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MacCantStopMe:
Who remembers awards?

People remember cultural and iconic moments. From now till I die, I cant forget the Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver) taking arms against the Alien. I cant forget Marty Mcfly's (Micheal Fox) Nike Airforce 1s in Back to the future. Those are iconic moments that will be revisited as long as the internet and digital libraries exist.

Well, I associate the first Alien movie with Ridley Scott, and the second Alien movie (it aged well too) with James Cameron. I associate Sigourney Weaver with these movies as well, but as a secondary.

MacCantStopMe:
If you are asked about Top Gun, who comes to mind? Tom Cruise.

If you are asked about the Matrix, who comes to your mind? Neo- Keanu Reeves

If you are asked about Avatar, who comes to mind? James Cameron


An actor can be remembered over the director and vice versa- the deciding factor depends on the popularity of the actor.

Can you tell me the director of Logan? No, but you will always remember Hugh Jackman as wolverine.

I said, "Unless the lead actor was a larger than life figure of historical significance", remember?

Right now, Tom Cruise and Reeves qualified, but will they still be relevant 100 years from now? I don't think so. Without important awards to remember them by, those two are gonna end up like that lead actor in North by Northwest.

MacCantStopMe:
False. Tom Cruise will last longer than Cuba Gooding.

Even without awards, Tom Cruise has more culturally relevant movies than Cuba Gooding. Top Gun alone can never be washed away from history

If you're asked about North by Northwest, what's the first name that pops into your mind?

Mine is Alfred Hitchcock. I can't even recall the name of the lead actor, and I've seen this film twice. Old films are associated with directors more than the actors, bruv. Unless the lead actor was a larger than life figure of historical significance, for instance, Orson Welles.

kendrick93:
In reality there's has been many actors who haven't won an Oscar but have had a much better career than the ones who have...
Actors like Harrison Ford, Stallone, Cruise, Chan, will Smith, etc haven't won an Oscar but are known globally around the world than their counterparts who have....
FOR example Cuba Jr won an Oscar and went downhill after that..

Everything you said is true, but you forgot something; legacy. An actor without an elite crowning achievement has no legacy.

Even though Cuba Gooding sucks right now, his name is in the history books. Hundred year from now, people are gonna talk about him, whilst Tom Cruise will be a very vague memory.

Liposure:
have u seen THE SCHINDLER LIST

Yes.

abduleez1:
Well that's mainly cos of the Global lockdown.
Streaming companies are the ones benefiting the most from this.

Yep.

Liposure:
the oscars lack credibity. If not Harisson ford, liam neeson should hav won by now

Harrison Ford, maybe.

Liam Neeson, what weed are you on?

kendrick93:
Don't know who he was up against but I thought he deserved the Oscar for his role in Collateral(2004).
You should check it out btw if you haven't.
He's had a great career, better than most Oscar winners anyway...
Winning an academy award isn't the be all and the end all

The Oscars is the crowning glory of an illustrious movie career. It's comparable to a soccer player winning a Balon D'or.

zeeace:
Malcolm x . Spike Lee is legendary . damn Denzel is one hell of a fine and perfect actor

Was. Have you seen him lately?

https://www.indiewire.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/shutterstock_7734232t.jpg?w=780

Nickshrapnel:
For now, Disney would bounce back

Certainly.

Catching up on Kingdom, an MMA-themed TV series.

SamConquer:
Most Movies are Fictions and make believe meant to entertain....If we start all these so called 'constructive criticism',then all movies will have plot holes.

Whoever wants to watch something real can switch to History Channel and other documentaries.

Bruv, everyone has a purpose in life. There are writers & critics. The former needs the later to grow, it's the cycle of life. Everything in nature is connected and symbiotic.

junnyjake:
Thanks, blood!!

You're welcome.

SamConquer:
Oga,individuals should stop forming a James Cameron or Stephen Spielberg,looking for (compulsory) plot holes when they have not directed or produced a Street movie before.

Constructive criticism is good. TV shows have gone beyond merely seating on the couch and just looking. Viewers gotta have opinions, bruv... this is 21st century, hello.

kendrick93:
Due to the lockdown, more people are turning to streaming

Indeed.

kendrick93:
When he gets older and his body can't do those stunts anymore, maybe he will return to the dramatic roles....
Pitiable?
People love his stunts and he has the mission impossible franchise which is possibly the best Action franchise currently

I know, but he could be so much more. It will be a tragedy if Tom Cruise retires without having won a single Oscar. If history is anything to go by, it's near impossible for action stars to win Academy award for best actors.

https://dvh1deh6tagwk.cloudfront.net/finder-au/wp-uploads/2019/11/Disney-Plus-vs-Netflix-M.jpg

From the news circulating online, Netflix is currently worth more than Disney, lol.

Netflix has gone from the company that rebuffed Disney's wooing, to a company that is now richer than Disney that wanted to acquire it a few years ago.

Inside life.

kendrick93:
Eh...
Have u watched watched collateral(2004)?
He was even nominated for an academy award for that.....
And he's more than just another action star.....
Have you seen the kind of stunts this guy pulls?

He's still a great actor, no doubt, but his post-2002 roles lack substance, and the range of old. He used to be a dramatic powerhouse. You should see him in "A Few Good Men" and "Magnolia" to get the sense of what I'm talking about. He temporarily reverted to 80s and 90s Tom Cruise in Tropic Thunder, but it was a one off... sadly.

Nowadays, he's content to be known by the newer generation as the guy that does his own stunts, a pitiable situation imho, taking into account the FACT that this nigga is a very accomplished actor of a tremendous acting ability & range. He's wasting away his talent.

Bosch season 6 is out.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EVxHuHtUYAAnkX6.jpg

kendrick93:
Jerry Maguire 1996- 9/10
THIS movie is still as fresh as ever...
Tom Cruise at his best...
The supporting cast of Cuba jr, Regina king, Renee schellzger were all marvelous....
I've re watched this movie about 10 times and it never gets old...
Cuba Jr and Tom were nominated for an Oscar for their roles, Cuba won for best supporting actor

IMO, the golden era of Tom Cruise's career is between Top Gun (1986) and Minority Report (2002). After the later, he quit diversifying, and became just another action star.

Kaycee7:
Most futuristic tech in old sci-fi movies were hit-or-miss. But don't let that distract you from the fact that we still haven't gotten jetpacks or hoverboards.

Jetpacks and hoverboards, even nanotech have been invented though. Saw a viral YouTube video of a Volkswagen engineered hovercar the other day. It has no tires, or any visible propeller, but was floating in moderate speed in busy asian high road.

The futuristic techs are there, it just that they haven't gone mainstream yet.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWh2qT9yiTo

MacCantStopMe:
Even "Back to the future" made a lot of mistakes about the future- it assumed that we would still be using fax.

That reminds me, I'm gonna rewatch the trilogy to see how well it aged.

Aliens aged well, it's a film way beyond it's time. Terminator aged well. The Abyss also aged well. The Thing aged well.

MacCantStopMe:
It is normal for 80s science fiction movies not to age well 3 DECADES LATER, especially futuristic ones.

What did you expect? For them to accurately predict the future? modern day CGI? lol


When a film critic reviews an ancient movie, the critic keeps in mind that he is reviewing it from a different era.

Nigga, I've watched other science fictions from the 80s that aged well. This one didn't.

MacCantStopMe:
Dont you just love it when late comers give anachronistic movie reviews? Using 2020 mind to review a 1987 movie lol.

How do you think the movie was reviewed in the 80s and early 90s?

The film is a late 80s film and not 90s.


Please, I know reviews are opinions but garnish them with facts and proper context

The bolded shows you haven't even watched the very film you're defending, because you'd know the film's timeline was 2017.

My criticism of the primitive tech lies in the fact that the tech didn't look futuristic.

MacCantStopMe:
Dont you just love it when late comers give anachronistic movie reviews? Using 2020 mind to review a 1987 movie lol.

How do you think the movie was reviewed in the 80s and early 90s?

The film is a late 80s film and not 90s.


Please, I know reviews are opinions but garnish them with facts and proper context

Late comer, Lol,

Apparently you missed the part I intimated that it's "a rewatch" in the last paragraph.

It's nostalgia that drew me to the film. I wanted to see how well it aged, as opposed to the last time I watched it as a kid.

I reiterate, it didn't age well.

Achilles100:
Just started seeing 'Devs' episode one, still don't know what to make of it.

Keep at it, it gets better.

junnyjake:
Hi, fellas!!

I'm taking a break off American drama for the time being, I need recommendations on good British TV series.

Line of Duty, Broadchurch, Happy Valley, Bodyguard, The Capture, Years and Years, Black Mirror.

The Running Man (1987)

This classic action/Sci-fi didn't age well. I have much to criticise, I don't even know where to begin.

Lemme start with the SFX; the sound effect is terrible. from the machine-guns to the sound of someone hitting something (or someone) with an open hand (or with something), it's reminiscent of classic Nollywood SFX.

It gets worse. The so-called futuristic technology didn't come close to looking like something from the late 90s, talk more of a tech from 2017.

And the worst part of it all, Schwarzenegger himself. Shiiit, his accent was baaad, like speech impediment bad. I don't know why the filmmakers gave a heavily accented Austrian actor a lot of lines, thereby making him a proper chatty Cathy. In Terminator films, he was smartly semi-muted, in that he didn't talk much, but here, he couldn't stop talking! Someone with a down syndrome is more coherent than this guy, ah swear.

All in all, it was a very cheap looking late 90s action/sci-fi that would easily be mistaken for a parody film. The only positives I drew from rewatching this movie are, the music and the scantily clad hotties.

BetWinners:
"You" are correct.
Despite my posts about the show,I am a fan of it especially the 1st season & highly recommend it

I'm a fan too.

Unlike many, I don't mind plot holes. I view them as plot contrivances.

SamConquer:
All you wrote are just pure Nonsense!

After Peach was killed officer Niko then remembered his encounter with Joe and called Mr Mooney bookstore through the license number he wrote down and he now consider him a suspect. The show has not needed so we don't know how that evidence will come back to bite him and by the way Joe is on the run.

And for the Urine incident,the Jar was among other group of Jars....So the police will just go straight and pick that up?....won't it be obvious to the viewers?....in a real life situation,how will the police know that someone will urinate in a small jar and keep it there.
The police instead took a more viable tool such as the séx toy which they saw there for DNA testing and once again the show has not ended, all this might come back one way or the other to bite him.

Is like most on here are new to the word 'Plot holes'....they just love to use it anyhow....YOU has no single plot hole.
Pfffffff

Oga, YOU is a very engaging psychological thriller, and like most in that genre, there are lots of plot holes in it. Some of these plot holes are deliberate, while some are not deliberate. The deliberate ones are intentionally left there to act as plot catalyst. Basically speaking, If they are not there, there will not be any plot advancement, and by proxy, any story.

So instead of looking at the plot holes as a bad thing, and trying to deny their existence, it'd be better to view them in a more positive light. Often times, plot holes are necessary... We have grown to stigmatize plot holes, and in our ignorance, we turn a blind eye to the important roles they play in storytelling.

Lh19:
The Gentlemen - 8.2/10 - This was a very fun filled movie with really good performances, and it has a unique way of storytelling.

Guy Ritchie tells his stories in twists and turns. For more of his twisty storytelling, watch... Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, and RocknRolla. All classics.

A Few Good Men (1992)

The military have their own world; Police, Lawyers, Doctors, Justice system... the whole shebang. If/When military personnels erred against the law, it is the responsibility of the military justice system to serve justice. The military have a trial system called Court Martial. A typical court martial is presided over by a high ranked officer, usually a full Colonel. The Lawyers are also ranked military personnels, ditto the jurors.

Well, now let's tackle the film. Tom Cruise played Lieutenant Daniel Kaffe, a junior Navy Litigator that has the best track record in his division. He has successfully plea-bargained 44 cases in nine months. He's cocky and arrogant, but a damn good lawyer.

He's assigned to defend two Marines that may or may not have murdered their Marine mate. At first. it looked like an open and shut case, and Kaffe was prime and ready to chalk this one up to yet another successful case, but as it turns out, there is more to the case than is been let on. What transpired later is one of most intriguing courtroom dramas I've seen, and I have seen plenty.

Tom Cruise was awesome. He really dominated his scenes, even the ones he shared with Kevin Bacon. However, it's Jack fvcking Nicholson that absolutely killed it. From the way the talked, to the way he carried himself, he absolutely dominated the few scenes he's in. Demi Moore didn't impress me, if anything, I couldn't stand her. Her husky voice was sexy though.

This is a dialogue propelled film, so if you're not into that sort of thing, best stay away. Personally, I prefer meaningful films like this to superhero and pinshun pinshun films.

4 stars out of 5.