Let's Talk Movies #33: Star Wars: Jabba Rising...Captain America Trumps China...and MORE!

Which Movies Might You See In 2017? (Multiple Votes Allowed)

  • The Lego Batman Movie

    Votes: 12 20.7%

  • The Great Wall

    Votes: 5 8.6%

  • Logan

    Votes: 11 19.0%

  • T2: Trainspotting

    Votes: 8 13.8%

  • Kong: Skull Island

    Votes: 8 13.8%

  • Beauty and the Beast

    Votes: 39 67.2%

  • Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2

    Votes: 28 48.3%

  • Snatched

    Votes: 6 10.3%

  • Alien: Covenant

    Votes: 8 13.8%

  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

    Votes: 11 19.0%
  • Total voters
    58
So I finally saw Baby Driver last night and I absolutely loved it! Edgar Wright has been a favourite director of mine for a long time and this definitely didn't disappoint. I loved that the credits section was all filmed in one take. Single take tracking shots like that just make me so happy. I love that Edgar Wright kept the opening scene with Baby in the car the same as in the music video for Mint Royale's Blue Song, Edgar Wright used that idea in the video first because he had a music video to direct and couldn't think of anything else. The editing and sound engineering in the movie are amazing, those aren't usually things I actively notice in movies on the first watch but they are so well done it's impossible not to see the quality. I also really love that an actual person who is deaf was cast to play Joseph.

There have been two movies this summer that I've wanted to watch again in theatre almost as soon as I left, Baby Driver & Wonder Woman. Both absolutely worth the wait. Summer blockbuster movies don't usually instill a deep excitement about being able to watch them again, these two definitely did though.
 
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You know, that's a good topic to have. How many silent films have any of us seen? Were there any that you would recommend here? The last silent film I saw was The Passion of Joan of Arc which was pretty amazing, but I saw it many years ago.
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I think I have seen about twenty silent movies, maybe more. I think I have posted about most of them. I have a few more on my To See list. But for the most part I think I've seen enough for this time period of filmmaking. But I bet as I hear about other silent films, I will be seeing a few more here and there. Always interested to hear about what others are watching. :40beers:
 
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Watched 'The Founder' last night on DVD. I had missed it in the threaters. It was pretty good, after a rather slow start.
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I have to say, I've seen Laura Dern a lot in 2017 already. This movie (playing Ray Kroc's first wife) and Certain Women, plus Big Little Lies, Last Man on Earth and Kimmy Schmidt on TV.
Back to The Founder, Nick Offerman and John Carroll Lynch were perfectly cast (imo) as the McDonald brothers.

Artistic Skaters said:
Paris Can Wait was directed by Eleanor Coppola. Diane Lane (one of my "must-sees") is nursing a midlife crisis & takes a road trip from Cannes to Paris with a business partner of her producer husband (Alec Baldwin). It had way too much eating & wine drinking (& never ending discussion of both) for me. Also an overabundance of stop & smell the roses lessons for the over 40 crowd that had to multitask as educational cultural experiences. Goodness knows we can't just watch the leaves rustle in the wind. Still it is a pleasant movie & I give Diane Lane a plus for wearing comfortable shoes & clothes for 90% of it.
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I expected a documentary like touch from Eleanor Coppola and this film certainly had that feel to it (bordering on travelogue). Arnaud Viard's character didn't really come off as someone with that much substance for most of the film, so I was a little surprised they continued the "will they/won't they?" right up until the end.
 
Buzz said:
Just saw Spider-Man Homecoming and it was awesome!!! I'd give it a 8.0/10 and say it was easily the best Spider-Man movie I have ever seen. There are a few surprises in the movie that are definitely worth watching.
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I still haven't seen it yet, but going back to our previous discussion, my brother, who was the one who introduced me to the animated series Spectacular Spider-Man said that this film seemed to be inspired by that series and it was almost like a movie adaptation of the series. Which makes me want to watch it more.
 
Zendaya can act! I thought she was primarily a singer but I see she's a Disney Channel kid. Guess my kids aren't in the right age group any more to keep up with that aspect of pop culture.
 
Trailers for Movies Released 2017-07-14th
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuI4-fSHhipQDZobKeE5mZYfi_Y0n0sn-


July 14th - War for the Planet of the Apes (Wide) - Adventure drama with Andy Serkis and Woody Harrelson

July 14th - Wish Upon (Wide) - Fantasy horror with Joey King and Ryan Phillippe

July 14th - Blind (Limited) - Romantic drama with Alec Baldwin,Demi Moore, Dylan McDermott

July 14th - To the Bone (Streaming) - Comedy drama with Keanu Reeves, Lily Collins, Carrie Preston and Lili Taylor

July 14th - False Confessions (Limited) - French comedy drama with Isabelle Huppert

July 14th - Belief: The Possession of Janet Moses (Limited) - Documentary. From imdb.com: "The true story of how love, fear, culture and belief lead a loving family to tragically kill one of their own during a four day exorcism ceremony."

July 14th - Lady Macbeth (Limited) - Drama with a new cast. From imdb.com: "Set in 19th century rural England, young bride who has been sold into marriage to a middle-aged man discovers an unstoppable desire within herself as she enters into an affair with a worker on her estate."

July 14th - Swallows and Amazons (Limited) - Family adventure with a new cast. From imdb.com: "Four children (the Swallows) on holiday in the Lake District sail on their own to an island and start a war with rival children (the Amazons). In the meantime, a mysterious man on a houseboat accuses them of a crime they did not commit."

July 14th - The Wrong Light (Limited) - Documentary. From imdb.com: "...a charismatic activist leads a globally-regarded NGO that provides shelter and education for girls rescued from brothels in Northern Thailand. But as the filmmakers meet the girls and their families, discrepancies begin to emerge and the story takes an unexpected turn."

July 14th - The Midwife (Limited) - French drama with Catherine Deneuve

July 14th - Endless Poetry (Limited) - Documentary. From imdb.com: "Alejandro Jodorowsky's autobiographical lens...narrates the years of the Chilean artist's youth during which he liberated himself from all of his former limitations, from his family, and was introduced into the foremost bohemian artistic circle of 1940s Chile."

July 12th - 500 Years (Limited) - Documentary about the history of Guatemala.

July 12th - Bronx Gothic (Limited) - Documentary about Okwui Okpokwasilis' one-woman show.

July 12th - Project Itoh’s Genocidal Organ (Limited) - Animated sci-fi from Japan.
 
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After seeing Charlie Hunnam in The Lost City of Z, yesterday I saw him again in King Arthur. He was just as good in this, but Guy Ritchie as a director? How has anyone let him direct anything other than beer commercials? This movie is SO far beyond "over the top". I see that Ritchie is partly to blame for the screenplay as well as the direction. The performances are all good, but I give props to the actors for doing good work while Ritchie was probably getting in their way all the time. Or maybe he wasn't...maybe he was over-seeing the special effects such as the herd of a 300 foot high elephants, which I was unaware were native to Britain (I do realize they were the creation of magic, but still...)

The movie is beautifully filmed and the costumes are great as well. It's just the horrible story!! Ritchie sure did throw in everything but the kitchen sink. I was waiting for zombie leprechauns and rainbow unicorns. He certainly threw in everything else. In spite of the mess Ritchie has spewed out, the movie is worth recommending for those who love incredible work from cinematographers and costumers. And for those who want to see a talented cast at work. Although I feel Jude Law should maybe re-consider continue acting and take up water colour painting instead. I just don't see him as having anything new to bring to the screen...

Trailer for King Arthur: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BTOuIvxd578
 
Just got back after seeing 'The Lost city of Z'. I cannot tell you all how disappointed I am. It should have been a great biopic of a great explorer. Instead, it is one of the most boring movies I have seen lately.

The fault lies with the screenplay. The actors did all they could to make it watchable. This should have had amazing scenes from the Amazon jungle, and adventures. Instead there are three stories patched together, each separated by scenes from England, which ruins the flow. There were family scenes to supposedly create drama, but they were not needed, IMO. Some scenes were beautiful but they don't make up for unexplained characters entering and disappearing. If it's not my imagination, even a horse appeared in the jungle at one point.

For the last expedition, according to the book, there were three - Fawcett, his son Jack, and Jack's friend. The friend's character was completely deleted from the script. The story moves slower than molasses. I was so bored! Really a pitiful job of screenwriting, based on an interesting book.
 
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Watched 'Land of Mine' on DVD. Very good. Some gruesome scenes but they were kept at a minimum, avoiding too much blood on the screen. It is possible to communicate horror without actually showing blood and body parts flying. I wish Hollywood learn this but they won't.

This was Denmark's entry at the Oscars Best Foreign Language film, but most of the dialogue was in German because most characters were German soldiers. They were so young, it was sad to watch.

In real life Denmark had violated the Geneva agreement about POWs when they made these POWs work on the landmines. They were young and inexperienced and half of them were killed or seriously injured. What was the alternative? Germans had set up those land mines. Was the rest of the world going to supply experienced workers to remove them and pay for the work? I don't know the whole story, but making teenage boys do the dangerous work, without food, just didn't seem right.

Anyway, adding this to my list of Danish movies that I liked. So far I have liked all of the Danish movies I have seen.
 
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Not so much a movie but an movie actor doing a stage show.

I saw Jai Courtney doing Macbeth for the Melbourne Theatre Company on the weekend. Very good production and Jai did a good job of the lead role.
 
Hmm...we're over 1,000 posts. Guess I should think about starting a new thread and a new poll. Anybody have any suggestions as to which ten movies for the rest of 2017 should be in the new thread's poll?
 
PeterG said:
Hmm...we're over 1,000 posts. Guess I should think aubout starting a new thread and a new poll. Anybody have any suggestions as to which ten movies for the rest of 2017 should be in the new thread's poll?
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Just my personal faves. :D

1) Dunkirk
2) Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
3) The Dark Tower
3) IT
4) Detroit
5) Kingsman: The Golden Circle
6) Inhumans
7) Justice League
8) Thor: Ragnarok
9) Star Wars: The Last Jedi
10) The Six Billion Dollar Man
 
Random movie news...too lazy to add links, etc. :lol:

Dev Patel is joining Ben Stiller in a murder mystery about the Chippendales dancers. At first I thought this sounded like it could be a good comedy, but it's actually a drama with part of it being about one of the creators of the Chippendales who later killed Dorothy Stratten and then himself.

Robert Redford and Jane Fonda are being given lifetime acheivement awards at the Venice International Film Festival. They will be starring together in a movie for Netflix together, their first time working together since the late 1970's in The Electric Horseman.

And Wonder Woman is the third highest-grossing movie for Warner Brothers, surpassing the final Harry Potter movie. The Dark Knight ($533.3 million) and The Dark Knight Rises ($448.1 million) are (currently) their top two movies.

Vash01 said:
Just got back after seeing 'The Lost city of Z'. I cannot tell you all how disappointed I am...
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watchthis!! said:
Random movie news...too lazy to add links, etc. :lol:

Dev Patel is joining Ben Stiller in a murder mystery about the Chippendales dancers. At first I thought this sounded like it could be a good comedy, but it's actually a drama with part of it being about one of the creators of the Chippendales who later killed Dorothy Stratten and then himself.

Robert Redford and Jane Fonda are being given lifetime acheivement awards at the Venice International Film Festival. They will be starring together in a movie for Netflix together, their first time working together since the late 1970's in The Electric Horseman.

And Wonder Woman is the third highest-grossing movie for Warner Brothers, surpassing the final Harry Potter movie. The Dark Knight ($533.3 million) and The Dark Knight Rises ($448.1 million) are (currently) their top two movies.



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Sorry Watchthis! I know you liked the Lost city of Z. Thanks for the movie news.
 
I saw "High Anxiety" at the library last week and had to stop and think about the fact that I was thinking that I had never seen it (but should have). So I snatched it up, prepared for a lot of fun. And there was some fun in it, mostly in the performance of Cloris Leachman's uber-committed comedic performance. Leachman seems to be one of those people who just completely dive in to a role and don't seem to think twice about personal vanity. Overall, I found the movie just okay. Part of why I didn't enjoy it is because the movie, both a parody of Hitchcock films and a send-up of the psychiatry field/business, now feels dated. Espcially in regard to the humour around mental health issues. We've just come a fair way along in our awareness of the struggles people go through, so the poking fun at some of the things we see in this movie made me grimace instead of smile or laugh. At one point my friend mentioned about how some of the schtick was something that's just been done over and over again. And I said, "but maybe THIS is where they got it from". He agreed that this might be true, we both though the makes of Airplane! were indebted to Mel Brooks in a big way. I'm so-so about whether to recommend this movie or not. On the plus side, there are the great comedic performances of Madeline Kahn, Harvey Korman and Leachman. On the negative side, there's just a few too many off-colour gags or stories told that made me wince instead of smile. So...thumbs sideways?

Wanted to add some info about Leachman. Watching this made me wonder why she didn't have more success in film, specifically as a dramatic actress. She's so intense in her comedic performances that I can't imagine that she's not an equally good dramtatic actress. So I checked out her imdb.com page and see that her first major award was an Oscar...for the drama The Last Picture Show. She followed that up with EIGHT Emmy wins (some of them for dramatic work, but mainly comedy) out of 21 nominations. So she's had more success (acknowledgement) than I was aware. I wondered if maybe she was difficult to work with and that's why we didn't see more of her in movies. But one can't win that many wins, each for five or six different projects, without being well liked. Maybe the problem had more to do with lack of good dramatic film roles for women in her time?
 
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watchthis!! said:
Wanted to add some info about Leachman. Watching this made me wonder why she didn't have more success in film, specifically as a dramatic actress. She's so intense in her comedic performances that I can't imagine that she's not an equally good dramtatic actress. So I checked out her imdb.com page and see that her first major award was an Oscar...for the drama The Last Picture Show. She followed that up with EIGHT Emmy wins (some of them for dramatic work, but mainly comedy) out of 21 nominations. So she's had more success (acknowledgement) than I was aware. I wondered if maybe she was difficult to work with and that's why we didn't see more of her in movies. But one can't win that many wins, each for five or six different projects, without being well liked. Maybe the problem had more to do with lack of good dramatic film roles for women in her time?
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Cloris Leachman - Scene From The Last Picture Show

Cloris Leachman wins the Best Supporting Actress Oscar (1972)
 
Advice please: I promised to take my dad to see Dunkirk. Should we do IMAX? We never do, but some critics and early viewers are saying that you should for this movie. For those of you who do go to IMAX, is there really that much of a difference?
 
Trailers For Movies Released 2017-07-21st
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuI4-fSHhipRb0riFdBYGvjooX7NY_ddi


July 21st - Dunkirk (Wide) – Drama with Mark Rylance, Tom Hardy, Kenneth Branagh,Cillian Murphy and Harry Styles

July 21st - Girls Trip (Wide) – Comedy with Regina Hall, Queen Latifah, Jada Pinkett Smith, Mike Colter and Kate Walsh

July 21st - Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (Wide) – Sci-fi adventure with Dane DeHaan, Clive Owen, Ethan Hawke, John Goodman, Rihanna and Rutger Hauer

July 21st - Landline (Limited) – Comedy with Jenny Slate, Jay Duplass, John Turturro and Edie Falco

July 21st - First Kill (Limited) – Action thriller with Bruce Willis and Hayden Christensen

July 21st - Kuso (Limited) – Horror with Hannibal Buress and George Clinton

July 21st - Scales: Mermaids are Real (Limited) – Fantasy with Elisabeth Röhm (Law and Order), Morgan Fairchild and Judy Tenuta

July 21st - Awaken the Shadowman (Limited) – Horror with a new cast & Jean Smart

July 21st - Who the F*** is that Guy? (Limited) - Documentary – From imdb.com: “the astonishing story of a gay Puerto Rican kid growing up in a Hasidic Brooklyn neighborhood, who got on the subway one day and began a musical odyssey that helped shape the musical landscape across N.Y.C. and around the world.”

July 21st - The Gracefield Incident (Limited) - Horror, new cast. From imdb.com: “In Gracefield, three couples are spending a long weekend in a luxurious cabin when suddenly an uninvited guest in the form of a meteorite, comes crashing the party...”

July 21st - The Black Prince (Limited) – Historical drama, new cast. Imdb.com: “…[the] story of Queen Victoria and the Last King of Punjab, Maharajah Duleep Singh.”

July 21st - Killing Ground (Limited) – Thriller, new cast. From imdb.com: “A couples' camping trip turns into a frightening ordeal when they stumble across the scene of a horrific crime.”

July 21st - The Fencer (Limited) – Finnish drama. From imdb.com: “Fleeing from the Russian secret police, a young Estonian fencer is forced to return to his homeland, where he becomes a physical education teacher at a local school. The past however catches up and puts him in front of a difficult choice.”

July 21st - The Untamed (Limited) – Mexican Sci-fi horror drama. From imdb.com: “A couple in a troubled marriage locate a meteorite, initiating an encounter with a mysterious creature. Their lives are turned upside down by the discovery of the creature, which is a source of both pleasure and destruction.”

July 21st - The Girls Without Hands (Limited - New York) – French animated. From imdb.com: “In hard times, a miller sells his daughter to the Devil. Protected by her purity, she escapes but is deprived of her hands. Walking away from her family, she encounters the goddess of water...”
 
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