Léon (1994)
Gary Oldman rules!
Darkman (1990) – ★★★★
Just wonderful! One of the best comicbook movies, and it’s not even based on a comicbook!
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SONIC RACES THROUGH THE GREEN FIELDS.
THE SUN RACES THROUGH A BLUE SKY FILLED WITH WHITE CLOUDS.
THE WAYS OF HIS HEART ARE MUCH LIKE THE SUN. SONIC RUNS AND RESTS; THE SUN RISES AND SETS.
DON’T GIVE UP ON THE SUN. DON’T MAKE THE SUN LAUGH AT YOU.
I need to see Darkman again. The one time I watched it, I took it too seriously.
The Raid 2 (2014)
A bit too long but otherwise fantastic.
9/10
PASSENGERS
Wow…Wow.
Loved the world building. Performances were spot-on for the plot. Well directed.
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By sheer co-inky-dink, this production is P-R-E-C-I-S-E-L-Y what one would expect in a psy-op directed at those with critically needed technical skills and their “rewards” for good behavior. It touches all the bases. Their specialists need to become PURE EVIL. Everybody has the biometrics and lists of crimes of the elites and their tools. The guilty will be exposed after the culling. Satan’s is a kingdom divided. They can’t have their vitally necessary personnel joining forces or forming Master-Blaster arrangements with the outside survivors to avenge their families and friends and neighbors. The necessaries also need to believe, with Orwellian Doublethink, that this can all work out well in the end for them. Minorities need to imagine that they could take the deal, so long as they get in healthy. The sex slaves need to learn to take the zombie enslavement “medication” and just accept the deal. The less than critical tools must believe that they might get golden tickets and never realize that the Platinum and Diamond tickets will be for criticals, elites, and the prettiest of little TEA party children. Gold ticket holders and their families will be “processed” by the UN peacekeeper Jihadies guarding the outer perimeter. Above all, ‘White Heterosexual Protestant Male’ must be seen as responsible for everything.
Silly question, would they ever, in a million years, have portrayed an obviously secular Jewish male, or a bisexual Catholic doing anything remotely as despicable? I was wondering, apart from the money, why Pratt would participate in such an intense demonization of white protestant heterosexuals… then a saw a montage of his movie promotions.
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The passage by the red star was spectacular. Wow…Just wow…
PASSENGERS
Wow…Wow.
Loved the world building. Performances were spot-on for the plot. Well directed.
The “twist” was such a widely trumpeted marketing device that SPOILER ALERT seems superfluous, but here goes…
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You’re doing the spoiler thing wrong.
I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s doing it wrong deliberately.
PASSENGERS
Wow…Wow.
Loved the world building. Performances were spot-on for the plot. Well directed.
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By sheer co-inky-dink, this production is P-R-E-C-I-S-E-L-Y what one would expect in a psy-op directed at those with critically needed technical skills and their “rewards” for good behavior. It touches all the bases. Their specialists need to become PURE EVIL. Everybody has the biometrics and lists of crimes of the elites and their tools. The guilty will be exposed after the culling. Satan’s is a kingdom divided. They can’t have their vitally necessary personnel joining forces or forming Master-Blaster arrangements with the outside survivors to avenge their families and friends and neighbors. The necessaries also need to believe, with Orwellian Doublethink, that this can all work out well in the end for them. Minorities need to imagine that they could take the deal, so long as they get in healthy. The sex slaves need to learn to take the zombie enslavement “medication” and just accept the deal. The less than critical tools must believe that they might get golden tickets and never realize that the Platinum and Diamond tickets will be for criticals, elites, and the prettiest of little TEA party children. Gold ticket holders and their families will be “processed” by the UN peacekeeper Jihadies guarding the outer perimeter. Above all, ‘White Heterosexual Protestant Male’ must be seen as responsible for everything.
Silly question, would they ever, in a million years, have portrayed an obviously secular Jewish male, or a bisexual Catholic doing anything remotely as despicable? I was wondering, apart from the money, why Pratt would participate in such an intense demonization of white protestant heterosexuals… then a saw a montage of his movie promotions.
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The passage by the red star was spectacular. Wow…Just wow…
What the actual f. All this from a story celebrating Stockholm Syndrome.
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I wouldn’t be surprised if he’s doing it wrong deliberately.
He went back and fixed it after I pointed out how wrong he was doing it, so…no.
The Family Man
Film Grade- 7/10
I’m surprised this got such a low score on rotten tomatoes. Some of the acting was lackluster but Cage played the comedic beats pretty well. Nothing special but it was fine.
tehparadox (JDownloader)
0/10
tehparadox (JDownloader)
0/10
It’s as bad as Rogue One?
How did you feel about THX Colson?
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0/10
It’s as bad as Rogue One?
How did you feel about THX Colson?
its terrible. i wish they hadn’t killed him a second time. < Spoilery
JEDIT: good point. revised score -1/10
Going to see La La Land today 😃 I’m beyond excited to see this. I’ll leave my thoughts here.
Happened to read this today.
http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/some-ryan-gosling-movies-that-people-like-actually-are-1790568346
La La Land is not good. Actually it’s bad. It’s going to win a bunch of Oscars because it has Ryan Gosling in it, and Ryan Gosling is a handsome man who is understood to choose good roles in ambitious awards-y movies, and then to not make many facial expressions in those movies, in a style of acting that we are meant to understand is “understated,” for which you’re then meant to signal your appreciation as a way of indicating refined appreciation for refined things. I am fed up with this! It’s time for some Ryan Gosling Truth.
He dances and sings in La La Land—not well, mind you, but you’re supposed to think that’s actually what’s good about it, because it’s vulnerable or relatable or whatever. Actually it’s just crappy!
Have not seen it so can’t agree or disagree. However I do think this Drive take is silly.
In Drive, Ryan Gosling drives around a bunch, and wears driving gloves like a weirdo. These are fine behaviors for the protagonist of an unexceptional cheeseball B-movie—which is what Drive is—but because Ryan Gosling does no actual acting in Drive, but rather spends the entire time making an Easter Island statue face, you are supposed to understand that his performance is restrained, and therefore suggestive of hidden depths of meaning, and therefore that this dumb action movie in which Ryan Gosling drives around wearing driving gloves is Art. No way, dammit! No goddamn way!
Happened to read this today.
http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/some-ryan-gosling-movies-that-people-like-actually-are-1790568346
La La Land is not good. Actually it’s bad. It’s going to win a bunch of Oscars because it has Ryan Gosling in it, and Ryan Gosling is a handsome man who is understood to choose good roles in ambitious awards-y movies, and then to not make many facial expressions in those movies, in a style of acting that we are meant to understand is “understated,” for which you’re then meant to signal your appreciation as a way of indicating refined appreciation for refined things. I am fed up with this! It’s time for some Ryan Gosling Truth.
He dances and sings in La La Land—not well, mind you, but you’re supposed to think that’s actually what’s good about it, because it’s vulnerable or relatable or whatever. Actually it’s just crappy!
Have not seen it so can’t agree or disagree. However I do think this Drive take is silly.
In Drive, Ryan Gosling drives around a bunch, and wears driving gloves like a weirdo. These are fine behaviors for the protagonist of an unexceptional cheeseball B-movie—which is what Drive is—but because Ryan Gosling does no actual acting in Drive, but rather spends the entire time making an Easter Island statue face, you are supposed to understand that his performance is restrained, and therefore suggestive of hidden depths of meaning, and therefore that this dumb action movie in which Ryan Gosling drives around wearing driving gloves is Art. No way, dammit! No goddamn way!
I totally disagree with that. I really like Drive. Gosling is meant to be a creepy unemotional weirdo, and to say he doesn’t act is absurd. He isn’t totally emotionless, either, he very clearly cares for Irene and Benicio. And Drive is in no way a “dumb action movie”, there’s hardly any action at all.
La La Land is fucking great.
La La Land is fucking great.
Amazing. One of the great musicals and I don’t use that lightly. That ending, while homaging another classic film, is truly magnificent.
LA LA LAND
It’s not my first choice in either film or music genres. I never feel an irresistible compulsion to see Hollywood’s latest love letter to it’s self. I went in with a bargain ticket and some extra time out of very passing curiosity…
I was kinda impressed by it. It was an odd mix of golden age and contemporary, drama and spectacle.
Color and costume and location… everything bringing past and present together. Performances, screenplay, direction… all making it true to it’s self.
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Obligatory infuriated ranting…
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I was sorta pleased I saw it, which is the highest it could have achieved.
Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
I’ve known about this movie all my life, but hadn’t seen it until now. It’s pretty great, a wonderful adventure story with one of the greatest dueling scenes put to film.
La La Land
THIS WAS AMAZING! The dance numbers were lively, fun, and inspiring. Gorgeous locations and lush color grading make for a visually stimulating experience. Stone and Gosling’s chemistry is off the charts. It truly is a magical film. Probably tied as my favorite film of the year with Arrival.
I can’t wait to see La La Land, I hope to see it before the year’s end so I can add another 2016 movie to my “Movies I Watched in 2016” list, since new releases have been somewhat lacking there.
I forgot to add myself to the La La Land praise train. It’s extraordinary.
Frink, don’t listen to that article, it’s apparently written by some fuddy duddy who is judging a film because he thinks it will win awards because it has Ryan Gosling in it? Maybe Gosling knows how to pick good movies, it certainly seems that way.
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Someone hasn’t seen The Nice Guys… Gosling was great in that!
Someone hasn’t seen The Nice Guys… Gosling was great in that!
From the article:
Instead, it has a 92-percent favorable score on Rotten Tomatoes. That’s crud! The Nice Guys is not 92-percent good! It’s like 70-percent good. Maybe less!
That’s not how Rotten Tomato scores work, buddy. I believe this is a troll post, especially judging by another one of his articles “Ryan Gosling Is Not All That Good Looking, IMO”
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