And once I saw "The Jerk" at #99 I knew this was ****, just didn't think it was going to be that ****ty.

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I know I'm getting old when people are going to see a remake of Ghost in the Shell with the thought that any piece of that would make sense or even be particularly good.

It was a horrible anime, but it quickly became a cult / standard movie in that genre. Not sure why since no one could make sense of it.

Saying Ghost in the Shell is a glob of ideas from other movies is like saying the Rolling Stones stole all the cliches from Rock & Roll. GitS it was very far ahead of it's time. Of course, I don't know how true the recent one was to the original.

Reviews like this is why I come to this thread.

Okay, I'm going to have to watch this one now.

The Handmaiden - 6.5/10 (recommended/highly enjoyable)

Some people requesting bans itt.

Airplane! GOAT, Ghost in the Shell (anime version) also GOAT.

Why was GitS a horrible anime? Who couldn't make sense of it?

I'm not sure I understand what you're saying.

Logan Noir (black & white version of Logan) - Maybe the best superhero movie I've seen or certainly in the top tier. Have not seen any prior X-Men or Wolverine movie and it was fine. "Aging hero does one last thing" is my favorite trope. It's not the usual dumb superhero **** of "we must go to this big setpiece to stop the giant universe-destroying bomb".

The Mist (also a b&w version, which Darabont originally wanted) - Another Stephen King adaptation. Eh. Acting and character motivations are bad especially early on, but it gets some degree of a pass (only partial) because it's consciously "homaging" old "stuck in one place with some horror around" movies like Night of the Living Dead. Some of the CGI is very bad and they should have used more puppets.

The directing of some action scenes is atrocious; confined areas can make those types of scenes difficult (how can you drag out a chase, for example?), and Darabont fails miserably.

The end is also fairly dumb although there's some chance Darabont is winking and knows the whole thing is awful (my guess is not). There's also this overwrought religious-sounding music at the end, and certain end credits choices are terribly sophomoric and embarrassing (you'll see what I mean).

Makes it sound like I hate it more than I really did, but writing this I do see that I'd have to give it a thumbs down if pressed.

I thought Logan was boring a great deal of the time,the interaction between him and Xavier was ok, the stuff between him and the girl didn't make much sense, no real bond was established in the film.

It was ok, typical time killer on a rainy day.



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Apparently, Villeneuve has commissioned a few filmmakers to make short films about events that have happened after Blade Runner but before 2049. Here's the first one, by Luke Scott: Nexus: 2036.



Pretty amazing...mostly because of Jared Leto.

Okja was extremely good. It's the closet I've come to going vegan.

Good Time- A great movie, but a tough go. It's shot very tight and can almost make you dizzy at times. Very intense and uncomfortable to watch. Great performance by both the brothers.

Both of these films were outside the norm, which I love. Both were a breath of fresh air from the same formulaic BS.

Well TIFF is right around the corner again. Selected my films today. I'll probably add one or two more through single tickets or picking some up through friends but right now here's what I'm seeing. Will try to write reviews on everything I see.

mother! - Darren Aronofsky
The Shape of Water - Guillermo del Toro
Molly's Game - Aaron Sorkin
I Love You, Daddy - Louis CK
Suburbicon - George Clooney
The Disaster Artist - James Franco
Downsizing - Alexander Payne
Submergence - Wim Wenders
Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri - Martin McDonagh
Unicorn Store - Brie Larson
Euphoria - Lisa Langseth
Disobedience - Sebastian Lelio
Chappaquiddick - John Curran
Kodachrome - Mark Raso
Battle of the Sexes - Valerie Faris, Jonathan Dayton
Hostiles - Scott Cooper
The Death of Stalin - Armando Iannucci
Papillon - Michael Noer
Lady Bird - Greta Gerwig

Full list if anyone is interested in what else is playing or has suggestions on must see films I missed. http://www.tiff.net/tiff/films.html

Feedback on Hostiles please!

Looks like you've got your bases covered with that lineup.

Wow! That was badass! So psyched for this movie!

I guess I kinda knew this was a thing before this movie came out, but I didn't know much more than that.

Just for laughs I felt like reading some criticism of Darabont's The Mist. I found this (and some more like it): http://collider.com/the-mist-movie-explained/, from somebody who thinks it's a masterpiece. The piece reads like a partially-plagiarized essay from a high school Junior about Lord of the Flies. Awful.

really looking forward to this one, please report back on it.

I'm excited for it. Loved In Bruges and Seven Psychopaths and the cast in this one looks great too (Harrelson, Rockwell, McDormand, Dinklage)

I think I've got Jerry Goldsmith's "Patton" score as my favorite ever. Challengers? Of course John Williams comes to mind first.

In This Corner of the World

War sucks: check.

Women and children: always take the worst of it.

The color of the sky: touches her heart.

Makes a marriage: check.

Seasons pass: check.

Loses her niece: check.

Surrender: check.

"I still have my left hand and both legs:" check.

Her marriage: survives in this corner of the world.

Great storytelling. I was expecting Grave of Fireflies, but this is unique. Check it out.

Anyone who hasnt seen Wind River has to see it asap. Movie of the year IMO. Absolutely perfect from start to finish.

Agreed. It literally have me a sore neck from the tension. Lol.

:facepalm:

Wind River is in the queue now, joining Pawn Sacrifice, Nocturnal Animals, Spiderman:Homecoming, and Get Out.


The Mummy (2017): Knew this was not going to be good, but didn't expect it to be quite this bad. Annabelle Wallis is impressively forgettable as a slightly more stale than average slice of bread. Jake Johnson is the best part of the film, which is sad, considering his role is a second rate Jack Goodman clone. Russell Crowe is horrible as usual, and even worse than normal when deliberately playing a caricature that has absolutely no reason to be included in the film. Sofia Boutella does as well as she can with what she is given to work with, which isn't much more than writhing and undulating about while oscillating between evoking sympathy and terror. Tom Cruise somehow fails at being Tom Cruise, which is odd considering how much practice he has playing the role.

This film would have been materially improved by removing Russel Crowe entirely (what movie wouldn't, really), switching the Cruise/Johnson roles, replacing Wallis with literally anyone else, and giving Sofia Boutella more lines and a deeper story.


GOTG 2: I am clearly not the target audience for this drivel and should have known better than to waste my time. Are the GOTG films supposed to be the Big Trouble in Little Chinas of today?

Because I gave Handmaiden a 6.5?

It's possible I would need to watch it again, but I remember being highly confused by the movie. The people who I saw it with were hard-core movie-goers / anime freaks and they didn't quite get it either, but apparently it was cool to look at.

Sort of like Aeon Flux. Lot's of love for that show (and it was made into a movie), but no one could figure out what was going on with it.