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11-17-2017, 09:56 PM #2731j7wild Guest
The Babysitter (2017)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4225622/
What a bloody thrill ride!!
Move over Macaulay, this is what Home Alone should had been really like!
Samara Weaving is scorching hot as the babysitter!!
4/5
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11-20-2017, 02:08 AM #2732j7wild Guest
Wind River (2017)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5362988/
Every year there is one movie that strikes a critical, artistic and visceral chord with me that I think deserves Oscar nominations in January-February and every year that one movie is passed by the Academy for a more commercially successful movie.
This is the movie I hope the Academy will not pass by come January 23, 2018 but knowing those sell out idiots there, they will.
4.75/5
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11-21-2017, 12:05 AM #2733j7wild Guest
Kedi (2016)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4420704/
Original Trailer:
U.S. Trailer
Winner of the Critics’ Choice Documentary Award's 2017 Best First Documentary award, Best Documentary Director award and most Compelling Living Subject of a Documentary award.
An intriguing look at the stray cats living in the city of Instanbul and how their lives are often intertwined with the lives of their human neighbors.
Many of the cats living there are independent creatures but there are quite a few who are attention seekers, free loaders, trouble makers and just plain always imposing themselves on the humans around them.
This is a close up look on 7 of these cats.
Heart warming, moving, touching, beautiful.
Even if you are not a cat person and/or you are a dog person, you will still love this film.
5/5
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11-23-2017, 02:36 AM #2734j7wild Guest
Ingrid Goes West (2017)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5962210/
This is a dark comedy about a woman, Ingrid, played by Aubrey Plaza, who takes social media too seriously;
the movie itself is also using her psychotic social media obsessive compulsive exterior to send an underlying message to the audience.
Aubrey Plaza gives a great performance but she can't just carry the movie on her own when the rest of the script doesn't bring much material and supporting characters to help her and the story.
That makes it difficult for the audience to connect with Ingrid and to take her seriously.
It's too bad too because I like Aubrey Plaza. She brings so much depth and versatility to just about any characters she plays.
But I did learn one thing from this movie: social media acceptance, social media status and to be liked on social media such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter is going to be the end of the human race.
3.5/5
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11-27-2017, 04:45 AM #2735j7wild Guest
Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4649466/
Not as good as the original.
I has kind of lost its freshness and discovery of the first film.
Plus if you have seen all or most of the 24 Bond films, it references and/or copies from about 13 of them.
Then there are some parts that are hokies and the plot is a bit dumb and far fetched.
Hokie, adjective: corny and contrived, fake and melodramatic, insincerely emotional;
The sub-part with a real life person playing themselves as a minor character in the movie is also stupid.
My review of the first movie back in May 2015:
Why the poor ratings and bad reviews?
What was wrong with it?
4/5
3/5
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7/10
re-shooting=bad.
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11-30-2017, 06:28 AM #2737j7wild Guest
The Foreigner (2017)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1615160/
This was very painful to watch.
Jackie Chan is over 60 years old and he is still trying to do martial arts scenes.
Pierce Brosnan is also over 60 years old and sporting a very bad fake Irish accent while playing an Irishman.
I also can't believe director Martin Campbell (Goldeneye, Casino Royale, The Mask of Zorro) agreed to make this UK/China co-production.
I guess after the success of Llam Neeson "Taken" franchise, everyone wants a slice of the "Revenge" movies box office pie.
2/5
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12-02-2017, 09:07 PM #2738j7wild Guest
The Beguiled (2017)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5592248/
The PC and feminist remake by woman director Sofia Coppola (she herself has admitted she deliberately used this movie to be a feminist vehicle) which left out all the subplots that made the 1971 original such a narrative shocker, because after 46 years, we as a society have regressed instead of progressed,
Such subplots would be offensive toward everyone:
the 12 year old girl being sexually attracted to Clint Estwood's Union soldier character, the implied rape scene, the sex scene where the girls were underage, discussions of incest, lesbianism among the teenage girls, etc., etc.
It's 2017, we can't have that. We are now more prude publicly than the puritans and the pilgrims.
By removing all that, Sofia Coppola has made the characters uninteresting and lifeless and 2-dimensional and the story has become boring and devoid of any tension and anticipation and longing and dread!
Quite a few talented actresses in the cast including Kidman, Dunst, Fanning, all gone to waste in this farce!!
1/5
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12-06-2017, 02:47 AM #2739j7wild GuestThelma (2017)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6304046/
There is a brief scene, which I won't give away, between the first few seconds of this movie showing the studios, producers and distributors logos and the movie title card;
but it's enough to convey to the viewer 2 things:
1. WTF????
and
2.
All I you need to know about this movie is:
1. Carrie have nothing on Thelma.
2. Official Norwegian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards, to be held in 2018.
3. Rated 90% certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.
So what are you waiting for?
The next universal flood?
See Thelma today.
4.5/5
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12-15-2017, 04:48 AM #2740j7wild GuestFinally finish watching
CONTAINS SPOILERS!!
The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5715874/
Remember this scene from Pulp Fiction?
Almost every dialogue scene in this movie is like that.
WIKI explains it best:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Awkward_silence
The unpleasant nature of such silences is associated with feelings of anxiety as the participants feel pressure to speak but are unsure of what to say next
a crucial time in his childhood.
WHICH HAD NOTHING to to do with that scene right there, right then!
WHO wrote this STUPIDITY?
The whole story and premise could had been interesting but the way the characters and the story and the structure of it was written and then executed on film was just asinine and ludicrous.
At about 41 minutes into a movie, I said to myself
OH WOW!
A waste of Colin Farrel, Nicole Kidman and a talented young cast.
Also there were 2 other things that annoyed the heck out of me.
1. Almost every other scene between dialogues are like this long camera shot:
2. The constant suspenseful ominous music in the background in almost every scene building up to a crescendo but nothing ever happens or come of it. What was the point of that?
The director of this film is the same one that did the Lobster and those other very weird movies.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0487166
I think I will have to put him on the list of directors who make weird empty movies that if you see his name on the marquee, you will know to immediately pass on, no matter what the trailer looks like!
Stay away from this movie!
I'd rather spend the 2 hour and 1 minute to get a root canal!
A waste of Colin Farrel, Nicole Kidman and a talented young cast.
0/5
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12-16-2017, 03:14 AM #2741j7wild Guest
The Snowman (2017)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1758810/
This is based on a best selling thriller novel by a Norwegian author.
I have never read the book but from researching it online, it's a well reviewed top notch thriller and it's also an entry in a series of crime novels starring the same character that's in this movie: Harry Hole, an alcoholic police inspector.
Well if everything that's written about the book it's based on is true, this movie doesn't even come close to its original source.
There are 3 persons listed in the screenwriting credit and it seems that each one wrote a screenplay pertaining to a different aspect of the movie: 1 part is the ongoing investigation going back years of missing women, another part is Inspector Harry Hole's relationship with his enstranged son, another part is anything that screenwriter who had a hand in it decided to add to the story and seemingly he didn't check with the other 2 screenwriters to make sure his part flowed with the rest and had continuity.
Then it also seems 3 different unit directors shot the different scenes from the 3 different screenplays.
There are characters that show up one minute never to be seen again.
There are scenes of someone going into a building and you never seen that someone before and after and nothing was ever followed up on it: Who was that person? Why did they go into that building? Who was the person in the building that opened the door to let them in? How does that fits into the story and does it have any relation to the missing women?
Then there seems to be parts missing. One minute you see one of the main character standing somewhere looking at something in the snow (which was not shown) and then in the next scene that same character is in a car driving off.
Okay, I don't need to see everything that happens like they walking from where they were standing to the car to seeing them opening the car door with a key and then getting into it and then starting the car, etc, etc but where were they where they standing at, what were they doing there, and what happened between the time they stood there and they drove off.
Furthermore, for a thriller about a serial killer leaving clues, with a snowman after each killing, this movie has no tension, no suspense, no grab you by the chin to keep you interested and when we finally get to the final act, it's just felt thrown in at random because someone in the production crew said: hey, let's wrap it up.
This is a Norway-UK-USA production and you can tell, produced by Martin Scorsese, directed by acclaimed Norwegian director famous for 2008's "Let the Right One In", starring a talented cast including Michael Fassbender, Rebecca Ferguson, Chloë Sevigny, James D'Arcy, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Swedish actor Jonas Karlsson.
But they are not given much to do or work with onscreen.
Digital Spy website just named this one of the 10 worse films of 2017.
Rotten Tomatoes has many negative reviews including these that pretty much express the same sentiments I have about it:
Choppy, incoherent and dull, The Snowman is one of the worst films of the year.
Not a single scene works as anything more than a total waste of good film.
Even Fassbender's typically intense and well-schooled performance can't elevate this muddled mess from the mundane.
[The Snowman] is two hours of uninterrupted, snow-caked boredom.
0/5Last edited by jacques1400; 05-01-2018 at 12:57 AM.
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12-17-2017, 03:24 AM #2742j7wild GuestMy umpteenth viewing of the Best Christmas movie ever made and also quite possibly the most perfect flawless action movie ever made!!
Die Hard (1988)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095016/
NYPD officer John McLane only wanted to spend Christmas with his wife and beloved children but a bunch of terrorists want to ruin his plans.
That is the problem with terrorists. They're really inconsiderate when it comes to people's schedules.
5/5
Next on my Best Christmas movies viewing list:
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12-19-2017, 07:00 PM #2743j7wild Guest
Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2527336/
Because there are folks who hasn't seen it, I am not posting a detailed review saying what I think everything that's wrong with this movie.
In due time, in a couple of weeks or so, when the hoopla has died down and most everyone had a chance to watch it in theaters, then I will post a detailed review.
For now, all I can say is I give it 1/5 and a NO, I can't recommend it even to the Star Wars Fanboys and Fangirls who just want to see anything new with a Star Wars label on it.
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12-23-2017, 09:16 PM #2744j7wild Guest
Justice League (2017)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0974015/
A messy incoherent confusing cacophony of noise and over use of CGI and SFX featuring a villain that never once in the film's nearly 2 hours running time made me fear the world was at risk.
Another celluloid failure by director Zack Snyder, who hasn't directed anything worthwhile and watchable since "300" and "Sucker Punch"
The only reason I would recommend this movie is to watch the beautiful and awesome Gal Gadot as Wonder Woman.
1/5
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12-25-2017, 03:32 AM #2745j7wild Guest
Watching my 2nd favorite Christmas movie:
Lethal Weapon (1987)
The girl that jumped to her death at the beginning is played by the same actress who went on to play Kelly Gaines, Woody Harrelson's girlfriend in Cheers.
She did her own jump stunt. That's actually a large airbag with the cars and curb and pavement painted on it.
That's Joan Severance in the black playsuit.
This was her first theatrical movie appearance (uncredited).
Her next theatrical movie appearance and first credited role would be 2 years later in See No Evil, Hear No Evil.
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