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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Aug 27, 2022 14:56:19 GMT
Well well well. Interesting. This seems like a nice little gem with a star studded cast to have on in the background as I'm watching college football. Free horror via Prime Video, Freevee, Tubi, XUMO, AMC+ 'Freeway' (1996) - 'A runaway (Reese Witherspoon) unwittingly hooks up with a serial killer (Kiefer Sutherland).' Interesting indeed. 76% Rotten Tomato Score / 76% Popcorn Score Let's Do It!
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Post by Winston Wolfe on Aug 28, 2022 21:06:07 GMT
Last week, I watched Top Gun Maverick, Uncharted, and rewatched Goodfellas.
I only watched the original Top Gun for the first time a few months ago. It was decent, but I don't get why it's considered a classic. Too much 80s cheese. Maverick was great and much better imo.
Uncharted wasn't terrible as far as video game movies go, so take that as you will, but I don't get why video game movies suck when the game they're based on is usually better.
Been meaning to rewatch Goodfellas since Liotta passed, and then Sorvino, but just got to it. I used to think was great, but overrated. No more. Pretty sure this is now my favorite Scorsese movie. Career performances from Liotta, Pesci, Sorvino, and possibly Bracco and DeNiro. The only reason anyone remembers Dances With Wolves is because it inexplicably beat this for best picture.
Rewatched Titanic last night for the first time in at least a decade. I don't know why, but lately I've really been into the science of the sinking, watching videos of it sinking in real time on youtube. Leaving Netflix at the end of the month, so I figured "What the hell?" I know it's effectively a chick flick, but I like the disaster movie portion of it. The last 20-30 minutes where the ship breaks up and sinks is very well made imo. Still, not sure I'll understand how it won best picture and especially held the title of highest grossing movie of all time for over a decade.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Aug 29, 2022 0:30:14 GMT
Well well well. Interesting. This seems like a nice little gem with a star studded cast to have on in the background as I'm watching college football. Free horror via Prime Video, Freevee, Tubi, XUMO, AMC+ 'Freeway' (1996) - 'A runaway (Reese Witherspoon) unwittingly hooks up with a serial killer (Kiefer Sutherland).' Interesting indeed. 76% Rotten Tomato Score / 76% Popcorn Score Let's Do It! Is that the one that is kind of a modern take on the Red Riding Hood story?
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Post by tristramshandy on Aug 30, 2022 15:40:32 GMT
Last week, I watched Top Gun Maverick, Uncharted, and rewatched Goodfellas. I only watched the original Top Gun for the first time a few months ago. It was decent, but I don't get why it's considered a classic. Too much 80s cheese. Maverick was great and much better imo. It was the 80s - - the entertainment industry was built on cheese. IMO, the 80s is a bad decade for movies, especially if you take out 80 and 89. If you like big budget stuff, you're going to have a different opinion - - but it's the end of the New Hollywood era at the very beginning of the 80s and the indie scene doesn't start happening until the very end of the 80s. It lacks the movies that I tend to gravitate to by and large.
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Post by tristramshandy on Aug 30, 2022 15:46:13 GMT
Okay, Rainn Wilson IS Dr Demento. I'm liking the looks of this.
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Post by sdm3 on Sept 1, 2022 13:21:25 GMT
While abroad last month, my wife and I went to see "After Ever Happy" completely blind; by which I mean neither of us knew anything whatsoever about the movie beforehand. Having seen it, I think I'd rather be literally blind. This was legitimately one of the worst films I've ever seen - I don't think I've ever cringed so much as I did regarding the male lead. Every dark, angsty male stereotype crammed into one character. He drinks liquor straight from the bottle! He punches walls when he's upset! He runs outside and screams in anguish after hearing bad news (he did this multiple times; neither time warranted so extreme of a reaction). He appears to live in a hotel in London and drives a supercar despite being a student who studies in the Pacific Northwest. No explanation for how he affords any of this. London is treated as though it's a ten-minute drive from Washington state. His girlfriend is inexplicably attracted to him despite his obvious psychopathy - she actually apologizes for not being able to "fix" him. She says things like "I just feel like I'm drowning, you know?" and resolves to break up with him for what we get the impression is the ninth or tenth time in their relationship because "they're not good for each other" and moves to New York after graduating. Then he writes and publishes a book (a book! In his words, publishers were fighting over it!) about their relationship (he didn't even bother changing her name - hello libel suit) in a few months and follows her to New York where the movie just ends with a "to be continued." Who would want to see how this continues? Who would care? Saying all this, we discovered afterwards that this was the fourth film in a series. There have been three preceding movies about these awful characters. People have actually paid money to see them - enough to warrant making four with a fifth on the way. That would explain the almost complete lack of explanation as to almost anything that's presented at the start. Oh, I forgot to mention that the male lead - who's named Hardin of all things - finds out at the beginning that his dad is not his biological dad. This news is enough to make him drink heavily and set fire to a couch in his home for which his real dad takes the fall. He claims to be furious that he spent a lifetime calling a man that he didn't even like his father. 30 minutes later he's warmly hugging this same man - no reference to his alleged feelings from before. At one point Hardin tells his girlfriend: "I haven't been fucked in five months" - that's a real quote by the way. My wife was in hysterics. Don't watch this movie.
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Post by sdm3 on Sept 2, 2022 15:52:03 GMT
Rewatching Better Call Saul before I watch the final season. I've only ever seen the first five seasons once during their initial airing (as opposed to Breaking Bad which I watched many times in full throughout its run) so I've been looking forward to this for a while. I've forgotten so much, especially about the early seasons, that it's almost like seeing it again for the first time. What's more, I've heard that the final season was largely a triumph (this is where someone says "spoiler: he becomes a lawyer for a couple of blue meth dealers").
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Post by Carl LaFong on Sept 2, 2022 16:38:08 GMT
Marvellous old women’s picture, Daisy Kenyon, with Joan Crawford struggling to choose between Henry Fonda and Dana Andrews.
Great dialogue .. even the flowery stuff, and the three leads are fantastic. There’s no one around today with that sort of star appeal.
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Post by sdm3 on Sept 2, 2022 16:48:24 GMT
Marvellous old women’s picture, Daisy Kenyon, with Joan Crawford struggling to choose between Henry Fonda and Dana Andrews. Great dialogue .. even the flowery stuff, and the three leads are fantastic. There’s no one around today with that sort of star appeal. Not even The Rock?
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Sept 2, 2022 17:35:15 GMT
Marvellous old women’s picture, Daisy Kenyon, with Joan Crawford struggling to choose between Henry Fonda and Dana Andrews. Great dialogue .. even the flowery stuff, and the three leads are fantastic. There’s no one around today with that sort of star appeal. Haven't seen that particular one, but I am with you on the merits of dialogues in movies of that era. It may not be realistic - I can't imagine anyone ever actually talked like that - but it's a pleasure to listen to.
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Post by Carl LaFong on Sept 2, 2022 19:02:42 GMT
Marvellous old women’s picture, Daisy Kenyon, with Joan Crawford struggling to choose between Henry Fonda and Dana Andrews. Great dialogue .. even the flowery stuff, and the three leads are fantastic. There’s no one around today with that sort of star appeal. Haven't seen that particular one, but I am with you on the merits of dialogues in movies of that era. It may not be realistic - I can't imagine anyone ever actually talked like that - but it's a pleasure to listen to. Is sure is! Especially some of Fonda’s patter to Crawford. Need to use it next time I’m trying to get my leg over!
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Post by Carl LaFong on Sept 2, 2022 19:21:41 GMT
Marvellous old women’s picture, Daisy Kenyon, with Joan Crawford struggling to choose between Henry Fonda and Dana Andrews. Great dialogue .. even the flowery stuff, and the three leads are fantastic. There’s no one around today with that sort of star appeal. Not even The Rock? Nah!
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Sept 3, 2022 16:02:58 GMT
Tackling the fourth and final season of “Ozark” but frankly I am struggling with it a little bit. The sum total of my knowledge of the drug trade and of crime in general that comes from personal experience is zero, but that doesn’t stop me from feeling that Ozark is just not very believable, which is something I never felt with Breaking Bad for example. And I really can’t stand Wendy and that crazy hillbilly woman.
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Sept 4, 2022 21:22:30 GMT
Free Horror via FXM - Ready or Not (2019) - 'A young bride's new in-laws hunt her with guns, crossbows and other weapons at a luxurious estate.' 88% Rotten Tomato Score / 78% Popcorn Score Let's Give It A Whirl!
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Post by screamingtreefrogs on Sept 6, 2022 9:49:46 GMT
Free Horror via Epix starring Peg Bundy- Torn Hearts (2022) - 'A country music duo seek out their idol's private mansion and end up in a twisted series of horrors.' 5.1 IMDB Score / 89% Rotten Tomato Score / 4/5 Common Sense Media Score Let's Do It!
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Post by sdm3 on Sept 6, 2022 18:22:05 GMT
Seeing Ran (1985) in 4K at my favorite indie cinema on Saturday night. It's long been on my watchlist of Kurosawa's - very excited to see it for the first time and on the big screen to boot.
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Post by klawrencio79 on Sept 6, 2022 18:38:43 GMT
Seeing Ran (1985) in 4K at my favorite indie cinema on Saturday night. It's long been on my watchlist of Kurosawa's - very excited to see it for the first time and on the big screen to boot. That is SICK! Enjoy!
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Sept 8, 2022 15:12:18 GMT
I watched Jaws last night, on IMAX. I had seen it two or three times before on home video but never on a big screen.
I loved it! More than I remember liking it on previous viewings. There were several moments when I was truly impressed by the mise-en-scène that I don’t think I had paid attention to before – I don’t know if because if becomes more evident on the big screen, or if simply because when you are at a movie theatre you tend to pay more attention than at home with all the distractions.
Curiously enough, the opportunity to watch Jaws on the big screen came just a few weeks after I visited the new Academy Museum in L.A., where the mechanical shark used in the filming of Jaws is prominently displayed.
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Post by klawrencio79 on Sept 8, 2022 15:23:51 GMT
I watched Jaws last night, on IMAX. I had seen it two or three times before on home video but never on a big screen. I loved it! More than I remember liking it on previous viewings. There were several moments when I was truly impressed by the mise-en-scène that I don’t think I had paid attention to before – I don’t know if because if becomes more evident on the big screen, or if simply because when you are at a movie theatre you tend to pay more attention than at home with all the distractions. Curiously enough, the opportunity to watch Jaws on the big screen came just a few weeks after I visited the new Academy Museum in L.A., where the mechanical shark used in the filming of Jaws is prominently displayed. One of my top 5 movies. It's just incredible through and through. The writing, the acting, the editing, the score, it really is a perfect movie.
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Post by Jep Gambardella on Sept 8, 2022 15:30:26 GMT
I watched Jaws last night, on IMAX. I had seen it two or three times before on home video but never on a big screen. I loved it! More than I remember liking it on previous viewings. There were several moments when I was truly impressed by the mise-en-scène that I don’t think I had paid attention to before – I don’t know if because if becomes more evident on the big screen, or if simply because when you are at a movie theatre you tend to pay more attention than at home with all the distractions. Curiously enough, the opportunity to watch Jaws on the big screen came just a few weeks after I visited the new Academy Museum in L.A., where the mechanical shark used in the filming of Jaws is prominently displayed. One of my top 5 movies. It's just incredible through and through. The writing, the acting, the editing, the score, it really is a perfect movie.
In that case, if you haven't seen it on a big screen and if it is showing near you, I highly recommend it!
I hadn't rated it before on IMDb. Now I rated it a 10, which is something I very rarely do.
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