^ I wonder if that Donner Party porter has a coppery flavor to it.
^ I wonder if that Donner Party porter has a coppery flavor to it.
“From thirty feet away she looked like a lot of class. From ten feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from thirty feet away.” – Philip Marlowe
Dune: Part 2. Fantastic. Very nearly as good as the first movie.
The best thing about both movies is that I didn't feel like I was stoned (i.e. confused) watching them, like I was with the De Laurentiis butchered version.
“From thirty feet away she looked like a lot of class. From ten feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from thirty feet away.” – Philip Marlowe
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^ I wonder if that Donner Party porter has a coppery flavor to it.
It does have a lingering long pig taste...
Frog in boiling water
Godzilla Minus One
Fucking awesome. Godzilla is an asshole...as he should be.
8.6 out of 10 helpless people on a subway train screaming bug-eyed as he looks in on them
"Who would have thought a whale would be so heavy?" - Moe Sizlak
Interesting. I would rank it up as possibly my favorite Godzilla film. Just curious did you see it at home or in a theater?
The Dead Don’t Hurt: Western drama written, directed, and produced by Viggo Mortenson who also stars in the film. I have mixed feelings on this one. The acting, cinematography, and score (also written by Mortenson) are all good. The story, or what there is of it, is a bit of a mess. The film uses flashbacks and jumps around in several different timelines which sometimes gets confusing. The film starts out promising, but kind of meanders along after that at a rather slow pace with a running time of over 2 hours. There are plot lines that kind of go nowhere and some situations that never get explained. I did enjoy the film, but it didn’t blow me away. This is one to wait until it comes out on the small screen.
3 out of 5 stars.
It's so nice to see folks making an effort to understand differences of opinion rather than just shouting down the other side. It's kind of a rarity these days and I tip my hat off to you...
YOU SHUT YOUR WHORE MOUTH
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I watched at home, haven't been to a cinema post pandemic.
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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.
Seeing it on a huge screen with a kick ass sound system was a pretty cool experience. I would guess that it would lose some of it's impact watching in my living room. Everything is subjective though. I went with a buddy to see it who I thought would really like it and he just thought it was ok.
It's so nice to see folks making an effort to understand differences of opinion rather than just shouting down the other side. It's kind of a rarity these days and I tip my hat off to you...
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Your taste in movies, music and art in general sucks!!!
And to think, we used to be such good friends.......
Neil
Your taste in movies, music and art in general sucks!!!
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Hit Man on Netflix
Really good
Funny and well written
Is this a new release?
Yeah, it just dropped on Netflix
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart
Yes, NF. This movie would be a hit in theaters as well.
"Every pie is a good pie"
Directed by Fede Álvarez, who also directed one of the best thrillers of the 21st century: Don't Breathe. Apparently, he also created/directed the show Calls, a really good show that I mentioned in the TV thread.
It takes place between the first two movies.
I may actually go to the theater for this. But then, I said that about Dune 2, also, and never quite made it there. Good thing it showed up on Max so quickly.
“From thirty feet away she looked like a lot of class. From ten feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from thirty feet away.” – Philip Marlowe
Definitely planning to see this one in a theater.
Directed by Fede Álvarez, who also directed one of the best thrillers of the 21st century: Don't Breathe. Apparently, he also created/directed the show Calls, a really good show that I mentioned in the TV thread.
It takes place between the first two movies.
I may actually go to the theater for this. But then, I said that about Dune 2, also, and never quite made it there. Good thing it showed up on Max so quickly.
Last night we continued our Kaiju journey with Rodan. This one surprised me in many ways, most notably the appearance early on of the "prehistoric dragonfly nymphs." When Rodan -- or, rather, one of two Rodans, another surprise -- they fairly quickly ascertained it as having a wingspan of over 250 meters, a third surprise. That's a big bird, or protobird, or whatever.
Other things that surprised me: it flew at supersonic speeds; it proved to be at least somewhat vulnerable to human machinery; and the final disposition of the Rodans was actually kind of anticlimactic.
Boy, those Toho people love certain sequences, notably (a) several tanks, along with some kind of multi-missle-shooting device, blasting away at the main monster of the film; and (b) tanks and missiles blasting the shit out of a cliff to make it fall on the monster (though this one comes with more variations than the other). Rocks fall, everybody dies. Only, they often don't.
The model work, especially the landscape model work, was surprisingly good. They also remembered to slow down the footage of the model cliffs being blasted and rocks falling, to make it look more like real, which they had not done in some previous films.
The human side of the story is also much more complex than in the previous films we've watched (not counting the original King Kong), involving someone falsely accused of murder, inconvenient amnesia, and, of course, the inevitable love story.
The damage to cities and other human constructs done by Rodan in this one outdoes anything Godzilla has done in any of the films I've seen so far...
Cobra handling and cocaine use are a bad mix.
Watched “The Hitman” on Netflix tonight. Enjoyable film which is kind of a comedy /rom com. I normally hate Rom Com’s, but this one was different enough and had a unique angle that I found entertaining. Overall, it is worth a watch if you have a Netflix subscription.
Sisu--implausible action film, Ramboesque, John Wick type movie taking place in WWII. It really depends on how you view such films. I thought it was okay, however, doesn't add much new to genre, just more whoopass on the bad guys. That said, I found it watchable. ymmv. From the same director that did Rare Exports. Found a copy off YT.
Rebel Moon (pts 1 & 2), directed by Zack Snyder, from a story by him, as well. On Netflix.
The two parts are A Child of Fire and The Scargiver, with part 2 continuing where part 1 left off. The synopsis from Rotten Tomatoes:
An epic science-fantasy event decades in the making. When a peaceful colony on the edge of a galaxy finds itself threatened by the armies of a tyrannical ruling force, Kora (Sofia Boutella), a mysterious stranger living among the villagers, becomes their best hope for survival. Tasked with finding trained fighters who will unite with her in making an impossible stand against the Mother World, Kora assembles a small band of warriors -- outsiders, insurgents, peasants and orphans of war from different worlds who share a common need for redemption and revenge. As the shadow of an entire Realm bears down on the unlikeliest of moons, a battle over the fate of a galaxy is waged, and in the process, a new army of heroes is formed.
The direction, acting, and production are all top notch. But beware: there are tropes galore. Sure, it's kinda mindless entertainment – more action than sci-fi – but I didn't think it was that bad. Indeed, as one audience reviewer said, "Even if Rebel Moon borrows heavily from other sci-fi stories, it's still entertaining -- and often visually dazzling."
Apparently, there are at least 2 more movies in the works continuing the story.
Rotten Tomatoes scores: 21% (critics) and 57% (audience) for Pt 1; 15% (critics) and 48% (audience) for Pt 2.
“From thirty feet away she looked like a lot of class. From ten feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from thirty feet away.” – Philip Marlowe
I don't recall this coming up in this thread before:
John Carpenter Says...
“From thirty feet away she looked like a lot of class. From ten feet away she looked like something made up to be seen from thirty feet away.” – Philip Marlowe
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