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Watched Paycheck with Ben Affleck and Uma Thurman. Great premise. Good cast. Terrible execution. Got dumb. Endless fight scenes. Some of the worst acting by Uma Thurman I’ve ever seen in my entire life. 

Now I don’t wanna go off on a rant here, but I just realized John Woo is one of the worst, most over-rated directors in history. He takes good casts, scripts with interesting premises, and turns them into movies with not only bad acting, but horrifically epically bad acting, dumb plots, and endless boring fight scenes. Besides Paycheck, he directed Face Off, Broken Arrow, and Mission Impossible 2, the worst of the MI series. Getting fired by Tom Cruise should tell you something. 

Each of his movies leave me frustrated with having to see him waste acting talent and good script concepts. That is all. 

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A Few Good Men-

After Cruise decides to enter the plea he tells the others they will work on the case nightly at 7 and to pick up “a half a dozen boxes of red pens and half a dozen boxes of blue pens”.  I’ve seen this movie dozens of times and that never hit me before.  Assuming a “box” is 20 pens, WTF are they doing with 240 pens?

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Past Lives, a Korean and American film. It's slow and melancholic but also sweet. A nice break from the usual fast paced fare. 

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3:10 to Yuma such a good movie, both Bale and Crowe are outstanding in it. 

They’re excellent but I think Ben Foster almost steals the movie. He’s cooking.
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On 7/9/2025 at 9:49 PM, ztejas said:

Face Off is a good movie but like you said basically nothing else in his catalog is very redeemable. 

Nothing in his American catalog is very redeemable. If you don't like The Killer and Hard Boiled, you don't like two fisted action because those movies still hold up. 

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Next one on the 90s Essentials. Is this inappropriate to watch with your 17 year old child, maybe. I saw it when I was 18. The 4K really shows off a lot of the gory details like the aftermath of Stuck In The Middle With You. The 4K steelbook is fairly amusing.

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Into the Wild. 

I probably would have enjoyed this more when it first came out nearly twenty years ago. Now, as an older person, I was bothered by all the dumbass decisions made by the main character.

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My daughter chose Mitchells vs the Machines for movie night last week.  I love that movie.  Probably my favorite of the recent kid's movies.  It looks great, is really funny and is heartfelt.   

Blank Check podcast just started their Coen brothers series.  I hadn't seen Raising Arizona in a long time, so I fired it up.  I had simply forgotten how great this movie is.  Just so funny and top notch filmmaking.  

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14 hours ago, Stringer said:

 I hadn't seen Raising Arizona in a long time, so I fired it up.  I had simply forgotten how great this movie is.  Just so funny and top notch filmmaking.  

By far my favorite Coen Bros. movie.

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16 hours ago, Stringer said:

My daughter chose Mitchells vs the Machines for movie night last week.  I love that movie.  Probably my favorite of the recent kid's movies.  It looks great, is really funny and is heartfelt.   

Love Mitchells vs the Machines! 

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On 7/16/2025 at 9:09 AM, Stringer said:


They’re excellent but I think Ben Foster almost steals the movie. He’s cooking.

Ben Foster is so underrated...great actor in everything he's in.

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Jesus, Jennifer Lopez was incredibly hot in this movie. I wish she could've stayed this version of J-Lo instead of the crazy version that came later.

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Thoughts? I just finished the book and this is next on my movie list.

It’s a great film although it is clunky and Elliot Gould is such a weirdo you almost fee like you’re uneasily stumbling through it with him. I haven’t read any of the books so don’t know how faithful it is. Marlowe smokes a lot. I dig the theme song, and how Altman weaves it into the movie in a multitude of ways. “This is someone I love” was quite a scene. Cameo towards the end one of the best ever.
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Apologies for the incoming echeese drive-by longcat reply post

On 3/27/2025 at 4:09 PM, Stringer said:

The Handmaiden - This was #24 on The Big Picture's best of the 21st century, so I decided to watch it.  What a wild fucking ride and damn good movie this is. I am by no means a Park Chan-Wook expert, but I have seen Oldboy, so I get the idea.  This is similar in that it is really twisty, sexually charged and depraved.  It is also impeccably made.  The production and direction are top notch.  I really enjoyed it and recommend giving it a look if you're up for a foreign thriller.  I went in blind and would recommend the same for anyone else.

Check out "Stoker

On 4/6/2025 at 8:17 AM, mdmost said:

Double shot for the evening.

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And a Val Kilmer movie I never watched.

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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang rules

On 4/25/2025 at 8:52 AM, Elvis said:

Strange Darling (2023) - IMDb

 

 

I really enjoyed it.  I don't want to say anything about the plot, other than it is great.  If you have a great TV like an OLED then you will really appreciate the colors. 

It popped up on my prime feed.    The trailer said " from the makers of Late Night with the Devil" , which was very good....

 

Late Night with the Devil — IndieLisboa

 

Oh yeah, the Marlin is in a lot of scenes.  It's my favorite looking gun.  

Both of these movies rule

On 4/26/2025 at 9:12 PM, The Original Greaser Bob said:

Conclave was beautiful and dumb.

Conclave ruled until the ending sucked

On 4/28/2025 at 9:32 AM, Gatorubet said:

Near Dark.  A 1980s vampire movie.  Bill Paxton has never really impressed me with his range, but damn was he good as an evil vampire in this flick.

There is a disturbing scene where the vampires visit some rural roadhouse bar.  Does not work out well for the patrons.  Paxton was just fantastic in it.  Not academy award type stuff, but a fun watch.

This has been towards the top of my watch-list for years and I can't find it 

On 5/5/2025 at 11:23 PM, Buzzrock said:

 

Companion. Like a 2 hour Black Mirror episode. Good fun. Supporting cast includes Gizmo from WWDITS. IYKYK. 

When Black Mirror was good..

On 5/25/2025 at 1:51 AM, Lhorn said:

Saw Trap by M Night Shyamalan on a flight.  It’s was the age old story with most of his movies:

1) ”This is pretty good.  I’m intrigued by the premise.”

2) “Ok, this isn’t that good.”

3) “Well that was stupid.”  

This was a vehicle to showcase his daughter. It was dumb, but I didn't hate it 

On 5/30/2025 at 4:18 PM, wutang75 said:

Bring Her Back was intense and terrifying. Back to back horror releases with Sinners is as good as I can remember.

From the directors of Talk to Me. They made a darkweb style page for their movies. Solid horror

https://www.blackangeltapes.net/

On 5/31/2025 at 10:59 PM, Captain Ron said:

Warfare

 

It’s about a mission in Iraq and really odd. The movie really lets you see how war can be, but it kind of felt pointless (you don’t get why they are in the mission). Amazing editing, cinematography and sound. 

This movie ruled

On 6/15/2025 at 11:34 PM, jetsfan76 said:

I just watched a mind fuck of a movie. An Argentinan horror called When Evil Lurks. Check it out asafp.

This was really good, reminded me of Terrified (not to be confused with Terrifier)

On 6/22/2025 at 1:08 PM, Village4853 said:

Today, I saw A Wrinkle in Time. It's excellent. I read the book as a child, but I have no recollection of it. The book was read by the son. The daughter has been pleading because she loves all five of the books.

To put it simply, "See it with your family... on acid" should have been the slogan.

Great book, but movie sucked

On 6/24/2025 at 5:03 PM, Stringer said:

I've been working through the movies of modern Asian masters, so Park Chan-wook, Wong Kar-wai and Bong Joon Ho.  

Park Chan-wook is my guy.  I watched Oldboy years ago and I praised The Handmaiden earlier in this thread.  I got to Lady Vengeance and that movie is so much my shit.  Woman is wrongfully imprisoned and puts together a team of a sort to help her when she gets out to get revenge.  Fun first hour getting her crew together and the second hour is devastating.  Park is clearly a deranged person, but he puts together some incredible movies.

I still have some work to do on Park and Wong Kar-wai (In the Mood for Love, holy shit), but I have finished up Bong (great throughout, Parasite is still tops).  It's been a fun project.  May start an international film thread to discuss more.

Check out Stoker

There's a South Korean movie thread somewhere in here. You should watch Burning, The Wailing, Memories of Murder.. 

On 7/22/2025 at 10:39 AM, RomaVicta said:

Toni Erdman. German film. Amusing and thought provoking. The story does not have the tight arc of American storytelling which gives it room to breathe. Yea, I like it a lot.

 

https://www.tasteofcinema.com/2017/6-reasons-why-toni-erdmann-is-the-best-foreign-language-film-of-2016/#:~:text=One of the elements that,kind of comedy is implied.

This has been towards the top of my watch-list for awhile, just haven't pulled the trigger yet

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Saw a screening of Weapons and it was pretty fucking good. I'm too lazy to find the thread on this, but I will say that it's weirdly funny, creepy, haunting, but better than Barbarian. Cregger might be the next next real deal. 

Went from Whitest Kids U'Know to Wrecked, and now he's all-in on horror, and he's, imo, better at delivery than Peele. I like both, but Get Out seems to be JP's Magnum Opus thus far. 

Anyway, Weapons is worth the watch in theaters. 

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September 5 on Prime.  About the Munich Massacre, but the POV is the ABC crew that covered it as it was breaking.  Other than Peter Sarsgaard (who plays Roone Arledge) and Ben Chaplin, the cast is largely composed of actors I'd never heard of.   Actual footage of the ABC broadcast is woven in, including the iconic Jim McKay announcement that all the hostages had been killed. 

I liked it.  It had some missteps here and there (e.g., a bad Howard Cosell voice imitation), but it was taut and well-paced.    

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