Interesting. I’ll have to watch but again. Thanks

Kurt Russell >>>>>>> Goldie Hawn

Have you seen Big Trouble in Little China? Stargate? Captain Ron?!?!

I can barely even remember why Goldie Hawn is famous. She was like the 17th most talented person on Laugh-In, and then Pvt. Benjamin which wasn't even very good. She used to be a young hot blonde, and then she was bland enough to wear well over time.

Spielberg and Williams...

The reviews for Alien Romulus are starting to trickle in my last nights industry preview... 'YOU are not ready for this Alien Film!'

Wildcats is a classic! One of my favorite 80’s flicks!!

Ok, I woke up a grumpy old man today. Even I liked Overboard and Seems Like Old Times iirc. I take it all back, Goldie. And if you're good enough for Kurt irl, that says a lot right there.

The Kurt Russell trilogy of greatness is:
Big Trouble in Little China
Used Cars
Escape from New York

There are many other great ones but to me those are the big 3 and I make it a point to watch all 3 of those every year.

No one escapes from New York; you carry the scars to your grave. Been there done that. I’d almost rather be in London or even Paris.

The Thing about The Thing is that The Thing is definitely Kurt Russell, The Thing...

so I've got Covid and am quarantining for a few days....so I've decided to watch some of my comfort films that I haven't seen in awhile. First up...

Once, John Carney, 2007

Can't believe it's been 17 years since this was released and almost ten years since I've seen it. Crazy Winner of Best Song at the Oscars - quite a feat for a $100,000 film starring two unknown non-actors.

This is a miracle of a movie, at once wispy and with not much of a narrative, but at the same time incredibly well-made and written. It has an improvisational feel even though itis carefully structured.

• Marketa Irglova is luminous and beautiful and I love how her fractured English makes her seem abrupt at times. "You can go home now." LOL
  
• Glen Hansard should've done more acting. He is ruggedly handsome, vulnerable, and a great screen prescence.
  
• Just phenomenal camera work all around and beautiful cinematography.
  
• The editing is the real backbone of this film - it flows so perfectly you don't even notice it.
  
• the Irish part where they have to sing for their supper
  
• the Dad listening to his son's songs...'it's fuc*ing brilliant. Now play it again."
  
• how Irglova walks her littler Hoover around like a dog on the leash
  
• the Czech boys coming into the apartment to watch the only TV in the building to learn English
  
• And the music. my god, the music. Every song is perfect. Beautiful, heart-breakingly beautiful.
  
• And of course, Falling Slowly. When I first saw this in the theater, I remember literally bursting out in tears over the Falling Slowly scene. I'm not sure why - but I think it has to do with the beauty of art being made right in front of you. Two people with a guitar and piano making magic.

I adore this movie. It is perhaps one of the best love stories I've ever seen, and they don't even kiss! A perfect. magical film. A+++++

Covid? People still test for that?

I've never heard of Used Cars. The quest begins. Snake sells used cars?

Not Snake but Rudy Russo. Another unforgettable character by Russell. I would say that Used Cars is easily on my "top 5" of all-time comedies. Hiliarious in many ways. I think you would love it!

Escape from New York is great, but hard to top this scene from Escape from L.A.

i tried hard to watch that movie 2-3 times - perhaps the only movie i've ever attempted to watch more than once

it was so bad it had transcended the so bad it's good phase of being bad and was just so bad it was unwatchable

But that Ending Scene though...
it reminds me quite a bit of the ending of Takeshi Kitano's Zatoichi (2003)

i actually fast forwarded to the iconic ending credits scene just to take that in but skipped the rest

now that i recall, i did put the film on in the background once whlie working but can't say i paid it any attention because it was so bad

like this is the dumbest thing in the world and not even dumb entertaining

can't for the life of me understand why this is an iconic film

I can watch Dr. Peter Weller in anything...

This. I love when he hosts history shows such as Engineering an Empire.

I’m quite fond of his performance in the B-tier sci-fi Screamers (1995). The movie is actually pretty decent, but falls apart in the third act. A forgotten Philip K Dick adaptation.

I've probably told the story somewhere on these forums before, but Screamers holds a special place in my memory.

It was 1997, I was turning 10 and had friends over for my birthday party. We wanted to watch Scream (1996) which was out on VHS by this time, so my dad went to the local Korean movie rental store. To this day we still don't know the actual truth of what happened, but whether my dad messed up the name of the movie, or there was a lost-in-translation moment with the Korean owner, or whether all the copies were simply already rented, he ended up coming home with Screamers instead.

We watched it anyways. I will never forget that film. Campy, but a great sci-fi horror.

I also love it dearly... but for the life of me, I distinctly remember there being two different endings for that film.

Is there anyone who saw the movie for the first time as an adult in the year 2000 or later and actually thought it was good?

I didn't see it until maybe 15 years ago. I enjoyed it, but it is lesser Carpenter.