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rhett7660 said:
Something Wicked This Way Comes... Good little film, not the best, but good. The wife had never seen it all the way through.

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Yeah, some things about it don't hold up that well, the kids are pretty mediocre actors, but Jonathan Pryce's performance is amazing. The Bradbury novel this is based on is pretty much "required reading" :)
 
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D.T. said:
Yeah, some things about it don't hold up that well, the kids are pretty mediocre actors, but Jonathan Pryce's performance is amazing. The Bradbury novel this is based on is pretty much "required reading" :)
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I don't think I ever read this but Ray Bradbury is one of my favorite science fiction authors. I found Martian Chronicles to be profound and a great read.
 
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Relentless Power said:
Pretty stoked:

What I will be watching this weekend is ‘IT Chapter 2......’

I never go to the movie theaters, as I really don’t have the time, but this movie I reserved time for and purchased my tickets in advance, as it’s already sold out. The first one was absolutely stellar with the acting (The kids were awesome)/setting/ and was-overall a well executed movie. The director [Which was the same for Chapter 1] for Chapter 2 made the comment in an interview that he amped up the horror in this one, so I look forward to see how this all plays out in the end. It’s also rather Long, run time is near ~3 hours.
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Update:

Watched Chapter 2: ***No Spoilers***

Just my observations:

Overall, I would say I left rather apathetic after watching the movie. It was long, which I already expected, and the movie does a great job portraying flashbacks from the kids from 1989 to the adults and how they all correlate to each other, basically come together to defeat ‘IT’. The problem the movie has, is it mixes way too much satire with the most scary scenes, which takes away the element of actually being.... well, scary. Also, the CGI was overly used, and not very good. The Storyline does a lot of jumping from 1989 to the present year, [which is allegedly 2016], which can be somewhat difficult to follow, but I can’t really say much without giving that away.

The acting was well executed from the adult versions and the kids, the thematic setting again was very much like the original, excellent overall.

I was hoping that this movie would be somewhat more scary, being it’s more ‘difficult’ to scare adults, which I thought originally they would amp up for this movie and I felt it didn’t happen. The ‘gore’ was certainly amplified.

In retrospect, Andy Muschietti (Director) executed the first IT in 2017 perfectly, this 2019 film feels discombobulated, and probably could’ve been shortened, but overall, I still enjoyed it for what it had to offer, and the acting is really what saved the movie more than anything else. {C- overall from my rating.}
 
LizKat said:
Finally watching the docu Free Solo, but in bits and pieces, as I can't watch it all at once. Man oh man. I'll probably never again boot my spare laptop still running OS X "El Capitan" without thinking of this movie. The film, needless to say, is breathtaking.

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I’m way too afraid of heights to ever watch this movie. I’d probably have a heart attack.
 
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Huntn said:
Just watched Avengers:End Game (2019). I’m dissapointed. Comments here:
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I agree but I am more than disappointed.

I just revisited Enzo Castellari's The Heroin Busters and fell in love all over again. Not hard to do with this movie and Fabio Testi & David Hemmings working so great together. Their chemistry and charisma are ridiculous.

Also. Ratatouille (2007). Adorable with a couple of good lessons there. I am becoming burnt out on being like Anton Ego and just want to enjoy more.
 
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ucfgrad93 said:
I’m way too afraid of heights to ever watch this movie. I’d probably have a heart attack.
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Yep, I found it stressful to watch and I'm not particularly afraid of heights. I was thinking ... while hitting pause yet again on that film... how odd it was that I could not treat that documentary the same in my mind as say scenes from an action-adventure or thriller flick.

I had even read previously of Alex Honnold's achievement, and obviously National Geographic was not going to release a film had Honnold fallen to his death... yet in viewing the finished, released movie, I was very much like one of the climbers who had helped Honnold in his preparations, but who himself was featured in the film as turning away so as not to be looking when Honnold approached several of the most dangerous points in his free solo ascent of El Capitan. I could never have watched the guy make that climb in real time. Personally I think free solo climbers are nuts. A lot of them are dead. Honnold has said El Capitan may have been his own last free solo but he's "not sure."
 
Aladdin (2019)- Good remake, good singing and dancing, faithful story, good cast. Will Smith did a pretty good job as the genie, but he can’t outdo Robin Williams. ;) I wonder how this movie is received in the Middle East? I assume mixed reviews regarding cultural depictions.

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The Dead Won't Die

wow.

One of the worst I've seen.

A magnus acervus erit stercore...

It felt like they were trying to make a Wes Anderson film and couldn't quite figure out how.
 
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pachyderm said:
The Dead Won't Die

wow.

One of the worst I've seen.

It felt like they were trying to make a Wes Anderson film and couldn't quite figure out how.
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Yeah, it's Zombieland by way of a Wes Anderson film, but where the only [attempted] humor is from some meta-contextual winking ("We're in a zombie movie, it's a movie, get it?")

Jarmusch can be a mixed bag, however, if you want a couple of good recent movies of his, both with collaborators from this flick, try: Paterson (Adam Driver), terrific sort of urban drama, beautifully filmed, warm, funny - or Only Lovers Left Alive (Tilda Swinton), a vampire story with just amazing depth and character (the supernatural aspects aren't the focus).
 
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Contact (1997)- Very enjoyable, exciting story of first contact with an alien culture. Jody Foster and Matthew McConaughey do great jobs. Not quit true to the book, but maintained its essence regarding the science versus faith debate.

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Huntn said:
A Knight’s Tale (2001)- I like this movie, but I did not care for the introduction of modern pop songs into a story about medieval knights.
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... but the music (and a bunch of the dialog) is sort of the whole bit, it's supposed to be self-consciously anachronistic , diegetic, i.e., the characters are aware of the modern music, and speaking modern catch phrases.
 
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D.T. said:
... but the music (and a bunch of the dialog) is sort of the whole bit, it's supposed to be self-consciously anachronistic , diegetic, i.e., the characters are aware of the modern music, and speaking modern catch phrases.
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Yes, true, but I’d still have opted for other music. :)
 
Skiddo (1968) I initially saw Otto Preminger's strangest cinematic attempt at being relevant a few years ago. Said tale revolves around Jackie Gleason's former hit man being called into action one last time. He has to kill a former mob pal before said associate rats on their racket known "The Tree." That's the main subplot: weave in hippies, an acid trip or two, and Carol Channing stuffed into a sunflower yellow, asymmetrical zippered mod dress and you have this movie.

The comedy doesn't fly, but Gleason, Channing, and the always delightful (and groovy) John Phillip Law as the hippie that Gleason and Channing's daughter Darlene falls for, somehow make this work.

This was one of those flicks that didn't paint hippies as all bad* (Then again, it was before the horrors of 1969). So it's interesting to see how immoral Darlene's parents were.

The ending is bit dicey -and well- awful (Carol Channing singing "Skidoo" is something that just does not fly. To say nothing of how Groucho's lead mobster "God" bows out, but this does not mar the movie itself.

So I'll just roll along, especially with dialog like “If you can’t dig nothing, you can’t dig anything. You dig-“

I dig. :p

*I am so used to most of the Italian, Spanish, American films that featured hippie characters paint them all as Manson wannabes or just scum. I understand that in post 1969 cinema. Then again, it was always neat to see decent counterculture characters (which is one of the main reasons why The Living Dead the Manchester Morgue is my favorite zombie movie).
 
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Huntn said:
Aladdin (2019)- Good remake, good singing and dancing, faithful story, good cast. Will Smith did a pretty good job as the genie, but he can’t outdo Robin Williams. ;) I wonder how this movie is received in the Middle East? I assume mixed reviews regarding cultural depictions.

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I think Will Smith as a genie for the newer generation is great. I enjoyed both movies, but slightly more the original, because the modern version felt too much like Disney sitcoms at moments - some of the 'humourous' scenes were too cliche.
 
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