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  • #691
    Re: Movies! The Last Jedi: Ragnarok

    Another movie while on a 10-hour flight: Mazerunner. Maybe the perfect exemplar of the class "movies you would only watch on a 10-hour flight."* It was OK, albeit predictable, speaking of which it should have been called The Hunger Games Only with Fewer Cocks I Mean Christ, Thomas, Suck It Up.

    * Other movies in this class:

    Divergent
    The Purge
    Gattaca#
    In Time##
    Tomorrowland

    # Actually, a good movie.
    ## Actually, a great concept which, while poorly executed, is still a worthwhile movie.
    Last edited by Kepler; 01-22-2018, 12:27 PM.
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    • #692
      Re: Movies! The Last Jedi: Ragnarok

      Also caught Europa Report on Netflix. I'm not sure about it. It's derivative of a dozen other films but (1) I really like those films, and (2) for the most part it didn't take the easy way out.

      There is something about it that I really liked, but I have no idea what that thing is. Yet.

      Edit: I found it in a review. It's sincere. I hate the winky, ironic cleverness that drenches all contemporary movies like cheap cologne. There is none of that in this movie. It has characters I would not stab in the face and writers I would not swat and pray for a mishap.
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      • #693
        Re: Movies! The Last Jedi: Ragnarok

        More on The Post...it's further off-base than I realized.

        https://consortiumnews.com/2018/01/2...ntagon-papers/

        I'm going to order Ellsberg's book today.


        On a separate note, The James Baldwin documentary is searing my mind. I'll be diving into his works and Malcom X very soon.
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        • #694
          Re: Movies! The Last Jedi: Ragnarok

          Originally posted by Kepler View Post
          I hate the winky, ironic cleverness that drenches all contemporary movies like cheap cologne.
          Beg your pardon?

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          • #695
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            Originally posted by FadeToBlack&Gold View Post
            Beg your pardon?
            https://partners.nytimes.com/library...e-culture.html
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            • #696
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              I am irrevocably in.

              http://variety.com/2018/film/news/jo...ie-1202673127/
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              • #697
                Re: Movies! The Last Jedi: Ragnarok

                Originally posted by Twitch Boy View Post
                I am irrevocably in.

                http://variety.com/2018/film/news/jo...ie-1202673127/
                You are the one of 352 people who will see that movie.
                Never really developed a taste for tequila. Kind of hard to understand how you make a drink out of something that sharp, inhospitable. Now, bourbon is easy to understand.
                Tastes like a warm summer day. -Raylan Givens

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                • #698
                  Re: Movies! The Last Jedi: Ragnarok

                  Originally posted by Brenthoven View Post
                  You are the one of 352 people who will see that movie.
                  It'll flop at the box office, but if done right it could end up pretty squarely in the "so bad it's good" category.

                  Only worry is Cena might be too squeaky clean for the role. I don't see the Make-a-Wish guy ****ting down an alien warlord's neck while reading a newspaper.
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                  • #699
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                    Originally posted by Twitch Boy View Post
                    I am irrevocably in.

                    http://variety.com/2018/film/news/jo...ie-1202673127/
                    You should do a double feature, "Duke Nukem" with John Cena followed by "Rampage" with The Rock.

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                    • #700
                      Re: Movies! The Last Jedi: Ragnarok

                      Originally posted by French Rage View Post
                      You should do a double feature, "Duke Nukem" with John Cena followed by "Rampage" with The Rock.
                      I'm convinced at this point Dwayne Johnson just barges onto random movie sets, walks up to the director, and says "Hand me a script, I got this."
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                      • #701
                        Re: Movies! The Last Jedi: Ragnarok

                        Sharknado 5:

                        Loved the first one, even the second one. Then it became a parody of itself in the third one, and by the fourth one it ventured into "Scary Movie/Not Another Teen Movie/etc" territory, and lost a little luster. This one was full blown POS parody of a parody of a parody. Dare I say it......I'll say it......it.......nuked the fridge
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                        • #702
                          Re: Movies! The Last Jedi: Ragnarok

                          Cabinet of Cagliari - Comcast Xfinity on demand only

                          Note: from 1962

                          Film noir psychological thriller. From an awesome time period for artistic, edgy films. This one totally delivers.
                          Go Gophers!

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                          • #703
                            Re: Movies! The Last Jedi: Ragnarok

                            Originally posted by 5mn_Major View Post
                            Cabinet of Cagliari - Comcast Xfinity on demand only

                            Note: from 1962

                            Film noir psychological thriller. From an awesome time period for artistic, edgy films. This one totally delivers.
                            Caligari. Cagliari is the football squad.

                            Has nothing to do with the 1920 classic. I agree it is an excellent creepy movie. Written by Robert Bloch who also wrote Psycho and two terrible Star Trek episodes "What Are Little Girls Made Of?" (the one with Richard Kiel) and "Catspaw" (the one with the Enterprise as a pendant) and one of the best, "The Wolf in the Fold" (Red Jack! Red Jack! Red Jack!).

                            Random Trivia of the Day, if not the Year: in the final scene of Psycho when we go into Perkins' cell, the guard holding the door is...


                            ... Ted Knight.
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                            • #704
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                              I think it's very daring of the Academy to nominate a movie about a woman having sex with a frog for Best Picture.

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                              • #705
                                Re: Movies! The Last Jedi: Ragnarok

                                The Samaritan:

                                Sam L plays a grifter who is looking to go straight. His old life beckons him.

                                A mishmash of a couple movies, obvious ripoffs of the plots and cliches. It's too bad, some decent acting in this one, given what they had to work with. I won't give away the twist, but it is an OBVIOUS steal from another, and much better, movie and its remake. I liked it for a timekiller, and that's about it.
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