Reed Rothchild | 9,510 Editorials Team · Posted December 2, 2019 Share Posted December 2, 2019 Finally got the wife to watch Master and Commander with me. Probably the 10th time I've seen it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RH | 4,895 Posted December 2, 2019 Share Posted December 2, 2019 I watched TRON last night because I couldn't remember much of it and I wanted to watch TRON: Legacy (which I might watch tonight.) i had remembered seeing it more than a couple of times as a kid but I had no clue what it was about. After watching it, I remembered distinctively why--the audio mixing is horrible. This is a common complaint for me because you can here everything in our living room in every room in our house. I have to cut the volume down and if the volume range is all over the place, I can't hear the dialog! Thankfully we now live in the day and age of subtitles so I could follow along for the first time in my life. It's quite kitch and I enjoyed it. I had to chuckle every time a program-character had to end with "end of line" as their sign off. It was a cute touch. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tulpa | 3,488 Posted December 2, 2019 Share Posted December 2, 2019 On 11/30/2019 at 7:23 AM, a3quit4s said: 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. It's not only too long, every scene takes more time than it needs. There's a pretty good two hour movie in there, but I suspect Netflix gave him final cut, and he just turned in what amounts to a director's rough cut, because why not? We don't need the scene of him driving to the airport, flying to Detroit, etc. When Pesci tells him he's going to Detroit, cut to him in Detroit. The filler serves no purpose. And WTF was up with that fish conversation? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Californication | 1,477 Posted December 2, 2019 Share Posted December 2, 2019 16 minutes ago, Tulpa said: It's not only too long, every scene takes more time than it needs. There's a pretty good two hour movie in there, but I suspect Netflix gave him final cut, and he just turned in what amounts to a director's rough cut, because why not? We don't need the scene of him driving to the airport, flying to Detroit, etc. When Pesci tells him he's going to Detroit, cut to him in Detroit. The filler serves no purpose. And WTF was up with that fish conversation? I think it was slow to make it feel closer to real life. Things roll out slowly and not every moment is exciting, but the one thing that is continuous is that these are bad people and that affects the normal people that cross theybinteract with. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sign Collector Guy | 334 Posted December 2, 2019 Share Posted December 2, 2019 Watched The Irishman Saturday night. Loved it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tulpa | 3,488 Posted December 2, 2019 Share Posted December 2, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, Californication said: I think it was slow to make it feel closer to real life. Things roll out slowly and not every moment is exciting, but the one thing that is continuous is that these are bad people and that affects the normal people that cross theybinteract with. Yeah, but the end result is that it's boring. I mean, real life is boring. I don't need a movie to tell me that. And it's not treading any new ground. We all know mobsters ruin lives. Added, it has the handicap of everyone knowing Jimmy Hoffa is going to get killed (44 year old spoiler!), but it takes forever to get to that, so you're just looking at your watch waiting for it. There's nothing gained there, it just needlessly pads it out. Just because it's slow doesn't mean it's deep. Don't get me wrong, I like a lot of Scorsese movies, and there were parts of this I liked, but this as a whole was one of his weaker efforts. Edited December 2, 2019 by Tulpa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a3quit4s | 4,092 Posted December 2, 2019 Share Posted December 2, 2019 It would have been a strong movie from anyone but Scorsese, unfortunately he has to live up to his other works which are mostly all game changers. Don’t get me wrong I liked it, no one does gangsters like Scorsese but this one wasn’t up to snuff. I agree with @Tulpa he had everyone knowing what happens to Hoffa against him. except my wife who apparently didn’t know who that was. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cartman | 195 Posted December 2, 2019 Share Posted December 2, 2019 Watched "The Neighbour" it starts with a Mississippi couple involved in drugrunning for their uncle and when the guy gets an unexpected visit from his neighbour wondering what he was doing earlier (returned a trashcan to his property that had been flung out on the road he was driving), both guys are basically suspicious of intruders. Then the couple guy has to run an errand and when he comes out his wife is gone. He goes looking around at the neighbours property and turns out he's running a scheme of kidnapping people and holding them for ransom to their parents, he's holding the guys wife aswell ready to kill her off because they're not worth much financially and she's seen too much anyway. The move unravels violently. Was a pretty good movie. It felt strange how it changed theme: you think it's about one thing and it goes to something completely else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Californication | 1,477 Posted December 3, 2019 Share Posted December 3, 2019 4 hours ago, Tulpa said: Yeah, but the end result is that it's boring. I mean, real life is boring. I don't need a movie to tell me that. And it's not treading any new ground. We all know mobsters ruin lives. Added, it has the handicap of everyone knowing Jimmy Hoffa is going to get killed (44 year old spoiler!), but it takes forever to get to that, so you're just looking at your watch waiting for it. There's nothing gained there, it just needlessly pads it out. Just because it's slow doesn't mean it's deep. Don't get me wrong, I like a lot of Scorsese movies, and there were parts of this I liked, but this as a whole was one of his weaker efforts. It wasn't deep because it was boring it was deep because it was deep. One example being the nuanced image they gave of Jimmy Hoffa. If you put this movie next to the Jack Nicholson portrayal in Hoffa, you get a completly different perpective of the guy. He is more human, his goals aren't completly altruistic, but he should still be respected for what he did for the working man. The set up where they are going to kill Hoffa was a roller coaster. First, Frank has to break his word by not going to meet Hoffa. Then, he has to not call Hoffa to warn him. Then he has to actually go kill him. And the whole time I was expecting his son to get murdered too. I had to google whether or not his son disappeared. At the end of the day, Scorsee probably made up a bunch of the dramatic stuff, but whether or not it is all real you get a picture of how somwone can make those decisions. It's different then a movie like say Goodfellas, because that movie tells the story like, their gangster lifestyle was wrong because they couldn't control it and they got arrested. This movie shows that it is wrong through the lens of his family and the scene with the priest where he can't even make up the feelings that a normal person should feel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tulpa | 3,488 Posted December 3, 2019 Share Posted December 3, 2019 (edited) 31 minutes ago, Californication said: It wasn't deep because it was boring it was deep because it was deep. One example being the nuanced image they gave of Jimmy Hoffa. If you put this movie next to the Jack Nicholson portrayal in Hoffa, you get a completly different perpective of the guy. He is more human, his goals aren't completly altruistic, but he should still be respected for what he did for the working man. I didn't find it deep at all. It really doesn't bring anything new to the table, IMO. I also thought De Niro was wasted. His character makes no real decisions beyond when he joins up with the gangsters. After that, everything is a reaction (seriously, watch it again, he doesn't drive the action, he's just responding.) When that happened, I stopped caring. I don't want characters who just react, they're boring. Pacino was good, Ray Romano was surprisingly good, but he disappears too early. Same with Keitel. Edited December 3, 2019 by Tulpa Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richardhead | 2,813 Posted December 3, 2019 Share Posted December 3, 2019 Any of you seem Strange Brew? My favorite movie. About to watch it again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Californication | 1,477 Posted December 3, 2019 Share Posted December 3, 2019 I'm going to watch it again. I know the type of movies your talking about, Clint Eastwood's J. Edgar comes to mind. I really do think there were some solid points in this one. And personally I thought Pesci's performance was the best of the movie. Romano was good and fun, Kietel looked the part and said his two or three lines well, but I think Pesci had the performance of his career. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Rothchild | 9,510 Editorials Team · Posted December 3, 2019 Share Posted December 3, 2019 11 minutes ago, Richardhead said: Any of you seem Strange Brew? My favorite movie. About to watch it again I've seen all of the movies Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesRobot | 5,786 Events Team · Posted December 4, 2019 Share Posted December 4, 2019 On 12/2/2019 at 7:52 PM, Richardhead said: Any of you seem Strange Brew? My favorite movie. About to watch it again Never heard of it. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkTone | 984 Posted December 4, 2019 Share Posted December 4, 2019 The Irishman. Jesus..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jfreakofkorn | 282 Posted December 5, 2019 Share Posted December 5, 2019 Ice pirates Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Rothchild | 9,510 Editorials Team · Posted January 7, 2020 Share Posted January 7, 2020 The Nice Guys. Funny stuff, and definitely the Shane Blackest movie to ever Shane Black Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tabonga | 2,314 Posted January 7, 2020 Share Posted January 7, 2020 (edited) On 11/17/2019 at 11:33 PM, guillavoie said: 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. You might enjoy these if you haven't seen them: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0043147/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068059/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0046359/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0050803/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 This one is a bit different - not about escape from a WWII POW camp but surviving in one: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059358/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We recently got the final season of Game of Thrones on DVD and decided to rewatch them all - I have been really enjoying it more than I thought I would since most of the scenes now are much more compelling since they set up much of what happens later - on the first watching they often don't make much sense since they don't seem to relate to anything - by the time you find out what role they play in later events you have often forgotten that they occurred. Edited January 7, 2020 by Wandering Tellurian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DoctorEncore | 3,690 Posted January 7, 2020 Share Posted January 7, 2020 I really haven't watched many movies over the last year, but I've got Ad Astra sitting on my media stand and I'm excited to check it out. My expectations are tempered as I understand it's not a traditional sci-fi romp, but I still want to see how the story plays out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Rothchild | 9,510 Editorials Team · Posted October 26, 2020 Share Posted October 26, 2020 Big bump. Haven't watched much in the last year or two because of reading, playing SNES, etc., but I can occasionally sneak some things in: Stand and Deliver - alright, this formula has been copied again and again sinceThirteen Ghosts (remake) - pretty fun, I had low expectationsFright Night (original) - rewatchFerdinand, Ratatouille, Planes, Cars, Cars 2, Milo and Otis, etc. - basically have all this memorized by now. I cannot wait until my kids can watch kid movies I actually want to watch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skorp | 383 Posted October 26, 2020 Share Posted October 26, 2020 Saw Ghost Ship again recently. Love that movie so much especially the ending (Mudvayne yeah!). Watched Spy Kids again since last time was when I was a little kid, and boy watching that movie now as an adult makes you realize how cheesy it really it. It's still good and of course positive. Otherwise, I've been watching Beverly Hills, 90210 trying to finally finish the whole show for once (On Season 7 right now). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesRobot | 5,786 Events Team · Posted October 26, 2020 Share Posted October 26, 2020 Return of the Living Dead last night and Part II tonight. Classic! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Rothchild | 9,510 Editorials Team · Posted October 26, 2020 Share Posted October 26, 2020 21 minutes ago, JamesRobot said: Return of the Living Dead last night and Part II tonight. Classic! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesRobot | 5,786 Events Team · Posted October 26, 2020 Share Posted October 26, 2020 1 minute ago, Reed Rothchild said: Where's Rave to the Grave and Necropolis? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reed Rothchild | 9,510 Editorials Team · Posted October 26, 2020 Share Posted October 26, 2020 10 hours ago, JamesRobot said: Where's Rave to the Grave and Necropolis? Never got a boutique release. Also, I will eventually reach the point where shelf space is at capacity. So I need to keep the collection lean and mean with only the finest films Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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