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TV’s Frink said:

Doctor Strange was pretty damn good.

8/10

i found the movie to ungrow on me on repeat viewings. i was very entertained when i first saw it, now i am just entertained. which isn’t bad either.

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Blackway AKA Go with Me (2015) – 6/10

Star Trek Beyond (2016) – 7/10

Captain America: Civil War (2016) – 5/10

Captain America: The Winter Soldier (2014) – 7.5/10

Avengers: Age of Ultron (2015) – 7/10

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Earl said:

Wonder Woman (2017):

I can’t wait for the inevitable complaints about this somehow being “feminist propaganda” like what happened to TFA. Overall, it was good enough for me, but I could’ve done without the whole Wonder Woman vs British-guy-who-builds-his-own-armour-out-of-runway-wreckage fight scene at the end (I’m assuming that’s some DC villain from the comics I haven’t heard of). I’m just goddamn tired of these superhero movies ending with a blue laser being fired.

The Thing (1982):

Hard to believe this actually received so many negative reviews at the time.

It was the summer of E.T. Nobody wanted terrifying malevolent aliens.

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Downfall - 3.5/5
It made Nazis sympathetic and human, which is weird and interesting.

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Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace

Why did I watch this today? I don’t know, honestly. Maybe I hoped that it wouldn’t be as bad as I remembered, maybe I was bored and grabbed it without thinking, I don’t know. Somehow even worse than I remembered. As I wrote in my long chain of tweets while watching, this movie has no connective tissue, everything just… happens. This is the cinematic equivilant of buying a bag of chips that turns out to be mostly air.

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suspiciouscoffee said:

Star Wars: Episode I: The Phantom Menace

Why did I watch this today? I don’t know, honestly. Maybe I hoped that it wouldn’t be as bad as I remembered, maybe I was bored and grabbed it without thinking, I don’t know. Somehow even worse than I remembered. As I wrote in my long chain of tweets while watching, this movie has no connective tissue, everything just… happens. This is the cinematic equivilant of buying a bag of chips that turns out to be mostly air.

And then two putrid, poison chips. Those are the “Jar Jar” and “Lil Orphan Ani” chips.

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Life (2017)

More stupid scientists in space.
Not as frustrating as Prometheus or Alien Covenant but clearly Zero G is bad for the noodles.
half a ball because the ending was great

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Bingowings said:

clearly Zero G is bad for the noodles.

I’ll say. How are you supposed to cook them when the water floats up out of the pot and the pot away from the stove?

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The Odd Couple (1968) - 4.5/5

Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau are hilarious, and the fact this film starts off with sad suicide jokes and manages to be funny throughout endears it to me. I know a lot of people prefer Jack Klugman and Tony Randall in the roles, but I can’t share that view.

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Ferris Bueller’s Day Off (1986):

Very funny film.

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Handman said:

The Odd Couple (1968) - 4.5/5

Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau are hilarious, and the fact this film starts off with sad suicide jokes and manages to be funny throughout endears it to me. I know a lot of people prefer Jack Klugman and Tony Randall in the roles, but I can’t share that view.

Snnnffffuuh! It’s a funny movie, and I’ll always watch it, if I happen to see it on TV. I saw the original series before I ever saw the movie. The series was funny, it had it’s own charm and emulated the movie. However, the series pales in comparison. Also, don’t even bother checking out the new series. I’ve only seen some commercials, and totally pointless.

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Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith - (2005)

Decided to watch this again, and screw it, I actually like it a lot. This time around I didn’t mind the dialogue or acting, and I adored the music, action scenes, and cinematography. I also really enjoyed watching it. I know I’ll get hounded for this, but I give it a seven out of ten.

Not enough people read the EU.

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LuckyGungan2001 said:

Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith - (2005)

Decided to watch this again, and screw it, I actually like it a lot. This time around I didn’t mind the dialogue or acting, and I adored the music, action scenes, and cinematography. I also really enjoyed watching it. I know I’ll get hounded for this, but I give it a seven out of ten.

I re-watched Sith recently too and found the dialog and acting even worse than I remembered. Anakin and Obi-Wan’s banter during the Coruscant batte is atrocious, even Ian Mcdiarmid is impossible to take seriously. But once Order 66 hits, there really are some great moments. I forgot how powerful Padme’s funeral is with that shot of Anakin’s necklace gift. Palpatine’s speech to the senate intercut with Anakin’s annihilation of the Separatist council is not only striking but thematically deft. Obi-Wan’s “You were my brother” and Anakin’s fear as Vader’s mask lowers: great stuff. Obviously doesn’t save the film though.

The run time flew by too since I was trying to deconstruct character motivations which need a lot of digging to figure out. I also love the score too LuckyGungan.

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Wonder Woman: I almost universally hate superhero movies, but this one mostly transcends the genre. Fails at times by indulging in nonsensical hero vs. bad guy buffoonery, but overall it was a good, not great movie. Gal Gadot was awesome. The movie was funny and the slow scenes were never slow. Often it was the slow motion shots in the action scenes that caused the pace to break down.

I can quibble with things like the unnecessary framing scenes, two different voice-over narrations in the first 10 minutes, the ending, stuff like that…and maybe I can fix those in a fanedit one day, who knows. But I think the biggest negative with this movie was that the hero didn’t have a weakness. She tried and succeeded at everything she ever wanted to do from beginning to end, and nobody ever stopped her. She was a lot like Rey.

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Her weakness is very explicitly her naivete. Like Superman, her weakness is mental, not physical. Superman in the classic movie is often incapable of understanding how a criminal mind works which leads him to underestimate villains, and Wonder Woman similarly must overcome a simplistic view of the world as heroes vs villains.

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NeverarGreat said:

Her weakness is very explicitly her naivete.

This is not a weakness in the film. It could have been, but it wasn’t. When she goes to the front, she is told she cannot cross No Man’s Land. She doesn’t understand the kind of modern artillery firepower she is up against. She does it anyway and succeeds. She’s told there is a gas that can end civilization and kill millions of people. She has probably never encountered something like that before. She walks right into a cloud of it and lives anyway.

At no point did her naivety cost her anything. It was a nice storyline that I was digging, but it was never a weakness.

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Alderaan said:

NeverarGreat said:

Her weakness is very explicitly her naivete.

This is not a weakness in the film. It could have been, but it wasn’t. When she goes to the front, she is told she cannot cross No Man’s Land. She doesn’t understand the kind of modern artillery firepower she is up against. She does it anyway and succeeds. She’s told there is a gas that can end civilization and kill millions of people. She has probably never encountered something like that before. She walks right into a cloud of it and lives anyway.

At no point did her naivety cost her anything. It was a nice storyline that I was digging, but it was never a weakness.

NeverarGreat said:

Like Superman, her weakness is mental, not physical.

Not sure what else to say here, other than to reiterate that she’s not supposed to be threatened like a normal person is threatened by violence, she’s above that. It’s her childlike sense of good and evil that gets her into trouble. For example, if she wasn’t hellbent on destroying Ares at the gala she and Steve might have been able to thwart the gas attack. That gas attack costs her a great deal. Then, her insistence on killing Ares instead of helping Steve and friends stop the plane put the entire armistice at risk.

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Zoolander 2 (2016)

There was no way the original should have worked, and there’s no way this one should have worked, but they both did. This one was probably 10-15 minutes too long but I laughed a lot.

8/10

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Alderaan said:

NeverarGreat said:

Her weakness is very explicitly her naivete.

This is not a weakness in the film. It could have been, but it wasn’t. When she goes to the front, she is told she cannot cross No Man’s Land. She doesn’t understand the kind of modern artillery firepower she is up against. She does it anyway and succeeds. She’s told there is a gas that can end civilization and kill millions of people. She has probably never encountered something like that before. She walks right into a cloud of it and lives anyway.

At no point did her naivety cost her anything. It was a nice storyline that I was digging, but it was never a weakness.

Thanks, now I don’t have to go see it to find that out!