I realize that I am very late to the party on this one, but I just saw Hell or High Water on my transatlantic flight back home from Paris yesterday. What a fantastically (is that a word?) well-written and well-acted film! I can't believe that I hadn't gotten around to seeing it until just now.

Although all of the actors were great, ironically, the one that I liked the "least" (and I use the term loosely), Jeff Bridges, is the only one who received an Academy Award nomination. Now I'm a big Jeff Bridges fan and I think he did a credible job in the movie, it's just that I've seen him play basically the same role in the same exact away in several different movies, including most notably, True Grit and R.I.P.D. There was nothing original that he brought to the role in this incarnation and I didn't think that it was Oscar worthy.

I thought that Chris Pine and especially Ben Foster deserved recognition. I've liked Chris Pine as an actor ever since I first saw him in Bottle Shock about 10 years ago, but I was really blown away by Ben Foster's tour-de-force performance. And even all of the minor characters seemed right on point for small-town West Texas.

What an absolutely great movie.

Chris pine was great as a meth trotting racist redneck murderer in Smokin Aces

Loved this movie, but...

Tried to watch The Revenant but just couldn't do it. I forced myself to watch about 45 minutes hating pretty much every second of it. Life is too short to watch stuff you know you hate

More than you could bear!

Finders Keepers Hilarious and touching documentary about two men battling over a foot. A real foot....that turned up in a BBQ grill.

I don't want to give away too much.

This is a MUST SEE. You will not be disappointed.

Yeah, I had to put it on paws. Too grizzly.

Get out seems like the type of movie that's great on first visit,but on reflection or additional viewings falls apart.



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I thought it was a pretty decent suspense horror movie with at least one good performance and a surface deep racial metaphor. The latter two pieces being much more than you normally get in the genre, elevating it for viewers and critics alike.

This thread has just redeemed itself.

finders keepers is great

You're nuts! What a beautiful movie. Acting is top notch. Great story.

My favorite part of it all was getting to really experience what life might have been like as a fur trader in Canada in the 1800s. It was a crazy ride.

Yeah, they were mostly always on kill crazy rampages. That's why there was so little actual fur traded.


The new Alien:

Saw it Sun and just realized I haven't thought about it since maybe 10 minutes after it ended. Not a good sign.


Of course the aliens were cool



But C'mon Ridley! How about tightening that mess up a bit, Jesus

ah ok that makes sense.

well for me what really stood out was the visuals and audio/music.
thought it was just really beautifully shot and well crafted from start to finish.

the plot was whatever, tons of holes obv



but i didn't really care about any of that as it was just tons of fun and really nice to look at.

also thought the lead actor was really fantastic.

I rewatched Nobody's Fool tonight because I'm reading the sequel of the novel. It's a pretty good early 90s family feel-good kinda movie, little too sentimental for me. Robert Benton directed. Paul Newman is ofc great as always as Sully, the main character. Aging ne'er-do-well mensch type in a small town. Good cast, Jessica Tandy is his crusty landlady who's fond of him. I was expecting her to die, but she doesn't quite. Lots of quirky characters! Get this, the lawyer has a fake leg that he loses in poker games, hahaha!

Melanie Griffith's tittays should have won the oscar that year

Wow, I was glued to the screen. What a beautiful movie and a hell of a ride.

I was impressed with it but found the storyline a little dull.

Hardy's pouty lips and incessant mumbling can be hard to tolerate

My biggest complaint was being unable to understand Hardy. I could understand getting bored with the movie, but I'm surprised it happened within the first 45 minutes.

Yea the opening scene in The Revenant is incredible, amazing someone could turn it off.

Enjoyed the movie and would watch again, but I was really put off by Dicaprio. Felt like 75% of his dialogue was grunting and wheezing that was just annoying me more and more over time

Hardy was the better actor in that film although he continues his streak of absolutely ridiculous accents. He needs an accent/voice coach desperately.

Very good movie and I thought you liked sentimental. I love this line from that movie:

Someone asks Newman if he wants tea

"Not now. Not ever."

Also of note is the atypical role for Bruce Willis.