The Official Movie Thread

[Bloopy]

I watched French Connection II - pretty entertaining, especially Gene getting drunk during his withdrawal and rambling about baseball.

RIP Gene. Also watched him in Heist the other day - it was ok.

Gene Hackman and pianist wife Betsy Arakawa found dead at home with their dog

The Oscar-winning star of The French Connection, The Conversation, Superman and The Poseidon Adventure has died, along with his classical musician wife, according to a Santa Fe sheriff

www.theguardian.com

 

[CiG]

So weird how they found his wife and dog dead too.

 

[Cronopio]

So weird how they found his wife and dog dead too.

Wouldn't it have been weirder if they had NOT found them?

 

[no country for old wainds]

either a suicide pact or a gas leak i guess lol

great actor though. i think the conversation is his best performance but he had many good ones.

 

[CiG]

i think the conversation is his best performance

Yeah fucking amazing.

 

[no country for old wainds]

i recommend night moves if you want a weird '70s noir with him as the lead.

 

[CiG]

Yeah well I recommend Prime Cut where he plays Lee Marvin's evil sex slave selling brother named "Mary Ann."

 

[Blurry_Dreams]

 

[Bloopy]

Some randoms enjoyed lately:

Schizopolis - must be one of the weirdest ever movies from a well-known director other than Lynch, quite delightful

The Haunting (1963) - awesome opening, great atmosphere and some funny lines. For the moving into a big creepy old mansion with an even creepier maid genre it's almost as good as Rebecca, and quite a bit better than Night of Dark Shadows.

Westworld (1973) - I'd never seen the TV series and probably wouldn't commit to it, but dug this, pretty classic really

Charade (1963) - fairly great thriller that took a left on the way to film noir and went for comedy instead

 

[Cronopio]

So is anyone going to watch the new Snow White?

 

[no country for old wainds]

So is anyone going to watch the new Snow White?

looks great

 

[no country for old wainds]

https://x.com/Nick_Newman/status/1904239715194167666

 

[rms]

Mickey 17 anyone?

I've avoided all discussion but I'm starting to see some negative reviews...

 

[CiG]

Honestly looks meh to me, I'm in no rush to see it.

 

[Cronopio]

looks great

I read all that and, while I agree with most of it, I still want to hit that pretentious POS who wrote it over the head with a fucking frying pan.

 

[no country for old wainds]

that's fair

 

[CiG]

Looks like they're bringing back a lot of the 2000's X-Men for Avengers: Doomsday.

Magneto, Cyclops, Nightcrawler, Mystique, Beast and Professor X. Ian McKellen's Magneto will finally be in the MCU.

 

[Cronopio]

Gonna be soulless dross like usual.

 

[TechnicalBarbarity]

Im about halfway through Nosferatu(Extended Cut) and holy shit this is such a bad movie in so many different ways.

 

[rms]

Can't even imagine sitting through an extended cut of that horseshit.