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Smile (Prime): I started this on a plane and finished it on Prime. Recent horror movie, IMDB 6.5. This wasn’t a satisfying movie to me. It had a decent enough setup, kind of a typical Am-I-crazy horror story. But the horror parts were mostly jump scares and some gore - they weren’t actually scary. The lead actress did a good job of transitioning from a professional to just absolutely haggard as she wore down over the movie. It was the ending that really lost me, though. I guess there’s some value to subverting expectations, but this movie was leading up to a different ending than the one we got, and I didn’t like that, maybe because I’m simple.
 
Cobweb is available on streaming. It's a great addition to this year's October spooky season movie list. I don't know why it was in theaters this summer-it literally takes place during Halloween.
 
El Floppo said:
I love tropic thunder.
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I do still really like it. On rewatches I have softened on my stance a little. I love movies within movies, so that's a plus. Downey Jr and a lot of the side characters like McConaughey, McBride, and Nolte make me laugh a bit still. For me, Jack Black gets a little old and what I said to Andy above is true for me - the 2nd half gets a little too Stillery for me to fully love it as a whole.
 
KarmaPolice said:
El Floppo said:
I love tropic thunder.
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I do still really like it. On rewatches I have softened on my stance a little. I love movies within movies, so that's a plus. Downey Jr and a lot of the side characters like McConaughey, McBride, and Nolte make me laugh a bit still. For me, Jack Black gets a little old and what I said to Andy above is true for me - the 2nd half gets a little too Stillery for me to fully love it as a whole.
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Tom Cruise was gold in that.
 
It took us 3 sessions to get through Babylon. Broken up into 3 one hour episodes made it somewhat bearable but overall not worth watching. There was some potential there and a couple of funny moments but it was a mess.

eta: they should have cut the Toby McGuire scene out completely.
 
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I wanted to watch a movie last night that I knew I wouldn’t have to pay too close attention to because I was pretty drained. Not sure how I landed on The Goodbye Girl but boy did it surprise me, had some real heart and laughs. A little dated in spots and I’m still not a huge Dreyfuss fan but this movie had a certain something. I was pleasantly surprised.
 
Ilov80s said:
I wanted to watch a movie last night that I knew I wouldn’t have to pay too close attention to because I was pretty drained. Not sure how I landed on The Goodbye Girl but boy did it surprise me, had some real heart and laughs. A little dated in spots and I’m still not a huge Dreyfuss fan but this movie had a certain something. I was pleasantly surprised.
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Neil Simon's dialog still (mostly) shines 50 years later. The Goodbye Girl wasn't adapted from one of his plays so it's a little less theatrical.

Robert De Niro was originally cast in the Dreyfuss role.
 
jamny said:
It took us 3 sessions to get through Babylon. Broken up into 3 one hour episodes made it somewhat bearable but overall not worth watching. There was some potential there and a couple of funny moments but it was a mess.

eta: they should have cut the Toby McGuire scene out completely.
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The excessiveness was the point
 
Snake and Mongoose (2013 - on Prime) is like a poor man's Ford vs. Ferrari. It tells the story of the rivalry/friendship of 60s-70s drag racers Don "The Snake" Prudhomme and Tom "The Mongoose" McEwen.

There are a bunch of sports movie cliches and the family melodrama is pretty thick at times but I enjoyed my time watching it. It's a relatively low budget film but the filmmakers do a nice job of mixing in cool archival drag racing footage and the actors look enough like the real life drivers to be convincing. The casting overall is strong with Tim Blake Nelson and Fred Dryer (!) is memorable supporting roles.
 
Eephus said:
Ilov80s said:
I wanted to watch a movie last night that I knew I wouldn’t have to pay too close attention to because I was pretty drained. Not sure how I landed on The Goodbye Girl but boy did it surprise me, had some real heart and laughs. A little dated in spots and I’m still not a huge Dreyfuss fan but this movie had a certain something. I was pleasantly surprised.
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Neil Simon's dialog still (mostly) shines 50 years later. The Goodbye Girl wasn't adapted from one of his plays so it's a little less theatrical.

Robert De Niro was originally cast in the Dreyfuss role.
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Oh that would have been real interesting to see Bobby in that. Also I did perk up a little when I saw Neil Simon in the credits, I had no idea. The only thing I knew about the movie was Dreyfuss won an Oscar for it.
 
Andy Dufresne said:
KarmaPolice said:
80s finally watched Heat- hooah!

Now I need to return the favor and finally watch a couple of your suggestions. :bag: I guess I did knock out Amadeus last year finally. I did intend to buy Lawrence of Arabia 4K the other day, but when I looked it was about $100+. Nope. I ended up with Blade Runner 2049 and Pulp Fiction instead.
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Sony studios confirmed that thei 4K Ultra HD Steelbook release of David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia (1962) will be coming back into stock at all your favorite retailers in the next month or two.
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$30 on Amazon today
 
Andy Dufresne said:
Andy Dufresne said:
KarmaPolice said:
80s finally watched Heat- hooah!

Now I need to return the favor and finally watch a couple of your suggestions. :bag: I guess I did knock out Amadeus last year finally. I did intend to buy Lawrence of Arabia 4K the other day, but when I looked it was about $100+. Nope. I ended up with Blade Runner 2049 and Pulp Fiction instead.
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Sony studios confirmed that thei 4K Ultra HD Steelbook release of David Lean’s Lawrence of Arabia (1962) will be coming back into stock at all your favorite retailers in the next month or two.
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$30 on Amazon today
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I got the nonsteel book 4K awhile back, looks incredible. Maybe the best looking disc I’ve seen.
 
Expend4bles. You can wait for Video. 1 and 3 were good. 2 is O.K and 4 is only worth
watching if you like the series.

It was not available on IMAX, which should tell you something.
 
12yo Floppinha wanted to see a scary movie... and I thought we were going to see the latest Agatha Christie thing with Ken Brannagh, but saw It Lives Inside instead. (eta- it's still in theaters)

I know the girl liked it, but she's a maroon. there wasn't much if anything new added stylistically or narratively to the cannon other than it centering around an Indian American family. the plot was pretty heavy handed about assimilation and it borrowed all of its scares (nothing new to see) without doing them terribly well. suffered a bit from low budget and lesser acting. but moron 12yo liked it well enough, so there ya go.
 
4K Lawrence of Arabia-$37 to pre order at my local music store.
Maybe you guys ought to get your head out of primes hole and look around sometimes.
 
Ilov80s said:
Even cinema‘a most famous curmudgeon Paul Schrader loved Barbie. Said “Just returned frok GRETALAND”. It’s her world now.” My favorite explanation on what makes the movie work beyond the music comedy is from Variety:

an exuberant jokey carnival of fourth-wall-breaking doll’s-house-as-rabbit-hole feminist surrealism — a candy-colored Dreamhouse burlesque that adores Barbie and resents her at the same time, that tweaks the patriarchy even as it treats Ken as the film’s most complicated character, and that has the wit to recognize that Barbie isn’t just a plaything, she’s a metaphysical projection of feminine ideals who also has the effect of undermining who women are.
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Love Gerwig. She was the reason why I wanted to see the movie that turned into a steaming pile of plastic social commentary.
Rarely funny, the physical comedy completely missed.
Music didn't work for me.
What is the reason to watch?
Gerwig? Margot? That's not enough. Will Ferrell was forgettable old and tired.
The lack of story?
The one-dimensional characters?
I'm sorry but I have no idea why anyone who isn't a vapid 12-year-old girl liked Barbie.
 
The longer I live, the more I relate to Ed Tom Bell from No Country for Old Men. Substitute in "culture" for crime in "I don't know what to make of that. I sure don't. The crime you see now, it's hard to even take its measure."

I suppose it's always been thus though.
 
You are all just old or something, Barbie was hillarious and a ton of fun. There wasn’t a single thing I didn’t enjoy. It’s not an insult, it’s ok to be old, things will pass us all by eventually.
 
Andy Dufresne said:
The longer I live, the more I relate to Ed Tom Bell from No Country for Old Men. Substitute in "culture" for crime in "I don't know what to make of that. I sure don't. The crime you see now, it's hard to even take its measure."

I suppose it's always been thus though.
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yeah you get it, it happens. Comedies are especially tough to translate along age and time.
 
Ilov80s said:
Andy Dufresne said:
The longer I live, the more I relate to Ed Tom Bell from No Country for Old Men. Substitute in "culture" for crime in "I don't know what to make of that. I sure don't. The crime you see now, it's hard to even take its measure."

I suppose it's always been thus though.
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yeah you get it, it happens. Comedies are especially tough to translate along age and time.
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I've never been one for comedies much. I think in my entire library of digital/discs - which number about 400 - I think I own eight comedies. And some of those I'm pretty sure I got for free.
 
We withheld judgement from our teenagers to get their unbiased take after seeing Barbie. Their views were pretty close to ours... ok, fun, but not getting the hype. A couple lol moments for me (not my wife), but otherwise pretty forgettable and lacking new insight or ideas into things, despite it's decent self awareness. Wanted it to be... more. Of anything.
 
El Floppo said:
We withheld judgement from our teenagers to get their unbiased take after seeing Barbie. Their views were pretty close to ours... ok, fun, but not getting the hype. A couple lol moments for me (not my wife), but otherwise pretty forgettable and lacking new insight or ideas into things, despite it's decent self awareness. Wanted it to be... more. Of anything.
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It certainly didn't present any grand new ideas but it was self aware and I thought balanced things quite well. It held Barbie was as a feminist hero while also acknowledging how Barbie is also kind of everything many feminists fight against. The men were a joke but yet in the end, Barbie opted for the real world where men have more power over her fake "perfect" world and of course the female Barbies of the "perfect" world mistreated the males of their world showing that it was far from actually being perfect. Again, not genius necessarily, but quite intelligent for a comedy aiming to work for preteen audiences as well as adults. In the end, it was a comedy and you either find those funny or you don't. I thought it was hilarious but I also had the benefit of seeing it in a sold out show opening night. Nothing can beat a comedy with a crowd.
 
I'm as far outside the target demographic as any of you farts but put me in the enjoyed Barbie group. It was no cinematic masterpiece but it was a fun diversion for a couple of hours. It delivered enough laughs although mostly in the first half of the movie. They'll probably bludgeon the franchise to death with sequels but for now, it was about as good a movie as could be made with the limited source material.
 
As I prep for my October Horror Movie Fest where I aim to watch 31 scary movies, drop me some suggestions of possibly a little lesser known scary movies available on streaming.
 
Ilov80s said:
As I prep for my October Horror Movie Fest where I aim to watch 31 scary movies, drop me some suggestions of possibly a little lesser known scary movies available on streaming.
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I really want you to check out Messiah of Evil if you can find it. It looks like it's on Prime/AMC/Paramount+. I'm still not sure what I watched, and I planned on a rewatch. Just a bizarre, very visual movie I hadn't heard of.
 
Ilov80s said:
As I prep for my October Horror Movie Fest where I aim to watch 31 scary movies, drop me some suggestions of possibly a little lesser known scary movies available on streaming.
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Some horror movies I liked recently - I'm not sure how well known they are, though Bararian and Let the Right One In are well known, I think.
Speak No Evil (AMC+) 6.6 - I can't shake this one, I still think of it.
As Above, So Below (Prime) IMDB 6.2
Tucker and Dale vs. Evil (Prime) IMDB 7.5 (comedy horror)
Open Grave (Peacock) 6.2
Deadstream (AMC+) 6.4
Barbarian (hulu) 7
Black Mountain Side (Roku) 5.1
Let the Right One In (Prime) 7.9
All three Fear Street movies on Amazon
[REC] (Prime) 7.4
Spring (Vudu free) 6.7 - maybe more of a romance movie than horror? But there's a monster that eats people.
Cockneys vs. Zombies (Peacock) 5.9 (comedy zombies)
#Alive (Netflix) 6.3 Korean zombies
The Battery (Prime) 6.3 low budget zombies
The Night Eats the World (Prime) 6 French zombies
Bodies Bodies Bodies (Paramount+) 6.2
Sissy (AMC+) 6.1
 
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