I was trying to figure out what euphemism "keys" might be...

Posted about it a few pages ago. Good mindless fun.

I was hoping it was short for "keys to my heart." I haven't heard anybody use that line since the 60s, but I've always remained quite fond of it.

The Sixth Sense - the last time I watched this was when it came out. It has held up well, other than a couple of scenes that involve VHS tapes and the old school huge camcorders. Strange that a tech difference <20 years old can be so distracting.

Toni Collette absolutely deserved her Oscar nomination, and HJO did great work here as well. Bruce Willis isn't a good actor in general, but it was a travesty to include him. The only reason he was there was to make it up to Disney for the Broadway Brawler fiasco, so it's not surprising that he phoned it in, but it's hard not to wonder what this movie would have been with a committed professional.

OK for a rewatch but don't need to see it again any time in the next 20 years.

Bruce Willis is a perfectly fine actor

I agree. He's a serviceable actor who's nowhere near Stallone levels of terribleness for example.

Yes, that was the problem.

Not going to argue that Bruce Willis has a huge range or something, but I like him in that role very much. He was also very good in Unbreakable.

I've seen a lot of films in my time, ~2000. Congrats to Neon Demon on being the first film to ever make me physically ill. Quite the accomplishment. That film took such a crazy absurdist turn in the final 3rd that I just have no idea what to make of it. Feel like it is going to follow in Only God Forgives footsteps of me not rating it after watching it because I have no idea what just happened, but then i'll watch it again in a month and love it.

I now know the 3 glaring omissions from The Devil Wears Prada that this film has to make it the more complete take on the model world

k just read some stuff on it, and watched a couple video essays and i'm pretty sure the film is incredible.

My heart is locked.

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Don't believe the hype,you were right the first time.



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Angel Heart (1987)

Mickey Rourke plays a PI who gets hired by Robert De Niro to investigate a missing person. The movie quickly goes down a dark road of murder, the dark arts, satanic worship, and a phenomenally violent/sexy scene involving Lisa Bonet form the Cosby Show.

The movie stumbles in the middle, as he goes from locale to locale in New Orleans to gather more clues, and then meets up with De Niro or a cop or a lawyer to review what we have just been watching along the way. The movie redeems itself in the final reveal, and all the confusing Lynchian moments actually are explained quite well. The end credits with the elevator ride was a nice little cherry on top.

I thought it was OK. I enjoyed it.

Fairly believable depiction of a bunch of idiots with guns.

Not as silly as the previews.

Trigger Warnings: John Denver; 1970s fashions.

Best film version of Oedipus Rex. That could be a spoiler, but I doubt it.

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What Dreams May Come was very nice to watch after The Grey. It's based on the Richard Matheson story but is quite different. A stunning and powerful performance from Robin Williams, as well as an emotional role from Cuba Gooding Jr that on the heels of Jerry Maguire had me convinced he would be in powerhouse roles for many years to come (wrong, wrong, wrong...but now he's back!).

The depictions of an afterlife, heaven, and hell never feel overly religious or specific to any theology in particular (with a few exceptions). The subject matter of suicide and the power of love to help bring the hopeless back from the brink feels more powerful and a bit melancholy in the wake of the still recent loss of Robin Williams.

In some ways, even as an analogy, the film is just a fantasy. Mental illness can be devastating and, unfortunately, a condition that even love cannot save someone from. But the movie is effective and affecting, and to be honest, sometimes I like my dramas to end with a sense of hope and joy.

Brilliant film

don't listen to this

Copland. The original Rocky. Stallone can act, but chooses not to a lot of the time.

you actually couldn't be more wrong.

willis had a deal with disney where he was under contract to do another film but he had the right to pick any project that disney developed and he got the script for the sixth sense and demanded to play the role of the dead doctor.

at the time M night was total unknown and it was going to be his 1st film he was directing and he only got the deal because he refused to sell the script if he didn't get a pay or play guarantee to direct.

disney was horrified as they wanted the sixth sense to be some small pic (the most senior execs were actually furious that they were even making the sixth sense the guy who made the deal got a ton of **** for making the deal as he didn't clear it with his higher ups and it pretty much ruined his career at disney)
and having willis involved would instantly make the film high profile and they had no choice but to allow M night to direct the film thanks to his deal.

bruce's agent couldn't believe they gave the unknown director a pay or play guarantee and called up the exec in charge of the film and screamed at him calling him an idiot for not firing the director and getting some big name to make the film and the exec basically told his agent to STFU and who did he think he was etc and said the only reason they were able to make the film at all was they were letting the kid direct.

disney was positive once willis learned that a first time unknown screenwriter was going to direct the film he would back out (they were praying he would) but he showed up on set the first day ready to go and fully supported M night.

now you may not like willis as an actor but its totally incorrect to say he phoned it in or was unprofessional, and i actually think hes done a great job in most of the movies he's been in.
he was great in 12 monkeys.

edit: ive only seen the 6th sense once and don't even really remember it that well, and im not some M night junkie (dont really like him much) but i read disneywars which is how i know all this. btw its a really fascinating book and i highly recommend it.

Oh snap, that reminds me, I read the majority of DisneyWar in 2006 but didn't finish. Need to go back. I was somewhere up to the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire stuff. Storming the Magic Kingdom is a great book about Disney in the bad period just before Eisner, with Wall St. takeover drama etc.

The Founder - Good Movie, I didn't know the whole story or forgot most of it.

So I came home late after playing poker and made myself a peanut butter and jelly sandwich, and turned on the TV. It was on an HBO channel and I found myself in the middle of some jungle horror movie. It looked like it was trying to ape something like "Cannibal Holocaust" but without the, uh, production value.

I immediate saw a guy get de-limbed, de-tongued, and de-eyed...and then cooked by these Amazon cannibals. And it all looked so fak that it wasn't even offensive.

So then I looked at what I was waching, and it was something called The Green Inferno, and the director was Eli Roth. So then I was like.....

Ohhhhhhh....now I know why it's so bad.

Holy crap, I don't think there's been a movie made this bad since, well, I guess since the last Eli Roth film.

This guy makes Ed Wood look like a man with talent.

Oh yeah, and there was a big diarrhea scene for no discernible reason. While locked in a bamboo cage with the rest of the soon-to-be- Main Courses, and they all looked at her like, "Ewwwww, gross!" While their other friend is being eaten.

Nice movie, I recommend it!

^^^^^^

LOL.

Coincidentally, I walked over to the local theater last night and also watched a movie that was set in the Amazonian jungle and also included a "dinner" scene with a tribe of cannibals. However, that's where the similarities end as I was watching a truly wonderful film that I can highly recommend to others: The Lost City of Z. It is the (somewhat) true story of the British explorer Percy Fawcett.

I'm sure that many of you are familiar with Percy Fawcett and what ultimately became of his forays into the unexplored regions of the Amazonian jungle, but I don't want to write any more about it or him, because I think that those of you who aren't familiar with the story will enjoy the movie that much more if you don't know the ending. So if you don't know about him, but plan on seeing the movie, don't Wikipedia him, and don't read anything about the movie or his explorations.

I can say that even if you know about him and/or are not interested in his story, the movie is still worth seeing simply for the production value and the cinematography. It is an epic film. The acting also is superb. I'll close my mini-review (such as it is) with an embedded trailer that doesn't give away too much information.

I enjoyed the book version of Lost City of Z. It's amazing how many people who knew absolutely nothing about exploring just went out and explored the Amazon. People would head out and never return and then volunteers with no experience at all would send off to rescue them and then people would head out to rescue the rescuers... I guess that was just the trendy thing to do at the time.

The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey

Is a good book