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Yankee23Fan
Fair Tax!
Independence Day, Resurgence.
There was a good movie to be had there. This wasn't it. But there were pieces.
There was a good movie to be had there. This wasn't it. But there were pieces.
snogger
Footballguy
yea, unlike the original which I've watched WAY too many times, this was a "One and done" for me.. A
flick that missed more then it hit.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
For sure, we have had this discussion so many time. It's out there, but you probably aren't finding it easily at the theater or paying for it in the theater.jdoggydogg said:
I just saw THIS list (of course it's just one, I am sure there is other stuff). Also, which has been in the discussion too, about 1/2 those movies seem to be based on books, so it's not fully original.
I will be part of the problem this year for sure, because maybe 3 movies on that list interest me. Dunkirk is at the top of my summer list this year. However, between Lego Batman, Kong, Wimpy Kid, Planet of the Apes sequel, Spiderman, Star Wars, and others, the sequels and superheroes are going to be getting most of my time and money this year.
ETA: I completely forgot about Blade Runner on my list too.
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KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Son and I went to see Kong: Skull Island for a Spring Break treat yesterday. Both of us had fun with this one. He was laughing quite a bit at John C. Reilly. I had to laugh, because he said something about why there were so many young kids at the movie - quite a few kids that looked 5-6. IMO way too young for this movie - as somebody above said there was quite a bit of swearing and more blood that you typically get for this type of movie. Of course I am on the more prudish end of the spectrum with this too.
jdoggydogg
Footballguy
I got excited about the Blade Runner sequel when I heard the Sicario director was attached. I'm looking forward to Guardians II, Apes sequel, and Scorsese's The Irishman.KarmaPolice said:
jdoggydogg
Footballguy
My 13 year old and I are looking forward to seeing it this week.KarmaPolice said:
jdoggydogg
Footballguy
Yankee23Fan
Fair Tax!
Passengers.
I was enjoying this Castaway in space movie right until the end.....WTF? I don't know if I have ever been more annoyed at an ending... ugh.
Why is it so hard for Hollywood to tell a a story?
I was enjoying this Castaway in space movie right until the end.....WTF? I don't know if I have ever been more annoyed at an ending... ugh.
Why is it so hard for Hollywood to tell a a story?
joffer
Footballguy
I don't necessarily disagree, but how would you have ended it? The more I thought about it, I'm not sure there was a good way to end it.
Yankee23Fan
Fair Tax!
Well first, the previews made it seem like Fishburn and Garcia were more important and it hinted at a conspiracy not just a mistake that couldn't be reported.
Beyond that I can think of several endings that would have satisfied me. The main one being he should have drugged her, put her in stasis and she awakes to all the other passengers looking at her and the corpse at the for of her pod as they get into orbit. That would have been the true love move, movie style.
Cold Dead Hands
Footballguy
The way I end it is after the medical scanner fails fade to black. A light comes on that is the hologram when someone wakes up. The waking person rises into frame from the right. As the hologram is talking a frazzled and very crazy looking Jennifer Lawrence pops up to the side, then runs off with the tool box. Credits.
Yankee23Fan
Fair Tax!
I like that too, but it wasn't a psychological thriller that would lead to that.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Well, I guess I don't need to see Passengers now.
Yankee23Fan
Fair Tax!
Crap, did I violate spoiler rules? I thought we didn't do that in this thread. I'm sorry if I did, really.
Sweet J
Footballguy
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
It's cool - I was mostly being a smart-###. I probably would have tried it if it was on HBO as I was skimming through, but it's nothing I was actively looking to watch.
Cold Dead Hands
Footballguy
I think you are still ok to watch. He never mentioned the Ice Pirates or the significance of the creature. Also the black element in the nuclear core.KarmaPolice said:
El Floppo
Footballguy
Watched Triple Nine... very solid cast (winslett, Casey Affleck, Woody h, Chiwetel, crossbow guy from TWD) and somewhat interesting story involving cops, heists and the Jewish Russian mob (who knew). Trying to figure out where it missed being better, but feels like it did a bit. Not bad though...
belljr
Footballguy
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
Patriots Day - 8.5/10
Just great from start to finish. It never got melodramatic and the pacing was excellent (and not always easy to do in a movie 2+ hours long).
Jiimmy Yang as Dun Meng puts you right in that car... my heart was racing.
Highly recommended.
Just great from start to finish. It never got melodramatic and the pacing was excellent (and not always easy to do in a movie 2+ hours long).
Jiimmy Yang as Dun Meng puts you right in that car... my heart was racing.
Highly recommended.
belljr
Footballguy
Sweet J
Footballguy
El Floppo
Footballguy
Sweet J
Footballguy
solid flick. Kind of reminds me of Sicario. Not in the story, but how it left me. Solid flick that just missing a little something.
Yankee23Fan
Fair Tax!
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
Hella double feature comin up in about 15 min on TCM. Hitchcock's ever-creepy Shadow of a Doubt @ 6 and Manchurian Candidate @ 8.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Wife and I are doing a cocktails and film noir day here. She's mostly in it for the booze, but oh well. My bet is after 2 movies, she will be done, but I have Monday off so I plan to keep it going.
1. Too Late for Tears and a French 75
2. The Big Sleep and a Dirty Martini
3. Double Indemnity and an Old Fashioned
4. A Touch of Evil and a Manhattan
1. Too Late for Tears and a French 75
2. The Big Sleep and a Dirty Martini
3. Double Indemnity and an Old Fashioned
4. A Touch of Evil and a Manhattan
belljr
Footballguy
TripItUp
Footballguy
Sweet J
Footballguy
Not a movie, but: My kids and I can't get enough of The Detour, the Jason Jones/Samantha Bee project. It is laugh out loud funny. Every single episode has at least one scene where I actually double over with laughter. The episode a couple weeks ago where Jason Jones gets stuck in the kiddie pool as the pregnant neighbor has the baby on him was . . . indescribably funny.
I don't have cable because I'm cheap, and subsist exclusively on Hulu/Netflix/Amazon, and I HAPPILY spent the twenty bucks on this series so I could watch each episode as it came out.
EDIT: Oh, and it helps that the wife in this show is SMOKING hot.
I don't have cable because I'm cheap, and subsist exclusively on Hulu/Netflix/Amazon, and I HAPPILY spent the twenty bucks on this series so I could watch each episode as it came out.
EDIT: Oh, and it helps that the wife in this show is SMOKING hot.
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Homer J Simpson
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Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
Not at all. I was into the movie from start to finish.Hmmm. Part of me feels like this is a day late April Fools.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Reviews so far.
Too Late for Tears
His: I had never heard or seen it before but when I saw a noir with Dan Duryea, I figured it would be good. It was. DD plays another classic sleaze and while Lizabeth Scott is like the B version of Bacall, she doesn't suffer from the studios insistence to always make Bacall likable. Good noir film with twists and turns.
Hers: The main chick in the movie is a bad ###. I'm surprised that they made movies back then that had a woman who was cooler, smarter and more vicious than all the men.
The Big Sleep
His: I have seen the movie several times, I have read the book several times. I still can't ever follow this thing. There a ton of great scenes though. Quintessential Bogey here and while Bacall is to die for, not even Archie Moore had this many knockouts so I am not sure she stands out at much as she usually does. This is the 40s version of "style over substance" (and I mean that in a good way).
Her: No clue what happened or who is who. None. Bogart is like a cooler, tougher, smaller and much less good looking version of Ben Affleck. Why is the world are all these beautiful women throwing themselves at Bogart? Maybe 10 different women slept with him or tried or were acting like 14 year old girls around the first cute guy they ever met. Do not get it. At all. Probably smelled like a mix between an ashtray and an onion. This must be a guy thing because I don't get it at all. Instead of a plot, it's just a rambling male fantasy: always something smart to say, someone to beat up or a beautiful woman to sleep with.
Too Late for Tears
His: I had never heard or seen it before but when I saw a noir with Dan Duryea, I figured it would be good. It was. DD plays another classic sleaze and while Lizabeth Scott is like the B version of Bacall, she doesn't suffer from the studios insistence to always make Bacall likable. Good noir film with twists and turns.
Hers: The main chick in the movie is a bad ###. I'm surprised that they made movies back then that had a woman who was cooler, smarter and more vicious than all the men.
The Big Sleep
His: I have seen the movie several times, I have read the book several times. I still can't ever follow this thing. There a ton of great scenes though. Quintessential Bogey here and while Bacall is to die for, not even Archie Moore had this many knockouts so I am not sure she stands out at much as she usually does. This is the 40s version of "style over substance" (and I mean that in a good way).
Her: No clue what happened or who is who. None. Bogart is like a cooler, tougher, smaller and much less good looking version of Ben Affleck. Why is the world are all these beautiful women throwing themselves at Bogart? Maybe 10 different women slept with him or tried or were acting like 14 year old girls around the first cute guy they ever met. Do not get it. At all. Probably smelled like a mix between an ashtray and an onion. This must be a guy thing because I don't get it at all. Instead of a plot, it's just a rambling male fantasy: always something smart to say, someone to beat up or a beautiful woman to sleep with.
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jdoggydogg
Footballguy
jdoggydogg
Footballguy
Long before I realized that Muhammad Ali was the coolest man alive, I would have nominated Humphrey Bogart. Never tire of that dude.
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
One of the all-time great lines, though, courtesy of screenwriter William Faulkner: "She tried to sit in my lap while I was standing up"Ilov80s said:
Alas, even the great Faulkner couldn't beat the censors. With the pornographers-turned-blackmailers angle ruled out by them, they had nowhere to go with an already dense plot (wonderful book, btw - 2nd best work of my 2nd favorite author). If Robert Towne had to turn running-water-to-the-Valley into controlling the flow of chai into Los Angeles, Chinatown would have suffered, too.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
To be fair, even Chandler himself didn't always know what was happening in the books he was writing. The plot is an afterthought. Which Chandler book do you most enjoy? For me, it is neck and neck between The Big Sleep and Farewell, My Lovely.
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
The big three are those and my favorite, The Long Goodbye. Something about a pal instead of a dame being the focus of the story gave it more heart. And his descriptions of nursing gimlets in dusky bars is as atmospheric as anything i've read.
And that yielded a movie i luvluvluv with even more inspired off-the-page screenwriting by, interestingly enough, the same guy who partnered w Faulkner on Big Sleep 30 yrs before, Leigh Brackett. Gangster Marty Augustine's "I gotta get a lotta money so i can juice da guys i gotta juice, so i can get a lotta money so i can juice da guys i gotta juice" and destroying the face of his moll with a Coke bottle, then turning to Marlowe and saying "And her i love. You I dont even like" in the attempt to have his money returned were about as good as it gets.
jdoggydogg
Footballguy
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
Drag Me To Hell - 6/10
Was expecting a lot more given the props this has gotten. Pretty standard Raimi fare.
Allison Lohman gives it her all though.
Was expecting a lot more given the props this has gotten. Pretty standard Raimi fare.
Allison Lohman gives it her all though.
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KarmaPolice
Footballguy
I think this is what the hype was about. After doing Spidey movies, Simple Plan, and non-horror movies it was good to have him back in that genre. I thought the movie was a blast and had some good humor and a couple good scares. I tend to judge PG-13 and R horror differently, and this is about as good as you can get for a PG-13 horror movie.
JoeSteeler
Footballguy
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Get Out:
Hmm. I guess it was pretty good. Usually I am more in step with the critics when it comes to horror movies that they like - recently stuff like The Babadook, Don't Breathe and It Follows fall into this category. This one has moments for sure, but mostly the good moments were funny and uncomfortable, unfortunately what I didn't get is the scares that the others I listed gave. I was hoping for that, and it's why I try to see some horror movies in the theater. Also thought it was a little silly at the end, but gets points for being so well acted and casted. Given the topic it's hitting on, I get why the critics are gushing over it, this is just the one time I am not really agreeing with it. 6/10
Hmm. I guess it was pretty good. Usually I am more in step with the critics when it comes to horror movies that they like - recently stuff like The Babadook, Don't Breathe and It Follows fall into this category. This one has moments for sure, but mostly the good moments were funny and uncomfortable, unfortunately what I didn't get is the scares that the others I listed gave. I was hoping for that, and it's why I try to see some horror movies in the theater. Also thought it was a little silly at the end, but gets points for being so well acted and casted. Given the topic it's hitting on, I get why the critics are gushing over it, this is just the one time I am not really agreeing with it. 6/10
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Haven't seen it but it's the rare movie where critics and my high school students like it.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Yeah, I can definitely see that - my theater was laughing their asses off, so a good time was had. I could see the HSers liking that part. For the critics, they can view it for the social commentary and the the acting. For me, a great horror movie has these elements and delivers the scares, and I thought Get Out was really lacking on that department. Also thought it got a bit silly with what was going on which took it down a peg for me too. Definitely worth a watch, just not great IMO.
