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

Politesse said:
angelo said:
Romancing The Stone

[A romance novelist sets off for Colombia to ransom her kidnapped sister, and soon finds herself in the middle of a dangerous adventure hunting for treasure with a mercenary rogue.][/I]

Starring the then very delicious Kathleen Turner and the evergreen Michael Douglas. This film has it all. Adventure, romance, action and comedy. Not to mention the always entertaining Danny De Vito.

9/10
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That's my Mom's favorite movie of all time, I have seen it an absurd number of times. Check out the sequel as well if you haven't.
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Yes, I've seen that on more than one occasion. Also in the same vein as R T S extremely entertaining.
I rate that very highly as well at 8.5/10
 
Holy Hell Documentary from 2016, I think. Followers of some Guru who over the years become a little disillusioned. I get that they are taken in, but have they never heard of Charles Manson, or Jim Jones? Of course it starts out as a personal spiritual journey and soon becomes all about the leader. And of course the leader is nuts. 8/10 The guy should be in jail, but he still has quite an influence on them, and they don't want to hurt him...sheeesh.
 
Speed, 8/10; A classic 90s Hollywood action thriller starring Kaneau Reeves, Sandra Bullock and Dennis Hopper. It's one of those movies that when you are flipping channels and see it's on, no matter where in the movie, you tune in. The main theme revolves around a bus filled with passengers that is rigged with a bomb that will go off should the bus' speed drop below 50mph unless a ransom is paid to the evil Dennis Hopper character. Choc full of stunts, action, shooting, explosions and hammy acting the movie clips along at the same pace as the bus. The biggest hole in the plot is the idea that you can do more than 50mph on LA freeways ! :p
 
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Speed, 8/10; A classic 90s Hollywood action thriller starring Kaneau Reeves, Sandra Bullock and Dennis Hopper. It's one of those movies that when you are flipping channels and see it's on, no matter where in the movie, you tune in. The main theme revolves around a bus filled with passengers that is rigged with a bomb that will go off should the bus' speed drop below 50mph unless a ransom is paid to the evil Dennis Hopper character. Choc full of stunts, action, shooting, explosions and hammy acting the movie clips along at the same pace as the bus. The biggest hole in the plot is the idea that you can do more than 50mph on LA freeways ! :p
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Good action movie, but it has to have the most absurd scene in history, wherein the bus jumps a gap between two spans of freeway, and just as its its getting airborne, the bus somehow gets an antigravity boost at the front wheels. Like there's an invisible ramp there. Can't believe that let that scene stay in the movie.
 
thebeave said:
TSwizzle said:
Speed, 8/10; A classic 90s Hollywood action thriller starring Kaneau Reeves, Sandra Bullock and Dennis Hopper. It's one of those movies that when you are flipping channels and see it's on, no matter where in the movie, you tune in. The main theme revolves around a bus filled with passengers that is rigged with a bomb that will go off should the bus' speed drop below 50mph unless a ransom is paid to the evil Dennis Hopper character. Choc full of stunts, action, shooting, explosions and hammy acting the movie clips along at the same pace as the bus. The biggest hole in the plot is the idea that you can do more than 50mph on LA freeways ! :p
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Good action movie, but it has to have the most absurd scene in history, wherein the bus jumps a gap between two spans of freeway, and just as its its getting airborne, the bus somehow gets an antigravity boost at the front wheels. Like there's an invisible ramp there. Can't believe that let that scene stay in the movie.
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I enjoyed Speed as well, but watching it for its consistency is like watching Schindler's List for the jokes. You're doing it wrong.
 
The Martian As a Sci Fi aficionado [providing it's well done] I though this movie is better than great. Most likely one of Matt Damon's better efforts. It's not too far fetched and a good thoughtful all round good entertainment.

The plot is an astronaut stranded on Mars and has to rely on his ingenuity to survive.

9/10
 
Knives Out 8/10 Slow odd start of the cliche who done it, but stick with it. Get twist and turns.
 
Patooka said:
thebeave said:
TSwizzle said:
Speed, 8/10; A classic 90s Hollywood action thriller starring Kaneau Reeves, Sandra Bullock and Dennis Hopper. It's one of those movies that when you are flipping channels and see it's on, no matter where in the movie, you tune in. The main theme revolves around a bus filled with passengers that is rigged with a bomb that will go off should the bus' speed drop below 50mph unless a ransom is paid to the evil Dennis Hopper character. Choc full of stunts, action, shooting, explosions and hammy acting the movie clips along at the same pace as the bus. The biggest hole in the plot is the idea that you can do more than 50mph on LA freeways ! :p
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Good action movie, but it has to have the most absurd scene in history, wherein the bus jumps a gap between two spans of freeway, and just as its its getting airborne, the bus somehow gets an antigravity boost at the front wheels. Like there's an invisible ramp there. Can't believe that let that scene stay in the movie.
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I enjoyed Speed as well, but watching it for its consistency is like watching Schindler's List for the jokes. You're doing it wrong.
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The complaint is valid. Sure, bus isn’t going to make a leap across a gap. But it can because movie.

What Speed does is show a bus making the leap, shows the back wheels are below the approaching bridge section and then... the entire bus (all four whees) lands with room to spare.

Personally I think the film falls apart once they make with the money drop.
 
The Artist

The Artist is the story of a silent film star in Hollywood during the late 1920s - early 1930s, presented in the style of a silent film from that era. It sounds gimmicky but it's actually really effective, and very well done. You see the man in his element, at the top of his game, right when the game starts to change.

Lead actor Jean Dujardin gives a charming, compelling, and convincing performance in a story that demands he be cheerily extroverted and moodily introverted by turns. The others are good, too, but Dujardin is stellar. Kudos to him and writer/director Michel Hazanavicius for a thoroughly enjoyable film.

9/10
 
Solo - I have no idea what to think of this. I remember at the end of The Matrix I was wondering if the creators knew where they were going with this thing. Even in the middle of Solo I was wondering, is this a run of movies? By the end, the film seemed less a movie and more a weak origin story for a trilogy.

Like most of the recent Star Wars films, there are decent parts to it, but then some of it is so forced, like Han and the Millennium Falcon bit near the end.

Then there was the whole space octopus. WTF?!

The development of Qi’ra just seemed disingenuous. The whole point of swerving is to provide hints along the way that you pick later. She just didn’t seem to have a huge grasp of the situation despite her then having a huge grasp of the situation. They should have written her character more convincing in her ultimate ending in the movie.

Maybe I’ll like more the second time or I’ll catch things better. Having a chatty 7 yr old makes watching films a bit harder. I look forward to all of the dead characters coming back as robots in Solo 2 - Solo 1 remix’d.

Right now 2 of 4.
 
Watched Netflix's huge new blockbuster Extraction the other night. If you haven't yet watched it, do yourself a favour and do. I can think of thousands of other ways one could waste their time than be entertained by this action thriller.

7.5/10
 
Jimmy Higgins said:
Like most of the recent Star Wars films, there are decent parts to it, but then some of it is so forced, like Han and the Millennium Falcon bit near the end.
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I still haven't seen this one, though I will say Rogue One is arguably the best of the recent films.

Anyway, last night I went back to the well, and watched the original. Well, as close to the original as I could get. Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope on DVD. This was part of a 4 DVD package that included the very well done (if hopelessly pandering) "Empire of Dreams" documentary in the special features disc, the upgraded "special editions" additions to the series (including the Jabba scene with Solo and the infamous "Greedo shoots first" change) and try as he might, George Lucas could not destroy the magic of the film I saw in a theater back in 1977.

Yeah, I sat there picking it apart, pointing out to myself the scenes that were altered/added, reflecting on the documentaries I'd seen that proved the original was "saved in the edit" by Marcia Lucas and others, but at the end of the day the movie I loved as a kid clawed it's way out of all the alterations and still managed to make me smile. Because I remembered how unique and special it was back then. Nowadays there's a special-effects laden science fiction and/or fantasy film that comes out on a regular basis. Comic book movies that pretend their target audience always loved comic books (not at all true), and superhero franchises that have multiple "revenue streams" on television, in theaters, and on dedicated streaming services.

Back in 1977, there was just that one wonderful, fantastic movie. You couldn't go home and binge-watch the "other" parts of the "franchise" because there simply weren't any. A sequel that topped the original was a pipe-dream, let alone two. A "property" that kept on putting out content for decades? Well that was just straight up fantasy.

That's what we're missing today. We're overwhelmed with offerings from the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the DC Cinematic Universe, the Harry Potter franchise, the Star Trek franchise, an entire Star Wars Extended Universe, and even a Tolkien universe in the works. At the risk of going all "get off my lawn," these kids today have no idea how lucky they are. Why...back in my day we had to trudge six miles uphill both ways to see just one awesome movie like Star Wars or Close Encounters.

At the same time, I'm insanely jealous of this generation, that has the luxury of saying "yeah, that 10th Star Wars film wasn't quite up to snuff. What kind of junk are you trying to push on us?"


May the Force be with you.
 
But here is the deal, LoTR, Harry Potter needed to be done very well. It could have been a mess like The Hobbit or Matrix 2 and 3.

I’ll say the original trilogy still holds up to about the Ewoks, but the remainder of Jedi is great. Star Wars told a story and the special effects really go a ways to show just how well Lucas was at that.

The trouble becomes the third trilogy tells mostly the same story and Lucas fucked the second trilogy hard with awful directing.

So yeah, kids are spoiled, like we were with color and VHS!
 
The Dirt 5/10 First let me say I'm not a Motley Crue fan, they're just not that good compared to the other bands of the era and genre. If the first scene doesn't stop you then the rest won't. I only give it a five because I really knew very little about them and wanted to....so I found that aspect interesting. Other than that...who cares?
 
Got Disney+ and am doing the Rifftrax treatment.

Star Wars I - Oh fucking gawd no! I actually saw this in the theater, and even back more than 20 years ago, the film was juvenile and silly. The premise centered a bit too much around a kid, especially the ridiculous battle scene at the end. Jar Jar Binks really is the tip of iceberg. Add to this, Lucas can direct humans and you've got issues. 2 of 4 (3.5 of 4 with Rifftrax, plenty of Annie references!)

Star Wars II - How Not to Direct There are effectively two films packed into one. You have the Jedi stuff (which was pretty good) and then you have the gawd awful Anakin Skywalker / Portman scenes that just lead you to nausea (just nausea if you are lucky). Skywalker scenes have you begging for more Jar Jar Binks! Had perhaps a competent director handled this film, we'd have had a better out come. 2.5 of 4 (Rifftrax 3.5 of 4)
 
Lovelace, 7/10; A host of well known actors in this interesting biography of famed porn actress Linda Lovelace who became famous after her role in Deep Throat. The movie starts from her early teens and follows her through to the point where she is plugging her book Ordeal as she moves into anti porn activism. It's an interesting and quite sad movie but it's only half the story of Linda's very eventful life.
 
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Lovelace, 7/10; A host of well known actors in this interesting biography of famed porn actress Linda Lovelace who became famous after her role in Deep Throat. The movie starts from her early teens and follows her through to the point where she is plugging her book Ordeal as she moves into anti porn activism. It's an interesting and quite sad movie but it's only half the story of Linda's very eventful life.
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In her book she claims she was forced into the porn industry, and forced to do all those sexual acts. Including fellatio on Sammy Davis Junior who had a way above average sized penis.
 
The Avengers: Age of Ultron - Man, this feels like it was decades ago. It was a different time back then, in many ways. Marvel was proving it could put out great products, but they were also struggling as well. Ironman 2 was weak, Thor suffered from being another origin story and Thor 2 was a bit weak as well. This might be the reason some people were disappointed in Ultron. I originally liked Ultron a lot. But I'm not a comic guy, so that could be that as well.

There were a number of controversial things. With the weaker Ironman movies, there was a thought that Ultron could have been used better as an intro there and evolved into the Avengers second movie. I can't argue that. Could have made Ironman 2 much better, or could have added some angles to Ironman 3.

The other issue was with Black Widow and The Hulk, but anyone that knows Joss Whedon, they know he loves to fuck with his characters with love angles. That is how he gets off. Buffy - Angel, Buffy - the other guy, Inara - Malcolm, Wesley - Fred... etc... I deal with it.

Ultimately, I still really liked the film. It develops the characters, shows Robert Downey Jr leaving the Marvel universe... to umm... come back... and while I think the Russo brothers kicked ass with the scripts and humor, Whedon's humor is just more layered, unexpected, and varied. I think post-Ultron, things really his their stride. The "weaker" movies are stronger overall and it just starts getting awesome film after awesome film.

3.5 of 4
 
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