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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.
 
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."
 
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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.
 
Furiosa; a Mad Max Saga (2024) Saw this in a theater. Big movie with big sound. Big visuals. Big budget. No one goes to see this movie without knowing exactly what they are there to see. I love these movies. It delivers. It take place in the wasteland but focuses on the previous introduced Citadel, Bullet Farm and Gas Town. George Miller has a firm grasp on this future world and gives you little pieces of it from time to time just to remind you. There is a tiny homage to Mel Gibson in it. What would really put these movies over the top is Mel himself. Overall, the film was great until the final 20 minutes when Furiosa stops short of killing Dementus and decides she want to talk him to death.
 
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"Lisa Frankenstein." Ugh. I wanted to like it. I just couldn't. Slow, dull, so weird. I just didn't get what they were trying for with this one. Kathryn Newton couldn't save it. Pretty terrible.
 
Godzilla. Minus One. (2023) This movie has received a lot of pub for the special effects crew of only eight (count 'em 8) people.The effects are very good with a few small exceptions, the opening plane landing scene and the larger ships cutting through the water, but these are nits. The Godzilla stuff is done well and handled in a realistic fashion. They play it straight. It works.

What really deserves more attention is the way they handled the Japanese relationship to the war and its aftermath. They don't focus on the bomb or the Americans. They focus on the human toll that was on the backs of the Japanese people. This is layered and dramatic. It could be a film by itself. The war has a larger effect on characters than the monster. This is very good movie making and a very good story. Yes, it's a Godzilla movie. But it is worth your time and deserves all the praise heaped on it. Three and a half stars.
 
Palatine said:
Godzilla. Minus One. (2023) This movie has received a lot of pub for the special effects crew of only eight (count 'em 8) people.The effects are very good with a few small exceptions, the opening plane landing scene and the larger ships cutting through the water, but these are nits. The Godzilla stuff is done well and handled in a realistic fashion. They play it straight. It works.

What really deserves more attention is the way they handled the Japanese relationship to the war and its aftermath. They don't focus on the bomb or the Americans. They focus on the human toll that was on the backs of the Japanese people. This is layered and dramatic. It could be a film by itself. The war has a larger effect on characters than the monster. This is very good movie making and a very good story. Yes, it's a Godzilla movie. But it is worth your time and deserves all the praise heaped on it. Three and a half stars.
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I would've skipped this, but you're right up makes me think it's worth a look.
 
CL82 said:
I would've skipped this, but you're right up makes me think it's worth a look.
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It's the best movie ever made about the Japanese experience of WWII. Godzilla has always been a metaphor in the eyes of the Japanese.
 
HuskyHawk said:
It's the best movie ever made about the Japanese experience of WWII. Godzilla has always been a metaphor in the eyes of the Japanese.
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I watched both versions. The Japanese with sub titles is better than the lip synced English in my view as the translation is literal. The lip syncing is less than perfect and the Japanese adds another layer of authenticity.

The idea of the main character being a coward kamikaze pilot who survived the war works perfectly.
 
Palatine said:
I watched both versions. The Japanese with sub titles is better than the lip synced English in my view as the translation is literal. The lip syncing is less than perfect and the Japanese adds another layer of authenticity.

The idea of the main character being a coward kamikaze pilot who survived the war works perfectly.
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Yeah, I won't watch anything dubbed. I watch everything with CC anyway, so subtitles don't bother me.
 
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HuskyHawk said:
Yeah, I won't watch anything dubbed. I watch everything with CC anyway, so subtitles don't bother me.
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I started out watching Shogun dubbed, but eventually switched to subtitles. I get how they would be annoying or distracting to some people, but, for me at least, after a moment or to the disappear and I'd rather listen to the nations of the original performance.
 
Palatine said:
Godzilla. Minus One. (2023) This movie has received a lot of pub for the special effects crew of only eight (count 'em 8) people.The effects are very good with a few small exceptions, the opening plane landing scene and the larger ships cutting through the water, but these are nits. The Godzilla stuff is done well and handled in a realistic fashion. They play it straight. It works.

What really deserves more attention is the way they handled the Japanese relationship to the war and its aftermath. They don't focus on the bomb or the Americans. They focus on the human toll that was on the backs of the Japanese people. This is layered and dramatic. It could be a film by itself. The war has a larger effect on characters than the monster. This is very good movie making and a very good story. Yes, it's a Godzilla movie. But it is worth your time and deserves all the praise heaped on it. Three and a half stars.
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I love this movie. I am a huge Nolan fanboy but I thought this movie was better than Oppenheimer.

Yes, I know it’s not a popular take.
 
Palatine said:
I watched both versions. The Japanese with sub titles is better than the lip synced English in my view as the translation is literal. The lip syncing is less than perfect and the Japanese adds another layer of authenticity.

The idea of the main character being a coward kamikaze pilot who survived the war works perfectly.
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I think the black and white version is the definitive version, Godzilla looks so much better.
 
ZooCougar said:
I love this movie. I am a huge Nolan fanboy but I thought this movie was better than Oppenheimer.

Yes, I know it’s not a popular take.
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I said the same back in December or whenever I saw it.
 
ZooCougar said:
I love this movie. I am a huge Nolan fanboy but I thought this movie was better than Oppenheimer.

Yes, I know it’s not a popular take.
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Is it in English, or all subtitles? I'm tired of reading movies.
 
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temery said:
Is it in English, or all subtitles? I'm tired of reading movies.
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It’s in Japanese with subtitles. Since I leave captions on even with English I never notice them. It just feels like I’m hearing and translating simultaneously.
 
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