Malfatron Posted July 11, 2020 Share Posted July 11, 2020 On 7/8/2020 at 11:21 PM, Outpost31 said: The Vast of Night was... I don’t know what to say. I enjoyed it. I wouldn’t recommend it because I know most people wouldn’t like it, but I thought it was great. Theres a HITB on it, so i should really watch it Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theJ Posted July 11, 2020 Share Posted July 11, 2020 6 hours ago, Outpost31 said: Okay, the ending to Uncut Gems was good I must admit. I think most people watch it and hate 90% of it, and are relieved at the ending. It is an annoying movie, through and through. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fresh Prince Posted July 11, 2020 Share Posted July 11, 2020 Total Recall... it was all a dream Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrILL! Posted July 11, 2020 Share Posted July 11, 2020 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malfatron Posted July 11, 2020 Share Posted July 11, 2020 going to watch Vast of Night and Aquaslash today Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malfatron Posted July 11, 2020 Share Posted July 11, 2020 4 hours ago, Malfatron said: going to watch Vast of Night and Aquaslash today i really liked vast of night excellent tone and 1950s feel. the two leads did excellent 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malfatron Posted July 11, 2020 Share Posted July 11, 2020 18 hours ago, Outpost31 said: Uncut Gems is just annoying. I hate movies about losers who keep being idiot losers. What am I supposed to be pulling for Adam Sandler? He’s a moron loser. yeah i shut if off halfway through it wasnt too intruguing to me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thrILL! Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 1 hour ago, Malfatron said: yeah i shut if off halfway through it wasnt too intruguing to me The Safdie brothers' style is so abrasively tough to watch that I didn't even make it that far. Their movies are such a chore to sit through. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fresh Prince Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 Not watching a movie but just watched WatchMojo Top 20 movie monsters. Myers, Jason, LeatherFace didn’t make the list but slender man did. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE DUKE Posted July 12, 2020 Share Posted July 12, 2020 My Spy was better than it had any right to be. Dave Bautista turned on the charm and really made it all work when it could have fallen apart so easily. A good family movie to watch with the kids. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacReady Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 Dragged Across Concrete Favorite movie I’ve seen since I watched A Quiet Place. Zahler has two serious hits (Bone Tomahawk, DAC) and one alright (Brawl in Cell Block 99). Outstanding pacing and dialogue. @Malfatron you might enjoy it. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KManX89 Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 (edited) I watched (rented) Max Payne on Prime Video just to refresh my memory a bit, and it's as bad as I remember. An adaptation of a game with all that shooting takes until the last 20 minutes to finally have a couple brief shootouts? And yeah, it deviated from the game's story (why? You're essentially given a movie in game form made INTO a movie), but it was a mess ignoring this. Holy cow, there was so much unbelievable **** I don't even know where to begin, and not just because of the supernatural hallucinogenic drug that makes people see ******* winged demons, either. The characters are bland and not interesting with a plot that drags. Nevermind the lack of narrations, bullet time (except for one scene where he outshoots a guy standing upright while falling backwards with a shotgun), or one-liners from the game, the movie was awful ignoring this. I know games-to-movies haven't had the best track record for obvious reasons, but this is one of the easier properties to get right on the big screen given the film noir style of the games, the gritty atmosphere and the fact that it's framing device is from ******* comic book pages, but they completely botched it with a poorly-paced, edited and written film that doesn't match the atmosphere it was setting up at all. It was so dull, boring and shallow that even Marky Mark is bland in this (congrats on having 2 phoned-in performances in a row, never thought I'd see that from you). Hell, even the dead family scene was completely dumbed down, perhaps the biggest cardinal sin of all in this movie. It was done so much better in the game, I felt like I could actually feel Max's pain (no pun intended) when he mourns over his dead wife and baby, which brings me to my next point (and this is a real pet peeve of mine)... It's another movie that clearly should've been R and was dumbed down by Tom Rothman's Fox. A cop who comes home and finds his wife and baby murdered, then brutally guns down gangsters with drugs and prostitutes thrown in for good measure, and they saw fit to give us a watered-down version of that. You can tell it was truncated by missing the more sinister story elements from the game (which was made for adults, anyway). Yeah, there's an "unrated" cut filled with cheap CGI blood effects (which, SPOILER: wasn't the version I watched since it was for purchase only on Prime Video), but it was pretty much already shot for PG-13, anyway. You can even tell it's choppily edited to add those in after the fact (Taken, this is not). Edited July 14, 2020 by KManX89 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Hope- Posted July 14, 2020 Share Posted July 14, 2020 i liked the old guard. the only thing i didn't like was the pretty roundly terrible music selection, which took me all the way out of a few scenes. otherwise, a fun and thoughtful variation on superhero/action. i may grab a hulu trial to watch palm springs and ready or not. both look really fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bucketheadsdad Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 I watched 'The Other Guys" today. Hadn't seen it before, It is in the finals against Dr. Strangelove in the "film brackets", and was winning last I checked. It was cute, but it certainly is not a better film than an iconic film like Dr. Strangelove. I guess I'm just a curmudgeon at this point in time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeT14 Posted July 15, 2020 Share Posted July 15, 2020 13 hours ago, -Hope- said: i liked the old guard. the only thing i didn't like was the pretty roundly terrible music selection, which took me all the way out of a few scenes. otherwise, a fun and thoughtful variation on superhero/action. i may grab a hulu trial to watch palm springs and ready or not. both look really fun. Old Guard was solid. I enjoyed it too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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