# What Movie Have You Seen Today? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Movie Discussion\ **Created:** [September 17, 2017, 3:02am UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343 "2017-09-17T03:02:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 126
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/user_avatar/quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/pushkin/32/515_2.png) [@Pushkin](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2025, 4:49pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/2522 "2025-04-11T16:49:46Z")
I know many of you are Stephen King fans and thought you might find this article on a mystery involving a photo in The Shining. Confession - I have never watched The Shining. Need to get around to that. > **[45-year mystery behind eerie photo from The Shining is believed to be solved...](https://www.cbc.ca/radio/asithappens/the-shining-photo-identification-1.7507349)** > > The Shining is hailed as a spine-tingling horror classic, gripping audiences with its chilling psychological twists. It’s also mired with countless conspiracy theories. Now, one of those theories has finally been cracked: the mystery of where the... ---
**Author:** ![secretagentfan](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/user_avatar/quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/secretagentfan/32/504_2.png) [@secretagentfan](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/secretagentfan)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2025, 4:52pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/2523 "2025-04-11T16:52:37Z")
Great find, thank you! But, Sir, you have never seen The Shining? How come? ---
**Author:** ![Pushkin](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/user_avatar/quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/pushkin/32/515_2.png) [@Pushkin](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/Pushkin)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2025, 5:03pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/2524 "2025-04-11T17:03:02Z")
> [@secretagentfan](#): > > But, Sir, you have never seen The Shining? How come? Sadly, there are far too many films I have missed out on for one reason or another. One of my goals when I retire is to go through all the classics I have missed. With The Shining, it’s been on my list for a while but I have just never gotten around to it. A perpetual problem I have with movies and tv shows (as well as household tasks as my wife will attest). One film I avoided for the longest time was Shindler’s List. I used to work professionally on issues related to antisemitism; so this is a film that appealed to me. But everytime I thought of watching it I thought it would just be too depressing. When I finally watched it, I found it uplifting and reminder that there is good in the world - even in dark times and from people who are not saints. The Bond related one. I have never seen the original CR even though I have owned it for more than 10 years! ---
**Author:** ![byline](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/user_avatar/quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/byline/32/506_2.png) [@byline](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/byline)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2025, 6:22pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/2525 "2025-04-12T18:22:07Z")
_Mr. Holmes_ (2015 film adaptation of Mitch Cullin’s novel, _A Slight Trick of the Mind_): I consider any film starring Ian McKellen worth watching, and this is one is no exception. McKellen stars as a 93-year-old Sherlock Holmes who is suffering with dementia and trying to remember his last case, which drove him to retire and seek isolation at a rural Sussex farmhouse. As good as McKellen is, Milo Parker is a revelation as the widowed housekeeper’s son, Roger, who befriends Holmes. The two of them are absolutely wonderful together. It’s rare that Laura Linney is overshadowed, but as good as she is, with this pair she is relegated to a supporting player role. However, the scene in which she describes to her son what happened to his father is memorable. Given all that’s going on these days, I needed something hopeful. Not saccharine, but something to help me believe, if only for a moment, that human understanding prevails. This film delivered. ---
**Author:** ![David\_M](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/user_avatar/quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/david_m/32/508_2.png) [@David\_M](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/David_M)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2025, 8:20pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/2526 "2025-04-12T20:20:50Z")
> [@secretagentfan](#): > > The way “Colossus” ends is such a dire warning - and by the way an absolutely courageous ending which would never be allowed today Indeed, the recent unavailability of this film for purchase or streaming led some to suggest it had been erased from history by the AI-worshipping powers-that-be. If I may ask, where did you see it? I’d love to revisit it after all these years; it was one of my grandfather’s favorite films. ---
**Author:** ![MrKiddWint](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/user_avatar/quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/mrkiddwint/32/1772_2.png) [@MrKiddWint](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/MrKiddWint)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2025, 11:24pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/2527 "2025-04-12T23:24:43Z")
> [@David\_M](#): > > I’d love to revisit it after all these years; it was one of my grandfather’s favorite films. > **[Colossus: The Forbin Project](https://shoutfactory.com/products/colossus-the-forbin-project?variant=40080701915270&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&adpos=&scid=scplp826663183542&sc_intid=826663183542&gad_source=1&gclid=Cj0KCQjwnui_BhDlARIsAEo9GutNXjCKYTQPDnrO7h-Kzg6oqu-py3mXBSIXgVH4KDuVZOaD45eBySsaAuM-EALw_wcB)** > > "Good Science Fiction entertainment … a chilling look at what might happen if computers took over the world!" – New York Post The ultimate computer creates the ultimate terror in this chillingly real sci-fi suspense thriller. When electronics genius... ---
**Author:** ![David\_M](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/user_avatar/quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/david_m/32/508_2.png) [@David\_M](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/David_M)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2025, 1:13am UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/2528 "2025-04-13T01:13:19Z")
Beautiful. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![secretagentfan](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/user_avatar/quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/secretagentfan/32/504_2.png) [@secretagentfan](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/secretagentfan)\ **Post date:** [April 13, 2025, 7:50am UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/2529 "2025-04-13T07:50:54Z")
I actually only recently purchased a blu ray which is available on the dreaded Bezos site, the British version, because it was quite cheap at 9.99 pounds. Like the Shout version it has an excellent transfer. ---
**Author:** ![GeorgeKaplan](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@GeorgeKaplan](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/GeorgeKaplan)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 12:33am UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/2530 "2025-04-15T00:33:16Z")
The more that I read on these forums, the more that I like. I see there is a substantial fandom for 1970s cinema! The last great decade of film, in my opinion, before movies were connected to the stock share prices of mega-corporations! For all of the horror of the Vietnam War experience, it helped to trigger a more candid, less sugary approach to storytelling themes. Just last week I watched Charley Varrick (1973), a gritty crime drama with palpable characters and excellent acting. Walter Matthau, Joe Don Baker, Andrew Robinson. Solid. Next week I plan on Scarecrow, happens to be another from '73, with Hackman & Pacino. It’s been on my list for a while. I have so many 70s favorites that it’s almost easier to list the films that I didn’t like. Some favorites off the top of my head are Five Easy Pieces , Network (did Chayefsky have a time machine, or what?!), The Getaway, Superfly, 3 Days of the Condor (it echoes and rhymes through today), Marathon Man (“Is it safe?!”). ---
**Author:** ![MrKiddWint](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/user_avatar/quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/mrkiddwint/32/1772_2.png) [@MrKiddWint](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/MrKiddWint)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 1:21am UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/2531 "2025-04-15T01:21:33Z")
> [@GeorgeKaplan](#): > > The last great decade of film, in my opinion, before movies were connected to the stock share prices of mega-corporations! In the 1970s, the studios were part/divisions of mega-corporations (mostly floundering divisions). One of the reasons that 70s cinema is so good is that the corporations were trying to figure out how sto make the studios they had acquired turn a profit, and let film creatives do their job. Later, they were spun off as stand alone corporations, and proceeded to evolve into the mega-corporations that they are today. One of my favorite title card sequences in all of cinema: ![image](https://uploads-quarterdeck-commanderbond-net.s3.dualstack.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/original/2X/4/45743e8ab3654b6e9ad31fc13481e25decfdd109.png) ![image](https://uploads-quarterdeck-commanderbond-net.s3.dualstack.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/original/2X/0/09e7a93cc2de9440200df16b99bfeb9eaec71078.png) ![image](https://uploads-quarterdeck-commanderbond-net.s3.dualstack.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/original/2X/1/169a8326f7574b505bd4af67b26e17c9c3a8e450.jpeg) Kinney was a combination parking and cleaning services corporation that bought Warner Bros. Enjoy SCARECROW. ---
**Author:** ![GeorgeKaplan](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@GeorgeKaplan](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/GeorgeKaplan)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 2:50am UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/2532 "2025-04-15T02:50:39Z")
Thanks for putting a finer point on the studio-corporation relationship of that time. Perhaps I should have stated that evolution. Ugh, the agony. ---
**Author:** ![MrKiddWint](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/user_avatar/quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/mrkiddwint/32/1772_2.png) [@MrKiddWint](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/MrKiddWint)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 4:19am UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/2533 "2025-04-15T04:19:54Z")
> [@GeorgeKaplan](#): > > Thanks for putting a finer point on the studio-corporation relationship of that time. Happy to do so. I think it is always important to recall that Columbia Pictures was once owned by Coca-Cola. ---
**Author:** ![Stbernard](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@Stbernard](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/Stbernard)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 12:15pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/2534 "2025-04-15T12:15:54Z")
Paramount was Viacom? Watched MASH for the first time in at least a decade, still seduces, frustrates and amazes in equal measure. Duval in particular, this watch I really focused on him being carted away, and then forgotten just like war I suppose. Tom Skerrits character this time round, I found highly irritating and unlikeable. Opening sequence is still just awesome, all in all I thought it less than the rest of Altmans 70s movies, but a superb piece of filmmaking ---
**Author:** ![Yellow-Pinky](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/user_avatar/quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/yellow-pinky/32/582_2.png) [@Yellow-Pinky](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/Yellow-Pinky)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 12:24pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/2535 "2025-04-15T12:24:00Z")
@Stbernard, I think you touch on something that was genuinely unique to a large swath of 70s filmmaking—many films featured unlikeable characters. And that includes many (and in some cases all) main characters. There was an embracing of unsavory character traits and habits that brought them to life with realism, warts and all. I miss that era a great deal as 70s movies are my very favorite of all time. ---
**Author:** ![Stbernard](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@Stbernard](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/Stbernard)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 12:39pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/2536 "2025-04-15T12:39:15Z")
Great point and it is the thing that sets that era apart. ---
**Author:** ![GeorgeKaplan](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@GeorgeKaplan](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/GeorgeKaplan)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 1:53pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/2537 "2025-04-15T13:53:17Z")
Officially, Paramount still is owned by Viacom, pending government regulatory approval. The deal was signed almost a year ago, but the final deadline has been extended at least once already, most recently last week. And judging by the current state of USA government bureauocrazy (not a typo) from the mole’s penetration, I wouldn’t take it for granted that this deal will be done. ---
**Author:** ![MrKiddWint](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/user_avatar/quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/mrkiddwint/32/1772_2.png) [@MrKiddWint](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/MrKiddWint)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 4:47pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/2538 "2025-04-15T16:47:25Z")
> [@Stbernard](#): > > Duval in particular, this watch I really focused on him being carted away, and then forgotten just like war I suppose. M \* A \* S \* H loses me with the humiliation of Hot Lips. Much of Altman’s treatment of women in his films is problematic, but the issue seems to get better in his late work. ---
**Author:** ![Stbernard](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@Stbernard](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/Stbernard)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 8:24pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/2539 "2025-04-15T20:24:00Z")
Agreed ---
**Author:** ![raylan.givens](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/74df32/32.png) [@raylan.givens](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/raylan.givens)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 9:46pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/2540 "2025-04-15T21:46:57Z")
Had to rewatch The Long Goodbye and Capricorn One now because Elliott Gould was so good in M.A.S.H. ---
**Author:** ![jamesb007nd](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/ce7236/32.png) [@jamesb007nd](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/jamesb007nd)\ **Post date:** [April 15, 2025, 11:15pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/2541 "2025-04-15T23:15:20Z")
I bought Capricorn One a few years ago, it was not since the eighties that I watched it on Dutch television, but it was still great again. There is a great scene with Gould driving his car and realising that someone has disassembled the brakes. [Previous page](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343.md?page=125) [Next page](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343.md?page=127)