Movie Recommendations - not necessarily too hot

WRONG - One Libby here that LOVED your list!!!

 

Irons + Cronenberg, how could it be bad? Its free on Amazon now, so I'm going to have to watch it.

Irons was really good in Reversal of Fortune too.

 

It’s okay…slow build up suspense/horror. I didn’t hate it.

 

Hollywood would suck without the libbies.

 

Springsteen's cover of it was pretty good too.

(What can I say...was an 80s kid--i even know the song, bc he covered it).

 

Scared it's going to suck?

 

I did, but it was a while ago. I remember it being very quietly creepy and unsettling.

On that topic, my favorite cronenberg is Naked Lunch.

 

Quietly creepy is good. Raunchy and gory, not so much for me.
Thanks!

 

Just watched Tenet.

If you have the time, it is definitely worth a couple watches, which is required

 

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The Protector 2:
Tony Jaa (Actor), RZA (Actor), Prachya Pinkaew (Director) Rated:
R

4.6 out of 5 [Amazon]
518 global ratings 518 ratings

IMDb 5.3/10.0

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Mindless martial arts actioner. Lots of CGI, lighter on martial arts than Id like,
some funny/cheesy feel at points, but...not horrible. Action reminded of MI movies
(poor man's MI); also a little of Man with the Iron Fists feel (RZA in both).

fwiw

 

I liked QP1 too. Although watching it on Amazon Prime probably wasn’t the emersion experience one gets on the theater for that kind of movie.

 

Thank you! I saw this as a stream option and didn’t know if it is worth the time. Will watch.

 

Be prepared to have to watch it again. The plot is very complicated.

 

Answering my own question...(finished watching it..):

The Seven + hour Russian marathon edition was kind of hard to plod through due to its length and language/subtitles.

...but I could see why it got the love it did. The battle scenes were very impressive, very detailed. Very well done. Best of the 3 W&P's previously mentioned (1956 with Henry Fonda and Audrey Hepburn, and 2016 BBC) by far.

Now I still prefer the underrated '56 version, because it tells the same story in remarkably succinct, and efficient delivery, with beautiful colors, sounds, and presentation; just an over all solid movie experience, even if the battle scenes seem hokey in comparison to the Soviet edition (i can watch a 1000 other movies for great war scenes).

The BBC version--perhaps a step up from the 56 version in terms of the battle scenes, but still, a hollow shadow against the Russian one, and in length, falls squarely between the 3 hour American (Fonda-AHep) edition, and the 7+ hour Russian marathon.

Now with the above said, the final battle scenes in the Russian version were mostly on disk 3, which tallies in at a little over 2 hours. If you come accross the dvd set, and u don't care to invest 7+ hours of your time....cue up disk 3, then cue up battle scenes.

For the rest of the surrounding story, go with Fonda-AHep, or the BBC version (or read the book; there's always the book....).

jmho/fwiw.


(one other side note--Henry Fonda was 50 y/0 when he did this move, and Audrey Hepburn in her mid 20's--somehow this generated some flack from the press folk, despite Fonda looking a very young and lean 50; meanwhile, Sergei whatever (dir, producer and main actor) was in his mid-40's, playing the same 20 something year old character (Pierre Buzukov), and looking every bit of 40 something, and a pretty decent sized fellow to boot (and no one said boo about that); also, the counter part to AHep, was a tea cup sized Russian ballerina who was in her teens when filiming began in '61, and mid 20's by the time it ended in '66--showing actual aging, consistent with the book).

 

Anyone have any particular recommendations for 4th of July/patriotic movies?

 

I got half way through and gave up. It seemed like an overly complicated plot created to support random action sequences.

 

Watched HBO MAX "no sudden moves". Great cast, but movie was just meh.

 

As a military officer, the concepts in the movie are very interesting and I wanted to try and understand them them after the first viewing. Watched it a couple more times and still having issues wrapping my head around them.

 

Darn it. Saw the preview and was really looking forward to watching.

 

I still enjoy watching the HBO series John Adams to get a realistic idea of what was involved in the break from Britain. Nothing is ever going to be 100% historically accurate but I took/listened to a Yale Class on the American Revolution and the professor stated that most historians that study that era were overall happy with the series.