loved hunt for the wilderpeople

I watched Logan earlier tonight. All I can say is that it was ****ing incredible. I was pumped after seeing the original trailer and it still managed to exceed all expectations.

I loved Prometheus. Enjoyed watching a space film with aliens that is about exploration and questions instead of omg alien killing people run. Didn't end in some boss battle or anything like that.


There is only 1 real moment of ******ation and that touching the alien thing, and that can be put down to the scientist wanted to act like an alpha infront of the other dude, based on how their relationship had been built in the previous scenes with them, its a believable thing for him to want to act macho. The other scientist in that scene didn't want anything to do with the alien, even when it was breaking the dudes arm he was reluctant to help. Plus they take off their helmets because the air is perfectly clean and harmless, this wouldn't be the first planet they have been too, exploration to planets is likely a common thing in their world, so they would have been to safe take helmet off planets before

She didn't really just recover, plus we don't know how the super high tec med pod thing even works, maybe it leaves no lasting pain or anything. She spends the rest of the film injecting herself with the morphine type injections and is hunched over wincing in pain even when adrenaline would be pumping. When running away from the big dude in the ship, she pauses a couple of times to keel over coz she is in serious pain. In all her speeches after the surgery she constantly takes pauses due to shortness of breath because of the pain.

so ye, i like Prometheus a lot

I also liked Prometheus, but I get why people were frustrated. It was a very different style of sci-fi than the other Aliens movies; it left big questions deliberately unanswered.

Some of the criticism seems nitpicky tho. Did the characters do stupid things? Well sure, but that happens in like every sci fi/horror movie. Go back and watch the original Alien and you can see the crew do stupid **** that gets them killed.

John Wick 2 is the movie Hitman,either of them,should have been.

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John Wick's MO seems very different from Agent 47's.

I didn't like Prometheus because from the trailer I was expecting a suspenseful thriller (like the original) and there was like two minutes of suspense in the entire movie. It was fine, just had nothing on the awesome sci-fi thriller that Alien was.

John Wick: Chapter 2 - 7/10 (highly enjoyable)

Watched Hacksaw Ridge. Great movie. Vince Vaughn's character was miscast in my opinion. Did anybody else feel that?

Imo, Hacksaw Ridge was boring and forgettable

I really liked Hacksaw Ridge... on Vaughn:

"I also really enjoyed Vince Vaughn as the drill sergeant, playing somewhat against type, but still plenty funny – pretty notable since Vaughn has been terrible in basically everything since 2005’s Wedding Crashers."

Thought Vince's casting was fine, agree that Hacksaw was kind of boring and forgettable. Sad!

It's too bad because the main character's story was so extraordinary. But then it's kind of hard to explain why the movie didn't work, it was generally pretty well made and acted. It just kind of missed the mark for some reason I can't quite articulate.

Just watched Will Farrell's 2010 movie Everything Must Go. It's a Will Farrell movie adapted from a Raymond Carver short story. There's a sentence you never thought you'd read. It was pretty good.

Moonlight - Are you F kidding me? Best picture of the year. REALLY?

Just watched it. It wasn't good. Beatty had it right the first time.

of the 9 nominees I have seen Moonlight, Hell or High Water and Arrival.

Hell or High Water was way better than Moonlight. And I am guessing several of the other 6 movies will be too.

They are just making up for last years all white awards.

Curious to see how they handle Get Out next year.

They should put a disclaimer on Moonlight, "normal moviegoers will hate this movie."

Just got back from seeing Logan and.........

Brah when I was a teenager one of my absolute favorite films in the world was 'My Dinner With Andre,' ...And I don't mean like when I was 19 days away from turning 20, I'm talking when I was 14/15 years old.

Does that sound like a 'normal moviegoer,' to you?

Plenty of arthouse films I think are great. Plenty of high concept movies that I like. I'm not some drooler with a sub 100 IQ who can only grasp what's going on in Transformers movies and anything beyond that is incomprehensible to me.

I understood Moonlight. I understood it's characters, I understood who they were and what motivated them. I understood the films storyline and I even understood it's nuances.

If you want to pretend either, that I am some uneducated, low IQ moran or that I failed to understand Moonlight then you can do that, but you are completely wrong in both respects.

Also I never said I hated Moonlight I said ' It was a film with a lot of potential that continuously failed to realize that potential.'

I didn't think it was awful or a complete waste of my time, but I also didn't think it was a strong enough film to warrant winning Best Picture.

I still stand by that opinion. That does not mean I didn't understand the film or it's characters.

I thought the casting choice of Vaughn was a little strange and awkward at times, but more than anyone else I sure as hell don't want to see VV die, so I was fully invested during the later rescue scenes.

i was just commenting that moonlight is niche and normal moviewatchers wouldn't like it; its slow and weird and nearly plotless

that's not a judgment or indictment of tastes

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Moonlight has an 84% rating from users on rotten tomatoes, that's a pretty good rating. Same exact score as La La Land. Tough to get 84% of people to agree on anything.

I didn't find the film weird or niche at all fwiw. The story is actually very straightforward. The acting was fantastic and I found it very moving. If I had one complaint it would be that the 3rd chapter did not quite measure up to the first 2.

Moonlight has gotten pretty hard on imdb transitioning from festival/limited release to mainstream auds. It had an 8.7 on IMDb when it was at 10k votes in limited release, and is at 7.8 now. By contrast, La La Land had an 8.9 at 10k votes in limited release, and it's only down to 8.5. Still a solid grade for Moonlight on the whole obv, but definitely a tale of two scores.