What Are Your Favorite DEEP Films Worth Re-watching?
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UPDATED: Monday, August 14, 2023 19:42
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I get your take on being a child of the movies and keeping it simple. Good Guys win, Bad Guys are bad and always lose in a knock-down, drag-out final fight scene.
I am big on fighting for right and for honor....Blood of Heroes fits the bill in many ways. This was a film that you learned the rules of the game as the story unfolded. This is my favorite type of storytelling. It is one of my all-time favorites. Simple, but in it's simplicity brilliant in telling the story of a warrior. I love this shit! Sort of like Gladiator and Mad Max.
Deep, naw! Just awesome!
SGG
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Originally posted by Oonjerah:
I don't know anything about Deep.
As a child, here's what I learned from movies.
The hero is handsome and he rides the fastest, prettiest horse.
He's fast on the draw and never misses his shot. He can shoot
the gun out of a villain's hand without even hurting him much.
He always wins the fist fights.
Then when martial arts became the norm, I saw that fight scenes
were Deeply improved.
As I matured, my awareness of Deep remained muted.
I like pretty movies with lots of action, & I like the Good
Guys to win. The Good Guys need not be moody & conflicted.
A favorite of Chrisisall's & I agree:
"Blood of Heroes" (1989)
When I 1st had my own copy of it, I watched it every night
for a week or two.
But then it is by David Webb Peoples who also wrote "Bladerunner"
& a bunch of great stuff.
Yes, I saw "The Last of the Mohicans" was great if not deep.
~Oon-Arrested-Development
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:I invite you to reconsider.
Originally posted by 6stringJoker:
Well... this thread got too political for me. SGG coming in and putting a thick coating of white guilt on it sealed the deal for me.
It's a shame we can't discuss anything here without politics muddying the waters.
The conversation about some films which nobody has nominated for the category of this thread topic may be a tad off the topic, but I was/am willing to discuss them with other film fans.
However, I also would enjoy discussing other nominees for the category of DEEP films worth re-watching. Do you have some in mind?
I'd have to think about that one. I really haven't watched a lot of movies for a long time. TV shows are just so good today and have a lot more to offer in almost every category except for brevity.
Have you checked out the UK series Black Mirror? I've mentioned it a few times in the threads, but I don't think anybody has watched it at all.
It's like Twilight Zone but a really high production value and it centers around Technology and how it could and is effecting our lives. Generally speaking, I wouldn't recommend it for anybody who likes feeling all warm and fuzzy after watching something. There's no serious blood or gore in any of them, and most of them aren't even that type of flick which is a major plus for me. They all make you think about the world we're living in today and what it might be like in the future if we're not careful.
They're all good-to-great, but my top recommended episodes would be "White Christmas", "Shut Up And Dance" and "15 Million Merits".
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Quote:I'm not in the UK.
Originally posted by 6stringJoker:Quote:
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:Quote:I invite you to reconsider.
Originally posted by 6stringJoker:
Well... this thread got too political for me. SGG coming in and putting a thick coating of white guilt on it sealed the deal for me.
It's a shame we can't discuss anything here without politics muddying the waters.
The conversation about some films which nobody has nominated for the category of this thread topic may be a tad off the topic, but I was/am willing to discuss them with other film fans.
However, I also would enjoy discussing other nominees for the category of DEEP films worth re-watching. Do you have some in mind?
I'd have to think about that one. I really haven't watched a lot of movies for a long time. TV shows are just so good today and have a lot more to offer in almost every category except for brevity.
Have you checked out the UK series Black Mirror? I've mentioned it a few times in the threads, but I don't think anybody has watched it at all.
It's like Twilight Zone but a really high production value and it centers around Technology and how it could and is effecting our lives. Generally speaking, I wouldn't recommend it for anybody who likes feeling all warm and fuzzy after watching something. There's no serious blood or gore in any of them, and most of them aren't even that type of flick which is a major plus for me. They all make you think about the world we're living in today and what it might be like in the future if we're not careful.
They're all good-to-great, but my top recommended episodes would be "White Christmas", "Shut Up And Dance" and "15 Million Merits".
TV is so hard to catch. Tune in to see something you want, and find out they changed the showtime to the previous hour, so you just missed it. Race home to see a show, same thing. Or they have baseball on instead.
Movies have show times, which seem to be fairly stable and consistent.
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I'm tellin' ya man. Google FireStick and Kodi.
40 bucks and about 5 minutes of your time if you're moderately competent with computers and you can watch any TV show you want to on your time without commercials.
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I got a couple of movies I want to watch again now that I'm sober... I'm going to hold off on saying they're worth watching, let alone re-watching.
Circle: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3118452/?ref_=nv_sr_4
The Human Race: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1427298/?ref_=nv_sr_2
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Actually went and had a read on the premise of the film and I think I did get it. Might still give it a rewatch in a few months.
Which premise did you read? Got a linky?
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Originally posted by Brenda:
Actually went and had a read on the premise of the film and I think I did get it. Might still give it a rewatch in a few months.
Which premise did you read? Got a linky?
It was on Wikipedia. Sorry no linky. I suck at doing links on this site.
This one?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arrival_(film)
That does have some errors, but they got the gist of it.
Which part did you think you didn't get? I didn't get enough of the details until several viewings.
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My dad may have kinda ruined Arrival for me, but maybe that wasn't the big point of the movie. He said that it had an idea in it that he'd never heard before or thought about before that he found fascinating and it was that we are so unsuccessful as a race on Earth because not a single one of our languages contain proper words that allow us to communicate more effectively and..... well... I didn't see it and I'm paraphrasing him and I don't want to mis-represent what he was saying or the idea in the movie.
I suppose I'll have to put this one on the top of my list of things to watch.
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Originally posted by 6stringJoker:
My dad may have kinda ruined Arrival for me, but maybe that wasn't the big point of the movie. He said that it had an idea in it that he'd never heard before or thought about before that he found fascinating and it was that we are so unsuccessful as a race on Earth because not a single one of our languages contain proper words that allow us to communicate more effectively and..... well... I didn't see it and I'm paraphrasing him and I don't want to mis-represent what he was saying or the idea in the movie.
I suppose I'll have to put this one on the top of my list of things to watch.
I do suggest you watch it.
Perhaps the idea that your dad shared was that almost all languages, even within each language, are riddled with terms which are "subject to interpretation" - not a quote from the film. In Hollywood, these differing interpretations provide confusion, conflict, comedy - "and hilarity ensues."
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
I do suggest you watch it.
Perhaps the idea that your dad shared was that almost all languages, even within each language, are riddled with terms which are "subject to interpretation" - not a quote from the film. In Hollywood, these differing interpretations provide confusion, conflict, comedy - "and hilarity ensues."
Maybe he picked up on something that was more subtle. I figured since you've seen it you would have known exactly what he was talking about.
I kind of got the idea that he meant that because we lacked the proper words in any language that these aliens had in their own that we were unable even to imagine concepts that would allow for the future success of our race. I immediately thought of the opposite of this in 1984 with NewSpeak and the purposeful dumbing down of the language so that the proles would one day be completely unable to even think about the idea of rebelling against Big Brother because they lacked any words to even put those ideas together.
On a side note... I thought of another movie I'd like to add to the list.
eXistenZ
As always, if you haven't seen it I suggest you go into it not knowing anything about it beforehand.
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