Movies I have watched since being quarantined

[Old School]

Dr. No
is a 1962 spy film directed by Terence Young. It is based on the 1958 novel of the same name by Ian Fleming. Starring Sean Connery, Ursula Andress, Joseph Wiseman, and Jack Lord, it is the first film in the James Bond series, and was adapted by Richard Maibaum, Johanna Harwood, and Berkely Mather. The film was produced by Harry Saltzman and Albert R. Broccoli, a partnership that continued until 1975.


From Russia
with Love is a 1963 British spy film and the second in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, as well as Sean Connery's second role as MI6 agent James Bond. It was directed by Terence Young, produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, and written by Richard Maibaum and Johanna Harwood, based on Ian Fleming's 1957 novel of the same name. In the film, Bond is sent to assist in the defection of Soviet consulate clerk Tatiana Romanova in Turkey, where SPECTRE plans to avenge Bond's killing of Dr. No.

Following the success of Dr. No, United Artists greenlit a sequel and doubled the budget available for the producers. In addition to filming on location in Turkey, the action scenes were shot at Pinewood Studios, Buckinghamshire, and in Scotland. Production ran over budget and schedule, and was rushed to finish by its scheduled October 1963 release date.

From Russia with Love was a critical and commercial success. It took in more than $78 million in worldwide box-office receipts, far more than its $2 million budget and more than its predecessor Dr. No, thereby becoming a blockbuster in 1960s cinema.

This film also marked the debut of Desmond Llewelyn as Q, a role he would play for 36 years (and seventeen films) until The World Is Not Enough in 1999. It also marked the final role of Pedro Armend?riz, who died of suicide four months before the film's release.

 

[Snafu]

The Russian Five (2018)

In the late 1980s, the Detroit Red Wings worked to finally break their decades long Stanley Cup drought by extracting players from the Soviet Union, and in the process, changed the way North American hockey is played.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8006926/

Excellent document of 90's NHL hockey when Fjodorov&co arrived to Detroit.

Roys last game in Montreal & Shanahan knocking him down in Det-Col match :mj07:

 

[Another Steve]

Manhunt: Deadly Games NETFLIX
Many of us saw Clintwood's movie Jewell, I liked it
This is a series that tells more of the story and i recommend your time.

Watched Manhunter (1986)

Fucking terrible.

I liked this move, it was 1986 but it was the beginning of a series of movies about the subject and it had a young Peterson.

 

[Old School]

Goldfinger
is a 1964 British spy film and the third installment in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, starring Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It is based on the 1959 novel of the same name by Ian Fleming. The film also stars Honor Blackman as Bond girl Pussy Galore and Gert Fr?be as the title character Auric Goldfinger, along with Shirley Eaton as the iconic Bond girl Jill Masterson. Goldfinger was produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman and was the first of four Bond films directed by Guy Hamilton.

The film's plot has Bond investigating gold smuggling by gold magnate Auric Goldfinger and eventually uncovering Goldfinger's plans to contaminate the United States Bullion Depository at Fort Knox. Goldfinger was the first Bond blockbuster, with a budget equal to that of the two preceding films combined. Principal photography took place from January to July 1964 in the United Kingdom, Switzerland and the United States.

Goldfinger was heralded as the film in the franchise where James Bond "comes into focus". Its release led to a number of promotional licensed tie-in items, including a toy Aston Martin DB5 car from Corgi Toys which became the biggest selling toy of 1964. The promotion also included an image of gold-painted Eaton on the cover of Life.

Many of the elements introduced in the film appeared in many of the later James Bond films, such as the extensive use of technology and gadgets by Bond, an extensive pre-credits sequence that stood largely alone from the main storyline, multiple foreign locales and tongue-in-cheek humour. Goldfinger was the first Bond film to win an Oscar (for Best Sound Editing) and opened to largely favorable critical reception. The film was a financial success, recouping its budget in two weeks and grossing over $120 million worldwide.

 

[Old School]

Thunderball
is a 1965 British spy film and the fourth in the James Bond series produced by Eon Productions, starring Sean Connery as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond. It is an adaptation of the 1961 novel of the same name by Ian Fleming, which in turn was based on an original story by Kevin McClory, Jack Whittingham, and Fleming. It was the third and final Bond film to be directed by Terence Young, with its screenplay by Richard Maibaum and John Hopkins. The movie would have been the first of the Bond series if not for legal disputes over copyright.[2]

The film follows Bond's mission to find two NATO atomic bombs stolen by SPECTRE, which holds the world for ransom of ?100 million in diamonds under its threat to destroy an unspecified metropolis in either the United Kingdom or the United States (later revealed to be Miami). The search leads Bond to the Bahamas, where he encounters Emilio Largo, the card-playing, eye patch-wearing SPECTRE Number Two. Backed by CIA agent Felix Leiter and Largo's mistress, Domino Derval, Bond's search culminates in an underwater battle with Largo's henchmen. The film's complex production comprised four different units and about a quarter of the film comprised underwater scenes.[3] Thunderball was the first Bond film shot in widescreen Panavision and the first to have a running time of over two hours.

Thunderball was associated with a legal dispute in 1961 when former Ian Fleming collaborators McClory and Whittingham sued him shortly after the 1961 publication of the novel, claiming he based it upon the screenplay the trio had written in a failed cinematic translation of James Bond. The lawsuit was settled out of court and Bond film series producers Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, fearing a rival McClory film, allowed him to retain certain screen rights to the novel's story, plot, and characters,[4] and for McClory to receive sole producer credit on this film; Broccoli and Saltzman instead served as executive producers.[5]

The film was exceptionally successful: its worldwide box office receipts of $141.2 million exceeded not only that of every one of its predecessors, but that of every one of the five Bond films that followed it. Thunderball is the most financially successful film of the series in North America when adjusted for ticket price inflation.[6] In 1966, John Stears won the Academy Award for Best Visual Effects[7] and BAFTA nominated production designer Ken Adam for an award.[8] Some critics and viewers praised the film and branded it a welcome addition to the series, while others found the aquatic action repetitious and the film's length excessive. In 1983, Warner Bros. released a second film adaptation of the novel under the title Never Say Never Again, with McClory as executive producer.

 

[Old School]

The First Great Train Robbery,
released in the United States as The Great Train Robbery, is a 1978 British heist neo-noir crime film directed by Michael Crichton, who also wrote the screenplay based on his 1975 novel The Great Train Robbery.


The film stars Sean Connery, Donald Sutherland, and Lesley-Anne Down.

 

[Old School]

American Hustle
is a 2013 American black comedy crime film[4] directed by David O. Russell. It was written by Eric Warren Singer and Russell, inspired by the FBI Abscam operation of the late 1970s and early 1980s.[5] It stars Christian Bale and Amy Adams as two con artists who are forced by an FBI agent (Bradley Cooper) to set up an elaborate sting operation on corrupt politicians, including the mayor of Camden, New Jersey (Jeremy Renner). Jennifer Lawrence plays the unpredictable wife of Bale's character. Principal photography on the film began on March 8, 2013, in Boston and Worcester, Massachusetts, and New York City.


had its nationwide release in the United States on December 13, 2013.[6] It opened to wide acclaim from critics, who praised its screenplay and ensemble cast. The film received ten nominations at the 86th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Original Screenplay, Best Actor (Bale), Best Actress (Adams), Best Supporting Actor (Cooper), and Best Supporting Actress (Lawrence),[7] but did not win in any category. It received three BAFTA Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, including Best Motion Picture ? Musical or Comedy, and the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture.

 

[Old School]

La Linea
La Linea (English: The Line) is a 2009 action-crime film directed by James Cotten. La Linea features an ensemble cast that includes Ray Liotta, Armand Assante, Valerie Cruz, Esai Morales, and Andy Garc?a.


this could have been a real good movie..

 

[Cricket]

Just binged Undoing on HBO. Very good mystery. Limited series,6 episodes and Nicole Kidman is stunning.

 

[Snafu]

Raised by the Wolves (HBO series) Raised by Wolves is an American science fiction drama television series created by Aaron Guzikowski that premiered on HBO Max on September 3, 2020. The first two episodes were directed by Ridley Scott, who also serves as an executive producer for the show.

Half way through, after a slow start story gets going.

 

[Old School]

Knight and Day
is a 2010 American action comedy film directed by James Mangold and starring Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz. The film was the second on-screen collaboration of Cruise and Diaz, following the 2001 film Vanilla Sky.[3] Diaz plays June Havens, a classic car restorer who unwittingly gets caught up with the eccentric secret agent Roy Miller, played by Cruise, who is on the run from the CIA.


The film's investors offset funding costs by paying Cruise a lower advance fee and providing him a share of revenue only after the financiers were repaid their investment in the production.[4] Filming took place in several locations, mainly in several cities located in Massachusetts, while other scenes were filmed in Spain and parts of Austria.


Knight and Day was released in the United States on June 24, 2010. The film received mixed reviews from film critics, with praise for the performances of Cruise and Diaz but criticism was aimed at its script.[1][5] It grossed over $261 million worldwide, recouping its $117 million budget.

 

[Another Steve]

Love Knight and Day

Watched The Mystery of DB Cooper on Prime. New take and a lot of info I wasn't aware of.

 

[Snafu]

Finished Raised by the Wolves yesterday: decent better than average scifi drama that tries to be philosophical at the times and gets a bit trippy in the end. Child actors do good job as well rest of the cast, other than that a bit cheap appearance that includes a lots of CGI that could have been a tad better.

:0008


In case You have seen Parasite, whole house where plot happened was made with CGI

 

[Snafu]

Tenet
Distant, emotionless, JDW & KB total miss castings for this movie. Good story (obvious holes in plot when you talk about kind of time travel). Could have been so much better. Typical Nolan movie that should be ok but you end up disliking it.

Just swapping JDW and RP in their roles would have made such a difference. And casting some actual badass like Javier Bardem or Gary Oldman as a quality bad guy.

**/5

 

[The Joker]

Tenet
Distant, emotionless, JDW & KB total miss castings for this movie. Good story (obvious holes in plot when you talk about kind of time travel). Could have been so much better. Typical Nolan movie that should be ok but you end up disliking it.

Just swapping JDW and RP in their roles would have made such a difference. And casting some actual badass like Javier Bardem or Gary Oldman as a quality bad guy.

**/5

Disagree on John David Washington. I think he was great. I agree on Kenneth as he could have been put to better use in another movie.

Agree that it could have been so much better.

Holy shit. Javier Bardem. That is a great suggestion. I bet it would be better.

Also, audio mixing not good at all.

I will own this movie soon. Watched it in theater and loved it....mostly.

 

[MadJack]

Den of Thieves (2018)


An elite unit of the LA County Sheriff's Dept. and the state's most successful bank robbery crew clash as the outlaws plan a seemingly impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank.

Not sure how I never caught this one. Typical Gerard Butler movie. Law Abiding Citizen 2009 one of my faves.

 

[kickserv]

That is a good flick right there:00x15

 

[The Joker]

Den of Thieves (2018)


An elite unit of the LA County Sheriff's Dept. and the state's most successful bank robbery crew clash as the outlaws plan a seemingly impossible heist on the Federal Reserve Bank.

Not sure how I never caught this one. Typical Gerard Butler movie. Law Abiding Citizen 2009 one of my faves.

Den of Thieves was greenlit after the success of Heat. That's basically what this movie is, which would be okay if it were even half as good. It isn't. They should make it where if you're going to watch Den of Thieves, it redirects to the movie Heat.

 

[MadJack]

Den of Thieves was greenlit after the success of Heat. That's basically what this movie is, which would be okay if it were even half as good. It isn't. They should make it where if you're going to watch Den of Thieves, it redirects to the movie Heat.

I'm not comparing movies or only posting award winning movies, I posted a movie that entertained me. I'll give it an 8 on entertainment value alone. And I don't give out 8's very easily.

Geez, take a chill. :lol:

 

[MadJack]

I'm 3/4 in on my next movie that you will really have fun with but I'm liking it a lot so far. :0074