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Its not exhaustive but it definitely had some things I hadn't seen/heard before.
Movie opinions thread (what have you seen, what did you think?)
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Gang Related - the ironically titled film that was to be Tupac's last role before he was murdered.
Pretty decent thriller about two corrupt cops who kill an undercover DEA agent during one of their rip-offs. Their lives then begin to steadily unravel as they botch a frame-up of a down-and-out and ballistics evidence.
Great cast, with Jim Belushi and Tupac as the corrupt cops, and supporting roles for Dennis Quaid, James Earl Jones, Gary Cole, and David Paymer. Features a really good soundtrack, pretty well paced, but probably needed a more dramatic ending.
I'd give it a solid 7 out of 10 Biggies.
Pretty decent thriller about two corrupt cops who kill an undercover DEA agent during one of their rip-offs. Their lives then begin to steadily unravel as they botch a frame-up of a down-and-out and ballistics evidence.
Great cast, with Jim Belushi and Tupac as the corrupt cops, and supporting roles for Dennis Quaid, James Earl Jones, Gary Cole, and David Paymer. Features a really good soundtrack, pretty well paced, but probably needed a more dramatic ending.
I'd give it a solid 7 out of 10 Biggies.
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles- The original. Is it still the best live action movie of the franchise? Yes. Does it still hold up? Kind of… mostly.
This is my first time watching it in HD and probably my first time watching it in at least 20 years. It’s a lot more bizarre than I remember it being. For a supposed kids movie it‘s pretty dark and gritty but they still try to cram in a bunch of wacky stuff to make it more in line with the cartoon. Tonally it’s mess. I’ll take that over part 2 and ugh 3 any day though.
The suits and puppetry are still great thanks to Jim Henson’s involvement and are metric tons better the CG abominations of the Bay movies. The fights are pretty lackluster but serviceable enough considering the limitations of the suits.
April is better looking than I remember, great legs. The ninja hideout with the arcade machines, skate ramps and kids smoking is still awesome.
It was pretty enjoyable to revisit it. We definitely grew up with the best kids entertainment and toys.
This is my first time watching it in HD and probably my first time watching it in at least 20 years. It’s a lot more bizarre than I remember it being. For a supposed kids movie it‘s pretty dark and gritty but they still try to cram in a bunch of wacky stuff to make it more in line with the cartoon. Tonally it’s mess. I’ll take that over part 2 and ugh 3 any day though.
The suits and puppetry are still great thanks to Jim Henson’s involvement and are metric tons better the CG abominations of the Bay movies. The fights are pretty lackluster but serviceable enough considering the limitations of the suits.
April is better looking than I remember, great legs. The ninja hideout with the arcade machines, skate ramps and kids smoking is still awesome.
It was pretty enjoyable to revisit it. We definitely grew up with the best kids entertainment and toys.
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Mission Impossible The Final Weiner - bleh. Reckoning 1 is awesome to this day, I'll die on that hill, and this one was just a shit bag of nothing. Flashbacks for no good reason, zero logic, just bad. Oh and it's three fucking hours long.
Edit what a shit way to end the series.
Edit what a shit way to end the series.
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Every Mission Impossible movie sucks. Y'all as gay as Tom Cruise.
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I’m ok with that.
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Recently watched Eggers' Nosferatu called Nosferatu - Der Untote here. This isn't a bad movie at least it looks pretty good.
I'm still underwhelmed but will give it a second watch later. Had some hope for it.
I'm still underwhelmed but will give it a second watch later. Had some hope for it.
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I also had high hopes, but it came across as a Hot Topic chick wankfest. Dafoe kicked ass though.
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Wish he just played Graf Orlok.
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The Keep- Michael Mann’s surreal supernatural thriller that was notoriously butchered by the studio then almost lost to time. Even completely mutilated with its runtime cut in half it‘s a compelling and visually impressive piece.
Set in the Carpathian Mountains a group of nazi soldiers are ordered to a remote village to guard the titular Keep. An ancient and mysterious stronghold. They are warned to leave and not tamper with anything but two greedy men try to steal a religious artifact and unleash a vengeful supernatural entity. That’s the basic setup and it gets a little cloudy (literally) after that due to the excessive editing.
The entire movie is atmosphere. Ominous and mesmerizing. Beautifully shot with some amazing sets and locations.
There are a ton of effects that range from incredible to embarrassing. The performances are mostly strong with the standouts being the supporting characters. Ian McKellan’s performance is pretty spotty and Scott Glen is barely in it even though he’s top billed.
It’s a shame we’ll probably never get the original version. Vinegar Syndrome did as good a job as they could with what was available and I’m glad to have that all things considered.
Recommended.
Set in the Carpathian Mountains a group of nazi soldiers are ordered to a remote village to guard the titular Keep. An ancient and mysterious stronghold. They are warned to leave and not tamper with anything but two greedy men try to steal a religious artifact and unleash a vengeful supernatural entity. That’s the basic setup and it gets a little cloudy (literally) after that due to the excessive editing.
The entire movie is atmosphere. Ominous and mesmerizing. Beautifully shot with some amazing sets and locations.
There are a ton of effects that range from incredible to embarrassing. The performances are mostly strong with the standouts being the supporting characters. Ian McKellan’s performance is pretty spotty and Scott Glen is barely in it even though he’s top billed.
It’s a shame we’ll probably never get the original version. Vinegar Syndrome did as good a job as they could with what was available and I’m glad to have that all things considered.
Recommended.
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Even the Brian De Palma OG “Hasta lasagna don’t get any on ya” Mission Impossible? I would agree Ving Rhames can’t act for shit but the rest of it is entertaining at least.
Do you like anything out of curiosity? Give us the fami top 10. I’ve only seen you shit on everything.
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Yeah still a rewatchable for me as well. I could give a shit about the rest of them, but the first one is good. They’re all entertaining though. Not sure what the expectation is here.
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Goob morning Mr. Phelps. First movie was cool, then second movie came out and watching that made me not want to watch any of the others that followed
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MI2 was incredibly terrible. There were about 600 facemask reveals (all of which were slo-mo), and then a motorcycle fight. Wtf.
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Yup, it's awful. I like the MI series, for what it's worth, but when I upgraded my DVD's to blu ray and UHD, MI2 was left behind.
I just pretend it never happened.
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Snoop Dogg says he’s scared to go to the movies now because they put a lesbian couple in that shitty Buzz Lightyear movie.
"We're watching it ... my grandson is like, 'Papa Snoop, how'd she have a baby with a woman?' ... I didn't come here for this shit"
"We're watching it ... my grandson is like, 'Papa Snoop, how'd she have a baby with a woman?' ... I didn't come here for this shit"
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I got MI2 on HD-DVD for free back in the days when HD-DVD and Blu-ray were competing and they used to have buy 2 get 1 sales all the time. I don’t think I ever even opened it and it got thrown in the trash with a whole stack of HD-DVDs a couple years later.
I always felt bad that John Woo was never able to really transition to Hollywood. Sure he got work but he completely lost everything that made his HK movies so awesome.
And no Face/Off doesn’t count. It’s a colossal piece of shit and all of its entertainment value is unintentional. It’s the Independence Day of action movies.
I always felt bad that John Woo was never able to really transition to Hollywood. Sure he got work but he completely lost everything that made his HK movies so awesome.
And no Face/Off doesn’t count. It’s a colossal piece of shit and all of its entertainment value is unintentional. It’s the Independence Day of action movies.