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[GATTACA!]

My wife wants to see Maverick this weekend. I don't want to see it.
I'll be seeing Maverick this weekend. All 2 hours and 12 minutes of it

It’s incredible. Don’t worry.

 

[Irish#1]

My wife wants to see Maverick this weekend. I don't want to see it.
I'll be seeing Maverick this weekend. All 2 hours and 12 minutes of it

I love James Garner as Maverick.

Saw Nightmare Alley. I think I hated it? I called the "twist/ironic" ending about 30 minutes in, but it was more of a "Oh no, they're not going to have him end up *spoiler omitted* are they? I hope not. That would be really stupid and obvious."

Also the morality of the movie was all over the place. On the one hand, all the carnies all talk about how immoral it is to do a "spook show" as a mentalist. The movie's message makes them out to be mostly good people who are wise to have this rule. But these same carnies also just accept that their camp routinely picks up drunk hobos, get them addicted to opium without their knowledge, and then use the addiction to force the hobo to live like a caged animal for a freak show. The movie is so focused on judging Bradley Cooper's character for being a shady conman that it totally misses that every "good" character in the movie is implicitly ok with the war crime happening in their camp. It all just felt very contrived.

I enjoyed it.

I think the underlying thought is, all carnies are shady.

 

[greyhammer90]

I love James Garner as Maverick.

Confession time, until you made this joke, I genuinely thought that the talk of Maverick on this thread was people talking about rewatching the 90s Mel Gibson movie.

 

[Irish#1]

Confession time, until you made this joke, I genuinely thought that the talk of Maverick on this thread was people talking about rewatching the 90s Mel Gibson movie.

I grew up watching Garner as Maverick. One of my favorite actors. I was happy to see him in the remake with Gibson. A little known fact for you youngins. Garner drove race cars on the side. Met him at the Indy 500 back in the early 70's. Women hanging all over him.

 

[irishnd31]

Women hanging all over him.

I know the feeling...

 

[greyhammer90]

I grew up watching Garner as Maverick. One of my favorite actors. I was happy to see him in the remake with Gibson. A little known fact for you youngins. Garner drove race cars on the side. Met him at the Indy 500 back in the early 70's. Women hanging all over him.

Support Your Local Sherriff is also a classic.

 

[IrishLion]

For real though, Top Gun: Maverick is incredible. They could have eliminated the [admittedly minor] romantic plot line and inserted another 10-15 minutes of badass air combat, but that's my only note. And to be fair, the romantic plot line DID advance some of the later plot for Captain Mitchell that seemed necessary. Gave some weight to later developments.

It was so good that my wife loved it and said we should see it a second time... and she was predisposed to not like it. In college, the original Top Gun was my go-to movie for after the bar. We'd fall asleep [pass out] with the movie playing, and then wake up at some point around 4:30-5am with the menu music playing on a constant 10-second loop. It was obnoxiously loud, and included just a 10-second riff of the 'Danger Zone' guitar. It was the most annoying thing to wake up to with a hangover, and she still rags on me for that.

Top Gun: Maverick helped heal that old wound.

 

[ACamp1900]

 

[Bishop2b5]

I watched The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo this week. Not at all what I expected. This was one of the best whodunit movies I've seen in years. Great cast and script.

 

[GATTACA!]

I watched The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo this week. Not at all what I expected. This was one of the best whodunit movies I've seen in years. Great cast and script.

David Fincher doesn’t miss.

 

[PutuporShutup]

I watched The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo this week. Not at all what I expected. This was one of the best whodunit movies I've seen in years. Great cast and script.

Books are amazing, why haven’t they done the next two confuses me

 

[GoldenAura]

I watched The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo this week. Not at all what I expected. This was one of the best whodunit movies I've seen in years. Great cast and script.

I'm still upset Fincher would not (or could not) finish the series. It was very good.

 

[Some Irish Bloke]

I watched The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo this week. Not at all what I expected. This was one of the best whodunit movies I've seen in years. Great cast and script.

Books are amazing, why haven’t they done the next two confuses me

It was a great movie, the book (which is usually the case) was even better.

Agreed, Millennium Series are great books; there's six total. Could tell a slight difference in the writing style of David Lagercrantz after Stieg Larsson passed away after the third book, but he stuck to Larsson's notes so I felt like he remained true to the story/characters.

 

[laughingirish90]

don't know if been talked about in this thread but just watched a movie early this week that made me say what the hell did i just watch and that movie is called tenet. i've heard other people elsewhere saying that you have to watch it two or three times to get what the movie is about and they are right as i'll have to watch it again soon so i can get a better understanding of what i saw. not a bad movie at all and has a ton of action right from the start but it'll be a better movie once i figure why certain things are happening in it

 

[Jimmy3Putt]

Took my boy to see Thor. He liked it, but I didn’t.
A lot like Thor 3, but worse in every way. I found myself not caring about any of the characters and almost every joke missed.

Very worrisome for me. Marvel needs a big reboot.

 

[Irish du Nord]

Took my boy to see Thor. He liked it, but I didn’t.
A lot like Thor 3, but worse in every way. I found myself not caring about any of the characters and almost every joke missed.

Very worrisome for me. Marvel needs a big reboot.

I haven't seen it yet, but the latest Dr. Strange was brutal imo. MCU Phase 4 has been a mixed bag to me. I get it's hard to transition away from the old standbys but Eternals, Black Widow, and the latest Dr. Strange all seem like they shot themselves in the foot with bad writing.

 

[NDisme]

Yep phase 4 has been less than stellar to say the least. Thought Christian Bale was good in Thor but not good enough to save the film

 

[calvegas04]

Once the OG Marvel characters are gone I'm not sure how Marvel will stay relevant. I would assume they would reboot the series in 10 years.

 

[ACamp1900]

I know I’m an outlier here but how any of those movies keep making money is beyond me,… they’re all the same mess over and over,.. I can’t think of one I thought was so good it demanded another film

 

[Jimmy3Putt]

Master of Kung Fu was a money grab to try and capitalize on another foreign market.

There’s still plenty of heavy hitters they can start a new saga with. Get organized and start a Dr Doom build up or even Galactus.
Fantastic Four if done right could be the greatest sci-fi trilogy ever.

The constant one upping each other for jokes is getting old. Add a little DC serious

 

[IrishLion]

Master of Kung Fu was a money grab to try and capitalize on another foreign market.

There’s still plenty of heavy hitters they can start a new saga with. Get organized and start a Dr Doom build up or even Galactus.
Fantastic Four if done right could be the greatest sci-fi trilogy ever.

The constant one upping each other for jokes is getting old. Add a little DC serious

I actually really like Shang-Chi lol.

The family dynamic was unique in a Marvel sort of way, and the way they used different locations felt like a refresher. I thought it was a good change up from the usual formula.

 

[Some Irish Bloke]

I know I’m an outlier here but how any of those movies keep making money is beyond me,… they’re all the same mess over and over,.. I can’t think of one I thought was so good it demanded another film

I agree; I'm indifferent to them. My fiancé is obsessed with MCU, but I just love going to the movies so I tag along.

I'm hardly a comic book critic but at this point the stories are so damn repetitive I just don't get the draw anymore. I really lost interest after Endgame.

 

[laughingirish90]

to me it seems like marvel started going down after the avengers movies ended. seems like dr strange 2 and the new thor movies are flops at the box office right now

 

[calvegas04]

to me it seems like marvel started going down after the avengers movies ended. seems like dr strange 2 and the new thor movies are flops at the box office right now

??? Those opened up with $143m in it's first weekend domestically. It is the largest opening weekend for any Thor movie. How is that a flop?

 

[laughingirish90]

??? Those opened up with $143m in it's first weekend domestically. It is the largest opening weekend for any Thor movie. How is that a flop?

i didn't look at the numbers but had several marvel fans i know go and see it and hated it along with
many on social media and so i just figured it was a box office flop

 

[Irish#1]

Watched Gasoline Alley with Bruce Willis, Luke Wilson and Devon Sawa. Storyline had the potential to be really good, but fell short in so many ways.

 

[Bishop2b5]

This past week, my 11-year-old daughter and I watched Gone With The Wind over the course of a couple of days. We stopped several times throughout the movie so I could explain the historical context, what was going on, and etc. She loved the movie except for some of the overly dramatic acting (especially from Leslie Howard) and was particularly interested in the burning of Atlanta and what that was about & why.

Yesterday we were driving and passed a series of grass fires along a stretch of highway. My daughter takes a lot of pride in being funny. As I was speculating about the fires, she said, "I bet the Yankees came back and set them."

I know the movie's a classic and is almost 85 years old, so you can't really judge it by today's standards, but some of the acting was over the top for even that era. Too much English stage over-acting and ridiculous melodrama even for 1939. Too many bad, phony southern accents from some (I actually thought Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable did good jobs in that department). Gable and Hattie McDaniel both had acting chops and tore their parts up.

 

[Sea Turtle]

Has anybody seen Nope?

 

[Guyjin37]

I vote Jurassic World Dominion as the dumbest movie since Prometheus. Wow, what a waste of everybody's time.

 

[laughingirish90]

just saw the new doctor strange 2 movie on disney+ and it wasn't very good compared to the first one