Recently viewed movie thread - Rental, Streaming, Theater etc (12 Viewers)

[KarmaPolice]

Love these. Need to rewatch Dark City, which I haven't seen since it came out. I researched Malkovich in the last year and was happy to see how well it held up.

I was shocked by how great the movie looked.  Maybe a little of that reaction is coming off the string of 90s action movies that look like #### (Twister!).    I didn't see one on my search but 100% this is a movie that should be on 4K disc.  

 

[whoknew]

Network - I had never seen it. How damn depressing. It is, of course, mostly excellent and the acting is superb. But the story is miserable - our current situation predicted 50 years ago.

 

[Ilov80s]

Network - I had never seen it. How damn depressing. It is, of course, mostly excellent and the acting is superb. But the story is miserable - our current situation predicted 50 years ago.

One of my all time favorites. Maybe the best script and acting I’ve ever seen. But yes it’s absolutely sickening how it accurate it ended up being. 

 

[Ilov80s]

Huge 2 thumbs up for Belfast. I appreciated that it was earnest and didn't feel any need to be ironic, cool, etc. Funny, sweet, sad, just like life itself. 

 

[Don Quixote]

It has been mentioned by a couple of folks here already, but watched Questlove's Summer of Soul yesterday. One of the better music documentaries that I've seen. Great music, and interviews helped give additional context. On Disney+, but it looks like ABC will air on Sunday night.

I also started up Flee on Hulu late last night. Animated documentary about a refugee fleeing Afghanistan as a minor. Remarkable so far.

 

[El Floppo]

It has been mentioned by a couple of folks here already, but watched Questlove's Summer of Soul yesterday. One of the better music documentaries that I've seen. Great music, and interviews helped give additional context. On Disney+, but it looks like ABC will air on Sunday night.

forgot I saw this on a plane last month. which I shouldn't have- it was really great... the music, and especially the context of time and place. loved it.

 

[Ilov80s]

forgot I saw this on a plane last month. which I shouldn't have- it was really great... the music, and especially the context of time and place. loved it.

It’s so good if you get a chance with a better screen and sound set up

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Ghostbusters: Afterlife

I liked it. Sure it's not the original. But it's really funny in spots. And it's not gratuitous. I recommend.

 

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

Hildalgo. Watched this for the first time and loved it. 

 

[Ilov80s]

West Side Story is just incredible. I had major doubts but Spielberg has still got it. I can’t believe he found a way to remake this and improve upon it. Maybe my choice for best movie of the year. 

 

[El Floppo]

Hildalgo. Watched this for the first time and loved it. 

is that the Vigo horse movie? totally enjoyed that one.

 

[El Floppo]

West Side Story is just incredible. I had major doubts but Spielberg has still got it. I can’t believe he found a way to remake this and improve upon it. Maybe my choice for best movie of the year. 

that's the first positive review I've heard... I've been wanting to see it as a fan of the original (and Floppinho's former classmate is in it as one of the dancing boys). thought the previews looked great- but then I started hearing meh reviews and never bothered.

 

[STEADYMOBBIN 22]

is that the Vigo horse movie? totally enjoyed that one.

Yup. You got it. 

 

[Ilov80s]

that's the first positive review I've heard... I've been wanting to see it as a fan of the original (and Floppinho's former classmate is in it as one of the dancing boys). thought the previews looked great- but then I started hearing meh reviews and never bothered.

Oh I hadn’t heard anything negative. I don’t know anyone in RL who saw it but Rotten Tomatoes and my Twitter timeline are overwhelmingly positive on it. I can’t imagine someone who likes WSS would dislike it. The craft of it is stunning and I think the story is better laid out. 

 

[KarmaPolice]

Summer of Soul is great. 

 

[Ilov80s]

Summer of Soul is great. 

Lots of music related films are going to end up high on my theoretical best of the year list. Summer of Soul, Velvet Underground, West Side Story, In the Heights, Tick Tick Boom, Inside and Annette were all really good to great. 

 

[wikkidpissah]

Lots of music related films are going to end up high on my theoretical best of the year list. Summer of Soul, Velvet Underground, West Side Story, In the Heights, Tick Tick Boom, Inside and Annette were all really good to great. 

 looking forward to this - the Edgar Wright doc on the Mael (Sparks) brothers brought me so much pleasure and rememberance.

liked neither In the Heights (aspirationally corny) nor Tick Tick Boom (i will never care about the inner dialogues of frantic men).  if anyone can fix the story in West Side Story, Spielberg should be able to.

 

[identikit]

 looking forward to this - the Edgar Wright doc on the Mael (Sparks) brothers brought me so much pleasure and rememberance.

liked neither In the Heights (aspirationally corny) nor Tick Tick Boom (i will never care about the inner dialogues of frantic men).  if anyone can fix the story in West Side Story, Spielberg should be able to.

 

[Ilov80s]

 looking forward to this - the Edgar Wright doc on the Mael (Sparks) brothers brought me so much pleasure and rememberance.

liked neither In the Heights (aspirationally corny) nor Tick Tick Boom (i will never care about the inner dialogues of frantic men).  if anyone can fix the story in West Side Story, Spielberg should be able to.

In the Heights is very corny, no doubt. Easy for musicals to land there but it was nice to look at and fun, some really well executed musical-dance numbers. 
 

Annette is a truly insane movie. I appreciated how weird and unique it was but I can see how people could absolutely hate it. Also the worst part of the movie is in the first act and it’s really quite bad so I took some patience for me. I was leaning into hating it and then once the story got going, it pulled me in for the ride.

 

[wikkidpissah]

oooh, i just dont know what do do with that....i mean, should i love the love or hate the love, you know what i mean...there are soooo many ways to take things and you wonder does that reflect on me and my genuine needs or is it more an oblique expression of affection.....maybe respect.....maybe pity...........who knows but anyway i reeeeally have to get back to this song because its all about whether you should hate the love or love the love, which is really what it's all about when you come right down to it, hmmmm? *clears throat*

 

[identikit]

oooh, i just dont know what do do with that....i mean, should i love the love or hate the love, you know what i mean...there are soooo many ways to take things and you wonder does that reflect on me and my genuine needs or is it more an oblique expression of affection.....maybe respect.....maybe pity...........who knows but anyway i reeeeally have to get back to this song because its all about whether you should hate the love or love the love, which is really what it's all about when you come right down to it, hmmmm? *clears throat*

 

[otb_lifer]

TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE - 2022

anybody else?

i've praised the '74 original as a top 5 flick of all-time for me, across all genres - it's remarkable.  still. 

anywhoooo ... this Netflix 'sequel' (yep, it discounts any rendition that followed the OG) is looooong on the splatter, very short on the ambiance - in other words, direct opposite of the first.  

this is set present day, which would have ol' Leatherface in his mid 70s, at least.  

see how stooopit already?

and his bounty here are all young folk ... not like they have him hacking up the likes of Livia and co. up at Garden Grove. 

so, yeah - an angry senior citizen laying waste to people 2/3 his age - now, most of them are twee millenials, so, it's got that going for it on the plausibility front. 

i spoke a few years ago with KP about the "wokeness" factor in the "Black Christmas" remake ... and this here sequel to TCM starts off hinting that it may just wander sooooo far down that path that it will become unwatchable.

but it didn't, and i give credit to the producers for allowing the only sledgehammer swung here be in the hands of Gramps Sawyer (Learherface).

they lead you right up to the "SUPER WOKE!!!! SJW!!!!" trough, but then you realize that it's bone dry - the premise goes thirsty! THANK GOD!

did i mention it's bloody and gorey and nasty as #### in spots?  the kills are more akin to the likes of Jason Vorhees - this is pure splatter, with very little tension, and totally bereft of the suffocating claustrophobia of the OG.

 the premise is that a gaggle of influencers pooled some coin, and purchased the abandoned town of Harlow, Texas (where the original #### all went down).

i don't wanna divulge too many spoilers (seriously, is anybody else gonna watch this dreck?), but a busful of eager investors pulls up, and the shennanigans begin. 

prior to the above, we deal with an old timer who insists that she did not sell her property (an orphanage), and the ensuing ####show sets the whole thing in motion. 

this also features a standoff with the Confederate flag, which she has flying (a tattered one, her memory from her grand dad) ... the main investor chap is a chef named Daunte, a black dude, so ... you know where this is going. 

but, again, they address it, make their point(s) then let it ####### go.  well played. 

there are two sisters along for this town buying extravaganza, the youngest being the survivor of a massive school shooting/slaughter - it's touched on, in flashbacks ... and the way she percieves, then kinda understands, guns is pretty surreal.  again, they made the point without getting overly preachy. 

she (younger sister) takes a shine to the token "redneck" they encounter in the beginning of the flick, as he resurfaces as the townskeeper, and the cat doing all the reno work for Daunte & co.  let's just say he's a big player here, i'll leave it at that - except to add that they did actually give him some depth, and exploded the "dumb ### hillbilly" trope.  

we get an appearance from the lone survivor of TCM, who became a Texas Ranger, and dedicated her life to avenging her brother & friends (same as "Lefty", Dennis Hopper, in TCM2, but that doesn't exist any longer).

she has a pristine 50 yr old polaroid up in her truck's sun visor - i mean, it looks like it was taken 5 minutes ago. dafuq?

she's worthless here, especially considering that the original Sally (and original "final girl"), Marilyn Burns, passed some 8 years ago ... now, had she been alive to play this role, it would've made all the difference. 

so, there it is - the setup/thumbnail ... if you just want a bloody good popcorn sit, by all means, do it - it delivers, and there are some very delicious and inventive kills. 

but, if you desire anything even remotely close to the OG, run far, far, FAR away.  

btw, it clocks in at roughly 80 mins., so it's short enough.

 

[BroncoFreak_2K3]

TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE - 2022

anybody else?

i've praised the '74 original as a top 5 flick of all-time for me, across all genres - it's remarkable.  still. 

anywhoooo ... this Netflix 'sequel' (yep, it discounts any rendition that followed the OG) is looooong on the splatter, very short on the ambiance - in other words, direct opposite of the first.  

this is set present day, which would have ol' Leatherface in his mid 70s, at least.  

see how stooopit already?

and his bounty here are all young folk ... not like they have him hacking up the likes of Livia and co. up at Garden Grove. 

so, yeah - an angry senior citizen laying waste to people 2/3 his age - now, most of them are twee millenials, so, it's got that going for it on the plausibility front. 

i spoke a few years ago with KP about the "wokeness" factor in the "Black Christmas" remake ... and this here sequel to TCM starts off hinting that it may just wander sooooo far down that path that it will become unwatchable.

but it didn't, and i give credit to the producers for allowing the only sledgehammer swung here be in the hands of Gramps Sawyer (Learherface).

they lead you right up to the "SUPER WOKE!!!! SJW!!!!" trough, but then you realize that it's bone dry - the premise goes thirsty! THANK GOD!

did i mention it's bloody and gorey and nasty as #### in spots?  the kills are more akin to the likes of Jason Vorhees - this is pure splatter, with very little tension, and totally bereft of the suffocating claustrophobia of the OG.

 the premise is that a gaggle of influencers pooled some coin, and purchased the abandoned town of Harlow, Texas (where the original #### all went down).

i don't wanna divulge too many spoilers (seriously, is anybody else gonna watch this dreck?), but a busful of eager investors pulls up, and the shennanigans begin. 

prior to the above, we deal with an old timer who insists that she did not sell her property (an orphanage), and the ensuing ####show sets the whole thing in motion. 

this also features a standoff with the Confederate flag, which she has flying (a tattered one, her memory from her grand dad) ... the main investor chap is a chef named Daunte, a black dude, so ... you know where this is going. 

but, again, they address it, make their point(s) then let it ####### go.  well played. 

there are two sisters along for this town buying extravaganza, the youngest being the survivor of a massive school shooting/slaughter - it's touched on, in flashbacks ... and the way she percieves, then kinda understands, guns is pretty surreal.  again, they made the point without getting overly preachy. 

she (younger sister) takes a shine to the token "redneck" they encounter in the beginning of the flick, as he resurfaces as the townskeeper, and the cat doing all the reno work for Daunte & co.  let's just say he's a big player here, i'll leave it at that - except to add that they did actually give him some depth, and exploded the "dumb ### hillbilly" trope.  

we get an appearance from the lone survivor of TCM, who became a Texas Ranger, and dedicated her life to avenging her brother & friends (same as "Lefty", Dennis Hopper, in TCM2, but that doesn't exist any longer).

she has a pristine 50 yr old polaroid up in her truck's sun visor - i mean, it looks like it was taken 5 minutes ago. dafuq?

she's worthless here, especially considering that the original Sally (and original "final girl"), Marilyn Burns, passed some 8 years ago ... now, had she been alive to play this role, it would've made all the difference. 

so, there it is - the setup/thumbnail ... if you just want a bloody good popcorn sit, by all means, do it - it delivers, and there are some very delicious and inventive kills. 

but, if you desire anything even remotely close to the OG, run far, far, FAR away.  

btw, it clocks in at roughly 80 mins., so it's short enough.

Awesome review and totally spot on.

 

[KarmaPolice]

Ghostbusters:  Afterlife 

This one was a bit of a dud for me.   I was 100% in the right mood for it, and was looking forward to some fun.    At the end of the day it's what I feared it was - mostly jamming in too many old references and checking those boxes vs. telling a decent story.    Podcast irritated the crap out of me, so that didn't help towards the start of the movie either.  On my scale it was 4/10.  I ended up buying it for $4 more, but probably won't bother watching it again. 

 

[Payne]

TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE - 2022

anybody else?

i've praised the '74 original as a top 5 flick of all-time for me, across all genres - it's remarkable.  still. 

anywhoooo ... this Netflix 'sequel' (yep, it discounts any rendition that followed the OG) is looooong on the splatter, very short on the ambiance - in other words, direct opposite of the first.  

this is set present day, which would have ol' Leatherface in his mid 70s, at least.  

see how stooopit already?

and his bounty here are all young folk ... not like they have him hacking up the likes of Livia and co. up at Garden Grove. 

so, yeah - an angry senior citizen laying waste to people 2/3 his age - now, most of them are twee millenials, so, it's got that going for it on the plausibility front. 

i spoke a few years ago with KP about the "wokeness" factor in the "Black Christmas" remake ... and this here sequel to TCM starts off hinting that it may just wander sooooo far down that path that it will become unwatchable.

but it didn't, and i give credit to the producers for allowing the only sledgehammer swung here be in the hands of Gramps Sawyer (Learherface).

they lead you right up to the "SUPER WOKE!!!! SJW!!!!" trough, but then you realize that it's bone dry - the premise goes thirsty! THANK GOD!

did i mention it's bloody and gorey and nasty as #### in spots?  the kills are more akin to the likes of Jason Vorhees - this is pure splatter, with very little tension, and totally bereft of the suffocating claustrophobia of the OG.

 the premise is that a gaggle of influencers pooled some coin, and purchased the abandoned town of Harlow, Texas (where the original #### all went down).

i don't wanna divulge too many spoilers (seriously, is anybody else gonna watch this dreck?), but a busful of eager investors pulls up, and the shennanigans begin. 

prior to the above, we deal with an old timer who insists that she did not sell her property (an orphanage), and the ensuing ####show sets the whole thing in motion. 

this also features a standoff with the Confederate flag, which she has flying (a tattered one, her memory from her grand dad) ... the main investor chap is a chef named Daunte, a black dude, so ... you know where this is going. 

but, again, they address it, make their point(s) then let it ####### go.  well played. 

there are two sisters along for this town buying extravaganza, the youngest being the survivor of a massive school shooting/slaughter - it's touched on, in flashbacks ... and the way she percieves, then kinda understands, guns is pretty surreal.  again, they made the point without getting overly preachy. 

she (younger sister) takes a shine to the token "redneck" they encounter in the beginning of the flick, as he resurfaces as the townskeeper, and the cat doing all the reno work for Daunte & co.  let's just say he's a big player here, i'll leave it at that - except to add that they did actually give him some depth, and exploded the "dumb ### hillbilly" trope.  

we get an appearance from the lone survivor of TCM, who became a Texas Ranger, and dedicated her life to avenging her brother & friends (same as "Lefty", Dennis Hopper, in TCM2, but that doesn't exist any longer).

she has a pristine 50 yr old polaroid up in her truck's sun visor - i mean, it looks like it was taken 5 minutes ago. dafuq?

she's worthless here, especially considering that the original Sally (and original "final girl"), Marilyn Burns, passed some 8 years ago ... now, had she been alive to play this role, it would've made all the difference. 

so, there it is - the setup/thumbnail ... if you just want a bloody good popcorn sit, by all means, do it - it delivers, and there are some very delicious and inventive kills. 

but, if you desire anything even remotely close to the OG, run far, far, FAR away.  

btw, it clocks in at roughly 80 mins., so it's short enough.

I watched it. Didn't think it was bad. Certainly not great either. 

The "hot" girl was killed far too early, but the kills were pretty darn good. 

 

[El Floppo]

Ghostbusters:  Afterlife 

This one was a bit of a dud for me.   I was 100% in the right mood for it, and was looking forward to some fun.    At the end of the day it's what I feared it was - mostly jamming into many old references and checking those boxes vs. telling a decent story.    Podcast irritated the crap out of me, so that didn't help towards the start of the movie either.  On my scale it was 4/10.  I ended up buying it for $4 more, but probably won't bother watching it again. 

oh right... we watched this with the kids recently. I've already forgotten it.

 

[Ilov80s]

Ghostbusters:  Afterlife 

This one was a bit of a dud for me.   I was 100% in the right mood for it, and was looking forward to some fun.    At the end of the day it's what I feared it was - mostly jamming into many old references and checking those boxes vs. telling a decent story.    Podcast irritated the crap out of me, so that didn't help towards the start of the movie either.  On my scale it was 4/10.  I ended up buying it for $4 more, but probably won't bother watching it again. 

This kind of movie making that is so popular now is beyond tiring

 

[Andy Dufresne]

Ghostbusters: Afterlife

I liked it. Sure it's not the original. But it's really funny in spots. And it's not gratuitous. I recommend.

Guess I'm on an island here.

 

[Ilov80s]

Guess I'm on an island here.

I think it was well received, a lot of kids at school really liked it.

 

[KarmaPolice]

This kind of movie making that is so popular now is beyond tiring

I can think of only rare exceptions where these sequels and reboots don't do that, or can pull off a good product while doing that. (IMO Cobra Kai TV show does it really well)    Mostly to me it feels like what I got with Ghostbusters.  It feels like they decide to do a movie, and then somebody presents a list of things that happened in the OG that you have to include - Slimer adjacent ghost? check  PKE meter? Check.  Terror Dogs? check  Stay Puft Man? check,  etc, etc..     

I am not opposed to sequels/remakes in principle, but at least have a better organic story to tell.   

 

[Ilov80s]

I can think of only rare exceptions where these sequels and reboots don't do that, or can pull off a good product while doing that. (IMO Cobra Kai TV show does it really well)    Mostly to me it feels like what I got with Ghostbusters.  It feels like they decide to do a movie, and then somebody presents a list of things that happened in the OG that you have to include - Slimer adjacent ghost? check  PKE meter? Check.  Terror Dogs? check  Stay Puft Man? check,  etc, etc..     

I am not opposed to sequels/remakes in principle, but at least have a better organic story to tell.   

Yep but people seem to like the predictability/routine of these things. To quote Tony Soprano, "remember when is the lowest form of conversation". These retreated moments are the "remember when" of movies. 

I will say I thought the newest Scream did one of the better jobs at this kind of call back film making. It hit the beats you expect in Scream but it did have some new commentary to add. 

 

[KarmaPolice]

Guess I'm on an island here.

I think it was well received, a lot of kids at school really liked it.

My 4/10 rating is a bit strange - this is my grade for a movie that I didn't like but didn't hate, still watched all of, but saw enough in it that I would recommend to somebody.   My wife liked it, and I would suggest it to people - especially with kids.  It does have that Stranger Things vibe to it.  

 

[El Floppo]

I think it was well received, a lot of kids at school really liked it.

my kids enjoyed it (14 & 10), fwiw.

and Paul Rudd is always good/funny.

otherwise... meh...especially the telegraphed cameos at the end to regrettably resolve the action.

 

[El Floppo]

I am not opposed to sequels/remakes in principle, but at least have a better organic story to tell.   

tbf, writing the grandkids as the leads, makes the whole story a literal sequel/follow-up. But I suppose the story could/should have been something in a different direction. And I agree- that would've at least been more interesting than just rehashing the exact same story in a different location.

eta: and whoa... that's more thought and effort than I ever thought I'd give this movie post-viewing. it's genuinely not worth it.

 

[Ilov80s]

I thought I saw somewhere a push to make the next Ghostbusters an actual scary movie.  That could be a decent turn to find something untapped.

 

[wikkidpissah]

what bothers me most about modern well-capitalized movie-making is that they all go for too much. it's a failure of approach, inspiration and execution. all comic beats are frantic and, while frantic is funny, if the proper amount of time is not taken for reaction, they're telling the audience what they should see as funny instead of letting them find it themselves, which almost completely overrides the bait-and-switch upon which most funny is based.

i'm going to re-use an old example - mostly because most superhero heroes are so ridculously plotted that it would take me 20 pgs to make the case - to show what is wrong with blockbuster filmmaking these days. Ridley Scott/Russell Crowe's Robin Hood of a decade ago.

Robin Hood's is a tale that was rehashed in my youth as much as the DC arc is today. It could hold up to the efforts because of its scale. The mischief of a merry band kept villains at bay, righted basic wrongs done to simple folk and maintained the peace at home while the hero king was off saving the world. And never lost its humanity nor sense of humor & honor along the way.

in the Scott version, though, they turn Maid Marian into a proxy for Queen Elizabeth's warrior fetish and explode the scope of the tale from a local squabble to a fight for the fate of THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD. ridiculously enough, ever since then THE WHOLE WIDE WORLD aint even enough anymore. Marvel's going for galaxies if not hominid life itself. there's no room for me to participate as a viewer so, good or bad, it cannot satisfy me except as the cinematic equivalent of being massively over-served.

 

[belljr]

Finally saw Free Guy....fun movie

 

[Ilov80s]

Spencer: my wife was excited as she's a fan of The Crown and some similar royals related drama. We both were very disappointed in this. Stewart is good, not sure about Best Actress good but definitely is transformed. It looks great but manages to be both unhinged and boring. It didn't very little for either of us. 

The French Dispatch: pretty much exactly what I expected, it's Wes at his absolute most Wes. There were highs and lows, but it's a pretty breezy watch given how it's  less than 2 hours and divided into mini stories. Certainly not the best of his work but not his worst either. 

 

[jamny]

V/H/S is one of those movies that I never saw even though the name comes up a lot when discussing horror movies. Not what I expected but I was pleasantly surprised. I always thought it was one of those evil videotapes that haunt people or make them do crazy things but the anthology of short films worked within the bigger story. They weren't all great, with a couple of weaker ones but enjoyable nonetheless. 3.5/5

Are any of the sequels good?

 

[Eephus]

My February Movies

Fuzz (1972)
Songwriter (1984)
Sophie's Choice (1982)
The Last Duel (2021)
The Big Gundown (1966)
Django Unchained (2012)
My Name Is Nobody (1973)
Fail-Safe (1964)
Silver Streak (1976)
Nightmare Alley (2021)
The Awful Truth (1937)
Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
Kimi (2022)
From Here to Eternity (1953)
The King's Man (2021)
A Night at the Opera (1935)
The Age of Innocence (1993)
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1973)
Belly (1998)
The Frisco Kid (1935)
21 Grams (2003)
The Color of Money (1986)
The Protege (2021)
Gone Girl (2014)
Colossal (2016)

 

[BroncoFreak_2K3]

My February Movies

Fuzz (1972)
Songwriter (1984)
Sophie's Choice (1982)
The Last Duel (2021)
The Big Gundown (1966)
Django Unchained (2012)
My Name Is Nobody (1973)
Fail-Safe (1964)
Silver Streak (1976)
Nightmare Alley (2021)
The Awful Truth (1937)
Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
Kimi (2022)
From Here to Eternity (1953)
The King's Man (2021)
A Night at the Opera (1935)
The Age of Innocence (1993)
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1973)
Belly (1998)
The Frisco Kid (1935)
21 Grams (2003)
The Color of Money (1986)
The Protege (2021)
Gone Girl (2014)
Colossal (2016)

Not a bad one in the bunch

 

[PlayaHata]

I think it might have been mentioned in the streaming thread, but CODA on Apple TV is getting some awards buzz so the wife and I watched it last night.  We both really enjoyed it.  

 

[Eephus]

Not a bad one in the bunch

The King's Man wasn't very good. 

Finishing Django Unchained was a struggle for me.

 

[belljr]

The King's Man wasn't very good. 

Finishing Django Unchained was a struggle for me.

Is that the newer one that is the prequel of the Kingsmen?  

I didnt like it much either and I enjoyed the others

 

[Eephus]

Is that the newer one that is the prequel of the Kingsmen?  

I didnt like it much either and I enjoyed the others

I'm a sucker for anything 007 related so I've stuck with the series even though I haven't really liked it since the midpoint of the first movie.

I agree the new one was the weakest of the bunch. The script lost the plot trying to loosely tie in historical events and I've seen better action sequences in other Vaughn films.

 

[Ilov80s]

My February Movies

Fuzz (1972)
Songwriter (1984)
Sophie's Choice (1982)
The Last Duel (2021)
The Big Gundown (1966)
Django Unchained (2012)
My Name Is Nobody (1973)
Fail-Safe (1964)
Silver Streak (1976)
Nightmare Alley (2021)
The Awful Truth (1937)
Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
Kimi (2022)
From Here to Eternity (1953)
The King's Man (2021)
A Night at the Opera (1935)
The Age of Innocence (1993)
The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean (1973)
Belly (1998)
The Frisco Kid (1935)
21 Grams (2003)
The Color of Money (1986)
The Protege (2021)
Gone Girl (2014)
Colossal (2016)

Any particular favorites? 

 

[Eephus]

Not a bad one in the bunch

I forgot about The Protege. It apparently was a 2021 theatrical release but I never heard of it before it showed up on Amazon Prime.

The Protege is a star vehicle for Maggie Q as a glamourous international assassin.  Michael Keaton adds some charm in a villainous turn and Samuel L. Jackson picks up a check as Maggie's mentor.  Director Martin Campbell directed two of the better 007 movies (Goldeneye and Casino Royale) and does a competent job here on the action scenes.  But he can't hide the flaws in a monumentally dumb script. By the end, I was rooting for everyone to get killed so I didn't have to listen to them anymore.

 

[Eephus]

Any particular favorites? 

As for new stuff, I'm a big Soderbergh fan so probably take my recommendation of Kimi with a grain of salt.  It's the first film I've seen that captures the anxiety of the last few years. It's a lean and efficient example of film making without a wasted shot or cut.

On the off-beat side, I really enjoyed Fuzz with Burt Reynolds and Raquel Welch. It was a weird mix of low comedy and a violent 70s cop movie.  The Big Gundown is one of the best Spaghetti Westerns. The cable channel that was showing it had an Italian language print for some reason.

I'd never seen Fail-Safe, Gone Girl or The Age of Innocence before. They were all very good as you'd expect.

 

[nirad3]

Can someone recommend a good popcorn flick that's got stuff blowing up, guns, etc.... that's on either Prime or Netflix?

I am working my way through S2 of the Mandalorian since I stopped at the end of S1 for some dumb reason, but I think I want a movie for my flight from DFW-SNA on Friday evening.

TIA

 

[nightmare]

Can someone recommend a good popcorn flick that's got stuff blowing up, guns, etc.... that's on either Prime or Netflix?

I am working my way through S2 of the Mandalorian since I stopped at the end of S1 for some dumb reason, but I think I want a movie for my flight from DFW-SNA on Friday evening.

TIA

Knight and Day- Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz. Kinda spoofs spy/action movies.

From Paris with with Love. John Travolta, even if you don't like Travolta this is still a good action movie.