Citizen Rules...Cinemaesque Chat-n-Review

@Citizens Rules

Have you seen?

http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0053561/

This is on TCM On Demand (for those who have TCM On Demand).
I stayed up last night to watch it all the way through this time.

Based on the question posed at the end: I would have voted guilty against the "Captain." I understand it was his responsibility to try to save as many as possible, but try is the operative word. Trying doesn't mean throwing the weak, old or wounded overboard (basically resorting to murder) to try to save the able bodied.



I don't think even Captain Bligh would have been this brutal - in the Bounty, when Bligh and his men are set adrift, one guy says they should eat him when he dies and Bligh says something like, "No. We'll have none of that. We've lived as men and we shall die as men, not as savages."

Nope, haven't seen it. That link to it on IMDB looks different than I'm use to, is it a link from a mobile?

@Captain Steel

Abandon Ship (1957)
Did you like the movie Captain?

Sure. I still like Lifeboat also, but Abandon Ship has a much higher tension level due to the situation.

I was just thinking of one loose end in the movie - in the beginning, Holmes comes aboard a raft with a few survivors and a dog, then he swims out to get his lady, then they get picked up by the lifeboat. We never see the raft or its survivors again and it's only mentioned when Holmes tells the woman in the lifeboat that her husband is "alive and well" since he was one of the people on the raft.

I know I'm speculating now, but it seems like the crafts were close enough that they might have come together, tied on, and the men in the water could have climbed aboard the raft - but I guess they drifted apart (no way for the raft people to row, and they said that the lifeboat was too overloaded to row).

Classic comedy. Loved it!

I thought of that too. I guess one could say that by the time he go to the lifeboat the current had pulled the raft away. Buy yeah, that kind of bugged me some too.

Loved this review and will be adding this to my watchlist.

I'm very interested to see what you think of Barton Fink.

M's a + for me ... love it. Shame you didn't connect better with it.

Yes I am on my phone when at work.

Ahh, OK thanks, that explains why IMDB looked so different. Geez I hate it that they changed the User Reviews section and you can't sort them anymore. I use to like reading a few of the Loved It, then a few Hated It...to get a well rounded look at a movie. Now it's just stuck on one setting: Ordered by Helpfulness, which is not helpful at all I sure miss the old way of reading reviews over there.

Rules, I know you don't have TV, but I've been watching a 2017 HBO documentary simply called Spielberg. It's quite good, touching on both his career and personal life (and how that drove his career).
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt7133092/?ref_=ttfc_fc_tt

At 2 hours & 27 minutes, it's pretty comprehensive.

The list of guests is impressive: everyone from his Director contemporaries (like Coppola, De Palma, Lucas, Scorsese, etc.) studio heads, actors from his movies, creators he's inspired, family members, personal friends, etc.

Interestingly, when he gets to 1941 (his first try at comedy) he says he was eviscerated by its level of failure and he acknowledges how off-the-mark it was!

Maybe you can order it - it's a good watch.

I can find it.Sound good too...certainly something I'd like to watch. I'll check out and as usual, I'll post a review!

The Atomic Cafe (1982)
Directors: Jayne Loader, Kevin Rafferty
Cast: Paul Tibbets, Harry S. Truman, W.H.P. Blandy
Genre: Documentary, History

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I loved the premise. It's a great story idea and I'm a sucker for historical movies set in the mid 20th century. As soon as I seen this was abut events in the early 60's I knew I'd like it. The fact that it's based on a true story, is something else I usually like. How true is the story? I don't know? I've never heard of this case before or the boxer named Hurricane. Actually I've never seen Denzel Washington in much either. I guess he's often in action films and I don't usually get into those. But this looked promising.

I didn't care for the direction or editing of the film. There were scenes that started to explore something promising, then it's like the director cut those scenes short before they reached they emotional peak. Even though this was 2.5 hours, most of the scenes felt rushed. An example is: Hurricane shows hatred for the three white Canadians, as he was victimized earlier in his life and he doesn't trust them, and he ask them to stop writing him. Then in like the next scene he's best friends with them. There needed to be a bridge scene that brought the audience in on his icy heart melting and learning to trust the three Canadians who were trying to help him.

Same with the evil detective that frames him, why? We never really get a strong motivation for the detective to do what he did. The detective is a mere shadow and that's too bad as we need him to be fully fleshed out in order to feel Hurricane's pain.

I felt like the movie was almost making fun of the three white Canadians, they seemed odd and so goody-goody and happy. Are they all just really good friends who hang out 24/7 or what? Why do they do what they do and why are they always together? A little explanation about them and their motivations, would have helped. But a lot of the movie was like that, we were told what was happening but we never really experience it through character development.

The only scene that really got me was the first meeting between the boy and Hurricane. That was well done. Denzel rocked his role, but I didn't like the casting choices of the other four main actors (the three adults and the kid) they all felt two dimensional.

Might have to see this.. I like sports stories.. just dont watch sports overall.

Ha, you and me both. I never watch sports, but the weird thing is I like sports movies.

One of my favorites I've seen recently was Prefontaine (1997) my review

should I make you a list of the ones I have seen?

LOL I'm the same. I like watching some sport but my life isnt over if, like now, the network isnt working on my tv for the australian open, but I love sport movies. Dont think I've seen that one but checking your review.