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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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Thread: The Movie Review Thread
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10-12-2019, 05:28 PM #2911
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10-12-2019, 05:36 PM #2912
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10-12-2019, 05:44 PM #2913
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.I am one of the 3%.
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10-12-2019, 07:12 PM #2914
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10-15-2019, 02:47 PM #2915
"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.
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10-16-2019, 04:57 AM #2916
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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.
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10-16-2019, 05:56 AM #2917
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10-22-2019, 11:09 PM #2918
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10-23-2019, 04:48 AM #2919
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10-27-2019, 01:48 PM #2920
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Well....any martial arts fans here.....
On Netflix.....just watched Master Z.
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.
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10-27-2019, 08:06 PM #2921
Dolomight
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.Don't put that on me Ricky Bobby, don't you ever put that on me.
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10-29-2019, 09:51 PM #2922
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11-30-2019, 09:03 PM #2923
The Irishman
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.Don't put that on me Ricky Bobby, don't you ever put that on me.
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12-01-2019, 03:27 AM #2924
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A guitar forum I tend to pollute on occasion (as chulaivet1966) has this thread: https://www.tdpri.com/threads/though...ishman.990318/
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.
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Just an old guy trying to keep up his rhythm chops.
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12-01-2019, 06:42 PM #2925
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.
Assimilation
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 Worth a watch if you're a sci fi fan.Don't put that on me Ricky Bobby, don't you ever put that on me.
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12-02-2019, 05:31 AM #2926
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USMC: 1965-1969
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https://soundcloud.com/chulaivet1966
Videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/chulaivet/videos
Just an old guy trying to keep up his rhythm chops.
"One persons perception of good music can be another persons definition of noise"
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12-04-2019, 07:25 AM #2927
i love these movies and you know this one will be as good as the others
yes i am biased
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12-07-2019, 11:12 PM #2928
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12-08-2019, 08:14 PM #2932
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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.
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12-08-2019, 09:15 PM #2933
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USMC: 1965-1969
Original music:
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Videos: https://www.youtube.com/user/chulaivet/videos
Just an old guy trying to keep up his rhythm chops.
"One persons perception of good music can be another persons definition of noise"
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12-09-2019, 06:30 PM #2934
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.
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12-09-2019, 10:18 PM #2935
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12-11-2019, 11:42 AM #2936
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.
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12-11-2019, 07:55 PM #2937
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12-12-2019, 09:06 AM #2938
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, SPOILER ALERT!!!, a giant hand appears in the sky and solves everything? Like... uh? Or "Under the Dome" where SPOILER ALERT!!!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.Follow my 2018 competition prep here:
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12-13-2019, 12:30 AM #2939"Don't call me Miss Kitty. Just...don't."--Catnip. Check out the Catnip Trilogy on Amazon.com
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12-13-2019, 08:22 AM #2940
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