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nwhoopfan said:
I was gonna say a little more about Shang-Chi, but my computer got wonky. I thought I saw some nods to movies like Crouching Tiger..., The House of Flying Daggers, etc., and also Jackie Chan. There was an elaborate fight scene outside a huge high rise building, on a series of rickety scaffolding. I think Jackie would approve of the choreography in that part.
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Agreed that it made some of those nods for sure. What made it work for me was the blending in of humor to the story. Awkwafina is somewhat annoying, but I felt like it worked here. The character is really supposed to be annoying.
 
nwhoopfan said:
Okay BY movie fanatics, is it just me or has anyone else ever thought Gary Cole and William Fichtner are the same person? Both have been in an absolute ton of movies, both great character/supporting actors, both very versatile. I'm never sure which one I'm watching when I see them on screen. Have they ever been seen at the same time in the same place? Just wondering.
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William Fichnter, I think of Sully in The Perfect Storm (2000). Gary Cole, Bill Lumbergh in Office Space (1999). Both born in 1956. Cole's been in a ton more stuff though, I think.

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After first getting a rec to watch it a few months ago, I finally decided to watch Bo Burnham’s Outside on Netflix.

I first learned of Burnham back when I was in college and he was releasing his songs on YouTube. He had talent, but I found him annoying, kinda like a John Mayer of his comedy.

After 15 years of kinda forgetting about him, I am amazed at his work on Outside. He’s an entertainment polymath.

It’s a hard to label production: the lines of entertainment and voyeurism are blurred. It’s pretty incredible to see him manage to finish the project powering through his own mental health issues.

It’s been a while since I’ve watched something where I’ve experienced such a wide range of emotions: everything from pure laugh out loud moments to amusement to fear to empathy to worry…excellent piece of art.
 
I liked the film so much, I gave it the wrong title. It’s Inside not Outside.
 
The Wolf of Wall Street. 2013. Scorsese. DiCaprio. It’s pretty good, if also ridiculous at times. Certainly runs a bit long. Margot Robbie is stunning. One of the more interesting things is that the real Jordan Belfort evidently shared a jail cell with Tommy Chong, who encouraged him to write the memoir that was turned into this film.
 
HuskyHawk said:
The Wolf of Wall Street. 2013. Scorsese. DiCaprio. It’s pretty good, if also ridiculous at times. Certainly runs a bit long. Margot Robbie is stunning. One of the more interesting things is that the real Jordan Belfort evidently shared a jail cell with Tommy Chong, who encouraged him to write the memoir that was turned into this film.
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Terrible movie. Unwatchable. Zero stars.
 
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What About Bob? - 1991

Definitely a bunch of laughs here but simply a paycheck for Murray and Dreyfuss
 
Richard Jewell 2019
This is Clint Eastwood's take on the 1996 Atlanta Olympics bombing and the rush to judgement to name the security guard who discovered the bomb, who was initially a national hero, as the bomber. I like Eastwood as a director and this film doesn't disappoint. I remember the story when it happened and the switch was stunning. Jewell was a national hero for three days and then his character was was destroyed in media and he became the villain and national punchline.

In summary, 34 Jewell had been "asked to resign" from his job as a college security guard. He'd moved back in with his mother, who was recovering from surgery and took a temporary job as part of the security for the Atlanta Olympics. At a concert event he discovers a unintended backpack and pendatically pushed to have a bomb team to take a look at it. When they do, they discover it contains three large pipe bombs and he and other push to get the area evacuated. Though two people died (one was a foreign reporter who had a heart attack rushing to the scene after the explosion who is only tangentially mentioned in the movie) his actions undoubted saved many lives and prevented injuries to many more.

Seeing all the press on how Jewell is a hero, his former boss at his college job calls the FBI and says basically that Jewell is a weirdo, and his cadence, and excessive deference to rules, do make him a bit off-putting, and he becomes a person of interest in the investigation. A local reporter discovers that information and runs with it, saying that he meets the definition of the FBI "Hero/Lone Bomber profile". It gets picked up by the media and Jewell's and his mother's life is trashed. (Fun fact: there is no such FBI profile. Kathy Scruggs, the original reporter, made it up tailoring the supposed criteria to the background she discovered about Jewell.)

The movie tells the story of "fake news" and abuse of power by Federal law enforcement it a compelling way. I highly recommend it.
 
Hey Adrien! said:
After first getting a rec to watch it a few months ago, I finally decided to watch Bo Burnham’s Outside on Netflix.

I first learned of Burnham back when I was in college and he was releasing his songs on YouTube. He had talent, but I found him annoying, kinda like a John Mayer of his comedy.

After 15 years of kinda forgetting about him, I am amazed at his work on Outside. He’s an entertainment polymath.

It’s a hard to label production: the lines of entertainment and voyeurism are blurred. It’s pretty incredible to see him manage to finish the project powering through his own mental health issues.

It’s been a while since I’ve watched something where I’ve experienced such a wide range of emotions: everything from pure laugh out loud moments to amusement to fear to empathy to worry…excellent piece of art.
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All due respect, but my daughter tried to get us to watch this and I couldn't make it through ten minutes. Maybe because I expected to lump it into the "comedy show" category like a Jim Gaffigan special and it isn't any such thing IMO.
 
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Stardust 2007. Based on a Neil Gaimen book of the same name. This was a bit of a guilty pleasure for me. Did a re-watch, after my daughter said she wanted to see it again. The cast here is just amazing. Charlie Cox is the lead (later in Daredevil), Claire Danes, Robert DeNiro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Mark Strong, Peter O'Toole, the very young Sienna Miller, Ricky Gervais and more. It's an interesting and creative story, as usual from Gaimen. It is changed a bit for the movie, and I don't love the casting of Claire Danes but everybody else is excellent. DeNiro is particularly brilliant in what may be his most unusual role. I just continue to find this a fun, enjoyable movie. Funny at times with some action and an interesting story.
 
The Vanished (2020)
Anne Heche, Thomas Jane, Jason Patric, Aleksei Archer
Never heard of it and not great but it was OK for a weekend evening with nothing else to do. it was somewhat suspenseful with a few twists.
 
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HuskyHawk said:
The Wolf of Wall Street. 2013. Scorsese. DiCaprio. It’s pretty good, if also ridiculous at times. Certainly runs a bit long. Margot Robbie is stunning. One of the more interesting things is that the real Jordan Belfort evidently shared a jail cell with Tommy Chong, who encouraged him to write the memoir that was turned into this film.
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Brilliant! I've watched it a few times. Some of the scenes are hilarious. DiCaprio, Jonah Hill, Belfort's crew, a bunch of degenerates, awesome stuff. Yes, Margot Robbie is stunning. Gooble Gobble One of Us!
 
Kolumbo said:
The Vanished (2020)
Anne Heche, Thomas Jane, Jason Patric, Aleksei Archer
Never heard of it and not great but it was OK for a weekend evening with nothing else to do. it was somewhat suspenseful with a few twists.
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“OK for a weekend evening with nothing else to do.”. Pretty much a summary of Anne Heche’s movie career.
 
"Nightmare Alley" is now streaming on Hulu. I've tried. Guillermo del Toro just isn't my guy. His low brow stuff (Hellboy, Pacific Rim) is way better than his Oscar bait stuff IMO. I just don't get the hype. Pan's Labyrinth, The Shape of Water, now this. His cinematography and F/X are always excellent, but the stories just don't grab me. This was long, slow and in the end just didn't add up to much. And what was with this being touted "the most shocking ending in years." No, it wasn't. Maybe a bit ironic, shocking isn't even close to an accurate description. This movie had a fantastic cast, it's not that any of them didn't perform well, but the whole thing just didn't come together for me. Oh well.
 
The Last Duel. 2021.

14th century France. The friendship between a Knight (Damon) and a squire (Adam Driver) unravels as their fortunes head in different directions until they ultimately fight to the death in a well attended duel. The film is long, slow, tedious and dull. Ridley Scott usually delivers better. I am a fan of set pieces that transport us to a different time. Not this one. One Star.
 
Love, Rosie (2014) - was working late tonight and needed something on in the background that I didn't need to be watching too closely, so I flipped through Starz and found this. It is not the worst romcom movie I have ever seen, but it could have been a lot better. First, Lily Collins and Sam Claflin are two good actors that look the part of romcom leads. The basic premise of a long term, almost love affair where the timing was never quite right, from teenage years through 20's is not particularly original, but I was not expecting much so whatever. The movie is based on a book, and there are some pretty good monologues that were probably pulled straight from the book, but a lot of the bridge scenes and dialogue are really weak. Like bad sitcom writing weak. Also, the Collins' character seems kind of hopeless and unambitious about anything, and the Claflin character comes off as a shallow, pretentious jerk, so by the middle of the movie, I had trouble caring about the plot because the best thing for both characters would be for them not to get together. Overall, this felt like a Netflix film, kind of slapped together with a bunch of semi-recognizable pretty people to keep your eyes on the screen and distract you from the fact that the writing was lazy and the half the plot was completely unnecessary.
 
Palatine said:
The Last Duel. 2021.

14th century France. The friendship between a Knight (Damon) and a squire (Adam Driver) unravels as their fortunes head in different directions until they ultimately fight to the death in a well attended duel. The film is long, slow, tedious and dull. Ridley Scott usually delivers better. I am a fan of set pieces that transport us to a different time. Not this one. One Star.
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Have been tempted by this. Mixed reviews. I keep fearing it will be exactly as you described.
 
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HuskyHawk said:
Have been tempted by this. Mixed reviews. I keep fearing it will be exactly as you described.
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Have to say, I get that impression from the trailer. If you can't hook me with 2 minutes of highlights, yikes.
 
The Tender Bar. 2021. Prime. George Clooney directs. Ben Afflect stars with Lily Rabe and Tye Sheridan. We start with a kid in 1973 in Long Island. But filmed in metro Boston. So for people like @8893 and me there is an instant connection to the era. This was our time/reality. Afflect is his uncle Charlie and reminds me of so many people I knew. Possibly the greatest uncle ever. Christopher Lloyd looking old as his grandfather but playing it very well. Feels real. It’s funny, sweet, nostalgic, intelligent, has epic cars and epic tunes. Love it. I haven’t felt as transported to my time since seeing Frampton live a couple of years ago.

Oh, watch the credits. Classic stuff. This may be Ben Afflect‘s best role.
 
HuskyHawk said:
The Tender Bar. 2021. Prime. George Clooney directs. Ben Afflect stars with Lily Rabe and Tye Sheridan. We start with a kid in 1973 in Long Island. But filmed in metro Boston. So for people like @8893 and me there is an instant connection to the era. This was our time/reality. Afflect is his uncle Charlie and reminds me of so many people I knew. Possibly the greatest uncle ever. Christopher Lloyd looking old as his grandfather but playing it very well. Feels real. It’s funny, sweet, nostalgic, intelligent, has epic cars and epic tunes. Love it. I haven’t felt as transported to my time since seeing Frampton live a couple of years ago.

Oh, watch the credits. Classic stuff. This may be Ben Afflect‘s best role.
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I saw it a few weeks ago and didn’t love it. But I don’t love Affleck and never really have except for his role in Good Will Hunting. I thought this was a pleasant watch but the nostalgia didn’t grab me, especially when the tunes frequently didn’t match the content of the scenes.

I saw Licorice Pizza today—first in-theater movie for us in two years—and liked it better but felt kind of the same in the sense that it seemed like a lot of forced nostalgia, this time in the form of random and meandering scenes and no real plot. Good acting and good ensemble cast, but really aimless excuses for Wonder Years-type music videos to great tunes.
 
8893 said:
I saw it a few weeks ago and didn’t love it. But I don’t love Affleck and never really have except for his role in Good Will Hunting. I thought this was a pleasant watch but the nostalgia didn’t grab me, especially when the tunes frequently didn’t match the content of the scenes.

I saw Licorice Pizza today—first in-theater movie for us in two years—and liked it better but felt kind of the same in the sense that it seemed like a lot of forced nostalgia, this time in the form of random and meandering scenes and no real plot. Good acting and good ensemble cast, but really aimless excuses for Wonder Years-type music videos to great tunes.
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I went to some movies in the fall and cringed every time I saw the preview for Licorice Pizza.
 
HuskyHawk said:
The Tender Bar. 2021. Prime. George Clooney directs. Ben Afflect stars with Lily Rabe and Tye Sheridan. We start with a kid in 1973 in Long Island. But filmed in metro Boston. So for people like @8893 and me there is an instant connection to the era. This was our time/reality. Afflect is his uncle Charlie and reminds me of so many people I knew. Possibly the greatest uncle ever. Christopher Lloyd looking old as his grandfather but playing it very well. Feels real. It’s funny, sweet, nostalgic, intelligent, has epic cars and epic tunes. Love it. I haven’t felt as transported to my time since seeing Frampton live a couple of years ago.

Oh, watch the credits. Classic stuff. This may be Ben Afflect‘s best role.
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Watched it last night. Don't know if I'd watch it again, but it was decent. Thought the kid did a great job. Liked the interaction between the older JR and the priest. Lloyd was good. Movie sucked me in instantly playing "Radar Love" with the DJ noting Golden Earring would be opening for The Who at MSG - they were there for 4 nights and I lucked out on having tickets for what Townshend said was the worst concert they'd ever performed. But Earring was great, lol.

I've liked Affleck in a few films. I enjoyed GWH, The Town, The Accountant, and of course, Dogma.
 
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Nightmare Alley 2021. HBOMax. This did $28m at box office. Guillermo del Toro directs and yes it looks good visually. Remake of a 1947 film noir mystery/thriller. Big cast headlined by Bradley Cooper, but also Willem Defoe, Toni Collette, Kate Blanchett, Rooney Mara and more. The story is late 1930s to start into the 40s. The characters are mostly carnies and grifters. Cooper is superb in his role, most are really, but it’s so slow. Critics loved it as a morality play that spawns introspection on humanity. But I didn’t find it that insightful. My wife guessed the ending about half way in. Mixed reviews here. It’s well made if not gripping. Never puts you on the edge of your seat or sucks you in.
 
Quackser Fortune Has a Cousin in the Bronx (1970) - This comedy stars Gene Wilder in his fourth film, playing the title role of Quackser Fortune. He plays a young Irish man who makes his living in a self employed endeavor picking up horse manure on the streets of Dublin and selling it as fertilizer. He never got much of an education, and is not exactly up to speed on all the social graces of the various social classes that populate this film Two things happen at the beginning of the film that impact Quackser’s life, both of which find a way of intertwining. Quackser meets an American exchange college student played by Margot Kidder who is spending a semester in Dublin. The two develop a rather odd off and on relationship in this rather oddball film. At the same time, Quacker’s livelihood is threatened by new regulations in Dublin that will ban many horses from the streets of the city. As indicated by the title of the film, Quackser has a relative living in America who from time to time ends up being talked about by Quackser’s family, often as a possible solution to Quackser’s problems that surface during the film. Like I said, this is a rather odd comedy which I had never heard of until recently, but it is rather likable and entertaining.
 
HuskyHawk said:
Nightmare Alley 2021. HBOMax. This did $28m at box office. Guillermo del Toro directs and yes it looks good visually. Remake of a 1947 film noir mystery/thriller. Big cast headlined by Bradley Cooper, but also Willem Defoe, Toni Collette, Kate Blanchett, Rooney Mara and more. The story is late 1930s to start into the 40s. The characters are mostly carnies and grifters. Cooper is superb in his role, most are really, but it’s so slow. Critics loved it as a morality play that spawns introspection on humanity. But I didn’t find it that insightful. My wife guessed the ending about half way in. Mixed reviews here. It’s well made if not gripping. Never puts you on the edge of your seat or sucks you in.
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Visually this is a terrific movie. Perfect 1940s. Shows us everything from the dirt and philth of a moving low rent carnival to the slick deco environs of the rich and powerful. Every frame feels authentic. It's master craftsmanship. The story telling is interesting but drags. What should be suspense and drama becomes waiting to be shown the inevitable. Cut out 45 minutes and it's a much better movie. One and half stars.
 
The Last Duel: I mean it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be, but every Ridley Scott Movie is the same.
 
Okay, I struck out on my last "are these 2 actors the same person?" attempt. Bear with me here. They don't look much alike but Thomas Barbusca and Finn Wolfhard...? Exact same voice, pretty much same persona. I've been streaming "The Mick" and now I'm watching "Ghostbusters: Afterlife." I think I'm on to something this time, they are the same person. Just in different bodies.
 
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