Lord of War is such a criminally underrated, endlessly quotable film. The writing is just so tight. Insanely tight. The story admittedly doesn't have enough emotional heft to keep itself afloat, and suffers from the same problem that War Dogs did: the main character never seem to change, grow, or learn anything. But (like War Dogs) it's still completely engaging from beginning to end.

Any other fans?

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I seem to recall enjoying it, but that was during its initial home video release. I need to give it a go. I think it's out on UHD Blu-ray, now.

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Originally posted by Paradox Lost Lord of War is such a criminally underrated, endlessly quotable film. The writing is just so tight. Insanely tight. The story admittedly doesn't have enough emotional heft to keep itself afloat, and suffers from the same problem that War Dogs did: the main character never seem to change, grow, or learn anything. But (like War Dogs) it's still completely engaging from beginning to end. Any other fans?

I mostly just remember the great opening, but I remember thinking it was good but not amazing.

We have a huge catalog of DVD and Blu-ray discs at home. We recently, finally, entered the 4K/UHD TV era with the purchase of a 55" LG SM8600. It's a good, mid-range set with an IPS panel, which is good for our bright room viewing. Coming from a 40" Sony FHD, this thing has 89% more surface area. It is really much, much more immersive than the old 40" set. I love the Technicolor Expert preset mode. Makes configuration with BT.709/SDR a breeze. The 4K/UHD HDR demo footage via the YouTube app is jaw dropping at times. Now I just need a UHD player, and I'm set. I've been going back through some of my Blu-ray titles to see them on the larger screen real estate and upscaled to UHD. It's like seeing many of them for the first time. I watched my Criterion disc of the original, black & white 3:10 To Yuma with Glenn Ford the other day, and it was simply magnificent.

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Originally posted by Paradox Lost Lord of War is such a criminally underrated, endlessly quotable film. The writing is just so tight. Insanely tight. The story admittedly doesn't have enough emotional heft to keep itself afloat, and suffers from the same problem that War Dogs did: the main character never seem to change, grow, or learn anything. But (like War Dogs) it's still completely engaging from beginning to end. Any other fans?

I do like this movie, and Cage does become that role quite well. I say this as someone that currently uses the question, "Is Nic cage in this movie?" to determine if it will be viewed. A "yes" means abort.

Raising Arizona, Face Off, Leaving Las Vegas, Lord of war, and a guilty pleasure with The Rock are for me.

That being said *Billy Corgan power riff*

In spite of that praise, I am still not a fan of Nic Cage.

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Nothing to feel guilty about there.

It's aged rather poorly and is cheesier than Gypsy foreskins; but yeah, If Connery were just a tad younger, I would add him to the very short list of men I would happily and willingly let abuse my CIS orifices until prolapse.

I love Sean Connery so fucking much. He's everything a man should be...instead of the fucking pussies currently dotting the fagscape with kpop music and man feminism.

Fucking Nic Cage ruined my morning now. Thanks.

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Any John Carpenter fans out there? I've been going through some of my Carpenter flicks, finally, and I'm fully onboard the "these are all cult classics" train. Out of all the films I've watched so far, The Thing is definitely, for me, at the top of the list. It's a pretty good screenplay of the short story Who Goes There, and is more fascinating for its "study" of human psychology driven by distrust and paranoia than it is for being a "horror" film. The rest of what I've seen (The Fog, Assault on Precinct 13, In The Mouth of Madness, The Ward, Prince of Darkness, Escape From New York) are just stuck in B movie territory. Reminds of me the shit we'd have gotten when staying up late as kids trying to catch some T&A on Showtime and getting B movie horror instead.

Big John Carpenter fan here. A few years ago the Leeds Film Festival did a John Carpenter season so I got to watch a few of his films on the big screen, which was very nice. The Thing and Big Trouble In Little China are definitely his best two films, and it's no coincidence that those two had the biggest budgets he had worked with up until that point. Sadly both of them flopped at the box office and he was relegated to B-movie budgets again. It's interesting that they're almost diametrically opposed - The Thing is a completely serious sci-fi horror with nary a light hearted moment throughout, whereas Big Trouble is a postmodern satire on the '80s fantasy/action movie that is basically a straight up comedy, and an absolutely hilarious one at that.

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I broke my personal record and watched four films since the lockdown began:

• I Am Mother: Nineteen-Eighty-Four meets Black Mirror. Unlike Nineteen-Eighty-Four, it's good. Unlike Black Mirror, you can't really point out whose cock-up it was, and armageddon is handed over to the machines already.
  
• Gagarin, First in Space: Apollo 13 meets Russian Propaganda. Unlike Apollo 13, it's in Russian. Unlike Russian propaganda, it's kind of amusing.
  
• Always Be My Maybe: Rom Com meets Keanu Reeves. Like most rom coms, it's funny in a cute way. And Keanu Reeves is in it.
  
• Sergio: Brazilian diplomat meets Middle East Politics. It's sad that he dies in the end (that's no spoiler), but it's a nice tribute.

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Originally posted by SYSTEM-J The Thing is a completely serious sci-fi horror with nary a light hearted moment throughout, whereas Big Trouble is a postmodern satire on the '80s fantasy/action movie that is basically a straight up comedy, and an absolutely hilarious one at that.

Caught a midnight screening of The Thing last year at a local theater, and despite having seen it millions of times, one thing I realized by the end is that they would simply never pace a movie like this again. I personally love a good slow burner, but slow, lingering shots and negative space between lines of dialogue just would not fly these days.

The defibrillator scene still gets me though.

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