Film Reviews - what have you seen lately, what did you think?

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As much as I believe some movies need a big screen, I’ve never been an opening weekend person. Takes a lot of stress and pressure off.
 

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As much as I believe some movies need a big screen, I’ve never been an opening weekend person. Takes a lot of stress and pressure off.
Theaters have started doing assigned seating, which solves a ton of issues about opening weekends. Long gone are the days where you'd have to show up an hour or more early just to avoid sitting in the first two rows.
 

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As much as I believe some movies need a big screen, I’ve never been an opening weekend person. Takes a lot of stress and pressure off.

Agree, the wife and I wait for the second weekend or with having every other Friday off now.. a mid day Friday showing in the second or third week. Just don't like doing the crowds.
 

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OMG. That has to be worth so much. That would be awesome to have. Just wow.
 

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OMG. That has to be worth so much. That would be awesome to have. Just wow.
Who gives a phuck about a bunch of actors, that think their political or social stance matters, dressed in tights acting like fake heroes that can save the world and whom would all be bested by Superman alone?!?!

And then the pic is devalued because of their signatures.

Plus, how do you think that one actress, bottom right, must feel about being left out of such a "OMG" moment? She prolly told Rob "druggy" Downey Jr. "no" one time.
 

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Watched Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018):

First off not enough Goldblum... Don't sell him as a star and give only 15 minutes, dude had more air time on the third Thor movie. It felt very Jurassic Park 2ish. Extremely predictable. This was really a paint by the numbers movie, and it got boring. Who didn't realize the major twist before it was revealed. I started calling out what was going to happen before it did (started pissing off Mrs Dougie who claimed I had watched it before). If Bryce Dallas Howard's dad wasn't Ron Howard would we even know who she is, I've only seen her in these two films (that I remember) and she is awful in both and this schit isn't something that takes a lot of effort. The special effects also seemed to take a back step after the first Jurassic World movie. Overall it's watchable knowing its a bad movie is fun to watch, but it is a drop in quality like Jurassic Park: Lost World was a drop in quality. I give it a 5/10.
 

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I watched triple frontier the other day. I liked it , lot of action and unpredictable ending. Ben Affleck and guy from narcos ( and game of thrones) were in it. Give it a watch.
Also The Dirt on Netflix is good , Motley Crew movie was entertaining, crazy stuff and I'm sure it was toned down for ratings reasons
Watched the Dirt last week and it was pretty good for a Netflix movie. Obviously the first half was more entertaining then the second but still a good movie.
 

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Who gives a phuck about a bunch of actors, that think their political or social stance matters, dressed in tights acting like fake heroes that can save the world and whom would all be bested by Superman alone?!?!

And then the pic is devalued because of their signatures.

Plus, how do you think that one actress, bottom right, must feel about being left out of such a "OMG" moment? She prolly told Rob "druggy" Downey Jr. "no" one time.
:triggered:
 

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The Shape of Water - The other major contender for best picture. Gorgeous film, beautiful love story, great performances, perfect score, and some sea creature lovin'. Joe Bob will love the amount of boobs and ass in this. Gonna be really interesting to see if this or Three Billboards takes the big prize home.
Sas is right. Joe Bob loved the full frontal in this one. It starts with our girl doing the she-bop in a bath tub then she goes full frontal a few times. I'm betting the actress even forewent a merkin for her art. Such sacrifice. It's a weird one though. It asks the burning question we've all contemplated. What if the CIA captured the creature from the black lagoon and a deaf custodian fell in love (sexually speaking) with it. I know I've always wanted to know. Joe Bob says check it out - and bring the Kleenex.
 

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Ready Player One - in the future the world is a little crappier than it is now. A genius creates a world where you can go to get away from real life. When he dies is hides clues in it so that anyone who solves the puzzles gets his fortune. Naturally the regular people are racing to stop the evil corporations from getting there first. After five years no one found any and that leads to the start of the movie.

Visually this movie is amazing and I lost track of all the pop culture references and characters that showed up in the film. You name them and they are probably there.

The plot was good enough and the majority of the cast was solid with a few of them standing out above others. The guy who plays the creator is a extremely solid actor.

Video game cleavage but no boobs shown or harmed. 7/10
Watched this on the plane home yesterday, really enjoyed it. The I-R0k character’s lines cracked me up... they cast that guys voice/lines perfectly, he’s always like that
 

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Triple Frontier (Netflix) - This has a great cast with Affleck and Issiac leading the way. Follows a group of mostly retired special forces soldiers. One of them still does contract work and gets a deal where they will get to keep most of the drug money that they seize after that countries government takes a cut. He recruits his old team and they go in, but of course problems occur after obtaining all of the money and it is a race for survival.

This movie is good but not great. could have gone to a theater as well as Netflix, but don't think it would have fared much better. It an above average Netflix film that is entertaining when you want to watch something new. 6/10.

Watched this yesterday. Decent flick, IMO. I enjoyed the usual 'pull the team together, plan the job' scenes and they brought in both the personal connections between the players as well as made them human. I expected more chase from Drug Cartel guys, but all in all it had a decent 'try to escape' theme going once they stole the money. Ending twist was one of those things where I said 'why isn't someone doing this' and then forgot about it until someone did it. 6.5/10
 

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Shazam (2019) in theater

Took the wife, daughter (13), and son (10). First, let us remind everyone it is 2:12 long, more than your usual 90min action comedy romp. My wife got confused at the opening, because they started with the origin of the villain, rather than our hero...the rest of us straightened her out. At the end, the wife loved it, son and I enjoyed it, and my daughter liked the popcorn and a refill of rootbeer (though, I suspect she liked it as well). There are a few swear words, but kids these days are getting used to that. The opening several scenes (origin of villain) are pretty dark and violent - the wife and I were looking at each other like 'this is PG-13?'. But the balance of the movie was pretty good. The lead is a 14y old orphan, whom the actor portrayed really well. Perhaps as much of a lead is his foster-home brother, mostly because the brother is in most scenes whereas Billy Batson/Shazam split time between the teen kid and the young man playing the super hero (Zachary Levi). Levi plays the teenage boy in a super-hero body VERY well, though I'd be concerned for him getting type cast from it. Bottom line, he carried it off quite well throughout the film. Several scenes where there are cute and funny moments or lines, decent job of moving the story along and not getting bogged down. No boobs, but the mom (Marta Milans) is a poor man's Angelina Jolie and the sister (Grace Fulton) ain't too bad to watch either. Plenty of teen humor, but it plays for all ages. Coming out, the wife and I agreed it was good, but while so many movies these days try to appeal to a range of ages from 7-70 and generally succeed (Lego movie, star wars series, Pixar flicks) this one appeared to be trying to appeal to the wide age range but not really settling into any of them. That's more of a knock than a complement. Worth seeing with the kids and family, only partly worth seeing if you are a DC or comics fan in general, the others of you won't miss anything by skipping it. 7/10
 

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