JoeinAR 1,949 Posted October 30, 2017 Share Posted October 30, 2017 I remember the real thing. Boring Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 Had a Noah Baumbach double feature today: The Meyerowitz Stories (New And Selected) and Greenberg The former had a great ensemble and tight editing, making it a really enjoyable dramatic comedy. As others have said, Sandler really shines here, giving an atypical performance I wish he did more often. The latter I had seen parts of years ago but had completely forgotten that Greta Gerwig starred. Love her here as well in Baumbach’s later films. Looking forward to her own directorial effort later this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 How can you watch that knowing Hoffman sexually assaulted a woman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 Was it an underaged woman? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoeinAR 1,949 Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 Does it matter regarding assault? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 Legally, yes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 Actually both acts are illegal. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted November 1, 2017 Share Posted November 1, 2017 Yes, but the severity increases with underaged victims, I've found. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt C 453 Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 The Foreigner - It's a little bit of Taken, add a good dash of Irish/English conflict, and add Jackie Chan to the mix. Martin Campbell's direction is very solid, elevating a rather complex but rote script. Jackie Chan and Pierce Brosnan play against type quite effectively, and it's still amazing how Chan is able to do the number of stunts at his age. Thor: Ragnarok - I had a fun time with this. Plot-wise, the script is a mess but director Taiki Waititi makes it a funny and colorful mess. Chris Hemsworth shows a great amount of comedic timing and he has a future in comedies should he decide to leave the MCU franchise. Cate Blanchett camps it up as the wicked Hela, but she feels underused in places. Tom Hiddleston and Mark Ruffalo ably add to the supporting cast, while the gorgeous Tessa Thompson is a real-find as the hard-drinking, no-nonsense Valkyrie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon McBride 113 Posted November 3, 2017 Share Posted November 3, 2017 Thor: Ragnarok A fun and exciting action flick, but not much more. I thought the jokes were mostly well done and didn't feel shoehorned in. 8/10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted November 4, 2017 Share Posted November 4, 2017 Thor Ragnarok for me as well. Silly fun! A good time for a Friday night. But least good MCU movie of 2017. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fancyarcher 350 Posted November 4, 2017 Share Posted November 4, 2017 Thor: Ragnarok - This was pretty damn good. Sure maybe there were too many jokes, but I was laughing, and the cast was great too. Plus Jeff Goldblum acting like Jeff Goldblum is never a bad thing, that and The Hulk talking was awesome. I'm not sure if it's my favorite MCU film (I think I preferred GOTGV2 overall), but I do think it's one that I'll revisit several times. - 7.5 / 10 JoeinAR 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted November 4, 2017 Share Posted November 4, 2017 Disney thanks JWfan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted November 4, 2017 Share Posted November 4, 2017 By the way, while Goldblum was indeed great and funny in Thor, my favorite performance of the movie was Anthony Hopkins as Loki for 5 minutes. That or Waititi as the rock alien. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon McBride 113 Posted November 4, 2017 Share Posted November 4, 2017 Matt Damon and Sam Neill were the loki and thor actors and I thought they were pretty funny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted November 4, 2017 Share Posted November 4, 2017 2 hours ago, Hawmy said: Matt Damon and Sam Neill were the loki and thor actors and I thought they were pretty funny Haha, I can see why you'd think so but that wasn't Matt Damon! It was Luke Hemsworth, Chris Hemsworth's brother! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted November 4, 2017 Share Posted November 4, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted November 4, 2017 Share Posted November 4, 2017 Has anyone else noticed this broad Radha Mithcell in a bunch of stuff? She's yet another babe from Australia, in her 40s and smoking hot. Definitely curious what she looks like naked. Anyway, my point is that she looks exactly like Tasha Yar. She seems to have the career that Denise Crosby wishes she had after she was killed by an oil slick on Star Trek. But it's really distracting. I feel like I've traveled back in time to an alternate universe where Denise Crosby became a famous Hollywood actress. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wojo 2,453 Posted November 4, 2017 Share Posted November 4, 2017 I've only seen her in Pitch Black. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted November 4, 2017 Share Posted November 4, 2017 She plays a character named Rose in the Silent Hill series of films. Good name! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Simon McBride 113 Posted November 4, 2017 Share Posted November 4, 2017 1 hour ago, Disco Stu said: Haha, I can see why you'd think so but that wasn't Matt Damon! It was Luke Hemsworth, Chris Hemsworth's brother! I just looked it up and I was kind of wrong. Matt Damon was the Loki actor while Luke Hemsworth was the Thor actor. Sam Neill was the Odin actor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted November 4, 2017 Share Posted November 4, 2017 Man, Luke Hemsworth looks a lot like Matt Damon. Like Matt Damon if he were a beefy football player later or something Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo 3,709 Posted November 4, 2017 Share Posted November 4, 2017 Murder on the Orient Express (2017) Don’t bother. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted November 4, 2017 Share Posted November 4, 2017 4 minutes ago, Bilbo Skywalker said: Don’t bother. Your life won't be worth spit! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faleel 5,346 Posted November 4, 2017 Share Posted November 4, 2017 2 hours ago, Disco Stu said: Haha, I can see why you'd think so but that wasn't Matt Damon! It was Luke Hemsworth, Chris Hemsworth's brother! Luke or Liam? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koray Savas 2,251 Posted November 4, 2017 Share Posted November 4, 2017 1 hour ago, The Doctor said: She plays a character named Rose in the Silent Hill series of films. Good name! She’s a terrible actress. She’s in Man On Fire and some other films. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted November 4, 2017 Share Posted November 4, 2017 Yeah, but she's terrible in the exact sort of way Denise Crosby was. It's weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Disco Stu 15,495 Posted November 4, 2017 Share Posted November 4, 2017 4 minutes ago, Fal said: Luke or Liam? Definitely Luke. The forgotten brother. The one in Westworld Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fancyarcher 350 Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 Loving Vincent - It's an animated gimmick, but it works. 7.5 / 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John 2,032 Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 3 hours ago, Bilbo Skywalker said: Murder on the Orient Express (2017) Don’t bother. Not worth seeing, eh? I was rather looking forward to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo 3,709 Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 5 hours ago, JohnSolo said: Not worth seeing, eh? I was rather looking forward to it. It’s very slow and not as clever as it thinks it is. The father actually fell asleep at one point. There’s no urgency to the story at all. I like the score and there’s some very good performances but it wasn’t worth a cinema trip. John 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 Isnt the 65mm worth it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A24 4,331 Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 51 minutes ago, Bilbo Skywalker said: It’s very slow ... Branagh's pacy direction keeps the story zipping along. Time Out Where Murder On The Orient Express succeeds is in Branagh's fast pacing and the suspense he maintains throughout; each suspect is given screen time, and each has a plausible reason for murder, but none of them are lingered on for too long. - Metro Just reading some of the quotes over at RT I thought it was going to be another a fast paced movie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo 3,709 Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 Oh God no, there’s no urgency to it at all. Felt a lot longer than 2 hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo 3,709 Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 No. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 Are you sure? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bilbo 3,709 Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 I put my iPhone on airplane mode and my Apple Watch on cinema mode as I always do in the cinema! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,357 Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 I'm giving it a go today ... I haven't seen any of the other adaptations, so both the victim and the murderer are happily a mystery to me. Branagh's frankly tremendous Poirot 'tache looks like it's worth the admission price alone, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sweeping Strings 2,357 Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 And now that I've been ... Murder On The Orient Express - not having seen the other adaptations of Agatha Christie's classic murder-mystery I can't compare, but I quite enjoyed this. Kenneth Branagh toplines a stellar cast as a magnificently 'tached Poirot, and also directs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BloodBoal 7,538 Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 How is Michelle Pfeiffer? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 I have no interest whatsoever in the umpteenth rendition of this done to death Agatha Christie novel, the whodunit movie adaptation equivalent of Oliver Twist. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 There has only ever been one version made for the big screen and 2 for TV. Either you are exaggerating or are ignorant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quintus 5,399 Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 I feel like there's been more than enough different screen versions of this story already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
publicist 4,643 Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 Poirot and Ms. Marple, especially. I would watch one of those old Rutherford movies or Billy Wilder's 'Witness for the Prosecution' in a heartbeat, but a 2-hour plus Branagh adaptation? Nah.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265 Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 18 minutes ago, Quintus said: I feel like there's been more than enough different screen versions of this story already. You must be thinking of the Ustinov ones. I cant imagine you ever saw the American TV movie of Orient Express. And the David Suchet ITV adaptation is not that well known. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gruesome Son of a Bitch 6,488 Posted November 5, 2017 Share Posted November 5, 2017 I've seen the one with Norman Bates, the one with the crew of TNG on the Holodeck where Worf shovels the coal and the other one in space with a Mummy killing people, which was the most fantastic of the bunch. I've yet to see the one with Michelle Pfeiffer. I want to hear that sexy ass voice once more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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