21 jump street was great

+1

Wilson

Woody Harrelson: played by Woody Harrelson.
St Louis: Dissed.
First Half: Very very funny.
Last Half: Not so much.
Character Study: In search of a plot.
Plot: MIA.

Wait for TV, then watch first half.

Bad Santa 2 was better than I expected. Not great, but I laughed a lot.

Hell Or High Water was fantastic. Great job by the lead actor. Jeff Bridges was also damn good. Really enjoyed it.

haha

Needed to be more sinister, lol at the ending.

Many bad comedies seem like they're able to put together a trailer that appeals to the average person. How often have you seen an obviously awful comedy trailer and then heard the people nearby whispering "oh my god that looks so funny!"

When movie tickets were $6 a person can justify seeing anything, now people are more selective.

I am pretty lucky, might live in best city for cinema in the UK in that 2 of the 3 city centre cinemas tickets are only £4. Also the 3rd is only £3.20 for students. I still only go every few months.

I agree with this... "is this worth seeing at the theater" is nearly always the overwhelming factor when non critical viewing of a movie comes into play.

Plus these days most folks have a large screen high def flat panel with surround sound so it's a little better experience at home now from the 25" tube days.

I Origins http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2884206/
A chance meeting takes a molecular biologist on a painful path to a discovery that could change the way we think of evolution.
Great sci-fi drama from Mike Cahill who also directed Another Earth.

Anybody "inspired" to see a comedy is probably an *******, but they see the flicks because they think they'll be funny. 21 Jump street, in particular, was legitimately great and only pertinent to the old show in that it was a subversion of it.

Nobody is going to see big screen versions of these old shows, but movies toying with the old ideas will at least get some attention; and watching a legitimately good comedy with a room full of like-minded people is a special thing worthy of $15 popcorn.

Dates is a big reason. Also why terrible horror does well. It's a genre i like but yet 90% is truly awful.

Took my 8-year old son to see Power Rangers this weekend while my wife and daughter saw Beauty and the Beast.

I actually really enjoyed it. I never watched the TV show (aside from catching a few minutes here and there). I was a bit older than the target demo when it debuted and never really liked what I saw when I saw it, anyway.

I was more than happy to try the new movie out, though, since my kid wanted to see it. It was fun and quite well done, I thought. There were the typical cheesy, melodramatic teenage angst lines and it took a bit too long to actually get to the part where they become Power Rangers, but it was good.

The actors who played the Power Rangers don't really seem to be great actors, but it didn't really matter. I did think RJ Cyler was a standout as the Blue Ranger and Bill Hader was a lot of fun as the comedic robot.

EDIT: My son LOVED it, which is really what matters.

i was just thinking about this when the trailer for some PG-rated old timey golf movie was played over and over during the tournament this week. whos going to see that?

Thought about seeing Life, but bad reviews drove me away. Maybe I'll catch it when it's on DVD. Basically this:


Get Out had an amazing ability to creep me out and make me laugh at the same time. Loved the awkward dialogue. The theater audience really reacted to the ending; think it touched a nerve.

Herzog's Queen of the Desert is finally being released

Watched a couple of really good movies yesterday

Ratcatcher was ugly and beautiful at the same time, interesting use of slow motion in some scenes. Child actors were good. Opening credits/scene is great:



House of Tolerance was a strange and disturbing look into life at a Parisian brothel around 1900. Very curious structure with some gambles style-wise that worked imo, plus beautiful to look at. I liked it a lot but yeah pretty bleak this one also. This trailer for it is cool but NSFW:

Life

Yawn! If you've seen the trailer, you know exactly what you're getting with this Alien rip off. Deep space, claustrophobic environment, alien life form who's really strong and smart, and crew members getting picked off one by one. Now they have to stop the alien before it reaches earth.

The special effects are good, but I just didn't find the alien all that scary. It looked like an angry flower from one of my old JRPG video-games. The acting is fine by the A-listers (Gyllenhaal and Reynolds), but there's only so much acting you can do around a sinister alien. The movie would've been just as strong with 2 more no names thrown in instead (though I imagine the marketing for the movie would've been more difficult).

The ending was just about as predictable as you could get. Like 3/4 of the way thru the movie, I'll bet half of you can actually tell me the exact last scene of the movie.

Overall, it's not a bad movie, but I wouldn't shell out your $12 to go see it either.

Solaris (2002)

Steven Soderbergh re-imagining of the 70's cult classic, Solaris is a psychodrama set in deep space. I think the luke warm reception at the time of release is likely due to the fact that you see George Clooney in a spacesuit, and yet nothing gets blown up the entire movie. I think people may have had different expectations walking into this movie.

What it really is, is an examination of faith, life choices, depression, our place on earth/this universe, and just a damn fine character study.

Clooney plays Dr. Kelvin, a 'nihilist psychologist' as he is described in a flashback scene, who is sleepwalking through life because of a recent tragedy. He is recruited for a strange mission. His friend is on a spaceship orbiting Solaris, and something odd is happening, though his friend won't elaborate much, other than to say they aren't leaving.

When Clooney arrives, he finds his friend has committed suicide, and the 2 remaining crew members are acting odd. When he goes to sleep that first night, he dreams of his late wife, and when he is awoken, he finds her in his room on the spaceship.

The journey really starts there, as we explore his relationship with his wife through flashbacks, and through his interactions with her on the spaceship.

The filming of the movie is expertly done. With long conversations, Soderbergh was smart enough to know who the important character was, and to just keep a still camera on their centered face the entire scene, which for actors of this caliber, was a good choice. Everyone puts in stellar work, and let's not discount Viola Davis' work. She just crushes every single role she takes.

Yes there's some scientific gobbledygook with the Higgs Boson whathaveyou, but that aside, this is mainly a story about Dr. Kelvin's journey into his memories, into his lack of faith of a higher being, and into his guilt. This is a somber movie, from the melancholy look of the planet, to the score, to the dialogue, to the actual subject matter. This is a science fiction movie, that uses the science fiction only to dig deeper into the souls of these characters, because a conventional love story wouldn't have allowed this. This is a masterpiece.

Only movie I've ever fallen asleep at the cinema during. Not interested in revisiting either i remember being bored witless.

Plus lag until they are available at home is less, better TVs at home, no need to spend $ to see crap movies in the cinema.

Soderberg's Solaris is definitely close to a masterpiece...probably my favorite of his films and my favorite Clooney performance.

Don't know about sodenberg s solaris but the one by tarkovsky was amazing. Don't think that it can be recreated.

I had good times watching the Soderberg version, although I was drunk on absinthe at the the time, so ymmv. It is a bit slow in terms of pacing. Never seen the original; maybe I should Netflix it.