Ideal Home - Absolutely wonderful.

Don't say that; I have a ticket to see it tomorrow.

I thought it was disgraceful.

Blue Valentine - Heart wrenching

Solid performances by both, Williams and Gosling.

The Nun 6/10

All foreign language films suck. They all get 0/7

Moviepass #90 Peppermint 8/10 Jennifer Garner vs Mexican Tom Selleck was what the Death Wish remake should have been.

So they're trying to make Jennifer Garner into an action hero again eh?

A Dark Song - Beautiful.

I personally loved the Orphan. Was sad as shit tho.

Ps I'm also Mexican so maybe that's why...

It was too obviously emotionally manipulative for my tastes. I also find it hard to sympathise with terrible parenting.

Spoiler

Operation Finale - 2.5/5

Asylum (1972) on Prime - 3.5/5

Asylum is a Amicus Productions film which is a fantastic old production company of English horror films. As titled, set in an Asylum where a new doctor has been called to interview for a replacement of the current head doctor who has fallen... erm... ill. The new Doctor is tasked with going to the insane ward to meet 4 or 5 different patients to make an educated guess as to which one is the "sick doctor". An anthology film which is really fantastic and holds up with it's age.

The Conjuring 7/10

I have picked up two Coen Brothers films I hadn't seen yet.

"The Man Who Wasn't There" and "A Serious Man".
I confess to having seen a bit of "A Serious Man" before as a boozer but I remember very little.

I will resume my reviews after tonight's viewing, Gentlemen. I thank you for your patience in what has been a shit filled last four weeks.

Billy Bob Thornton is an all time great as both a writer and an actor and Michael Stuhlbarg is one of the most talented jobbing actors turned main cast'er I've seen since San Rockwell or Ben Foster.

I have "A Serious Man" in "my list" but never got around to watching it. Too much content out there. Do you rent these titles, Seanny?

I buy them for my collection.

I own over 3,000 DVD's as far as I know. I'm too scared to count them.

How do you store them? Pics or it doesn't exist

Ok doke, pics after "Joe" finishes.

My DVD collection:



The first four pictures are of the same two DVD racks from different angles. I had to stand on my couch because the one to the right is so tall. Has to be over seven feet.

I can't show you the ones in my attic because it's 2am and I live in a semi detached.

The DVD racks/stands are double deep and yes the one on the left is visibly sagging under the weight of 70% of my comedy collection.

Damn!

Guru Dave gonna die when he sees all that!
That is a lot of DVDs!

Yogi Berra Easter egg

I am well prepared for any eyebrow raising s over my DVD collection. The O.C is clearly visible as is Little Britain and The Only Way Is Essex...

I bought boxes in auctions. A lot hit the bin but I dunno, Amy Childs has a nice voice and The O.C reminds me of my adolescent hungover Sundays.

10 points if you guess the action figures

Dave I shoved some VCD's in next to the Blu Rays

I noticed The O.C

You would have won over a lot of posters with that back in 2015

I see The Joker and what looks like maybe Stone Cold Steve Austin.... but is maybe only Justin Credible

Ghostbusters/Evolution seems like a weird two-pack. Why put those movies together?

Ivan Reitman

Goldberg. There's a battle arm to go with it.

I retract my post.

I had three copies of Ghostbusters but now I only have two. I still prefer the new one with the women.

Bill Murray's best film is Meatballs followed immediately by Broken Flowers, St Vincent and everything he ever did with Wes Anderson.

Thanks for not mocking my purple curtains

Joe is a beautiful film. It's another I cannot review for having seen it before but my God do I love it as an abstract piece of morality.

Hot dang, Seanny One Ball! And here I am crying over reducing my collection. That's quite impressive.

It looked better when it covered the window. It was a full wall of DVD's, but the shelving unit warped under the weight and only these two remain. Both are now double deep with heavier shelving but the comedy section is definitely collapsing soon. I have spare shelves but I sort of want it to crack first.

Yikes. That would certainly make me very anxious. Here's what remains of my collection.

Two things Dave:

1. In context, that is the saddest thing I have ever seen.
2. Mine was always going to be bigger so showing me yours was unnecessary.

I love you mate but fuck your shit excuse for a collection.

I hate your DVD's

lol...I felt the need to share. Of course, it's not going to hold a candle to yours. But I am quite proud of it :)

While I'm glad you got the joke, I am sceptical to the concept of pride in a collection that small.

I keep a lot of questionable shit in my collection but the quality is just sky high in the majority.
My foreign film collection is bigger than your entire collection. I would be very upset to lose a copy of even my lowest ranked in "the collection". The attic DVD's and a few of the right hand second layer top deck are my most hated but I still need to keep them in case someday they make sense to me and I love them.

I have this idea that when I hit a certain number of DVD's I will literally be able to start watching my collection on January 1st and finish on Dec 31st some year.

This logically will never happen and I often give away crates of movies so I can justify buying more but I ain't far off my goal. I could do it faster but I need the space.

It's all that remains, my friend. I am pretty sure I will get rid of some titles in the near future. I do have pride in some of the titles. Especially some of the steelbook and alternative artwork variants. As much as I hate to admit it, I find myself quite content with digital. iTunes and Netflix seem to fulfill my needs for now.

lol @ the foreign film collection comment. I don't think I have the will to maintain such a large collection. It is also the reason why I sold my entire vinyl collection. I am happy with my small collection of favorites and some oddball titles here and there.

I wouldn't call 50 DVD's a collection.

I'd call it half a crate

In terms of loving film, nobody ever needs to own one.
I just feel better when I do.

I was mostly pulling your leg there. Mostly.

:'(

Lions for Lambs 7/10

These things matter

The Predator - 5/10

Not a good Predator movie. Not a good Shane Black movie. Hokey idea to update The Predator and cliches actually make it feel out-of-date, and not in the 'I love nostalgia' type way.

I thought the trailer looked dodgy

You know how 'Hulk Dogs' didn't turn out to be a real good concept in Ang Lee's HULK?

Turns out 'Predator Dogs' are actually an even less good concept.

I re-watched the original Predator film, the other day, and that film is a perfect slice of 80s, politically incorrect, cheese pie. No need for another slice.

I think Predator Dogs could have been a good idea if the dogs would have done anything 'cool' or 'Predator-esque'

Instead they were giant CGI dogs w/ dreadlocks who play fetch w/ humans and predators alike

The Predator: 1/10

Just terrible. Bad acting, bad dialogue, bad story. I don’t mean bad in a fun sense. I mean bad.

Libeled Lady (1936) - Pretty fun old movie with good old timey actors.

Roma (2018) - Good movie, weird that this is produced by netflix as the sound design and visuals seem ideal for a theatre, very immersive. Every shot is beautiful and I found it very moving but I still think Y Tu Mama Tambien is the best film Cauron has made.

My ex used to watch that like once a month.

I thought it was ok, but not 50 times or so.

Decided to go through my DVD/Blu Ray collection to watch everything I’ve never bothered to watch before - some of which goes back over 15 years.

Started with A Few Good Men. Stellar cast, really enjoyed it. Not sure why I’ve never watched it before as I’m a big fan of courtroom dramas.

9/10

A Serious Man - 3.5/4

If 500 Days Of Summer was about a married Jewish guy with everything in the world to whine about but who somehow just wants to pull everything back together before it falls apart, this is what it would be.
Michael Stuhlbarg is a truly excellent actor and here he gives his very best type of performance. He's particularly brilliant at playing characters with repressed neuroses and seeing him in the role of a family man who's life is far from perfect is understandable and somehow extremely desirable in the right hands. The Coens are treading familiar territory here, this is a white collar, familial Barton Fink with a parallel morality to it.

Stuhlbarg is a blend of sympathetic and relatable that very few actors can pull off in a role where you kind of want to shake the guy by the shoulders and beg him to man up. The rest of the important roles are filled by lesser known actors of whom Adam Arkin and Richard Kind are most familiar to me. I was greatly impressed by the actress playing the wife, she was a savage mixture of detestable and resonant, a woman who has been sighing for too damned long and the only one who hasn't noticed is her husband.
The kids are interesting, the daughter serves as a violent foil to the son's thieving stoner boychick awaiting and preparing for his ascent to manhood.

This film is a fairly quiet little number, the comedy lies in the way situations are handled, ignored or procrastinated upon by Stuhlbarg's character and the overview that the Jewish faith is as prettily bureaucratic and time consuming as any other.

I enjoyed this film a great deal, it goes into the top half of the Coen films for me.

The Man Who Wasn't There - 4/4

A Coen brothers Neo Noir crime thriller fronted by Billy Bob Thornton may be the coolest movie description of all time. In my opinion, this is one of the coolest films of all time. It's a story about a barber who resorts to blackmail to obtain money for a dry cleaning based get rich quick scheme. His target? The man screwing his wife(admirably played by an unusually well-tempered James Gandolfini). Jon Polito plays the "pansy" salesman who sweats his way through town trying to squeeze everybody for investment capital. It's a small role but this was the sort of role Polito did better than anybody. He was also marvellous in Big Nothing if you ever get a chance to see that.
The wife is played by Frances Mcdormand because of course she is, but in this film her performance is small and funny rather than all encompassing. Her role in the film is more expositional to the aim of understanding Billy Bob's modus operandi. It's a quirky role though and ultimately there would be no film without her but this film is about BBT and his less-than-perfect plot. In fact the film moves further towards provoking the viewer to question motivations even though we know the truth of the crimes and the motivation is seemingly evident very early on.
Still though I question the acts of the man, even hours after now I wonder if perhaps this film is a probe into the human inclination toward self flagellation masquerading as a black and white crime piece.

The performances are uniformly wonderful but I single out Billy Bob, James Gandolfini and Jon Polito for kudos. The female parts are all smaller, all situational to whatever BBT is doing, whether as inspiration for or in receipt of his actions.
Scarlett Johansson even pops up as a piano playing neighbourhood kid which was a nice surprise. She was excellent back then. She has a bad habit of getting paid just for turning up now, that or directors are letting her beauty do all of the work.

Overall a perfect film, I couldn't suggest any flaws with it at all. Tony Shalhoub shows up, it's win, win, win.

Mandy - 8/10

Visually great, a bit slow of a start but once it does it's bonkers. It has the most Nicolas Cage scene of any Nicolas Cage movie (even more than Wicker Man). Also does Cenobite-type villains better than Hellraiser has in years.

I just watched the trailer. I HAVE to see this. It looks incredible.

Finally saw Deadpool 2.

I think it was better than the first one. The soundtrack was used exceptionally well and the mixture of extreme violence and filthy humour was fantastically well done. I am glad they kept to the formula that works.

I thought Cable looked terrible. Other than that it was great but I was expecting that.

Sinemia #2 A simple Favor 9/10 Anna Kendrick is great.

Also Sinemia debuted a 30 movies in 30 days for $30 plan today and I'm thinking of doing it

I don't read comics so I wasn't carrying much knowledge of his appearance into it. Josh Brolin is in everything now and I thought he was awesome in this, he really just had to look formidable in the action scenes and to take his gags on the chin which was easy enough.

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I know people don't come in sizes like this (except for Mystic Tenshi) but I hate the outfit.

He looks pretty similar there.

I dunno, I caught the gag about his size but how big is Cable supposed to be?

i dont know, think more brock lesnar or batista than brolin.

Oh wow, I actually used wresting references.

Or, depending on who is drawing him, he could be as big as a truck.

Tom Cruise as Jack Reacher grew on me...

Forrest Gump is also supposed to be 6 foot 6, 250 pounds

I thought Seanny expected a realictic answer, so gave him examples of very buff guys.


John Wick = 9/10

Holy shit, that was amazing. Reeves must be a really talented guy because I never would have thought I'd buy him as a tough guy. And I did.

He needs huge shoulders, tiny hands, and a head that is too small for his body.

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That's probably Rob Liefeld, eh?

I'm glad they didn't make him comically large.

I've herd this is a great movie. I'll put it on my list. Where did you watch it? Stream? If so what service?

Random website with movies online. This one was Polish, actually.

I always use torrents but piratebay is down for some reason. Need a new torrent site and had no time to search.

Gotta get to work in like an hour, but once I'm back I'm watching John Wick 2.

I thought John Wick was just "ok", but I loved the second one.

i rarely watch anything. im also a suckwr for those revenge movies

I just watched a low budget horror called Terrifier on Netflix, and I don't even feel comfortable rating it. I feel super creeped out right now, if that helps.

Oh okay, that's promising. :y::y:

One of the indy rassler dudes I follow on Twitter just suggested this too, I'm going to have to check it out now

Lol...I watched it this weekend. Wasn't very good but the clips Netflix shows when you hover over it had that scene where the clown was starring menacingly then suddenly changes his whole face into a gleeful smile and I said "fuck it, let's give it a shot"

John Wick 2 - 6/10

It was good for what it was. So much worse than the first one.

This wasn't a movie, it was a fucking FPP and that's why so many of you asssholes prefer it over the first one. NERDS

I'm the only one who said it. Just felt like the first one had no "stakes". Like watching an hour and a half squash match.

I also don't know what FPP means.

Games where you walk and shoot shit all the time. FPS then maybe?

Michael Bay secretly directed it but had no robots at hand.

Dunno, I remember it being good.

I only gave it a 6 because I saw the first part just a few hours earlier and it was glorious so it was probably out of respect for the character if you could call it that?

Other than that it's a pretty random Japanese fighting movie. The plot is so thin. Even fights suck most of the time.

The plot is secondary to the action and incredible dialogue.
I thought John Wick 2 was excellent.

Agree to disagree or some hippie bullshit like that.

Fuck that, I'll fight you.

I'll scream rape.