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#MovieThread VII: The Kino Awakens, Chapter Three — March Edition
From 2020 to 2025 I watched 2370 movies.
In 2026 so far I've watched another 70, for a total of 2440 movies.
This month:
* John McTiernan.
* Ninja Turtles, probably.
Previous thread:
Starting John McTiernan, it's the movie "Nomadland" is not a sequel to, it's —
#71, or #2441, 1986's "Nomads."
It's the movie today best remembered for the "Seinfeld" episode of the same title where Elaine is the only person in town who hates it, leaving now for a screening of —
#72, or #2442, 1996's "The English Patient."
With this one I'm 8/10 for seeing this year's Best Picture nominees in the cinema, leaving now to go see —
#73, or #2443, 2026's "Sentimental Value."
With and after dinner, watched —
#74, or #2443, 2026 Netflix doc “Queen of Chess.”
Interesting story about a woman I knew nothing about. But it’s a shame it has to tell her story by focusing on her rivalry with a man. Do enjoy watching her crush these dudes, though, obviously.
As I understand it, this Brazilian Best Picture nominee is not about a secret agent, leaving now to go see —
#75, or #2445, 2026's "O Agente Secreto," or, "The Secret Agent."
The only one of this year's slate of Best Picture nominees I have to watch at home instead of in the cinema, it's —
#77, or #2447, 2025's "Train Dreams."
The conversation about this one has collapsed into "boy, they really whiffed it on this one," but that means there's a chance I can be contrarian just by having a good time, so, you know, still gotta see it, leaving now to go see —
#78, or #2448, 2026's "The Bride!"
Meant to go see this true story Tourette's drama before it became unexpectedly topical but never got around to it until what's probably the last screening, leaving now to go see —
#79, or #2449, 2026's "I Swear."
Yesterday was Pie Day. On a related note, it's —
#80, or #2450, 1999's "American Pie."
"We must take a stand here and now! No longer will our penises remain flaccid and unused!"
just normal bro things to say
The Pursuit of Purple March? No. The Chase for Burnt Sienna November? Absolutely not. It's —
#81, or #2451, 1990 John McTiernan picture "The Hunt for Red October."
The Americans have deduced Connery has gone rogue, and for what possible reason could a Soviet submarine captain possibly go rogue but to nuke America or its allies.
But Jack Ryan is the only guy in the room smart enough to remember Connery isn't Russian but Lithuanian, and for some reason this means he might be trying to defect to America instead.
"And I will have a pickup truck. Or possibly even a... recreational vehicle."
the american dream
It’s a tremendously well-made picture, and many of the ingredients here are things that should really add up to something I’d love, but it’s SO dense with naval and submarine procedure and lingo that it just becomes noise to my poor cartoonist’s brain.
Wanted to like it, didn’t quite connect to it.
@Alexis One of my favourite movies, actually. The submarine captains, especially the one playing Burt Mancuso of the USS Dallas, trained with actual sub captains to understand how it works.
It also shows the complete pointlessness of the cold war.
The origin of Jack Ryan is also portrayed here.
And finally, they killed Putin. He went after the US in real life for it.
@Alexis I watched this movie, but only with a Film and 40s (Giant Bomb's old movie commentary podcast) commentary on it.
I should sync some more of those and upload them to torrent trackers.
Used to be all you needed for a Best Picture nominee was two guys and a chain gang for them to escape from, it's —
#82, or #2452, 1958's "The Defiant Ones."
"How come they chained a white man to a black?"
"Warden's got a sense of humour."
tell that warden that if he's gonna quit his day job it should be out of protest against the american prison industrial complex and not to try and make a career as a comedian happen
I would simply not be in a chain gang in the first place.
On account of I don't think those were ever really a thing here, but also even America, Land of the Chain Gangs, had basically stopped doing chain gangs by the late 1950s, so how would I end up in a chaing gang.
Now, I can see myself being a fugitive from the law, but I assure you, whatever I did, either I didn't do it or it wasn't wrong of me to do.
For how bare the premise is, and for how much I expected this to have aged inelegantly — being a sensible person who obviously abhors all racism, an old message picture about how racism is bad can sometimes be a little like throwing a candle at a campfire — this is honestly kind of beautiful. Everything here really works, and Poitier and Curtis are just doing all-timer work.
It doesn’t just have its heart in the right place, it’s got its actual movie in the right place, too. Holds up!
Ths seems like a movie for a yawny Wednesday where I'm not gonna do anything else, I understand it to be about Sean Connery doing doctor science in the jungle, but the title sure is a bit of a red flag, it's —
#83, or #2453, 1992 John McTiernan picture "Medicine Man."
Lorraine Bracco has been sent to the Amazon to go find Sean Connery, and she's as tough a bird as the time she's havin', as it were.
(Already you can tell this wants to be "Romancing the Stone.")
You don't get a lot of movies these days where the main character is introduced by them just being a massive, honking dickwad of a misogynist to their co-lead, do you.
*points at the "massive cultural change is completely possible, it just takes ten years to do it and another ten to get used to it" sign*
"You send me back on the basis of my gender. It's called sex discrimination."
ah it's a message picture about how women are people
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