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mikeymikec

Lifer
May 19, 2011
20,077
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Baby Driver (2017)

Edgar Wright movie, cheesie-pie car chase / heist movie. With the plot development interesting things happened, I expected more but didn't get it. It was entertaining, had some decent tunes, decent action.
 

KLin

Lifer
Feb 29, 2000
30,161
531
126
Baby Driver (2017)

Edgar Wright movie, cheesie-pie car chase / heist movie. With the plot development interesting things happened, I expected more but didn't get it. It was entertaining, had some decent tunes, decent action.

"BELL BOTTOMS!"
 

BoomerD

No Lifer
Feb 26, 2006
65,719
14,131
146
Gladiator - 10/10

I hadn't seen this movie in a very long time so forgot some of the details. It is just a masterpiece. The music is also incredible. Watching this and refreshing myself on the story made Gladiator 2 even worse than I initially thought. I'd change my 5/10 rating of Gladiator 2 to like a 3/10 after watching this. It made stuff in part 2 make absolutely no sense. I also can't believe that the special effects in the first one are better than the second.

@purbeast0 - yes, loved Gladiator. I've started re-watching movies - something that I've never really done and unless you find every scene looking too familiar, it is well worth doing.

I think Gladiator hit cable around here and it's in the recorded stack. Might have to prioritize that one.

 

thebestMAX

Diamond Member
Sep 14, 2000
7,503
134
106
Nosfreatu

A twice told tale or is that a multil told tale? Anyhow it borders on greatness and failure. Worthwhile for the sets, costumes, music and cinematography. Too long and tedious in parts, very eerie in others, minimal story. Scarsgard is brilliant but so underplayed/underwhealming or maybe that is the enticement. The voice/accent seemed too much at first but possibly authentic. The labored breathing was something new. Not you typical beautiful vampire but faithful to the original story I believe.

A new viewer to the genre might feel differently. Didnt care for it much while watching but it seems to be growing on me. A lot in there to absorb, You should give it a try.

MY rating now: 6.9
 

pmv

Lifer
May 30, 2008
14,704
9,585
136
Nosfreatu

A twice told tale or is that a multil told tale? Anyhow it borders on greatness and failure. Worthwhile for the sets, costumes, music and cinematography. Too long and tedious in parts, very eerie in others, minimal story. Scarsgard is brilliant but so underplayed/underwhealming or maybe that is the enticement. The voice/accent seemed too much at first but possibly authentic. The labored breathing was something new. Not you typical beautiful vampire but faithful to the original story I believe.

A new viewer to the genre might feel differently. Didnt care for it much while watching but it seems to be growing on me. A lot in there to absorb, You should give it a try.

MY rating now: 6.9

A triumph of style over substance, I thought. Which is not meant as a negative review, it looked great. Maybe a bit of a feminist rewrite of the Stoker story? A lot more 'agency' for Mina Harker. Not sure if that was already the point of the original version of the movie. Funny how this take on the story came to exist because of an intellectual property dispute.
 

DigDog

Lifer
Jun 3, 2011
14,360
2,824
126
i watched

Ted - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1637725/reference/
and
Ted 2 - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2637276/reference/

Mark WAHlberg lives in a parallel universe Boston where not only can stuffed toy bears come alive, but also you can work next to Laura Vandervoort

but somehow prefer to go after Mila Kunis.


Some things are just too hard to believe.

Ted 2 is pretty much the same; more fanfare but still the same shit, and .. rather than just say, "not funny", i felt a distinct sense of anxiety while watching the film.
The scenes that disturbed me more than the rest in particular, are the (many) times that Ted & John get high. They seem to be written by someone who has never gotten high in their life, "yes i will have one maryjuana please" kinda stuff.

Seth McFarland is a weird guy; when he's "in the zone" he really cranks out awesome shit, but he doesnt seem to be very judgmental with the crap he puts out, with a lot of it being absolute shovelware. For instance .. just yesteday some genius on social media pointed out that Family Guy, American Dad and Cleveland Show *all* have the same characters ... yeah .. that's the formula. But then again some Cleveland Show episodes were absolutely brilliant, and even when it wasn't great it was still good. American Dad has had a short run of fun (once they ran out of jokes on Stan being a murdered and Francine a nympho the show ground to a halt), Family Guy managed some solid 10+ years and occasionally puts out the good episode, and alltogether McFarlane has got solid comedy chops, but these two films were just not funny in any way, and when they were borderline funny, the agony of needing to wade through 3 hours of shit to find that morsel of fun was just not worth the effort.

I'd rather watch The Gorge.

4.9/10 the both of them.
 
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lxskllr

No Lifer
Nov 30, 2004
59,189
9,675
126
Star Trek Section 31. A bland and generic action flick. Had about as much in common with Star Trek as my coffee pot does. It didn't make me angry, so I guess that puts it above Discovery, but I wouldn't recommend watching, even out of boredom. There's certainly a better use of time, even if it's just staring at a wall and using your imagination. I'll never watch it again.
 

Dr. Detroit

Diamond Member
Sep 25, 2004
8,427
844
126
The Invisible Man (2020) - 8/10 - Now streaming on Prime

A Blumhouse SciFi/Horror thriller that is a damn good rollercoaster of mental fuckery. I went into this totally blind other than knowing its another one of Blum's produced movies and this one did not disappoint!
 

DigDog

Lifer
Jun 3, 2011
14,360
2,824
126
on the chopping block;

Companion 2025
The Brutalist 2024 (THREE HOURS???)
Pigs And Battleships 1961
Birthmarked 2018
My Darling Vivian 2020
In Transit 2020
Obscene Beauty 2020
One Of Them Days 2025
Nickel Boys 2024
Den Of Thieves 2 2025
X 2022
 

thedarkwolf

Diamond Member
Oct 13, 1999
9,028
122
106
Elevation 5/10
This is another "A Quiet Place did well so what do we have?" movie. The gimmick in this one is the monsters can't go above 8000ft for whatever reason. Dude living a safe life in a community in the mountains has a sick kid and has to go down for medical supplies. It is an ok shut your brain off and just watch movie.
 
Jul 27, 2020
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The gimmick in this one is the monsters can't go above 8000ft for whatever reason.
They can't deal with the thin atmosphere or reduced air pressure. That's still better than The Gorge.

Them monsters only try to escape sometimes and decided not to even attempt while both towers were unattended. Annoyingly lazy writing. I bet they have a focus group comprised mostly of typical young people with lesser average mental capacity than us old people.
 
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You can't have zombie plant cavalry and also try to write a reasonable script.
I'm beginning to think that the script wasn't created by "humans".

**Title: "Towers of Desolation"**

**Script:**

**INT. WEST TOWER - DAY**

The camera pans across a desolate landscape, focusing on a solitary tower perched high above a vast gorge. Inside, we see JAX, a rugged male sniper, peering through his rifle scope. He adjusts his aim, tracking the movements of zombie plant cavalry below.

**JAX**
(muttering to himself)
Another day, another dead end.

**INT. EAST TOWER - DAY**

Across the gorge, in a similarly constructed tower, LENA, a skilled female sniper, watches through her scope. Her expression is focused, determined. She spots Jax through his window and hesitates for a moment, then waves slightly before returning to her post.

**LENA**
(whispering)
Just another pawn in their game.

**EXT. GORGE - DAY**

The zombie plant cavalry approaches the gorge, moving in unison like a dark tide. Jax and Lena take positions, ready to fire as the creatures draw near.

**INT. WEST TOWER - DAY**

Jax fires, taking down several zombies. He glances over at Lena, who is also efficiently dispatching the creatures. A spark of admiration flickers in his eyes.

**INT. EAST TOWER - DAY**

Lena catches Jax's gaze and smiles faintly before returning to her task.

**EXT. GORGE - DAY**

The zombie horde thins, but a few manage to stumble towards the edge of the gorge. One particularly large plant-human hybrid lunges forward, grabbing Lena by the ankle as she tries to retreat inside her tower.

**LENA**
(screaming)
Jax! Help!

**INT. WEST TOWER - DAY**

Seeing Lena in danger, Jax fires a precise shot, killing the creature but causing Lena to lose balance and fall into the gorge.

**EXT. GORGE - DAY**

Lena falls, her eyes wide with shock. Miraculously, she catches hold of a jagged rock protruding from the cliff face. She hangs there, suspended over the abyss.

**LENA**
(gasping)
Jax! I'm slipping!

**INT. WEST TOWER - DAY**

Jax rushes to the edge and throws down a rope, managing to secure it around a sturdy beam. He lowers himself down, reaching out for Lena.

**JAX**
(yelling)
Grab my hand!

With a final effort, Lena reaches up and grasps Jax's hand. Together, they climb back up to safety.

**INT. WEST TOWER - DAY**

Breathing heavily, Lena looks into Jax's eyes. Their hands remain clasped.

**LENA**
(softly)
Thank you. For saving me. Again.

**JAX**
(smiling)
Always.

They share a moment of connection before the reality of their situation sinks in. Jax pulls out an old newspaper clipping, revealing the truth about the corporation's sinister plot.

**JAX**
(angrily)
This is all a lie! They created this army to control us!

Lena nods, her eyes hardening with resolve. Together, they devise a plan to destroy the gorge and expose the corporation's treachery.

**EXT. GORGE - NIGHT**

Using timed explosives, Jax and Lena set off a series of charges, causing the gorge to collapse in on itself. The sound echoes across the landscape as the zombie plant cavalry is buried beneath the rubble.

**INT. WEST TOWER - DAY (LATER)**

Jax and Lena pack their belongings, ready to leave this place behind forever. They share a passionate kiss before heading out into the world.

**EXT. FRENCH COUNTRYSIDE - YEAR LATER**

The camera pans over a peaceful French countryside where Jax and Lena have built a new life together. They are seen tending to their garden, laughing and living in harmony.

**LENA**
(happily)
Who would've thought we'd end up here?

**JAX**
(grinning)
Not me, but I wouldn't change a thing.

They share another look of love and contentment, the horrors of their past forgotten in the idyllic present.

**FADE OUT.**

Write a script about a movie with two towers on each side of a large gorge or chasm. West tower has a male sniper. East tower has a female sniper. Their job is to contain the zombie plant cavalry (created with humans infected by mutagenic contaminant). The two snipers fall in love and find out after one of them falls into the gorge, that it is all a lie perpetrated by a corporation to create a zombie army. they work together to destroy the gorge and later meet up in France to live the rest of their lives in happiness and peace.
 
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DigDog

Lifer
Jun 3, 2011
14,360
2,824
126
you're reading too much into it again. The script is like this.

1. there's Anya Taylor-Joy; she's hot.
2. there's Miles Teller. He wants to bonk Anya.
3. Anya is a dirty sexy communist. They both have guns.
4. they use the guns to shoot at [tbc, will discuss next meeting]
5. America Bad !
6. Sexx good, they do sexx.

everything else is just filler.
 
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Dr. Detroit

Diamond Member
Sep 25, 2004
8,427
844
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Upgrade - 9/10 - Now streaming on Netflix

After stumbling onto The Invisible Man and loving it, figured I should watch the directors other films. Upgrade is a futuristic Sci-Fi action thriller with a good bit of gore.

I went into it completely blind and for those of you havent seen it - WOW, it's a must watch. The fir 2/3rds of the film are a solid 10 with it slowing down a bit in the 3rd portion and I really felt the car chase scene was unnecessary and egregious in length.

Director loves his futuristic homes and sets are fantastic!
 

DigDog

Lifer
Jun 3, 2011
14,360
2,824
126
Put aside your weird list of movies for a bit and binge on Invincible: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6741278/reference/

Great entertainment.
ugh ..

can you summarize it for me?
like, not the plot, but the appeal of the show.

look, if i was to summarize Rick & Morty, it's a surreal sci-fi show where the main appeal is that, pretty much every character is a massive piece of shit, one way or another. THAT is the fun bit.
 

DigDog

Lifer
Jun 3, 2011
14,360
2,824
126
to be clear, i'm sure that inside the Brutalist there is both a ("inspired by real events") valuable docudrama, and historical insight into both the US of the 40s and the plight of the jews following the holocaust.

The problem for me is that, well it's over 3 hours of adrien brody. And the guy loves nothing more than a suffering character, so it's just pain on pain, plus the protagonist is also a terribly unlikable fellow, a morose, brooding idiot, incapable of communicating, of pulling himself up, of socializing, driven more by self-destruction than by self-preservation. In short, he's horrible.

Also the film really pushes this atmosphere of .. unwellness. It's damp, dark, chaotic .. and for a film dedicated to the beauty of modern architecture, well, the very little beauty of modern architecture. I was primarily interested in it because i am a fan of brutalism, but i found very little brutalism in the film, which made me the disappointed. i no like.
 

mikeymikec

Lifer
May 19, 2011
20,077
14,529
136
Reacher, Season 1

While it isn't as bad as a Reacher book that a friend lent to me (laden with fight scene descriptions along the lines of "the bad guy's blow would have sent any normal man off to orbit Mars, but not Reacher..."), and while it's engaging enough that I'm 75% through S1 and I will watch the rest of this season, be prepared for tropes. Like the good-looking small-town charming police gal who suddenly is revealed as "I applied for the CIA but I didn't score high enough on the 'taking shit from anyone' test, I'm a badass, see!". Or how bad guy learns of a juicy bit of dirt from Reacher's past and starts spreading it around, but of course because since Reacher is "The Good Guy", there had to be a morally squeaky clean explanation for it. Or how the plot has to be so massively overblown that instead of some corruption that is plaguing some middle-of-nowhere village, this shit has to go international, affecting guys at the top of the Secret Service and shit and literally everything is connected. Like if someone wanted to update "The A-Team" but make it grittier and with higher stakes but just as ridiculous.

It has shades of "In the Heat of the Night" about it, but if it was written by the guy who writes Riddick movies. For example, the protagonist literally walks into a village in the middle of nowhere for the first time, walks into a cafe, orders a slice of pie and is arrested for murder by officers who are obviously dead certain he did it. It's dramatic, sure, but it makes no freaking sense at all. Perhaps I'm being unfair to the Riddick author in this comparison

I've talked previously about how I liked "Rings of Power" because the characters aren't divided into good and evil, that stuff happens and each character reacts realistically to that event in their own way, whether it's morally good, bad, redemptive or whatever. This story though has no such humane complications. One could argue that Reacher himself is a morally murky character but despite his ruthless nature, he's obviously intended to be a paragon of a good guy. I'm not expecting a tropey moral quandary for Reacher in the finale. Probably the folksy gal or the detective though.
 
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