Chuck Tingle obviously.

Sin City 8/10

Some very good acting by Micky Rourke and Benicio Del Toro. 10/10 for originality.

Mr. Nobody 9.5/10

Simply amazing.

i loved mr nobody


i thought arrival was just okay. first half was good but i wasn't impressed with how the plot wrapped itself up (like most alien movies) and there seemed to be a few dumb plot holes that didn't make any sense to me

Creed (2015) – I love Michael B. Jordan and he’s great in this continuation/reboot of Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky franchise as Apollo Creed’s son Adonis, an unknown up-and-coming boxer that wants to make it to the big time on his own merit, yet hunts down the legendary Rocky Balboa to be his trainer. Sylvester Stallone is good in this movie, but Oscar worthy? Wow. It’s crazy that this franchise is still relevant and not terrible in 2016 – 2006’s Rocky Balboa was enjoyable too – and yet this was another solid sequel.

6/10 (Recommended)

Trumbo (2015) – This movie inspired me to write this post on the basis of another great performance from star Bryan Cranston. Here, he plays Dalton Trumbo, one of Hollywood’s premier screenwriters in the 1940s before getting blacklisted for being a communist. I’m honestly not sure what it means to be a “commie,” but this movie makes it not seem like such a bad thing and you get the feeling that The List was highly unfair. Cranston is great in Trumbo but the movie itself wasn’t all that entertaining.

5.5/10 (Watchable/Recommended)

Popstar (2016) – Andy Samberg is hilarious as Conner, the world’s biggest pop star that has to deal with flopping as a solo artist after a mega successful career in a boy band. This movie is funny, absurd, and very enjoyable.

6.5/10 (Recommended/Highly Enjoyable)

Star Trek Beyond (2016) – It seemed like a lot happened in this movie and there was a lot of action, but man, it was super boring. I really loved the first movie in this rebooted franchise, but the films following have gotten progressively less interesting despite casting huge stars in the villain roles. Idris Elba isn’t given much to work with here as Krall, spending 90% of the film unrecognizable in full makeup. Dude has way too much talent to waste his time on roles like this. I still like the cast that makes up the crew of the Enterprise, but Star Trek was in much better hands with J.J. Abrams.

4/10 (Forgettable)

Arrival

Enjoyed it very much. But imo, not a "great" movie.





Those are just some minor quibble tho.

Would like for aliens to hurry up and arrive, ffs.

The canary was to show the audience that they were worried about the air quality and were testing it.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/canary_in_a_coal_mine

You missed the part where I said they had no intention of getting out of the suits anyway.

Nevermind that we don't actually use sacrificial canaries for that purpose anymore...

I mean that's what the canary was for. To show the audience that they were testing the air, and hadn't finished testing the air. They weren't planning on getting out of the suits immediately, who knows what they were going to do down the road. But the canary was a plot device. Who cares.

We were laughing at the notion that the aliens show up one day with a little mammal-ish, primate-ish creature in some sort of cage on their side of the barrier...


Anyway, my point is that it was distracting from what was going on.

The Revenant - Amazing cinematography and DiCaprio and Hardy were both fantastic. Bear attack scene is insanely realistic (not just how the bear looks, but how it acts. I read Innaritu watched dozens of videos of real bear attacks to prepare).

Still it left me a little cold. Seemed like the whole movie was mainly about marveling how Leo could survive all the horrific things that keep happening to him. Amazing technical achievement but not something I'd be in a hurry to watch again. I suspect it loses something on a small screen, though... seemed like a movie meant to be experienced in a theater.

I finally broke down and took the time to watch Sicario based mainly on the visual style of Arrival.

I was not let down. Now I see the love this director has gotten lately... its well deserved from a technical stand point.

I did think the movie fell into the formulated archetype of the "el jefe" crime boss.

This always bothers me personally because its not what real life is like. The writer's take the time to weave an amazingly good story that is bathed in gritty hyperrealism but in the end when the boss is shown its always some polished westernized guy living in a mansion guarded by henchmen wearing armani suits carrying Kalashnikov's... its not realistic.

Pun intended?

went on a little elmore leonard kick n rewatched jackie brown and out of sight.

probably seen out of sight 10x but god it never gets old.

and obv jackie brown is always great.

I don't think I've been so torn about a movie in many years. While I appreciated some aspects of it, I simply did not enjoy the movie. It was slow and boring. I almost never mind a slow movie, but this one just made me want it to end already.

Sicario was great, one of the better movies I've seen in years. I didn't worry much about how authentic it really was, I just sat back and enjoyed it. The entire entering/exiting city of Juarez scene was great.

Anyone seen Moonlight yet?

Some dude was tepid on it: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...ostcount=22097

I really liked it: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/sh...ostcount=22302

It's a sure thing for a Best Picture nomination, and probably a Best Director nomination as well depending how the rest of the year fares.

Fantastic Beasts: Never been much of a Harry Potter fan and this didn't convert me. The narrative is all over the place, it's too long, and the characters are dull. Eddie Redmayne seemed to have left his personality at home, his performance consisting of little more than a pouty expression and monotonous voice.

One of my favourite movies

Planes, Trains & Automobiles - Jesus ****ing Christ. Emotionally devastating. Since I'm usually the one literally rolling his eyes or shaking his head in the theater at manipulative cry scenes, this is a big compliment. Hadn't seen it since TV as a child (and probably had not seen the whole thing).

Check out Ebert's story from his 2000 "Great Movies" review about running into Candy, who was alone and depressed at a bar: http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/gr...tomobiles-1987

The Ice Storm - Upper middle class white suburban ennui, in the '70s. It's the thing where you don't know if it's really going to make any point or if it's just going to show depressed rich white people. It does have a purpose at the end that seems somewhat clear, though I'm not sure if it's a good point or not.

Key takeaway is the daughter terrified of Nixon and his "fascism". Sound familiar?

"What you got ain't nothin' new." - Ellis, No Country For Old Men

Haha me too

I think it was Jeff Canata who said Fantastic Beasts is like Phantom Menace was for Star Wars. People are convincing themselves it's good, but in years to come, they'll realize how laughably bad it is.

(I haven't seen it and don't care)

Hell or High Water

Well it might take place in 2015, but this isn't the 2015 I know of, it's the 2015 of bumble Texas, and that makes all the difference. This is a Western, and nevermind the cars or the cellphone, this is every bit as much a Western as any Clint Eastwood movie with him riding in on a horse. This is a part of America I know nothing about, nor have ever visited. This is a Texas where the one time a New Yorker came and tried to order fish at the restaurant 30 years ago, it still is remembered to this day. I can't say that I identify with any of the people in this movie, and yet I was drawn to their story, their struggle, and was moved by the journey they all went on.

The movie involves 2 brothers who are robbing banks. Chris Pine and Ben Foster turn in terrific performances, and couldn't be more unalike. Foster plays the wild card, and when told to take it easy on the drinking, responds with "Who gets drunk off of beer?" Chris Pine plays it mainly straight, but there are roots to his character, and those roots run deeper and deeper as the movie progresses. Why are they robbing banks? I'll leave that for you to find out. The two brothers have a great bond between them. There's a great scene at a gas station where some young punks try and start some trouble with the Ben Foster character. What ends up happening can only make you smile.

They are being pursued by a local sheriff played by Jeff Bridges, and his sidekick who is half Mexican, half Native American. Bridges spends the bulk of the movie insulting his partner's origin, but you can tell that there is a deep sense of respect and admiration that runs between these two men.

The story is so much more than cops and robbers. The robbers aren't necessarily bad guys. The banks aren't necessarily the victims. All the central characters have their moments to shine and to add some flavor to this barren land. The ending, is nothing short of brilliant.

One thing Fantastic Beasts confirmed - 3D sucks. Far from boosting the sense of immersion, it's distracting, underwhelming, headache-inducing, and obscures the shot. It's also absolutely not worth the inflated ticket price. This was the final straw for me, will try to stick to 2D as much as possible.

The only 3D movie I've seen where I was like **** yeah 3D was Avatar. This was the first 3D movie I saw, probably seen 5-6 after that which ranged from distracting to meh fine whatever.