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Spoilers What Movie Are You Watching?
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Imo, for anyone who wanted or expected some new story, some level of creativity from supposed Hollywood top story telling talent, JJ Abrams‘s hand on Star Wars was an unmitigated cheapening disaster, complete lack of creativity, inability to push the franchise forward, a blatant repeat of what came before, and wholesale money grab. After Episode 7, I still watched hoping, but waited for streaming, except for Rise which I blew off completely. I had had enough, been fooled enough, **** them.
Post SW Episode 3 there has been one light in the Star Wars darkness: Rogue Squadron. How apropos that it is directly tied to the first trilogy, with outstanding characters, but everyone dies there and along with it, I imagine the hope of any further Rogue Squadron stories, which Disney excommunicated the books as Cannon. 😤
I'm done with Star Wars. I grinded through the new movies, and watched some of the new TV series, but it's all bad.
I read this article on JJ and Keri Russell's a while ago and it just reeked of them making money off Star Wars. She only appeared because she knew JJ. I mean it's great people make a living off this stuff, but as creatives they are not.
I liked "Rise". It completed the arc on Rey's story and that's all I was really looking for. Personally, I think this whole "franchise" business isn't doing Sci-Fi/Fantasy fans any benefit. Stories have to be formatted so they never end, bringing on the next installment. Amazon is doing their "Rings" series and I don't think I'll bother. I didn't like the LOTR movies (I'm a fan of the books since the 70's) because they scrambled so many elements of Tolkien's books that it was like it was a different story. IMHO.
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Thor: Ragnarok (2017)- The last good Thor movie. They really ruined the character over the last 5 years.
Watched "Elvis" on Amazon.
Was good, thought the character was entertaining enough and the character played by Tom Hanks, if even a 5th of it is true, the guy was a freaking slime ball, to put it lightly.
Entertained and I really like Baz Luhrmann's style, so I didn't brush up against that at all. A little long, but it covers him from start to finish!
Was good, thought the character was entertaining enough and the character played by Tom Hanks, if even a 5th of it is true, the guy was a freaking slime ball, to put it lightly.
Entertained and I really like Baz Luhrmann's style, so I didn't brush up against that at all. A little long, but it covers him from start to finish!
The Mist (2007)
For me a must watch. Initially a slow burn, however one well worth staying with. A film you really need to go into blind. Best I can say is, in general books are better than films, this is one of the few that's the opposite. Anything more will only serve to spoil other than to say it's in the horror/thriller category.
Honestly if not watched, don't look, don't dig. Watch and see for yourself, it's also a film that reveals more on successive viewings. As ever "you cant please all of the people, all of the time"...
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For me a must watch. Initially a slow burn, however one well worth staying with. A film you really need to go into blind. Best I can say is, in general books are better than films, this is one of the few that's the opposite. Anything more will only serve to spoil other than to say it's in the horror/thriller category.
Honestly if not watched, don't look, don't dig. Watch and see for yourself, it's also a film that reveals more on successive viewings. As ever "you cant please all of the people, all of the time"...
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I too liked this movie and was interested enough dig into this story and yes, 'Colonel" Parker was just as sleazy as portrayed in the movie and I've no doubt that Elvis would have lived beyond 42 had he gotten rid of him. I'm baffled why Hanks decided to dial that accent up so high though as the real Parker did not really speak like that. His accent was much subtler. Randy Quaid played him in a mini-series a long time ago and I think he likely sounded more like the real guy.Watched "Elvis" on Amazon.
Was good, thought the character was entertaining enough and the character played by Tom Hanks, if even a 5th of it is true, the guy was a freaking slime ball, to put it lightly.
Entertained and I really like Baz Luhrmann's style, so I didn't brush up against that at all. A little long, but it covers him from start to finish!
I freaking love this movie and I love the ending! LOVE IT! To me this is one of the better endings of any of his movies that have been adapted.
If you are into this type of movie telling, run don't walk to see it. In fact I just picked up the blu-ray version of this that includes the black and white noir version of the film which I can't wait to see.
The Colonel was a piece of work... piece-of-work!
I was also reading about the conspiracy that he didn't die then, because of the "different" middle name on his tombstone. Pretty fascinating stuff all the way around and I like Baz's style of story telling. I know a lot of folks don't or they bump into, but I don't.
Jurassic World Dominion - streamed via Peacock. Found it to be -- just boring. Seemed like the timing was off.
The Eiger Sanction (1975)
Never gets old, if you haven't you owe it to yourself. The Eiger Sanction is well worth the watch...
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Never gets old, if you haven't you owe it to yourself. The Eiger Sanction is well worth the watch...
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Untold: Crimes and Penalties.
They were the bad boys of hockey - a team bought by a man with mob ties, run by his 17 year old son, and with a rep for being as violent as they were good.
This was a real fun doco and wish they'd gone into more depth re the investigation. Even if you don't like sport it is a fascinating watch. Lots of shades of gray in this one, but not the sexual type, I'm talking moral ones.
They were the bad boys of hockey - a team bought by a man with mob ties, run by his 17 year old son, and with a rep for being as violent as they were good.
This was a real fun doco and wish they'd gone into more depth re the investigation. Even if you don't like sport it is a fascinating watch. Lots of shades of gray in this one, but not the sexual type, I'm talking moral ones.
Even the author was impressed. After watching the Mist so many times you can see it coming, however on that first view an absolute bolt out of the blue...
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Deepwater Horizon (2016)
A hard watch for me as I'm in the business, feeling deeply for those who were lost. I've shutdown rig's at some jeopardy to myself. All lives matter and that's a fact...
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A hard watch for me as I'm in the business, feeling deeply for those who were lost. I've shutdown rig's at some jeopardy to myself. All lives matter and that's a fact...
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Apocalypse Now is my favorite movie of all time; just watched the Redux version was it was streaming on Netflix. A lot of critics derided it when it came out for adding content that they felt didn't contribute to the plot and slowed down the pacing, but I think the re-added scenes were done at the right time and both did world-building within the movie's universe and reinforced the theme of descending into madness.
Ant-man and the Wasp (2018)- Outstanding sequel. In a post credit scene Scott Lang misses the snap.
