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

 
 
 
I rarely watch individual movies. I usually watch my DVDs of TV shows, Star Treks, Waltons, Stargate, etc.. one after the other.

But tonight I watched The Incredible Mr Limpet. Don Notts as the fish who saved the convoys from the U-Boats in WWII. Part animated. Well, mostly animated.

I first watched that movie as a little kid. I loved it. I recorded off the TV ages ago and transferred the VHS to DVD maybe 25 years ago. Commercials and all.

In the 2000's my kids loved it.

Two weeks ago I got the DVD minus the 35 year old commercials.

Nice to watch a copy without 35 year old commercials. On the other hand, 35 year old commercials are nostalgic.
 
Novocaine

Wimpy man who can't feel physical pain goes on extremely violent quest to save a girl he went on one real date with.

Despite its countless flaws, this one's still a pretty damn entertaining watch. Jack Quaid is one of today's most under appreciated actors IMO and he absolutely carries this movie.

The viewer is not supposed to take this flick seriously, which allows one to just sit back and enjoy the absurdity. There's also a good, surprising twist/reveal that I didn't see coming, so kudos for that.

To me, this is what a good popcorn movie is supposed to be. It's not Oscar worthy, it's just fun.

6.75/10
 
Just rewatched, after many years, Taxi Driver and ET.

The former is clearly a cinematic recreation of Dostoevsky’s Notes From Underground, and I find now, as when I first watched it, that it is brilliant. One of the great movies of all time.

The latter — as always — leaves me a bit torn. I can’t decide whether it is a charming fable of the (alleged) innocence of children vs. the cynicism of adults, or just a bunch of Spielbergian mawkish, maudlin bullshit. The child actors are all brilliant.

Sci-fi it ain’t. No alien is ever going to appear on earth not only lacking a space suit but any form of clothes at all; no alien is going to be able to eat human food. I doubt any alien is going to have anything very closely resembling DNA, though they will have to have same form of biochemistry permitting reproduction.

The alien itself isn’t too bad, I suppose; love the retractable and extendable neck. That could be a valid adaptation in certain environments; not sure if anything like it exists among any earth organisms.
 
pood said:
I doubt any alien is going to have anything very closely resembling DNA
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Well, it's a long time since I saw the movie, but IIRC the fact that he has DNA was recounted as a shocking discovery - and of course, it would be; The implications are enormous, and would suggest some kind of panspermia, which in a fictional world wherein interstellar travel is fact, may not be as far fetched as it is in the real world as we currently understand it.
pood said:
The alien itself isn’t too bad, I suppose; love the retractable and extendable neck.
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ET was described en passant in Pratchett and Gaiman's Good Omens:

"'Hey,' he said, but much more weakly this time, 'did any of them kids have some space alien with a face like a friendly turd in a bike basket?'"

A (sadly now deceased) friend of mine, whose outdoor lifestyle had left him very deeply tanned and weatherbeaten, gloried in the nick-name 'face like a friendly turd'.
 
bilby said:
pood said:
I doubt any alien is going to have anything very closely resembling DNA
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Well, it's a long time since I saw the movie, but IIRC the fact that he has DNA was recounted as a shocking discovery - and of course, it would be; The implications are enormous, and would suggest some kind of panspermia, which in a fictional world wherein interstellar travel is fact, may not be as far fetched as it is in the real world as we currently understand it.
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The movie describes ET has having a six-base genome, and now I find this.
 
The Fog (2005)

The original, for all its faults, was a good and memorable movie. A ghost ship carrying ghost pirates take revenge on a corrupt small coastal town for taking their pirate gold hundreds of years ago. It's fun.

This one has the same basic story but deviates in irritating empty headed ways.

In the original, the cast were the greats of old such as Hal Holbrook and Adrienne Barbeau, which is what helped keep the movie grounded.

It's a great looking film, but the problem with that is that it distracts from the story. It's very stylish and the hip young beautiful people don't belong in this film because the inhabitants of a fishing village/town scraping to get by don't look like they've just stepped out of Malibu.

The most interesting thing about it is the time capsule factor. It was neat seeing the prevailing fashion of the time, which was the last of the common culture we don't see today.

5/10
 
Someone here mentioned The Sheep Detectives and on a whim I took myself into town and saw it last night.

I enjoyed it. Because I'm somewhat simple minded I laughed at the counting-sheep and chicken-crossing-the-road jokes.

But I was constantly aware of the CGI and AI aspects, and felt as if it was a retarded cousin to Babe.

Got home and finished watching Late Night, which I enjoyed immensely.
 
The Forgotten (2004)

A woman loses her son in a plane crash, but then begins to be told by others, including her shrink and husband that she never had a son. The twists and turns resulting from that are pretty good. It stars Julianne Moore and she's really good.

The movie itself isn't great. It asks the viewer to buy into a little too much and it doesn't add any new wrinkles to the sci-fi subject it covers, but overall it's an imperfect but solid watch.

One non-movie thing that occurred to me that this used to be the type of movie that you'd go see in a theater and have a good experience watching. It wouldn't feel two hours you'd never get back; certainly not Oscar worthy, but good enough for a decent night out. It's unfortunate that such experiences have largely fallen by the wayside. However, it feels like the days of the superhero blockbuster dominance has waned so maybe we'll begin to get the good old mid budget flicks back.

6.5/10
 
Jennifer's Body

I return to this film every few years to make sure my opinion on it is well founded. It was a disastrous marketing campaign that ruined the chance for this movie to have succeeded The campaign was one purporting to feature Megan Fox as a nothing more than a hot, sassy high school chick. She is featured as such, but the issues the movie touches on are disturbing and the story told is one of rape and power dynamics and the consequences that come with them. The entire movie is a metaphor for it.

Along with it, the dialogue is clever, a lot of it is funny, and every actor in it does a really good job in their respective roles. Also, it does a great job of exploring teenage insecurity and both the tragic and comic results therefrom.

Fox isn't the real star of the movie. The movie revolves around Amanda Seyfried's character, which the marketing campaign barely hinted at. Instead it markets the movie as Fox's character as a cheap, sexy, horny vampire. That's not what this movie is about.

It's a flick that frames real issues in an accessible way that deftly manages to not hit the viewer over the head with those issues. Instead, It leaves the viewer with things to think about once the movie is over.

It does get pretty gory, so it's not going to be for everyone, but if you don't mind or even like that, then this is one you should see if you haven't already.

7/10
 
Send Help
Send Help (2026) is a wildly entertaining, Sam Raimi-directed survival horror-comedy that delivers a gleefully gory, pitch-black revenge fantasy. Starring Rachel McAdams and Dylan O'Brien, the film flips traditional power dynamics when a toxic, frat-bro CEO and his mistreated, overlooked employee are stranded on a deserted island after a plane crash. The employee, who is a Survivor binge watcher, becomes the boss with the skills to keep them both alive.

Then the plot twists.

9/10
 
ZiprHead said:
Send Help
Send Help (2026) is a wildly entertaining, Sam Raimi-directed survival horror-comedy that delivers a gleefully gory, pitch-black revenge fantasy. Starring Rachel McAdams and Dylan O'Brien, the film flips traditional power dynamics when a toxic, frat-bro CEO and his mistreated, overlooked employee are stranded on a deserted island after a plane crash. The employee, who is a Survivor binge watcher, becomes the boss with the skills to keep them both alive.

Then the plot twists.

9/10
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Sounds like a variant of the classic movie 'The Admirable Crichton'.
 
pood said:
I doubt any alien is going to have anything very closely resembling DNA, though they will have to have same form of biochemistry permitting reproduction.
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I would be quite surprised if an alien didn’t have DNA given how successful that molecule is at generating life forms. We have observed the building blocks of amino acids in interstellar clouds. I’m not a chemist or astrobiologist but do any of them have even any ideas of other types of molecules that could be as good as the ones we see?
 
Spacetime Inhabitant said:
ZiprHead said:
Send Help
Send Help (2026) is a wildly entertaining, Sam Raimi-directed survival horror-comedy that delivers a gleefully gory, pitch-black revenge fantasy. Starring Rachel McAdams and Dylan O'Brien, the film flips traditional power dynamics when a toxic, frat-bro CEO and his mistreated, overlooked employee are stranded on a deserted island after a plane crash. The employee, who is a Survivor binge watcher, becomes the boss with the skills to keep them both alive.

Then the plot twists.

9/10
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Sounds like a variant of the classic movie 'The Admirable Crichton'.
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After the titular character of which, they named the Red Dwarf character, Kryten.
 
Shadowy Man said:
pood said:
I doubt any alien is going to have anything very closely resembling DNA, though they will have to have same form of biochemistry permitting reproduction.
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I would be quite surprised if an alien didn’t have DNA given how successful that molecule is at generating life forms. We have observed the building blocks of amino acids in interstellar clouds. I’m not a chemist or astrobiologist but do any of them have even any ideas of other types of molecules that could be as good as the ones we see?
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Ok. I have looked into this a little and see that there are definitely alternatives but they are similar to DNA in some ways. I was thinking more broadly but too vaguely.
 
Disclosure Day.

Pretty good. Disjointed in the styles it adopts, and its a movie I suspect I'll love more on a second viewing.
Felt like it was made in the 1970s. Which for me is a good thing.
 
The Bride

Critics either love it or hate it. I can see why for the hate. The main characters changed considerably.

Basically it starts out that Frankenstein's monster is horny and wants a mate made for him.

The cast is great. Christian Bale is Frank, Jesse Buckley is the Bride.

Personally, I couldn't take my eyes off it. 7.5/10.
 
Companion

Thriller about a weekend getaway at a remote cabin turns to chaos when it's revealed that one of the guests -- a subservient android built for human companionship -- has gone haywire.

Lots of plot twists and turns making for a very entertaining movie. 7/10.
 
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