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"Subservience" is yet another in the getting crowded genre of life like android/AI going rogue. A father is struggling with taking care of two young kids while his wife is in the hospital awaiting a heart transplant. Enter sexy nanny/housekeeper/bot Megan Fox. The movie takes its time, but there are some early hints this will all end badly. Nothing new here, but it was decent enough. I saw several reviews saying it was the perfect role for Fox, because her acting is a bit robotic and cold. On Netflix.


Of course it's not even remotely new. Was 2001: A Space Odyssey maybe the first? And Terminator was forever ago. Having grown up with that stuff, I'll be pretty disappointed if AI doesn't eventually turn on us and betray us. Entertainment/pop culture has been predicting it for forever.
 
The Amateur (2025).

A brilliant CIA analyst becomes a field agent to settle a score. Sounds a bit like Jack Ryan but it ain't. This is more of psychological thriller than action movie. Stars Rami Malek. There is some action, good guys and bad guys and enough plot twists to hold your interest. Lawrence Fishburn does a nice job as Malek's mentor.

The film making is top shelf without depending on special effects. Good story telling, cinematography, sound, editing, locations, it's all very well done. The story is a bit derivative. Held my interest and my wife's. Two and a half stars.
 
Warfare was really good, for me.

Opinion seems to be split on if it is propaganda, not sure how. It pretty obviously isn’t and Garland is known to be critical.

Really great portrayal, cool to see how it ended.
 
Palatine said:
The Amateur (2025).

A brilliant CIA analyst becomes a field agent to settle a score. Sounds a bit like Jack Ryan but it ain't. This is more of psychological thriller than action movie. Stars Rami Malek. There is some action, good guys and bad guys and enough plot twists to hold your interest. Lawrence Fishburn does a nice job as Malek's mentor.

The film making is top shelf without depending on special effects. Good story telling, cinematography, sound, editing, locations, it's all very well done. The story is a bit derivative. Held my interest and my wife's. Two and a half stars.
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Wait, sounds like a solid review then 2.5 stars? Out of how many?
 
87Xfer said:
Wait, sounds like a solid review then 2.5 stars? Out of how many?
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Two and a half out of four. Just under a three star movie. It is a solid well made film. The plot itself is nicely developed but we seen it before. There are a few small holes in the story. It's like two stars for the idea but three stars for the craft. My wife actually liked it a bit more than I did. But, in her eyes, after Malik did Freddy Mercury, he can do no wrong.
 
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Juror #2. This was pretty awful. Stupid court room procedural based on a ridiculous case with morons for lawyers and wooden characters/actors. Whatever fast ball Clint Eastwood may have had at one time he lost it, he is 94 after all. This felt like a made for TV Lifetime network movie and I pull it up on Rotten Tomatoes and it has a 93% score.
 
superjohn said:
Juror #2. This was pretty awful. Stupid court room procedural based on a ridiculous case with morons for lawyers and wooden characters/actors. Whatever fast ball Clint Eastwood may have had at one time he lost it, he is 94 after all. This felt like a made for TV Lifetime network movie and I pull it up on Rotten Tomatoes and it has a 93% score.
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Bummer. This was on my list. It got good reviews from critics.
 
Waquoit said:
I can't imagine superjohn talking me off anything.
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I'll still watch it. I am a lawyer after all, even if not of the criminal variety.
 
Maybe 40 years too late but if you are a WWII movie buff, Come and See, was excellent. Had never heard of it but came across highly recommended. A Belarus movie with sub-titles rented on Amazon Prime ($2.99) but you would not think it was made 40 years ago. If you like your war movies from a unique perspective give it a watch.
 
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"Space Truckers" (1996). Never heard of it. It was on some odd ball cable channel--Comet. B grade cheese fest. Surprised Dennis Hopper starred in it. Also a young Stephen Dorff, John Ratzenberger briefly, and Debi Mazar. I forgot what she looked like in the mid 90s. Now I remember! It wasn't really classic cheese, it wasn't horrible, somewhere in between which is probably not where you want to be.
 
I liked sinners quite a bit. I am a sucker for the music and the horror elements though.

Also, I don’t want to see movies set in 2025. This being in the 1930’s worked perfectly for me.
 
I've put off watching The Whale as I figured it was going to be depressing as hell and I was never quite in the frame of mind to tackle it. Until last night after the Pirates blew a chance to sweep the Angels.

Damn. I knew Fraser won awards for this role, but reading some of the background, he was in prosthetics that at times weighed up to 300 lbs. Imagine a 300 lb dude sitting on you and you've still got to do your job. It was a tour de force performance, and everyone else involved also held their own.
 
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storrsroars said:
I've put off watching The Whale as I figured it was going to be depressing as hell and I was never quite in the frame of mind to tackle it. Until last night after the Pirates blew a chance to sweep the Angels.

Damn. I knew Fraser won awards for this role, but reading some of the background, he was in prosthetics that at times weighed up to 300 lbs. Imagine a 300 lb dude sitting on you and you've still got to do your job. It was a tour de force performance, and everyone else involved also held their own.
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I've been putting this off for a while as well. I never watched "Stranger Things" but I was really impressed with Sadie Sink in "Dear Zoe." I think she is Fraser's daughter in this.
 
storrsroars said:
I've put off watching The Whale as I figured it was going to be depressing as hell and I was never quite in the frame of mind to tackle it. Until last night after the Pirates blew a chance to sweep the Angels.

Damn. I knew Fraser won awards for this role, but reading some of the background, he was in prosthetics that at times weighed up to 300 lbs. Imagine a 300 lb dude sitting on you and you've still got to do your job. It was a tour de force performance, and everyone else involved also held their own.
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Fraser is believable in the role, the awards were deserved, the daughter goes toe to toe with him. It is almost more play than movie. Yeah, it is somewhat depressing but it done very well.
 
"The Order" was good. On Hulu now. I didn't know anything about it, based on real events w/ a radicalized white supremacist group in the Northwest. Strong performances from Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult and Tye Sheridan.


I know filming locations often aren't actually in the place they are supposed to be depicting. Just the way it goes. But in this case since it's actually kind of local to me, it took me out of the story a little bit. Most of it was supposed to be the Idaho Panhandle and Eastern Washington. It just didn't look right. The mountains were all wrong. It was filmed in Alberta.
 
Tomorrow War (2021)

This was kind of a tough movie to write up. It wasn't bad, definitely watchable. On the other hand, it really wasn't particularly memorable either. The two biggest stars in it are Chris Platt and a thoroughly under used J. K. Simmons. The basic plot is a bunch of people "materialize" in the middle of a game at a soccer stadium. They claim to be from the future where earth is losing a war to aliens. The human race is down to about a half million people and unless humans from the past come to fight the war in the future, the human race will become extinct. You think, with the benefit of time travel, they could come up with a better solution than that.

It ends up being a de facto draft where past humans have to spend something like two weeks in the future fighting aliens and if they survive, they get to go back to their own timeline. Apparently age and physical fitness are not a requirement as a wide range of unlikely people are drafted and thrown at the enemy. That didn't seem to make much sense to me as the low likelihood of surviving would make the whole process incredibly inefficient. Chris Pratt, a former special forces soldier ends up getting drafted.

There's a lot of special effect battles and it's engaging enough. I finished it with a shrug. It wasn't one of those movies that you wished you got the two hours of your life back, nor was it so bad that it was unintentionally entertaining. On the other hand, if I had missed it, it would've been fine as well. If you're stuck looking for something and can't find anything else, it's fine.
 
Also, I recently watched like half of Wicked. Again, not great but you can see how it would've been funny with Kristin Chenoweth as Glenda
 
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nwhoopfan said:
"The Order" was good. On Hulu now. I didn't know anything about it, based on real events w/ a radicalized white supremacist group in the Northwest. Strong performances from Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult and Tye Sheridan.


I know filming locations often aren't actually in the place they are supposed to be depicting. Just the way it goes. But in this case since it's actually kind of local to me, it took me out of the story a little bit. Most of it was supposed to be the Idaho Panhandle and Eastern Washington. It just didn't look right. The mountains were all wrong. It was filmed in Alberta.
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I watched The Order last night and I thought it was pretty great.

I already knew the story and while not totally faithful to the true events it gets most of it right and the director did it in a taut and suspenseful way without being preachy. The cinematography was awesome, great music which set up the tense action. Just a great cops and robbers movie about a real life scary terrorist group.
 
Sinners was great. So many cool scenes and the mesh of modern/of date music scenes was really cool. Coogler is great but this may be my favorite of his. Delroy Lindo is terrific as he usually is, and the new kid Miles Caton was really good as well. MBJ always brings it so that goes without saying.

Super cool setting and theme, I had grown tired of Vampire stuff but this was a very interesting way to portray it.
 
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Spy is pretty funny. Jason Statham is hamming it up as a super macho but pretty dumb guy, I guess maybe making a bit of fun of his type casting.
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I finally watched it last night. I wasn't expecting much, but I laughed a lot. McCarthy, Statham and the dude who played Aldo all had great comedic parts, and the action was pretty good for a comedy. And that short bit at the end of the credits... priceless.
 
Heretic (2024)

Hugh Grant was really good. A psycho-thriller with religion as the base theme.

Overall, we liked it.
 
West Side Story (2021) - I had not seen this yet and need to justify my Disneyplus subscription so I watched it.

It is OK, although I didn't like the ending at all. Rachel Zegler is excellent, and Ansel Elgort was good although a little miscast. Not bad enough to be a problem, but he is a little too old for the role. With a couple of exceptions, I don’t love the songs overall and the cast is massive, which makes it hard to follow. Ariana DeBose was good as Anita, although I don't understand the raving from the reviews. I didn't like the Bernardo and Riff characters, who end up driving the plot. They aren't supposed to be likable (for those that don't know, West Side Story is essentially a musical version of Romeo and Juliet set on the Upper West Side in 1957), but both characters come across as really awful, to the point that I am annoyed at the other characters for liking or following these two.

My biggest issue is that the plot does not age well. A plot built around "noble deaths" in a gang war worked in the 60's but is a little off now. The scene with Anita in the drugstore at the end is gratuitous and should have been re-written out of the movie. The Sharks and especially the Jets characters end up coming across as more evil, and much less sympathetic and relatable, than I think some previous audiences would have perceived them.
 
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She Came to Me (2023) on Hulu. Weird little romcom with Anne Hathaway, Peter Dinklage and Marissa Tomei. This is an absurdist story whose plot is difficult to explain, but it is just a good little movie.

I am bored with repetitive movies and prestige television about the woes of being an artist, because they are all kind of the same and all feel very self-indulgent. This movie is definitely different, and I really liked it. Marissa Tomei is quietly one of the best actresses of her generation. She plays a middle-aged, sex-addicted, tugboat captain that becomes the muse of an opera writer. You read that right, and she nails the part.
 
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