (although the series Star Trek, which came out two years before 2001, had nonstandard modeling); and 2) rotating sets to simulate zero-G movements.

The slit-scan for the "trip" may have been advanced for the time, but even when I saw it back in 1968, it seemed kinda psychedelically pointless.

I don't want to detract from Kubrick's vision and execution. It was visually scrumptious in a way that sci-fi movies up to that point just weren't. Awfully slow-moving, though. To me, nothing really delivered sci-fi the way it was supposed to until Star Wars. and that was unexpected and entirely thrilling.
 

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Watched Underwater starring Kristen Stewart, a hybrid of Leviathan, Deep Star Six and a bit of Alien thrown into the mix, an underwater facility suffers catastrophic damage and the survivors try to escape but are being hunted by deep sea creatures. It was ok'ish, I can't say I'm a fan of Stewart, he acting leaves me cold, the whole thing is nothing new but the creature effects are well done and I'm a sucker for monster movies.
 

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The latest one watched was The Silence, about flying creatures that were discovered during some archaeological research and started invading the Earth killing people who made noise, as they were blind. I don't know why Netflix did this as the movie A Quite Place came out just a year ago and it is absolutely the same. And this one happened to be much less exciting.
 

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Also watched JoJo Rabbit. A 10 year old boy is in the Hitler Youth, he discovers his mother is hiding a young Jewish girl in their house. Unlikely setting for a comedy considering the subject matter but the film plays out from a child's point of view, so everything is presented in a child's perspective, things are good or bad, they are funny or they're not there is no real middle ground. I thought it was very good. It was funny and poignant, the actors all gave amazing performances. I could understand people not liking it considering the subject matter but my take on it was that it was anti-hate, ant-fanaticism, it had a positive message, "Life is a gift".
 

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Okay, now see, I took it that everyone that explodes, renews. The crowd cheers every single time someone explodes. And every single person explodes. Everyone does. So, in all the years of carousel, and everyone coming to rejoice in the renewals, if all they saw was everyone dying, they would rebel. But, they have been taught, explode = renew. When the people see every single person explode every single time, every single carousel -- they are seeing that as the moment of renewal.

If they really thought people were dying and not renewing, no one would try to renew, they would all run. But, they believe. Their faith in carousel is strong.

It's not a game, it's a mandatory, daily gathering. You reach a certain age, you blink, you go to carousel and renew. Even the sandman says, "why do they run, when they can renew?" But, there is the underground group that know no renewal is happening, it's death.

I need to read the book to maybe understand where you are coming from.

I am not seeing what you are seeing. But interesting nonetheless.

They can be cheering because they're happy that others are renewing indeed. The whole concept of what the renewal entails is just a bit vague. Is a new baby born right away? But it's all about faith, they believe what they're told. And why not, their society is basically a happy one - they live for pleasure.
You also never see who is ruling the society. Logan gets his orders from a computer. Who instigated the society and its rules? You never see who are controlling it all.
The movie is most concerned with action, not everything else is worked out all that clearly.

I also wondered how they found their way back to the domed city when they take the old man (Ustinov) with them. Obviously they couldn't get back the same way, because the ice cave had collapsed, but how do they know how to find the city back? They just go along the beach and find it that way.
 

Gerald

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I'm a little cynical about this, but just a little. The main technology that made 2001 - and I'm old enough to have seen it when it first came out - was 1) the use of detailed models for satellites and spaceships when people generally stuck fins on a tube (although the series Star Trek, which came out two years before 2001, had nonstandard modeling); and 2) rotating sets to simulate zero-G movements.

The slit-scan for the "trip" may have been advanced for the time, but even when I saw it back in 1968, it seemed kinda psychedelically pointless.

I don't want to detract from Kubrick's vision and execution. It was visually scrumptious in a way that sci-fi movies up to that point just weren't. Awfully slow-moving, though. To me, nothing really delivered sci-fi the way it was supposed to until Star Wars. and that was unexpected and entirely thrilling.

Still 2001 hardly looks dated nowadays, when everything else from that time period does. It was not just the stuff in space, but also the intro with the primates and the monolith looked way better than something like, say, One Million Years B.C., from two years before. It is the whole way the movie is shot, it is way more modern than anything else.
And it's not just the exteriors of the models in space, but also a lot of the sets which have actors on them, which look way advanced for the time.

I do like the old school feel a lot. It is far more cosy. From 2001 and Star Wars on sci-fi films have a colder feel to them, more technical and detached. But then, apparently in space it is very cold.
 

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They can be cheering because they're happy that others are renewing indeed. The whole concept of what the renewal entails is just a bit vague. Is a new baby born right away? But it's all about faith, they believe what they're told. And why not, their society is basically a happy one - they live for pleasure.
You also never see who is ruling the society. Logan gets his orders from a computer. Who instigated the society and its rules? You never see who are controlling it all.
The movie is most concerned with action, not everything else is worked out all that clearly.

I also wondered how they found their way back to the domed city when they take the old man (Ustinov) with them. Obviously they couldn't get back the same way, because the ice cave had collapsed, but how do they know how to find the city back? They just go along the beach and find it that way.
I think retracing their steps, the big dome sticking out of the landscape was the big giveaway. :laugh: . I don't think the dome was that far from where they found Peter, so it was just a matter of finding a way back in.
 

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I think retracing their steps, the big dome sticking out of the landscape was the big giveaway. :laugh: . I don't think the dome was that far from where they found Peter, so it was just a matter of finding a way back in.

I didn't feel it was that high, but with the miniatures it's hard to tell how the scale is meant. It also looks more like several smaller domes than one big one.
I had a feeling they travel quite a bit from the ice cave to Washington, but it's impossible to tell: no time or distance is given.
 

Gerald

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Watched another film with Jenny Agutter, The Railway Children (1970). She's visibly younger in it and it's the complete opposite of Logan's Run. Taking place in 1904 rather than in the 23rd century, very British instead of American, and totally family friendly instead of highly sexy.
It makes the most of the beautiful Yorkshire countryside and railway, but in terms of story it's not all that special. But it's a typical children's story, so you must judge it as such. It's just the day to day happenings of three children as they move into their new home near the railroad. It's very charming though.

She was also in The Survivor (1981), which I have a blu-ray of with some great extras. It is weak as an adaptation (of James Herbert) and muddled as a script, but it has a particular creepy atmosphere I like. It was directed by David Hemmings, better known as an actor of course. If it wasn't for Agutter most likely I wouldn't have got it though.

And she was in Walkabout (1971) by Nicolas Roeg, which takes place in the Australian outback. Haven't seen it for a while, but remember it was very good.
She also is in a very short cameo in Sam Raimi's Darkman (1990).

She looks quite different with age now. She was in the Marvel films The Avengers and Captain America: The Winter Soldier in short roles as a councilwoman, but I didn't recognise her at all.
 

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Knives Out.

Cracking good mystery yarn. Delightful in its twisty-turny ways.

I'm all about the writing, and this writing was stellar with plotting, arcing, buildup, everything. And if you're all about the acting, these folks were romping in it. Chris Evans in particular tackled his role with zeal and conviction, as if he were enjoying it.

In case it's not coming across, we REALLY LIKED this move.


I saw this Saturday and loved it. This was a great take (and twist) on the old Agatha Christie formula.

Did you ever see Godsford Park? It's about 15 years old or so. It's Robert Altman's version of this kind of story. It's worth watching if you can find it.
 

Gerald

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It turns out the director of Logan's Run, Michael Anderson, and Agutter did another film together. It's called Dominique (or Dominique is Dead) and it's billed as a horrorfilm. It's available since recently as a region free blu-ray. Going by the rating it is not as good as Logan's Run, but rather mediocre (but The Survivor is rated mediocre too and I still like it).
It also has Cliff Robertson, who was in De Palma's Obsession, which of his early films is certainly my favourite (I like it much better than Sisters). So as a whole it sounded interesting enough that I ordered it.

Agutter also appeared much later in a remake of Railway Children (in 2000) for tv, this time playing the mother rather than one of the children. Her other horrorfilms include Child's Play 2 (1990) and Dark Tower (no, not that one) (1989), but these are not interesting enough for me to get. I've seen both and while the first is ok, Dark Tower was quite poor I recall.
 
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Gerald

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They totally changed the front page of IMDb. Unfortunately they took away the section with all the links to interesting news and articles. This is where I often saw the announcement of a new SK adaptation, so I might not be aware of it now if a new one is in the works. Variety might probably be the best option now to find out about new scoops.