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Saw "Us" this weekend. Thought it was really drawn out in the second half to where I almost cut bait on it. Watched it and liked the ending of it. There are a few loose ends that I didn't really understand -- the red jumpsuits, the Hands Across America hook, etc. but I'll read up on that.
 
Captain Marvel was good.

Celebrity Skin playing in the closing credits was freaking perfect! Entertaining, Funny and a great soundtrack.

I am confident Marvel will still put out quality post Endgame.
 
"Outlaw King" Netflix original about Robert the Bruce and Scotland's fight to overthrow English rule was decent. I like Chris Pine. I've only seen her a few times but Florence Pugh has really shined when I have seen her. I'm sure they didn't have a budget like "Braveheart" so it doesn't feel as epic.

"Instant Family" had some laugh out loud scenes but was also fairly dramatic and emotional. A couple (Mark Wahlberg and Rose Byrne) decide to adopt. Instead of one they end up with 3 siblings from the foster care system, the oldest being a teenager. Of course they are in way over their heads. Isabela Moner played the teenager, seems like a young actress to keep an eye on, very talented. She sings as well, her song was rolling thru the end credits. I didn't even think of it until after but Wahlberg and Moner appeared together in one of the Transformers movies as well. Here's a video of the song w/ scenes from the movie.

 
I know there are a few other fans of awkward teen movies here. "The Kissing Booth" was fun. I'm really becoming a fan of Joey King. Her mom and her mom's best friend had a baby on the same day, so of course Joey and the other baby grow up as besties. He's a boy but they are purely platonic. Things get complicated when she starts to take an interest in his older brother, who is a player. Not hilarious but amusing.

"You Get Me" is not a comedy. Boy dates Halston Sage, breaks up, has a fling w/ Bella Thorne, then gets back together w/ Halston over the summer. Bella shows up at their high school the next fall and goes all Fatal Attraction. Not a great movie, fairly over the top. But it does have Halston Sage and Bella Thorne in it. Definitely that old Hollywood trope of not high school aged actors portraying high schoolers.
 
ZooCougar said:
I am confident Marvel will still put out quality post Endgame.
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Marvel has it down to a science now. And you have to give all the trust in the world with them since their successful adaptations of unknown characters like Guardians and Captain Marvel.
Just like guardians at first, the upcoming eternals plan is a head scratcher. But like I said...
 
"Happy Death Day 2U" I didn't find as enjoyable as the first one. Got too convoluted, they tried to pack too much into it. Jessica Rothe is the best thing about the film, when she wasn't the focus it lagged. Tacked on a scene that left it open for another sequel. This does not need to be a franchise, one was enough.
 
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"I Am Mother" is brand new on Netflix, an Australian production. Sci fi mystery thriller. Human kind has supposedly been wiped out but there is a facility with a bunch of embryos in stasis. One is "hatched" or whatever and raised by an android. Starts with a montage but quickly progresses to her being a teenager. Everything is fairly hunky dory until a wounded adult human woman shows up outside their airlock. The teen girl is torn between her "mother" and the only other of her kind she's ever seen. Not quite sure who to believe or who to trust. Hilary Swank is the woman, I haven't seen her in anything in years. Rose Byrne is the voice of the android. I'd never seen the teen girl before, Clara Rugaard, she did great. (okay, as per usual she's not actually a teen, she's early 20s) One of the better Netflix originals I've seen. Although I'm not even certain if it's really an original, I think it's a theatrical film in Australia. But whatevs. Worth streaming.
 
I saw "Network" for the first time. That movie is really good. Faye Dunaway is amazing, as she usually was during that period, and Peter Finch is excellent as the crazy but also partially full of Spartacus network new anchor. It is a scathing parody of the news industry that has aged very well. I strongly recommend it.
 
Vice - Pretty darn entertaining and incredibly well-acted. They sure wanted to beat you over the head with how despicable they think Cheney is though. As deserved as it may be, but still.

Always Be My Maybe - A better effort out of Netflix in terms of their recent efforts with RomComs go. The leads are charismatic enough. I found the surprise cameo was actually one of the weaker parts of the film. A better choice out of the wife. We'll see what's in store next month.

Venom - I was expecting so little out of this that I actually came away surprised by how much I liked it. Would've probably helped if it had gotten the much-talked about R-rating that they originally wanted to go for before Sony toned it down. Really enjoyed Tom Hardy's performance and the whole inner monologue bits were pretty well done and acted.
 
Mano said:
Vice - Pretty darn entertaining and incredibly well-acted. They sure wanted to beat you over the head with how despicable they think Cheney is though. As deserved as it may be, but still.

Always Be My Maybe - A better effort out of Netflix in terms of their recent efforts with RomComs go. The leads are charismatic enough. I found the surprise cameo was actually one of the weaker parts of the film. A better choice out of the wife. We'll see what's in store next month.

Venom - I was expecting so little out of this that I actually came away surprised by how much I liked it. Would've probably helped if it had gotten the much-talked about R-rating that they originally wanted to go for before Sony toned it down. Really enjoyed Tom Hardy's performance and the whole inner monologue bits were pretty well done and acted.
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I liked Vice, not as good as the The Big Short, and I think it was pretty fair to Cheney who was justified in making some really unpopular decisions.

Venom was better than the reviews and I agree on all.
 
"The Mustang" took a while to gain some traction but ended up being worth a watch. Fictional drama but based on an actual program where prison inmates train wild mustangs to prepare them for auction that is a fundraiser for the BLM.

"The Highwaymen" is a Netflix production starring Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson as former Texas Rangers that are tasked with ending Bonnie and Clyde's reign of terror. It was an entirely different era, but it's mind boggling that such vicious, violent people were folk heroes that were beloved by much of the public. It's well done. Fairly slow paced, interspersed with short bursts of bloody gun fights.
 
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One of my daughters got tickets for her, me and another daughter to see Rocketman this afternoon for Father’s Day because we are Elton John fans and he is one of the first artists of “mine” whom she really loved too.

We didn’t realize the concept going in and I understand that some people don’t like it, but we all really liked it a lot. It is more Broadway musical or La La Land style than biopic, but I think it does a very good job of conveying the essence of the man, and the guy who plays him is really great. I think they also did a great job with the Elton-Bernie relationship. My only gripe is that there is no coverage of the Tumbleweed Connection material, which is my favorite. Definitely recommended if you are a fan and are okay with the medium (and more gay sex than I can recall seeing in a mainstream movie).
 
Stan & Ollie –This 2018 biopic on the Laurel and Hardy comedy team really hit the spot for me and my wife. The film basically focuses on performing tours of Great Britain in the early 1950’s that the comedy duo undertook after their film career had waned. The focus is mainly on the relationship between the two performers, but is also packed with all sorts of Laurel and Hardy comedy bits and set pieces from their incredible film career, some of which are performed as part of the theatrical tour, while other bits crop up as part of the movie. Steve Coogan as Stan Laurel and John C. Reilly as Oliver Hardy are both terrific. Also entertaining are their wives, who form something of a double act of their own whenever they appear together on screen. I highly recommend this film.
 
"This Beautiful Fantastic" was quirky and kinda weird but enjoyable for me. Jessica Brown Findlay and Tom Wilkinson were delightful.


You know, sometimes you see a trailer and you're curious about a movie, and then it takes forever to be released, and then it takes another forever to available on DVD? The anticipation has grown way out of proportion to the movie itself. I finally saw "Under the Silver Lake." It was...incomprehensible. Not recommended at all. It was like maybe a really poor attempt at a David Lynch knockoff (who I'm really not a fan of anyway) or something like that.
 
Tommyboy said:
Fighting with My Family
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Finally saw this. Watched the documentary you linked as well. Enjoyed it. Checked out the extra features also. Not surprisingly the real Paige showed up. What I didn't expect was to see Tessa Blanchard. She's another from a wrestling family (father is Tully Blanchard, stepfather is Magnum T.A.). She's pretty bad ass. She was Florence Pugh's stunt double and it looks like she helped with some training and choreography for the actresses as well.
 
Us - Laughable and not in a good way.

Contratiempo aka The Invisible Guest - Really, really, really good. I'm amazed how under the radar this is.
 
"Captive State" was way under the radar. Low budget sci fi, kind of mysterious, a slow building thriller. I almost didn't stick with it, but I'm really glad I did. By the end I thought it was really good. I think this is a love it or hate it movie based on Netflix reviews. A few big names like John Goodman and Vera Farmiga, mostly little known actors. Set in Chicago in the near future. Earth has been overtaken by an alien invasion, world governments quickly fell in line and accepted alien rule. There is a small and seemingly futile resistance in Chicago.


edit--Wow, Cameron from Ferris Bueller's Day Off is in this movie. I absolutely did not even recognize him. Thanks IMDB.
 
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Highwaymen on Netflix is very good. Costner and Harrelson star in a really good, dark take on the Rangers pursuing Bonnie and Clyde. Costner and Harrelson are two stone cold killers living in a world that is rapidly moving away from them, and the film does a good job positioning C&H against the two killers they are chasing, and reaching the conclusion that there is not a big difference between them.
 
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I probably hadn't watched "Empire Records" since it was released on...VHS? Been a while anyway. Streamed it for fun. For a while it seemed like it was going nowhere, but then it kinda snuck up on me and I ended up enjoying it. Interesting seeing Liv Tyler, Renee Zellweger and Robin Tunney all early in their careers.
 
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the film does a good job positioning C&H against the two killers they are chasing, and reaching the conclusion that there is not a big difference between them
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There was that pivotal scene w/ Clyde's father, trying to make the point that he wasn't always that way, circumstances turned him into what he was. And Costner realizing the same was true of him.
 
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part - I think I enjoyed the first one better with it's more streamlined approach into it's forays into the "real world". This one was reaching quite a bit when trying to connect what was happening with these play things and their imagined world.

Bad Times at the El Royale - The movie ended and I thought to myself, "whelp, that was completely pointless." I didn't give a flip about any of the characters and really not a one of their backstories were all that interesting. I think the writers thought they were more clever than they really were.

Wonder Park - I know it's just a kid's movie but this had some of the biggest plot holes and incomprehensibly fanciful plot devices of any movie I've seen in recent memory.

Captain Marvel - Boring. Truly. I wanted to like it but found Brie Larson's performance lacking much of any charm or even intensity (which seemed what she was going for, albeit the quiet kind). Samuel L. did his best to keep me engaged and it was a little fun seeing Nick Fury's beginnings I guess. The cat was dumb and seemed mostly like a deus ex machina device. The central mystery was waaay too easy to call and pretty uninspired. I liked Ben Mendelsohn's character and performance for the most part but the garbled accent he was going for made it a bit hard to understand what he was saying. Hoping for better out of the character in Endgame. @Deadrody @traitor71 curious if you guys ever bothered after coming out so strongly against it.
 
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The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part - I think I enjoyed the first one better with it's more streamlined approach into it's forays into the "real world". This one was reaching quite a bit when trying to connect what was happening with these play things and their imagined world.

Bad Times at the El Royale - The movie ended and I thought to myself, "whelp, that was completely pointless." I didn't give a flip about any of the characters and really not a one of their backstories were all that interesting. I think the writers thought they were more clever than they really were.

Wonder Park - I know it's just a kid's movie but this had some of the biggest plot holes and incomprehensibly fanciful plot devices of any movie I've seen in recent memory.

Captain Marvel - Boring. Truly. I wanted to like it but found Brie Larson's performance lacking much of any charm or even intensity (which seemed what she was going for, albeit the quiet kind). Samuel L. did his best to keep me engaged and it was a little fun seeing Nick Fury's beginnings I guess. The cat was dumb and seemed mostly like a deus ex machina device. The central mystery was waaay too easy to call and pretty uninspired. I liked Ben Mendelsohn's character and performance for the most part but the garbled accent he was going for made it a bit hard to understand what he was saying. Hoping for better out of the character in Endgame. @Deadrody @traitor71 curious if you guys ever bothered after coming out so strongly against it.
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I did a 180 on Captain Marvel. I thought it was a decent movie.
 
Mano said:
The Lego Movie 2: The Second Part - I think I enjoyed the first one better with it's more streamlined approach into it's forays into the "real world". This one was reaching quite a bit when trying to connect what was happening with these play things and their imagined world.

Bad Times at the El Royale - The movie ended and I thought to myself, "whelp, that was completely pointless." I didn't give a flip about any of the characters and really not a one of their backstories were all that interesting. I think the writers thought they were more clever than they really were.

Wonder Park - I know it's just a kid's movie but this had some of the biggest plot holes and incomprehensibly fanciful plot devices of any movie I've seen in recent memory.

Captain Marvel - Boring. Truly. I wanted to like it but found Brie Larson's performance lacking much of any charm or even intensity (which seemed what she was going for, albeit the quiet kind). Samuel L. did his best to keep me engaged and it was a little fun seeing Nick Fury's beginnings I guess. The cat was dumb and seemed mostly like a deus ex machina device. The central mystery was waaay too easy to call and pretty uninspired. I liked Ben Mendelsohn's character and performance for the most part but the garbled accent he was going for made it a bit hard to understand what he was saying. Hoping for better out of the character in Endgame. @Deadrody @traitor71 curious if you guys ever bothered after coming out so strongly against it.
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No change on it for me. Captain Marvel is a terrible character that hasn't been interesting in 20 years or so. Throw in the fact that the film isn't required viewing for the Avengers storyline, and it was an easy decision for me.
 
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traitor71 said:
No change on it for me. Captain Marvel is a terrible character that hasn't been interesting in 20 years or so.
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Captain Marvel was only interesting when he was dying of cancer.
 
Boy In The Plastic Bubble (1976)

Feeling pretty crappy Friday evening I stayed up and watched this 1970s schlock for nostalgia. I was 11 when this movie came out and still remember the hype ABC gave it.

John Travolta starred in this based-on-a-true story person. Young actress, Glynnis O'Connor, co-stars in her her second straight movie (Ode To Billy Joe [w/ Robbie Benson]). She had a smokin' bod.

Overall, the movie was classic Aaron Spelling. It was an interesting watch.
 
Going to see "Yesterday" tonight. Will report back. Reviews I've seen on the flick are way too serious... I find it hysterical that a plot as light as this one gets slammed due to overall social commentary because you can't suspend belief "that way" (missing Beatles tunes while ignoring social impact) while blockbusters ripped from comic books are perfectly fine.

I'm just looking for 90 minutes of fun with actual characters and without endless explosions.
 
So... Yesterday. Light entertainment Couple of twists I wasn't expecting that worked. Well acted by the two leads. McKinnon was a bit over the top. Sheerhan was ok - not someone I follow, but it was a self-effacing role for him. They left one of the best jokes from the preview out of the final cut. Other things were also eliminated from collective memory, in no discernable pattern. Could've done more with the premise, but it worked nonetheless. Good date movie. Wife & I enjoyed it.
 
I saw a trailer a while ago for the Netflix original "TAU." Looked kinda cheesy and leaning more toward horror than my taste. But I'm a fan of Maika Monroe. So I took a chance on it. Better than I expected, and really not horror. Sci fi psychological thriller. Not exactly breaking new ground (A.I., mad scientist, captive female test subject), but I thought it was decent.
 
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