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Ilov80s
Footballguy
Some recent watches with the 16 yo kid
Wreck It Ralph and Moana- both very good and the 3 of us will definitely be at Moana 2 next weekend. I thought Wreck It Ralph was especially fun- frickin Turbo Time
Adventures in Babysitting and 16 Candles- we very vert hesitant about Adventuers in Babysitting and it is a tough sell because it's kind of silly to explain, but she had a ball watching it. I do have to stop and say Disney sucks. They edited the version for Disney+ and the most iconic line of the movie is ruined. "Don't MESS with the babysitter" just doesn't have the same ring as "DON"T **** with the babysitter". 16 Candles wasn't the John Hughes movie I wanted to start with but just because she's 16, she was dead set on it. She loved it though so I anticipate we will roll through all his movies soon.
Wreck It Ralph and Moana- both very good and the 3 of us will definitely be at Moana 2 next weekend. I thought Wreck It Ralph was especially fun- frickin Turbo Time
Adventures in Babysitting and 16 Candles- we very vert hesitant about Adventuers in Babysitting and it is a tough sell because it's kind of silly to explain, but she had a ball watching it. I do have to stop and say Disney sucks. They edited the version for Disney+ and the most iconic line of the movie is ruined. "Don't MESS with the babysitter" just doesn't have the same ring as "DON"T **** with the babysitter". 16 Candles wasn't the John Hughes movie I wanted to start with but just because she's 16, she was dead set on it. She loved it though so I anticipate we will roll through all his movies soon.
BLOCKED_PUNT
Footballguy
I mostly agree with this. Some of the humor/"trying too hard" didn't land and was grating at times but other times I laughed. Clearly a nostalgia fest. I feel like Ryan Renolds and and Emma Corrin did a good job though.
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BLOCKED_PUNT
Footballguy
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
Were both the animated ones new to you?
It's been a bit since I've seen Babysitting, but I remember it being fun. It's strange side by side to see D'Onofrio as Gomer Pyle and Thor in the same year. Lame about the edit.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
I thought it would be a slam dunk with her and Brie in it, but I don't remember finishing it either. Both make some weird choices that don't work sometimes.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Yep both animated ones were new to me. I haven’t typically watched many but I’ve enjoyed the ones I’ve seen recently. Inside Out was probably my favorite.
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bonsai
Footballguy
Are you Catholic?
BLOCKED_PUNT
Footballguy
Tick
Footballguy
Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes (Prime): Japanese time loop(ish) movie that is also shot as if it's a single continuous take. Only 71 minutes long, and from the credit sequence, it looks like it was filmed with an iPhone and a boom mic. 2020, IMDB 7.3. The concept is explained immediately - a video call between a guy's cafe and his upstairs apartment is offset by 2 minutes, so from his room he sees 2 minutes into the future and in the cafe he sees 2 minutes into the past. This felt like how real people would react, and the ending was fun... I'm really glad I watched this.
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
I watched this one this year and had a blast with it. If you didn't see my post or elsewhere, this same group did a newer movie title River. I didn't like it quite as much as Beyond, but still worth the watch and it had a similar feel.
Dan Lambskin
Footballguy
Yeah this was pretty good, I figured that’s how the ending was going to go
Tick
Footballguy
Time Lapse (Roku channel): 2014 time... snapshot? movie, IMDB 6.5. Somewhat similar to Beyond the Infinite Two Minutes, but the dark version. 3 people get a photograph of their apartment one day into the future. They abuse it, things go awry, then they go really wrong before the end. The end was surprising. Worth watching, but not essential.
ETA: The lady from The Flash, Danielle Panabaker, is in it. I don't know the other two main actors.
ETA: The lady from The Flash, Danielle Panabaker, is in it. I don't know the other two main actors.
Tick
Footballguy
It's on my list, but that's a list of 48 time loop/travel movies, so I don't know when it will come up.
What would you call this type of movie that isn't a Groundhog reset movie, not a time travel, just a vision of another time?
El Floppo
Footballguy
Watched Time Cut with the 13yo daughter. Hopefully she liked it.
The Gator
Footballguy
You going down this hole of time loop movies lol?
You got me started. Watched Triangle yesterday, not too bad.
Tick
Footballguy
I liked Triangle. I didn’t know it was a loop going in.
Tick
Footballguy
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Bonus time loop short! A buddy sent me this after I mentioned time loop movies. It’s only 20 minutes, consistently funny throughout, with a spectacular ending.
Tick
Footballguy
Also, this is my send time hitting a batch of time loop / time travel movies this year
I watched about 8 of them in March… and still haven’t seen Primer.
Tick
Footballguy
Mr. Nobody (Prime): IMDB 7.7 - 2009 Jared Leto movie, probably called sci-fi. An old man in the future recounts his past, but tells many contradictory stories. The future setting was kind of silly, it didn't really add anything to the story. I liked the movie, it certainly was different. 2009 was before the multiverse boom, and this was an interesting way to frame it. Leto and his teenage version acted well, Juno Temple stuck out (don't worry, she was 20 when the movie came out - you can admire how sexy she was). 7.7 is higher than I would rate it, but it's a good movie.
The Gator
Footballguy
Just watched 41...decentAlso, this is my send time hitting a batch of time loop / time travel movies this year
Tick
Footballguy
It's in the list I'll add to my queue when I've knocked a few movies off - I sorted by IMDB rating and it's in tier 2.Just watched 41...decentAlso, this is my send time hitting a batch of time loop / time travel movies this year
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
I watched Back to the Future with the youngest. I did the "this is what I watched at your age" thing. More swearing than I remembered aside, she had a blast. I can't remember her reacting like that - tensing up, laughing, and said something about how the twist of Doc being alive at the end was great.
As far as 80s movies go, I think Back to the Future and Karate Kid seem to be the 2 that were the biggest hits when I showed the kids so far.
As far as 80s movies go, I think Back to the Future and Karate Kid seem to be the 2 that were the biggest hits when I showed the kids so far.
Eephus
Footballguy
We watched Will & Harper after Thanksgiving dinner. It's a documentary about a cross country road trip taken by Will Ferrell and his friend and former SNL writer Harper Steele after she transitioned. It's a lovely little film with enough levity to break up the honesty and emotions of Harper's story. Ferrell comes off as a true mensch.
Tick
Footballguy
We watched Hundreds of Beavers after Thanksgiving dinner. Age range 4 to 80, everyone really enjoyed it and laughed a lot. I didn't mind watching it a second time. Brother-in-law says he might make that a new Thanksgiving tradition. I feel triumphant because it's way too hard to find something the 80-year-old father-in-law will tolerate.
TripItUp
Footballguy
The yacht rock documentary on HBO is epic if you are a middle aged pop music lover like me.
Really connected a bunch of dots for me in a genre with so many bangers. For example, I had no Idea Michael Jackson's Human Nature was written by a Toto guy, but totally makes sense because that track sounds so different than much of the album.
Really connected a bunch of dots for me in a genre with so many bangers. For example, I had no Idea Michael Jackson's Human Nature was written by a Toto guy, but totally makes sense because that track sounds so different than much of the album.
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belljr
Footballguy
TripItUp
Footballguy
Fixed, good catch
Ilov80s
Footballguy
BTTF is such a perfect movie, hard to imagine almost anyone not enjoying it
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Final batch of my Neo Noirvember
The Red Circle/Le Cercle Rouge- for me, Melville really is the master of the crime film. He is the clear connection from Hollywood's classic noir period and the French Connection 70s and Michael Mannish 80s neo noirs. Melville movies are always cool, always stylish, always immaculate but never ever showy. Sophisticated Euro grime. Melville really leans on a couple actors: JP Belmondo, Lino Ventura and the my favorite and star of The Red Circle, Alain Delon. That said, Delon's persona is played down here a bit (maybe it's the mustache lol) and despite it's reputation, even on rewatch it's not one of my favorite Melville's. Very good movie but my expectations exceed my experience.
Infernal Affairs 2- a Godfather 2 esque prequel to the original. I enjoyed being taken back into this world and while it's pretty confusing, it all comes together nicely at the end. The toughest part is no Tony Leung and Andy Lau. It's like if Godfather 2 was only the early Vito stuff and we didn't get anymore Pacino or Duvall. It's well worth the watch for anyone who saw Infernal Affairs 1 just because of The Departed. It also makes me wonder if Hollywood ever considered doing a Departed 2? They probably would have wanted Leo and Matt in it and to pull off the prequel nature of it, that would have had to been made immediately following the success of the original. It might be too tough of a sell to pull off with a different cast entirely now.
City of Industry- I had never heard of this but it was a neo noir from 97 starring Harvey Keitel and it was streaming for free on Prime so what the heck. It's got some things going for it in the cast with Timothy Hutton, Famke Janssen, Stephen Dorff. Audrey from National Lampoons is in it and all grown up which kind of messed with my head a bit and even Lucy Liu is here for a quick nude scene. And yeah that's about all the good I have to say. The best review I saw of it said, "it answers the question, what if Michael Mann made a movie for Spike TV?"
Blast of Silence- the perfect transition from Noirvember into the holiday season. This super low budget 1960s B hitman movie is a mini masterpiece. Allen Baron wrote, stars in and directs. He got it made for about $20,000 and his family and friends mostly working in and on it as well as some cheap blacklisted high end Hollywood talent. This is one of the best independent B crime movies ever made. A Cleveland hitman returns home to NYC on Christmas on a job to rub out a mobster who has gotten a little too ambitious but along the way he starts to have second thoughts about his career choice. The holiday season is used really well to provide a juxtaposition to the hitman's lonely shadowy existance.
The Red Circle/Le Cercle Rouge- for me, Melville really is the master of the crime film. He is the clear connection from Hollywood's classic noir period and the French Connection 70s and Michael Mannish 80s neo noirs. Melville movies are always cool, always stylish, always immaculate but never ever showy. Sophisticated Euro grime. Melville really leans on a couple actors: JP Belmondo, Lino Ventura and the my favorite and star of The Red Circle, Alain Delon. That said, Delon's persona is played down here a bit (maybe it's the mustache lol) and despite it's reputation, even on rewatch it's not one of my favorite Melville's. Very good movie but my expectations exceed my experience.
Infernal Affairs 2- a Godfather 2 esque prequel to the original. I enjoyed being taken back into this world and while it's pretty confusing, it all comes together nicely at the end. The toughest part is no Tony Leung and Andy Lau. It's like if Godfather 2 was only the early Vito stuff and we didn't get anymore Pacino or Duvall. It's well worth the watch for anyone who saw Infernal Affairs 1 just because of The Departed. It also makes me wonder if Hollywood ever considered doing a Departed 2? They probably would have wanted Leo and Matt in it and to pull off the prequel nature of it, that would have had to been made immediately following the success of the original. It might be too tough of a sell to pull off with a different cast entirely now.
City of Industry- I had never heard of this but it was a neo noir from 97 starring Harvey Keitel and it was streaming for free on Prime so what the heck. It's got some things going for it in the cast with Timothy Hutton, Famke Janssen, Stephen Dorff. Audrey from National Lampoons is in it and all grown up which kind of messed with my head a bit and even Lucy Liu is here for a quick nude scene. And yeah that's about all the good I have to say. The best review I saw of it said, "it answers the question, what if Michael Mann made a movie for Spike TV?"
Blast of Silence- the perfect transition from Noirvember into the holiday season. This super low budget 1960s B hitman movie is a mini masterpiece. Allen Baron wrote, stars in and directs. He got it made for about $20,000 and his family and friends mostly working in and on it as well as some cheap blacklisted high end Hollywood talent. This is one of the best independent B crime movies ever made. A Cleveland hitman returns home to NYC on Christmas on a job to rub out a mobster who has gotten a little too ambitious but along the way he starts to have second thoughts about his career choice. The holiday season is used really well to provide a juxtaposition to the hitman's lonely shadowy existance.
Uruk-Hai
Footballguy
What platform is this on? Sounds interesting.
FarFromHome
Footballguy
HBO Max, Civil War. The potential was there. Got me thinking about National Guard and Army Reserve units. Meaning, would they be loyal to the federal government or to state leadership? Hasn't ever thought of that before. The movie wasn't horrible, but it absolutely wasn't very good. Ha ha.
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Ilov80s
Footballguy
Don’t think it’s streaming anywhere now except to rent on Prime. I have it recorded from a time it aired on TCM.
jamny
Footballguy
Yeah, it could have been so much better.
Eephus
Footballguy
I recorded it last December when it was on TCM and still haven't watched it.
According to their their website and it's not scheduled to show this year.
Sullie
Footballguy
The Train (1964) - it stars Burt Lancaster as a Labiche, a member of the French Resistance, along with Paul Scofield (Col. Von Waldheim) who plays a German officer that is passionate about the great French masterpiece works of art he's trying to steal and transport back to Germany in the dying days of WWII. This movie is directed by John Frankenheimer, it's shot in glorious black and white 28MM film, it has a running time just shy of 2 hours 15 minutes and without giving anything away, I don't throw around the word "masterpiece" very often but I were to ever throw that word around, it would be at this one.
Anytime I watch a WWII movie, I always think about my father-in-law who grew up and lived in the German occupied Netherlands during world war 2. My father-in-law has told me some stories about what his life was like and when I watched this movie, I don't know, it just struck a chord with me and his descriptions of what his life was like seemed to come to life to me in this film. It's quite somber and it underscores how little value was put on human life during that time period without being overly dramatic about it. Clearly not a happy movie but it is action packed, it's terribly engaging and it's a truly unique and interesting take on a subject often covered in film but it does so (to me) in a very unique and interesting way. I cannot recommend this movie enough.
Anytime I watch a WWII movie, I always think about my father-in-law who grew up and lived in the German occupied Netherlands during world war 2. My father-in-law has told me some stories about what his life was like and when I watched this movie, I don't know, it just struck a chord with me and his descriptions of what his life was like seemed to come to life to me in this film. It's quite somber and it underscores how little value was put on human life during that time period without being overly dramatic about it. Clearly not a happy movie but it is action packed, it's terribly engaging and it's a truly unique and interesting take on a subject often covered in film but it does so (to me) in a very unique and interesting way. I cannot recommend this movie enough.
northern exposure
Footballguy
Hasn't being a stoner always been Kevin Smith's calling card?I do agree that his newer movies,since probably Tusk, aren't worth watching.
Tick
Footballguy
No, he went wake-and-bake right after Zach and Miri came out. I was a Smodcast listener at the time, it was flipping a switch.
I do agree that his newer movies,since probably Tusk, aren't worth watching.
Ilov80s
Footballguy
Excellent movie, I would second this strong recommendation for The Train
northern exposure
Footballguy
Huh. I remember reading his online blog (remember when that was a thing?)No, he went wake-and-bake right after Zach and Miri came out. I was a Smodcast listener at the time, it was flipping a switch.
I do agree that his newer movies,since probably Tusk, aren't worth watching.
"My Boring-*** Life" in the late 90s and he was talking about smoking a lot of pot then.
General Malaise
Footballguy
Yeah, I made it about 15-20 minutes and made the executive decision to pull the plug. I just wasn't going to take to this one.
Watched Holdovers again over the break. Frat bro of mine from college was in for the holiday and he's a retired Dean of Students at a dozen or so different colleges. He'd never even heard of the movie, so this was a great watch/re-watch. I know some folks like action and super heroes and explosions and car chases and great special effects. Me? Man, give me a nicely shot, well acted drama dealing with afflicted folks and their emotions, sprinkle in some laughs and great dialog and I'm the happiest movie goer around.
El Floppo
Footballguy
We watched The Deliverance, aka Black Exorcist, last night.
Took a while to get creepy... But tbh, that was a really well crafted family drama during the non-creepy beginning. Creepy part became more cliche and less interesting, but still a decent movie. Nicely acted by all, and Glenn Close let's it loose here in a not typical role for her.
Took a while to get creepy... But tbh, that was a really well crafted family drama during the non-creepy beginning. Creepy part became more cliche and less interesting, but still a decent movie. Nicely acted by all, and Glenn Close let's it loose here in a not typical role for her.
BLOCKED_PUNT
Footballguy
I don't think I'll ever get the Holdovers hype. Feels like In Bruges. A movie that gets hyped and is just so-so
KarmaPolice
Footballguy
I place a heavy premium on movies that do many things well. Holdovers has laughs and a lot of heart. Add to it that is is very well acted and directed, and I think it deserves all the praise.
Gr00vus
Footballguy
I think the Holdovers and In Bruges are both really good films.
In the case of the Holdovers, I like the way movie basically unraveled how the main characters came to be how they were as we see them at the start of the film while still moving forward in time, and simultaneously having them experience change/growth through their interactions with each other over that same time. I also liked how at the end they juxtaposed how the characters who went on the journey while "staying back" got to a better place against the characters who went skiing and basically stayed the same messed up people they were at the start of the film. As mentioned the dialog was really good, the acting was really good.
BlackCrowes
Footballguy
Both great
The Gator
Footballguy
big big fan
General Malaise
Footballguy
I wanted to watch Gladiator 2: Cash Grab, but my smart car refused to take me there.
