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Post by damngumby on May 21, 2022 1:27:40 GMT
W … T … F
Oh, Marvel. How the mighty have fallen …
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Post by damngumby on May 21, 2022 1:21:26 GMT
Why does she bother getting ripped when she wears that padded suit?
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Post by damngumby on May 14, 2022 13:41:43 GMT
(Spoilers)
Same ol’ same ol’ It was like watch the Vikings TV series but with less of a story and compelling characters. The odd-ball vision/hallucination scenes were out of place and mostly just goofy interruptions to the generic plot. Sweeping landscape shots were marred by the over use of computer color correction. CGI ships looked fake. Nicole Kidman’s character was unintentionally hilarious. Straight out of the Nicolas Cage school of over-acting. Same sort of battle scenes we’ve seen a thousand time. Yawn. Shock value gore. Gotta earn that R rating! Too many dumb logical problems. 1. A dozen men on horseback let the kid just run off when they ambushed the king. 2. Noseless guy lied about the kid being dead for no good reason other than servicing the plot. 3. Oh look, that kid had a blanket covering his head. Can’t be the one we’re looking for. 4. The men on the small viking ship don’t notice the sudden addition of another captive. What, they can’t count past 10? 5. Why are they unnecessarily swimming in ice cold water? Was hypothermia not invented yet? 6. After watching the main protagonist effortlessly mow down countless men in previous fights, he elects not to quickly end the movie at the halfway point because his target has a couple other guys with him. 7. In a small village, in the dead of night, our hero kills a bunch of people, dismembers them, and then creates some sort of demented sculpture with the body parts. silently … in the dark. Must be a village of very deep sleepers. 8. Hey, I’m going back to kill that guy, would you mind swinging the boat closer to shore so I can get out … aw, never mind, I’ll just dive into the freezing water way out here … like Forest Gump leaping off the shrimp boat. 9. In the final battle, the antagonist has our hero beaten. Pauses for no good reason, thus sealing his fate. At least he didn’t monologue.
With the glut of Viking movies and TV shows out there, you really need to do something unique to stand out from the crowd. Adding a handful of sophomoric surreal scenes every 15 minutes just doesn’t cut it.
I think I’ll go watch the old Kirk Douglas Viking movie. They don’t get much better than that!
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Post by damngumby on May 13, 2022 10:11:27 GMT
the reviews are pretty good, they claim its like older Trek First episode was pretty decent. Hopefully it won’t go downhill from here. First episode was a preach-fest. Pretty awful. Paramount is now just pissing on the grave of Star Trek.
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Post by damngumby on May 8, 2022 16:40:27 GMT
Great TV series. Interesting characters. Engaging plot lines. Smart writing … only to blow it at the end.
It all started with X-Files, I think. Not so much a crappy series finale but an unsatisfying end to a compelling series-long plot line about aliens on Earth. I’m inclined to give the X-Files a pass, though. They were pretty much pioneers on uncharted ground, making it up as they went.
The first series that really screwed their audience with a crappy finale was Lost. We have it all figured out in advance, they said. It’ll blow your mind, they promised. Fuckers strung us along for years before revealing the answer to all our questions - You’ve been watching a bunch of dead people for a freakin’ decade, suckers! A resolution that many people had thought of at the beginning of the series but dismissed it as something just too simplistically stupid to seriously consider.
Battlestar Galactica was another one. I loved that series. Science fiction done right! … and I don’t remember the ending (I have little interested in looking it up for this post), which says it all. Talk about going out with a whimper.
The Soprano’s. I understand what they were going for, but it was still a huge WTF. They should have resisted the impulse to try to be clever.
Breaking Bad. Just kidding. That was actually a pretty good ending. Good enough so that when the follow-up movie, El Camino, came along, I was eager to watch it. (and it didn’t disappoint, either)
Game of Thrones. At least that series had an excuse … of sorts. The writers ran out of original source material and had to finish it on their own … thus revealing that they were actually a bunch of talentless hacks. Doesn’t make it hurt any less, though. What a god damn waste.
Now, Ozark. Watched the last episode last night. As the credits rolled my wife turned to me and said, are you fucking kidding me? She doesn’t swear. Usually. The thing that sucks about this series is they had a great first half of the final season, with a OMG cliff hanger. From what I have read, it sounds like the writers jettisoned a satisfying conclusion at the eleventh hour in favor of sending a message about the intractable evils of capitalism. Hey assholes, it’s not stunning and brave to kill off a popular character, simply for the shock value. … and fade to black, gun shot is practically a TV trope. It was pretty awesome the first time I saw it, 40 years ago on Magnum PI. Today, it’s basically a joke. WTF were you thinking?
Better Call Saul. They better not fuck this one up!
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Post by damngumby on Dec 14, 2021 22:13:46 GMT
One of the criteria to make this list is the movie should be televised semi-frequently where you live. Some other movies that are often shown in the Boston area, and I just gotta stop channel surfing when I come upon them …
Caddy Shack The Blind Side The Replacements Goodfellas Tombstone The Martian
I think these movies all have a quality where one can easily drop in at any point, and enjoy watching it to the end, for the umpteenth time.
Other movies require more of a commitment, I need to be able to watch them from beginning to end. For me some of those are …
The Shawshank Redemption The Godfather I & II Saving Private Ryan
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Post by damngumby on Dec 14, 2021 2:16:42 GMT
Roadhouse
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Post by damngumby on Dec 14, 2021 1:03:27 GMT
Ed Harris’s red faced effort to suppress his emotions at the end of the movie. More powerful than any emotional outburst we’d get these days.
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Post by damngumby on Dec 14, 2021 0:49:42 GMT
… when on TV. For me, Apollo 13. (Right up there with Hunt for Red October and My Cousin Vinny.)
Anyways, I’m watching it right now (I get a lump in my throat, every time) … I make the comment that they did all that with freakin’ slide rules. My wife responds with - The press hasn’t changed much. It’s a good thing I wasn’t drinking coffee.
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Post by damngumby on Dec 7, 2021 4:18:21 GMT
Mac Jones was AWESOME!
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Post by damngumby on Nov 30, 2021 22:52:30 GMT
Saw it. Barely passable. (And I’m being generous) Just more of the same stuff we’ve seen endless times.
Yes, Ben Affleck vs. Matt Damon was distracting. Looked like two high school drama students trying to one up each other without bursting out laughing.
Oh yay, another movie with a washed out color palette and a ton of CGI.
What the eff was with those helmets? We need to see the actors face! So let’s design really dumb helmets to achieve that … authenticity and/or practicality be damned!
Spoilers below.
2.5 hours long … because they told the same story three freakin times. I mean, it might have been interesting if there had been significant differences between the points of view, but there really wasn’t. I also don’t need to see a woman get raped multiple times (same rape, different facial expressions). Looks like she didn’t like that! Oh, wow, looks like she really didn’t like it this time!
Isn’t it convenient that unwashed Kylo Ren showed up at the exact moment when he could get away with attacking miss home alone? Someone must have texted him that the coast was clear.
No heroes or villains to cheer or jeer for … unless you count men in general as the villains. Seems like the order of the day was to see who could be the biggest asshole.
The only “satisfying” part of the movie was in the postscript at the end when you learn her dick-head husband died a few years later and she lived happily ever after as a strong independent single mother ... in the 1300s. W.T.F. Was this thing directed by Ridley Scott or Allen Smithie?
Flaming arrows. Why is there always flaming arrows? Shhh, here they come, wait, wait, where’s my fire stick? Who’s got the freakin lighter? Argyle, can I borrow some fire? Good thing those approaching idiots don’t see or smell all those little fires everywhere as we wait to ambush them. Hey, why are we even in this movie? Oh, I see. Time for another battle scene that has nothing to do with the plot.
No CGI horses were harmed in the making of this film.
Kevin Costner school of foreign accents.
Yes, I was too generous.
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Post by damngumby on Nov 14, 2021 23:41:02 GMT
Did they really spend $200 million on this 2nd rate knock-off of National Treasure? (A 2nd rate movie in its own right)
I mean, the first 2/3 of the movie wasn’t bad. Dwayne Johnson and Ryan Reynolds were kinda hilarious. Good chemistry. Gal Gadot was fine (god, she can’t act her way out of a shoe box, but schwing!)
A little over half way through the movie, it was as if they replaced a relatively competent writer with a drooling moron. It got painfully idiotic.
At the end, it was obvious they expected a sequel. I wouldn’t count on it.
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Post by damngumby on Nov 6, 2021 3:30:10 GMT
1. Lawrence of Arabia … Arguably, the greatest movie ever made. 2. Patton … Can’t say enough about George C. Scott’s performance. Mesmerizing. 3. The Great Escape … Pure entertainment. 4. Apocalypse Now … Pure insanity. 5. Bridge over the River Kwai … Alex Guinness … old fashion movie making at it’s best. 6. Band of Brothers … Not a movie? Screw it. Arguably the best depiction of WW2 combat, ever. 7. Mr Limpet … what?!
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Post by damngumby on Nov 6, 2021 3:09:22 GMT
Aliens 3 and Star Trek 5 are the quintessential movies that ruined the childhood of many science fiction fans … until the Star Wars prequels said, hold my beer.
Aliens 4 was not bad, comparatively speaking. A slight up-blip before AvP and Prometheus curb-stomped the franchise into oblivion.
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Post by damngumby on Nov 6, 2021 2:46:55 GMT
Aliens Aliens Aliens Aliens Aliens … wait, 10? … uh, too much work … ok, fine. … Predator is up there. … Raiders of the Lost Ark is a no brainer. … T2, the ultimate classic. … The Road Warrior. … The Warriors. The 80’s rocked! Everything since has been a pale imitation.
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Post by damngumby on Oct 31, 2021 16:46:15 GMT
I just watched Dune 1984 up to the point where Dune 2021 ends. Some random thoughts …
1. Dune 1984 casting is surprisingly solid. I prefer Jurgen Promchow over Oscar Isaac, Francisca Annis over Rebecca Ferguson, Richard Jordan over Jason Momoa, Dean Stockwell over Chang Chen, Brad Dourif over David Dastmalchian. 2. Dune 1984 set designs are also pretty good. 3. Dune 1984 spaceship design and FX are pretty bad, even for the early ‘80s. 4. Dune 1984 personal shield animation is comically horrible. Who the hell signed off on that!? 5. Dune 1984 sadomasochistic depiction of the Harkonanns is just weird. Off putting. 6. Not sure why Dune 2021 took twice as long to get to the same point in the story. It didn’t seem to add much, other than a few overlong fight sequences. 7. Dune 2021 ornithopter is the coolest sci-fi machine I’ve seen in a long time. Dune 1984 ornithopter is just awful. 8. I’m getting real tired of desaturated color correction, like in Dune 2021. Dune 1984 was certainly more vibrant in that regard. 9. I don’t think Dune 1984 was all that incomprehensible. It told the same story, the same sequence of events, as 2021. 10. The was no Paul vs disgruntled Freman fight to the death in Dune 1984. Though Stilgar made a comment about Paul that didn’t make much sense and I noticed the Freman carrying a body after the point in which the fight would have taken place … so I wonder if the fight was filmed, then cut. Seems like an odd thing to cut, since it was an important event in Paul’s acceptance by the Freman. 11. If one were to fix the dodgy 1984 FX, jettison the overwrought grotesqueness of the Harkonanns, add maybe 10 minutes of actual dialog to explain things instead of the voiceovers, then Dune 1984 would have been much closer to Dune 2021. 12. Despite the high quality of Dune 2021, it seemed rather sterile, predictable, almost boring. Like a fine filet mignon with minimal seasoning. Dune 1984 was like eating loaded nachos, prepared by a demented cook.
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Post by damngumby on Oct 31, 2021 13:27:50 GMT
More importantly these days - what is the acceptable pronoun when referring to the monster?
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Post by damngumby on Oct 23, 2021 23:27:21 GMT
The cop INTENDED to kill that person. It was done deliberately and with malice. Baldwin's action was accidental and he is devastated by it. The cop, no doubt, shrugged it off knowing that cops are always cleared by the internal "investigation." Are you fucking retarded?
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Post by damngumby on Oct 23, 2021 16:06:20 GMT
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Post by damngumby on Aug 9, 2021 21:33:30 GMT
WW84 didn’t Spider-Man 3 the Wonder Woman franchise?
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