Whilst the adamantium blades are cool and all, plenty of xmen have equally cool ****. I think I would find Wolverine as compelling with no claws at all, just the healing factor. For me it's all about his personality and his inner torment that makes him so compelling.

Growing up with the comics and cartoon, most other X-Men had fairly straightforward backstories. Then there's this tormented badass anti-hero Wolverine with an adamantium skeleton who we knew basically nothing about (age, background, or even if Logan was his real name) other than his escape from being forcibly experimented on.

I was always more of a DC guy than a Marvel guy... then again I am more of a Cherry Poptart and manga guy than I am a DC guy.

in days of future past he had no adamantium, just raw-bones-claws. that looked disgusting as ****. althoug took me a moment to notice wtf this was (= bone with no metal).

has anyone seen Is Genesis History?

Chocolate

Jackie Chan: check.
Except not Jackie Chan -- a girl: check.
Except, a teenage girl: check.
Except a half Thai, half Japanese teenage girl: check.
Except an autistic half Thai, half Japanese teenage girl: check.

Learn Kung Fu watching TV: first Leeloo, now Chocolate.

Death to flying things: Musashi surpassing.

Coffee table Fu, Pallet Fu, Ice Fu: Check.
Knife Fu, Cleaver Fu, Fly Fu, Flyswatter Fu: Check.

Toe Fu: Sorry, I had to do it.

Tatami Fu, Shoji Fu, Scabbard Fu: Check.

CGI: none that I could detect.
Stunts, Choreography, Camera work, Darkroom work: Afaik, that's all they used.

Stupefyingly good final chase/revenge scene: Worthy of Harold Lloyd or Mack Sennett.

This is the best Kung Fu flick I've seen in years. It may be the best Kung Fu flick I've seen since the 70s. It may be the best I've ever seen.

Check it out.

Feeling kind of conflicted about Hell or High Water. I enjoyed the interactions between both sets of characters a lot, I liked all of the main plot but midway through the movie when they explain the characters motivations I thought "this is the stupidest thing ever." I just chalked it up to these characters not being very smart but still it stuck with me. I also thought that it tried a bit too hard to get me to feel sympathetic.

whatever, the script and execution was good enough that I enjoyed it a lot and would recommend to just about anyone.

the ending was ****ing hilariously stupid but like you I accepted it thanks to the execution.
there is no ****ing way the brother gets away with it like that cuz they're too dumb to figure out the timing but whatever.

there did seem to be a confluence of events in HoHW that were highly improbable... beginning with a rogue brother that is highly reckless, self indulgent and self destructive but yet self sacrificing for another person to the point where he would willingly lay down his life for someone else.

ya I really didn't like ben foster's arc.
was hoping they wouldn't go for the super cliché brother sacrifices himself route.

Nothing either of the bros did made any sense at all. Ruined the whole movie for me.

Snowpiercer an interesting Orwellian class system flick. Classes are divided in different train cars that are starkly different in quality. The perpetual motion train has been circling the post apocalyptic globe for 17 years and the lowest class decides to try to rise up.

Logan:

I have mixed feelings about Being There. On one hand it's the same joke beat over our heads for two hours, absurd and highly unsophisticated in spots. I can't imagine this being made today. On the other hand there's a quality there that I can't quite put my finger on, or at least I can't put into words. I dunno, there's just something about it. The acting was fantastic, led by the great Peter Sellers (Shortly before his untimely death).

While the Thor sub-franchise is probably my least favorite of the Marvel universe, I guess I'll be seeing Ragnarok after all because:



I do love me some Cate Blanchett. Had no idea she was in it.

finally saw get out

don't see what the fuss is about 5.5/10

At the time of its release, the idea of someone so clueless reaching a position of great influence was considered satire. Today it makes no sense and can't really compete with 5 minutes of cable news.

I think there is a sincerity and quality to the performance and the movie that is unencumbered by the modern filmmaking mentality of over production, the constant use of formalized storytelling and the need to "WOW" audiences with empty cleverness. You are experiencing a juxtaposition of filmmaking due to the age in which the movie was made.

That's why a modern American movie like Nebraska is so unbelievably fantastic in this day and age.

Being There is a very simple movie... it's beautiful.

I was busting yesterday...

I happened to be in the neighborhood where Jerry Lewis lives and as I am driving up the street I see a big black on black SUV driving towards me at about 10mph... then right behind the black SUV was a Beautiful Red convertible Jaguar XKE... the right behind the Jag was another black on black SUV.

As I get closer, I see Jerry Seinfeld driving and as I pass I see Jerry Lewis sitting in the passengers seat... both black SUVs were loaded with camera equipment. They were shooting one of seinfelds comedians in cars, I was so excited.

No one else was around, just jerry and jerry and me driving in the opposite direction on a neighbourhood street in Las Vegas.

Logan A great comic book movie. It's gritty, it doesn't have a "save the world" plot, it only focuses on a few mutants and has a lot of character moments in it.

Arrival - Slow moving films can be great but they have to have substance, this has little to none. None of the real questions that come to mind are even tangentially answered. Best picture nominee? Come on Hollywood. 6.1

Moonlight - Really well directed, paced, acted and scripted. Just an all round great film about morality and struggle. 8.4

Manchester by the Sea - Personal film of the year, Lonergan knows how to write people in a real way. Casey Affleck deserves his Oscar and Williams was outstanding in her few scenes. 9

The edge of Seventeen - This is Juno with proper heart, soul and wit and without the pseudo intellectual rubbish. The film never strays into melodrama or hacky dialogue like a lot of these films tend to do. Steinfeld and Harrelson are great together. 8

The little death - This was funny. Probably not critically acclaimed because of some rape jokes. Guess what uber liberal critics, jokes offend and some jokes are risque and dark, you boring sacks. 7.3

Fences - If you don't like stagy films stay away from this one, but I do like stagy cinema. It has two great performances and gets you invested in the character,s that's enough for me. 7.8

Cool. Funny enough, yesterday I noted Jerry Lewis (character) as an undrafted pick in the Movie Character Draft thread.

I thought Being There was great. Sellers does a great job.

Logan

An emotionally charged gritty conclusion to the Wolverine anthology. We have now entered the age of R rated superhero movies, as movie studios and executives have realized that it is not 12 year olds who are flocking to the theaters anymore to see these CGI/testosterone fueled epics, it's grown men like myself.

Hugh Jackman gives his best Wolverine performance in this story. He's aged, he's tired, his claws have arthritis, he doesn't heal like he used to, and yet piss him off, and he will unleash a fury onto you like you wouldn't believe. He is a boozer, and is mainly trying to keep to himself driving an uber limousine.

The film starts with a simple carjacking that goes wrong for the criminals. We know right from the start that this movie is rated a hard 'R' for violence. The action sequences are done extremely well, whether it be in a Texas warehouse or a North Dakota forest. There isn't as much CGI as you would expect from a X-men movie, but they more than make up for that with well choreographed fights and a viciousness that I don't think I've seen in a comic book movie before.

We get introduced to a new character, a mute girl who's special abilities are eerily similar to that of the Wolverine. We get reintroduced to Patrick Stewart as Professor X, but with some dementia which could be quite dangerous in someone who has his mental abilities. There are a couple other mutants thrown in, but none of them are given a whole lot of weight, the bulk is spent developing the relationship between Logan and the girl. Logan has to get this girl to a safe haven in Canada, and she is being pursued by some evil corporation who want to wipe any evidence of her off the face of this earth.

The movie is paced very similarly to a classic Western, and there are even some overt references to the movie Shane.

There are a few plotlines that fell a little flat for me. I felt they could've expounded a bit more on what Professor X did a few years back that made him so notorious. I also felt like the change in the relationship between Logan and Laura happened too abruptly. That being said, overall, this was a well done X-men movie, maybe even the best X-men movie. The final scene did indeed tug at my heart strings.

This isn't The Dark Knight, but it's also not X-men Apocalypse. This movie will satisfy your bloodlust and your desire to shed some tears. It packs a heck of a punch, and is a touching farewell to a superhero that we have known for a few decades.

Kong was good fun. Nothing like seeing a giant gorilla taking on a squadron of choppers.