Hype Movie Club

[flickchick85]

It's a real damn shame Tony is played by Elgort because he is really the only thing keeping this movie from being quite literally perfect. Everything else is Spielberg at his absolute best. I mean no one stages a movie the way he does. Him waiting until this late into his career to bless us with a true musical is honestly a robbery.

Honestly my favorite Spielberg movie since 2002.

 

[Ninjablade]

Honestly my favorite Spielberg movie since 2002.

I lean Fabelmans purely from a personal emotional resonation with that film, but WSS really is in a toss up with Catch Me if You Can as his defining movies of the century. Hard to get better than them.

 

[emielaen]

I loved The Fabelmans. Real mastery there.

 

[DarthSkywalker]

I loved The Fabelmans. Real mastery there.

Call it by it's name. I Hate My Mom

 

[flickchick85]

Already time for May's category, folks. Feels like we're due for a decade again, so let's go back to the one I nostalgically yearn for whenever the blockbuster season hits....


The 1990's


Up to five picks each, voting will be open 'til Friday.

EDIT - Previous 90's flicks we've already done and are therefore no longer eligible: Lost Highway, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Good Will Hunting, Perfect Blue, Princess Mononoke, Casino, Eyes Wide Shut, Galaxy Quest, Heat, Magnolia, Se7en.

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[flickchick85]

My 90's picks (I'm in pure blockbuster mode ngl):

Speed
Jurassic Park
Armageddon (bonus points for Affleck's Criterion commentary )
The Mummy
Total Recall

 

[Ninjablade]

An interesting decade! I'll avoid Mission since that's a given this month, but

Speed
Air Force One
Fargo
Jerry Maguire
Romeo + Juliet

Mix it up a bit.

 

[flickchick85]

An interesting decade! I'll avoid Mission since that's a given this month

Yes, also, for the record we've also done the entire Mission: Impossible franchise when we did the 2010's, so that's another one that's ineligible!

 

[Ninjablade]

Yes, also, for the record we've also done the entire Mission: Impossible franchise when we did the 2010's, so that's another one that's ineligible!

It's Mission, it should be exempt from the rules!

 

[Luigi]

In honor of Mission Impossible, I'm going to go with a Cruise theme

Days of Thunder
Dragon Ball Z: Wrath of the Dragon
Interview with the Vampire
Jerry Maguire
Run Lola Run

 

[flickchick85]

In honor of Mission Impossible, I'm going to go with a Cruise theme

Days of Thunder
Dragon Ball Z: Wrath of the Dragon
Interview with the Vampire
Jerry Maguire
Run Lola Run

Curious, are DBZ and Run Lola Run part of the Cruise theme?

EDIT: oh ok I think I got the running joke, but still wanna know about DBZ lol.

 

[DKDetective]

I'm in the mood for light and popcorny so:

Total Recall
Kindergarten Cop
The Birdcage
Happy Gilmore
EDIT: Ronin

 

[DKDetective]

Curious, are DBZ and Run Lola Run part of the Cruise theme?

EDIT: oh ok I think I got the running joke, but still wanna know about DBZ lol.

I'm assuming it is a joke about Vegeta being a petulant short king?

 

[flickchick85]

I'm in the mood for light and popcorny so:

Total Recall
Kindergarten Cop
The Birdcage
Happy Gilmore
Galaxy Quest

Galaxy Quest is ineligible as we did it last time, so feel free to add another!

 

[DKDetective]

Galaxy Quest is ineligible as we did it last time, so feel free to add another!

Ronin it is!

 

[Luigi]

Curious, are DBZ and Run Lola Run part of the Cruise theme?

EDIT: oh ok I think I got the running joke, but still wanna know about DBZ lol.

Oh, that was my one non-Cruise pick haha. In the mood for some DBZ.

 

[CaptainWagner]

Already time for May's category, folks. Feels like we're due for a decade again, so let's go back to the one I nostalgically yearn for whenever the blockbuster season hits....


The 1990's


Up to five picks each, voting will be open 'til Friday.

EDIT - Previous 90's flicks we've already done and are therefore no longer eligible: Lost Highway, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Good Will Hunting, Perfect Blue, Princess Mononoke, Casino, Eyes Wide Shut, Galaxy Quest, Heat, Magnolia, Se7en.

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A few blockbusters and a few I just really wanna watch

Air Force One
Eve's Bayou
Jerry Maguire
Malcolm X
Red Tide

 

[CaptainWagner]

recap on last month

West Side Story (2021) - rewatch

Not that it needs repeated, but this really is one AWFUL casting choice away from perfection. Elgort is just a black hole of charisma, sucking the air out of every scene no matter how hard his co-stars and Spielberg & co. work to make him look good. This is a guy who has to be so enrapturing that we believe Maria would sleep with him immediately after he kills her brother. And that guy is not Ansel Elgort. But the rest of it is so good it's still worth returning to.

The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)

I did not realize this was sung-through! That was a surprise, but it lived up to the hype; one of the most beautiful films I've seen. Incredible performances wrapped in dreamy production design.

I also saw Reefer Madness live on stage, so surely that counts for something It was a ton of fun; I really want to watch the movie now.

 

[flickchick85]

Onto our May picks!


Jerry Maguire (1996)

Directed by: Cameron Crowe
Written by: Cameron Crowe
Starring: Tom Cruise, Renee Zellweger, Cuba Gooding Jr., Bonnie Hunt, Jay Mohr, Kelly Preston & Jonathan Lipnicki
What's It About? When a sports agent has a moral epiphany and is fired for expressing it, he decides to put his new philosophy to the test as an independent agent with the only athlete who stays with him and his former colleague.


Air Force One (1997)

Directed by: Wolfgang Peterson
Written by: Andrew W. Marlowe
Starring: Harrison Ford, Gary Oldman, Glenn Close, Wendy Crewson & William H. Macy
What's It About? Communist radicals led by Ivan Korshunov hijack Air Force One with US President James Marshall and his family on board. Vice President Kathryn Bennett negotiates from Washington D.C., while Marshall fights to rescue the hostages on board.


Speed (1994)

Directed by: Jan de Bont
Written by: Graham Yost
Starring: Keanu Reeves, Sandra Bullock, Dennis Hopper, Jeff Daniels & Joe Morton
What's It About? A young Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) Special Weapons And Tactics (SWAT) officer must prevent a bomb exploding aboard a city bus by keeping its speed above 50 mph.


Total Recall (1990)​

Directed by: Paul Verhoeven
Written by: Ronald Shusett, Dan O'Bannon, Jon Povill, Gary Goldman & Philip K. Dick
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sharon Stone, Rachel Ticotin, Michael Ironside & Ronny Cox
What's It About? When a man goes in to have virtual vacation memories of the planet Mars implanted in his mind, an unexpected and harrowing series of events forces him to go to the planet for real - or is he?


Thanks for voting, y'all!​

 

[Kane52630]

We're watching Speed? let me get my copy.

 

[Kane52630]

 

[squeekness]

One of the best scenes, lol.

 

[CaptainWagner]

average Connor Roy subplot