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

[Worldtraveller]

Top Gun: Maverick
Some huge plot holes, unrealistic military/operational sequences, but lots of fun anf worth seeing.

I understand TC did all his own flying. Kinda' surprised the movie's insurer allowed that.

I think TC was in the plane with someone else flying. And all of the actors did it.

This is more accurate. TC does fly, the P-51 in the film is his personal aircraft, but scenes where they are pulling G's in the F-18 were all filmed with the actors in the back seat, and a Navy pilot flying.

 

[Jayjay]

Scientologist crackpot or not, I've always appreciated Tom Cruise doing (some of) his own stunts.

 

[ZiprHead]

Top Gun: Maverick
Some huge plot holes, unrealistic military/operational sequences, but lots of fun anf worth seeing.

I understand TC did all his own flying. Kinda' surprised the movie's insurer allowed that.

I think TC was in the plane with someone else flying. And all of the actors did it.

This is more accurate. TC does fly, the P-51 in the film is his personal aircraft, but scenes where they are pulling G's in the F-18 were all filmed with the actors in the back seat, and a Navy pilot flying.

This makes more sense. Not only would a pilot have to concentrate on flying intricate maneuvers but also concentrate on acting.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Top Gun: Maverick
Some huge plot holes, unrealistic military/operational sequences, but lots of fun anf worth seeing.

I understand TC did all his own flying. Kinda' surprised the movie's insurer allowed that.

I think TC was in the plane with someone else flying. And all of the actors did it.

This is more accurate. TC does fly, the P-51 in the film is his personal aircraft, but scenes where they are pulling G's in the F-18 were all filmed with the actors in the back seat, and a Navy pilot flying.

I presume Harrison Ford was involved too, maybe not actually flying for the movie, but encroaching on the fighter's airspace with his Cessna.

Scientologist crackpot or not, I've always appreciated Tom Cruise doing (some of) his own stunts.

Yeah, that scene in MI-5 when he is jumping on the TSV, and then the had the helicopter explode right next to it, while going 100 mph... very impressive.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Fantastic Beast and How to Milk a Franchise For Money - This is an odd one. At points in the film, I feel like it is telling a nice quaint story. But then at other points, I feel like I'm being milked like a cow for money... and not in the good sort of way. The title of the film, sarcasm aside, seems to tell of a different story, where as the main mission is actually about movie forward with another plot, and the establishment of another big bad. By the end of the movie, kind of left thinking... well, it is a trilogy.

2.5 of 4

 

[Jayjay]

Scientologist crackpot or not, I've always appreciated Tom Cruise doing (some of) his own stunts.

Yeah, that scene in MI-5 when he is jumping on the TSV, and then the had the helicopter explode right next to it, while going 100 mph... very impressive.

Maybe I should not have put "some of" in parenthesis. It's more like "one stunt per movie", usually hanging on a building wearing safety harness or something. But he's over 50, so it's worth a thumbs up. Imagine what MI franchise would be if they'd cast Bruce Willis...

 

[No Robots]

Onegin. Wow. Ralph Fiennes, Liv Tyler, Toby Stephens.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Fantastic Beasts and the Secret(s?) of Dumbledore - Ever have that feeling you wasted 2.5 hours just watching YouTube? Well, this is like that, just without the YouTube. I was expecting something to happen. And then nothing really happened. Movie 2 was like half a movie turned into a full movie. Movie 3 was a short story (a pretty short story) turned into a movie. I will say that the writers at least came up with a very creative way to justify the filler needed to pad out a short story into a full length motion picture. I have HBO Max as part of my Internet, otherwise, I'd been a bit more upset having wasted 2.5 hours for effectively a half hour of actual plot content.

And this is setting aside the really really REALLY cheap ending.

1.5 of 4

 

[prideandfall]

Everything, Everywhere All at Once.

9/10 Interesting take on a multiverse theme. I like films that make you think, laugh and cry in the same sitting. This has all the components.

i'm curious... have you heard of or seen the first film this writer/director duo made, swiss army man?
if so, what did you think of it?

EEAAO has been getting rave reviews from every direction and i... kinda fuckin' hated it, because it's such an enormous pile of shit compared to swiss army man and i was so hugely disappointed, so i've been trying to figure out if i disliked it on its own merits or just because of what a monumental let-down it was compared to their first movie.

 

[Politesse]

Jurassic World Dominion (7.5/10)

A rare "blockbuster" watch for me, but I actually had a lot of fun! I seem to have enjoyed this one rather more than the critics in fact. The human plotlines were silly of course, but you sort of expect that in the fifth sequel to a film that didn't need two (or in any Trevorrow film for that matter). The point is to see people running about chased by dinosaurs, and there was plenty of that. I was very pleased to see how many of said dinosaurs were allowed to grow their feathers this time around, and both surprised and pleased when they ran into a Dimetredon, not a dinosaur but one of my favorite extinct creatures when I was a kid. Maybe the least obscure Permian beast, but Permian beasts are all obscure, so I still count it as a win.

 

[ZiprHead]

Jurassic World Dominion (7.5/10)

Been thinking about taking the wife to see it. She loves the original Jurassic Park and she loves the Sam Neill character. We haven't seen a movie in a theater since Avatar.

 

[Politesse]

Jurassic World Dominion (7.5/10)

Been thinking about taking the wife to see it. She loves the original Jurassic Park and she loves the Sam Neill character. We haven't seen a movie in a theater since Avatar.

He's... well, he's in it.

We saw it at our local drive-in which was fun. Forget popcorn, we came packing curry takeout.

 

[ZiprHead]

He's... well, he's in it.

Yup, I know that. That's why I'm thinking I could get her to go. She's happy just watching on the TV. And I want some theater popcorn.

 

[blastula]

they ran into a Dimetredon, not a dinosaur

 

[Wiploc]

... We haven't seen a movie in a theater since Avatar.

My dad liked to say, "It's been a long time since I've seen a movie in a theater and haven't wanted my thirty-five cents back."

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Midway - What Band of Brothers would have been had they done a movie instead. This needed to be a 4 to 6 part miniseries. 2 of 4

 

[Wiploc]

Domino:

I watched it all the way through, but I didn't like it.

People acted without motivation. For instance, the Feds machine gunned a room full of people for no apparent reason.

There's a cinematic trope where people cycle their guns to show they're serious. "Yeah, I looked angry, and I was pointing my gun at you like I was about to fire, but that wasn't dramatic enough; so now I've actually put a round into the chamber. Now I'm scary."

In Unforgiven, they did it twice. The first time to prove that there had been no rounds in the chambers up to that point, and the second time to prove that there was no ammo in the guns at all.

Domino topped that. They cycled their guns a third time. No shells were ejected; the guns were just empty. "Now you know I'm triple scary. And now you know that I think people who watch movies are morons."

Then Domino picked up two of the guns and started blasting away. She didn't have to load them. She didn't even have to cock them a forth time.

 

[ZiprHead]

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
PG-13
2021 ‧ Action/Fantasy ‧ 2h 12m

I liked it. The martial arts choreography was good, CGI was good. Some family drama, a comedic foil, flying dragons, and Trevor Slattery.

7/10

 

[marc]

Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
PG-13
2021 ‧ Action/Fantasy ‧ 2h 12m

I liked it. The martial arts choreography was good, CGI was good. Some family drama, a comedic foil, flying dragons, and Trevor Slattery.

7/10

Trevor was a great part, call back to Iron Man and the short they put out between movies.

 

[ZiprHead]