Us, there were some very subtle hints that Lupita Nyong'o character switched with her doppelgänger in the funhouse as a child. One of them was in the car ride when she is trying to tap to thee rhythm of the music and she is trying to show her son how to do it and she is off. I liked the Hands Across America tie in. Have to be of a certain age to remember that from the Reagan 80s.
What is the best recent movie you’ve seen.
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that's kinda what i figured. i'd have to rewatch it because i'm not sure if i fully understand the message behind the movie.. i have some guesses but idk
I recently watched the Indian movie *Kill*, a 90-minute action thriller that delivers highly satisfying and intense action scenes. This film does not feature typical karate kicks but instead showcases proper gore, with scenes where bones are visibly broken.
One suggestion I have is to avoid watching the movie trailer, as it is poorly edited and reveals too much about the plot. Instead, I recommend reading some reviews to see if the movie interests you. Paramount has already picked up the rights for a remake, and there is currently one show per day in Montreal. The movie is in Hindi with English subs.
One suggestion I have is to avoid watching the movie trailer, as it is poorly edited and reveals too much about the plot. Instead, I recommend reading some reviews to see if the movie interests you. Paramount has already picked up the rights for a remake, and there is currently one show per day in Montreal. The movie is in Hindi with English subs.
Interesting. I didn’t know this. I wondered why he had named it NOPE and now i have my answer! Lol
US is a movie that i probably will enjoy the most if i watch it again since i’ll now notice things that i hadn’t bothered to notice before.
I actually liked Us the best of Jordan Peele's 3 films, although all 3 were good. My favorite scene was when the respective doppelgangers were standing ominously in the shadows of the driveway. The way that scene was filmed was classic/legendary. The Hands Across America tie in at the end of the movie was awesome.
In The Land of Saints and Sinners
This is the most recent Liam Neeson movie & it’s amazingly good! Along with Gerrard Butler movies starring Liam Neeson are a must-watch for me whenever they come out. 90% of the time they guarantee to be entertained & this one doesn’t fail!
The setting of the story is Ireland in the early 70’s at the height of the IRA bombings in their war against England. It’s an Irish movie starring Neeson in the role of a former hitman for the local mob. It also co-stars the likes of Colm Meaney, Ciaran Hinds, Kerry Condon & Jack Gleeson, whom people will remember from Game of Thrones in the role of the loveable King Joffrey Baratheon. He had retired from acting in order to attend university so i suppose he’s now done with school & back acting.
In short it’s a movie about an old retired irish mob hitman living in the Irish countryside who is forced to defend himself from a faction of the IRA who want to avenge the murder of one of their own terrorists by whom they suspect was committed by the former hitman. This may be the best movie Liam Neeson has appeared in since the first Taken movie. There’s action, good character development, beautiful cinematography & interesting characters plus a very good cast of British actors & a very good storyline. It was directed by the same director who directed him in The Marksman.
This is the most recent Liam Neeson movie & it’s amazingly good! Along with Gerrard Butler movies starring Liam Neeson are a must-watch for me whenever they come out. 90% of the time they guarantee to be entertained & this one doesn’t fail!
The setting of the story is Ireland in the early 70’s at the height of the IRA bombings in their war against England. It’s an Irish movie starring Neeson in the role of a former hitman for the local mob. It also co-stars the likes of Colm Meaney, Ciaran Hinds, Kerry Condon & Jack Gleeson, whom people will remember from Game of Thrones in the role of the loveable King Joffrey Baratheon. He had retired from acting in order to attend university so i suppose he’s now done with school & back acting.
In short it’s a movie about an old retired irish mob hitman living in the Irish countryside who is forced to defend himself from a faction of the IRA who want to avenge the murder of one of their own terrorists by whom they suspect was committed by the former hitman. This may be the best movie Liam Neeson has appeared in since the first Taken movie. There’s action, good character development, beautiful cinematography & interesting characters plus a very good cast of British actors & a very good storyline. It was directed by the same director who directed him in The Marksman.
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Cold Pursuit 2019
Speaking of Liam Neeson, I thought I had seen all of his revenge thrillers, but the dude is so prolific in making 2 new ones every year that I don't seem to have fully caught up. Tonight I saw a good one called Cold Pursuit on Netflix. It actually features a real good cast including Laura Dern, Emmy Rossum, William Forsythe, John Doman and the excellent Dominick Lombardizzi, who played the brash NYC cop in Reacher Season 2. In this one Neeson plays the municipal snow plow driver in a small Colorado mountain ski town, who seeks revenge after his son is killed by a local drug cartel. Like other Neeson films it contains the standard Neeson film plot elements of murder, revenge, kidnapping, retaliation, retribution, and significant body count. However, unlike the vast majority of Neeson films, the movie has a great sense of humor and doesn't take itself too seriously. I would recommend this film for the serious Liam Neeson fan as it represents another good piece of work in his genre.
The movie has a very high body count, but most of the bodies are not the result of Neeson's violence.
Speaking of Liam Neeson, I thought I had seen all of his revenge thrillers, but the dude is so prolific in making 2 new ones every year that I don't seem to have fully caught up. Tonight I saw a good one called Cold Pursuit on Netflix. It actually features a real good cast including Laura Dern, Emmy Rossum, William Forsythe, John Doman and the excellent Dominick Lombardizzi, who played the brash NYC cop in Reacher Season 2. In this one Neeson plays the municipal snow plow driver in a small Colorado mountain ski town, who seeks revenge after his son is killed by a local drug cartel. Like other Neeson films it contains the standard Neeson film plot elements of murder, revenge, kidnapping, retaliation, retribution, and significant body count. However, unlike the vast majority of Neeson films, the movie has a great sense of humor and doesn't take itself too seriously. I would recommend this film for the serious Liam Neeson fan as it represents another good piece of work in his genre.
The movie has a very high body count, but most of the bodies are not the result of Neeson's violence.
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Since Neeson turned 65 it seems like he has played a retired hit man or retired fixer who is provoked back into action in almost all of his movies. He is 72 now and these are the only characters he can play these days.
Netflix
Land of Bad 2024 R 1 h 54 m
Action/Thriller
Russell Crow as Reaper
Liam Hemsworth as Playboy
“When a Delta Force team is ambushed in enemy territory…”
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt19864802/
What a GREAT Thrilling Movie!
***BLESSED DAY***
Land of Bad 2024 R 1 h 54 m
Action/Thriller
Russell Crow as Reaper
Liam Hemsworth as Playboy
“When a Delta Force team is ambushed in enemy territory…”
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt19864802/
What a GREAT Thrilling Movie!
***BLESSED DAY***
Omg! I saw it six times in the theater. The little girl was 2 years old at time of filming. Easily my favorite theater experience of 2023. I saw it in Imax and even saw it in black and white. Look up the story of Steven Spielberg finding the driector/writer of Gidzilla Minus One at the oscar luncheon. Takashi Yamakazi. He is the only other director to be nominated for Visual effect since Stanley Kubrick 2001 space odyssey. Spielberg saw minus one 3 times!!! Here is an article for you.
Steven Spielberg Loved ‘Godzilla Minus One,’ Saw it Three Times — World of Reel
I’m not surprised that Steven Spielberg is a fan of “Godzilla Minus One,” the film owes a lot to “Jaws” and, really, just the popcorn escapist nature of Spielberg’s best blockbusters.
www.worldofreel.com
Oh and it is the third highest grossing foreign film of all time in the USA behind Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon and Life is Beautiful.
I would agree with this. Infinity Pool is a completely depraved film, but it is brilliantly done and very artistic depravity. It is a sort of cousin to Hostel and Human Caterpillar, and while not not purely in the torture porn genre as those films are, it examines human depravity in a similar way.
i feel like movies like hostel and the human centipede sometimes can lack creativity and like you said are more like torture porn. im not a huge fan of the saw series for example. i dont get disturbed by this type of thing but i prefer more psychological horror
Have any of you guys seen Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes? It was just released onto Hulu and I want to know if I should spend 2.5 hours of my life watching it. Because I am not going to get that 2.5 hours back and do not want to waste any time.
Not a movie but a mini series Dracula ( 3 part mini series on Netflix ). Not your typical vampire movie but follows him for 500+ years, includes the Van Helsing character plus the Demeter ship voyage.
Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes (2024, now streaming on Hulu)
I watched the Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes last night. I wouldn't say it was a complete waste of time. It was a solid installment although it's not clear to me where this film falls in the ape film universe chronological order. It seems like we could be headed towards a prequel to the original 1968 Planet of the Apes. In the film, which takes place generations after Caesar's death (which is depicted in the beginning of the film), the apes have spread out and are living in isolated clans/villages. Meanwhile humans have been afflicted by a virus that have crippled the vocal cords and language abilities of most (but not all) humans. The apes, who have been unaffected by the virus, have evolved and gotten smarter and developed some weapons, the chief one being a spear like weapon whose head contains a taser like electric charge, that stuns and shocks the victim. The apes see the humans, who are nomads, as "echoes" and "scavengers", so that there is an almost complete role reversal as in the original 1968 Charlton Heston film. As a warlike ape clan begins to conquer other ape clans, a talking human emerges on the scene, who seems to hold the key to understanding the technology that the humans refined and which the apes would like to have. The ending of the film leaves open exactly how far the human technology advanced before the virus, whether the apes will acquire it, and whether both species will be able to live side by side in the future.
The production values of the film are good. There are some scenes where the ape protagonist, Noa, a member of a clan focused on falconry and birds of prey, must acquire an eagle's egg for a coming of age ritual. The way the ape characters move around, swing from tree to tree, and climb up rock orifices are quite well done. It's how you would expect apes to move around if they had the intelligence to do what these film apes have to do.
By the way William H. Macy plays one of the talking humans in the movie, whose role is to read to the leader of the warlike apes, Proximus Caesar, books on the Roman Empire which the apes have discovered. The Macy character is basically an "Uncle Tom" to the apes who believes in the inevitability of ape domination.
There is a scene steal from the original 1968 Planet of the Apes which is not quite the same, but similar, to mark the entrance of a talking human into story, namely this one:
I watched the Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes last night. I wouldn't say it was a complete waste of time. It was a solid installment although it's not clear to me where this film falls in the ape film universe chronological order. It seems like we could be headed towards a prequel to the original 1968 Planet of the Apes. In the film, which takes place generations after Caesar's death (which is depicted in the beginning of the film), the apes have spread out and are living in isolated clans/villages. Meanwhile humans have been afflicted by a virus that have crippled the vocal cords and language abilities of most (but not all) humans. The apes, who have been unaffected by the virus, have evolved and gotten smarter and developed some weapons, the chief one being a spear like weapon whose head contains a taser like electric charge, that stuns and shocks the victim. The apes see the humans, who are nomads, as "echoes" and "scavengers", so that there is an almost complete role reversal as in the original 1968 Charlton Heston film. As a warlike ape clan begins to conquer other ape clans, a talking human emerges on the scene, who seems to hold the key to understanding the technology that the humans refined and which the apes would like to have. The ending of the film leaves open exactly how far the human technology advanced before the virus, whether the apes will acquire it, and whether both species will be able to live side by side in the future.
The production values of the film are good. There are some scenes where the ape protagonist, Noa, a member of a clan focused on falconry and birds of prey, must acquire an eagle's egg for a coming of age ritual. The way the ape characters move around, swing from tree to tree, and climb up rock orifices are quite well done. It's how you would expect apes to move around if they had the intelligence to do what these film apes have to do.
By the way William H. Macy plays one of the talking humans in the movie, whose role is to read to the leader of the warlike apes, Proximus Caesar, books on the Roman Empire which the apes have discovered. The Macy character is basically an "Uncle Tom" to the apes who believes in the inevitability of ape domination.
There is a scene steal from the original 1968 Planet of the Apes which is not quite the same, but similar, to mark the entrance of a talking human into story, namely this one:
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