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Originally Posted by LeBoyWondeur

Could that be considered a remake of Hard Rain (1998) ?

No. Hard Rain shares more similarities with a movie I watched last weekend called The Hurricane Heist, but that’s not a remake either.

I think Bull Durham is one of the more underrated movies of my 50+ years on Earth. It's just a great, great script. It's simple and unambitious so I'm not saying it's Citizen Kane here, but I think the script is just fantastic and I think it gets overlooked as just a fun baseball movie.

Originally Posted by Wooley

I think Bull Durham is one of the more underrated movies of my 50+ years on Earth. It's just a great, great script. It's simple and unambitious so I'm not saying it's Citizen Kane here, but I think the script is just fantastic and I think it gets overlooked as just a fun baseball movie.

The reason why I called Bull Durham “the Amadeus of baseball movies” is because it’s essentially a remake of Milos Forman’s classic (albeit with baseball substituted for music) and because it’s a dagum MASTERPIECE. I never got into baseball, but of all types of sports movies, baseball movies are my favorite. Moneyball, Field of Dreams, Major League, Fever Pitch, and The Sandlot are great, but Bull Durham tops them all!
And you’re right, Wooley, Bull Durham has an excellent script. There are so many great scenes and lines. One of my favorites is that scene where Nuke and Annie are in bed doing the nasty and Nuke takes issue with Annie shouting Crash’s name, and she says, “Would you rather me be making love to him using your name or me making love to you using his?” And I also love the quote: “Sometimes you win. Sometimes you lose. And sometimes it rains.”
In addition to making my favorite baseball movie, Ron Shelton also made my favorite golfing movie, Tin Cup (although Bull Durham is better).

Papillon (1973)

Directed by Franklin J. Schaffner
Starring Steve McQueen and Dustin Hoffman

My fourth rewatch for the last 20 years.
Great interesting classic adventurous-prison movie featuring outstanding performances by McQueen and Hoffman.


99/100

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825 Forest Road (2025) Watched on AMC+. I thought this was eerie and atmospheric and did a good job of building suspense. Performances were solid.

That is the assurance that a certain character gets late in this film. That you're not necessarily defined by your actions, regardless of how horrific they might be; at least in the eyes of mom, that is. That is part of the premise that this M. Night Shyamalan film toys with. Trap follows Cooper Abbott (Josh Hartnett), a firefighter and family man, that takes his teenage daughter (Ariel Donoghue) to a concert, only to realize that the whole concert might be a trap to catch a dangerous serial killer.

Special kudos to Hartnett, who's having a hell of a comeback. His performance here is great and he manages to have us rooting for him. Donoghue is pretty good as his daughter, and I thought Saleka Shyamalan (the director's daughter) was very good as singer Lady Raven, who somehow gets caught in the trap as well as the killer tries to find ways to escape. If anything, I wish the characters of Cooper's wife (Alison Pill) and the profiler (Hayley Mills) would've been executed better. The way it is, Hartnett gets more moments to shine, but I think there could've been a nice counter-balance there.

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found footage horror shot on a 360 camera and i love that concept so much and its really good until the "horror" happens. the 360 camera is actually so good at capturing the mood and the earlier parts of the movie that are more just a hangout movie with some dramatic moments it works so well it just really feels like it didn't need to be a horror movie at all.




a surprising delight. Shore and Fraser are really fun together and it made me happy.

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Set in the 23rd Century, Forbidden Planet follows Captain Adams (Leslie Nielsen) and his crew as they arrive at the planet Altair. Their mission? To find the whereabouts of the crew of the Bellerophon, a ship that was sent there 20 years earlier but never returned. As soon as they arrive, they encounter only two people: Dr. Morbius (Walter Pidgeon and his daughter Altaira (Anne Francis), as well as Robby, their robot.

The film also has a fairly intriguing plot as we try to figure out the fate of this crew as well as the motivations of Dr. Morbius. The film is a bit of a slow burn and doesn't rely on action setpieces. It does manage to build up dread effectively, though, even if the pace seems a bit off from time to time. Still, I think that the interactions between the main characters (Adams, Morbius, his crew) manage to hold your interest pretty well.

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Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)

This criminally underrated cinematic masterpiece is a globetrotting adventure that, in terms of sheer entertainment and artistry, rivals the best of the Indiana Jones series. Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow is a film that tickles the senses and stimulates the imagination. It’s one of those movies (like Edge of Tomorrow) that deserves to achieve blockbuster status but failed at the box office. My only hope is that people will eventually discover and cherish this forgotten classic.

SF = Z

Viewed: Amazon Prime


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[Snooze Factor Ratings]:
Z = didn't nod off at all
Zz = nearly nodded off but managed to stay alert
Zzz = nodded off and missed some of the film but went back to watch what I missed
Zzzz = nodded off and missed some of the film but went back to watch what I missed but nodded off again at the same point and therefore needed to go back a number of times before I got through it...
Zzzzz = nodded off and missed some or the rest of the film but was not interested enough to go back over it

Boiling Point (2021)


I wanted to give the Adolescence director Philip Barantini and lead actor Stephen Graham some more of my time, and this one fit the bill. Intense kitchen dramas are a dime-a-dozen, and though I don't think this one brings much new to the table, it is still high quality. Like Adolescence, it is also a one-take presentation.

Loved it. Seen it twice.

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The Big Clock - 6.5/10
I said I'd never watch another Mystery, but I saw it was leaving Criterion in a couple of days, but most importantly, Ray Milland was in it.. First half is much better.

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Interesting.
That was actually the book on it when I saw it, "Oh, it's actually great and should have been huge but people just didn't get it or whatever."
So I saw it and it did nothing for me and I found it silly, off the mark, and a bit of a chore.
Maybe I need to give it another go.

Something Wild - 7/10

Strangers on a Train -

Have you ever had someone in your life who just won't go away no matter how hard you try? If The Gift (2015) and The Cable Guy didn't make you realize how much this would make your life a living hell, this movie surely will. I was not surprised when I learned that Patricia Highsmith of Ripley fame wrote the source novel because the insinuator, Bruno (Walker), is cut from the same cloth. Like Ripley, what makes him a formidable antagonist is that he is used to a certain level of privilege and does not exactly want to do an honest day's work to maintain it if you know what I mean. Robert Taylor totally sells this, and as for the other half of Bruno's proposal to off unwanted acquaintances, Farley Grainger makes tennis pro Guy another classic Hitchcock "ordinary man in an extraordinary situation." Ordinary is the key word here - he practically fades into the background - but it makes it all the easier to walk in his shoes and makes Bruno's tendencies all the more unsettling. As it goes in the other movies I mentioned, it gets no more unsettling than when Bruno shows up unannounced and uninvited. His appearance at Guy's future father-in-law's party is a highlight, especially since his idea of amusing the guests is to demonstrate how to use your bare hands to kill someone. After all this, if you still need more evidence that this is a Hitchcock movie, no scene better demonstrates why he earned the "master of suspense" nickname than a race against time featuring a pivotal tennis match. Also, like he did in Saboteur, North by Northwest, et al, the director concludes the affair with an iconic set piece that may be the most fast-paced scene I have witnessed in a '50s movie.

If anything, this movie proves that there is no such thing as a job, agreement, etc. that has no strings attached. Also, if you have ever wondered how the phrase "don't take your work home with you" came about, it provides as good an explanation of it as any! If there's anything worth griping about here, it's that Bruno's homosexual tendencies are comically exaggerated at times. Even so, they could be a lot worse when you consider the movie's age. Highsmith and Hitchcock are a dream pairing that unfortunately did not become an ongoing partnership, but it's hard to complain when we got this one from them.

5th Rewatch...Sidney Lumet's stylish and funny film version of Ira Levin's long running Broadway hit remains imminently rewatchable. Michael Caine plays Sidney Bruhl, a playwright who has just had his third flop in a row and has also received the rough draft of a play written by a young aspiring playwright named Clifford Anderson (Christopher Reeve) who once took a writing seminar with Bruhl, Desperate to salvage his career, Sidney decides to invite Anderson to his home, murder him, and produce Cliff's play at his home, much to the dismay of his highly strung wife (Dyan Cannon). Lumet's direction, Jay Presson Allen's screenplay, and Johnny Mandel's music are all on the money, but the primary attraction here is the performance of his career by the late Christopher Reeve that makes this film appointment viewing all by itself.

1st Rewatch...Amy Shumer's struggle to start a movie career was further slowed by this anemic comedy where she plays the pleasingly plump clerical employee of a large cosmetics empire who, while working out, falls off a stationary bike and hits her head. when she wakes up, she thinks she's the most beautiful and sexy woman on the planet and, for some reason, none of the other characters in the movie will tell her otherwise and those who try are not believed. The film has a lot of messages about body shaming but they are driven home with a sledgehammer, lessening the appeal of Shumer's appeal with each scene. The film is effortlessly stolen by Michelle Williams as Shumer's flighty boss, but that was no big accomplishment.

1st Rewatch...The late Chadwick Boseman, who spent a healthy chunk of his career doing biopics, had one of his stronger efforts here playing future supreme court judge Thurogood Marshall. In this film, Marshall still works for the NAACP and is summoned to Bridgeport Connecticut to defend a black man (Sterling K Brown) accused of raping a white woman. The judge refuses to allow Marshall to try the case for what appears to be purely racial biased reasons, so a white attorney (Josh Gad) risks his career by being the mouthpiece for Marshall, who is really trying the case from the second chair. The underlying In the Heat of the Night type of racial tension that permeates the film makes it hard for the viewer to remain objective, but we're never really sure of the verdict until it is announced. Boseman is splendid, as always, but the real surprise here is Gad, perhaps best known as the voice of Olaf in the Frozen movies, in an eye opening performance as Marshall's mouthpiece.