For me Sean Patrick Flanery will forever be young Indiana Jones. I fucking loved that show so much.
Compare made for TV Young Indiana Jones series from the 1990ies and the modern IJ drivel:
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Watched the first 3 seasons of Better Call Saul. Pure gold.
I watched The Flash.
This movie sucked balls. The kid who plays The Flash is a pretty fine actor. Stop giving him stupid fucking lines and making him play a fucking irritating clown that no one above the age of 5 would find funny. An actor of his caliber doesn’t deserve this shit. Nah, I bet the paycheck’s good lol.
4.5/10
Finally watched Top Gun: Maverick exactly what you would expect. Tom Cruise is good, Jennifer Connely is still great (I am a big fan of hers). Just a fun action movie with no political BS thrown in.
9/10
Also watched The Menu. This was surprisingly good film. Basically a high end chef at an exclusive restaurant goes a bit crazy after he realizes people who eat his food are all pretentious jerks or horrible people for one reason or another.
Anna Taylor-Joy stars. I don’t want to say much else because it’s such a great film. Go watch it.
10/10
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Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One
I really enjoyed Tom’s bike stunt in the movie! However, I felt that the story was repetitive and didn’t have any exciting new stunts. This time, Christopher McQuarrie disappointed me.
6/10
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McQuarrie was the only reason I watched the previous few MI movies because of Reacher and that movie with Benicio Del Toro where you actually heard the gunshot AFTER someone was hit by the bullet when fired from really far away. I remember I was damned impressed because the latter was the first movie I watched to actually do that.
Just watched Mads Mikkelson in The Salvation, solid revenge flick, starts dark, stays dark. Shit, ha. I’m a Mads fan, not a lot of talking by him, he brings gravity though, goodness.
Watched Barbie Movie and just want to say it’s waste of time and money.
I watched that Benardo Bertoloccui dude’s 1900 (Novecento) starring Robert Deniro. There was a scene where a family only has rice cakes or some shit for dinner so they hang a preserved fish from the ceiling above the dining table (it’s preserved in salt and gives off a really strong ordor) so they can kind of get some taste in their food and HOLY FUCK THAT SHIT WAS REAL IN ASIA. In my earliest memories I remember my parents were doing that while they were poor as fuck though I was too young to appreciate how fucked up it was and it got better when I was old enough so I didn’t have to do that but fuck, that was the same shit they did in Italy??? @punnyguy Salted fish ftw LMAO.
How realistic is the rest of the movie, @loppar? I’m pretty sure you watched it lol.
Stalingrad (1993)
This is so much better than the 2013 Russian one
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Of course lol. Although I’ve only managed to sit through one of the shorter versions, I think the US theatrical release.
Anyway, I understand why it’s a cult classic and I also understand why some audiences hated it.
The naturalistic details of everyday life are excellent and on point, and I think that the meandering uneven story that is panned by a lot of people, is kind of a plus - it’s supposed to be an imperfect chronicle, not a movie with a protagonist that shapes the events around him/her.
Also, the chaos of April/May of 1945 was perfectly captured as well as it’s bitter legacy.
If you liked - or were fascinated by it - I suggest watching Il Gattopardo (The Leopard) with Burt Lancaster which covers many similar themes only set seventy years earlier.
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For WW2 war movies (yes, tecnically it’s the Russo-Finnish war), Talvisota (Winter War) is a gold standard.
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ooh, will need to watch!
I assume you’ve already watched the Chernobyl miniseries? The most accurate depiction of Soviet mentality in Western film or TV.
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10/10 IMO.
I am in the nuclear business…one of the best miniseries on nuclear disasters
three mile island miniseries wasnt too bad
The one on fukishima was good too
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yes and it was brilliant. One of a select few US made content about the USSR that doesn’t default to “Soviets evil and shite”
If you’re looking into movies that accurately convey the gist of hardline communism, then I recommend The Witness (1969) from Hungary and Balkan Spy (1984) from Yugoslavia.
Please note that both of these films can be very uneven (especially Balkan Spy with weird slapstick interludes) and there’s somewhat of a cultural barrier but they get communism almost perfectly.
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@anna_5588 You’d probably see a stark parallel between that and the public sector in China even in your era.
To be honest, I was bored as fuck but I kept watching because I finally found THE movie that influenced the entire wave of 5th generation filmmakers on this end of the world. There’s some consensus that it was Kurosawa but I always thought it couldn’t be Kurosawa because Kurosawa was decades ahead of his time in terms of film technique even 20 years prior. I didn’t watch this eariler because The Last Emperor bored the living fuck out of me lol.
Alright, I’ll check it out!
Apparently we wuz wealthy, because we actually got to eat the salted fish -a piece of salted fish goes a long way towards flavoring a bowl of rice lol. It’s been a while, but the last time I had salted fish fried rice in a restaurant, I was bowled (pun intended of course) over by the fact that there was a premium price for it LOL.
Similar to ox tail, which butchers 50 years ago would give away or toss in the trash, but is now a premium meat choice.
Times change.
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