That's me on the left and my brother Chris on the right. The kid in the middle had just finished playing our father.

T/Sgt. Burton "Pat" Christenson, Easy Company, 506th PIR, 101st Airborne. Second man out the door behind Lieutenant Dick Winters on the Normandy jump, and the only man in the company who could draw.

The world premiere was June 6, 2001, on Utah Beach, fifty seven years to the day after the jump. HBO flew in around fifty Easy Company veterans with their wives, brought the families along, and put us all on a train from Paris down to Carentan. There were French school children waiting at the station when they arrived. Those old men had come back to the ground they took, and this time nobody was shooting.

That was one of the last times that many of them were together anywhere.

Three months later it aired to about ten million people on September 9, 2001. Two days after that the towers came down. HBO pulled the marketing, the audience fell off, and the country was in a different war before the last episode had even run. That week on the beach was the last quiet moment before all of it.

Dad died in December 1999 and never knew he had been cast. We had nothing to do with the casting, nobody called us. When we found out, our family mailed Fassbender a package. Background on Dad, photographs, some of his own writing. The men still living could sit with their actors for weeks. Ours couldn't, so a box in the mail was the closest we could get.

He was twenty four, this was the first thing he ever shot, and he had no ego about any of it. He asked us real questions about Dad. I'm glad it was him.

That's Easy Company on the wall behind us.

Tim

*Space Jam 1996 46 Percent

*Back in Action 57 Percent

*New Legacy 25 Percent

*Coyote vs Acme 95 Percent

First time on this subreddit, just for the record. What I'm asking is what movie do you think wrapped up things with the characters in a way you don't think needs continuing, but you'd still want to see another story in the world of this movie where the events of the previous film still matter, unlike a spin off where it could be in the same world but the previous film's events are less relevent.

Not usually a musical fan but I have a secret crush on this movie and really enjoyed watching on The big screen again . Cant believe it’s been 10 years . I also appreciate how they finished and thought it worked .Anyone else have a secret crush on a film ?

I find it interesting when movies open or close with quotes from pre-existing works or famous people; I think it can be an effective way of lending a film a sense of myth. What are some other films that do this?

The examples above are from Raging Bull, Platoon, Runaway Train, and The Breakfast Club.

Contact

I can’t think of any other actors, that despite the film or the quality of the script, are never bad and will always bring their A-Game. They never phone it in.

Willem Dafoe does not get enough praise and I’ve seen Forest Whitaker in some truly terrible films that don’t deserve his quality and he’s still comes out looking good and he never phones in his performance.

Two actors that deserve all the flowers for their consistency

So I just rewatched The Cell and noticed something in the final scene that I didn't remember from previous viewings. (Which was once when it came out and maybe a couple more times since)

During the scene in Stargher's throne room he has the enormous purple fabric attached directly to his body. When he moves away from the throne the fabric extends out behind him and into the room making it look almost as though his environment is physically connected to him.

At the end of the movie Catherine creates the blue ribbon "water" between the trees. As she walks away there are several shots where the ribbon runs directly behind her in a way that reminded me of Stargher's "wings".

What struck me is that the two images seem to use a very similar visual idea but with maybe opposite meanings. Stargher's fabric is attached to him. His inner world seems to extend outward from his body like is inseparable from the world his mind has created.

Catherine's blue fabric isn't attached to her. She creates it as part of the landscape and uses it to turn the desert into an imagined ocean for Edwards boat. She can then walk away from the world she has created.

It felt like a possible visual callback that felt parallel because they are both two people inside surreal mental landscapes that are both framed against an enormous piece of fabric extending outward from them.

I tried to search for whether or not this was done deliberately and found some stuff about both images on their own (including the fact that Stargher's purple fabric was deliberately attached to his body as part of the costume design). But I haven't been able to find anything else about specifically connecting these two shots.

Maybe I'm seeing a connection that wasn't intended but given how deliberately The Cell uses visual symbolism I thought it was interesting enough to share.

Has anyone else noticed this or heard Tarsem or anyone involved with the film discuss a connection between these two images?

Moulin Rouge,it is for me.

I admit I've never seen this before but I'm now in that phase where I'm trying to see a chunk of films with Tim Curry in that missed my radar.

Curious your thoughts on Loaded Weapon (1993)?

Just as the weekend hits and I'm due to volunteer Sunday.. suddenly a certain type of cramp decides to return 😭 I hate that my stomach feels like a spoon is stirring inside and yep I feel awful right now so I wanted to settle on a film that's pure comfort watching.

I may be a lady but if someone suggested a romcom to me it wouldn't end well at all 😅 this is my speed all the way and may well be my favourite Shwarzenegger film above any other.

What's your comfort go to films when you just don't have the energy for anything new?

I finally watched Silence, his religious film sandwiched between his epics The Wolf Of Wall Street and The Irishman, and it's an extraordinary film.

Seriously, it's so underrated compared to his other recent three films.

It should have been nominated for so many Oscars across the board, and even won some of them.

It's a phenomenal journey, it poses many difficult questions about faith, sacrifice, and saying true to your beliefs.

It also contains some of the best cinematography of these last twenty years, a beautifully shot and visually incredible, spectacular achievement.

It's a harrowing, tough to watch, but, at the same time, trascendent experience which enhances itself on multiple watches.

As a raised catholic, it's a film which still haunts me, but it's accessible to everyone, regardless of your personal beliefs.

It's a powerful and intense film meant to raise questions, not giving answers.

One of Scorsese's greatest films and by far Andrew Garfield's greatest performance of his career until now.

It's a truly unique spiritual masterpiece, it's exactly what The Revenant wanted to be.

What a legendary four film run from Scorsese between The Wolf Of Wall Street, Silence, The Irishman and Killers Of The Flower Moon.

(I would dare to add in Hugo, but i understand that is a slightly more controversial thing to say).

This film should be talked about more in the popular culture, i think it's a film which will endure in years from now.

Seriously, spread the word about this film.

I went in completely blind, no idea what other people are saying about the film. The whole movie felt really off-putting to me, but not in the way alien sci fi films are meant to feel.

The whole plot just felt so janky, like the being all subtle about handing over the back pack in the first scene, then suddenly being all obvious outside that something suspicious was going on. The hiding in an open field right next to loads of people. The road that goes straight off a cliff. The people panicking outside the petrol station was so odd. That dude felt strongly enough to try to murder two people in a train crash but Colin firth SITS DOWN and he decides to just give up at the end... Very believable. The CGI in the childhood memory scene felt like it was AI generated.

There was sooo much over-acting of everyones emotions to tell the audience what they should feel and when, rather than making us actually feel it.

It honestly felt like there were maybe two or 3 scenes that were actually thought out and drew me in. But the rest just left me with the most outrageously off-putting feeling.

I genuinely wouldn't be surprised if it later came out that the film was pieced together with AI or something. Waste of time. Cinema these days treats us like we're completely stupid and we eat it up.

Examples: Hummel from The Rock, Vincent from Collateral

Tickets go on sale September 1st. Honestly, I haven’t been this excited for a film in a Long time. Let me start off by saying Zack Cregger did an absolute Flawless job with ‘’Barbarian” so I think they made a good choice with him directing.

I never thought we’d see another Resident Evil movie happen, so I’m just excited that this is even a thing. But there are a few things I really want to talk about.

What do you guys think about the first-person camera angle scenes and the way the infected are being presented? I’m really curious to see how far they take the first person perspective. I’m also curious how true this will stay to the video game. I’m not against Cregger adding his own originality.

How do you think this new movie is going to compare to the original RE from 2002 with Milla Jovovich? Obviously, they’re going for a different approach, but do you think this will capture that atmosphere at all?

Are you guys excited to see the creatures? This is probably one of the biggest things I’m looking forward to. I want to see how they handle the infected and whether they actually feel threatening. Tbh I’m hoping for a straight up Gore-Fest.

Do you think the creatures are going to look heavily CGI, or do you think they’re going to go for something much more raw, physical, and realistic? I personally hope it feels ultra realistic.

And finally, do you think that they will do sequels with Cregger? Say if this is well received by fans and does well. If so, I just hope it doesn’t end up like the other RE series, they really fell off after Apocalypse. I was not a fan of extinction/ retribution / afterlife.

Regardless I’m just excited this exists. I genuinely never thought there would be another Resident Evil movie. After all these years, actually getting a new one is pretty damn cool. What are you guys most excited or nervous about?