DigDog
Lifer
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what i gather from that prompt is that there's a lot of interest in the film industry for films where a female teach does the sex with a male student.
Well, in the movie I saw, there was no explicit sex. They are talking in a garden. She's sympathizing with him. She takes him into his arms. Then they go behind a tree or something. We are left to wonder whatever they do there. Then afterwards she is smiling for bringing him comfort I guess? But then the movie ends tragically (don't remember exactly what happened).
Meghan54
Lifer
- Oct 18, 2009
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A Charlie Chan movie. I remember seeing some of them as a kid. There were quite a few C Chan movies…sorta serial-type. Chan was a detective.
Rebecca Ferguson 😍
Oh you probably mean the new girl.
Idk, if I'm to understand the story arc, Ilsa is his ride-or-die chick? Then new pickpocket chick shows up, and he instantly falls for her because she can't drive? I like the M:I films and this was good, but all the reviews were really over the top with praise (96% RT).This one was fun (for the most part). The only thing they can improve upon is to give the next one even more fun scenes that make you giggle!
Kaido
Elite Member & Kitchen Overlord
- Feb 14, 2004
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Wonka 7/10
Didn't know it was a low-key musical! Fun for a watch.
Didn't know it was a low-key musical! Fun for a watch.
I wish it had been either a miniseries or TV show tho, they could have done so much with the Chocolate Mafia, Oompa Loompas, etc. Plus I wanted a redemption arc for the innkeeper. Hugh Grant was amazing lol.
Kaido
Elite Member & Kitchen Overlord
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Need for Speed 6/10
This movie is:
1. Dumb
2. But fun
If you like dumb-but-fun car movies, this is...another notch for your belt lol. The production quality was pretty good, but everything else was pretty meh lol. The trailers were very, very selective about how they portrayed the acting & the writing. This would have been a LOT more fun as an ongoing TV show to thicken up the plot a bit. It's kind of a cross between the Fast & Furious franchise, the A-Team, and Speedracer. They did have some really beautiful shots through the forest, desert, etc.
This movie is:
1. Dumb
2. But fun
If you like dumb-but-fun car movies, this is...another notch for your belt lol. The production quality was pretty good, but everything else was pretty meh lol. The trailers were very, very selective about how they portrayed the acting & the writing. This would have been a LOT more fun as an ongoing TV show to thicken up the plot a bit. It's kind of a cross between the Fast & Furious franchise, the A-Team, and Speedracer. They did have some really beautiful shots through the forest, desert, etc.
They just kind of power through the plot to keep your attention engaged. Like, when the girlfriend suspects Dino of not telling the truth about the race that killed her brother, she walked to his computer & instantly "hacked" it to shockingly find the information. They never explain why he keeps the car either lol.
I think this could have been a really good TV show if they had focused on one set of characters per episode. Like, I wanted to see more craziness with the bounty hunters, as they obviously had some pretty fun stuff planned, but just kind of zipped through it.
I think this could have been a really good TV show if they had focused on one set of characters per episode. Like, I wanted to see more craziness with the bounty hunters, as they obviously had some pretty fun stuff planned, but just kind of zipped through it.
mikeymikec
Lifer
- May 19, 2011
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I was going to suggest The Graduate (1967) but I don't think it's about a teacher (I haven't seen it).
Also, I wouldn't not recognize Dustin Hoffman. The kid I saw was a generic teenager, 17 or 18.
DigDog
Lifer
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Wasn't there a line in there where they finally acknowledge the thing about The IMF? Someone explicitly says "not the International Monetary Fund, the _other_ IMF".
GodisanAtheist
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Waterworld (1995)
4/10
God what a fucking turd of a movie. It is ostensibly Mad Max but instead of too little water there is too much water. A sound concept for a fun adventure movie, but the movie fucking forgets the actual *fun* part and suffers from Kevin Costner playing the brooding anti-hero part too straight.
First hour of the film is brutal to watch, it's more like The Road than Mad Max, with desperate humans backstabbing and betraying each other, desperate dwindling genepools whoring out their daughters to drifters to keep up genetic diversity, rapacious pillaging raiders, and Costner's character who is a completely unlikable douche even from a silent man with no name perspective.
After the requisit "escape from a slowly sinking prison cell" sequence where Costner takes on the heroine and child characters, he threatens to kill the child repeatedly, throws her overboard, loses his shit when she touches his stuff, beats up the heroine a few times, and whores out the heroine for a chance to read some papers (it's ok though, he stops the rape he initiated, what a good guy having a change of heart!) It was like watching a movie about abusive trailer trash for the first hour than a post apocalyptic adventure. It was deeply uncomfortable to watch.
The character does a weird about face in the middle of the movie where he randomly becomes less of a douche and starts treating the kid and woman ok, and the whole movie sort of finds it's footing for what it should have been from the start. Dennis Hopper does a good job as the villain (some say he's a bit too comical, but it's probably because it clashes with the seriousness of the first part of the movie so much).
The movie goes into pure last action hero mode near the end which was the least shitty part of the whole thing.
Of all the dogshit remakes we get of movies that don't need to be remade, I feel like Waterworld is ripe for a Mad Max Fury Road style remake where it just leans into the absurd elements hard while leaving the "realistic" sexual violence etc elements of the apocalypse to the side.
Movie's reputation is well earned, I think there is a "cult classic" revival that's pumping it's score up on IMDB but it's a bad fucking movie.
4/10
God what a fucking turd of a movie. It is ostensibly Mad Max but instead of too little water there is too much water. A sound concept for a fun adventure movie, but the movie fucking forgets the actual *fun* part and suffers from Kevin Costner playing the brooding anti-hero part too straight.
First hour of the film is brutal to watch, it's more like The Road than Mad Max, with desperate humans backstabbing and betraying each other, desperate dwindling genepools whoring out their daughters to drifters to keep up genetic diversity, rapacious pillaging raiders, and Costner's character who is a completely unlikable douche even from a silent man with no name perspective.
After the requisit "escape from a slowly sinking prison cell" sequence where Costner takes on the heroine and child characters, he threatens to kill the child repeatedly, throws her overboard, loses his shit when she touches his stuff, beats up the heroine a few times, and whores out the heroine for a chance to read some papers (it's ok though, he stops the rape he initiated, what a good guy having a change of heart!) It was like watching a movie about abusive trailer trash for the first hour than a post apocalyptic adventure. It was deeply uncomfortable to watch.
The character does a weird about face in the middle of the movie where he randomly becomes less of a douche and starts treating the kid and woman ok, and the whole movie sort of finds it's footing for what it should have been from the start. Dennis Hopper does a good job as the villain (some say he's a bit too comical, but it's probably because it clashes with the seriousness of the first part of the movie so much).
The movie goes into pure last action hero mode near the end which was the least shitty part of the whole thing.
Of all the dogshit remakes we get of movies that don't need to be remade, I feel like Waterworld is ripe for a Mad Max Fury Road style remake where it just leans into the absurd elements hard while leaving the "realistic" sexual violence etc elements of the apocalypse to the side.
Movie's reputation is well earned, I think there is a "cult classic" revival that's pumping it's score up on IMDB but it's a bad fucking movie.
There are very few Kevin Costner movies that wouldn't have been substantially improved by casting anyone but Kevin Costner in them. Not sure if he's the weakest link in Waterworld, though, the script was just kind of boring (was it one of those where it gets repeatedly rewritten by a dozen different writers?).
(The only movies he's been good in are those where he was _supposed_ to be playing a slightly-creepy character who's as stiff-as-a-plank-of-wood, e.g. The Untouchables and JFK - just as Tom Cruise is at his best when playing intense weirdos who don't quite understand how to be human but are extremely good at the technical side of their jobs, e.g. Collateral or maybe, Mission Impossible)
(The only movies he's been good in are those where he was _supposed_ to be playing a slightly-creepy character who's as stiff-as-a-plank-of-wood, e.g. The Untouchables and JFK - just as Tom Cruise is at his best when playing intense weirdos who don't quite understand how to be human but are extremely good at the technical side of their jobs, e.g. Collateral or maybe, Mission Impossible)
DigDog
Lifer
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Waterworld is a WEIRD film.
Dances With
Waterworld was directed ky Kevin Reynolds, which *in theory* should improve the film (actors commonly do poorly when directing themselves) and instead the result is a turd. #
Because turd is the perfect word to describe WW.
WW was from 1995, so Kostner would have still been in the same mindset as DWW. There is no obvious explanation as to why one is shit, and the other excellent. Dennis Hopper was given a role that should have fit him perfectly, the concept isn't terrible - after all, it's inverse Mad Max - and they had tons of money to make it come alive.
I can only speculate, so what follows may be straight out my butthole;
i have read that Steven Spielberg - the guy who did Jaws, another film-at-sea - warned Kostner to NOT shoot at sea, but rather to shoot near shore and to use filmmaking tricks to make it look like they were at sea. Instead Kostner shot the film at sea, and this proved very difficult for the crew.
In DWW, the film itself is gorgeous; the lighting, photography, costumes, and the acting of the supporting cast. Being shot on land, they were more relaxed, and had the concentration to focus on their art.
Instead WW was shot at sea, between nausea and diarrhea, the costumes are shit because they tried to make it look "real" (and didn't even go all balls-out as idk, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome did), so the crew & cast didn't really have a chance to give their best.
Kostern himself had a massive and $$$$ beach house, so he was above the problems of the filthy peasants working for him, which probably contributed to the whole mess.
balloonshark
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I watched Spaceman on netflix last night. It's a weird, slow-burn type of sci-fi / romance film with Adam Sandler. It has the feel of Interstellar but not nearly as good IMHO.
www.rottentomatoes.com
Spaceman
Six months into a solitary research mission to the edge of the solar system, an astronaut, Jakub (Adam Sandler), realizes that the marriage he left behind might not be waiting for him when he returns to Earth. Desperate to fix things with his wife, Lenka (Carey Mulligan), he is helped by a...
mikeymikec
Lifer
- May 19, 2011
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Andor Season 1
Finished watching it. Yep, not bad at all. I can't help but think that it doesn't need a season 2, but maybe I'm just worried that they're going to screw it up given enough rope. I wonder if they wrote S1 with the distinct possibility in mind that a second season wouldn't be approved.
It's been a while since I found an episode of anything to be exhilarating. I'm also wondering if whether I enjoyed Andor simply as a stand-alone work of fiction or whether my yearning for something from the Star Wars franchise that's worth a damn is making me more complimentary of it, but I'd say that if you have some liking for the Star Wars franchise then it's definitely worth checking out. It's adult-oriented without being graphic in any sense.
I'd love it if the Star Wars franchise in general took a few leaves out of Andor's book, like giving adult characters a decent bit of backstory and development. Better yet, fire all the other writers (at least of the main sequel trilogy), producers and micro-managers, and have the guys who wrote Andor write / approve any other SW writers for the franchise going forward.
As I said previously about Andor though - it's slow-paced. Expect 3-4 episodes per story told in the season.
I just looked up the writer of 'Andor'... same guy who wrote 'Michael Clayton', which is a film I'd recommend to pretty much anyone and the trailers are a fair representation of what to expect.
Finished watching it. Yep, not bad at all. I can't help but think that it doesn't need a season 2, but maybe I'm just worried that they're going to screw it up given enough rope. I wonder if they wrote S1 with the distinct possibility in mind that a second season wouldn't be approved.
It's been a while since I found an episode of anything to be exhilarating. I'm also wondering if whether I enjoyed Andor simply as a stand-alone work of fiction or whether my yearning for something from the Star Wars franchise that's worth a damn is making me more complimentary of it, but I'd say that if you have some liking for the Star Wars franchise then it's definitely worth checking out. It's adult-oriented without being graphic in any sense.
I'd love it if the Star Wars franchise in general took a few leaves out of Andor's book, like giving adult characters a decent bit of backstory and development. Better yet, fire all the other writers (at least of the main sequel trilogy), producers and micro-managers, and have the guys who wrote Andor write / approve any other SW writers for the franchise going forward.
As I said previously about Andor though - it's slow-paced. Expect 3-4 episodes per story told in the season.
I just looked up the writer of 'Andor'... same guy who wrote 'Michael Clayton', which is a film I'd recommend to pretty much anyone and the trailers are a fair representation of what to expect.
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DigDog
Lifer
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i watched a little bit of Hyperdrive - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0481449/reference/
starring Nick Frost of Hot Fuzz fame, this show is so incredibly unfunny i couldn't take more than 10 minutes. 2006 version of Lower Decks or The Orville, even less fun than the Orville, potato-chips-budget for VFX, they couldn't even get a girl with big tits to be the local 7 Of 9. Maybe not as offensive as Lower Decks but still shit.
5.2/10
starring Nick Frost of Hot Fuzz fame, this show is so incredibly unfunny i couldn't take more than 10 minutes. 2006 version of Lower Decks or The Orville, even less fun than the Orville, potato-chips-budget for VFX, they couldn't even get a girl with big tits to be the local 7 Of 9. Maybe not as offensive as Lower Decks but still shit.
5.2/10
sdifox
No Lifer
- Sep 30, 2005
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Oh how I wanna tickle those little titties!
Best thing about Casablanca is it inspired the spat between Groucho Marx and Warner Brothers. When the latter's lawyers objected to the Marx Brothers calling their movie "A Night In Casablanca" and Groucho threatened to counter-sue them for calling themselves "Brothers" when the Marx's had been performing under that word for longer than they had.
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