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Recently Watched Movies 2024

nwhoopfan said:
I normally wouldn't post something if I don't finish a movie, but I think I set a new personal best for shortest amount of time to give up on something. I'd put "The Sweet East" on a list of stuff I wanted to check out a while ago, it just came to Hulu, so I tried it. Shaky hand held camera, annoying teenagers being annoying, 5 minutes and I was out. I know that's not enough time to really get a feel for something, but I just couldn't do it. I had looked at imdb reviews previously and it looked to be very much love it or hate it. If the first 5 minutes elicited such a negative response from me, I just decided to extrapolate and figured my time could be better spent doing something else.
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I got 15 minutes into the Brooke Shields romcom on Netflix before turning it off. She can’t act, and iCarly was pretty bad too, and the writing is ridiculously stupid. It was one of the most viewed movies on streaming last week and it is terrible.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
I got 15 minutes into the Brooke Shields romcom on Netflix before turning it off. She can’t act, and iCarly was pretty bad too, and the writing is ridiculously stupid. It was one of the most viewed movies on streaming last week and it is terrible.
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It seems like almost anything new on Netflix will jump into their top 10 list, at least temporarily. No indication of quality at all.
 
nwhoopfan said:
It seems like almost anything new on Netflix will jump into their top 10 list, at least temporarily. No indication of quality at all.
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On that topic, "Madame Web" has been on the top of Netflix list the last several times I've checked, despite it getting absolutely trashed by everyone. Put something on Netflix, people will watch it, no matter what it is.
 
Fall Guy (2024) Seemed like a good choice because I like action, wife likes rom-coms, and we both like Gosling. Well wrong. It is a bad movie on all accounts. We both thought it was bad. My wife thought the love story was "ridiculous." The action was okay but the characters were as shallow as a dog dish. The easiest way to put it is that every punch was telegraphed. It's obviously an expensive movie. They should have used the money to build a park. That is something that people could enjoy.
 
A Simple Favour (Netflix). Anna Kendrick is the perfect single mom. Blake Lively is not. Their kids are friends, play dates ensue. Then cheating. Then crime. All done fairly lightheartedly, with a solid supporting cast. Paul Feig directed. Not a waste of time for me, ymmv
 
HuskyHawk said:
Anyone But You. Sydney Sweeney, Glen Powell. Rom com. The two leads meet, have a fun night, really like each other then screw it up. Sweeney’s sister is dating Powell’s friend (female but it doesn’t matter). Then they get married in Australia and Sweeney and Powell who think they hate each other are thrust together. You know what happens. Lots of very good looking people in this, not just the leads. There are a few laughs and it’s reasonably fun.
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Tired predictable premise. Horrible acting. Ridiculous storyline (stuff like a rehearsal dinner on a massive 40m dollar yacht with maybe 8 people on the entire boat).

Not even Sydney Sweeney's wondrous cans could have saved this dud.
 
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I was about to go to bed the other night and Eastern Promises came on HBO, I thought I'll just watch the first 5 minutes and ended up watching the whole thing. Saw it several times when it came out and it holds up beautifully. Cronenberg instantly transports you to his world of the Russian mob in London and Viggo is a chameleon. There's no wasted scenes and it's kind of a perfect movie.

Cronenberg has always been one of the most interesting directors. I'll go through a bunch of his movies again, watching Scanners tonight.
 
"The Decoy Bride" is from a few years ago (2011). I vaguely remember seeing trailers for it. I don't think I ever saw, it sure didn't seem familiar at any point. Amusing enough for a 90 minute movie. In the movie Alice Eve is an extremely popular actress who is stalked by the paparazzi constantly. She is supposed to be marrying David Tennant, a mildly successful author. She wants to have a paparazzi free wedding, but that is proving to be impossible. So they plan a stealth wedding for nearly the end of the earth, the outermost of the Outer Hebrides. Still doesn't throw everyone off the scent, so they come up with a crazy plan to stage a fake wedding with a local woman, played by Kelly Macdonald. There's something about her I find quite charming and appealing. Probably her voice as much as anything. It took me a bit to stop thinking "it's Merida from 'Brave.'" Anyway of course nothing goes to plan and much hijinx ensues.


Apparently the island this took place on, Hegg, is fictitious. Was filmed mainly on the Isle of Man.
 
Hadn't scrolled thru Prime in awhile and was surprised and delighted to find "The Station Agent" (2003) was there. Hadn't seen it in 20 years, but recalled I really enjoyed the quirkiness of it, albeit I forgot some of the plot (what little there is). This was the movie that introduced me to Peter Dinklage, and he's outstanding in it. For those unfamiliar with the story, he's a train buff who inherits a small train depot in rural NJ. He'd prefer to be left alone, but regular encounters with Bobby Cannavale as a chatty hot dog truck operator and Patricia Clarkson as a troubled divorcee make being alone all but impossible. A young Michelle Williams and 11-year old Raven Goodwin fill out a marvelous cast. It's not laugh out loud funny, but lots of chuckles in the early going. Gets a tad maudlin toward the end, but overall it's a movie that's far more than the sum of its parts. Highly recommend.
 
Palatine said:
Fall Guy (2024) Seemed like a good choice because I like action, wife likes rom-coms, and we both like Gosling. Well wrong. It is a bad movie on all accounts. We both thought it was bad. My wife thought the love story was "ridiculous." The action was okay but the characters were as shallow as a dog dish. The easiest way to put it is that every punch was telegraphed. It's obviously an expensive movie. They should have used the money to build a park. That is something that people could enjoy.
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It looked terrible from previews
 
storrsroars said:
Hadn't scrolled thru Prime in awhile and was surprised and delighted to find "The Station Agent" (2003) was there. Hadn't seen it in 20 years, but recalled I really enjoyed the quirkiness of it, albeit I forgot some of the plot (what little there is). This was the movie that introduced me to Peter Dinklage, and he's outstanding in it. For those unfamiliar with the story, he's a train buff who inherits a small train depot in rural NJ. He'd prefer to be left alone, but regular encounters with Bobby Cannavale as a chatty hot dog truck operator and Patricia Clarkson as a troubled divorcee make being alone all but impossible. A young Michelle Williams and 11-year old Raven Goodwin fill out a marvelous cast. It's not laugh out loud funny, but lots of chuckles in the early going. Gets a tad maudlin toward the end, but overall it's a movie that's far more than the sum of its parts. Highly recommend.
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My wife and I have seen "The Station Agent" a goodly number of times, we both love that movie. Peter Dinklage is terrific in it, and the supporting cast that you mention all do well in it. I have no problem recommending this film.
 
storrsroars said:
A Simple Favour (Netflix). Anna Kendrick is the perfect single mom. Blake Lively is not. Their kids are friends, play dates ensue. Then cheating. Then crime. All done fairly lightheartedly, with a solid supporting cast. Paul Feig directed. Not a waste of time for me, ymmv
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This is a nicely done little mystery. I enjoyed it as well.
 
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I feel like Charlie Brown trying to kick a field goal w/ Lucy holding the ball and pulling it away at the last second. Maybe this time will be different...

"Atlas" is another movie Netflix threw a lot of money at that is probably not even mediocre. I had to quit watching. JLo is completely unbearable in this movie. Okay world building, but of course a bunch of people making really stupid decisions. Terrible dialog. Script writing is just about a dead art in Hollywood. But never mind anything else, if your lead actress who is on screen by herself most of the time is horrendously annoying, then the whole project is gonna be dead on arrival.
 
nwhoopfan said:
I feel like Charlie Brown trying to kick a field goal w/ Lucy holding the ball and pulling it away at the last second. Maybe this time will be different...

"Atlas" is another movie Netflix threw a lot of money at that is probably not even mediocre. I had to quit watching. JLo is completely unbearable in this movie. Okay world building, but of course a bunch of people making really stupid decisions. Terrible dialog. Script writing is just about a dead art in Hollywood. But never mind anything else, if your lead actress who is on screen by herself most of the time is horrendously annoying, then the whole project is gonna be dead on arrival.
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Netflix is trash.
 
superjohn said:
Netflix is trash.
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Yeah, pretty much. "Hit Man" that is coming out next month is getting decent buzz. After that I'm out I think. Wasn't particularly impressed with the offerings by Amazon the last time I had it, I might just go with no streaming service for a while.
 
nwhoopfan said:
Yeah, pretty much. "Hit Man" that is coming out next month is getting decent buzz. After that I'm out I think. Wasn't particularly impressed with the offerings by Amazon the last time I had it, I might just go with no streaming service for a while.
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I got rid of Netflix a year ago. They had a lot of worthwhile docs and series on there years ago but I watched all of it and they didn't come out with good new content over basically the next 5 years. If I hear of anything I want to see on there down the road I'll sign up for a month binge and cancel again, that seems to be the move. Amazon isn't quite as bad as Netflix but it isn't good, I only keep it because I get a lot of things delivered to me. HBO Max is by far the best but they haven't put out much good stuff lately.
 
superjohn said:
I got rid of Netflix a year ago. They had a lot of worthwhile docs and series on there years ago but I watched all of it and they didn't come out with good new content over basically the next 5 years. If I hear of anything I want to see on there down the road I'll sign up for a month binge and cancel again, that seems to be the move. Amazon isn't quite as bad as Netflix but it isn't good, I only keep it because I get a lot of things delivered to me. HBO Max is by far the best but they haven't put out much good stuff lately.
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I've been doing back and forth between Netflix and Prime for a few years. Had access to Disney+ briefly and was surprised by how little content they had that I actually wanted to watch. Have Hulu too and they have a bit of decent stuff.
 
Well, "The Beekeeper" was utterly ridiculous, but at least it was entertaining. Turn your brain off and you'll be okay. Statham doing Statham things. And then there's Jeremy Irons, he's one cool dude. Doesn't matter what he's in.
 
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nwhoopfan said:
Yeah, pretty much. "Hit Man" that is coming out next month is getting decent buzz. After that I'm out I think. Wasn't particularly impressed with the offerings by Amazon the last time I had it, I might just go with no streaming service for a while.
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I just started with prime. I'm enjoying it as I work my way through stuff and have a decent backlog of things I'd like to watch.

On Disney +, The Mandolorian and Ahsoka series were both good.
 
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nwhoopfan said:
On that topic, "Madame Web" has been on the top of Netflix list the last several times I've checked, despite it getting absolutely trashed by everyone. Put something on Netflix, people will watch it, no matter what it is.
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I'm not an MCU guy and I didn't even know going in that this was part of MCU. I didn't look to see who else was in it besides Dakota Johnson. So I jumped in based on it being the top movie listed that week.

I thought DJ was fine. It actually started off being entertaining. Then it introduced a horribly bad actor as the baddie, and trotted out three buxom bombshells of 27, 26, and 22 years of age playing clueless 16-year olds. I then thought the target audience for this must be incel pedos.

I read up on the movie after watching and noted DJ saying it was not the movie she signed up for, and her promo tour for it was not, um... enthusiastic. But the woman was a trouper and saw it through. About the only positive thing about it.
 
The Iron Claw- I had to suspend disbelief with the casting choices. They got the hair right but Jeremy Allen White is a tiny guy and couldn't capture Kerry Von Erich who was a physical monster and larger than life. Efron is short but he was good and roided up for the role, the guy who played Ric Flair was terrible, Holt McCallany was perfect casting as Fritz and he gave an excellent perfomance.

It's too bad Efron messed up his face with plastic surgery because that dude can act, he was great and the emotional heart of the movie. There were some really memorable scenes and the final scene with Efron stuck with me. The music choices were also perfect.
 
nwhoopfan said:
I think I heard that was because of a bad accident, not vanity.
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That's what he said but he's lying. He said he broke his jaw over a decade ago and had to have facial surgery but his dramatic transformation happened a year ago.

It's too bad...I like the guy, he's handsome, and I think he's a really good actor but I see him going down the Mickey Rourke road in terms of screwing up his looks.
 
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storrsroars said:
trotted out three buxom bombshells of 27, 26, and 22 years of age playing clueless 16-year olds
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Hollywood. That's just so crazy they keep doing this. It's pretty close to impossible to suspend disbelief with this routine, and it just takes you right out of whatever it is they are trying to do.
 
superjohn said:
The Iron Claw- I had to suspend disbelief with the casting choices. They got the hair right but Jeremy Allen White is a tiny guy and couldn't capture Kerry Von Erich who was a physical monster and larger than life. Efron is short but he was good and roided up for the role, the guy who played Ric Flair was terrible, Holt McCallany was perfect casting as Fritz and he gave an excellent perfomance.
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The real story was so sad I could never watch this movie. I'm sure you read they deleted the existence of another brother because the director "didn't feel the movie could handle another death."
 
Forgive me if I ramble a bit. So I thought Sophie Nelisse really shined in "The Book Thief" in 2013, thought she'd be a young actress to keep an eye on. She's been working steadily ever since, and almost all of it has been completely forgettable. Maybe she just isn't that good of an actress? Nope, that's not it, she's just been given very little to work with. Just watched "Irena's Vow" and she was wonderful in it.

It's based on real people and events. Set in Poland during WW2. Irena is a young Polish woman who harbors 12 Jewish men and women right under the nose of a high ranking German officer. It was very well done, but it's a difficult watch and heartbreaking. Feel I have to warn there is a scene about 20 minutes in that is one of the vilest things I've ever seen in cinema. It's not graphic, but it shows enough to know what happened.

It's a bit odd that her two best roles were set in Europe during WW2. She's French Canadian, so there's not an obvious connection.
 
superjohn said:
That's what he said but he's lying. He said he broke his jaw over a decade ago and had to have facial surgery but his dramatic transformation happened a year ago.

It's too bad...I like the guy, he's handsome, and I think he's a really good actor but I see him going down the Mickey Rourke road in terms of screwing up his looks.
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Mickey Rourke is the bar by which all others will be measured. Let's hope nobody ever comes close to reducing their physical attractiveness that much. I'd probably look about like a walking dead zombie with a similar decline.
 
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