What Are Your Must-See Films For 2018?
POSTED BY: JEWELSTAITEFAN
UPDATED: Sunday, March 29, 2020 11:32
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15:17 to Paris.
Clint directing 3 real heroes playing themselves in a true story.
Bonus Jenna Fischer, plus Urkel.
Out 9 Feb.
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Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
You didn't like Dreamer? Miracle? Stargate? Executive Decision? Backdraft? Escape From New York? Silkwood? All of the Dexter Riley films? There are some wonderful films he's been in.
Oh... I'm a big Kurt Russel fan. I haven't seen all of his movies though. I've never not liked him in anything I've seen him in.
Escape from NY and LA were freaking great... I think I liked NY better overall, but the ending of LA is one of the best movie endings of all time in my book. As I said before, The Thing is one of my all time favorite movies. I really liked Stargate and Executive Decision. I thought it was hilarious how Steven Segal died right away in that one. Backdraft was really good, but I haven't seen that one since I was a kid and it came out. I've never seen Dreamer or Miracle before, and I don't think I've seen Silkwood. I don't know who Dexter Riley is, so not sure about those.
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Quote:Miracle is quite good, he plays the hockey coach of the all-amateur college player US Olympic Team which first defeated the 100% professional Soviet Olympic Team in the Winter Olympics (no team had ever beaten the Soviet professionals). The name is short for "Miracle on Ice".
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:Oh... I'm a big Kurt Russel fan. I haven't seen all of his movies though. I've never not liked him in anything I've seen him in.
Originally posted by JEWELSTAITEFAN:
You didn't like Dreamer? Miracle? Stargate? Executive Decision? Backdraft? Escape From New York? Silkwood? All of the Dexter Riley films? There are some wonderful films he's been in.
Escape from NY and LA were freaking great... I think I liked NY better overall, but the ending of LA is one of the best movie endings of all time in my book. As I said before, The Thing is one of my all time favorite movies. I really liked Stargate and Executive Decision. I thought it was hilarious how Steven Segal died right away in that one. Backdraft was really good, but I haven't seen that one since I was a kid and it came out. I've never seen Dreamer or Miracle before, and I don't think I've seen Silkwood. I don't know who Dexter Riley is, so not sure about those.
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Dreamer was enjoyable, along the lines of Seabiscuit, Secretariat, National Velvet. The kid may have stolen many scenes.
Silkwood is very good, I think nominated for many awards, back when they meant something. One of Cher's first roles. Early Meryl Streep in the title role of real person Karen Silkwood, and perhaps her only topless scene. Only 2 Meryl roles I really got into, Silkwood and Bridges of Madison County. You really should see it sometime.
Dexter Riley was a character he played through several films when he was a teen, in the 60s. That is where most people knew him from. I think they were Disney films, when Disney did mostly comedies or slapstick.
His Silkwood role was not too far from Dexter Riley, so The Thing was huge for him, finally burying Dexter in the audience memory. At the start of The Thing he was just another of the ensemble cast, he was not a Star like now.
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Well I was probably 4 years old the first time I saw The Thing with my old man and I had nightmares for weeks. Post "The Thing" Russel is all I ever knew. 
I actually hadn't seen it again until I was around 22 or so when the Sci Fi channel was showing it commercial free except for a few plugs for the "new" XBox game of the same title that was coming out shortly. I was freakin' amazed at how well the special effects had held up and that's when I realized how much better practical effects were than CGI in almost all cases.
I've never seen or heard most of the other ones you've mentioned before The Thing, but I do know what Miracle is.
I actually made a few jokes on the RWED boards when the "But Russia!" stuff started last year. I remember asking something along the lines of "Hasn't Russia not been a thing since Kurt Russel coached the US Hockey team to dominate them?"
Maybe I'll check out some of his older works. Thanks for the recommendations.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:Dreamer was 2005, the kid was Dakota Fanning.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Well I was probably 4 years old the first time I saw The Thing with my old man and I had nightmares for weeks. Post "The Thing" Russel is all I ever knew.
I actually hadn't seen it again until I was around 22 or so when the Sci Fi channel was showing it commercial free except for a few plugs for the "new" XBox game of the same title that was coming out shortly. I was freakin' amazed at how well the special effects had held up and that's when I realized how much better practical effects were than CGI in almost all cases.
I've never seen or heard most of the other ones you've mentioned before The Thing, but I do know what Miracle is.
I actually made a few jokes on the RWED boards when the "But Russia!" stuff started last year. I remember asking something along the lines of "Hasn't Russia not been a thing since Kurt Russel coached the US Hockey team to dominate them?"
Maybe I'll check out some of his older works. Thanks for the recommendations.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
His early films like Dexter stuff were the G rated works that were common stock on Saturdays as reruns during the 70s. So anybody watching TV in the 70s knew Kurt from that diet.
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Quote:I saw a trailer for it. Almost looks like a lowbrow version of a sequel to Canadian Bacon, one of my favorite films. I may need to see this. Also has Emmanuelle Chriqui, Lynda Carter, Marisa Houghlin. Out 20 April.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Since I heard that the trailer for Super Troopers 2 finally dropped after the film has been talked about for a decade now, I'm going to reluctantly put that on my list of two movies I'll probably see in 2018. I know I'm going to be disappointed. :(
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Also noticed Submergence out 13 April, with Alicia Vikander. And she already has releases in Feb and March.
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I loved Canadian Bacon. lol
Did you ever see the first Super Troopers? I don't know what I'd think of it today, but I loved it when I was a "kid". The first five minutes of the movie had me in hysterics. The rest of the movie had its ups and downs, but there was a lot of really funny parts in it and it's something me and my brother still quote today.
Cool... Marisa Coughlan is back for the sequel? I'm glad they did that since she's probably like 40 now. I figured they'd just replace her with some one line explanation about how it didn't work out and have some 20 year old bombshell in the role. Has she even been in anything since ST? I don't watch stuff... I wouldn't know.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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Quote:she was quite active for several years after ST. I first noticed her in Teaching Mrs Tingle, her first film, 2 years before ST.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
I loved Canadian Bacon. lol
Did you ever see the first Super Troopers? I don't know what I'd think of it today, but I loved it when I was a "kid". The first five minutes of the movie had me in hysterics. The rest of the movie had its ups and downs, but there was a lot of really funny parts in it and it's something me and my brother still quote today.
Cool... Marisa Coughlan is back for the sequel? I'm glad they did that since she's probably like 40 now. I figured they'd just replace her with some one line explanation about how it didn't work out and have some 20 year old bombshell in the role. Has she even been in anything since ST? I don't watch stuff... I wouldn't know.
Do Right, Be Right. :)
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How many roles can an actress have in a year?
While looking up The Long Home, I ran across Beth Grant again.
You may have seen her in Conman, Angel, 2 Guys a Girl and Pizza, plus Speed.
She has 214 acting credits on IMDb, and it looked like half of them were since 2012.
She seems amazingly busy.
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A Quiet Place out 6 April. Horror thriller is the first film with Emily Blunt and hubby Krasinski acting, scripting and directing.
Interesting, but I'm not sure yet.
Wow. Krasinski really kicked his action career into gear with 13 Hours.
Now he'll be Jack Ryan on TV, perhaps the best casting ever for that role. Alec and bafflack were brainless, and Harrison was a few decades older than Ryan was supposed to be. If this casting happened before bafflack, the film might still be a viable franchise. Currently bafflack working hard to wreck DC Comics.
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