Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted August 4, 2017 Share Posted August 4, 2017 Enough Okay domestic thriller with some major twists. But it's another film where the baddie is so friggin' omnipotent, he and his thugs just know where the goodies are at all times, regardless of the lengths she goes to fall off the grid. How the hell does that work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted August 4, 2017 Share Posted August 4, 2017 Terms of Endearment Oh look it was alright I guess. If I didn't know any better, I would have said it was an average midday TV movie drama. Where's Debra Winger been all these years? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Johnnyecks 33 Posted August 4, 2017 Share Posted August 4, 2017 The Houses that October Built. First 2/3's were very effective and creepy. I didn't mind the "shot from a home video camera" aspect of it, made it feel like more of a documentary, which they were going for. However, the last 30 mins or so.... terribly cheesy dialogue, and a rushed ending which in someways was difficult to watch b/c of it's brutality. Not anything close to Martyrs.. but along those lines, had Disney made Martyrs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jay 37,300 Posted August 4, 2017 Share Posted August 4, 2017 Wet Hot American Summer Seen this one at least half a dozen times, wanted to watch it again before the new miniseries sequel. I've loved this film since I saw it in theaters in 2001, its one of my favorite comedies of the 2000s. Amazing how many actors in it went on to have big careers - Bradley Cooper, Amy Poehler, Paul Rudd, Elizabeth Banks, Christopher Meloni, on and on. David Wain movies are funny! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted August 5, 2017 Share Posted August 5, 2017 Never heard of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon McBride 113 Posted August 5, 2017 Share Posted August 5, 2017 Howls Moving Castle Better than I remembered it. I watched it with my little brother who asked who Howl was 4 times. Great score Secret Life of Arrietty Ehh, but the animation was really good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fancyarcher 350 Posted August 5, 2017 Share Posted August 5, 2017 Mystic River - 7.5 / 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,346 Posted August 5, 2017 Share Posted August 5, 2017 Anaconda - this was kinda like one of those shoddy 'creature features' that are always on SyFy had somehow managed to attract Jon Voight, J-Lo and Owen Wilson to star. Even 20 years ago, the CGI snake effects must've looked iffy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted August 5, 2017 Share Posted August 5, 2017 Owen Wilson wasn't much of a star back then, nor was J-Lo. Voight was a has been. This film was one of the ones that put his career back on track. Good B-movie, btw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted August 5, 2017 Share Posted August 5, 2017 J-Lo wasn't bad in Enough, but I think Sandy Bullock would have been more believable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted August 5, 2017 Share Posted August 5, 2017 Voight's wink is cinematic history Koray Savas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted August 5, 2017 Share Posted August 5, 2017 Yes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted August 5, 2017 Share Posted August 5, 2017 Squeese you so hard your veins esplode. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted August 5, 2017 Share Posted August 5, 2017 Viral Eh it was alright. The main girl was pretty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muad'Dib 1,801 Posted August 5, 2017 Share Posted August 5, 2017 I remember watching Anaconda a lot when I was kid, because they used to re-run it a lot back then. But I rewachted it not too long ago and it's quite dull; something similar happened to me with Jumanji. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted August 5, 2017 Share Posted August 5, 2017 Was Jumanji ever good? I know it has a sequel now, but I vaguely recall it wasn't really a well received movie when Williams was the star. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted August 5, 2017 Share Posted August 5, 2017 Of the 'Casper' variety of technically proficient but mechanical rollercoaster movies with a screenplay written around the big effects set pieces. Horner helps a lot to make it watchable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,504 Posted August 5, 2017 Share Posted August 5, 2017 JUMANJI, was crap, then, and it's crap, now. As Jack Napier once said: "don't bother". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muad'Dib 1,801 Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 John Carpenter's Christine Absolutely loved it, entertaining as fuck -might be my favorite Carpenter so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 I loved that car. Imagine if your car loved you back, protected you, and could self repair. You'd never want a woman again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,346 Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 You'd need to be careful during the sex, though. I'd imagine exhaust burns on your cock would be no fun at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 She'd just like me to stroke her interior. Sweeping Strings 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 7,984 Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 Rise of the Planet of the Apes and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unlucky Bastard 7,782 Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 Inferno This is the first film I've seen among the Langdon Alger series, so it's nice to see how he enjoys puzzles. Confusing as all this chaos is happening, but I think I wss sort of getting it. I was surprised to see none of these movies received fresh ratings on RT. Are the others okay or should I skip 'em? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 The DaVinci code is a great pulp adventure flick if it wasn't completely bogged down in its own self-importance. (The scandal regarding that book was enormous, and ridiculous). Angels and Demons is really good though. Preposterous potboiler, but very wellmade. It makes me think Ron Howard could nail a Han Solo film. Robert Langdon has no personality btw, i don't know how he was written in the books but all I see is Tom Hanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 Angels & Demons is the best. Inferno is the worst. If you enjoyed that one, you should be OK with the others. The best thing about Inferno was Irrfan Khan's character. I could watch an entire movie centered around that character. Heck, I could watch an entire show centered around that character! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 Everyone imagined Harrison Ford as Langdon as they read the book, and were completely dumbfounded by Hanks' casting for the film. It was blatantly obvious that Dan Brown styled the character on Ford. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 I've never seen Infernal, but we did watch The Towering Inferno last night. Excellent and terrifying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 7,984 Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 16 minutes ago, Stefancos said: The DaVinci code is a great pulp adventure flick if it wasn't completely bogged down in its own self-importance. (The scandal regarding that book was enormous, and ridiculous). Indeed. I remember I had a good chuckle while reading Umberto Eco's Foucault Pendulum many years ago and in that book there is a group of bored intellectuals who at one point come up with the same sort of conspiracy theory that the whole Da Vinci Code controversy was revolving about. As soon as that comes up in Eco's book, one of the characters discards it by saying "that's been done already". Which is additionally funny because the entire plot of the book is about them creating the most outrageously conspiracy theory in the history for fun and that one wasn't good enough. Now, that book came out in 1987 so that was whole 16 years before Dan Brown even started making waves. Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 I saw a Discovery Channel docu about that Jesus theory years before the book came out. I was surprised it wasn't already known. Great mythology though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Naïve Old Fart 9,504 Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 11 minutes ago, Woj said: I've never seen Infernal, but we did watch The Towering Inferno last night. Excellent and terrifying. When they talk about this - and they will - remember to tell them that this was your idea! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,174 Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 8 minutes ago, crocodile said: Indeed. I remember I had a good chuckle while reading Umberto Eco's Foucault Pendulum many years ago and in that book there is a group of bored intellectuals who at one point come up with the same sort of conspiracy theory that the whole Da Vinci Code controversy was revolving about. As soon as that comes up in Eco's book, one of the characters discards it by saying "that's been done already". Which is additionally funny because the entire plot of the book is about them creating the most outrageously conspiracy theory in the history for fun and that one wasn't good enough. Now, that book came out in 1987 so that was whole 16 years before Dan Brown even started making waves. And yet I found DVC surprisingly boring (not that I can deny that I had a tough time with Eco's Pendulum - but it was always interesting, and had an unexpectedly thrilling finale). As the Langdons go, Angels & Demons was much better and seriously exciting, even though the writing is shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 7,984 Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 Just now, Marian Schedenig said: And yet I found DVC surprisingly boring (not that I can deny that I had a tough time with Eco's Pendulum - but it was always interesting, and had an unexpectedly thrilling finale). As the Langdons go, Angels & Demons was much better and seriously exciting, even though the writing is shit. I loved Eco's book. It's a tough read and full of obscure references to stuff I have no idea about (not to count quotes without translations). But hey, at least it seemed I like I can learn something from it. At the very least you can appreciate it on the basic human level and as a sharp satire. Despite all those things I mentioned, it never treated itself too seriously. DVC felt like a very thin plot with copy and paste segments from either travel guides or other much more interesting books (The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail, anyone?). It was impotent. At least Zimmer delivered a strong score for the film adaptation and that is just about the only good thing to come out of it. I've never read Angels & Demons. The film was ridiculous but at least much better than DVC. Karol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 2,274 Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 Eco's book is terrific, but I feel I only got 20% out of what the has to offer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 I never read In The Name Of The Roaw, its a highly intelligent work, right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marian Schedenig 8,174 Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 5 minutes ago, Romão said: Eco's book is terrific, but I feel I only got 20% out of what the has to offer Yes, which is why I'd like to read more by him, but haven't yet mustered the courage to do so. As for the Langdom films, I remember liking DVC slightly more than A&C, although both were just serviceable. McKellen was the outstanding element of the former. I was surprised how toothless A&C was compared to the book (the fact that I enjoyed reading it twice, despite the bad writing and seriously absurd science, goes to show how exciting it is). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Romão 2,274 Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 8 minutes ago, Stefancos said: I never read In The Name Of The Roaw, its a highly intelligent work, right? I would say, but even if someone misses a lot of the subtleties of the book that go way beyond the plot itself, the book still is, in terms of general plot, still extremely entertaining crocodile and Johnnyecks 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crocodile 7,984 Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 14 minutes ago, Marian Schedenig said: Yes, which is why I'd like to read more by him, but haven't yet mustered the courage to do so. Probably his most accessible book would be Baudolino. It's filled with a lot of historical and mythical figures and references as well. But it almost plays like a like a fantasy novel set in 12th century Europe. Highly recommended. Karol Marian Schedenig 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 The Da Vinci Code is overlong and drags horribly. Whoever cut that film needed to trim another 40 minutes. It's littered with mind-boggingly redundant snippets like an entire scene explaining a scene that just occurred. Angels & Demons was fast-paced and more involving, but forgettable as well. No desire to see these films again or see Inferno. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 I think I've watched most of the first film, it was shit. I remember thinking how the hell did they screw this up - the book's a great Indiana Jones-ish adventure which you can very easily envision the movie adaptation while one is turning the page. Angels and Demons I had no interest in, book or film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 It has a nuke! Its like a papal Bond film. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 I seem to think I've seen it and hated it, but maybe it was a dream. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 Did you see Obi-Wan parachuting down the Vatican? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 I'm sure we've discussed the movie before years ago. You liked it and I didn't. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted August 6, 2017 Share Posted August 6, 2017 3 hours ago, Quintus said: I think I've watched most of the first film, it was shit. I remember thinking how the hell did they screw this up - the book's a great Indiana Jones-ish adventure which you can very easily envision the movie adaptation while one is turning the page. Angels and Demons I had no interest in, book or film. National Treasure is a better film! 3 hours ago, Stefancos said: Did you see Obi-Wan parachuting down the Vatican? This is literally the only scene I remember from that movie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted August 7, 2017 Share Posted August 7, 2017 Good score though, right? 5 hours ago, Koray Savas said: National Treasure is a better film! Man... your taste! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted August 7, 2017 Share Posted August 7, 2017 That film still had 90s Bruckheimer sensibilities. At least Nic Cage is fun to watch. Can't say the same for Da Vinci Code. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted August 7, 2017 Share Posted August 7, 2017 Blech! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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