29 Sep 17
Originally posted by @chaney3I rather like this review on An Officer and a Gentleman:
To RHP General Forum members:
Watch this movie, An Officer and a Gentleman.
Then....report back to this thread, and thank me for the suggestion.
Hey Dive, this movie counts as romance. Maybe you will stop being unromantic to your wife, watch this movie with her, then thank me later. 🙂
'Macho, materialistic, and pro-militarist, it's an objectionable little number made all the more insidious by the way Hackford pulls the strings and turns it into a heart-chilling weepie.'
29 Sep 17
Originally posted by @ghost-of-a-dukeGhost, are you trying to put a wedge, of sorts, in our solid friendship?
I rather like this review on An Officer and a Gentleman:
'Macho, materialistic, and pro-militarist, it's an objectionable little number made all the more insidious by the way Hackford pulls the strings and turns it into a heart-chilling weepie.'
29 Sep 17
Originally posted by @chaney3Yes.
Ghost, are you trying to put a wedge, of sorts, in our solid friendship?
29 Sep 17
Originally posted by @ghost-of-a-dukeThat's unfortunate.
Yes.
We share the same taste in tank tops.
Oh well.
30 Sep 17
Originally posted by @ghost-of-a-dukeYour invoice gave him a heart attack?
Many years ago, one of the producers of The bridge on the river Kwai was a client of mine. (Went to his funeral).
30 Sep 17
Originally posted by @ponderableI once knew a former U.S. army ranger who had fought in the Vietnam war (he saw action in Cambodia, although the U.S. govt at the time denied that there were any U.S. forces in Cambodia). He said that the only film which realistically depicted the insanity of war was "Apocalypse Now." Coppola adapted his screenplay from Joseph Conrad's "Heart of Darkness."
Best war film: Hunde wollt ihr ewig leben?
english: The bridge on the river Kwai
I'm not a fan of war films myself, but I thought "Das Boot" (1981, w Herbert Grönemeyer) was excellent.
30 Sep 17
Originally posted by @fmf"Gravity"? Really? Clooney sleep-walked through that. "Interstellar" was lightyears better.
Science Fiction:
Candidates:
Silent Running
Blade Runner
Serenity
Gravity
Dark Star
Star Trek 2 Wrath of Khan
Galaxy Quest
Best: Brazil
"Blade Runner" I agree was among the best SciFi ever made.
"Forbidden Planet" still holds up very well, even against modern CGI-movies.
