The only Jason Bateman movie that I thought sucked was Couples Retreat, just dreadful.


"The Gift" with he and Joel Edgerton was surprisingly good.

It's like watching a smarter version of tucker and dale :thumb:

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Netflix just drop a movie called IO it’s damn good

Good to hear. Almost watched that tonight.

Sorry it was new to me but just found this gem on Amazon Prime,I can actually say there were moments that gave me the chills

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I have no idea how well the summarized the actual story, and there's no indication that it's even supposed to be a faithful retelling, but this is fascinating subject matter.

I'm hoping for Lucky Lucky meets Wolf of Wall Street meets The Social Network, but it'll probably fall short somewhere.

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Fun film. But the lead SJW escapes. I wanted to see Justine get it.

And then the dumb whore had the temerity to lie and report those flesh-eating ****s as just innocent savages. I was hoping to see a fleet of bulldozers and RPG's just wipe those ****s off the face of the earth all video game-style; blood, brains, and gibs flying everywhere! :D

Did you catch that part in the credits where she gets a phone call from the sister of the guy she left behind in the cage?

I know 99% of you are either too old or too cool for anime, but the new Dragon Ball movie was quite good. Liberty B&B also wins.

I still love Dragonball Z

Kind of messes with the backstory of the original Broly but once the fighting gets started it's the best animation I've ever seen in a Dragon Ball movie. Music is pure cheese but goddamned if it doesn't pump you up in the moment.

Watched Den of Thieves last night. A meathead's Heat where most of the cast was gassed out of their minds, but enjoyable enough.

Yeah, I did. I guess the creator is trying to make a sequel.

I could see what the writer was going for by having her report the savages as peaceful. He is saying that the activism mindset is so brainwashing that common sense disappears but it feels strange she wouldn't care about how her friends were eaten. Then again, the cause matters more to those types than reality.

Gerard Butler plays the role of a burned out bully rather flawlessly. I liked the movie.

Pablo Screiber was good, as was Ice Cube the Lesser.

That said, they should have included a few scenes of Nick's team being "the bad guys"-- skimming busts, etc.

Yeah, agreed. You felt the implication the whole way through, but it would have felt right to see those douches being the dirty cops they were. Opportunity missed, but I still liked it enough.

Ice Cube the Lesser, lol. Felt like he was there....just because he was fiddy. No other reason, and didn't bring much to it.

Truth.

I was talking about Donnie, O'Shea Jackson Jr, son of Cube :)

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Attention to detail is what has gotten me so far in life LMAO

Brave strategy. ;)

pretty good flick: Polar

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Watched it 2 nights ago. Liked it a lot. And not just because of Sindy!!

Saw this last night. Thought it was meh. Tried too hard for a Tarantino vibe. Mads was great as usual. But the baddies were corny as hell. And the Blut character? Holy **** that was a complete and total miss. That guy pretty much ruined it for me.

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Has anybody seen this? I only heard about it yesterday. Looks amazing. Basically Peter Jackson has converted old World War I footage into a format that looks like a modern documentary, with sound.

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Saw this tonight. It was remarkable. It's almost completely comprised of actual footage and veteran interviews from the 70s. Obviously they had to fudge the sounds, but were as faithful to what things would have sounded like as possible, including using forensic lip readers to identify the words being spoken and then having people from the correct regions of Britain actually record the dialogue. There was a half hour bit at the end of the picture where Jackson described how it was made. Hats off to him for taking the time to tell this story so well. Can't imagine it'll be much of a money maker for him.

If you are a history buff, I highly recommend it.

Watched "The Prodigy" in the theater last night.

Story driven thriller more so than horror. More creepy than scary. I thought it was good. Not a jump scare or gore kinda film though if that's what you want.

Chock full of lies, actually. Quite literally, almost none of it was true.

Did you expect the absolute truth from a Hollywood movie?

Cold Pursuit. Somewhat entertaining. What was the last movie where Liam Neeson wasn't avenging someone's murder/assault/kidnapping?

Racist

The Night Comes For Us (2018) is probably 35-40 minutes too long but really scratches that ultra violence, martial arts/gun hybrid itch. The story is pretty dumb and it bogs downs at times, but the final fight scene is worthy. Recommended if you've got 2 hours to kill over a weekend.

I just saw Melissa McCarthy on CBS Sunday morning talking about her latest movie, "Can you Ever Forgive Me". Sounds like something I would want to see. She up for an Academy Award for her role. It's a drama and a true one at that. Playing author Lee Israel, who made a living writing biographies of famous personalities such as Dorothy Kilgallen (What's my Line), Katherine Hepburn, etc. Apparently her last book was a bomb, and she fell down on her luck, so she came up with the idea of writing phony letters from famous people and then selling them. She wrote something like 400 over three years.

It sounds like an intriguing story and I probably didn't give it even a glance since I figured it was another McCarthy crap comedy. It came out November 2nd, so it's already come and gone from the theaters. I was wondering if anyone actually saw the film, what did you think?

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I saw that on Showtime or Starz like six months ago, it was scary as you say. I really enjoyed it. I was surprised that Brian Cox appeared in such a low budget film. What got me to watch it was Ophelia Lovibond, she was the guest character Kitty on Elementary, a couple of seasons ago. I had hoped they would of kept her on the show. Anyway, Ophelia was listed in this film, it was a small part, but I really got hooked on her from Elementary.

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This looks promising.

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Oh wow. That does look good.

Just watched Scarlet Street.

I’m in love with Joan Bennett.

Great film.

Stockholm looks like it has potential. Ethan Hawke and Noomi. Written and directed by Robert Budreau (better known as a producer, actually).

This could be good.

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Has anyone seen Triple Frontier yet? Its now streaming on Netflix and I thought it was a damn good film . Hell, I would have paid money to see it in theaters. Great cast and really cool concept.
Only complaint would be the team made some really boneheaded choices thru out this . But that just made it more intense imo.

I watched that propaganda movie Samson from 2018.. holy shit that thing sucked.

I felt like you knew what was going to happen throughout the movie but it was still satisfying to watch. I agree I would've enjoyed watching in the theaters

I thought Hold The Dark was really good.

You think it's a slow moving character piece and then there's a ton of action in the middle and end. It kind of did/kind of didn't go where I thought it would.

It didn't hurt that I really like Jeffrey Wright and Alexander Skarsgard...

The beautiful and witty Mrs. FAX convinced me to watch Greenbook the other night.

I wasn't initially interested, but she was unrelenting, so I agreed. I was both surprised and impressed. It was much, much better than I expected it to be.

Actually, it's one of those rare films that I continue to think about days after. Peter Farrelly (director/writer) did a great job. The casting and performances were impressive. I haven't worked out my final rating yet, but it's just a damn good movie.

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I liked The Green Book as well. It's crazy to see how differently things were just 60 some years ago...

This is coming out in a couple of weeks. Getting good reviews as well.

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Interesting. I wouldn't expect that movie to get good reviews. It's the kind of movie smarmy critics like to thumb their nose at.

RT has it at 91% right now. I really don't trust them much at this point when it comes to agenda films, but this is straight up horror, so hopefully it's legit.

Welp, "It" was bangalicious, so I'll give it a go.

Ive been on the fence about watching this. I'm definitely watching it soon.

I can't wait to watch Us. I find Jordon Peele to be a fantastic mind

I recommend it, Mr. SAUTO - and I'd be interested in your opinion.

Movies in that genre generally don't reel me in (so to speak). Either I don't watch them at all, or I leave the theatre sort of uninspired.

It kinda reminded me of that movie with the three NASA girls who launched John Glenn's white ass into orbit ... whatever that was called.

This was better, though. Because the supporting characters were much stronger. (IMO, of course.)

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Into the Spiderverse was ****ing awesome. So unique.

Have you seen Greenbook? Would be curious to hear your take and yeah, I know how that sounds.

I had actually never even heard of it until you guys just mentioned it.

Looks like the reverse version of Driving Miss Daisy? I always like that one. Plus, Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortenson? Can’t go wrong there.

I’ll let you know when I watch it but I can’t imagine I wouldn’t like it.

That's the comparison I'm hearing along with Green Mile. With the "Magic Negro" connotation. And yeah, Ali is a serious talent.
Will be interested to hear your thoughts.

After thinking about it for awhile, I've come to the conclusion that it's more of a buddy movie than anything. Genre-wise. It's different though ... mainly because there's just a lot of subtext and mini-arcs throughout. Again, IMPO.

Very fine film. Since I can easily forget bad films, any movie that I find myself thinking about for days after gets a pretty high rating from me.

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That’s the vibe I got from the trailer. Standard trope of 2 guys forced to be together and become buddies

I wouldn't categorize it as standard, though.

That was definitely not the impression I had during the closing credits.

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Thought this looks like it might be funny.


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There has to be a movie in this somewhere.

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Just finished watching it. Excellent film. :thumb:

I went to the theater and saw Dragged Across Concrete this weekend and was really impressed with it! Its from the director of Bone Tomahawk and Brawl in Cell Block 99 (both of which I really liked). Dragged Across Concrete features Mel Gibson and Vince Vaughn and both were great in it. Darkly funny and un PC thru out , it hits a lot of the right notes.

Just a warning tho, its insanely long (at 2 hours and 40 minutes) it could test a lot of movie goers patience . As for me , I wasn't bored one bit.

Highly recommend it esp if you dug the director's other two films . I think its available VOD too if you don't want to see it in theaters.

ROFL

If there isn't there should be.

I envision it as two, down-on-their-luck college friends who decide to enter the competition in order to pay off a gambling debt.

They then travel to Russia and are followed by the KGB who mistakenly believes they may be American spies. One of them falls in love with a female KGB officer assigned to their case who teaches him the finer points of open-hand slapping while introducing him to Soviet-style sex.

I haven't figured out the second act, yet.

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you should watch Dragged Across Concrete.

You need to collab with Bert

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The answer is, "star circle hashtag shoe".

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Watched Atomic Blonde last night.

I did a search and didn't find any posts about this movie. I actually thought this film would have its own thread, but I guess not.

I was pleasantly surprised. This is a better-than-average action-oriented spy/thriller. Damn good, actually. No significant weaknesses in plot, script, performance, cinematography or direction. It's also interesting to see how John Wick has affected they way fight sequences are shot and edited. Recommended to all who appreciate the genre. I give it 3.75 (out of 5) hikes.

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I liked it too.

I think it set out to be a female John Wick-ish film. I thought it did a nice job. I might be biased because I'm a huge Theron fan.

I thought the fight scene in the stairway was really well done. It was obvious in the choreography that he hit harder than her and she was hurt by the blows.

I mean, I watch it all, but it's fairly ridiculous that the women just do what dudes do to giant mother****ing dudes and it works. This took into account that it was a woman fighting a man, and it worked, at least in my head.

For those who love music bio-pics, you've got to watch "The Dirt". Those are four characters that are intensely difficult to portray authentically, and these young actors just nailed it.

This is what I was talking about - not necessarily 'new' but 2018
 

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It's about six months old, but I just watched The Meg on HBO. I had planned to see it in the theater but when the imdb rating was 5.6, I don't usually go if it's below a 7.0 rating. I wouldn't of been disappointed and should have gone. It's cheesy to a certain extent and has cliches as you would expect, but the special effects and the action kept your interest. Instead of the Bill Paxton type character always saying, "get me out of here man", they did have one, but a black guy who couldn't swim. I could of imagined the Rock playing the main character, that would of been too cheesy, I think Jason Statham was the best choice, although half of what he said, I can't understand.

I did get the full effect at home, I have a 75" Samsung 4K and a huge surround sound, and the movie has excellent surround sound. I gave it a 7.0 and it was a good action adventure and worth watching.

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Watched this last night. It was awesome.

And while everybody knows how it ends,

Definitely one of the better movies of its kind. Kostner and Harrelson make a great team. Kostner's portrayal of Frank Hamer is basically an old fart version of Eliot Ness.

I would have happily paid to see this in the theater.

Can't wait to see this.

I'm almost done with reading the book below and Bonnie and Clyde is the last chapter. Hamer was a badass mfker.

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I think that may be the next book I read. Thanks for sharing.

I hope the movie stayed true to the story and what he was really like. These things always take liberties, but some are worse than others. The last Bonnie and Clyde movie I saw was presented from her point of view, and wasn't terribly impressive.

Just finished it. Had to watch the death scene twice. Damn scene gave me goosebumps both times. Expertly done. Loved the view from the Rangers instead of just Bonnie and Clyde.

This was really good. I don’t know the liberties they took but nothing seemed outlandish. The camerawork was really really good. Nothing groundbreaking but it was notably well done. Same with the music.

What really drives the movie forward was the acting. There were a LOT of places the acting could have fallen flat and the points the movie was pushing would miss. Harelson and Kostner have laid some eggs in their career but this is really well down and it all worked. For me anyway.

The scenes where Costner and Harrelson delivered their "what shaped me" stories were both great. They both hit it out of the park.

There were several places it could have fallen apart, but was held together by great performances.



I'm sure there are other scenes too, but looking back, it took some really powerful performances to hold it together, because that story is so crazy, the Great Depression was so long ago, and the production was pretty damned ambitious in what it attempted to tackle.

I'm sure it won't get any buzz about it, but this is pretty much the diametric opposite of Michael Bay.

I do wonder if the gas station scene actually happened. Wouldn't surprise me if he did something like that, though. I'm going to pick up the book that Pennywise recommended, but from what little I have read about Hamer he was a tough customer with a short fuse and a very personalized view of right and wrong.