TV/Movies Megathread

[celedhring]

Thanks for the clarification. Either way, a boon to the movie.

Bridge Too Far - hadn't watched it in a while, but it was a movie I grew up with. My dad watched it at least once a month.

It holds up incredibly well. And it's a real case of, "They don't make them like this anymore." If they did, the mock-up tanks for the Germans would look much better, but it would be incredibly desaturated, there'd be CGI instead of practical effects, and there would be much more soundtrack (I had forgotten how much of the film has no music at all).

The parachuting scene remains breath-taking to this day, imho. Specially because you know all these people are really there.

[Duque de Bragança]

Every once in a while Prime video serves up something nice. Checked for something to have on during home office today and Battle of Britain is on the front page of recommendations.

As much WW2 airplane porn as the movie has (thank you for preserving those planes, General Franco ), I forgot that the German footpads ride in M7 Priests and M3 Halftracks in the opening.

They were not really "preserved", all those HE-111s and Bf-109s were built in Spain after WWII, because the Germans had supplied the tooling and that's kinda all what the local industry could manage during the 1940s and 1950s. Pretty sure many of them were equipped with British engines, even.

Much better performance indeed for the engines.

As for Battle of Britain and A Bridge Too Far, they got UHD / 4K transfers recently, so they are even more nice to watch than before, on home video.

[Duque de Bragança]

'Cold Storage' - mildly diverting Liam Neilson horror sci-fi comedy.

For some reason it makes me think of Stone Cold (1991), an action-oriented neo-biker movie, where Brian Bosworth sports a huge bicolour mullet to go undercover vs Lance Henriksen.
Plus the always interesting William Forsythe, less unhinged than in Out for a Kill. 

[Josquius]

Thanks for the clarification. Either way, a boon to the movie.

Bridge Too Far - hadn't watched it in a while, but it was a movie I grew up with. My dad watched it at least once a month.

sic at all).

That's crazy dedication.
And from a German?

[Sheilbh]

Every once in a while Prime video serves up something nice. Checked for something to have on during home office today and Battle of Britain is on the front page of recommendations.

"Repeat please!"

Agree on a Bridge too Far. It's not true of all war movies but a lot of the ones from that era are genuinely fantastic. I think in part as you say it's actually that they kind of let the moving image do the work - while I feel like films now have a lot of score to tell you what to feel.

But also just the general pacing. I recently re-watched the seventies Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy and the relative quietness but also just slow pacing is so alien. I'd add also that because the assumption is people are actually watching rather than second screening they have a bit more respect for the intelligence of their viewers.

[The Minsky Moment]

For some reason it makes me think of Stone Cold (1991), an action-oriented neo-biker movie, where Brian Bosworth sports a huge bicolour mullet to go undercover vs Lance Henriksen.

Boz never seemed that credible as an action hero.  The bad guys could just hire Bo Jackson to knock him down.

[mongers]

'Cold Storage' - mildly diverting Liam Neilson horror sci-fi comedy.

For some reason it makes me think of Stone Cold (1991), an action-oriented neo-biker movie, where Brian Bosworth sports a huge bicolour mullet to go undercover vs Lance Henriksen.
Plus the always interesting William Forsythe, less unhinged than in Out for a Kill. 
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Good grief Duque, that's some mullet, never heard of that film before, but I think I'll pass on watching it, seems more of your 'special interest' area than mine. 

[Duque de Bragança]

For some reason it makes me think of Stone Cold (1991), an action-oriented neo-biker movie, where Brian Bosworth sports a huge bicolour mullet to go undercover vs Lance Henriksen.

Boz never seemed that credible as an action hero.  The bad guys could just hire Bo Jackson to knock him down.

While that may have been true for gridiron, his grandiose mullet (nuque longue / nuque à l'allemande) plus his sartorial skills significant enhance his performance and make him a fine thespian, along with his natural gift for unintended comedy, though not the next future action movie star, as predicted then, at the very least, overoptimistically.

[Duque de Bragança]

'Cold Storage' - mildly diverting Liam Neilson horror sci-fi comedy.

For some reason it makes me think of Stone Cold (1991), an action-oriented neo-biker movie, where Brian Bosworth sports a huge bicolour mullet to go undercover vs Lance Henriksen.
Plus the always interesting William Forsythe, less unhinged than in Out for a Kill. 
....

Good grief Duque, that's some mullet, never heard of that film before, but I think I'll pass on watching it, seems more of your 'special interest' area than mine. 

Unfortunately, that movie never got a theatrical release over here, just a VHS (!) edition, years later. 

[Syt]

I have a recollection of Boz promoting the movie on some German TV show. Mostly because it just seemed cringe at the time to me (he didn't seem have much to talk about and the German moderator didn't know what to talk to him about except the movie).