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Aug 26, 2024 19:59:12 GMT -5
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Post by Jason Aiken on Aug 26, 2024 19:59:12 GMT -5
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Sept 1, 2024 11:46:15 GMT -5
Post by Jason Aiken on Sept 1, 2024 11:46:15 GMT -5
Managed to watch Kevin Costner's Horizon: Chapter 1 last night on HBO MAX. Wow, what a great opening act. Don't look for anything resembling a conclusion, though. This was wonderfully shot and had a lot of interesting characters, but this is more of a visual novel than a film. I hate to say it, but I think Kevin made a mistake in not treating this as a streaming series on NetFlix or Amazon Prime. I get that he wants to invoke the Network Weekend Movies of the past like Lonesome Dove, but releasing this as four movies over the course of years is just a bad idea in the age of streaming. Then again, he probably figures he needs some theatrical release just to try and get his own money back. Evidently he's put a lot of his own money up.
But I highly recommend everyone watch this that has HBO Max. It's worth the subscription for the month alone.
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Sept 2, 2024 11:34:06 GMT -5
Post by Jason Aiken on Sept 2, 2024 11:34:06 GMT -5
Yeah. Probably so. And, it was definitely a worldbuilding movie. I think this is the first movie that kinda started to narrow down a little timeline for the MadMax universe. There is a little narrated portion later in the movie that listed different wars, Gas War, Water War, the something something Nuclear War, a war or two that I couldn't hear very well, and then the 40 Day War. Aye, and whilst it may have missed the target at the box office it might still become a bit of a cult classic later, in a similar way that Dredd 2012 did perhaps. A couple months behind, but I watched Furiosa yesterday on MAX where it is performing very well. I agree with what everyone has been saying, it's a great movie. It wasn't needed, though. BUT, I would highly recommend anyone who hasn't seen Fury Road watch Furiosa first, it's a great opening prologue to Fury Road. We better see one more Mad Max film, though. I doubt it will be the Wasteland as Tom Hardy has recently said he doesn't think that's happening. From what I understand The Wasteland is ANOTHER prequel to Fury Road. We don't need another film prequel to Fury Road. I have heard that Miller wrote the Wasteland as a prose novella, so that could still be released, but we need one more Mad Max film for sure. And Old Man Max with Mel would be great.
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Sept 2, 2024 18:51:53 GMT -5
Post by Von K on Sept 2, 2024 18:51:53 GMT -5
Aye, and whilst it may have missed the target at the box office it might still become a bit of a cult classic later, in a similar way that Dredd 2012 did perhaps. A couple months behind, but I watched Furiosa yesterday on MAX where it is performing very well. I agree with what everyone has been saying, it's a great movie. It wasn't needed, though. BUT, I would highly recommend anyone who hasn't seen Fury Road watch Furiosa first, it's a great opening prologue to Fury Road. We better see one more Mad Max film, though. I doubt it will be the Wasteland as Tom Hardy has recently said he doesn't think that's happening. From what I understand The Wasteland is ANOTHER prequel to Fury Road. We don't need another film prequel to Fury Road. I have heard that Miller wrote the Wasteland as a prose novella, so that could still be released, but we need one more Mad Max film for sure. And Old Man Max with Mel would be great. I've not even seen Furiosa or Fury Road yet, but I'll follow your recommendation about the order if I ever do.
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Sept 4, 2024 19:42:26 GMT -5
Post by mindboggled on Sept 4, 2024 19:42:26 GMT -5
I just want to recommend "Strange Darling". Don't watch any trailers. Don't watch any reviews. Just look at some scores, and maybe read the synopsis. Go in as blind as possible. It's a good flick.
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Sept 9, 2024 9:08:16 GMT -5
Post by wolfwatching on Sept 9, 2024 9:08:16 GMT -5
The third spot goes to Jean Claude Van Damme. Out of all those other names, JCVD embodied the 80's action scene, shirtless, muscled, athletic, appropriately cheesy and was not besmirched with movies that were not action movies like those other queefs by comparison. Also, JVCD for sure was on the juice, banged far more women and snorted mountains more of coke than anybody else, which also more embodied the 80s. That is all. I have to agree. Van Dame was ridiculously popular, and everyone I knew growing up was familiar with his movies. He actually probably did more 80s action in the way we think of the cliches than Arnold or Sly, more sequels, more gimmicks. I mean he did the whole evil twin stuff before Arnie did it in the 6th day. Van Dame actually did it where he played twins twice, in Replicant (2001) and Double Impact. Martial Arts, some sci-fi, very little of anything else. Obviously he is never going to be as big as the two head honchos, but he's leagues bigger than Segal and the rest. Also, JCVD the film is a career highlight. Kickboxer, Bloodsport. it's endless.
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Sept 9, 2024 12:50:29 GMT -5
Post by Lonewolf on Sept 9, 2024 12:50:29 GMT -5
The third spot goes to Jean Claude Van Damme. Out of all those other names, JCVD embodied the 80's action scene, shirtless, muscled, athletic, appropriately cheesy and was not besmirched with movies that were not action movies like those other queefs by comparison. Also, JVCD for sure was on the juice, banged far more women and snorted mountains more of coke than anybody else, which also more embodied the 80s. That is all. I have to agree. Van Dame was ridiculously popular, and everyone I knew growing up was familiar with his movies. He actually probably did more 80s action in the way we think of the cliches than Arnold or Sly, more sequels, more gimmicks. I mean he did the whole evil twin stuff before Arnie did it in the 6th day. Van Dame actually did it where he played twins twice, in Replicant (2001) and Double Impact. Martial Arts, some sci-fi, very little of anything else. Obviously he is never going to be as big as the two head honchos, but he's leagues bigger than Segal and the rest. Also, JCVD the film is a career highlight. Kickboxer, Bloodsport. it's endless. JCVD also played as twins in Maximum Risk Universal Soldier: Regeneration (2009) was really good.
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Sept 9, 2024 16:00:48 GMT -5
Post by Von K on Sept 9, 2024 16:00:48 GMT -5
Also, JCVD the film is a career highlight. The Critical Drinker reviewed JCVD some three years back:
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Sept 10, 2024 7:34:45 GMT -5
Post by bonesaw on Sept 10, 2024 7:34:45 GMT -5
JCVD also played as twins in Maximum Risk Universal Soldier: Regeneration (2009) was really good. As mentioned, he also played twins in Double Impact, which is my second favorite movie of his, behind the obvious Bloodsport. He had such a good run of unashamed action movies- I mean look at some of these- Time Cop, Sudden Death, Hard Target, Death Warrant. Maximum Risk was really good too- kind of a serious tone and also had Natasha Henstridge (and her breasts) in it. I kind of lost track after The Quest so I have no idea if any of the stuff he did after was worth checking out, but I will look into Universal Soldier: Regeneration.
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Sept 14, 2024 20:11:34 GMT -5
Post by Almuric II on Sept 14, 2024 20:11:34 GMT -5
Finally got around to seeing Godzilla Minus Zero. I love it when something lives up to the hype. Amazing that they actually did a serious drama about post-WWII Japan and a great kaiju film with one detracting from the other.
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