Passengers was interesting, even though it regressed after the first third/half.

I doubt I will ever be compelled to watch it again because of its low repeatability factor for me personally, but it had great design and very good acting... and that soundtrack, specifically during the awakening, was really nice (ost purchased).

glad u enjoyed this but it really seems they've beaten this franchise to death. I can't see myself being able to believe Halloween 2 didn't happen, especially considering Laurie & Michael were in the movie.

otoh I read John Carpenter composed the score so I certainly would expect it to be fantastic.

Rogue [Fitness] made 3 documentaries about men doing heavy stuff with heavy things.

its interesting if you are into strongman-sports or iceland/scotland/basque.

as a common documentary these movies arent really great, but you guys will tel lme.

Won't You Be My Neighbor I'll start by saying I was really skeptical that I'd like this. I was just a tad too old, or maybe a tad too cynical?, to get into Mr. Rogers when I was young. He just never appealed to me. And, even now (before watching this) when he comes up in conversation I'm usually just meh.

At the beginning of the movie I was still sort of meh. About half way through I really wanted them to dig deeper into his childhood. I had this nagging sense that something happened to him as a child that made him who he was. Something not so good.

By the end of the movie, I really didn't care that they didn't go there. Because, with Mr. Rogers, it didn't matter how he came about. It was only important who he was. And, he was pretty phenomenal IMO.

The end of the movie brought me to tears. I highly recommend it.

So glad to hear that and not surprised at all. Loved him as a child, but grew to appreciate him even more as an adult. Can't wait to check it out.

I don't remember especially liking Mr. Rogers, but even clips of him are very touching/nostalgic. I think I must have really liked him when I was 3 or 4 or something and don't really remember that, but remember more when my little brother (3 1/2 years younger) was watching and I was too old. Or maybe it's just than I'm more emotional in my old age.

I always hated that Mister Rogers ****er, ugh. What people saw in his blithering nonsense is beyond me. Now Rocky and Bullwinkle, that I feel nostalgic about.

Not to politard this thread but I think some of the reason this Mr Rogers doc is so popular is because he was the antithesis of everything about trump and the current state of the world.

Yes, I always appreciate the great lengths you go to that way, Clovis! Always so scrupulously apolitical in your movie-talk, harhar. There are a few book thread people like that too lately.

Look Who's Talking 1989

Generally a stinker. Bruce Willis' smirky voice work just is not cute. John Travolta is always bad when he's not Vinnie Barbarino. What a waste of Abe Vigoda.

Smokey and the Bandit playing for a week at AMC theaters starting tomorrow.

Fight Club (35mm, previous viewings were opening night and then DVD in 2001) - There's the germs of something decent here, but on the whole it's bad.

It does what a lot of art does in that it identifies modern problems - often problems of capitalism such as consumerism, bad office jobs, and general life discontentment - but then never suggests a solution nor even a coherent "wrong" solution. We're meant to be impressed just because a movie mentions "buying things from Ikea doesn't make you happy".

Fight Club gets messier by being male-focused, and runs into the problem that many movies have where the audience is sympathetic to points that are meant to be taken satirically.

ANYWAY

It's way too long, and it meanders, and there's unnecessary scenes and subplots. If you cut out a half hour you might have something here.



An important note about spoilers - Most of the audience liked/loved the movie I think, and what's especially noteworthy is that from conversations I could see going on afterwards, it was apparent that many of these people in their early 20s were not spoiled on certain plot events, and they were blown away.* This is why you don't go around spoiling things, even as a "joke" (it isn't funny anyway), even when you think those things are super cliche twists that "everyone already knows". There are always going to be young (or old) new film fans who could still have a chance to come at things fresh.


*Despite my dislike for the film, I'm pleased that they had a good experience like this in a theater 19 years later.

Stop being an ass.

exactly

oh no, politics! Run away! Run away!

Bizarre that a movie about (on the first level) bare knuckles brawling was male focused.

Oh, and it did suggest a solution.

It is pretty nuts to rant about that Mr. Rogers "****er"'s "blithering nonsense". I get that conservatives can't stand something like people deserving love and that they should have self-esteem just because they are people, but ****ting on the dead is low. I've certainly held back from dancing on a lot of graves.

Why is Fight Club being male focused a bad thing?

The Resistance Banker https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4610378/

Solid wartime drama, based on the true story of the van Hall brothers who started
an underground bank to finance the Dutch resistance during WWII.

I'm not sure there are many movies that have aged as poorly as Fight Club. I'm kind of embarrassed that I liked it as much as I did at the times... it's the Nu Metal of movies.

Viola

Baltimore I agree that Fight Club was more compelling in the first half when it was disenfranchised dudes beating on each other and the potential implications, and that the twist was a letdown.

Having just rewatched Adaptation (2002), the Fight Club twist makes about as much narrative sense to me as the plot of Donald Kaufman’s “The 3.”

I love Fincher... Even if Fight club was sophomoric.

Yeah, he was absolutely horrible as Vincent Vega, Chili Palmer, and Tony Manero (among others).

He was ok as Vincent Vega because that role had a bit of Vincent Barbarino in it. As for Tony Mareno, well he's not a horrible dancer, which was part of Vincent Vega as well. That doesn't mean he's a good actor and Chili Palmer sucked ass.

That Get Shorty has a bit of a Boondock Saints thing going where a bunch of people can't get over how much they liked it when they were 19 years old.

I wrote that it makes it "messier" in the context of doing satire poorly. I'm thinking of, like, frat boys who implement fight clubs, or 30 year old dudes who post on Instagram unironically something like "We're a generation of men raised by women. I'm wondering if another woman is really the answer we need. - Tyler Durden"