Hacksaw Ridge was REALLY good. I saw Bleed For This today and it was good, but not great. Honestly, wait for it on DVD. If you do go, you won't be bored, but you won't give it a lot of thought afterwards either.
I really WANT to see Hacksaw Ridge, I am a fan of Apocalypto the other Mel Gibson directed movie, but I don't think I can stomach it. Something about really realistic modern history war movies is very hard for me to watch. Like I think Saving Private Ryan is one of the greatest movies ever, but I cannot sit and watch it, it's too real and it's too brutal and it tears me up and honestly I feel drained and sick after. I've read a lot of reviews saying that Hacksaw Ridge may be the most gory depiction of death in a WW2 movie ever. I don't have this issue with gory horror films, or war films that take place in ancient times, but WW1, WW2, Vietnam, etc, these still feel close enough to us, still recent enough history and us having real video footage of all of them, that it disturbs me. And I don't even have any family members that I'm aware of that fought in either of the WW's, but my grandfather did serve in Vietnam. Anyway, that was kind of a long tangent in a movies thread, but I do find it interesting that I seem to avoid movies about these wars, even though a lot of them are some of the best films ever made. I never watched Fury for example, though I remember that one getting mixed reviews. I haven't really watched any modern war movies either like Zero Dark Thirty, The Hurt Locker, Lone Survivor, or American Sniper. I'm not even sure if those would have a negative effect on me, it just seems to be something I steer clear of. i feel like I will watch Hacksaw Ridge at some point, and then probably regret it ha ha. I do want to see Bleed for This as well, but yeah it'll be a "rental" for me.
IMO, it's better than all the movies you listed, except Saving Private Ryan. And it's close to it. Mainly because it's a true story. There is some gore, but not a lot. Actually, Bleed for This has a scene that had me seriously cringing a lot more than anything in Hacksaw Ridge.
Meh. If I wanted to see this type of movie I'd watch Alien or Aliens. The whole point of Prometheus to me was to explore beyond the same old horror films and look at the bigger questions. When Prometheus ended I thought we were gonna get some grand adventure with Shaw and David going to the engineers' home world and giving us real answers as to who they are and just something new and deeper. Instead it looks like Scott said "eh, f*** it, let's just remake Alien with different characters to kill off". Maybe I'm wrong, I hope so, but it looks like another monster movie, which is not what I want. I want the movie Prometheus started off as, and yes veered off from, but then sort of promised to give us in its conclusion. If I want a slow burn horror movie I've already got Alien. If I want an action horror movie I've got Aliens. If I want a bleak philosophical/ethical/moral horror movie I've got Alien 3. If I want disgusting gore and not much else I've got Alien Ressurrection. Stop giving me the same old stuff and have the guts to go somewhere new.
I was also under the impression that Scott was doing the Prometheus sequel and Neill Blomkamp was doing the Alien movie? Did they scrap the Blomkamp project and just merge the two movies?
Last I heard the Blomkamp movie isn't scrapped, but it's on hiatus while Scott figures his out first.
Just a quick FYI, I saw Hell or Highwater about a week ago. Not sure if it's been mentioned in this thread, but its a DAMN good movie.
I thought it was good. On all the Top 10 lists, but considering the movies this year, that's not saying a lot. Really bad year for movies. But yeah, it was good and I liked how they started in the middle of the movie and flashed back to tell the story. I think Civil War and Manchester by the Sea were my 2 favorite movies of the year. I haven't seen La La Land or Fences yet.
I'll have to check it out if I can. got great reviews from IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes (both critic and audience)
Was thinking about seeing Fences this past weekend but just couldn't find the time to see it. Looks real good though and then in the next week or so I want to see Patriots Day. Peter Berg and Mark Walhberg always bring it and with Mark and his Boston background growing up, he isn't going to screw this up. It's going to be done right.
That was cool but the guy talking about the "Royal Flush" clearly had the best Denzel accent of the group
Last few films I've watched: Zootropolis - One of my favourite films of the year. Rogue One - A million times better than the Force awakens Civil War - Enjoyed it, thought Spiderman was good in it also.
Patriots Day was fantastic. Wahlberg was his usual self. I liked that they combined the movie with a lot of real video captured during the investigation. Warning: you might shed a couple tears.
Saw the movie this last weekend. Also agree with you on the showing of real video captured. I was fascinated on seeing the process from the time the bombs go off and all the behind the scenes work that went on that was not reported which is what the movie did such a great job of showing. All the camera work done by the FBI and police force was incredible. The ending scenes were very powerful/moving.
