Michael Jackson Eating Popcorn at a Movie TheaterAbout halfway through Annihilation. Very interesting thus far. Interested to see how it all wraps up.
Anakin kills all the mini Jedis.About halfway through Annihilation. Very interesting thus far. Interested to see how it all wraps up.
I saw a video of one of the kids of an actor who worked on a couple of westerns filmed at that location. I can't recall who it was, that kid may have turned into an actor but they said that location with the incredible rock formations was a favorite.Watched Yellow Sky last night. Excellent. Cinematography was top notch, great shots of the landscape. Peck was great and Widmark his usual greedy bad guy self. The story was different for a western. Saw this after watching it - The western commenced a construction crew of over 150 men and women to build a ghost town in the desert near Lone Pine, California, by demolishing a movie set, called "Last Outpost", that Tom Mix had built in 1923
I think am DVRing about 8 movies today. Drunken Angel, Stray Dog, Red Beard, Sanjuro, High and Low, Seven Samurai. and Yojimbo. Samurai is the only one I've seen.for fans of Japanese movies, TCM star of the month for April is Toshiro Mifune so the next several Wednesdays will be Japanese movie marathons, including Seven Samurai tonite @8
Any fan of Japanese movies has to check out one of the greatest trilogys on film. It seems like many movie fans have not heard of it. I saw the entire trilogy a few years ago. Its really powerful.Oooo, I love Yojimbo and even more so High and Low. Need to go set DVR!
Finished it last night. Ending was a little weird/confusing but it was a decent enough flick. Filled up a couple nights for me, so there's that.About halfway through Annihilation. Very interesting thus far. Interested to see how it all wraps up.
Super weird ending. Also I had a weird experience. I read the book and did not like it. However, the movie is wayyy different from the book and it bothered me. I guess there was no pleasing me.Finished it last night. Ending was a little weird/confusing but it was a decent enough flick. Filled up a couple nights for me, so there's that.
7/10
I agree. But, as my wife often tells me, I may be an idiot.whoknew said:Been waiting for it, but Angel has Fallen is finally on Netflix.
I am sure I'll get mocked, but I love the Fallen movies. All of them. I hope they make 100 more. Gerard Butler is awesome.
This is that rare case where an opinion can actually be wrong.Olympus Has Fallen might be the worst movie I've ever seen in the theater - a list that includes Raising Cane.
I fell asleep 45 minutes in. My wife (huge Disney fan) said it was very meh so unless my son demands it I’ll probably never finish it.We watched Onward. (Free week of Disney+). Thanks for the heads up, @Capella
Not their best imo. No real laughs, few real highs and more of a shift into Disney rinse/repeat story lines.
That makes it sound terrible. It wasn't. but I don't think will be anywhere near their best. Also misses out on not being seen on a big screen too...looks like it was pretty fantastic in terms of visuals and world building.
I'm a Pixar fan, but meh is the right way of describing it in relation to the rest of their catalog. Aside from Disney tugging at heartstrings, didn't really go up or down enough...just drifted along. Writing didn't do any favors.I fell asleep 45 minutes in. My wife (huge Disney fan) said it was very meh so unless my son demands it I’ll probably never finish it.
Pixar going into coast mode makes me sad.We watched Onward. (Free week of Disney+). Thanks for the heads up, @Capella
Not their best imo. No real laughs, few real highs and more of a shift into Disney rinse/repeat story lines.
That makes it sound terrible. It wasn't. but I don't think will be anywhere near their best. Also misses out on not being seen on a big screen too...looks like it was pretty fantastic in terms of visuals and world building.
My son will be excited.whoknew said:Been waiting for it, but Angel has Fallen is finally on Netflix.
I am sure I'll get mocked, but I love the Fallen movies. All of them. I hope they make 100 more. Gerard Butler is awesome.
I can recognize that these are terrible, and yet still enjoy the hell out of themwhoknew said:Been waiting for it, but Angel has Fallen is finally on Netflix.
I am sure I'll get mocked, but I love the Fallen movies. All of them. I hope they make 100 more. Gerard Butler is awesome.
Yes I can’t think of a Pixar movie I openly disliked. This one just didn’t take off for me. Shame.I'm a Pixar fan, but meh is the right way of describing it in relation to the rest of their catalog. Aside from Disney tugging at heartstrings, didn't really go up or down enough...just drifted along. Writing didn't do any favors.
Yeah it was just ok, nothing really memorable. Big fan of Pixar going the THICC mom route lately thoughI'm a Pixar fan, but meh is the right way of describing it in relation to the rest of their catalog. Aside from Disney tugging at heartstrings, didn't really go up or down enough...just drifted along. Writing didn't do any favors.
Halfway in andwhoknew said:Been waiting for it, but Angel has Fallen is finally on Netflix.
I am sure I'll get mocked, but I love the Fallen movies. All of them. I hope they make 100 more. Gerard Butler is awesome.
Did you like the first one?Just suffered through It Chapter 2, which was an abomination.
Really liked the first one. Couldn’t stand this one. Did you see it?Did you like the first one?
I did.
Yes.Really liked the first one. Couldn’t stand this one. Did you see it?
It really was bad. Part 1 was OK, mostly because of the kids, but there was 0 chemistry with the adults here, and it just got tedious watching them all separate and go on their treasure hunts. So much CGI silliness. Even part for part 1, it was sad that the scariest parts of the movie were the real life adults in their lives and not the evil clown that's supposed to be the big bad.Just suffered through It Chapter 2, which was an abomination.
Also on Hulu is Portrait of a Lady on Fire, which seems to get a lot of high praise as well. I added that one and plan to watch soon.Haven’t seen it yet but Parasite is on Hulu now
I enjoyed it a lot more than the book, which I thought was good but really stilted and hard to get into. Although to be fair to do the book justice you'd need to do some kind of HBO/Netflix miniseries rather than a movie.Super weird ending. Also I had a weird experience. I read the book and did not like it. However, the movie is wayyy different from the book and it bothered me. I guess there was no pleasing me.
This is my take as wellYes.
It certainly wasn't as good, but I didn't hate it.
Uh oh.Don’t tell Bracie but I’m about 30 mins into Under the Skin and it’s not doing anything for me yet.
What was that? I like Ghost Story a lot more, pie eating scene and all.Uh oh.
Oh ####, now WE are going to have a beef.What was that? I like Ghost Story a lot more, pie eating scene and all.
I didn’t enjoy Ghost Story but I thought it was interesting, had purpose and left me thinking about it. I got nothing from Under the Skin.Oh ####, now WE are going to have a beef.
Clearly you don't get it. Moron.Don’t tell Bracie but I’m about 30 mins into Under the Skin and it’s not doing anything for me yet.
I see you like throwing rocks from your ivory tower but maybe you can help a moron like me.Clearly you don't get it. Moron.Don’t tell Bracie but I’m about 30 mins into Under the Skin and it’s not doing anything for me yet.
Lol. I was going to ask if he is sure he understood it.Clearly you don't get it. Moron.
I saw it in the theaters when it came out... I was 13 or so. I enjoyed it back then... IIRC, boobs/sex and the music/vibe... even though I remember it being slight and silly and low-budget. haven't seen it since.
but since I didn't get the plot, I must be wrong about a succubus alien luring men with sex being similar.
The ivory tower gang coming for bracieI see you like throwing rocks from your ivory tower but maybe you can help a moron like me.
Need help explaining why you pimped this one.
LIQUID SKY: Chicken woman
Rambo: Last Blood - Its on Prime now. Basically John Rambo combined with a Taken/Man on Fire vibe. He sure did learn a lot from the Vietcong. Highly entertaining (for you know, a really dumb super gory action flick).
ETA: It was really terrible. The worst Rambo movie. But lots of action.
https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/rambo-last-blood-movie-review-2019
As the film opens, Rambo is living a tranquil life on his ranch in Arizona, where he now spends his time training horses, doting upon his adopted family, Maria (Adriana Barraza) and her college-age granddaughter Gabrielle (Yvette Monreal), sitting on the porch in his rocking chair, perhaps contemplating how his actions in “Rambo III” might have helped lead to the formation of the Taliban. Okay, maybe it isn’t entirely tranquil—he is taking tons of pills to combat PTSD, he has an elaborate underground tunnel system that he has dug out beneath his house (the perfect location for the occasional Nam flashback) and he confesses to Gabrielle at one point that, in regards to his inner rage, “I’m just trying to keep a lid on it.” Having tracked down her long-lost father to Mexico, Gabrielle wants to go down to see him and understand why he left years earlier. Rambo tries to warn her that it is pretty much the most horrible cesspool on Earth, but you know these spunky college-bound girls with bright futures seemingly ahead of them. Approximately nine minutes after crossing the border, she is kidnapped and drugged by a sex-trafficking ring headed by the fearsome Martinez brothers, Victor (Oscar Jaenada) and Hugo (Sergio Peris-Mencheta).
When Rambo gets the news that Gabrielle has gone off to Mexico, he goes off in pursuit, but his first encounter with the Martinez gang ends with him brutally beaten and left for dead in an alley with a brand-new scar carved into his face. He is rescued by Carmen (Paz Vega), an “independent journalist” who is there to tend to his wounds and offer necessary exposition. Upon healing, Rambo returns to the Martinez joint to rescue Gabrielle in what feels like an even more violent homage to the already grisly climax of the slightly better “Taxi Driver.” This, as it turns out, is all prelude to the film’s climax, where hordes of Mexican killers turn up at Rambo’s ranch armed to the teeth and out for blood, only to discover that he has given his tunnels a “Home Alone”-style makeover by rigging it with booby traps. All so that he can go after them with arrows, knives, sawed-off shotguns, spikes, mines and, perhaps most cruel of them all, the sound of The Doors doing “Five to One” over a loudspeaker in clear violation of the Geneva Conventions.
Taken simply on its own merits, “Rambo: Last Blood” is an undeniably awful movie. While the previous installment may have brought to mind many of the cheapo “Rambo” knockoffs produced in the ‘80s by Cannon Films and featuring the likes of Chuck Norris or Michael Dudikoff, this one feels more like a direct-to-video item that inexplicably made it to multiplexes. The screenplay by Stallone and Matthew Cirulnick is an unforgivably clunky work in which even the most rudimentary of plot points have been cast aside, the dialogue is embarrassingly heavy-handed (“I want them to know that death is coming”) and the kinetic thrills that made “Rambo: First Blood Part II” watchable have been replaced by over-the-top carnage (made even less effective by the over-reliance on CGI gore). Behind the camera, Adrian Grunberg (who previously did “Get the Gringo,” a south-of-the-border sleazefest that was made with a certain style and wit) is clearly directing this by the numbers, but, based on the overly dark visual style and clumsy staging, he never gets out of the single digits. Yes, some of the insanely gory bits during the final stretch are amusing in a sick way but even those moments are too little and way too late to help matters much.
Said it before, but this was my gateway to foreign movies. Still remains a sentimental favorite.Ilov80s said:Amores Perros-
Oh I know a little Spanish, looks like this movie is something about loving dogs- that sounds lovely.
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Oh this is actually about about killing dogs and people and more dogs and more people. Basically the grimmest #### ever. Very good movie but it took 5 years off my life.