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Re: Movies You Just Watched Discussion, Part III
[Re: blueracing347]
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01/31/19 10:29 PM
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I canceled cable after 34 years. They became to ridiculous with their never-ending increase in rates. I've had an Amazon box for five years to watch movies but now I put one in each room, ordered Netflix and sling. We have to have the fast internet for my wife for she works from home. Saving $80 a month. It got to the point where plugging a cable from the wall into the tv wouldn't work and you had to order a $7/month box for each tv. $35/month on top of the$2 something. That's when I told them to turn it off. There was never anything on anyways. Fuck those cocksuckers. Good for you, I would love to do that. I plan on picking up one of those streaming devices and see how it works out for awhile. If we like it I will cut the cable one day.
Be Loyal, Be Loving, Be Quiet.
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Re: Movies You Just Watched Discussion, Part III
[Re: Moe_Tilden]
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02/07/19 06:01 AM
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Yeah. I used to love when Scream would be on TV and my parents would let me stay up to watch it on a school night. Love the first couple Scary Movie movies, too. Got to see I want to say the second one in the cinema when I was way underage.
I think movies like Scream and Wes Craven's New Nightmare did an excellent job deconstructing the horror genre. Something guys like Jordan Peele are failing spectacularly to do at the moment with the shit they're coming out with. And something that Joss Whedon failed to do with that flaming sack of crap that was Cabin in the Woods.
By the way, Speed is one of my all time favorite movies and I just found out that Joss Whedon wrote practically all of the dialogue. I find that mindboggling to come to terms with. Guy obviously has a modicum of talent when he's not pandering to the lowest common denominator geeks who live in their parents basement.
Speed was one of my favorite movies when it first came out. Must have rented and watched it about 100 times lol. Big fan of the first Scary movie also, second was good too, then it went abit downhill after the Wayan brothers left. Today I've just finished watching Rise Of The Footsoldier(2007)Probably the most enjoyable and accurate out of all the movies on the Essex rettendon range rover murders.
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Re: Movies You Just Watched Discussion, Part III
[Re: Giacomo_Vacari]
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02/09/19 03:49 PM
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COLD PURSUIT
Liam Neeson is back at it again. Glad to see him still kicking ass at 66. Seriously, can everyone stop messing with this mans family because for those that do, they get dealt with. A humorous and at times bloody tale about a father who tracks down the people responsible for his sons death. I honestly enjoyed the movie more than I thought I would; however, the whole subplot in regards to White Bull and the Native Americans could have been scrapped and the film would have been tighter by about 20+ minutes. 6.5/10 I recommend the Scandinavia film In Order of Disappearance that Cold Pursuit is a remake of. It is good and the performances of Skarsgard in the lead role and Ganz in the role of the Serbian crime boss are unforgettable, with a good round out cast with two who had a breakout role after the movie. I was wondering if the original was any good since this was a remake. Thanks for the feedback. Did you see COLD PURSUIT yet? If/when you do, I'd be curious how it stacks up to the original. ST. AGATHA Yes, I was torn whether or not to see this and while I was going to pass on it, I did see some (surprisingly) good reviews for it. There were some other not so favorable reviews as well and I fall in to that category. Where to begin? The film isn't so much a mess as they do flashbacks every so often to help fill in the gaps (although one character who's referenced twice was never made clear who she was but anyway). The film follows Mary, later renamed Agatha, in the convent she's run away to while pregnant in 1950's Georgia. Carolyn Hennesy does her best Nurse Ratched impression as Mother Superior and she's really the only redeeming part of the film. The "big reveal" at the end wasn't as surprising as you'd think as everything is pretty noticeable before it's reveled (although I went in a somewhat different way with the ending which I felt would have played better). This didn't get much marketing and for good reason. 4/10 THE PRODIGY What I originally intended on seeing was this so I made it a double feature. I'm typically not a huge fan of child actors (they annoy me for some reason) but Jackson Robert Scott really gives a creepy and enjoyable performance. The movie was and wasn't what I thought it was going to be from the previews (without spoiling too much) but I did somewhat enjoy the boldness the film took with the story. A few jump scares but overall, again, you mostly see everything coming. A pass for theaters but might not be bad to catch via streaming. 5/10
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Re: Movies You Just Watched Discussion, Part III
[Re: J Geoff]
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02/14/19 09:42 PM
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HAPPY DEATH DAY 2U
Yes, another sequel that nobody knew they wanted (other than the studio apparently). I thought the whole horror GROUNDHOG DAY wrapped it up just fine the first time; however, after this, hopefully, they can finally put the franchise to sleep. Towards the beginning of the film the story tries to explain how other characters are now in this time loop and I don't feel like they succeeded in explaining it. They over thunk it but once you get past that, the story actually does have some heart to it, which I was surprised but appreciated. At times main star Jessica Rothe does really pull at your heartstrings. The killer was more obvious this time around, although they did use a part from the original script of part 1 that was later changed. It appears they went ahead with it anyway in the sequel. 5.5/10
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Re: Movies You Just Watched Discussion, Part III
[Re: olivant]
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03/04/19 11:27 PM
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Watched In the Heat of the Night last night. What a movie! Steiger's performance is the one that stands out for me. He is so underrated. I never considered Steiger as being underrated, Oli. Anyone who can hold his own against Marlon Brando in one of THE greatest cinema scenes of all-time cannot be underrated.
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Re: Movies You Just Watched Discussion, Part III
[Re: J Geoff]
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03/17/19 06:05 AM
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I just watched King of Thieves. It is a British film based on a real life heist which I had never heard about before. The hook is that the thieves/hoodlums who pulled it off were mostly elderly men who had all the normal aging issues of incontinence, low energy, diabetes, etc It's not a comedy though. Though the men may be old they are still dangerous and often quite mean. The film is full of serious award winning actors such as Michael Caine, Jim Broadbent, and Ray Winstone. The film makes no allowances to American ears for British accents, cadence, and slang. Seemingly the plot stuck pretty closely to real life events. It might have been a more entertaining film had it diverged more from reality. Still, it's always a pleasure watching people like Caine and Broadbeat play off of each other.
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"When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives." Winter is Coming
Now this is the Law of the Jungle—as old and as true as the sky; And the wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the wolf that shall break it must die. As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk, the Law runneth forward and back; For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.
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