I would have thought that the 2 lawyers would corroborate the situation and that would be enough.

Kong: Skull Island

Great movie imo. Didnt really want to watch it because of the truly terrible Gozilla(2014),
but this was very fun. Cool action and Samuel L was great in the role, don't understand the hate at all.

8/10

It was worse than boring, it made no sense. It also contains one of the worst acting performances of all time. Me and my friends were laughing out loud at moments that were certainly not supposed to be funny.

Pans Labyrinth is absolutely classic. Not sure why you didn't like it. Ita one of my favourite modern movies.

Event Horizon - One of the best sci-fi horror movies made, complete bomb at the box office and also 24 on the tomatometer. Stands up well even now in my opinion. I am sure the directors cut would be better but I think the master copies were damaged or something.

Meh yes. But if the portrayals are accurate, the McDonald brothers probably made more than if they had never met him.

LOL at that rationale. They got ****ed. Hard. Kudos to Kroc though, can't knock the hustle I suppose.

ehh. if you know how it works, there isn't really a reason to think that

ya

I think for some types of movies, for example documentaries, it's reasonable to have mediocre ones that are 95%+, or even 99%+. I don't really see that being the case for others. For other genres however, I expect a lot of critics to give a thumbs down for mediocre-at-best films, so I think my expectation that a 95%+ action film should be above average is perfectly reasonable.

Ok if my fellow hater likes it then I owe it another shot. I watched it in university with some buddies and I think I missed the point a little / wasn't ready for the creativity.

Bonus story: theres a scene where a soldier gets his cheek sliced from the corner of his mouth which is intense. My friend couldn't handle it and he froze up and started shaking uncontrollably. He was fine after a couple minutes. Never seen that before or since.

I somewhat agree with the previous poster. They hadn't shown any knack for being able to take their restaurant to what it became, and their "idea" was hardly a patentable one. If Ray Kroc never walks through that door, it's far from clear that they end up with anything other than a popular local burger joint and a comfortable life.

They also didn't seem to show any compassion or fairness when Kroc had done some amazing work and asked for a renegotiation of the terms of their contract - at that point, their position was "we have a contract, suck it", so it's hard to be too sympathetic.

Finally, as was shown in the movie (and proven in many case studies of McDonalds) - the value of the corporation is not in the fast delivery system or the hamburgers. It's in the real estate, and this is something they had no inkling of.

I think they did well for themselves - came up with one idea ahead of it's time, and someone with real vision took it to the stratosphere, and they ended up set for life.

This is solidified when they themselves had mentioned that they had attempted expansion, by opening up two-to-four other stores. They all failed miserably, due to the lack of quality control being an issue, without their presence there to oversee it in a day-to-day operation.

I actually think it was pretty good as well. The story-lines has been knocked off quite a bit, so clearly some influence there.

This is where some form of creative license comes into play. I'm not sure how that whole lawyer thing works either.

Honestly, it seemed like everyone was sort of an ******* in that movie.

Smiley Face Somehow the topic of Anna Faris came up and I mentioned this movie to gf. She wanted to see it.

It's really really silly but the first time I saw it I laughed out loud several times. This time around it was almost as funny. Faris is really great in this. It's mostly just silly nonsense but charming and fun.

Lucky Logan - Solid movie that I thought could have been a lot better. Thought it would be funnier.

I caught two movies on a recent flight. The flight wasn't long enough to finish either one but I'll review anyway.

Ghost in the Shell It just seemed to me that they tried to extract ideas from other movies and make some sort of futuristic better movie. I really didn't care for it at all and wasn't disappointed that I couldn't finish it.

Logan I swore off superhero movies but I was on a plane and it was there. I actually enjoyed it. The actor playing the villain was great. No groundbreaking anything but it was definitely watchable. I don't care that I didn't finish it, though.

It is worth finishing imo.

GitS - really did nothing for me. I did not hate it but I would not care to see it again. I thought it would be a lot better, just kind of unmemorable to me.

Unpopular opinion alert: I think documentaries only have to be interesting whereas movies have to be good to hold your attention (camera work, believability, etc). Not to hate on docs bc I'm a straight up fiend, but imo it's much easier to make a good doc than a good movie. They're 2 different mediums and thus should use a diff scoring system. Imo

Superhero movies do nothing for me, but we watched Logan this weekend and really enjoyed it. My only complaint was that it ran about 20 minutes too long.

Wind River

This phenomenal thriller is a cross between Silence of the Lambs and Winter's Bone. You have a murder victim, a naive FBI agent, an expert at hunting predators (played expertly by Jeremy Renner), and the stark unforgiving backdrop of Wyoming.

The characters are rich and with great depth. Everyone, including central and peripheral characters, have wonderful backstories that we are more than game to tag along as we learn a bit more about what brought them to these circumstances.

The plot meanders along, but that's only so we can absorb more of what the landscapes and the characters have to offer. The tension is....well....tense, and the directing is adequate, but this is a movie to see based off of the story and the actors. They create this world, and even though it's a world that many of us are unfamiliar with, we are deeply invested in it from basically the start.

La La Land - 5.5/10

Nice, date night tomorrow is either going to be Logan Lucky or Wind River.

People rate documentaries positive at 99% rates because they like to act smart and sophisticated.

FFS they are thinly veiled rating themselves, not rating the movie.

Subject matter has a lot to do with it too. If you're a critic you don't exactly want to give a thumbs down to a documentary on racism. Even if your reasons are that it's not well put together and boring, despite the subject matter being worth talking about, you're going to get backlash.

On the subject of documentaries, fans of the recent Planet of the Apes should enjoy the documentary on HBO called Nim about a chimp raised as a human child.

Death Note (2017)

Lol

1/10