Movies

White Tiger was dece. Had potential but felt both too long and too rushed (the ending) at the same time.

Crazy About Her (en Espanol) was silly but fun. Enjoyed that time spent more than White Tiger.

Oh and one from a while ago: Clouds was the saddest movie I have watched in my life.

Coming 2 America (Amazon)

REALLY glad I did not pay any extra for this. I chuckled once (outside of the outtakes).

You are the 3rd person I’ve heard now that’s panned it.

Are you surprised? How often do these kinds of money grabs pan out, 1 in 20?

I’d say 50/50, but it’s either ALL THE AWESOME or HOLY :censored: THAT SUCKED. No in-between. “Be Cool” was great. “Boondock Saints 2” was a steaming pile. That sort of range.

I had some extended couch time yesterday due to a small medical procedure. I perused Netflix and landed on the Jeffrey Epstein documentary. It is four separate episodes of roughly an hour each. I watched it beginning to end. OMG, what a revealing piece of work it is. Whoever said, “money can’t buy everything”, was wrong. It bought that pedophile freedom. I sure hope Acosta gets what is coming to him. Stepping down as labor secretary is nothing. He deserves jail time.

Yeah, the Epstein thing was disturbing to say the least.

Fatale (Netflix Disc):

After a one-night stand, a successful married man finds himself entangled in a cunning police detective’s latest investigation.

Mystery/noir/thriller. Formulaic. Could see the end coming a mile away. Wasted potential. Criminals seriously lack common sense in movies. Just sayin’. Thumbs down on this one, especially given the cast (not necessarily A-list, but a lot of recognizable actors).

R.I.P. Lou Ottens. Thank you for making mix-tapes possible.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/11/arts/music/lou-ottens-dead.html

I can’t even count how many mixtapes (and now CDs) over the years. The following is correct. There are a lot of rules.

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Watched Justice League Snyder Cut today.

Brilliant. That’s all I’ll say for now.

Wanted to watch it tonight but FOUR FREAKIN’ HOURS? I’ll wait until the weekend.

The Last Blockbuster (Netflix streaming; which is kind of twisting the knife)

A documentary on the last remaining Blockbuster Video in Bend, Oregon.

Good documentary, on the rise and fall of Blockbuster, and how this store is surviving. Every interviewee said something that I also felt, growing up with the rental stores. I was not a Blockbuster guy myself, due to limits of what movies they carried: Title Wave (later Hollywood Video) didn’t put limits on director’s cut or what Title Wave called “Bad Bad Bad Bad Cinema” (Toxic Avenger series was probably the BEST plot/cinematography in that category :shock: ).

I digress. For those old enough to remember the rental store experience, it’s nostalgia. For those young enough to have no REAL idea of what that was like, I do recommend. It is completely different nowadays with the streaming services. A small example: you might spend 60 minutes trying to select a movie that you’re going to spend 90-120 minutes watching. Return On Investment doesn’t seem right, does it?

Watched Justice League Snyder Cut today.

Brilliant. That’s all I’ll say for now.

Wanted to watch it tonight but FOUR FREAKIN’ HOURS? I’ll wait until the weekend.

They do have it split into 6 “acts” (roughly 45 minutes each) on the stream so you can pause it after however many acts. I had today and tomorrow off so I sat down and watched it in it’s entirety this morning.

That is good to know. I don’t mind the long movies, but during the week? That’s not gonna happen. I do look forward to seeing it.

Watched Justice League Snyder Cut today.

Brilliant. That’s all I’ll say for now.

Wanted to watch it tonight but FOUR FREAKIN’ HOURS? I’ll wait until the weekend.

They do have it split into 6 “acts” (roughly 45 minutes each) on the stream so you can pause it after however many acts. I had today and tomorrow off so I sat down and watched it in it’s entirety this morning.

That is good to know. I don’t mind the long movies, but during the week? That’s not gonna happen. I do look forward to seeing it.

I had extremely high hopes for it and they were exceeded.

To the point that I desperately hope that the studio lets him make parts 2 and 3 that he had intended to make.

Just started it… The 4×3 annoys me. :biggrin2:

Deadly illusions on Netflix

Kristin Davis (sex in the city)

Durmot Mulroney

Bad, terrible writing, lost 2 hours I will never get back. Watched with my wife and we kept wondering when we were going to stop it.

Justice League (Zack Snyder cut) (HBO Max):

Take a 90 minute storyline.

Add 45 minutes of “ancient lamentation music”

Add 45 minutes of “dramatic orchestral music”

Fill the last hour with overly dramatic slo-mo scenes.

And then you have this bloated piece of garbage that everyone was waiting for. Sometimes less is more, folks. Just saying.

I’ve been watching it in chunks with my two cats, Stella and Zane. After each segment we have a discussion group. Stella has tended to agree with you so far, while Zane wants to wait until it’s finished and judge it as a whole…or maybe it’s just my antipsychotic medication isn’t working as well as I thought. :lol:

Justice League (Zack Snyder cut) (HBO Max):

Take a 90 minute storyline.

Add 45 minutes of “ancient lamentation music”

Add 45 minutes of “dramatic orchestral music”

Fill the last hour with overly dramatic slo-mo scenes.

And then you have this bloated piece of garbage that everyone was waiting for. Sometimes less is more, folks. Just saying.

You liked the original more than this? :crazy:

It was an enjoyable movie. Nothing ZOMG, but for what it was, it was fine.

Finally watched Tenet and holy hell, my mind is gravy. Need to re-watch but I was very lost at times but overall a great movie

The original was fine. The bloated masturbatory Snyder cut was not fine.

The original was fine. The bloated masturbatory Snyder cut was not fine.

Describing it with that terminology does not discourage me from watching it

Rube is basically the only person I’ve seen not raving about it, FWIW

The original was fine. The bloated masturbatory Snyder cut was not fine.

Describing it with that terminology does not discourage me from watching it

Rube is basically the only person I’ve seen not raving about it, FWIW

Hmm, no he’s not. “Bloated mess” is a pretty common description from anyone over the age of 16 who doesn’t live in their moms basement.

There’s a reason why the job position of Editor holds power in a film, it’s necessary and keeps a directors whim in check. In this case you had a director doing his own editing and a 4 HOUR slog was the result. That does not make a good movie, that makes a self-indulgent piece of crap.

The original was fine. The bloated masturbatory Snyder cut was not fine.

Describing it with that terminology does not discourage me from watching it

Rube is basically the only person I’ve seen not raving about it, FWIW

Hmm, no he’s not. “Bloated mess” is a pretty common description from anyone over the age of 16 who doesn’t live in their moms basement.

There’s a reason why the job position of Editor holds power in a film, it’s necessary and keeps a directors whim in check. In this case you had a director doing his own editing and a 4 HOUR slog was the result. That does not make a good movie, that makes a self-indulgent piece of crap.

I did say “the only person I’ve seen”. I hadn’t sought out movie reviewer opinions on it because they rarely have good things to say about superhero movies.

And for the record, none of the people I’ve seen raving about are under the age of 21 and most own their own house and their own kids. (At least of the ones I know personally, I’m assuming about the twitter accounts).

Was it longer than it needed to be? Probably. But he also made this with the expectation that his original plan for a trilogy was never going to come to fruition (though given the audience score is 95% on RottenTomatoes and had a count of 3005 positive to 184 negative reviews on Metacritic, I wouldn’t be totally shocked if DCU lets him do them after all).

He also made this movie before we had any real introduction to Momoa as Aquaman and Ezra as Barry. So he included parts of the film to give more vision to what HE had in mind rather than what we ended up with after the original Justice League. He also showed a ton more of Cyborg’s origin, which was IMO extremely important given his undeniable importance to the overall story – the original was basically “hey here’s a guy who is part computer and can do computery stuff” with no real background.

IMO, Batman was significantly better in the Snyder Cut than the original, Cyborg was infinitely better, the Flash was better. Wonder Woman and Superman were more or less the same. Steppenwolf was far more formidable. Plus there was an actual REASON for him to be on Earth, which the original did not have.

If you’re worried about the length of time, watch it in increments. That’s why they made 6 segments. 🤷‍♂️

The original was fine. The bloated masturbatory Snyder cut was not fine.

Describing it with that terminology does not discourage me from watching it

Rube is basically the only person I’ve seen not raving about it, FWIW

Hmm, no he’s not. “Bloated mess” is a pretty common description from anyone over the age of 16 who doesn’t live in their moms basement.

There’s a reason why the job position of Editor holds power in a film, it’s necessary and keeps a directors whim in check. In this case you had a director doing his own editing and a 4 HOUR slog was the result. That does not make a good movie, that makes a self-indulgent piece of crap.

I did say “the only person I’ve seen”. I hadn’t sought out movie reviewer opinions on it because they rarely have good things to say about superhero movies.

And for the record, none of the people I’ve seen raving about are under the age of 21 and most own their own house and their own kids. (At least of the ones I know personally, I’m assuming about the twitter accounts).

Was it longer than it needed to be? Probably. But he also made this with the expectation that his original plan for a trilogy was never going to come to fruition (though given the audience score is 95% on RottenTomatoes and had a count of 3005 positive to 184 negative reviews on Metacritic, I wouldn’t be totally shocked if DCU lets him do them after all).

He also made this movie before we had any real introduction to Momoa as Aquaman and Ezra as Barry. So he included parts of the film to give more vision to what HE had in mind rather than what we ended up with after the original Justice League. He also showed a ton more of Cyborg’s origin, which was IMO extremely important given his undeniable importance to the overall story – the original was basically “hey here’s a guy who is part computer and can do computery stuff” with no real background.

IMO, Batman was significantly better in the Snyder Cut than the original, Cyborg was infinitely better, the Flash was better. Wonder Woman and Superman were more or less the same. Steppenwolf was far more formidable. Plus there was an actual REASON for him to be on Earth, which the original did not have.

If you’re worried about the length of time, watch it in increments. That’s why they made 6 segments. 🤷‍♂️

Fair enough. My own opinion is based on the original intention of this film. Until he had to leave this WAS to be a theater release. Even IF he had stayed with the project it was never going to be a 6 segment experience or even his dream of a trilogy. So this “cut” is unrealistic business-wise. He walked away with hours of rough film and this Snyder Cut is just an example of a director who thinks everything he touches is gold. It’s not. Film stories need to be told in a concise and clear manner. Not being able to edit your work shows ego and questionable judgement. What I DO like is the totally different “look” he intended, color and light made a much different feel and I liked that part. What I didn’t like was the stretchiiiiiiiiiiiing out of the story. Maybe the real issue is if superhero stories can still be effectively told on the big screen? Or, if the audience has become more sophisticated, which I think it has, a multi-episode format is now almost a requirement.

The original was fine. The bloated masturbatory Snyder cut was not fine.

Describing it with that terminology does not discourage me from watching it

Rube is basically the only person I’ve seen not raving about it, FWIW

Hmm, no he’s not. “Bloated mess” is a pretty common description from anyone over the age of 16 who doesn’t live in their moms basement.

There’s a reason why the job position of Editor holds power in a film, it’s necessary and keeps a directors whim in check. In this case you had a director doing his own editing and a 4 HOUR slog was the result. That does not make a good movie, that makes a self-indulgent piece of crap.

I did say “the only person I’ve seen”. I hadn’t sought out movie reviewer opinions on it because they rarely have good things to say about superhero movies.

And for the record, none of the people I’ve seen raving about are under the age of 21 and most own their own house and their own kids. (At least of the ones I know personally, I’m assuming about the twitter accounts).

Was it longer than it needed to be? Probably. But he also made this with the expectation that his original plan for a trilogy was never going to come to fruition (though given the audience score is 95% on RottenTomatoes and had a count of 3005 positive to 184 negative reviews on Metacritic, I wouldn’t be totally shocked if DCU lets him do them after all).

He also made this movie before we had any real introduction to Momoa as Aquaman and Ezra as Barry. So he included parts of the film to give more vision to what HE had in mind rather than what we ended up with after the original Justice League. He also showed a ton more of Cyborg’s origin, which was IMO extremely important given his undeniable importance to the overall story – the original was basically “hey here’s a guy who is part computer and can do computery stuff” with no real background.

IMO, Batman was significantly better in the Snyder Cut than the original, Cyborg was infinitely better, the Flash was better. Wonder Woman and Superman were more or less the same. Steppenwolf was far more formidable. Plus there was an actual REASON for him to be on Earth, which the original did not have.

If you’re worried about the length of time, watch it in increments. That’s why they made 6 segments. 🤷‍♂️

Fair enough. My own opinion is based on the original intention of this film. Until he had to leave this WAS to be a theater release. Even IF he had stayed with the project it was never going to be a 6 segment experience or even his dream of a trilogy. So this “cut” is unrealistic business-wise. He walked away with hours of rough film and this Snyder Cut is just an example of a director who thinks everything he touches is gold. It’s not. Film stories need to be told in a concise and clear manner. Not being able to edit your work shows ego and questionable judgement. What I DO like is the totally different “look” he intended, color and light made a much different feel and I liked that part. What I didn’t like was the stretchiiiiiiiiiiiing out of the story. Maybe the real issue is if superhero stories can still be effectively told on the big screen? Or, if the audience has become more sophisticated, which I think it has, a multi-episode format is now almost a requirement.

Unless you know something I don’t, the Justice League was intended to be a series a la MCU’s Avengers. DCU was originally planning to have individual hero movies (Superman, Batman, Aquaman, Wonder Woman, IIRC there is a Flash movie coming next year) and then the team-ups with various Justice League characters like this one. Even the theatrical release teased the sequel before it got terrible reviews and they scrapped it.

The thing that the MCU has done so well in comparison is character development. Each character in the original Avengers movie had layers of backstory that was easy to see if you watched the rest. Really the only one that didn’t have in-depth backstop was Hawkeye, but he also got more backstory than Flash or Cyborg in the original Justice League release.

I didn’t know I was supposed to gauge my enjoyment of a movie on whether the director seems like a dick or not

A director can be a complete a-hole. I don’t care. Can he direct a movie and make it entertaining? That’s all I care about.

In this case, Snyder fawned over himself way too much, and made a not good movie.

The bar isn’t high but I thought it was the best DC movie so far

Is anyone else excited for Godzilla vs. Kong and Mortal Kombat?

MK looks like it is going to be extremely gory and very fun.

Godzilla v Kong should be super entertaining too.

Is anyone else excited for Godzilla vs. Kong and Mortal Kombat?

MK looks like it is going to be extremely gory and very fun.

Godzilla v Kong should be super entertaining too.

Really excited for Mortal Kombat. One of my favorite games as a kid and the movie looks to be pure fighting and nonsense. Sign me up.

Is anyone else excited for Godzilla vs. Kong and Mortal Kombat?

MK looks like it is going to be extremely gory and very fun.

Godzilla v Kong should be super entertaining too.

Godzilla v Kong. Hell yes.

Also Matrix 4.

Looking forward to Godzilla vs. Kong even though I predict critics will hate it.

As for the Matrix 4 it can’t be worse than 2 and 3 can it?

I loved the ending to Matrix 2. Loved. 3 was a bit bloated for the war scenes.

The King of the Monsters movie was better than I expected which I’m hoping will continue. They seem to be building a franchise but I’m not sure how far they can go without character development.

Also, why in the hell did I think “Step Brothers” was worth my time? Took about 10 minutes to realize I should have listened to my gut.

Step Brothers is an American treasure. Boats N Hoes should have won a Grammy.

I like a lot of dumb comedy. This was painful.

Also, why in the hell did I think “Step Brothers” was worth my time? Took about 10 minutes to realize I should have listened to my gut.

Step Brothers is an American treasure. Boats N Hoes should have won a Grammy.

I like a lot of dumb comedy. This was painful.

You have to watch it a few times….then a few more times.

Not gonna happen. It’s just not….

The King of the Monsters movie was better than I expected which I’m hoping will continue. They seem to be building a franchise but I’m not sure how far they can go without character development.

King of the Monsters was far better than I thought it would be. Part of why I’m excited for Godzilla vs Kong

I’m traditional Goijra guy, but some of the newer ones were rather entertaining. I feel like they’ve learned from their mistakes over time, and have improved a little with each new release. I am certain it will be fun. That’s all I ask. If it ends up being ZOMG? Bonus.

I’ve seen enough of those movies, especially with Ferrell and Reilly,to know where this one was headed.

Also, why in the hell did I think “Step Brothers” was worth my time? Took about 10 minutes to realize I should have listened to my gut.

How dare you!!

He really loves to be wrong a lot doesn’t he?

Also, why in the hell did I think “Step Brothers” was worth my time? Took about 10 minutes to realize I should have listened to my gut.

Step Brothers is an American treasure. Boats N Hoes should have won a Grammy.

I like a lot of dumb comedy. This was painful.

Call me Dragon, but I enjoyed it and watch bits of it when it is on television.

Re-watching “Godzilla” (2014), “Kong: Skull Island” (2017) and “Godzilla: King of the Monsters” (2019) before I view “Godzilla vs. Kong”

I’ve seen enough of those movies, especially with Ferrell and Reilly,to know where this one was headed.

Step Brothers was the reason all their other movies got made but they never quite recreated the magic of SB.

Godzilla vs. Kong was very fun.