The Film Thread

Has anyone seen Coda? I’ve not been the best at keeping up with new movies but I’d never even heard of it before the Oscars but there was a very negative response on Twitter (isn’t there always) towards the movie after it won.

Rotten Tomatoes has it at 94% though.

I thought he was good in “the grey”

There has been some amount of movies where he has had bit part roles over the past few years that i think this may have been coming on for a while.
Prior to that he did make some decent movies,
Sixth Sense,Pulp Fiction ,Sin City,Tears of the sun and of course the first few Die hard movies.
I still remember him in Moonlighting back in the 80’s,thought he was great,an average Joe .

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It’s a really fun and easy watch Fith Element.

I know it’s cliche but the original Die Hard is a classic.

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Blacklight was pretty shit. It’s every other recent Neeson film you ever saw. It’s so generic that it’s just boring.
It also makes no sense in many ways.

Along with Moonlighting, the first thing I remember seeing Bruce Willis in was a film I think called Sunset with James Garner set in late 1920’s Hollywood.

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Color of Night? Bet all of you randy lads from the 90s have seen that classic!

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My favorite Liam Neeson film is an earlier one of his, ‘Under Suspicion’. I only ever watched it once, but from what I remember it had a good plot line and a ‘twist in the tail’ ending. :nerd_face:

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Its a decent movie.
Stephen Graham is excellent

Never seen it but then again I’m not 1 for going back and watching films from 30+ years ago.

For me Non-Stop is pretty cool, simplistic in its setting and story but it carries the tension right from the off.

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Why?

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Agreed, watch Demolition Man now and look how well it predicted today’s society. 30 years ago films used to be about character and story, now they’re about virtue signalling and agenda.

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6th sense and Unbreakable are two other Willis films that are decent.

Overall he has a pretty decent back catalogue. Hard to think of many actors that could better it.

As kids films go, Disney’s The Kid is also a decent Bruce Willis film.

Die Hard/Die Hard 2
12 Monkeys
Unbreakable
Hudson Hawk
Mercury Rising

Are probably my faves

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My favourite one is when he plays a soft spoken retired or soon to be retired character, that must save a loved one.

Fortunately they have messed with the wrong man. He has a very specific set of skills that includes killing. His inner conflict of transitioning from one lifestyle to another is solved. He is needs to be the hero.

He then spends second half of movie killing bad guys in cool action scenes. Before killing the boss right at the end.

I can’t remember which movie that was. Perhaps Taken 1, 2 or 3, Unknown, Run all night, non stop or the grey :sweat_smile:

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Interesting. A saw a twitter thread only a few days ago asking what film from the past turned out to be more prescient than you understood at the time and it was full of people saying Demolition Man. I wouldnt have said that in a million years so maybe worth rewatching it.

Oh definitely. To clarify my earlier point though, I wasnt just giving films of his I enjoyed but listing two that may have gone under the radar given how badly (unfairly so IMO) they were both received when they came out. Hudson Hawk in particular won razzies and was being talked about as a possible reputation ruiner/career ender. That was one he wrote and while it was genuinely beset with production problems, including rewrites, it’s actually a really fun film. Which is what it was going for. I mean shit, it had Richard Grant and Sandra Bernhard both playing the campiest versions of themselves as evil bad guys…it did what it says on the tin. Yet the review of it felt like an attempted industry take down of a star actor getting too big (why does his think he can write as well as act?) and so they went on a spree of tearing his films his bits.

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Havent seen it. But I have seen the one in which he plays a soft spoken retired or soon to be retired character, that must save himself from a situation he doesnt understand.

Fortunately they have messed with the wrong man. He has a very specific set of skills that includes killing. His inner conflict of transitioning from one lifestyle to another is solved. He is needs to be the hero.

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It’s like they went forward to 2025 and did a site visit.

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Idk you know, maybe because there’s just so much coming out now and it’s like “Yo, have you just seen this film that’s come out on Netflix or this film that came out on Prime.”

I do watch the odd one, recently seen Man of Fire and Pulp Fiction for example, seen Price and Prejudice, Titanic many a times (still weap from it), your Kill Bills, Air Force 1 which is probably 1 of my favourite all time films, Con Air another etc. but the majority are from 2005-

Hmmm…sounds more like the commuter :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

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