Apologies. I tend to see people who take their hobby so seriously and assume they want the same thing I wanted. You're doing a good job with what it is

You know what caused him, and every person that saw the movie, to say that? It's a Typical Formulated story plot complication that seems to have a stranglehold over westernized writing for the last three or four decades in Hollywood.

I'm late here, but Guardians 2 had me rolling and I'm surprised it didn't get more love. Thought it was better than the first one, tbh.

Hyped up for the new Alien movie, even if it's meh.

Looks good. I'm not in a relationship, but I will probably see it anyway. Or I might be in a relationship. It's tough to tell some days.

I really liked Michael Winterbottom's The Trip and A Trip to Italy, which feature a very different kind of relationship or kinds of relationships, and basically present food tours of England and Italy with a bunch of other stuff thrown in.

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I heard Eleanor Coppola talking about the film and that was pretty interesting.

It doesn't strike me as generally true that romcoms are better for people in relationships.

It does feel like doing in-depth story and box office analysis of upcoming mainstream films is (no offense) somewhat of a fool's errand, in that so many people are already doing it with built in audiences. There's so little competitive advantage to be had with that or with reviewing current mainstream movies, even if you're a phenomenal writer.

I have little idea how this really works, but if you did want to continue with it then I'd start submitting samples to every possible movie site, going for the bigger audience, if that's what you want.

Short twitter reviews/comments might have a better shot at getting a big audience.

The hip-hop thing seems legit.

In the video game blogosphere there are a few weekly compilations that try to collect the smartest/best games writing of that week. That's another potential avenue if there are such things for film (or is something film could probably use if there is no such thing).

Alien: Covenant: 6/10

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Promethus(2012) when seen in IMAX was very good because of the stunning visuals: the auto-surgery scene, battles with the creature, clash of the spaceships, others (characters were poor)

Handmaiden (2016) superbly made Korean movie could be the best movie in the world made in 2016

The Wailing (2016) This excellent Korean supernatural horror/mystery is so dense in ideas it could have been made into three separate movies. The theme seems to be that people are in great danger from evil people or evil spirits if they are not vigilant enough or skillful enough to differentiate them from the good. The likeable but simple minded police officer hero ( something like Officer Edward in the Wicker Man (1973)) of the story is overwhelmed by strange deaths his small town. Then his own family is threatened. It is always unclear who is really evil and who is good. The director left many brief clues in the movie to help the viewer solve what is going on. It greatly helps to have some knowledge of Asian Shamanism, Japan, and Christian myths to understand this film. I'll point out just one clue in a spoiler. .

This led me to rewatching Empire Falls, the 2005 HBO movie version of Russo's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. I liked it quite a bit better than Nobody's Fool. Handles a lot of the same themes, small town life and living with integrity as time passes and our dreams dry up. Ed Harris is the main guy, Paul Newman is his wacky father this time, and Joanne Woodward kills as the evil rich old lady who owns and runs the town. Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robin Wright, etc., fantastic cast.

Alien Covenant

Really dumb people. Movies need one ending not five.

Grade: C

Just got out of alien covenant... Made prometheus look like best picture

Have been avoiding the Alien:C spoilers but with the latest batch of of reviews not sure it's really necessary to do so. The universal response seems to be "meh"

Pixels

****.

Brüno

Nowhere near as good as Borat but has its moments.

The War of the Roses

Classic.

Star Wars: A New Hope

Nuff said.

I realize it's not The Fast & The Furious and that Ridley Scott is directing... but it is like the 7th installment of a franchise.

6th, I think. Alien, Aliens, Alien³, Alien: Resurrection, Prometheus, Alien: Covenant.

I think it's actually 8 if you include the AVP movies - and you probably shouldn't, I guess.

It was painful enough just to count Alien³ through Prometheus without adding those fartfests into the bargain.

There is a Goon 2!?!?

At least they got it right with the Alien: Isolation video game.

Never seen the AVP movies. I recently rewatched Resurrection, though, and it held up as fun.

A long time ago, I saw a workprint cut of Alien 3 that also had a ton of the original production materials spliced into the movie to represent what it would have looked before it was so drastically altered. A little like Jodorowsky's Dune, except this had a lot of actual footage.

Just watched LaLa Land, completely won me over. Caught the magical feeling of being young and in love perfectly, which is saying something for any movie. I can't say I loved all the singing and dancing, but some of it was ok.

Ryan Gosling kills, he just nailed everything. It seemed like he would do 2 or 3 really subtle things in every scene that made it seem like a real person. Emma Stone was good, but she could afford to put on a few pounds imo.

Strongly agree with this. Resisted it because I don't like plays / musicals generally. But it's just really well done all around.

Emma Stone's size was borderline distracting. Especially when you consider she's playing the prototypical beautiful actress.

I loved La La Land. Still glad Moonlight won Best Picture, though.

I loved La La Land. The opening stuck-on-the-freeway dance scene was worthy of the Golden Age. I still awarded Best Picture to The Handmaiden, however.