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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2021 18:10:29 GMT
If it's the same movie I'm thinking of then it's pretty terrible. Nothing to report yet. I fell asleep listening to the football last night, it was that exciting 😴 So I still have 'Dead Souls' to look forward to as a Saturday evening 'treat'... Aren't I lucky. Will let you know what I think after I've seen it. So far I like the prologue. Some religious pastor fella kills his entire family. Then nails all of them, including himself, to crucifixes.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2021 10:52:37 GMT
Nothing to report yet. I fell asleep listening to the football last night, it was that exciting 😴 So I still have 'Dead Souls' to look forward to as a Saturday evening 'treat'... Aren't I lucky. Will let you know what I think after I've seen it. So far I like the prologue. Some religious pastor fella kills his entire family. Then nails all of them, including himself, to crucifixes. Dear God... That went bad... What a twisted mess of a film. Who's alive? who's dead? who's undead? what are they doing back now? why's that happening? the premise is what, really? And not one, but two dogs die. I don't care for that kind of thing. It's another clunker 👎
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2021 10:53:43 GMT
New chazzer DVD picked up to watch tonight 👇 Three stinkers in a row now. Luck has got to turn, hasn't it?
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Post by masterofallgoons on Apr 26, 2021 11:12:01 GMT
New chazzer DVD picked up to watch tonight 👇 Three stinkers in a row now. Luck has got to turn, hasn't it? No... not really.
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Post by FrankSobotka1514 on Apr 26, 2021 13:53:02 GMT
I watched Promising Young Woman this weekend. That was some film. I only pop in on this thread every now and then so if you discussed it already sorry for being late to the party. I went in thinking it would be a female Death Wish but it was better than some regurgitated action movie. Carey Mulligan was excellent in it. Makes me hate the frat boy culture even more than I already did.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2021 7:54:23 GMT
New chazzer DVD picked up to watch tonight 👇 Three stinkers in a row now. Luck has got to turn, hasn't it? No... not really. It wasn't too bad... Fair to middling. Thought it was an Anabelle haunted doll kind of scenario. Then he came out of the wall. That bit was creepy enough. Although a rather unbelievable story.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Apr 27, 2021 8:08:51 GMT
Did you know chazzer is yiddish for pig?
It’s a nickname for a corrupt cop.
I’ve seen The Boy. It was pretty average.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2021 8:11:27 GMT
Did you know chazzer is yiddish for pig? It’s a nickname for a corrupt cop. I’ve seen The Boy. It was pretty average. Chazzer is regional slang for a charity shop.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Apr 27, 2021 8:11:54 GMT
Watched The Germans episode of Fawlty Towers on BBC1 last night. Still hilarious, especially the bit with the major and the talking moose head!
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Post by Carl LaFong on Apr 27, 2021 8:12:44 GMT
Did you know chazzer is yiddish for pig? It’s a nickname for a corrupt cop. I’ve seen The Boy. It was pretty average. Chazzer is regional slang for a charity shop. Aye, took me a while to figure that out.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Apr 27, 2021 11:11:13 GMT
It wasn't too bad... Fair to middling. Thought it was an Anabelle haunted doll kind of scenario. Then he came out of the wall. That bit was creepy enough. Although a rather unbelievable story. It's certainly not the amateur garbage from the last 2 days, but it only clears a very low bar. The twist may be surprising but the whole thing is very stupid.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Apr 27, 2021 16:14:28 GMT
Mortal Kombat
It was pretty bad. Dumb and kinda lazy, but just barely fun enough to not be a total disappointment. It opens strong, completely lags as they try to set things up, stupid things persist throughout, but there are some talented martial art choreographers and performers at work and it's pretty gory and violent. Nothing that happens throughout matters at all sonebo the effects are really lame, but they say the lines you'd expect to hear and you see some signature moves, so who am I to complain?
The most annoying thing, though, is that there's no Mortal Kombat tournament. The plot (if there was supposed to be one) is that the Shang Tsung is trying to prevent a tournament from ever happening so he's trying to kill all of the fighters ahead of time. So the sequel is supposed to be the real Mortal Kombat movie, I guess. And there's no Johnny Cage, yet. They're really banking on that sequel.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Apr 28, 2021 14:40:07 GMT
Over the past couple of days I watched the 4-part documentary “This Is a Robbery – The World’s Biggest Art Heist” on Netflix. It is about the still-unsolved 1990 theft of several precious paintings and other items from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. I was vaguely aware of the robbery (I visited the museum once, about five years ago, and if I remember correctly there were some references to the stolen artwork) but I didn’t know any details.
It was pretty interesting. It’s amazing that the case hasn’t been solved, even though there seem to be pretty good indications of who the perpetrators were. Worth a watch if the subject matter is of interest.
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Post by klawrencio79 on Apr 28, 2021 14:49:11 GMT
Mortal Kombat It was pretty bad. Dumb and kinda lazy, but just barely fun enough to not be a total disappointment. It opens strong, completely lags as they try to set things up, stupid things persist throughout, but there are some talented martial art choreographers and performers at work and it's pretty gory and violent. Nothing that happens throughout matters at all sonebo the effects are really lame, but they say the lines you'd expect to hear and you see some signature moves, so who am I to complain? The most annoying thing, though, is that there's no Mortal Kombat tournament. The plot (if there was supposed to be one) is that the Shang Tsung is trying to prevent a tournament from ever happening so he's trying to kill all of the fighters ahead of time. So the sequel is supposed to be the real Mortal Kombat movie, I guess. And there's no Johnny Cage, yet. They're really banking on that sequel. Couldn't agree more. Had my 2nd Moderna shot Monday so yesterday I was basically passed out on the couch for much of the day but when I was awake, I watched this. Great opening, made me cautiously optimistic and Hiroyuki Sanada is awesome. But then it quickly diverted into abject silliness, which is fine in and of itself. The real problem was that they saw the R rating as nothing more than an opportunity to have CGI blood splatters and gratuitous F bombs. They should have made it more like The Raid movies where, if you throw a guy across the room and he smashes his back into a concrete beam, then he actually feels it. In this, they're basically just super heroes tossing each other around, sans repercussions, until someone unleashes a fatality move, or whatever. If they made the fight scenes a bit more, I dunno, realistic-ish, I think they could have had something really good here, even with a throwaway story.
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Post by masterofallgoons on Apr 28, 2021 19:41:01 GMT
Mortal Kombat It was pretty bad. Dumb and kinda lazy, but just barely fun enough to not be a total disappointment. It opens strong, completely lags as they try to set things up, stupid things persist throughout, but there are some talented martial art choreographers and performers at work and it's pretty gory and violent. Nothing that happens throughout matters at all sonebo the effects are really lame, but they say the lines you'd expect to hear and you see some signature moves, so who am I to complain? The most annoying thing, though, is that there's no Mortal Kombat tournament. The plot (if there was supposed to be one) is that the Shang Tsung is trying to prevent a tournament from ever happening so he's trying to kill all of the fighters ahead of time. So the sequel is supposed to be the real Mortal Kombat movie, I guess. And there's no Johnny Cage, yet. They're really banking on that sequel. Couldn't agree more. Had my 2nd Moderna shot Monday so yesterday I was basically passed out on the couch for much of the day but when I was awake, I watched this. Great opening, made me cautiously optimistic and Hiroyuki Sanada is awesome. But then it quickly diverted into abject silliness, which is fine in and of itself. The real problem was that they saw the R rating as nothing more than an opportunity to have CGI blood splatters and gratuitous F bombs. They should have made it more like The Raid movies where, if you throw a guy across the room and he smashes his back into a concrete beam, then he actually feels it. In this, they're basically just super heroes tossing each other around, sans repercussions, until someone unleashes a fatality move, or whatever. If they made the fight scenes a bit more, I dunno, realistic-ish, I think they could have had something really good here, even with a throwaway story. I have my second Pfizahh on Tues. Did it hit you hard? The first dose was fine, just had some soreness and still have a visible bruise, but otherwise I felt fine. Looking forward to the days after I'm through with it, but not necessarily looking forward to that first day. Anyway, the opening sequence almost damns the movie because it sets a tone and is made with a quality that the rest of the film is not up to, or interested in, matching. But totally agree about the casting of Hiroyuki Sanada, as well as Joe Taslim. The movie is so much better when these guys are on screen, especially together. That first fight and their last fight are both great, but those in the interim are nothing special. And as you noted The Raid, they got one of those great performers from The Raid to play Sub Zero and then still managed to underutilize him and not present the best of what he could do for the most part. And I'm entirely with you that the choreography lacks impact. Even the extreme violence lacks impact. A lady is cut in half with a razor sharp hat brim as if it's a table saw and yet in somehow feels painless. All the fighters who get smashed in the face or thrown into a wall or whatever simply gets up and carries on as if they're fine... outside of that first fight that is... and, I suppose, when Jax gets his arms broken off. As I said I think they're heavily banking on that sequel. Everything of interest to do with any of these characters seems to have been put off onto the next movie, and yet they already killed off a bunch of them... including Kano, who I thought was gonna be super annoying as played by some hammy comedy guy, but I actually found pretty entertaining. This material doesn't need great story-telling, obviously,but it's so extremely thin. The bad guys just walk into frame and and someone says their name so you know who it is, and then they announce their exact plans to characters who would already know this stuff... Plus they seemingly all live on a cliff in the middle of a wasteland for no reason and just presumably stand around waiting to make gran proclamations when the camera isn't on them. It's like the worst 'world-building' ever. The original movie is obviously not some classic, great movie, but it sets up the ideas and the premise in a much more succinct, logical, and through way just by actually have a plot... as silly as it is, it's something. If you care about getting into this material any more, without turning into a weird video game person, there's a pretty good animated movie from the last couple of years on HBOmax that's kind of like the opening sequence of this new movie plus more of that story, tacked on to the plot of original movie. I kind of wished and expected the new one to do basically that. Maybe in the sequel.
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Post by klawrencio79 on Apr 28, 2021 20:00:27 GMT
Couldn't agree more. Had my 2nd Moderna shot Monday so yesterday I was basically passed out on the couch for much of the day but when I was awake, I watched this. Great opening, made me cautiously optimistic and Hiroyuki Sanada is awesome. But then it quickly diverted into abject silliness, which is fine in and of itself. The real problem was that they saw the R rating as nothing more than an opportunity to have CGI blood splatters and gratuitous F bombs. They should have made it more like The Raid movies where, if you throw a guy across the room and he smashes his back into a concrete beam, then he actually feels it. In this, they're basically just super heroes tossing each other around, sans repercussions, until someone unleashes a fatality move, or whatever. If they made the fight scenes a bit more, I dunno, realistic-ish, I think they could have had something really good here, even with a throwaway story. I have my second Pfizahh on Tues. Did it hit you hard? The first dose was fine, just had some soreness and still have a visible bruise, but otherwise I felt fine. Looking forward to the days after I'm through with it, but not necessarily looking forward to that first day. Anyway, the opening sequence almost damns the movie because it sets a tone and is made with a quality that the rest of the film is not up to, or interested in, matching. But totally agree about the casting of Hiroyuki Sanada, as well as Joe Taslim. The movie is so much better when these guys are on screen, especially together. That first fight and their last fight are both great, but those in the interim are nothing special. And as you noted The Raid, they got one of those great performers from The Raid to play Sub Zero and then still managed to underutilize him and not present the best of what he could do for the most part. And I'm entirely with you that the choreography lacks impact. Even the extreme violence lacks impact. A lady is cut in half with a razor sharp hat brim as if it's a table saw and yet in somehow feels painless. All the fighters who get smashed in the face or thrown into a wall or whatever simply gets up and carries on as if they're fine... outside of that first fight that is... and, I suppose, when Jax gets his arms broken off. As I said I think they're heavily banking on that sequel. Everything of interest to do with any of these characters seems to have been put off onto the next movie, and yet they already killed off a bunch of them... including Kano, who I thought was gonna be super annoying as played by some hammy comedy guy, but I actually found pretty entertaining. This material doesn't need great story-telling, obviously,but it's so extremely thin. The bad guys just walk into frame and and someone says their name so you know who it is, and then they announce their exact plans to characters who would already know this stuff... Plus they seemingly all live on a cliff in the middle of a wasteland for no reason and just presumably stand around waiting to make gran proclamations when the camera isn't on them. It's like the worst 'world-building' ever. The original movie is obviously not some classic, great movie, but it sets up the ideas and the premise in a much more succinct, logical, and through way just by actually have a plot... as silly as it is, it's something. If you care about getting into this material any more, without turning into a weird video game person, there's a pretty good animated movie from the last couple of years on HBOmax that's kind of like the opening sequence of this new movie plus more of that story, tacked on to the plot of original movie. I kind of wished and expected the new one to do basically that. Maybe in the sequel. I had Moderna. After the first shot, I was just tired but it didn't hit me right away. I got the shot on a Tuesday morning and other than my arm hurting like a sonofabitch, I felt fine. Hopped on the peloton the next afternoon and about 10 minutes in, was just totally gassed. From there, I was in a total fog for about 24 hours but that was it. This second shot knocked me out of commission for a bit. Had it at 10:30 Monday morning and felt fine until about 4 when I just started feeling tired. I'm usually bounding around but I had nothing in the tank. Went home and was in bed by about 9, and pretty much all day yesterday I was just drifting in and out. Didn't have flu symptoms beyond that, but just couldn't stay awake or engage in any type of meaningful conversation. I feel much better today though, so let's go!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2021 10:13:17 GMT
New chazzer DVD find to watch tonight. According to the blurb, a doctor says he can clone a grieving couples dead child... but their cloned kid doesn't come back right, or alone, or something like that, and bad things happen. That kind of thing. Pretty sure I've seen a film with a very similar premise, but not this particular one.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Apr 29, 2021 10:49:41 GMT
Bob de Niro will appear in any old shite these days!
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Post by masterofallgoons on Apr 29, 2021 11:13:34 GMT
Bob de Niro will appear in any old shite these days! These days and those days. That was 15 years ago.
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Post by klawrencio79 on Apr 29, 2021 15:34:00 GMT
So my sick day on Tuesday, in addition to watching Mortal Kombat (2021), I also watched High Rise (2015) and The Assistant (2019), two movies that had been on my proverbial list for a while. SPOILERS BELOW!! High Rise: I....just didn't get this movie. Granted, I've never read the source material and admittedly I wasn't firing on all cylinders when I did watch it, but I just have no idea what happened, particularly during the insanely disjointed last hour. Trust me, I love me some weird, avant-garde stuff, but this one just didn't work for me at all. Brilliant cast headlined by Tom Hiddleston, Elizabeth Moss, Sienna Miller, James Purefoy, Luke Evans and Jeremy Irons, the film is a dystopian fantasy about financial rifts set within the confines of a London apartment building. The Assistant: This movie, on the other hand, really works. Now, not much happens, there is virtually no "action," there isn't even that much in the way of dialogue, but the film poignantly shines an unflinching light on gender politics within an office for the male-dominated entertainment industry. The film covers a day in the life of an office assistant, beautifully played with a subtle and subdued tenacity by Julia Garner, who serves basically as a secretary, travel agent, schedule coordinator, maid, babysitter, wife-calmer-downer, mistress escort, pharmacist and general dumping ground, as she gets shit on left and right, both in overt ways and in ways that are actually well-intended but are still part of the problem. There is an obvious faction of modern society that will view this movie as "wokeism run amok" or whatever horseshit they are fed, but this movie brings hard truth about life in a post-Harvey Weinstein world. You never actually see or really hear the main antagonist, but his presence is literally everywhere, starting with the opening shots of the movie. I've found myself often thinking about this movie over the past 2 days, the mark of a thought-provoker. Give this one a chance.
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