Movie Thread

[tifosi77]

Maybe that was the final impetus for PG13 then. Cos that was...........a lot to take for 11-year old me going to a movie by myself for the first time. lol

[eddy]

Wicked is a damn near perfect first act and an incredibly forgettable second act (other than "For Good"). Which makes the decision to split it into two films baffling to me, especially if it's split by the musical acts.

The second act is also pretty light on story and I'm guessing this is where the film will most stray from the musical. I wouldn't be surprised if we get a lot more Wizard of Oz here.

This. The original wonderful wizard of Oz book is wonderful. The first wicked book is also wonderful. The first act of the musical is wonderful. There's a lot of good oz stuff out there.

[shafnutz05]

Maybe that was the final impetus for PG13 then. Cos that was...........a lot to take for 11-year old me going to a movie by myself for the first time. lol

Ditto, that scene is seared into my brain from a young age.

[eddy]

Songbirds and snakes was great. Ending was a little rushed, but I think I enjoyed this movie more than the book (minus the rushed ending) and some of the other hunger games movies. Viola Davis and Jason schwartzman were creepy/funny. Nice seeing Maria and and Chino together again

[nocera]

Oscar prep:
The Holdovers: Pig Vomit crushes it here. Giamatti absolutely deserves the Oscar for this performance. But Dominic Sessa really surprised me with how good he was. He didn't seem out of place next to Giamatti at all. Crazy that it's his first role. I also just learned that he's currently attending Carnegie Mellon as a drama major.

The Anatomy of a Fall: Give me more international court room dramas. It was fascinating just to see how the french court system works. Beyond that, solid story, great performances, especially from Sandra Huller and the son (whose name I don't know).

Past Lives: Meh. I get what it's trying to do but I had a hard time actually caring about any of it.

Oppenheimer: It's fine. Cillian Murphy is great. The detonation scene is insanely underwhelming and I'm not sure why Nolan wouldn't just use the actual footage. Speaking of Nolan, he's very hit or miss for me and lately he's been trending miss. This was another miss for me. Using the court case as a framing technique did more harm than good, imo.

I've already talked about Barbie and American Fiction in this thread somewhere. I still need to see Zone of Interest and Poor Things.

We watched Iron Claw last night. Efron and his new face were the best part. The problem with being so familiar with the Von Erich's story is the stuff that the movie either left out or completely fabricated stood out in a negative way. Plus, that scene with Kerry and his brothers at the end was so bad and unnecessary. Before I saw it, I was surprised it was overlooked. Now that I have, I get it.

[Gaucho]

[eddy]

Desert power!

[Pavel Bure]

In honor of these two late actors. Go watch this movie if you’ve never seen it. It’s hilarious.

[meecrofilm]

Maybe now you'll agree drinking has its benefits.

[count2infinity]

Pittsburgh Nelly.

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

“Got a drippy dong, eh?” is an oft-used quote in my family

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

just realized that Chubbs wears Lacoste in Happy Gilmore. I appreciate that detail

[NTP66]

Aquaman 2 was not good.

[DigitalGypsy66]

Bottoms was interesting. Entertaining, I guess. And one of the supporting actors looked oddly familiar, but I couldn't quite place it. It was Cindy Crawford's now 22 year old daughter. Looks just like her.

[AuthorTony]

Last Voyage of the Demeter had some crazy logic, even for a horror movie. Spoilers:

The ship's crew knows that people only die/get attacked at night. They have seen two people who have been bit burst into flames in the daylight. So their grand plan is to lure Dracula onto the deck of the ship at night, shoot him, then lock him in the ship and sink it. Why not just sink the ship during the day when he is presumably asleep below deck?

During this grand plan Dracula is flying around (he has wings) and attacking people. The crew doesn't want him to get to land where he can keep killing people. Even though land is visible in the near distance and even though they know he can fly, they still decide to sink the ship instead of, I don't know, steering it back out to sea.

The dialogue was terrible. And the set up for a sequel that will never happen was laughable.

It was probably the worst "real" movie I've seen in a couple years.

[mikey]

It Could Happen To You (Cage, Fonda, Rosie Perez)...Rosie Perez and her pentagon face can die in a tire fire. I forgot how awful she talked because she rightfully fell face first out of the spot light. That movie is pretty funny but not intentionally...

Mannequin with Kim Cattrall might be in my bottom 10 movies ever list. Conceptually it's bad, the writing is horrendous, the jokes are garbage, and the acting is next to zero. No part of it ever makes sense. There's never any rules as to what the mannequin can do or does or did...oh, it stinks.

Also, if conservatives think that all LGBT people are Hollywood from that movie, I do understand why they wouldn't want to be near them or have their kids fondled by them or whatever...

[tifosi77]

Last Voyage of the Demeter had some crazy logic, even for a horror movie. Spoilers:

The ship's crew knows that people only die/get attacked at night. They have seen two people who have been bit burst into flames in the daylight. So their grand plan is to lure Dracula onto the deck of the ship at night, shoot him, then lock him in the ship and sink it. Why not just sink the ship during the day when he is presumably asleep below deck?

During this grand plan Dracula is flying around (he has wings) and attacking people. The crew doesn't want him to get to land where he can keep killing people. Even though land is visible in the near distance and even though they know he can fly, they still decide to sink the ship instead of, I don't know, steering it back out to sea.

The dialogue was terrible. And the set up for a sequel that will never happen was laughable.

It was probably the worst "real" movie I've seen in a couple years.

The bit of the book Dracula that talks about the Demeter is only 4 or 5 pages. It's like the Space Jockey in Alien; there's obviously a story to be told about how this ship carrying this cargo got to where the story proper picks up and the cargo starts to run amok (esp considering the inspo for the ship in the book was a real shipwreck in southern England). But.........

[tifosi77]

Also

that "you can see the land" thing is why they filmed Jaws in Martha's Vineyard. They needed a specific underwater topography to make the shark sleds work, but they also needed it to be in an orientation that would allow them 180° of unobstructed horizon to always point the camera 'out to sea'. Specifically because Spielberg recognized the audience's ability to say "Hey, probably fewer sharks on the land." There's only like four shots from when they get aboard the Orca until the shark dies where you can see land in the background.

Sunrise, turn towards the open sea, lash the wheel, launch the boat(s), set fire to the ship, paddle to safety. *credits*

[blackjack68]

It Could Happen To You (Cage, Fonda, Rosie Perez)...Rosie Perez and her pentagon face can die in a tire fire. I forgot how awful she talked because she rightfully fell face first out of the spot light. That movie is pretty funny but not intentionally...

Mannequin with Kim Cattrall might be in my bottom 10 movies ever list. Conceptually it's bad, the writing is horrendous, the jokes are garbage, and the acting is next to zero. No part of it ever makes sense. There's never any rules as to what the mannequin can do or does or did...oh, it stinks.

Also, if conservatives think that all LGBT people are Hollywood from that movie, I do understand why they wouldn't want to be near them or have their kids fondled by them or whatever...

Bad take on Mannequin.

[mikey]

BJ, I love ya, but you're crazy man...that movie stinks to high heaven...

What's the elevator pitch on it...?

[tifosi77]

The most notable thing about Mannequin is that it - somehow - produced a sequel.

[NTP66]

Never played the game, but I'm excited about this one.

[nocera]

It's rare when you can tell a movie is going to be horrible just from promotional images but...

[MalkinIsMyHomeboy]

Cate Blanchett and Kevin Hart being in the same film is very confusing to me

[skullman80]

Is that Jamie Lee Curtis too??