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Saw Frozen 2 a couple weekends ago...not as good as Frozen but there were some catchy tunes...the 80s style power ballad by Kristoff was simply a masterpiece
Have not seen them, wouldn’t be opposed to it now.
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They are awful, but some are awful in a good way. Don't expect great cinema, it's like if you took the quality of the original Shaft and Shaft 2 took them down a 50 levels.
Anybody seen 1917 yet?
Weren’t we watching one of them 20 years ago? And Dolemite has to swerve from being hit by a mic boom?
I remember you when you drank rum.Saw Frozen 2 a couple weekends ago...not as good as Frozen but there were some catchy tunes...the 80s style power ballad by Kristoff was simply a masterpiece
I remember you when you drank rum.
I went to see it yesterday.Anybody seen 1917 yet?
The previews told you that!Ed Astra.
Holy **** that movie sucked.
The previews told you that!
I was on a plane. Thought I’d give it a chance.
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Well you were the one that talked me into watching Rocky 5, so i'm not believing this defense.
Mrs G and I went to see this last night and enjoyed it very much. (Of course, I enjoy any movie that I can see at a Movie Tavern - recliners, beer, food, and wide aisles - and it was $5 Tuesday!) You pretty much hit all the highlights, but my two biggest "this" comments to your post would have to be the effect of the "single take" and the advice to see it on a big screen. Definitely glad I saw it in a theater - and we have a 70" TV!I went to see it yesterday.
I realize that I am jaded on these (not in the nitpicky detail way, just in the general way), so I'm writing this in a "pre-jaded" way! ;) Because let's be honest, no movie can capture smell and filth and adrenaline and fear and horror... we ain't there YET in the 4D and beyond movie experience!
It is beautifully filmed and the attention to detail is great. The whole "single take" effect is pretty amazing too. It should win all kinds of awards for that kind of stuff. The first third of the movie had an odd side-effect for me given how they did the "single take." For that first third of the movie, I totally felt like I was flashing back to playing the original Game Cube versions of Call of Duty and Medal of Honor games with Sons #1 and #2, when you were in "campaign mode" and each time you finished a section of the game, the game would take over when you "met" an "in game character" that would look at you and talk at you and lead you around to the next stage/mission. It wasn't a CGI thing, it was that the effect tried to make you feel like you were with them, but I felt like I was in a video game. Not a bad thing, it was just a strange effect for me. That "issue" resolves itself with a plot turn.
I don't want to say anything else about the story, cuz it would ruin things. I could add a bunch of nitpicky detail things that don't fall into "jaded", but would fall more into "they didn't have a good military adviser like Saving Private Ryan" for the things the soldiers did. I'm talking about things veteran soldiers (and they were) would not do, but I think they did it for the audience so that "we" would see more things.
All in all, it's a really good movie worth seeing, especially on the big screen. You'd need at least a 65" TV to do it any justice. It really is a "2 man Saving Private Ryan" story line set in WWI, so novel in that way and the way it was filmed, but I would still put Saving Private Ryan WELL above this, but it is good, shot differently than any other movie you've seen, and visually very well done.