Try and pallet Tommy these days...

The Hampshire Mall in Hadley, MA played it at midnight on Saturday night for years.

I have it in my hands now. All I have been hearing is how great this is. I hope I am not disappointed. Will report back later.

It was much better than the standard horror movie but not as good as everyone made it out to be. 7.5/10

Alien: Covenant - Fassbender is excellent as always and there were a few cool scenes but for the most part it was a total bore. None of the additional alien backstory was interesting at all and the cast and story were weak. Even the final twist was predictable and clichéd. The series should've ended with Alien 3. It was an improvement on Prometheus though, FWIW.

A buddy offered me $300 to see the new transformers movie. I passed. Told him I wouldn't for less than $1k.

I would have taken $250.00, but I do appreciate the sentiment.

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That would be less than my hourly bill out rate. I need a serious premium to endure that pain.

Theater energy was off the hook though, especially (I guess?) the first night, a few weeks after Trump was inaugurated. Got myself "defriended" on FB by Trump relatives immediately afterwards.

Its definitely one of those "in a mood" films,you have to be in a certain frame of mind to watch it.

(Drunk and/or high)

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Subtle bragpost.

For us less wealthy, I would definitely go see it for £50.

I'm pretty sure I would see it for free, if for nothing else than to be able to write a funny (hopefully) post for you guys to read about how bad it was.

The last time I watched The Wall, it just seemed so depressing.

I may have to go see it. I've never seen a transformers movie, but it's directed by the guy who did one of the greatest flicks of the millennium, so how bad could it be?

...Bad Boys 2??

Wonder Woman

A solid entry into the ever expanding and over-saturated market of superhero movies. The makers of this film clearly had an agenda, but were very adept and able at expressing their ideals without compromising the movie. The film is more about trying to stop war than creating it, and how maybe a woman is needed to accomplish that goal (more on that later).

We meet Diana Prince (played by the gorgeous and talented Gal Gadot) in Paris, as some sort of art curator at the Louvre, and she gets a package from Wayne enterprises that we saw in Batman vs Superman. A picture is in there of her from years prior, and it triggers her memory. The entire movie is a flashback to remember that photo, but we quickly forget about that fact and are swept up into the world of Diana.

We start in the imaginary land of Themyscira, a place in the amazon that is shielded from the rest of the world. It is inhabited by all Women (I capitalize 'Women' on purpose), and all of them are strong, powerful warriors. Diana is a child, and there is some bickering between her mother Hippolyta (played by Connie Nelson) and her Aunt Antiope (played by Robin Wright) as to whether to train Diana to be a warrior. Of course she ends up getting trained, and becomes...surprise surprise...the greatest warrior they've ever seen. There's some stuff about a god killer weapon, and some neat gadgets including the cheesy lasso of truth and a sword that acts as a great object of comedic effect later in the movie.

Flash forward to a few years later, and a plane crashes with the dashing Steve Trevor (played by Chris Pine) in their bubble of a world, and the Germans are close behind. A fantastic beach battle sequence follows, and unfortunately that was probably the highlight of the action. This sequence was breathtakingly beautiful in it's choreography, and showcased the Amazonians in full bad-ass mode. Afterwards, we get a lull in action as Diana learns a bit about the world, and about men. Steve is the first man she has ever seen, and when asked if they all look like that, he responds very cleverly 'Well, I'm above average.'

She ends up going to the real world with Steve to try and stop World War I. This is where the movie starts to go downhill a bit, as I had trouble buying the mythology when it tied into such real events. Diana thinks that it is the God of War (Ares) who is responsible for the war and therefore her mission is to stop Ares, and thus the war. There's some talk about the need for war vs the quest for peace, but I just didn't buy into her innocence. When we met her as a child, all she wanted to do was learn how to fight, and then when we see her grown up, all of a sudden she understands that she really desires peace. I didn't see any arc to her character there.

There's sort of two missions in the movie. One is to stop some chemical weapon makers, and the other is to stop Ares, and while the two are connected, I found it quite distracting to deal with the real world problem of agent orange with the superhero world problem of a God of War. I just couldn't buy into both stories at the same time.

Anyway, they gather the typical band of misfit followers, and off they go to the frontline of the war. There's a trench battle sequence that I found a little silly, as somehow the Germans only seemed to be shooting at Diana (who has the ability to block bullets btw), and so everyone else was free to run next to her and not worry about getting shot. They then infiltrate the German high counsel, to try and assassinate some bad guys who are trying to make the chemical weapon.

The third act has Diana face off against a typical Superhero Villain, with equal God like powers, and this part of the movie fell completely flat for me. It didn't have the look or feel of earlier action sequences of the movie, and the gravitas and importance of the fight was lost on me. It reminded me a lot of the final fight in the aforementioned Batman vs Superman, which I disliked.

Despite these criticisms, I would still recommend this movie. It goes down easy, and is easy on the eyes (did I mention Gal Gadot is absolutely gorgeous). It makes a strong statement that women should have roles in Superhero movies other than 'damsel in distress.' I don't think we will look back on this movie years from now and call it a classic, but for a cheap night out, you could do a lot worse than to watch this fun piece of pop culture.

Well, considering that he won the 2014 Razzie for Worst Director for his last Transformers movie....

Pearl Harbor?

That movie was farther from the truth than Belushi's comment in Animal House.



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The Wall, both the album and the movie, is a depressing, whiny mess with only a few good songs in it. I am a huge Pink Floyd fan but that is one of the most over-rated albums in all of rock.

Re: Broadcast News... I was 19 when I first saw this movie and, just like the Albert Brooks character, pretty sure I was in love with Holly Hunter. She was so cute.

Just got back from WSOP... catching up on some reviews:

Wonder Woman (7.5), Baywatch (4.5), 47 Meters Down (5.5)

+1

Frequently tuneless too, unlike some of their previous albums which were wonderful. I was at school when it was released and soon got sick of friends playing it to me.

Agree completely. Relentlessly depressing.

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David Fincher is directing World War Z... 2