There a lot of talk of the classics but no where to talk about Current/ newer movies So this is the thread for that.
I love the Conjuring series, I will probably watch it out of loyalty, but wow the reviews for it has been horrible. But it didn't matter in the box office as it did a HUGE number. Even with the terrible reviews it did more than $10 Million+ more in opening weekend than the 2 Conjuring with both opened at low 40M) even if you take in inflation the Nun did $8 Million more than the original in opening weekend. Not sure how I feel about that, I am glad the franchise is strong but if this movie is as bad as most say I feel a bit strange it being more successful than the amazing original Conjuring 1+2
Sep 7-9 Box Office
1 The Nun $53,807,379
2 Peppermint $13,423,255
3 Crazy Rich Asians $13,148,404
4 The Meg $6,094,327
5 Searching $4,570,235
6 Mission: Impossible - Fallout $3,885,798
7 Disney's Christopher Robin $3,404,931
8 Operation Finale $2,871,184
9 BlacKkKlansman $2,609,915
10 Alpha $2,517,768
I saw Searching but hated it. I like to multitask while watching any movie that is not intellectuel or art house. I had it on while I cleaned my apartment and did yoga and cooked.
The first thing that sucked about it was That most of the movie was the chars sitting their offices alone typing and clicking. It required reading text and emails the characters were sending to each other. If im going to read something, it will be a book, not a badly done movie.
There was no action and little dialogue.
The movie expected the viewers to watch every minute of it or risk getting lost. I did not appreciate such an expectation from a B movie.
Not much happened during the entire 100 minutes or so. Just text ing each other. It was terrible.
The Meg was a combination of jaws and godzilla but with a worse director than Spielberg. There was no tension and drama. Jaws always scares me when I watch it. With Meg, I struggled to stay awake despite drinking coffee through it.
From the beginning, you knew what was going to happen.
It was okay to watch while doing yoga and surfing the web, but it would be impossible to sit through the entire thing trapped in a theatre with nothing fun to do.
The movie Alpha sounds familiar. I think I tried to watched it one night but fell asleep, despite having had two pots of coffee a little earlier..
Skyscraper is horrible. The director should never be allowed to do another film again.
Hereditary, adrift, amerci an animals, summer of 84 are all okay as things to watch in the background while you re doing something more interesting (kind of like talk radio) ;
Destination Wedding was probably the best. I actually laughed a few times. Some of the lines were a hoot, and the acting was good.
Dawnseeker is a B movie filmed in Serbia or something. It looked like the actors were having fun most of the time.
A Beautiful Picture was dreadful
Reprisal is an okay action flick. Definitely a multi-tasker.
To All the Boys Ive Loved Before is probably the best for teenaged girls . For its target audience, it's good. The acting was good and the writing decent. It's not really something to watch if you are older than 20.