El Camino
On Netflix, follows Jesse Pinkman after Breaking Bad. If you're a BB fan you'll like this, good story good action and the stoner guys are back, they should have their own series.
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El Camino
On Netflix, follows Jesse Pinkman after Breaking Bad. If you're a BB fan you'll like this, good story good action and the stoner guys are back, they should have their own series.
[QUOTE=Bando;1589614231]El Camino
On Netflix, follows Jesse Pinkman after Breaking Bad. If you're a BB fan you'll like this, good story good action and the stoner guys are back, they should have their own series.[/QUOTE]
We watched it this morning and really liked it.
We watched AD Astra last weekend. It's not an action film, by any means, and it lasts over two hours. But there was one man who kept leaving to get another drink, more popcorn, snacks etc. When the film ended (it wasn't a huge theatre) he could be heard bitching and whining, repeatedly, about it being 2.5 hours he would never get back. I'm surprised he caught any of it with all the time he spent going out to get more rubbish with which to stuff his face.
The film was okay and, I'm not going to lie, Brad Pitt is aging really well. The aerial stuff was pretty good. It was a soul searching, introspective story from his character's point of view and also the picture of a man's descent into insanity. I preferred the last film we watched but this one wasn't bad at all.
[QUOTE=mirroroferised;1589614681]We watched it this morning and really liked it.[/QUOTE]
I liked seeing the 2 stoners again. I kinda would have liked see when the law showed up for the El Camino.
"Incenties" ..it's on Netflix now. Same director who did "Sicario".
It's a deep, thought provoking dark movie. The ending is mind-blowing on a lot of levels. I'm a huge Radiohead fan so picked up one of the their tracks during the movie.
Just bought tickets for "Joker" for this Sat night!!
Watched Stuber on the plane and it was a lot better than I had expected. I thought it was just going to be a lame comedy but it added action and a pretty decent plot as well and I have to admit I laughed more than a few times.
[QUOTE=Bando;1589614231]El Camino
On Netflix, follows Jesse Pinkman after Breaking Bad. If you're a BB fan you'll like this, good story good action and the stoner guys are back, they should have their own series.[/QUOTE]
Watching that tonight.
The new JOKER movie is amazing! A deep dive into madness by an already broken man, an Oscar-winning
performance by Joaquin Phoenix. But be prepared it is seriously sad, tragic and disturbing. You will
love this movie as long as you are prepared for the pace of it. It really is a masterpiece.
Maleficent #2, more of the same.
Acting and effects were great, tons of fairies, pixies and other mythical creatures but the story sucked and was boring.
Well....any martial arts fans here.....:)
On Netflix.....just watched [I]Master Z[/I].
Didn't realize initially, it's actually a follow up of Ip Man 3. (yes....we've seen the Ip Man series with Donnie Yen....good stuff)
With Max Zhang (who was in Ip Man 3), Dave Bautista (as the bg), Michelle Yeoh and some very brief action with Tony Jaa.
A typical gg/bg story line but well choreographed fight scenes and a pleasing ending.
We don't mind the subtitles at all.
Oh....if you are not interested in the genre and hate the subtitle necessity?......feel free to pass on through this post.
Carry on....a good day to all.
Eddie Murphy film on netflix. Pretty vulgar, very oriented to black audiences so I didn't catch all the humor. At 2 hours, a little long but I didn't mind as when Eddie makes me laugh, it's always like doubled over laughing my ass off, and this had 2 or 3 of those.
Glad to see him working again, he's really one of the greats.
On Netflix. Dark, somewhat predictable, EXTREMELY well acted. Well worth a watch, you'll be guessing a lot. Had a tinge of Jacob's Ladder but not quite enough cast to pull off that masterpiece.
On Netflix.
Pacino, Pecci and DeNiro back with another Scorsese gangster film. This is 3 hours, but my wife sat through it just because the outfits, furniture, cars etc. were spot on for the period it was set in. Story is different this time because it weaves in a lot of politics and union stuff. I'm a fan of these guys and a fan of the genre, but it's no Wiseguys, Casino or Godfather.
I know that Mario Puzio died (he wrote the novels the classic gangster movies were based on) but I can't understand why they wouldn't search for a new novelist who is doing similar material to base a movie on. I think they're just ghostwriting screenplays on what Mario would have written and it's not that great storywise. First you get the novel, then you get the movie.
[QUOTE=Bando;1592656751]On Netflix. .[/QUOTE]
A guitar forum I tend to pollute on occasion (as chulaivet1966) has this thread: [url]https://www.tdpri.com/threads/thoughts-on-the-irishman.990318/[/url]
Lots of various opinions I might add.
I didn't have much desire to see this one presuming it would be slow, exceedingly boring with lots of dull dialogue and merely relying on the well known cast and expected violence to save it.
Even though the cast is highly touted (generally speaking, I like them all) I just had a feeling it would not remotely measure up to the ones you mentioned (Goodfellas also).
It's 3+ hours so keeping me awake, if my presumptions are consensus, might be quite difficult.
Is this movie topic becoming passe unless it can truly sanctify itself from it's predecessors?....I don't know.
What I do know....I've been wrong in the past.
A good day to all....carry on.
[QUOTE=Wayne Evans;1592666961]A guitar forum I tend to pollute on occasion (as chulaivet1966) has this thread: [url]https://www.tdpri.com/threads/thoughts-on-the-irishman.990318/[/url]
Lots of various opinions I might add.[/QUOTE]
Wow 4 pages for one movie, I would have created an account to chime in but didn't want to pollute a guitar forum with movie talk.
[b]Assimilation[/b]
On Netflix. Kind of a modern Invasion of the Body Snatchers, good sci fi, steals from everything including Blair Witch to an M Shamalan feel. Acting pretty lame but some good surprises and shocks to restart your heart. Typical groan moments like when they decide to steal a flower delivery van over a police SUV :rolleyes: Worth a watch if you're a sci fi fan.
[QUOTE=Bando;1592711851]Wow 4 pages for one movie, I would have created an account to chime in but [B]didn't want to pollute a guitar forum with movie talk[/B].[/QUOTE]
Chuckle...yep....still at (4) pages. (on spread)
Have a good day all....
i love these movies and you know this one will be as good as the others
yes i am biased :)
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Searched 4 times through the 4,000 movies ITT and did not see
[b]Hatefull 8[/b] Listed.
At any rate, very gritty. Story runs on forever but is engaging.
[QUOTE=Bando;1593112851]Searched 4 times through the 4,000 movies ITT and did not see
[b]Hatefull 8[/b] Listed.
At any rate, very gritty. Story runs on forever but is engaging.[/QUOTE]
Something about that movie I really love. Which version have you watched? Netflix has the regular movie version, plus an extended version, which is broken down into 4 episodes and is about 40 minutes longer. Haven't watched the extended version yet.
My wife and I saw Knives Out last night. It was sort of like a modern day Agatha Christie with several twists and turns and a few truly LOL moments. We liked it.
[QUOTE=SPP1;1593118071]Something about that movie I really love. Which version have you watched? Netflix has the regular movie version, plus an extended version, which is broken down into 4 episodes and is about 40 minutes longer. Haven't watched the extended version yet.[/QUOTE]
Thinking I must have watched the extended version, it was 2 1/2 hours :eek:
I liked the outfits and the Civil War Officer gloves worn by Samuel Jackson has me wanting a pair.
Watched "Hobbs & Shaw" the Fast and Furious spinoff...…….fukkin lame is all I can come up with. Edris Elba was good in his part but it was so damn over the top and drawn out and it became boring and tedious. The only part I liked were the few cameos such as Ryan Reynolds and Hellen Mirren.
[QUOTE=Corbi;1593170751]Watched "Hobbs & Shaw" the Fast and Furious spinoff...…….[B]fukkin lame is all I can come up with[/B]. [/QUOTE]
Yep....agreed.
We saw it a week or so ago....snoresville.
I like both lead actors but this cookie cutter effort in the genre didn't work for me at all.
Back to it....
Watched Dark Waters starring Mark Ruffalo.
The theme was based on the true story of a town in W. Virginia that was poisoned over a period of years by the illegal dumping of poisonous chemicals by DuPont in the early 1990s, and their legal struggles against DuPont and the lawyer who took the case (Ruffalo). 2 hours. No CGI. I was pleasantly surprised that it was actually very good. Excellent acting.
Highly recommend.
[QUOTE=Bando;1593169781]Thinking I must have watched the extended version, it was 2 1/2 hours :eek:
I liked the outfits and the Civil War Officer gloves worn by Samuel Jackson has me wanting a pair.[/QUOTE]
The 2h 47m version is actually the "short" version. Once Upon a Time in Hollywood is 2h 41m. A long version might come out soon. Wut?
It part 2.
If you read the book, or any of Stephen King's work, you know he is a genius in building a story but his endings are famously bad. And the book "It" is a great example of it, to the point they even made it into a gag in the movie where the character that grew up to be a writer is mocked by none other than Stephen King in one of his cameos, about writing good stories with a bad ending.
Problem is when anyone tries to make a movie or tv series of "It" they try to change the ending to make it less lame. And this movie does a spectacularly bad job at it. Which is a shame because the rest is really not too bad, heck they even managed to make some legitimately creepy scenes (the old lady that lives in the apartment where Beverly used to live was just great), at least while there are real people in the scene. Then they turn into CGI fests that don't really work. There's a particularly bad moment that was taken right out of "John Carpenter's The Thing", and not in a good way.
Some of the casting was good, some a little less.
For the movie making geeks, principal cinematography is just bad bad poke-my-eyes-out-bad, second unit is a lot better.
[QUOTE=sy2502;1593348211]It part 2.
If you read the book, or any of Stephen King's work, you know he is a genius in building a story but his endings are famously bad. [/quote]
I'm not in agreement. They're not always happy and people die but I wouldn't call them bad. I have to say I had to stop reading after his accident because it all went downhill unfortunately.
[QUOTE=Bando;1593377151]I'm not in agreement. They're not always happy and people die but I wouldn't call them bad. I have to say I had to stop reading after his accident because it all went downhill unfortunately.[/QUOTE]
Oh sure, I wasn't referring to happy or sad ending, they are horror stories after all, they don't need to have happy endings. I just find them underwhelming. Like the end of "The Stand", where after all that happens, [b]SPOILER ALERT!!![/b], a giant hand appears in the sky and solves everything? Like... uh? Or "Under the Dome" where [b]SPOILER ALERT!!![/b]the whole thing was some kind of alien kids game? Gag me with a spoon!!
On the other hand, I have to say I really really liked the end of the Dark Tower, I know many people didn't like it but I thought it was very fitting.
[QUOTE=Mark1T;1593235571]Watched Dark Waters starring Mark Ruffalo.
The theme was based on the true story of a town in W. Virginia that was poisoned over a period of years by the illegal dumping of poisonous chemicals by DuPont in the early 1990s, and their legal struggles against DuPont and the lawyer who took the case (Ruffalo). 2 hours. No CGI. I was pleasantly surprised that it was actually very good. Excellent acting.
Highly recommend.[/QUOTE]
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Haven't seen it yet. Synopsis reminds me of John Travolta's flick, "A Civil Matter." That story took place in Massachusetts, I think. Good movie, never made much money, but I thought he turned in a fine performance, and I've never been a fan of his.
[QUOTE=sy2502;1593407191]Or "Under the Dome" where [b]SPOILER ALERT!!![/b]the whole thing was some kind of alien kids game? Gag me with a spoon!!
[/QUOTE]
I haven't seen this but hasn't that story been written several times already? Star Trek, Twilight Zone come to mind.