Is there anything in this day and age that is not political A movie, at the very least, is a reflection of the customs of the times... This said, I am pretty sure Baltimore is from the US of A, which might (largely) explain his (unbalanced) need to emphasize on liberal ideas... It is sad to see him not understand the level 2 humour in certain posts, but hell, if I was in the US of A, I am sure I would be angry as ****

Most people are good at compartmentalizing these things and can argue about politics, in say the politics forum, and keep it out of things in The Lounge.

Baltimore Jones often does start it, but in this case he didn't. He could have let it go though, since everything that followed was predictable.

Get Out had me screaming at the tv like black people scream in the theatre. Wild ride and it still had well placed lighter moments of fun.

John Wick 2 movie ****ing delivered as expected. Easily will be a 3, yes?

Yep, read today that #3 is going to start filming in August.

My only problem with 2 is that it was only 122 minutes long and it's going to be a few more years till we have more Baba Yaga.

Captain Underpants - target audience is elementary kids but I liked it

Sounds like you're​ caught in the sjw mindset where a term can only have one meaning and never evolve.

boys don't cry left me with tears and snot running down my face as i left the theater, but patty jenkins had nothing to do with that movie.

lol....damn, what movie an i thinking of? Monster?

yes, which was also a great movie

I really enjoyed De Palma, Noah Baumbach's documentary of Brian De Palma's career. It's pretty simple, most of it is just De Palma talking to the camera about his movies and where he was in his life while he was making them. I've always been interested in De Palma, and I rarely even notice how a film is directed or the artsy stuff. His images always looked distinctly different to me. You get a real sense of the kind of person he is from this film, and that's plenty.

Liked it as well.

I saw The Untouchables and don't know what to make of it. The tone is weird, it's over-the-top nostalgic lawful-patriotic. In favor of Prohibition enforcers? De Palma showed mastery of tone as early as Carrie (baiting you into a romantic or wistful feel, switching instantly to terror, then ending with humor all within a few seconds) so he's not going to mess that up all of a sudden, especially in an otherwise serious film where he still got to put a ridiculous Odessa Steps parody. So it feels to me like:

1) Morricone gave him a score more operatic and romantic than he wanted, and he had to go with it.

2) He had the opportunity to make a big budget movie with GOAT actors under certain story constraints, and he took it.

If anyone has different interpretations of the film (like that it's not meant to be taken as a straight-up gangster fighting movie), do tell.

(Found this thread, where the OP hates it. The OP's hatred has done a lot to sway me in the movie's favor, as many of the complaints are clear cases of not getting it: http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=465587)

L.A. Confidential - First, if you've never watched through the end of the credits you've made a mistake.

This is really good, one of the best detective movies I've seen. Still, could be better. I'd prefer if everything weren't so tied into one neat conspiratorial bow. There could have been different threads, some wrapped up, some which never go anywhere, some left intentionally dangling.

Kind of funny considering SJW started off as a positive term. You are definitely correct most people who claim what you quoted have no idea what the term means, which is top lulz for irony.


BJ: I loved LA Confidential when I first saw it, but I couldn't even make it through the movie when I tried to watch it again a few years ago. I'm not sure if knowing the plot ruined it for me, or if the 90s form of storytelling did but it just didn't work for me anymore.

Logan and Get Out are still the best 2017 movies I've seen, but Wonder Woman is the most fun I've had at the theater this year. Loved it.

May or may not post a review but WSOP is my focus ATM.

I loved LA Confidential when it came out, still love it, and watch it every chance I get. I wish that they had planned it as a franchise and had filmed all 4 or 5 of Elroy's novels with these characters in chronological order.

I always thought, for some strange reason, that Russell Crowe should have played the Dudley Smith character, although I admit that James Cromwell was masterful in that role and practically made the whole movie.

Let's not discuss Black Dahlia.

I haven't seen LA Confidential since it came out, but I really liked it.

Yea I did think it would have been nice as a limited series.

I read Black Dahlia years ago with the intention of reading all of them. Does the 4th book (after LAC) follow up on the characters who are still alive?

Are you familiar with the tv series on which it was based?

Same here. Not only was it my pick in the other thread for 1997, it is one of my all-time favorite movies and one that I can watch over and over and enjoy it as much as I did when I saw it for the very first time 20 years ago.

No, other than being vaguely aware that there was one.

Thinking about De Palma and The Untouchables makes me excited to re-see Scarface, which I only saw once I think on DVD years ago and didn't like. Whatever criticisms people have of it - "over-produced" or "over the top" etc. - are almost certainly things De Palma was well aware of when making it, so there is a purpose to it.

Scarface is certainly entertaining but it is a bad, bad, movie

Can anyone help me with what movie this is?

All I remember is a guy goes to a different country for work and brings his family. While there a war breaks out about water supply or something. Only scene I remember is his wife threw one of their kids off the building to him and he catches the kid.

scarface is amazing.
it's horribly 80s n ridic but wildly entertaining.

Wow thanks

I'm not a horror movie guy so I've sort of avoided Get Out but holy **** was it good. This is film on multiple levels with levels in those levels. Genius satire, brilliant political and social commentary and a great horror suspense film.

One of the best films I've seen in some time.

Grade: A+