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BigErnMcCracken said:
I’m generally a huge Bond fan and an exceptionally easy sell on these and for some reason I have started this movie probably 4 times and have yet to make it more than an hour. Maybe I’ll give it one more shot. Opening flashback is certainly creepy as hell.
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Have to at least get to Ana de Armas in Havana.
 
Life (2017)

When something works you stick with it, right? Alien was a successful movie, so what if we reused its plot points. An alien is brought aboard a small dingy spacecraft. Though there are protocols to protect the crew from giving life with unknown capabilities and dangers complete access to the ship, they are ignored in the hope of saving a crewmate. The alien starts out young but quickly grows in size and capability. despite the fact that it is newly born/hatched, it seems to have inate intelligence. How do you fight aliens aboard a spacecraft with an oxygen rich atmosphere? Well, with flamethrowers of course.

Those are major plot lines of both the movie Alien and the movie Life. In some ways, it’s interesting to watch Life to see all that it does wrong and remember all that Alien did write. Life suffers from the fatal flaw of many movies with an expansive cast, it tries to give each of them a heroic moment. Alien has plenty of heroic moments but they happen organically and don’t feel contrived.

The cast seems promising but is utterly wasted. It’s stars Jake Gyllenhall, Ryan Reynolds, and Rebecca Ferguson. Gyllenhall seems vaguely annoyed he is a part of the movie and that seems to be the extent of his acting except for screaming no right before the very end credits. Rebecca Ferguson is wasted in that she remains fully clothed throughout the whole movie. Ryan Reynolds seem to have figured out this thing was a loser in manages to eliminate himself within the first 10 minutes.

Though there are a few interesting moments and concepts, this isn’t worth watching.
 
All the Old Knives. 2022. Prime and cinemas. Stars Chris Pine and Thandie Newton, with Laurence Fishburn and Jonathan Pryce. It’s a CIA mystery/thriller of sorts. Very much a film that is almost nothing but conversation, no action at all. The stars are CIA agents and lovers, stationed in Vienna. A bad thing happens and the movie basically then unravels their story, including a lot of flashbacks as they recount what happened. It’s not as good, but it reminds me slightly of the first Cohen Brothers movie, Blood Simple. This is a decent movie if you want a slow paced film where the mystery gets peeled away through conversation.
 
Ford vs. Ferrari

For whatever reason the descriptions of this movie didn’t make it sound all that appealing to me. I finally watched it last night, though. It was incredibly good from start to finish.
 
What has happened to indie film making? Maybe I'm just on an unlucky streak, but I've seen several recently that were TERRIBLE. "Warning," "Silent Night," and "John and the Hole" were all a complete waste of time. Dull and totally pointless. Who are these writers, directors, producers? Just bad, bad film making. They all had decent casts, but nothing to work with.
 
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nwhoopfan said:
What has happened to indie film making? Maybe I'm just on an unlucky streak, but I've seen several recently that were TERRIBLE. "Warning," "Silent Night," and "John and the Hole" were all a complete waste of time. Dull and totally pointless. Who are these writers, directors, producers? Just bad, bad film making. They all had decent casts, but nothing to work with.
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Sometimes I get a sense that a lot of the movies that are being put out are being chugged out just for the purpose of creating on demand content. There’s a ton of stuff out there that you watch and think to yourself man they really did not give a crap about this movie. Then periodically and you find a gem among the crap. Leave No Trace comes to mind as a good example.
 
Made a critical mistake in watching Aloha directed by Cameron Crowe. I was suckered in by the impressive cast: Bill Murray, John Krasinski, Bradley Cooper, Rachel McAdams, Emma Stone, Alec Baldwin and Danny McBride among others.

I will be brief. Every Cameron Crowe movie is a derivative of Singles or Jerry McGuire. Which might be his only good movies.

In this case, the man child with the early mid life crisis is Bradley Cooper. Former military with a sketchy ethical past now working for a Billionaire Bezos/Musk kind of guy (Murray). But it just so happens that his ex girlfriend gums up the works and Cooper takes way too long in figuring out he should move on and sleep with Emma Stone.

Murray is wasted, not enough screen time. Alec Baldwin, who is perfectly cast as an angry Type A Air Force General delivers the best one liners and there aren't enough. And he somehow gets through the movie without shooting the director. Danny McBride, also wasted here plays a completely extraneous character. John Krasinski is just eye candy for the ladies. I think McAdams did the movie because she forgot her wallet and needed some lunch money.

This is a movie made for women that is hated by women and made by a dude who probably wishes he was a woman.

I may or may not of written this just to pump up the stats that @Mano produces every year.
 
ZooCougar said:
I will be brief. Every Cameron Crowe movie is a derivative of Singles or Jerry McGuire. Which might be his only good movies.
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You're not including Almost Famous as a good movie?

I've seen criticism of Aloha before. I found it decently entertaining. Compared to the absolute garbage I keep seeing that was produced during the covid era, it's practically a masterpiece.
 
nwhoopfan said:
You're not including Almost Famous as a good movie?

I've seen criticism of Aloha before. I found it decently entertaining. Compared to the absolute garbage I keep seeing that was produced during the covid era, it's practically a masterpiece.
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Not really my cup of tea.
 
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nwhoopfan said:
You're not including Almost Famous as a good movie?

I've seen criticism of Aloha before. I found it decently entertaining. Compared to the absolute garbage I keep seeing that was produced during the covid era, it's practically a masterpiece.
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Aloha came out in 2015. Literally one of the top 5 pieces of garbage I have ever seen before.
 
ZooCougar said:
Aloha came out in 2015. Literally one of the top 5 pieces of garbage I have ever seen before.
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Well, our opinions differ. Not even close to being notable for being an all time clunker in my view.
 
Well, the people have spoken. I just didn't think it was that bad. I've seen probably 4 movies in the last 2 weeks that were way, way worse. It's like the craft of making movies just completely went out the window during the pandemic or something.

There's gotta be some kind of sliding scale being used here. Like because of the talents of the people involved, more was expected of it. Are B or D grade movies exempt from being considered for all time worst status? I think you could just pick Nicolas Cage movies and come up with an all time bottom 5 films. Or something Bruce Willis attached his name to and made a cameo appearance in.
 
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Spencer Confidential. Netflix. Mark Wahlberg reprises the old TV Spencer for Hire role. Set in Boston of course, where Mark seems to do his best work. It's got some humor, some action, some dirty cops (a lot of dirty cops) on the whole a fun watch. Iliza Shlesinger, who I mostly know for stand-up, is really very good and very funny as Spencer's Ex. Not bad to look at either. Alan Arkin is in it but doesn't do much. Winston Duke is good as Hawk (and looks huge). Post Malone has a small role, and I probably remain one of the few people who has never heard a Post Malone song.
 
I just haven't really liked the Tom Holland Spider Man movies. I was fairly skeptical of claims of "No Way Home" being the best Marvel movie yet. I was correct. Too long, movie really dragged during several stretches. Ned is kinda annoying, MJ just doesn't move the needle much, Peter/Spidey is even a little annoying. Flash is definitely annoying. Betty is criminally underused, Angourie Rice is probably the best actor out of all the younger cast members. She got about a minute in this one and isn't even part of the group of high school friends anymore apparently. J.B. Smoove, Hannibal Buress and Martin Starr are kinda like the 3 Stooges, but a movie about them might be more entertaining (as a side note, have Hannibal Buress and Lil Rel Howery ever teamed up?--I could see that being a good duo). When the movie wasn't dragging along, it felt kinda overstuffed. Spidey and Dr. Strange were having a competition to see who could make the dumbest decision with the worst possible impact. While my expectations weren't super high, this was still fairly disappointing.

Okay, here's a question. If Peter Parker is 3 distinctly different people in 3 different dimensions (and so are Uncle Ben and Aunt May and several other characters)...why is J. Jonah Jameson exactly the same in the Tobey Maguire and Tom Holland universe? Painted themselves into a corner with that one I think.


I never cared for Andrew Garfield as Spidey. It was a long time ago, I don't know how well they've aged because I haven't watched them in forever, but I'll take the Tobey Maguire version and his first two are still the best Spiderman flicks (the third was junk).
 
nwhoopfan said:
I just haven't really liked the Tom Holland Spider Man movies. I was fairly skeptical of claims of "No Way Home" being the best Marvel movie yet. I was correct. Too long, movie really dragged during several stretches. Ned is kinda annoying, MJ just doesn't move the needle much, Peter/Spidey is even a little annoying. Flash is definitely annoying. Betty is criminally underused, Angourie Rice is probably the best actor out of all the younger cast members. She got about a minute in this one and isn't even part of the group of high school friends anymore apparently. J.B. Smoove, Hannibal Buress and Martin Starr are kinda like the 3 Stooges, but a movie about them might be more entertaining (as a side note, have Hannibal Buress and Lil Rel Howery ever teamed up?--I could see that being a good duo). When the movie wasn't dragging along, it felt kinda overstuffed. Spidey and Dr. Strange were having a competition to see who could make the dumbest decision with the worst possible impact. While my expectations weren't super high, this was still fairly disappointing.

Okay, here's a question. If Peter Parker is 3 distinctly different people in 3 different dimensions (and so are Uncle Ben and Aunt May and several other characters)...why is J. Jonah Jameson exactly the same in the Tobey Maguire and Tom Holland universe? Painted themselves into a corner with that one I think.


I never cared for Andrew Garfield as Spidey. It was a long time ago, I don't know how well they've aged because I haven't watched them in forever, but I'll take the Tobey Maguire version and his first two are still the best Spiderman flicks (the third was junk).
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I don‘t agree with lots of that, but I’m here to say that Kirsten Dunst, especially when wet, was clearly the best MJ. I find the Marisa Tomei Aunt May a brilliant turn in the Holland movies (and Avengers). “Aunt Hottie” as Tony Stark said. There was never a good reason a teeneager‘s aunt was in her 60s.
 
nwhoopfan said:
I never cared for Andrew Garfield as Spidey. It was a long time ago, I don't know how well they've aged because I haven't watched them in forever, but I'll take the Tobey Maguire version and his first two are still the best Spiderman flicks (the third was junk
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Agree 100%.

nwhoopfan said:
Okay, here's a question. If Peter Parker is 3 distinctly different people in 3 different dimensions (and so are Uncle Ben and Aunt May and several other characters)...why is J. Jonah Jameson exactly the same in the Tobey Maguire and Tom Holland universe? Painted themselves into a corner with that one I think.
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Because there are just three alternative multi-verses. There is an infinite number of them. In some J Jonah Jameson may be a different person. In some he may be a woman. And others he may not exist at all. In these three particular multiverses, however, all the Peter parkers are distinctly different individuals and all the J Jonah Jameson‘s are variations on the same individual.

You’re welcome.
 
nwhoopfan said:
I just haven't really liked the Tom Holland Spider Man movies. I was fairly skeptical of claims of "No Way Home" being the best Marvel movie yet. I was correct. Too long, movie really dragged during several stretches. Ned is kinda annoying, MJ just doesn't move the needle much, Peter/Spidey is even a little annoying. Flash is definitely annoying. Betty is criminally underused, Angourie Rice is probably the best actor out of all the younger cast members. She got about a minute in this one and isn't even part of the group of high school friends anymore apparently. J.B. Smoove, Hannibal Buress and Martin Starr are kinda like the 3 Stooges, but a movie about them might be more entertaining (as a side note, have Hannibal Buress and Lil Rel Howery ever teamed up?--I could see that being a good duo). When the movie wasn't dragging along, it felt kinda overstuffed. Spidey and Dr. Strange were having a competition to see who could make the dumbest decision with the worst possible impact. While my expectations weren't super high, this was still fairly disappointing.

Okay, here's a question. If Peter Parker is 3 distinctly different people in 3 different dimensions (and so are Uncle Ben and Aunt May and several other characters)...why is J. Jonah Jameson exactly the same in the Tobey Maguire and Tom Holland universe? Painted themselves into a corner with that one I think.


I never cared for Andrew Garfield as Spidey. It was a long time ago, I don't know how well they've aged because I haven't watched them in forever, but I'll take the Tobey Maguire version and his first two are still the best Spiderman flicks (the third was junk).
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Imagine see Thor: Ragnarok and thinking that No Way Home is the best Marvel flick.

It’s not bad though.
 
ZooCougar said:
Imagine see Thor: Ragnarok and thinking that No Way Home is the best Marvel flick.

It’s not bad though.
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I think it's still Winter Soldier for me.
 
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CL82 said:
Agree 100%.


Because there are just three alternative multi-verses. There is an infinite number of them. In some J Jonah Jameson may be a different person. In some he may be a woman. And others he may not exist at all. In these three particular multiverses, however, all the Peter parkers are distinctly different individuals and all the J Jonah Jameson‘s are variations on the same individual.

You’re welcome.
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Or, they'd already cast J.K. Simmons in the Marvel version, because he fit so well in the earlier Maguire films, before they knew they were going to do the multiverse/crossover thing.
 
ZooCougar said:
Imagine see Thor: Ragnarok and thinking that No Way Home is the best Marvel flick.

It’s not bad though.
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Ragnarok is the funniest for sure. Best is Captain America: Civil War.
 
HuskyHawk said:
Best is Captain America: Civil War.
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That's right there w/ Winter Soldier for me. The Russos did a great job with the multiple films they directed.
 
ZooCougar said:
Made a critical mistake in watching Aloha directed by Cameron Crowe. I was suckered in by the impressive cast: Bill Murray, John Krasinski, Bradley Cooper, Rachel McAdams, Emma Stone, Alec Baldwin and Danny McBride among others.

I will be brief. Every Cameron Crowe movie is a derivative of Singles or Jerry McGuire. Which might be his only good movies.

In this case, the man child with the early mid life crisis is Bradley Cooper. Former military with a sketchy ethical past now working for a Billionaire Bezos/Musk kind of guy (Murray). But it just so happens that his ex girlfriend gums up the works and Cooper takes way too long in figuring out he should move on and sleep with Emma Stone.

Murray is wasted, not enough screen time. Alec Baldwin, who is perfectly cast as an angry Type A Air Force General delivers the best one liners and there aren't enough. And he somehow gets through the movie without shooting the director. Danny McBride, also wasted here plays a completely extraneous character. John Krasinski is just eye candy for the ladies. I think McAdams did the movie because she forgot her wallet and needed some lunch money.

This is a movie made for women that is hated by women and made by a dude who probably wishes he was a woman.

I may or may not of written this just to pump up the stats that @Mano produces every year.
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I'd have liked this if I were allowed to like posts still.

You also forgot about Emma Stone playing an asian character.
 
Fantasy Island (2020)

This is a remake of the 70s TV show. Eventually the original show got schlocky, kind of a love boat island format, but if you remember the original pilot, you may remember that it was pretty dark. People got their “fantasies“ but they rarely came out the way they anticipated. That’s the gist of this movie.

Though I typically like Michael Peña as a actor, he doesn’t convey the underlying evil that Ricardo Montalban did in the original 70s pilot as Mr. Roarke. In the movie version, Roarke is given a backstory that in someways makes him a victim of the island as well. It’s an interesting take. Maggie Q does a good job in her role as a guest and looks terrific. Lucy Hale is adequate in her role.

There are a lot of twists and turns in this Blumhouse version. Maybe too many. But it is a solid if not great watch.
 
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