The Return of Even More Movies You've Watched This Week III

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I wanted to watch Infinity War this weekend, but the wife was all “we have already seen that one”. So what it is good. Anyways we watched Captain Marvel. What a piece of garbage that was. I just couldn’t keep focused on the movie. Didn’t draw me in much at all. not even going to rate this one.

This past week, I also saw a couple other movies. John Wick. I rather enjoyed this film despite it being completely irrational. It is Taken, but with a puppy and a car. I am a Keanu fan, and I like him in it. It just didn’t make sense to risk his life over a dead puppy and a car and then kill at least 30 people. Still enjoyed. 7.5/10.

I was hesitant to watch the Kingsman (the first one, I don’t remember the whole title). I enjoyed this movie. I thought Samuel L Jackson’s character was quite ridiculous. It was a bit cheesy at points, but filled with action. 7.75/10.

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A couple months ago I went back and watched all the MCU movies in chronological order. What really stood out for me was the lack of cuts when it came to Black Widow’s fight scenes in Iron Man 2. Makes the scene so much more enjoyable. I hate ultra close up fights that skip around every half a second.

My biggest beef with this movie is Captain Marvel herself. In the comics, she’s confident but kind. She just comes across as a prick in the MCU. Really ruins it.

Have you seen the other two? They make less and leas sense but holy shit are they ever entertaining. They’re the kind of movies you just shut your brain off for. I love them.

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Haven’t seen them. I am thinking about giving them a watch. I am always on the lookout for movies I haven’t seen. There is a limit on how much I can take as far as the movie just not making sense, but tons of action. I don’t know how to quantify that, but I’ll say the transformer movies I didn’t enjoy (I guess I enjoyed the first one a bit). Lots of cool robot fights, but the plot was just so lacking. I fell asleep for the sequels.

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I was so bloody disappointed I went on a lengthy tirade in this thread after watching it lol. I couldn’t believe it was directed by the directors of Half Nelson. It was just a checklist of SJW talking points and pseudo-feminist propaganda.

I wrote all these while I was pissed off since it was released right after Infinity War and my expectations from Marvel were damn bloody high.

Tell me if I was being biased:

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You gotta watch the next 2. They’re better than part 1. They’re all so enjoyable because they’re not just action films. They’re slapstick comedies.

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That’s why I thought it was done by a HK action director.

You can play a prick but still be likable when your acting transcends the material you’re given. That’s the difference between Robert Downey Jr and Brie Larson. And the film crew wants to make you look good on screen. Brie Larson seems like a prick in real life.

I’ve had the pleasure of watching Chow Yun Fatt(A Better Tomorrow, The Killer, Crouching Tiger, Hidden Hackjob) film a scene in my area when I was a teen or kid. I think it was for one of those old shitty Clifton Ko comedies. I can’t remember.

What I do remember is reading the Hollywood reports on his behaviour on set and they were completely accurate. The man shook everyone’s hand after the scene was done and told them, “Thanks for the hard work”. The soundmen, the cameramen, lighting guys, the guys sitting around doing nothing who were probably just assistants buying food and stuff. EVERYONE. And the fucker knew everybody’s names and addressed them as “brother”.

This was like 10 years before he was making Hollywood movies but AFTER he was already a mega-star in Asia. This is probably one of the reasons why he looks so good on screen even in his shittiest movies like Dragonball Z.

And oh boy I have a story about Francis Ng(Infernal Affairs 2, The Mission) that I can’t tell here because of certain reasons but I’ll tell you he’s so professional both in his actions and mindset it will blow your mind. This pertains to his attitude towards the film crew, not the “method acting” stuff. And Francis Ng is considered one of the greatest actors ever.

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You were fair in your assessment of the movie. Marvel is hit or miss with their movies. They do have some actual good movies (Infinity war, Ragnarok), but this one sucked.

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I watched “Age of Innocence” with Daniel Day-Lewis, Winonoa Ryder and Michelle Pfeiffer, directed by Martin Scorsese. It’s about some super-rich, high society, upper crust people in 1870s New York City. And how they are forced to follow the social mores and proper rules of their old money crowd.

It was OK, but pretty slow moving and boring. The cool part was to see another Scorsese NYC movie about a group of people living in a separate little world with their own rules and lifestyle. Instead of a local neighborhood Capo like Uncle Paulie, everyone answered to their ultra-rich, widowed, Great Aunt who ran the family. And if you messed up you got shunned instead of whacked.

It was great to see grimy, vulgar Bill the Butcher out of the bowery and up on 5th avenue acting all proper. Or to contrast the formal old money lifestyle with Jordan Belfort’s get rich quik, hedonistic ways.

Anyway, not the best movie, but it really helped me appreciate Scorsese’s other work even more.

Also, Poor Winonoa Ryder! In the 90s she was making Big Time movies with all the most respected/famous directors. Then that Adam Sandler movie killed her career.

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I watched Honest Thief because it’s one of the dumbest titles I’ve ever seen and it stars Liam Neeson. Seriously? “Honest Thief”? They couldn’t come up with anything better than that?

The plot is even dumber.

Liam Neeson is an ex-marine turned bank robber who has robbed lots of bank vaults over the years but doesn’t spend the money he steals. I’m pretty fucking sure that even in the US, the law is pretty clear that he’s committing acts of burglary or it’s equivalent, not just theft, since he has to illegally break into the bank vaults with the intent to steal the money, which makes the already dumb title even dumber.

But, yeah, that’s right. He uses his military pension and savings to survive, with 9 million dollars worth of stolen money stored in a fucking storage facility. Why? Because he’s sticking it to The Man because of some sob story about his father and he enjoys it.

Then he arrives in a new town, meets and falls in love with a chick and wants to turn himself in because he doesn’t want to lie to her about his past for the rest of his life or some nonsense like that. I’m not making this up.

So he calls up the FBI and tries to make a plea bargain with them ON THE PHONE for 2 years in a minimum security prison or something for turning himself in and returning all the money he stole because the FBI obviously has a say in the sentencing and a verbal agreement via telephone is sufficient. Or maybe that’s how it works in the US. Or Neesonland. I don’t know. 2 years for multiple acts of burglary? It’s definitely Neesonland.

He’s been called the “In and Out Bandit” all these years. LOL. The 2 senior FBI dudes in the office who speak to him on speaker phone are the fuckhead who played Kyle Reese in Terminator: Genysis and the dude that played the original T1000 in Judgement Day respectively. FUCK YOU.

Both of them don’t take him seriously because over the years, lots of nutjobs have claimed to be the “In and Out Bandit” so instead of telling him to go down to the nearest police station or come down to their headquarters to make a statement, they reluctantly send 2 agents over to his HOTEL ROOM to talk to him. I’m still not making this up.

The 2 agents are also sceptical so to prove that he’s the real deal, he gives them the key to the storage facility where he stored his stolen loot.

Yes, that’s right. A bank robber who’s been pursued for several years has to provide evidence to the FBI that he is indeed the bank robber like he’s the fucking Zodiac Killer. In a bloody HOTEL ROOM. And 2 FBI agents let a possible criminal sit and wait in his hotel room for them to come back while they go look for evidence of his crimes. I’m really fucking not making this up.

The FBI agents find the money and decide to keep it. While doing so, they meet the girl Neeson fell in love with, who just so happens to be the one who runs the fucking storage facility. Then they go back to his hotel room to to kill him but he tells them there was only 3 million in the storage facility as he had a backup plan in case this happened.

WHAT THE FUCK? He expected this to happen? Why didn’t he just go down to the fucking headquarters or police station or something to turn himself in then so they have official records, cameras, witnesses and shit? Or mail them the fucking key so they could verify his claims without letting them know his location?

So the 2 dumb fucks are like, “9 million’s a lot more than 3. Ok where’s the rest of the money” right at the time the T1000 pops by because one agent wasn’t PICKING UP HIS CALLS and they KILL HIM instead. Neeson takes the opportunity to escape but they obviously pin the blame on him, which makes Kyle Reese angry since he was his partner but you obviously can’t tell he’s angry because the dude can’t act for shit.

Then the 2 dumb fucks realize there were probably security cams in the storage facility and go there to steal the evidence and kill his girlfriend. But they don’t FUCKING COMFIRM she’s dead. One dude slams her head on a table and the other feels her pulse and goes, “I think she’s dead.” This is literally how it played out and they not were running against the clock. They had all the time in the world to do what they had to do there.

Neeson then finds her and realizes she’s not dead by feeling her pulse and sends her to the hospital. The shitty FBI agent couldn’t even tell if someone is alive or dead. I swear I’m absolutely, positively not making this up.

Then Neeson tries to convince Kyle Reese that it was the 2 agents who killed the T1000 by finding him, fighting him and letting him go and that’s where I stopped watching because I couldn’t take it anymore. I just couldn’t.

If the filmmaking was a bad as the plot, I would probably have continued watching for the entertainment value. But it was just mediocre - ever so slightly teetering on the edge of competent - which made it both dumb and boring.

0.5/10

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Per your recommendation, last night I watched Isle of Dogs (I love dogs if you say it fast). I liked this movie. It was different, and I did not see where this movie was going. I was like they are taking these kids movies to a new level (adult topics, gore, political topics, etc). Turns out it is PG-13. I give this one 8.25/10.

Additionally, my dog Tito was fairly engaged with this movie. He barked at the screen a few times and had a couple growls too. I would say he watched about 1/3 of it before going under his blanket to nap. That is good engagement for him (probably the longest he has watched a movie). This is Tito, he is a long boy (the brown one, Nacho is the white one with brown patches).

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Rewatched Patriots Day with Mark Wahlberg the other night. I saw it a few years ago but it popped up on Prime and I gave it another go. Pretty cool look into how everything went down, plus Marky Mark is #bae. Obviously a sad story, but it was good enough for me to rewatch.

I don’t know…7/10? 8, maybe?

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I didn’t recommend it cos I’ve haven’t watched it lol. It was probably someone else.

I just can’t get into animated movies for some reason so I tend to stay away from them. I either fell asleep or was bored to tears in the cinema watching 2 Shrek movies and that really highly rated Up. I think it’s a psychological thing or something. It’s why I’ve never watched more than 15mins of any of the old Disney animated movies.

Seriously, I really tried. This isn’t that old “cartoons are for kid” shit that my wife pulls on me every time I rewatch the The End of Evangelion lol. I had a girlfriend who was into lots of anime. I watched Akira, Jin Roh and Ghost in the Shell and just couldn’t get into them although I thought Ghost in the Shell had an interesting plot and Jin Roh had some cool lines.

I only really like the ones made by Hayao Miyazaki(Spirted Away - one of my favourite movies) and Hideaki Anno(all the Evangelion stuff) and that series called Lain or something. But I don’t think I’ll see anything like them again because Miyazaki is too old and Anno is crazy.

Some miscellaneous stuff include the old Transformers movie and one Devilman movie. The old Devilman one, not the new netflix one. I think it was called Amon: The Apocalypse of Devilman or something. That was some crazy, badass, over-the-top shit. Never watched the series. I highly recommend that one if you just want to watch some completely non-politically correct, “we don’t give a flying fuck” kind of violent carnage.

Oh, Ranma 1/2 was pretty funny, But I only watched it cos it was shown on late night TV - back when there was no cable, you connected to the internet through a phone line and getting an upgrade to from a 30kbps to a 56kbps connection felt like warp speed - and I don’t sleep much lol.

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Started re-watching Sherlock. The one starring Dr Strange. It gets even better with a second viewing, probably because some of the scenes are so fast paced I couldn’t keep up the first time I watched it. Thanks again to @loppar for introducing this magnificent show to me. I watched the movie(not the RDJ one) first and hated it and I only started watching the series about a year later after something you posted. Actually, I kinda hated the RDJ movie as well.

I can’t decide if this is my favourite series of all time or Boston Legal. Granted, I don’t watch much TV. And I stopped watching Game of Thrones after the first episode because I was bored so take my opinions with a grain of salt lol.

I prefer fluff like Lucifer and Good Omens. The only other TV series I really liked was House MD but everything after season 5 or 6(I can’t remember) sucked big time. I think it was after season 5 because I remember only watching the next season because of Oliver Wilde, Picket Fences wasn’t bad. I remember catching several episodes during my university days on late night television and being really impressed by the writing and the accuracy of some of the legal stuff. I took notice of Don Cheadle from that show while, sadly, most people only noticed him after Hotel Rwanda. I stopped watching The Practice after season 2 and only watched the final season because of the tie-in with Boston Legal. Actually, most of David E. Kelly’s shows are great but I just have no interest in them. Chicago Hope bored me to death. Harry’s Law wasn’t bad and it’s sad that it got cancelled after the 2nd season.

I think I’ll go with Sherlock since Boston Legal completely fucked up it’s last 2 seasons and they had to rely on Ultron to carry the show (I seriously think James Spader is one of the most criminally underrated actors ever although I’ve never forgiven him for Stargate. Back when Age of Ultron was released, I wasn’t really into Marvel movies without the Russo Brothers at the helm and the only thing that got me excited was him playing Ultron).

Sherlock went slightly off it’s original course in it’s later seasons but the standard of writing and filmmaking remained consistent. I think it was a logical and almost inevitable progression for this series though I can understand why some people hated the change. From the start, you could already tell they were trying really hard to hold back from going too over-the-top. It was never going to be anything like the books nor the previous film or TV adaptations.

Alright, the “Watson’s wife is a ninja secret agent” shit was fucking absurd but just that one episode where they visually depict Sherlock’s thought process while solving a case during their wedding more than made up for it.

IMHO everything else was flawless. I just wish the movie didn’t exist. Even some of the one-liners were pure gems.

Sherlock Holmes: “Mrs Hudson leave Baker Street? England would fall!” LMAO.

10/10

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Monster Hunter

I watched this because Milla Jovovich is in it. It’s rubbish. The only good film Paul W. S. Anderson ever made in his life was Event Horizon. I was expecting something entertainingly bad like the Resident Evil series, you know, the awful but relentlessly energetic kind of bad movie stuff. I mean, come on, look at the fucking title. It’s like the title of some silly Pixar movie.

But this movie is just mediocre, uninspired nonsense with some really awful dialogue. The difference between this and the Resident Evil movies is the latter know they’re bad but they don’t give enough of a fuck to constantly remind the audience that they’re watching a deliberately badly made movie like, off the top of my head, Zombieland. Not that I didn’t like Zombieland. It was ok. I just think it could have been better. I can’t stand the excessive “breaking the 4th wall” nonsense. The only movie that managed to pull it off well was Shaun of the Dead.

This movie tries to be another Event Horizon but fails miserably. Nothing here is original. Even entire lines of dialogue are stolen from other movies. It’s really not even worth talking about.

If you want to watch something well made with a similar but much more interesting premise, go watch Pitch Black.

2/10 for some good fight scenes and Mila Jovovich’s ass.

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Honest thief was terrible, dude. All they had to do was make another Liam Neeson revenge film, and they failed.

Edit: Just saw you watched Monster Hunter. I’d definitely give it a 2/10 just like you in terms of it being a good movie - but it did have about what I expected in terms of content vs giant monsters, so my entertainment scale would probably give it a generous 5.5/10.

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Who saw Freaky?

Updated Freaky Friday (where Lindsay Lohan and Jamie Lee Curtis switch bodies) with Kathryn Newton and Vince Vaughn. Gory as all hell, funny, great soundtrack, great dialogue, one particularly creepy and unnerving part that was very difficult to watch, but overall a totally badass and hilarious flick. 7/10.

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Seriously? I’ll check it out.

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I gave it an extra point because of Mila’s ass. Otherwise it would be 1/10 lol.

It just made no sense. Like why was there a fucking training montage after they had already established Mila was almost on par with Tony Jaa in terms of fighting skills? So the fucking blades catch fire when you put them together. Whoop-de-fucking-doo. He could have just shown that to her.

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It made less than no sense. The entire thing. And they didn’t even teach TI how to hold a rifle.

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Alright, that’s the 2nd mention of Event Horizon.

@jshaving

“Event Horizon” was a horror movie from the 90s. It’s been a long time since I’ve seen it, but I remember it was pretty freaky/scary to me as a young man.

“The Shining” scared the hell out of me when I was a boy, and I definitely consider it a Classic. I wonder how this movie has held up over time. Is it still scary?

I know you said nothing demonic, and “The Witch” kind of violates that, but it was such a great movie I had to mention it. It plays out like a Nathaniel Hawthorne story. It’s like perfect New England style horror.

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