Movies you just saw

[zelezo vlk]

I saw one of the biggest piece of trash movies I've ever seen yesterday. Dragon Blade or something like that with Jackie Chan and John Cusack

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using Tapatalk

 

[connor_in]

I saw one of the biggest piece of trash movies I've ever seen yesterday. Dragon Blade or something like that with Jackie Chan and John Cusack

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using Tapatalk

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lwMlpp8GIAI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>


Saw that one too (big Jackie Chan fan), was horribly disappointed. Cusack & Brody looked like they were saying their lines for the first time after seeing them just before the cameras rolled.

 

[zelezo vlk]

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/lwMlpp8GIAI" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>


Saw that one too (big Jackie Chan fan), was horribly disappointed. Cusack & Brody looked like they were saying their lines for the first time after seeing them just before the cameras rolled.

It was laughably bad, so enjoyable in that sense. But terrible.

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using Tapatalk

 

[BGIF]

Brendan has evolved. He's now the mummy.

Haha, nice. I think he'd be better as The Mummy. Tom Cruise would be a decent Dracula. I can see him sneaking into women's bedrooms late at night trying to suck their blood and seduce them into Sciento..., ahem, becoming a vampire.

Well he's played a stiff for years.

 

[Irish#1]

Rounders - quality flick. The last game of poker felt a little weird, like they wanted to avoid making things about one big, climactic hand, but then still ended up making it about a big, climactic hand. Overall, it was really enjoyable, though. I also would have beaten Ed Norton's ass if I were Matt Damon, after the whole fiasco where he came in and ruined his straight run against the cops.

Independence Day: Resurgence - Total butt. Dialogue was terrible, acting from actors that usually aren't bad was terrible (probably because of the dialogue), they didn't give nearly enough shine to the story of Will Smith's son, comedic timing was terrible... I could have lived with all of that as long as the action/resolution was okay, like in the first movie, which is a wonderful majestic masterpiece. But even the action in this movie was just meh, even with 20 years of special effects and story writing in their back pocket. Also didn't like the obvious (moneygrab) hint at a sequel with the planet of survivors from other species, learning how to combat the evil aliens.

It's rare a sequel equals the original and you are correct. This was a very bad movie.

 

[ACamp1900]

Saw Wonder Woman... it was the first comic book movie that I could sit through without feeling insulted since Dark Knight. I'll give it that much.

 

[IrishLion]

Saw Wonder Woman... it was the first comic book movie that I could sit through without feeling insulted since Dark Knight. I'll give it that much.

That is a tremendously glowing review from you.

It will likely be the best of all the hero movies, if that's the case.

 

[Black Irish]

Rounders - quality flick. The last game of poker felt a little weird, like they wanted to avoid making things about one big, climactic hand, but then still ended up making it about a big, climactic hand. Overall, it was really enjoyable, though. I also would have beaten Ed Norton's ass if I were Matt Damon, after the whole fiasco where he came in and ruined his straight run against the cops.

Independence Day: Resurgence - Total butt. Dialogue was terrible, acting from actors that usually aren't bad was terrible (probably because of the dialogue), they didn't give nearly enough shine to the story of Will Smith's son, comedic timing was terrible... I could have lived with all of that as long as the action/resolution was okay, like in the first movie, which is a wonderful majestic masterpiece. But even the action in this movie was just meh, even with 20 years of special effects and story writing in their back pocket. Also didn't like the obvious (moneygrab) hint at a sequel with the planet of survivors from other species, learning how to combat the evil aliens.

I appreciated "Rounders" more after I started playing poker. But I agree that the final hand seems a little too pat. It would have been better if they showed what Teddy KGB was holding. I guess we were supposed to assume it was the reverse of the opening big hand where Damon lost it all. Teddy flopped big, Damon flopped bigger, and Damon reeled Teddy in playing passive and got all the chips. It felt a bit rushed, like they were just trying to get it over with and give Damon the money. No drama to it.

 

[philipm31]

Typically a comic book movie, if it has anything to do with history, it almost never ever uses it as the actual setting with actual people from that time.

Wonder Woman is the best CBM I have seen in that area. Clearly a fantasy movie, but it actually integrated World War I into the entire movie, even using General Luddendorff, who was a real WWI German General as not a side character, but as a main role.

It was the best melding of Comics and History that I have seen onscreen in ages.

AND

It was just an amazing flick overall. Not just for a CBM either, but a movie in general. Beats every CBM I have seen in the last five years in a movie theater, by a mile.

 

[Fissa]

I just recently watched 'The Mummy". The movie is fine. I like the plot and the lead actor. lol

 

[gkIrish]

I also greatly enjoyed Wonder Woman. It felt like a Marvel Origins movie which DC usually is incapable of accomplishing.

 

[Fissa]

Wonder Woman seems interesting, but not as much as the other movies I saw.

 

[NDbrbkny]

I also watched the Arnold movie that was based on a russian plane crash where the father killed the ATC guy it was pretty ok

and i agree about ID Resurgence i preferred the original

 

[Black Irish]

I also watched the Arnold movie that was based on a russian plane crash where the father killed the ATC guy it was pretty ok

and i agree about ID Resurgence i preferred the original

What Arnold movie are you talking about? Is this recent? I've seen almost all of Ah-nuld's flicks and this doesn't sound familiar at all.

 

[woolybug25]

What Arnold movie are you talking about? Is this recent? I've seen almost all of Ah-nuld's flicks and this doesn't sound familiar at all.

He's talking about Aftermath.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aftermath_(2017_film)

 

[connor_in]

Daniel Day-Lewis Quits Acting: Oscar-Winner Leaving Hollywood | Variety

 

[philipm31]

I also greatly enjoyed Wonder Woman. It felt like a Marvel Origins movie which DC usually is incapable of accomplishing.

It felt NOTHING like a Marvel movie which is why I loved it and I think why ACamp said he did not feel insulted by it.

I love Marvel movies but they are all the same formula. The only movie that has really deviated from the formula is Winter Soldier, which is why it is the best best MCU movie ever made.

DC just takes more chances and this was their biggest yet, and it has paid off bigger than anything Marvel has done, to date.

Plus, as a person that loves historical fiction, this movie mixed that together so much more believably than any other comic book movie. The only origin movie that Marvel has ever done what a piece of crap. Wonder Woman was far far better than that.

 

[GATTACA!]

AVOID THE NEW TRANSFORMERS MOVIE AT ALL COSTS.

Holy shit it was so terrible. I'm just gonna copy and paste what I wrote about it somewhere else.

This was atrocious!
Holy shit I don't even know where to begin. 90 minutes of character introductions. That first 15 minutes of introducing a bunch of little kids? Pointless. They could be cut from the entire film and nothing would be missed. Good luck if you haven't seen the first four movies because about an hour in your thrown a whole group of robots that you're somehow supposed to know.
Marky Mark's character is a boring bland action man. He's like Tom Cruise with a Boston accent. They try and give him a storyline with his daughter that had one of the dumbest conclusions i've ever seen. He's only able to call her for 15 seconds every so often and he can only listen. So before going into the final battle he borrows one of the army guys cell phones as the world is ending and TEXTS her "Look up in the sky. I'm up here protecting you " Yes you read that right. Instead of calling her, because at this point the planet is about to explode or he is at least going to die, he texts his daughter and ends it with two smiley emojis.
The movie is a nightmare to watch. People saying the visuals are amazing are either 12 or partially blind. The entire "film" is shot in a ridiculous combination of closeups and shaky cam. The budget for tripods must have been $0 because I seriously don't think there was a single locked down shot in the whole movie. So now you have almost every cut being some type of pan or zoom with shaky cam on top. Everything is too close and claustrophobic. On top of all of that as if that wasn't bad enough, for the ENTIRE movie the aspect ratio is constantly changing!! It's the most baffling thing i've ever seen. This is a 260 million dollar movie and they couldn't be bothered to make every shot a uniform aspect ratio?? I had to get up and use the bathroom at one point I was getting so nauseated, and I don't get nauseated in movies ever. I think I can only recall that happening to me two other times (As Above, So Below and Patriots Day)
So many dumb or pointless characters. What was the point of John Turturro's character? I just walked out of the movie and I can't remember. How about Stanley Tucci as Merlin? Trying to set the dramatic tone for the film and he's cracking jokes with the intergalactic 50 foot robot that would change everything you know about the world. As I mentioned all the children are pointless. How about Tony Hale. A NASA scientist that's trying to tell the president that the earth will be destroyed in 3 days is being laughed at.
I could just keep going. Everything about this movie was horrible. 1/10. The only reason it gets a 1 is for Laura Haddock's first outfit. Dayum why did none of my professors ever look like that??

 

[BGIF]

Daniel Day-Lewis Quits Acting: Oscar-Winner Leaving Hollywood | Variety

Sad. The finest actor of our time.

It's been more than 20 years since I first saw him in The Crucible. I still feel John Proctor's anguish when he exclaimed,

Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them you have hanged! How may I live without my name? I have given you my soul; leave me my name!

He should have won more Oscars. When Bill The Butcher spoke ... or just glared, you felt his knife surgically slicing through flesh. Some of Bill's best lines were delivered through Day-Lewis's eyes.

 

[woolybug25]

Sad. The finest actor of our time.

It's been more than 20 years since I first saw him in The Crucible. I still feel John Proctor's anguish when he exclaimed,




He should have won more Oscars. When Bill The Butcher spoke ... or just glared, you felt his knife surgically slicing through flesh. Some of Bill's best lines were delivered through Day-Lewis's eyes.

Totally agree. A massive loss to cinema, but one aptly earned. Not only is he the greatest actor of our time, but film students will study his method acting for generations. But years of putting himself in character have probably taken its toll. He's spoken of this on many occasions. This is a man that put glass in his shoes so his limp in Slingblade was real. He got pneumonia living in a shack when he was in character as the butcher. Maybe 30+ years of literally living as the character he's playing has made him want to simply play the role of himself for a while. Which is understandable, albeit incredibly sad.

 

[greyhammer90]

Totally agree. A massive loss to cinema, but one aptly earned. Not only is he the greatest actor of our time, but film students will study his method acting for generations. But years of putting himself in character have probably taken its toll. He's spoken of this on many occasions. This is a man that put glass in his shoes so his limp in Slingblade was real. He got pneumonia living in a shack when he was in character as the butcher. Maybe 30+ years of literally living as the character he's playing has made him want to simply play the role of himself for a while. Which is understandable, albeit incredibly sad.

I love Daniel Day Lewis, There Will Be Blood is the greatest acting showcase I've ever seen, but when I think of the torture he put himself through I can't help but think of the question Sir Lawrence Olivier asked Dustin Hoffman when Hoffman bragged about staying up for 72 hours to achieve the raw emotion to match his character:

"My dear boy, why don’t you just try acting?'"

 

[IrishLion]

AVOID THE NEW TRANSFORMERS MOVIE AT ALL COSTS.

Holy shit it was so terrible. I'm just gonna copy and paste what I wrote about it somewhere else.

Gonna be honest, I have no sympathy for you if you willingly went to check this one out after the last atrocity they released lol.

I remember the last one, Age of Extinction, was about 45 minutes too long (really, it was "the whole running time" too long). There was a point where Optimus tamed the wild, prehistoric dinosaur bots, and then I was sitting there in the theater like "cool, where's the credits? Oh wait, there's more plot to resolve. What was it again?"

I literally could NOT remember what the main plot to be resolved was. It was the worst movie I've ever seen. And I'm easily entertained by movies. Even after a terrible movie, I at least feel fulfilled in the sense that I can laugh about it or dissect it.

I got zero joy from Age of Extinction, and have no plans to try this new one.

 

[Black Irish]

I love Daniel Day Lewis, There Will Be Blood is the greatest acting showcase I've ever seen, but when I think of the torture he put himself through I can't help but think of the question Sir Lawrence Olivier asked Dustin Hoffman when Hoffman bragged about staying up for 72 hours to achieve the raw emotion to match his character:

"My dear boy, why don’t you just try acting?'"

You can't argue with the quality of Day-Lewis' work, but one does have to question at what point his method acting stops helping his performance and becomes an exercise in artistic self-indulgence. Considering how naturally talented Daniel Day-Lewis obviously is, he could probably turn out brilliant performances if he stepped out of a limo full of hookers and blow, read his lines, and go back to movie star debauchery.

 

[zelezo vlk]

Honestly it's not too surprising that DDL is retiring. He wanted to take a very long break after Lincoln and I figured that meant Lewis has only a couple of pictures left.

 

[woolybug25]

You can't argue with the quality of Day-Lewis' work, but one does have to question at what point his method acting stops helping his performance and becomes an exercise in artistic self-indulgence. Considering how naturally talented Daniel Day-Lewis obviously is, he could probably turn out brilliant performances if he stepped out of a limo full of hookers and blow, read his lines, and go back to movie star debauchery.

I disagree. The thing that makes DDL's performances so great is that they are real. They aren't "acted so well they seem real", they are in fact real. He doesn't break character when he is doing a movie. Not on set, not at home, not ever.

Because of that, he actually "becomes" the character. He doesn't miss any ticks or subtleties because they aren't any in one's natural setting. While I'm sure there are many actors that play the method acting card when they don't need to, DDL is not one of them. I am fully confident that he could not have done the performances he has done without sticking to his method. He would have done them well, sure... but "acting well" is not the legacy that DDL left us. He is leaving the industry as the greatest actor of our time.

 

[ACamp1900]

Didn't Anthony Hopkins and Joaquin Phoenix also "retire" or some such at one point?

 

[zelezo vlk]

Didn't Anthony Hopkins and Joaquin Phoenix also "retire" or some such at one point?

The Joaquin thing was all for a project.

 

[Black Irish]

I disagree. The thing that makes DDL's performances so great is that they are real. They aren't "acted so well they seem real", they are in fact real. He doesn't break character when he is doing a movie. Not on set, not at home, not ever.

Because of that, he actually "becomes" the character. He doesn't miss any ticks or subtleties because they aren't any in one's natural setting. While I'm sure there are many actors that play the method acting card when they don't need to, DDL is not one of them. I am fully confident that he could not have done the performances he has done without sticking to his method. He would have done them well, sure... but "acting well" is not the legacy that DDL left us. He is leaving the industry as the greatest actor of our time.

What you say goes to the Olivier quote: DDL isn't really acting. If he isn't "acting well" then how can he be the greatest actor of our time? And I doubt the audience would know the difference if he wasn't so committed to his method. People hear about DDL and his extreme method acting so we read more into the results. DDL is also very selective about his projects. He doesn't do many movies and almost all of his work is in highbrow drama working with quality directors. Other actors give extraordinary performances without resorting to the DDL method. I think DDL is a great actor, one of the greats of all time. If he needs that process, fine, but I still think it's self-indulgent and overdone. All the method in the world isn't going to work if someone isn't already a phenomenally talented actor.

 

[NorthDakota]

Stanford Prison Experiment was lit. Highly recommend.

 

[Irish#1]

The Postman Always Rings Twice will be on TCM Tuesday at noon. John Garfield and Lana Turner are great in the original. Highly recommend it.