Movies you just saw

[woolybug25]

Big Short is a good movie with great acting, but should not have been nominated for film of the year. Same goes for Mad Max

You're the first person I have heard say this. I have had a tremendous amount of people tell me to see this movie, as it shocked them how good it was. It also has a 97% Rotten Tomatoes rating, which is on par with ratings of some of the best movies out there. Different strokes, I suppose.

 

[BobbyMac]

Going to catch a show tonight. Spotlight or Big Short, what's the better movie? No tasteless jokes please.

This is case 13 Hours is packed. Anyone seen that btw?

 

[calvegas04]

You're the first person I have heard say this. I have had a tremendous amount of people tell me to see this movie, as it shocked them how good it was. It also has a 97% Rotten Tomatoes rating, which is on par with ratings of some of the best movies out there. Different strokes, I suppose.

It is on HBO Go you should check it out the stunts, graphics, props and visuals were all amazing. But the story was lacking big time and there wasn't much acting going on in it due to the lack of dialog in the movie. Like I said it is a good movie but should not be in the movie of the year category IMO

 

[BobbyMac]

You're the first person I have heard say this. I have had a tremendous amount of people tell me to see this movie, as it shocked them how good it was. It also has a 97% Rotten Tomatoes rating, which is on par with ratings of some of the best movies out there. Different strokes, I suppose.

2nd person. It was good but that's all. Totally glad I waited on Redbox.

Half of the original's greatness was the weird factor of being exposed to all those bizzaro British people running around the desert southwest in Ford muscle cars I'd never seen before.

 

[Irishnuke]

You're the first person I have heard say this. I have had a tremendous amount of people tell me to see this movie, as it shocked them how good it was. It also has a 97% Rotten Tomatoes rating, which is on par with ratings of some of the best movies out there. Different strokes, I suppose.

The visual effects were awesome but like others said, there isn't any story and Tom Hardy barely even speaks and isn't a bad ass at all. It was definitely entertaining but I don't feel it's a "movie of the year" candidate, but wtf do I know.

 

[Black Irish]

I finally saw "The Force Awakens." It was really good. I think J.J. Abrams struck a tough balance between being faithful to the original trilogy while also carving out his own take on things. Very well done. As someone who saw all the original series in theaters as a boy, I couldn't ask for much more.

 

[BGIF]

Saw 13 Hours yesterday. Intense film. Reminded me of Black Hawk down without any mission plan, recon helicopters, attack helicopters, active military personnel, humvees, tanks, medics, planning, and a coordinated plan to resolve the situation.

The politics does get downplayed. Pilots scramble from their barracks to provide air cover. Later their planes are shown on the flight line with no personnel in sight. An Army general at AFRICOM is shown but doesn't appear to be doing anything. A CIA command center has a flurry of activity but apparently doesn't put a rescue plan in place. An aerial view of the White House is shown with a voice over that the president was briefed but no shot of the Prez, SECSTATE, NSecurity Advisor, and generals in the Situation Room assessing, planning, and directing any response. And there's a TV newscast in the background reporting a demonstration due to a insulting video. I don't recall SECSTATE being mentioned at all.

Dems alledge the movie implies the film is political atacking Hillary for the lack of support. Meanwhile Republicans show it demonstrates her inaction.

The CIA station chief comes off as a stereotype bureaucrat. At one point telling the armed contingent to stand down on a rescue mission stating they have no authorization and that an incident is not going to take place there with him so close to retirement. He later makes an executive decision to evacuate all the people to Tripoli with no transportation to do so, no plane in place at Tripoli, and no security force to protect a group of CIA analysts that appear for the most part sniveling and unwilling to provide any defense for themselves. The station chief appears to get tough when their site about to be attacked and then a sniveling bureaucrat during the attack.

The G.R.S. is shown as a combination Band of Brothers, Rambo clones, and John McClanes take a beating while dishing it out heavier. They are no doubt heroes as the CIA station personnel survived because of the defense by a few.

Worth the price of admission.

 

[Corry]

Great write up BGIF, I saw it a few days ago and thought it was pretty good. I'm just not much of a Micheal Bay fan, and in typical Bay fashion the movie has its over the top explosions and is a little cheesy at times. I wish the story was told by a different person, because the heroism shown in those 13 hours deserved a better story teller. That may have more to do with my feelings of Bay then the product he made. All and all, its a good movie and worth the price of admission.

 

[connor_in]

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[dublinirish]

13 Hours being described as the worst movie ever made in the media lol, "unwatchable war porn"

It can't be any worse than transformers can it?

 

[Black Irish]

13 Hours being described as the worst movie ever made in the media lol, "unwatchable war porn"

It can't be any worse than transformers can it?

I haven't seen "13 Hours" but I think the movie is going to get unrelentingly bashed by the MSM for 2 basic reasons:

-It's directed by Michael Bay, who aside from being a (shudder) action movie director, also has politics that stray away from the leftist Hollywood dogma

-It tells a story that paints the current presidential administration and the democratic front-runner for 2016 in a negative light

As far as the vast majority of the MSM is concerned, the movie may as well be titled "Big White American Penis Supreme War Heroes Who Eat Red Meat and Drive Gas-Guzzling Muscle Cars." Maybe the movie is good, maybe it's awful, but there was no chance that "13 Hours" is going to get a fair shake based on the story it's telling and who is telling it.

 

[IrishLion]

How was Jim Halpert?

I found it odd that he didn't have any lines in any of the trailers.

 

[dublinirish]

How was Jim Halpert?

I found it odd that he didn't have any lines in any of the trailers.

don't forget Roy Anderson!

 

[IrishLion]

don't forget Roy Anderson!

Ha, sure enough. I can't believe I didn't notice Roy.

 

[#1rish]

Was planning on seeing 13 Hours this weekend, but the snowstorm derailed that. Really looking forward to it. The book was great. Apart from the liberal media, I've heard good things.

Watched Sicario with my fiancee the other night. Solid flick, I'd give it a 3/5. Emily Blunt's character was a complete wuss though.

 

[woolybug25]

Watched Sicario with my fiancee the other night. Solid flick, I'd give it a 3/5. Emily Blunt's character was a complete wuss though.

3 out of 5 is "solid"?

 

[Black Irish]

I watched "SWAT" the other night. This movie never would have been great, but the filmamkers should have recognized what they had. The whole movie should have been like the preview. The bad guy makes his "100 million dollars!" pitch. Then the whole movie is the SWAT team fighting off wave after wave of heavily armed criminals throughout the streets of Los Angeles. That was about 10 minutes of the movie. It should have been 90 minutes of balls to the wall action, instead of the episodic, hacekyned snooze fest it was.

 

[NorthDakota]

Saw the Revenent a few weeks back. I thoroughly enjoyed it.

 

[irishnd31]

I haven't seen "13 Hours" but I think the movie is going to get unrelentingly bashed by the MSM for 2 basic reasons:

-It's directed by Michael Bay, who aside from being a (shudder) action movie director, also has politics that stray away from the leftist Hollywood dogma

-It tells a story that paints the current presidential administration and the democratic front-runner for 2016 in a negative light

As far as the vast majority of the MSM is concerned, the movie may as well be titled "Big White American Penis Supreme War Heroes Who Eat Red Meat and Drive Gas-Guzzling Muscle Cars." Maybe the movie is good, maybe it's awful, but there was no chance that "13 Hours" is going to get a fair shake based on the story it's telling and who is telling it.

You had me at "Big White American penis". Odd, that's the name of my autobiography.

 

[connor_in]

I watched "SWAT" the other night. This movie never would have been great, but the filmamkers should have recognized what they had. The whole movie should have been like the preview. The bad guy makes his "100 million dollars!" pitch. Then the whole movie is the SWAT team fighting off wave after wave of heavily armed criminals throughout the streets of Los Angeles. That was about 10 minutes of the movie. It should have been 90 minutes of balls to the wall action, instead of the episodic, hacekyned snooze fest it was.

Smokin' Aces was a little bit more along the lines you discuss above


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[Black Irish]

I finally saw "Django Unchained." It was good, but far from Tarantino's best. In fact, I'd put "Hateful 8" just above it. I don't think Western is the genre for Tarantino to work in. The truly Tarantinoesque aspects of the movie made it seem like a parody. Parts of the "Django" was like watching "Blazing Saddles" with a lot more blood and guts. There were whole stretches that, while interesting, cold have been eliminated. "Django" came across as too episodic; like a collection of cool scenes that Tarantino thought up and strung them into a movie. Samuel L. Jackson did a hell of a job. It was the first movie in a while where he wasn't playing some slight variation of himself.

 

[#1rish]

Loved 13 Hours. For a situation entangled in politics, Bay did a great job of straying away from it as much as he could without taking away from the actual story.

 

[IrishLion]

I finally saw "Django Unchained." It was good, but far from Tarantino's best. In fact, I'd put "Hateful 8" just above it. I don't think Western is the genre for Tarantino to work in. The truly Tarantinoesque aspects of the movie made it seem like a parody. Parts of the "Django" was like watching "Blazing Saddles" with a lot more blood and guts. There were whole stretches that, while interesting, cold have been eliminated. "Django" came across as too episodic; like a collection of cool scenes that Tarantino thought up and strung them into a movie. Samuel L. Jackson did a hell of a job. It was the first movie in a while where he wasn't playing some slight variation of himself.

I loved Christoph Waltz's character in Django, almost as much as his character in Inglorious Basterds, which was quite a bit.

I do get what you're saying about "Blazing Saddles" though. It went past the normal Tarantino style and was just plain goofy at times. And his appearance as the Australian guy was absolutely terrible. A literal cringe-worthy scene.

 

[zelezo vlk]

Django is a Blaxploitation-Spaghetti Western hybrid. That's why it appears so out of place among the Western genre.

Y'all are right though. Samuel L Jackson steals that movie.

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[connor_in]

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[Irish#1]

You had me at "Big White American penis". Odd, that's the name of my autobiography.

A fictional autobiography, how novel!

 

[Black Irish]

Django is a Blaxploitation-Spaghetti Western hybrid. That's why it appears so out of place among the Western genre.

Y'all are right though. Samuel L Jackson steals that movie.

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I don't think it worked on either level. What was so effective in Sergio Leone's westerns was the long periods of silence broken up by quick bursts of sound and fury. Tarantino can just never let his movie stand still long enough to make that happen. Someone always has to be talking or moving.

 

[irishnd31]

A fictional autobiography, how novel!

 

[zelezo vlk]

I don't think it worked on either level. What was so effective in Sergio Leone's westerns was the long periods of silence broken up by quick bursts of sound and fury. Tarantino can just never let his movie stand still long enough to make that happen. Someone always has to be talking or moving.

Leone of course was not the only director of spaghetti westerns (though he may have been the best). Heck, the movie is named partly after Corbucci's most famous work. Corbucci's movies in particular were violent. You can complain that Tarantino uses too much dialogue, but don't deny Leone and other directors of spaghetti westerns their influence on QT's work. In fact, Samuel L. Jacksons last scene is an homage to the last scene in The Good, The Bad and the Ugly.

I saw Hail Caesar. My first thoughts are that it's too cluttered and ambitious for the amount of screen time. However, it's eminently enjoyable. Who'd have thunk that Clooney would be the weak link in a Coen Brothers film?

 

[Black Irish]

I'm most of the way through the series "The Clone Wars." I know, not a movie, but it's closely related to "Star Wars." I really enjoy it. I like the expanded universe stories but while still keeping on a dedicated narrative track. And the episodes move. No getting bogged down in sanctimonious babble like Episodes 1-3.

Here's a fun little nerdy point of contention. Count Dooku. He's old and experienced and used to be a Jedi, but became a Sith Lord. But, according to Episode 1, there can only be 2 Sith Lords at a one time. So what was Dooku doing when Darth Maul was around? Was he on some Sith waiting list that Darth Sidious had stashed in his robe somewhere?

"Hey, Dooku, baby, how's it going? Yeah, yeah, I got your Sith application right here. Love your resume and qualifications, buddy, but I just don't have a slot right now. Ya see, I got this guy, Darth Maul that I'm really pumped about. Horns, devil face, kick-ass double-ended light saber. This guy is going to have the Jedi just shitting their robes, you feel me? But hey, you know how turnover goes in the Sith game, right Dooku buddy? You're at the top of my sort list with a bullet, baby. Anyway, got to go. I need to go back in front of the Senate and pretend like I give a shit about democracy and liberty. I can't believe those Jedi tools can't even sense that I'm a Sith even when I'm right in front of their stupid faces. It's a good thing you dropped those useless twats and came to the Dark Side. Okay, Dooku, good talk. You just stay evil, baby, and I'll hit you up soon, Sidious out."