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Editorials Team · Posted
52 minutes ago, acromite53 said:

Last weekend I watched "The Apple"(1980). What a complete mess from Cannon films. It's set in the distopian future of 1994 where an evil music producer takes over the world. It was hilariously bad.

 

No joke, I watched that two weekends ago

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8 minutes ago, DarkTone said:

Last film I saw was Gemini Man. Thought it was meh. 3D was good.

Trying to track down The Fog (original). Anyone seen it?

Yeah I've got it.  Mid-tier Carpenter imo

Haven't been watching too many movies as I focus on books, but I last watched Vice Squad (the one from the 80s)

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Taxi Driver - Obviously a classic. The amount of editing/continuity "errors" stuck with me. This movie definitely made me feel like I'm losing my mind.

Child's Play - Curse of Chucky was way too good to be straight to DVD IMO and I kind of rate the new Child's Play movies against that now. This new one isn't bad but it's not awesome. There's definitely going to be a teddy bear sequel.

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My mom and I just finished watching Creed II on Hulu. Never been disappointed by a single Rocky movie and so far, neither of the Creed movies. This one was so good, had us tensed up during the fights and balling our eyes out at the end. You know when a movie is really great is when you really get into that shit. Haven't teared up with a movie in a while, I needed that. Happy tears, not sad, so its good.

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Last movie I watched is The Great Escape (1963), can hardly believe I haven't watch it sooner. Prison/camp evasion makes such great storytelling, mainly because it is a metaphor of good storytelling in a sense : put some characters in a position where it seems they just can't get out of, and find a creative, surprising, yet plausible way to get them out of it. Plenty of that in evasion stories, plus a lot of the  tricks and solutions performed for the evasion are sometimes historically justified.

As a bonus I got another Simpsons reference, as the main musical theme of the movie is used in A Streetcar Named Marge, when Maggie retrieves all the pacifiers in the daycare. Always wondered where that came from, now my life is enhanced.

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Just watched a really good apocalypse scenario thriller on hulu, A Breath Away (Dans la brume). It was in french with english subtitles. I understood maybe 5-7% (maybe more, just that still there was lots that slipped past me) of what I was hearing which is actually pretty good considering I don't really do much watching stuff in french language because by myself I don't usually watch anything (mostly all gaming for me). Many times I was only catching a few words here and there and more than a handful of times understood actual whole sentences. I got excited, and my mom's like, well of course you knew what they said because the subtitles are at the bottom of the screen. I'm like no, not the translation, the words they actually spoke. She just doesn't get the significance. Anyway it was really good. An earthquake happens in Paris and then some poison gas appears and covers the whole city (presumably the whole world) and two parents of a daughter who has to live in a bubble try to keep her alive. Interestingly while I was watching this movie it reminded me of a game demo I played on the 360 that it somehow felt like, not the same, but the same feeling, I am Alive (took forever for me to remember and find that game title).

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Stuart Little, The Pagemaster, Ninja Turtles II: Secret of the Ooze, The Wizard of Oz, The Flintstones, Star Trek Generations, That Thing you Do, Back to the Future, Pooh's Grand Adventure, Super Mario Bros., Rampage, Dumb and Dumber, Mighty Ducks 3, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone. A little bit of everything, I guess.

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On 10/22/2019 at 2:23 AM, Reed Rothchild said:

My wife was out of town so I actually got to watch some stuff

The Predator - I appreciated the comic relief, which was easily the best part of the movie.  The actual action and plot was alright I guess.

Halloween (2018) - I did not realize this was a reboot... of ALL the Halloween sequels.  Pretty cool idea, but the actual movie was only alright.  I'm kinda surprised this got so much praise.

Bohemian Rhapsody - Way too much plot and ground covered for a two hour movie.  They would have been better served focusing around a specific event or time in the band's career, instead of trying to quickly rush through nearly 20 years.

The Cabin in the Woods - another rewatch.  I love this movie.

Goodnight Mommy - Pretty good, and disturbing.  As a father of twin boys I was trying to mentally prepare myself for the worst.  This was also one of the few times where I caught the twist right in the beginning.  Though I guess the true twist was a little more subtle.

In addition to what you said, they also botched the timing between Freddy and the band splitting up, Freddy contracting Aids, and the Live Aid performance.

I guess they just wanted to make it seem more dramatic by making it coincide in the film, but it's not historically accurate. And it kinda bugged me that Brian May and Roger Taylor would sign off on it being written that way for the screenplay...

 

From Rolling Stone Mag:

The group never split up.
The movie veers the furthest from reality in the build-up to their 1985 performance at Live Aid. There’s a dramatic scene where Freddie reveals that he’s signed a solo deal behind their back for $4 million and that he wants to take a long break from the band. The others are absolutely livid and they all go their separate ways. The truth is that everyone in the band was burned out in 1983 after being on the road for a solid decade. They all wanted a break. The movie makes it seem like they didn’t speak to Freddie for years, but they actually began work on The Works in late 1983 and were never estranged.

Live Aid wasn’t a reunion.
In the movie, the group isn’t even on speaking terms when they get the offer to play Live Aid in 1985, and they hadn’t done a gig in years. It never mentions that they released The Works in early 1984 and then toured it all over the world. The last show of the tour was just eight weeks before Live Aid. They were extremely well-rehearsed by the time that show hit, but the movie shows them having to make peace with each other and get back into playing shape. It makes the performance more dramatic, but that’s not how it happened.

Freddie didn’t learn he was HIV-positive before Live Aid.
During rehearsals for Live Aid in the movie, Freddie reveals to the band that he is HIV-positive, but he wants to keep the news completely private and focus all his attention on music. The exact time that Mercury learned he had the disease remains somewhat under dispute, but nearly everyone pins it as occurring sometime between 1986 and 1987. He almost certainly had no clue when the group was rehearsing for Live Aid.

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Last night I watched one of the best documentaries of my life. It's called Up The Dawn Wall, it's a Netflix production and follows the life of Tommy Caldwell, cited as the best free climber in the world. He has dreams of climbing an impossible face of El Capitan in Yosemite Park. It may not sound great but there are a lot of things that happen to this kid that you would not be expecting and it ends on a crazy emotional ride.

Before that I watched Hereditary, James Rolfe says it is the scariest movie he has ever watched. I have never been more disappointed with a move in my entire life, it was terrible and not scary.

And before that was Tremors: A Cold Day In Hell. It's the sixth in the series and is just completely goofy and satirical but is very entertaining. I've seen all 6 now and they're about as good as Sharknado, pretty entertaining.

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13 minutes ago, Code Monkey said:

And before that was Tremors: A Cold Day In Hell. It's the sixth in the series and is just completely goofy and satirical but is very entertaining. I've seen all 6 now and they're about as good as Sharknado, pretty entertaining.

I just brought up Tremors today in a different Discord channel.  I need to catch up on them. I've only seen the first 3 and I loved 2 when they use to play it on TBS (or was it USA) about once a week.

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20 minutes ago, DorkOverlord said:

Just watched Captain Marvel and started The Irishman on Netflix. It's a three and a half hour movie, so that's going to require two sittings #shortattentionspan 

Yeah I noticed it last night and didn't watch it because of the run time.  Maybe get started on it this weekend. 

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I just watched The Irishman last night. I’ll readily admit it was awesome seeing all the amazing actors in the film together. Great supporting cast options as well, Bobby Cannavale was great as was Ray Romano. The story was ehhh did you really need 3.5 hours to tell this one? There is no doubt that Scorsese ranks among the best directors and it’s funny that I critique him against his own work - Casino, GoodFellas, Taxi Driver, Gangs of NY, Raging Bull, Wolf of Wall Street, Mean Streets, etc. Don’t get me wrong I liked it, but where the other movies I could watch over and over this one was better server as a one and done for me. It may have been better served as a 2-2.5 hour movie but that’s just me. 

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