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  1. #2791
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    Skyscraper (2018)

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5758778/



    Die Hard ripoff and not even a very good rip off, with the big ape which begs the question how the heck did he even become an actor!

    1/5

  2. #2792
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    I just rewatched:

    Malice (1993)

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107497/

    This is IMO Nicole Kidman's best film role after Dead Calm and To Die For.

    She is a major witch and she also has never looked more beautiful than she was in this movie.

    Kidman along with other actresses dominated the 1990's evil, scheming, conniving Bat Crazy women movies trend:

    Linda Fiorentino's Bridget Gregory in The Last Seduction, Uma Thurman's and Kim Basinger's evil sisters Diana and Heather in Final Analysis, Sharon Stone's Catherine Tramell in Basic Instinct, Lara Flynn Boyle's Suzanne Brown in Red Rock West, Kathy Bates' Annie Wilkes in Misery, Rose McGowan's Courtney Shayne in Jawbreaker, Sarah Michelle Gellar's Kathryn Merteuil in Cruel Intentions and finally, Nicole Kidman again as Suzanne Stone in To Die For.



    4.5/5

  3. #2793
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    Ocean's 8 (2018)

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5164214



    This is supposed to be a heist caper movie... really? A street level 2 bit petty thief could had done what it took 8 women to do without all that glitz and shine and constant talking into earphones, oh the horror of seeing shot after shot of them talking into earphones and being very conspicuous about it!





    It's also supposed to be a comedy movie... really? Not one scene was funny unless you still have the immature asinine moronic mentality of an 3 year old and you still find enjoyment in watching Anne Hathaway with her head over a toilet bowl and puking her guts out.

    It's also supposed to be a thriller... really? There were no thrills, no suspense, no sense of impeding doom or menace that they were going to be caught or that the law was nipping at their heels 1/2 a step behind them.

    This movie is yet another Hollywood's failed attempt to remake or reboot a movie, rewrite its original strong male cast by replacing with a female cast and celebrate woman's power.

    There is nothing wrong with that, if you give the female characters something interesting and intelligent to do, it will work fantastically well:

    i.e. the recent Wonder Woman and Atomic Blonde.

    BUT nope, the writers of this film chose to write lazy shallow characters just for the sake of writing female characters like we have seen in the recent Ghostbusters or the many Melissa McCarthy's movies laced with juvenile locker room and toilet humor.

    Finally, this is also another attempt by Hollywood to be politically correct: let's make sure we have a token Black character (or two), a token Hispanic character, a token Asian character (or two): after all, we don't want to alienate any race, do we?

    This should had been called Ocean's Meh instead of Ocean's 8.

    Sandra Bullock, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway and Helena Bonham Carter, all great actresses in their own right who have over the years, proven themselves over and over again to be talented at making great films, should be ashamed for agreeing to do this farce just for the sake of bringing a bunch of actresses together.

    I bet Ol' Blue Eyes is rolling in his grave right now after seeing how a politically correct female enpowered driven Hollywood has turned his beloved movie premise into a piece of celluloid garbage.

    If any of you think I am on a personal agenda against female characters driven movie, you will be deadly sadly wrong.

    I am not the only male (and female) who thought this latest entry into the forced female remakes stunk:

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5164214/reviews

    0/5

  4. #2794
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    Hereditary (2018)

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7784604/



    After the death of her elderly mother, a grieving woman (Toni Collette - who deserves an Academy Awards nomination for her acting in this film),
    her husband and her children begin to experience troubling incidents in their lives.

    When I saw this movie's preview trailer for the very first time, I knew this was going to be good.

    After a long string of PG-13 horror wannabes containing cheap thrills,
    the horror genre has finally gotten its well deserved and long overdue R rated entry.

    Watch this in a pitch dark room but don't watch it alone!!

    If you don't get one bit scared while watching this, it means you are already dead.


    4.5/5

  5. #2795
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    The Meg (2018)

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4779682/



    Not much to see here unless you really want to see what kind of crappy CGI a $130 million budget buys.

    The only character in it that does anything is Jason Statham and the Asian lady - she is in it because this is another Hollywood Made In China movie.

    The other characters are just there to fall in the water and swim in panic while The Meg is chasing them and maybe they will get to safety before they are eaten.

    There are 2 other women characters in it: Jessica McNamee and Ruby Rose.

    One plays Jason Statham's ex wife and the other is the designer of the underwater marina station and they both don't do much besides again, swim, swim, before The Meg eats them.

    Watch (or rewatch) Jaws 1975 instead with NO CGI and a mechanical shark that was way ahead of its time.

    2.5/5

    p.s.

    If you don't know what Hollywood Made In China is:

    http://chinafilminsider.com/book-rev...made-in-china/

    https://www.businessinsider.com/holl...excerpt-2017-1

  6. #2796
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    Smokey And The Bandit (1977)

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076729/



    Can't believe this was the 2nd highest grossing film of 1977, earning $300 million: second only to Star Wars and ahead of the 3rd highest grossing film of that year, Close Encounters Of The Third Kind.

    The stars admitted later that many of the scenes were improvised and you can tell.

    There are scenes that just felt out of place or not part of any continuity and that they were just thrown in as filler to make a movie.

    Sally Field invented camel toe long before there was even a word for it.



    2.5/5

    FYI:

    In honor of Burt Reynolds, Smokey And The Bandit is back in theaters in the USA starting this Friday and through September 20th.

    How were they able to dig up a clean negative copy, remaster it to today's audio and video standards and quality and make multiple prints of them and get them in theaters in a week?

  7. #2797
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    Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3778644/



    The origin story of Han Solo: where he comes from, how he met Chewie and Lando, how he became a double crossing women chasing scoundrel, smuggler and the best pilot (in his own mind of course) of the fastest piece of junk spaceship in the galaxy.

    This movie's intention was good but unfortunately because of issues during production, it resulted in a very poorly executed and put together final product.

    The original directors, yes, directors! There were 2 of them working together, were fired after having filmed 70% of the film based on one script.

    After they were fired, Ron Howard was brought in to reshoot the film and while doing so, he made changes to the original script by omitting parts in it that were already filmed and needed to be reshot but Howard chose not to do so.

    He also added new things to the script that had no continuity or relation to the original script.

    So there were things in the original script that were already filmed that needed to be reshot that were left out; there were things in the original script that were not filmed that needed to be filmed that were left out; there were new things added to the original script that no one bothered to check for continuity and adherence to the original script; there were things in the original script that would had helped the storyline that needed to be filmed and Howard also chose not to do so:

    in other words, the Final Cut of this movie is a Big Hot Mess.

    This Big Hot Mess costs $300 million dollars to make and translated into a box office failure earning only $382 million dollars domestically and internationally.

    One of the other times in film making history something similar happened was during the production of Superman II which was filmed by Richard Donner.

    He was fired when the movie was nearly completed.

    The movie was almost completely reshot by a new director Richard Lester with scenes that were already filmed in Donner's version that needed to be reshot, featuring big cast members like Marlon Brando and Gene Hackmanm that ended up being omitted when the actors refused to show up for the reshoots.

    I have seen both version and frankly, Donner's version is better.

    So originally Disney was planning on making 3 Han Solo origin films including this one and a Jabba The Hut origin film.

    After the dismal box office performance of Solo: A Star Wars Story, those plans are now on hold.

    GOOD!

    The actor that plays a younger Han Solo in this doesn't even come close in charisma and character to Harrison Ford's Han Solo.

    It's as if he didn't bother to prepare for the role by watching the 3 original trilogy Star Wars film.

    Even the actor who plays the young Lando Calrissian is not convincing in his role:

    Billy Dee Williams' Lando Calrissian is cool and aloof and charming.

    This actor (whom I've only previously seen once in The Martian as some NASA whiz kid) has the personality and emotional maturity of a rotting and stinky dead sardine.

    Furthermore, both of the aforementioned actors can't act their way out of a paper bag if their heads were stuck in one and they were suffocating to death from lack of oxygen.

    Then there is the female lead which is the same high school age kid looking Emilia Clarke actress from Terminator Genisys who I see that 3 years since that film was released and she was criticized for her poor acting, still has poor acting skills.

    Did she not bother to improve her skills by taking acting and speech classes in the past 3 years?

    Finally one complaint I have which is the same as many Star Wars fans had after watching Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi.

    Directors and producers for Disney's Star Wars films: leave your personal political agenda and social warrior justice liberal politics out of the script of these Star Wars films!!

    That is another reason why Solo is the first movie in the Star Wars universe to fail at the box office.

    The Star Wars fans revolved and boycotted Solo after The Last Jedi's director Rian Johnson bombarded the film with his own social warrior justice political messages turning it into what many Star Wars fans felt was a social justice liberal propaganda piece.

    Sorry Mouse Company but I can only give your latest installment in the "Let's milk the Star Wars cash cow name for every dollar we can because we need to recover the $4 billion investment we paid to George to buy the Lucasfilm and Star Wars trademark" film franchise a:

    1/5

  8. #2798
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    Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018)

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5052474/



    Not sure what was the point of this movie.

    I didn't much care for the story.

    The 2 things I came away with after watching it which I've already knew beforehand:

    do not work for the U.S. Government's C.I.A.

    To them you are nothing but an expendable asset.

    When they don't need your services anymore, they will murder you or abandon you to a death situation that's very difficult for anyone to get out of alive.

    The CIA has done so many times in real life:

    it's not something that's made up in the movies.

    Also do not work for the Mexican Cartels.

    Their employee's retirement plan is also like the CIA's: not very attractive.

    2/5

  9. #2799
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    The Predator (2018)

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3829266/



    This excruciating slow burn torture stinker takes its place among the ranks of some of "the most anticipated sequels which became some of the worse sequels ever" with plenty of other sequel stinker fails to keep it company.

    Stinkers like Independence Day: Resurgence, Speed 2: Cruise Control, Another 48 HRS., The Matrix Revolutions, Jaws The Revenge, Terminator Genisys, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Spider-Man 3, Batman & Robin, The Godfather Part III and Robocop 3.

    The story is confusing and the intention and motive of the new Predator is never fully explained.

    The acting by every actors and 2 actresses (Olivia Munn, Yvonne Stravoski) sucks. But you really can't blame them 100% for it. They didn't have much of a script to work with.

    The dialogue was so dumb, I would bet $1 that a retard wrote it.

    The action sequences were uninteresting and unexciting.

    Every character was just window dressing put in place for The Predator to slice, dice, decapitate, maim, pull apart in two or three pieces and gored a 1000 ways by a multitude of alien bladed and laser weapons.

    One of the first ideas for this film was to bring back Arnold but for whatever reasons, the studio decided to shelve it.

    My only explanation for that is they didn't want to pay whatever salary Arnold commands.

    Big mistake!

    You want a movie that brings in big box office returns, you have to pay for the big star!!

    You got to spend money to make money!!

    Very strange that this is written by Shane Black, the same acclaimed Hollywood screenwriter who wrote 4 Lethal Weapon films, Iron Man 3, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, The Last Boy Scout;

    and he also played one of the members of Arnold Schwarzenegger commandos team in Predator 1987.

    Considering that it's been 8 years since the last entry in the Predator franchise, there is absolutely no excuse for the way this movie turned out.

    Twentieth Century Fox and their powers that be had plenty of time to put out a quality product and they failed.

    2/5

  10. #2800
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    The KGB has been using honeypots for decades to seduce, compromise and blackmail foreign diplomats, intelligence officers, armed service personnel and businessmen and long before Jennifer Lawrence trained to become a honeypot in Red Sparrow, there was this:

    Secret Weapons (1985)

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0089983/



    the KGB trains a sexy young spy-trainee to become an "all-American" temptress capable of seducing the secrets out of many US officials and businessmen. She will then use the resulting information to blackmail these men into serving her government.


    Featuring a very young Linda Hamilton and Geena Davis too!!


  11. #2801
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    The Double Man (1967)

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061594/



    A complicated cold war espionage thriller set in the Austrian Alps involving CIA and Russian agents.

    If the sweeping aerial snow capped, snow laden skiing sequences look somewhat familiar, it's because the cameraman for this film is also the same cameraman who would go on to film the skiing sequences in the James Bond movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969).

    This film is also actress Britt Ekland's second major movie role, she will go on to become a Bond Girl in The Man with the Golden Gun (1974).



    This was one of the many 60's movies that were James Bond copies and it's also one of the better ones - featuring a tight, complex plot and decent action sequences.

    3.75/5

  12. #2802
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    Smallfoot (2018)

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6182908/

    *

    Cute movie that both children (and my 5 children enjoyed it) and adults will enjoy containing a message about how we should all get along and tolerate each other while co-existing together on this little blue planet of ours.

    4/5

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    Ant-Man And The Wasp (2018)

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5095030/



    I enjoyed the first Ant-Man movie.

    I was actually surprised by the first one not knowing what to expect.

    But this one is just very weak and has a plot that I could care less about:

    Michael Douglas character trying to save his wife, played by Michelle Pfeiffer. who has been lost for 30 years.

    Furthermore there are 2 recurring scenes and theme throughout the film that by the eon time they replayed it, you will be shaking your head, pumping your fist at the screen and wanting to scream:

    "For the love of ...

    ... Enough already!!"


    It was like a continuous broken record being repeated over and over.

    By the way, Michelle Pfeiffer's talent and acting skills are wasted in here.

    I think the whole point of this movie is so they can throw this at you during the middle of the end credit sequence:

    "Hey folks! LOOK!

    We have another Avengers movie coming in 2019."


    That's exactly what you just sat through almost 2 hours of your precious time to find out:

    to be told that there is another Avengers movie coming but most likely you already have knew whether if you saw or didn't saw Avengers: Infinity War.



    2/5

  14. #2804
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    Hotel Artemis (2018)



    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5834262/

    In the two John Wick movies, there is the Continental Hotel where criminals, mostly hired hitmen, hitwomen and murderers, have a neutral place to go to recover and heal from their wounds.

    It has its own set of very strict rules and any violation of them by any members will result in revocation of membership and possible death.

    The Hotel Artemis is also like the Continental Hotel and it also has its own strict rules and any violation of them will also result in revocation of membership.

    The concierge of the Hotel Artermis also doubles as a nurse.

    She has all the medical training, equipment and medicine necessary in each room to treat whatever wounds the criminals might have incurred on the outside world prior to checking into the hotel.

    There is nothing good about this movie that makes you want to write home about.

    It seems like the writers and producers watched the John Wick movies, thought they could take the basic premise and concept of the Continental Hotel and give it its own separate film and that's where their creativity ends.

    Wait, I regress:

    their creativity never even began since they stole the premise of their movie from another movie.

    Jodie Foster plays the nurse who runs Hotel Artemis and she is a great actress who has given us many great performances in many movies in the last 40+ years:

    first as a child actress (The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, Taxi Driver, Freaky Friday) and then as an adult (The Silence of the Lambs, The Accused, Nell, Foxes, Panic Room).

    But in this film, her acting is very wooden.

    Her delivery of her lines of dialogue just comes across as if she is disinterested and reading directly from a cue card somewhere off screen; as if she doesn't want to be in this film and she is only doing it because maybe she needed a paycheck to buy a new wardrobe or a new car or something.

    The rest of the cast, the ones who play the criminals who are the guests of the Hotel Artemis, are just paper thin including Jeff Goldblum who usually always has a great character written for him regardless of the movie, giving his 110% to the role every time but not this time!!

    1.5/5

  15. #2805
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    Eighth Grade (2018)

    https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7014006/



    During the final week of 8th grade, a girl named Kayla realizes that she has no friends, she is not popular, she has no self confidence, boys her age might as well be extra-terrestrial aliens to her.

    She loves her dad but at the same time she doesn't want him around asking her a lot of questions when she is trying to have a social life on the internet and in school and to make things even more complicated and worse, high school is just around the corner.

    A sincere and sadly at times brutally honest and harsh look at the state of today's middle schoolers and their culture today:

    where most of them have cell phones and their own accounts on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat and YouTube;

    and their personal struggles to survive in a digital world where every day for them is an online popularity contest among their peers.

    There were even 2 scenes showing how the middle schoolers were being drilled by the police and by their teachers on what to do during an active shooter situation: it's sad that the world has come to this where an innocent child can't even be safe in school.

    If 15 year old actress Elsie Fisher, who played 13 year old character Kayla, doesn't get nominated for an Academy Awards, everyone at the Academy can go to that place deep deep underground !!

    This movie was rated 99% Certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes and for once, I agree with them.

    I give it a very enthusiastic:

    5/5

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