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Top Gun: Nice mix of nostalgia and newness. Fan service was done right. Actually had some emotion in parts. A nice, enjoyable compliment to the original movie. Got a little too "Hollywood" near the end but not so much that it wasn't forgivable.
One of the finest films to see in a movie theater in a long ass time. Glad I saw it on the big screen. I see a lot of Maverick in myself.
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I watched Payback (1999, Mel Gibson) last week on Netflix. I forgot how great this movie was.
Nice gritty action film with a good amount of comedy, as Mel gets payback on a bunch of bad guys, from who he wants to get back his 70k cut they ripped off from him.
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I watched Payback (1999, Mel Gibson) last week on Netflix. I forgot how great this movie was.
Nice gritty action film with a good amount of comedy, as Mel gets payback on a bunch of bad guys, from who he wants to get back his 70k cut they ripped off from him.
This is one of my favorite Gibson films for that reason. I also read the novels that the character was based on. Avoid the Jason Statham movie Parker. They are playing the same character but that one stinks.
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Never heard of Rolling Thunder.
Speaking of Playback, I added that to my list months ago when you mentioned it but haven't got around to watching it. I should move it up my list although I've been watching more new(er) movies lately.
The Ides of March - Great political movie with Clooney, Gosling, and Hoffman. Only issue I had with it is the ending. Any movie about a presidential election should have to go the distance...even if you have to squeeze it into the final minutes.
The Vanished - Hearing the news about Anne Heche caused me to look her up. Out of the movies listed, this one had potential even with the shitty reviews.
The reviews were right...there was potential here for a great film and it starts out fine...couple takes daughter camping and she goes missing...but it quickly goes off the rails. Murders start happening and you can longer suspend disbelief. I also rolled my eyes at the twist although you see it coming minutes before they unveil it.
She did a great job as the bat shit crazy mother.
Stowaway (2022) - This was ok...girl inherits yacht from her dad, stays on the boat for a hookup, and robbers steal the boat while they're asleep. It does get ridiculous after awhile but it's serviceable for what it is. I liked Ruby Rose in this.
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Private Benjamin - This was pretty good but it loses all steam when basic training ends and she goes to France.
The Rainmaker - This is now my favorite Grisham movie. Great from start to finish...and I wasn't expecting it to be a borderline comedy. Devito was amazing in this. Easily one of his best roles.
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I remember when I was younger if a movie had some type of flaw it was shit. A bit like girls I suppose, there was only a handful in the whole school that were good enough for a pimply teenage boy.
Watching Prometheus which I used to hate I realized there is much to like in that movie. Compared to a movie like the Avengers where there is nothing great just mediocre and bad, a movie like Prometheus has a lot going for it. The David character and Fassbender is probably worth the price of admission alone. Then you have the overall quality of a Ridley Scott production and the pretty decent acting from Noomi Rapace. Also all the characters you hate end up getting killed, another plus.
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The Rainmaker - This is now my favorite Grisham movie. Great from start to finish...and I wasn't expecting it to be a borderline comedy. Devito was amazing in this. Easily one of his best roles.
I need to watch this one. It's one of the few Grisham's I haven't seen.
Walking The Edge--could have been great. Instead it's just good. Early 80s explotation film set in LA. Has a 70s "feel" outside of the soundtrack. Generic plot. But you're watching it Robert Forester's performance anyway. And he's great in it. It just this lull in the middle before it hits the finish where it drags down the movie.
The Last Days of Disco. 90s movie Beckinsale did before she became a superstar. I'd seen this once a few years ago. On second viewing, this is really funny. I liked Chloe Sevigny more than Beckinsale though. It's got some Woody Allenish qualities to it. But it deals with shallow post college preppies in the early 80s where Allen's films seem to deal with older characters. Not for everyone, as his (Whit Stillman's films) films are dialogue heavy.
Bullet Train: I went to the theater for the first time in years to see this. And it was pretty fun. Not realistic so it's definitely a shut off your brain film. You go in there, have fun and waste 2 hours and avoid the sun and just relax. Summer film which delivers on that front. Can't complain. I liked the film adaption of the novel better than the novel itself which is rare. They streamlined a lot of the plots which was nice
Up in the Air: speaking of George Clooney, this one is great on rewatch. I think it's more appropriate now than when I saw it whenever it was released. I think Clooney works best as some smart aleck, suave kind of leading man role (ie Ocean's 11 stuff) like he does here. I don't really buy him in any other type of role when he plays a lead. Anyway, the film is about how empty his life is and how he tries to fill it by nabbing frequent flyer miles (kinda obsolete now). Anna Kendrick almost steals the film from him as she is great and my favorite character in the film. She's human and shows emotion unlike the Clooney character.
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You should definitely watch it. Had I known it was that good I wouldn't have waited 20 years.
I Smile Back - The review I read was spot on...Sarah Silverman gives the performance of her life but the quality of the film itself does not live up to it.
She's an alcoholic and drug addict having an affair... married with two kids. Absolutely nothing in the film gets resolved...the affair, relationship with husband on thin ice, her dysfunctional relationship with father, her son's issues, her addictions....no closure.
Kings - A Halle Berry movie set during the LA riots in 92. A complete waste of time. They didn't know what to do with the story...and I'm surprised her or Daniel Craig signed on to this.
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X - This is TCM Redux with porn. The intro and setup is virtually a carbon copy of TCM...they even go to the little store and drive a van.
The sex shit went a tad too far....her wiping the cum off her thigh and throwing the towel towards the other girl was completely unnecessary. They know a lot of kids love watching horror movies.
Around 50-60 minutes in, once the sex shit fades away and the story really kicks in...it gets really good. I gotta give em props for an unconventional motive for the murders. I thought it was religious fanatics killing them due to the porn...it's a bit more than that.
I really hated the conversation the group has about porn acceptance, sex, and love. This is supposed to be the late 70s...it sounds like what young people today would say on these topics. People in the 70s... including porn stars...knew how skeevy this shit was. People weren't "woke" back then about mainstreaming porn and loving a guy/girl while fucking tons of guys and this being acceptable.
Props for a killer soundtrack. Loved hearing Pablo Cruise in the beginning.
While I liked the second half, I don't think it deserves its 95% rating...and a prequel to this story is coming.
They/Them - This is a huge clusterfuck. I hate how Bacon wasted the buzz of him being in a slasher on this tripe.
First off....it's not a slasher. The writer/director outwoked himself. You can't have a slasher when you refuse to kill any of the campers because they're black, gay, trans, and non-binary.
Imagine Jason, Michael, or Freddy not killing the teens and only focusing on the few adults in the movie.
Absurd.
He should've at least threw in a few straight campers(as volunteers?) to kill so it might appear like there's a risk to their lives.
The killer reveal was absurd. I almost turned it off right then.
Other than creating a woke horror film, there's no point to this story. The gay/trans community hates this movie too.
It was also way too predictable. When they first get to the camp, I correctly predicted the following....
I also didn't like how they ignored some of the campers and focused on a specific group. When they briefly showed that fat girl, I had already forgot she was in the movie.
This is definitely in my "never watch again" category.
Gonna watch some Anne Heche movies tonight.
