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

angelo said:
The Godfather and it's sequels. A local channel is showing one every night for the last 3 nights. As they're all around 3-4 hours long,
i'm betting many fans of the franchise are bleary eyed next day. G F 1, I'd rate 9/10-- 2, 8/10--3,--7/10.

Most probably De Niro's last great movies.
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Wasn't De Niro only on one of those movies, II ?

Yeah he has done some shit but he's also done some good stuff since then. Taxi Driver was excellent, Goodfellas, Casino, Ronin wasn't too bad, Heat was decent.
 
southernhybrid said:
I’m trying to find Inherit the Wind.
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That's a good one. I haven't seen it in years.
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To be clear, I was talking of the George C. Scott / Jack Lemmon TV movie version (1999), which apparently is a bit more fair to William Jennings Bryan's inspired character.

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TSwizzle said:
angelo said:
The Godfather and it's sequels. A local channel is showing one every night for the last 3 nights. As they're all around 3-4 hours long,
i'm betting many fans of the franchise are bleary eyed next day. G F 1, I'd rate 9/10-- 2, 8/10--3,--7/10.

Most probably De Niro's last great movies.
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Wasn't De Niro only on one of those movies, II ?

Yeah he has done some shit but he's also done some good stuff since then. Taxi Driver was excellent, Goodfellas, Casino, Ronin wasn't too bad, Heat was decent.
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Awakenings... aw heck, DeNiro was early in his career when he did GF II. Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, Awakenings, The Mission, Cape Fear, the dated Untouchables, etc...
 
Jackie Brown wasn't bad either. It could be said De Niro was the Nicholas Cage of actors before Nicholas Cage became the Nicholas Cage of actors.
 
The Autopsy of Jane Doe

It opens with a pristine looking corpse that's found buried beneath a house. The corpse is then taken to a morgue where a pathologist and his son-in-training begin to examine it for cause of death. That's when the mystery starts.

It began well enough. It progressed pretty nicely, building solid tension and suspense, and mixing it with the supernatural. I was quite happy with this movie for the first hour or so. Then it took the easy way out and finished poorly. I have no idea how the third act should have gone. I can see the difficulties proposed by the nature of the film, but I'm not a professional screen writer. However, I do like to think that I wouldn't call in the cheap tricks and cliche squad when things got tough.

Still, even though there was cheapery and cliches shat onto the viewer, it doesn't entirely ruin the movie. Prior to the third act, it's well written, mostly well acted, and you do become invested in the characters and story.

6/10
 
Aquaman 8/10

Thoroughly entertaining. Though the drumming octopus was a bit over the top, but what the hell A bit shallower and more like a Marvel film than I normally like from DC, but really no complaints. Of course, whenever Orm talked about making war against the surface I just kept thinking "yeah, Superman would wreck your shit". I did really enjoy that Arthur felt both super and beatable at different points in the film, kept the feeling that there were actual stakes in the activities.
 
TSwizzle said:
angelo said:
The Godfather and it's sequels. A local channel is showing one every night for the last 3 nights. As they're all around 3-4 hours long,
i'm betting many fans of the franchise are bleary eyed next day. G F 1, I'd rate 9/10-- 2, 8/10--3,--7/10.

Most probably De Niro's last great movies.
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Wasn't De Niro only on one of those movies, II ?

Yeah he has done some shit but he's also done some good stuff since then. Taxi Driver was excellent, Goodfellas, Casino, Ronin wasn't too bad, Heat was decent.
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You could be right. It may have been II or III, not sure. Taxi Driver was excellent. But wasn't that long before GF ? I take that back. Goodfellas, Casino were also excellent movies. I should've said DeNiro hasn't made a decent film since those blockbusters.

Perhaps Cape Fear was DeNiro at his creepiest.
 
Speaking of DeNiro. I watched a little know gem of a dramatic Italian movie from 2011 with DeNiro in it, but not in the main starring role. Ages Of Love. Perhaps I loved it because it also stars the very delicious Monica Bellucci.

The movie explores the three stages of life and love through a series of vignettes. It really is a star studded affair. I'm surprised it wasn't a much bigger blockbuster. Perhaps because it was regarded as an Art film.

I rate this at 9/10.
 
Opoponax said:
Bird Box

It's an apocalyptic movie about either demons or aliens who, upon being seen, cause people to commit suicide However, there is a very small portion of humanity that doesn't go insane, but does the demon's/alien's bidding by making others look at the demons/aliens. These baddies are escaped lunatics. The non-lunatics have to manage to make their way through the world blindfolded.

It's an interesting idea, and I didn't have much trouble buying into it. Ironically though, the viewer never gets to see the demons/aliens except through one of the lunatic's pencil sketches, most of which are inconsistent. It's as if the film's makers couldn't decide on a single alien, so they decided to take all the ideas they had and put them on the table--but not commit to any single concept. However, most monsters tend to detract from a movie unless you come up with something legendary like the original Alien or Predator. IOW, there's not much middle ground between iconic and meh when it comes to movie monsters. So it was probably a better choice to "show" the monsters the way they did.

Plot holes abound and reasonable questions are never answered though. For example, are these aliens or demons? Is it a religious event, or is it a space borne invasion? How come these entities can't or don't physically harm people? OTOH, maybe it's better left to the imagination of the viewer. It certainly doesn't hurt us to have to think about something rather than having it spoon fed to us. The monsters could've been demons or they could have been aliens, or it could have been a mass delusion brought on by some heretofore unknown solar or biological event. So in the end, not having the answers to those questions doesn't hurt, and may even have been a good thing.

Finally, most of what is bad about the film is largely offset by a really good cast, well crafted suspense, and atmosphere. The ending does take us to Lame-town, but the journey to that place is pretty good.

6.5/10
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I pretty much agree.
I'd give it a 6/10.
Good acting with Sandra Bullock and John Malkovich.
Not a bad story, for a horror film. It's worth a view, if you have Netflix.

I liked the idea of the lunatics feeling that the demons/aliens were incredibly beautiful, and that they felt that seeing them has changed their lives in some wonderful way. One of them seemed truly sad when he had to kill someone before they could make them see the thingys. This sort of explains why the lunatics didn't just burn-out the non-lunatics from their homes.

 
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couch_sloth said:
Opoponax said:
Bird Box

It's an apocalyptic movie about either demons or aliens who, upon being seen, cause people to commit suicide However, there is a very small portion of humanity that doesn't go insane, but does the demon's/alien's bidding by making others look at the demons/aliens. These baddies are escaped lunatics. The non-lunatics have to manage to make their way through the world blindfolded.

It's an interesting idea, and I didn't have much trouble buying into it. Ironically though, the viewer never gets to see the demons/aliens except through one of the lunatic's pencil sketches, most of which are inconsistent. It's as if the film's makers couldn't decide on a single alien, so they decided to take all the ideas they had and put them on the table--but not commit to any single concept. However, most monsters tend to detract from a movie unless you come up with something legendary like the original Alien or Predator. IOW, there's not much middle ground between iconic and meh when it comes to movie monsters. So it was probably a better choice to "show" the monsters the way they did.

Plot holes abound and reasonable questions are never answered though. For example, are these aliens or demons? Is it a religious event, or is it a space borne invasion? How come these entities can't or don't physically harm people? OTOH, maybe it's better left to the imagination of the viewer. It certainly doesn't hurt us to have to think about something rather than having it spoon fed to us. The monsters could've been demons or they could have been aliens, or it could have been a mass delusion brought on by some heretofore unknown solar or biological event. So in the end, not having the answers to those questions doesn't hurt, and may even have been a good thing.

Finally, most of what is bad about the film is largely offset by a really good cast, well crafted suspense, and atmosphere. The ending does take us to Lame-town, but the journey to that place is pretty good.

6.5/10
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I pretty much agree.
I'd give it a 6/10.
Good acting with Sandra Bullock and John Malkovich.
Not a bad story, for a horror film. It's worth a view, if you have Netflix.

I liked the idea of the lunatics feeling that the demons/aliens were incredibly beautiful, and that they felt that seeing them has changed their lives in some wonderful way. One of them seemed truly sad when he had to kill someone before they could make them see the thingys. This sort of explains why the lunatics didn't just burn-out the non-lunatics from their homes.

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I think the review could be shortened to ‘Remember the Sci-Fi series Battlestar Galactica?’
 
Fate of the Furious - 6/10

Exactly what you'd think it would be. The acting is terrible, the writing is shit and the nonsensical plot has more holes in it than a Saudi woman who just asked her brothers if it would be OK for her to walk to the store by herself. However, it has cool cars, good fight scenes and big explosions. If you turn off your brain and take it for what it is, it's an enjoyable way to waste a couple hours of your life.
 
Was folding laundry yesterday and happened to catch Breaking Away on the broadcast TV. One of my all time favorite movies for many decades now. It came out in the late 1970's, so its a bit old, but it has aged well, and never fails to deliver. Check it out. 9/10
 
We're The Millers. A small time drug dealer, in trouble with his supplier, creates a fake family as part of a smuggling plan. It stars the delectable Jennifer Aniston, one reason to watch it. It's a surprisingly good comedy from 2013 actually. 8.5/10
 
Watched Coco last night. It gets 10/10 for eliminating any temptation to switch to the Liar In Chief's Offal Office address.

8/10 if not grading on the curve.
 
Rifftrax: Miami Connection

As I've said before, a good Rifftrax/MST3K episode contains a bad movie that's funny even without the commentary. This is one of those films. It's full of horribly choreographed karate/fighting, epically bad acting, 80s cheese, just enough coherence to be an actual movie, and the Rifftrax crew kills it. It falls a little shy of Samurai Cop, but such wretched perfection is hard to duplicate.

8/10

Hereditary

A very good horror movie that was only prevented from being great by mucking up the ending with some over-the-top-ness. Other than that, it's a very layered film about family, guilt, and being saddled with the problems of your own family members.

7.5/10
 
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I watched After Porn Ends 3 on Netflix.

The first one was an interesting look at what happened to a number of "well known" performers who'd aged out of the industry or quit due to the bullshit that comes with the life. It was a sympathetic portrayal, and a mild indictment of the business. Here were some people who were otherwise smart and talented, but wound up having sex on camera for money. I'd put it up there with Rashida Jones' "Hot Girls Wanted" as far as cautionary tales go.

This was not that. In fact it should have been called "Porn Never Ends" and was basically a full on defense of the industry by people who clearly enjoyed the money, drugs, and escapades available to them. It was, in a word, scummy.
 
An all star cast of Bruce Willis, John Malkovich and Mary-Louse Parker are somewhat wasted in this action movie. Red 2 A team of elite operatives tracks down a missing portable nuclear device, while facing an army of ruthless opponents.

6/10
 
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