Loaded Weapon 1
Haven’t seen it in forever. I’m admittedly a big fan of parody movies like Hot Shots and the like, so maybe I’m biased, but Emilio’s Esteves and Samuel L absolutely killed it, IMO. A joke every 8 seconds for 1.5 hours. Delightful. 8/10.
Knives Out
The movie is set up as a murder/mystery film at the start. Then it decides to subvert our expectations and turn itself into a political satire while discarding the mystery part. Which makes all the previous setting up of characters and their motivations worthless other than to provide a backdrop for a political message. Which, since there’s still a murder to be solved, turns the ending into something unearned, much akin to a deus ex machina which only a 12 year old would find clever.
Now, there are movies which can do this successfully because they are self-aware enough to focus on entertaining the audience or getting them invested in the characters instead of leading them on by demanding their investment in the plot without providing a sufficient payoff. Wes Anderson can do this in his sleep.
Which makes this movie worthless unless you’re into Rian Johnson’s politics. Go fuck with Star Wars. Don’t fucking waste my time and money. Dipshit. 0/10
The Mandalorian on Disney+ is excellent.
It’s basically Batman that kills in space.
It reminds me of a US TV show that was always on in Israel “the Rifleman”.
The only downside is my youngest is demanding a certain toy for Hanukkah that apparently doesn’t exist, but they are trying to produce quickly. Won’t say what to avoid the surprise.
Also, I have a crush on the MMA lady who shows up in a later episode as an ex soldier.
Yep I am liking it… the creators have said they used westerns as part of the premise.
yeah… I find her pretty damn hot… sshh dont tell my wife.
Has anyone seen the Breaking Bad movie - El Camino, with Aaron Paul? I understand it’s in Netflix (which I don’t have). Such a huge fan of Breaking Bad - would like to get a review from someone who also loved the series.
A better review than I can provide is somewhere above, but it is good.
Definitely worth watching if you liked the series.
Definitely recommend it if you’re a big breaking bad fan.
Thanks, guys.
Friend sent me this link. Fucking loled.
I watched Jumanji 2 because of my wife and I hated every second of it. I once had all my teeth scaled followed by several cavities scraped and filled in one single dental session without any anesthetic in a shitty government clinic in the early 2000s that took about an hour and it was a more pleasant experience than sitting through this crap.
Are there worse movies than this, imo? Sure.
Captain Marvel
That movie with Will Ferrall and Kevin Hart.
Transformers 5
Charlie’s Angels 2019
That movie with The Rock and Kevin Hart that wasn’t Jumanji 1.
The sequel to that movie with Ice Cube and Kevin Hart
But none of them had Danny Glover choosing to stay in Jumanji Land for eternity in the form of a fucking horse with wings at the end like a fucking episode of Black Mirror.
Thanks for the Jumanji 2 spoiler, ya asshole!
Watched the Irishman on Netflix.
It’s 3.5 hours long. Too be honest I found it pretty fucking good.
Don’t want to spoil any of it, but I would recommend you guys watch it for sure!
Lol when 2 ancient farts get pulled into a virtual reality right at the start of the movie where they regain full physical function through their avatars, it should be obvious that at least one of them is going to stay. But Danny Glover chose to remain as a horse! A fucking horse!
I watched it in the cinema and was very happy I did. It’s a long time to not be distracted by anything. And I agree that it was a good movie.
Yesterday I caught Wind River and felt that it resonated strongly with Swedish crime movies wherein the crime has been committed outside of the major cities. And since I didn’t go in expecting that it was quite a treat.
Anyone see “The King” on Netflix? Pretty damn good, hoped for a different ending but still good. Not really that much action, but really well done and solid acting.
I enjoyed it.
Taylor Sheridan was involved w/Hell or High Water, both the Sicario movies, and Yellowstone. All good stuff IMO.
The Sacred Riana: The Beginning (Indonesia 2019)
An origin story based on a “long haired chick from The Ring” type character a chick plays while doing magic tricks onstage. From what my wife tells me, she was on American Idol or something. I didn’t want to watch this.
A young girl named Riana has the ability to see ghosts. Her parents run a mortuary in their house. Then the house burns down. Then her family moves into an old school colonial house. She finds a possessed doll. Then she gets telekinetic powers, autism(the kind that only exists in bad movies) and tourettes syndrome.
I’m not making this shit up. The movie literally tells us this. All this happens in the first 10 fucking minutes of the movie. The stupid shit hasn’t even started yet.
Years later, her schoolteacher, who’s also a psychologist, hypnotherapist, paranormalist and all round moron comes to her house because she’s been ditching school. She tells her parents Riana has the kind of autism that only exists in bad movies and tourettes syndrome so she needs to go to a “special school”. Her parents are like, “Oh so THAT’S what’s wrong with our daughter! No wonder she can make plates and forks and shit fly around the house without touching them!”
Then they get into an accident and have to be hospitalized. So this moron schoolteacher does what any normal person would do: She brings a couple of “special kids” to their house to stay and conduct therapy sessions with Riana. These kids ALL HAVE SUPERNATURAL POWERS BUT SHE DOESN’T KNOW IT BECAUSE SHE’S A MORON.
This is where the really dumb shit STARTS. There’s a spirit of a loony Dutch child murderer who was hanged during the colonial era living there. He just suddenly shows up and becomes the main villain even though the family has been living there for YEARS and the usual jump scares and shit start happening without a semblance of a coherent plot. It’s like they just made shit up as they went along. The movie is so incompetently made even the sound effects for the jump scares are off cue or start while the object you’re supposed to be startled by is out of frame because they don’t know how to use wide shots.
This movie is one of the worst horror movies I’ve ever watched. And I’ve watched countless bad ones. It makes Annabelle look like Citizen Kane.
@dt79 ever finish Mindhunter?
Also. Watched Toy Story with my kids the other day. I’ve seen all of them. #2 kinda sucked, #3 was great, #4 was phenomenal, but if by #5 they don’t bring back Sid as an adult in a mental institution blabbering about toys being evil and have him break out to find Woody, they’ve fucked up.
Very excited for 3rd Sicario