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Recently viewed movie thread - Rental, Streaming, Theater etc (11 Viewers)
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JoeSteeler
Footballguy
LA Confidential may be my favorite movie of all time. Huge fan of Gattaca. Others I really like from '97 that aren't mentioned aboveKarmaPolice said:
Fifth Element
Starship Troopers
MIB
The Game
Cube
Event Horizon
Cop Land
Gummo
Affliction
Waiting for Guffman
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Ilov80s
Footballguy
He's saying the 2 main characters were closeted homosexuals and due to the era, Hitch had to really be subtle about conveying the sexual nature of their interest in each other. That pops up in several Hitch films- in NxNW many contend the Landau and Mason characters were lovers.Andy Dufresne said:
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
I still haven't seen Fifth Element or Waiting for Guffman. Another that I haven't seen that I see on a lot of lists for that year is The Apostle.
I went to Event Horizon in the theater with a bunch of co-workers. One girl was crying because she was so scared and another was calling me for a couple nights because she was having nightmares.
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
I have never liked the Fifth Element. I barely made it through Guffman.
JoeSteeler
Footballguy
ha-ha yeah missed those three mentioned above...it was 7am though 
at event horizon story
at event horizon story
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Event Horizon is freaky for sure, and one that I have recommended to a lot of people looking for a horror movie they might not have seen. IMO it is a movie that is sound dependent too, so it's not going to have the same effect on your bedroom TV using those speakers as it would in a nice set up with good sound. Also has a rare scenes in a movie that freak me out and I have trouble watching - anytime his eyeless wife pops up.ha-ha yeah missed those three mentioned above...it was 7am though
About the only other one that comes to mind is the Zelda scenes from Pet Sematary. Those are instant FF for me. 
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
I am probably overselling it due to my fun movie experience, but I think it's a solid horror movie. I have had mixed reviews when people have taken my suggestion to watch it, and I have noticed that the better sound they seem to have the more they liked it. Plus it has Larry Fishbourne, Sam Neil, and Lucius Malfoy!
JoeSteeler
Footballguy
if you get a chance, check out the behind the scenes "making" of Event Horizon video on Youtube. Interesting stuff. I am at work but can link it later.
El Floppo
Footballguy
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
Fandango + Visa Checkout + GOOGLEPAYNYE promo code = B1G1 movie ticket
badmojo1006
Footballguy
The Full Monty actually made me like Donna summers "Hot Stuff"Mr. Mojo said:
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Scored big tonight and let the son watch The Martian after we had an impromptu talk about people colonizing Mars. He said it was one of the best movies he's ever seen.
badmojo1006
Footballguy
Lady Bird
It's well done and has a few nice moments but overall it's a bit basic. It's like a nice grill cheese sandwich.
The expectations have been set way too high. It's a solid movie that if you stumbled upon it on Netflix you would tell people to watch it. An Oscar-level film?
It's more on the level of a Chef then a Moonlilght or La La Land.
7/10
It's well done and has a few nice moments but overall it's a bit basic. It's like a nice grill cheese sandwich.
The expectations have been set way too high. It's a solid movie that if you stumbled upon it on Netflix you would tell people to watch it. An Oscar-level film?
It's more on the level of a Chef then a Moonlilght or La La Land.
7/10
Event Horizon is a fun ride. DVR'ed it recently at my sister's to have on file to show my nephews. My nephews always want to watch scary movies. Most of which I don't care for. The Sci-fi nature of Event Horizon puts it more in my wheelhouse plus it will be a little something different for them.
Yankee23Fan
Fair Tax!
Dunkirk.
I can't decide yet if that was one of the greatest war films I've ever seen, or just this generation's Das Boot.
I can't decide yet if that was one of the greatest war films I've ever seen, or just this generation's Das Boot.
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
I was not blown away by Dunkirk. I liked the dogfighting scenes a lot.
But it seemed to be lacking in scale. I never felt like a fleet of boats was rescuing 300k soldiers. But then again, that seemed purposeful - Nolan choosing instead to show that it was an individual instead of mass experience.
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
yeah, it would have been a better moviemovie if it had alternated between rescue & rescuees, but it wouldnt have been the experience. Much as i like linear storytelling & all, flix like this & 12 Years a Slave which attempt to discomfit the viewer into feeling a small, personal sense of awful things is cool and kinda pure when well done
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Agreed- maybe it's a crutch Nolan depends on too much but it honestly works almost every time he does it. I loved Dunkirk and it will be awhile before there is another movie so fitting of the big screen.
El Floppo
Footballguy
Speaking of big screen, we saw Valerian and thousand planets something or other. Except on our TV.
I enjoy Beson films as cheesey French versions of cheesey US Hollywood films. Kinda like the equivalent of sci-fi Jerry Lewis movies... which is basically what this was. Not great or even good really, but if you're a splashy sci-fi fan, it'll work. Main character is horribly miscast though and there are some terrible cameos (coughcough Rihanna), but the girl counterpart looks a lot like my wife as a young woman, so it worked for me.
I enjoy Beson films as cheesey French versions of cheesey US Hollywood films. Kinda like the equivalent of sci-fi Jerry Lewis movies... which is basically what this was. Not great or even good really, but if you're a splashy sci-fi fan, it'll work. Main character is horribly miscast though and there are some terrible cameos (coughcough Rihanna), but the girl counterpart looks a lot like my wife as a young woman, so it worked for me.
El Floppo
Footballguy
Also watched A Mountain Between Us, the plane crash movie with Winslet and Elba. When a movie is caught Between being a survival movie it a love story you're in trouble. Cliches abound in both directions to the point where I started rooting for lack of survival for either of them. Would not recommend at all.
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
Any movie that has that many words in the title is bound to bomb.
See:
Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole
King Arthur: Legend of the Sword
Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows
Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever
The Huntsman: Winter's War
And on and on..
belljr
Footballguy
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El Floppo
Footballguy
Lol... We did too. So bad.
I think they just reshot cut scenes from lock stock and snatch and threw them in there with goofy costumes. Didn't even bother rewriting or different editing. So bad.
wikkidpissah
Footballguy
curse of the Python - next to Gatsby, i cant think of a more movieworthy story that i will never see a worthy movie made of. hope the next to try will use 20th-C's-most-underrated-author Thomas Berger's wonderful novel Arthur Rex as its source material and git-r-done, thusly forsooth
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Great. This one is up next on the weekend for me and it doesn't seem like many of you guys seem to like it.Osaurus said:
badmojo1006
Footballguy
JoeSteeler
Footballguy
Looking forward to watching thisOsaurus said:
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saintfool
Dead sexy
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Dunkirk:
I am still battling with my thoughts on this one. (####ty pun intended) On one hand, I thought it a very well made movie and looked fantastic. I also think it's the best Nolan movie of the last 4-5 he's done. That said, Nolan does sometimes keep me at arm's length when it comes to feeling anything about what's going on. It just felt like I wasn't connecting with a lot of what was going on. I do look forward to seeing it again soon and seeing if that was a factor of being caught off guard by the chopped up story telling, lack of dialogue, or it's just the way I am going to feel about the movie.
This was another one that I took a chance on letting my son watch with me, and I am glad that I did. He did like it, but was confused about what was going on at the start of movie. It did jump start a lot of conversations about the story, the choices the director can make with telling the story, why there might not be as much dialogue, the motivations of the characters and about the different cameras used and why it was cutting back and forth with the aspect ratios. He asked me to order the tie-in book for the movie that has a history of Dunkirk and a brief interview with Nolan, and it let me get my movie geek on a bit with him. Win-win for sure.
I am still battling with my thoughts on this one. (####ty pun intended) On one hand, I thought it a very well made movie and looked fantastic. I also think it's the best Nolan movie of the last 4-5 he's done. That said, Nolan does sometimes keep me at arm's length when it comes to feeling anything about what's going on. It just felt like I wasn't connecting with a lot of what was going on. I do look forward to seeing it again soon and seeing if that was a factor of being caught off guard by the chopped up story telling, lack of dialogue, or it's just the way I am going to feel about the movie.
This was another one that I took a chance on letting my son watch with me, and I am glad that I did. He did like it, but was confused about what was going on at the start of movie. It did jump start a lot of conversations about the story, the choices the director can make with telling the story, why there might not be as much dialogue, the motivations of the characters and about the different cameras used and why it was cutting back and forth with the aspect ratios. He asked me to order the tie-in book for the movie that has a history of Dunkirk and a brief interview with Nolan, and it let me get my movie geek on a bit with him. Win-win for sure.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Wonder Woman
*sigh* I let myself have higher hopes for this one considering the blurbs I saw of it being the best DC movie recently (true here, but what is that really saying?), and even one of the best superhero movies ever. I will give it praise in that it is a rare movie of the genre that has a bit of "brightness" to it, and it was refreshing to see a DC movie where the superhero actually paused to try to save people and seemed to give two craps about the humans around them.
Otherwise, I thought it was pretty bland. You know me and CG, so I wasn't down with any of the fighting scenes. I would much rather have a more realistic actual stunt than a slow-mo "cool" CG move like one of the Amazons flipping off their horse while shooting a bow. Combine that with fish out of water comedy getting old quick for me, and the usual boring bad guys, and I was checked out before the bad DC CG bad guy punch fest 3rd act happened.
IMO the biggest mistake that DC makes vs. Marvel is casting. Marvel is littered with good actors in even the small roles. It seems like DC is just going for looks or athleticism, but nobody in the movies seems to be able to act at nearly the level as in the Marvel movies, and this was no different. Gadot is gorgeous and with her background can obviously hold her own, but there is no point to focus on that if most of the action is bullet time and the rest of the time is flat. I love the idea of Brie Larson as a superhero coming up - she can act and is not horrible on the eyes either. I honestly don't know who I would cast as WW, but it just got me thinking as I was going through the list of females in the Marvel series - Portman, Scarlet, McAdams, Tomei, E.Olsen, on and on..
Anyway, not a huge fan. Sure, it's a good DC movie, but it felt like Thor and Capt America 1 mash up with them doing it better, so I don't think it would rank very high for me overall in the superhero genre from the past decade or so.
*sigh* I let myself have higher hopes for this one considering the blurbs I saw of it being the best DC movie recently (true here, but what is that really saying?), and even one of the best superhero movies ever. I will give it praise in that it is a rare movie of the genre that has a bit of "brightness" to it, and it was refreshing to see a DC movie where the superhero actually paused to try to save people and seemed to give two craps about the humans around them.
Otherwise, I thought it was pretty bland. You know me and CG, so I wasn't down with any of the fighting scenes. I would much rather have a more realistic actual stunt than a slow-mo "cool" CG move like one of the Amazons flipping off their horse while shooting a bow. Combine that with fish out of water comedy getting old quick for me, and the usual boring bad guys, and I was checked out before the bad DC CG bad guy punch fest 3rd act happened.
IMO the biggest mistake that DC makes vs. Marvel is casting. Marvel is littered with good actors in even the small roles. It seems like DC is just going for looks or athleticism, but nobody in the movies seems to be able to act at nearly the level as in the Marvel movies, and this was no different. Gadot is gorgeous and with her background can obviously hold her own, but there is no point to focus on that if most of the action is bullet time and the rest of the time is flat. I love the idea of Brie Larson as a superhero coming up - she can act and is not horrible on the eyes either. I honestly don't know who I would cast as WW, but it just got me thinking as I was going through the list of females in the Marvel series - Portman, Scarlet, McAdams, Tomei, E.Olsen, on and on..
Anyway, not a huge fan. Sure, it's a good DC movie, but it felt like Thor and Capt America 1 mash up with them doing it better, so I don't think it would rank very high for me overall in the superhero genre from the past decade or so.
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
The best film I've seen on how Dunkirk came to be is from the Why We Fight series done by Frank Capra. Divide And Conquer covers the events from the invasion of Norway to the fall of France. The bit on Dunkirk starts at about the 40 minute mark.
GilbertGrape
Footballguy
It's not terrible, it's just not very good and less than you would expect. But could be worth watching for free.Osaurus said:
saintfool
Dead sexy
i thought it was rather unremarkable. i don't especially care for the superhero movies anymore and this didn't make me reconsider. Gadot is full of charm, as is Pine, but they can't elevate a rote flick.
Binky The Doormat
Footballguy
Yeah, I posted something similar a week or so ago. I wanted to really like it ...didn't hate it, but would not recommend by a long shot.
El Floppo
Footballguy
oh sure- lots of uresolved issues that needed addressing in the first Goon. glad to hear it's ok... I'd have guessed trainwreck.
with friends over NYE, got to talking about noah baumbach, and I remembered liking his second (after loving his first, Kicking and Screaming)... Mr Jealousy. watched it again- a bit slight, but some genuinely funny moments and worth the watch.
belljr
Footballguy
Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
Watched Mother! over the Christmas break i knew there was some kind of symbolism going on and had to go read about it after to figure out what the hell I just watched
