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Rikki Gins Lounge => Movies and TV FISHatorium => Topic started by: Zetaspeak on September 10, 2018, 03:31:13 PM
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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
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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...
Thanks for starting this thread. 8)
Like you, one of my buddies is big into the Conjuring series. Me? Not so much. I've seen both Conjuring's but not the Annabelle series, or any other off shoots. Anyway, I agreed to go see The Nun with him. Meh. He loved it. I thought it was bad. I get that it ties some things together as a prequel but for me there were just too many mistakes in that film, and quite frankly the fright factor they use is so bland and expected. I found no suspense whatsoever. If I were to grade it, for me, on a 5 star scale I'd give it 2.
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Good thread.
I love GIANT SHARK movies. Not little jaws films, I mean the Megs! So I am definitely looking forward to this one. I'm expecting a good B-grade movie because nobody seems to be all that crafty with these ones.
Always up for a new horror. Hereditary was good, but could have been near perfect. If they only would have done their homework on the topic.
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Good thread.
I love GIANT SHARK movies. Not little jaws films, I mean the Megs! So I am definitely looking forward to this one. I'm expecting a good B-grade movie because nobody seems to be all that crafty with these ones.
Always up for a new horror. Hereditary was good, but could have been near perfect. If they only would have done their homework on the topic.
The Meg wasn't bad. Better than I expected. I wish it had a bigger death toll. I'm strange that way.
I still need to see Hereditary. I love horror movies. I cannot wait until the new Halloween comes out. Overlord too. 8)
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Okay saw The Nun on the Tuesday discount showing. Theater was backed and sold out half an hour before show time (thank goodness I got my tickets online hours before) I liked the characters, The lead actress sister (Vera) is one of my favorites and Taissa in this film held her own good, the priest was pretty likable and had some good moments, Frenchie was okay with comic relief.
Maybe because the reviews were so bad I was going on with low expectations but I didn't mind it. Certainly not as good as the Conjuring but not bad. I like the characters and some of the scenery is scary. Spooky nuns give me the creeps.
Hereditary was on my watch list but never ended up going. Will probably watch it when it runs on demand
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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.
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The Equalizer 2 -- i've started it twice but haven't been able to finish. I cant get into it. Maybe I need to watch Equalizer 1 first.
That's all the current movies I recall seeing. Maybe ill watch Nun or Sicario tonight.
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Okay saw The Nun on the Tuesday discount showing. Theater was backed and sold out half an hour before show time (thank goodness I got my tickets online hours before) I liked the characters, The lead actress sister (Vera) is one of my favorites and Taissa in this film held her own good, the priest was pretty likable and had some good moments, Frenchie was okay with comic relief.
Maybe because the reviews were so bad I was going on with low expectations but I didn't mind it. Certainly not as good as the Conjuring but not bad. I like the characters and some of the scenery is scary. Spooky nuns give me the creeps.
Hereditary was on my watch list but never ended up going. Will probably watch it when it runs on demand
I think I'll probably wait until the Nun comes to video. My wife probably won't go see it with me anyway as she doesn't like to watch horror films as much as she used to. The Conjuring films are fun but in retrospect the 1st one didn't cover the Peron haunting the way it should have. There were plenty of true events left out that would have made the original film even scarier. No need to fictionalize it with the "exorcism" which didn't happen. The 2nd film was a disappointment for me. The Nun character was completely fictional and the Warrens were hardly even involved in the original Enfield case. They spent a weekend in England checking it out but that was it. There were better stories from the Warren case files to use.
Now the nun movie I'm waiting for is Paul Verhoeven's Benedetta coming in 2019. That promises to anger the Catholic Church. Unfortunately, it is being filmed in French but I'll get over it.
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Nun 2018. It's a thriller set in post war Romania. The story line is that a nun at an abbaye in the carpathian region of Romania suicided. Sur round ing her death are rumours of demoniac activity. The Vatican senDS a priest and an apprentice Nun to investigate.
The director put some thought into filming it--much more than most other summer releases. The trip to the abbé and parts the soundtrack are Reminesent of Werner Herzog's 1978 master piece Nosferatu.
The writing is better than average. Also un its favor is the fact that it is not a remake or sequel--It's not Batman 67.
What’s not working for me is the fact that I had to take a break from watching it and surf the web. It’s not compelling enough to devote my full attention to it. Unfortunately it's not a multi-tasker either. Too many subtle things you'll miss if you don't pay attention. It requires some thinking too.
Im about half way through. Ill go clean my apartment a bit and make another hot toddy and get back to it.
It wouldn't be fair to rate it until I finish, but it’s definitely one of the better films this summer.
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Forgot to mention I watched BlacKkKlansman when if first came out a few weeks ago. IT was a little preachy at times but overall fun. It was pretty wild seeing the geeky guy from That 70s Show playing David Duke
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IT was a little preachy at times
Preachy, may I assume you're talking about, white guilt? Spike's pretty big on that stuff.
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Forgot to mention I watched BlacKkKlansman when if first came out a few weeks ago. IT was a little preachy at times but overall fun. It was pretty wild seeing the geeky guy from That 70s Show playing David Duke
That's the major problem I have with new shows especially new tv programs. They get preachy pushing agendas. I don't watch new TV shows anymore because of it save for a few shows out of Great Britain.
New movies aren't as bad because it means bad box office if they get too preachy. Still, I'm watching fewer and fewer new movies. I like very few actors now and I'm not that old. Jeremy Renner is good but he's the exception for the most part. Ryan Reynolds is good as Deadpool but I don't like him in anything else.
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Preachy, may I assume you're talking about, white guilt? Spike's pretty big on that stuff.
I can't stand preachy movies. I saw the movie Crash 10 years ago and was disgusted by the preaching. Never again. Cant believe that abortion of a film won an Oscar. Bareback Mountain was a million times better.
I guess I should skip the klansman movie .
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That's the major problem I have with new shows especially new tv programs. They get preachy pushing agendas. I don't watch new TV shows anymore because of it save for a few shows out of Great Britain.
New movies aren't as bad because it means bad box office if they get too preachy. Still, I'm watching fewer and fewer new movies. I like very few actors now and I'm not that old. Jeremy Renner is good but he's the exception for the most part. Ryan Reynolds is good as Deadpool but I don't like him in anything else.
Amen. When I check to see what new movies are showing, much more often than not, it usually just gives me a reason to stay home and watch something on TCM or pop-in a DVD. These days, when the so-called critics are falling all over themselves praising a movie, it's usually because it's pushing some social engineering agenda. And I'm not into the never-ending comic super hero movies, either. ::)
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I was divided to watch Searching or A Simple Favor . Taking F&B advice I avoided Searching and went with Simple Favor
A Simple Favor is certainly falls into more of a chick movie. I do like Anna Kendrick which help me sell on this movie. It's a bit of a mystery flick with some comedy sprinkled in. It wasn't too bad, I actually enjoyed it
Hope i didn't scare too many people away from BlacKkKlansman. The preachiness I mentioned wasn't too strong, I would say it's a decent rental
Last weekend Box office Sep 14-16
1 The Predator (2018) $24,632,284
2 The Nun $18,238,263
3 A Simple Favor $16,011,689
4 White Boy Rick $8,860,431
5 Crazy Rich Asians $8,688,369
6 Peppermint $6,004,227
7 The Meg $3,862,851
8 Searching $3,179,538
9 Mission: Impossible Fallout $2,285,225
10 Unbroken: Path to Redemption $2,238,723
LOL the Nun is ridiculous they are at $88 Million total on a 22 Million budget lol. Predator kind of flopped even though it is first place only making $24.5M on a 88M movie it doesn't look like it will break even in NA.
Coming out this weekend [Rotten Tomatoes rating)
-House with a clock in it's wall [65%]
-Fahrenheit 11 9 [80%] (which I am sure will be very popular around here lol)
-Assassination Nation [68%]
-Life Itself [14%]
-The Sisters Brothers [84%]
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Sicario - It's about average. Never ending shooting and kidnapping . No character development . The girl's accent sounded more So Cal Chicana than Mexican. Slow and predictable in a bad way.
UFO -- pretty good. The best alien contact movie in a few years.
Sierra Burgess is a Loser -- another enjoy able movie. A coming of age story of a misfit girl . Probably meant for teenagers.
Uncle Drew - a comedy. Good over all. Funny jokes, but cheesy at times.
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Tag - Comedy. Good to have on in the background. So stupid it was funny. I liked it.
Unfriended - Computer thriller. It required reading, but it was interesting enough I enjoyed it.
A prayer before dawn -- a good prison box ing movie
Fifty Shades of ***** - every release is lame. Painful to watch--painfully boring. Not sure who the target audience is, but it seems like something a sexuallly unsatisfied or midlife crises housewife would like.
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Beginning Purge 2018 -- This is a prequel to the Purge movies. The good about it : the social commentary (class divide) is valid. It struggles not to be preachy. It is Reminesent of the early 1970s Escape from the Bronx or whatever it is called.
It has a couple of problems. They ruin it. It was basically a non-stop shoot out. The plot was simple as it gets: Don't die. There was no character development. You end up neither liking nor hating anybody.
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Tag - Comedy. Good to have on in the background. So stupid it was funny. I liked it.
Unfriended - Computer thriller. It required reading, but it was interesting enough I enjoyed it.
A prayer before dawn -- a good prison box ing movie
Fifty Shades of ***** - every release is lame. Painful to watch--painfully boring. Not sure who the target audience is, but it seems like something a sexuallly unsatisfied or midlife crises housewife would like.
Even movies that are supposed to be erotic are boring now. There was stronger stuff than this in Emmanuelle and the Story of O in the 70's. One of my favorites is The Lickerish Quartet.
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Even movies that are supposed to be erotic are boring now. There was stronger stuff than this in Emmanuelle and the Story of O in the 70's. One of my favorites is The Lickerish Quartet.
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it sounds like interesting stuff, but Im kind of scared of 1970s porn. It’s hairy. And raunchy like the Taboo series. The Caligula film with Peter OToole was kind of cool because it was so unusual and had histoRical accuracy. It didn't work for me as erotica because of all the hair.
I'll try the lickerish quartet. If Andy Warhol endorsed it, it must be some thing unusual. I liked some of his experimental films.
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it sounds like interesting stuff, but Im kind of scared of 1970s porn because what I ve seen is too hairy. And raunchy like the Taboo series. The Caligula film with Peter OToole was kind of cool because it was so unusual and had histoRical accuracy. It didn't work for me as erotica because of all the hair.
I'll try the lickerish quartet. If Andy Warhol endorsed it, it must be some thing unusual. I liked some of his experimental films.
It's not hard porn. Plus the storyline is half-decent. That's the problem with erotica/porn today. It is either too soft and boring like 50 shades or if it is hard core, there is hardly a plot and all they do is grind. There is more to sex than grinding. It is the foreplay that provides a lot of the erotic thrills.
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The mountain 2 , 2018-- It's a war movie set in the Middle east. One of the actors looks like Tom Cruise. 5 minutes into it and I realise it's a Serbian or something movie with english subtitles.
I like to have a movie on in the background while I do something productive. I can't do that with subtitles. If I want to read for the next two hours I will read a book. Subtitles make me angry.
Finding Elaine or whatever it was 2018. -- genetic kidnapping and escaping in the desert and fleeing captors story. Been told 100 times before by better screenwriters. This was mediocre . Not worth watching.
Leave no Trace 2018 -- a story about a homeless man and daughter living in the woods in forest park in Portland, Oregon. Touching and well done story.
A Small Favor 2018 - a murder mystery and love triangle. Well done, but it is not my thing.
Mandy 2018 -- it has nicholas cage. Non-standard plot structure. Full of dream sequences and hallucinations. Repetitive . Looks like Twinkie Peaks or some David Lynch film. Other than Dune 1984, i dont like anything Lynch did. Difficult to follow if it's on on the background. Not I interesting enough to sit and concentrate through two hours of it. Dreadful.
Eighth Grade 2018 - a story about an awkward eighth grade girl. It was done well. Easy to follow. Interesting enough to watch all the way to the end.
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There is more to sex than grinding. It is the foreplay that provides a lot of the erotic thrills.
That's tombstone engraving kind o' stuff right there. Forgive me, but you may have got me all worked Up.
EDIT;13 minutes later..
my wife says thank you ;D
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The mountain 2 , 2018-- It's a war movie set in the Middle east. One of the actors looks like Tom Cruise. 5 minutes into it and I realise it's a Serbian or something movie with english subtitles.
I like to have a movie on in the background while I do something productive. I can't do that with subtitles. If I want to read for the next two hours I will read a book. Subtitles make me angry.
Finding Elaine or whatever it was 2018. -- genetic kidnapping and escaping in the desert and fleeing captors story. Been told 100 times before by better screenwriters. This was mediocre . Not worth watching.
Leave no Trace 2018 -- a story about a homeless man and daughter living in the woods in forest park in Portland, Oregon. Touching and well done story.
A Small Favor 2018 - a murder mystery and love triangle. Well done, but it is not my thing.
Mandy 2018 -- it has nicholas cage. Non-standard plot structure. Full of dream sequences and hallucinations. Repetitive . Looks like Twinkie Peaks or some David Lynch film. Other than Dune 1984, i dont like anything Lynch did. Difficult to follow if it's on on the background. Not I interesting enough to sit and concentrate through two hours of it. Dreadful.
Eighth Grade 2018 - a story about an awkward eighth grade girl. It was done well. Easy to follow. Interesting enough to watch all the way to the end.
Been on the fence about watching Leave No Trace, but you've tipped me over that fence. I'll check it out
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Been on the fence about watching Leave No Trace, but you've tipped me over that fence. I'll check it out
It’s my favorite movie I've seen in a while. One thing that stood out was the authenticity. The casting was excellent. The characters were believable. The actors looked and acted the way people in Oregon really act. Kind of rare. It worked well with the story . This opposed to Hollywood dress-up characters who look like Hollywood people performing a role for a camera.
It was also fun seeing it set in the woods where I used to jog, on the tram I used to take to work, the hospital campus on Marquam hill where I used to work
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Didn't go to the movies this past week (been super busy, haven't even had a chance to get on here much) This week it's a toss up with Fahrenheit 11/9 or Mandy. I know what I am going to get with F11/9 but I heard Mandy is Nick Crazy in full crazy mode which might be fun. I see F&B didn't like it but I always like movies that are a little different and messed up and you seem to describe it as that. Still not sure probably wait for Tuesday discount day
Last weekend Box office Sep 21-23 Weekend - Total - Budget
1 The House With A Clock In Its Walls $26,608,020 (New) 42M
2 A Simple Favor $10,252,206 (32.5M) 20M
3 The Nun $9,965,635 (101M) 22M
4 The Predator (2018) $9,176,459 (41M) 88M
5 Crazy Rich Asians $6,346,641 (159M) 30M
6 White Boy Rick $4,857,655 (17.5M) 29M
7 Peppermint $3,684,122 (30.5M) 25M
8 Fahrenheit 11/9 $3,008,563 (New) 4.5M
9 The Meg $2,265,438 (140M) 130M
10Searching $2,150,829 (23M) 6M
I love the story of the Nun.. Horrible reviews but still making over a $100 Million domestic hitting almost 5x it budget. On the other hand tis new Predator was a mistake, weak opening and a huge second weekend drop already falling behind Simple Favor (who opened on the same weekend) and Nun (who is on it's third weekend) It's look like it will just get over half their budget. Speaking of stinkers Life Itself from the creator of the popular TV show This is us, didn't make the top ten, finishing 11th with $2.1 M weekend, (on a $10M Budget) it was Amazon Studio biggest theater release in their history and it turned out to be the second worst wide release (2500+ theaters) movie since 1982 (last years " Friend Request" was the worst with 2M in opening weekend)
Out this weekend [Rotten Tomatoes rating)
-Night School [30%]
-Smallfoot [69%]
-Hell Fest [35%]
-The Old Man & the Gun [88%]
-Black '47 [74%]
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Dawnseeker 2018 -- a foreign sci fi movie. Definitely a B movie. It was filmed at a historic site at the ruins of a fortress in the woods. It looks like some former eastern block country like croatia. The plot was vague and hard to follow . Most of the movie was like watching a 2 hour paintball battre. The actors looked like they were having fun, mostly. I didn't enjoy it.
Toybox 2018-- horror. A family drives off in the RV from Breaking Bad to spend the weekend in the desert . The grand pa is proud of the RV because he just bought it second hand for a bargain . At first it
Shows promise. It reminds me of the Hills Have Eyes. But it quickly goes down hill with too many Pointless Evil Entity attacks. The PEE attacks start to kill off the family . The ending is predictable.
Little Italy 2018 -- Italian families own competing pizzarias. They are havîng a feud but the son and daughter of the rival families start dating. I rate it 6/10. It's not bad but it’s not interesting either.
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The mountain 2 , 2018-- It's a war movie set in the Middle east. One of the actors looks like Tom Cruise. 5 minutes into it and I realise it's a Serbian or something movie with english subtitles.
I like to have a movie on in the background while I do something productive. I can't do that with subtitles. If I want to read for the next two hours I will read a book. Subtitles make me angry.
Finding Elaine or whatever it was 2018. -- genetic kidnapping and escaping in the desert and fleeing captors story. Been told 100 times before by better screenwriters. This was mediocre . Not worth watching.
Leave no Trace 2018 -- a story about a homeless man and daughter living in the woods in forest park in Portland, Oregon. Touching and well done story.
A Small Favor 2018 - a murder mystery and love triangle. Well done, but it is not my thing.
Mandy 2018 -- it has nicholas cage. Non-standard plot structure. Full of dream sequences and hallucinations. Repetitive . Looks like Twinkie Peaks or some David Lynch film. Other than Dune 1984, i dont like anything Lynch did. Difficult to follow if it's on on the background. Not I interesting enough to sit and concentrate through two hours of it. Dreadful.
Eighth Grade 2018 - a story about an awkward eighth grade girl. It was done well. Easy to follow. Interesting enough to watch all the way to the end.
Check out The Straight Story and The Elephant Man for some good storytelling by Lynch. He's capable but likes to spend most of his time basking in weirdness.
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The latest "Halloween" reboot looks promising. Trying not to watch trailers or read about it. One never knows but I'm a sucker for that franchise even though a few have been absolutely terrible and I worry in this day and age that it will be pushing social agendas and lots of #metoo and 'empowerment,' but certainly Laurie has been through a lot. But maybe not and it will be done in a good way.
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The latest "Halloween" reboot looks promising. Trying not to watch trailers or read about it. One never knows but I'm a sucker for that franchise even though a few have been absolutely terrible and I worry in this day and age that it will be pushing social agendas and lots of #metoo and 'empowerment,' but certainly Laurie has been through a lot. But maybe not and it will be done in a good way.
I'm looking forward to the new Halloween as well. Keep in mind that this is written as the true sequel to the first. Just ignore everything else that came after.
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I'm looking forward to the new Halloween as well. Keep in mind that this is written as the true sequel to the first. Just ignore everything else that came after.
I was just thinking of you. I am sipping some Earl Grey Iced tea. Did you ever try making it?
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Check out The Straight Story and The Elephant Man for some good storytelling by Lynch. He's capable but likes to spend most of his time basking in weirdness.
I'll watch them. Thanks.
Nappily Ever After 2018 , director : Haifaa al-Monsour , with Halle Berry
The main character has been raised to keep herself perfectly groomed and done up. Since childhood, her mother has insisted she keep her hair straightened. . She’s itching for her boyfriend to propose and wants babies.
One day, her boyfriend announces that he wants to tell her something at a dinner. Hoping for a marriage proposa, she gets her hair done , but something goes wrong at the hair salon and ruins her hair.
Later that day, her boyfriend refuses to propose. There is a break up, and she evaluates her life priorities.
It's a chick flick and not a bad one. If your girlfriend or wife insists on a chick flicj on movie night, this might be a good choice. rate it 7/10.
Hotel Artemis 2018. Director Drew Pearce, with Jodie Foster. Near future sci fi.
During the LA riots of 2018, a bank robber steals something from the wrong person. The drama unfolds in a safe house operated by and for outlaws. It’s staffed by people who have left lmainstream society, including the medics.
The premise is more original, but it's weak on character development. It uses too many fight scenes as filler. If I want to watch a fake fight, I'll play a video game.
7/10.
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I was just thinking of you. I am sipping some Earl Grey Iced tea. Did you ever try making it?
Well look at you thinking of me while drinking my favorite tea! :-* ;D ;) Ya know, I don't think I have. :-\ I rarely drink iced teas. I would try it though.
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Oh. I am looking forward to seeing Hell Fest too. I heard it does justice to the 80's slasher flicks. Love that stuff. 8)
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12th Man 2017. Director Harald Zwart. Norway
Not the most current movie, but this is how long it has taken to to force myself to watch it all the way through since seeing the beginning when it was released.
It's a WWII action movie about Norwegian guerrelas. A band of 12 of them sabotage a Nazi camp and all but 1 are caught. The 12th hidzs in the coun try side.
This might have been an enjoyable film except for a couple of deal breakers. First, the opening scene is in English and for a minute, it’s looking promising. But then a black screen flashes up and there's a page of text to read. Then it goes back to the film. Okay. It was just the introduction. I start puttering around the apartment cleaning . But then it goes back and for th to text 6 more times. Annoying would be an understatement.
Second, the director blew it with the use of foreign languages in a film I assume is meant for an international and mostly englush market. They spent too much money producing it than can be recuperated in Norwegian theatres. During the next 2 hours, it’s subtitle hell. Dialogue is in German, Norwegian, and Saami. The same thing is ruining Game of Thorns . Nobody wants to sit through an hour of dialogue in Dothraki.
I appreciate the effort to make it look authenticity, but it stops there. Supposedl'y it's in a famine, but everyone is well-fed to the point of chubby. It's supposed to be extreme poverty and a blockade, but everyone has off fresh new clothes and everyone is clean.
Rambo First Blood II was more convincing. The director could learn a lesson in realis tic dialogue in a foreign language by watching Rambo. First line of the scene is subtit led. Atmosphere has been established. Rest of scene is English and everyone is happy.
As it is, it’s about as good as any of the Danish language murder mysteries that PBS is crapflooding their network with.
6/10
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Oh. I am looking forward to seeing Hell Fest too. I heard it does justice to the 80's slasher flicks. Love that stuff. 8)
I'll definitely end up seeing that. Hell Fest! Sounds like a death metal festival..
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Check out The Straight Story and The Elephant Man for some good storytelling by Lynch. He's capable but likes to spend most of his time basking in weirdness.
I liked Mulholland Drive, it's pretty confusing but the art snob in me liked it lol. Looking at his box office, Lynch really doesn't have much box office success at all
I didn't get to see anything this week also :-[ Everybody in my circle was kinda lazy and I didn't want to go alone. I wanted to go see Mandy, nobody seemed up for it :( I really should be able to go to movies on my own, I used to do that a bit but I stopped.
I am guessing won't have much problem having somebody to go watch Haloween, I have had a couple of people already showing interest in going to see that.
Last weekend Box office Sep 28-30 Weekend - Total - Budget
1 Night School $27,257,615 (New) 29M
2 Smallfoot $23,045,635 (New) 80M
3 The House With A Clock In Its Walls $12,605,120 (45M) 42M
4 A Simple Favor $6,540,666 (43M) 20M
5 The Nun $5,428,875 (109M) 22M
6 Hell Fest $5,130,963 (New) 5.5M
7 Crazy Rich Asians $4,102,788 (166M) 30M
8 The Predator (2018) $3,860,826 (48M) 88M
9 White Boy Rick $2,402,240 (21.5M) 29M
10Peppermint $1,766,458 (33.5M) 25M
Seems like a pretty uneventful week. Night school did good for a medium size comedy, Smallfoot box office looks week but sometimes these animation has better longivity. Hellfest did fine as a low budgeet thriller. Nun kicking butt with 5x it's box office, while Predator looks like it's going to take a bath. Everybody else seems to be breaking even except WhiteBoy Rick which will lose money
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I liked Mulholland Drive, it's pretty confusing but the art snob in me liked it lol. Looking at his box office, Lynch really doesn't have much box office success at all
I didn't get to see anything this week also :-[ Everybody in my circle was kinda lazy and I didn't want to go alone. I wanted to go see Mandy, nobody seemed up for it :( I really should be able to go to movies on my own, I used to do that a bit but I stopped.
I am guessing won't have much problem having somebody to go watch Haloween, I have had a couple of people already showing interest in going to see that.
Last weekend Box office Sep 28-30 Weekend - Total - Budget
1 Night School $27,257,615 (New) 29M
2 Smallfoot $23,045,635 (New) 80M
3 The House With A Clock In Its Walls $12,605,120 (45M) 42M
4 A Simple Favor $6,540,666 (43M) 20M
5 The Nun $5,428,875 (109M) 22M
6 Hell Fest $5,130,963 (New) 5.5M
7 Crazy Rich Asians $4,102,788 (166M) 30M
8 The Predator (2018) $3,860,826 (48M) 88M
9 White Boy Rick $2,402,240 (21.5M) 29M
10Peppermint $1,766,458 (33.5M) 25M
Seems like a pretty uneventful week. Night school did good for a medium size comedy, Smallfoot box office looks week but sometimes these animation has better longivity. Hellfest did fine as a low budgeet thriller. Nun kicking butt with 5x it's box office, while Predator looks like it's going to take a bath. Everybody else seems to be breaking even except WhiteBoy Rick which will lose money
I liked Mulholland Drive and Blue Velvet. They're never going to make any top 10 lists of mine or even top 100 lists for that matter but at least they were different from routine Hollywood fare. I have great respect for auteurs. Such filmmakers are relatively scarce in today's Hollywood environment. Seems like most movies come from a cookie cutter these days.
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Last weekend openings (rotten Tomato ratings)
-Venom [29%]
-A Star is Born [91%]
-Shine [not rated]
-The Hate U Gave [97%]
-Loving Pablo [31%]
Last weekend Box office Oct 5-7 Weekend - Total - Budget
1 Venom $80,255,756 (New) 100M
2 A Star is Born $42,908,051 (New) 36M
3 Smallfoot $14,402,559 (42.5M) 80M
4 Night School $12,514,925 (47M) 29M
5 The House With A Clock In Its Walls $7,332,665 (55M) 42M
6 A Simple Favor $3,424,954 (49M) 20M
7 The Nun $2,703,281 (113M) 22M
8 Crazy Rich Asians $2,166,626 (169M) 30M
9 Hell Fest $2,083,759 (9M) 5.5M
10The Predator (2018) $947,358 (50M) 88M
Venom had horrible reviews but it didn't matter as it did great Box office. A Star is Born also did really well. Sayinig that, none of last weeks movies really interest me. But the weekend up coming up Bad Times at the El Royale has certainly caught my eye.
Out this weekend [Rotten Tomatoes rating]
-First Man [89%]
-Bad Times at the El Royale [75%]
-Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween [30%]
-Beautiful Boy [67%]
-The Happy Prince [73%]
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This weeks opening movies never got out of the starters blocks with disappointing numbers for both First Man and Bad Times at the El Royale both did poor opening weekend despite good reviews and even Goosebumps 2 did average at best numbers. The Hate U Give is doing well in limited release, if you look at per theater it would have been third behind Venom and Star is Born who are still dominatin. The Nun even in it's sixth week out is still holding on to a Top 10 spot
Weekend Box office Oct 12-14 Weekend - Total - Budget
1 Venom $35,006,107 (142M) 100M
2 A Star is Born $28,445,205 (94.5M) 36M
3 First Man $16,006,065 (New) 59M
4 Goosebumps 2 Haunted Halloween $15,802,225 (New) 35M
5 Smallfoot $9,066,837 (57.5M) 80M
6 Night School $7,751,255 (59.8M) 29M
7 Bad Times At The El Royale $7,132,647 (New) 32M
8 The House With A Clock In Its Walls $3,844,240 (62M) 42M
9 The Hate U Give $1,736,242 (2.5M) N/A
10 The Nun $1,345,355 (116M) 22M
Out of the Top ten I still want to see Bad times. It seems to have a Tarantino feel to it
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A Star is Born was very good. I'm not going to say it is the best version frankly I would give the nod to 1932's What Price Hollywood? with Constance Bennett, Lowell Sherman and Neil Hamilton. It is the same basic plot and William Wellman took it and wrote the first script and directed the first movie with the famous title in 1938.
The new version had a lot of ear candy riffs and I've got to give Bradley Cooper, Lukas Nelson (Willie's son) and Gaga nods for the great music. I got kind of tired of Cooper trying to sound like Sam Elliott but every performance was very good. I think Elliott probably deserves the Oscar for support. He's my favorite as of now. A solid 4 star effort and it more than holds its own with the other versions.
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Hello everyone! I just watched The Witch. It was pretty cool. Beautiful to watch. It's not new but I just can't stop thinking about it.
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Hello everyone! I just watched The Witch. It was pretty cool. Beautiful to watch. It's not new but I just can't stop thinking about it.
@PolkaDot, The Witch may be my favorite horror movie of recent years. Has great authenticity to it and seems realistic. It is very dark and may be not everyone's cuppa tea but I loved it. Of course I am the resident satyr so you can take my opinion with a grain of salt. ;) 4.5 stars.
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Of course I am the resident satyr so you can take my opinion with a grain of salt. ;) 4.5 stars.
Oh my! good to know. LOL
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@PolkaDot, The Witch may be my favorite horror movie of recent years. Has great authenticity to it and seems realistic. It is very dark and may be not everyone's cuppa tea but I loved it. Of course I am the resident satyr so you can take my opinion with a grain of salt. ;) 4.5 stars.
Seriously tho, there is a lot to that movie and it creates a great atmosphere. It reminds me a bit of Le Pacte des Loups (Brotherhood of the Wolf) which is one of my all time favorite movies ever.
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Holy crap somebody who actually watched Brotherhood of the Wolf lol. I saw that when it out 15 years ago. I need to check it out again. I remember liking it but I also just remember it vaguely.
I absolutely need to watch The Witch this Halloween season. I keep hearing very good things about it
Speaking of Halloween...
This Weekends Opening (Rotten Tomato ratings)
-Halloween [87%]
-The Old Man & the Gun [89%] - wide Release
-The Hate U Give [97%] - Wide Release
-The Sisters Brothers [85%]
-Wildlife [98%]
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Holy crap somebody who actually watched Brotherhood of the Wolf lol. I saw that when it out 15 years ago. I need to check it out again. I remember liking it but I also just remember it vaguely.
Yes, an oldy but a goody. I really adore it.
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Tonight I watched The Little Hours. It was pretty great. A little dark, super funny, and even some romance.
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I saw the new Halloween Friday night. When I first heard this movie was being made as a sequel to the original I was excited. I tempered my expectations going into this one but still was eager, hoping for a reinvention of the classic since we are supposed to disregard all other sequels. I must say that I was somewhat disappointed overall. Most of the cast was awful. Laurie Strode was a little over the top, IMO. It was cool seeing a glimpse of Michael Myers' face (without the mask) portrayed by the original actor. Grey hair and some wrinkles. However being 40 years older didn't prevent him from being an killing machine with still impressive strength.
This movie should've been 20 minutes longer so they could fill in more of a family dynamic between Laurie and her daughter and granddaughter. In addition to Michael's 40 years in captivity. These story lines just seemed to brief and generic. There were segments of the original 'part two' that were copied and adapted, but to me not as they should've been. There also was a big WTF moment that I'm still trying to process. We waited for the credits to end because most of the movies now put out post-credit scenes so we expected some kind of teaser. Well, there was something at the end but I don't want to spoil it.
This movie was underwhelming. If it only had some more meat on it's bones so to speak. I'll be generous and give it 3 of 5 stars.
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Thank you for the review Shay, I couldn't get to the movies this week, Halloween was really the only one that caught my eye from the new releases along with Bad times... I always have an awkward moment during the end credits in not knowing if I should go with the rest of the people or stay, I personally like to stay. even though the theater normally clears out quick
Weekend Box office Oct 19-21 Weekend - Total - Budget
1 Halloween $76,221,545 (79M) 10M
2 A Star is Born $19,051,082 (126M) 36M
3 Venom $18,043,887 (171M) 100M
4 Goosebumps 2 Haunted Halloween $9,721,173 (29M) 35M
5 First Man $8,327,135 (30M) 59M
6 The Hate U Give $7,602,108 (10.5M) 23M
7 Smallfoot $6,576,876 (66.5M) 80M
8 Night School $4,892,515 (67M) 29M
9 Bad Times At The El Royale $3,420,067 (13.5M) 32M
10The Old Man & The Gun $2,134,481 (4.5M) 16M
Wow Halloween did 7x it's budget on the opening week alone. I am surprised how low a budget it was, even for a horror film .
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i haven't seen any current movies.. i wait til they come to cable or netflix :)
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i haven't seen any current movies.. i wait til they come to cable or netflix :)
i watched the haunting of hill house.. on netflix ten part series.. it was scary good.. :)
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The Haunting of Hill House - the original 1963 film is one of my fave films of all time.
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The Haunting of Hill House - the original 1963 film is one of my fave films of all time.
yes, but the series is very different and even Stephen King said "it was close to a masterpiece"..if you have netflix, give it a look.... :) @DynamoHum
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yes, but the series is very different and even Stephen King said "it was close to a masterpiece"..if you have netflix, give it a look.... :) @DynamoHum
Watched first ep last night in fact!
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The Haunting of Hill House - the original 1963 film is one of my fave films of all time.
Mine too.
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I watched Alpha about a young prehistoric man and the wolf he transforms into his faithful companion. Very touching film and if you love animals, you'll like this one. Beautiful cinematography dominates.
4 stars.
Also saw Peppermint which is basically a female version of Death Wish starring Jennifer Garner. I enjoyed it but it was rather routine. 2.75 stars.
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Thank you for the review Shay, I couldn't get to the movies this week, Halloween was really the only one that caught my eye from the new releases along with Bad times... I always have an awkward moment during the end credits in not knowing if I should go with the rest of the people or stay, I personally like to stay. even though the theater normally clears out quick.
You're welcome. So you do plan on seeing it? Would like to see your feedback. 8)
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I might, I usually go on Tuesdays unless something I really want to see and can't wait and go on the weekend
i haven't seen any current movies.. i wait til they come to cable or netflix :)
That is cool to talk about here, current could also mean current-ish ;D
This Weekends Opening (Rotten Tomato ratings)
-Johnny English Strikes Back [32%]
-Hunter Killer [36%]
-Mid90s [78%]
-Indivisible [64%]
-Suspiria [69%]
Okay I watched the original Johnny English, and I laughed. I don't think it has the following here like they do overseas. It might be in my Top 3 movies out that is on my possible watch list (along with Halloween and Bad times... )
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Ahh Johnny English didn't even make the Top 10 total, even though it did open in limited release and did pretty good if you look at "money per theater" finishing 4th in average per theater (Behind Halloween, A Star is Born and another limited release Beautiful Boy) . Not much change in the Top 4 total numbers this past week.
Last Weekend Box Office Oct 26-28 Weekend - Total - Budget
1 Halloween $31,419,070 (126M) 10M
2 A Star is Born $14,037,079 (149M) 36M
3 Venom $10,652,381 (187M) 100M
4 Goosebumps 2 Haunted Halloween $7,284,207 (38M) 35M
5 Hunter Killer $6,653,777 (New) 13M
6 The Hate U Give $5,101,859 (18.5M) 23M
7 First Man $4,865,575 (38M) 59M
8 Smallfoot $4,761,614 (72.5M) 80M
9 Night School $3,236,025 (71.5M) 29M
10Mid90s $2,980,505 (New) N/A
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This Weekends Opening (Rotten Tomato ratings)
-Bohemian Rhapsody [59%]
-The Nutcracker and the Four Realms [34%]
-Nobody's Fool [24%]
-Boy Erased [85%]
-Bodied [88%]
Last Weekend Box Office Oct 26-28 Weekend - Total - Budget
1 Bohemian Rhapsody $51,061,119 (New) 52M
2 The Nutcracker and the Four Realms $20,352,491 (New) 130M
3 Nobody's Fool $13,743,111 (New) 19M
4 A Star is Born $11,003,083 (166M) 36M
5 Halloween $10,830,865 (150M) 10M
6 Venom $7,877,174 (199M) 100M
7 Smallfoot $3,861,672 (77.5M) 80M
8 Goosebumps 2 Haunted Halloween $3,773,720 (44M) 35M
9 Hunter Killer $3,528,129 (13M) 13M
10The Hate U Give $3,353,422 (23.5M) 23M
Who knew there was so many Freddy Mercury fans, a huge opening for Bohemian Rhapsody. On the other end The Nutcracker was a box office disaster, $20 Million on a $130 Million budget, I doubt they will make half of their budget back
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Saw Overlord today. It was a good flick. I won't critique it like I did Halloween, but all I will say is there are no post credit scenes. So when it's over, just leave. :D
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Can somebody please watch a new horror movie called, The Dark. Would you then please tell me WTF you make of the ending....? It's a great film, very well done. Perhaps we're not meant to understand it and make up our own minds. Mildly annoyed but I will watch it again.
Should you do this and report back please tag me, I want to know what you think. It is worth the watching but you to WILL have questions.
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This Weekends Opening (Rotten Tomato ratings)
-The Grinch [55%]
-Overlord [80%]
-Beautiful Boy [69%]
-The Girl in the Spider's Web [43%]
-The Ballad of Buster Scruggs [93%] - Netflix
This Weekend Box Office Nov 9-11 Weekend - Total - Budget
1 Dr. Seuss' The Grinch (2018) $67,572,855 (New) 75M
2 Bohemian Rhapsody $31,201,568 (100M) 52M
3 Overlord $10,202,108 (New) 38M
4 The Nutcracker and the Four Realms $10,086,869 (36M) 120M
5 A Star is Born $8,105,163 (178M) 36M
6 The Girl in the Spider's Web $7,810,112 (New) 43M
7 Nobody's Fool $6,636,242 (24.5) 19M
8 Venom $4,915,378 (206M) 100M
9 Halloween $3,998,885 (157M) 10M
10The Hate U Give $2,051,363 (23.5M) 23M
Interesting to see how holiday remake The Grinch the pervious weeks holiday remake The Nutcracker in it's opening weekend the Grinch did almost double of the Nutcracker did in total of a fullweek+2nd weekend on a smaller budget.
For the newish movies, I watched a double hitter with Finding Nory (03) and Finding Dory (16). First I was really surprised they waited 13 years to do a sequal. I thought Nory was a better movie, but Dory is okay as well.
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Worth watching if the subject matter interests you.
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Is it a chick flick or more of a Sci Fi @HumanBeing?
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Is it a chick flick or more of a Sci Fi @HumanBeing?
I don't consider it a chick flick ;D
It seemed kinda of indie. But it wasn't anything that took away from the story.
But I really like this type of 'what if' scenario's with regarding parallel worlds.
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I don't consider it a chick flick ;D
It seemed kinda of indie. But it wasn't anything that took away from the story.
But I really like this type of 'what if' scenario's with regarding parallel worlds.
Checked it out last night. It seemed like a pretty good independent film. The endings last scene was good. Kind of reminded me of Doc coming back to get Marty in the beginning of Back to the Future II.
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Checked it out last night. It seemed like a pretty good independent film. The endings last scene was good. Kind of reminded me of Doc coming back to get Marty in the beginning of Back to the Future II.
@BartEllProducer
That's great. Sometimes these sorts are movies are a hit or miss. Glad you thought it was pretty good.
The tv show Counterpart is really good. Parallel worlds and how both worlds/govts are interacting with each other.
I can't wait for season 2 which is suppose to begin this Sunday. I'll wait until the whole season is out before watching though.
I'd definitely check that out if you have not. The main actor is excellent in his role.
Got sidetracked a bit with a tv show but keeping with the thread here are some other similar movies that are worth checking out.
Side by side IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes brief summary and ratings. But yeah ratings are not everything.
All 8 of these have some great entertainment value and will make you think.
Primer is really smartly done but complicated (at least for me and from what I read a lot of others - at least on the first viewing).
There are flowcharts out there on the web showing 'stuff' that goes on in this movie and how it all connects.
It is one of those movies that it is ok not to follow every little detail, don't get frustrated by that, it is the way it is meant to be. Watching it a few times the brilliance of it comes out.
They had a budget of 7k and made about 850k at the box office. Nice return on investment.
"Roger Ebert declaring: "The movie never looks cheap, because every shot looks as it must look." "
That is not my overall favorite in the list though but this post is already a huge wall.
If you have any movies of similar subject matter please let me know. I rarely watch movies. But when I do these type of movies are my jam :D
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The movie series Kevin Costner dropped Yellowstone to make.
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Wow it's nice to see this thread come up again. Double nice to look back at movies people recommend and that I watched recently and understand yeah it was good
First off Coherence (2013) some background, I am a big fan of the app "JustWatch" you can put your watch/seen list on it, there's also a feature that lists movies from streaming services you list that you use (free or paid) and will give you different options on how to list them for you. I like trending or popular (which I think it's about the same thing) so I see this in the Top 50 and I ignored it, weeks after I go back and make another watch list and I see this movie is still in the Top 50 and I wondered "What is this movie?". It's a decade old, I never heard of it, don't know any of the actors. It's a low budget movie (50K budget of five day filming) and it was in limited release (100k) not a bad return, must have had good word of mouth.
I was shocked how good it was, sure it looked like it was filmed with one camera and the acting was seemed like it was done in one or two takes and "go with it improvisation" but it was good. It was about time-bending and multiverse which seems the rage now in a lot of movies but for a small movie ten years ago it was pretty ahead of it's time. It's on a lot of streaming service both paid (PrimeVideo/Peacock) and free (Tubi/Pluto)
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''You mean like Friends''?
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Wow it's nice to see this thread come up again. Double nice to look back at movies people recommend and that I watched recently and understand yeah it was good
First off Coherence (2013) some background, I am a big fan of the app "JustWatch" you can put your watch/seen list on it, there's also a feature that lists movies from streaming services you list that you use (free or paid) and will give you different options on how to list them for you. I like trending or popular (which I think it's about the same thing) so I see this in the Top 50 and I ignored it, weeks after I go back and make another watch list and I see this movie is still in the Top 50 and I wondered "What is this movie?". It's a decade old, I never heard of it, don't know any of the actors. It's a low budget movie (50K budget of five day filming) and it was in limited release (100k) not a bad return, must have had good word of mouth.
I was shocked how good it was, sure it looked like it was filmed with one camera and the acting was seemed like it was done in one or two takes and "go with it improvisation" but it was good. It was about time-bending and multiverse which seems the rage now in a lot of movies but for a small movie ten years ago it was pretty ahead of it's time. It's on a lot of streaming service both paid (PrimeVideo/Peacock) and free (Tubi/Pluto)
Coherence is an amazing movie.
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On Thursday afternoon I took the time to stop the madness and close the shades, make some popcorn (microwave) and watch the latest Godzilla/King Kong movie.
I really enjoyed this one however, my suspicions/fears were solidified. They have taken all the grit out of this movie as they try to pick up all those who have sworn off Disney and Marvel being that both are in the toilet. This means that Godzilla X Kong: The New Empire is basically family friendly with a PG rating. That said, it was very well done. Looked amazing and sounded incredibly. This is one that needs a big screen and worthy sound system to be properly enjoyed.
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all those who have sworn off Disney and Marvel being that both are in the toilet.
Toilet?
Sounds like a gaggle of prissy little butt sniffing losers are afraid of Marvel Jesus.
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Toilet?
Sounds like a gaggle of prissy little butt sniffing losers are afraid of Marvel Jesus.
You come across so angry these days. C'mere you! :)
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You come across so angry these days. C'mere you! :)
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I made mistakes! I wanna take them back! You trusted me. I took that trust... and turned it into a glory hole in an airport bathroom. The one in Minneapolis. You know the one.
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I made mistakes! I wanna take them back! You trusted me. I took that trust... and turned it into a glory hole in an airport bathroom. The one in Minneapolis. You know the one.
You win an autographed book hot off the presses!
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