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Frankenstein on Netflix. Directed by Guillermo del Toro with a great cast. Very visually striking and well told story.
 
Stagnant said:
I watched predator badlands. The script won’t win any awards. But it looked great, it sounded great, and it was a lot of fun. Exactly what I was in the mood for!
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I was pretty surprised to hear it had the best opening weekend of any of the movies in the franchise. I don't have any recollection of how it did, but I assumed the original w/ Arnie was fairly successful.
 
nwhoopfan said:
I was pretty surprised to hear it had the best opening weekend of any of the movies in the franchise. I don't have any recollection of how it did, but I assumed the original w/ Arnie was fairly successful.
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Predator was No. 1 at the US box office in its opening weekend with a gross of $12 million. The film ranked 12th place in the domestic market for the calendar year 1987. The film grossed $98,267,558, of which $59,735,548 was from the US & Canadian box office. $38,532,010 was made in other countries. (Wikipedia)
 
The Substance- absolutely horrible. What the hell was the script for this? It's just a mess. It doesn't know if it wants to be a comedy, a horror, a cartoon. And there's nobody to care about in the movie. 10 minutes of Dennis Quaid screen time was all that was entertaining and watchable.

Yeah, we get it Hollywood is obsessed with looks and aging when it comes to women and women go under the knife to try and look younger. They got Demi Moore to play the part which obviously fits but that was just a neverending gore fest with zero substance.

One of the worst movies I can remember. It's like a group of idiots watched Cronenberg's The Fly, didn't understand any of it and what makes it great and then decided to make this movie. Of course it has an 89% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Oh and it was nominated for best picture.
 
Men in Black (1997)

Have never seen this movie in its entirety till a couple of nights ago. Hysterical!!! And Linda Fiorintino...hello!!!
 
The Outfit (2025) Netflix English tailor, who moved to Chicago, gets caught up in high stakes mob war. This is a play. It is shot as a play. Of course, there are no close ups in a play, so the performances are nuanced. Lots of twists and turns. Very talky. Mark Rylance and Zoey Deutch are terrific as the tailor and his reception Girl Friday. Rylance is a Morgan Freeman type that brings gravitas to a production, and he does so here. Deutch is a star and no one seems to know to know it. Once again she gives a pitch perfect performance. The rest of the cast is okay. Francis or the mob boss should have been given to actors with more heft.

Not a great movie. But a good one. There are some holes in the plot but it really doesn't distract from the story
 
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"Ballerina' is kind of a spin off from the John Wick series. Starring Ana de Armas. Keanu appears briefly, along with at least a few other characters from the franchise. Starts with some back story, then somewhere after 20-30 minutes it is CONSTANT, non stop action. Just one fight or chase scene after another. They are well choreographed, but gets a little redundant. Very violent. There are some creative kills.
 
Found another small budget indie that I enjoyed quite a bit. "Sunfish & Other Stories on Green Lake," streaming on Kanopy. Anthology, 4 short stories taking place on a pretty lake in Michigan. Fairly simple slice of life vignettes. Absolute no name cast. I thought they did well. Seemed like fairly high production values for what must've been a micro budget.
 
"Train Dreams" was briefly in theaters a few weeks ago, now on Netflix. I'd read a bit about it, got really good reviews. Just watched it. Huh. It's different than anything I've seen before. Contemplative is probably the word I would use to describe it. Stars Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones.
 
Watched another movie last night, polar opposite of the first. "Playdate" is a silly action buddy comedy. Pretty ridiculous, but it was fun watching Alan Ritchson hamming it up. I guess he's done comedy early in his career, but his characters have been pretty serious in his recent roles. Kevin James is kinda always the same. Sarah Chalke and Isla Fisher were on screen briefly. Also Alan Tudyk in a throw away role, he didn't have a chance to do much with it.

edit-- Sarah Chalke does NOT look like she's 49
 
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Frankenstein. Netflix. Guillermo del Toro directs, so visually fairly stunning. It’s a reimagining of the classic tale and is well done. I’m not really an Oscar Isaac fan, who plays Victor Frankenstein. Jordi Elordi is great as the creature. Mia Goth is potentially a perfect bride if Frankenstein and yet…that isn’t used. The story is good, it’s not perfect, maybe a bit slow at times, but ultimately this is quite good.
 
nwhoopfan said:
"Train Dreams" was briefly in theaters a few weeks ago, now on Netflix. I'd read a bit about it, got really good reviews. Just watched it. Huh. It's different than anything I've seen before. Contemplative is probably the word I would use to describe it. Stars Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones.
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I liked this movie a lot. Surprised that I did, too.

Not an Edgerton fan thanks in part to the crappiness of "They Came at Night."

Here, a loner loggerman making a living, finds love. "Marries", builds a house, has a daughter and...tragedy."

Lives the rest of his life living, waiting.
 
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Dove said:
I liked this movie a lot. Surprised that I did, too.

Not an Edgerton fan thanks in part to the crappiness of "They Came at Night."

Here, a loner loggerman making a living, finds love. "Marries", builds a house, has a daughter and...tragedy."

Lives the rest of his life living, waiting.
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I enjoyed this. Definitely makes you think about life. It’s deep and contemplative. A good movie to watch by yourself. I found this line in a review of the movie to be especially descriptive of what the movie is trying to achieve. It’s about “The things we lose, the things we gain, some of it important, some of it not at all, some laced with love, happiness, pain, grief. The bitterest of sweets, the sweetest of bitters, life.”
 
Weapons. Stars Julie Garner as a somewhat quirky elementary school teacher named Justine in suburban PA. Josh Brolin is a dad of a kid in her class. It’s starts off narrated by a young boy. Explaining what happened in town, 17 kids all got up at 2:17 AM ran out the door and were not seen again. They were all from Justine’s class, which now had only one boy show up, Alex. There is some gore here, and a mystery to be solved. It maintains suspense for quite a while then the intensity increases. I thought it was good.
 
HuskyHawk said:
Weapons. Stars Julie Garner as a somewhat quirky elementary school teacher named Justine in suburban PA. Josh Brolin is a dad of a kid in her class. It’s starts off narrated by a young boy. Explaining what happened in town, 17 kids all got up at 2:17 AM ran out the door and were not seen again. They were all from Justine’s class, which now had only one boy show up, Alex. There is some gore here, and a mystery to be solved. It maintains suspense for quite a while then the intensity increases. I thought it was good.
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I don't really like horror movies. I find them really boring. But this is one of the best movies I have seen in a long time.
 
ZooCougar said:
I don't really like horror movies. I find them really boring. But this is one of the best movies I have seen in a long time.
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I think old school Baba Yaga style witchcraft is underutilized in these films. Serpent and the Rainbow is fantastic because the leap to believe in voodoo or witchcraft is a smaller leap
 
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Watch the Skies. Swedish movie, dubbed into English using "artist friendly, SAG approved" AI. It kind of works, sometimes better than others. Stars Inez Dahl Torhaug as Denise, who's father founded a UFO society. He disappears when she's very young sometime in the 80s. Fast forward to the late 1990s and she's 18 or so and living with foster parents and often in trouble (and quite smart). Some stuff happens and she tracks down UFO Sweden, who her dad more or less betrayed before his disappearance (was it aliens or just winter in the mountains?). She convinces the motley, aging UFO Sweden team to help her find the truth. It's a bit of a throwback sci fi adventure movie and is pretty good and has some feel good moments and some villains.
 
Finally watched the latest "Superman." I've gathered this is a fairly love it or hate it kind of movie. I won't say I hated it, but I definitely didn't love it. Making Supes kind of a weenie is a...choice. He lost just about every fight, and he was kind of a whiny guy.

Another choice was just all together skipping the origin story, which you usually do with a reboot. I guess Gunn just figured everybody knows the story, so he didn't bother with it. But it's kinda jolting to start the movie and feel like you already missed half of it.

I'm not gonna try to break down everything, but I thought Clark's parents were terrible. Presented as stereotypical hillbillies. Their accents, especially the mom seemed more like Deep South than Midwest to me. Interestingly Gunn did the same thing w/ the Peacemaker series, his hillbillies from the Northwest also came across as Southern. Does Gunn have a thing against Southerners?

This movie had a lot of characters, some of which did literally nothing, they were just there. Several of the staff from the newspaper were place holders, as well as some of Lex Luther's crew. Did Jimmy Olsen and Clark interact at all? I don't recall that they did. It seems like that was usually a fairly important relationship, and here it was pretty much nothing. But there wasn't much of Clark in this movie. The balancing act between being Supes and Clark is usually emphasized more than in this movie.

I didn't care for Lex. Too over the top, it seemed like caricature to me. I usually like Nicholas Hoult but this didn't work for me.

I like the Guardians of the Galaxy films. It's not that Gunn used exactly the same formula here, but whatever it was he did in his treatment of Superman was a big swing and a miss IMO.

One last thing I'm gonna hide as it's a spoiler: I HATED what they did to Supes' biological parents, the Kryptonians. They sent him here to be a conqueror and a tyrant?! Really? That was a HORRIBLE choice. Could've easily just had Lex alter the recovered portion of a message from them that Superman had never heard in order to turn the world against him, but it went to great pains to have various characters say the message was not a fake. Why?
 
I just signed up for a month of HBO/Max so I could watch Superman and Legend of Ochi. I really wanted to like that second one, but it fell a bit flat for me. Now I have a month of streaming left with not much else I want to watch, and fairly disappointed with the 2 movies that were the whole reason for doing it.
 
Belfast (2021-Amazon) - Kenneth Branagh's coming of age story about a boy living in Belfast at the beginning of The Troubles. Well done movie that combines the innocent perspective of a 9 year old boy with his dawning realization that the world around him is pretty awful. The details made the story richer. His girl cousin's twisted rationalizing of the tribalism taking over the community seems both innocent and disturbing at the same time. The desperation of his dad trying to convince his mom to get the family out of a place that was spiraling out of control. I am probably going to watch it again, because I am sure I missed a lot.

The acting was awesome. Dornan, Hinds, Dench, the kids, Colin Morgan as the bad guy, all good, and Caitriona Balfe was great as the mom, but I could get past the fact that Kenneth Branagh cast someone this beautiful in the role of his mom. It reminded me of the casting of Kim Bassinger in 8 Mile, and then I couldn't stop thinking about it the whole movie.
 
Nobody 2 (2025)

Bob Odenkirk stars. Old guy continues to beat the snot outta bad guys. Very entertaining.

Sharon Stone isn't horrible as a new age mob boss.
 
Dove said:
Nobody 2 (2025)

Bob Odenkirk stars. Old guy continues to beat the snot outta bad guys. Very entertaining.

Sharon Stone isn't horrible as a new age mob boss.
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Perfect review. Given that it's a sequel everyone should know exactly what they are getting into. It delivers on the promise. I knew what I was going to see. I found it very entertaining. I also liked Tom Hanks kid as a bad guy.
 
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They couldn't make Superman too powerful too soon because it leaves them with nowhere to go. And he was losing because he was fighting a version of himself that knew how to fight and didn't hold back. But he didn't quit and triumphed in the end. Truth, justice and the American Way.
 
Waquoit said:
They couldn't make Superman too powerful too soon because it leaves them with nowhere to go. And he was losing because he was fighting a version of himself that knew how to fight and didn't hold back. But he didn't quit and triumphed in the end. Truth, justice and the American Way.
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The reporters are the ones who actually triumphed.
 
Waquoit said:
They couldn't make Superman too powerful too soon because it leaves them with nowhere to go. And he was losing because he was fighting a version of himself that knew how to fight and didn't hold back. But he didn't quit and triumphed in the end. Truth, justice and the American Way.
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ZooCougar said:
The reporters are the ones who actually triumphed.
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Superman was always a problem because he's OP from day one. So they invented Kryptonite and a nemesis that is simply a lot smarter than him. His real weakness is that you can threaten innocents and impact his behavior.

I do like Rachel Brosnahan as Lois. The main triumph is the few seconds we get of Supergirl. A knockout Supergirl, who owns Krypto the dog and likes to planet hop so she can get drunk is a real triumph.
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HuskyHawk said:
Superman was always a problem because he's OP from day one. So they invented Kryptonite and a nemesis that is simply a lot smarter than him. His real weakness is that you can threaten innocents and impact his behavior.

I do like Rachel Brosnahan as Lois. The main triumph is the few seconds we get of Supergirl. A knockout Supergirl, who owns Krypto the dog and likes to planet hop so she can get drunk is a real triumph.
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Took my 8 year old son. He gave it 6/10. Saw it was available on streaming now and he said he’d rather watch The Simpsons.
 
storrsroars said:
You are well into creepy old man territory
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Fair.

Edit: @storrsroars As I contemplated this, I'll amend my thoughts. Supergirl was always attractive, from Helen Slater to, Melissa Benoist etc. What I found so appealing about the few second of Ms. Alcock in the role was that they made her cool and fun. She engages in interstellar travel to go to bars and get drunk, she's a bit of a mess, she's got a cool dog that saved Superman, she's like the girl every mid 20s guy would probably want to ask out except she's Supergirl. That's a welcome bit of humanity to the role that makes me want to see more. It's a contrast to her cousin Kal El, who is a bit of a dork and a wet blanket.
 
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