Movies
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12 Strong: 1/10
Shite of the highest order. I like a good war movie but this one seemed to hit every cliche known to man. Being straight-to-dvd and being a Bruckheimer film should've tipped me off. I like Chris Hemsworth but god he was horrible.
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Deadpool 2 was awesome. Most funny, most inappropriate movie I have seen since … well .. Deadpool 1. I had a blast.
I'm hesitating reg. Solo. Where those movies suffer, IMHO, is that there's no cannon anymore. Each director does whatever they want, and as long as there are x-wings & lightsabers, it's considered Star Wars enough. One thing that drives me up the walls is how equipment evolves from one movie to another. So in ep. V, you see Empire bombers (they look like oversized, dual body Tie fighters) bombing the asteroid where the Millenium Falcon is hiding, to no effect. Fair enough. Then in the prequels (ep. III?) Jango Fett tries to loose Kenobi in an asteroid field and uses bombs that split asteroids in two for miles around! Where were those a generation later in Ep. V? Finally in TLJ / ep. VIII, the resistance has super dupper shitty bombers crawling at the speed of a lame snail and dropping bombs that require manual triggering!!! WTF?
With regard to super hero movies, I think each movie tries to do too much. My favorite is probably The First Avenger, because it's a story that takes its time to set things up. I still enjoyed Infinity Wars though. It's very well crafted.
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I made the mistake lastnite of trying to get my boy to watch Logan. 20 minutes into the movie he asks me, "what does heck, fuck mean?" There were plenty of bits where Logan was throwing out expletives left and right. At one point Logan says, "stay outta my shit!" My son responds with, "he has a ship?"
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With regard to super hero movies, I think each movie tries to do too much. My favorite is probably The First Avenger, because it's a story that takes its time to set things up. I still enjoyed Infinity Wars though. It's very well crafted.
I quite enjoyed Infinity War but, it didn't leave me as satisfied as Ragnarok and the GOTG movies did.
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One thing that drives me up the walls is how equipment evolves from one movie to another.
STAR WARS NERD-ALERT:
I feel like there’s an easy explanation for all this. First of all, Jango Fett would obviously have the most badass weapons—asteroid busting, and probably illegal. The Empire sending TIE bombers to the astreroids looking for the Millenium Falcon was probably just an example of using the cheapest ordinance available that wouldn’t prove fatal. They wouldn’t want to expend a lot of personnel or money on it—they were just trying to flush them out. Finally, the Resistance doesn’t have any money! They’re the miscreants that didn’t even try to play along with the creation of a new republic under the First Order, because they knew it was just the Empire with a new name.
Of course this is all just rationalization for why the movies have such differences in tech, when really it’s just because our real world moviemaking has become so much more sophisticated—but I think my explanations hold water.
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Hurt Locker: 3/10
Didn't care for this too much. I don't understand why this movie was hyped so much either. Same with Zero Dark Thirty which was the same director.
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Katheryn Bigelow's best movie is Point Break. Anyone who disagrees should see a doctor immediately.
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Katheryn Bigelow's best movie is Point Break. Anyone who disagrees should see a doctor immediately.
Point Break is amazeballs. But I’ve just booked an appointment with my local practitioner because Near Dark is her best movie. I really enjoyed The Hurt Locker too. Intelligent war movie.
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Katheryn Bigelow's best movie is Point Break. Anyone who disagrees should see a doctor immediately.
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Big Hero 6: 9/10
Thought this was a fun movie. For a non-pixar film it was well done.
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Annihilation: 7/10
Interesting to say the least. I do like Alex Garland's stuff, so i'll watch pretty much anything he touches. The ending was kinda meh but I liked the story.
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Annihilation: 7/10
The ending was kinda meh but I liked the story.
*** SPOILER ALERT FOR ANNIHILATION***
I know what you mean about the ending but what’s good about it, seen in context with the rest of the film, is that this was potentially all part of the alien entitiy’s plan. That is to say that The Shimmer was not the thing threatening to annihilate the Earth, but a honey trap designed to lure humans in and to enable the alien entity to change into human form and gain access to the rest of the planet.
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True. Although, if that's the case it's very similar to Invasion of the Body Snatchers (not that that's a bad thing). It kinda felt like a bait and switch. You're lead to believe that Portman's character did in fact kill the alien and thereby destroyed The Shimmer. But then you see her eyes glow when she visits Kane. The only plausible explanation I can think of for this is that Lena's DNA somehow got switched into the alien proto form. This would explain why you see the alien setting fire to the rest of the lighthouse. -
Katheryn Bigelow's best movie is Point Break. Anyone who disagrees should see a doctor immediately.
Point Break is amazeballs. But I’ve just booked an appointment with my local practitioner because Near Dark is her best movie. I really enjoyed The Hurt Locker too. Intelligent war movie.
@neph93 shoot out in the diner, Cramps on the jukebox. One of the best movie set pieces ever!
I always have trouble with US of A war films…They are only ever one sentence away from praising the good Lord and singing America the great...that said, Hacksaw Ridge was a great movie made all the better for being a true story, with apparently very little artistic licence used.
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Anyone else love a good western? I whole heartedly recommend Hostiles. Quite brutal in parts and I loved it.
