I’m watching the National Treasure Series. Great fun!!! Check out the Brad Metzler books on Lincoln.
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Captain Marvel (2019)- 48% RTA. It seems like a mystery why this movie would get such a low audience score. It fits in seamlessly in Marvel’s Infinity Stone Saga as a step back, landing between Captain America:The First Avenger and Thor. There are twists in this story. I fully enjoyed it, my only critique is that Capt Marvel when finally unleashed, she seems overpowered, almost omnipotent, enough to make Ronin The Accuser (in the movies, first seen in Guardians of the Galaxy) and his fleet quake in their boots.
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The first one was great, the second one a bit repetitive in structure, and farther fetched.
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The reason for the low ratings has nicely been summarised in this video. I agree with pretty much everything mentioned there.
Plus she, Olsen, came off as a man hating a$$h*le in real life.
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My wife and I watched the new Call of the Wild with Harrison Ford last night. Given it's lousy reviews we were surprised at how much we enjoyed it. We thought the screenplay was done well. The only complaint was the CGI on Buck could have been done a little better in our opinion. ...... and once again my wife's "Tear O Meter" was in play at the end, so it was a worthy view.
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I was unaware of this and there have been definite cases in the past where an actors personality in real life has interfered with my ability to enjoy their on screen work. Funny she mentions wanting to be the next Tom Cruise in an interview as he is one of this actors who has annoyed me.
Answered here: https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...nity-stone-epic-2011-19.2224945/post-28453031
I was unaware of this and there have been definite cases in the past where an actors personality in real life has interfered with my ability to enjoy their on screen work. Funny she mentions wanting to be the next Tom Cruise in an interview as he is one of this actors who has annoyed me.
Funny story, I like Tom Cruise. I know, right?
I do like some of his movies (A Few Good Men, Oblivion, Top Gun, War Of The Worlds, Minority Report, and goes without mentioning, Risky Business) but his real life personality has stood in the way at times.
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Why does that image seem overtly sexual?
This movie is a laugh riot of you haven't seen it. Especially for you atheists.
Well, here's a quick sample from a few audience reviews, where they were low, and had other reviews as reference:
See a pattern?
This one is funny too, "Waaaah, nasty women as the powerful lead character!", hahahaha ....
Why does that image seem overtly sexual?
I believe thats on purpose. The movie is animated yes but Its rated R. The last 10 minutes is some of the craziest stuff I've ever seen.
National Treasure (2004)
I decided to rewatch it, just as good as I remember.
The movie got hammered by critics 45%, but the Rotten Tomatoes Audience gave it a 76%. The story is a fantasy, about a huge hidden treasure, but it’s a fun fantasy that interjects enough bits of real history like Silence Dogood into the story to make if feel plausible.Yeah, it's been a long time since i saw it but I did watch it before.
I remember it being pretty well done too.
I think with a lot of these stories about big companies polluting and not caring about the consequences, there may be more to them than just the view that they're evil and the people are all suffering from it. For example, I grew up in Missouri and we once had a big fiasco with "Times Beach", an area just outside of Eureka, MO where a hauling company (Russell Bliss, as I recall it) was accused of dumping barrels of waste oil in the dirt that contained dioxin. It became an EPA cleanup site and all of the homes were evacuated and roped off.
And while clearly, it wasn't right to just go dumping waste oil like that? The last I read about the whole thing were studies starting to determine that dioxin, especially in the levels that would have been found in the soil there, weren't nearly as hazardous to the health of residents as initially claimed. A whole lot of money was spent trying to incinerate all of the soil out there and to do the whole cleanup. When in reality, it probably was all a bit overblown.
I mean, you have to think about all of the gas stations in suburbia that develop cracks in underground fuel tanks and leak gasoline into the soil, and all of the people who routinely dump the oil from their lawnmowers into their yards when they do oil changes.... None of that is great, but we've all pretty much survived it without a need to evacuate whole neighborhoods for years.
But yeah, there are a few of these cases where it's just unbelievably bad and the companies involved clearly know what they're doing and went to great efforts to keep anyone from stopping them.
I remember it being pretty well done too.
I think with a lot of these stories about big companies polluting and not caring about the consequences, there may be more to them than just the view that they're evil and the people are all suffering from it. For example, I grew up in Missouri and we once had a big fiasco with "Times Beach", an area just outside of Eureka, MO where a hauling company (Russell Bliss, as I recall it) was accused of dumping barrels of waste oil in the dirt that contained dioxin. It became an EPA cleanup site and all of the homes were evacuated and roped off.
And while clearly, it wasn't right to just go dumping waste oil like that? The last I read about the whole thing were studies starting to determine that dioxin, especially in the levels that would have been found in the soil there, weren't nearly as hazardous to the health of residents as initially claimed. A whole lot of money was spent trying to incinerate all of the soil out there and to do the whole cleanup. When in reality, it probably was all a bit overblown.
I mean, you have to think about all of the gas stations in suburbia that develop cracks in underground fuel tanks and leak gasoline into the soil, and all of the people who routinely dump the oil from their lawnmowers into their yards when they do oil changes.... None of that is great, but we've all pretty much survived it without a need to evacuate whole neighborhoods for years.
But yeah, there are a few of these cases where it's just unbelievably bad and the companies involved clearly know what they're doing and went to great efforts to keep anyone from stopping them.
Did you like Erin Brockovich (movie)? If you have not seen it, it’s excellent, interesting, and entertaining and it’s based on chemical pollution in people’s drinking water by a corporation who knew about it and really did not give a damn whose lives were ruined. Julia Robert’s best and most memorable performance, because it’s based on reality, not a fantasy hooker story.
Avengers (2012)- 91% RTAS. Compared to other more focused Marvel movie stories centered on a single character (and immediate related characters), for example Thor, or Captain America, I did not care for the Avengers first viewing, but since I have grown to approve of this movie and can recognize how much it accomplished, especially in light of the Infinity Stone Saga. It is quite a feat that Screenplay Writer and Directer Joss Whedon pulled off.
National Treasure (2004)
I decided to rewatch it, just as good as I remember.
I can’t figure out what happened to Nicolas Cage. I never thought he was really that great of an actor to begin with, -[he was more popular towards the late 90s, especially with ‘Face off’ with John Travolta.] But he literally just fell off the map and is kind of the clown that’s made fun of today in terms of how bad his movies were towards the latter part of his career.
I will say a good ‘indie film’ that I recommended many pages ago in this thread, is called “Joe” that he starred in. He essentially helps a young boy who is abused by his father, ultimately ends on a very dark note. It’s got a decent plot, it’s probably
his best film he made that didn’t receive much ‘spotlight‘.
I looked at someone’s list of Best Nicolas Cage Movies and there is only one of those movies I own, National Treasure and I have a second movie Moonstruck where I like him. I remember The Rock, Con Air and Face Off as being slam bam, (Jerry Bruckheimer?) big deal action movies cementing his credentials as an action star, but none of those movies pleased me. Watched them once and no compelling reason to repeat.
What I remember most about Cage is going on a world wide property buying spree, getting in over his head financially and then losing most of those. This maybe why he went on a movie making binge in the late 90s, early 2000s accepting any script thrown at him, good or bad. I flew him and family into and out of New Orleans once, and later I walked by two of his former mansions repossessed by the State of Louisiana, one in The French Quarter (reportedly haunted) and one in The Garden District, not far from the lovely Lafayette Cemetery no.1 which is seen in several movies. One of my favorites is Double Jeopardy, Ashley Judd and Bruce Greenwood.
He is still working though, maybe not as a headliner, but at IMDB I see 6 projects listed for 2020.
Wasn't Face Off pretty much the beginning of his downward slide?
Leaving Las Vegas? I think he won an Oscar for that one.
Birdie is one of my personal faves along with Valley Girl.
I can’t attest to The last two films You mentioned, Face-off was extremely popular with John Travolta. I’m just referring to his garbage movies with ‘Bangkok dangerous and Ghost Rider’ That should never have been Created in the first place (That’s just two films I can think of, but there’s way more than that.) In general, I just think he’s a very washed-out actor, But it doesn’t help either that he accepted any role that had terrible directing/writing styles, most of his ‘later films’ the majority never even heard that never made it to the theaters.
But seriously, check out ‘Joe’ if you haven’t watched it.[ It’s free if you have an Amazon Prime account], that in my opinion, is not just a great film, but one of his best films in general.
Leaving Las Vegas is terrific, such a feel good movie
(it is good, it's just depressing as hell)Birdy is fantastic - in part, from the amazing Peter Gabriel soundtrack - haven't seen it in quite a while, might track it down this weekend.
For some recent, Cage in full crazy mode, here's a few recent movies we had fun with - these are all horror flicks, so YMMV:
Mom and Dad - parents go nuts, want to kill their kids, zombie-esque concept about parenting, some funny, but really dark humor.
Mandy - beautiful filmed, very psychedelic, Cage loses his wife to a cult, builds insane medieval weapon for maximum carnage.
Color out of Space - just watched this one, it's a pretty good, modern take on the HP Lovecraft story of the same name, Cage is dialed way back the first half, then when things get crazy, he uncorks it
A meteor crashes in a remote area, starts affecting the family, livestock, lots of surreal moments, hahaha, has an odd overlap in the psychedelic department with Mandy, would be a good double-feature.I've wondered about Nic Cage too and whether he might have been difficult to work with because of his family. I also liked him in Moonstruck and Adaptation.
For new stuff, I watched The Goldfinch on Prime this week and am quite haunted and delighted with the story and the richness of Roger Deakins' cinematography. I didn't read the book first but might when the libraries open again.
For new stuff, I watched The Goldfinch on Prime this week and am quite haunted and delighted with the story and the richness of Roger Deakins' cinematography. I didn't read the book first but might when the libraries open again.
National Treasure (2004)
I decided to rewatch it, just as good as I remember.
I really liked this movie.
Funny, for as much as I love this movie, and as many times as I've seen it, I could've sworn we already owned it, but I believe that was an old (and long gone) DVD copy.
So I was stoked to see it's currently (well, as of yesterday) on sale on iTunes, in HD, for $4.99 Score!
"You tell 'em I'm coming! And Hell's coming with me you hear! Hell's coming with me!"
Oh, and speaking of deals, this is the current $0.99 iTunes rental, also scored:
So I was stoked to see it's currently (well, as of yesterday) on sale on iTunes, in HD, for $4.99
Score! "You tell 'em I'm coming! And Hell's coming with me you hear! Hell's coming with me!"
Oh, and speaking of deals, this is the current $0.99 iTunes rental, also scored:
Leaving Las Vegas is terrific, such a feel good movie
I've been meaning to watch this again for the longest time, but have somehow just not gotten around to it just yet. It's actually as pretty beautiful film (underneath all the grime), and Cage and Shue really both hit it out of the park with their roles.
And since we're on the topic of Nic Cage, there's also the wonderful Wild at Heart. And the one where he travels to Pakistan to kill Osama bin Laden.
The man is a treasure. Cage, not bin Laden.