I recently watch whiplash on netflix and its IMHO a masterpiece! Teller and Simmons are both doing an amazing job!
What is the best recent movie you’ve seen.
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I'll double down on this one, absolutely love the movie and rewatch the ending scene 2 3 times a week,
The Hundred Foot Journey
No special effects, fight scenes, or car chases - occasionally funny, beautifully acted by alll. It is an intelligent movie which doesn't stoop to bizarre plot surprises. It is worth watching just to see Helen Mirren in action or just for the marvelous, evocative sound track.
No special effects, fight scenes, or car chases - occasionally funny, beautifully acted by alll. It is an intelligent movie which doesn't stoop to bizarre plot surprises. It is worth watching just to see Helen Mirren in action or just for the marvelous, evocative sound track.
Last week, I saw Zipper which was a disapointment
And tonight, I saw The Martian, it was a great surprise, awesome movie, I strongly recommand The Martian!
Cheers,
-S.A.M.
And tonight, I saw The Martian, it was a great surprise, awesome movie, I strongly recommand The Martian!
Cheers,
-S.A.M.
The Big Short.
The majority of folks are a bunch of blind greedy idiots and only a small few can see the shit storm coming and makes a killing. Even after the fact the small few still don't get any respect and continued to be ignored and laughed at while the idiots still running the shit show continue to do the same shit in different form.
After watching this flick you just want to give up on humanity. LOL.
The majority of folks are a bunch of blind greedy idiots and only a small few can see the shit storm coming and makes a killing. Even after the fact the small few still don't get any respect and continued to be ignored and laughed at while the idiots still running the shit show continue to do the same shit in different form.
After watching this flick you just want to give up on humanity. LOL.
Spotlight
Great movie. Reminded me a bit of "All the President's Men". Stars Mark Ruffalo, Liev Schreiber, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams and a cast of others in a true story about how a Boston newspaper exposed the local catholic church bishop's cover-up of local priests molesting and raping children. It begins with the investigation of one priest, then they discover that there were many more. Powerful stuff. It's because of stuff like that i've rejected the catholic church and organized religion. Must-see movie! :thumb:
Great movie. Reminded me a bit of "All the President's Men". Stars Mark Ruffalo, Liev Schreiber, Michael Keaton, Rachel McAdams and a cast of others in a true story about how a Boston newspaper exposed the local catholic church bishop's cover-up of local priests molesting and raping children. It begins with the investigation of one priest, then they discover that there were many more. Powerful stuff. It's because of stuff like that i've rejected the catholic church and organized religion. Must-see movie! :thumb:
The Martian
I really enjoyed this movie with Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kate Mara, Jeff Daniels and some other very good actors. Ridley Scott once again directs an excellent space film. The movie has a very imaginative plot, down to even smaller detailers like matching almost every iconic pop song from the 1970s to a specific scene in the movie (to which each song provides corresponding background for that scene). This movie is the biggest plug for the NASA space program of any I have ever seen.
Not sure about all the science demonstrated in the movie, but the movie genre is science fiction, not science fact. Still, I wonder how long anyone can survive eating just potatoes and nothing else.
Some of those iconic 1970s songs featured in the movie are:
Don't Leave Me This Way, Thelma Houston, 1977- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLzbKm56dLI
Rock The Boat- Hues Corporation, 1974 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfBwsG8ubFw
Waterloo, Abba, 1974 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj_9CiNkkn4
I really enjoyed this movie with Matt Damon, Jessica Chastain, Kate Mara, Jeff Daniels and some other very good actors. Ridley Scott once again directs an excellent space film. The movie has a very imaginative plot, down to even smaller detailers like matching almost every iconic pop song from the 1970s to a specific scene in the movie (to which each song provides corresponding background for that scene). This movie is the biggest plug for the NASA space program of any I have ever seen.
Not sure about all the science demonstrated in the movie, but the movie genre is science fiction, not science fact. Still, I wonder how long anyone can survive eating just potatoes and nothing else.
Some of those iconic 1970s songs featured in the movie are:
Don't Leave Me This Way, Thelma Houston, 1977- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLzbKm56dLI
Rock The Boat- Hues Corporation, 1974 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfBwsG8ubFw
Waterloo, Abba, 1974 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj_9CiNkkn4
Mad Max Fury Road
Chercherfemmes told me he thought this picture should have won the Academy Award but I wasn't so impressed with it. To me all the action in the film (which was substantial) had a video-gamish quality to it. I felt the movie was formulaic and the character of Immortan sounded exactly like Darth Vader. Other of the characters resembled characters from the Lord of the Rings movies. The movie provides familiar big budget razzle and dazzle side effects and solid acting and a good dosage of nonstop incredulous action scenes for those who need their action fix. But as a whole I was kind of disappointed in the film.
Chercherfemmes told me he thought this picture should have won the Academy Award but I wasn't so impressed with it. To me all the action in the film (which was substantial) had a video-gamish quality to it. I felt the movie was formulaic and the character of Immortan sounded exactly like Darth Vader. Other of the characters resembled characters from the Lord of the Rings movies. The movie provides familiar big budget razzle and dazzle side effects and solid acting and a good dosage of nonstop incredulous action scenes for those who need their action fix. But as a whole I was kind of disappointed in the film.
I agree about what was said of mad max fury road, it was not anything like the originals, maybe thunderdome wasnt great but it still surpassed this one and what was with the guy playing the guitar? That was a little much, i watched it twice just to see if it would be better the second time, it wasnt, it just showed me parts i missed the first time and was not any better.
As for a more recent film but not so recent was Maze Runner Scorch Trials, well to tell you the truth, i found this one better then the first one, i actually watched it 3 times already and found some nice bloopers in this one, i had to rewind a few times to see if my eyes were playing tricks on me, i like to look for bloopers, it just makes it more interesting, every movie has them, i think they leave them in just for fun.
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As for a more recent film but not so recent was Maze Runner Scorch Trials, well to tell you the truth, i found this one better then the first one, i actually watched it 3 times already and found some nice bloopers in this one, i had to rewind a few times to see if my eyes were playing tricks on me, i like to look for bloopers, it just makes it more interesting, every movie has them, i think they leave them in just for fun.
Thor Jr
I watched Point Break the remake last night, it was ok, i would give more credit to the original, Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze were better at the roles and i liked the story line better in the original... The action scenes were better in the remake cause they went all out with the motor bike jumping onto small rock cliffs 200 feet in the air and the snow boarding and all, but it lacked something in the story.
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Sat through 4 and half hours of Hunger games mocking jay, part 1 and 2 last night with a brief 1 hour break in between, i started to watch part 2 first but got lost in the first 5 minutes, so i re-watched part 1 and then it made more sense. I liked all of the hunger games movies, but i have to say the first one was the best, for me at least. The first two were actually about hunger games and the last two more of a war situation. Is there a 5th movie in the works or is it over now?
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They're based on a trilogy of novels so the main story is over but they made enough money that there are talks of doing spin-offs and such, it's super preliminary at this point though.
Deadpool. Beyond excellent, from the first frame of the movie (during the credits), to the last (post credits).
Dirty Grandpa (Starring Robert Deniro)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1860213/
Loved it. So freakin funny lol.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1860213/
Loved it. So freakin funny lol.
Spotlight - 2015 (won Academy Award for best film)
I watched Spotlight today, and enjoyed it. I was more interested in the subject matter, than the fact that it won the Academy Award for best film. I attended a private Catholic high school, and I found out from some of my classmates that hanky panky occurred with some of our Jesuit priest teachers much later in life. The story that one classmate told me, who was the victim of an attempted molestation, shocked and revolted me.
My best friend from high school got married in 1995 (with me in the wedding party), by a priest who about 10 years later went away to prison for molesting little boys. My friend's brother in law had been one of the priest's altar boys, but he denied any attempt at a molestation. I knew that priest and was shocked to learn about his behavior.
The movie mainly focuses on how the Boston Globe exposed, through a series of news articles, a massive attempt by the Catholic Archdiocese in Boston to cover up molestations of little boys and girls by priests, quietly settling the cases and reassigning the priests to other parishes, rather than defrocking them. I still don't understand why the Church's insurance companies didn't pressure the Church to defrock priests who had multiple claims against them, but it didn't happen.
There are very good performances in the movie by Mark Ruffalo as an angry reporter who is outraged by what the Spotlight investigative team is uncovering (yet another Incredible Hulk alter ego for Ruffalo, who will spend the rest of his career portraying angry men); Liev Schreiber, who plays the quiet, classy, but resolute Chief Editor; Michael Keaton as the leader of the Spotlight team, a Catholic high school graduate who must interrogate some of his golf cronies; and Billy Crudup is excellent in a small role as a smug attorney who has quietly and confidentially reached small settlements with the Church on behalf of many claimants over many years. We learn that he attempted to expose the Church years earlier, but nobody at the Boston Globe would listen to him.
It's certainly worth watching, IMHO.
I watched Spotlight today, and enjoyed it. I was more interested in the subject matter, than the fact that it won the Academy Award for best film. I attended a private Catholic high school, and I found out from some of my classmates that hanky panky occurred with some of our Jesuit priest teachers much later in life. The story that one classmate told me, who was the victim of an attempted molestation, shocked and revolted me.
My best friend from high school got married in 1995 (with me in the wedding party), by a priest who about 10 years later went away to prison for molesting little boys. My friend's brother in law had been one of the priest's altar boys, but he denied any attempt at a molestation. I knew that priest and was shocked to learn about his behavior.
The movie mainly focuses on how the Boston Globe exposed, through a series of news articles, a massive attempt by the Catholic Archdiocese in Boston to cover up molestations of little boys and girls by priests, quietly settling the cases and reassigning the priests to other parishes, rather than defrocking them. I still don't understand why the Church's insurance companies didn't pressure the Church to defrock priests who had multiple claims against them, but it didn't happen.
There are very good performances in the movie by Mark Ruffalo as an angry reporter who is outraged by what the Spotlight investigative team is uncovering (yet another Incredible Hulk alter ego for Ruffalo, who will spend the rest of his career portraying angry men); Liev Schreiber, who plays the quiet, classy, but resolute Chief Editor; Michael Keaton as the leader of the Spotlight team, a Catholic high school graduate who must interrogate some of his golf cronies; and Billy Crudup is excellent in a small role as a smug attorney who has quietly and confidentially reached small settlements with the Church on behalf of many claimants over many years. We learn that he attempted to expose the Church years earlier, but nobody at the Boston Globe would listen to him.
It's certainly worth watching, IMHO.
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