Bladerunner 2049
I watched the original Jumanji from ‘95 with my kids yesterday - they loved it, I’ll always love it, and I miss Robin Williams.
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I watched the trailer and was also most in tears haha, will give it a watch at some point…you know… if the Mrs can handle it!
@flappinit My kids aren’t normally a fan of the older films, but they loved the original Jumanji.
I’d forgotten how good that film was, also watched Ace Ventura with them, I’d forgotten all the sexual stuff in that…
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or just watch it when the Mrs is cooking a dish with lots of chopped onion!
Ehh. The adult innuendo was in a LOT of the '90s movies, and people got uptight and removed all of it without realizing that it all went over kids heads. We didn’t forget that that stuff was in it, we were just kids and we didn’t notice it. Stuff like that makes it funny for the parents to watch with the kids.
Spider-Man: Far From Home
Finally got around to watching this, now that it’s on Netflix.
I’m a huge MCU fan, so I went into this with a favourable attitude. While it was still enjoyable, I was, admittedly, letdown somewhat. Granted, it was still good and entertaining, but I have a couple of gripes:
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They really seemed to gloss over Mysterio’s backstory, instead just ham-fisting it in through a expositional monologue that felt rushed. It made me less attached to him then I felt I should be, which is a shame, because Jake Gyllenhaal was excellent and the character could have been interesting.
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There appeared to be a lot more practical effects, such as costumes, than in prior MCU films. Which I love! However, it really made the CGI parts stand out like a sore thumb. Or the CGI budget was low. Either way, it was jarring at times.
All that to say, Marvel knows how to make an entertaining and fun movie, and Tom Holland is such a great Spider-Man.
7.5/10
Last night I watched “The Wrestler”. I had seen this movie before, but it was over a decade ago (it didn’t hit me the same way the first time I saw it). I think this may have been reviewed before on this thread, but it was great, so I am doing my review.
This movie was fantastic. The acting was great, and the characters were relatable. This movie got a lot of the stuff around the wrestling scene correct. The steroid abuse (his dealer in the movie got busted months after filming for dealing steroids), the later health complications. One thing I noticed, is that Mickey’s physique looks a lot like if mine was just aged 20 years. His hair isn’t far off from mine either.
The way the scenes were filmed (angles, lighting) was really well done. The human interaction seemed like it was really happening in real life, and they were just capturing it.
Marisa Tomei’s character’s conflicted position was executed perfectly (the character being a struggling, aging stripper and single mother fit so perfectly as Mickey’s love interest). Also, you get to see her tits on like 3 separate occasions, and I am a Marisa fan (I named my car after her).
The ending left me thinking for awhile. Perhaps because I strongly related to the protagonist. I think the strong conflict in both the main characters was captured so well that empathy for them just occurs and feels natural without the movie having a feeling of being heavy handed. I think this is an area that Darren Aronofsky excels at, he can make the audience emphasize with characters that would normally be hard for most people to relate to.
This one is free on prime too.
9/10.
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I watched A Quiet Place 1 on Saturday and 2 on Monday. Went in pretty blind and I really enjoyed it. The concept is kind of silly but the execution was good. I couldn’t believe Michael Bay was involved in something that good.
I watched both films with someone who really likes the Cinema Sins thing of trying to outsmart the plot or the characters and pointing out “plot holes”. Really didn’t miss that part of the movie viewing experience.
I enjoyed the sequel even more than the first. Cillian Murphy’s character was totally different to what I expected. The shit with the bear trap and the vault door were both really rough watching, for different reasons. I liked that they focused more on the kids as characters, both of them are great actors.
I think it’s a good spot to end the series but I know they want to make a third. I’m apprehensive but they haven’t messed up yet.
It’s a fantastic movie for sure. Mickey Rouke really carried it. I’ve read that he played a pretty big part in the creative process such as getting real small time wrestlers and even the drug dealer which you mentioned to either appear or act as consultants. The last Darren Afrowhatshisname movie I liked was The Fountain although I think it was mainly the soundtrack that really engaged me.
Lol I don’t really watch Cinema Sins because half of their “plot holes” really aren’t plot holes and it gets pretty irritating sometimes but I get that they need to find enough stuff to create content. But there were so many holes in Part 1 it would be so easy to rip the entire plot to shreds if the movie wasn’t so damn well made lol.
I caught 1/3 of Part 2 last night but I was just too tired to continue. While I don’t want to comment on it before I complete it, what I saw is telling me that Part 1 wasn’t just a fluke and the director really has lots of talent in him. There was one moment in the intro where I thought he was going to go overboard with a pointless long take but he held back just enough to not let it look gimmicky.
He did great, but Marisa Tomei was really good too. Might be here best role imo.
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Well, I’m officially hooked on Loki. It didn’t turn out to be an Arrowverse series. It’ll probably be the first Marvel TV show I complete. Got bored and mildly irritated with the direction in the Elizabeth Olsen one. Couldn’t be bothered to follow The Falcon one after a couple of episodes because it looked like they stretched one of the lousier Marvel movies into a mini-series and put in lots of fillers to pad out it’s running time but read that it ended in a way pretty much how I predicted it would.
I have no idea where Loki is headed. And Owen Wilson is still funny as fuck even when he’s playing a mildly serious role. Big props to the scripwriter.
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I’m going to yell at two of my coworkers tomorrow. They’ve spent weeks telling me to watch Unhinged, a road rage movie with Russell Crowe.
There’s a bunch of spoilers ahead, so if you’re planning on watching this, then skip over.
Russell’s great - he usually doesn’t disappoint, but I just can’t get over how dumb the chick is in it. She waits forever to call 911 - doesn’t call it when a seriously menacing guy starts threatening her and ultra-brake checking her and swerving around acting all crazy, and pretty much forgets about it when he goes away. Then he comes back, and gets her phone, which she doesn’t leave a password on because she almost crashed unlocking her phone (never mind that you don’t need to be on your phone when you’re driving in the first place, and you don’t need to unlock a phone when a call’s coming through), and starts murdering a bunch of people she knows. He continues to menace her while her kid’s at school, letting her know that HE knows where her kid goes to school, and when she finally calls 911 she doesn’t send the cops to her house or her kid’s school. She tries to send them to the house of the person who she told him to take first from her contact list, and surprise, he doesn’t go there. He goes to her house and starts torturing her brother. Then he catches up with her again.
So she decides to fight back. This is her plan. Not fucking joking.
Step 1: Lose him in your grandma’s house’s neighborhood (grandma’s at a nursing home). This could almost have been a good idea, but trust me, step 4 is where it all starts to fall apart.
Step 2: Go to Grandma’s house, have your son trip the silent alarm and then hide in a hidey-hole behind a closet upstairs. Again - almost sounds like a good idea, right?
Step 3: Leave your red, busted up and newly dented station wagon in plain sight in the driveway. When he stops to see it, you drive your grandma’s car into him, t-boning him, and then hop out with a golf club and scissors in your back pocket.
Step 4: Walk over to the car, and upon seeing that you can’t see someone’s body sitting in there, stick your head inside for a better look.
Step 5: Get your ass kicked when the guy jumps you from behind and nearly knocks you out, then tells you he’s going inside the house. You know, the one that you placed your child in and then used as bait.
Step 6: Get up all wobbly and follow him while he walks inside. Do you use the golf club, or finally, the fucking scissors to sneak up on him and stab him? No. No you don’t.
STEP 7: YOU SNEAK THROUGH THE HOUSE AND OPEN UP THE HIDEY HOLE WHERE YOUR SON IS, SCARING THE FUCK OUT OF HIM, AND THEN THE BAD GUY DRAGS YOU OUT AND BEATS YOUR ASS.
Step 8: Still using the golf club. Get your ass kicked again.
Step 9: Get thrown on the bed, and while watching your son be strangled with electrical cord, you frantically search for the scissors, and then stab him repeatedly in the back of the neck oh no wait, that’s just what I figured she’d do, she actually tells him “hey” and then does a jumping eye-stab off the bed.
Seriously - you used your son as bait, then when you had the opportunity to sneak freely throughout the house, you used it to open up your son’s hidey hole and lead the bad guy right to him? I just got so MAD at her by the time it all ended, it ruined what would otherwise have been an intense and suspenseful gorefest.
3/10. Russell was a fun bad guy, bit different writing and he could have brought this up to a 6, but yeah - dumbest victim of all time. Full victim blaming here.
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That was so fucking dumb I just went along with it to maintain my sanity because I kinda expected the next steps to be even dumber.
I posted before I watched part of it and was really impressed by Russell Crowe’s performance. But THIS is why I didn’t write anything more about it when I watched the full movie.
But I guess I got more entertainment out of it because I managed to accept it’s dumbness. Shitty slasher films have conditioned me to be able to do this.
You need to watch the 2018 Halloween sequel that simply called itself Halloween even though it was a sequel lol.
It was almost like they were already warning us that it was going to be fucking dumb but I still took the bait and even then I couldn’t bring myself to accept THAT level of dumbness. And this includes my ability to accept Michael Myers being part of some ancient cult explaining his ability to not fucking die after previously getting shot 7 times and blown up twice in one the the shitty sequels they decided to retcon.
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I end up yelling at the TV during movies like that, and usually end up cheering for the bad guy after the 3rd or 4th stupid mistake that the “protagonist” makes.
By then I’m like “Yeah. Go ahead, pistol whip him and burn their car. They kinda earned it after that last flub.”.
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I would love to see what you do after you watch this:
EDIT:
One second thought, I don’t think any relatively sane person who’s not a bad movie fan should be put through this kind of torture so here’s a pretty accurate breakdown of the movie:
Seriously, some the the silliness seemed so familiar but I’d forgotten where it came from. Finally remembered after the article stated it.
Even those were hard to read, and they were making fun of it.
That has to be really bad!
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That old MadTV sketch had way better filmmaking than the movie.
I wanted to complete A Quiet Place 2 last night but then I saw this:
There was no way I was going to not watch it first when I’ve been shown Nicolas Cage’s face looking like that filling almost the entire poster with that tiny silhouette of him pointing a gun at someone at the bottom lol.
I couldn’t make it through 30mins before nodding off. Which doesn’t mean Nicholas Cage wasn’t fucking hilarious. They attempted to pull off some non-linear story structure with some unknown guy as the real lead when all I wanted to see was Nicolas Cage doing what Nicholas Cage does.
It doesn’t look like a dumbass movie with shitty filmmaking, though. Even Kelsey Grammer seemed to be taking his role seriously enough.
If you have a longer attention span than mine these days and wanna see an alcoholic Nicholas Cage do shit like put a couple of beer bottles on his white picket fences next to the part the lead guy is fixing and then going to the roof to fire at them to fuck with him after he makes a pass at his wife, this may be for you.
Conjuring The devil made me do it
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Buddy if you like Nicholas Cage I have the movie for you:
I’ve read the script and if it’s close to that it will be very good.
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