glduck Posted October 17, 2017 Share Posted October 17, 2017 indeed it does. based on nothing other than a lone trailer, I have high hopes for The New Mutants. it's a lame graphic novel concept (the next generation of mutants, after the x-men) but Fox rebranded it as a quasi-horror movie and the trailer looked great/. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azgreg Posted November 6, 2017 Share Posted November 6, 2017 Thor Ragnarok was awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mano Posted November 6, 2017 Share Posted November 6, 2017 19 minutes ago, azgreg said: Thor Ragnarok was awesome. Took my son to see it, I thought it was fun, maybe a little too long. Looking forward to the Infinity War movies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mano Posted November 17, 2017 Share Posted November 17, 2017 Saw Justice League last night. Didn't care much for it. Thought story and dialog pretty bad, don't care for Ben Affleck as Batman or Henry Cavill as Superman. I thought Wonder Woman, Aquaman and Cyborg were by far the most compelling characters and best performances, unfortunately all were very minor roles compared to the big 2. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glduck Posted November 17, 2017 Share Posted November 17, 2017 WB had rotten tomatoes withhold the score until today aaaaaaaaaaaand... that 47% would be why. so weird why DC has such a hard time with their movies. i mean, i guess it’s not that weird. zach snyder and all that. they sort of dug their own grave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orange Posted November 17, 2017 Author Share Posted November 17, 2017 Zach Snyder's movies suck, by and large. Watchmen, Dawn of the Dead and 300 were reasonably entertaining, but it's like he's chronically incapable of having any FUN with a superhero movie. And Ben Affleck sucks air from the room as an actor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KUGRDON Posted November 17, 2017 Share Posted November 17, 2017 Put in a search on my dish receiver to record any movies with James Stewart, William Holden, John Wayne or Humphrey Bogart. Today I watched 1959’s ‘Anatomy of a Murder’ with James Stewart, Lee Remick and Ben Gazzara directed by Otto Preminger. A very good courtroom drama. Other highlights, Mr. Wilson from Dennis the Menace and Floyd the barber from Mayberry and The Andy Griffith Show were witnesses at the trial. Also notable is the jazz music soundtrack. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azgreg Posted November 20, 2017 Share Posted November 20, 2017 Just saw Justice League. Going in I read a lot of mixed reviews so my expectations were lowered. With that being said i don't get the hate. I thought it was pretty entertaining. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orange Posted December 11, 2017 Author Share Posted December 11, 2017 Saw The Disaster Artist this weekend. I was underwhelmed at first. I think it would've helped had I seen The Room, or been one of those hipster college kids over the years who went to midnight screenings of that train wreck. I watched a few scenes of The Room on Youtube after seeing TDA and.....holy shit. For acting, directing, set design, writing, and even green-screen effects to come together in such a holly alliance of shitty is a thing to behold. It's rarer than greatness. I see why this was so popular, and why Franco made the movie now. Tommy Wiseau's interviews are a wonder now, too. http://mashable.com/2017/12/01/the-room-the-disaster-artist-side-by-side/#qBkw.WA1LaqL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PAC MAN Posted December 12, 2017 Share Posted December 12, 2017 Finally watched Star Wars #7 several weeks ago and now reading a lot of good stuff from the premiere of The Last Jedi (#8). Some are saying it could be the best Star Wars movie since Empire Strikes Back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glduck Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 so i haven't seen it yet, but the new stars seems very polarizing. a bunch of my friends loved it, but i've already seen petitions online to get Last Jedi removed from official star wars canon. to which: it's fucking star wars, man. you gotta take the bad with the good. my generation was the prequel generation, which means anyone my age grew up knowing nothing but awful star wars. i've always been of the opinion that return of the jedi was a terrible piece of shit, too. copy the plot of the first movie, only strip it of all its charm, kill off boba fett in embarrassing fashion, and run amock on endor with a bunch of disney bears. come on, that's terrible. i actually liked force awakens, and i think rogue one sits atop star wars mountain alongside empire. but we were due for a dud, if in fact Last Jedi is a dud. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mano Posted December 19, 2017 Share Posted December 19, 2017 1 hour ago, glduck said: so i haven't seen it yet, but the new stars seems very polarizing. a bunch of my friends loved it, but i've already seen petitions online to get Last Jedi removed from official star wars canon. to which: it's fucking star wars, man. you gotta take the bad with the good. my generation was the prequel generation, which means anyone my age grew up knowing nothing but awful star wars. i've always been of the opinion that return of the jedi was a terrible piece of shit, too. copy the plot of the first movie, only strip it of all its charm, kill off boba fett in embarrassing fashion, and run amock on endor with a bunch of disney bears. come on, that's terrible. i actually liked force awakens, and i think rogue one sits atop star wars mountain alongside empire. but we were due for a dud, if in fact Last Jedi is a dud. I saw it on Friday, thought it was pretty meh. Better than the prequels, but definitely my least favorite of the new batch of films ( liked Rogue One best then Force Awakens ). I thought Luke and Kylo Ren both came off as whiny little bitches for most of the film, there were large sections that I found pretty boring. YMMV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orange Posted December 19, 2017 Author Share Posted December 19, 2017 Rottentomatoes for Last Jedi is a trip. It's 93% from critics, 55% from viewers. HUH? I think I'd skip it and watch Shape of Water instead. I love Guillermo Del Toro's stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBug708 Posted January 4, 2018 Share Posted January 4, 2018 Just saw Greatest Showman, thought it was fantastic. I thought it was better than Hamilton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orange Posted January 5, 2018 Author Share Posted January 5, 2018 I will not watch a musical. Not with Hugh Jackman, not with anyone else. Ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nakedmolerat Posted January 5, 2018 Share Posted January 5, 2018 On 12/19/2017 at 12:53 PM, glduck said: so i haven't seen it yet, but the new stars seems very polarizing. a bunch of my friends loved it, but i've already seen petitions online to get Last Jedi removed from official star wars canon. to which: it's fucking star wars, man. you gotta take the bad with the good. my generation was the prequel generation, which means anyone my age grew up knowing nothing but awful star wars. i've always been of the opinion that return of the jedi was a terrible piece of shit, too. copy the plot of the first movie, only strip it of all its charm, kill off boba fett in embarrassing fashion, and run amock on endor with a bunch of disney bears. come on, that's terrible. i actually liked force awakens, and i think rogue one sits atop star wars mountain alongside empire. but we were due for a dud, if in fact Last Jedi is a dud. That seems shortsighted by Star Wars fans. They, of all people, should know that if you try to strike something down it will only come back stronger. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
glduck Posted January 29, 2018 Share Posted January 29, 2018 per usual, once a popular movie comes out look here six weeks later for a timely review. finally saw last jedi. it was good! i'm no star wars purist -- i read about the criticism, but i cared about almost none of the complaints. i think when you suspend your disbelief enough to embrace "the force", you gotta take whatever it is that concept throws at you. really, my only issue was that the movie sort of went lord of the rings: return of the king on us and just when i thought it was time to get up to leave the movie went on for another 30 minutes. the force awakens was almost a carbon copy of a new hope, and i know people really liked that, but i liked how last jedi broke from the mold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orange Posted February 5, 2018 Author Share Posted February 5, 2018 Shape of Water was ....interesting I guess. If anything, it's made me admire Michael Shannon more and more. That guy might be the most underrated character actor working today. He can play some very ruthless, weird villains. He's also good as a straight-laced lawman in Waco, a 6-part TV series currently on something called the Paramount Network, which I didn't know I had until I accidentally scrolled past it while looking for Animal Planet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KUGRDON Posted February 5, 2018 Share Posted February 5, 2018 Remembered him from Boardwalk Empire. Good actor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Orange Posted March 5, 2018 Author Share Posted March 5, 2018 On 2/5/2018 at 11:02 AM, Orange said: Shape of Water was ....interesting I guess. If anything, it's made me admire Michael Shannon more and more. That guy might be the most underrated character actor working today. He can play some very ruthless, weird villains. He's also good as a straight-laced lawman in Waco, a 6-part TV series currently on something called the Paramount Network, which I didn't know I had until I accidentally scrolled past it while looking for Animal Planet. "Interesting" won it all. I was happy that Gary Oldman finally won an Oscar, but apparently you're supposed to have a perfect past in order to win an academy award and feel good about it: https://www.forbes.com/sites/bryanrolli/2018/03/05/oscars-2018-gary-oldman-kobe-bryant/#2b5c34775533 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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