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Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
This Candy Cane Lane is pretty entertaining so far though
Ilov80s
Footballguy
You must be 2 minutes in.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
I prefer an Alive + The Grey double feature.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
You serious Clark?
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
krista4
Footballguy
Unrelated to any of this, but I got an invite for the Bulldolls 50th anniversary celebration and performance and thought of you. It's in January, which doesn't seem like the best time to visit Southern Indiana. OK, there is no good time to visit there. Anyway, there was also a link to buy a commemorative t-shirt, and they didn't seem moved by the fact that I told them it shouldn't say "Bulldolls Alumni" since not a single one of us is an alumnus.
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
Yeah, I'm going to have to agree with @krista4 - I am one and done with Maverick and Fury Road. I don't get the hype at all.
Andy and I seem to be agreeing on movies more and more often.
Eephus
Footballguy
Yeah, I'm going to have to agree with @krista4 - I am one and done with Maverick and Fury Road. I don't get the hype at all.
Granted I didn't see it on a big screen (although it wasn't an in-flight selection either) but I thought Fury Road was OK. The effects were obviously more advanced but I'd still rather watch Road Warrior.
Maverick on the other hand was superior to the original Top Gun which I say begrudgingly as a big Tony Scott fan.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Not sure what your overall rating on Maverick is, but this is my take as well. However, I will add that as I think about Maverick it's also everything I detest about the barrage of sequels/remakes/reboots we get and it's rating has dropped as I watch it at home a couple more times. It's pretty cheesy, especially the end jet hotwire heist.Yeah, I'm going to have to agree with @krista4 - I am one and done with Maverick and Fury Road. I don't get the hype at all.
Granted I didn't see it on a big screen (although it wasn't an in-flight selection either) but I thought Fury Road was OK. The effects were obviously more advanced but I'd still rather watch Road Warrior.
Maverick on the other hand was superior to the original Top Gun which I say begrudgingly as a big Tony Scott fan.
IMO the missing piece of the conversation about Maverick is that honestly Top Gun isn't that great of a movie. Don't get me wrong, I still love it and it's fun as hell, but I think it's a bit overrated. So when we say, and I agree, that Maverick is superior, what are we saying? The biggest part is the way it looks and how much better the action is. IMO, the other improvement is they gave us a mission we could understand and get invested in. The first day montage and the practice runs are great ramp ups. But isn't that saying something about the original that those things weren't there to begin with? Also Maverick swung for the fences with the scene with Iceman and they pulled it off big time. That's where the high from the first watching in the theater came from. After a few rewatches there are a lot of warts that bother me more now - the end stuff is action movie cheesy, I think they lean too hard on checking off boxes from the original as most sequels/reboots do now, and the clips from the original bother me a lot more.
ETA: I forgot another improvement for Maverick - the supporting cast. With Connelly, Ed Harris, and Hamm just for starters there was more than enough to distract us from how bad some of the main crew was.
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
Very true. Top Gun was never one of my favorite 80s movies.Not sure what your overall rating on Maverick is, but this is my take as well. However, I will add that as I think about Maverick it's also everything I detest about the barrage of sequels/remakes/reboots we get and it's rating has dropped as I watch it at home a couple more times. It's pretty cheesy, especially the end jet hotwire heist.Yeah, I'm going to have to agree with @krista4 - I am one and done with Maverick and Fury Road. I don't get the hype at all.
Granted I didn't see it on a big screen (although it wasn't an in-flight selection either) but I thought Fury Road was OK. The effects were obviously more advanced but I'd still rather watch Road Warrior.
Maverick on the other hand was superior to the original Top Gun which I say begrudgingly as a big Tony Scott fan.
IMO the missing piece of the conversation about Maverick is that honestly Top Gun isn't that great of a movie. Don't get me wrong, I still love it and it's fun as hell, but I think it's a bit overrated. So when we say, and I agree, that Maverick is superior, what are we saying? The biggest part is the way it looks and how much better the action is. IMO, the other improvement is they gave us a mission we could understand and get invested in. The first day montage and the practice runs are great ramp ups. But isn't that saying something about the original that those things weren't there to begin with? Also Maverick swung for the fences with the scene with Iceman and they pulled it off big time. That's where the high from the first watching in the theater came from. After a few rewatches there are a lot of warts that bother me more now - the end stuff is action movie cheesy, I think they lean too hard on checking off boxes from the original as most sequels/reboots do now, and the clips from the original bother me a lot more.
ETA: I forgot another improvement for Maverick - the supporting cast. With Connelly, Ed Harris, and Hamm just for starters there was more than enough to distract us from how bad some of the main crew was.
The problem i have with Maverick is that I've lived with the mission parameters of "navigate through a narrow trench and bullseye a small target at the end" since 1977.
And the "escape by stealing a broken down plane" sequence is SO bad.
Wow that movie was a pure adrenaline rush. I've seen it about 10 times and have it among my favorites of all time.
Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
I’m assuming the answer is no, but do I need to have seen the rest of them? I know I’ve missed a few of them but generally like the franchise
Not for story but they have all the same characters
waiver wire
Footballguy
I watched Family Man and the Hungar Games Prequel
If i would've paid to seen them at a theatre, I would pissed by the waste of money.
Throwing them on at home , was a decent time killer and was ok with them. They aren't anything special so you are not missing anything imo
If i would've paid to seen them at a theatre, I would pissed by the waste of money.
Throwing them on at home , was a decent time killer and was ok with them. They aren't anything special so you are not missing anything imo
Eephus
Footballguy
You have to watch all episodes of the TV show first and then the previous eleven films.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Absolutely not
Osaurus
Footballguy
El Floppo
Footballguy
I thought it was like watching a vapid superhero movie. I just didn't give a **** about any of it and couldn't get into the ridiculousness of any of the action or anything else. And I saw it on a big screen.
But I did love Fury Road... If only for the heavy metal hood ornament (and I'm a sucker for most things post-apoc)
Speaking of... I also caught Love and Monsters on a plane not long ago and agree with the pleasantly surprised, fun watch comments above.
Raging weasel
Footballguy
Went to see the new Godzilla movie on Saturday and liked it a lot, maybe best Godzilla ever! No cute or friendly monster in this one, they mention he killed 40k-60k people.
BroncoFreak_2K3
sucker for Orange
Liked the nostalgic look of Godzilla and the nod to much of the original Godzilla films.
Yankee23Fan
Fair Tax!
Watched the new/latest/last Indiana Jones last night.
The end with the small call back to the original was well done.
The end with the small call back to the original was well done.
Tick
Footballguy
If I hate the original Godzilla films, but liked Pacific Rim, is there a chance I like this?
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
Halfway through Home Alone for the first time.
I really could have gone through my whole life without watching this.
Edit: At least it's better than Christmas Vacation
I really could have gone through my whole life without watching this.
Edit: At least it's better than Christmas Vacation
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El Floppo
Footballguy
Lol... the END... with the call-back?
Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
This might be the worst take in the history of this board
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
I aim to please.
I did end up laughing out loud once. I don't remember at what part.
need2know
Footballguy
Yeah, I'm going to have to agree with @krista4 - I am one and done with Maverick and Fury Road. I don't get the hype at all.
loved fury road.
maverick was ok. dont care to watch it again though. didnt care for the original top gun much either. corny as hell and watching people fly jets just doesnt really do anything for me. even if you play 80s music to it
Eephus
Footballguy
I thought the acting, cinematography and music in Maestro was brilliant but it seemed sort of superficial as a biography of Bernstein. Maybe it's because he was such a contradictory character in real life but the way the script shifted tone as it jumped from scene to scene contributed to this as well.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
That sums up my thoughts as well.
whoknew
Footballguy
Ferrari - Just saw this. I'm a guy, so I generally love Michael Mann movies. But this one didn't do it for me. It wasn't terrible - it had some good acting, some great shots from the director, and I laughed out loud a couple times. But I just didn't love it. And I can't really tell you why it missed for me. I'll try to think of ways to articulate it better and get back.
It has gotten criticism for the accents and the CGI. Both of those things were bad. But I didn't think it was that big of a deal. You get used to the accents and the CGI didn't distract. It was very quick.
ETA: I've never seen Ford v Ferrari but this did make me want to watch it. And it works, as this movie is chronologically before FvF.
It has gotten criticism for the accents and the CGI. Both of those things were bad. But I didn't think it was that big of a deal. You get used to the accents and the CGI didn't distract. It was very quick.
ETA: I've never seen Ford v Ferrari but this did make me want to watch it. And it works, as this movie is chronologically before FvF.
snogger
Footballguy
TripItUp
Footballguy
I thought the shift in tone was deliberate as to depict complex situations and life.
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
The African Queen
Not something I need to watch again but it was enjoyable enough.
Not something I need to watch again but it was enjoyable enough.
Gr00vus
Footballguy
I'm with you for the most part. There are a couple of slapstick scenes with Peschi and Stern that made me laugh, but the whole movie probably isn't worth the time spent watching it.
And, while I'm a fan of the original Vacation, Christmas Vacation is pretty bad. So bad that I prefer European Vacation to Christmas Vacation.
The Gator
Footballguy
Couldn’t finish it, felt like it tried waaaaay too hard and the story didn’t go anywhere
Andy Dufresne
Footballguy
After Hours
I watched it.
I watched it.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
That has become the cool new "it's actually one of Scorsese's best movies" but I don't know. I liked it well enough but it wouldn't make my top 15 of his films.After Hours
I watched it.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
It gets worse and worse as it goes on. It seems to be trying way too hard to shock. There are 3 scenes in particular that I will certainly never forget but were just so dumb. The ending was supposed to be this big twist I think but it stunk. A bad. bad movie.
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Mr. Mojo
Footballguy
I'm sorry to hear that. I thought that Promising Young Woman was one of the best recent films.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Ok, time to put together my 4th annual 25 Best New Watches of the Year list.
In trimming it down to 25, I had several concert films all in contention and didn't really know how to separate them so I am going to cheat a bit and put them together as one big honorable mention:
- Woodstock (1970) This is the full 224 minute cut which is maybe more of a cool historical record than it is a great movie, the performances are mostly good but the interviews with the locals, young concertgoers and people putting the event on are actually more interesting to me. It gave me a much different perspective on the event.
- Rolling Thunder (1970) The Cain to Woodstock's Abel, these films make a perfect pairing. The Stones music is great but the real point of interest here is the Hells Angels and the violence of the show.
- Wattstax (1973) A benefit concert commemorating the Watts riots with performances by Isaac Hayes, The Staple Singers, Albert King, etc. Oh and we have comedy too, Richard freakin Pryor does a set.
-Amazing Grace (2018) This is Aretha where she was most comfortable, in Church performing gospel. It was shot in 1972 by Sydney Pollack but for reasons unknown, it was never released. Only after she passed did it finally reach the public. Easily some of the best singing ever captured on film. I think Sydney left a lot to be desired in how this was filmed and staged but the music shines.
In trimming it down to 25, I had several concert films all in contention and didn't really know how to separate them so I am going to cheat a bit and put them together as one big honorable mention:
- Woodstock (1970) This is the full 224 minute cut which is maybe more of a cool historical record than it is a great movie, the performances are mostly good but the interviews with the locals, young concertgoers and people putting the event on are actually more interesting to me. It gave me a much different perspective on the event.
- Rolling Thunder (1970) The Cain to Woodstock's Abel, these films make a perfect pairing. The Stones music is great but the real point of interest here is the Hells Angels and the violence of the show.
- Wattstax (1973) A benefit concert commemorating the Watts riots with performances by Isaac Hayes, The Staple Singers, Albert King, etc. Oh and we have comedy too, Richard freakin Pryor does a set.
-Amazing Grace (2018) This is Aretha where she was most comfortable, in Church performing gospel. It was shot in 1972 by Sydney Pollack but for reasons unknown, it was never released. Only after she passed did it finally reach the public. Easily some of the best singing ever captured on film. I think Sydney left a lot to be desired in how this was filmed and staged but the music shines.
