Wow how did I forget that one...Patton is a classic for sure. My favorite scene I think is when Patton is talking about being at the Battle of Carthage in a past life. Incidentally, I just read that Francis Ford Coppola wrote the screenplay for Patton, had no idea.

Lawrence of Arabia I saw when very young so don't have much to say about that one, should probably put that on the list ASAP.

Also, Judgement at Nuremburg imo. All three probably in my top 10 movies of all time.

That scene was not close to one take

Do you even one take bro

Dom, he's making fun of making a movie in one take and comparing it to playing golf with one club. Why did he do it? Because he broke all other clubs.

Ahhhhhhhhh...somehow didn't get that

Anybody ever see Judgement Night (1993)? It was a pretty good flick... Emilio Estevez, Cuba Gooding, Dennis Leary, Stephen Dorf and Jeremy Piven.

Wow that sure is one hell of a cast.

Not only is paths of glory a really great war movie, its one of the greatest movies of all time...

Lawrence of Arabia is in my top 5 (of all). Interesting that it doesn't normally come to mind when thinking about "war movies", but it clearly is.

I saw it in the theater last week and wasn't crazy about it. Because of the gimmick of 135 mins one take, it has to make characters do really dumb things to work (well, no, I'm sure they could have done it without idiot characters but they didn't try hard enough). There's awful forced "friend bonding", where characters have known each other for literally 8 minutes and we're already getting nostalgic sad wistful musical cues when they go hang out on the roof together.

The gimmick is unnecessary; tell a better story without using the gimmick, or find something that works better with the gimmick.

AV Club only gave it 2.5/5, so I'm not alone on this.

GF and I just watched It Follows, David Robert Mitchell, 2014

Holy cow, what a masterful horror film. Mitchel is is in full control of his frame, and you can certainly see he was influenced by Kubrick and Carpenter and others.

The basic premise is that a young woman has sex with a guy - but he's purposely passing on a sort-of curse to the young girl - she will be followed by a slow-moving monster...who can take many human forms....and it will not stop until it gets to the girl. The only way she can end it is by passing it on to someone else...with sex. The problem is, if the monster kills the next person, it will now revert back to following the previous person.

Just take a few minutes and think of what that really means, and you'll see that it's a genius conceit.

Mitchell puts his film in a weird, non-year, with 70s style clothing and decor, with phones on the wall and TVs with rabbit ears, but you also see 2010 era cars and some weird future technology like a clam-shell make-up compact that's really a Kindle reader.

The seasons are also odd and change even in the middle of a shot. The score is brilliantly jarring and mood-inducing. He exposes the skin of his young cast in an obvious horror-movie trope, but he does so in a non-titillating way that just reinforces the vulnerability of the people in danger.

There are some truly terrifying sequences and images that rely more on disconcerting juxtapositions rather than gore.

The young cast of unknowns do a bang-up job, and like a Peanuts cartoon, real adults are few and far between and only exist on the literal periphery of the frame.

Really impressing movie. Along with The Witch, I Am the Pretty Think That Lives In the House, The Babadook, and others, it seems like we're in a modern-day renaissance of the horror genre.

Definite recommend.

I caught the 2nd half of Fanny on TCM last night, had never even heard of it. What a beautiful movie, very romantic and good-spirited. Leslie Caron gets pregnant young and things get complicated. Maurice Chevalier and Charles Boyer are in it too.

baltimore: the friend bonding thing: the movie starts in berlin, late at night, with guys beeing sligtly drunk. one tends to bond different at that time of the night in that place of the world. (not saying the film is perfect, by far not, but its very worth seeing it once)

all: you guys know that the european film-industry also made a few war movies (minus the budget for hollywood explosions)

I saw it back then. It was a pretty bad movie, but had an interesting soundtrack with all that grudge/hip hop fusion Oh, I miss the 90s...

I thought it was a cool ass movie. Not great, but I'd give it a 75-85 depending on my mood.


How about Gladiator? Another movie from back than with Cuba Gooding and Brian Dennehy about a underground boxer... Another, cool movie I thought. Not great, but 75-80 range for what it is... imo

Is that the one with James from Twin Peaks?

Black Hawk Down - 9/10

tks Dom. Was on the fence with that one.

Judgement Night soundtrack is a goat soundtrack.

Thought I was the only one who had seen OG Gladiator

This is my most watched movie since the beginning of 2015, which I guess makes it my favorite film of the last couple of years, but not necessarily what I think is the best.

Apropos of nothing, was just thinking again on how phenomenal Giulietta Masina was in Nights of Cabiria. One of the greatest performances of all-time, male or female. I need to watch that movie again!

There's a lot of war movies I'd take over Saving Private Ryan, and I think The Thin Red Line would be first in line (Malick was nominated with Spielberg that year).

It's just so much more richly complex and true to life, while also weaving in Malick's eternal questions that stared these soldiers in the face every day.

She is pretty wonderful in La Strada as well.

Watched La La Land last night and even though I thought it was paper thin in some places, the cinematography and catchy tunes were great and the last 20 minutes felt like a punch to the gut. Not sure if deserving of best picture but I really liked it.

(also lol to all the aids backlash the movie is getting right now for being racist/ misogynist etc)

Y'all sold me on It Follows, watched it early today. I liked it a lot, definitely reminded me of Carpenter. I never watch horror, and now I've watched that one and The Witch in less than a week because of this thread. The horror! I guess The Babarmarmaduke is next.

Carpenter is the father of a lot of good modern horrors and thrillers.

See 71 or The Guest for examples