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Wayoftheredpanda

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At one of those drive in theatre events that are coming back into style in the event of indoor movie theaters being closed we saw Raiders of the Lost Ark. It's probably one of my most rewatched movies, I've seen it about 5 times now, and I love it to bits. This is mostly just going to be me going on a small tangent about the people there. I assume drive in theaters were a lot better back in the 50s and 60s before every car had a bunch of lights that would automatically turn on and stuff, because oh my lord somebody went into the car in front of us to get something and the backlights turned on and blared in our face. Not to mention the guy across from us seemed to let his car idle for the whole movie because it was constantly making noise, although it eventually became background noise.

My sister had never seen Raiders, and before all the most memorable scenes in the movie my brother was always telling her what was going to happen instead of just letting her watch it for herself. Pretty much doing the same thing as in this picture minus the cigarette and beer.
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Also there was a literal wasp nest hanging above one of the toilets, I could see the wasps sleeping inside it. Wack.

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I also decided to watch Temple of Doom the night after, as I had not seen it or any other Indiana Jones movies since I was 6. It wasn't bad, but not nearly as good as Raiders. A lot of people hate Short Round, but I personally found the female protagonist/love interest to be extremely unbearable, but that was probably 100% the point. One of the biggest problems I had was how forced the humor was in this one compared to the very natural humor that the first one had, with scenes dedicated to being funny that really fell flat for me, all the cheesy dialogue you could tell Harrison Ford was probably saying through clenched teeth. One more nitpick, during the last big scene with the bridge fight between the heroes and the pagan guys, the superimposing in a lot of the shots looked really cheap and not done very well. Again, I didn't hate this movie, there's just more to nitpick than there really is to say anything special about it. C
 

Wayoftheredpanda

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I tried to watch this new indie film that's getting a lot of praise called In the Vast of Night, I can't really review it because I walked out halfway through because of how much I didn't care for it, although my dad told me the rest was good. Might have to give it another shot. The first half was nothing but exposition, scenes that went on for way too long, and undecipherable dialogue way in need of redoing. This is a very low budget indie film, and I probably couldn't make much better, but I can only honestly say I didn't like what I watched.

Cape Fear (1991)- I didn't even know this was a remake of another film until after I watched it. It was pretty good, Robert De Niro plays a really entertaining, slightly over the top, antagonist with Max Cady. Unfortunately I pretty much knew what mostly was going to happen because of the iconic Simpson's episode that completely spoofs it with Sideshow Bob going after Bart. The film has a really good sense of escalation with Cady's increasingly violent actions against the main characters. I enjoyed it, B
 

Notaro

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Started watching Murder Manual, an anthology horror flick, eight segments at a aout 10 minutes each, got to segment three or four and switched it off, dull as dishwasher. Rewatched The Monster instead, started off as a drama about family dysfunction and morphs into a monster movie, decent, the two leads are good and it has a good original looking creature design.

 

kingricefan

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Watched Hostiles starring Christian Bale, Rosamund Pike and Wes Studi with a small supporting role for Timothee Chalemet. Set in 1892 it's the story of a legendary Army captain who reluctantly agrees to escort a dying Cheyenne war chief and his family back to tribal lands. Very beautifully filmed and the acting is spectacular. It's not like any western I've ever seen before, with an emphasis on the personal changes that many of the characters go through on this journey. Bale is wonderful here.
 

Edward John

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Watched Hostiles starring Christian Bale, Rosamund Pike and Wes Studi with a small supporting role for Timothee Chalemet. Set in 1892 it's the story of a legendary Army captain who reluctantly agrees to escort a dying Cheyenne war chief and his family back to tribal lands. Very beautifully filmed and the acting is spectacular. It's not like any western I've ever seen before, with an emphasis on the personal changes that many of the characters go through on this journey. Bale is wonderful here.
Excellent film.
 

Edward John

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Sin City: A Dame to Kill For (2014)
I remember catching it when it first came out, have not put it on since, this was surprisingly much better than I remembered. Not as good as the first but still pretty good considering that it was nearly a decade since the last one came out. The cast is excellent, Mickey Rourke, is there anything else to say? Bruce Willis also reutrns, albeit as a Ghost. Great classic noir style stories which are just completeley over the top, excellent. The new additions to the cast are great, Josh Brolin takes over as Dwight in this film, replacing Clive Russell, brillaint actors. Eva Green was excellent as well. Rodriguez and Miller do great as directors, I wish they would collaborate on something else. There is talk of a series, but I would love another film. The books of this series are excellent, I encourage you to check them out, great stuff. The new stories which Frank created for the film are pretty good as well, and the self titled story is a masterpiece.
 

Gerald

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I wonder: do customer services for companies work in real small groups right now? I often order blu-rays through various sites on internet - I prefer ordering from the distributors themselves as they put often more care into packaging and shipping than the big companies.
Right now several I ordered are extremely delayed, which is due to the pandemic of course. But even answering questions about it by e-mail takes them weeks sometimes. Would that be normal?
 

Edward John

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Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)
I have not checked this out since I caught it in the theatre but I thought I would give my opinion on it. Shockingly bad at points, what they did to John is unforgivable, completeley renders T2 as useless. The new cast is shocking, the chick that is running from the Terminator, what's her name again? Nobody cares I guess. Linda Hamilton is back, I just hate that she is back in such a terrible movie. Aronold is back, briefly, it's as though the producers were going to have a Terminator film and at the last moment realised that no one would go if Arnold wasn't back, so back he is. He was a drapes salesman, whaaat? I did like MacKenzie Davis though, I thought she was pretty good. The action was pointless and boring, too much CGI, the music was pretty good though. No explanation of any of this film, the random scenes in the future were pretty good right enough. Probably won't be getting another Terminator film, good, and I actually quite enjoyed Salvation right enough, but after this and Genisys ... nah.
 

Wayoftheredpanda

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Uncut Gems (2019): Wow, an actually good Adam Sandler movie. He certainly proves he's a great actor when he isn't doing half-assed comedies. Great movie, it was constantly hectic and a little hard to get into at first, but it really pays off. The last 30 minutes legitimately made me tense, not something that often happens when I watch movies, probably because I went into this almost blind. The main character is a stupid *******, but the movie does a good job at making you root for him in the end. Unfortunately my internet kinda gave up halfway through so the resolution got mutilated and I had to watch a vaguely pixelated version of the movie, not bad enough to where I couldn't tell what was going on, but enough to be annoying. I'd really recommend it if you don't mind an overabundance of yelling, cursing, and slurs.

Aliens (1986): James Cameron directs the more action-oriented adaptation to the 1979 horror classic. Although I didn't think it was as good as the original, it was still really good. The cast was pretty good and worked well together, and it had pretty good child acting. The Xenomorph Queen is an awesome feat of practical effect, and I like how she closes the gap on how the facehuggers are created in order to reproduce the Xenomorphs. Pretty good sci-fi action/horror.

Critters (1986): It was okay, I didn't expect much from it, but at the very least it was entertaining. Another 80s movie where cute, fuzzy monsters unleash havoc on a small town and kill people, as a result of the Gremlins craze (although, if I remember correctly, the crew behind this one insisted the script existed before Gremlins). The critter effects weren't bad, and they did have that perfect blend between cute and evil that they were probably achieving for. Some of the humor was decent, I liked the little subtitle conversations the critters had with each other while tearing up the house. I also thought the effect at the end where the house restores itself was kinda cool. As for criticisms, the bounty hunter plot was stupid and just felt like a plot device, and it just seemed to waste time more than anything, and they played that one original song on the soundtrack way too much. It also took way too long for the critters to start their rampage, which is bad when the movie is only 1 hour and 26 minutes long. Overall, not as bad as it could've been, and managed to be the fun little monster horror movie it probably aimed to be.
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fljoe0

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Uncut Gems (2019): Wow, an actually good Adam Sandler movie. He certainly proves he's a great actor when he isn't doing half-assed comedies. Great movie, it was constantly hectic and a little hard to get into at first, but it really pays off. The last 30 minutes legitimately made me tense, not something that often happens when I watch movies, probably because I went into this almost blind. The main character is a stupid *******, but the movie does a good job at making you root for him in the end. Unfortunately my internet kinda gave up halfway through so the resolution got mutilated and I had to watch a vaguely pixelated version of the movie, not bad enough to where I couldn't tell what was going on, but enough to be annoying. I'd really recommend it if you don't mind an overabundance of yelling, cursing, and slurs.

Aliens (1986): James Cameron directs the more action-oriented adaptation to the 1979 horror classic. Although I didn't think it was as good as the original, it was still really good. The cast was pretty good and worked well together, and it had pretty good child acting. The Xenomorph Queen is an awesome feat of practical effect, and I like how she closes the gap on how the facehuggers are created in order to reproduce the Xenomorphs. Pretty good sci-fi action/horror.

Critters (1986): It was okay, I didn't expect much from it, but at the very least it was entertaining. Another 80s movie where cute, fuzzy monsters unleash havoc on a small town and kill people, as a result of the Gremlins craze (although, if I remember correctly, the crew behind this one insisted the script existed before Gremlins). The critter effects weren't bad, and they did have that perfect blend between cute and evil that they were probably achieving for. Some of the humor was decent, I liked the little subtitle conversations the critters had with each other while tearing up the house. I also thought the effect at the end where the house restores itself was kinda cool. As for criticisms, the bounty hunter plot was stupid and just felt like a plot device, and it just seemed to waste time more than anything, and they played that one original song on the soundtrack way too much. It also took way too long for the critters to start their rampage, which is bad when the movie is only 1 hour and 26 minutes long. Overall, not as bad as it could've been, and managed to be the fun little monster horror movie it probably aimed to be.
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I'm with you on Aliens and Alien. I like Aliens but Alien is the superior movie. I saw Alien in the theater when it was released. The first time seeing the alien coming out of John Hurt was one of the most memorable in theater experiences I've had. I saw it on opening night, so I hadn't heard anything about it yet.
 

Wayoftheredpanda

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I'm with you on Aliens and Alien. I like Aliens but Alien is the superior movie. I saw Alien in the theater when it was released. The first time seeing the alien coming out of John Hurt was one of the most memorable in theater experiences I've had. I saw it on opening night, so I hadn't heard anything about it yet.
They got John Hurt to do the spoof of the chestburster scene in Spaceballs.

What do you think hurt Hurt the most? the Chestburster, 1984 Rat Torture Mask, or playing a severely deformed sideshow performer?