Which movie did you watch today and how would you rate it?

[Tharmas]

The missus and I took our son to see "A Complete Unknown" today (the Dylan movie). We all rated it highly. It's hard for me to guess what a younger person who had no life experience with the Sixties would think of it, but the recreation of "the scene" was really good. A tremendous amount of (largely successful) effort was made to reproduce the voices and sounds of the era. The characterizations were good. It was not a whitewashing or a hagiography. Dylan was shown to be "kind of an asshole" as the Joan Baez character tells him. He is shown to be very conflicted about his success and his fame. My son's only complaint, which I shared, is that most of the songs were cut off after one verse. We wanted more music, but I guess that would make it a concert movie, which it was not supposed to be. Still, we heard the first verse of "Like a Rolling Stone" like seven times, but never any follow-through.

My rating would be 4.5 out of 5, but I'm a Boomer who grew up on that music.

 

[Colonel Sanders]

Interstellar

I've seen this one before, but it's definitely worth the rewatch.

The only thing I really didn't like about it was Matthew McConaughey mumbling and quietly breathing out so many of his lines. I had to watch it with subtitles. Outside of that, it's a really good sci-fi flick that tries to be as scientifically accurate as possible while doing an excellent job of balancing that with the human element(s).

And good god, Jessica Chastain is so hot... and so is Anne Hathaway.

8.5/10

 

[unapologetic]

Synchronic (2019), not to be confused with Synchronic (2021)
I used to think movie titles were trademarked, but apparently not.
Every search I do on IMDB turns up half a dozen other movies with the same name.
In Synchronic a 'designer drug' has time travel side effects. Making junkies disappear into the past.
Sounds stupid, but somehow I didn't care.
The protagonist is one of those 'magical negroes' trying to rescue the daughter of his paramedic partner/best friend.
Not as bad as this sounds. I give it 6/10.



Chaos Walking (2021)
On a frontier human colony. Something about the planet enables men to broadcast their thoughts, including visuals, with varying degrees of control.
The women cannot. Leads to mistrust and strife.
The colony's preacher is a real phyco son of a bitch, who makes the situation worse.
(You can't hear women's thoughts so they have no soles)
Well made and engaging. I rate it 7/10.
Trailer:

(starts with an ad for something else)

 

[TV and credit cards]

Well their feet must hurt.

 

[ZiprHead]

Interstellar

I've seen this one before, but it's definitely worth the rewatch.

The only thing I really didn't like about it was Matthew McConaughey mumbling and quietly breathing out so many of his lines. I had to watch it with subtitles. Outside of that, it's a really good sci-fi flick that tries to be as scientifically accurate as possible while doing an excellent job of balancing that with the human element(s).

And good god, Jessica Chastain is so hot... and so is Anne Hathaway.

8.5/10

It was written by a physicist. Kip Thorne IIRC.

 

[Shadowy Man]

Interstellar

I've seen this one before, but it's definitely worth the rewatch.

The only thing I really didn't like about it was Matthew McConaughey mumbling and quietly breathing out so many of his lines. I had to watch it with subtitles. Outside of that, it's a really good sci-fi flick that tries to be as scientifically accurate as possible while doing an excellent job of balancing that with the human element(s).

And good god, Jessica Chastain is so hot... and so is Anne Hathaway.

8.5/10

It was written by a physicist. Kip Thorne IIRC.

The movie was written by Jonathan and Christopher Nolan. Kip Thorne was an advisor and I believe led the effort for the visualization of the black hole using proper general relativity equations. Some of the actual numerical results were altered for the movie to make it more aesthetic.

 

[ZiprHead]

Interstellar

I've seen this one before, but it's definitely worth the rewatch.

The only thing I really didn't like about it was Matthew McConaughey mumbling and quietly breathing out so many of his lines. I had to watch it with subtitles. Outside of that, it's a really good sci-fi flick that tries to be as scientifically accurate as possible while doing an excellent job of balancing that with the human element(s).

And good god, Jessica Chastain is so hot... and so is Anne Hathaway.

8.5/10

It was written by a physicist. Kip Thorne IIRC.

The movie was written by Jonathan and Christopher Nolan. Kip Thorne was an advisor and I believe led the effort for the visualization of the black hole using proper general relativity equations. Some of the actual numerical results were altered for the movie to make it more aesthetic.

Had to look it up. Thorne was an Executive Producer of the the movie.

 

[hurtinbuckaroo]

Synchronic (2019), not to be confused with Synchronic (2021)
I used to think movie titles were trademarked, but apparently not.
Every search I do on IMDB turns up half a dozen other movies with the same name.

The title of a movie series (e.g. Star Wars) may be eligible for trademark protection, because it identifies the source of the material; a single film is not, because it only identifies that particular film.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Interstellar

I've seen this one before, but it's definitely worth the rewatch.

The only thing I really didn't like about it was Matthew McConaughey mumbling and quietly breathing out so many of his lines. I had to watch it with subtitles. Outside of that, it's a really good sci-fi flick that tries to be as scientifically accurate as possible while doing an excellent job of balancing that with the human element(s).

And good god, Jessica Chastain is so hot... and so is Anne Hathaway.

8.5/10

It was written by a physicist. Kip Thorne IIRC.

The movie was written by Jonathan and Christopher Nolan. Kip Thorne was an advisor and I believe led the effort for the visualization of the black hole using proper general relativity equations. Some of the actual numerical results were altered for the movie to make it more aesthetic.

He also helped with Contact, the novel. Sagan was going to use a black hole, but Thorne shifted him to an alternative work around.

It was a great movie. My only complaint was the black hole planet. They realized how time worked, yet for some reason didn't use that to foresight the issue with the signal.

 

[Shadowy Man]

Interstellar

I've seen this one before, but it's definitely worth the rewatch.

The only thing I really didn't like about it was Matthew McConaughey mumbling and quietly breathing out so many of his lines. I had to watch it with subtitles. Outside of that, it's a really good sci-fi flick that tries to be as scientifically accurate as possible while doing an excellent job of balancing that with the human element(s).

And good god, Jessica Chastain is so hot... and so is Anne Hathaway.

8.5/10

It was written by a physicist. Kip Thorne IIRC.

The movie was written by Jonathan and Christopher Nolan. Kip Thorne was an advisor and I believe led the effort for the visualization of the black hole using proper general relativity equations. Some of the actual numerical results were altered for the movie to make it more aesthetic.

Had to look it up. Thorne was an Executive Producer of the the movie.

An executive producer. Movies quite often have more than one.

I’m not trying to underplay his role but it’s an overstatement to say he “wrote the movie” or was the primary producer.

 

[ZiprHead]

Interstellar

I've seen this one before, but it's definitely worth the rewatch.

The only thing I really didn't like about it was Matthew McConaughey mumbling and quietly breathing out so many of his lines. I had to watch it with subtitles. Outside of that, it's a really good sci-fi flick that tries to be as scientifically accurate as possible while doing an excellent job of balancing that with the human element(s).

And good god, Jessica Chastain is so hot... and so is Anne Hathaway.

8.5/10

It was written by a physicist. Kip Thorne IIRC.

The movie was written by Jonathan and Christopher Nolan. Kip Thorne was an advisor and I believe led the effort for the visualization of the black hole using proper general relativity equations. Some of the actual numerical results were altered for the movie to make it more aesthetic.

Had to look it up. Thorne was an Executive Producer of the the movie.

An executive producer. Movies quite often have more than one.

I’m not trying to underplay his role but it’s an overstatement to say he “wrote the movie” or was the primary producer.

There were two executive producers. Thorne was one of them.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

An executive producer. Movies quite often have more than one.

I’m not trying to underplay his role but it’s an overstatement to say he “wrote the movie” or was the primary producer.

There were two executive producers. Thorne was one of them.

Yes, but Thorne was a consultant, not the script-writer. I remember being interested in this when I heard he was involved.

 

[TSwizzle]

Hit Man, 7/10; Streaming on Netflix and stars Glen Powell as a university lecturer who also moonlights as a consultant for New Orleans police. He gets roped into playing the role of a hitman in an undercover sting. He quite enjoys the gig and he's quite good at it and forces the actual detective out of the role. In one operation he meets a cute woman who wants her husband killed. He talks her out of killing him and instead leaving him and gets into a relationship with her. Her husband is later killed and this attracts the attention of the police. It's an okay movie, well acted and the plot is decent.

 

[robnisch]

Here
Tom Hanks kind of movie.
Like The Red Violin or Babble.
I'm a sucker for this genre.
7/10

 

[ZiprHead]

An executive producer. Movies quite often have more than one.

I’m not trying to underplay his role but it’s an overstatement to say he “wrote the movie” or was the primary producer.

There were two executive producers. Thorne was one of them.

Yes, but Thorne was a consultant, not the script-writer. I remember being interested in this when I heard he was involved.

Yes, I realized that when I was informed previously.

 

[Colonel Sanders]

Stopmotion

This was a good one. It's about a woman who's been taught the stop motion trade by her mother. Woman becomes obsessed with her work and genuinely disturbing events ensue.

Although it's a horror film, the acting, writing, drama, and tension should appeal to anyone who appreciates good filmmaking.

See it.

7.5/10

 

[ZiprHead]

Garden State 2003

I ran across this on Hulu. I knew of it but didn't know anything about it. I like Zach Braff so I watched it.

It was a very good movie about depression, guilt, redemption, and love.

Braff both wrote it and directed it. It was his first movie. It was also semi autobiographical. Braff said that while he was writing it he was very depressed, waiting tables for a living.

8/10

 

[ZiprHead]

Mandy

I had never heard of it but I read that Guillermo Del Toro liked it so I thought it worth a watch.

A 2018 low budget horror film starring Nicholas Cage. Set in 1968, a group of hippie cult members kidnap Cage's character's wife. He believes they burned her to death in front of him. This sets him off on a bloody revenge crusade against the cult and their enforcer biker gang.

The pace is slow but it works with the set designs, special effects, and the direction of the actors. It is exceedingly creepy and the tension builds slowly but surely. The revenge Cage enacts on the onto the bikers and the cultists is gruesome, bloody, and you feel well deserved.

Directed by Panos Cosmatos.

Normally I would give such a movie a 5 or maybe a six. But Cage's performance and the stylishness of the production put it over that. I give it an 8/10.

 

[laughing dog]

Cocaine Bear - 4

The only reason I watched this was the bears, But there is one scene where the strung bear passes out and plops down on one of drug transporters, It is hilarious.

 

[ZiprHead]

Too bad that POS was Ray Liotta's last movie.