- Mon Aug 20, 2018 12:57 pm
#108163
I love how you gave Forest Gump an F-
Already failing, just failing a little below the standard of failing.
@ScoJo, I understand all of the criticism you have for Baby Driver. It's not a perfect movie, it has tons of flaws, I just found it incredibly entertaining. I have never liked Spacey and feel he's turning in his standard Spacey performance here, I could have done with out him being in the film altogether.
I had an actual Sunday at home and instead of doing constructive work around my house I opted to watch three movies and play some videogames.
This was quite good. I like Leigh Whannell, his writing while not amazing usually is pretty entertaining. I've grown quite fond of the Insidious films especially 1 &2 even though I wrote them off on their initial release. Leigh first directing feature which was Insidious 3 had some good moments, felt very much like some one directing their first film. Well Upgrade he comes out swinging and damn does he do a good job. The story is good, while not wholly original in concept, he has some flourishes that keep it fresh. The action is a lot of fun, not quite what I expected and the moments of extreme violence popped. If you're a fan of sci-fi films check this one out.
I just got 88 Films new bluray of this and boy is it a mighty fine package. The PQ and AQ of the film are top notch. A red gloved giallo. One of Lenzi's better films IMO. And we all know the score is fantastic by Nicolai. One minor gripe was the bluray menu uses an audio clip of the score that distorts, really bad, no clue as to why they chose to do that.
This was an interesting film that came up on two podcasts for me with in a week, even though one of those podcasts was an episode from two months prior. This one is short, a little uncomfortable and trying to say something about social media. For me the real draw to this film was an opening scene with Jeremy Gardner (star and director of The Battery) who turns in easily his best performance of his acting career and then the always incredible Larry Fessenden joins the film about half way through and actually has a meaty role instead a glorified cameo like he's been doing for the better part of the last decade. I love the guy and it's great to see him have a good role. The overall concept of the film is fairly interesting, I knew a few people kind of like the main character in art school and could see them trying to do something like this had the technology existed at the time, although maybe not to the extreme that this is taken.
Already failing, just failing a little below the standard of failing.
@ScoJo, I understand all of the criticism you have for Baby Driver. It's not a perfect movie, it has tons of flaws, I just found it incredibly entertaining. I have never liked Spacey and feel he's turning in his standard Spacey performance here, I could have done with out him being in the film altogether.
I had an actual Sunday at home and instead of doing constructive work around my house I opted to watch three movies and play some videogames.
This was quite good. I like Leigh Whannell, his writing while not amazing usually is pretty entertaining. I've grown quite fond of the Insidious films especially 1 &2 even though I wrote them off on their initial release. Leigh first directing feature which was Insidious 3 had some good moments, felt very much like some one directing their first film. Well Upgrade he comes out swinging and damn does he do a good job. The story is good, while not wholly original in concept, he has some flourishes that keep it fresh. The action is a lot of fun, not quite what I expected and the moments of extreme violence popped. If you're a fan of sci-fi films check this one out.
I just got 88 Films new bluray of this and boy is it a mighty fine package. The PQ and AQ of the film are top notch. A red gloved giallo. One of Lenzi's better films IMO. And we all know the score is fantastic by Nicolai. One minor gripe was the bluray menu uses an audio clip of the score that distorts, really bad, no clue as to why they chose to do that.
This was an interesting film that came up on two podcasts for me with in a week, even though one of those podcasts was an episode from two months prior. This one is short, a little uncomfortable and trying to say something about social media. For me the real draw to this film was an opening scene with Jeremy Gardner (star and director of The Battery) who turns in easily his best performance of his acting career and then the always incredible Larry Fessenden joins the film about half way through and actually has a meaty role instead a glorified cameo like he's been doing for the better part of the last decade. I love the guy and it's great to see him have a good role. The overall concept of the film is fairly interesting, I knew a few people kind of like the main character in art school and could see them trying to do something like this had the technology existed at the time, although maybe not to the extreme that this is taken.
