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

[angelo]

The Naked Gun 2.5 The Smell of fear.

More classic slapstick comedy that never fails to entertain. Leslie Nielsen shines in the role along with George Kennedy.

7/10

 

[ZiprHead]

U.S. Military Warns Troops Of Incel Violence At ‘Joker’ Screenings

With the upcoming release of the Joker movie, the U.S. Military has warned service members to be vigilant at screenings after the FBI uncovered potential threats of violence by incels, or involuntarily celibate men. The warning comes after the FBI uncovered what they believe to be credible threats on the dark web and on social media pertaining to extremist activity at theaters akin to the 2012 mass shooting in Aurora, Colorado.

According to a September 18th email, military personnel are advised to “identify two escape routes” when attending screenings of Joker and to utilize the “run, hide, fight” approach should a shooting take place.

https://god.dailydot.com/incel-violence-joker-screenings/?utm_content=buffer10436&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=thegoodlordabove&utm_campaign=bloomjoy

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

I had read an article about survivors of the 2nd Amendment in Aurora were upset about The Joker film. Stating the film makes him sort of a protagonist, though I thought that was the point of the Batman villains, they were complicated.

 

[spikepipsqueak]

I'm watching First Man and the sound is so fuzzy that the dialogue is hard to distinguish.

Is that just this DVD or was the film like that?

 

[bilby]

I'm watching First Man and the sound is so fuzzy that the dialogue is hard to distinguish.

Is that just this DVD or was the film like that?

I suspect it's the way it was made.

I noticed in recent years that dialogue in movies is often drowned out by the incidental music or other elements of the soundtrack.

At first, I put it down to aging; But if I watch a film made longer ago, I don't have the same issue, so it's not my old ears that are to blame.

Now, I almost never see movies at a cinema - only on TV. So I am wondering if moviemakers are putting together films with dialogue that's easy to hear in a theatre, with multi-track surround sound speakers; But when the soundtracks are merged to produce a TV broadcast and/or home use DVD, the merging technique might try to equalise the sound level from each track, leading to dialogue being buried under the incidental noise.

Movies made before cinema sound systems became so advanced would therefore not be expected to suffer from this problem.

Perhaps I need to leave the house to test this hypothesis. But that would require interaction with strangers, so it's not likely to happen.

 

[Wiploc]

I'm watching First Man and the sound is so fuzzy that the dialogue is hard to distinguish.

Is that just this DVD or was the film like that?

I suspect it's the way it was made.

I noticed in recent years that dialogue in movies is often drowned out by the incidental music or other elements of the soundtrack.

At first, I put it down to aging; But if I watch a film made longer ago, I don't have the same issue, so it's not my old ears that are to blame.

Now, I almost never see movies at a cinema - only on TV. So I am wondering if moviemakers are putting together films with dialogue that's easy to hear in a theatre, with multi-track surround sound speakers; But when the soundtracks are merged to produce a TV broadcast and/or home use DVD, the merging technique might try to equalise the sound level from each track, leading to dialogue being buried under the incidental noise.

Movies made before cinema sound systems became so advanced would therefore not be expected to suffer from this problem.

Perhaps I need to leave the house to test this hypothesis. But that would require interaction with strangers, so it's not likely to happen.

My father would say, "It's been a long time since I went to a movie and didn't want my thirty-five cents back.

 

[marc]

Downton Abbey

Never watched the show, just caught a couple clips from my wife watching. Oh, and seeing the special exhibit for the show once.

Despite that, thought it was pretty good. A fan will probably love it.

 

[prideandfall]

But that would require interaction with strangers, so it's not likely to happen.

i go to movies all the time, if enough decent ones are out upwards of 3-5 a month.
i haven't interacted with another human being in any capacity at a movie in probably 5 years now, you just need to go to any even slightly out of the way theater on a tues/wed/thurs at any time that isn't between 3pm and 5pm.
many (most?) theaters now have automated ticket sales kiosks, and using the above criteria will net you a theater that doesn't have many people in it.

movies and never speaking to another human being is not difficult.. well, assuming that you live in a moderate or larger town/city that has multiple theaters, if you live in some tiny dogfuck burg with only one theater within a 50 mile radius i guess kind you're kind of screwed, but at that point you did it to yourself for living in such a podunk shithole.

 

[Ford]

Extinction. It was a Netflix movie. Well, originally intended for theatrical release, but pulled from theaters and sold to the Netflix.

Now I know why. It wasn't good.

It stars Michael Pena (from Ant-Man) as a regular family man who is having visions/dreams of an alien invasion. The visions start to affect his family life and work. He believes they're real. Everyone else thinks he's crazy. Then one night (and about 30 minutes into the movie) his dreams become reality. The aliens land and start destroying everything in sight. Most of the next act is him trying to get his wife and two young daughters safely out of their high rise apartment building and to his job site, which is a secure facility where they might be safe.

Then there's a twist.

And it's not a particularly well done twist. He finds out why the invasion happened, why he was having the visions, and what probably looked like a compelling story on paper falls completely flat. I'd say "If you're bored..." but it's not even that good. If you're bedridden, and you're running out of things to watch, this wouldn't be a bad choice.

 

[Wiploc]

Downton Abbey

I hated the camera work. It made me angry, ruined the movie.

I think my eyes are different; most people don't see what I see. I don't like it when the camera pans around and everything goes blurry. Most people, I suspect, don't see that blur. But it's there; I can stop a film (at home) where it looks blurred to me, and, sure enough, the freeze frame is blurred.

So, if you're one of the few who sees what I see, and who doesn't appreciate it when the cameraman wants your attention on him rather than on the story, then this isn't a movie for you.

 

[angelo]

Runaway Millionaires

Made in New Zealand in 2019, starring a cast of complete unknowns. A New Zealand couple go on the run after $10 million is mistakenly deposited into their bank account.

Sounded like a promising plot until the atrocious acting, direction and all round amateur film making makes it as bad as one can imagine. 1.5/10

 

[The Colourful Jester]

Joker

An acquired taste, but really good. The best is at the beginning seeing the main character being slapped around by the world. The part people pay money for is right at the end, and maybe feels a little weaker. Not really a superhero/villian movie at all. Well worth a look.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

Creed II - 9/10

A brilliant and well written movie that's a worthy successor to the first one. They've made themselves a great franchise here. I remember when first seeing the trailer that I had no idea I even wanted to see a next generation Creed/Drago match up, but as soon as I became aware of the possibility of it, I couldn't conceive of how my life had ever felt complete without that existing in it.

Excellent plot line, well written and acted characters and great choreography on the boxing matches. Who knew that Stallone and Lundgren were actually good actors who could carry scenes and display wide ranges of deep emotions? I really don't think they were expecting anything like that to be possible when they just cast those buffed guys to pound on each other back in the 80s.

 

[hurtinbuckaroo]

Creed II - 9/10

A brilliant and well written movie that's a worthy successor to the first one. They've made themselves a great franchise here. I remember when first seeing the trailer that I had no idea I even wanted to see a next generation Creed/Drago match up, but as soon as I became aware of the possibility of it, I couldn't conceive of how my life had ever felt complete without that existing in it.

Excellent plot line, well written and acted characters and great choreography on the boxing matches. Who knew that Stallone and Lundgren were actually good actors who could carry scenes and display wide ranges of deep emotions? I really don't think they were expecting anything like that to be possible when they just cast those buffed guys to pound on each other back in the 80s.

You obviously found something wrong with it. Why the 1-point deduction? Too much nudity?

 

[Tom Sawyer]

You obviously found something wrong with it. Why the 1-point deduction? Too much nudity?

Rocky and Ivan didn't fight again. I wanted the old man slap fest that ends with one of them throwing a hip.

 

[WAB]

I watched this fast-paced flick where these real macho bad-asses held their pistols sideways, so that it looked really bad-ass, and they said "fuck" in every sentence; there were lots of fist-fights and wicked car chases; there were guys hanging off of helicopters while shooting their guns sideways; and there was this awesome fight on top of a moving train!

I forgot what that flick was called.

 

[ruby sparks]

I watched this fast-paced flick where these real macho bad-asses held their pistols sideways, so that it looked really bad-ass, and they said "fuck" in every sentence; there were lots of fist-fights and wicked car chases; there were guys hanging off of helicopters while shooting their guns sideways; and there was this awesome fight on top of a moving train!

I forgot what that flick was called.

I think I've seen that one too. I believe it was called, 'Downton Abbey 9: Armageddon.'

 

[hurtinbuckaroo]

I watched this fast-paced flick where these real macho bad-asses held their pistols sideways, so that it looked really bad-ass, and they said "fuck" in every sentence; there were lots of fist-fights and wicked car chases; there were guys hanging off of helicopters while shooting their guns sideways; and there was this awesome fight on top of a moving train!

I forgot what that flick was called.

I think I've seen that one too. I believe it was called, 'Downton Abbey 9: Armageddon.'

No, it was Mary Poppins Returns To Kick More Asses

 

[Tom Sawyer]

You’re all wrong. It was Thomas The Train Engine 7: Get These Motherfucking Terrorists Off My Motherfucking Railroad.

 

[WAB]

You’re all wrong. It was Thomas The Train Engine 7: Get These Motherfucking Terrorists Off My Motherfucking Railroad.

Hey, that was it. Samuel L. Jackson was the voice of Thomas.

And speaking of shooting with pistol aimed sideways, some people cite the famous scene from The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly, where Tuco says, "When you got to shoot, shoot, don't talk." Of course, he had a reason to have to turn the gun that way:



But even before that, I spotted a scene in One Eyed Jacks (1961) where Marlon Brando holds the gun sideways and shoots a guy from under a table.