I watched Good Boys. A college student punches a 6th grader in the face. Other than that I didn't like it.

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I just watched “I am Patrick Swayze” on TVLand. I think it’s new. It was well done if you’re into that kind of documentary. The guy was impressive and he had quite an impact on the people he met.

I believe people are some times talking about movies that are "new" to them. But yeah I see your point.

New refers to the thread - not the movies. The old thread got to be too long so now there is a new one. At least that is how I take it.

Yes its a new documentary I've been wanting to catch that also.

White Boy Rick was a good watch. I'm so glad Matthew mcconaughey branched out from the stud rom com roles and started showing his range. He was really good in this one.

Equalizer 2 was highly entertaining.

Alpha was meh but worth a watch, I suppose. Had some cool landscapes.

New Midway Trailer
 

WOOD!

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Midway was the turning by point in the Pacific theater no question about that.
It made the Japanese go on a defensive strategy the rest of the war.

Great subject matter, but I utterly loathe the fact that Roland Emmerich is anywhere within 1000 miles of this.

Roland Emmerich makes Michael Bay looks like Andrei Tarkovsky.

I'm afraid I will be disappointed in the movie before it comes out, best to go in with low expectations to begin with I suppose.

There is the occasional twist with some how the hell was there resume like that before something good. With you on it’s not ****ing likely with Emmerich.

Oh come on. Emmerich is John Ford compared to Bay.

I reluctantly make the point. Pain and Gain was good but a large part of that was Dwayne Johnson being great.

Harder than Balinese Calculus.

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Hell yes!

This will be awesome as well. Can't wait.

I'm pretty excited, too. Snatch and LS&2SB are two of my favorite movies. Haven't been terribly impressed with most of his more recent stuff. Hopefully this is a return to form.

Equalizer 2 was on HBO. This time Denzel is a Lyft driver and he helps out people with sad sob stories, usually requires going to Europe, and the local black kid who is headed down the wrong path. The movie starts out with him on a train in Europe and takes out 3 bad guys in the lounge car. Later the lady at the bookstore has her kid back, he doesn't tell her how it happened. The Silent Hero. If you like seeing Denzel beat up multiple bad guys, sort of like Liam Neeson, then see this flick. I've got Liam in Cold Pursuit recorded, next up.

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Do you think he will say Alright, Alright, Alright?

I thought it was highly enjoyable. The final showdown on the island during the storm was awesome as well.

Has anybody seen Gemini Man? The trailers looked interesting.

25% critic score, 84% audience score on RT. I tend to trust the masses far more than the critics at this point.

I haven't seen it, but from what I've heard it needs to be seen in a high frame rate theater for it to look right.

I was just talking to someone about that. According to him there are only a handful of theaters in the country that can present it correctly.

Yeah - that is true but I think you can find a screening that is better than the standard presentation. I listened to a podcast where I'm pretty the 3 reviewers each had a different presentation and the one that saw the standard 2d thought it looked horrible and the other 2 thought it looked good.

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There are a lot of theaters across the country showing it in 60 HFR. Only 13 showing it in 120 HFR which is what Ang Lee shot it for.

My buddy saw the 60 HFR and said it looked fantastic. Much better than the Hobbit 60 HFR.

Cold Pursuit with Liam Neeson is his latest action adventure, revenge, done someone wrong movie was on HBO. I liked his air marshal movie Non-Stop, I saw it in the theater about five years ago. Then he has a bunch of Taken movies involving his family, it seems since he turned 60 he's the action hero.

Cold Pursuit is the worse film I've ever seen him make. It's not well directed, it doesn't flow, the scenery is all cold bitter snow, worse than Fargo. It starts off with him receiving the man of the year award from his town, Kehoe, Colorado three hours west of Denver. He's a snow plow driver. Next we see two guys kidnapped and eventually killed. We soon find out that one of them is Liam's son, who was baggage handler at Denver Airport.

Liam is now on the warpath to find out who at fault. He finds a trail of local drug dealers and takes out three of them one at a time. Soon the kingpin in Denver is worried about his distribution. We soon learn that the local Kehoe town drug dealing was gifted to the Indians by the Kingpin's dad many years ago. He thinks it's the indians killing his people. Soon the Kingpin kidnaps a indian gang member, little do they know it's the chief's son. Now this means war.

Liam is also in pursuit of the kingpin. He goes to an old friend, played by the John Goodman's prison partner in Raising Arizona. Here he's a semi-crooked guy living in a big fancy house. He informs Liam who the Kingpin is and tells him, you can't kill him, you'll need to hire a hitman.

Next a black hitman comes to Liam and he pays him $90,000, 2/3 now and the rest when the job is down. The hitman goes to the kingpin and said, pay me $90,000 and I'll tell you who wants to kill you. He tells them and then they kill the hitman, he wasn't too smart.

Liam ends up kidnapping the kingpin's son from school just before the indians could do so. So the kingpin and the indians both after him with the kid, who is actually bonding with Liam since he doesn't like his dad, the kingpin.

That's basically the story in a nutshell without the ending, but you can figure that out. I gave it 4 out of 10.

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I watched Cold Pursuit in the theater and felt like it was all over the place tonally. From the previews I thought it would be over the top violence with inventive kills (like Crank or the new Rambo). There was some of that but it also tried to be serious at times as well. I think it would have been better if it was just about a snowplow driver who gets in the middle of a gang war on accident and it turns out he can use his skills from living in the mountains to take everyone out. The death counts & the maid stuff didn't belong in the same movie as the grieving family and the mob son.

Currently 50 minutes into Upgrade, and it is spectacular so far... it touches on so many different themes relevant to our times, trans humanism and the extent of big techs power over our lives chief among them

Its like a well thought out mashup of so many great movies... The Crow, Frankenstein and Jason Bourne with Hal from 2001 in a starring role

It’s destined to be a cult classic, take that to the bank

Eli on Netflix was disappointing and will especially annoy you if you hate child acting.

Saw "IT Chapter II" and it was actually better than i thought it would be.

What about "Ad Astra"? Has anyone watched it?

gonna try and check out The Lighthousetomorrow. Looks interesting and I love that it was shot in black & white.

Anybody seen this yet?

40% from critics, 90% audience reviews on RT.

Probably going to see it tomorrow. As a Navy vet, it almost feels like a moral imperative.

It’s good. Go see it. But it’s mostly about the airmen, not as much about the ships.

I’m not good enough on the history to critique its accuracy. But it sets out to do a lot of things and does most of them well.

It’s not a Michael Bay flick. It isn’t an over simplified exercise in patriotism (there is plenty. Just not overdone). It did go out of its way to outline the Japanese story, although brief, still doesn’t run them out there as fodder on the way to victory. It also didn’t shy away from the loss.

While it did a good job of staying away from tropes, it could have used more backstory and there were a few things they spent time on that they left dangle.

One thing it does well is period stuff (at least to the extent of my knowledge). Let’s face it. The 40s were hard. Very hard. And it reflected it. Nothing was clean and shiny despite being relatively early in the war, everything was mechanical and had to be operated and it didn’t shy away from the fact that some of the shit didn’t work.

The other critical piece is it did a good job establishing the stakes and characters without beating you over the head with it for the most part.

The aerial scenes were done right. There were a few scenes in the water that the cgi was bad, but nothing horrible. As a dude that’s spent some time in an airplane (albeit never dive bombed a damn thing) the aerial scenes alone were worth the price of admission.

One thing that might cause it trouble is it tried to tell the Japanese side. They kind of touched what makes those guys tick (for anyone that doesn’t - listen to Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History. His latest series called Supernova in the east about the buildup of Japan is amazing). But they didn’t spend the requisite time to not make it look like they were kind of idiots. I know better but not because of the movie. I mean it tried, but understanding their position is just complicated. It also doesn’t set them up as evil invaders, which is great for me, but may not be what some patrons are expecting.

If there are any qualms at all they’re pretty minor.

- the story was pretty busy and some stuff was shallow out of necessity
- you just can’t cast Woody Harrelson in this stuff. He acted it fine he’s just too recognizable.
- a little bit of the naval cgi was wonky.

Definitely worth a watch in my book although I haven’t read any reviews. There may be some valid counterpoints that I don’t see.

I guess the critics score vs audience score makes sense to me.

They try to do the story justice in 2 hours, which damages what would be a traditionally good story. There isn’t a telling of the story where you can follow the development of a character or include some of the complexity that makes a critically acclaimed story.

But to chase those ideals criminally damages the story as a whole. It really needs to hit the points it hit (and many more to be honest) to even do the story justice.

In my opinion it is about the event as opposed to a technically sound script. Because that’s not what happened. Shit gets slogged up in a myriad of complex events. Because that’s what war is.

To strip it down for the sake of winning critical acclaim is a mistake IMO.

This thing wasn’t flawless but I’ll take the story it told over what makes a technical masterpiece.

I'm going to the matinee showing at 11:00. Looking forward to it.

Loved it. Far better than I expected. It was much better than the 70s Midway movie, whereas Bay's Pearl Harbor was far worse than Tora Tora Tora. It wasn't over the top silly, was accurate with the actual events and what led up to them. CGI effects were solid, as was the acting. All the principal characters were real people. They got the planes and the ships right. I'm fairly picky about Navy-themed movies, and while I question a few aspects, it was nothing extreme. The battle scenes were really busy, but since I've never divebombed a Japanese carrier I really can't speak to whether there was too much shit on the screen or not enough. Probably too much, though. But that's okay.

Obviously as a Navy veteran I'm the target audience here, so just by not throwing in a bunch of mindless bullshit they had me at hello. But it was just a damned good war movie.

I may go see it again. Can't remember the last movie I saw more than once at the theater.

Anti aircraft ordinance is crazy. With only 24 planes to shoot at I’m guessing it was Fairly accurate. It looked to me like it didn’t sacrifice accuracy for filmmaking. But I’m by no means an expert. I could be off on that.

I suspect the planes weren't that close together (like right on top of each other) on the bomb runs. That's the main thing.

That could be. I don’t know a ton about it.

Searching was a great movie. Highly recommend, ending was fantastic.

Upgrade was my favorite movie of 2018. Great cinematography particularly the cameras affixed to a moving object. Fights were brutal and visceral affairs, and the ending was bittersweet. Very original.

I thought the ending went off the rails. Although maybe it had already gone off the rails with the dumb easter eggs and alien invasion nonsense. But for the most part it was a good thriller.

HBO had Upgrade on-demand, so I watched it because of the reviews here. It was good, I gave it a 7. The fight scenes reminded me a little of Hardcore Henry, except in that film they were first person video, in Upgrade they were his robot body talking to him. I just wish the super human part took command all the time instead of letting him ask for help. I liked Hardcore Henry better, almost too much action, gave that one an 8. I just realized the blonde in the lab coat in HH is the same blonde in The Girl on the Train that gets killed. Overall they're two similar movies, full of action.

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I'm actually really looking forward to seeing this.

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I'm not 'Q-ing' you, just giving you a link where we talked about the movie, in case you wanted to see . . .

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I have been wary about this one. I'm very finicky about racing movies [not so much a pedant about technical details as I don't like true stories getting Hollywood-ized]. But the word of mouth has been very good on this one. SO my excitement level is rising as well.

Thanks. I barely skimmed and came across this thread first. :)

Saw Joker tonight. Phoenix should get a nomination for Oscar.

Finally got around to watching Escape From NY. I had wanted to watch it for the longest time back when I noticed Escape From LA was on Prime.

Man.. what a piece of shit that movie was. I'm struggling to find one redeeming quality about it and coming up blank.

Nonsense! Snake Plisskin is a great antihero name. And how about that eye patch?

Escape from New York was awesome.

Escape from L.A. was a piece of shit.

Correct

Yep. Also, hating on EFNY makes you somewhat ghey.

Saw an advance screening for Knives Out. Movie was a lot of fun, but there is a lot of topical politics muddled in which was obnoxious. I think it's Rian Johnson's best work after someone tricked me into watching Brick.

Lol it is a cool name and Kurt Russell is pretty badass.


At this point I’m leaning toward not actually watching LA since NY just didn’t hit for me.

It's better with Fisty McTatt playing Snake Plisskin He's the real badass
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Good call. I wish I could unsee it. One of the more disappointing sequels I've seen.

Promising

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The new Hellboy was garbage. He spent half the movie running for his life, screaming and trying to be funny.

At one point he was nearly killed by like three regular ass humans with spears. I really don't know shit about the source material, but I don't buy a demon, the supposed harbinger of the apocalypse, getting his ass kicked by a few dudes with pointy sticks.

I will say, the Baba Yaga was really well done. Super gross and creepy.

Vicky Cristina Barcelona.

A movie about people having sex and absolutely nothing happened because of it.

No resolution.

Some girls went to Spain and had sex with a guy one summer.

That's it. That's the plot.

LMAO

Enjoyed it, though.

Speaking of garbage, I watched the 2018 Robin Hood movie with Taron Egerton. Woof. It doesn't have to be very good at all and I'll watch that noise. Hell if the Kevin Costner version is on, I'll watch it. This is not that.

I really want to like Taron Egerton, but man he's put out some shit movies. This one falls right in line. Some of the action sequences are OK, most aren't. None of them have any consequence, and the actors know it and you know they know it. There is less than 0 plot. No stakes, no nothing. It's all an excuse to do some crazy choreographed fights.

Robin Hood is such a strange license.

It’s always around despite the fact that I feel like it’s never truly been all that popular in media. We all know the story but I can’t remember a single film that was a smash hit.

The Costner one was a pretty big hit.

I really enjoyed the Crowe version, but I don't think it was deemed as very successful.

I don't know what this one did at the box office. Hopefully burned hard.

I'm a sucker for medieval flicks so I'll keep watching them.

The only thing I ever liked about Hellboy was the wind-up Nazi.

Watched Leap Year last night.

The only thing more beautiful than the Irish scenery was Amy Adams.

I highly recommend seeing Uncut Gems in theaters folks. It was sensational and Adam Sandler gives a great great performance in it (Kevin Garnett was pretty good too and played a key role).

Yea. The Coster film was a gigantic hit in its era. And that Brian Adams song played constantly.

I never thought it was very good though.

Guess that's on me 'cause the Costner flick was before my time. I've only ever seen brief snippets on YouTube of his horrendous accent.

LOL. Yeah. Him and Slater were just straight horrible castings. But it’s not a bad watch even with the age. Morgan Freeman and Alan Rickam are as good as Costner is bad.

Watched the Green Book. Oof. There was some of that I had trouble swallowing.

All in all well done. There were approximately 487 billion places it could trip up, but managed to keep me in it the whole time. Performances were top notch all the way around. I don’t remember how it was reviewed but I thought it was excellent. Especially Mortensen, I didn’t know he had that character in him LOL.

Finally saw LaLa Land.

Amazing, and very realistic, movie about relationships.

Also made me cry myself to sleep.

I was not impressed by It Comes At Night.

Based on the name and trailers I was expecting a zombie flick or maybe a creature feature. It was neither.

Oh man I HATED that film! Saw it in theaters too.

I enjoyed it. It wasn't what I was expecting, but I still thought it was a good thriller.

Terrible movie, I want my 2 hrs back.

On Showtime I watched the Green Book, I was shocked. I didn't expect it to be so good. If you like the sort of buddy movie, although these two are not exactly buddies, and cars and music of 1962, see this film.

I gave it a 9 out of 10. I think Viggo must of gained 40 or 50 pounds to play this sort of punch drunk tough guy New Yorker. It's based on a true story. Word of mouth can work, it only did $320K opening weekend but finished with $85 million.

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Yeah. I watched it too a couple weeks ago. Made a post about it a few back. There were a few scenes that were kinda tough to watch, but I’m glad I did. Hell of a movie all the way around.

6 Underground is on Netflix. Definitely worth a watch.

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Do not watch Blue Valentine.

Depressing piece of shit movie.

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