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Originally Posted by Oink
(Post 12903139)
I worked on this movie. https://www.cineplex.com/Movie/target-number-one
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I was a big fan of Bill and Ted as a kid/early teen so had to give this one a run, it was actually better than I expected it to be. There was a 29 year gap between the 2nd movie in the series to this 3rd one, first one was released in 1989. |
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Originally Posted by Jsmth321
(Post 12903319)
Watched Bill and Ted Face the Music last night, it was okay.
I was a big fan of Bill and Ted as a kid/early teen so had to give this one a run, it was actually better than I expected it to be. There was a 29 year gap between the 2nd movie in the series to this 3rd one, first one was released in 1989. |
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'Da 5 Bloods' was good, being a Spike Lee movie it had an anti-trump vibe to it, but the plot was excellent.
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Watched The Assistant last night, it was an interesting movie.
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Originally Posted by Jsmth321
(Post 12903319)
Watched Bill and Ted Face the Music last night, it was okay.
I was a big fan of Bill and Ted as a kid/early teen so had to give this one a run, it was actually better than I expected it to be. There was a 29 year gap between the 2nd movie in the series to this 3rd one, first one was released in 1989. |
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"Tenet"
Big fan of Christopher Nolan. Loved Memento, loved Inception, his other two high-concept "toying with time" movies. (Didn't love Interstellar nearly as much, but it didn't really belong in the same mind-bending narrative category as the other two, IMHO, whatever its other good and bad qualities. Too long and too (ultimately) linear for that, despite the unexpected joy of seeing Matt Damon's character receive his comeuppence (long story).) Tenet is at least as ambitious as a "toying with time" movie as either of the other two, but I confess I never quite grok'd the strategic implications of reverse time travel, as presented during the course of the movie. Certainly not enough to fully understand, or worse, care, about the impact on the plot of the many, many explosions that take place in the major battle scene occupying most of the last third of the movie. So, decent time-travel-type sci-fi thriller, but frankly that's damning with faint praise, considering the A-list director and the corresponding A-list budget. OTOH, top notch production values, and sets up both the plot and two solid actors (Washington and Pattinson) for the sequel. With regrets, somewhat less hope for the female lead (Debicki) but perhaps she was constrained by the script / direction. |
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Originally Posted by abner
(Post 12906802)
"Tenet"
Big fan of Christopher Nolan. Loved Memento, loved Inception, his other two high-concept "toying with time" movies. (Didn't love Interstellar nearly as much, but it didn't really belong in the same mind-bending narrative category as the other two, IMHO, whatever its other good and bad qualities. Too long and too (ultimately) linear for that, despite the unexpected joy of seeing Matt Damon's character receive his comeuppence (long story).) Tenet is at least as ambitious as a "toying with time" movie as either of the other two, but I confess I never quite grok'd the strategic implications of reverse time travel, as presented during the course of the movie. Certainly not enough to fully understand, or worse, care, about the impact on the plot of the many, many explosions that take place in the major battle scene occupying most of the last third of the movie. So, decent time-travel-type sci-fi thriller, but frankly that's damning with faint praise, considering the A-list director and the corresponding A-list budget. OTOH, top notch production values, and sets up both the plot and two solid actors (Washington and Pattinson) for the sequel. With regrets, somewhat less hope for the female lead (Debicki) but perhaps she was constrained by the script / direction. |
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Originally Posted by Danny B
(Post 12907604)
Did you know that John David Washington is Denzel's Son? I must be living under a rock.
He carried himself well, deserved the role off his own bat. |
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Just watched ‘I’m thinking of ending things’. Netflix.
if some kind soul could explain what is going on in this movie I would be very grateful! |
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Originally Posted by Skyva
(Post 12909873)
Just watched ‘I’m thinking of ending things’. Netflix.
if some kind soul could explain what is going on in this movie I would be very grateful! |
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Can't wait for this, I need a good belly laugh before 2020 is over.
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Originally Posted by Skyva
(Post 12909873)
Just watched ‘I’m thinking of ending things’. Netflix.
if some kind soul could explain what is going on in this movie I would be very grateful! It's basically the reflections of the janitor at various points in his life, and the woman is a projection of someone he once met. It's an interesting film, but definitely in the surreal category. |
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The Jackal. 1997 Bruce Willis version. Hey, it was on BBC. Very strained plot, but not bad in the last half hour. The depiction of the Canadian was extremely cringey.
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Originally Posted by Danny B
(Post 12916960)
Can't wait for this, I need a good belly laugh before 2020 is over.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvPTCvUnNQA I just watched the trailer, I forgot how funny Borat is...... |
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Originally Posted by Jsmth321
(Post 12917001)
I just watched the trailer, I forgot how funny Borat is......
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I watched a Welsh movie called 'Concrete Plans' last night, not too bad. My ears must have turned Canadian as I had a hard time understanding the Scottish bloke.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10975750/ |
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Can't wait for this to get dropped on Netflix on the 27th.
I really enjoyed Black Mirror. |
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"Witness For The Prosecution" new film based on Agatha Christie's 1923 novel As a politically correct radical I should not like Agatha Christie but I DO ! SO THERE !
Just checked. It is from 2017 and a series not a movie. The Witness for the Prosecution (TV Mini-Series 2016) - IMDb |
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Queens Gambit. Watchable. Interesting that chess was so mainstream back in the 60s.
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Originally Posted by Shard
(Post 12950701)
Queens Gambit. Watchable. Interesting that chess was so mainstream back in the 60s.
My great aunt in the 80's tried to teach me chess, man did ever confused me. I did master checkers pretty well though at the time, but its an easier game overall. Not a movie, but not quite a TV show as its limited, so I guess a mini-series but I am liking Your Honor with Brian Cranston. |
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Room 2806 - about Dominique Strauss-Khan really well done, very watchable...we all remember ‘bits’ about it...but this put it into perspective...well. Uncomfortable but importantly viewable.
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Isn't going to be released until end of February, but I had to share the trailer. I loved Tom and Jerry as a kid.
It's and animated-live action movie, they didn't recast the Tom or Jerry, but using archival footage of the original voices form the cartoon. |
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Originally Posted by Jsmth321
(Post 12952118)
Isn't going to be released until end of February, but I had to share the trailer. I loved Tom and Jerry as a kid.
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Originally Posted by BristolUK
(Post 12952231)
Me too, still do. But I'm not sure that's going to work for me. I don't know when but at some point the cartoon 'changed' - almost like they had voices or the music/sound changed or something, I can't exactly recall what it was - and a lot of the old magic was completely gone. I just found it unwatchable after that and it looks as if it's the later stuff included.
I am not sure what we were getting in the 80's, probably a mix of everything... Looking at their history- 1940 William Hanna & Joseph Barbera created Tom & Jerry theatrical short films for MGM, of which 13 were nominated for an academy award and 7 won. As the 1950's arrived and along with it a rise in TV's in homes, MGM saw declining theatrical revenue, and in 1957 cut their animation studio, spending an average of 50,000 per short. In 1961 MGM revived the characters, and contracted to a Prague animation studio to produce 13 shorts which were directed by Gene Deitch, but MGM cut the budget to 10,000 per short. MGM didn't want the characters to be linked to communism so they romanized the Czech names of the crew and omitted the studio location from title cards. The last short of these 13 were completed in 1962. The ratio for format from the original 1940's to 1950's was also different vs the 1961-1962, and the 1961-1962 shorts had more limited animated and was less fluid compared to the originals, the sound was also done differently. From 1963 to 1967 Chuck Jones and his partner went on to create 34 more shorts, but they had trouble with keeping the original Tom and Jerry humor, and changed the look of the characters. In 1965, the original Hanna-Barbera shorts started to run on TV, although heavily edited. In 1975 the characters reunited with their creators Hanna and Barbera for The Tom & Jerry Show for Saturday morning cartoons, this ran until 1977. 1980 to 1982 was The Tom & Jerry Comedy Show with yet new people and changes to the characters looks. So not surprised there were noticeable difference I never noticed as a kid having so many hands in the jar. Disney was more consistent in style with their cartoons, but they largely had the same people at the helm until the late 1960's, you can start seeing changes in Disney produced stuff between Walt's Death and the early 1970's, and by the 1980's, Disney produced animation was all over the place, really wasn't until Disney and Pixar joined up that I would say they started producing good quality animation again. I never cared for the original Lion King, or such. |
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Originally Posted by Jsmth321
(Post 12950732)
My great aunt in the 80's tried to teach me chess, man did ever confused me. I did master checkers pretty well though at the time, but its an easier game overall.
Not a movie, but not quite a TV show as its limited, so I guess a mini-series but I am liking Your Honor with Brian Cranston. |
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Originally Posted by Shard
(Post 12952767)
Chess is not difficult to play (though difficult to be good). Why not give it another try. Plenty of (free) apps and play the computer versions. It's less intimidating/frustrating when playing a machine. If you happen to have an Amazon fire stick on your TV, they have a nice screen version.
You do have a point, I haven't tried since I was like 7 so an adult me might find it easier... :lol: |
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Originally Posted by Jsmth321
(Post 12952772)
You do have a point, I haven't tried since I was like 7 so an adult me might find it easier... :lol:
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Palm Springs was absolutely hilarious - on Amazon Prime
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9484998/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 Promising young woman was OK - torrent only https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9620292/ I know some of you philistines don't like watching movies with subtitles, but this Taiwanese movie was great - on Netflix https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10883506/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1 I'll be watching Wonder Woman 1984 tonight - on torrent only https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7126948/ |
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I May Destroy You was very good and Wild Wild Country was interesting but then I lived in Oregon, although 15 years later. My doctoral advisor's wife conducted research and wrote a book on this phenomenon.
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Originally Posted by Oink
(Post 12953981)
I May Destroy You was very good and Wild Wild Country was interesting but then I lived in Oregon, although 15 years later. My doctoral advisor's wife conducted research and wrote a book on this phenomenon.
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Originally Posted by Oink
(Post 12953981)
I May Destroy You was very good and Wild Wild Country was interesting but then I lived in Oregon, although 15 years later. My doctoral advisor's wife conducted research and wrote a book on this phenomenon.
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I was commenting on the other TV show thread and the main character of that show (Lupin) is also the star of this movie.
For those of you who can tolerate subtitles or dubbed English, this movie is one of my all time favorites.. Based on a true story as well. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1675434/?ref_=tt_sims_tt |
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We watched The Trial of the Chicago 7... superb film based on a true story. Plus ca change, plus c'est le meme chose...
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Hope Gap. Pretty good UK drama.
Lupin - been watching it. Entertaining. Shouldn't there be a 2021 movies thread ? |
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Serenity, staring Matthew McConaughey. It has got to be the worst movie ever made...
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6476140...=nm_flmg_act_6 |
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Originally Posted by Jerseygirl
(Post 12965975)
Serenity, staring Matthew McConaughey. It has got to be the worst movie ever made...
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6476140...=nm_flmg_act_6 |
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Originally Posted by Oink
(Post 12966000)
Thank you. I wasn't going to watch it but at least I can now readily justify not watching it. :thumbup:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8367814/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0 |
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