Saw Mission Impossible 'Fallout'.
Very dynamic, suspenseful, a real cliffhanger. I think a few things were over done, but that's typical. Very entertaining.
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Saw Mission Impossible 'Fallout'.
Very dynamic, suspenseful, a real cliffhanger. I think a few things were over done, but that's typical. Very entertaining.
The Happytime Murders.
A muppet movie that IS NOT for kids. I enjoyed it a lot.
I wondered...I figure to check it out.
Disappointing compared to the book?Quote:
Originally Posted by Justin
Tom Cruise still does a lot of the stunts according to an interview.Quote:
Originally Posted by Duman
He injured his ankle on the jump from one building to another, but jumped up and finished the scene.
He said he knew he couldn't do that again in a retake.
Ha injured! He snapped his ankle like a cheeto puff.
I despise him as a person, but I love his movies. You have to give props to someone of that age doing stunts like that himself.Quote:
Originally Posted by BladesNBarrels
As a competitive pool player in the late 80's, I wore out my first (VHS) copy of Color of Money.
Ouch!Quote:
Originally Posted by ChickNorris
Operation Finale
Well paced and very good performances. Spoiler Alert - It may take a while but evil gets it in the end.
"The First Purge"
The first one was mildly entertaining so I thought I'd try this on a boring night.
Holy shit, what a racially charged piece of shit. The whole movie is "the NRA and white people want to kill black people".
The hero is a black drug dealer kingpin. Just.....don't. I should have known better.
^Ha
We watched Hold The Dark on Netflix. I'm honestly not sure how to review the movie. The preview makes it look like The Grey, but it isn't. The movie feels a lot closer to Wind River, with a scene from The Grey as a preview. So while not as good as Wind River, not necessarily a bad movie.
I watched it too, Irving.
Not sure the people that made it really knew what they were trying to do. It was kind of like a Rob Zombie movie had a baby with a cross between The Grey and Wind River and maybe a little Longmire tossed in for good measure. If they could have sprinkled in some superhero stuff and maybe a little comedy then they would have really had a hot mess.
Sounds like The Last Jedi.Quote:
Originally Posted by ray1970
The Last Jedi was a cinematic tumor.
I tried to watch Solo the other night. It was like watching every animated gif ever created in the 90's crammed into one small aol messenger pop up. Remember back then before you were habituated? Way too much & just because it can spin doesnt mean it should.
Or maybe I just wasnt in the correct mood.
POIT!
http://youtu.be/OaTO8_KNcuoQuote:
Originally Posted by Justin
Had to throw that one in since we're talking about movies. The Last Jedi was a trainwreck. Was hoping that Disney would bring some good into the franchise, but it seems they'd rather just crank out a bunch-O-shhhtuff.
***POSSIBLE SPOILER ALERTS: Not sure how since I think we all know how the Apollo 11 mission went. But if you're the sensitive type and don't wanna know anything about a movie you want to see, you might not wanna read this.***
Wife and I went to see "First Man" this afternoon.
The worst movie in the history of man was "The Thin Red Line". "Pearl Harbor" was a close second.
"First Man" wasn't in the same league of bad as those two, but it almost came really close. Seriously? How do you fuck up a movie about the first moon landing? By making half the movie about Armstrong's dysfunctional family life. That's how. The Gemini and Apollo space programs are some of the greatest moments of American history complete with unprecedented (at the time) triumphs and heart-breaking disasters. The flight sequences are some of the best of any movie made about NASA and the space program. Some of the detail in the scenes really gives you a sense of how the most complicated thing man has ever done was so reliant on innocuous, seemingly insignificant pieces of metal and plastic. You'll know what I mean if you see the movie.
But it seems like they go to great lengths to try to get you into the mind of Armstrong and just fail miserably. I felt like I never knew if he was just an egotistical chump or a guy trying to put fear and personal tragedies aside while focusing on some of the most important work the world has ever seen. If I didn't know a little about the man, and hadn't grown up in Houston when all this was going on, I'd think it was the former from this movie.
Then there were a few technical details that bothered me...like clouds at 130,000 feet. Granted, for the most part they got the details right. But stuff like that is so easy that it seems way more important than it should be when they screw it up.
Looking at some online reviews this seems to be a movie that movie critics love, audiences...not so much. For me it was just a 50/50 split. I really liked half the movie and really didn't like half the movie.
I would've rather watched "The Right Stuff" or "Apollo 13" again. Much better movies even if not quite so historically, and personally, accurate (it was a really good portrayal of Armstrong's personality). That's not an endorsement of Ryan Gosling's performance, though. I thought he did a good job...not a great job.
So I'm giving it 2.5/5 Stars. Rather than pay $10 or more for a ticket, wait for Netflix. I wish I wasn't such a sucker for movies about great things Americans have accomplished. Too often I'm disappointed. My wife says it's because I'd rather just watch an accurate documentary rather than a feature movie. I think it's because Hollywood really doesn't like America. But that's just me.
I read that they decided that rather than making an "America's great!" sort of film, they'd rather do a "transcend countries and borders" nonsense. The fact that they left out the flag-planting portion of the landing enraged Buzz Aldrin, whom they snubbed to the point of practically leaving him out of the film. When I read about that, I realized that limp-wristed bitches were trying once again to rewrite history and to feed their regurgitated pap to lazy kids who would rather see the movie and take it for gospel instead of what really happened.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bailey Guns
In that spirit, here's a hearty "F you" to those who seek to neuter American accomplishments. Enjoy this gif.
https://vimeo.com/105435157
Edit: I'm not sure why it's not embedding. Here's the link: https://vimeo.com/105435157
[ROFL2].
I liked the one where the alien gets punched.....
Ya know, I meant to mention that when I said "Hollywood hates America" but forgot. So thanks for bringing that up. Love the Jockey thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by TheGrey
ETA: Unfortunately, I didn't read anything about the movie before going. Just watched the trailer. Shame on me.
Spoiler alert! Neil Armstrong makes it back alive!!
I liked the part where Buzz asks Neil to paint him like one of his French girls.
This is one of the best nonpolitical commentaries on why TLJ is terrible.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S4Ss5bK-ws
No, it's not just you. I have to wonder how Clint Eastwood would have approached this film.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bailey Guns
American exceptionalism is what made this country what it is, but the left can't stand it.
SPOILER ALERTQuote:
Originally Posted by Gman
There's a few scenes later in to Season 3 of The Man in The High Castle where the nazi's discuss how they want to approach the new propaganda push.
They decide by erasing Every American History reference (like the left does with any resemblance to other than PC history) Statue of Liberty, Mt Rushmore etc. Today's and the future youth of the new GNR (German Nazi Reich) will grow up only knowing what the nazi's want them to know.
They're calling it Jahr Null / Year Zero - A New Beginning.
Sounds familiar to what the left has been doing for decades, only coming out more publicly since their defeat in 16 with RESIST
"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past."Quote:
Originally Posted by Great-Kazoo
George Orwell, 1984
10 minutes into The Ballad of Buster Scruggs on Netflix and it might be one of my new favorites.
That the prequel to Buster Ballz?Quote:
Originally Posted by Irving
Started Peaky Blinders over the past weekend. Once I got into it I really enjoyed it.
Peaky Blinders was very good.
Fifteen minutes of Buster Scruggs and I quickly switched over to another NETFLIX movie.Quote:
Originally Posted by Irving
Was there an original movie of that? I have a feeling if there was anyone who saw the original won't like this one.
Pan shot!
Watched Crimes of Grindlewald and Green Book this past week. I saw Bad times at the el Royale last week. Of the three, I liked Green Book best, followed by Bad times..., and Grindlewald third. This is just my opinion and as always your opinion should vary from mine.
Since we switched from MoviePass to AMC A+, we have really stepped up our movie watching schedule. Having a theater with 24 screens near by makes it much easier to find something to watch. If it wasn't for our children sharing our Netflix account, I would have dropped it already.
Enjoy the weekend!
Bird Box..... felt ripped off. Never see the "beautiful" monster things, and the ending blew ass.
One 1/2 out of five likes possible.
I wasn't ever sure what to think of the previews for Bird Box. Couldn't make up my mind if I was interested. Thanks for the review.
Well the concept was intriguing enough, and the acting was decent enough....it could have been a really kick ass movie imo.
That just makes the let down worse.