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Marathon Man is a great movie but Hoffman just played Hoffman.

Okay

Steven Seagal is an awful actor but Fire Down Below is seven kinds of awesome. I used to work as a regulator on superfund projects and this movie is 100% accurate to our daily experiences.

Never seen it. Is it old fat Seagull using stunt doubles?

I think I speak for the whole class when I say I'd enjoy reading about your experiences. You make a thread, I'll read it.

 

[JujuFish]

Edge of Tomorrow/ Live, Die, Repeat was shockingly good. But I'm a sucker for a time loop. One of these days I want to read All You Need is Kill, which it's supposed to be loosely adapted from.

 

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Edge of Tomorrow/ Live, Die, Repeat was shockingly good. But I'm a sucker for a time loop.

We watch Groundhog Day every year on...you guessed it. Shockingly good is an excellent description. I went in with low expectations, came out pushing play again.

One of these days I want to read All You Need is Kill, which it's supposed to be loosely adapted from.

It is indeed. I think 2 of the reasons, among many, it did poorly at the boxoffice, were the way it was marketed and not staying faithful to the source material. If they had done so, the weebs would have glazed it so hard normies would pay to see it.

 

[DigDog]

im watching Little Big Man now ..

they told me today at work that my memory isn't great, but i remember we talked about it here ..
six years ago.

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I gotta say, i used to revere this pre-Dances With Wolves "revisionist" western, but it hasn't aged well. Wikipedia doesn't even call it a "comedy", but watching Dustin Hoffman play the gunfighter is hilarious, in a sad kind of way.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Wikipedia doesn't even call it a "comedy", but watching Dustin Hoffman play the gunfighter is hilarious, in a sad kind of way.

Would you call this movie:

Hilariously sad?

Sadly hilarious?

Hilarious AND sad?

Whatever option you choose, it's still too sad for me to want to risk being sad.

 

[igor_kavinski]

You know what sucks?

There is only Man of Steel and no sequels (Cavill sharing screen time with other superheroes does not count).

He, at the very least, deserves three more movies, concentrating only on his life as a superhero.

 

[JujuFish]

For good reason. Man of Steel sucked and Cavill sucked in it.

 

[Dr. Detroit]

I'd rate every Chuck Norris movie 4/10 now. I loved them growing up and in my 20s but they aged like warm milk on a summer day. Using that metric Steven Seagull movies are all 1/10. Bruce Lee movies are guilty pleasures of 10. Man! You come right out of a comic book!

Chuck and Seagal had some bangers:

Under Siege is a solid flic with Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Busey and the beautiful Jordan Tate - 7/10
But yeah, the rest of Seagal's catalog is pretty shit especially after 1995.

Mission Impossible, Delta Force with Lee Marvin, Invasion USA, Firewalker with Lou Gosset Jr, and of course him with Bruce Lee in The Way of the Dragon was his finest work. Nostalgia!

 

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Under Siege

Forgot about that movie. Have to admit it's alright; die hard on a ship.

Delta Force with Lee Marvin, Invasion USA, Firewalker with Lou Gosset Jr,

If I never see any of those again, I'm good.

and of course him with Bruce Lee in The Way of the Dragon was his finest work. Nostalgia!

Indeed.

 

[Dr. Detroit]

Blink Twice - 2/10 - Now streaming on Prime

I really disliked this movie, I hated the characters, I hated the writing, I hated the ending.

This was just not good and was ridiculously unbelievable starting with the opening scenes - sure the powerful CEO brings these two dumpy, unintelligent, broke, clumsy women to his island. Sure!

Best part was when I thought 2LiveCrew was gonna start playing "Put Her in the Buck"...but then realized nah, thats just Jungle Fever.

 

[Chaotic42]

Just watched Die Hard again. 10/10 and highlights the importance of wearing shoes

 

[Kaido]

Just watched Die Hard again. 10/10 and highlights the importance of wearing shoes

Why are you watching a Christmas movie in March?

 

[Kaido]

Reacher S3 8/10. Simple old school badass formula. Comfort food for my brain.

The S2 yeet made me LOL

Spoiler

 

[Kaido]

Same rating from me, 6/10

Cool concept, failed to execute. I loved that concept of a sci-fi sort of romance within a crazy sci-fi situation, but the movie could not be both things - ultimately what they found in the gorge was a bit too stupid to suspend disbelief for. But fun movie, pretty to look at in multiple places, and overall fun and mindless.

It's on my list...I avoided AppleTV for the longest time, but so far I've liked Ted Lasso, Shrinking, Schmigadoon!, Severance, Silo, etc.

 

[Chaotic42]

Why are you watching a Christmas movie in March?

The weather outside recently became frightful

 

[Dr. Detroit]

It's on my list...I avoided AppleTV for the longest time, but so far I've liked Ted Lasso, Shrinking, Schmigadoon!, Severance, Silo, etc.

I enjoyed Mosquito Coast on A-TV+.
Greyhound & Greatest Beer Run Ever were both solid movies while Instigators was just OK.

 

[DigDog]

i watched

Me Myself & Irene - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0183505/reference/

Which was okay-ish. Nothing terribly wrong per-se, i just didn't think it was great. And, the film thinks it's better than it is.
The premise is decent, with small-town officer Charlie having skitzophrenia, and changing into Hank, a psychopat who thinks he's Clint Eastwood. The problem is that Hank sucks, he's incapable of actually doing anything decent, he can't fight, he can't seduce, he can't do any of the things he thinks he can do right, and winds up being a bigger buffoon than Charlie most of the time.
Think that, i got to last act of the film, the final showdown by the river, to only then realize i had watched this film before. It's just that forgettable.

There's a couple funny things in here, but none involve Jim Carey. Renee Zellweger was still young and very juicy, so it's not a complete loss.

i can't really rate this any higher than 5.5/10

 

[GodisanAtheist]

i watched

Me Myself & Irene - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0183505/reference/

Which was okay-ish. Nothing terribly wrong per-se, i just didn't think it was great. And, the film thinks it's better than it is.
The premise is decent, with small-town officer Charlie having skitzophrenia, and changing into Hank, a psychopat who thinks he's Clint Eastwood. The problem is that Hank sucks, he's incapable of actually doing anything decent, he can't fight, he can't seduce, he can't do any of the things he thinks he can do right, and winds up being a bigger buffoon than Charlie most of the time.
Think that, i got to last act of the film, the final showdown by the river, to only then realize i had watched this film before. It's just that forgettable.

There's a couple funny things in here, but none involve Jim Carey. Renee Zellweger was still young and very juicy, so it's not a complete loss.

i can't really rate this any higher than 5.5/10

-Its been a long time since I've seen it, but I thought it was a fine *stupid* comedy.

It had that early 00's meanness to it that turned me off a bit (Charlie having a mental breakdown because the love of his life had three kids by a black midget and then finally left him when he didn't get the clue) but as a comedy it hit the spot.

A scene that still plays in my mind from time to time is Charlie trying to put the cow out of it's misery with a mercy killing and having to shoot it 10 times before it died.

The director(s?) were riding off of "There is something about Mary" and i think the film was panned just because it wasn't as good as their first hit.

 

[igor_kavinski]

to only then realize i had watched this film before.

Happened to me with multiple movies. It's not the movie's fault. It's you

 

[igor_kavinski]

Speaking of comedy, I saw Fight or Flight: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13652286/reference/

First thing, the best thing about the movie was seeing her: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13652286/mediaviewer/rm1198820098/

I would literally lose the feeling in my knees if I saw her in real life. She looks that cute to me.

Moving on to the film, it's pretty decent, as one would expect when Josh Hartnett is involved. It's a 6 but I'll give it a 6.5/10 for the girl. Don't expect the story to be great going in. It's there to support the ridiculous premise and fight scenes.

 

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First thing, the best thing about the movie was seeing her: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13652286/mediaviewer/rm1198820098/

 

[IronWing]

i watched

Question for you as you stream a MFT of movies. What is your daily data usage when watching movies? I ask because I was looking at my data usage and there was one day in November when usage spiked to 89GB for one day. I don't think streaming movies would spike it like that but maybe I'm wrong.

 

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-Its been a long time since I've seen it, but I thought it was a fine *stupid* comedy.

Exactly. Jim was the king of stupid comedies. They don't make them like that anymore.

Homie be like - "the film thinks it's better than it is."

I be all - Please timestamp when the movie became self aware

It had that early 00's meanness to it that turned me off a bit (Charlie having a mental breakdown because the love of his life had three kids by a black midget and then finally left him when he didn't get the clue) but as a comedy it hit the spot.

A scene that still plays in my mind from time to time is Charlie trying to put the cow out of it's misery with a mercy killing and having to shoot it 10 times before it died.

The beginning when he shits on the neighbor's lawn reading the newspaper is the one that made me "you laugh you lose" Remember that thread?

The director(s?) were riding off of "There is something about Mary" and i think the film was panned just because it wasn't as good as their first hit.

Nothing, with perhaps the exception of Tropic Thunder, has been as good since. Good comedy died somewhere, which makes it a tragedy.

 

[balloonshark]

I also watched Furiosa this weekend. Like you said It was a great story. I was hooked within the first 12 minutes and I wasn't expecting much since I didn't care for Fury Road. I may have to give Fury Road another watch.

SOMEONE HANG THIS MAN!

I rewatched Fury Road and remembered what I disliked about the movie. Tom Hardy's voice sounded weird. Like it was dubbed over. I'm not alone with that complaint.

They also over-used the guy with the electric guitar strapped to the vehicle. Not only that the guys sucks at playing the guitar. They should've spent the extra money and had someone like Slash play the part. At least he can shred. Both of those things really got under my skin. Otherwise it was a decent flick.

 

[igor_kavinski]

there was one day in November when usage spiked to 89GB for one day.

Could be Windows updates. Could be some streaming bug in the browser where it downloaded data twice. Could be you watched the movie in 4K UHD and the connection speed was so good that the server streamed you all the bits rather than downscaling the quality and sending you fewer data. I've gotten speeds of 100 megabytes (yes bytes not bits) per second on a connection and downloaded roughly 200 gigabytes in a matter of hours. It's not unusual these days.