RBK! It's great to hear from you!

The Jungle Book https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3040964/

I had my young nephew over so we sat down to watch this
and I swear I enjoyed it more than he did.
This is by far the best version of the Jungle Book story I have seen.
It's an absolute blast.
Star-studded cast that includes Bill Murray, Idris Alba and Christopher Walken,
who sings 'I wanna be like you-o-o' as only Christopher Walken can.

If you have kids, get this movie.

Tonight - The Long Good Friday (1980)
Saturday - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
Sunday - Life of Brian (1979)

Somewhere, got to work in Here Comes Peter Cottontail (Rankin/Bass 1971)

The late Bob Hoskins was terrific in The Long Good Friday.

3-way tie with Godfather Pt.2 and Public Enemy for Most Wrenching Final Shot of a gangster movie, but for acting moment, it’s Hoskins all the way. Just phenomenal.

thanks again guys u all rock.
somehow despite all the time ive spent in bed the last two months i haven't watched too many movies, but i did see a documentary called MERU on netflix and it was really good.

about the attempted of meru, and man is it intense.

highly recommend.

those meru dudes are lunatics. Good movie.

I'm not much into superhero movies, in fact, I'd never even heard of Black Panther until this movie came out, so it took me six weeks or so to finally getting around to seeing it. And frankly, the only reason I did so was because I heard it has made over a billion dollars to date, so I thought I should see what all the excitement was about. And boy, am I glad I did. I agree with everything written by The Dark Knight & Cranberry Tea. Suffice it to say that I thought the film was fantastic, and I especially liked the fact that the villain wasn't the usual evil mad genius or god-like superhuman wanting to destroy the world. I also thought it was cute that a line of dialogue in the movie made no sense until you watched the second of the two end credit scenes at the very end of the credits.

Well done, Marvel.

Bob Hoskins was a fantastic Iago.

I really enjoyed Meru. Here's my post on it:

1$... 1$ is what I paid for the cinema in Peru (2$ on the weekends and this is not in Lima) Obviously, the image left to be desired...

Ready Player One was a fun ride and just the perfect CGI movie for my mediocre Spanish

I could not get into Ready Player One at all. It as totally predictable, the plot and writing was awful and only tried to bank on 80s nostalgia; however I'm not at all nostalgic for the 80s plus it seems like I've been bombarded with it lately.

Felt like the bad guy of the film wrote the movie yet we're all rooting against him for whatever reason. The movie exploits the worst parts of nostalgia and glorifies all the negative aspects.

Huh, he's not godlike but he's wanting to "destroy the world" for sure. He's the same as Hydra in Winter soldier. Black Hitler, basically.

This line from Black Panther gets no mention in the press at all:

It's as if that line were never spoken.

RBK glad to see you back in here. Funny how I had posted after your accident saying how I always seemed to agree with you about movies, and then you come and post the above and I JUST posted that I loved Meru in the netflix thread. The very end made me surpisingly emotional for some reason...couldn’t really put my finger on why, but I think it could have been that I really FELT how arduous of a journey it was, and it so well documented, that I felt the emotion coming off them at the end.

Glad again to have you back here. Can’t imagine what you are going through but I’m just so glad you’re alive.

Edit: I saw above someone quoted thecroshow- does he still post? He was one of the good regs in here iirc (i do not consider myself a good one fwiw)....

yeah, real good to see RBK posting again....can't imagine what you're going through, Dude.

Did you not see the movie?

Yes. Did I miss the part where they let in all the refugees?

You apparently missed the end credit scene.

The Disaster Artist was funny but nothing that great. Franco did a really good Wiseau though.

Mind Game (2004, anime, in re-release now) - I'd actually thought this was new, so some of my criticism can now be downplayed. It's a "mind****" movie (it's basically telling you this) using lots of different animation styles, but it still has a somewhat linear and understandable story for most of it that makes it watchable.

Misogyny and creepiness is unforgivably bad, including "hot" sexual assault and your typical loser nerd "hero" who has no redeeming qualities at all and is a massive creep, but whom you're meant to root for to "get the girl". (He does tell a story that she finds humorous at one point, but that's it.) However, as stated earlier, this isn't quite as bad as I thought since it was "a different time".

Same deal for the "mind ****" aspects - they're somewhat familiar to us at this point, but in 2004 it's different. The theater still gasped and laughed at the appropriate "mind ****" moments like they were supposed to (I of course did not).

Worth watching for Phat Mack, doesn't seem like many of the rest of you care much for animation. My thumb is down.

well since we seem to have a similar taste in movies how about giving me a few recs that are available on netflix or amazon prime that i may have overlooked?

thanks brother.
i won't depress everyone and ruin the thread by describing what ive gone thru, and continue to go thru, but it has been an excellent weight loss program.

Ah, good. I didn't like that the line wasn't immediately refuted and will watch the credit scene when it gets to cable.

Why didn't you like it wasn't immediately refuted?

I took it as blanket anti-immigration.