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
SXSW Film Festival Reveals 2017 Lineup
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sxsw-film-festival-reveals-2017-lineup-970622

Lots of interesting movies mentioned, including an action comedy with Brie Larson and Armie Hammer, a documentary about the early days of Jim Henson's world called "Muppet Guys Talking" and Terrence Malick's new movie about the Austin music scene. It stars Rooney Mara, Ryan Gosling, Michael Fassbender and Natalie Portman. Talk about a cast! There's also a few movies the article says may have happened because of the Black Lives Matter movement and a few interesting documentaries as well.
 
I watched that trailer for Wonder Woman and got another ad before hand which was a trailer for another disaster movie called Geostorm. Looks like a massive special effects sh*tstorm.
 
Vash01 said:
Is it 'Burnt Toast?'
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Well that is a good name for it. Swill. The chef as artist having artistic meltdowns. I don't like that when I see actors, dancers, skaters, painters or anyone else doing it that so why do I want to watch a chef meltdown? And then when he is pushing, pushing, pushing Sienna to make her perfect whatever and he throws plate after plate away full of food because he couldn't stomach one imperfect bite. I couldn't help thinking of so many people who go hungry who would have appreciated those imperfect bites.
 
cocotaffy said:
I wouldn't say silver lining was pure comedy though not like trainwreck or bad bosses for instance. It had a more serious underlying tone about illness, medication and grieving with some elements of comedy. Have you liked her in any of her movies ?
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I loved her in 'American Hustle"- I enjoyed the movie and everybody in it.
 
This afternoon I saw a National Theatre Live production of Saint Joan. It is a production of the play by George Bernard Shaw with Gemma Arterton in the lead role. An excellent production and Arterton was fantastic. She really captured the ability to convince those around her to follow her cause. They brought it up to date by staging it in corporate boardrooms and using news footage to provide a context (including BBC stock exchange reports). The themes are very relevant for today.
 
Last weekend, the weather was a bit blah, so the husband and I watched 2 Academy Award nominated films - Lion and Hacksaw Ridge.

Lion made me cry. It was very moving and I even could tolerate Nicole Kidman. It was that good! Hacksaw Ridge touched me because it showed in this day and age of selfies and selfishness, courage and selflessness still matter and should be rewarded. Looking back, Andrew Garfield was at the bottom of the heap of actors predicted to win an Oscar, but I thought he really embodied the character and should have been more recognized.

I actually enjoyed both movies more than Moonlight, which I saw earlier. Moonlight was thought-provoking and taught me about the lives of those who are impoverished and invisible. IDK. I was more emotionally touched by Lion and Hacksaw Ridge.
 
It took me three sittings to make my way through Dylan Dog: Dead of Night. Not that it's a horrible movie, but for whatever reason, my attention drifted away and I watched something else or did something around the house and went back to this later on. It's based on an Italian comic book and stars Brandon Routh (the Superman before the current Superman). He was probably the main reason I gave this one a try. Because it's not normally the type of movie I'd watch, but I liked the look of the cover and it's only books that we should not judge by their cover, right? DVD's are a whole different ballgame! :lol: So the movie is about a supernatural detective searching for a supernatural bad guy who is hurting humans and killing them even, which really hurts, too. Taye Diggs co-stars as a bad guy and does a decent job with his role. Routh's sidekick was also quite good, but I don't know his name, but he's one of those, "oh yeah, I know tha guy" kind of actor who you know but can't name.

Wikipedia says the movie made just under five million on a 20 million budget. Ouch. Not surprising, but I figured there'd be a fair number of comic book fans out there to have given this one a shot. It's not poorly made, just a supernatural detective/action flick which is kind of a been-there, done-that kind of genre for me. Routh looks pretty, though...

Trailer for Dylan Dog: Dead of Night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCeLIa02iy0
 
Buzz said:
Kong did better than expected this weekend with an estimated box office receipts of $61m, while Logan did really well in it's second week with $37.8m and Get Out made $21m.

http://www.boxofficemojo.com/news/?id=4274&p=.htm
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Sorry for quoting myself but I wanted to let everyone know that there is an end credits scene that I totally missed because I left when the movie ended. Oh well... :(
 
Trailers For Movies Released 2017-03-17th
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLuI4-fSHhipThKKt0BpocpYPOQL631zTQ

I don't know why there's no trailer available for Burn Your Maps. I checked both imdb.com and Wikipedia to see if the release date was postponed, but it looks like it is coming out this week. Yet no trailer on youtube...strange. This movie has been mentioned in this thread before, I thought an early trailer had been available at that time. But the premise of the movie and the cast have me wanting to see it. Similarly, both Song to Song and All Nighter have great premises and/or casts, so I'm interested in both of them as well. Frantz almost made my list, but the trailer feels a little too subdued and vague to stir enough interest in it for me. Which movies this week might you check out at some point?


March 17th - Beauty and the Beast (Wide) – Musical with Emma Watson, Dan Stevens, Luke Evans, Josh Gad, Kevin Kline, Ewan McGregor, Ian McKellan, Emma Thompson, Audra McDonald and Stanley Tucci

March 17th - The Belko Experiment (Wide) – Action thriller with new cast & Tony Goldwyn

March 17th - Song to Song (Limited) – Musical romantic drama with Ryan Gosling, Natalie Portman, Michael Fassbender, Rooney Mara, Cate Blanchett, Val Kilmer, Benicio Del Toro, Holly Hunter, Patti Smith, Florence Welch, Arcade Fire and Iggy Pop

March 17th - Burn Your Maps (Limited) – Adventure with Vera Farmiga, Jacob Tremblay and Virginia Madsen
NO TRAILER

March 17th - All Nighter (Limited) – Comedy with J.K. Simmons, Emile Hirsch and Kristen Schaal

March 17th – Atomica (Limited) - Sci-fi thriller with Tom Sizemore, Sarah Habel [Riverdale] and Dominic Monaghan

March 17th - The Devil's Candy (Limited) – Horror with Ethan Embry [Grace and Frankie] and Shiri Appleby [UnREAL, Girls]

March 17th - You Can’t Have It (Limited) – Thriller with Joanna Krupa [The Man Show] and Armand Assante

March 15th - Namour (Limited) – Drama, new cast. From imdb.com: “In a post-college rut, a Los Angeles valet driver unravels.”

March 17th - After the Storm (Limited) – Japanese drama. From imdb.com: “After the death of his father, a private detective struggles to find child support money and reconnect with his son and ex-wife.”

March 15th - Frantz (Limited – New York) – French war drama. From imdb.com: “In the aftermath of WWI, a young German who grieves the death of her fiancé in France meets a mysterious Frenchman who visits the fiancé's grave to lay flowers.”
 
PeterG said:
March 17th - Song to Song (Limited) – Musical romantic drama with Ryan Gosling, Natalie Portman, Michael Fassbender, Rooney Mara, Cate Blanchett, Val Kilmer, Benicio Del Toro, Holly Hunter, Patti Smith, Florence Welch, Arcade Fire and Iggy Pop
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I got really excited for a minute because Arcade Fire is my favourite band and it would be cool to see them in a movie and I was surprised I hadn't heard anything about them being involved before. So I googled it and apparently they got cut from the movie. I'll probably still see it but considering I live in the north where small movies don't dare show in movie theatres, I'll be waiting a while.
 
I just saw How to Be Single. OMG, this movie is the latest in my I AM SO SAD, I NEED TO WATCH A MOVIE THAT WILL CHEER ME UP collection. Loved it.
 
Watched Allied yesterday with Brad Pitt and Marion Cotillard. Not very impressed especially with Brad Pitt's French accent who, at the beginning of the movie, is supposed to pass for a parisian no less :rofl: And then how could Marion not laugh saying the line "you sound more like a Quebecois" when he sounds nothing like one either. I mean nice effort to speak but please the scenario should have adapted to the level of the actor or they should have picked an actor speaking perfect French.
Anyhow, it felt like an old movie from the 90's. Why are we still making moving like these in 2017, I don't know. It was full of cliche about the undercovered resistance and the beautiful french spy being so charming and irresistible, the American man dreaming of a ranch like a modern day disillusioned cow boy. I didn't expect much from this movie and it certainly fulfilled my expectations :lol:

On the other hand, I managed to download Dancer about Sergei Polunin and isn't he a fascinating artist ! Unbelievable dancer, charisma through the roof and tortured soul, I mean what a combo. It is a very touching documentary about what it takes for a family to pull their only child out of poverty and how the grinding discipline and the parting away with one's family so young can be life transforming both painfully but also enabling to magnify one's art. It's the tale of a supremely talented dancer who still worked ten times harder than anyone else to fulfill his crazy potential yet wondering if it's all worth it but can't do anything else anyway.
 
On the radio the other day they said the pre-sale tickets for Beauty and the Beast enabled the prediction that this movie will be a bigger hit for Disney than Finding Dory (which is #8 on the list of biggest box office hits of all time). Originally I had typed out that it would be bigger than Finding Nemo, as I thought they said something about it being Disney's biggest hit in 10 years. But then I thought, "wait, wasn't Frozen a Disney production". So I searched around and yes, Frozen is from Disney and Finding Dory made more money than Finding Nemo. So I guess their story was just about how they expect Beauty and the Beast to do MAJOR box office, so as to make it one of the biggest hits of all time.

Buzz said:
Sorry for quoting myself but I wanted to let everyone know that there is an end credits scene that I totally missed because I left when the movie ended. Oh well... :(
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Just finished Loving. Very nice movie. Understated to a fault, but very nice. Very nice performances. Ruth is great, but Sally remains my #1. At least she was nominated and not robbed of one by Meryl.

Joel is excellent and compared to that other guy who played a similarly silent man in pain, I wished Joel got more awards attention.
 
So I finally got around to adding enough titles to my favourite movies of all time. There were a lot that almost made the list (included below)...but are worth a mention for sure. Thought I'd post this "extras" list as a bit of a drumroll to my Top 100. Actually, looking over the first part of this list my thought was, "this would make a great top 100 all on it's own! I was thinking that one of the reasons a movie made my top 100 is that it had to be one that I wanted to see again. But all of these movies listed below I'd gladly watch again. Maybe you should all move here and we could have a double-bill every night until we make it through all of these titles. Should we order in Chinese or pizza? :D


8: The Mormon Proposition (2010 Documentary)

Aftershock (2010, China)

All That Heaven Allows (1955, Jane Wyman)

Angels Crest (2011, Mira Sorvino)

Attack The Block (2003, John Boyega)

Batkid Begins (2015 Documentary)

Belle of the Nineties (1934, Mae West)

Black November (2012, Kim Basinger)

Boy A (2007, Andrew Garfield)

The Burning Plain (2008, Charlize Theron)

The Business of Strangers (2001, Stockard Channing)

Byzantium (2013, Saoirse Ronan)

Camille (2008, James Franco)

Charlotte Gray (2001, Cate Blanchett)

The Class (2008, France)

Colombiana (2011, Zoe Saldana)

Come Back to the 5 & Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982, Cher)

Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood (2008, Documentary)

Crime d'amour (Love Crime), Kristin Scott Thomas (2010, France)

Crush (2001, Andie MacDowell)

A Cry In The Dark (1988, Meryl Streep)

Dare (2009, Emmy Rossum)

Destry Rides Again (1939, Dietrich and Stewart)

The Dishwasher (2015 short film, Canada)

Don't Stop Believin': Everyman's Journey (2012 Documentary)

The End of Poverty? (2008 Documentary)

The Entitled (2011, Ray Liotta thriller)

The Experiment (2010, Adrien Brody)

Extremities (1986, Farrah Fawcett)

Le fils de l'autre (2012, France)

The Final Storm (2010, Lauren Holly)

First Earth: Uncompromising Ecological Architecture (2009 Documentary)

A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints (2006, Robert Downey Jr.)

Hateship Loveship (2013, Kristen Wiig)

Helen (2009, Ashley Judd)

The House of Mirth (2000, Gillian Anderson)

The Hunting Ground (2015 documentary)

The Hurricane (1999, Denzel Washington)

In Darkness (2011, Poland)

Inequality for All (2013 documentary)

Into the Forest (2015, Ellen Page)

Jane Eyre (2011, Mia Wasikowska)

La Jaula De Oro [The Golden Dream] (2013, Mexico)

Jesus Henry Christ (2012, Toni Collette)

The King and the Clown (2005, South Korea)

Kurbaan (2009, India)

Lady Jane (1983, Helen Bonham Carter)

London Boulevard (2010, Colin Farrell)

Love Happens (2009, Jennifer Aniston)

Mea Maxima Culpa: Silence in the House of God (2012 Documentary)

Midnight’s Children (2012)

Millions (20014, Danny Boyle)

Miral (2010, Italy)

Miss Representation (2011 Documentary)

Moon (2009, Sam Rockwell)

Moonstruck (1987, Cher)

Mustang (2015, France)

My Fair Lady (1964, Audrey Hepburn)

Neds (2010, United Kingdom)

Night Moves (2013, Dakota Fanning)

Ondine (2009, Colin Farrell)

P.S. (2004, Laura Linney)

Pariah (2011, Kim Wayans)

Partition (2007, Neve Campbell)

A Perfect Getaway (2009, Timothy Olyphant)

Poor Boy’s Game (2007)

Price Check (2012, Parker Posey)

La Rafle (The Roundup) (2010, France)

Ragtime (1981, Mary Steenburgen)

Raw: The Amy Winehouse Story (2015)

Reaching for the Moon (2013, Miranda Otto)

The Return (2006 mystery thriller, Sarah Michelle Gellar)

Saint Ralph (2004)

Sarah’s Key (2010, Kristin Scott Thomas)

The Search (1948, Montgomery Clift)

The Shop Around the Corner (1940, James Stewart)

The Short Game (2013 Documentary)

ShowBusiness: The Road to Broadway (2007 Documentary)

Sicario (2015, Emily Blunt)

Silkwood (1983, Meryl Streep)

Soldier's Girl (2003, Lee Pace)

The Son Of No One (2011, Channing Tatum)

The Song of Bernadette (1943, Jennifer Jones)

Sophie’s Choice (1982, Meryl Streep)

The Stoning of Soraya M. (2008, Jim Caviezel)

Stranger By The Lake (2013, France)

Stuck (2007, Mena Suvari)

Testament Of Youth (2014, Alicia Vikander)

Three (2010, Germany)

Trade (2007, Kevin Kline)

Triage (2009, Colin Farrell)

Uninhabited (2010 horror thriller)

The Union: The Business Behind Getting High (2007 Documentary)

A Very Long Engagement (2004, Audrey Tautou)

The Wave (Die Welle) (2008, Germany)

The Way Back (2010, Colin Farrell)

When We Leave (2010, Germany)

Win, Win (2011, Paul Giamatti)

Woman In Gold (2015, Helen Mirren)

Words and Pictures (2013, Clive Owen)

The Yearling (1946, Gregory Peck)

You Don't Like the Truth: 4 Days inside Guantanamo (2010 Documentary)

Z For Zachariah (2015, Chris Pine)
 
PeterG said:
Win, Win (2011, Paul Giamatti)
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This movie deserved far better recognition than it did - too bad Searchlight only thought it was suitable to be released in the relatively quiet period of early spring.
In many ways, I prefer this Tom McCarthy work (and The Visitor) over the more recognized/rewarded Spotlight.
 
I saw King Kong - enjoyable. Cast was good. Samuel L Jackson was typecast - but he is just so awesome it is ok. John Goodman was good - as always. The movie felt a big long - lots of shots that the purpose was show Tom Hiddleston and Brie Larson looking beautiful - see here is a beautiful person on the helicopter, on the boat! I liked the storyline. The movie was set in the early 70s, except for very beginning was WWII - but some of the earlier scenes when the 'team' was being introduced/recruited it had a 40s vibe to it - it was cool. Felt more like a summertime movie - worth seeing.
 
cocotaffy said:
On the other hand, I managed to download Dancer about Sergei Polunin and isn't he a fascinating artist ! Unbelievable dancer, charisma through the roof and tortured soul, I mean what a combo. It is a very touching documentary about what it takes for a family to pull their only child out of poverty and how the grinding discipline and the parting away with one's family so young can be life transforming both painfully but also enabling to magnify one's art. It's the tale of a supremely talented dancer who still worked ten times harder than anyone else to fulfill his crazy potential yet wondering if it's all worth it but can't do anything else anyway.
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I saw this a while ago and totally agree. Just such a natural talent. I loved the scene where he went back to the ballet school and his first teacher. I think the love of anything comes from having a great teacher to start with (and I am just reading a book about music which talks about that). What was quiet disturbing was the drugs he was taking to get through the performance. But they were quite open about that.
 
Okay, after my runners-up list of great movies... Here's my list of the greatest movies of all time. According to me, subject to change! :D

  1. Dances With Wolves

  2. Not One Less (1999, South Korea)

  3. Brokeback Mountain

  4. The Fall (2006, Lee Pace)

  5. Come Back To The Five and Dime, Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean (1982, Cher)

  6. The Girl In The Park (2007, Sigourney Weaver)

  7. North Sea Texas (2011, Belgium)

  8. Born Yesterday (1950, Judy Holliday)

  9. The Wizard Of Oz (1939)

  10. Tyrannosaur (2011, Olivia Colman)

  11. Joyeux Noel (2005, Diane Kruger)

  12. Bullhead (2011, Matthias Schoenaerts)

  13. The Homesman (2014, Hilary Swank)

  14. Elephant Song (2014, Bruce Greenwood)

  15. Unbreakable (2000, Bruce Willis)

  16. Dirty Girl (2010, June Temple)

  17. How I Live Now (2009, Saoirse Ronan)

  18. Carrie (1976, Sissy Spacek)

  19. The Fault In Our Stars (2014, Shailene Woodley)

  20. Captain Fantastic (2016, Viggo Mortensen)

  21. Extremities (1986, Farrah Fawcett)

  22. Children of God (2010)

  23. Infernal Affairs, (2002, Hong Kong)

  24. The Disappearance of Alice Creed (2009, Gemma Arterton)

  25. Les émotifs anonymes (Romantics Anonymous)

  26. Nobody Knows (2004, Japan)

  27. The Whale (2011 Documentary)

  28. The End of the Affair (1999, Ralph Fiennes)

  29. Undertow (2009, Colombia)

  30. Down With Love (2003, Renee Zellweger)

  31. Aftermath (Poklosie) (2012, Poland)

  32. Phoebe in Wonderland (2008, Elle Fanning)

  33. A Better Life (2011, Demien Bichir)

  34. A Little Chaos (2014, Kate Winslet)

  35. Trainwreck (2015, Amy Schumer)

  36. Songcatcher (2000, Janet McTeer)

  37. How I Ended This Summer (2007, Russia)

  38. The Shawshank Redemption

  39. The Rose (1979, Bette Midler)

  40. In The Good Old Summertime (1949, Judy Garland)

  41. Good Bye Lenin! (2003, Daniel Bruhl)

  42. Two Soldiers (2003, Ron Perlman)

  43. All About Eve (1950, Bette Davis)

  44. The Others (2001, Nicole Kidman)

  45. Queen To Play (Joueuse) (2009, Kevin Kline)

  46. Killing Us Softly (documentary film series)

  47. Mother (2009, South Korea)

  48. Slow West (2015, Michael Fassbender)

  49. Suite Française (2014, Michelle Williams)

  50. Me Before You (2016, Sam Claflin)

  51. Mental (2012, Toni Collette)

  52. Zaytoun (2012, Stephen Dorff)

  53. What I Want My Words to Do to You: Voices from Inside a Women's Maximum Security Prison (2003, Glenn Close)

  54. High Noon (1952, Gary Cooper)

  55. Mr Holmes (2015, Ian McKellen)

  56. Oranges and Sunshine (2010, Emily Watson)

  57. Wish Me Away (2011 Chely Wright documentary)

  58. Mary and Martha (2013 TV Movie, Hilary Swank)

  59. Paradise Road (1997, Glenn Close)

  60. Welcome (2009, France)

  61. Spy (2015, Melissa McCarthy)

  62. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

  63. Brothers (2009, Jake Gyllenhaal)

  64. Rust and Bone (2011, Marion Cotillard)

  65. She Done Him Wrong (1933, Mae West)

  66. Mr. Right (2015, Anna Kendrick)

  67. Un amour à taire (A Love To Hide) (2005 TV-movie)

  68. The Story Of Luke (2012, Lou Taylor Pucci)

  69. Avatar

  70. Brooklyn (2015, Saoirse Ronan)

  71. Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows (2001 TV-Movie)

  72. The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962, James Stewart)

  73. Eden Lake (2008, Michael Fassbender)

  74. Inside Man (2006, Jodie Foster)

  75. Letters From Big Man (2011, Lily Rabe)

  76. Die Wand (The Wall) (2012, Germany)

  77. Love Me Or Leave Me (1955, Doris Day)

  78. About Elly (2009, Iran)

  79. Top Hat (1935, Fred Astaire)

  80. I'll Wait for the Next One... (2003 short film) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqwgeZooUmQ

  81. Goodnight Mommy (2014, Austria)

  82. He Named Me Malala (2015 Documentary)

  83. The Reef (2010, Australia)

  84. Summer Vacation (2012 short film, Israel)

  85. Buried (2010, Ryan Reynolds)

  86. Dope (2015)

  87. American Violet (2008, Alfre Woodard)

  88. Garbage Warrior (2007 Documentary)

  89. The Descent (2005 Horror adventure)

  90. Le fate ignoranti (The Ignorant Fairies) (2001, Italy)

  91. Curse Of The Golden Flower (2006, Hong Kong)

  92. First Position (2011 documentary)

  93. The Sapphires (2012, Australia)

  94. Hanna (2011, Saoirse Ronan)

  95. Retreat (2011, Jamie Bell)

  96. Fighting (2009, Channing Tatum)

  97. Children of Invention (2009)

  98. Safe House (2012, Denzel Washington)

  99. Being At Home With Claude (1992, Roy Dupuis)

  100. The Cell (2000, Jennifer Lopez)
 
Aussie Willy said:
What was quiet disturbing was the drugs he was taking to get through the performance. But they were quite open about that.
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Yes, I was very much taken aback and then my ice dance inner fan kicked in and all I could think of was "is it the same product Bobrova used ?" :rofl:
I hope it was some kind of herbal/vitamin supplement. But I still wonder though which "vitamins" could give such an instant boost like this. What it shows is how gruelling ballet is. I was also surprised when he said he felt trapped because if he doesn't dance all his body hurts but then when he dances all his body hurts too.
 
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