I remember watching this the first time and just feeling sad and empty. For the whole runtime of the film, it felt like I shared Mija's profound pain, confusion, loneliness, sadness. I wanted to talk to someone about it right after the movie just to help me process what I just watched and there was no one.
i saw this movie with my brother in 1980 and loved it. Kill the Japs as we all screamed during the big dogfight. it's a fun movie, typical SciFi about time travel. But how could the CAG Owen be an old man in 1980 sending Sheen on the Nimitz where he meets a younger version of himself?
While I'm approximately a decade younger than the real people from this story, I can relate to some of this. Me and my best friends were similar to them when we were their ages, just not AS bad or unaccountable. I was 19 when this movie came out and felt like I saw pieces of myself and my friends in these people. At the time I didn't know it was based off of a true story. But me and my friends all made it out unscathed and we're all doing well now in our very early 40s. But we had no guidance from our parents either. This was pre cell phone days and there would literally be entire weekends or weeks in the summer where I would be gone with friends and my parents had NO IDEA where I was, and neither did theirs. Looking back, and now being a mom myself, I could never do that to my kids. My kids dad had a very similar upbringing and is the same age, and he did get arrested and go to jail in his teens (not for murder). So the way these kids were in the film is not far off from the reality people of my generation and older generations grew up and spent our youths. Some made it out, some didn't.
I just watched this and, spoiler alert, I have a theory about the ending. If you turn on the subtitles you can read what she is saying to the police as he is walking out back to his yard. She doesn't mention that someone hit her husband but he's on the floor bleeding and to come help. I think she's planning on covering for him. I think the positivity of the perfectly ripe tomato he holds in his hand might mean something too regarding this.
What you like and in what order is personal to you, but there are far too many films on this list that are simply not horror films -- even at a very generous stretch, such as REAR WINDOW, LET'S TALK ABOUT KEVIN, THE BEGUILED, DUEL, SEVEN, BREAKDOWN,...
I really enjoyed this film from start to finish. It’s horrifying but very realistic how humans will go out to sea become lost at sea and we never know how it happened or why it happens but unfortunately it does. But my problem during the film that stressed me out that he didn’t have an EPIRB on his boat nor his personal EPIRB but unfortunately not everyone has one.
When this movie came out, it hadnt even been 25 years since the real event occurred. So many small southern towns didnt look all that different really, over that period of time. Lots of normal things still existed...light poles, payphones, many stores and shops still looked the same, courthouses and police stations often still had the same furnishings, public bathrooms were often unchanged... old cars, old firetrucks, old construction and farm equipment were more readily available, and street signs were often still the same signs from the 60s. Shooting a movie like this would be pretty impossible today. When movies of this period are tried today, it looks very staged. When shooting shots of a small town landscape, they are generally very short and tight. Thats because, while old small towns still exist in great numbers, their is just enough modernity in place, whether its infrastructure (modern traffic lights and signs, etc), or technology (i.e cell phone towers, or satellite dishes, etc...). So they will put effort into making a small area look right, and just shoot that. You never get long, sweeping, continuous shots...like you could back then. The last movie I saw that did a good job of it was 'No Country For Old Men'. Other movies, based in the 50s/60s, but made in the 80s/early 90s...that were really good at pulling it off were; Good Morning Vietnam, JFK, Platoon, La Bamba, the Right Stuff, and Dirty Dancing...just to name a few. Ive heard several filmmakers say that its more difficult to shoot a movie that is set 20 years back in time, than it is to shoot one that is set 500 years back in time.
You’re an idiot. To watch the US Navy do their thing the first 20 minutes and in 1980 these shots of real fighter jets would have audiences geeking out at start of film ….youre just a moron
The character Old Henry was under played role with a script that was excellent. All the actors did well. The end result was a brilliant film that strongly reminded me of the best Western of all time, Unforgiven.
I like both and i like the book. I feel like the movie was an entity unto itself and it is an artistic triumph. But, the miniseries was so much truer ti the characters and I loved watching Stephen Webbers slow descent, it was very effective. Also, very happy Wendy and Dick Halloran got their due.
Watched this recently and thought it was just ok. The dramatic moments didn’t feel fully earned to me. I can’t put my finger on why. I was very aware that this was a movie and they were trying very hard to get me to feel a certain way.
I really feel sad about shigeru.. everytime he sing or having a fun time it really tear my heart apart Ive never cry this hard...his little sister just died and still happy. This really trigger my sadness from the bottom of my heart
Awesome. I love Tim Blake Nelson!!! The man is a gem & legendary actor. I been wanting to find another great western that can reach the level of TRUE GRIT that well, true grit by coenn bros showed. That film was perfection. From the old henry trailer, it seemed more serious toned like 3:10 to Yuma or Unforgiven. And I was hoping that it would have a little more tone balance like a coenn bros film. But I’ll take any good westerns.
I just saw this movie and came for the ending to be explained. It's ledt to pur interpretation and wanting another 5 minutes atleast. A great slow burn you miss a scene you miss alot.
This is a great list! Here’s mine 1. Mulholland Drive 2. American Psycho 3. The Lighthouse 4. Braindead (Dead Alive) 5. Hereditary 6. Audition 7. Society 8. Possession 9. Hausu 10. Cure 11. Lost Highway 12. Suspiria (2018) 13. Bubba Ho-Tep 14. Train to Busan 15. Eraserhead 16. Midsommar 17. The Ninth Gate 18. Shaun of the Dead 19. Army of Darkness 20. Evil Dead II 21. El Orfanato 22. The Thing 23. Funny Games 24. Evil Dead 25. Young Frankenstein 26. Videodrome 27. Pulse 28. The Shining 29. Rosemary’s Baby 30. The Wailing 31. Beau is Afraid 32. The House that Jack Built 33. The Tenant 34. Shutter 35. Pearl 36. The Fly 37. The Witch 38. Saint Maud 39. The Coffee Table 40. From Dusk Till Dawn 41. Planet Terror 42. Mandy 43. Terrifier 44. What We Do in the Shadows 45. Angel Heart 46. Demons 47. Cabin in the Woods 48. Feast 49. Deathgasm 50. Re-Animator 51. From Beyond 52. Suspiria 53. Jacob’s Ladder 54. The Menu 55. Get Out 56. Drag Me To Hell 57. The Babadook 58. When Evil Lurks 59. Tourist Trap 60. The Vanishing (1988)
The movie was great as far as movie making and story telling goes but it was one BIG LIE. The real Billy Hayes said the whole Hollywood script as written by Oliver Stone was all made up. On his part, Oliver Stone accuses Billy Hayes of lying to him. It turns out that Billy Hayes was an experienced drug trafficker who had run drugs multiple times through JFK airport until he was finally caught. Billy admitted that he was not abused in prison and was left alone by the prisoners and Turkish guards, The Turkish judge was not corrupt and in fact it was Billy Hayes father who tried to bribe him unsuccessfully. Daddy was the corrupt one. Also, Billy was better off being caught in Turkey than in America where he would have served hard time and had a felony on his record for th rest of his life.
