Hostiles

[Baboontyme 2845]

I think there was a thread at the old place. 

Watching now. Holy shit. Brutal. Someone tell me why I should stick with this. It's not BAD. It's just brutal. 

[ousuxndallas 65]

Watched it last night. Amazing. Not a whole lot of joy on the ol frontier, especially with Comanche around.

That's one of the most accurate portrayals of life in Comancheria that I have seen depicted on the big screen.

I thought Bale was great, writing was excellent, cinematography was stunning.

[RomaVicta 30149]

Agree. I thought it was maybe the best movie I saw last year.

[GreenspointTexas 9882]

Started it last night. Cant wait to finish it. About 1/3 of the way through... so far, awesome

[futureman 22566]

is it on the Netflix?

[GreenspointTexas 9882]

Popcorn time

[GreenspointTexas 9882]

Finished it last night

 

 

holy moly, def. the best western since open range... maybe the best western since Dances With wolves

[bularry1 23]

I thought it was too long.  it was good, but kinda slow.

 

Bale was excellent

[atomheartbevo 90143]

Up on Netflix tonight.

 

[GreenspointTexas 9882]

Maybe the best under the radar movie of the last decade

[Mez2 4037]

On 4/19/2018 at 9:54 AM, bularry1 said:

I thought it was too long.  it was good, but kinda slow.

 

Bale was excellent

this - thought it was a little slow but overall thought it was a good movie. not sure if spoiler or not:

 

my wife loves ryan bingham so his cameo in the movie was pretty cool to see for her, but then when they end up going into the camp with those dudes who kidnapped the girls, i was like "watch, there's gonna kill Malloy here" and then 2 minutes later, "malloy's dead"..for some reason i thought that was pretty funny.

 

[futureman 22566]

3 hours ago, GreenspointTexas said:

Maybe the best under the radar movie of the last decade

maybe a bit of a reach. 

[lateshow 1309]

I watched it on the flight back from Dublin. Holy shit. Really, really good movie. 

[HoustonFrog 368]

Really good movie, but I thought the opening scene was a giant plot weakness. 

The father and family obviously knew a day would come when they would get attacked..... and the plan was for the wife and kids to run out the back door and for him to grab the rifle and take on a bunch of guys on horseback? 

But yes, very underrated movie. Bale was remarkable, IMO

[Pato del Muerto 52975]

Haven’t been in the right mood to watch this yet.  I hope nobody went into it expecting dances with wolves. 

[CrownKing 55]

Watched it last night, as the OP said, brutal. 

Spoiler

So did the Indians sneak off and kill the "rattlesnake" Comanche when the soldier fell asleep?  Then hang the one from a tree?

 

[futureman 22566]

22 minutes ago, CrownKing said:

Watched it last night, as the OP said, brutal. 

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So did the Indians sneak off and kill the "rattlesnake" Comanche when the soldier fell asleep?  Then hang the one from a tree?

 

yeah.  slater was on watch and he let them do it, presumably, based on what he says to pat bateman about it. 

[CrownKing 55]

Would łike to have seen that!

[atomheartbevo 90143]

2 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Haven’t been in the right mood to watch this yet.  I hope nobody went into it expecting dances with wolves. 

There’s not many movies I feel this way about, but yeah, it’s not a “casual” movie you throw on and watch.  

[lateshow 1309]

16 hours ago, CrownKing said:

Watched it last night, as the OP said, brutal. 

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So did the Indians sneak off and kill the "rattlesnake" Comanche when the soldier fell asleep?  Then hang the one from a tree?

 

Yes.

[kingkoopa6 8482]

Great flick. Bale killed it 

[Not a cat 5741]

On 8/16/2018 at 5:18 PM, HoustonFrog said:

Really good movie, but I thought the opening scene was a giant plot weakness. 

The father and family obviously knew a day would come when they would get attacked..... and the plan was for the wife and kids to run out the back door and for him to grab the rifle and take on a bunch of guys on horseback? 

But yes, very underrated movie. Bale was remarkable, IMO

Just started it and this immediately stood out.  You have a single rifle and the only advantage you have against some guys on horseback is you have shelter.  So your plan is to immediately leave the shelter when attacked?  

[Kennythetiger 9504]

I thought this was a great movie. However I did not like that he didn’t use the window sill as a rifle rest and as shelter. That really stood out to me. But as others have said- great movie that kind of takes the breath out of you. 

[wood 11637]

Wanted to see this one in the theater, but missed it. Just saw it last night. Fantastic. Bale & Cochrane were phenomenal.

[atomheartbevo 90143]

36 minutes ago, wood said:

Wanted to see this one in the theater, but missed it. Just saw it last night. Fantastic. Bale & Cochrane were phenomenal.

Funny how Slater from Dazed and Confused has built himself a nice little career.

[Bash Riprock 1695]

Very very meh.

[CooterBrown 18118]

Enjoyed it a lot. Didn't think it was slow moving at all.  The movie needed that little glimmer of hope in the last 20 seconds since it had exactly zero for the previous two hours.

[TwiceHorn 31705]

It was above "meh," but below "best in a while."  Although the latter seems to me to be a pretty low bar these days.

 

Acting was pretty good.  Ben Foster wasn't around long enough for my taste.  And the characters other than Bale, Pike, and Studi were gossamer thin to the point of nonexistence.  Even those three were a bit skinny, too.

 

Enjoyable flick though, probably because of the subject matter.

[Kennythetiger 9504]

"Best in a while" for me has been Wind River.

[Knoxtnhorn 6180]

14 hours ago, atomheartbevo said:

Funny how Slater from Dazed and Confused has built himself a nice little career.

Holy cow.  I'm usually pretty good at picking up on, "Oh that's the actor that was in..." moments, but I never would have figured that out on my own.  

I liked the movie.  I liked how it showed the good v evil on both sides of the coin.  

[Mileslong 4753]

Speaking of dazed and confused, i just watched a clip showing slater and realized the chick playing guitar in the scene was milla jovovich, hadn't picked that up before...

[Knoxtnhorn 6180]

Now that one I caught because I was in love with Mila at the time.  

[Tylerocks 2557]

19 hours ago, Knoxtnhorn said:

Holy cow.  I'm usually pretty good at picking up on, "Oh that's the actor that was in..." moments, but I never would have figured that out on my own.  

I liked the movie.  I liked how it showed the good v evil on both sides of the coin.  

Same here....my wife had to point it out.  It took a while to realize it was him in Black Mass too.

he's a chameleon.

[Parliament 14413]

I won't quibble about the plot trope re: getting ambushed at night.  Very intense movie, and I liked the opening scene.  

Wind River is a great movie, but's no western.  No horses, no revolvers, no whiskey.

[Mdhorn 6100]

On 8/16/2018 at 6:18 PM, HoustonFrog said:

Really good movie, but I thought the opening scene was a giant plot weakness. 

The father and family obviously knew a day would come when they would get attacked..... and the plan was for the wife and kids to run out the back door and for him to grab the rifle and take on a bunch of guys on horseback? 

But yes, very underrated movie. Bale was remarkable, IMO

He was distracting them so they could flee.  However, the wife held up and watched the scene with her daughters which may have cost them all their lives.  He pretty much died in vain, since the children all died too, and she looks to maybe getting hitched in the end. 

 

On 4/19/2018 at 9:41 AM, GreenspointTexas said:

holy moly, def. the best western since open range... maybe the best western since Dances With wolves

Really did remind me of Dances with Wolves--especially the scenery and the journey by a lonesome, ex civil war officer.  

Thought it was a good movie.   Seeing it after all the bodies of Native American school children in Canada is just another addition to the atrocities against humanity that non natives committed.