What Movie Are You Watching Or Watched Today?

[Frances]

I have never seen Braveheart and might watch it if it’s somewhere in all the cable mish-mash.

[Frances]

Apparently, you have to have Starz or pay to rent Braveheart off Amazon Prime.
No Netflix, Hulu, or any of them.
I ain’t got .02c for freaking Mel Gibson.

Maybe watch There Will Be Blood again as I don’t think I grasped all the characters the first time.
Does Paul Dano play both the twins?
I was confused.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pmOhBPHcX0I

[Low-ish D]

Apparently, you have to have Starz or pay to rent Braveheart off Amazon Prime.
No Netflix, Hulu, or any of them.
I ain’t got .02c for freaking Mel Gibson.

Watch Rob Roy instead.

[Frances]

Watch Rob Roy instead.

Well, this is bound to be an unpopular opinion but I find Liam Neeson to be a shite actor.

He was good in Michael Collins but I’ve avoided most his starring role films.
I’d say the same about Harrison Ford or Denzel Washington too.

I’ll watch this film because Jessica Lange and William Hurt are in it, if it’s free on the extensive cable mish-mash.

[DzM]

Watch Rob Roy instead.

Well, this is bound to be an unpopular opinion but I find Liam Neeson to be a shite actor.

He was good in Michael Collins but I’ve avoided most his starring role films.
I’d say the same about Harrison Ford or Denzel Washington too.

I’ll watch this film because Jessica Lange and William Hurt are in it, if it’s free on the extensive cable mish-mash.

Meh. They're both competently made films for what they are, but Rob Roy is a "better" film.

Kinda like comparing Full Metal Jacket and Platoon. Both came out in the same year, both take place in Vietnam, both are competent films made by talented directors. But depending on what you're looking for one of them is clearly better than the other, yet identifying which one that is will make many arguments happen.

[Frances]

Kinda like comparing Full Metal Jacket and Platoon. Both came out in the same year, both take place in Vietnam, both are competent films made by talented directors. But depending on what you're looking for one of them is clearly better than the other, yet identifying which one that is will make many arguments happen.

Depending on what we’re looking for?, not crap I’d say.

Willem Dafoe is in Platoon.
Thus, you are wrong.

Matthew Modine is in FMJ.
Hence, you are in error.


William Dafoe and Tom Berenger are amazing actors.
Berenger made that (otherwise) dreck film Looking For Mr. Goodbar believable.


Dafoe looked like he wanted to die in that Madonna candle movie.

[DzM]

Kinda like comparing Full Metal Jacket and Platoon. Both came out in the same year, both take place in Vietnam, both are competent films made by talented directors. But depending on what you're looking for one of them is clearly better than the other, yet identifying which one that is will make many arguments happen.

Depending on what we’re looking for?, not crap I’d say.

Willem Dafoe is in Platoon.
Thus, you are wrong.

Matthew Modine is in FMJ.
Hence, you are in error.


William Dafoe and Tom Berenger are amazing actors.
Berenger made that (otherwise) dreck film Looking For Mr. Goodbar believable.


Dafoe looked like he wanted to die in that Madonna candle movie.

And Willem Dafoe is in that embarrassing crap-show To Live & Die in L.A. and in the immensely awesome film-nerd naval-gazing film Shadow of the Vampire. So what? Good actors can be in terrible projects, and terrible actors can be in fantastic projects. Meh.

Platoon is a well done morality play with broad charactures of Good and Evil and utterly non-subtle messages about how Good gets sacrificed, yet the camaraderie of man and men persists. Full Metal Jacket is about the meaninglessness of war and the destruction of self and morality. Both are good depending on what you're looking for.

(Fun fact - my History of Film teacher in college was a Vietnam vet. One of these films he enjoyed from an artistic point of view. The other film did such a good job of capturing the sounds of the place that after ten minutes he was getting too triggery and had to leave the theater. No point to this anecdote. Sorry.)

[Frances]

(Fun fact - my History of Film teacher in college was a Vietnam vet... No point to this anecdote. Sorry.)

My Symbolic Logic professor danced the cha cha.

[DzM]

(Fun fact - my History of Film teacher in college was a Vietnam vet... No point to this anecdote. Sorry.)

My Symbolic Logic professor danced the cha cha.

Teachers are ... people? Huh.

[Low D]

Meh. They're both competently made films for what they are, but Rob Roy is a "better" film.

Kinda like comparing Full Metal Jacket and Platoon. Both came out in the same year, both take place in Vietnam, both are competent films made by talented directors. But depending on what you're looking for one of them is clearly better than the other, yet identifying which one that is will make many arguments happen.

Yah I was exactly thinking "Scottish historical drama made same era". I would also agree RR was the better film, although Braveheart has more battles, off that's important

[Low D]

Fatman (2020).

A rich kid hires a hit man to kill Santa, who is played by Mel Gibson.

And yet, I enjoyed this movie, which was entirely without sentimentality.

[Frances]

[Frances]

[Frances]

Wait, what?

Was looking at the movies playing in town and they’re all shit (as usual) :Spidey, Sing, Yadda yadda) when I see this bull crap in the upcoming features.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5U70RX7W3o

Uh, a Foo Fighters film?

I hope Pat Smear and the Shiflett guy go all zombie and kill what’s his name.

The Shiflett guy was good opening for the Pogues without his band, at least one Pogue was up front in the crowd (and at the bar watching the Charger game), I don’t know... I was wasted. Never drink that puerile Crystal Head vodka.

Ended up fighting a big ass bouncer, as one does.


Whitney Cummings? GTFO.

[Frances]

Love him.