What Movies Have You Seen Lately?

Quote: Ayecarumba

True, but who'd want to watch the film if there wasn't any drama?

You can have drama without good guys on one side and bad guys on the other. Conflict can come from different approaches to an issue, for example. Granted this is hard to do.

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I wonder how it would have been if everyone but the cockpit crew perished. Would his actions still be celebrated, even though the results were tragic?

There was the United DC-10 that crash-landed in Sioux City, Iowa in 1989. That was a far harder problem, as they had two working engines, out of three, but virtually zero control surfaces. The crew, reinforced by an off-duty pilot, managed to steer the plane using unbalanced thrust, and they could change altitude by increasing and decreasing speed. But they were subject to periodic and unpredictable oscillations, one of which hit right before landing.

The plane cartwheeled and caught fire. Despite this, out of 296 people onboard, 185 survived, including the cockpit crew.

As an accident has several causes and contributing factors, so does the outcome. One factor in the half-positive outcome was Cockpit Resource Management (CRM), a development borne out of investigations of prior accidents.

What bothers me, though, is that air crash investigations typically are not punitive and do not try to apportion blame personally. the idea is to get at the causes, factors, contributing factors, etc. If pilot error is a cause or factor (and it commonly is), the recommendations are usually for training changes. The result of such investigations is to make flying safer, not to second-guess the people involved or to engage in a witch-hunt.

Saw Sully yesterday, also in IMAX. Everything everyone said is accurate, yet the story itself is so riveting the movie is still worth seeing.

I think Eastwood was trying to make some kind of statement on the nature of heroism, but that falls flat IMO. Stay for the last half hour.

Quote: Mosca

Saw Sully yesterday, also in IMAX. Everything everyone said is accurate, yet the story itself is so riveting the movie is still worth seeing.

I'm gonna assume it will never make it as an inflight movie even when they land safely. Could be wrong though.

Quote: Nareed

Flying today is safer because of thorough investigations after every accident and, as important, every incident.

Yes, but as always, the investigators need to be held accountable for their actions. One UK investigation had to be re-written due to failure to warn an employee of his rights and the employee insisted on a formal statement in the final report that said, he would neither have said anything different nor done anything different, if they read him his "Miranda" rights.

Quote: ams288

It's actually not that violent of a movie. The director is the guy who made the 2013 remake of Evil Dead. Evil Dead was so over-the-top with its violence and gore, that he wanted to try to find other ways to shock audiences. And having seen Don't Breathe, I'd say he succeeded.

I wasn't aware this movie starred Jane Levy (age 26), who was also in the movie Evil Dead and the TV series Suburgatory.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGr21_8vA8A
Suburgatory is one of those rare TV series that lasted three years and 55 episodes. Most TV series that are renewed for a third season get renewed for a fourth so that there are enough episodes to make a valuable syndication package. I kind of liked Suburgatory since it had a darkly comic tone that is so rare in television.

"Don't Breathe" passed "Evil Dead" domestic box office revenue after only 10 days, so Fede Alvarez is probably going to get the OK to make several more movies.

On March 9, 2013, it was announced that Evil Dead will have a sequel, followed by a crossover with the original trilogy. I didn't see Evil Dead so I don't know if Jane Levy's character survived, but I would assume that they would want to keep her on the franchise.

Quote: Wizard

I saw Edge of Tomorrow last weekend. The movie is Groundhog Day meets War of the Worlds. Aliens are trying to conquer the earth with the ability to start each day over from scratch.

I was on the edge of my seat most of the time. My rating is a solid 7 on the 0 to 10 scale.

If anyone is interested, I'd like to discuss the ending in spoiler tags. It didn't make complete sense to me.

I still haven't seen this movie, but Netflix released it's own time loop post apocalyptic thriller today called ARQ. I couldn't make it all the way through, as I found it very tiresome.

I'll probably go back to it, just to see how it ends.

Quote: Pacomartin

I still haven't seen this movie,.

Seen Edge of Tomorrow at least 10 times.
Tom Cruise at his finest. Best time travel
movie I ever saw. It has everything. A great
story, great acting, and almost non stop
action. It's good because the time travel
aspect is so relevant to the story. If it
was on right now I'd watch it again, it's
that good. I envy you that you haven't
seen it yet, it's a real treat.

Quote: Evenbob

Seen Edge of Tomorrow at least 10 times.
Tom Cruise at his finest. Best time travel
movie I ever saw. It has everything. A great
story, great acting, and almost non stop
action. It's good because the time travel
aspect is so relevant to the story. If it
was on right now I'd watch it again, it's
that good. I envy you that you haven't
seen it yet, it's a real treat.

Some movies are easy to watch over and over, no matter how many times they're on TV, I'll watch it again. EoT is one such movie. And I'll add Watchmen, Mad Max: Fury Road and Shawshank Redemption to that list.

Quote: zippyboy

Some movies are easy to watch over and over, no matter how many times they're on TV, I'll watch it again. EoT is one such movie. And I'll add Watchmen,

I watched the end of ARQ, and it does have a plot twist. So I would call it worth watching. But I certainly wouldn't re-watch it. Now I am curious about EoT. Where is it playing?

Quote: Pacomartin

Where is it playing?

I've only ever seen it on HBO when
they have one of their free weekends.

I can't understand why I would watch
Shawshank more than once. When
you know how it ends, that's half the
movie. It's like watching a who-done-
it over and over, you wouldn't.