"Gran Torino" - I love this movie, but what I remember most about it is watching it with my brother and him saying "I don't want to grow old and be a mean & grouchy old man." He made me cry! He was afraid that his divorce had made him mean and bitter & he would never get over it. Broke my heart.
I don't usually stay up late (with my daughter) & watch silly movies but this one is hilarious- The Boss
I just saw that last week! Brilliant movie, made even funnier by the fact that I've got a coworker who reminds me of Nick. No tattoos, and Aussie, but the look and attitude are the same.
I decided recently to make sure that I watch all the sci-fi movies ever made that are worth watching. It's been a pretty cool project (I have a spreadsheet and everything). Keeping track, there are obviously all the amazing ones that will always be right up there (Blade Runner, Alien/s, Silent Running, Terminator, etc.), and I think some modern classics have emerged (Event Horizon, Gattaca, Donnie Darko, Inception et al). But also, films fewer people have seen that are really very good include: -- The Brand New Testament -- Never Let Me Go -- Pi -- Her -- Coherence -- Triangle -- Europa Report -- Primer -- Sleep Dealers -- Upstream Color I also massively loved Arrival and would recommend it to anyone. On my list that I'm looking forward to are: Under the Skin, Midnight Special and The Lobster. Overrated (in my opinion) include: Looper, The Fountain and Holy Motors.
You lost me at Event Horizon. Words cannot express how much I LOATHE Event Horizon. It's one of the very few films I've seen that was so irritating that it seemed to be actively attempting to drive me out of the room.
Wow, I don't know anyone who hates that film. But, horses for courses. I know a number of people who agree with my taste mostly, but also love The Fountain, which in my opinion was the most turgid pile of drivel I'd seen since ... well, at least since Aliens v Predator.
^^ that picture reminds me of Man Bites Dog, for some reason, Belgian I think. Was remade in other countries, but I like it the best.
Went and saw La La Land. It was fine, Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling have great chemistry and I really liked the ending. Gotta say though, I'm slightly suspicious of all the praise its getting. Whiplash was my favorite movie of 2014 but to me this is not anywhere close to the same league. And because the film is kind of a love letter to Los Angeles and movie culture in general, there's something weirdly self-congratulatory about the way everyone in the entertainment biz seems to fawning over it. I dunno, maybe they see something I missed. Also saw Rogue One. I liked it, and I'm happy the Star Wars production machine is branching out to give us side stories, thus enlarging the universe. I agree with the popular critique that we never get to know the new characters all that well. It was fun and I'm almost always happy to go back to that world, but I do think the Star Wars fanservice works better than the actual story or characters, so I doubt non-fans will get as much out of it. Force Awakens was better.
Similar sentiments, I'm a casual Star Wars fan at best, so the whole "Star Wars: The Side Stories" thing left me... well, less impressed than the main sequence. Spoiler: Here Be Rogue One Spoilers I thought that Cassian Andor made a better Han Solo than Han Solo did though. I never really managed to buy into Han being a "bad guy" who was just in it for the money, somehow Harrison Ford seemed too clean for that. When Cassian murders that guy in the alley though, that was what I needed from my conflicted/complicated good guys.
I finally get to see a movie before the rest of you!!! Resident Evil: The Final Chapter, saw it yesterday. If you like the series, you won't be disappointed, it pretty much follows the established templates. Spoiler You've got to suspend disbelief on films like this, but it's a damn good thing somebody left the keys in the ignition of that Humvee...
Well, the previous film is the only movie I have ever walked out on. And I've seen a lot of movies at the cinema. I tried to stay, I really did, but after fifteen minutes I couldn't take it anymore and had to leave. So I have little hope for the new one. Which is a shame. I'm a big Milla fan (heck, she's even in my avatar) and really liked the first film. But alas.
Fair enough. I walk in with low expectations and a bag of popcorn, and haven't been disappointed yet. And yeah, Milla is the bomb, but I've got a real thing for multi-multi lingual people, which makes the First Lady to be an unsettling proposition for me.
I thought Rogue One was amazing -- being a massive fan of the original trilogy. I think it got the links to IV amazingly right, and nodded to the prequel trilogy's existence without dirtying its hands by too close an association. I guess spoilers are probably still a thing for this but yeah, I would say it's by some distance the best Star Wars movie in the last twenty-five years.
The Girl in the Book is an interesting film about a woman who works at a literary agency who bumps into a famous author she knew when she was a sixteen year old student. Her life has been a series of relationship disasters ever since and his reappearance serves as a catalyst to confront him. Her dad is a particularly revealing character and the flashbacks to her childhood will resonate with many women. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2980554/
I agree - Rogue One was a perfect bridge between the original and prequel trilogy, and thought they did an excellent job tying it all together. I definitely thought it was better than The Force Awakens, which was 'A New Hope, Now With 21st Century Graphics'. I saw Hacksaw Ridge last night. An interesting take following a man trying to save lives on the front line rather than taking them, while not skimping out on the action in any respect; the battle for the ridge was played out in all of its grim and gory detail that definitely stays on the side of realism. The fact that it was based on a true story, I didn't know, which makes the events of the movie even more incredible. 10/10 I don't give out lightly to films because it is very devaluing to give out too many 10s, but... it's tempting.
Just finished watching Arrival. Basically, it's about some bored aliens who come to Earth to set up a woman with a man. They keep drawing holes to subliminally make them want to have sex and make a baby. There's tentacle porn, too.
