I do agree that the acting was good in Moonlight, I just think too many things happened that weren't continued sufficiently. The biggest being how the two lead male characters left things with each other at the end of act 2 and then somehow when they meet again everything is more or less forgiven and forgotten. Yes they are a bit awkward around one another sure, but that mostly comes from it being 10 years since they last met. What happened at the end of act 2 had a major impact on the main characters life, and the impetus for that was his friends betrayal of him. When they meet again it's as if that never happened and they're acting as if their experience on the beach was the last time they had seen each other. I just wasn't feeling that.

There's others too, but that's the biggest and most egregious imo.

I would have felt better about it if when they met up years later, if Little man just beat the crap out of him for punking him out years before. Then I would say the movie was at least average but still not even close to Movie of the year.

Or threw him out of the car and kept driving. And final scene is Little smiling and saying "nobody messes with me now."

Then they cut to black and a DMX song is playing, a real hard one.

Was bad Santa I I as bad as I thought? My mind recoiled in horror so badly that with 10 minutes to go in the film, I simply leaned over and hit the stop button and I have absolutely no desire to know how the movie ends.

How was it?

If you're talking about the first one, I decided to revisit it last year after a strong recommendation and I thought it was borderline intolerable.

The first Bad Santa was one of the worst recent so called comedies I've seen, made all the worse by it being recommended to me by a close friend.

The 1st Bad Santa was 14 years ago, hardly recent. lol

It was not bad at all, several funny parts. Much better than part 2.

the original bad santa had its moments the sequel I had to turn off 10mins in it was so terrible.

Part 2 was "the Suck!"
amazingly bad... not even "mailed in" bad, just outright bad.


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to wash my brain, I watched Runaway Train again... so elite.



The live action train shots alone are worth the price of admission.

if you're not making a trip to the cinema right about now, you're doing it wrong. currently 7 movies of all different genres with a 90% or higher on Rotten Tomatoes in wide release:

Logan
Get Out
Lego Batman
John Wick
Hidden Figures
La La Land
Moonlight

Kong Skull Island (83%) coming this weekend

I thought you was my friend Manny.

Logan was amazing and is certainly by a distance the best X Men universe movie yet released.

It made no sense. The entire movie was a giant wtf cluster ****. The plot, world, characters behaviour, nothing was understandable. It tries to ask big philosophical questions and fails entirely. It was awful. I was so hyped for it as well. Covenant will hopefully be much better.

Logan was damn good...the little girl was amazing.

Logan was really good as a road movie, but went downhill when the baddie was revealed and it turned into more standard comic book fare. Could have lopped at least 20 minutes off the running time.

Can't believe that the BBFC only gave it a 15 rating. It's as graphically violent as many 18s I've seen. I'm sure it would have been rated 18 twenty years ago, when I was around 15.

Manchester by the Sea - Interesting, Different, Depressing, Worth the watch, Worthy of the Nomination. Like most movies these days the ending is lacking. Overall 7.5

Another non complete for me... Suicide Squad.

Jesus, what was that trash.

I turned it off 15 minutes in

Saw moonlight last night. Loved it but felt so much like boyhood

Kinda mad at myself for not turning Suicide Squad off in the first 15 minutes, you guys made good decisions.

Logan was OK, but it is definitely overhyped. It's enjoyable, but nowhere near as good as people are raving about. More than a couple of sketchy story issues. Great mood throughout. The acting is wonderful. Both Patrick Stewart and Dafne Keen absolutely kill it. Jackman did a fine job, but those two really outshone him the entire time. How a 11 year old kid can be that good at acting blows my mind. Most child actors are horrible, but she was not only good, she was phenomenal. Certainly worth a watch, but don't believe the hype.

LOGAN

Why do we love Wolverine so much... Hint : it is not because of Hughes Jackman's charismatic persona, despite it being effective... We love Logan because like him, we feel vulnerable... In pain... Victim of a constant influx of inflicting scars... Human, too human.


From the GetGo, as soon as the first camera shot exposes a vulnerable/ageing Wolverine and the music score strikes a tragic cord, we know that we are in for a rough journey...





Old age... Self-destructive tendencies... Senile... The end of innocence... Pain at its raw, elemental level...





In a day and age where we, the audience, are swamped with a non-stop influx of cheap superhero movies, it has become a necessity to slow down the process, indulge in the usage of longer camera shots, in an emotionally embracive music score... In Trump's America, it becomes necessary to go back to the roots, to revisit that primary relationship of man with land... A passage in time that is gracefully executed in the movie by the portrait of a black American family instilled with simple values ; a foundation that alas escapes the Wolverine who refuses to settle down by fear of always losing/exposing loved ones.

Logan is executed with intent : each sparse action scene is charged with emotions, with an astonishing anger that is unleashed in an surge of unprecedented fury.

But when it comes down to it, the ultimate battle will always be

A must see movie.

Kind of on the Logan theme, X Men: Apocalypse premiered on HBO last night. Watched about an hour, didn't like, did other things, came back for the end. Meh.

Had a chance to go see Logan Friday afternoon and chose to finish up what I was working on. I'm 0-for-2 this weekend.

yep Logan was incredible, must see imo.

How much of a problem is it if I haven't seen any prior X-Men or Wolverine movie?