What was the last movie you watched?

D-Day · February 8

Spiritual_Chaos said:

Sam Raimi is unable to make anything feel real and not fabricated.

Red - 4 better than total crap. Badly made and lausy entertainment to you

Green - 9 individual entertainment value to me

would use 10 only to mark personal top favourites
Battle (2025) 8.5 - beginning from DiCaprio’s public telephone moment, earlier 7-7.5

eeriepadave · February 8

Encino Man (1992)

Pap · February 8

Kidnapped: Elizabeth Smart (2026)

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Loujoe · February 9

Holy heck

Spiritual_Chaos · February 9

eeriepadave said:

Encino Man (1992)

Cool Vince Neil song

Spiritual_Chaos · February 9

D-Day said:

Spiritual_Chaos said:

Sam Raimi is unable to make anything feel real and not fabricated.

Red - 4 better than total crap. Badly made and lausy entertainment to you
Green - 9 individual entertainment value to me
would use 10 only to mark personal top favourites
Battle (2025) 8.5 - beginning from DiCaprio’s public telephone moment, earlier 7-7.5

I Never trust someone using half a stars on letterboxd.

Spiritual_Chaos · February 9

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D-Day · February 9

What’s your rating for *007-A Quantum of Solace*
+ I‘m not on Letterbox.

3.5/5 on Letterbox must be the average of all users for Send Help = 7/10

Spiritual_Chaos · February 9

D-Day said:

What’s your rating for *007-A Quantum of Solace*

3.

Best of the Craig films. Whatever people might think.

GlowGirl · February 9

Sinners
The Brutalist

EL91640 · February 9

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I really enjoyed Marty Supreme and would love to see Timothee get the Best Actor Oscar. Honey Don't was not great.

HughFreakingDillon · February 10

EL91640 said:

I really enjoyed Marty Supreme and would love to see Timothee get the Best Actor Oscar. Honey Don't was not great.

butt I like the poster.

CarryTheZero · February 10

Saw an early showing tonight with a video Q & A after. I enjoyed it. Pretty good crime thriller. Adapted from Don Winslow, whose Border trilogy of crime novels are pretty great.

This one was no Heat, Collateral, or The Town, but it fits in that genre and was pretty good.

BrainofBGA · February 10

The Zone of Interest.

Other movies I’ve watched recently:
Primal Fear
The Fantastic Four - First Steps
For a Few Dollars More

Pap · February 10

Matter of Time (2025)

23scidoo · February 10

SPY movie poster - 11 x 17 inches - Melissa McCarthy Jason Statham

Spiritual_Chaos · February 10

35mm screening:

1.37 aspect was fun to see:

CarryTheZero · February 11

Wow. Finally got around to watching this. It did not disappoint. A tiny bit confusing at the beginning, but if you stick with it until the film moves to South America, it’s incredible. I truly don’t know how they filmed that bridge scene. It literally looks like it was seconds from disaster in real life as they filmed it. Soundtrack by Tangerine Dream was pretty great as well.

D-Day · February 11

CarryTheZero said:

Wow. Finally got around to watching this. It did not disappoint. A tiny bit confusing at the beginning, but if you stick with it until the film moves to South America, it’s incredible. I truly don’t know how they filmed that bridge scene. It literally looks like it was seconds from disaster in real life as they filmed it. Soundtrack by Tangerine Dream was pretty great as well.

Sorcerer has been a permanent fixture on my eBay watchlist for years. There are inexpensive options to buy the Spanish release but I don’t like the cover written in Spanish.

AI knows some making of details about the bridge 😉 - just checked it.

The 12-minute collapsing bridge scene in William Friedkin’s

Sorcerer(1977) was filmed entirely with practical effects on location in the jungle—specifically the Papaloapan River in Tuxtepec, Mexico, and earlier in the Dominican Republic—without the use of CGI or miniatures. It cost approximately $3 million, took several months to complete, and involved building a functional, yet intentionally rickety, 200-foot suspension bridge.

Here is how Friedkin and his crew pulled off the scene:

Engineering and Hydraulics:Production designer John Box engineered a bridge that could withstand the weight of the trucks while appearing fragile. While it looked like rotting logs and frayed ropes, the structure was supported by hidden steel cables and controlled by a concealed hydraulic system, allowing the crew to make the bridge tilt and sway.
The "Truck Trap": The trucks were often lashed to the bridge via invisible cables to keep them from falling, but they still wobbled, slipped, and fell into the water five times during rehearsals and filming.
Artificial Environmental Effects: Despite a drought that reduced the river to 18 inches, Friedkin created the illusion of a torrential storm using large pipes to redirect water, massive sewage pumps to create a current, rain machines, and helicopters to create wind.
Real-Life Danger: The actors (including Roy Scheider) and stuntmen performed the scene inside the trucks while the bridge was collapsing, leading to a genuinely dangerous, "life-threatening" atmosphere.
Camera Work: Friedkin used three cameras at different angles to capture the action in a single take whenever possible, with the footage showing the trucks genuinely breaking through wooden planks.
Logistical Nightmares: The production was forced to abandon the original location in the Dominican Republic when a drought dried up the river, requiring the $1 million bridge to be dismantled and rebuilt in Mexico.

The scene is widely considered one of the most intense, practical stunts in cinema history, with Roy Scheider comparing the experience to filming Jaws.

D-Day · February 11

What was the last movie you watched?

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