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KarmaPolice said:
Yeah, I just don't think it fit with the rest of the feel of the movie.  It was like we get an Independence Day ending to this movie that was more like a Hitchcock movie. Both have their place, I just felt it was jarring at the end as they switched.  I would have liked something more on the lines of The Mist and 'feel' of that ending. 

I do agree that it was a great idea to have this small feeling movie be a tie in to this world and another movie. 

ETA:  I just DLed a podcast with the director as was going to listen to that today.  I am curious if he touches on the backstory or if there was some studio involvement with the ending. 




 
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Have you seen the movie "Monsters"? It's by the same guy who directed "Rogue One". I haven't seen either "The Mist" or this one but I think you might like it. 

 
KarmaPolice said:
10 Cloverfield Lane:

Really liked most of it, but I could do without the last 10-20 minutes or so.  Overall still worth a watch, but the ending left me a little bit cold.  6/10
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I liked the ending. It put an exclamation point on the events in the shelter...

We're made to question whether or not Howard is loony. If he's wrong about the aliens then he's probably not a murderer, and we in the audience should feel bad that we thought he was. But then he's show to be a murderer...AND he was right about the aliens. It's a conundrum for the audience (and the audience's in-movie proxy Michelle).
 
KarmaPolice said:
10 Cloverfield Lane:

Really liked most of it, but I could do without the last 10-20 minutes or so.  Overall still worth a watch, but the ending left me a little bit cold.  6/10
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Agreed, the last 20 minutes seemed to be tacked on so that they could link it to the original Cloverfield.

I did however like the very end where she stopped the car, backed up and turned to Houston
 
Suicide Squad C Not many people to care about. Harley Quinn for sure (I swear her shorts kept getting shorter until it was a thong. Not that I minded at all :wub: ), Dead Shot and the fire guy

Joker was not needed and I was really disappointed with the ending

 
badmojo1006 said:
Suicide Squad C Not many people to care about. Harley Quinn for sure (I swear her shorts kept getting shorter until it was a thong. Not that I minded at all :wub: ), Dead Shot and the fire guy

Joker was not needed and I was really disappointed with the ending
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I just watched this, too.

I like the SS characters, especially Harley Quinn.

But I thought the villains were fairly dull.

 
Andy Dufresne said:
I liked the ending. It put an exclamation point on the events in the shelter...

We're made to question whether or not Howard is loony. If he's wrong about the aliens then he's probably not a murderer, and we in the audience should feel bad that we thought he was. But then he's show to be a murderer...AND he was right about the aliens. It's a conundrum for the audience (and the audience's in-movie proxy Michelle).
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Oh, I loved that part of the movie, but:

I just thought they accomplished the same thing right about the time we saw the ####ed up ship and realized it was an alien ship, not helicopters.  The movie really could have ended there, and I thought it would have been great.  Instead we get some ID4 scenes where she runs around and blows up the ship with a damn Moltov cocktail?  I thought for sure we were going to get an "Up Yours!!" too.  In the end it was just too much for me, and it left a bad taste in my mouth. 

Overall, I do love the way the movie handled Goodman's character, because like you said most movies set it up so we are debating if the guy is insane or something F'd up did happen on the outside.  Turns out to be "Yes!" to both of those answers, and I loved that.  I also just loved the look of the movie and it made the different areas in that compound have their own personality and feel fresh as we wandered around.  No small feat there. 

I just wish the tone we got for the ending matched the rest of the movie. 
 
I had never watched Big Trouble in Little China before. 

It was just as I expected it to be, which is why I had never watched it.

I turned it off after 40 minutes. 20 minutes after I should have.

 
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Andy Dufresne said:
I had never watched Big Trouble in Little China before. 

It was just as I expected it to be, which is why I had never watched it.

I turned it off after 40 minutes. 20 minutes after I should have.
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I watched this for the first time a couple years ago myself and had a similar reaction. 

 
snogger said:
Nocturnal Animals - with Amy Adams and Jake Gyllenhaal

Not really sure what the heck it was I just watched, how I felt afterwards.. Basically you have 3 "time lines".. Amy Adams Present day, Amy Adams past and Amy Adams as a character in her Ex-Husbands book.. Had they spent more time "in the book" and away from her "real life" I'd probably had enjoyed it more.. As it was I really didn't care what happened to her in "real life"and I think that last part was the point..  2 out of 5.
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Amy Adams isn't very good. I liked her in American Hustle. But aside from that, she's a pedestrian actor. I had high hopes for Creatures because Tom Ford's "A Single Man" is great. But Adams isn't up for this material.

 
Bob Magaw said:
I think Excalibur was shot around Boorman's property (Ireland/Scotland?), or maybe it was the very weird sci fi Zardoz. Kubrick-like taste in choice of classical music for score (Carmine Burina?).
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The composition most memorable to me was Siegfried's Funeral March by Richard Wagner.

Excalibur changed my life as a boy, but all I can see through my adult eyes is how bad the acting is now.

 
jdoggydogg said:
The composition most memorable to me was Siegfried's Funeral March by Richard Wagner.

Excalibur changed my life as a boy, but all I can see through my adult eyes is how bad the acting is now.
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I liked Merlin (Nicol Williamson) as Sherlock Holmes in the Seven-Per-cent Solution. He was hailed by some critics as one of the greatest Shakespearian actors of his generation. Arthur was goofy, never understood that casting. Gabriel Byrne had little more than a cameo, but he didn't stand out to me as bad.    

 
Bob Magaw said:
I liked Merlin (Nicol Williamson) as Sherlock Holmes in the Seven-Per-cent Solution. He was hailed by some critics as one of the greatest Shakespearian actors of his generation. Arthur was goofy, never understood that casting. Gabriel Byrne had little more than a cameo, but he didn't stand out to me as bad.    
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All I can attest to is watching the dialogue recently and feeling embarrassed for the actors.

 
Tower.

"Animation, testimony, and archival footage combine to relate the events of August 1, 1966 when a gunman opened fire from the University of Texas clock tower, killing 16 people. "-  imdb.com

This one really wrecked me.  Flood of different emotions throughtout for me.  Awe, love and patriotism to name a few.  Was really needed especially in the political climate we find ourselves in.  It's not political at all.  It's American though.

Could not recommend this one more.  It's a masterpiece.

10/10

 
Watched The Magnificent 7 remake.

Lacked the star power of the original and had some cheesy parts, but was generally entertaining.

 
jdoggydogg said:
All I can attest to is watching the dialogue recently and feeling embarrassed for the actors.
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Was it the dialog so much as the direction? It seemed like everybody overacted in that movie. Simple lines like "if I yield, what will you yield" which don't seem like particularly poor dialog became ridiculous due to totally overwrought delivery. And the overwrought delivery was consistent throughout - look at Patrick Stewart's scenes, he's a good actor, the lines themselves aren't ridiculous but the net effect of the delivery is way over the top. The Arthur/Gwenevere/Lancelot love triangle dialog was pretty ham fisted though.

 
Just watched The Last Sentinel with Katee Sackoff  Give it a D- She must have needed the money after BSG. Bad everything-Acting, writing, Directing Special Effects.

It was about a last warrior (Don The Dragon Wilson) trying to stop a drone army man had created. Absolute crap. With the exception of one amazing scene at the end. He is fighting the last drone and it starts to rain. The drone stops, takes off his helmet and lifts his head to the rain :o . It was revealed the drones are enslaved humans and it showed the drones could be human again. Was hoping the drone would throw down his sword and try to be come human again. But no, they fought to the death

 
jdoggydogg said:
Amy Adams isn't very good. I liked her in American Hustle. But aside from that, she's a pedestrian actor. I had high hopes for Creatures because Tom Ford's "A Single Man" is great. But Adams isn't up for this material.
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Interesting.  She is one of my favorites working today and usually gravitate to whatever she is in.  Haven't seen Nocturnal Animals, but thought she was great in Doubt, The Master, Junebug, The Fighter, Arrival, and Her.  It doesn't help that she is in dreck like the Superman movies and some of the rom-coms she chooses, but I think she's great when given the material.

 
Gr00vus said:
Was it the dialog so much as the direction? It seemed like everybody overacted in that movie. Simple lines like "if I yield, what will you yield" which don't seem like particularly poor dialog became ridiculous due to totally overwrought delivery. And the overwrought delivery was consistent throughout - look at Patrick Stewart's scenes, he's a good actor, the lines themselves aren't ridiculous but the net effect of the delivery is way over the top. The Arthur/Gwenevere/Lancelot love triangle dialog was pretty ham fisted though.
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I'd fault the direction. Those actors are too good to shoulder the blame.

 
KarmaPolice said:
Interesting.  She is one of my favorites working today and usually gravitate to whatever she is in.  Haven't seen Nocturnal Animals, but thought she was great in Doubt, The Master, Junebug, The Fighter, Arrival, and Her.  It doesn't help that she is in dreck like the Superman movies and some of the rom-coms she chooses, but I think she's great when given the material.
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Adams has been in some very good movies. But I think they're good in spite of her.

 
The Sessions - Wonderful movie A-. Only reason for the slight downgrade was Hunt's New England accent. Great story about a severely disabled man who is a virgin and hires Helen Hunt as a sex surrogate to lose his virginity. John Hawkes is great as Mark O'brien who lives in a iron lung after a bout with polio. Hunt is great as the sex surrogate, attempting to balance her professional/personnel and William Macy is delightful as the priest helping guide Mark through his spiritual dilemma regarding the sex. 

Helen Hunt gets nekkid  ALOT in this movie. She has a great body for a 49 year old. Hell in this movie she has a great body for any age

 
Yankee23Fan said:
The Intern

Couldn't sleep last night and got glued to this from the start.  DeNiro was pretty darn entertaining in his role and the relationship he had with the younger cast was heartwarming.  Hathaway was really good in her scenes with DeNiro, otherwise it was rather standard stuff.  But they were good together.  I was enjoying it more than I thought I would right until the ending.  Way way too abrupt.  I don't necessarily need clear concise resolution of every single issue, but I think this went too far off into not resolving anything really.  

Best scene was at the bar though.  When Hathaway says that men aren't men anymore, they are boys.  Her generation is the take your daughter to work generation and the boys got left behind.  Now girls can be women but men seem to be becomming boys.  I thought that was a massively powerful and true statement. Gave a deeper heart to the movie.  

Not a guy movie at all.  Not a romantic comedy either.  But something different.  Might be a solid couple movie.  Give is a B.  Very surprised how much I liked it.  
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Caught this recently, and I agree with you for the most part.  I liked it, but was surprised at how abrupt the ending was.  I thought Hathaway and DeNiro had great chemistry; every scene with the two of them was really good.  Could they have made her husband look like less of a scrub? 

 
Statorama said:
I was shocked that the Tina Fey war reporter movie "Whiskey Tango Foxtrot" was actually watchable.  There is something that happens within the first 10 minutes of the movie that almost made me stop it, but I stuck with it and there were some true laugh out loud moments.  Worth a trip to Redbox.
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This was mostly "meh" for me. Fey just doesn't have the dramatic chops for a movie like this. It's not especially well written either. C- from me.

 
The TCM recommendations for this week features a couple of great entries into the film noir/crime/gangster genres.

 
Wed. 1:00 AM White Heat

James Cagney in what was probably his last great role, brings back the archetype character that made him famous. 

This classic film anticipated the heist films of the early '50s (for example John Huston's 1950 The Asphalt Jungle and Stanley Kubrick's 1956 The Killing), accentuated the semi-documentary style of films of the period (the 1948 The Naked City), and contained film-noirish elements, including the shady black-and-white cinematography, the femme fatale character, and the twisted psyche of the criminal gangster.  - Tim Dirks of Filmsite.org 
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Wednesday 10:00 PM The Killers

Burt Lancaster and Ava Gardner sizzle in the adaptation of the Hemingway short story. One of the defining films of the film noir genre. It's rough and sexy, relentless and brutish. 

 
I hadn't watched The Big Short since it came out in the theater.  I liked it then, but a lot of what they portrayed didn't sink in.

Watching it the fist time in the theater, everything moved a little too quickly for me.

Watched it again last night and really enjoyed it a lot more the second time around - understanding the story a bit better.  That and being able to rewind certain scenes from time to time really helped. 

I really liked the role of Christian Bale, and the "Vinny" character, the one from Steve Carrell's staff. 

I don't know how I would have rated this movie when I first saw it but watching it again makes me want to watch it a third time.  Really great movie.  Well done! 

I don't watch a lot of movies more than once, but there's a few I need to revisit.

 
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The Big Heat -

8.5/10 (for my appreciation of why this is considred a great film

7/10 (for my enjoyment of it)

Continuing my deep dive into film noir...

This one wasn't as enjoyable to me. Directed by Fritz Lang, I think this film betrays a post WWII cynicism of the European director. Dave Bannion is no hero although he believes himself to be. But it's not heroic to persue justice if, at the same time, it deliberately puts innocents in harms way. And Bannion does that at every step. I guess I perfer my heroes to be heroic and thus my lessened enjoyment of this film. 

That's not to say that the performances aren't good. They definitely are - although I think that Gloria Grahame's character was written a bit over the top. 

 
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Hell Or High Water
I liked it, but I'm not sure why it's rated so high and nominated for so many awards. It was a fun cops & robbers flick.

7/10

 
Shame it's it conflict w football, but a hella lineup of classic flicks on TCM today/nite

3:15 All About Eve

5:45 American in Paris

8:00 Sweet Smell of Success

10:00 The Ladykillers (the original w AGuiness & PSellers, in one of his earliest roles)

 
So on vacation flipping through HBO and saw Point Break and went to it thinking it was the awesome one to find out there was a remake? I was in and out of it but didn't seem impressive?

 
On The Rocks said:
I hadn't watched The Big Short since it came out in the theater.  I liked it then, but a lot of what they portrayed didn't sink in.

Watching it the fist time in the theater, everything moved a little too quickly for me.

Watched it again last night and really enjoyed it a lot more the second time around - understanding the story a bit better.  That and being able to rewind certain scenes from time to time really helped. 

I really liked the role of Christian Bale, and the "Vinny" character, the one from Steve Carrell's staff. 

I don't know how I would have rated this movie when I first saw it but watching it again makes me want to watch it a third time.  Really great movie.  Well done! 

I don't watch a lot of movies more than once, but there's a few I need to revisit.




 
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You would really like the book then - Lewis does a great job simply and clearly explaining what is going on and how various parts of the scam works.  

You cannot like Goldman Sachs after reading this book - pure evil ...and apparently untouchable.  The worst.  

 
Black Mass - A-  Great movie about Whitey Bulger and the depths the FBI let him roam free. Depp, in his best role in a long time, was great as Bulger. But this was really Joel Edgerton's movie as the play loose with the rules John Connolly. You saw the depths he went to supposedly for the FBI, but it was really for his childhood chum Bulger.

My only knock on the movie was Benedict Cumberbatch's Boston accent. Just didn't work

 
wikkidpissah said:
Shame it's it conflict w football, but a hella lineup of classic flicks on TCM today/nite

3:15 All About Eve

5:45 American in Paris

8:00 Sweet Smell of Success

10:00 The Ladykillers (the original w AGuiness & PSellers, in one of his earliest roles)
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Got Sweet Smelll and Eve set to DVR. I've only seen them once and was really impressed. 

 
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