What wuz the most recent movie(s) you have seen?

[j7wild]

The Gift (2015)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4178092/

A good effort of a little psycho thriller.

I didn't expect some of it but when the revelation finally came after the long build up, it could had been more shocking IMO.

3.5/5

[j7wild]

The Victors (1963)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0057652/

I am sure the director and producers of this World War II film had good intentions when they set out to make this but this is one of the worse and incoherent World War II movie I'd ever seen.

Characters appears and disappears or appear later in the film in a different state with no explanation whatsoever how they got there.

The editing and pacing and structuring of the story is terrible.

Also I question some of the historical accuracy of it. The same U.S. Army squad in this film goes from Sicily to Italy to France to the Battle of the Ardennes in Belgium and then to Germany near the Rhine. I am not so sure about that.

The version I watched was about 150 min.

The original version when it was first released at the theaters in limited screens was 175 min.

I hear there is an even longer version that has since been lost.

I found this .PDF outlining some of the stuff that was edited out but even after reading that, it still seem there is more to it that has gone missing from it.

http://www.afterthebattle.com/thevictors.pdf

It has a great cast including George Peppard, George Hamilton, Vince Edwards, Albert Finney, Eli Wallach, Elke Sommer, Romy Schneider, Jeanne Moreau, Melina Mercouri and Peter Fonda - who was nominated for a Golden Globe award in 1964 for 'Most Promising Newcomer - Male' for his role in this film. YET for the life of me I couldn't find his character in the version I watched.

It's a shame! This could had been a great World War II film but still, I have no choice to give it:

2/5

[Satoris]

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Phenomenal movie. I'd definitely recommend seeing it multiple times. I actually wrote a spoiler and non-spoiler review of it.

4.8/5

[j7wild]

Black Mass (2015)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1355683/

What a horrible person this Whitey Bulger fella was!

For once it's good to see Depp not in a weird role!

4.5/5

[j7wild]

Ulzana's Raid (1972)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069436/

Wow! This was pretty bloody and violent for an old western.

4/5

[j7wild]

Too Late the Hero (1970)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0066471/

This is an Anti-War film from the director of The Dirty Dozen.

Michael Caine once again as always does a great job and gives it his 110%.

4.5/5

[SheriLee]

The Golden Compass

[j7wild]

Deadpool (2016)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1431045

OMFG!!

Is this the most violent comic books to live action movie adaptation ever?

I wonder how many parents took their children to see it expecting another Avengers or Iron Man or Thor.

4/5

Question: what exactly happened in the "this little Piggy went to" scene?

Can someone please PM the answer to me so we don't SPOIL it for the folks who haven't seen it?

[jacques1400]

Is this the most violent comic books to live action movie adaptation ever?

Matter of opinion, Kick-Ass was pretty much up there

I wonder how many parents took their children to see it expecting another Avengers or Iron Man or Thor.

It was Rated "R", so no admittance for anyone under 17 without parents, and where I come from, 18 is legal age.
In short, at 17 "kids" they are not, and by then, they probably saw all there is to see online and more anyway.

[j7wild]

I don't understand the connection between Deadpool and the X-Men institute and characters.

[j7wild]

Was Francis doing the WeaponX program unsanctioned?

[jacques1400]

Was Francis doing the WeaponX program unsanctioned?

They were all government sanctioned, but clandestine because they experimented on volunteers as well as captive humans and mutants. In the Comic Book world, "Weapon X" was being performed by a Canadian government division, funded by the US.

"X-Men - The last stand" with the introduction of Wolverine kind of hints to that since he was hiding in Alberta.

Comic Books also revealed at some point that "Weapon X" actually stood for "10" in Roman numeral, the tenth part of a larger project called "Weapon Plus". The first or "Weapon I" was attributed to the creation of "Captain America", which of course does not really work in the movies because of the rights to the characters.

[j7wild]

Hail, Caesar! (2016)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0475290/

This film suffers from an identity crisis.

It doesn't know what it wants to be.

By the time it ends, you come away with the what was that I just watched feeling.

It's a shame that the directors of this, Joel and Ethan Coen aka Coen brothers, haven't had a great movie since the 1996 Academy Awards Best Picture and Best Director nominated classic film FARGO.

2/5

[j7wild]

Purple Rain (1984)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087957/

My first viewing of it in 30 years.

It still holds up well and it's still a damn good movie!

5/5

[Alec Guinness]

Robin Hood: Men in Tights

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107977/?ref_=nv_sr_4

Hilarious, never gets old. Such a great cast, oldest thing I've seen Chappelle in. Probably seen it from start to finish at least two dozen times, probably in my at least my top 15 favorite comedies ever.