Anyone seen a good movie lately?

SD · January 27, 2024, 12:07:19 PM

Killers of the flower moon - great acting and setting. Story was too stretched out for no good reason. Should have trimmed the fat and cut off an hour.

Barbie - Didn't make it past an hour. What an awful sexist vagina storm of women feeling sorry for themselves. Not sure how women go on living through such oppressive times. My daughter saw this with her friends in the theater...her review was harsher than mine.

PhillyPhreak54 · January 28, 2024, 02:08:15 PM

Rewatching The Irishman for the first time since it came out and just realized that Herc played Fat Tony Salerno.

PhillyPhreak54 · February 03, 2024, 04:23:26 PM

The We Are The World doc on Netflix was pretty good.

And the Run DMC one on Peacock has been solid too

ice grillin you · February 03, 2024, 07:50:18 PM

killers of the flower moon - whatever you do do not read the book before the movie...movie isnt great but would probably be significantly better if you havent read the book going in...books are almost always better but the chasm here is monstrous

5/10

Anatomy of a fall - really really good but not quite great cept the script which is subperb

7/10

MDS · February 05, 2024, 11:50:59 PM

still have to knockout oppenheimer, past lives and anatomy of a fall

thus far in order:
american fiction - funny as hell. smartly keeps the commentary in the background and sneaks in a story about an upper class black family dealing with shtein. sterling k brown, scene stealer.
poor things - i knew emma stone was naked but i didnt know she was naked like allll the time. shes great, bonkers fun story. lanthimos fully on his game and not out on mars. the real mvp: willem defoe.
the holdovers - i love alexander payne and this is a very alexander payne movie. deeply damaged people coming together to feed off their damage and heal. just might be giamatti's moment.
zone of interest - almost more harrowing than any movie that shows the actual horrors of auchwitz because youre watching this family boringly live their lives while genocide occurs just over the wall. the point is just to sit there and take it. uncomfortable minute by uncomfortable minute. executed perfectly, but theres just not enough story to call it a great film.
barbie - really fun, but a courtesy nod for the stupid liberals
killers - martin scorcese appearing as himself to tell what happened to lilly gladstone was the most egotistical moment in the history of movies...get farged marty
maestro - boring, though brad cooper at least referenced philadelphia a few times in this script. make something fun and stop trophy chasing you junkintown hillbilly

SD · March 23, 2024, 02:59:43 PM

Road house reboot with Jake Gyllenhall and Connor mcgregor - starts out decent then unravels into an awful mess. Reaffirms how perfect casting swayze was as Dalton in the og. Anyway unless you're really bored don't waste your time.

SD · April 16, 2024, 10:07:17 PM

Quote from: MDS on February 05, 2024, 11:50:59 PMzone of interest - almost more harrowing than any movie that shows the actual horrors of auchwitz because youre watching this family boringly live their lives while genocide occurs just over the wall. the point is just to sit there and take it. uncomfortable minute by uncomfortable minute. executed perfectly, but theres just not enough story to call it a great film.

Good summary...wouldnt watch if you're in a bad mood.

Napoleon - yawn. Battle scenes were half decent. Napoleon was a cuckhold. Everyone spoke English with no accents. Scott made it work in gladiator for whatever reason but this whole movie missed the mark.

MDS · April 16, 2024, 10:19:57 PM

its fine film but i kind hate movies that are there to simply make a point or be some kind of art project...like there was just no story.

then the director gets up at the oscars, winning a statue that wasnt intended for him and tries to compare the the friggin holocaust to gaza. yikes.

Rome · July 25, 2024, 08:56:50 PM

Deadpool & Wolverine was perfect. Laughed my goddamn ass off for most of the movie. Great story, the byplay between Reynolds and Jackman was excellent, there had to be at least 100 Easter Eggs, shtein - even the music was great.

There's one surprise in it that had me nearly jump out of my seat too.

10/10. Can't wait to see it again.

SD · July 25, 2024, 10:10:00 PM

Quote from: Rome on July 25, 2024, 08:56:50 PMDeadpool & Wolverine was perfect. Laughed my goddamn ass off for most of the movie. Great story, the byplay between Reynolds and Jackman was excellent, there had to be at least 100 Easter Eggs, shtein - even the music was great.

There's one surprise in it that had me nearly jump out of my seat too.

10/10. Can't wait to see it again.

Daughter and I just got back holy shtein they hit it out off the park in every aspect. Action/humor/story/dialogue/cameos...all that and the movie had heart. Definite top 5 Marvel film. I'm gonna try to see it again next week. The self deprecating Disney/marvel/20th century fox/woke bs was really welcome. Can't remember the last time I had that much fun at a movie.

Rome · July 26, 2024, 12:23:37 PM

We actually got bumped from the 5:15 showing to 6:00 because of a technical issue, so they gave us three extra unrestricted passes to see whatever we want. All the shows between now and Sunday are booked solid. Next week I'm going again for sure.

General_Failure · July 26, 2024, 11:46:34 PM

Okay, yeah. Logan's a better film, but Deadpool & Wolverine is easily the best super hero movie to date. The Oldboy-style fight scene with the bus that has just one cut is great.

PhillyPhreak54 · July 27, 2024, 12:40:45 AM

Anyone seen Twisters yet?

Munson · July 27, 2024, 01:45:24 AM

We took our kid to his first movie last month to see Inside Out 2. Not as good as the first one but still really great. The depiction of anxiety is so good.

Rome · August 06, 2024, 07:57:41 PM

I must have missed it but congrats on the newbie, Munson.