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Daddy's Home 2 - preposterous characters in ridiculous plot, yet somehow quite likeable (and no F-words!)
Ingrid Goes West - dark and disturbing not-comedy about cyber-stalker set on friendship with shallow instagram personality. Aubrey Plaze is excellent.
Ingrid Goes West - dark and disturbing not-comedy about cyber-stalker set on friendship with shallow instagram personality. Aubrey Plaze is excellent.
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Animated. Hubby kept insisting I watch it. It was okay, but, I like realistic movies.
Animated. Hubby kept insisting I watch it. It was okay, but, I like realistic movies.
Kong: Skull Island (2017)
meh. I liked some of it but this is really just the same recycled big budget monster movie story that I've seen before. With these big budget flicks, they use the same formula story and insert a different monster and add some new special effects. Most of the actors sleepwalk through this (except for John C. Reilly). Some of the action is good but this movie needed a better story.
meh. I liked some of it but this is really just the same recycled big budget monster movie story that I've seen before. With these big budget flicks, they use the same formula story and insert a different monster and add some new special effects. Most of the actors sleepwalk through this (except for John C. Reilly). Some of the action is good but this movie needed a better story.
Kill Theory
A medium horror movie. The killer has a goal; to prove that the choice he once made was a choice anyone could do. He killed three of his best friends in a daring mountain climb arguing that it was circumstances where pnly one could survive. He now traps 6 youths and good friends in a house giving them the option. After 7 am tomorrow i'll kill everyone but if only one lives by then i'll let him/her live. How soon until the friends turn on each other?
A medium horror movie. The killer has a goal; to prove that the choice he once made was a choice anyone could do. He killed three of his best friends in a daring mountain climb arguing that it was circumstances where pnly one could survive. He now traps 6 youths and good friends in a house giving them the option. After 7 am tomorrow i'll kill everyone but if only one lives by then i'll let him/her live. How soon until the friends turn on each other?
What do you mean by "medium" horror?
I meant basically that it was ok. Not original but going along a road that has been traveled on many times. But it stays ON the road. Does not lose control and end up in a ditch like some. It wont win any contests but works if you go along with its premise, the same that tons of other horrormovies has.
Battle Of The Sexes - Billy Jean King vs Robby Riggs tennis match: true, but so what?
Suburbicon - unfunny black comedy scripted by Coen Bros in their usual private joke mode
Suburbicon - unfunny black comedy scripted by Coen Bros in their usual private joke mode
Not that I’ve seen Surburbicon and not that anyone has to like the films of the Coen brothers, but from what I’ve read George Clooney made some major changes to the story. Apparently the election of Donald Trump so upset Mr Clooney that he decided he needed to make ‘an angry film’, and rather than come up with a new idea for this angry film he decided to bolt on a whole new storyline to the existing (almost 20 year old) Surburbicon script. The consensus of the critics is that it’s the two disparate storylines and the difference in tone between them that is the major cause of the film being such a mess.
Personally, the last film I saw was Baby Driver which was okay to damn it with faint praise. Not as good as I was led to believe but stylish and fun at least, the first half much stronger than the second. And obviously, there’s the whole Spacey thing as well.
The bolted on storyline is irrelevant to the main plot. It's not funny and isn't intended to be funny.
The main plot - assorted murders, ho ho ho - is clearly intended to be funny. It just isn't. Neither element is very good on its own, and bolting them together doesn't improve either.
I saw Justice League this afternoon.
It wasn't as bad as I expected, but nowhere near as good as it should have been. At least Superman made me smile this time. There's a great movie waiting for Henry Cavill, if only WB would do the right thing and put director Patty Jenkins in charge of Superman (as I said when I saw Wonder Woman earlier this year, if DC studios wants something done right, give it to a woman to handle). And I can't help but like Jason Momoa, even as an aquatic Rob Zombie. Ben Affleck is good as Bruce and would be such a terrific Batman if they didn't squeeze him into that ugly fat-suit (that costume was ugly when Frank Miller drew it in The Dark Knight Returns, and it's ugly now). Flash was the clichéd comic relief, even though the Barry Allen I grew up reading wasn't a teenage d*uche-bag. And nobody cares about Tinfoil Man.
Still, I'm puzzled. The best film of this year remains Andy Muschietti's adaptation of Stephen King's IT, a $35M R-rated horror film about a demonic sewer-dwelling creature that literally eats the flesh of children. With minimal advertising, it targeted the adult horror crowd, SK fans and those who grew up watching the mini-series. Not a terribly broad demographic as far as the film-going crowd is concerned. Yet a film about a bloody killer clown enjoyed stellar reviews, finally de-throned The Exorcist as the most profitable horror film, and blew through the box office with a final take-home of just under $700M, a number that's usually reserved for superhero films that play to all ages.
Which is why I don't understand how the hell DC keeps struggling at making good films that feature the biggest superheroes of all time. This thing was just plain mediocre. But the worst element was the villain Steppenwolf, a hopelessly clichéd CGI mess of a creature that was a discredit to actor Ciaran Hinds. I don't know which comic-book writer thought it was cool to name an alien warlord after a Classic-Rock band, but it was a stupid idea for the book and even stupider in the movie. What's our League of heroes going to do for the sequel? Come together to kick the bejesus out of Styx and Journey? I hope not, cause all those small town girls living in their lonely world will just stop believing. I nearly did.
Get your act together DC.
It wasn't as bad as I expected, but nowhere near as good as it should have been. At least Superman made me smile this time. There's a great movie waiting for Henry Cavill, if only WB would do the right thing and put director Patty Jenkins in charge of Superman (as I said when I saw Wonder Woman earlier this year, if DC studios wants something done right, give it to a woman to handle). And I can't help but like Jason Momoa, even as an aquatic Rob Zombie. Ben Affleck is good as Bruce and would be such a terrific Batman if they didn't squeeze him into that ugly fat-suit (that costume was ugly when Frank Miller drew it in The Dark Knight Returns, and it's ugly now). Flash was the clichéd comic relief, even though the Barry Allen I grew up reading wasn't a teenage d*uche-bag. And nobody cares about Tinfoil Man.
Still, I'm puzzled. The best film of this year remains Andy Muschietti's adaptation of Stephen King's IT, a $35M R-rated horror film about a demonic sewer-dwelling creature that literally eats the flesh of children. With minimal advertising, it targeted the adult horror crowd, SK fans and those who grew up watching the mini-series. Not a terribly broad demographic as far as the film-going crowd is concerned. Yet a film about a bloody killer clown enjoyed stellar reviews, finally de-throned The Exorcist as the most profitable horror film, and blew through the box office with a final take-home of just under $700M, a number that's usually reserved for superhero films that play to all ages.
Which is why I don't understand how the hell DC keeps struggling at making good films that feature the biggest superheroes of all time. This thing was just plain mediocre. But the worst element was the villain Steppenwolf, a hopelessly clichéd CGI mess of a creature that was a discredit to actor Ciaran Hinds. I don't know which comic-book writer thought it was cool to name an alien warlord after a Classic-Rock band, but it was a stupid idea for the book and even stupider in the movie. What's our League of heroes going to do for the sequel? Come together to kick the bejesus out of Styx and Journey? I hope not, cause all those small town girls living in their lonely world will just stop believing. I nearly did.
Get your act together DC.
Steppenwolf was first a book.
I know, but I doubt the writer who created him ever read Herman Hesse.
You mean Hesses book? Its not exactly about an alien warlord, is it. I can see how you honor a book by naming a band after it but i seriously doubt the filmmakers even heard of it.
“The Snowman” with Michael Fassbender. Actually saw it a couple of weeks ago but I still want my money back.....snooze fest.
Guys!
. People can surprise you! Even comic book people can be well read!My latest movie was it. You guys are distracting me! Just saw Everest, a movie about a climb to the top that went wrong in 1996. It was a rather exciting drama but did not explain the basic thing. Why the heck does so many people try to do. Its dangerous!! One mistake at the wrong altitude and you're toast basically. The question was asked but not answered but perhaps a dummy like me wont get it. One thing is certain. You will never catch me trying to climb a mountain. Walk in the mountains yes, climb no.
I think you answered your own question!