Prison Break genre of film
Nov. 22nd, 2023 07:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sasha_featherI read this list today, "The 45 Best Prison movies, ranked",
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-45-best-prison-escape-movies-ranked
And was deeply baffled. I think the writer watches movies in a completely different way than me and has different values. I confess I found the tone irritating and not funny, but that is probably because I'm sick today. But OTOH saying that you hope Dave Chappelle has made a lot of money from #44 Con Air is kind of... out of tune considering his recent transphobia and anti-Semitism.
Mysteriously missing from this list, though it definitely fits the criteria listed at the top, is I Love you Phillip Morris which has at least 2 prison escapes. And unlike any of the others here, AFAIK, it's queer.
I've tried searching for my post about #40 "Escape from Pretoria" a movie I quite liked, but can't find it at present. (Turns out i have hundreds of posts about movies and only a few of them have any kind of additional tag. Google advanced search did not help me out.) Anyways, if you want to watch a tense, detailed, successful prison break, and one based on a true story, that movie is for you.
I remember thinking that #16 "Logan Lucky" was fine, entertaining, but not deep or meaningful, and the cast is almost all white people.
The point of such lists is (I suppose) to get people to react and talk about stuff, and also presumably to get people to watch some of the movies, so I might go and check out a few of the titles here. At present due to concussion, English-language only for me for right now which eliminates several of the top selections.
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-45-best-prison-escape-movies-ranked
And was deeply baffled. I think the writer watches movies in a completely different way than me and has different values. I confess I found the tone irritating and not funny, but that is probably because I'm sick today. But OTOH saying that you hope Dave Chappelle has made a lot of money from #44 Con Air is kind of... out of tune considering his recent transphobia and anti-Semitism.
Mysteriously missing from this list, though it definitely fits the criteria listed at the top, is I Love you Phillip Morris which has at least 2 prison escapes. And unlike any of the others here, AFAIK, it's queer.
I've tried searching for my post about #40 "Escape from Pretoria" a movie I quite liked, but can't find it at present. (Turns out i have hundreds of posts about movies and only a few of them have any kind of additional tag. Google advanced search did not help me out.) Anyways, if you want to watch a tense, detailed, successful prison break, and one based on a true story, that movie is for you.
I remember thinking that #16 "Logan Lucky" was fine, entertaining, but not deep or meaningful, and the cast is almost all white people.
The point of such lists is (I suppose) to get people to react and talk about stuff, and also presumably to get people to watch some of the movies, so I might go and check out a few of the titles here. At present due to concussion, English-language only for me for right now which eliminates several of the top selections.
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Date: 2023-11-23 02:40 am (UTC)Hey, I bet that The Great Escape (1963) would be tops and now I get to feel smug.
(I would not, however, have included The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014). It is one of my favorite movies, but the prison break is a sequence in it, not the point.)
The Captive Heart (1946) is no longer the weirdest Cyrano variant I've seen in my life and it is more of a prisoner-of-war movie than a prison break movie, but I still recommend it highly if you can get hold of it. It is now on Region 1 Blu-Ray/DVD, which it was not at the time when I saw it. Heads-up for a moment of sort of meta-blackface (a character who hasn't had time to wash off their camouflage from sneaking around the camp at night is explained with the pretense of performing a minstrel turn at the prisoners' concert party, which is better than the concert party actually containing a minstrel turn and still a little whoa, right, The Black and White Minstrel Show ran up until 1979) and otherwise I can't think of anything in it that didn't hold up for me?
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Date: 2023-11-23 05:36 am (UTC)OK so what is the weirdest Cyrano adaptation you've seen?
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Date: 2023-11-23 05:41 am (UTC)You're welcome! It's on Tubi! I'm pretty sure I watched it on Kanopy originally.
OK so what is the weirdest Cyrano adaptation you've seen?
Currently, Desert Fury (1947)! I wouldn't call it any kind of deliberate adaptation of the story, but the central dynamic turns out to be remarkably similar.
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Date: 2023-11-23 11:05 pm (UTC)Easy call, because it's such a good movie. And of course Chicken Run, which is the most sensible remake on that list. (So many of those remakes: why?)
Not on the list: The Netflix series Transatlantic, which is all about people escaping the Nazi regime in 1940, including a prisoner-of-war prison break. Maybe it doesn't count because it's a miniseries and not a movie?
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Date: 2023-11-24 02:54 am (UTC)We loved "Out of Sight"
Date: 2023-11-23 05:23 pm (UTC)wich showed up as #15, and is available at MPL. Clooney and Ving Rhames are playing a very long game to get out of prison--much heist goodness. While I was dubious about two people kidnapped and stuck together in the trunk as a comedy, we laughed a lot. One animal dies offscreen
Re: We loved "Out of Sight"
Date: 2023-11-23 06:32 pm (UTC)Re: We loved "Out of Sight"
Date: 2023-11-24 07:34 am (UTC)The Cooney-Lopez chemistry is smokin’