- Sun Feb 16, 2020 1:12 pm
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It’s one of the few Ewan McGregor performances I actually love! This, trainspotting and Fargo season 2
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ScoJo wrote: ↑Wed Feb 19, 2020 5:28 pm I'm no fan of Begos and I found Bliss insufferable, but definitely curious about VWF (or wetf it's called!) based on the praise. I might get on with this one more.I'm not entirely sure you will like it since you are not a huge Begos fan and it's most definitely a Begos movie but give it a chance. VFW is the title, not sure if you guys have anything similar over there but in the US there are lots of VFW's around the country, it's a place where veterans of foreign wars can congregate and just be with people that have experience the horrors of war. Usually just a bar that they can drink at with out interruption. Most are very strict about not letting any one who isn't a veteran in. I've been into a few over the years and usually asked to leave almost immediately.
inksb wrote: ↑Fri Feb 21, 2020 1:54 pmYay!
Watched this for the first time last night. What a strange film, plays out very similar to a standard 80s teen comedy but just has so much weird and darkness mixed in. Quite enjoyable. It's been added to the very short list of films I enjoy starring John Cusack.
ScoJo wrote: ↑Mon Mar 02, 2020 4:17 pm Moss is her usual somewhat fascinating (yet strangely off-putting?) self.That might be the most accurate description of how I feel about Moss as well. Never really thought of it that way. lol
So I rewatched Hollow Man this a.m. before work. It's awesome. And VERY un-PC!
inksb wrote: ↑Mon Mar 02, 2020 1:50 pmI could not agree more with your comments on Guns Akimbo. I found it too stupid. Not funny enough. Not original. But I did like Daniel Radcliff in it. I rewatched Crank a month ago and still liked it. However not as much as when I first watched it a long time ago.
I was immediately sold on this film by the trailer, it looked like it was going to be an absurd high octane frantic action film along the lines of Crank. I love Samara Weaving and actually enjoy a lot of Radcliff's post Potter choices. After finishing the movie I can say I barely derived any entertainment from it, don't get me wrong there are some decent parts but the director barely incapable of actually filming an action scene and boy is the script bad, I mean bad. Hammer fight, we need to stop mid fight and say "HAMMER TIME!" but then wait 30 seconds to actually cue up the song. There were so many cringe inducing lines of dialog, I know they were meant to be that way but it doesn't mean I can just ignore the fact that they seemed like they were written by a 12 year old. Samara and Daniel do the best they can with the material provided. I was laughing at the fact that Samara's character is this bad ass that kills everything, is insanely good at it but when it comes time for her to kill the main character she has "chronic bad guy disease" (ie can't hit a fucking thing with her gun), his character obviously has no idea how to shoot a gun so he should be unable to hit anything, then we get to the obvious "team up to take down the real bad guy" section of the film and they are both now highly trained killers who put a bullet exactly where they point their gun as they mow down over a 100 bad guys. The main bad guy's accent can't seem to settle into anything cohesive, it just wavers from line to line, although with his makeup and fake tattoos he looks like Michael Berryman fucked Simon Peg and he's the result. There are things to like in the film and I know a lot of people have been enjoying it (@skeleton just said he really enjoyed it) but there was too much stuff working against it for me. If you are looking for something like Gamer mixed with Crank (I wouldn't say John Wick, nothing is any where near as well shot action wise) then give this one a shot and see if you like it.
This one seems to be pretty divisive, I've seen a lot of people love it and a lot of people say it's terrible. For me I enjoyed it, it's a touch drawn out, runtime is 1 hr 50 min and I would have preferred 10-15 minutes cut out of it's run time. The effects are great, it really impressed me especially knowing how limited the budget was. It's nice to see Stanley back in the directing chair after so many years away and for the most part he does great work. Cage is good and being pretty Cagey, he's not in Mandy mode here, he's kind of between Mandy and his normal weirdo overacting nonsense, it works in the final third more than the first two thirds of the film. It's nice to see Tommy Chong in a role, it feels like it's been a really long time since I've seen him in a film. I'm pretty sure I've read the original Lovecraft story many years ago but I didn't remember much from it, I will probably revisit soon. I recommend checking this one out, it may not work for you but it's worth it just to see some of the cool effects they created and if you like seeing Cage being a weirdo then you'll probably enjoy it.
skeletonbutt wrote: ↑Sat Mar 07, 2020 1:53 pm is it me or are fewer movies being released every year? or is there so much being released that nothing stands out? i'm digging through 1999 and there was a lot of stuff in just that one year.I think there's more being released now but there is less big studio movies coming out because they plan pretty much one or two movies a week to promote and not interfere with others.