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

Jaws happens to be on. One of the greatest movies ever made. The way the scene when the Quint character revealed he was on the Indianapolis was shot is pure brilliance.
 
thebeave said:
ZiprHead said:
Jaws happens to be on. One of the greatest movies ever made. The way the scene when the Quint character revealed he was on the Indianapolis was shot is pure brilliance.
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Yep. That scene was largely written by Robert Shaw himself.
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Shaw was a very talented writer and actor who died much too young (51).
 
hurtinbuckaroo said:
thebeave said:
ZiprHead said:
Jaws happens to be on. One of the greatest movies ever made. The way the scene when the Quint character revealed he was on the Indianapolis was shot is pure brilliance.
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Yep. That scene was largely written by Robert Shaw himself.
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Shaw was a very talented writer and actor who died much too young (51).
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They said he was pretty much drunk during the entire filming.

He should be in the actors who nailed their character hard thread.
 
Shaw did a lot in his half century. Five novels, three plays, screen-writing, film and stage acting, and raised ten kids, two of them adopted. Married three times. And still managed to drink! He and Oliver Reed are my favorite actors, though Reed was a major dick.

From what I've heard, Shaw was harsh to Richard Dreyfuss during filming of Jaws to maintain tension between the characters on set. Dreyfuss said Shaw was a sweetheart off set.
 
I have watched Jaws about four times this month, I just watched it again last night. What a great movie. Yeah the fake shark looks a bit lame at times but so what? I've been to Martha's Vineyard and saw the "Jaws Bridge".
 
Let Him Go, 5/10; Stars Kevin Costner and Diane Lane in a drama/thriller. It starts out ok but just gets silly. In 1961 George and Margaret's married son has a fatal accident. leaving behind a widow and son. The widow, Lorna, goes on to marry Donnie Weboy who is seen physically abusing Lorna and her son by Margaret. Donnie and Lorna leave town without informing the grandparents and so George and Margaret's attempt to track down their grandson in he hopes of getting custody. Visually the movie is pleasant to watch and Diane Lane is gorgeous without even trying. But the plot is okay, the pacing is too slow and the climax is a convoluted mess.
 
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Saw Ghost Story, from 1981. Horrible film, and huge waste of talent. Even John Houseman and Fred Astaire were lame. Douglas Fairbanks Jr phoned in his performance. Craig Wasson sucked. Alice Krige was okay and mildly spooky, but I would have liked her better if she had kept her clothes on throughout. The writing sucked, the acting sucked. For 1981 it may as well have been 1961: even technically the film sucked.

2 of 10. Two points because they had the audacity to finish it.
 
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Palm Springs, 4/10; 2020 science fiction rom com, I think. I went into this not knowing it was science fiction otherwise I wouldn't have bothered. I thought it was going to be a comedy. It started off that way and it was mildly amusing before it descended into some sort of Temu Groundhog Day.
 
unapologetic said:
WAB said:
Saw Ghost Story, from 1981.
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I used to think movie titles were trademarked.
Apperently not.
The Ghost Story you describe is not the one I remember. So I went looking in IMDB.
It lists dozzens of 'Ghost Story's. None is the one I'm looking for. (sigh)
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Well that sucks. Can you say who is in the film, or tell any details about it?
 
WAB said:
Well that sucks. Can you say who is in the film, or tell any details about it?
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OK, Sorry. I got the title wrong. I don't know what the title was. Forget I brought it up.
I remember Ghost Story being on the cover of Cinefantastique.
I tracked that down, and it's the movie you know and hate, Not the movie I'm thinking of.
I have now watched the Ghost Story trailer on IMDB, and vaguly remember seeing it and not being impressed enough to remember it.
I'm talking out of my ass.
 
unapologetic said:
WAB said:
Saw Ghost Story, from 1981.
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I used to think movie titles were trademarked.
Apperently not.
The Ghost Story you describe is not the one I remember. So I went looking in IMDB.
It lists dozzens of 'Ghost Story's. None is the one I'm looking for. (sigh)
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It’s possible to trademark a title for a series of works, but not a single one.
 
Old People

If you're 12, this movie might be terrifying. Evil inhabits decrepit old people because there's some ancient curse/whatever. Old folks who were barely ambulatory one day are murdering the village the next. It's well shot, well acted, and lame as a three legged mule.

3.5/10

Explorer From Another World

This is a really fun movie that's less than an hour long. It's a super campy take on the super campy sci-fi movies of the 50s. The actors are either brilliant or have never acted before, but I'll go with brilliant because it takes real talent to replicate the bottom of the barrel acting these types of films have. The writing would have been perfectly at home on a 1950s C-movie set.

The special effects look like some college kids got ahold of an old special effects book, made them, and executed them to a hilarious but admirable degree.

It absolutely nails this old genre.

See it.

8/10
 
We Need to Talk About Kevin

I think this is about some lady who does some bad thing and then has a kid... or she has a kid before she does the bad thing to the kid... and she goes to prison or works in a prison... and she lives in a big house or a small house... Etc.

Despite the film warning me it would suck within 10 minutes, I gave it a full 40 minutes.

It's pretentious, fragmented, aggravating, and insufferable.

Did I mention it sucks? Because it really sucks.

3/10
 
Mickey 17 (2025)
Mickey signs up to be an 'expendable'. A human guinea pig, official 'volunteer' for lethal tasks, on a mission to colonize an ice planet.
Example: He is the first to step foot on the planet, open his helmet, and take a deep breath to see if it's safe. (It's not).
The movie follows his 17th life, the ethics of reprinting humans, colonist/native ethics, and the cult that crews the mission.
I give it 8/10. Trailer:
There is humor, but it's more serious than the trailer makes it look, which probably hurt it at the boxoffice.
 
unapologetic said:
Mickey 17 (2025)
Mickey signs up to be an 'expendable'. A human guinea pig, official 'volunteer' for lethal tasks, on a mission to colonize an ice planet.
Example: He is the first to step foot on the planet, open his helmet, and take a deep breath to see if it's safe. (It's not).
The movie follows his 17th life, the ethics of reprinting humans, colonist/native ethics, and the cult that crews the mission.
I give it 8/10. Trailer:
There is humor, but it's more serious than the trailer makes it look, which probably hurt it at the boxoffice.
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It's fairly loosely based on the book Mickey 7, by Edward Ashton, which I thought was excellent - but Ashton's other work is often better, IMO (though perhaps not as easy to turn into a movie).
 
unapologetic said:
Mickey 17 (2025)
Mickey signs up to be an 'expendable'. A human guinea pig, official 'volunteer' for lethal tasks, on a mission to colonize an ice planet.
Example: He is the first to step foot on the planet, open his helmet, and take a deep breath to see if it's safe. (It's not).
The movie follows his 17th life, the ethics of reprinting humans, colonist/native ethics, and the cult that crews the mission.
I give it 8/10. Trailer:
There is humor, but it's more serious than the trailer makes it look, which probably hurt it at the boxoffice.
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I really liked the movie. I didn't see any trailers for it so I had no expectations. It's not a timeless classic, but it's a solid combination of comedy and drama with interesting social commentary that flirts with being a little too on the nose, but no so much that it ruins the film.
 
Until Dawn

Movies based on video games are almost always godawful. This one was based on a Playstation game from 2015. It's about a group of friends looking for one of party's sister who disappeared several years ago on a trip to the forest. At ten minutes I almost turned it off because it seemed so typical and predictable. However, it was worth waiting for because it turned into a solid watch, with suspense and turns that you don't see coming.

Another thing I liked about it was that there are well done references to other great horror movies of the past e.g. the Shining and others.

If you like horror, you'll like this one.

Horror Scale 7.5/10

Non-Horror Scale: 5/10
 
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