Last Movie you Watched and Rate It

[Spurminator]

Absentia (2011) - 6/10
Oculus (2013) - 9.5/10

Decided to catch up on Mike Flanagan movies since I really like his Netflix series. Absentia is a good low budget flick and worth watching, but Oculus is going to stay with me for a while.

Hush (2016) - 7/10
Before I Wake (2016) - 6/10
Ouija: Origin of Evil (2016) - 7/10
Gerald's Game (2017) - 8/10

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Gerald's Game (2017) - 8/10

Just another King extravaganza:::first belittling, then killing another White man from town for:

A. being White.
B. wanting to have fun in the sack with his hot wife, who's only hot to King's pen. Otherwise, you may as well try and catch the wind.
C. being White again.

[Thread]

Hush (2016) - 7/10

I wish the fuck you would, Spurm.

[Proxy]

Poor Things was a lot of Emma Stone naked and in heat

[Proxy]

Faces by John Cassevetes... 10/10

want to see the real dark side of people? movie was more disturbing than any horror flick. idk how Cassevetes pulled those kinds of acting performances out of his crew, but god damn is it haunting

[Thread]

Faces by John Cassevetes... 10/10

want to see the real dark side of people? movie was more disturbing than any horror flick. idk how Cassevetes pulled those kinds of acting performances out of his crew, but god damn is it haunting

I seen it around, but never ventured it. Some of his materiel is overdone and overwrought like the "Mickey/Nicky" thing with Columbo, but when he didn't try and overachieve -Rosemary's Baby- in the movies and his work on "Columbo" it was effective.

I'm going to initiate this "Faces" right now. Thank you.

[leemajors]

Boy and the Heron was fantastic.

[Proxy]

I seen it around, but never ventured it. Some of his materiel is overdone and overwrought like the "Mickey/Nicky" thing with Columbo, but when he didn't try and overachieve -Rosemary's Baby- in the movies and his work on "Columbo" it was effective.

I'm going to initiate this "Faces" right now. Thank you.

I did like Columbo in "A Woman Under the Influence"

Thought Falk was great there, but like any Cassavetes flick, Gena Rowlands steals the show. Hope you like "Faces." It's def one of those un-structured visceral experiences.

I'll check "Mikey/Nicky," been on my list... but reading your post, I didn't realize Cassavetes didn't direct that one, just acted. Pretty intrigued to watch him perform under another director's guidance, appreciate it, Thread

[Proxy]

Boy and the Heron was fantastic.

yeah it was. Liked that it was a loose sequel to "The Wind Rises" also... in the sense that Wind was Miyazaki's bio with his dad in mind, and Heron his mother. Def in the elite tier of Miyazaki/Ghibli's library.

[Blake]

Aquaman part 2: 3/10 as expected going in. If Momoa could learn some comedic timing, it could have moved the needle closer to 5 or 6

[benefactor]

Oppenheimer

Really can't say much others haven't already said. Cillian Murphy deserves an Oscar...and he was flanked by one of the best supporting casts I've ever seen.

9.5/10

[Thread]

Oppenheimer

Really can't say much others haven't already said. Cillian Murphy deserves an Oscar...and he was flanked by one of the best supporting casts I've ever seen.

9.5/10

He did put a stopper in the old bottle on those oriental Sunday morning wake up calls, eh, bene?

"Huh, what? Okay, no problem...Again." - Harry S.

There's a small movie I caught about a year ago this time featuring Neville Brand as a Navy CPO -Return from the Sea- in 1954...it comes to a point where Brand is inquiring about a widow's first husband who perished in II. "What happened?"

The man's brother..."He was out there on the Arizona when it was hit. He's still out there."

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bene, sweetheart, pumpkinpuss; you need to make amends to kori about posting that address. Get on with it, son.

[lebomb]

The Color Purple 8/10

Wife wanted to see this, so what was I supposed to do? Anyhow, I liked the original way better. This remake was more of a musical which I typically hate musicals. This one wasn't so bad. The musical parts weren't very long thank god!!

[Darth_Pelican]

Sound Of Freedom: 2/10

The acting was atrocious, some of the lines were laughable, and the final act felt like a cheesy low budget action movie. I also read that the real life hero, Tim Ballard, has around 6 sexual misconduct lawsuits against him.

[Darth_Pelican]

May December: 3/10

smh strange white people

[pgardn]

Netflix

Ralph Dahl Stories put together by Wes Anderson’s 4 short films. 9.55/10

I don’t have a lot of time to know the elite of film adaptation of specific writers.
The above was absolutely delightful for me. So different…
The writer, the narrator, the actors, and the audience are all involved in these films.
They are wonderfully written in my opinion, and the films themselves are so interesting while moving along rapid fire (even though they might have slightly macabre themes) I just haven’t seen anything like this so for me, it was stunningly good.

I will watch them again. There was a lot for me to miss in the actor’s interplay with the story, the narrator, each other and the audience.

Im just new to this type of film. So I was captivated.

[DeadlyDynasty]

The Theory of Everything - 4/10, worse the 2nd time around now that I know the director omitted some key events of his life.

[MultiTroll]

The Drop 6/10
2014 Tom Handy, Tony Soprano and Naiomi Rapace

Handy is the bartender / mgr of bar owned by big fish in small pond Tony Soprano.
They run some kind of money drop that the oppresive local Euro gang (Russian?) forces them to give a huge cut.

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The Drop 6/10
2014 Tom Handy, Tony Soprano and Naiomi Rapace

Handy is the bartender / mgr of bar owned by big fish in small pond Tony Soprano.
They run some kind of money drop that the oppresive local Euro gang (Russian?) forces them to give a huge cut.

I've seen this, Mult. It's standard fare but has a steady bite to it.

[Thread]

Netflix is featuring -30 Days of Night- '07 currently. That damn movie is not easily viewed.

[monosylab1k]

The Theory of Everything - 4/10, worse the 2nd time around now that I know the director omitted some key events of his life.

Can’t wait for the sequel The Theory Of Everything 2: Journey To Epstein Island.

[koriwhat]

Fire In The Sky - 8/10

Extraterrestrial - 4/10
Extraterrestrial "Ending" - 7/10

[baseline bum]

The Iron Claw 7/10

Damn I used to love wrestling in the 80s and this was a cool throwback to that

[DeadlyDynasty]

Can’t wait for the sequel The Theory Of Everything 2: Journey To Epstein Island.
Exactly. How did they leave out the orgies?

[baseline bum]

When the Wind Blows 9/10

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b6/When_the_Wind_Blows_1986.jpeg

Animated film about a retired couple in rural England trying to prepare for an inevitable nuclear strike from the Soviets by following the Protect and Survive guidebook that was to be distributed to every household in the UK when the government judged they were within 4 weeks of nuclear war with the Soviet Union. A pretty scathing critique of the UK government's attempt to placate its citizens into believing there was anything they could do to be prepared for nuclear war.

Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9pJKdTqYijY

Full Film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xAIqDMW8dE


Also here's a small sample of one of these actual Protect and Survive videos which would be the last TV broadcasts ever transmitted in the UK in the event of nuclear war (they were leaked to the public in 1980).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1PP2_AaeRc

[baseline bum]

The film itself can be watched on youtube for free, at least in the US.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xAIqDMW8dE

[Thread]

-The Passenger- '23

Gallons of blood thru 3 ultra violent slaughters, but serviceable.

It's either Amazon OR Netflix.

[Thread]

Finally caught up to -Insomnia- '02.

What a fine film. I cannot imagine another actor other than Pacino accomplishing that fete. A meticulous production start to finish that was never rushed, nor stalled. & Williams coming to the fore there. Bless his soul.

A flawless motion picture event of film. American film.

[Thread]

Saw -Good People- 2014 over the weekend. Anytime you can get James Franco is front of a camera is a fine day. Here he is with Kate Hutson as a married couple up against the wall on money issues. They live in London and happen across drug money; 220,000 pounds of it; I immediately paused the movie and tallied it for us in U.S. currency at $280,000 of it.

It's pretty stout, though there is some confusion with the high falutin' Black character "Khan" as we tally forth to the end and the big shoot out.

The violence is palpable right from the start as the bad guys force a bright, shiny red billiard ball on/down a bloke.

An added treat is a full naked rump shot of Franco, nah, I'm just fuckin' with ya's of a Monday mornin' comin' down. Hudson shows her ass, completely naked, in a shower scene and it is one fine ass.

Another added treat is the inclusion of Tom Wilkinson who passed recently. Here he plays the London detective who's interest in the kids is not without condition. He's vested otherwise, and heavily so.

It's a typical London landscape, but that's fine. You know it coming in.

[lefty]

Finally watched the Hunger Game movies (not the 5th one , because fuck most prequels)

1-3 were good imo

The 4th one was a bit disappointing; and why would you kill Catnip's sister and Fennick? I don't see any impactful stake tbh, except for making Catnip even more pissed at Julianne Moore

Great acting overall, even if Pita bread had a punchable face
Sutherland was amazing

[Dirks_Finale]

Society of the snow on Netflix.

Good movie and worth your time. Of course this story has been told about a hundred times now, but not quite like this.

[Thread]

Took a flyer on -Knock at the Cabin- over night. A smart ass 7-year-old slope leads it off, followed by her 2 dads.

Uh, uh. If I had a dog I wouldn't hit him in the ass with it.

[Thread]

Society of the snow on Netflix.

Good movie and worth your time. Of course this story has been told about a hundred times now, but not quite like this.

Saw it in the listings and hesitated. I'll tally forth now on your recommendation.

Danka shane.

[Thread]

Viewed one of my all-time favorites last evening...-A Strange Affair- '96 with Judith Light, William Russ as the interloper and the late great Jay Thomas as the downcast and soon stroked husband. Love this one with all me heart. Russ is a gas station owner who owns and flies a small plane (I know, I know) and we're shown Niagara Falls from height and it's just awesome.

In many scenes Light is filmed thru a see-thru cloth to help her along. Fine. I got nary problem with it.
Russ is nails as usual as an every-man who saves both Light and Thomas.
Thomas is wonderful. I rue his death every-single-day. He had a bum ticker.
Robin Dunn is at youth (the son), and it's all ahead of him, bless his heart.

It's at 90 minutes on the Freevee stream and holds commercials, but they're short and scarce so it's just fine.

Jay Thomas

[MultiTroll]

^ Dale have you ever watched?
"I ALMOST Got Away With It"

American Heros Channel.

Some eps are a hoot.
Some are ghastly. You can usually tell after the opening 5 minutes.

[monosylab1k]

The Zone Of Interest
7/10

Very effective in messaging, but not entertaining (it’s not really supposed to be). The first 20 minutes you’ll sit in shock at what you’re seeing and hearing. After that I was thinking “this movie is pretty boring” which of course is kinda the point, seeing how easily we can be desensitized and tune out abject horror.

It’s a supremely effective and well-crafted art piece. Glazer is a master of his craft. As a movie I didn’t particularly enjoy it, but again this movie isn’t meant to be enjoyable. But I’d recommend it wholeheartedly for a one-time viewing experience.

[Thread]

^ Dale have you ever watched?
"I ALMOST Got Away With It"

American Heros Channel.

Some eps are a hoot.
Some are ghastly. You can usually tell after the opening 5 minutes.

NO. I'll take a search for it, Mult. Thanks...***Yeah, it's on Prime Video. I'll go watch it at once.

[Thread]

^ Dale have you ever watched?
"I ALMOST Got Away With It"

American Heros Channel.

Some eps are a hoot.
Some are ghastly. You can usually tell after the opening 5 minutes.

It's there, Mult, unfortunately it costs money.

[Blake]

The Iron Claw 7/10

Damn I used to love wrestling in the 80s and this was a cool throwback to that

8.5/10 for me.

The only things to me were how weird Efron looked the whole movie and how they didn't really do Kerry justice as to how big he really was in his prime.

I thought McCallany was a dead ringer for the dad

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Saw a merciless film just after midnight this morning. Nick Cage in an independent production...-Mandy- in 2018...aside from Cage only Bill Duke, in a sequenced cameo will register. It's quick, but it's good to see Duke.

Mighty grim as an extended Jesus cult to include frightening biker gang---all fucked up comprehensively with extra!!! potent drugs happen upon Cage's wife and we go on from there for well over an hour of this 2 hour heartless foray.

They want money for it on Amazon Prime, but it's on the TUBI for nothing and the commercials are short & scarce.

Gird your loins as it will not be a soft seat.

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Found an old DVD of -The Betsy- from '78 at the local library for sale for .50 cents Thursday afternoon, sat down with the wife and watched it again last night. Brings back great memories of the circa for us and the movie is just wonderful. Has beautiful women, start to finish...Leslie Ann Down is stone cold gorgeous in this. Her eyes are more brilliant than Swift's in that picture on the other thread. As is Katherine Ross at absolute zenith. Kathleen Beller at 22 has a full frontal nude scene in the front portion of this film. She's pool side showing off for Tommy Lee Jones who has come out onto the balcony of his room above. Guys, you've got see this sequence. He's, I mean she's got a full bush, I swear they must have "teased" it to help it flourish for this scene. It's abundant & springy. They hit it not once, but twice during the scene and it's just divine. She's also full breasted and they're just sheer perfection. I mean fucking flawless. I don't like heavy boobs as a rule, but this shot is the livin' end. So, I was flexible and made an exception to said rule.

I looked for it over on the Google, but the sections are all dulled out, cept this one...https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRTgxgdpaEq9yQ8VY6QWMmqTMMHHkqLo nEOhhviZfh1Tta0ACFBCk1sxTfOZg&s

The story goes back & forth from '75 America to '30 America in telling the tale of this family and their trials and tribulations in the automobile business. Lawrence Olivier is the family patriarch and resident horn-dog. Remember, in that circa Olivier couldn't go back to the UK unless he had the arrears tax money to make it right with them. So, he went back to work in the movie business here in the States, making pictures and selling swag for Kodak.

A smidgen over 2 hours, but it goes quick, too quick.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4f/The_Betsy_poster.jpeg/220px-The_Betsy_poster.jpeg

[Blake]

Maggie Moore(s) on Hulu

8/10

Solid movie with some shock value at the end. The viewer knows who did it but it's fun watching sheriff (Jon Hamm) try to figure it out while the perps try to stay one step ahead

[Thread]

Rickles, with Reagan: it gets better than this, I just can't locate that upon the face of the earth.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3kJ7VPJnmI

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Nobody even watched a movie during the week they cast me down with the sodomites?

I watched a veritable shitload.

And some damn good ones.

-The Devil all the Time- 2020 --- Over two hours. A complete(ed) story conducted thru this movie. They took their time, did it right and the reward is abundant. How a portion of this story physically beats down/rots out the couple who are into a deadly cuckold lifestyle is such attention to detail that it is worth it to see the wreckage they leave in their twisted wake.

It's fuckin' film. American film.

-Slow West- 2015 at 84 minutes you'd think it'd go quick. No. It drags a bit, but the payoff, the shootout is crazed and makes the trip endurable. The McPhee kid is in it along with that Fassbender fellow.

-Kwik Stop- 2001 --- Dangerously close to 2 hours: it's grim, vulgar, filled with poverty on multiple levels. & you're forewarned...it will never let up. Ever. The religion thing/couldn't get it(my boiler plate) straightened out enough to type it. Somehow though as it moves in that 2 hour beat down of the viewer the girl (didi) becomes more and more beautiful, till at the end, she's drop dead gorgeous. The production knew. And did that, I just can't figure out (why), but was inexplicably grateful for the strategy and goodness of it.

[Thread]

Amazon Prime Video has reconciled the entire 12-year-run...-My Three Sons-...it's uncut, but a small 30 second commercial spot is included for each episode, so, it ain't pure. I don't cotton to the B&W episodes, even though they are good. I always start in with Season 6 ('65-'66) when Mike leaves the show and Ernie comes aboard to re-complete the (3 Sons). The show had moved from ABC to CBS twixt seasons 5&6 and once over at CBS they shot in color.

I love this show and it made my banishment bearable as I found it's rebirth almost simultaneously with the start of my ban. This is American television at it's zenith, it's finest hour. It was & remains a stunning achievement.

[Blake]

American Fiction 4/10

The point was made in 5 minutes and the rest of the story was dry and meaningless. Had some potential to be really hilarious and went nowhere.

[Tyronn Lue]

Has anyone seen The Bee Keeper? Seems meh generic Statham flick but I don't mind cheap entertainment as long as I know what I am in for.

[Thread]

Has anyone seen The Bee Keeper? Seems meh generic Statham flick but I don't mind cheap entertainment as long as I know what I am in for.

I love -Wild Card- in 2015---to death. Statham, otherwise? No.

The beginning con is tighter than a nun's snootch on the Sabbath. It hits the heart on a variety of fronts as JS is sanctioned human in this film, he is not detached to the plot as so many of his films he refuses to engage with it. Not here. Not this time. His friend (the girl) is so drop dead gorgeous (In THIS film), before AND after the incident that it hurts the heart to behold her. She a second to Kelly Reilly in this department. A distant second. And she knows "Nick" [intimately, but not sexually] as she tasks him whether he likes it, or, not.

Stanley Tucci, as "Baby" [[[par excellent life-long bag man for CNN]]] is superb set in there, (that after repeated viewings you can't wait till his portion comes up), I've just nary other choice than to cite him thus. I hate the fuck, but he facilitates this story at the precise moment it so badly needed it.

The story is complete, the timing spot on. It's JS's finest hour.

& it's film. American film.

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Watched a bugger of tripe this evening -U-Turn- with a bevy of stars from 1997. Principles are Sean Penn & Jennifer Lopez. It clocks in at a bit over 2 hours and it drags without mercy. But I hung thru. It's Oliver Stone BS. And the budget must have been record breaking. Jon Voight has a principal role in this, but you'll never guess who he portrays. The violence is palpable, but you really don't care who suffers, they all deserved it.

Joaquin Phoenix looks like a million bucks in this GD thing. Unbelievable.

Billy Bob Thornton standard fare.
Powers Booth standard fare.

I wouldn't waste my time on it, but I did.

[Blake]

Madame Web 3/10.

Started out intriguing and then slid downhill into garbage Disney Channel level mediocrity.

[Thread]

Madame Web 3/10.

Started out intriguing and then slid downhill into garbage Disney Channel level mediocrity.

There is nary other Disney "level" & hasn't been one in a coon's age.

[Thread]

Great moments in film.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vRxzfR945M

[lefty]

Madame Web 3/10.

Started out intriguing and then slid downhill into garbage Disney Channel level mediocrity.
Please tell me you had free tickets

[Blake]

Please tell me you had free tickets

Valentines day late movie after dinner. Seen everything else. We've seen worse but yeah we rolled the dice and crapped out

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1/2 way thru the month and fresh movies are scarce upon the streams. So we watched -Play Misty for Me- from '71 by Eastwood. 50+ years later and it remains re-watchable, no problem. Donna Mills is at prime here (as his estranged girl) and she shows so fine it made the heart pound relentlessly. Her alone makes it worth the sit.

There is a sequence within this American film that is frightening as the 2 of them have tenuously reunited and are sitting upon a hillside conversing, coming to a meeting of the minds in the relationship, so it can move forward (once again), there has been an estrangement till this movie's beginning, he's a pussy hound, she "had" enough and fled North to Sausilito. Above them, 30 yards or so up, maybe a bit more within the tree line hides "Evelyn." Eastwood is the director and frames this insane woman played by Jessica Walter just splendidly using his crop of hair to hide, then in turn expose her as she spies and plots murder & mayhem.

Shot in Carmel at Eastwood's stern insistence the movie is gorgeous and well rounded, neither rushed, nor stalled...it progresses seamlessly to a culmination that is suitable...Mills lives beyond common sense (tee, hee). I wouldn't have it any other way. Eastwood company man (John Larch) does not survive.

Flack's gigantic hit in the circa -First Time Ever I Saw Your Face- is featured [in it's entirety] 2/3 in as the kids hand-in-hand take a stroll, make hot monkey love among the moss and poison ivy? Then at distance we're finally shown where God split Mill's, and it's a fine split, then they & us bear witness a blistering sunset at Carmel...& it's back to the aforementioned murder & mayhem as Eastwood takes us home.

It's wonderful. Eastwood knew.

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRr5gHVG18ilmnetyPuBt44w3u52V3pr 5BO15MevO8Cor_KXAq-UKgxKb7Z5A&s

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Great moments in film.

"He's just as dangerous dead as alive."


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2L0WQu2fEI

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Great moments in film.

"...and ask that they impeach your ass!"

It's 90 seconds of film. American film.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=47w12COJdtQ

[MultiTroll]

American Fiction
Anyone see this?

Premiering at TIFF and rated a resounding 94% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, Cord Jefferson’s directorial feature debut is “an extremely funny movie that lands some sharp blows, and a stellar feature debut” (Vox).

Jeffrey Wright (THE FRENCH DISPATCH) stars as Monk, a frustrated novelist who's fed up with the establishment profiting from "Black" entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes. To prove his point, Monk uses a pen name to write an outlandish "Black" book of his own, a book that propels him to the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.

[MultiTroll]

https://youtu.be/i0MbLCpYJPA

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Great moments in film.

Penn's finest hour.
"The un-flyblown truth."

at 2:43 "Amen" is surreal.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BFZSsD5PtUE

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Waded thru a (dog) last night, at least half way thru anyway...-Paterson- from 2016...concerning a bus driver for the city of Patterson, New Jersey and his goofy wife. Leads with Adam Driver/"Marriage Story." We're gonna finish it tonight come hell or high water, there has got to be a point to this endless meandering.

Amazon Prime.

[Blake]

American Fiction 4/10

The point was made in 5 minutes and the rest of the story was dry and meaningless. Had some potential to be really hilarious and went nowhere.


American Fiction
Anyone see this?

Premiering at TIFF and rated a resounding 94% Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes, Cord Jefferson’s directorial feature debut is “an extremely funny movie that lands some sharp blows, and a stellar feature debut” (Vox).

Jeffrey Wright (THE FRENCH DISPATCH) stars as Monk, a frustrated novelist who's fed up with the establishment profiting from "Black" entertainment that relies on tired and offensive tropes. To prove his point, Monk uses a pen name to write an outlandish "Black" book of his own, a book that propels him to the heart of hypocrisy and the madness he claims to disdain.

[Don Draper]

Waded thru a (dog) last night, at least half way thru anyway...-Paterson- from 2016...concerning a bus driver for the city of Patterson, New Jersey and his goofy wife. Leads with Adam Driver/"Marriage Story." We're gonna finish it tonight come hell or high water, there has got to be a point to this endless meandering.

Amazon Prime.

Not familiar with Jarmusch?

[Thread]

Not familiar with Jarmusch?

In the words of Effy..."I found out."

What was the purpose, Don?

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Though word of mouth states -Thanksgiving- while a slasher is more than that & formidable.

I'll take a look Wednesday night.

[pgardn]

Oppenheimer on Peacock:

I very much enjoyed it but the storyline about the vindictive Lewis Strauss was sort of ho hum.
I guess I wanted more science and less courtroom stuff.
Also interesting was the unconcerned behavior about wives and family Oppenheimer showed. Einstein had the same problem with relationships. Just not interested...
Also Teller was not made out to be the strange character he really was as gathered in my reading of his life.

Im also not sure about Oppenheimer's wife really thinking he did not actively defend himself in the trials because of guilt.

[MultiTroll]

Trainwreck 2014 Amy Schumer / Bill Hader
6/10 had some laughs.
Good message in the end.

[MultiTroll]

Deception 2008 Ewan McGregor Hugh Jackman Michelle Williams
meh 4/10
Only saw the last 30 minutes but turns out that's all you need to see.
Would have liked clarity on what became of McG and Michelle but oh well, author wanted it to end the way it did.

[Thread]

In the words of Effy..."I found out."

What was the purpose, Don?

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Though word of mouth states -Thanksgiving- while a slasher is more than that & formidable.

I'll take a look Wednesday night.

...No. GIGO. I quit it half way thru. Fuckin' junk. GD it!!!

[Proxy]

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The Murder of Fred Hampton
4/5 Stars - Assembled clips from Black Panther gatherings with a focus on Fred Hampton, and law enforcement cover up tactics and how they spun his assassination to the public. Paints a very clear picture that the Panthers were fighting against the shit the would've led us down a better path than where we are now. Even has a good moment of them being pro 2A, given that they had/have to legitimately protect themselves from forces that operate with impunity.

Dr Stranglove
4/5 Stars - Classic. Easy to spot the pop culture influence. Catch-22 as a movie. Vonnegut-like script

Citizen Kane
4/5 Stars - Finally got around to this one. Orson Welles is a badass. Reminded me of Kurosawa's Rashomon with the theme of visiting a shared experience through different POVs

The Holdovers
3/5 Stars - Incredible amount of discipline in the direction of the movie. The common stylistic choice of subtlety in every aspect of the movie, from acting and script to score and cinematography. It avoids the extreme "O Captain My Captain" displays of triumph or tragedy. In doing so, the story feels grounded and tangible. By avoiding the peaks and valleys, it could feel too slow and meandering to people that are accustomed to the sugar rush. OST is full of Cat Stevens tunes

Poor Things
2/5 Stars - Lots of hype with this one. The acting performances are all stellar. The technical aspects of the movie are all solid, as you'd expect from Lanthimos directing. That being said, the overall satirical message critiquing the patriarchal tendencies of Emma Stone's character generally requiring rescuing from some male hero... it felt generally shallow compared to his past movies like 'The Lobster' and 'The Killing of the Sacred Deer.' The market has been saturated for the past decade with movies carrying some surface level white feminist message. Probably time to leave future movies in that vein to female POC directors, in hopes of first hand experience delivering better nuance and originality.

Oppenheimer
1/5 Stars - Nolan has to be the most overrated director of all time. Its mental that people put him in sentences with Tarkovsky and Kubrick. I'm starting to think he's self aware though, and keeps a steady montage-like pace, constant Michael Bay cuts in dialogue exchanges, loud ass "epic" score, and an unnecessarily over-stacked cast to hide his many shortcomings as a storyteller. He's great at quickly establishing a world and tension, and he consistently gets good performances out his usual hall of fame cast... and that's about it. He can't ever deliver on conclusions, and usually keeps the audience in their chair for one or two too many acts. End the movie my man, some Kubrick type of existential epiphany isn't coming out of your script, so just cut the lights after the big explosion and call it a day.

[Proxy]

Not familiar with Jarmusch?

Loved Ghost Dog, need to go through the rest of his material now

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For the 3rd time I sat down & kept still for -Hell or High Water- 2016

A flawless motion picture event of film. Pure-American-film.

It's extremely quick, but gloriously complete as these two brothers put the screws to 'em. Not much set-up, didn't need it, just down to it. You want Pine to show, but he permits Ben Foster to shine, and I God's if he doesn't create a 4-alarm fire, repeatedly and without mercy to anyone who gets in his way, a bit like his cut -30 Days of Night- '07

He's not a year out of prison and strung higher than a kite 24/7, pure adrenaline as he spots the specter of death upon an endless Texas horizon and can't wait to get there.

Jeff Bridges is the Texas Ranger steadfast to stop the boys and his Comanche Deputy tags along, fucks around and as our Effy is won't to state...Finds out.

The sequence where Foster meets the aforementioned horizon is immaculate, start to finish. It's like I said; it's fuckin' film. American film!

At the last Chris Pine is given his moment and does it proud as he and Bridges come to a full understanding that it ain't over. Not yet.

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Today, by pure accident I ran into another movie co-staring Chris Pine & Ben Foster...-The Contractor-...2022.

Saw in the opening credits that Kiefer Sutherland is in this, forgot about it, watched movie and never ID'ed him therein! He's almost recognizable upon reflection. The old Keifer has aged out of his zenith. It's enough to make ya cry upon reflection.

Standard black ops materiel. Takes an hour to jump start it to life and then it's blasts off in ridiculous fashion. I stuck with it to it's culmination, but in all honesty, I wouldn't hit a dog in the ass with it.

+Another perpetually mad White wife. Jesus H. Christ!

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I'm taking in -Cold in July- 2014 now and how is the White wife perpetually portrayed? F'in' eh, (she mad from the first fuckin' frame). These women are mad & just over the borderline ugly.

Will review it later on tonight.

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-Cold in July- from 2014 climbs high and then falls down a long, steep hill to an end that includes and thereby consumed over Snuff Films, believe it, or not.

I was wrong about the White wife. In reality she is played by Vinessa Shaw, who was outstanding in the remake of -The Hills Have Eyes- a while back. But she is misused here and it's a shame.

*The story is staged in 1989 with all the attendant circa materiel adhered to, but to what end? Though Don Johnson's portable car phone is a GD genuine riot.
*Sam Shepard, close to the grave is present and accounted for, but, a mystery start to finish.
*The aforementioned Don Johnson is recognizable and works, but is a bit of a mystery as well. He drives a gorgeous red Cadillac convertible that is involved early in a small accident with a Ford Pinto. The production spends the remainder of the film hiding the car's damage to the rear quarter panel by repeatedly parking the damn thing so it's hidden, because they really didn't damage the car. Maddening.
*Michael C. Hall is the main character and he strains to hold the position as the production veers severely as we meander along.
*By the end it's a bloody mess and you feel like you wasted 2 hours. I wasted 2 hours.

Don't bother.
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I'll start up...-The Drop-...2014 now and will most likely fall asleep on it.

[baseline bum]

Oppenheimer on Peacock:

I very much enjoyed it but the storyline about the vindictive Lewis Strauss was sort of ho hum.
I guess I wanted more science and less courtroom stuff.
Also interesting was the unconcerned behavior about wives and family Oppenheimer showed. Einstein had the same problem with relationships. Just not interested...
Also Teller was not made out to be the strange character he really was as gathered in my reading of his life.

Im also not sure about Oppenheimer's wife really thinking he did not actively defend himself in the trials because of guilt.

Have you ever read Feynman's Surely You're Joking? He was talking about how depressed he was after working at Los Alamos, like he'd be at a restaurant having lunch in NYC and then out of nowhere he'd just want to jump up and yell to everyone in the place how this was all going to be gone, how the hell can you be talking and laughing and not know one Soviet bomb will level everything within ten miles once the war starts. If you ever want to watch a great movie about what nuclear war would look like to the people check a movie called Threads from 1984. 100% on rotten tomatoes. It's funny they were about to cancel production of the film when they heard about The Day After but then when it came out they saw how rosy a picture that movie painted and said they had to do something scientifically accurate to what it would actually look like.

[baseline bum]

Dr Stranglove
4/5 Stars - Classic. Easy to spot the pop culture influence. Catch-22 as a movie. Vonnegut-like script


ROFL that people were coming out of that movie shocked, not knowing it was a comedy. I like that the pilot giving those corny speeches in his cowboy hat thought he was doing a serious role too. Also ROFL at Fail Safe coming out the same year with a similar plot (at least early on), but as a war drama.

[ChumpDumper]

Have you ever read Feynman's Surely You're Joking? He was talking about how depressed he was after working at Los Alamos, like he'd be at a restaurant having lunch in NYC and then out of nowhere he'd just want to jump up and yell to everyone in the place how this was all going to be gone, how the hell can you be talking and laughing and not know one Soviet bomb will level everything within ten miles once the war starts. If you ever want to watch a great movie about what nuclear war would look like to the people check a movie called Threads from 1984. 100% on rotten tomatoes. It's funny they were about to cancel production of the film when they heard about The Day After but then when it came out they saw how rosy a picture that movie painted and said they had to do something scientifically accurate to what it would actually look like.

I'll keep seconding Threads whenever its brought up. So much better and more effective than The Day After for a fraction of the budget and time, and one of the bleakest movies I can remember.
ROFL that people were coming out of that movie shocked, not knowing it was a comedy. I like that the pilot giving those corny speeches in his cowboy hat thought he was doing a serious role too. Also ROFL at Fail Safe coming out the same year with a similar plot (at least early on), but as a war drama.I remember Fail Safe's being kind of excruciating in its pacing, but it ended pretty strong.

[baseline bum]

I'll keep seconding Threads whenever its brought up. So much better and more effective than The Day After for a fraction of the budget and time, and one of the bleakest movies I can remember.

About the only other thing I have seen anywhere close is Grave of the Fireflies, but maybe because that one hits really close to home since it's similar to the story of my grandmother and great uncle in Japan during the war. Only thing I think Threads screwed up on was when they had the English language devolve in the first post nuke generation because there is no schooling, when language is learned from speaking and listening and not from going to class. But everything else, first rate.

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I'll keep seconding Threads whenever its brought up. So much better and more effective than The Day After for a fraction of the budget and time, and one of the bleakest movies I can remember.I remember Fail Safe's being kind of excruciating in its pacing, but it ended pretty strong.

...Ya dumb shit...the ending was preposterously silly.

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Ran into -Homefront- 2013 last evening and latched on. It's serviceable. Did not realize going in that the Ryder girl was in it until just now when I looked it up. She's a dynamo therein and it's a pleasure to watch her work. She is thorough in the role as the "Meth Whore."

Had a nice beginning with the Bosworth girl and her son, a chubby bully whom Statham tries to make peace with and it pays off in the end. The Bosworth girl "Cassie" has a chin line that is just superb. I sat there stunned and she's hot in this as a woman leaning on drugs who see's the light, barely in time.

Standard fare of cookers down on the Bayou when JS + young daughter moves into the area after leaving DEA as a rat on a caustic and lethal Biker gang. He's eyeballed by the local cooker (James Franco, always a treat) who then tries to parlay this knowledge with said Biker Gang to his advantage. Several nice fights Statham style serve well, then Biker gang roars into town and they ain't fuckin' around.

I won't watch it again, sure, but it bears a sit wherever man dwells if only to see that Bosworth girl. I was like in love.

Stallone had his hands all over this and did the screenplay.

It's on the Amazon stream.

[ChumpDumper]

About the only other thing I have seen anywhere close is Grave of the Fireflies, but maybe because that one hits really close to home since it's similar to the story of my grandmother and great uncle in Japan during the war. Only thing I think Threads screwed up on was when they had the English language devolve in the first post nuke generation because there is no schooling, when language is learned from speaking and listening and not from going to class. But everything else, first rate.Yeah I didn't think the language would fall off quite that quickly but maybe you have to think that most of the people they could have learned from would be dead and they're exaggerating that one aspect to drive home the degradation in the time period they had to work with.

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-The Drop- 2014

Waded thru it the last several nights. I'd hit a dog in the ass with it, barely. Chronic materiel about New York mafia types based primarily in a small bar in Brooklyn that has been used as The Drop and is hit one night. Rats come out of the woodwork, on and on and on.

Tom Hardy leads it with 1 expression set upon his mug throughout.
Gandolfini is present, but has been dead for a year, and he acts it. [b]Worn out.[/u]

Think "Uh, uh."

[baseline bum]

...Ya dumb shit...the ending was preposterously silly.

What's silly about it? The UK going back to being an agricultural economy like in the middle ages with the electric grid nearly killed off and little hope of ever getting it back up again in any major way? Ruth selling her ass for rats to eat? The UV going through the roof with the ozone layer destroyed? Ruth's thick cataracts from it? Her daughter getting raped at 13 and having a stillborn baby when she herself was born with crazy birth defects from all the radiation Ruth took in?

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What's silly about it? The UK going back to being an agricultural economy like in the middle ages with the electric grid nearly killed off and little hope of ever getting it back up again in any major way? Ruth selling her ass for rats to eat? The UV going through the roof with the ozone layer destroyed? Ruth's thick cataracts from it? Her daughter getting raped at 13 and having a stillborn baby when she herself was born with crazy birth defects from all the radiation Ruth took in?

I was referencing Dumper's final citation in his post ...-Fail Safe-...we fucked up and dropped one on them and then on-the-spot agreed to let them drop one on us/NYC.

C'mon.

[baseline bum]

I was referencing Dumper's final citation in his post ...-Fail Safe-...we fucked up and dropped one on them and then on-the-spot agreed to let them drop one on us/NYC.

C'mon.

I still think the worst part of that movie was saying the Soviets had a 50 megaton ICBM. Yeah fucking right you're strapping the Tsar Bomba onto a missile. :lol

Also ROFL the idea of B-58s carrying 20 megaton nukes. They carried ~1 megaton hydrogen bombs. I think the biggest US bomb ever made was only 15 megaton (Castle Bravo test) and that was only because they miscalculated the predicted yield by assuming one of the isotopes of lithium in it wouldn't react. Fucking Hollywood having to exaggerate everything when a 1 megaton H-bomb could nearly level 200-300 square miles of city.

Also we dropped the two on NYC in the movie. Remember the guy with the bullfighter nightmares was the one who dropped them on his wife and kids.

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I still think the worst part of that movie was saying the Soviets had a 50 megaton ICBM. Yeah fucking right you're strapping the Tsar Bomba onto a missile. :lol

Also ROFL the idea of B-58s carrying 20 megaton nukes. They carried ~1 megaton hydrogen bombs. I think the biggest US bomb ever made was only 15 megaton (Castle Bravo test) and that was only because they miscalculated the predicted yield by assuming one of the isotopes of lithium in it wouldn't react. Fucking Hollywood having to exaggerate everything when a 1 megaton H-bomb could nearly level 200-300 square miles of city.

Also we dropped the two on NYC in the movie. Remember the guy with the bullfighter nightmares was the one who dropped them on his wife and kids.

bum

[ChumpDumper]

I still think the worst part of that movie was saying the Soviets had a 50 megaton ICBM. Yeah fucking right you're strapping the Tsar Bomba onto a missile. :lol

Also ROFL the idea of B-58s carrying 20 megaton nukes. They carried ~1 megaton hydrogen bombs. I think the biggest US bomb ever made was only 15 megaton (Castle Bravo test) and that was only because they miscalculated the predicted yield by assuming one of the isotopes of lithium in it wouldn't react. Fucking Hollywood having to exaggerate everything when a 1 megaton H-bomb could nearly level 200-300 square miles of city.

Also we dropped the two on NYC in the movie. Remember the guy with the bullfighter nightmares was the one who dropped them on his wife and kids.Yeah I was way too young when I saw it to get caught up in the minutiae.

[MultiTroll]

Dune Two?

[MultiTroll]

The Biggest Differences Between The 1984 And 2021 Versions Of Dune (msn.com) (https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/the-biggest-differences-between-the-1984-and-2021-versions-of-dune/ar-BB1j4aSH?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=e89b5ca6e7ff4214ae397986a103ef62&ei=34)

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-The Covenant- 2023.

It's well done and moves quite nicely a tad past 2 hours.

Is it flawless? No.

One part toward the end reminds one of -The Green Berets- from late '60's when American forces employed "Puff the Magic Dragon" to machine gun the gooks in great mass from helicopter gunships. It makes a neat return appearance in this film killing rag-heads at the last second saving the old day for both our heroes.

I wouldn't watch it again, but it was very serviceable.

ADDENDUM: Ahmed transported Jake 100 clicks...which boiled down is 62 miles resulting in>>> 3 U.S. passports/3 U.S. visas.

[Blake]

I fell asleep in Dune 1. I'll probably see this one at the big screen as well but I can't get into a story where they are battling over Tattoine

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I fell asleep in Dune 1. I'll probably see this one at the big screen as well but I can't get into a story where they are battling over Tattoine

The vast majority of theater goer's as well, Blake, but this was one of those films that got juiced in and that's just the way it is. Now with this addition, what's his name "Dr. Kiley's" son, forget his name has done his duty, come out and is yelling at the top of his lungs that 2 is the worse experience he's ever had in Hollywood. That should sufficiently goose the gate for this weekend.

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Caught a SOP film late last night/early this morning from 2012 on the Prime Stream...-Meeting Evil-...with Samuel L. Jackson & Luke Wilson. I usually like Wilson, and that is what caught my attention and caused the viewing, but he's MIA in this.

A lot of bloodshed, but not too much in the moment>>>vast lion's share after the fact.

The women are gorgeous, sweet Jesus. But the Wilson's 2 children missed nary branch falling down the ugly tree. They couldn't get better than that?

Jackson does his tried & true Boiler Plate act he's done dozens of times and it's old.

It's junk, absolutely, but the women make it worth the sit.

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& watched a heart breaker sometime last night/early this morning as well...-Angels Crest-...2011 with Mira Sorvino, Jeremy Pivin & Elizabeth McGovern who tragically has not aged well. Fuckin' shame. It's heartrending.

Story involves a father taking his young toddler out for some morning fun in the local forest area during a snowstorm. The little boy wanders away---does not survive. The remainder of the film deals with how the young father and his [estranged and cheating wife, with father's best friend] deal with this loss. Pivin is the local DA who charges the father, but, that ain't the point here as you'll find out if you stick with it. I stuck with it.

It's an American/Canadian joint venture. The young father is played by Thomas Dekker who is the best looking actor (M/F) in this film!

I'm never watching another film with the McGovern girl in it ever again. Why I keep making that mistake is beyond me. GD it!

Amazon Stream.

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Going back thru -5 Card Stud- '68 with Dean Martin, Robert Mitchum, Roddy McDowell, Inger Stevens, Yaphet Kotto.

This film holds a special place for me. We were out West that Summer traveling, camping when the old man up and took my brother & I on into town somewhere in Wyoming to see it. He was in a good mood, sprang for the candy. It was just a treat to sit in A/C for 2 hours, but, Stevens was gorgeous, and not long for this world (suicide).

The movie is good, not great mind you, but enduring. A lynching takes place early (card cheater), Mitchum comes to town soon thereafter portending a preacher, but he's after the 6 men sitting at that card table and Kotto who bore witness the game as the bartender. Kotto is not with God, only Dino knows this fact so when Yaphet is taken out and is able (as death nears) to set his hands in prayer motif>>>Martin comes to the fore.

McDowell is choice here as usual and his sister played by Katherine Justice (I God's is she gorgeous) does a fine job and is smitten with Martin, but it does not work out. GD it!

This one...I shall take to the grave.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hEQIih5MRw

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Great moments in film.

"The kook."

George Kennedy; his finest hour.
Well, one of 'em...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7B8BBH2r5XI

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Great moments in film.

Montalban,
Mr. Roarke
&
"Kahn!!!"

Archive of AMERICAN TELEVISION


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxxSzt49cYw

This is not his finest hour. No. That "hour" rest forever -My Man and I- MGM in 1952.

[Proxy]

The Biggest Differences Between The 1984 And 2021 Versions Of Dune (msn.com) (https://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/the-biggest-differences-between-the-1984-and-2021-versions-of-dune/ar-BB1j4aSH?ocid=msedgntp&pc=U531&cvid=e89b5ca6e7ff4214ae397986a103ef62&ei=34)

The new Dunes have been great, Denis knows how to pace a movie to the dismay of the american adhd movie goer that's on a sugar high for marvel movies. No point in comparing or shitting on Lynch's Dune when it's common knowledge that he was at odds with the executives there for nearly the entire time.

[Texas_Ranger]

saw gran turismo.. pretty solid, but if you're doing a movie about a ''real story'', stick to the things that happened and not change the time of events... anyway, 6/10...
also saw John Wich 4... Horrible.. the stairs rolling scene is one of the worst scenes I have ever saw in a movie.. 3/10.

[koriwhat]

No Way Up - 8/10

I don't necessarily give it such a high grade because it's a masterpiece, it's not, but it was def an 8 when it came to being captivating and invoking anxiety which thrillers should invoke.

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Great moments in film.
The epitome of Effy's FA/FO composite.

It's Ritter's kid...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jAcHIzxpuq4

[lebomb]

Dune 2 - (9.5)

I didn't even care for Dune (6.5 at best) when it came out a couple of years ago. Too much dialogue to set things up and the action was meh at best. Now, Dune 2 is a different story. There was dialogue, but it was not drawn out and used only to set up the storyline and situations. The action was on point, and the cinematography and audio was amazing.

[lefty]

I haven't even watched the OG Dune with Kyle Maclahalahahalahalalan :lol

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I haven't even watched the OG Dune with Kyle Maclahalahahalahalalan :lol

How bout him in -The Hidden- from '87? Grade A materiel start to finish.

[lefty]

Chris Nolan is a bit overrated

There, I said it

[baseline bum]

Saw that Bob Marley movie a week ago and it was trash other than the music, 2/10. Haven't seen anything good in theaters since The Iron Claw.

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Chris Nolan is a bit overrated

There, I said it

Amen. I don't get it either.

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Saw that Bob Marley movie a week ago and it was trash other than the music, 2/10. Haven't seen anything good in theaters since The Iron Claw.

...If you can see your way clear to divulge WTF was (their) motive to do The Dutch like that, bum? Was it their old man basically?

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Amen. I don't get it either.

Well, it ain't because he's Black, because he's White. I just looked him up on the Google

[lefty]

Well, it ain't because he's Black, because he's White. I just looked him up on the Google
:lol

tbh I liked BB and loved TDK

Inception was good too

But Prestige, Tenet, Dunkirk, Oppenheimer...yawn

[baseline bum]

...If you can see your way clear to divulge WTF was (their) motive to do The Dutch like that, bum? Was it their old man basically?

Do The Dutch like that? Sorry, not following.

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Do The Dutch like that? Sorry, not following.

Why did they all kill themselves? Was it the old man's attitude?

[baseline bum]

Why did they all kill themselves? Was it the old man's attitude?

The movie did kind of make the old man into the villain pushing everyone into wrestling while in real life Kevin said all this brothers were super into wrestling, and one of them (Chris) shot himself because he was asthmatic and could never put on the size to be any good at it but was left out of the movie and kind of folded into the character of another brother Mike who also killed himself. Though in real life Kevin said his dad was so fucked up by Kerry's suicide that he pulled a gun on him like he was going to kill Kevin (also not in the movie). But the movie had a drugged up Kerry shooting himself once he got fired from wrestling and Mike killing himself because because of the complications from his shoulder surgery that nearly killed him, though the movie made it out like his dream was to be a country singer and not a wrestler. Really good movie but pretty unfair to the dad IMO. Oh well, Hollywood is always going to twist stories.

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The movie did kind of make the old man into the villain pushing everyone into wrestling while in real life Kevin said all this brothers were super into wrestling, and one of them (Chris) shot himself because he was asthmatic and could never put on the size to be any good at it but was left out of the movie and kind of folded into the character of another brother Mike who also killed himself. Though in real life Kevin said his dad was so fucked up by Kerry's suicide that he pulled a gun on him like he was going to kill Kevin (also not in the movie). But the movie had a drugged up Kerry shooting himself once he got fired from wrestling and Mike killing himself because because of the complications from his shoulder surgery that nearly killed him, though the movie made it out like his dream was to be a country singer and not a wrestler. Really good movie but pretty unfair to the dad IMO. Oh well, Hollywood is always going to twist stories.

Grim business for sure. Thanks, bum.

[Darth_Pelican]

Damsel: 3/10 Low-budget special effects and shallow plot. Millie Bobby Brown is gonna be around for a while though.

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Damsel: 3/10 Low-budget special effects and shallow plot. Millie Bobby Brown is gonna be around for a while though.

Saw it in the listings as well last night and by passed it on a hunch. Thank goodness.

I made a list off the Internet of 6 good movies on the Prime stream. Got on there and every one of those 6 movies required a rental!

Finally settled on the FreeVee stream watching a movie called -Anabelle & Elvis- '07 starring Blake Lively as a beauty contestant and some unknown playing Elvis who in this movie is portending to be a mortician that in reality is his father's trade who is in ill health, played by Joe Montegna...he's pitiful, almost too pitiful. She dies one evening on stage and just as Elvis is about to embalm her she comes back to life. You'd think with that premise it would be a treat. No, it's goofy instead with Mary Steenburgen, Lively's mother playing a moron for no good reason.

I'm gonna brazen it out tonight and finish it.

FreeVee has commercials and this one is moderately spiced with 'em, but I'm gonna do it!

[Blake]

Damsel: 3/10 Low-budget special effects and shallow plot. Millie Bobby Brown is gonna be around for a while though.

That's too bad. I liked the idea of it when I saw the preview

[Blake]

Kung Fu panda 4: 2/10

Generic, bland, unfunny and I think the animation actually is worse. Felt like it should have been an episode on a cartoon series for it. It was like they took the characters and The Hero's Journey and inputted into chatgpt. Sad quick cash grab.

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Kung Fu panda 4: 2/10

Generic, bland, unfunny and I think the animation actually is worse. Felt like it should have been an episode on a cartoon series for it. It was like they took the characters and The Hero's Journey and inputted into chatgpt. Sad quick cash grab.

And fully WOKE. They're hammerin' the preview like madmen. Figures you'd sit there for the whole enchilada, Blake.

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Saw it in the listings as well last night and by passed it on a hunch. Thank goodness.

I made a list off the Internet of 6 good movies on the Prime stream. Got on there and every one of those 6 movies required a rental!

Finally settled on the FreeVee stream watching a movie called -Anabelle & Elvis- '07 starring Blake Lively as a beauty contestant and some unknown playing Elvis who in this movie is portending to be a mortician that in reality is his father's trade who is in ill health, played by Joe Montegna...he's pitiful, almost too pitiful. She dies one evening on stage and just as Elvis is about to embalm her she comes back to life. You'd think with that premise it would be a treat. No, it's goofy instead with Mary Steenburgen, Lively's mother playing a moron for no good reason.

I'm gonna brazen it out tonight and finish it.

FreeVee has commercials and this one is moderately spiced with 'em, but I'm gonna do it!

Finished it last night, but it's pretentious junk all the way thru. I wouldn't hit a dog in the ass with it.

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Great moments in film.
You can stop at "50."
36 seconds in.
It's just baseball thereafter.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhGWxqj_bC0

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Great moments in film.
Donald Pleasance: his finest hour.
"8" & "7"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Blq11wjG30

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John Carpenter & the Richards girl.
Both at zenith.
A flawless motion picture event of film.
Pure.American.Film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AmJhbE3AyM4

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Great moments in film.
Arguably the finest trailer on sound track film.

"The basement"
&
The graveyard walk of roses.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG0hOpPs6eU

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Great moments in film.
"Miss Columbia"
-Double Tap-


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eBmbpqKq2Ek

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Bore witness a couple of real rotten ones last night.

1. "The Tree of Life" with Penn & Pitt from 2011. 2 1/2 hours of pure, unadulterated horseshit. Did I stay all the way? Of course I did, like a fool. It's over on Hulu, but I wouldn't hit a dog in the ass with it.

2. "The Babadook" from 2014. The dog is safe again. I wouldn't hit her in the ass with this one either. It's on the Amazon stream, but just leave it there.

Hulu is carrying -Once Upon a Time in Hollywood- though and at no extra fee. It just gets better with each successive viewing. Is it flawless? No, but it's close.

[Thread]

Great Moments in Film.

Robert Blake finds his father on the scaffolding after the 13 steps.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gC89D2UasLY

[Thread]

Great moments in Film.
Effy's FA/FO theory in battleground application.
The Triple-Redoubt


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXqszbQVdaw

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*Took a flier with a film on Hulu...-Fresh-...in '22. It evolves primarily around cannibalism of captured young women by a SOB, so, going in I didn't think I'd be able to see it thru. I did not see it thru, but instead "watched" it thru Wikipedia which I have found is a great alternative as they recount without judgment, or, passionate prose the entire movie.

Gird you loins for that one...even Wiki's litany is frightening beyond the pale.

*-Don't Worry, Darling- in '22 on the MAX stream. Just a redo of the -Stepford Wives- (early one) but has Olivia Wilde which causes it to be watchable. Has a great sex scene early (not involving Wilde) but the 2 main leads. They even show the girl's closely cropped wedge for a split second.

I'd hit a dog in the ass with it, but really don't waste your time.

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One more I tried very early this morning.

-Self Reliance- in '23 that deals with a fellow who agrees to play a game for big money. He must be accompanied by someone at all times, or, he'll be murdered if alone. It's a black comedy, so, it's not riveting, even more than a bit agitating. I fell asleep midway thru and finished "watching" it on Wiki this morning.

Don't bother.

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https://productplacementblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Triumph-Motorcycle-Used-by-Timothy-Olyphant-as-James-Stacy-in-Once-Upon-a-Time-...-in-Hollywood-2019-780x439.jpg
I figured if Tarantino can cite James Stacy in -Once Upon a Time in Hollywood- (motorcycle sequence above) it is only fair & just that the entire story be told.

Stacy was a hot commodity in '60's Hollywood. Then he crashed his Harley (a drunken driver hit him) in '73 in the Hollywood Hills..."His leg was already off when the ambulance arrived." His left arm would be amputated as well. He persevered and had a keen role -Posse- 2 years later. He'd show again, and this time with an amount of keen poignancy -Something Wicked This Way Comes- in '83 as the one time super star college QB who'd lost his leg/arm in WWI., who makes a pact with the "something wicked"/Jonathan Pryce passing thru his small town where he is now the town bartender.

Here is the rest of the story... Arrest and conviction[edit (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James_Stacy&action=edit&section=7)]

In November 1995, Stacy pleaded no contest (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nolo_contendere) to a charge of molesting an 11-year-old girl.[9] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stacy#cite_note-9) On December 7, 1995, he failed to appear for sentencing in Ventura County Superior Court and was arrested the next day in a Honolulu, Hawaii hospital after he fled California. He attempted suicide by jumping off a cliff. After recovering, he waived extradition (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extradition) and returned to California. On March 5, 1996, he received a six-year prison sentence. The prosecutor said she believed Stacy might have been eligible for probation for the molestation, but his post-arrest behavior, coupled with two arrests in June 1995 for prowling at the homes of other girls,[2] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stacy#cite_note-people-2)[10] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stacy#cite_note-10) led her to seek a prison sentence.[11] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stacy#cite_note-11)[12] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stacy#cite_note-12) He served his sentence at the California Institution for Men (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Institution_for_Men) in Chino, California.[2] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stacy#cite_note-people-2)

James Stacy passed away in 2016.

***-Something Wicked This Way Comes- should not be missed.

https://beachmovies.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/james-stacy-original-contact-enlargement-8x10-photo-f5989.jpg?w=640

In "Posse"

[MultiTroll]

^
post-arrest behavior,
coupled with two arrests in June 1995 for prowling at the homes of other girls,

Still only results in 6 years.
Out in 3?

The US Injustice System. :lol

. :depressed

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^
post-arrest behavior,
coupled with two arrests in June 1995 for prowling at the homes of other girls,

Still only results in 6 years.
Out in 3?

The US Injustice System. :lol

. :depressed




You're talking 30 years ago, did they even have a national database and the branding iron in use back then? I don't believe so.

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Watched -Backcountry- (2014) again for the 3rd time last night. It's quite serviceable at a tight 92 minutes as the young couple FA/hike thru the forest, become lost and eventually FO/attacked by a black bear who eats him & injures her. Why she only deploys the bear spray once during the attack isn't explained.

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I'm going to rent/$3.59 and watch -Under Suspicion- 2000 some time today, on the Prime stream. I've already seen this fine film 3 times. Stars Morgan Freeman as the detective, Gene Hackman as the accused, well heavily suspected child killer, Monica Bellucci as his detached///gorgeous wife (I God's) and Thomas Jane as the junior detective who drives this film superlatively. He is simply magnificent here. Without him it woulda died on the vine. They knew.

Both Freeman & Hackman bankrolled it.

It is not flawless, no, as it stumbles when away from the PR police HQ interrogation room, yet is still quite entertaining as the viewer chooses a side early and we FO.

A complete film.

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Great moments in Film.
FO & FA
No, right Effy?
FA & FO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpz8L-thRmc


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eJr_AJT_SU


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zA12kVDm6M&t=109s

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The disgust in tossing away the barbed wire.
"Lie still, lie still."
at 2:09

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqyiRwlLa80

I wouldn't hit the proverbial dog in the ass with the film, but this introduction is nails.

[HemisfairArena]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cth9aakWf38

[HemisfairArena]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKrrAa2o9Eg

[Thread]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKrrAa2o9Eg

A flawless motion picture event.

And she's not even that choice, but, on that landing at the first in just the towel and nothing else he's ready to commit murder.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cth9aakWf38

It frustrates one as does "The Collector" in the same circa. They're both good movies, but I can't watch 'em. There's no satisfaction in them.

But, the beginning of this is just so fine (the crash) (the sisters at youth) (the father was a fine choice as well)..until we rocket ahead to present day.

And the neighbors next door [Anna Lee and her demure daughter] is a wonderful decision to have modern day right next to a situation that is stuck back in the ages. It jolts one to enter Lee's home and it's normal. They knew to set that in there.

[DD]

Great moments in Film.
FO & FA
No, right Effy?
FA & FO

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dpz8L-thRmc


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_eJr_AJT_SU


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zA12kVDm6M&t=109s

This is one of those movies for me that was better on 2nd and 3rd viewings, many years after the theatrical release

[DD]

https://productplacementblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/Triumph-Motorcycle-Used-by-Timothy-Olyphant-as-James-Stacy-in-Once-Upon-a-Time-...-in-Hollywood-2019-780x439.jpg
I figured if Tarantino can cite James Stacy in -Once Upon a Time in Hollywood- (motorcycle sequence above) it is only fair & just that the entire story be told.

Stacy was a hot commodity in '60's Hollywood. Then he crashed his Harley (a drunken driver hit him) in '73 in the Hollywood Hills..."His leg was already off when the ambulance arrived." His left arm would be amputated as well. He persevered and had a keen role -Posse- 2 years later. He'd show again, and this time with an amount of keen poignancy -Something Wicked This Way Comes- in '83 as the one time super star college QB who'd lost his leg/arm in WWI., who makes a pact with the "something wicked"/Jonathan Pryce passing thru his small town where he is now the town bartender.

Here is the rest of the story... Arrest and conviction[edit (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James_Stacy&action=edit§ion=7)]

In November 1995, Stacy pleaded no contest (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nolo_contendere) to a charge of molesting an 11-year-old girl.[9] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stacy#cite_note-9) On December 7, 1995, he failed to appear for sentencing in Ventura County Superior Court and was arrested the next day in a Honolulu, Hawaii hospital after he fled California. He attempted suicide by jumping off a cliff. After recovering, he waived extradition (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extradition) and returned to California. On March 5, 1996, he received a six-year prison sentence. The prosecutor said she believed Stacy might have been eligible for probation for the molestation, but his post-arrest behavior, coupled with two arrests in June 1995 for prowling at the homes of other girls,[2] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stacy#cite_note-people-2)[10] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stacy#cite_note-10) led her to seek a prison sentence.[11] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stacy#cite_note-11)[12] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stacy#cite_note-12) He served his sentence at the California Institution for Men (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Institution_for_Men) in Chino, California.[2] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stacy#cite_note-people-2)

James Stacy passed away in 2016.

***-Something Wicked This Way Comes- should not be missed.

https://beachmovies.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/james-stacy-original-contact-enlargement-8x10-photo-f5989.jpg?w=640

In "Posse"




Something Wicked This Way Comes is just kind of embedded in my subconscious from a very early age. It is underratedly unsettling, like The Uninvited, original Salem’s Lot (can’t explain it, I know it’s cheesy)and Jacob’s Ladder. The scene you alluded to as well as the girl getting her beauty back then going blind always stuck with me

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Something Wicked This Way Comes is just kind of embedded in my subconscious from a very early age. It is underratedly unsettling, like The Uninvited, original Salem’s Lot (can’t explain it, I know it’s cheesy)and Jacob’s Ladder. The scene you alluded to as well as the girl getting her beauty back then going blind always stuck with me

It is an American masterpiece and like you said it don't stray far from your memory bank.

The anguish that Robards displays as it all unfolds is frightening upon reflection.

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Don't bother with -Out of the Furnace- 2013 with Bale & Casey Affleck as brothers in a broken spirited steel town. CA is being deployed once again via Stop Loss, but before he leaves he wants to bare knuckle him some money. Brother Bale drives drunk one night, plows into a car that contains a child, but we don't get anything else. The exact next scene is BB in prison. He resurfaces, but there is no time frame attached. CA is now linked up with Willem Dafoe, a mafia type fellow with a heart of gold. W. Harrelson has the tasty role and nails it (when hasn't he?) Everybody else is sleep walking the GD thing, especially CB, GD it. It's junk goin' in and remains on that track for two GD hours.

The dog is safe on this.

+++Mary Ellen Walton's 1st husband on "All in the Family," I mean "The Waltons" has a nice role. Good to see him, but he whispers everything. I don't know why.

No. Just no.

ADDENDUM: DiCaprio bankrolled it.

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This is one of those movies for me that was better on 2nd and 3rd viewings, many years after the theatrical release

Yep. There's a lot there. The feud twixt the Sheriff, those 2 O'Banion brothers and Hopkiin's family is surreal. They took their time and did it right so were heavily vested in the outcome and see it coming a mile away. The dead girl's father on the ridge ain't fuckin' around no longer. The Sheriff has some restraint, especially during the shooting death of Pitt's wife in the road. He's pissed at the one O' brother who black jack's Pitt, not once does he scold him, but twice. & they got the right guy for the Sheriff role! He's absolutely perfect. He knows there is going to be retribution and that he may be exposed when it comes. He's even in the liqueur warehouse when the O' brother is discovered impaled on the pitchfork. He's in the back on the right smoking that cigar...it is no surprise to him what has happened.

& Pitt is no killer, unless it's blooded (when the kid brother is (KIA WWI scene) but hesitates in the warehouse with O'Banion and is lucky to escape with his life.

And that ending with him rassling that damn bear to perfect music over it, and then the freeze frame.

It is American film. Pure.

So much more.

[HemisfairArena]

It frustrates one as does "The Collector" in the same circa. They're both good movies, but I can't watch 'em. There's no satisfaction in them.

But, the beginning of this is just so fine (the crash) (the sisters at youth) (the father was a fine choice as well)..until we rocket ahead to present day.

And the neighbors next door [Anna Lee and her demure daughter] is a wonderful decision to have modern day right next to a situation that is stuck back in the ages. It jolts one to enter Lee's home and it's normal. They knew to set that in there.

Love the movie,,,it has one of my favorite actors in Victor Buono in it. He was great in tv series he did,,,,especially The Wild Wild West.

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Love the movie,,,it has one of my favorite actors in Victor Buono in it. He was great in tv series he did,,,,especially The Wild Wild West.

Yes, they plugged him right in there (they knew) (first credited role) and he too represents normalcy against what's going on otherwise, it keeps the viewer believing everything will work out okay. Buys the filmed story (time) so the sisters can advance and show/tell us.

And he's young too which helps the character. Young & old around that house. Like when Lee comes over with the flowers, just standing there by the side door is an amazing sight to behold.
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With Buono, fans knew without being told he was on borrowed time from that stout beginning. And whatever we got: (this) (West) (the rest) was gifted to just us. 20 years in & out. We didn't need anymore because we weren't gonna get it.

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I figured if Tarantino can cite James Stacy in -Once Upon a Time in Hollywood- (motorcycle sequence above) it is only fair & just that the entire story be told.

Stacy was a hot commodity in '60's Hollywood. Then he crashed his Harley (a drunken driver hit him) in '73 in the Hollywood Hills..."His leg was already off when the ambulance arrived." His left arm would be amputated as well. He persevered and had a keen role -Posse- 2 years later. He'd show again, and this time with an amount of keen poignancy -Something Wicked This Way Comes- in '83 as the one time super star college QB who'd lost his leg/arm in WWI., who makes a pact with the "something wicked"/Jonathan Pryce passing thru his small town where he is now the town bartender.

Here is the rest of the story... Arrest and conviction[edit (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=James_Stacy&action=edit&section=7)]

In November 1995, Stacy pleaded no contest (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nolo_contendere) to a charge of molesting an 11-year-old girl.[9] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stacy#cite_note-9) On December 7, 1995, he failed to appear for sentencing in Ventura County Superior Court and was arrested the next day in a Honolulu, Hawaii hospital after he fled California. He attempted suicide by jumping off a cliff. After recovering, he waived extradition (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extradition) and returned to California. On March 5, 1996, he received a six-year prison sentence. The prosecutor said she believed Stacy might have been eligible for probation for the molestation, but his post-arrest behavior, coupled with two arrests in June 1995 for prowling at the homes of other girls,[2] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stacy#cite_note-people-2)[10] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stacy#cite_note-10) led her to seek a prison sentence.[11] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stacy#cite_note-11)[12] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stacy#cite_note-12) He served his sentence at the California Institution for Men (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Institution_for_Men) in Chino, California.[2] (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Stacy#cite_note-people-2)

James Stacy passed away in 2016.

***-Something Wicked This Way Comes- should not be missed.

https://beachmovies.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/james-stacy-original-contact-enlargement-8x10-photo-f5989.jpg?w=640

In "Posse"




Sat down with my middle son last evening for it once again. I remember when it premiered, I wouldn't have anything to do with it. Didn't go to the theater with the children. I figured you know T would WAKE it to a pitch I wouldn't be able to brook. "C'mon, dad, remember when you wanted to walk out of "Tombstone?" And we talked you into staying in the theater?" They had a point, but now they were old enough to go to the theater alone. "No. Now leave me alone!"

You know what? I was dead wrong, first on "Tombstone" then on "Once upon."

T, for over two hours erased what had transpired finally on that night. He turned everything completely around. Had he had not a stable of movies in his wallet (they'd) a told him "No." and mean't it. "Uh, uh. There's no upside. No."

T knew all along. He was quite young that morning as the news was released out of California. It's important to be on the earth and cognizant of what had occurred and the evolvement as "The Circle Game" advances you from youthful curiosity to flat eared, tight-lipped and bitterly informed. It never goes away. I can't let go of the Folger girl finally giving up the struggle with them: "I give up, just kill me."

He takes it all away for an evening's sit.

We've needed it and got it, from him.

As it wound down last night to DiCaprio being escorted to the house via the invite by her thru the driveway intercom, I said to my son: "What do you think, boy, we stand for them here?"

"Dad........." He lamented.
You can't explain. He wasn't upon the earth then.

Leo finds her there at the last-in her 3rd trimester-and in an immaculate football jersey.

I jacked my Lazy Boy.
He jacked his nondescript recliner.

T

[lebomb]

Watched the NEW Roadhouse on Amazon Prime yesterday. It was decent for arse woopin entertainment. As far as the acting and storyline go, it was horrible. I give his flick a 5.375/10

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Watched the NEW Roadhouse on Amazon Prime yesterday. It was decent for arse woopin entertainment. As far as the acting and storyline go, it was horrible. I give his flick a 5.375/10

The original was terrible. This remake worse.

[lebomb]

The original was terrible. This remake worse.

[ChumpDumper]

:lol why are you all watching a remake of a movie you think sucked?

I can see giving new Dune a try, but this is Roadhouse.

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:lol why are you all watching a remake of a movie you think sucked?

I can see giving new Dune a try, but this is Roadhouse.

Frankly to check to make sure I was right about the first issue. "Yeah, you were right, Dale, let's go back to "My Three Sons. Okay, let's get a snack first, okay? Sure, but don't forget to check those bastards on the Spurs site. Savvy? Savvy, we won't forget. How bout a bowl of Cocoa Crispy's in half-&-half? I'm game, we'll get our favorite bowl. C'mon! I'm comin', I comin'. Help me out of this recliner. One, two, 3, pull!!!"

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Great moments in film...American Film.
...
"I'm askin' ya out for the last time."

They're almost beautiful as their moment of vengeance throbs to the fore.
He's obstinate at recognition.
~~~
Bacon & the children...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ-0cFy1klw

"...Jesus!"

[DD]

Great moments in film...American Film.
...
"I'm askin' ya out for the last time."

They're almost beautiful as their moment of vengeance throbs to the fore.
He's obstinate at recognition.
~~~
Bacon & the children...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ-0cFy1klw

"...Jesus!"




Easily one of the most satisfying scenes I’ve ever seen.

“I’m busy here what do you boys want?”

“same thing I’ve always wanted. To watch you die.”

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Great moments in Film. American Film.

A true hero is every sense of the word.
His finest hour.
Reynolds



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntC0xJo2bSU&t=17s

And if "Bobby" hadn't been raped he and his friends would've turned "Lewis."
---The motherfuckers---

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"Frank Palancio" is the guy.
Our Tim Matheson has the warrant.

You know what it is, don't ya's?
You damn right.
It's Film. American Film.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re-vlmH3jEc

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Once Upon a time...not in Hollywood...No.
In America.
Our James Russo is in the alley with the children.
Oh, 1 more thing..."Excuse the glove."


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNSSBx74E8Q

[HemisfairArena]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1EHT838rrg

[Blake]

4/10 for the latest ghost busters. Was laughing at how much screen time Dan Akroyd was getting. I get that this whole thing was his baby from the start but cmon.

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Great moments in Film.
You know from whence.
American Film.
And so beautifully pure your tears will crest.
It's just 23 seconds.
Watch him go over Henry.
2:32-2:55
~~~~~~~~~

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTJz_hj6GXw

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Great moments in Film.
Pure-American-Film.
Q&A
At 56 seconds in.
~~~~~~~~~

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25NmudB2fqg

[Thread]

J.T. Walsh
Great moments in Film.
American Film.

at 33 seconds in...brass tacks...
"Upstairs and down."
~~~~~~~~~

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2NAszvB80Ws&t=101s

[HemisfairArena]

Here ya go, Thread,,,,great moments in film,,,


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1etPoP4GDs8

[Thread]

Here ya go, Thread,,,,great moments in film,,,


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1etPoP4GDs8

And the transitional moment:::"I'll take that Chesterfield now." Hopper has made his peace with the Lord Jesus Christ, and is ready to come on home.

[Monostradamus]

Great moments in Film.
You know from whence.
American Film.
And so beautifully pure your tears will crest.
It's just 23 seconds.
Watch him go over Henry.
2:32-2:55
~~~~~~~~~

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTJz_hj6GXw

The way DeNiro says “the hoof” always cracks me up.

[Monostradamus]

And the transitional moment:::"I'll take that Chesterfield now." Hopper has made his peace with the Lord Jesus Christ, and is ready to come on home.
Walken is a very particular flavor, and there’s times where his acting style is a huge distraction (like in Dune pt 2). But when he’s dialed in with the perfect character in the right movie, he’s sublime.

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The way DeNiro says “the hoof” always cracks me up.

Yes. It's naturally composed and delivered for the correct effect. And may well have been impromptu by DeNiro.

The 3 are either going to be sitting there tranced, or, as Scorese directs. DeNiro is concentrating on his food, so is Tommy till his mother turns Henry. And Tommy is instantly alarmed..."What's the matter, something wrong with you?" Tommy understand precisely what's happening.

Henry can't eat because of what's in his car's trunk parked 30 feet away in the driveway. Tommy is psychotic so he's naturally disposed to want to murder first and not even care about asking questions later. Henry is the persistent weak link in the trio and this is born out at the last as he turns...when the Court room seated Paulie gives his rat's ass a look just like Tommy gives sweeping back from Henry to DeNiro and finally to his mother. His psychosis moment then breaks and we're OK again. He knew deep in his innards with Henry he was exposed, but the trigger never got pulled.

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Walken is a very particular flavor, and there’s times where his acting style is a huge distraction (like in Dune pt 2). But when he’s dialed in with the perfect character in the right movie, he’s sublime.

...like in -At Close Range- '86 with the Penn brothers as his sons, though he isn't too sure about the paternity with Chris Penn in a viciously cruel sequence when he makes this doubt in front of the boy.

Walken is in top form in this film..."sublime" as you submitted...here he comes...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-5nOsRjv1E

*On the porch and closest to the scene is the Penn boy's real life mother.

[MultiTroll]

Dale, anyone?

1999 TV movie, "Judgment Day: The Ellie Nesler Story,"

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Dale, anyone?

1999 TV movie, "Judgment Day: The Ellie Nesler Story,"

I'm not familiar with this movie, Mult.

[HemisfairArena]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNxsaFCzqxc

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-First Born-
A small gem from '84, out of Paramount.

Corey Haim's motion picture debut and he does fine.
Robert Downey, Jr. glows & is damn near beautiful.
Teri Garr is cute & pliable till the bottom drops out.
Sarah Jessica Parker is present and accounted for.

But,
it's Peter Weller's film and he owns it, start to finish as the interloper into Garr's family & homestead after her estranged husband announces his impending marriage to another.
Weller is part con man, wannabe drug pusher who clashes summarily with Garr's 2 sons.
Is it flawless? No. Is it serviceable? Fuckin' 'eh... just to see Weller command the camera lens.
~~~~~~~~~
Also the production added (not connected to the main plot] a teacher in the local HS who the elder Garr son clashes with not once, but thrice, the last time (below) is someone in that production's axe to grind & it's ground,
BIG TIME...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWqnMNaGkzQ

Netflix

[DD]

Didn’t watch, but with a 3-week run in theaters we can go ahead and give this a 0/10. Hollywood taking heavy L’s in the culture war

https://x.com/culturecrave/status/1777553964327936133

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Found another small gem on the Netflix Stream this morning.
-Body Double-
DePalma bankrolled & directed it in '84.
Almost 2 hours but they go by in a flash.

Stars small fry newcomers exclusively but they're accomplished and acquit themselves admirably...
Deborah Shelton is drop dead gorgeous as the female under duress.
Melanie Griffith is bare-ass naked, but it's medicinal for some damn reason.
Craig Wasson is the male lead and I've always thought him a trouper.
Gregg Henry, had that small role in the circa (Scarface) is duplicitous & works superbly.

A lot of ball-busting about Hollywood therein but it doesn't intrude, so, nary problem with it.

I've seen this film a dozen times in 40 years and it never grows old.

Netflix

[Monostradamus]

Thread are you a Paul Schrader fan?

[Thread]

Thread (https://www.spurstalk.com/forums/member.php?u=19320) are you a Paul Schrader fan?

Yes.

ADDENDUM: Wow, just on Wiki and noticed he slacked off since '88 and the -The Temptation of Christ-

ADDENDUM: Christ, I had no idea he wrote & directed -American Gigolo- I love that film. When she alibis him in the LA County jailhouse and he lays his head upon that Plexiglass to her touch I go all to pieces. It sounds goofy but (she) is the mother he never had and he's finally found her. He's been reborn

It's spectacular.
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Thanks for asking Mono, it's made my Wednesday.

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Great moments in film. American Film.

De & Di
Asses & Elbows
+
the Dushku girl
~~~~~~~~~
De was Barkin' up the wrong tree...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pm_ESHUGfFw&t=3s

[MultiTroll]

Dale have you ever been switching channels on a rainy day or whatever, however come across a Lifetime Movies feature.
I met one of the execs of this show 20 years ago ans she no holds barred said ya it's a bunch of cheesy drama and sex, but they got their audience.

So today i'm occupied on a phone call and have the tv on mute. The call runs awhile so as i am changing channels it lands on so i leave it there.
Holy cow. Same stuff they've been doing for decades but man they've kicked it up a notch.

Secret Life of a Sorority Girl is a thrilling film that delves into the intriguing world of secrets, suspense, and unexpected twists. Directed by Damian Romay, the movie introduces us to Cheryl, a single mother whose college-going daughter, Ashley, is funding her education by working as a pole dancer at a club. When Cheryl discovers Ashley’s secret side venture, a heated argument ensues, and she even threatens to disown her own daughter. However, regret soon replaces anger when Ashley goes missing the next day.

Unable to rely solely on the police, Cheryl takes matters into her own hands and begins investigating her daughter’s disappearance. Her search leads her to the club where Ashley worked. In a bold move, Cheryl starts working as a pole dancer herself, hoping to get closer to the staff and uncover clues about her daughter’s whereabouts. Along the way, she forms an unexpected bond with Jake, the bartender, who agrees to assist in the search.

The film masterfully juxtaposes a quintessential suburban backdrop with the clandestine world of the club, heightening the mystery. Here are some key details about Secret Life of a Sorority Girl:

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Dale have you ever been switching channels on a rainy day or whatever, however come across a Lifetime Movies feature.
I met one of the execs of this show 20 years ago ans she no holds barred said ya it's a bunch of cheesy drama and sex, but they got their audience.

So today i'm occupied on a phone call and have the tv on mute. The call runs awhile so as i am changing channels it lands on so i leave it there.
Holy cow. Same stuff they've been doing for decades but man they've kicked it up a notch.

Secret Life of a Sorority Girl is a thrilling film that delves into the intriguing world of secrets, suspense, and unexpected twists. Directed by Damian Romay, the movie introduces us to Cheryl, a single mother whose college-going daughter, Ashley, is funding her education by working as a pole dancer at a club. When Cheryl discovers Ashley’s secret side venture, a heated argument ensues, and she even threatens to disown her own daughter. However, regret soon replaces anger when Ashley goes missing the next day.

Unable to rely solely on the police, Cheryl takes matters into her own hands and begins investigating her daughter’s disappearance. Her search leads her to the club where Ashley worked. In a bold move, Cheryl starts working as a pole dancer herself, hoping to get closer to the staff and uncover clues about her daughter’s whereabouts. Along the way, she forms an unexpected bond with Jake, the bartender, who agrees to assist in the search.

The film masterfully juxtaposes a quintessential suburban backdrop with the clandestine world of the club, heightening the mystery. Here are some key details about Secret Life of a Sorority Girl:

Love it, but, I lost the cable a year ago and Lifetime a distant, but grand memory.

Love the one where the girl is raped, but can't ID the rapist.

Shortly after he falls in love with this fellow and marries him, then finds out she's been impregnated thru the rape. The new husband graciously accepts the child and they go on. The child becomes ill and needs a transplant of some organ, but the mother isn't a match and the father is of course not a match naturally. It's life or death and he (Richard Grieco) confesses to his wife he was the rapist! He's tested and a match for the child. Me and the wife cried our eyes every time the movie was on that channel. We never missed it. Grieco was just fantastic.

-Sin and Redeption- '94

I miss that channel greatly.

[MultiTroll]

Dale, the mom:
https://www.memorabletv.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Secret-Life-of-a-Sorority-Girl-Movie.jpg
https://www.12thblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Jessica-Morris-7.jpg

[Thread]

Dale have you ever been switching channels on a rainy day or whatever, however come across a Lifetime Movies feature.
I met one of the execs of this show 20 years ago ans she no holds barred said ya it's a bunch of cheesy drama and sex, but they got their audience.

So today i'm occupied on a phone call and have the tv on mute. The call runs awhile so as i am changing channels it lands on so i leave it there.
Holy cow. Same stuff they've been doing for decades but man they've kicked it up a notch.

Secret Life of a Sorority Girl is a thrilling film that delves into the intriguing world of secrets, suspense, and unexpected twists. Directed by Damian Romay, the movie introduces us to Cheryl, a single mother whose college-going daughter, Ashley, is funding her education by working as a pole dancer at a club. When Cheryl discovers Ashley’s secret side venture, a heated argument ensues, and she even threatens to disown her own daughter. However, regret soon replaces anger when Ashley goes missing the next day.

Unable to rely solely on the police, Cheryl takes matters into her own hands and begins investigating her daughter’s disappearance. Her search leads her to the club where Ashley worked. In a bold move, Cheryl starts working as a pole dancer herself, hoping to get closer to the staff and uncover clues about her daughter’s whereabouts. Along the way, she forms an unexpected bond with Jake, the bartender, who agrees to assist in the search.

The film masterfully juxtaposes a quintessential suburban backdrop with the clandestine world of the club, heightening the mystery. Here are some key details about Secret Life of a Sorority Girl:

Love it, but, I lost the cable a year ago and Lifetime a distant, but grand memory.

Love the one where the girl is raped, but can't ID the rapist.

Shortly after she falls in love with this fellow and marries him, then finds out she's been impregnated thru the rape. The new husband graciously accepts the child and they go on. The child becomes ill and needs a transplant of some organ, but the mother isn't a match and the father is of course not a match naturally. It's life or death and he (Richard Grieco) confesses to his wife he was the rapist! He's tested and a match for the child. Me and the wife cried our eyes every time the movie was on that channel. We never missed it. Grieco was just fantastic.

-Sin and Redeption- '94

I miss that channel greatly.

[Thread]

Dale, the mom:
https://www.memorabletv.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Secret-Life-of-a-Sorority-Girl-Movie.jpg
https://www.12thblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/Jessica-Morris-7.jpg

I think I recall that title but I never watched it.

[MultiTroll]

That damn IMDB site doesn't transfer pics or i'd put one up of the little college tart.

Ya that stuff they get into on that channel, wow.

[HemisfairArena]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hrwigz5mDf8

Movie is in french so get ready for subtitles,,,,

[HemisfairArena]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhc0d6kYmQ8

more subtitles,,,,

[Thread]

Great moments from Gleason's Electronicam film system.​


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3sapJvn3K0

[koriwhat]

Civil War - .01/10

What a waste of time. Shitty movie by an even shittier Brit. :lol

[DMX7]

Civil War - .01/10

What a waste of time. Shitty movie by an even shittier Brit. :lol

I wouldn't have wasted my time watching this even if it were free. Were you that bored?

[Thread]

STILL great moments...

https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcS0IjyIkTo6wwIAau2CSN37f-5SOv7zkAlj033SEHXQESX0zdLsoHvsyXzFOQ&s

[lebomb]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhc0d6kYmQ8

more subtitles,,,,



Seriously?! Nobody is tryin to read all that shiaat. :rolleyes Can you post a movie we can just watch and listen to? :bobo

[HemisfairArena]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VlCnXhECGsQ

[baseline bum]

Eh nm

[Thread]

Hey fellows, I ran into a wonderfully emotional moment out of "Planes, Trains, and Automobiles" over on Instagram. My kid told me about it so I joined up today. I don't know how to lodge it here, or, how to give it to you guys in a standard way, but it concerns Steve Martin going over the scene where Dell tells him his wife died years earlier in that waiting room. It's just heartbreaking the way Martin goes on to tell the tale. It's only about 60 seconds, maybe a little more and Martin just can't hold his emotions. I'm sure you can search it out over on Instagram. You may have more experience and perhaps bring it here so we can all have it.

Thanks.

here's it is:::

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C6C-jf9rPK9/?igsh=MTM4cjMzODlzc2ZrMg=

[MultiTroll]

Movie is in french so get ready for subtitles,,,,
Looks intriguing. Is she one of those Looks so Innocent but man can she turn into a devil?

[Thread]

Al & her culo...


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDaELkYEC_g

[FrostKing]

https://i.ibb.co/SdSLvVN/Screenshot-20240702-024950-Chrome.jpg

[Blake]

https://i.ibb.co/SdSLvVN/Screenshot-20240702-024950-Chrome.jpg

I think I've seen it. It's about people like you terrified, trying to summon the strength to cross the street when there's a black man on the other side

[Ef-man]

I think I've seen it. It's about people like you terrified, trying to summon the strength to cross the street when there's a black man on the other side

Is that the one where the incel leaves the US for Europe because he fears people with more melanin than he has?

[Blake]

Is that the one where the incel leaves the US for Europe because he fears people with more melanin than he has?

Yes, he leaves to Porland

[koriwhat]

Boy Kills World - 8/10

It was entertaining from beginning to end and action packed. It wasn't phenomenal. However, it was captivating.

[Blake]

Of course he loved a movie where the lead wishes death on the world

[Darth_Pelican]

A Quiet Place: Day One

6/10. Not nearly as entertaining as the first 2 installments, IMO. Not worth seeing in theaters.

[Blake]

A Quiet Place: Day One

6/10. Not nearly as entertaining as the first 2 installments, IMO. Not worth seeing in theaters.

It's nuts that it's summer time and there's nothing worth seeing in theaters right now unless you're 11 years old and haven't seen inside out

[Thread]

It's nuts that it's summer time and there's nothing worth seeing in theaters right now unless you're 11 years old and haven't seen inside out

That's WOKE for ya.

[MultiTroll]

It's nuts that it's summer time and there's nothing worth seeing in theaters right now unless you're 11 years old and haven't seen inside out
You and Lee leave me hanging on Mayor of Kingstown.
I'm caught up. Got Qs.

[Blake]

You and Lee leave me hanging on Mayor of Kingstown.
I'm caught up. Got Qs.

I had to watch the season 2 finale to recall what was happening and I've seen episode 1. I guess a couple of actor contracts were up

[DPG21920]

Im stoked to see LONGLEGS

[blizz]

Watched Moon again yesterday. Such a great underrated film. Sam Rockwell was in his bag on this one. The score is perfect if not haunting in some ways and you never really know if you can trust Gerty until you do.

[Blake]

Im stoked to see LONGLEGS

Good reviews so far

[koriwhat]

Under Paris - 2/10

It's a snooze fest and not because I have an irrational fear of sharks.

[koriwhat]

Old B Movies...

Frankenhooker - 5/10, dumb
Brain Dead - 3/10, very dumb

[UNT Eagles 2016]

My Cousin Vinnie - 6.5/10

funny plot, very hot chick, a little far fetched, kind of anticlimactic ending.

[UNT Eagles 2016]

Joe Pesci with hair only a few years before the Home Alone series was funny though

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Relocated a fine motion picture. I was browsing thru TUBI yesterday morning and came across a film I'd seen partially years earlier, but didn't finish and then it disappeared from the cable and I didn't remember the title. ...-The Remaining-... from '14.

It's concerns the Rapture. It's quick at 88 minutes and never pauses for horseshit. A group of early 20 year olds are attending the wedding of one of their group in a hotel ball room. Shortly after the "I do's" Rapture hits leaving some "dead" their eyes open and white. While the remaining people are left in panic as quickly a shrill sound is heard (First Trumpet).

Outside planes drop straight down from the sky and pandemonium takes full affect. It's world wide and labeled {Instant Death Syndrome] by Winester's beloved scientists.

The Book of Revelations forewarns that when Rapture takes place their will be devils (the fallen) who will appear, "many devils" and this film follows that line with gusto.

There is no lamenting why some were Raptured, the rest left behind. There is no accounting. Done is done.

TUBI has a good transfer quality on their platform with limited commercials.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm-9F2KWegg

[Blake]

Fly Me to the Moon - 9/10

Fun movie. Scarlet on top of her game. Channing Tatum has a sneaky great sense of comedic timing but my complaint is that he is too stoic here to handle Johansen's razor sharp zingers. Ray Romano and Woody were nice surprises.

[Thread]

I have a string of 18 films I found thru Rotten Tomatoes exclusively on TUBI. These are from their top 100 films on TUBI and are among these 100 films.

I haven't started to watch yet. Later on tonight I'll start once Effy goes to bed, the SOB.

The Adventures of Robin Hood
Hunt for the Wilderpeople
Goodfellas
Howard's End
Re-Animator
Better Watch Out
Let Me In
The Sisters Brothers
Blue Valentine
The Master
Begin Again
Near Dark
Blow Up
The Shallows
Vicky Cristina Barcelona
"Triangle" with Melissa George & Liam Hemsworth [that's the one I've chosen for tonight.]
Bronson

[[[TUBI does run commercials, but they're not over long, or, frequent. They're the best commercialized stream I've been involved with.]]]

[Darth_Pelican]

Let Me In

This is a American remake of Let The Right One In. Make sure you watch the original instead. It's much better.

[Thread]

Caught a winner 5AM this morning. ...-Forever Young-... in '23.

With the killer tag line..."We're all addicts, addicted to time."

Concerns an elderly couple, she is a writer of some repute. The husband is satisfied to go into the dust that is always the end, but, she, the wife, is not. She's approached by an elderly gentleman at a book signing event who wants her to write his story. He's invented an elixir that regresses age. She turns him down in disbelief. He comes again, this time to the front door of their home after self testing the elixir and is sheer perfection. Her husband doesn't want to do it, she does and is drop dead gorgeous.

This is not a horror film whatsoever. There is no double cross, just a study of age and how it works. And God love 'em it's not woke in any way, shape, matter, or, form.

One hour & 39 minutes is ample time to tell it, and it's told in no uncertain terms.

It's on the Prime stream at no additional cost.

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ALERT!...warning! I made a mistake about which stream -Bone Tomahawk- is showing on. It's the MAX stream, not the Prime stream. Sorry about that.

The MAX stream brought in -Bone Tomahawk- in '15 again yesterday (at no additional cost) and I watched again, but FF thru (that) part. It's more enjoyable that-a-way.

I'll do 'er again tonight.

Thank Christ it got made before WOKE, otherwise I cringe at the thought.

[Thread]

I've been going thru ...-Aliens-... in '86 (Director's Cut) the last few days. It's on the MAX stream.

Cameron's reformation of the Marines is flawless.

Here: there is is no pissin', no moanin', no female pleadings. Right to the side arm.

It is her finest hour.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tF529mmjnM

[Thread]

Gorman goes back so she will not die alone.

Vasquez admonishes him...then makes it...all 4 hands so that he will not die alone.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHjRQJZsUGg

[Thread]

Slim picking with the new releases for August across the spectrum...Neflix, MAX, Prime. Ugh. Gonna be a long month.

One showed up kindly and it is a dilly.

In '85 -Return of the Living Dead-

Has a super blend of merciless horror gently laced with sharp comedy in the clutches. The culmination is tightly wound and released in a most professional sequence by the U.S. Army.

A girl named "Trash" in the movie (Linnea Quigley) [don't look her up, at 66].

She runs around for more than half this movie completely naked and she has an ass & attendant crack that is beyond description. She is adorable here.

Middlin' actors Clu Gulagher, James Karen, and Don Calfa legitimize the film on contract and the kids flesh it out.

It's at 91 minutes and everything is done before the bell sounds.

The production knew where they was going from start to finish with this story.
They knew.

It's on the Prime Stream at no additional charge.

[Thread]

"Sarge" jogs the box and we're under a "Yellow Rose of Texas" when Hudson stands on up, comes to the fore.

The waitress, her life would end as "Doris Ziffel">>>"Arnold's" mother. -Green Acres-

Hudson's daughter here (in the booth) (Carroll Baker) is livin's still at 93. Her reactions to her father's pummeling remains her finest hour.

...-GIANT-... in '56. It's on the MAX Stream.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4ptm6F2KHQ

[lebomb]

Boy Kills World - 8/10

It was entertaining from beginning to end and action packed. It wasn't phenomenal. However, it was captivating.


X2

My wife hated it. :rolleyes

[lebomb]

Monkeyman 7.5/10

It was supposed to be an India version of John Wick. Not quite. Dude gets his arse kicked for 75% of the movie, only to train for like 1 day, and become a fighting expert. Also, not enough John Wick gun play in this one. Revolvers don't count.

[koriwhat]

Monkeyman 7.5/10

It was supposed to be an India version of John Wick. Not quite. Dude gets his arse kicked for 75% of the movie, only to train for like 1 day, and become a fighting expert. Also, not enough John Wick gun play in this one. Revolvers don't count.

I forgot I watched this movie a few weeks back. Decent flick. It was a bit over the top at times but once again, another entertaining flick.

Your rating seems about right. :tu

[HemisfairArena]

Slim picking with the new releases for August across the spectrum...Neflix, MAX, Prime. Ugh. Gonna be a long month.

One showed up kindly and it is a dilly.

In '85 -Return of the Living Dead-

Has a super blend of merciless horror gently laced with sharp comedy in the clutches. The culmination is tightly wound and released in a most professional sequence by the U.S. Army.

A girl named "Trash" in the movie (Linnea Quigley) [don't look her up, at 66].

She runs around for more than half this movie completely naked and she has an ass & attendant crack that is beyond description. She is adorable here.

Middlin' actors Clu Gulagher, James Karen, and Don Calfa legitimize the film on contract and the kids flesh it out.

It's at 91 minutes and everything is done before the bell sounds.

The production knew where they was going from start to finish with this story.
They knew.

It's on the Prime Stream at no additional charge.

Return of the living dead is in my top 10 movies of all time,,,,its fuckin' amazing fun,,,,,right up there with Tremors, The Burbs, Big Trouble in Little China and Murder by Death,,,,all top 10 of all time on my list as well,,,,Godfather 1 and 2 are on the list too,,,,Young Frankenstein and Life of Brian might just about round it out on the top 10. Triangle with Melissa george is great just because i fuckin' love Melissa George,,,,,,she is as hot as a firecracker on the 4th of July,,,,

[Thread]

Return of the living dead is in my top 10 movies of all time,,,,its fuckin' amazing fun,,,,,right up there with Tremors, The Burbs, Big Trouble in Little China and Murder by Death,,,,all top 10 of all time on my list as well,,,,Godfather 1 and 2 are on the list too,,,,Young Frankenstein and Life of Brian might just about round it out on the top 10. Triangle with Melissa george is great just because i fuckin' love Melissa George,,,,,,she is as hot as a firecracker on the 4th of July,,,,

...yep, & she showed super -30 days of Night- in '07.

[MultiTroll]

The premise sounded okay.
But the delivery looks like it falls way short. In no small part due to that massive phaggot John Cena being co-star.

Jackpot! (2024) - IMDb (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26940324/)

[Blake]

The premise sounded okay.
But the delivery looks like it falls way short. In no small part due to that massive phaggot John Cena being co-star.

Jackpot! (2024) - IMDb (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26940324/)

I can't stand Awkwafina

[ObiwanGinobili]

i just watched: Relax I'm From The Future

It stars the "welcome to Jumangi!!" actor Rhys Darby and honestly it was really good. 8/10. funny and sci-fi. would watch again.

[koriwhat]

Longlegs, 5/10. What a complete let down.

[DeadlyDynasty]

I miss the excitement of the movies. I don’t look forward to anything aside from Oppenheimer and whatever a few of the posters in the movie thread rate.

What year did it officially turn to shit? 2019? Maybe earlier?

[monosylab1k]

I miss the excitement of the movies. I don’t look forward to anything aside from Oppenheimer and whatever a few of the posters in the movie thread rate.

What year did it officially turn to shit? 2019? Maybe earlier?

2019 was a really great movie year tbh (OUATIH, Parasite, Knives Out, Peanut Butter Falcon, Ford v Ferrari, The Irishman, 1917, Uncut Gems & Joker if you’re into that kind of cinema), but the blockbusters that year were mostly terrible.

2020 is when it really all went downhill.

[FrostKing]

I miss the excitement of the movies. I don’t look forward to anything aside from Oppenheimer and whatever a few of the posters in the movie thread rate.

What year did it officially turn to shit? 2019? Maybe earlier?
Covid & Weinstein. Woke.

I think it was always a bubble ready to burst. Last 3 Theater films I loved

Zimna Wojna
All Quiet Western Front
Wick series

[koriwhat]

2019 was a really great movie year tbh (OUATIH, Parasite, Knives Out, Peanut Butter Falcon, Ford v Ferrari, The Irishman, 1917, Uncut Gems & Joker if you’re into that kind of cinema), but the blockbusters that year were mostly terrible.

2020 is when it really all went downhill.

It's been bad for a long time but you're right, 2020 did indeed kill the movie industry.

[lebomb]

Kinds of Kindness........... ummmmmmmmm. :wtf

[Blake]

The Substance. 3/10

Reading the quick synopsis, thought it was going to be a drama, didn't know it was closer to being horror. Had literally no idea what to expect, but it was low budget and predictable and if you want to see how 60 year old Demi Moore looks, she's full naked for better or worse about 30 minutes total of the flick...

[Millennial_Messiah]

Hillbilly Elegy, 8.5/10

I really liked it and it had a lot of things that were very relatable. No my mom didn't do drugs, but, just circumstances as a whole. I can see why the Ivy League oligarch elitist douchebags could come up with bullshit about him like claiming he's "weird", tbh, but it's bogus.

[Millennial_Messiah]

It's been bad for a long time but you're right, 2020 did indeed kill the movie industry.

it's definitely been bad for at least around 15 years or so. It's just that most of the ideas have been spent and are not novel especially with respect to fiction.

[ChumpDumper]

Hillbilly Elegy, 8.5/10

I really liked it and it had a lot of things that were very relatable. No my mom didn't do drugs, but, just circumstances as a whole. I can see why the Ivy League oligarch elitist douchebags could come up with bullshit about him like claiming he's "weird", tbh, but it's bogus.

Um, JV Vance IS an Ivy League oligarch elitist douchebag.

[Texas_Ranger]

joker 2... all i heard about this is that its shit... now, i don't think its great, or even good, but it ain't the worst thing ever... probably something like a 4/10... All the musical stuff is in there just to make the movie longer and its pretty clear that Todd Phillips didn't wanna make it. Performances are good and the movie looks great, but the story is just meh and most people will hate the ending... Reminded me of Hangover 2, just that, that movie's ending didn't suck as much.

[Spurminator]

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
1/10

Not that I had high expectations. I think the first one is overrated, but it at least has some redeeming B-movie charm and funny scenes.

This one just felt like it was made to capitalize on Jenna Ortega's Wednesday being popular, and featured a number of unnecessary characters and subplots that felt like they were satisfying a corporate studio board's focus group checklist. Shaggy-haired twee love interest for the teenage protagonist? Check. New villain who's even badder than the title character, with a cool look that we can sell as a Halloween costume? Check.

Hey, people love the shrunken head guy from the first movie, let's have twenty of them for no reason! What's funnier than Beetlejuice? BABY Beetlejuice!

Honestly the only surprise was they didn't find a way to cast Paul Rudd.

[MultiTroll]

Don't F**k with Cats.

Not gonna watch it but holy F, any of you know the storyline?
I don't even want to post it.
Thankfully they found the F-er.

[lebomb]

9.875/10

Woman of The Hour on Netflix. Best movie I have seen in 2024 by far. Its at true story about a serial killer in the 1970's. Written by Anna Kendrick. Excellent movie IMHO.

[Thread]

Got a free week of AMC and watched the Centipede movie and "Mandy" again.

[koriwhat]

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
1/10

Not that I had high expectations. I think the first one is overrated, but it at least has some redeeming B-movie charm and funny scenes.

This one just felt like it was made to capitalize on Jenna Ortega's Wednesday being popular, and featured a number of unnecessary characters and subplots that felt like they were satisfying a corporate studio board's focus group checklist. Shaggy-haired twee love interest for the teenage protagonist? Check. New villain who's even badder than the title character, with a cool look that we can sell as a Halloween costume? Check.

Hey, people love the shrunken head guy from the first movie, let's have twenty of them for no reason! What's funnier than Beetlejuice? BABY Beetlejuice!

Honestly the only surprise was they didn't find a way to cast Paul Rudd.

I couldn't get through a qtr of the movie. Michael Keaton, this time around, looked more like Temu BJ that BJ back in the day. The movie was horrible for what I saw of it.

[Thread]

Found a good one last night on Prime. -13 Sins-

Gets a might (busy) and off the kilter as it moves along toward the finish line, but, still it's fresh and the acting is top notch up and down the list.

[Blake]

9.875/10

Woman of The Hour on Netflix. Best movie I have seen in 2024 by far. Its at true story about a serial killer in the 1970's. Written by Anna Kendrick. Excellent movie IMHO.

6/10. Well produced but the impending convergence of the two main characters ended up being anticlimactic