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Recently watched movies 2025

The League (2023)

Watched on the plane on Sunday and it's about the history of various Negro Leagues. While I had some knowledge of what's now commonly known as "The Negro League", it was fun to not only learn about the style and stars of that league, but also the deep history of Black Americans in baseball, dating all the way back to the 1870s when racial integration existed prior to Jim Crow.

A must-watch for any baseball history fan.
 
"A Working Man" is about what you expect from a Jason Statham movie. Had Michael Pena, David Harbour and Jason Flemying in small roles. Fairly solid entertainment.
 
Palatine said:
Man of Steel (2013)

With the recent Superman hype decided to rewatch this Zack Snyder effort. I holds up very well and is a much better movie than I originally thought. First of all, Henry Cavill is Superman. This is perfect casting. He plays it straight with a smile. The rest of the cast is top shelf. The story by Chris Nolan is entertaining and true to the comic. There are a few holes in the plot but they tend to come from the film making.

Snyder tends to the indulgent. The entire Perry While hero section should have cut. And the final showdown between Superman and Zod should have been treated as an anti-climax not the full out epic Zack delivers. It actually detracts from a very satisfying end. I also have to take issue with the sound. The movie is big enough without turning the volume up to eleven to make it dramatic. It would be a better experience if the sound was less extreme on both ends.

That said three stars. Giant spectacular movie making. A lot of fun. I'm surprised how much I enjoyed it.
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It’s what a Superman film ought to be; no other riff raff.

I love the line “I’m from Kansas, how much more American can I get?”. Or something like that.
 
Been on a losing streak lately. Just finishing "The Radleys." Interesting premise, but didn't deliver. Suburban family in UK...who happen to be vampires. Mom and Dad have been abstaining from drinking blood for a very long time, their teenage kids are clueless about their true heritage. Until a boy from school assaults the daughter, and she vamps out on him. They bring in the uncle, who has not been abstaining and is a hedonist, to help clean up the mess. Only he brings utter chaos with him and makes everything worse. The movie treats vampirism as if it is an addiction, like alcohol or drugs. Don't think I've seen that before. Started off interesting but then bogged down. The actors tried their best. I really like Kelly Macdonald, she was the mom. Damian Lewis had a double role as the dad and the uncle.
 
Heads of State (2025)

They say there's no new ideas in Hollywood. So the question becomes how do you take old concepts and brush them up a bit so they seem at least "kind of" new? This movie is a semi successful attempt at polishing up the "buddy movie" concept to give it a fresh look and load it up with a lot of CGI. All the basic elements of the body movie are still there: 1) two protagonists, 2) who don't like each other, but 3) are forced to worked together, 4) in a cross country trip 5) against insurmountable odds, 6) gradually coming to like and respect to each other. I enjoy the concept, with my favorite probably being Midnight Run, so I didn't mind this movie. It's not great, but it's watchable and mildly entertaining.

The premise is that John Cena is the president of the United States. He's a former action star who somehow manages to be elected president. He's at the start of his presidency and is enormously popular but inexperienced. Idris Elba is the Prime Minister of Great Britain. He is struggling in the favorability polls, but does have experience. The two don't like each other because Elba gave seen opponent a photo/soft endorsement during the election. Pretty implausibly they end up on a dramatically under protected Air Force One, which gets shot down. Amazingly, they survive by jumping out of the plane and are forced to make their way across Russia to Poland to get to a US safe house. It delivers the expected contrast of styles, humor, and reasonable action sequences.

Two supporting actors help the movie considerably. The lovely Priyanka Chopra as the uber-competent spy/ex-girlfriend of Elba, and Jack Quaid as a CIA safe house facilitator. Quaid is good in his too short role, managing to be both a funny fanboy and a competent operative.

Overall, it earns a very solid "three Deepsters" (to borrow from Fishy's rating system).
 
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Sicario (2015) - I don't think I have ever watched this movie end to end until today. I remember some of the more famous scenes, but I did not realize how disjointed the plot was until I just watched it with my kid. There are several major logic leaps by characters, starting with Emily Blount's character joining the special group in the first place, and her boss' encouragement of her to do that. The scene with Jon Bernthal makes no logical sense, nor does her storming into the bank. The end is completely ridiculous.

While the movie feels like a good movie in the moment because Villeneuve is such a good Director and the cast is strong, the movie is really just a bunch of cool scenes inside a story that is kind of stupid. The more Taylor Sheriden stuff I watch (I am almost done with Season 1 of Landman, gave up on Yellowstone 5 minutes into season 1, ep 4), the less I like him. Everything of his that I have seen is pretty sexist, with female characters that are always very attractive and generally pretty useless, overly sexualized, and/or shrill. He leans heavy on stereotypes in both this and Landman in his portrayal of Mexicans. His plots always seem to revolve around an alpha male character or two that have virtually superhuman capabilities, so after a while it is hard to care because you know the alpha character is going to win. That is a sign of lazy writing. He is pretty good with turns of phrase, and with the right director his scenes can look good, but overall Sheriden sucks.
 
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Is the new Superman movie animated or not? I've seen trailers that look animated and some that don't.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
Sicario (2015) - I don't think I have ever watched this movie end to end until today. I remember some of the more famous scenes, but I did not realize how disjointed the plot was until I just watched it with my kid. There are several major logic leaps by characters, starting with Emily Blount's character joining the special group in the first place, and her boss' encouragement of her to do that. The scene with Jon Bernthal makes no logical sense, nor does her storming into the bank. The end is completely ridiculous.

While the movie feels like a good movie in the moment because Villeneuve is such a good Director and the cast is strong, the movie is really just a bunch of cool scenes inside a story that is kind of stupid. The more Taylor Sheriden stuff I watch (I am almost done with Season 1 of Landman, gave up on Yellowstone 5 minutes into season 1, ep 4), the less I like him. Everything of his that I have seen is pretty sexist, with female characters that are always very attractive and generally pretty useless, overly sexualized, and/or shrill. He leans heavy on stereotypes in both this and Landman in his portrayal of Mexicans. His plots always seem to revolve around an alpha male character or two that have virtually superhuman capabilities, so after a while it is hard to care because you know the alpha character is going to win. That is a sign of lazy writing. He is pretty good with turns of phrase, and with the right director his scenes can look good, but overall Sheriden sucks.
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Lolz.

Hell or High Water and Wind River are two of the best movies of the past decade.
 
superjohn said:
Lolz.

Hell or High Water and Wind River are two of the best movies of the past decade.
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I liked Hell or High Water, but “best of the decade” is a typical SJ exaggeration. I looked up some reviews of Sicario and Sicario 2, and found I had some company in my assessment of Sheridan leaning heavily on stereotypes.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
I liked Hell or High Water, but “best of the decade” is a typical SJ exaggeration. I looked up some reviews of Sicario and Sicario 2, and found I had some company in my assessment of Sheridan leaning heavily on stereotypes.
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I mean, John Ford leaned heavily on Stereotypes too. It works. I'd rather a stereotype than something ludicrous like Florence Pugh beating up large, capable men with her bare hands. I didn't see Emily Blunt as useless, just a capable person wading into territory very few truly understand. That's the whole point really, outsiders don't really understand how to navigate that world and so can't do what the Sicario can do.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
Sicario (2015) - I don't think I have ever watched this movie end to end until today. I remember some of the more famous scenes, but I did not realize how disjointed the plot was until I just watched it with my kid. There are several major logic leaps by characters, starting with Emily Blount's character joining the special group in the first place, and her boss' encouragement of her to do that. The scene with Jon Bernthal makes no logical sense, nor does her storming into the bank. The end is completely ridiculous.

While the movie feels like a good movie in the moment because Villeneuve is such a good Director and the cast is strong, the movie is really just a bunch of cool scenes inside a story that is kind of stupid. The more Taylor Sheriden stuff I watch (I am almost done with Season 1 of Landman, gave up on Yellowstone 5 minutes into season 1, ep 4), the less I like him. Everything of his that I have seen is pretty sexist, with female characters that are always very attractive and generally pretty useless, overly sexualized, and/or shrill. He leans heavy on stereotypes in both this and Landman in his portrayal of Mexicans. His plots always seem to revolve around an alpha male character or two that have virtually superhuman capabilities, so after a while it is hard to care because you know the alpha character is going to win. That is a sign of lazy writing. He is pretty good with turns of phrase, and with the right director his scenes can look good, but overall Sheriden sucks.
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Yellowstone sucks. Sicario is universally accepted as a good movie. The sequel wasn’t as good.

Hell or Water and Wind River are good.

The Sheridan tv shows seem to cater to Dads and they are really formulaic. Lioness was ok. Landman ran out of gas.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
I liked Hell or High Water, but “best of the decade” is a typical SJ exaggeration. I looked up some reviews of Sicario and Sicario 2, and found I had some company in my assessment of Sheridan leaning heavily on stereotypes.
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If the opinion of other randos on the internet is what you're after, you could do a Google search for Hell of High Water as well...


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Hell Or High Water | Why it’s still one of the great thrillers of the past decade

Director David Mackenzie, writer Taylor Sheridan, and stars Chris Pine and Jeff Bridges put in their finest work in 2016’s Hell Or High Water.
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My 15 Favorite Films of the 2010s

Well we’re at the end of the decade, so I decided to throw together a list of my favorite films of 2010-2019. Please keep in mind that I don’t get paid to watch movies, so I have not se…
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Sicario was enjoyable for fans of the genre. So I Iiked it. Del Toro gave a nice intense gritty performance.

Both Hell and High Water and Wind River broke with formula. Big points for that. Both had very good and subdued performances (for the most part). IMHO, Hell and High Water was the better film.
 
"Latency," alternatively titled "Hana's Game" apparently. Starring Sasha Luss. You might remember her from the spy thriller "Anna." About a shut in w/ crippling agoraphobia. She's a gamer and is beta testing a revolutionary new system that basically jacks right into your brain. A descent into madness. It's hard to know what is real and what is not throughout the movie. Sasha is onscreen alone the majority of the time, hard to pull off but she does it fairly well. Her bestie/only friend Alexis Ren drops in from time to time. For the most part interesting enough, considering it's pretty much a one room play kind of set up. Anyway there are worse things than looking at Sasha for an hour and a half, and Alexis isn't chopped liver either.
 
Sisu (2022)

Good late night movie. It's not great but the main character is a bad-ass. It has a Tarantino feel what with the guns and all. A little over the top because the guy just refuses to die.
World War II, a Finnish ex-commando, and the nazis. I never heard of Jorma Tommila but he did a pretty solid job in this movie.
 
The Hunt (2020)

Another decent late night movie if nothing else is on. This may be the best bad movie I've seen in a while. At first it seemed like a bad rip-off of Hunger Games and Surviving The Game and people were dropping like flies, and maybe it is just a bad rip-off. The main character became more intriguing and the movie actually seemed to get better, for the type of movie it is. More Tarantino effects. It also kind of mocked both sides of the aisle.

Betty Gilpin carried the show and I wasn't familiar with her. Hillary Swank arrives.
 
Originally I had no interest in the remake of "How To Train Your Dragon," but very positive reviews made me curious. I'm about 45 minutes into it, and I'm bored. I should've stuck with my original reaction, there was no reason to remake this. Probably gonna shut it down in a minute.
 
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Sisu is my kind of flick. One man against the world and the world has no chance. Surviving a plane crashing straight into the ground. No problem.

I thought The Hunt was fun. One woman against the world and the world has no chance. It's more intellectual, and slicker, than Sisu but so are my cats. It has a nice sense of humor and irony that works in this formula.
 
"Eenie Meanie" with Samara Weaving is brand new on Hulu.

The trailer made this look like another gonzo not to be taken seriously movie like most of Weaving's are. It is not that, at all. A little bit of action, but this is actually a serious drama, and dang she's a pretty good actress. While I felt a bit bait and switched, I did enjoy it.

She's a former hot shot get away driver, retired, split from her always getting in trouble, good for nothing ex. He pulls her back in and she gets roped into a heist to save his life. Andy Garcia is the boss man that they are under the thumb of. He's played so many gangsters on screen that he might actually be a gangster. Marshawn Lynch pops up, he's been in a handful of movies lately. Oh yeah, Steve Zahn is in it too. He's not as young as he used to be! Always liked him, don't think he gets his proper due as an actor.
 
I think I disliked "Need for Speed" initially. It's one of those that somehow I end up rewatching numerous times despite my initial reaction. It's on TV from time to time, I just streamed it on Hulu. It does have some thrilling car chase/race scenes, and fairly decent acting from a good cast. The thing that's really hard for me to watch is the non stop depiction of just horribly reckless driving and other behavior, consequences be d****ed. I just cringe off and on throughout the whole thing. But at the end of the day, it's got Imogen Poots in it and I really like her character in this, so I'm sure I'll watch it some more in the future.
 
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women (2017 - Amazon Prime) - was a surprisingly good movie. Being honest, I started watching the movie because I read a review about the s*x scenes, but it turned out to be an interesting biopic about three unique people. Marston was a professor at Harvard in the 1920's, and his wife Elizabeth was also an academic. They end up adding an Olive Byrne to their throuple, and between them they invent the lie detector, create the Wonder Woman comic, and become the forefathers of modern organizational behavior theory, in addition to writing several research papers over the years.

The movie ties together a really odd collection of skills and adventures among the three of them to tell a coherent story, and does a good job portraying the personal challenges that a nonconventional relationship like theirs would have in the middle of the 20th century.

The cast was OK. Bella Heathcote was probably the best of the group as Olive Byrne. Luke Evans is not bad, not great, as Professor Marston. I just do not like Rebecca Hall, and thought she was weak as Elizabeth Marston. I thought the growth of Hall's character was actually confusing at times because her reactions to events in their lives were all over the place. The real Elizabeth Marston must have come to grips with her life and lifestyle at some point, but Hall played the character as if every time they were inevitably outed was a giant shock. Connie Britton and Oliver Platt have small roles.
 
F1. Thought this was really well done. Engaging characters, Brad Pitt, Javier Bardem, Kerry Condon and the young rookie played by Damson Idris. It's a human tale about redemption, second chances, teamwork etc. It also gives you a fascinating look into just how hyper technical F1 is. The costs of the cars, teams, equipment is all pretty staggering. Brad Pitt plays an old F1 driver who is brought back in to try to save a team. Turns out, his savvy and experience are just what the team needs to maximize the car, the crew and get the best out of the young rookie driver. Definitely recommended.
 
Apropos of nothing, but I am in my late 40's and just today found out that The Kurgan (or Captain Hadley, depending on the generation), is a successful voice over actor and has been doing animation and video game work for over 30 years.
 
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Husky25 said:
Apropos of nothing, but I am in my late 40's and just today found out that The Kurgan (or Captain Hadley, depending on the generation), is a successful voice over actor and has been doing animation and video game work for over 30 years.
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He's Mr. Krabbs!
 
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