Sept 2, 2022 16:07:31 GMT iron maiden said:

What is it about the movie RED -and to a lesser extent RED 2? It doesn't matter how many times I've seen it, if it's on I'm watching.

It really has everything. And John Malkovich is just amazing in both.

It's just a fun ass film start to finish, Malkovich and Freeman are always great, an on game Bruce Willis is money. Red 2 isn't quite up to par, but still a decent watch. But that first film is just an easy watch.

Elvis
Fucking sucked.

The dude that played Elvis did a great job and Tom Hanks was Tom Hanks in a fat suit, but otherwise I wasted 3 hours of my life.

People were calling this a gritty version of Elvis’ life and hoping they would do The Beatles next. Holy fuck did we watch the same movie?

They ignored the fact Priscilla was 14 when they met, they barely touched on his military service and how that A) launched his movie career and B) got him hooked on amphetamines, they spent more time on MLK’s death than his own mother’s…what else…

Even though he died at 42 you can’t cram the life Elvis lived into a movie. This should have been a miniseries. Or at the very least they should have focused on the things that made Elvis’ story so incredible instead of Tom Parker and Elvis being sad about his career not being exactly what he pictured.

It's a Baz Luhrmann movie, what did you expect?

The man has made 6 movies in 30 years, and 4 of them are awful. And I only give R+J a pass because it was such a perfect embodiment of Gen-X in retelling a classic story.

Rewatched Synedoche, New York during naptime.

So brilliant on so many levels. Good shit, pal.

SCREAM or is it, SCREAM 5?

You can't out-scream the first Scream. It is a classic, but this "reboot" or "legacy sequel" is probably as close to the original that any of the sequels have got. The children in the movie argue about this definition during the film. It's meta, double-meta.

Millenials are truly awful people, and in this, they continue babbling excessively about the rules of horror movies, despite it being part of a previous generation's pop culture and long forgotten by 2022. They're all experts here, like they've just finished Cobra Kai and got a honorary Black Belt.

There's an attempted murder, then everyone is pointing the finger despite little evidence to suggest anyone here is responsible. It captures absolutely none of the almost marcbe excitement that was in the air when they shut the town down in the original after the first murders.

In typical young persons fashion, they over articulate and come up with this convoluted family tree that connects everyone to each other. When ironically, they were warned in the simplest fashion who the killer was early in the movie and chose to ignore it.. despite being experts in the rules of horror movies.

It's a meh, it's OK.

Sept 4, 2022 19:15:00 GMT 🤯 said:

Rewatched Synedoche, New York during naptime.

So brilliant on so many levels. Good shit, pal.

Rewatched Jojo Rabbit too. Also good shit. Probably locked itself a spot in a revised Top 100 Favorite Films.

Beast: it’s a very simple yet effective premise, you have a pissed off lion and people making dumb decisions. Reminded me of Crawl (2019). If you like creature features (and Nope isn’t your thing) see this.

SPOILER: Click to show

Idris Elba fighting a lion and living was pretty stupid even if he got badly damaged, the lion was going ham on everyone else

Beast was already on my watch list but now it has extra hype with that system seal of approval.

And I still haven't seen Crawl...

Daughter wanted to see Fall so we took her last weekend. It was entertaining enough, had some good tension spots and great camerawork to build the unease and the fear of heights I didn’t know I had.

Because the kid liked that we then watched 47 Meters Down, which is essentially Fall in reverse by the same people. I won’t mention how else they’re similar for the spoiler potential, but it might have made me roll my eyes when I saw a similar plot point with the characters.

During Covid the wife went on a run of watching movies with good RT scores. I watched a couple with her -

Room was her favorite. I wasn’t as taken, but she’s a big kidnap-fiction type. The acting is really good in this one and the experience is harrowing, but honestly I expected a little more PTSD in the end.

I enjoyed On the Count of 3, where two guys agree to a suicide pact but then go out and have a last day which culminated in a crazy way. It was funny, but the more serious stuff fell flat with me.

And Searching which is a horror movie watched through a computer screen with the apps popping open, the video calls, etc. had a format that felt done, but the story grabbed me and I couldn’t look away. The end was a bit of a letdown but still good.

LOL the kid wanted to watch Fall? She is her mother's daughter for sure.

Did not think Fall was a great film but having a fear of heights was utterly terrified. Also reminded me of Frozen.

I thought Elvis was fine, obviously would have been better as a mini-series to fully cover everything, but thought it did well enough at exploring Colonel Tom Parker's exploitation of Elvis, which is definitely one of the biggest threads of his life. As big as he was, CTP really held him back in a lot of ways, makes you wonder. It's not a top tier biopic, like Ray and such, but it was decent enough.


Love and Thunder was solidly entertaining, does lean a bit too hard into the comedy, but thought it worked well for the most part. Disappointed it underperformed to the degree that Taika might be out, I think he could have just course corrected a steered it back in the right direction. Hopefully, given a sequel, whoever picks it up follows the end threads.

Dune

I finally saw Dune, and thought it was excellent. Visually, it's a masterpiece. I loved the world building and the storytelling.

At times, did he feel the run time was a little long? Sure. But none the less, I thought it was great.

Rewatched Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Finally have read the book the movie still is even better. While not everything made it in, what did was a perfect representation of the book itself and Thompson's insanity. Johnny Depp is just next level too.

The whole REAL tribute to America is so perfectly captured too.  

I love the hotel check-in scene.

I always cite Step Brothers as my least favourite film, but Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas could possibly be even worse.

I've never seen it, but the thought that something could be even worse than Step Brothers fills me with dread.

I feel attacked.

Step Brothers is a classic comedy. 1 of the best.

Is Step Brothers more polarizing for PW than Zoolander!?

Sept 10, 2022 12:18:17 GMT 🤯 said:

Is Step Brothers more polarizing for PW than Zoolander!?

Most movies don't get brought up. Step Bros gets brought up a lot. Good or bad it's part of the pw movie Rushmore along princess bride eternal sunshine and for whatever reason... gladiator.

Tell me I'm wrong...

Sept 10, 2022 12:18:17 GMT 🤯 said:

Is Step Brothers more polarizing for PW than Zoolander!?

No idea.

All I know is both movies suck.

A little bit if catching up, finally saw Thor : Love and Thunder.

I echo the sentiments of almost every review I've read on it - it's crap. Absolute crap.

It feels like it was written to be a lego movie or an animated movie for kids - stupid humour, slapstick comedy, smarty-pants sort of dialogue.. which would be great, if it were a kids movie, but it’s not.

Shame.

Is there a difference between kids movie and family friendly? Because honestly despite not seeing it I'm just scratching my head and literally holding off on posting the thor meme. I mean isn't that what these movies are though?

Sept 11, 2022 0:31:01 GMT @ness said:

Is there a difference between kids movie and family friendly? Because honestly despite not seeing it I'm just scratching my head and literally holding off on posting the thor meme. I mean isn't that what these movies are though?

I said to my wife, if I was a 10 year old boy, I'd love this movie. Ragnarok for example had some great humour in it, and still appeals to all ages. But, Love and Thunder feels like the writer spent a week with his nephews looking at memes, and thought that was hilarious.

Vincent from Collateral may be a new favorite of mine.

Sept 11, 2022 20:52:48 GMT @ness said:

Vincent from Collateral may be a new favorite of mine.

By far my favorite Cruise performance, nice for him to play a bit against type for a change.

Either way, Samaritan was a decent mid film, not anything ground breaking and entirely predictable, maybe a little under the budget it needed but worked well enough. Solid stuff.

Jurassic World: Dominion, oof, had Transformers syndrome, we’re there for the dinos and it’s all about people, suck my dick. Boring for the most part.

The Invitation

it was ok I guess, is about the highest praise I can give it.
Only people I’ve seen give this film more praise than that said they were surprised by the “vampire twist” as if that wasn’t well advertised before it’s release and obvious from the start. It’s like saying you were surprised Dawn of the Dead had zombies in it.

But it’s something you’d watch on Tubi and be pleasantly surprised it wasn’t complete garbage, it’s the wish version of Ready or Not.

Orphan: First Kill

A prequel to a 2009 film that nobody asked for? My expectations were low and this definitely plays into expectations in the first half. To my surprise I thought it was really good, on par with the original.

SPOILER: Click to show

Then you realise the parent’s seemingly dumb thought process make sense when the twist comes

Only downside was this was as visually dark as that infamous GoT episode, unsure whether it just our showing or the film but it was almost pitch black in the cinema to the point we couldn’t see our seat numbers.
(We got there just as it started)

We watched Orphan First Kill when it came out on streaming. It was pretty clever. My wife was a big fan of the first so we were pleasantly surprised the sequel worked as well.

Jack. Still hits. Dancing and shit.

Sept 18, 2022 2:53:12 GMT 🤯 said:

Jack. Still hits. Dancing and shit.

Can't believe Jlo took all the REDs and still friendzoned him.

Fran was SMOKING too.