# 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:** 77
**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:** [March 22, 2022, 6:26pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/1533 "2022-03-22T18:26:14Z")
But isn’t Nightmare Alley notably a change in style? ---
**Author:** ![Stbernard](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/e68b1a/32.png) [@Stbernard](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/Stbernard)\ **Post date:** [March 22, 2022, 7:22pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/1534 "2022-03-22T19:22:07Z")
The original is superb too ---
**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:** [March 22, 2022, 8:29pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/1535 "2022-03-22T20:29:49Z")
I would say his filmmaking style was close to „The Shape of Water“ and „Crimson Peak“ - but the subject matter was what some critics call „more mature“. I don’t know the original, unfortunately. And I have to rewatch the previous del Toros to say something that is more than a spontaneous impression. Curiously, I‘m rediscovering Wes Anderson and Paul Thomas Anderson currently, too. I don’t know why I turned away from those, too, in the last years. But now I am a total fan again. ---
**Author:** ![Arbogast777](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/user_avatar/quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/arbogast777/32/822_2.png) [@Arbogast777](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/Arbogast777)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2022, 12:15am UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/1536 "2022-03-23T00:15:14Z")
If you have any desire to read the book, I highly suggest doing so. Not the most cheerful thing you can read, but worth it. The 1947 version is very good but suffered from the fact that due to the censors they just couldn’t film so many aspects of the story. They were even forced to tack a “happy” ending on it. It had always been a favorite of mine, though, but damnit if this new version hasn’t ruined it for me. (It’s on YouTube… just saying…) The author William Lindsay Gresham was in and of himself a walking noir story. There’s too much to post here but the man ended his life by checking into the hotel where he wrote Nightmare Alley, signed in under the name Pete Krumbien (a character in the story), and swallowed a bunch of pills. Another interesting note about Gresham - if you’ve seen the movie “Shadowlands” with Anthony Hopkins, Debra Winger was playing a woman who was running from her alcoholic husband… William Lindsay Gresham. ---
**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:** [March 23, 2022, 8:14am UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/1537 "2022-03-23T08:14:56Z")
Wow. Thanks for the insight! ---
**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:** [March 23, 2022, 10:00pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/1538 "2022-03-23T22:00:27Z")
Boss Level Funny Groundhog Day-version for grown ups with a cool Frank Grillo and Mel Gibson. So even a bored Mel Gibson would have been a great Bond villain it seems… ---
**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:** [March 24, 2022, 2:41pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/1539 "2022-03-24T14:41:00Z")
> [@Stbernard](#): > > now Sean is researching Brando posters furiously for his bedroom wall Let us hope he doesn’t come across images from THE ISLAND OF DR. MOREAU. He can be disillusioned later. > [@Stbernard](#): > > Praise indeed from an 11 year old. Such a wise child. Obviously, superior parenting played a significant role. > [@Stbernard](#): > > It’s ripe and just about to decay but not quite. Surely a mirror of the 70s itself. I think that captures perfectly DAF’s charm. It is assuredly a film of its moment. > [@Stbernard](#): > > But Connery, wow, he strides across the screen with a presence that pops out of the screen, was there ever an actor more comfortable with themselves and their body? For me, this is the film where he first manifests completely the Connery screen presence. As Guy Hamilton said “You don’t tell Sean Connery how to play James Bond” (a valuable asset in an actor for a director not known for his ability with actors). > [@Stbernard](#): > > he’s parodying his own earlier Bond performances whilst simultaneously being the dangerous panther he always was. Exactly. This is why I refer to his performance in DAF as Connery Bond 2–related to, but not an extension of, his previous five performances. > [@Stbernard](#): > > Full disclosure I’m off to see it again on Thursday afternoon. I hope you have/had a wonderful 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:** [March 24, 2022, 5:36pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/1540 "2022-03-24T17:36:02Z")
Just finished, absolutely magnificent. Definitely steering him away from late Brando. It’ll scar him from love for life hahaha. My wife got him a great poster from the Wild One, so Sean is happy. She was laughing though as Brando was her fancy at that age too so she had him on her wall. Full circle so to speak. Great statement about Hamilton, he was a dreadful director of actors, which makes Connerys performance even better. ---
**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:** [March 30, 2022, 1:43pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/1541 "2022-03-30T13:43:24Z")
**Ace in the hole** A Billy Wilder movie classic I had not seen before. And what a magnificent and relevant one this still is - with Kirk Douglas having no fear coming across as utterly self-serving bigmouth reporter who capitalizes on one man’s struggle to stay alive, delaying his rescue from a mining accident. Exposing people and the media as vultures ignorant of human suffering, just getting their kicks of an event they turn into a carnival for their own pleasure. Wonderful. **The Sweet Smell of Success** Another classic I had not seen before - and another fantastic movie, this one starring Tony Curtis as a desperate PR agent and Burt Lancaster as a newspaper columnist whose malignant narcisism makes people dependent on his good will to further their careers or break them forever. Alexander Mackendrick directs with a perfect eye for New York City at night atmosphere and brings out the best of his actors. A bitter but absolutely realistic film about people selling their soul for personal advancement. Timeless, unfortunately. **Death on the Nile** (2022) I have said it before: I am a total Kenneth Branagh fan, and after loving his “Murder on the Orient Express” I was afraid I would be disappointed by his “Death on the Nile”, after reading all the bad reviews. Rubbish. This is a great movie, magnificent entertainment. And Branagh once again proves how elegantly fluid he establishes a place and how seemingly effortlessly he can draw fabulous performances. And this one even goes further into the Poirot character, establishing his basic trauma as a piercing through line for the thematic core of this murder case. With Branagh now (finally) an Oscar winner, could EON please acknowledge that they should give one of the greatest living directors of the Commonwealth an invitation to direct a Bond film? ---
**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:** [March 30, 2022, 9:23pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/1542 "2022-03-30T21:23:22Z")
> [@secretagentfan](#): > > Ace in the hole “I’ve seen hard-boiled eggs before, but you’re twenty minutes.” When told it might be good to be seen praying for her husband’s successful rescue, his wife responds: “Kneeling bags my nylons.” **The Sweet Smell of Success** Neither actor was ever better (though Lancaster matched it several times). [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/e1bMBM_rgwQ/maxresdefault.jpg "Sweet Smell of Success (6/11) Movie CLIP - A Cookie Full of Arsenic (1957) HD") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1bMBM_rgwQ) ---
**Author:** ![MaxZorin](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/74df32/32.png) [@MaxZorin](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/MaxZorin)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2022, 10:36pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/1543 "2022-03-30T22:36:17Z")
Mrs. Doubtfire (1993). It was more funny than I remember. And heartwarming. Robin Williams is truly missed. A childhood favorite. It may have been my first PG-13 movie I saw beginning to end, fun fact. ---
**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:** [March 31, 2022, 1:15pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/1544 "2022-03-31T13:15:21Z")
**Licorice Pizza** Leave it to Paul Thomas Anderson to make the most involving romance in years, and this between two very different people, most unlikely to fall in love with each other. The film is also extremely funny, honest, surprising and relaxed - and it takes you back to those adolescent summer days when everything seemed possible. Fantastic. ---
**Author:** ![eric\_stromberg](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/e47774/32.png) [@eric\_stromberg](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/eric_stromberg)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2022, 7:17pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/1545 "2022-03-31T19:17:12Z")
I really liked Death on the Nile as well. It didn’t get much love from the critics, some of whom took issue with the backstory on his moustache, which I quite enjoyed. Had the same thoughts about Branagh directing a Bond movie…even posed the question to my wife during the Oscar broadcast. I liked his take on Thor (again, in the minority here), and I think he would be a very interesting and possibly great director for 007! ---
**Author:** ![saintmark](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@saintmark](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/saintmark)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2022, 1:30pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/1546 "2022-04-01T13:30:13Z")
**Westside Story by Steven Spielberg** - a really balanced and well done remake for our time, it does misses Natalie Wood for me, the other side the movie is really good and works with a more faithful cast. Am truly positively surprised with a remake of one of my favourite movies ever. **Death on the Nile** - What a beautiful made movie by Branagh, he really gives Egypt a really beautiful role in the movie, some of the backstory of Poirot is actually quite brilliantly done and does add to the story, the use of music is quite impressive, the Soundtrack really sets a mood and the sung music true to the era the movie is set in is quite good. This movie is a step up from the Orient express, and I am looking forward to the third movie which is green lit. ---
**Author:** ![dalton](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/user_avatar/quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/dalton/32/1973_2.png) [@dalton](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/dalton)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2022, 3:55am UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/1547 "2022-04-02T03:55:50Z")
**American Underdog** (2021) Zachary Levi, Anna Paquin Dir. Andrew & Jon Erwin _American Underdog_ is the story of one of my favorite NFL players, former Rams and Cardinals’ quarterback Kurt Warner. Going by the film’s trailers as well as the rather hokey title, I went into it expecting something on the level of a Hallmark film or something of a similarly low quality. While there are moments in the film where it begins to flirt with that kind of filmmaking, _American Underdog_ ended up being an enjoyable watch. Zachary Levi shows his dramatic chops here and his natural charisma is enough to carry things forward, but Anna Paquin really steals the show here as Warner’s wife Brenda. Also surprising for this kind of film is that the football part of the film is actually somewhat decent as well. The action scenes in sports movies, and in football movies in particular, are almost always painfully bad. While they’re not great, they are far better than what the trailers would lead you to believe. All-in-all, _American Underdog_ is an enjoyable watch that exceeds the admittedly low expectations that I had for it. ---
**Author:** ![JCreath](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/6de8d8/32.png) [@JCreath](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/JCreath)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2022, 11:49pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/1548 "2022-04-02T23:49:48Z")
Saw it in the theater. Also thought it was quite good. They did right by Kurt I think. Big Zach Levi fan, but agree Anna Paquin was the highlight. ---
**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 7, 2022, 5:26pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/1549 "2022-04-07T17:26:04Z")
**Pig** One of the best movies I have seen in the last years. Definitely award worthy. Did not get anything. Nicolas Cage - yes - proves once again what a great and horribly underrated actor he is. Sure, he made many movies in the last decade to pay off debts, but he remains an incredibly gifted actor with a wide range. This drama is going against every expectation one brings to it. And it really is a deeply moving portrayal of people who try to mask their pain and their mistakes. What a powerful experience this film is. Absolutely recommended. ---
**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 8, 2022, 9:14am UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/1550 "2022-04-08T09:14:21Z")
The Man With The Golden Gun- Took the kids yesterday to see it in the cinema, good to see it on the big screen though the flaws are highlighted i.e. it looks a little cheap, certainly compared to DAF. But there was an energy crisis so… Picked up something I’d not noticed in all the times I’ve watched it. Scaramanga drinks a Black Velvet cocktail !. A bold choice after a swim and before a physically demanding gunfight with a gangster. Also my 11 year old came up with two beauties. 1. He said the pacing was ‘bearable’ 2. Another attendee, upon leaving, asked if he could ask the little fellow a question… " how old did you think Roger Moore was in that movie? " “At least 45” replies Benson. The chap was like " you got it just about right but when I saw that as a kid I though he was young like in his 30s" as he’s walking up the stairs Benson goes " yeah in the olden days " ---
**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:** [April 8, 2022, 9:37am UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/1551 "2022-04-08T09:37:07Z")
> [@Stbernard](#): > > Scaramanga drinks a Black Velvet cocktail ! Yes, it almost goes unnoticed. Don’t know who said it (and to lazy to look it up), but I believe it was Christopher Lee himself, when asked about the difference between a Bond movie production and a “normal” movie: “We had that scene when I was served a Black Velvet on the beach. In any other movie production, it would have been a glass full of some fake cheap black something. But in a Bond movie, it really _is_ Guinness and Champagne”. 😆 ---
**Author:** ![008](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/0/8baadc/32.png) [@008](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/u/008)\ **Post date:** [April 8, 2022, 4:06pm UTC](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343/1552 "2022-04-08T16:06:46Z")
Has anyone ever tried it? I love both Guinness and Champagne but wouldn’t have thought of mixing both together. [Previous page](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343.md?page=76) [Next page](https://quarterdeck.commanderbond.net/t/what-movie-have-you-seen-today/343.md?page=78)