Apocalypse Now and the Bourne movies.
Movie/film suggestions.
While this is of course a forum for the discussion of all things audio/hi-fi and music, pretty much all of us are also lovers of movies, the enjoyment of which is effected by the reproduction of the sound they contain (with the exception of silent movies 
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I've been focused on David Lynch movies since his death, but with current events so much a part of our lives at the moment, I plan on re-watching a movie I’ve seen only once, and years ago. That movie is:
The Madness Of King George. Apropos, no?
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Years ago I saw the movie Nashville (directed by Robert Altman), and while perusing the soundtrack section in the good LP vendor booth at my local vintage marketplace store yesterday I came upon the soundtrack for the movie. All the musicians are listed on the back cover, and it’s an impressive group of players (Harold Bradley, Lloyd Green, David Briggs, Vassar Clements, Johnny Gimble, Buddy Spicher, many others). I had to look at the center label on the LP to get the song info, and it appears that Ronee Blakely was very involved in the making of the album (as well as appearing in the movie). I’m familiar with her name, but not her music, so I look forward to listening to the album. I’ve been buying from this vendor for a few years now, and he was obviously in the record business. Every LP has pertinent info written on the card each has taped to it’s plastic outer sleeve, and on this one he wrote "A great, great album!" The cover has a very mild amount of ring wear, but the LP is in Near Mint condition. I happily paid $7 for it.
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@thecarpathian: Speaking of Casablanca, I love all Bogie's Noir movies. I recently saw In A Lonely Place for the first time, and never miss a chance to watch your choice, The Big Sleep, Key Largo, The Maltese Falcon, High Sierra, Dark Passage, and Dead Reckoning. The one movie he's in that I don't like is The African Queen; I can't stand Katharine Hepburn.
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I enjoyed Whiplash enough to watch it more than twice. JK Simmons was great in that one. Also it is a movie with a musical theme; I would think that the drummers on this site might like it. Alpha Dog was another I have watched more than twice. Justin Timberlake, Emile Hirsch, Ben Foster. . . . War Dogs is another I've watched more than twice.Jonah Hill and Miles Teller create good film chemistry and the plot kept my attention and gave me a few laughs at the same time.
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ok, not starting a movie club with @thecarpathian and @immathewj then. Weirdos
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Beside watching music reviews on videos posted on YouTube by amateurs (the term used without pejorative implication), I also watch film/movie reviews. The quality of the reviews varies wildly, and I have discovered an unusually good reviewer---a youngish woman---who named her channel Deep Focus Lens (a good name, don’t you agree?). She may be an amateur (though she has a Patreon account), but she gets David Lynch to a degree Siskel & Ebert---for instance---were incapable of I just watched her review of David Lynches final full length film, Inland Empire. Here it is:
https://youtu.be/smN7_AVrtGg?si=VJpdzL-h6890XWoF
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I’ll say it again: a great movie! I am not a huge Brad Pitt fan, but he played his part and delivered his lines perfectly. There are certain aspects of this movie I gave up trying to figure out, but I figure that’s just McCarthy being McCarthy, and I can enjoy it without figuring out and understanding the ’why’ for everything. |
For me it's Blade Runner. There isn't a wasted frame. I'm torn between with narration or without but I've seen it so many times I still hear the narration in my head even on the directors cut. My guilty pleasure is "One From the Heart" Tom Waits, Terry Garr and and cinematography at its finest. (story on the hand....) |
A Complete Unknown. Just saw the movie, and Timothée Chalamet does an amazing job with both guitar and singing. If you like Dylan this movie really provides an immersive view of the times (1961-1965) and a powerful representation of Dylan's response. Very enjoyable and I will be looking for the soundtrack. |
@immatthewj , not a huge Brad Pitt fan??! He's dreamy!
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Shattered Glass was about the downfall of Stephen Glass's career as a "journalist" at The New Republic. starring Hayden Christiansen as Glass. I thought the dialogue and acting were good and the script moved along. I get a real kick out of Larry David's stuff, and Clear History had me laughing a lot. |
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I thought that the movie Everest was intense and the recreation it attempted of an ill fated Mount Everest Expedition came off as realistic to me. It featured a strong cast: Jake Glyllenthaal, Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, John Hawkes, Sam Worthington. Binge watching The Office turned me into a Steve Carell fan. I particularly enjoyed his role portraying John Du Pont in Foxcatcher where he played the eccentric heir to the Du Pont empire who became increasingly divorced from reality and unhinged. I felt that Tatum Channing and Mark Ruffalo had good chemistry in their portrayal (which came off as realistic to me) of the Olympic wrestlers Mark and David Schultz. I just did a google to see who played David Schultz’s wife (it was Sienna Miller) and evidently (unbeknownst to me when I watched it) the real Mark Schultz (the surviving brother) had a small part as a weigh in official. (Vanessa Redgrave played the role of John Du Point’s aging mother.) I could watch either of these movies more than once. On the lighter side, and speaking of good chemistry, I loved and found hilarious what Tatum Channing and Jonah Hill did in 21 Jump Street. I never once watched the original series, but evidently that is why Johnny Depp had a role in the movie, and I loved the part in the movie that they stole (if that’s the right word) from a scene with Johnny Depp in another movie he starred in, Donnie Brasco.
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I think that the reason that I am usually not crazy about him is due to the roles that he usually seems to be cast in. |
Just a few of my favorites from my collection 🍿
Apocalypto BLOW THX1138 (The Original) Derailed Donnie Brasco Hard Times Scarface The Sting The Illusionist The Blue Max Leon The Professional Brewster’s Millions (Richard Pryor) Cadillac Records The Life & Times of Judge Roy Bean The Godfather (Pts. 1. & 2) The Boys in Company C Vanishing Point (The Original) Papillon Crossroads 8MM Inglorious Bastards Kelly’s Heroes Cat Ballou Back to School Fight Club Robo Cop (2014) Just a few of my favs … 🎥 🎞️ |
@thecarpathian yes, the original. I never saw the remake. |
@ezwind Lost in America … CLASSIC ! as well as, Defending Your Life Albert Brooks definitely 👍 |
I actually had to google Seven, @ezwind , to remind myself whether I had seen it or not. I’d have to say that I don’t think I’ve seen it. I did see Legends Of The Fall when it came out on VHS and initially I thought it was a pretty good movie, but I wouldn’t watch it again. As far as The Road, I think that may have been the first Cormack McCarthy book I ever read (I never did see the movie) and McCarthy books seem generally dark to me with very little redemption for the characters. I enjoyed the movie No Country For Old Men more than the book actually, but this was because the movie followed the book almost to a ’T’ if I remember, including the great dialogue. Dark, and if anyone was waiting for everyone to live happily ever after, it didn’t happen. As far as Brad Pitt, I know he played a serial killer in Kalifornia which I thought was an intriguing movie, but generally doesn’t he play confident nonchalant swaggering alpha males? Which I guess he played in his (three?) short appearances in The Counselor, but it was the lines that McCarthy wrote for that character and the way he delivered them that make me say he played his part perfectly.
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I found the movie Crash to be a very watchable movie with a strong cast. Besides Matt Dillon as a bigoted police officer, the movie, which was intersecting stories of various characters with their own prejudices and biases, featured Don Cheadle, Jennifer Esposito, Brendan Fraser, Terrence Howard, Ludacris, Michael Pena, Keith David, Tony Danza. It also featured Sandra Bullock and William Fichtner whose acting I particularly enjoy when cast in the right roles. William Fichtner made me think of his brief appearance as a coke dealer in Hot Summer Nights which was set in the north east in the summer of '91 (a heat wave) which just happened to be the year we moved from NC to Pittsburgh and I was wondering, "Is it always this hot here? The realtor told us we wouldn't need air conditioning!" A couple of Sandra Bullock movies I enjoyed were the comedy Heat with Melissa McCarthy and Our Brand Is Chaos. with Billy Bob Thornton.
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Well, @thecarpathian , I guess maybe, but didn't it take some suicide, murder, sickness, death, brutality of war, and betrayal to get there? |