# 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:** 128
**Author:** ![Dustin](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/user_avatar/quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/dustin/32/7_2.png) [@Dustin](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/Dustin)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2025, 8:54am UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/2562 "2025-05-10T08:54:25Z")
SALEM’S LOT (2024) In spite of having to size down the material, large chunks of characterisation and development ending up on the cutting room floor, as a _film_ this works quite well. Yes, it leaves out the gradual descent, the vignettes of small-town-life or the ominous presence of the Marsden house as the infamous spot any community has and tries to ignore. But it’s doing a good job of delivering the story beats and does its own thing with the finale. As an adaptation it’s not ‘definite’ (few King adaptations are), but it’s entertaining, and for those who may come to King through this there’s a wealth of undiscovered territory to be explored if they pick up the book. Recommended. ---
**Author:** ![Jim](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/user_avatar/quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/jim/32/502_2.png) [@Jim](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/Jim)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2025, 12:37pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/2563 "2025-05-10T12:37:31Z")
On the Beach. Not abundant with laughs. Terrifying, though. Nevil Shute seems to have dropped out of fashion, which seems a pity since he had a lot to say. ---
**Author:** ![Dustin](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/user_avatar/quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/dustin/32/7_2.png) [@Dustin](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/Dustin)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2025, 11:53pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/2564 "2025-05-11T23:53:59Z")
THE SEA WOLVES (1980, dir. Andrew V McLaglen) Oh dear, is this a pedestrian affair. This film tells the true story of Operation Creek, a secret attack on a covert German radio station aboard a merchant vessel in some Goa harbour. They transmitted vital information to a network of German submarines operating in the Indian Ocean and were instrumental in the sinking of a great number of Allied merchant ships. The film largely follows actual events such as they happened in late 1942 and up until March 1943. Some of the backstory of the German spies feeding the information to their radio station was changed to make it a bit more spy vs spy and add an element of Bond into the mix. But the main storyline of the British Raj old geezers taking up Schmeisser SMGs to trade their gin-tonic war with some crucial action only _they_ as civilians could undertake remains intact. There’s plenty of adventurous derring do in this tale, no doubt about it. But the whole story is told overlong, winding, even downright boring. The cast is too big, the names are too big for characters who feel flat and leave us in effect largely cold. Storywise this should have been told a lot trimmer. For a production that uses actual locations extensively, there’s comparatively little to actually _see_ here, much less to marvel about. Yes, this is India, not some backlot. But it might as well have been. Production values seem very hit-and-miss and the action itself is staged positively dull. The majority of close quarters fighting goes to Moore and rarely was he put in scene less convincingly. Only the one fight Peck had to deliver - dealing with two types half his age - was even worse. The whole film suffers from an unfocused plot that cannot concentrate on a few important characters. Instead, it tries to portray the whole operation as a kind of tribute, tries to be documentary and entertainment. And hits neither tone. ---
**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:** [May 12, 2025, 1:00am UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/2565 "2025-05-12T01:00:30Z")
> [@Jim](#): > > Nevil Shute seems to have dropped out of fashion, which seems a pity since he had a lot to say. Ditto for Stanley Kramer. ---
**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:** [May 12, 2025, 4:56am UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/2566 "2025-05-12T04:56:13Z")
I remember seeing the poster at my favourite cinema and definitely wishing to see it after enjoying THE WILD GEESE so much. But the movie was gone after one or two weeks. Many decades later, in 2019, I saw it was on offer as a digital copy for 3,99 Euros, so I bought it. And watched it. And had the same experience as you. I still like the poster, though. The power of good marketing. ---
**Author:** ![Dustin](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/user_avatar/quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/dustin/32/7_2.png) [@Dustin](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/Dustin)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2025, 5:45am UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/2567 "2025-05-12T05:45:21Z")
I _did_ actually see this - part of it - in some butchered-to-death version back in the 90s or early 00s on RTL, if memory serves. Didn’t get the entire film, so I thought it unfair to judge. But had I spent my pocket money on this in 1980 I’d have been deeply disappointed. Which happened rarely in the cinema in those days. ---
**Author:** ![jamesb007nd](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/ce7236/32.png) [@jamesb007nd](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/jamesb007nd)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2025, 6:39pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/2568 "2025-05-12T18:39:09Z")
It was aired at the BBC in the nineties if I remember correctly, but I already saw it on vcr when I rented it in the eighties, because… well… it had my movie hero Roger in it, but like all movies where he was one of a bigger cast his part was always a little dissapointing and he always seem to miss the final climax (Escape to Athena, The Wild Geese, The Sea Wolves) where he isn’t anywere to see (this probalby is not good English sorry about that, but you know what I mean). ---
**Author:** ![Dustin](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/user_avatar/quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/dustin/32/7_2.png) [@Dustin](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/Dustin)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2025, 5:49am UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/2569 "2025-05-21T05:49:15Z")
16 posts were merged into an existing topic: [The De Palma Conversation](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/the-de-palma-conversation/3066/3) ---
**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:** [May 18, 2025, 12:33pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/2574 "2025-05-18T12:33:35Z")
I appreciated and respected _Casualties of War_. (Trying to think of a better way to express that. “Liked” or “enjoyed” aren’t really appropriate for such a violent film.) IMO, other than in the _Back to the Future_ trilogy, Michael J. Fox never got a fair shake as an actor. He was typecast in the Alex P. Keaton mold and had to fight for roles that would challenge others’ perception of him. When I read Stephen King’s “Apt Pupil” (part of the _Different Seasons_ novella collection), I thought Fox would have been brilliant in a film adaptation. I also always wished he could’ve played James Cagney in a biopic. 'Twas not to be. ---
**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:** [May 18, 2025, 3:57pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/2575 "2025-05-18T15:57:27Z")
> [@byline](#): > > When I read Stephen King’s “Apt Pupil” (part of the _Different Seasons_ novella collection) That would have been very interesting! ---
**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:** [May 19, 2025, 3:36pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/2578 "2025-05-19T15:36:16Z")
And he really named it COLOSSUS. > **[Elon Musk is building ‘the world’s biggest supercomputer.’ It’s powered with...](https://edition.cnn.com/2025/05/19/climate/xai-musk-memphis-turbines-pollution)** > > xAI has moved into an abandoned factory promising jobs and investment. Residents and environmental groups say the new facility is bringing yet more pollution to community that’s long been fighting for clean air ---
**Author:** ![Dustin](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/user_avatar/quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/dustin/32/7_2.png) [@Dustin](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/Dustin)\ **Post date:** [May 21, 2025, 5:52am UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/2579 "2025-05-21T05:52:04Z")
Mod note: De Palma posts moved to its own topic. ---
**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:** [May 24, 2025, 7:57am UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/2580 "2025-05-24T07:57:08Z")
> **[Fountain of Youth movie review (2025) | Roger Ebert](https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/fountain-of-youth-john-krasinski-apple-tv-film-review-2025)** > > The "Citizen Kane" of second-screen entertainment. ---
**Author:** ![Dustin](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/user_avatar/quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/dustin/32/7_2.png) [@Dustin](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/Dustin)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2025, 8:41am UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/2581 "2025-05-24T08:41:09Z")
I remember that Simmel tv vehicle ‘Es muss nicht immer Kaviar sein’ being savagely vilified for its off narration explaining what’s happening on screen. Turns out ZDF was just 50 years ahead of its time. ---
**Author:** ![Orion](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/user_avatar/quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/orion/32/1276_2.png) [@Orion](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/Orion)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2025, 12:30pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/2582 "2025-05-24T12:30:00Z")
Not watched it yet, but I kind of expected it - it’s a bag of crisps of a film. ---
**Author:** ![jamesb007nd](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/ce7236/32.png) [@jamesb007nd](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/jamesb007nd)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2025, 1:28pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/2583 "2025-05-24T13:28:00Z")
It could be worse: Doctor Colosso! ![image](https://uploads-quarterdeck-commanderbond-net.s3.dualstack.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/original/2X/7/773185950048c1b483dddc4a666c9a3fc3547600.jpeg) ---
**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:** [May 24, 2025, 5:32pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/2584 "2025-05-24T17:32:56Z")
May I suggest an alternative Fountain of Youth? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/pKjtLOOBqgk/hqdefault.jpg "The Fountain of Youth Orson Welles, 1958") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pKjtLOOBqgk&t=57) ---
**Author:** ![stromberg](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/user_avatar/quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/stromberg/32/534_2.png) [@stromberg](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/stromberg)\ **Post date:** [May 25, 2025, 2:32am UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/2585 "2025-05-25T02:32:45Z")
The Fountain of Youth? No desire to get there. Going through all that crap _again_? (it’s the same as the _eternal life_ thing. Honestly, would anyone be capable to stand more than, say, 127 years of all this rubbish? Always good to know that it’s going to end _one day_ 😏) If you’re still trying to achieve this, don’t forget: “Only the penitent man may pass!” 😆 ![fYABITe](https://uploads-quarterdeck-commanderbond-net.s3.dualstack.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/original/2X/8/8659d45aedb219c159f9b862000b908c12415602.gif) ---
**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:** [June 5, 2025, 11:04am UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/2586 "2025-06-05T11:04:23Z")
Researching for a possible haunted hause project I saw a rather popular film for the first time, somehow thinking it would be a boring and frankly bad movie. I was pleasantly surprised. **The Amityville Horror (1979)** Director Stuart Rosenberg who a year later would direct the great prison drama “Brubaker” tells this story very effectively because he focuses on the characters and makes us care about them so everything which happens to them builds to an emotional climax. As Stephen King said about the film, this is about the economic downfall of a family, with no help in sight. Rosenberg even shows that the Catholic Church rather stays out of it instead of offering help, despite clearly having a supernatural threat manifest itself. The secular, former psychotherapist turned priest who experiences the threat is chastised and abandoned, even when he continues to physically deteriorate. The courage to put that storyline into a blockbuster made by a big studio was possible in 1979 - but I’m sure today nobody would want to go there. James Brolin and Margot Kidder (before she became “Lois Lane”) are magnificent as the couple who only recently married and bring their children from former relationships under one roof. Lalo Schifrin´s score (Oscar nominated) is hauntingly chilling (and became a template for Elliot Goldenthal´s wonderful score for “Pet Sematery”). Interestingly, the threat of a possessed (and also economically ruined) father killing his family with an axe was depicted here one year before Kubrick did the same in “The Shining”, and the tree crashing through a window of the children’s bedroom was also a fresh idea here, predating the still marvelous “Poltergeist” in 1982. Still, “The Amityville Horror” seems to be snickered at these days, and I don’t see why. It is an absolutely well-made film which holds and escalates the tension for its two hour running time, even the dated visual effects do not detract from it. In fact, the economically depressed family is a trope which these days should regain importance in contemporary horror. ---
**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:** [June 5, 2025, 1:56pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/2587 "2025-06-05T13:56:19Z")
> [@secretagentfan](#): > > Margot Kidder (before she became “Lois Lane”) Did she film Amityville (1979) before Superman (1978)? If so, I was unaware of the release being shelved for awhile. [Previous page](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343.md?page=127) [Next page](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343.md?page=129)