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

Money Monster - the premise has been done before, but the three main leads hold the film together well. 8.5/10

Alice Through the Looking Glass - Looks nice, felts dull. 5/10

Now You See Me 2 - I walked in expecting Ocean 12 and was only mildly pleased it was somewhat better. Not as much fun as the first. 6/10
 
To Kill A Mockingbird

After inviting one aggravated assault after another onto myself by watching shitty movies, I finally relented and watched this one for the first time in at least 15 years.

God, what a great movie. That's really all there is to say about it. How do modern film makers not look at movies like this and have them firmly implanted as an important influence? It doesn't matter if it's a young person in the first semester of film school or a vet director; the influence of movies of this caliber should be in the repertoire.

9.5/10
 
bleubird said:
Bikes vs Cars
We are so fucked!
A car for everyone turned out to be one of worst thing humans have done.
So glad I do not live in a large city.
Kind of feel sorry for all you that do,kind of.
7/10
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Have you tried Europe? Big cities in Europe are fine. Plenty of excellent public transport
 
DrZoidberg said:
bleubird said:
Bikes vs Cars
We are so fucked!
A car for everyone turned out to be one of worst thing humans have done.
So glad I do not live in a large city.
Kind of feel sorry for all you that do,kind of.
7/10
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Have you tried Europe? Big cities in Europe are fine. Plenty of excellent public transport
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My home town is better than most.Good transit system and bike paths all over.
 
Amityville Horror (2005)

Casting is important. In this version the unfortunate Lutz family consists of a hunky Ryan Reynolds as George Lutz married to smokin' hot Melissa George playing Kathy Lutz. In this version, Kathy is a widow with three children. As mentioned, she's really hot and about 25 years old, which might not be such a problem until you consider her oldest son is about 13-14 years old. This is evidenced by both his size and the fact that he gets an instant boner for the hot looking babysitter. This indicates that Kathy must have had him when she was about 12-13 herself. Her next oldest is about 7, the next about 5 years old.

So that's all fucked up.

Also, Ryan Reynolds is paraded around in several scenes in his pajama bottoms with no shirt. The dude looked carved out of marble. Eventually, he has some good psychotic moments, but his early use as charming hunky heroic stepdad makes the turn-to-pscyho way too much to swallow.

In the original, one of the things that made it believable was that the Lutz family looked like a real family. They were haggard and imperfect, which made for a believable cast.

Second, jump scares. There must have been 15-20 in this one. It's cheap, overused, and if a horror movie is filmed correctly, it doesn't need them. And why do ghosts run around in blurs behind people's backs when they're invisible and can just take their time cruising around the house? All stuff like that does is further cheapen the movie.

Third, the kids find out about the murders in the house from the hot babysitter. This was stupid because if they'd instead learned about it from kids at school,or something like that, it would have been more effective and realistic. And the babysitter knew because she used to babysit the De Feo kids before they were murdered by their pscyho brother---which only adds to the movie's stupidity.

It has some good creepy moments, but nowhere near enough to offset the complete lack of buildup, horrible casting, and cheap tricks.

3.5/10
 
Clear History
Larry David has been a comedy writer for a long time.
His Bernie Sander's is great.
7/10
 
Zootopia
Extreme cute and cleaver movie.
Could there be a Zootopia II?
7.95/10
 
Kingdom of Heaven

5/10

Ridley Scott's would-be historical epic is not as good as his previous venture in the genre, the overpraised but still quite watchable Gladiator, nor is it a disaster. It's mostly just bland and boring, from the routine action scenes, to the incessant political maneuvering, to the uninspired lead performance from Orlando Bloom.
 
Pride, Prejudice, and Zombies

It was okay. Had it come out before the zombie craze, it might have been much more impactful. But instead it's just a small chapter in the zombie genre. It's definitely one of the higher quality chapters, but a small chapter nonetheless.

I've read several of Jane Austin's books, but not Pride & Prejudice. But, I definitely was able to discern what was likely original dialogue from the book as opposed to the necessarily added-in dialogue. And the movie did a pretty good job with creating what Austin may have written in a zombie-fied novel. And the special effects were good.

There was a subplot that contained the zombie Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, but it was never resolved. We only briefly glimpse them in top hats and wearing masks, but the movie just kind of ditches them until sometime after the credits start rolling. Obviously it's a setup for a sequel, but I'm pretty that sequel isn't forthcoming.

5/10
 
Colonel Sanders said:
Pride, Prejudice, and Zombies

It was okay. Had it come out before the zombie craze, it might have been much more impactful. But instead it's just a small chapter in the zombie genre. It's definitely one of the higher quality chapters, but a small chapter nonetheless.

I've read several of Jane Austin's books, but not Pride & Prejudice. But, I definitely was able to discern what was likely original dialogue from the book as opposed to the necessarily added-in dialogue. And the movie did a pretty good job with creating what Austin may have written in a zombie-fied novel. And the special effects were good.

There was a subplot that contained the zombie Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, but it was never resolved. We only briefly glimpse them in top hats and wearing masks, but the movie just kind of ditches them until sometime after the credits start rolling. Obviously it's a setup for a sequel, but I'm pretty that sequel isn't forthcoming.

5/10
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Pride and Prejudice is an awesome book. A true classic. There's a detail I love about it. It is set during the Napoleonic wars. But it doesn't mention it once. It is inferred here and there. You just got to know. I've read it twice. Before and after having realized this. It's a completely different book when you know it.
 
Colonel Sanders said:
Amityville Horror (2005)

Casting is important. In this version the unfortunate Lutz family consists of a hunky Ryan Reynolds as George Lutz married to smokin' hot Melissa George playing Kathy Lutz. In this version, Kathy is a widow with three children. As mentioned, she's really hot and about 25 years old, which might not be such a problem until you consider her oldest son is about 13-14 years old. This is evidenced by both his size and the fact that he gets an instant boner for the hot looking babysitter. This indicates that Kathy must have had him when she was about 12-13 herself. Her next oldest is about 7, the next about 5 years old.
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Do they say in the movie that she's 25? Because Melissa George is actually 39.
 
Shadowy Man said:
Colonel Sanders said:
Amityville Horror (2005)

Casting is important. In this version the unfortunate Lutz family consists of a hunky Ryan Reynolds as George Lutz married to smokin' hot Melissa George playing Kathy Lutz. In this version, Kathy is a widow with three children. As mentioned, she's really hot and about 25 years old, which might not be such a problem until you consider her oldest son is about 13-14 years old. This is evidenced by both his size and the fact that he gets an instant boner for the hot looking babysitter. This indicates that Kathy must have had him when she was about 12-13 herself. Her next oldest is about 7, the next about 5 years old.
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Do they say in the movie that she's 25? Because Melissa George is actually 39.
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The movie was released in 2005. So really, when they made it, it was 2004. So call it 27. But I said, "about 25" anyway. I wasn't citing birthdays. And it's the visual of her youth compared to that of her oldest son in the movie that is a near constant distraction throughout.
 
Butter - 7/10
this is one of those odd little "raunchy comedy and moments of genuine sweetness hidden behind a very pedestrian premise" kind of movies and it worked out really well.
follows a few misfit characters during their involvement in a butter-sculpture competition, but then there's a lot of great comedy about stripperhookers, interracial adoption, and freaky ass uptight white people.

The Voices - 6/10
kind of weird to say this, but it's very textbook "crazy person hearing voices that swear at him amusingly and fuck up his life" black dramady, that gets very gory in parts in a very comedic way (if you find ironic gore comedic, which i do)
it was rather boilerplate plot wise but i liked a lot of elements of it that felt very refreshing (everyone immediately recognizes the psycho killer as a psycho killer, the hostages make a very reasonable and eloquent try-to-get-the-crazy-person-to-let-you-go speech, stuff like that)
 
10 Cloverfield Lane

A woman is driving through the country and her car is suddenly struck by a truck. She then wakes up chained to a wall in an underground bunker that a mentally unstable survivalist has constructed. He tells her that the country has either been attacked with nukes or with chemical weapons. There is also a third character who went into the bunker with the mentally unstable guy.

Throughout, the tension builds and subsides and builds again.

John Goodman plays the crazy guy and his sheer presence and performance completely overshadows the other two actors as his role of pscyho is convincing but at the same time manages to engender a good amount of sympathy.

But this movie suffers from the milquetoast abilities of the rest of the cast. Goodman totally dominates the movie, which has the effect of ruining the credibility of the actions of the other two as well as feeling like you're just waiting for them to stop talking so that Goodman can come back on. But it's not his fault the other actors were so blah.

Couple that with an ending that's mediocre and you get...

6/10
 
Fury (2014 film)

8/10

David Ayer's World War II film, like his excellent police procedural End of Watch, is a very realistic, often bleak take on a standard action film genre. Standing out in the cast of this grunt's-eye view of the war are Brad Pitt as a tank commander and Logan Lerman as his crew's new, wet-behind-the-ears assistant driver.
 
Independence Day: Resurgence - 4/10

so i quite liked the first one, it's obviously not a good movie or anything but it was fun and schlocky and came out when disaster porn wasn't really a big thing, so it was fine for what it was during the time that it was.
this new movie did something i thought was really interesting, but that ultimately worked against it: it was a direct sequel jumping straight into events 20 years later and it assumed you saw the first one and knew the events and the premise, who everyone was and what their relationship is to everyone else, and it didn't spend any time reintroducing characters or settings.
but that also made it very rushed, like it was just going through a quick succession of action beats without taking the time to create any sense of investment in any of the characters.
the other issue is that instead of the scrappy underdog story of the first one it was more like the humans were equally matched in terms of weaponry (except for scale) and just had to find the boss weak point and shoot it.

the disaster porn aspect wasn't awe-inspiring enough to make that worth it, and overall it actually just felt like a fan fiction sequel you'd find on youtube.
also, and this isn't a negative it was just really weird, the movie is suffused with homoerotic undertones in every single male interaction. it doesn't go anywhere or have any ultimate point, it was just this really bizarre aspect of the dialogue and character interactions that stuck out like a sore thumb.
 
Probably won't go see the ID4 in the movies, but why oh why did they not come up with a better name? Like "Independence Day 2: Independencening" or something. A totally wasted opportunity.
 
Independence Day: 7/10

rewatched the original, with the same friend with whom i saw the sequel, since we both had the same thoughts about the original being pretty good and the sequel being... weird.
it holds up really well, with the CGI and such not looking too horribly dated most of the time.
yeah it's stupid and schlocky, but it's the fun kind of stupid and schlocky in a way movies just kind of stopped being by the late 90s.
 
prideandfall said:
Independence Day: 7/10

rewatched the original, with the same friend with whom i saw the sequel, since we both had the same thoughts about the original being pretty good and the sequel being... weird.
it holds up really well, with the CGI and such not looking too horribly dated most of the time.
yeah it's stupid and schlocky, but it's the fun kind of stupid and schlocky in a way movies just kind of stopped being by the late 90s.
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I saw this back in the day when it was showed for the press. Everybody in that room all laughed non-stop from start to finish. Especially when it was supposed to be tension. That's a memory that has stayed with me. The critics hated that shit. As did I.
 
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