Finally got around to watching Dr. Strange. I really liked this. It's new on Netflix this month. The story was ok but the effects made this movie. It's like The Matrix on steroids. If this movie would've came out twenty years ago when I was doing shrooms, I would be a drooling vegetable right now.
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We saw Fate of the Furious last Sunday........not a lot of racing but pretty good storylineComment
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Perusing various youtube movie scenes, I came across Robert Shaws monologue from Jaws on the USS Indianapolis. Wow. What a performance and it was all improvised. I have seen this movie tons of times and that scene still gets to me. What a great actor Shaw was. What a great movie. One of the best ever. They don't make 'em like that anymore.Isaiah 5:20Comment
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47 Meters Down.....typical shark movieComment
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Anybody else watching the return of "Twin Peaks" on Showtime?
David Lynchian to a fault. I have no idea what I'm watching so far, but it's... something.Comment
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The Big Sleep.
Bogart and Bacall in 1946 working off a script co-written by William Faulkner. I've really never experienced much Raymond Chandler, but I need to remedy that ASAP. This is a hellaciously complex PI movie--a genre not really known for its labyrinthine plots. This has to do with rare books and murders and double crosses and at least one disappearance. It stars at least ten main characters and a few peripheral characters who come in during the last act. (It's almost Faulkner-esque.) But watch this for the dialogue, which is something to behold. Bogart and Bacall launch into a three-minute back-and-forth at one point that would make the censors of 2017 blush, and they do it completely through horseracing innuendo.
Highly recommended if you like noir.
Cars 3.
I was surprised I enjoyed this so much. It isn't the best Pixar, not even close, and its plot is sort of a basic underdog story. But for all that it nails most every beat, and I think a case can be made that it's the best of the Cars franchise.
Recommended.
Sing Street.
I love movies where you can tell everybody involved was having a tremendous time. Like the great Once and Pitch Perfect, this is a musical where the songs carry forward the action. We're in 1980s Dublin, and I'm a well-known '80s lover (Duran Duran hello!)...but you could put this movie in any world city, in any decade, and it would have been a work of art. The performances are fantastic, the acting is incredible, the songs are spot on...this is one of the better movies I've seen in quite some time.
Cannot recommend this any more highly. It's on Netflix.Comment
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Cars is the nadir of the Pixar canon. I can't believe they've wasted three movies on that franchise. Obviously a cash grab, something I always assumed Pixar was above. I guess not.Comment
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Kong Skull Island- Big dumb fun is the best way I can describe this movie and I loved every minute of it. This movie is the second movie in the Monsterverse. The first was Godzilla two years ago. Unlike Godzilla where it toom FOREVER to see the big green lizard, Kong appears right off the bat and he is in this a lot. The story moves briskly and within 28 minutes, we see Kong destroy a convoy of Army helicopters in one of the best eye candy scenes I have ever witnessed. This movie looks amazing and there is a lot of monsters to see and they all look great. For what this movie is, the acting is good enough but John C Reilly steals the show. He plays a WW2 pilot who has been on the island for 28 years after his plane was shot down. This movie isn't going to win any awards or anything, but I loved monster movies as a kid. This movie took me back to that time. Stay for the end credits. This was a ton better than I thought it was going to be. Recommended for those who likes monster movies and for those who can suspend their disbelief for two hours. If you go in nitpicking, you will miss some serious fun. I wish now I would've seen this in 3d at the cinemas.Last edited by Blue Heaven; 06-24-2017, 03:28 AM.Isaiah 5:20Comment
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Zodiac.
This isn't my first time watching this, but it's new on Netflix so I thought I'd give it another chance. On first watch I thought it was my least favorite Fincher, mostly because it's a movie that doesn't stay in its lane. Comedy and suspense is a really tough mix--Hitch**************** did it--and there's a strange lightness in the first half of this movie. It's the closest Fincher will go to outright comedy, and at first glance it gives the movie an awkward pacing. On second watch I didn't notice it as much, but regardless you watch this movie for its fast-as-hell second half. When Gyllenhaal gets on the case the movie starts to roar with electricity, and then you know you're in pure Fincher. The last few scenes of this are some of Fincher's best work.
Highest recommendation.
Wonder Woman.
It was okay.Comment
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Always appreciated Zodiac more than I enjoyed it. I think it's because they never solved the case, so the movie just sorts of flounders in its ending.
Also, everybody on earth seemingly has been raving about "Wonder Woman." You're literally the first person I've come across who had a "meh" reaction.Comment
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