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The Rip (Netflix) - Great movie for about 90 minutes, then the wheels start to wobble. Surprisingly, Afleck was the strongest of the three big stars. Damon and Chandler kind of mailed it in. I liked Steve Yuen. The actresses didn't have much to do.

OK ending, so I guess it was a great movie by Netflix standards. This movie would have been much better if Apple did it.
 
Just signed up for a free 1 week trial of Paramount+. Got to watch something I put on a list a while ago--"Winter Spring Summer or Fall." Rom/com/dram with Jenna Ortega and Percy Hynes White. Fairly talky, maybe a bit like an updated version of those movies w/ Ethan Hawke and Julie Delpy, for a younger set. Anyway, it worked for me because the leads are charming and likable. I thought it was sweet. Also introduced me to a band I'm gonna have to check into now called Evangeline (have to edit this, I guess this is a solo artist, Evangeline Barrose, not to be confused w/ an earlier band named Evangeline).
 
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storrsroars said:
I watched Spotlight for the first time in a decade. I think I was a bit critical of it when I first saw it. It had just come out on DVD after winning best picture Oscar. So I was holding it up against its competition, which included The Revenant, The Big Short, The Martian, and others. I sort of credited its win to anti-Catholic sentiment among Oscar voters and not for the actual movie itself.

On this second watch, I found it phenomenal storytelling and ensemble acting. IMHO, it makes All The President's Men look Hollywoodish in an uncomplimentary way. I'd go so far as to say it's also probably the most compelling case for real journalism ever filmed. So yeah, it totally deserved its Oscar.

If you haven't watched it before, or haven't seen it in years, I highly recommend another watch.
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Spotlight is an excellent movie. The story telling is clean and compelling while weaving together multiple story lines. It is filled with strong, believable performances. Almost every performer has a chance to take a turn in the -sorry- spotlight. And we care about them. I echo the last sentence by storrsroars.
 
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Running Man (2025). I was a bit of a fan of the original. This one stars Glenn Powell as the same Ben Richards. It's a bit darker and even more anti-corporate (it's really fairly silly but whatever). Powell is good, he's become rather likable. Josh Brolin is excellent as a the head of the Network that controls most everything including the Running Man show. Jayme Lawson (last seen in Sinners) is Ben's lovely wife. Lee Pace has a good turn as well. You probably know the gist of the plot, but I'd say this edition is a little more serious than the Arnold version. There's a few good additions, including a YouTube type guy who works to expose the truth and ends up helping Ben. Pretty decent.
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I finally saw it, enjoyed it. I think Powell has always been likable. I had no idea Lee Pace is that tall (6-5). I saw Emilia Jones' name flash by in the opening credits, and I kept waiting for her to show up. And waiting. And waiting. She had an important part, but doesn't turn up until it's about 3/4 of the way thru it's run time. One of the guys from Please Don't Destroy was in it, I didn't know any of them could do anything without the other two. And Michael Cera. Haven't seen much of him in quite a while.

I watched the original Arnie version 3 or 4 years ago. It was an utter cheese fest. I think I like the new version better. The plot was actually quite different. Instead of just being in a game grid with the hunters chasing them down, they were free to go anywhere. And it could last up to a month, rather than just hours or a few days. This actually had some similarities to a Hulu show from a couple years ago called Self Reliance with Jake Johnson.
 
nwhoopfan said:
I finally saw it, enjoyed it. I think Powell has always been likable. I had no idea Lee Pace is that tall (6-5). I saw Emilia Jones' name flash by in the opening credits, and I kept waiting for her to show up. And waiting. And waiting. She had an important part, but doesn't turn up until it's about 3/4 of the way thru it's run time. One of the guys from Please Don't Destroy was in it, I didn't know any of them could do anything without the other two. And Michael Cera. Haven't seen much of him in quite a while.

I watched the original Arnie version 3 or 4 years ago. It was an utter cheese fest. I think I like the new version better. The plot was actually quite different. Instead of just being in a game grid with the hunters chasing them down, they were free to go anywhere. And it could last up to a month, rather than just hours or a few days. This actually had some similarities to a Hulu show from a couple years ago called Self Reliance with Jake Johnson.
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I didn't remember if it was truly different from the Arnold version, but I agree with your comments. The "open sandbox" nature of it was a nice twist, really creating some more interesting options for the runner.

If you watch Foundation you know Lee is tall and an absolute physical specimen. But I didn't know he was playing the role he was in until late in the movie.
 
nwhoopfan said:
I watched the original Arnie version 3 or 4 years ago. It was an utter cheese fest
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Which is very definitely a part of its charm.

"Here's your Subzero... now plain zero!" "Give you a lift?" And of course. "I'll be back."


I remember the remake of Total Recall. It was less cheesy and had less plot holes… And yet it wasn't a particularly memorable movie.
nwhoopfan said:
This actually had some similarities to a Hulu show from a couple years ago called Self Reliance with Jake Johnson.
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Underrated movie. It's not great cinema, but it stays true to its premise and keeps you interested and engaged.
 
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CL82 said:
"Here's your Subzero... now plain zero!" "Give you a lift?" And of course. "I'll be back."
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Wasn't there another, after he cut a guy apart with a chainsaw--"He had to split."
 
I have a list of movies I never watched in case I’m looking for something some night.

Last night I watched “No Country for Old Men” for the first time. Wow. Not sure how I missed that one.

Javier Bardem was insanely good. I loved the ambiguous ending. And I loved how you anticipated this big shootout between Anton and Llewelyn never came and his death just happened off screen. I thought the whole movie was brilliant.
 
Just noticed that "Eternity" is on Apple+. Had some interest in that for a while. Miles Teller and Elizabeth Olson are a married couple (played by older actors at the beginning) who die within about a week of each other and are reunited in sort of a purgatory. It's a big train station where people stay until they pick where to go for eternity. Tons of choices, they're sort of like theme parks. Complicating matters is that Elizabeth's first husband, played by Callum Turner, has been waiting there for 67 years since he died in the Korean War. So she has the unenviable task of picking which husband to be with. I thought it was an interesting concept, but it kinda dragged for a while. Had some good moments.
 
Hamnet. This is adapted from Maggie O'Farrell's 2020 novel. Nobody quite knows what happened to Shakespeare's son Hamnet or whether it inspired Hamlet (many think it did) so this is fiction based on some reasonable guesswork. In any event the movie starts slowly and drags a bit early on, but is very good, emotional and really well done. Jessie Buckley plays Agnes, Will's wife and Paul Mescal is Will. Jacobi Jupe is quite good as young Hamnet. It's largely a love story about Agnes and Will, but also paints a fairly realistic view of life in that time and place, with its man challenges, including losing children to disease and other things. Definitely worth a watch.
 
I went into Sinners knowing nothing about it....

Good lord that was a jumbled mess of a movie. I thought the first 40 minutes were fairly entertaining when it looked like it was going to be a movie about black entrepreneurial criminal twins returning home to the South with stolen Chicago mob money and then bam it turned into a terrible From Dusk Till Dawn ripoff. It had none of it's charm, humor, memorable scenes and pretended to be deep art. Pure slop trying to masquerade as having deep cultural themes. From the music video halfway throught it going through the generations of black music. Robert Johnson selling his soul to the devil. The whole Irish slave thing. The whole soul sucking culture vultures thing. Just a thematic mess where none of it connected.

Someone else said they thought Weapons was great, it was a disaster and I'm a big fan of the genre.
 
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superjohn said:
I went into Sinners knowing nothing about it....

Good lord that was a jumbled mess of a movie. I thought the first 40 minutes were fairly entertaining when it looked like it was going to be a movie about black entrepreneurial criminal twins returning home to the South with stolen Chicago mob money and then bam it turned into a terrible From Dusk Till Dawn ripoff. It had none of it's charm, humor, memorable scenes and pretended to be deep art. Pure slop trying to masquerade as having deep cultural themes. From the music video halfway throught it going through the generations of black music. Robert Johnson selling his soul to the devil. The whole Irish slave thing. The whole soul sucking culture vultures thing. Just a thematic mess where none of it connected.

Someone else said they thought Weapons was great, it was a disaster and I'm a big fan of the genre.
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I loved Weapons.

I thought Sinners was BS. Is it a musical? Is it a Robert Rodriguez homage? I didn’t think it was remarkable at all.
 
The Resistance Banker (Netflix - 2018) - Good WW2 movie and mostly true story about two Dutch bankers who became critically important in the Dutch resistance, especially in the last year of the war. Walraven van Hall and his brother Gijs, in their efforts to finance the Dutch Resistance, essentially pulled off one of the largest bank frauds in the history of the world.

My only slight criticism is there were quite a few movie tropes, but I can look past it.

Edit: the tropes bug me the next day. This is such an incredible true story, it deserved better than a good, not great movie.
 
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Dust Bunny. Mads Mickelson and a very plastic Sigourney Weaver, plus a little girl Sophie Sloan who is excellent as Aurora. Aurora fears the monster under her bed. It looks like a dust bunny. Her parents tell her not to worry, but then stuff happens. She enlists the services of her intriguing neighbor Mickelson, to kill the monster. This is beautifully filmed in a location that sometimes looks like a fantasy city, but is supposed to be the U.S. it’s offbeat and weird and you aren’t sure what is really going on. We all enjoyed it.
 
Predator Badlands. Best Predator movie by a large margin. A Predator sets out to kill the most notorious creature known to his kind (Yautja) on a very dangerous planet. He’s a runt of his people. He runs into an android, played by an adorable Elle Fanning. They reluctantly team up to survive the planet and locate the creature. The rest is spoilers so can’t say more. This was fun, gave some insight into the Yaujta and was well done all around. A fun space action film.
 
HuskyHawk said:
Predator Badlands. Best Predator movie by a large margin. A Predator sets out to kill the most notorious creature known to his kind (Yautja) on a very dangerous planet. He’s a runt of his people. He runs into an android, played by an adorable Elle Fanning. They reluctantly team up to survive the planet and locate the creature. The rest is spoilers so can’t say more. This was fun, gave some insight into the Yaujta and was well done all around. A fun space action film.
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Definitely an enjoyable watch.
 
I thought for sure somebody had reviewed "Bank of Dave," but I can't find it. On Netflix. Had it recommended to me several times, kept ignoring recommendations (not really sure why?), finally watched it. Very enjoyable. At least loosely based on real events. An all around great guy in a small town in England wants to open a small neighborhood bank for the betterment of the community. The banking industry was not okay with that. Against long odds he set out to make it happen. The actual star of the movie was a lawyer that aided Dave in his pursuit played by Joel Fry. I didn't even know his name, but he's very recognizable from smaller roles in "Yesterday" (the roadie) and "Cruella" (one of her sidekicks).
Also featured Phoebe Dynevor. I didn't watch Bridgerton, knew who she is, my goodness she's a lovely woman. Also briefly had the guys from Def Leppard playing themselves.
 
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On my current streak of watching movies I've missed along the way, I watched Fargo (1996) this weekend since I enjoyed No Country for Old Men so much. I gave it 3 out of 5 stars, maybe 3.5. It was goofier than it was dark in some points and the story was fine. Shot well, I thought the visual experience made you feel like you were really in a cold, windy wasteland, people trudging through thigh high snow, wearing lots of winter hats/gloves and still looking uncomfortably cold. A little too easy to murder people in broad daylight and not be caught easier.....but that's hollywood. You could say the same for a Pulp Fiction too.
 
nelsonmuntz said:
The Rip (Netflix) - Great movie for about 90 minutes, then the wheels start to wobble. Surprisingly, Afleck was the strongest of the three big stars. Damon and Chandler kind of mailed it in. I liked Steve Yuen. The actresses didn't have much to do.

OK ending, so I guess it was a great movie by Netflix standards. This movie would have been much better if Apple did it.
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I enjoyed it for the most part.

Of course, much of the movie is a 'who is the good guy?' game. If there is a good guy.

The raid on the house, based on a tip, starts off well, but the whole time needed to count the money on site, was a bit much. They could have brought a cash counting machine.

I could tell Damon's character was setting up his partner's as he told different member's the tip was a different of cash at the house.

In the end, the wrap up takes place in the back of the DEA tank truck and then the big finale.

Affleck was great. I always enjoy Damon and he was good. Yeung was Glenn, to me.
 
Airplane (1980)

We've all seen it. Timeless. Just a hysterical romp with lifelong quote we use in life today.

Young boy: [offers a cup of coffee to a young girl] "Cream?"

Young girl: [as she sips] "No thank you. I take it black...like my men."

The look on the boy's face is epic.
 
Song Sung Blue (2026 - Peacock) - Good movie, although not as good as its reviews. I like little movies about characters that are odd but not completely bizarre, so this was right up my alley. This is a biopic about a married Wisconsin couple that had a Neil Diamond tribute band before tribute bands were everywhere.

Hugh Jackman is one of the better actors of his generation, and delivers as always. Kate Hudson is less consistent, but was pretty good in this movie. Their characters could have become parody, but both actors clearly respected the characters they were playing and made the story much more relatable. The actors playing the kids did a pretty good job too.

The movie makes a fairly narrow premise work, although it is probably 15 minutes too long.
 
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Nuremberg. Stars Rami Malek as Doug Kelly, American army psychiatrist. Russell Crowe as Hermann Goring. Michael Shannon as justice Robert Jackson. Several very good supporting cast members. It tells the story of the Nuremberg trials, starting with the capture of Goring and Jackson’s subsequent push to hold the trials. Popular opinion was to just shoot the remaining Nazi high command. Dr. Kelly has a key role interviewing and getting the psych profile on these guys, especially Goring. There’s fear of making them martyrs or of repeating the mistakes after WWI. It’s all quite well done and worth a watch.
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I expected a better movie. The capture of Goring is one of the very few times in modern or even ancient history when humanity got to truly learn and evaluate evil from the very, very top, but there was not a lot of insight from this movie. One of the most curious aspects of the Nazis, and the most poorly analyzed, is how they did it, and this movie did not provide any new thoughts on the topic. A movie like A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood takes a similar plot structure of someone analyzing a historical figure, but provides so much more insight into both the historical figure and the analyzer. This movie is just a bunch of formula scenes, and then the movie tells us how we are supposed to think about the key characters.

It was pretty gimmicky, such as a huge plot turn of a confused translation of German by the Americans. Really? There was artificial tension such as "would they/won't they" have a trial which had nothing to do with any of the characters and uses an off camera "they" as the villain which is one of the lazier plot devices in cinema. I have no idea why Jackson blackmails the Pope in the movie, since it didn't actually happen in real life. I think the writer/director James Vanderbilt knew the movie whiffed because he seems to be describing what the movie is trying to do a lot in the interviews he gives during the publicity for the film.

Crowe was excellent, but it was a pretty easy role. I think John Slattery was an inspired pick for Andrus, but then the Director has him play it like Roger Sterling. I think Rami Malek is a below average actor that tends to mug for the camera, and I did not like him in this role. Michael Shannon did not seem to know how to play Robert Jackson, one of the most important jurists of the last 100 years. Colin Hanks and Richard Grant also seemed to stumble through fairly straightforward roles. When this many good actors struggle in the same film, it is probably the Director's fault.

This is a movie where the source material is so interesting that the movie should have been so much better.
 
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nwhoopfan said:
"War Machine" is new on Netflix, starring Alan Ritchson. Kinda ridiculous I guess, but entertaining enough.
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“Critics’ reactions to Alan Ritchson’s latest project are fairly middling, most careful to categorize it as “fun” more than “good,” but the response seems to be leaning positive, with 21 critics averaging a score of 81% on Rotten Tomatoes as of this writing.
There’s certainly something to be said for a movie that doesn’t take itself too seriously or force you to think too hard, and if that sounds appealing to you, go ahead and hit Play on War Machine, which is streaming now on Netflix.” (Heidi Venable)

I got a kick out of it. I like when my brain doesn’t have to work overtime these days. There is enough other crap to worry about and for one hour and forty nine minutes I didn’t have to thanks to Alan Ritchson.
 
Dove said:
One Battle After Another ( 2025)

Entertaining, for sure.

Nonsensical...yep.

But entertaining.

I can see Sean Penn getting an Oscar nod. DiCaprio, not really showing us anything he hasn't done before.
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Agree 100%. Sloppy mess of a movie, but entertaining.
 
nwhoopfan said:
"War Machine" is new on Netflix, starring Alan Ritchson. Kinda ridiculous I guess, but entertaining enough.
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from Wikipedia:
Following the release of War Machine, both director Patrick Hughes and actor Alan Ritchson indicated that plans for future installments had already been developed. In an interview with ScreenRant, Ritchson stated that “tons” of sequel material exists and suggested that a follow‑up—informally referred to as War Machines—had been fully mapped out -He described the prospective continuation as “going to be sick,” implying that the creative team had outlined a broader narrative direction for the character known as 81.
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The Secret Agent. Brazilian movie nominated for a Best Picture Oscar. Set in the 70s, during a period of control by a military dictatorship. It captures the 70s beautifully, right down to the colors and tones and even some American music and movies at times. The acting is excellent, the cinematography is very good and the editing...well, it's probably 25 minutes too long and the pace is just a bit too slow. The overall story is about individuals (especially one) who challenge the regime in some way being persecuted and in some cases, murdered. There is a group helping them. There's vast corruption of course and that takes many forms. I had to pause and explain to my daughter what Electrobras was (prior to 2022) for example. Really well made film, deserves the praise. Only complaint really is the pace and editing.
 
Old Guy (2024)

Christoph Waltz is an aging hitman. His bosses want him to train his replacement. Lucy Liu is an associate.

Waltz and his trainee are double-crossed and they go for revenge.

Overall, we thought is it was pretty entertaining. Enough action to keep you involved.
 
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