QUOTE(SubRosa @ Oct 5 2013, 09:51 PM)
Following up Jaws with the director's cut of Das Boot today. I guess I will have to find another ocean based movie for tomorrow to make it a trifecta. Maybe Oceans 11?
Did you watched the German version of
Das Boot? I think it's better than the English dubbed version. Of course, I knew some German back when I first watched it. It was awesome to mentally translate the English subtitles into German then listen to see if I got them right . . .
It remains one of my favorite submarine movies ever.
More recently I finished watching the four episodes of
Run. It's exclusive to Hulu Plus and is a British drama. Very gritty, and each episode focuses on a single character, all interlinked. The first, Carol, is a mother of two grown boys who, without her knowledge, kill a stranger in a fit of rage on the street. Carol is scraping to get by, supporting the two sons, and watching them repeat the same abusive behavior she endured from her ex husband (their father). When she realizes their crime, her first instinct is to protect them, but then she wrestles with what is the right thing to do? During all of this, she steals from the (?) catalog order company she works for, and sells the stolen merchandise to a young Asian girl.
The second episode revolves around this young Asian girl, Ying, whom we find is an illegal immigrant struggling to pay off the debt to the man who brought her to London. She does so by selling black market merchandise, especially phones (which strongly resemble Apple's iPhones, of course) and bootleg DVDs. One of her disgruntled customers is a (barely) recovering addict named Richard. When Ying tries to escape the coyote who brought her over, a chain of violence follows her.
The third episode is about Richard's struggle to reconcile with his estranged daughter. He is caught on the street during an anti-drug sweep, and though he is clean, his history causes him trouble and gets him kicked out of the shelter where he has been staying. He finds shelter in an abandoned car (he finds an ID in the car for a Katerina Wolowicz, our next character). As he tries to prove his worth to his ex-wife and daughter, Richard has to confront his demons and his past.
In the fourth episode, we meet Katerina, who is another illegal immigrant from Warsaw, whose boyfriend was involved in a ring selling European women as brides for Asian men (mostly Indian and Pakistanis) so they can get their resident applications approved. Katerina finds out the truth about her boyfriend, who 1) was involved with a stripper and has a son with the other woman, 2) was being cheated by his partner in the wedding business, and 3) was the stranger killed by Carol's two boys. Katerina finally makes her escape from the boyfriend's shady partner and we see her depart on a train. Across the aisle from her is Carol. I really liked how the four lives were entwined without the characters being more than casually involved with each other. I also liked how the stories came full circle back to Carol and left things open for your own interpretation of where the stories and lives move on from there.
QUOTE(McBadgere @ Oct 6 2013, 09:08 AM)
A Good Day To Die Hard...
Oh dear...
...Oh very dear...*Sigh*...
No...Just...No...Don't...
Umm, don't . . . what?
Die Hard. Isn't that how just about every man wants to go?
No, I won't duck and run from this one . . .
...But who cares? The characters are amazing; the story is heartwarming and fun; the car designs and the scenery are beautiful; the music is awesome...
... 
...Was the only highlight of a very silly film...The only decent thing they did with it is keep it to 90 mins... 
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