Official RedsZone Movie Thread (pt. III)

[SunDeck]

I'm going back and watching a lot of movies from the 60's, just watched The Train with Burt Lancaster.

Between the advent of TV in the mid-50's and the summer blockbuster in the 70's Hollywood foundered. If you asked ten people to name a 60's movie, a bunch would say "Easy Rider" which wasn't from a Hollywood studio.

Noir was dead, westerns withered. They released epics that were mostly silly and RomComs that seemed from a different era (ie. Doris Day). They tried to revive the big musical but those fizzled.

I am not an authority, but My impression has always been that the 60s were a great era for movies.
Lawrence of Arabia, la Dolca Vita, to Kill a Mockingbird, Bonnie and Clyde, Dr. Strangelove, the Apartment; these movies are just off the top of my head and there are dozens more.

[RedTeamGo!]

I am not an authority, but My impression has always been that the 60s were a great era for movies.
Lawrence of Arabia, la Dolca Vita, to Kill a Mockingbird, Bonnie and Clyde, Dr. Strangelove, the Apartment; these movies are just off the top of my head and there are dozens more.

The Odd Couple
Rosemary's Baby
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Graduate
In The Heat of the Night
Psycho

[*BaseClogger*]

My textbook from the film class I took in college definitely supported the narrative that by the late 50s/early 60s it was time for the Hays Code to go. Noir was dying and Hollywood had gotten stale. Many of the movies mentioned in the above two posts were made by filmmakers who would go on to be better known for being part of the film school generation that came to power in the late 60s and into the 1970s. Films like Bonnie & Clyde, The Graduate, etc were considered ahead of their time and a changing of the guard, so to speak. In no way were they identifiable with Hollywood from the early 1960s...

[*BaseClogger*]

If you don't already read Vince Mancini's work on FilmDrunk you are really missing out.

‘Captain Phillips’ And The Problem With ‘Based On A True Story’

I finally caught Captain Phillips on the plane back from Berlin this weekend, at the time not even remembering that it had been nominated for a best picture. In terms of actual insight into the events it portrayed, it rated close to a zero. That is, unless you count Tom Hanks telling his hijacker, “You ah nawt a fishahman anymoah” as a particularly insightful statement (??). Great actor though, that Tom Hanks. Look at him act! Look at him act! I know, right? Such an actor. I assume that’s the only reason this film exists.

While Phillips is probably a bit worse than some of its faux factual forebears (for one thing, Paul Greengrass’s underexposed shaky cam cinematography doesn’t go great with a tiny headrest screen), it’s basically par for the same course as Lone Survivor, Argo, Parkland, The Iron Lady, etc. You know the type of movie. They purport to portray a real-life event, and you go in expecting some kind of insight, a new perspective, for something to be illuminated somehow, and instead you get a few chunks of things you already know braising in a stew of transparently bull**** embellishments. I know, I know, Argo was mostly a crowd pleaser (not even I could deny the obvious joy of watching Alan Arkin and John Goodman spout vulgar one-liners about old Hollywood), but did anyone actually believe that the Iranian Jeep chasing the departing plane down the runway at the end was something that actually happened in real life? Or that in Lone Survivor, that Marcus Luttrell was saved juuust at the nick of time, when a Taliban literally had his head on the chopping block when the good-guy Pashtuns showed up to save the day? Come on, not even your weird aunt with the email forwards is gullible enough to believe those scenes.

[SunDeck]

If you don't already read Vince Mancini's work on FilmDrunk you are really missing out.

‘Captain Phillips’ And The Problem With ‘Based On A True Story’

That's spot on. I can't recall a movie based on actual events that really told the story well. Perhaps this is because "actual events" don't fit well into screenplay writing, real life being far too complex, nuanced and maybe even boring to be explained well in a movie script.

[Rojo]

I am not an authority, but My impression has always been that the 60s were a great era for movies.
Lawrence of Arabia, la Dolca Vita, to Kill a Mockingbird, Bonnie and Clyde, Dr. Strangelove, the Apartment; these movies are just off the top of my head and there are dozens more.

Yeah, I knew that someone would point out there were some good movies from the 60's. I wasn't really commenting on the quality nor saying there were no hits, although a bunch of those you name weren't typical Hollywood stuff.

[Rojo]

The Odd Couple
Rosemary's Baby
2001: A Space Odyssey
The Graduate
In The Heat of the Night
Psycho

Psycho's a case in point, Hitchcock was Hollywood's Golden Age and he was getting on. Psycho was released in '60 and Hitchcock mostly made crap after that:

The Birds (1963)
Marnie (1964)
Torn Curtain (1966)
Topaz (1969)
Frenzy (1972)
Family Plot (1976)

[dougdirt]

Here's the full trailer for Godzilla:

Only available in 720p? What is this, 2005?!

[19braves77]

I think Blackhawk Down is the best based on true events movie.

[*BaseClogger*]

I think Blackhawk Down is the best based on true events movie.

Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story for me...

[RedTeamGo!]

I think Blackhawk Down is the best based on true events movie.

I actually just rewatched this movie 3 weeks ago. The acting was a lot worse than I remembered.

[Raisor]

I actually just rewatched this movie 3 weeks ago. The acting was a lot worse than I remembered.

You're crazy

[dabvu2498]

I think Blackhawk Down is the best based on true events movie.

Seabiscuit.

Walk the Line is the one that bothers me. I think they got the spirit of the man and his relationships pretty correct but they took a less than truthful way of getting there. He was still a rotten SOB after he married June.

[RedTeamGo!]

You're crazy

I enjoyed the movie, I just thought some of the acting was worse than I remembered as an 18 year old. Don't really see what is crazy about that. Even Star Wars has some bad acting and I will admit it (huge OT Star Wars fan).

It wasn't the main characters for the most part, Hartnett was OK, but Orlando Bloom was terrible, I did not really understand the casting of Ewan McGregor (his American accent was flat out bad), and just a lot of the supporting cast who I do not know the names of.

The action is top-notch though and was a very well made movie. Some of the acting just could have been better.

[Ohayou]

Here's my giant list of 60s movies, in alphabetical order:

2 or 3 Things I Know About Her
2001: A Space Odyssey
8 1/2
A Fistful of Dollars
A Hard Day's Night
A Man and A Woman
A Man for all Seasons
A Patch of Blue
A Shot in the Dark
Accattone
Alphaville
America, America
Andrei Rublev
Antonio das Mortes
Army of Shadows
Au Hasard Balthazar
Band of Outsiders
Belle de Jour
Billy Budd
Birdman of Alcatraz
Black Girls
Blast of Silence
Blowup
Bonnie and Clyde
Boy
Branded to Kill
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Breathless
Bullitt
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Cape Fear
Carnival of Souls
Cat Ballou
Chappaqua
Charade
Chimes at Midnight
Closely Watched Trains
Contempt
Cool Hand Luke
Cul-de-sac
Daisies
Darling
Diamonds of the Night
Diary of a Chambermaid
Divorce Italian Style
Doctor Zhivago
Dr. No
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Easy Rider
El Dorado
Entranced Earth
Eyes Without a Face
Face of Another
Faces
Fahrenheit 451
Faster, *****cat! Kill! Kill!
Father Goose
Fellini Satyricon
First Spaceship on Venus
Fists in the Pocket
Five Million Years to Earth
Flight of the Phoenix
For a Few Dollars More
From Russia With Love
Gertrud
Go, Go Second Time Virgin
Goldfinger
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
Guns of Navarone
Hang 'em High
Harakiri
High and Low
Hombre
Hour of the Wolf
Hud
Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte
I am Cuba
If...
In Cold Blood
In the Heat of the Night
In the Midst of Life
Inherit the Wind
Ivan's Childhood
Je t'aime je t'aime
Judgment of Nuremberg
Jules and Jim
Kes
Kill Baby, Kill
Knife in the Water
Kwaidan
L'amour fou
L'avventura
L'eclisse
La Collectionneuse
La Dolce Vita
La Jetée
La Notte
Last Year in Marienbad
Lawrence of Arabia
Le bonheur
Le Doulos
Le petit soldat
Le révélateur
Le Samouraï
Le Trou
Lemonade Joe
Lilies of the Field
Lola
Lolita
Lonely are the Brave
Marnie
Mary Poppins
Masculin féminin
Memories of Underdevelopment
Midnight Cowboy
Mother Joan of the Angels
Mouchette
Muriel, or the Time of Return
My Fair Lady
My Life to Live
My Night at Maud's
My Way Home
Night of the Living Dead
Oedipus Rex
On Her Majesty's Secret Service
Once Upon a Time in the West
One Hundred and One Dalmatians
One, Two, Three
Onibaba
Paris Belongs to Us
Peeping Tom
Persona
Pierrot le fou
Planet of the Apes
Playtime
Point Blank
Prelude: Dog Star Man
Profound Desires of the Gods
Psycho
Red Beard
Red Desert
Repulsion
Ride the High Country
Rocco and His Brothers
Rosemary's Baby
Samurai Rebellion
Sanjuro
Second Breath
Seconds
Seven Days in May
Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors
Shame
Shock Corridor
Shoot the Piano Player
Simon of the Desert
Spartacus
Splendor in the Grass
Stolen Kisses
Sword of Doom
Take the Money and Run
Teorema
The Apartment
The Bad Sleep Well
The Battle of Algiers
The Birds
The Boston Strangler
The Boxer
The Children's Hour
The Cincinnati Kid
The Color of Pomegranates
The Cremator
The Damned
The Dirty Dozen
The Evil Eye
The Executioner
The Exterminating Angel
The Fearless Vampire Killers
The Fiances
The Fire Within
The Goddess
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
The Gospel According to St. Matthew
The Graduate
The Great Escape
The Great Silence
The Haunting
The Hill
The House is Black
The Hunt
The Hustler
The Innocents
The Intruder
The Invasion of Thunderbolt Pagoda
The Ipcress File
The Italian Job
The Jungle Book
The League of Gentlemen
The Leopard
The Lion in Winter
The Lonely Wife
The Magnificent Seven
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
The Manchurian Candidate
The Milky Way
The Miracle Worker
The Misfits
The Naked Island
The Naked Kiss
The Nanny
The Night of the Iguana
The Outrage
The Parent Trap
The Party
The Passion of Anna
The Pawnbroker
The Pink Panther
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
The Producers
The Professionals
The Red and the White
The Rope and the Colt
The Sand Pebbles
The Servant
The Shooting
The Silence
The Sound of Music
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
The Swimmer
The Time Machine
The Train
The Trial
The Trouble with Angels
The Two of Us
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
The Virgin Spring
The War Game
The Wild Bunch
The Young Girls of Rochefort
The Young One
They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
This Man Must Die
Three
Through a Glass Darkly
Thunderball
To Kill a Mockingbird
True Grit
Tunes of Glory
Two Women
Underworld U.S.A.
Victim
Village of the Damned
Viridiana
Wait Until Dark
Week End
West Side Story
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?
Where Eagles Dare
Who's Afraid of Virgina Woolf
Wild River
Winter Light
Woman in the Dunes
Women in Love
Yesterday Girl
Yojimbo
You Only Live Twice
Z
Zorba the Greek
Zulu

Obviously, not all of them are Hollywood films, but we could narrow the ones that are down and it'd still be a pretty big list. Enjoy.