OT: Movies/TV Shows

[WeHaveMoreCupsThanYou]

that definitely proves that no soldiers speculated about the meaning of life while fighting in a war.

They did, they just weren't insufferable assholes about it.

 

[zeke]

Yes the insufferable asshole is considered a great american writer, and his books have inspired no less than 4 films, as well as tv series.

totes insufferable.

 

[JackBurton]

Spielberg likes to add his feel-good touchous. He didn't do that earlier in his career as much. Changed once he did ET.
He best directing job may have been "Duel".

 

[CH1]

Yes the insufferable asshole is considered a great american writer, and his books have inspired no less than 4 films, as well as tv series.

totes insufferable.

Bad film adaptations are common

 

[Montana]

Neither of you guys bolded Bad Lieutenant? really?

Im a fucking weirdo who only saw the Nic Cage one, but I loved it.

 

[SundinsTooth]

You should track down a copy. Highly recommended. It is so outlandish.

They knew it was NC-17, so obviously they had no ability to raise serious funds to film it. They went for it anyway. No permits, guerrila style filmmaking. Everyone likely high or drunk or both. Keitel acting his balls off. Hopelessly bleak film. Plays on the themes present in Tree of Life a bit with the whole being abandoned by god angle. Great stuff.

 

[JackBurton]

Early 90's films had way too much Keitel Cock.

 

[Montana]

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Bad film adaptations are common

He must have been the only one. Either that, or he wrote that years after the fact when he had the luxury of being able to spend time ruminating on it.

Guadalcanal Diary was also a book written by someone who was there and it was published while the blood of the Marines who died there was still wet. Nothing about trees or birds, however.

Shoulda listened to the interview with Marty Morgan, than zeke posted for you lads...

I like this movie a lot, and I think this movie depicts things better than any other World War two movie. I think the book that this movie is based on is one of the best World War two memoirs. I mean, it’s a novel. Yes. With some fictionalization going on. But at the same time, it’s the personal experiences of James Jones fighting with the 27th Infantry Regiment on Guadalcanal during World War Two.

I’m not the only person that admires the sub the source material, because a lot of famous people have credited Thin Red Line as being one of the best memoirs of combat from World War Two.

and it remains as accurate to the historical source material as the movies that we admire, like Band of Brothers and Saving Private Ryan.

I think this is a good movie. It’s got its strengths and weaknesses. But overwhelmingly, I enjoy it every time I go back and have a look at it. And every time I go back and have a look at it, I learn something new in a way that private Ryan just isn’t doing anymore or Band of Brothers just isn’t doing for me anymore.

This is Terrence Malick taking this really compelling World War Two memoir and turning it into a larger meditation on spirituality and the human mind and the human condition. And he does all that, and he does that in a way that he’s very skilled at doing as an artist. But at the same time, he didn’t betray the book in a way that I think we have seen done before.

heh.

James Jones had to change the names of some of the people that he was describing, the things that they did that were potentially war crimes. That’s why we have to have made up names. That’s why it’s based on a true story. But it’s not telling a true story.

Terrence Malick is right. This is not a this is not a docu drama. This is art. Both the novel and the movie that we’re talking about, this is something entirely different. This isn’t a history lesson. And that’s why if I scolded myself not to have that expectation, I think I have a better viewing experience.

I always tend to think that if you are confused about it and you want to figure out some particulars about the timeline that are confusingly depicted in this movie, you don’t just go buy the book after movie and read a little bit about the Guadalcanal campaign and then it’ll all get straightened out.

The movie’s not here to do that. The movie is here to make you feel something, and I think it accomplishes that beautifully.

 

[Habspatrol]

Anyone watching Ahsoka yet? It's getting an 8.8/10 on IMDB so far.

 

[Montana]

Haven’t, but glad to hear it scoring that well.

 

[zeke]

that's just perfect casting right there.

hope i don't need to know too much about the cartoons to follow it.

 

[JackBurton]

You should track down a copy. Highly recommended. It is so outlandish.

They knew it was NC-17, so obviously they had no ability to raise serious funds to film it. They went for it anyway. No permits, guerrila style filmmaking. Everyone likely high or drunk or both. Keitel acting his balls off. Hopelessly bleak film. Plays on the themes present in Tree of Life a bit with the whole being abandoned by god angle. Great stuff.

The versions I see now are edited down, even on streaming. The version I saw in the 90's had him pulling over teenage girls in a car and getting them to show their asses so he could jerk off. That scene is heavily edited now (Except for Keitel cock)

 

[oscarheyman]

Spielberg likes to add his feel-good touchous. He didn't do that earlier in his career as much. Changed once he did ET.
He best directing job may have been "Duel".

I think Spielberg's "Empire of the Sun" gets overlooked. I mean its got Christian Bale in the lead role! (heh, granted he's like what? 13 years old in it?).

 

[zeke]

love Empire of the Sun.

 

[zeke]

Spielberg is amazing btw.

 

[worm]

4 dollar movies on Sunday.

Going to see tmnt

 

[zeke]

never underestimate just how good Speilberg's technique is. He's way more than just a good storyteller.

 

[Montana]

I saw Jaws on the big screen at an art house in Vancouver a couple years ago, and it’s wild how well it holds up. Same with Jurassic Park for that matter……gets mentioned all the time, but the effects in that movie blow away the competition in 90% of CGI heavy movies released since.

I loved Spielbergs, Catch Me if You Can, Terminal, Munich run….


…embarrassed to say I’ve still never seen Schindlers List or Close Encounters.

 

[axlsalinger]

I saw Jaws on the big screen at an art house in Vancouver a couple years ago, and it’s wild how well it holds up. Same with Jurassic Park for that matter……gets mentioned all the time, but the effects in that movie blow away the competition in 90% of CGI heavy movies released since.

I loved Spielbergs, Catch Me if You Can, Terminal, Munich run….


…embarrassed to say I’ve still never seen Schindlers List or Close Encounters.

Close Encounters is a classic ... but Schindler's List is a masterpiece.

 

[oscarheyman]

I saw Jaws on the big screen at an art house in Vancouver a couple years ago, and it’s wild how well it holds up. Same with Jurassic Park for that matter……gets mentioned all the time, but the effects in that movie blow away the competition in 90% of CGI heavy movies released since.

I loved Spielbergs, Catch Me if You Can, Terminal, Munich run….


…embarrassed to say I’ve still never seen Schindlers List or Close Encounters.

I was probably one of the few people on Earth that hadn't seen a single episode of GoT until the "pandemic".