• Welcome to the new Internet Infidels Discussion Board, formerly Talk Freethought.

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

It was yesterday, but I watched the "Jay and Silent Bob" reboot on IMDB TV.

I'm not the biggest Kevin Smith fan, but I liked Dogma and Chasing Amy and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.

This is what happens when a director with plenty of celebrity friends and a more or less unlimited budget gets to make exactly the movie he wants to make. It's hilarious, the references to his other films fly fast and furious, and there's an unexpectedly sweet sub-plot that works very, very well...even though you see it coming from a mile away.

It made me smile, and that's all I could ask for.
 
Since the pandemic I'm watching as many End of the world movies I can get my hands on, at Netflix and YouTube.

Some I rate quite highly, but some are truly showing their age and seem so contrived.
 
The Legend of Buster Scruggs ?/10 Not sure if this is worth renting. A strange vignette series of western stories. Some where odd, others odder. Get stoned or drunk first.
 
Jack Nicholson at his best, in fact one of his best roles. Spoiled just tad by Helen Hunt's ordinary acting.

As Good As It Gets. 9/10
 
angelo said:
Jack Nicholson at his best, in fact one of his best roles. Spoiled just tad by Helen Hunt's ordinary acting.

As Good As It Gets. 9/10
Click to expand...
Yeah, Jack Nicholson really stretched his acting in this film with his role that he has played numerous times.
 
A while back I watched Ironweed (1987), in which Nicholson and Streep deliver performances for the ages. Hadn't seen it since the VHS days. Also read the novel. The tone is so downbeat that it's not a film I want to own -- how many times can you watch these people at rock bottom? Same for the book. Well done but somehow small-bore. (At least Days of Wine and Roses had one character on an upward path while the other went down.) But the two lead performances in Ironweed… iconic.
 
ideologyhunter said:
A while back I watched Ironweed (1987), in which Nicholson and Streep deliver performances for the ages. Hadn't seen it since the VHS days. Also read the novel. The tone is so downbeat that it's not a film I want to own -- how many times can you watch these people at rock bottom? Same for the book. Well done but somehow small-bore. (At least Days of Wine and Roses had one character on an upward path while the other went down.) But the two lead performances in Ironweed… iconic.
Click to expand...
I'll need to add that to the list. I was going to mention Days of Wine and Roses (that was released on Christmas Day!), because it sounds like the same theme. That was a hard movie to get through. Apparently, Jack Lemmon (my favorite actor) was battling Alcoholism at the time of the film as well.
 
Much respect for Lemmon here. In Glengarry he caught the essence of a type of glib, transparently phony salesman -- and yet his comeuppance is so painful to watch. That last scene of his with Spacey is scorching.
 
ideologyhunter said:
Much respect for Lemmon here. In Glengarry he caught the essence of a type of glib, transparently phony salesman -- and yet his comeuppance is so painful to watch. That last scene of his with Spacey is scorching.
Click to expand...

Such a great film, gut wrenching performances, especially Lemmon's.
 
Angry Floof said:
ideologyhunter said:
Much respect for Lemmon here. In Glengarry he caught the essence of a type of glib, transparently phony salesman -- and yet his comeuppance is so painful to watch. That last scene of his with Spacey is scorching.
Click to expand...

Such a great film, gut wrenching performances, especially Lemmon's.
Click to expand...

I can't remember a bad movie Jack Lemmon ever starred in. Absolutely brilliant in Irma La Deuce 8/10
 
angelo said:
Angry Floof said:
ideologyhunter said:
Much respect for Lemmon here. In Glengarry he caught the essence of a type of glib, transparently phony salesman -- and yet his comeuppance is so painful to watch. That last scene of his with Spacey is scorching.
Click to expand...

Such a great film, gut wrenching performances, especially Lemmon's.
Click to expand...

I can't remember a bad movie Jack Lemmon ever starred in. Absolutely brilliant in Irma La Deuce 8/10
Click to expand...

Bell, Book, and Candle

Technically he co-stars in this Stewart and Novak film that betrays itself in the end. Lemmon is dreadfully under utilized.
 
Onward

In a world where magic is real but has been largely abandoned in favor of technology, brothers Barley and Ian go on a road trip in a crappy van to secure a talisman that will allow them to talk to their deceased father.

The animation is great, the voice acting is excellent, and the emotional core of the movie is pure Pixar. Some folks find the stumbling half formed apparition of the father too silly to take seriously but I thought it was a really effective way to depict his presence in his son's lives. He's there and not-there, and their attempts to connect with him are some of the best moments.

This movie doesn't quite reach the top shelf for Pixar. The story is never dull or flat, but it just doesn't have the flair that made Toy Story or Finding Nemo or Up so memorable. But it is entertaining, and the quest's end is both honest and moving.

8/10
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
angelo said:
I can't remember a bad movie Jack Lemmon ever starred in. Absolutely brilliant in Irma La Deuce 8/10
Click to expand...

Bell, Book, and Candle

Technically he co-stars in this Stewart and Novak film that betrays itself in the end. Lemmon is dreadfully under utilized.
Click to expand...

Yes, I'd forgotten that one. That's the problem when one brushes things with a broad brush. :o
 
Forsaken 7/10 Just an ok movie. Keifer and Donald Sutherland doing a movie together. Might have been the only reason the movie got made. Demi Moore has a part. Western story about a returning son who had hung up the guns. Of course he is forced back into being the hero as bad guys take over the town. This movie doesn't give us the usual happy ending, but instead forces people to deal with the decisions they made earlier in life. If your in the mood for a western, and apparently I have been lately, then give it a watch,
 
Terminator: Dark Fate
5/10

Finally got around to watching the latest installment of the Terminator franchise. Didn't have high hopes for it, so it wasn't that much of a let down, but it fails on many levels. But the new terminator is good, and Arnold's character "Carl" is actually pretty likeable, compared to "Pops" in Genisys. I also don't mind at all that the leads are all women, they do a good enough job. Sarah Connor could have been a bit more fleshed out, she's like a cardboard cutout compared to Terminator 2. Action sequences are good. Didn't like the deus ex machina ending, I would've preferred the terminator be destroyed by some more realistic means than future technology.

But the writing. Gosh. This isn't so much a movie full of plotholes, as it is a giant plothole with movie parts dispersed in it. Killing of John Connor and basically pulling the rug under the previous film was totally unnecessary and there is no way to make any sense out of it. We're supposed to believe there was one more terminator running around during the events of Terminator 2, but this one was an idiot who took 4 years to track down John instead of 4 hours it took for the other two terminators? And then it turns out terminators have magic ability to detect when and where other time travelers are coming from the future? There are dozens of stupid contrivances like this in the movie, and while nobody would expect perfect realism from a film about time traveling killer robots, there is a limit how much disbelief a human mind can suspend. And that's not even counting the plot points the writers deliberately left hanging for a sequel, that will never actually be made.
 
I was on YouTube, and ran across Jesus Christ Superstar.


It was stunning. I fast forwarded thru lots of shouty dissonant parts, but, what was left blew me away.

Apparently Andrew Lloyd Webber is showing his plays for free, one per week, for 48 hours each. Released on Fridays.

The play was fascinatingly re-imagined. The setting was inventive and effective. The voices were wonderful. The villains were deliciously villainy. There were (depending on how you count) one or three new songs. There were lots of famous faces. (I'm told they were famous. I didn't recognized them myself, but, for instance, Mary M. was a Spice Girl, and I've heard of the Spice Girls.) The reinterpretation of character was, uh, well I've already used the word stunning, but....

Have I used up my quota of exclamation marks? The scene transitions! The recursive use of space! The familiar music made new! If you ignore the poor lip-sync, it was a tour de force!

It was fun. I liked it a ton. This is a decidedly positive review.

[wrong thread]
I made pot roast, and that came out well too.
[/wrong thread]
 
A much underrated movie starring the late John Belushi.

Neighbors

Earl Keese (John Belushi) lives in an orderly house with his wife, Enid (Kathryn Walker), and daughter, Elaine (Lauren-Marie Taylor). His routine is disrupted when loudmouthed Vic (Dan Aykroyd) and his oversexed wife, Ramona (Cathy Moriarty), move in next door. Ramona and Vic subject Earl and his family to a bizarre dinner date and a near-death encounter in the front yard. Soon, Earl is ready to take drastic action to get rid of Vic and Ramona -- but he might lose everything in the process.
Initial release: 18 December 1981 (USA)
Director: John G. Avildsen
Box office: 29.92 million USD
Budget: 8.5 million USD

Managed to find it on YouTube last night... Definitely 8.5/10
 
Warning: Fake Movie

Call of the Wild (2020) No Rating. Didn't Watch Enough.

CGI dog goes to CGI Yukon in a terrible pukish Disneyesque adaptation of Jack London's classic novel.

I made it through 26 minutes of it.

There should be CGI percentage notifications with movies. If I wanted to watch a cartoon, I would have rented a cartoon.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom