160/10 for the fake baby

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Watching a Jason Sudeikis / Ed Harris movie called "Kodachrome."

The Prestige 8/10

Gremlins 6.8/10

I'd seen parts of it in the past, but never the full film. It was not as good as I expected it to be, though I don't know why I had high expectations for the film in the first place.

Kodachrome - 7/10

Wonderwoman 1984 - 6/10

The Midnight Sky - 4/5

Since the theatres are closed, this was the family Christmas movie.

Not bad, George Clooney.

Brave Maeve 1984:

2/4

It never decides if it wants to be a super hero, fantasy or hallmark movie. That's a really bad combination.

I might have more to say later but its your typical lackluster DC movie. Sometimes its almost as if Eric Cartman was deciding what powers everyone gets to have and whom is vulnerable to what at what time. Even the stinger at the end is flat and pointless.

there was one sequence i liked:

Lock Jaw is going to try to jerk off for the entire thing and essplode at the end.

Checking the theaters but seats keep going and filling up..... tomorrow there are still a bunch that don't have any seats sold yet... but not confident in it staying that way... would have thought today would be a slow day.....

Fatman 4/5
You can't kill David Arquette 3/5

Soul - 7/10

Was ok.

Lots of people prefer to jerk off to Gal Godot on the big screen even if it means they have to do it in public. It is known.

Wonder Woman 1984-7/10

It's not as good as the first and it's complete shift in tone in comparison. Though that wasn't a bad thing for me. It's funny, and cheesy, and corny. I liked the set pieces. The mall scene felt very Reeves Superman to me. And the film itself is centered around Diana still believing in humanity and people being inherently good. I have no idea if they'll do a sequel or even need one.

A side note, Cheetah looked A LOT better in the finished product than the trailers.

WW84 - 7/10

I did not like the first hour of the film, it's so tonally different/cheesy than the first film. I did like the rest of the movie however. The score was good, again. Pedro Pascal was a bit over the top for me. I thought Kristen Wiig's Cheetah was more interesting than Maxwell Lord.

Post-credits scene was a nice nod.

Wonder Woman 1984 - 7.5/10

Not nearly as good as the first one.... took a long time to get going but once it finally did I enjoyed it well enough.... Wish Diana was more of a "warrior" in it and less of a "I lost my first love 70 years ago and haven't moved on" mopey braud...

Overall not Earth-shattering, def on the lower end of the DC movies but high enough to not be considered "trash" like those below it.

Top Secret! - 7/10

If/when we get a 3rd one, I think we'll see warrior Diana that's more in tune with what we saw in BVS and what we're prob gonna see in the Snyder cut Justice League. Which is fine. We saw her character grow and learn a lesson in this movie and it ties up her story with Steve nicely.

Which one is Steve Nicely?

I liked Diana's story in the theatrical version of Justice League.... hope Snyder cut goes deeper into it and doesn't take it in another direction....

Agreed

Just saying though.... that it really hurts for a so called "female empowerment" heroine type to have a story where she mopes around for 70+ years over a guy she met and knew for like a couple weeks.

Meh. I don't bother to worry about that. I just want to be entertained and for the movie to be good and fun. It fell short of the original but WW84 was fun. Watching it with my daughter right now. She's captivated.

Palm Springs - 8/10

Dunno. I like stories where people are stuck in a time loop.

The Invitation (2015) - 6.5/10

WW84.

1st was better still thought this one was good though.

7/10

Seriously?

The Invitation is one of the best psychological horror/thriller films ever made.
Logan Marshall Green is probably the best indie actor you can get right now, he has become the face of cheap but brilliant.

He was terrific. I quite enjoyed the movie but my friend overhyped it a tad bit.

X-Men: Dark Phoenix - 7/10


if you ignore the source material and the continuity of itself in relation to the franchise (par for the course for fox x-men films) its not bad. its major plot beats are good. action as good as any from the series. cast shines throughout. tons of short comings but with the low bar i went in with i came out from it feeling like it was a good swan song for the fox x-men brand. solid. not great but solid.

That George Clooney Movie on Netflix- 7/10

It was pretty obvious what the big reveal was at the end.

Is this the one where he gets invited to a dinner party at his ex girlfriends?

Ya that movie is really good.

That's the one.
Logan Marshall Green has done well for himself.

Attempting to watch "Primal Fear" tonight as I fall asleep.

Ed Norton is great.

Ed Norton is an all time great in my eyes. A real actor born and bred.

Primal Fear - 8/10

Ed Norton was fucking great.

The more I think of WW84 after seeing it, the more I like it.... except for the Steve Trevor storyline which keeps getting worse... Like she goes out of the way to save innocent bystanders/people through the whole movie but shows zero regard/care for the dude who's life Steve stole......

Enter the Fat Dragon 3.5/4
Would have given it 4 but it is subtitled and the parts where his woman ragged on him scrolled by way to fast :) But otherwise a entertaining little action/comedy

It's because she is admittedly being selfish as that's all she ever wanted.

I did a rewatch with my daughter. The 3rd act really implodes the rest of the movie. It got too big for itself. There was a lot going on that gets glossed over and neither villain faced any consequences for their actions. I hope Jenkins tightens things up in the next one.

Loved the third act where it started getting "too big"

Barbara I can understand not facing consequences because they kind of did explain that what the dreamstone took away in return was her compassion/humanity and theoretically with the wishes undone it would go back..... but Max Lord not really facing anything (and in fact seemingly still getting a chopper ride back to the mainland) is a bit out there I agree....

I liked the concept more than the execution. I alsoloved Diana's monologue and the music, which, funny enough, was the opening track in BvS. There was just too much happening around the characters, imo. Nonetheless I still enjoyed the movie as a whole.

Like, cheetah infiltrated the white house and assaulted federal agents. She should've been arrested and maybe hinted that she didn't completely lose her powers.

Yeah, I do wish there was more of a "wrap up" with the villains... like you see Max Lord does get arrested in the end and taken away from his kid but with the hopeful promise of trying to be better for him.....

Then with Cheetah, I don't care about her getting away with not being arrested... but I do think a little tease at the end of "maybe her evil personality wasn't all the dreamstone" and maybe showing her starting to research into the god that gave her her powers in the comics....

Going to watch WW84 in bits and pieces.

Gal Gadot’s voice sounds deeper and it seems like she’s gone through some training of sorts.

Pedro Pascal is really good.

Her sneaking away, and crushing a rock or something that insinuates she hasn't lost her powers. And yes. Lord should've been rushed by authorised after his son says he already loves him, screaming that he'll make it up to him.

He's been one of my favorites since I saw him in Narcos.

Wonder Woman 84 - 6/10

That cameo was wholesome.

Rocky 8/10
Rocky II 7.7/10
Rocky III 7.3/10
Rocky IV 7/10

It went from being an interesting character drama to a series of cheesy (though enjoyable) 80s montages and East vs West propaganda.

I still need to watch V and Rocky Balboa, and also the Creed films. I'll get to them at the weekend.

People hate on Rocky V but I like it.

II is prob my favourite

Rocky V is still a good action film. I mean Rocky the franchise starts off with pure storyline brilliance and quickly evolves into a formula for action that got ripped off so much it created a whole "underdog" genre.
Then you end up with The Karate Kid which is essentially the magnum opus of montage movies. Same director too.
Rocky 3 is also magnificent.

Rocky is easily the best franchise of all time.
Truly brilliant.

I thought Rocky V was a "better ending" for his franchise than Rocky Balboa

Amadeus: The Director's Cut 8/10

A drama revolving around Salieri's rivalry with Mozart at the court of Vienna. F. Murray Abraham is great as Salieri (he won an Oscar for his performance), and the chap who plays Mozart comes off well at depicting the composer as a debauched child-like rogue. It's a bum-numbing 3 hours long, but it doesn't drag. You don't need to be a fan of classical music to enjoy the story; you may even come to appreciate Mozart's work.

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Rocky balboa was a good fix for the bad parts of 5 but i think his character arc in the Creed movies was the best ending for Rocky we could hope for.. But what do I know? I totally enjoyed the final Rambo movie.

That last Rambo film was a fucking stain on the franchise man.
They took it way too far and way too cheap.

It was essentially Mexican Death Wish with Rambo slotted in.

If Sly lives as long as his mum did then we could feasibly see a 98 year old Rocky on the go.

If there is another Creed i can see him going to Rocky's grave after getting his ass whooped or maybe Stallone takes Micks role in remake

Rocky is a cancer survivor who finally made amends with his only son and got to meet his grandchild. All while helping a troubled young man create his own legacy whilst taking himself out of the shadow of the father he never knew.

At this point, the next step for Rocky is to finally join Adrian again.

Yes God Yes

Kinda funny, typical netflix liberals love it/conservatives hate it kinda movie

Rocky V 7.2/10

80s cheddar is replaced with early 90s cheddar, with still the obligatory montage section. I think I preferred it to Rocky IV, with a slight return to the character-driven story, but the whole riches to rags setting was so contrived that it kind of undermines the film as a whole.

Pauly signs over Rocky's fortune to a crooked financial advisor.
They should have had the robot break the news.

What kind of schmo, in the first place, would give Pauly power over their finances? Madness.

He ain't a smart man

Rocky is not that daft, nor is Adrian.

Rocky Balboa 7.5/10

It pretty much returns to the original formula of the first two films, with some added nostalgia to rope in the audience. Rocky's opponent in the ring was a throw-away character, but as Rocky was ultimately fighting against himself, it does not really matter. With it not being weighed down by 80s or early 90s cheese, it is the strongest entry since Rocky and Rocky II.

Now on to Creed.

Love both Creed films.

Creed 8/10

I'd say it is up there with the original Rocky film, even though it follows the same formula.

I'd also like to say that Tessa Thompson is fine as fuck.

The Host (Bong Joon-ho film) - 8/10

Creed II 7.8/10

It maintains the high standard of the first Creed film; if it has one weakness, I'd say the fight scenes aren't as visceral as in the first one, but that is a minor gripe. I wonder where they will take the third film, especially now that Rocky pretty much passed the baton on at the end of this one, and I think Sly has openly said that he won't play Rocky again.


I might have to watch all the Rambo films now; I've only ever seen First Blood Pt.1 in its entirety. We'll see.

first blood (like rocky) is a grea film

Never seen any Rambo movie..... Just think of Frank Reynolds yelling "they drew First Blood"

First Blood is actually a great character piece much like Rocky. Then it's like Sly cracked some production formula and invented a whole style of franchise building that totally overtook any need for sophisticated story development and world building.

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wonderwoman taught me women can rape and its ok

40 Days and 40 Nights

Only if they are hot though

There isn't rape in WW84, that'a dumb argument I keep seeing pop up.

Two characters slept next to each other in a bed, there wasn't a sex scene.

if you actually think that youre an idiot

if two characters kiss and the camera pans up and the next scene theyre naked in bed thats what we called an implied sex scene and has existed in film for about 100 years

and thats only debatable if you rank your favorite color of paint by taste

im going to pretend you were joking though otherwise i dont know if i can ever take anything you say seriously again

The deleted scene where you see the penis going into the vagina will be available on HBO MaXXX coming soon

Slik being served up some humble pie

A Beautiful Mind - 6/10

Hillbilly Elegy. 6/10. It needs a grandma prequel

The promo poster I saw for that looked like something The Onion knocked up

The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected)

Some decent writing. Very much a rich white New York person movie.

My ex had a rather strong reaction to the part where the daughter showed her student(?) film to her father. Kinda overwhelmed every other aspect of the movie :roll:

You have an ex?

Yeah!

No Country for Old Men

Tense... My attention was not %100 so might need to watch again

its REALLY exceptional

One of my favorites

Watching the Sonic movie and Jim Carrey looks to be in top form. Very cool.

Sonic the Hedgehog - 6/10

Jim Carrey :love:

Ed TV

Good soundtrack. Good "commentary" on tv/capital and stuff