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

[bilby]

I don't know if it's poor wighting or directing

If Willis has, in fact, died, and is now making films as a wight, that could explain a lot.

 

[Colonel Sanders]

Vivarium (2019) 7/10
Unique and interesting (to me). I don't want to give too much away. The official description:
"A young couple looking for the perfect home find themselves trapped in a mysterious labyrinth-like neighborhood of identical houses."
Which covers the first half hour.

To me it about the grim trappings of parenthood.

Stuck in a neighborhood because you want stability for the kid. There's this soul sucking, demanding, utterly selfish being you have to constantly attend to, etc.

Yes, I'm a parent.

 

[Colonel Sanders]

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice

It was fine. Not bad, not great. Just fine.

At least Burton didn't take the lazy route of making the exact same movie, which sequels often are.

It drags a little in parts, some subplots aren't fleshed out enough, etc., but it's worth a watch if you liked the original.

 

[unapologetic]

I don't know if it's poor wighting or directing

If Willis has, in fact, died, and is now making films as a wight, that could explain a lot.

I was talking about wright-ing.
Spellcheck tried to correct me.
But righting doesn't look right to me.

 

[ZiprHead]

I don't know if it's poor wighting or directing

If Willis has, in fact, died, and is now making films as a wight, that could explain a lot.

He may have already been in the throes of his dementia disease. Maybe taking any work he can to make money in preparation for his ultimate death.

My wife knew someone who died of the same disease Willis has got. Absolutely terrible way to go.

 

[hurtinbuckaroo]

Vivarium (2019) 7/10
Unique and interesting (to me). I don't want to give too much away. The official description:
"A young couple looking for the perfect home find themselves trapped in a mysterious labyrinth-like neighborhood of identical houses."
Which covers the first half hour.
Posible spoilers:



Based on 'The Midwitch Cuckoos' witch I never read, and 'Children of the Corn' which i'd forgotten.
So I didn't know what to expect.
Focuses mostly on the couple, not the child, or the town.

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(I Forgot-the-title) 4/10
Bruce Willis as a retired CIA operative.
A team from a foreign agency finds out where he is and attacks his retirement village.
An action movie with very little action by Willis.
Willis phones-in his performance.
I've seen several of Willis's recent movies that seem like the humor and life have drained out of Willis.
In another one he plays a small town sherif, who lets the deputy do all the action.
I don't know if it's poor wighting or directing, but if Willis isn't the action star he once was, he should try drama or comedy roles.
We've seen him handle both in the slow parts of his action films.

He retired from acting two years ago because of his dementia.

 

[bilby]

I don't know if it's poor wighting or directing

If Willis has, in fact, died, and is now making films as a wight, that could explain a lot.

I was talking about wright-ing.
Spellcheck tried to correct me.
But righting doesn't look right to me.

Writing?

 

[Wiploc]

The pen is used for writing.
Spell casting involves rite-ing.
A hero sees wrong and gets righting.
What's always wrong is wrighting.

 

[unapologetic]

To me it about the grim trappings of parenthood.

Stuck in a neighborhood because you want stability for the kid. There's this soul sucking, demanding, utterly selfish being you have to constantly attend to, etc.

Yes, I'm a parent.

So would you kill or starve the alien kid?
I think I would. But if the kid died, the food boxes would probably stop coming. And I'd be stuck there.

 

[Colonel Sanders]

To me it about the grim trappings of parenthood.

Stuck in a neighborhood because you want stability for the kid. There's this soul sucking, demanding, utterly selfish being you have to constantly attend to, etc.

Yes, I'm a parent.

So would you kill or starve the alien kid?
I think I would. But if the kid died, the food boxes would probably stop coming. And I'd be stuck there.

I would've killed it outright. It was freakish and clearly evil, but then there would be no movie.

 

[Wiploc]

To me it about the grim trappings of parenthood.

Stuck in a neighborhood because you want stability for the kid. There's this soul sucking, demanding, utterly selfish being you have to constantly attend to, etc.

Yes, I'm a parent.

So would you kill or starve the alien kid?
I think I would. But if the kid died, the food boxes would probably stop coming. And I'd be stuck there.

I would've killed it outright. It was freakish and clearly evil, but then there would be no movie.

So, it was protected by plot armor.

 

[unapologetic]

To me it about the grim trappings of parenthood.

Stuck in a neighborhood because you want stability for the kid. There's this soul sucking, demanding, utterly selfish being you have to constantly attend to, etc.

Yes, I'm a parent.

So would you kill or starve the alien kid?
I think I would. But if the kid died, the food boxes would probably stop coming. And I'd be stuck there.

I would've killed it outright. It was freakish and clearly evil, but then there would be no movie.

So, it was protected by plot armor.

If I took time to think about it, I would take the kid hostage. Put a knife to it's throat and tell it "Kid your best chance of survival is to get me out of here".

 

[Colonel Sanders]

To me it about the grim trappings of parenthood.

Stuck in a neighborhood because you want stability for the kid. There's this soul sucking, demanding, utterly selfish being you have to constantly attend to, etc.

Yes, I'm a parent.

So would you kill or starve the alien kid?
I think I would. But if the kid died, the food boxes would probably stop coming. And I'd be stuck there.

I would've killed it outright. It was freakish and clearly evil, but then there would be no movie.

So, it was protected by plot armor.

It's been years since I've seen it, but I think there was some reason they couldn't. Or maybe it was plot armor so that the movie could happen.

Either way, I think it was a pretty darn good watch, and I'd recommend it to anyone who likes weird but intelligent horror.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

The Transporter - When I first saw it, it was a guilty pleasure. Luc Besson is loosely tied to the film, and Besson is good at creating 1.5 dimensional protagonists. I felt was a popcorn flick. My most recent watching of it, the clichés hit me in the head like anvils and it is less a popcorn flick and more silly trash with moments of B-movie action filming cheese. It was a 2.5 of 4 (might have been impacted by the actress who co-stars) but now 1.5 of 4.

Lucy - This was a Luc Besson film starring a typical Besson female protagonist. This movie is really silly with a ridiculous plot and generally an antagonist that is overly outrageous. It is as if the script was written in ALL CAPS. But holds better because Freeman (Morgan Freeman can make listening to the Yellow Pages interesting) and Johansson presence on the screen makes it more tolerable, and Besson manages a ridiculous violence film better than average. 2 of 4 I won't argue that the 2 is indefensible and it should be a 1. But I'd probably go there is it starred Nicholas Cage.

Serenity - A sci-fi space classic. That they managed to make that on around $25 million should have gotten Whedon a special Oscar. He managed to satisfactorily wrap up 5 seasons of great unaired television in less than 2.5 hours. 3.5 of 4

 

[ZiprHead]

It has become another Terminator series, where the movies are more themed and less plot important. With no real resolution, there is no point is watching unless you like horror/thrillers or ridiculous films.

Alien Earth. An Alien series coming to Hulu.

yay.

 

[Shadowy Man]

Serenity - A sci-fi space classic. That they managed to make that on around $25 million should have gotten Whedon a special Oscar. He managed to satisfactorily wrap up 5 seasons of great unaired television in less than 2.5 hours. 3.5 of 4

"Satisfactorily" may be a contentious characterization...

 

[hurtinbuckaroo]

The Transporter - When I first saw it, it was a guilty pleasure. Luc Besson is loosely tied to the film, and Besson is good at creating 1.5 dimensional protagonists. I felt was a popcorn flick. My most recent watching of it, the clichés hit me in the head like anvils and it is less a popcorn flick and more silly trash with moments of B-movie action filming cheese. It was a 2.5 of 4 (might have been impacted by the actress who co-stars) but now 1.5 of 4.

Lucy - This was a Luc Besson film starring a typical Besson female protagonist. This movie is really silly with a ridiculous plot and generally an antagonist that is overly outrageous. It is as if the script was written in ALL CAPS. But holds better because Freeman (Morgan Freeman can make listening to the Yellow Pages interesting) and Johansson presence on the screen makes it more tolerable, and Besson manages a ridiculous violence film better than average. 2 of 4 I won't argue that the 2 is indefensible and it should be a 1. But I'd probably go there is it starred Nicholas Cage.

Serenity - A sci-fi space classic. That they managed to make that on around $25 million should have gotten Whedon a special Oscar. He managed to satisfactorily wrap up 5 seasons of great unaired television in less than 2.5 hours. 3.5 of 4

I felt that my IQ had decreased while watching Lucy.

 

[ZiprHead]

A Man Called Otto

A character study of a grumpy old man living in a condo community. He is despondent and depressed over the loss of his wife.

He's kind of a Karen about street access. His neighbors rely on him for simple repairs. All the while he tries to kill himself several times.

This could have come out as a Hallmark channel tear jerker but the excellent writing and performance by Tom Hanks takes it over the top. He learns the value of friends and neighbors. I give it a 9/10 rating.

 

[Ford]

I relate to this because my parents "noped" out of raising their kids near the (notoriously flammable) Cuyahoga River just outside of Akron, Ohio. My dad took a job in Cuyahoga Falls in the 60s but when he saw the frothy river we left.

 

[Colonel Sanders]

Subservience

Man buys gorgeous robot (Megan Fox) to help him with chores and caregiving of children while wife is in the hospital awaiting a heart transplant. Predictability ensues.

Ideas have been recycled since humanity developed language, so criticizing this movie for all its tropes and cliches is a little unfair. It's the execution of the ideas that makes the difference. The film does make an effort at an Alice in Wonderland type of story, which could've been pretty cool, but the creativity just wasn't there to pull it off with any zest.

It's not a horrible movie, so I was fine watching it until the end.

5.5/10