What is the best recent movie you’ve seen.

[EagerBeaver]

I saw in a theater today "Zombieland Double Tap." It's a very good sequel to Zombieland with the same characters and actors back from the original. It's funny and clever, and the climactic final scene is really well done and highly imaginative. I actually liked it more than the original, perhaps I because I knew what to expect and I felt it delivered on the zombie entertainment I was expecting.

The special effects are very good, especially the vomit that is used by the characters to puke after the human characters are bitten and transform into zombies. The director seemed to have fun with these scenes, as the vomiting is copious and looks very real.

 

[Sol Tee Nutz]

Seen The Joker last night, very good movie It should win some awards IMO.

 

[Sol Tee Nutz]

^^^^^^^ Thatvwas my first pick but sold out when I got there.

 

[GaryH]

Once again Meta you are dead on. I too am surprised that nobody ever made a big screen movie version recounting the compelling horror that was the Manson murders. There have been two TV movies as far as I know but I found them both pretty average. This is a story that is just begging to be told on the silver screen..

BBW - There was a big screen movie about the murders 2 years ago - Wolves at the Door. It got terrible reviews, mainly because it was too gruesome. Some of the review lines:

"On the whole Wolves At The Door delivers some stellar performances and a genuinely terrifying story, but is largely let down by its makers inability to understand that there are limits to what can and cannot be shown on screen when it comes to the retelling of real life murders."

"repellent, misconceived, and pointless film"

"a repellently exploitative entry in the already sordid “Manson movies” canon."

I don't think people want to see the real story depicted on screen because it's so horrible.

 

[hungry101]

I saw Midway. Audiences are loving Midway but it is getting panned by the majority of the critics for lack of character development and because the Computer Generated Imagery (CGI) isn't believable. I have never been strafed by a zero or been on the deck of a carrier while attacked by a Dauntless dive bomber SBD so I can't say. I thought the CGI was kind of cool. I do think that the character development was lean because the scope of this movie was too aggressive. It starts out with a code breaker serving as attache in Tokyo in 1937 having a conversation with Yamamoto followed by Pearl Harbor, various carrier raids, the Doolittle raid on Tokyo, Coral Sea, and finally Midway.

Ed Skrein plays Dick Best. Dick Best is an SBD pilot on the USN Enterprise. His claim to fame is that he is the only carrier pilot during the war credited with successfully dive bombing two carriers in a single battle. Ed's gum chewing New Jersey accent annoyed me a bit at first and took some getting used to. I was surprised that Woody Harrelson did a good job of playing Chester Nimitiz.

Here's the good part: The movie, for all it's faults, tells the true story of Midway. I mean they got the nuanced details correct. This was a labor of love for the director who strived to get the story correct.

It's not going to replace Private Ryan or Fury but, like 13 hours, they got it right and didn't make things up (like Hollywood is prone to do). for example, they had a scene where the code breakers were talking with Nimitz. They told him that they had 40% of the Japanese code broken. They knew that the Japanese were attacking an island designated as AF but which island was AF? So they devised a ruse. They had Midway send out an uncoded message that the desalinization plant was down. Shortly after that they uncoded a message to the Japanese strike force (Kido Butai) to bring a water ship with fresh water. They knew that AF stood for Midway. Also, Washington ordered Halsey in the South Pacific. Nimitz, the commander in theater, thought that Halsey's strike force was needed at Midway. So Nimitz, in cahoots with Halsey sent him a secret message to get spotted so that he could recall his strike force to Hawaii and then be redeployed at Midway.

Now that I think about it, I highly recommend it. A 7 of 10.

 

[EagerBeaver]

I saw Doctor Sleep yesterday. I was a huge fan of the book and although the movie wasn’t as good as the book and many of the details of the book were edited out to fit the plot into a 2.5 hour movie, I thought it was a solid adaptation and entertainment. It’s certainly not as good as its predecessor The Shining, but the movie does pay significant homage to The Shining (especially the final scene).

The movie has tanked at the box office despite some generally positive reviews. I thought the cast was good, but the movie wasn’t particularly scary. Overall I give it a 6.5 out of 10.

 

[charmer_]

I saw Doctor Sleep yesterday. I was a huge fan of the book and although the movie wasn’t as good as the book and many of the details of the book were edited out to fit the plot into a 2.5 hour movie, I thought it was a solid adaptation and entertainment. It’s certainly not as good as its predecessor The Shining, but the movie does pay significant homage to The Shining (especially the final scene).

The movie has tanked at the box office despite some generally positive reviews. I thought the cast was good, but the movie wasn’t particularly scary. Overall I give it a 6.5 out of 10.

I saw Doctor Sleep as well, and also read the book back when it came out (along with seeing and reading The Shining before that). I liked it alot...there's more connections to The Shining than in the book. In particular, to Kubrick's movie.

I found it quite creepy/disturbing...especially the scene with Baseball Boy. It's one thing to read about a kid being killed, it's another to see it happen. So personally, I did find it more effective than the book. Ewan McGregor is really good as Dan Torrence.

Also in the book, I found that it resolved a bit too easily. Here in the movie not so much, and a certain price has to be paid. So overall, I found the movie to be better than the book. And I'd give it 8.5 out of 10 personally. It's a better Stephen King film than "It part 2" this year (which was still good, but I found that they added way too much jokes to it).

 

[EagerBeaver]

The scene with “Baseball Boy” was pretty disturbing and I can see young kids in particular being upset by that scene.

My problem with the Doctor Sleep movie was primarily with its pacing and not capturing certain elements of the book which I liked, one of which was the fact that Dan and Abra’s relationship as uncle-niece was real. The death scene with Momo was perhaps the most powerful scene in the book and led to that revelation, but Momo’s character was written out of the movie except for a few mentions by other characters. I realize they couldn’t keep all of the different plot elements and Flanagan generally did a good job picking and choosing, but I was disappointed by the movie’s minimization of the Momo and Dr. John characters.

One thing I did like is the re-enactment of the “Lloyd” bar scene which was my absolute favorite scene in The Shining.

I may have liked the “Doctor Sleep” book more than you did. It’s my favorite book by Stephen King since the early 1990s. “The Langoliers” remains my favorite Stephen King story of all time, and it merely led to a very crappy TV miniseries which came out in the 1990s with B list actors. It’s more science fiction than horror but has elements of both.

 

[OnJustALark]

Saw
Ford Vs. Ferrari this weekend - worthwhile, great story and a good amount of adrenaline from the racing action.

Last Christmas last weekend - funny, heart warming story with a twist you won't see coming.

Maleficent last weekend as well - was a bit slow in spots, somewhat predictable and not one I would go our an own.

 

[EagerBeaver]

Was off today and saw Ford vs. Ferrari in IMAX theater - well worth it, as the movie is excellent and the racing scenes are fantastic. It is a great story as mentioned by the last poster and one that is based on actual history. The way the movie develops, it as much about Henry Ford II's obsession to defeat Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans as it is about the friendship that develops from the working relationship between automative engineer Carroll Shelby (Matt Damon) and driver/engineer Ken Miles (Christian Bale). Both lead actors are excellent, particularly Bale as the "difficult to work with" Miles, who is nevertheless instrumental in both the development of the Ford GT in the garage and the racing wins behind its wheel on the track.

Entertainment dollars well spent. 8.5/10

 

[hungry101]

The Irishmen - 3.5 hours of ghastly mob murders. It was about the mob taking care of Jimmy Hoffa of the Teamsters. There was one thing I just couldn't stomach: Robert De Niro trying to portray a man in his 30's at age 75? A father with young daughters? Come on. He looked like a great grandparent and not a father. And when he went and beat up the corner grocer...I'm sorry, he looked like a Monty Burns from the Simpsons. Why did they do this to a great actor? Have another character play him as a younger man. This was unforgivable. I just couldn't get past this. What's next Godfather Part IV? 4/10.

 

[Robert 21]

The Irishmen - 3.5 hours of ghastly mob murders....

Wow 3.5 hours....I see it is also Available on https://www.netflix.com/title/80175798

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1302006/

Robert De Niro defends Anna Paquin's role in 'The Irishman' -
https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/02/entertainment/de-niro-paquin-irishman-trnd/index.html



***DO YOUR JOB***

 

[jalimon]

I fell asleep after 20 minutes of the Irishmen... Not sure I will try again now

On netflix I really like Money Heist and The club. Both of which I watched in Spanish with English sub's. Good way to learn

Cheers,

 

[The Nature Boy]

I wasn’t blown away by Irishman either, I’m a big Scorsese fan though. Thought “the departed” and good fellas were waaaaay better films of that whole mafia genre. I though Pacino was better in Irishman vs deniro

 

[LeBoudoir]

I think The Irishman was a great depiction of those times. Yes it's not that, "in your face" mob movie that Scorcese has gotten us used to but the film was very well put together in my opinion. Was just a little long ...

 

[IamNY]

Watching “The Irishman” is 4 hours of my life that I can never get back. Movie absolutely sucked.

 

[jalimon]

Watching “The Irishman” is 4 hours of my life that I can never get back. Movie absolutely sucked.

You now make me feel good that I was sleeping like a newborn after a few minutes

 

[hungry101]

I still can't get past a 75 year old De Niro trying to portray a father of infant babies and being the mob's muscle. I read a peer review that said it was like watching an old man trying to open a jar for 4 hours while telling you about all the people he killed. You didn't want to watch him struggle with the jar and you didn't want to hear about all the gruesome murders. You just wanted it to stop.

Scorcese needs to find some younger actors and put De Niro, Pesci, and Pacino out to pasture. You can't have these drooling old men playing young men in their 30's. De Niro should be universally panned for this.

 

[EagerBeaver]

I did not see the Irishman but one person who did told me that after watching the movie for 3.5 hours, you learn that Jimmy Hoffa is still missing, which is really a tremendous and profound disappointment.

 

[The Nature Boy]

Scorcese needs to find some younger actors and put De Niro, Pesci, and Pacino out to pasture. You can't have these drooling old men playing young men in their 30's. De Niro should be universally panned for this.

he shoulda gotten Tom Hardy. He woulda been awesome. Joe Pesci and almpacino we’re both great I thought, but deniros character shoulda been played by someone younger.