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

[TSwizzle]

The Princess Bride, 6/10; Released in 1987 this Rob Reiner (RIP) movie is a bit of a cult classic. The plot is about a girl being kidnapped and forced to marry a prince while her true love is elsewhere. He tries to rescue her from her kidnappers. Similar story to Shrek I suppose. The movie has a lot of quotes and memes going about. I watched because it was highly recommended but it didn't live up to its reputation. It was watchable but it wasn't particularly great. It had some funny dialogue in it and a few slapstick laughs. Good cast and well acted.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Citizen Vigilante
This has a rating of 6.1 on IMDB; there's a lot of sick puppies out there. I rate it 1/10 (and a zero if that were possible).
Even excluding the pathetically weak extreme right-wing anti-immigration (and "anti-woke" and anti-liberal) theme of the movie, it is bad as a movie in its own right, being poorly constructed and with many plot holes, and massive hypocrisy.

It starts off by saying it is in Europe, instead of naming a specific country (it was filmed in Croatia).
As an example of its poor construction, it starts with members of the public giving on social media their thoughts about the vigilante, even though we viewers of the movie haven't been shown him doing anything yet.
The vigilante is a white American illegal immigrant living in Europe. He owns many properties there, and orders a huge number of tenants to be illegally evicted because he is a greedy landlord. He murders about eight police personnel and sets a trap that kills about eight more. He kidnaps and murders several judges, making their deaths look like suicide (is he ashamed? unlikely), along the way killing an innocent motorist just for the hell of it.

There is a peculiarity in regards to how he treats young women. Two incidents - there is a small gang of two young men and a young woman, who are hassling another young man. He punishes the two young men, but not the young woman as she has magically vanished.
Later he goes to the abode of a migrant family where there is the mother, father, their daughter and their son, the later who was part of a group that gang raped a young woman. He gets the son to lure all the other members of the gang there, and kills them all, and also the father and mother, but I didn't notice him kill the girl. The abode is in a large apartment complex, and he fired his gun over twenty times, but no one else heard. I suppose this is because as is typical in movies he has a silencer (suppressor) on his gun that makes it almost silent, though that is not how that works in real life.

This movie trivializes real issues, and as is typical uses lies and false data. The "hero" seems to think that he can wake the public to act, though how that is supposed to work who knows?

This one's getting a ton of hate-run on the internet. I need to see it for myself. I would've never heard of it or been interested in watching it otherwise.

The Odyssey is getting a similar but much wider treatment on the internet. It's so fucking weird. There's Team Odyssey and Team Fuck the Odyssey. The former will say it's great even if it's terrible. The latter will hate it even if it's a master class in filmmaking.

Either way, I wouldn't have bothered with either of the above movies without all the hoopla surrounding them.

Same here. I can't quite figure it out. Lots of hate on the trailers, even though the trailers don't tell/show you much. But it has a good score on Rotten Tomatoes. I read the story when I was a kid and I recall being enthralled with it, so I have a bit of nostalgia pushing me to see it in the theaters (which I haven't been to since before the pandemic). I'll admit the casting was a little strange...I wonder if Nolan had to do that to make his film eligible for Best Picture.

Rotten Tomatoes is a terrible place for trying to assess whether or not to watch a movie.

51% = Good Movie.
49% = Bad Movie

IMDB is better, but still kind of wanky.

In the end, one has to see for themselves.

When it is 95% for both critics and viewers, that is a consensus well regarded film.

 

[spikepipsqueak]

The Princess Bride, 6/10; Released in 1987 this Rob Reiner (RIP) movie is a bit of a cult classic. The plot is about a girl being kidnapped and forced to marry a prince while her true love is elsewhere. He tries to rescue her from her kidnappers. Similar story to Shrek I suppose. The movie has a lot of quotes and memes going about. I watched because it was highly recommended but it didn't live up to its reputation. It was watchable but it wasn't particularly great. It had some funny dialogue in it and a few slapstick laughs. Good cast and well acted.

Sorry you didn't get a giggle from that. I love it.

Perhaps it grows on you, like mould.

 

[bilby]

The Princess Bride, 6/10; Released in 1987 this Rob Reiner (RIP) movie is a bit of a cult classic. The plot is about a girl being kidnapped and forced to marry a prince while her true love is elsewhere. He tries to rescue her from her kidnappers. Similar story to Shrek I suppose. The movie has a lot of quotes and memes going about. I watched because it was highly recommended but it didn't live up to its reputation. It was watchable but it wasn't particularly great. It had some funny dialogue in it and a few slapstick laughs. Good cast and well acted.

Sorry you didn't get a giggle from that. I love it.

Sure, but you come from Australia, as everyone knows, and Australia is entirely peopled with criminals, and criminals are used to having people not trust them, as you are not trusted by me, so I can clearly not choose the movie review in front of you.

 

[ZiprHead]

The Princess Bride, 6/10; Released in 1987 this Rob Reiner (RIP) movie is a bit of a cult classic. The plot is about a girl being kidnapped and forced to marry a prince while her true love is elsewhere. He tries to rescue her from her kidnappers. Similar story to Shrek I suppose. The movie has a lot of quotes and memes going about. I watched because it was highly recommended but it didn't live up to its reputation. It was watchable but it wasn't particularly great. It had some funny dialogue in it and a few slapstick laughs. Good cast and well acted.

I tried watching it once. Just couldn't get into it.

 

[TSwizzle]

The Princess Bride, 6/10; Released in 1987 this Rob Reiner (RIP) movie is a bit of a cult classic. The plot is about a girl being kidnapped and forced to marry a prince while her true love is elsewhere. He tries to rescue her from her kidnappers. Similar story to Shrek I suppose. The movie has a lot of quotes and memes going about. I watched because it was highly recommended but it didn't live up to its reputation. It was watchable but it wasn't particularly great. It had some funny dialogue in it and a few slapstick laughs. Good cast and well acted.

Sorry you didn't get a giggle from that. I love it.

Perhaps it grows on you, like mould.

It’s a very old movie, nearly 40 years old. I think a lot of people have nostalgia about it. It wasn’t very successful at the box office but garnered a huge audience after being released on DVD (or was it Betamax lol).

I didn’t hate it but I doubt I will watch it again.

 

[TV and credit cards]

The Princess Bride, 6/10; Released in 1987 this Rob Reiner (RIP) movie is a bit of a cult classic. The plot is about a girl being kidnapped and forced to marry a prince while her true love is elsewhere. He tries to rescue her from her kidnappers. Similar story to Shrek I suppose. The movie has a lot of quotes and memes going about. I watched because it was highly recommended but it didn't live up to its reputation. It was watchable but it wasn't particularly great. It had some funny dialogue in it and a few slapstick laughs. Good cast and well acted.

This goddamn movie was on an endless loop in a particular pediatrician's office. I've seen so many bits and pieces of it, I could never bring myself to sit through it in its entirety.
Funny thing about cult movies is people rarely identify what it is they like about it. I became cautious of them back in the Attack of the Killer Tomatoes days. I remember the midnight showing of this retched movie and the popularity of it all. People just need to belong.

My own personal cult classics are Barfly and The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982). I'm still working on the faithful following aspect of it.

 

[Colonel Sanders]

Citizen Vigilante
This has a rating of 6.1 on IMDB; there's a lot of sick puppies out there. I rate it 1/10 (and a zero if that were possible).
Even excluding the pathetically weak extreme right-wing anti-immigration (and "anti-woke" and anti-liberal) theme of the movie, it is bad as a movie in its own right, being poorly constructed and with many plot holes, and massive hypocrisy.

It starts off by saying it is in Europe, instead of naming a specific country (it was filmed in Croatia).
As an example of its poor construction, it starts with members of the public giving on social media their thoughts about the vigilante, even though we viewers of the movie haven't been shown him doing anything yet.
The vigilante is a white American illegal immigrant living in Europe. He owns many properties there, and orders a huge number of tenants to be illegally evicted because he is a greedy landlord. He murders about eight police personnel and sets a trap that kills about eight more. He kidnaps and murders several judges, making their deaths look like suicide (is he ashamed? unlikely), along the way killing an innocent motorist just for the hell of it.

There is a peculiarity in regards to how he treats young women. Two incidents - there is a small gang of two young men and a young woman, who are hassling another young man. He punishes the two young men, but not the young woman as she has magically vanished.
Later he goes to the abode of a migrant family where there is the mother, father, their daughter and their son, the later who was part of a group that gang raped a young woman. He gets the son to lure all the other members of the gang there, and kills them all, and also the father and mother, but I didn't notice him kill the girl. The abode is in a large apartment complex, and he fired his gun over twenty times, but no one else heard. I suppose this is because as is typical in movies he has a silencer (suppressor) on his gun that makes it almost silent, though that is not how that works in real life.

This movie trivializes real issues, and as is typical uses lies and false data. The "hero" seems to think that he can wake the public to act, though how that is supposed to work who knows?

This one's getting a ton of hate-run on the internet. I need to see it for myself. I would've never heard of it or been interested in watching it otherwise.

The Odyssey is getting a similar but much wider treatment on the internet. It's so fucking weird. There's Team Odyssey and Team Fuck the Odyssey. The former will say it's great even if it's terrible. The latter will hate it even if it's a master class in filmmaking.

Either way, I wouldn't have bothered with either of the above movies without all the hoopla surrounding them.

Same here. I can't quite figure it out. Lots of hate on the trailers, even though the trailers don't tell/show you much. But it has a good score on Rotten Tomatoes. I read the story when I was a kid and I recall being enthralled with it, so I have a bit of nostalgia pushing me to see it in the theaters (which I haven't been to since before the pandemic). I'll admit the casting was a little strange...I wonder if Nolan had to do that to make his film eligible for Best Picture.

Rotten Tomatoes is a terrible place for trying to assess whether or not to watch a movie.

51% = Good Movie.
49% = Bad Movie

IMDB is better, but still kind of wanky.

In the end, one has to see for themselves.

When it is 95% for both critics and viewers, that is a consensus well regarded film.

For the most part I don't trust critics anymore. For example, The Woman King has a 94% RT score. Enough said about that.

Again a 51% consensus isn't reliable.

Also, The Odyssey has been so politicized that any reviews are unreliable. For the kids on Reddit, not seeing it is an act of immorality, bigotry, and racism. Conservatives hate it even though they've likely never seen it nor will they ever see it. When it hits streaming I'll watch it and judge for myself. I don't expect much because I've never liked epics and have had enough Greek mythology in high school and college stuffed down my throat to last a lifetime.

 

[TSwizzle]

The Princess Bride, 6/10; Released in 1987 this Rob Reiner (RIP) movie is a bit of a cult classic. The plot is about a girl being kidnapped and forced to marry a prince while her true love is elsewhere. He tries to rescue her from her kidnappers. Similar story to Shrek I suppose. The movie has a lot of quotes and memes going about. I watched because it was highly recommended but it didn't live up to its reputation. It was watchable but it wasn't particularly great. It had some funny dialogue in it and a few slapstick laughs. Good cast and well acted.

This goddamn movie was on an endless loop in a particular pediatrician's office. I've seen so many bits and pieces of it, I could never bring myself to sit through it in its entirety.
Funny thing about cult movies is people rarely identify what it is they like about it. I became cautious of them back in the Attack of the Killer Tomatoes days. I remember the midnight showing of this retched movie and the popularity of it all. People just need to belong.

My own personal cult classics are Barfly and The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982). I'm still working on the faithful following aspect of it.

My personal cult classic is Con Air with Nicholas Cage. So many movies have a cult following. A fun one is The Rocky Horror Picture Show. People still get dressed up for it. Not my scene but I quite like the movie and will watch if I come across it on cable.

The Odyssey has been so politicized that any reviews are unreliable. For the kids on Reddit, not seeing it is an act of immorality, bigotry, and racism. Conservatives hate it even though they've likely never seen it nor will they ever see it. When it hits streaming I'll watch it and judge for myself. I don't expect much because I've never liked epics and have had enough Greek mythology in high school and college stuffed down my throat to last a lifetime.

A colleague of mine saw it at the weekend and said it was really good. It has a running time of nearly three hours! Holy cow, I couldn't sit for three hours.

 

[Colonel Sanders]

The Princess Bride, 6/10; Released in 1987 this Rob Reiner (RIP) movie is a bit of a cult classic. The plot is about a girl being kidnapped and forced to marry a prince while her true love is elsewhere. He tries to rescue her from her kidnappers. Similar story to Shrek I suppose. The movie has a lot of quotes and memes going about. I watched because it was highly recommended but it didn't live up to its reputation. It was watchable but it wasn't particularly great. It had some funny dialogue in it and a few slapstick laughs. Good cast and well acted.

This goddamn movie was on an endless loop in a particular pediatrician's office. I've seen so many bits and pieces of it, I could never bring myself to sit through it in its entirety.
Funny thing about cult movies is people rarely identify what it is they like about it. I became cautious of them back in the Attack of the Killer Tomatoes days. I remember the midnight showing of this retched movie and the popularity of it all. People just need to belong.

My own personal cult classics are Barfly and The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982). I'm still working on the faithful following aspect of it.

My personal cult classic is Con Air with Nicholas Cage. So many movies have a cult following. A fun one is The Rocky Horror Picture Show. People still get dressed up for it. Not my scene but I quite like the movie and will watch if I come across it on cable.

The Odyssey has been so politicized that any reviews are unreliable. For the kids on Reddit, not seeing it is an act of immorality, bigotry, and racism. Conservatives hate it even though they've likely never seen it nor will they ever see it. When it hits streaming I'll watch it and judge for myself. I don't expect much because I've never liked epics and have had enough Greek mythology in high school and college stuffed down my throat to last a lifetime.

A colleague of mine saw it at the weekend and said it was really good. It has a running time of nearly three hours! Holy cow, I couldn't sit for three hours.

If it's 2+ hours I split it into a two night watch.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Citizen Vigilante
This has a rating of 6.1 on IMDB; there's a lot of sick puppies out there. I rate it 1/10 (and a zero if that were possible).
Even excluding the pathetically weak extreme right-wing anti-immigration (and "anti-woke" and anti-liberal) theme of the movie, it is bad as a movie in its own right, being poorly constructed and with many plot holes, and massive hypocrisy.

It starts off by saying it is in Europe, instead of naming a specific country (it was filmed in Croatia).
As an example of its poor construction, it starts with members of the public giving on social media their thoughts about the vigilante, even though we viewers of the movie haven't been shown him doing anything yet.
The vigilante is a white American illegal immigrant living in Europe. He owns many properties there, and orders a huge number of tenants to be illegally evicted because he is a greedy landlord. He murders about eight police personnel and sets a trap that kills about eight more. He kidnaps and murders several judges, making their deaths look like suicide (is he ashamed? unlikely), along the way killing an innocent motorist just for the hell of it.

There is a peculiarity in regards to how he treats young women. Two incidents - there is a small gang of two young men and a young woman, who are hassling another young man. He punishes the two young men, but not the young woman as she has magically vanished.
Later he goes to the abode of a migrant family where there is the mother, father, their daughter and their son, the later who was part of a group that gang raped a young woman. He gets the son to lure all the other members of the gang there, and kills them all, and also the father and mother, but I didn't notice him kill the girl. The abode is in a large apartment complex, and he fired his gun over twenty times, but no one else heard. I suppose this is because as is typical in movies he has a silencer (suppressor) on his gun that makes it almost silent, though that is not how that works in real life.

This movie trivializes real issues, and as is typical uses lies and false data. The "hero" seems to think that he can wake the public to act, though how that is supposed to work who knows?

This one's getting a ton of hate-run on the internet. I need to see it for myself. I would've never heard of it or been interested in watching it otherwise.

The Odyssey is getting a similar but much wider treatment on the internet. It's so fucking weird. There's Team Odyssey and Team Fuck the Odyssey. The former will say it's great even if it's terrible. The latter will hate it even if it's a master class in filmmaking.

Either way, I wouldn't have bothered with either of the above movies without all the hoopla surrounding them.

Same here. I can't quite figure it out. Lots of hate on the trailers, even though the trailers don't tell/show you much. But it has a good score on Rotten Tomatoes. I read the story when I was a kid and I recall being enthralled with it, so I have a bit of nostalgia pushing me to see it in the theaters (which I haven't been to since before the pandemic). I'll admit the casting was a little strange...I wonder if Nolan had to do that to make his film eligible for Best Picture.

Rotten Tomatoes is a terrible place for trying to assess whether or not to watch a movie.

51% = Good Movie.
49% = Bad Movie

IMDB is better, but still kind of wanky.

In the end, one has to see for themselves.

When it is 95% for both critics and viewers, that is a consensus well regarded film.

For the most part I don't trust critics anymore. For example, The Woman King has a 94% RT score. Enough said about that.

Again a 51% consensus isn't reliable.

Also, The Odyssey has been so politicized that any reviews are unreliable. For the kids on Reddit, not seeing it is an act of immorality, bigotry, and racism. Conservatives hate it even though they've likely never seen it nor will they ever see it. When it hits streaming I'll watch it and judge for myself. I don't expect much because I've never liked epics and have had enough Greek mythology in high school and college stuffed down my throat to last a lifetime.

Who said 51% is reliable. 95% / 95% critic / viewer is reliable.

 

[Toni]

The Princess Bride, 6/10; Released in 1987 this Rob Reiner (RIP) movie is a bit of a cult classic. The plot is about a girl being kidnapped and forced to marry a prince while her true love is elsewhere. He tries to rescue her from her kidnappers. Similar story to Shrek I suppose. The movie has a lot of quotes and memes going about. I watched because it was highly recommended but it didn't live up to its reputation. It was watchable but it wasn't particularly great. It had some funny dialogue in it and a few slapstick laughs. Good cast and well acted.

Sorry you didn't get a giggle from that. I love it.

Perhaps it grows on you, like mould.

It's a favorite in my household. The book is also good.

 

[Toni]

The Princess Bride, 6/10; Released in 1987 this Rob Reiner (RIP) movie is a bit of a cult classic. The plot is about a girl being kidnapped and forced to marry a prince while her true love is elsewhere. He tries to rescue her from her kidnappers. Similar story to Shrek I suppose. The movie has a lot of quotes and memes going about. I watched because it was highly recommended but it didn't live up to its reputation. It was watchable but it wasn't particularly great. It had some funny dialogue in it and a few slapstick laughs. Good cast and well acted.

This goddamn movie was on an endless loop in a particular pediatrician's office. I've seen so many bits and pieces of it, I could never bring myself to sit through it in its entirety.
Funny thing about cult movies is people rarely identify what it is they like about it. I became cautious of them back in the Attack of the Killer Tomatoes days. I remember the midnight showing of this retched movie and the popularity of it all. People just need to belong.

My own personal cult classics are Barfly and The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982). I'm still working on the faithful following aspect of it.

My personal cult classic is Con Air with Nicholas Cage. So many movies have a cult following. A fun one is The Rocky Horror Picture Show. People still get dressed up for it. Not my scene but I quite like the movie and will watch if I come across it on cable.

The Odyssey has been so politicized that any reviews are unreliable. For the kids on Reddit, not seeing it is an act of immorality, bigotry, and racism. Conservatives hate it even though they've likely never seen it nor will they ever see it. When it hits streaming I'll watch it and judge for myself. I don't expect much because I've never liked epics and have had enough Greek mythology in high school and college stuffed down my throat to last a lifetime.

A colleague of mine saw it at the weekend and said it was really good. It has a running time of nearly three hours! Holy cow, I couldn't sit for three hours.

Weirdly enough, I also love Con Air, but I have to be in the right mood for it.

 

[Toni]

Saw Toy Story 5 and it was pretty good but not nearly as good as the original. I suppose it was a necessary next step in the canon but necessary? Aside from bringing in $? And of course the marketing of products $$?

 

[Colonel Sanders]

Citizen Vigilante
This has a rating of 6.1 on IMDB; there's a lot of sick puppies out there. I rate it 1/10 (and a zero if that were possible).
Even excluding the pathetically weak extreme right-wing anti-immigration (and "anti-woke" and anti-liberal) theme of the movie, it is bad as a movie in its own right, being poorly constructed and with many plot holes, and massive hypocrisy.

It starts off by saying it is in Europe, instead of naming a specific country (it was filmed in Croatia).
As an example of its poor construction, it starts with members of the public giving on social media their thoughts about the vigilante, even though we viewers of the movie haven't been shown him doing anything yet.
The vigilante is a white American illegal immigrant living in Europe. He owns many properties there, and orders a huge number of tenants to be illegally evicted because he is a greedy landlord. He murders about eight police personnel and sets a trap that kills about eight more. He kidnaps and murders several judges, making their deaths look like suicide (is he ashamed? unlikely), along the way killing an innocent motorist just for the hell of it.

There is a peculiarity in regards to how he treats young women. Two incidents - there is a small gang of two young men and a young woman, who are hassling another young man. He punishes the two young men, but not the young woman as she has magically vanished.
Later he goes to the abode of a migrant family where there is the mother, father, their daughter and their son, the later who was part of a group that gang raped a young woman. He gets the son to lure all the other members of the gang there, and kills them all, and also the father and mother, but I didn't notice him kill the girl. The abode is in a large apartment complex, and he fired his gun over twenty times, but no one else heard. I suppose this is because as is typical in movies he has a silencer (suppressor) on his gun that makes it almost silent, though that is not how that works in real life.

This movie trivializes real issues, and as is typical uses lies and false data. The "hero" seems to think that he can wake the public to act, though how that is supposed to work who knows?

This one's getting a ton of hate-run on the internet. I need to see it for myself. I would've never heard of it or been interested in watching it otherwise.

The Odyssey is getting a similar but much wider treatment on the internet. It's so fucking weird. There's Team Odyssey and Team Fuck the Odyssey. The former will say it's great even if it's terrible. The latter will hate it even if it's a master class in filmmaking.

Either way, I wouldn't have bothered with either of the above movies without all the hoopla surrounding them.

Same here. I can't quite figure it out. Lots of hate on the trailers, even though the trailers don't tell/show you much. But it has a good score on Rotten Tomatoes. I read the story when I was a kid and I recall being enthralled with it, so I have a bit of nostalgia pushing me to see it in the theaters (which I haven't been to since before the pandemic). I'll admit the casting was a little strange...I wonder if Nolan had to do that to make his film eligible for Best Picture.

Rotten Tomatoes is a terrible place for trying to assess whether or not to watch a movie.

51% = Good Movie.
49% = Bad Movie

IMDB is better, but still kind of wanky.

In the end, one has to see for themselves.

When it is 95% for both critics and viewers, that is a consensus well regarded film.

For the most part I don't trust critics anymore. For example, The Woman King has a 94% RT score. Enough said about that.

Again a 51% consensus isn't reliable.

Also, The Odyssey has been so politicized that any reviews are unreliable. For the kids on Reddit, not seeing it is an act of immorality, bigotry, and racism. Conservatives hate it even though they've likely never seen it nor will they ever see it. When it hits streaming I'll watch it and judge for myself. I don't expect much because I've never liked epics and have had enough Greek mythology in high school and college stuffed down my throat to last a lifetime.

Who said 51% is reliable. 95% / 95% critic / viewer is reliable.

No, it's not reliable because so many movies that get such high ratings are 1) agenda driven, and 2) critics don't want the hassle of giving a shitty agenda driven movie a bad rating, so they write the ass kissing review and move on. No with an appreciation for the art form who saw The Woman King could possibly think it's a good movie. It's utter shite.

The Star Wars franchise has been turned to shit due to the agenda driven policies of Disney. Same goes with their streaming content. Andor was well liked, not because it had an agenda (it didn't), but because it simply told a good story.

In addition, with the Oscars having implemented a diversity policy in order for movies to be eligible for an Oscar, it means that agenda comes before art. The form has been cheapened and compromised. It's why The Odyssey generated so much controversy. A lot of people are fed the fuck up with being unable to go see a big release movie that's been potentially compromised.

As I already said, I'm going to watch the movie when it gets to streaming and what I'll do is evaluate it on its merits as a piece of art. If that makes me an asshole, then I'm happy to be an asshole.

 

[bilby]

A colleague of mine saw it at the weekend and said it was really good. It has a running time of nearly three hours! Holy cow, I couldn't sit for three hours.

I will be taking two eight-hour, and two fourteen-hour, flights in August, so that sounds like just the thing.

Added to my KrisWorld watchlist.

 

[bilby]

Saw Toy Story 5 and it was pretty good but not nearly as good as the original. I suppose it was a necessary next step in the canon but necessary? Aside from bringing in $? And of course the marketing of products $$?

Wait, they made more than two?

I am not surprised that they did, so much as that I didn't know they did.

Apparently, fifty-five year old childless men are not in the advertising demographic for that franchise.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Saw Toy Story 5 and it was pretty good but not nearly as good as the original. I suppose it was a necessary next step in the canon but necessary? Aside from bringing in $? And of course the marketing of products $$?

Wait, they made more than two?

I am not surprised that they did, so much as that I didn't know they did.

Apparently, fifty-five year old childless men are not in the advertising demographic for that franchise.

In Pixar's defense, the first four were viable movies. They hadn't phoned it in. You can't say that with most franchises.

 

[southernhybrid]

We watched the movie "Dog" the other day and it was really good.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dog_(2022_film)

Dog is a 2022 American comedy drama road filmdirected by Channing Tatum and Reid Carolin, both making their respective film directorial debuts, based on a story by Carolin and Brett Rodriguez. The film stars Tatum as an Army Ranger who is tasked with escorting the military dog of his fallen friend to his funeral. The film also stars Jane Adams, Kevin Nash, Q'orianka Kilcher, Ethan Suplee, Emmy Raver-Lampman, and Nicole LaLiberte in supporting roles. The film was produced by Free Association on a budget of $15 million.[5]

The film was released in the United States on February 18, 2022, by United Artists Releasing. The film received generally positive reviews from critics, praising Tatum's direction and performance, and was also a box office success, grossing $85 million worldwide.

Plot​

Jackson Briggs, a former U.S. Army Ranger suffering from PTSD, tries to apply for a rotation position in Pakistan, but is deemed unfit for service due to a brain injury. He is notified that his friend and former partner, Riley Rodriguez, was killed in a car crash the night before. The morning after attending a memorial service at a local bar, Briggs is called in to Fort Lewis on a special assignment to escort Riley's military dog, Lulu, a female Belgian Malinois with a history of aggressive behavior, to attend his funeral in Nogales, Arizona, after which he is to bring her to White Sands, where she will be euthanized. Initially hesitant, Briggs agrees when his former company commander, Captain Jones, promises to recommend him for the rotation position.

On the road, when Briggs stops at a shooting range, Lulu is disturbed by the sound of gunfire due to her military experiences. She breaks out of her cage, and destroys the passenger seat of his 1984 Ford Bronco. Frustrated, Briggs gives her Benadryl hidden in a hot dog, causing Lulu to fall asleep. In Portland, Oregon, Briggs tries to hit on various women at a bar, but most are repelled by his brash personality. Outside, Lulu draws the attention of two friends, Bella and Zoe, who invite Briggs back to their house. While he is inside, Lulu's barking alerts a neighbor. Believing her to be the victim of abuse, the neighbor smashes the rear windshield, but she promptly attacks him. Briggs runs outside and pulls them apart, but Bella and Zoe are disturbed by the display and lock Briggs outside.

I'll leave it at that because I don't want to spoil the ending, but it's streaming somewhere, maybe Paramount or Peacock or Disney. it's quite a good comedic drama.

PS. We watched "Strays" for the 3rd time and couldn't stop laughing again. Love that crazy movie.

I absolutely do not like dogs being used for police or military work. They have no idea of the danger they could be in at any time. I thinks it's cruelty to the animals.

If properly trained, working dogs usually love their work, so I'm not so sure that it's cruel to train one to do police work. Most end. up retiring at a fairly early age, and are either adopted by the person they worked with or someone else. I'm basing that on the many books I've read about dogs. War is cruel regardless if dogs are involved or not. Wouldn't it be better to comfort the soldier by letting him have a working dog by his side to help detect land mines and things like that. Police dogs are great at helping locate missing people and detect fires etc, so I don't see the cruelty in that. A dog who is chained outside, unloved, not given proper nutrition, allowed to roam in the city etc. That is cruelty to dogs.

 

[Jimmy Higgins]

Citizen Vigilante
This has a rating of 6.1 on IMDB; there's a lot of sick puppies out there. I rate it 1/10 (and a zero if that were possible).
Even excluding the pathetically weak extreme right-wing anti-immigration (and "anti-woke" and anti-liberal) theme of the movie, it is bad as a movie in its own right, being poorly constructed and with many plot holes, and massive hypocrisy.

It starts off by saying it is in Europe, instead of naming a specific country (it was filmed in Croatia).
As an example of its poor construction, it starts with members of the public giving on social media their thoughts about the vigilante, even though we viewers of the movie haven't been shown him doing anything yet.
The vigilante is a white American illegal immigrant living in Europe. He owns many properties there, and orders a huge number of tenants to be illegally evicted because he is a greedy landlord. He murders about eight police personnel and sets a trap that kills about eight more. He kidnaps and murders several judges, making their deaths look like suicide (is he ashamed? unlikely), along the way killing an innocent motorist just for the hell of it.

There is a peculiarity in regards to how he treats young women. Two incidents - there is a small gang of two young men and a young woman, who are hassling another young man. He punishes the two young men, but not the young woman as she has magically vanished.
Later he goes to the abode of a migrant family where there is the mother, father, their daughter and their son, the later who was part of a group that gang raped a young woman. He gets the son to lure all the other members of the gang there, and kills them all, and also the father and mother, but I didn't notice him kill the girl. The abode is in a large apartment complex, and he fired his gun over twenty times, but no one else heard. I suppose this is because as is typical in movies he has a silencer (suppressor) on his gun that makes it almost silent, though that is not how that works in real life.

This movie trivializes real issues, and as is typical uses lies and false data. The "hero" seems to think that he can wake the public to act, though how that is supposed to work who knows?

This one's getting a ton of hate-run on the internet. I need to see it for myself. I would've never heard of it or been interested in watching it otherwise.

The Odyssey is getting a similar but much wider treatment on the internet. It's so fucking weird. There's Team Odyssey and Team Fuck the Odyssey. The former will say it's great even if it's terrible. The latter will hate it even if it's a master class in filmmaking.

Either way, I wouldn't have bothered with either of the above movies without all the hoopla surrounding them.

Same here. I can't quite figure it out. Lots of hate on the trailers, even though the trailers don't tell/show you much. But it has a good score on Rotten Tomatoes. I read the story when I was a kid and I recall being enthralled with it, so I have a bit of nostalgia pushing me to see it in the theaters (which I haven't been to since before the pandemic). I'll admit the casting was a little strange...I wonder if Nolan had to do that to make his film eligible for Best Picture.

Rotten Tomatoes is a terrible place for trying to assess whether or not to watch a movie.

51% = Good Movie.
49% = Bad Movie

IMDB is better, but still kind of wanky.

In the end, one has to see for themselves.

When it is 95% for both critics and viewers, that is a consensus well regarded film.

For the most part I don't trust critics anymore. For example, The Woman King has a 94% RT score. Enough said about that.

Again a 51% consensus isn't reliable.

Also, The Odyssey has been so politicized that any reviews are unreliable. For the kids on Reddit, not seeing it is an act of immorality, bigotry, and racism. Conservatives hate it even though they've likely never seen it nor will they ever see it. When it hits streaming I'll watch it and judge for myself. I don't expect much because I've never liked epics and have had enough Greek mythology in high school and college stuffed down my throat to last a lifetime.

Who said 51% is reliable. 95% / 95% critic / viewer is reliable.

No, it's not reliable because so many movies that get such high ratings are 1) agenda driven, and 2) critics don't want the hassle of giving a shitty agenda driven movie a bad rating, so they write the ass kissing review and move on.

How many ~95/95s are there? Curious, I checked to see the highest rated contemporary films. It is a bit surprising the films that show up on that list. But I'd say the number reaching the 94/97 levels are about 1 in 4.

You might not like it. I hated Up and How to Train Your Dragon wouldn't be what I'd consider to be a great film and I didn't enjoy Memento (liked the concept), but I think floating near 95% for both critics and viewer is a hedging towards safe bet.

Out of further curiosity, I saw that the movie Anthropoid is rated 67 / 72. I think it is the second best war film of all time (Das Boot is #1).

No with an appreciation for the art form who saw The Woman King could possibly think it's a good movie. It's utter shite.

The Star Wars franchise has been turned to shit due to the agenda driven policies of Disney.

Yeah, that is the bullshit I think about when people whine about movies today. The trilogy trilogy was shit because the writing was shit. The Force Awakens did well at Rotten Tomatoes, not The Odyssey well, but well, and more as an homage to Star Wars. It was clearly the best of the three (low bar), but to me it was A New Hope Remixed. The later movies trended lower. Oddly enough, Rise of Skywalker, which is just awful, did great with the common viewer, not so with the critics (as The Last Jedi did as well, which really ended in such a way that they could have done something great with the finale, but they went back to homage which was insulting, thank goodness for Rifftrax!).

But people were whining about gender and race. Ultimately, the problem with Star Wars is it is made for kids. Once someone understands that, they can get why as an adult it is no where near as great as it was when you were a kid. Even Return of the Jedi has serious issues, if you aren't a kid.

Andor was well liked, not because it had an agenda (it didn't), but because it simply told a good story.

It told a decent if not convoluted and sometimes frustrating story but gave Rogue One reason to exist. Mandalorian was decently regarded, but to me it is The Incredible Hulk in space and bland with its inconsistencies.

In addition, with the Oscars having implemented a diversity policy in order for movies to be eligible for an Oscar, it means that agenda comes before art. The form has been cheapened and compromised. It's why The Odyssey generated so much controversy. A lot of people are fed the fuck up with being unable to go see a big release movie that's been potentially compromised.

I think you are sounding a bit woke. Odyssey hasn't created all too much of controversy. Nolan created a movie using the Odyssey as the topic and clipped or modified as necessary. Some of the history apparently is dubious, but that seems to be a theme in Hollywood. It sounds like it is getting a massive amount of praise from across the board. And in criticism, Page's name gets brought up. Gee... I wonder why they are so angry.

As I already said, I'm going to watch the movie when it gets to streaming and what I'll do is evaluate it on its merits as a piece of art. If that makes me an asshole, then I'm happy to be an asshole.

Somebody call for a Wahbulance!