Movies: General Discussion

[Mave]

Saw Michael Mann's Thief yesterday. Very solid story and performance from James Caan. 8/10

Violent Streets - Der Einzelgänger (1981) - IMDb

Violent Streets - Der Einzelgänger: Directed by Michael Mann. With James Caan, Tuesday Weld, Willie Nelson, Jim Belushi. An ace safe cracker wants to do one last big heist for the mob before going straight.

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[Mave]

Just finished rewatching The Name of The Rose, what a classic! 8/10

Der Name der Rose (1986) - IMDb

Der Name der Rose: Directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud. With Sean Connery, Christian Slater, Helmut Qualtinger, Elya Baskin. An intellectually nonconformist friar investigates a series of mysterious deaths in an isolated abbey.

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[Mave]

On a watching spree atm, saw all these movies in the past week:

French Connection - Brennpunkt Brooklyn (1971) - IMDb

French Connection - Brennpunkt Brooklyn: Directed by William Friedkin. With Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider, Tony Lo Bianco. A pair of NYPD detectives in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a heroin smuggling ring based in Marseilles, but stopping them and capturing their leaders proves...

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6/10, didn't age that well.

Ronin (1998) - IMDb

Ronin: Directed by John Frankenheimer. With Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Natascha McElhone, Stellan Skarsgård. A freelancing former U.S. Intelligence Agent tries to track down a mysterious package that is wanted by the Irish and the Russians.

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8/10 amazing acting, best car chases in a movie ever.

Bullitt (1968) - IMDb

Bullitt: Directed by Peter Yates. With Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset, Don Gordon. An all-guts, no-glory San Francisco cop becomes determined to find the underworld kingpin that killed the witness in his protection.

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7/10 movie is not that good, but car chases and the girl (only two scenes though) make up for it.

Boogie Nights (1997) - IMDb

Boogie Nights: Directed by Paul Thomas Anderson. With Luis Guzmán, Burt Reynolds, Julianne Moore, Rico Bueno. Back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, an idealistic porn producer aspires to elevate his craft to an art when he discovers a hot young talent.

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6/10 Not my type of movie, felt way too long.

Gangster Nr. 1 (2000) - IMDb

Gangster Nr. 1: Directed by Paul McGuigan. With Malcolm McDowell, David Thewlis, Paul Bettany, Saffron Burrows. Chronicles the rise and fall of a prominent, and particularly ruthless English gangster.

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5/10 Started promising, but got weird pretty fast. Will not be rewatching.

 

[Mave]

Another small list of movies I've recently seen:

Blow Out - Der Tod löscht alle Spuren (1981) - IMDb

Blow Out - Der Tod löscht alle Spuren: Directed by Brian De Palma. With John Travolta, Nancy Allen, John Lithgow, Dennis Franz. A movie sound recordist accidentally records the evidence that proves that a car accident was actually murder and consequently finds himself in danger.

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Blow Out
John Travolta as the main character and a movie recommended by Tarantino? Count me in. Sadly I didn't like the movie that much. 6/10

Der Knochenjäger (1999) - IMDb

Der Knochenjäger: Directed by Phillip Noyce. With Denzel Washington, Angelina Jolie, Queen Latifah, Michael Rooker. A quadriplegic ex-homicide detective and his partner try to track down a serial killer who is terrorizing New York City.

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The Bone Collector
A young Angelina Jolie + Denzel? Hell yeah. This one doesn't get a lot of love on the internet, but I liked it. 7/10 (more a 7.5, but an 8 was too much)

Bad Boys for Life (2020) - IMDb

Bad Boys for Life: Directed by Adil El Arbi, Bilall Fallah. With Will Smith, Martin Lawrence, Vanessa Hudgens, Alexander Ludwig. Miami detectives Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett must face off against a mother-and-son pair of drug lords who wreak vengeful havoc on their city.

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Bad Boys For Life
While it still had its moments, this third instalment was unnecessary. 6/10

Carlito's Way (1993) - IMDb

Carlito's Way: Directed by Brian De Palma. With Al Pacino, Sean Penn, Penelope Ann Miller, John Leguizamo. A Puerto Rican former convict, just released from prison, pledges to stay away from drugs and violence despite the pressure around him and lead on to a better life outside of N.Y.C.

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Carlito's Way
Brian de Palma AND Al Pacino? FUCK YES. This movie is a slow-paced, better thought out Scarface. Loved it. 8/10

Zurück in die Zukunft (1985) - IMDb

Zurück in die Zukunft: Directed by Robert Zemeckis. With Michael J. Fox, Christopher Lloyd, Lea Thompson, Crispin Glover. Marty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent thirty years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the eccentric...

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Back To The Future
Was about time I finally saw this classic. Way less a kid movie I was expecting it to be. 8/10

 

[Stybar]

Man, I've never seen BTTF. I should really get on that.

 

[Mave]

Saw Batman and Batman Returns the past week. Not sure if I should also watch Batman Forever and Batman and Robin (I really liked Keaton as Bruce)

Batman (1989) - IMDb

Batman: Directed by Tim Burton. With Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger, Robert Wuhl. The Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being Jack Napier, a criminal who becomes the clownishly homicidal Joker.

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Batman
8/10

Batmans Rückkehr (1992) - IMDb

Batmans Rückkehr: Directed by Tim Burton. With Michael Keaton, Danny DeVito, Michelle Pfeiffer, Christopher Walken. While Batman deals with a deformed man calling himself the Penguin wreaking havoc across Gotham with the help of a cruel businessman, a female employee of the latter becomes the...

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Batman Returns
7/10

I liked them both. Gotham looks how I always imagined it.

Also saw Jackass Forever yesterday. Really enjoyed it, a great one and a half hour of nostalgia. Only complaint is a bit too much male genitalia.

Jackass Forever (2022) - IMDb

Jackass Forever: Directed by Jeff Tremaine. With Johnny Knoxville, Steve-O, Chris Pontius, Dave England. After 11 years, the Jackass crew is back for another crusade.

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