Greggulator Posted August 1, 2014 Share Posted August 1, 2014 Has anyone else watched The Quest yet? It's pretty insane. It's a Survivor-style reality show but set in a Game Of Thrones type of world. It's essentially a LARP elimination show.It's not good but really watchable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RonL21 Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 Has anyone else watched Power on Starz? It's been pretty strong through the first seven episodes and the season finale is this Saturday. I recommend watching it on demand. It's the perfect binge watch series Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 God, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is so damn great it's worth typing out the do name on me phone. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 I don't know yet if I like the movie, but I love your commitment. My wife is loving the hell out of SILVERADO right now. I think that buys me another few evenings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.H. Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 I love Silverado so much. John Cleese is so fucking KING SIZED in the brief part he is in. This and Best Seller were the 2 movies that got me exposed to the awesomeness og Brian Dennehey! James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 The score was pretty fun too. Really cliche but just nonstop fun stuff the listen to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 The thing I remember most is Linda Hunt as the bartender Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 The thing I remember most is Linda Hunt as the bartender She was great but I kind of wish they had given her more chance to be a tough, worldly person. In a movie that is not at all ashamed to pile on the satisfying emotional moments, she would have handled that little pop gun better than Jeff Goldblum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Newb82 Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 Just marathoned the last season of THE KILLING and it's everything, good and bad, the show always was from the beginning. Potentially intriguing central mystery? Check. Big revelations that end up meaning nothing? Check. Sexually exploited minors? Check, although not nearly as prevalent as the first three seasons. Linden & Holder getting part of the solution right, then stumbling ass-first onto the rest? Check. Add in some cameos, the aftermath of Linden shooting Skinner being tied up in a neat little package, and the last few minutes the show turning into a chick flick, and there you have it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted August 2, 2014 Share Posted August 2, 2014 " I have to admit during Danny Glover's first scene in the saloon I kind of made an ass of myself because I couldn't stop chiming in with witticisms like: "I'll have a bottle of whiskey" {to celebrate being one day away from retirement} and "I haven't had a drink of whiskey or slept in a bed for ten days. {and I'm getting to old for that shit} Yeah. Fucking lame, really. But it's so hard not to. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 Piranesi. 3:10 to Yuma. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elizium Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 Piranesi. 3:10 to Yuma. Either one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elizium Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 I'd also add Fort Apache to the previous John Ford recommendations (Liberty Valance, Searchers), I continually flip flop between it and The Searchers as my favourite of his films. Even though he'd already done Stagecoach and They Were Expendable with Ford, it really is the movie where John Wayne takes over from Henry Fonda as Ford's quintessential leading man (especially as Ford's movies start to take a more conservative viewpoint in the 2nd half of his career). Shirley Temple is hella cute in it too. Haven't really seen any of her other adult roles. My Darling Clementine is a pretty top notch film as well, although you may be Wyatt Earp'd out. Victor Mature is pretty great as Doc, too...although very, um, robust for a man dying of tb. Basically, John Ford is the best (especially if Ward Bond is around). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 I enjoyed 3:10 TO YUMA up until the final sequences. It annoyed me that, in a movie that built its tension of the genuineness of the killing skills of the two leads, would, at the moment of truth, deflate all that by having the army of people shooting at them apparently be trained at the Cobra Commander School of Combat.After they basically just waltzed through the first 30 or 40 rounds it became clear that nothing I was going to see for the next 20 minutes was going to matter. Just a bunch of noise and squibs accomplishing nothing. Like, why would I feel any drama or tension there when I know they're just going to crawl and skip around leaving human-shaped bullet-hole patterns in the walls around them?It didn't ruin the whole movie, but it was so much the thing we were building toward that it cheapened everything else that had happened. It's not an uncommon issue in action movies and it's something I accept without irony in a John Woo movie, but this was supposed to be more meditative and a little more real than that. Like with Bale being not a superman, but just a man, they prepped us for something less John Cena-esque but then gave us the full bulletproof Cena.But HOLY SHIT was tonight a score. I took a chance on a movie that most people's lady-friends could not sit through...that hell, most dudes have a hard time sitting through, ONCE UPON A TIME IN THE WEST. I thought we'd make it halfway through the opening sequence or so before she tapped out. But she went ape shit over the whole thing...she cried when Jason Robards died...and we ended up sitting through the whole thing AND THEN THE WILD BUNCH!!!Two movies that are, either one of them alone, challenging to anyone but your Criterion nerd set, and she loved it all. That's 5 1/2 hours of this stuff. Guys, I think there's no limit to this thing I've got going on and I'm planning on riding the wave as long as I can. This is the "watching movies with your girl" equivalent of Sting-tantric sex. I'M INVINCIBLE!!!!!!!!!!! I'M IMPERVIOUS TO ROMCOMS FOREVER!!!!!! DO YOU HEAR ME???? NO COMEUPANCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!Also I had forgotten, not having watched it since I was in my 20s, what a great line THE WILD BUNCH ends on: "It ain't what it used to be. But it'll do." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 Open Range is good too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 I've been wondering about that one. Does it have the Constner "Hollywood cheese" effect? Or does he tone it down enough to make something not so swoopy and GoneWithTheWindy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnny Sorrow Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 I've been wondering about that one. Does it have the Constner "Hollywood cheese" effect? Or does he tone it down enough to make something not so swoopy and GoneWithTheWindy?Nah, Duvall owns the movie and keeps all that away. Speaking of Duvall and westerns , all 6 hours of Lonesome Dove are pretty fucking essential. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keith_h Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 For your Western binge: The Proposition It's an Aussie western, and it's amazing. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HumanChessgame Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 For your Western binge: The Proposition It's an Aussie western, and it's amazing. The Nick Cave soundtrack is awesome as well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BrianS81177 Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 Not really a western, but has the same vibe as one: The Three Burials Of Melquiades Estrada (starring and directed by Tommy Lee Jones). Also has Melissa Leo, Barry Pepper, Dwight Yoakam and January Jones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 Once Upon A Time in the West is one of my favorite movies. Open Range was pretty good, too. Maybe we need a Westerns thread? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niners Fan in CT Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 Only if everyone agrees that Tombstone is awesome. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Craig H Posted August 3, 2014 Share Posted August 3, 2014 The sound production at the end of Open Range is pretty awesome. The exact opposite of the shit in the Dark Knight Rises. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J.T. Posted August 4, 2014 Share Posted August 4, 2014 God, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford is so damn great it's worth typing out the do name on me phone. I have always maintained that this movie rules. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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