Movies We've Seen Thread

[Jet_Engine1]

On 8/11/2024 at 5:42 PM, PFSIKH said:

One word to sum up Civil War.  No not the Marvel's Civil War, but the Civil War that came out in April.

Terrible.

When I watched the trailer, I assumed it would lean heavy one way.  I was surprised, it did an okay job of keeping it fairly down the middleish.  I am sure any resemblance between Trump and Nick Offerman's character are a coincidence.

   

It is largely mindless slog for just under two hours.  There is no back story to why there is a Civil War.  Why TX, Fla and CA are in an alliance.  Why the Midwest were loyalists.  Nick Offerman and Jesse Plimpton have cameos.  Characters make a litany of bad decisions.  

I think it could have been an interesting concept.  Probably would be a better series than a 110-minute movie.  The acting was okay to good.  

Saw a trailer and opted out. Seems like a good decision.

[RutgersJetFan]

Romulus reviews are amazing. Color me stoked.

[Larz]

On 7/11/2024 at 10:41 AM, Jet_Engine1 said:

I wanted to like Prometheus... but it was pretty stupid imo. Handpicked scientists, top experts in their field, selected for a groundbreaking and ridiculously risky and expensive mission make absolutely terrible and stupid decisions because... the script says they need to. There is an amazing movie at the core of Prometheus idea and concept, hell, it didn't even need to be an Alien movie.... and the production values etc. are great. But it just didn't work. I like the concept of the Alien "Franchise" as well, unfortunately there's only 2 good movies out of the whole bunch. I skipped Covenant because it looked... dumb. Again. 

 

Dune OTOH is brilliantly made. Villeneuve's Dune is damn near as perfect as Sci Fi or a Dune interpretation could be. Hell, they even just look and sound different than any other movies I've ever seen. Saw both multiple times in both IMAX and Dolby Sound. Flawless CGI use, excellent acting, and the sound design is next level.... and then the story is so unique and different, of course. 

Agree on both. Prometheus goes off the rails fast with the evil rich guy plot and they basically ignore the engineers after the initial setup in the beginning, who represent the Prometheus myth lol. 
 

Dune was very good. I’ve never gotten through more than half of the book lol but I really enjoyed it 

[Nolder]

I was really excited for Civil War. I thought it might actually take a serious look at a what if scenario that’s on a lot of people’s minds. I didn’t watch the movie but I saw enough reviews to get an idea of what it was really about. I get the not focusing on the sides too much or who’s responsible for what because we as an audience are supposed to be more interested in the gritty results of going down this path but I think the narrative (interviewing the president) was too loose. I think it made it hard for the audience to connect with what was in front of them. Instead it just appeared to be a series of random events until the unfulfilling climax of the movie. Good premise but under delivered.

 

In other news I watched Twisters. It was ok. Pretty much what you’d expect. People running from tornadoes for an hour and a half or so. 

[JetsfaninNorthHollywood]

A couple of foreign films that I've recently watched:

 

 

 

 

[OilfieldJet]

Grosse Point Blank.

Great cast, interesting plot, movie was good, not great.

[RutgersJetFan]

Thoughts on Romulus, and I won't spoil anything for anyone:

- Second best Alien movie ever made, IMO it's not even really close. As a story it feels like the movie James Cameron should have actually made. 

- So many great nuggets from the best of all the other movies in the franchise. At least the relevant ones. It could have just as easily been called Alien: Greatest Hits. 

- Aside from its mastery of horror, what made Alien so great from a scifi standpoint were its parallel subplots of AI and capitalism as everything played out, because everything was so preventable for that entire crew the entire time. That's present throughout the movie (Andy is just as great a character as Ash and Bishop) and there is a really wonderfully written subplot of Romulus that drives home just how consequential it was that everyone on the Nostromo ignored Ripley in the first movie. 

- ******* twisted ending. 

- I had a feeling this was always going to be a throwback to the first movie because of how good Fede Alvarez has proven to be in horror, particularly with a beloved franchise that needed some fresh blood put into it like he did with Evil Dead. Alvarez's biggest talent in every movie is careening the viewer towards exactly where you have a feeling it's going, yet still managing to scare the living sh*t out of you along the way and entertaining the hell out of you. It is hard to imagine where he can even go from here, given he's responsible for two crazy good revival entries of two beloved horror franchises. That said Alien is a harder nut to crack than Evil Dead and it's really impressive to pull off a halfway decent Alien movie at this point let alone a really good one. Bravo.

[JetsfaninNorthHollywood]

9 hours ago, OilfieldJet said:

Grosse Point Blank.

Great cast, interesting plot, movie was good, not great.

Good soundtrack too

[T0mShane]

A few insomnia watches from this week, no doubt already discussed in here but whatev:

The Beekeeper: Action scenes tremendous but the dialogue was presumably written by AI because holy sh*t it’s not even your usual Jason Statham-hacky-actioner level dialogue. Obviously you’re not watching for the script, but this was new depths of absurdity. The woman who plays the FBI agent is possibly the worst line-reading actress ever committed to celluloid. All told, always fun to watch Statham beat people up, and some of the crypto-bro characters were fun. Jeremy Irons must have wanted to die filming this. Just fast forward through the speaking parts.

Furiosa/Mad Max: I say this as someone who loved Fury Road so much I saw it twice in theaters, but Furiosa was interminable slop. It felt like they just scraped together the B-roll outtakes from Fury Road and released it as its own movie. Started blacking out at the 90-minute mark. 

[Jimmy 2 Times]

18 hours ago, RutgersJetFan said:

Thoughts on Romulus, and I won't spoil anything for anyone:

- Second best Alien movie ever made, IMO it's not even really close. As a story it feels like the movie James Cameron should have actually made. 

- So many great nuggets from the best of all the other movies in the franchise. At least the relevant ones. It could have just as easily been called Alien: Greatest Hits. 

- Aside from its mastery of horror, what made Alien so great from a scifi standpoint were its parallel subplots of AI and capitalism as everything played out, because everything was so preventable for that entire crew the entire time. That's present throughout the movie (Andy is just as great a character as Ash and Bishop) and there is a really wonderfully written subplot of Romulus that drives home just how consequential it was that everyone on the Nostromo ignored Ripley in the first movie. 

- ******* twisted ending. 

- I had a feeling this was always going to be a throwback to the first movie because of how good Fede Alvarez has proven to be in horror, particularly with a beloved franchise that needed some fresh blood put into it like he did with Evil Dead. Alvarez's biggest talent in every movie is careening the viewer towards exactly where you have a feeling it's going, yet still managing to scare the living sh*t out of you along the way and entertaining the hell out of you. It is hard to imagine where he can even go from here, given he's responsible for two crazy good revival entries of two beloved horror franchises. That said Alien is a harder nut to crack than Evil Dead and it's really impressive to pull off a halfway decent Alien movie at this point let alone a really good one. Bravo.

"Second best Alien movie ever made"

 

So it's better than the original, but behind Cameron's sequel?  

 

[RutgersJetFan]

9 hours ago, Jimmy 2 Times said:

"Second best Alien movie ever made"

 

So it's better than the original, but behind Cameron's sequel?  

 

Aliens sucks and has not held up well at all. Closer to Alien 3 in quality than Scott’s original. It’s a hard truth Jimmy and I’m sorry if this hurts you. 

[32EBoozer]

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[OilfieldJet]

23 hours ago, Jimmy 2 Times said:

"Second best Alien movie ever made"

 

So it's better than the original, but behind Cameron's sequel?  

 

Other way around unless you rank Aliens above the original.

[OilfieldJet]

On 8/16/2024 at 2:33 PM, RutgersJetFan said:

Thoughts on Romulus, and I won't spoil anything for anyone:

- Second best Alien movie ever made, IMO it's not even really close. As a story it feels like the movie James Cameron should have actually made. 

- So many great nuggets from the best of all the other movies in the franchise. At least the relevant ones. It could have just as easily been called Alien: Greatest Hits. 

- Aside from its mastery of horror, what made Alien so great from a scifi standpoint were its parallel subplots of AI and capitalism as everything played out, because everything was so preventable for that entire crew the entire time. That's present throughout the movie (Andy is just as great a character as Ash and Bishop) and there is a really wonderfully written subplot of Romulus that drives home just how consequential it was that everyone on the Nostromo ignored Ripley in the first movie. 

- ******* twisted ending. 

- I had a feeling this was always going to be a throwback to the first movie because of how good Fede Alvarez has proven to be in horror, particularly with a beloved franchise that needed some fresh blood put into it like he did with Evil Dead. Alvarez's biggest talent in every movie is careening the viewer towards exactly where you have a feeling it's going, yet still managing to scare the living sh*t out of you along the way and entertaining the hell out of you. It is hard to imagine where he can even go from here, given he's responsible for two crazy good revival entries of two beloved horror franchises. That said Alien is a harder nut to crack than Evil Dead and it's really impressive to pull off a halfway decent Alien movie at this point let alone a really good one. Bravo.

Thanks. I’ll watch it based on this review alone.

[Jimmy 2 Times]

15 hours ago, RutgersJetFan said:

Aliens sucks and has not held up well at all. Closer to Alien 3 in quality than Scott’s original. It’s a hard truth Jimmy and I’m sorry if this hurts you. 

Wasn't Alien 3 Fincher?

 

I haven't seen Aliens since the 90's, but remember it fondly.  

[Jet_Engine1]

16 hours ago, RutgersJetFan said:

Aliens sucks and has not held up well at all. Closer to Alien 3 in quality than Scott’s original. It’s a hard truth Jimmy and I’m sorry if this hurts you. 

Weirdest and most confusing take ever here. It's just a different Genre altogether from the first movie. Alien is Gothic Horror in space. Aliens is post-modern, Military Sci-Fi. I prefer Aliens to the first, tbh.... even though the "Colonial Marines" are a bit absurd in many, many ways... 

 

 

Alien 3 is pretty meh, boring, and kinda' sucks, and we shall not even acknowledge... the other one.

 

And Prometha-Covenenant aren't "Alien" movies.... I never bothered watching Covenant after the stupidity of Prometheus.

[Jet_Engine1]

2 hours ago, OilfieldJet said:

Thanks. I’ll watch it based on this review alone.

RLM summary of Alien Romulus:

 

Aliens

Facehuggers

Get away from her, you b*tch!

The Nostromo

Reebok shoes

CGI deepfake dead actor deepfakes

Evil android that's loyal to the company

black goo

MU/TH/ER

Weyland Yutani

The Engineers

People in Alien Queen wall cocoons but there's no Alien Queen to put them in the cocoons; it just happens

Protagonist getting into underwear then having to get into space suit

Opening hole in the ship to shoot the alien out of the ship

Every day is an endless nightmare

 

LOL. I'll still see it, I think RLM guys are just at the point that they hate everything...

[RutgersJetFan]

59 minutes ago, Jet_Engine1 said:

Weirdest and most confusing take ever here. It's just a different Genre altogether from the first movie. Alien is Gothic Horror in space. Aliens is post-modern, Military Sci-Fi. I prefer Aliens to the first, tbh.... even though the "Colonial Marines" are a bit absurd in many, many ways... 

 

 

Alien 3 is pretty meh, boring, and kinda' sucks, and we shall not even acknowledge... the other one.

 

And Prometha-Covenenant aren't "Alien" movies.... I never bothered watching Covenant after the stupidity of Prometheus.

It's terrible and completely inferior to the original in literally every imaginable way. You only love it because you're old enough to have had to buy porn in those weird shops on the sides of roads.  Nostalgia is a powerful filter.

[RutgersJetFan]

1 hour ago, Jimmy 2 Times said:

Wasn't Alien 3 Fincher?

 

I haven't seen Aliens since the 90's, but remember it fondly.  

He disowned it years ago for a bunch of crazy reasons. He basically just ran the camera with the studio hovering over it the entire time with no script. There's a whole book about the production of that movie and it's nuts.

[Jet_Engine1]

8 minutes ago, RutgersJetFan said:

It's terrible and completely inferior to the original in literally every imaginable way. You only love it because you're old enough to have had to buy porn in those weird shops on the sides of roads.  Nostalgia is a powerful filter.

There are many brilliantly made, cinematically "perfect" movies that I enjoy less than stuff like The Fifth Element. I'm not a cinema critic, I enjoy movies that entertain me. 

 

Why I waste my time rooting for the Jets is a whole different issue... its clearly some kind of clinical disorder.

[RutgersJetFan]

6 hours ago, Jet_Engine1 said:

There are many brilliantly made, cinematically "perfect" movies that I enjoy less than stuff like The Fifth Element. I'm not a cinema critic, I enjoy movies that entertain me. 

 

Why I waste my time rooting for the Jets is a whole different issue... its clearly some kind of clinical disorder.

The Fifth Element IS a cinematically perfect movie! 

[Nolder]

On 8/17/2024 at 3:31 AM, T0mShane said:

A few insomnia watches from this week, no doubt already discussed in here but whatev:

The Beekeeper: Action scenes tremendous but the dialogue was presumably written by AI because holy sh*t it’s not even your usual Jason Statham-hacky-actioner level dialogue. Obviously you’re not watching for the script, but this was new depths of absurdity. The woman who plays the FBI agent is possibly the worst line-reading actress ever committed to celluloid. All told, always fun to watch Statham beat people up, and some of the crypto-bro characters were fun. Jeremy Irons must have wanted to die filming this. Just fast forward through the speaking parts.

Furiosa/Mad Max: I say this as someone who loved Fury Road so much I saw it twice in theaters, but Furiosa was interminable slop. It felt like they just scraped together the B-roll outtakes from Fury Road and released it as its own movie. Started blacking out at the 90-minute mark. 

Agree completely on beekeeper. I thought Furiosa was excellent I watched it 3 times and I went into it thinking I would dislike it. IMHO Fury Road has better action but Furiosa had the better story. 

[T0mShane]

20 hours ago, Nolder said:

Agree completely on beekeeper. I thought Furiosa was excellent I watched it 3 times and I went into it thinking I would dislike it. IMHO Fury Road has better action but Furiosa had the better story. 

I’ll give Furiosa another shot. I may have just been tired and got annoyed by the repeated Hemsworth scenery

[greenwichjetfan]

On 8/15/2024 at 9:09 PM, JetsfaninNorthHollywood said:

A couple of foreign films that I've recently watched:

 

 

 

 

This was one of my absolute favorite movies growing up. I have been wanting to rewatch it for some time to see how it holds up. Hopefully soon.

[JetsfaninNorthHollywood]

7 hours ago, greenwichjetfan said:

This was one of my absolute favorite movies growing up. I have been wanting to rewatch it for some time to see how it holds up. Hopefully soon.

I think it held up well. The issues of the favelas, at least from my understanding, haven't improved. 

Here's another one from Brazil 

 

[JetPotato]

On 8/17/2024 at 6:31 AM, T0mShane said:

A few insomnia watches from this week, no doubt already discussed in here but whatev:

The Beekeeper: Action scenes tremendous but the dialogue was presumably written by AI because holy sh*t it’s not even your usual Jason Statham-hacky-actioner level dialogue. Obviously you’re not watching for the script, but this was new depths of absurdity. The woman who plays the FBI agent is possibly the worst line-reading actress ever committed to celluloid. All told, always fun to watch Statham beat people up, and some of the crypto-bro characters were fun. Jeremy Irons must have wanted to die filming this. Just fast forward through the speaking parts.

Furiosa/Mad Max: I say this as someone who loved Fury Road so much I saw it twice in theaters, but Furiosa was interminable slop. It felt like they just scraped together the B-roll outtakes from Fury Road and released it as its own movie. Started blacking out at the 90-minute mark. 

Furiosa was really bad, but I did enjoy Anya Taylor-Joy's performance. They wasted her in that movie. WIth a good script, she could have really shined. Hemsworth sucked, probably worst performance of his career, and whatever they were thinking with that prosthetic nose of his, I don't get it.

[ARodJetsFan]

On 6/24/2011 at 9:27 AM, T0mShane said:

Thought we should have a thread to share our reviews of movies we're seeing to help us avoid watching Ryan Reynolds and/or Julia Roberts movies.

Phenomenon - excellent movie for anybody.

[Dunnie]

A couple of foreign films that I've recently watched:
 
 
 

 

Both are brilliant

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[Dunnie]

It's terrible and completely inferior to the original in literally every imaginable way. You only love it because you're old enough to have had to buy porn in those weird shops on the sides of roads.  Nostalgia is a powerful filter.

I agree... Aliens has not aged well ... It had some good stuff , Riser was a good unlikable corporate ass, but the Marines ... Ugh ... Aside from "game over man .. game over" ... Not much to like.

Looking forward to this new one ... I'll check it out.

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[RutgersJetFan]

1 hour ago, Dunnie said:

I agree... Aliens has not aged well ... It had some good stuff , Riser was a good unlikable corporate ass, but the Marines ... Ugh ... Aside from "game over man .. game over" ... Not much to like.

Looking forward to this new one ... I'll check it out.

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Bishop was and still is fantastic, but I think that's more a product of Lance Henriksen being the man than Cameron's script. And yes the expansion on Weyland has some good points.

"Get away from her you bitch" is the dumbest line ever given the first movie.

[Dcat]

On 8/23/2024 at 11:53 AM, Dunnie said:

I agree... Aliens has not aged well ... It had some good stuff , Riser was a good unlikable corporate ass, but the Marines ... Ugh ... Aside from "game over man .. game over" ... Not much to like.

Looking forward to this new one ... I'll check it out.

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I thought it was Ggame-over for the Aliens  bad sequels a long long time ago.  

[OilfieldJet]

Watched The Sting again from start to finish, great flick.

[Jet_Engine1]

Forgot about this...  "Aliens v Them" comparison.... 😆 

 

https://youtu.be/qYMtd9Qtjpg?si=WAfHZ2MtoCUSUKEv

[Jet_Engine1]

Watching The Magnificent Seven (1960) for the first time in a LONG time. Great movie.

 

 

[Nolder]

On 8/22/2024 at 9:21 AM, JetPotato said:

Furiosa was really bad, but I did enjoy Anya Taylor-Joy's performance. They wasted her in that movie. WIth a good script, she could have really shined. Hemsworth sucked, probably worst performance of his career, and whatever they were thinking with that prosthetic nose of his, I don't get it.

Hemsworth was mediocre but I liked the character of Dementus. Honestly….I think maybe I’d rather read a book about these people than watch a movie. Everything that’s the movie aspect of it makes it less appealing not more. From the acting to the action.