The Movie Thread

[Kiwiwomble]

But surely, "The Watch" already showed that it's a bulshit theory if the product is still bad

but the star wars sequels made millions and most people still watched the last two seasons of Game of thrones....so it does work sometimes

 

[McTallshort]

The Covenant is brilliant

 

[The Seeker]

Westworld - celebrating its 50th anniversary. Yul Brenner plays a badass robot. This a great movie that has held up very well. I watched it again today.

 

[Bada-Bing!]

Oppenheimer. Pretty good, wouldn't say I loved it but Cillian Murphy is very good in it. Only looked at my watch twice in the last hour which did start to drag.

 

[The Seeker]

The original from 1957 was great, and so is this remake from 2007. Yeehaw! I was born and raised in the American Southwest, about 100 years too late.

 

[Bada-Bing!]

The 50 greatest children’s films of all time: ‘Your kids will never be the same!’

Need some help filling up a rainy afternoon during the holidays? From creepies to weepies, from nannies to Nazis, from Jedis to Jurassics, we pick the 50 best-ever movies for kids

www.theguardian.com

 

[TRF_Olyy]

My Cousin Vinny

Absolute classic, still holds up

 

[Bada-Bing!]

Michael Oher, subject of The Blind Side, and 'adoptive parents' in legal feud

Ex-NFL star Michael Oher says a couple enriched themselves off his name. They say it's an extortion attempt.

www.bbc.co.uk

Shame. Really enjoyed the film but feel now it didn't come across as genuine.

 

[ncurd]

Michael Oher, subject of The Blind Side, and 'adoptive parents' in legal feud

Ex-NFL star Michael Oher says a couple enriched themselves off his name. They say it's an extortion attempt.

www.bbc.co.uk

Shame. Really enjoyed the film but feel now it didn't come across as genuine.

Reading that the smoking gun if he really didn't get a any share of his life story but the Tuohy children did directly, rather than set to inherit through the breakdown of his relationship with those people. Being the subject of a book/film doesn't mean you make money from it.

Conservatorships do seem horribly open to abuse though. So really its all about if they handled it in an inappropraite way.

 

[Bada-Bing!]

Reading that the smoking gun if he really didn't get a any share of his life story but the Tuohy children did directly, rather than set to inherit through the breakdown of his relationship with those people. Being the subject of a book/film doesn't mean you make money from it.

Conservatorships do seem horribly open to abuse though. So really its all about if they handled it in an inappropraite way.

I suspect they will end up settling out of court. But will no doubt destroy their relationship. Seems like the Tuohys did make a lot from the film and book per the article $225k plus 2.5% net proceeds. No wonder Michael is angry they lied to him. The film makes out they adopted too.

On the one hand I can see why Michael is angry because the film presents him as a dumb black guy saved by a very rich white christian family.

But on the other hand would he have got to the NFL without them because it was true he was living out of classmate's houses and he came from a very poor background where was essentially abandoned to fend for himself.

 

[RedruthRFC]

I hope this doesn't end up reflecting badly on Michael Lewis. I've enjoyed everything of his that I've read, it would be a shame if this creates nagging doubts over the validity of what he presents in his books.

 

[Bada-Bing!]

https://www.theguardian.com/film/20...-sniper-the-biggest-lies-in-fact-based-movies

 

[TRF_Olyy]

Kandahar, Amazon Prime's latest original

You know what you're getting with a Gerard Butler movie, really
Easy watch, generic action, almost could've been an episode of Homeland if they'd toned it down a bit tbh
Not going to win any awards but decent enough way to pass a couple of hours

 

[Bada-Bing!]

The Equalizer 3 out at the end of the month. Love Denzil.

 

[BrokenWing]

https://www.theguardian.com/film/20...-sniper-the-biggest-lies-in-fact-based-movies

Is this supposed to link to something?

Doesn't work for me

 

[Bada-Bing!]

Is this supposed to link to something?

Doesn't work for me

yeh don't know why it doesn't work. Just an article of films based on lies - Braveheart, ***anic, U-571, American Sniper on the back of the Blindside.

 

[McTallshort]

yeh don't know why it doesn't work. Just an article of films based on lies - Braveheart, ***anic, U-571, American Sniper on the back of the Blindside.

You mean America didn't win the Scottish war of independence, WW2, Iraq and didn't save everyone on the ***anic?!

 

[Bada-Bing!]

You mean America didn't win the Scottish war of independence, WW2,

They didn't wear kilts either (a few hundred years too early ) and WW didn't shag Queen Isabella (she was 3yo at the time) and impregnate her.

And no the Americans didn't discover Enigma that was us British.

And didn't save everyone on the ***anic?!

Murdoch didn't accept a bribe and then shoot a passenger and commit suicide.

 

[SG59_]

So they're increasing the prices, but cutting content.
I know disney are struggling a bit, but this seems like a bad move.

 

[Kiwiwomble]

yeh don't know why it doesn't work. Just an article of films based on lies - Braveheart, ***anic, U-571, American Sniper on the back of the Blindside.

its not working because thats just text, not a hyperlink, you can see the full address is cut off with ... in the middle of it