It was campy and corny, but fun.Originally Posted by boilk
It was campy and corny, but fun.
Last night, I watched another Martin Sheen (occult) horror flick I'd not viewed since the '80s: The Believers. You know what? In spite of borrowing elements of Rosemary's Baby, I think it holds up. Good performances by Helen Shaver and Jimmy Smits!
The Holdovers (2023) - good movie, as I believe has been mentioned above.
I noticed on https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092632/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2 Mark Frost co-wrote this one. He's known for his work on Twin Peaks. I even have two of his novels (The List Of Seven and The Six Messiahs, both with Arthur Conan Doyle as leading person).
Civil War: This is one of those movies that I walked out not really knowing if I liked it or not, but it certainly made me think and stuck in my head. The film is a bit different from what the trailers made it look like it was going to be. It is mostly a road movie that follows a group of photojournalists who are trying to make their way from New York to Washington D.C. to interview the president in the middle of a civil war. The war itself is left very vague. The states of Texas and California have succeeded and formed an alliance called The Western Forces. At the point where the movie starts they are moving on to the Capitol. The president, portrayed by Nick Offerman is not really portrayed as a good guy or bad guy. Apparently he is in his 3rd term as president and dissolved the F.B.I., but that is all the information we are given. The journalists embed themselves with various groups along their journey and you don’t always know whose side is who. The last 30 minutes of the film, where they follow the Western Forces into D.C. is pretty spectacular and the ending is rather abrupt. There are a lot of brutal, sometimes disturbing scenes in the film that might turn off some viewers. I suspect that this movie will get very mixed reactions from people. I liked it, but didn’t love it. I will say this is one worth seeing in the theater. The cinematography is excellent (especially the last 30 minutes) as is the sound and soundtrack.
3.5 out of 5 stars.
^ I plan on seeing it this week.
I will be very interested in your take on the film. I went with my wife and a friend. My wife didn't like it much at all. My friend had a similar reaction to mine.
Civil War was very good and really exceeded my expectations. I saw it in a Dolby cinema and the visuals and sound design were terrific, the best ever! Its' basically a road movie built into a war movie. Kirsten Dunst was especially good, elevating this from a typical Hollywood action pic to a dramatic social commentary with dazzling action sequences and butt clenching suspense from start to finish. See it on a BIG screen!
no tunes, no dynamics, no nosebone
Agree, this is definitely a big screen film. We did not see it in IMAX, but I bet that would have been even better.
I prefer Dolby vision over IMAX. It looks warm like 70s films but ultra clear that's easy on the eyes.
no tunes, no dynamics, no nosebone
Dolby is what we saw.
Freeway ('96)
Pretty twisted and sleazy mid-90's take on 'Little Red Riding Hood' starring Reese Witherspoon (who's so good here) and Keifer Sutherland. Always liked this one and its dark humor.
6.3 out of 10 bullets in the jaw
Spectres ('87)
Slow moving Italian horror about an archeological dig gone wrong with Donald Pleasance. I always find a lot to like with Italian horror...music, effects, beautiful women and this is no different. The pace is a bit of a turn-off, but the scenes with the demon are a lot of fun. I enjoyed it.
5.8 out of 10 gusts of wind before something bad happens
"Who would have thought a whale would be so heavy?" - Moe Sizlak
Rewatched Collateral off TV with Cruise and Jamie Foxx, still pretty good action, crime film.
Scarface off TV with Pachino and crew, gets a bit cheesy in some scenes and Pacino if full on macho role, it's okay.
Color Me Obsessed: A Film About the Replacements (punk type band). off Kanopy. Not what I was expecting, just regular people reminiscing about the band. Really not all that worthwhile, pretty good band tho.
Fulci for Fake--I'd seen this before on YT, but watched it off Kanopy. All in Italian. It's okay, but really not all that recemmendable.
I should watch this. I have a sub-titled version.
Neil
"Scarface" is one of my favorite movies of all time. Yes it is cheesy at times and has become a bit dated, but I still pull it out for a watch every now and then.
Scarface is the greatest bad movie of all time!
no tunes, no dynamics, no nosebone
Abigail: Decent horror flick. Unfortunately, the trailer gives away a major plot point that I think might have made the film a different experience if you did not know some details about the main character. Overall, it kept my interest.
3 out of 5 stars.
I rewatched Record Safari last night as I hadn't seen it in a while. Still pretty good tho I don't remember the main guy, Alex Rodriguez, mention any prog.
Road House
I was enjoying it until Conor McGregor showed up.
4.6 out of 10 bodies through tables
So to make up for it I watched The Beekeeper and all was right again.
7.1 out of 10 bodies per minute
"Who would have thought a whale would be so heavy?" - Moe Sizlak
On 4/20 - went and finally saw Dune: Part Two {Klonk - at the Regal Nanuet!}
Part One was so, imo, great - the acting was understated, the cinematography truly gorgeous, and the audio - both score and environmental - mesmerizing.
Part Two has the cinematography, but perhaps not as refined; the audio is again top notch, but less score (unfortunately) and more environmental. Perhaps to be expected knowing which parts of the story were still to be told.
However - I found some of the acting OTT (Bardem made me laugh out loud twice - not supposed to be laughing in Dune...) and while some story changes were welcome or interesting; others diluted the OG story for (imo unneeded) cinematic convenience; e.g. we are expected to believe that from the Fall of Leto until Paul's ascendance with a planet of Fremen behind him took less than nine months....
I still loved Part Two as it does a fantastic job of telling the core story but it's more blockblustery in feel and presentation than Part One.
Death inspires me like a dog inspires a rabbit
Watched Rebel Moon Part 2 last night because the wife wanted to. Didn't believe it could be worse than part 1 but it was. Cardboard characters, magnificent 7 in space, d4eadful dialogue. Dear god it's bad, cheese, on cheese on cheese.
Ian
Host of the Post-Avant Jazzcore Happy Hour on progrock.com
https://podcasts.progrock.com/post-a...re-happy-hour/
Gordon Haskell - "You've got to keep the groove in your head and play a load of bollocks instead"
I blame Wynton, what was the question?
There are only 10 types of people in the World, those who understand binary and those that don't.
I'm one of the 212.
Mank on Netflix. I like the way it was filmed and it caught the era pretty well, but something about was missing a spark, as at times I was pretty bored with it.
I was curious about that one having just watched "Citizen Cain" for the first time about a month ago.
You might like it more than me. It's well made, Citizen Kane was a lot better.
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