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I have a friend who watches movies and warns me if there are scenes of unpleasantness like that. Then I skip over them.
Was the dialogue audible this time?Extraction 2 (2023 Netflicks)- Holy crap. Did I say HOLY CRAP!? Long uninterrupted sequences of blazing hot action, with the camera flying all over. Huge action thumbs up!
hmm...?
Which version ? 1931 or 1941 ?
I don't recall a too violent scene in the 1941 film...
Pales into the distance compared to the original 85 TV dramatisation. Goes way deeper disturbingly so...
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Not too bad I agree, this scene posted below was really great for someone who spent hours and hours in college playing the game on PC.Doom (2005)
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Likely heavily influenced by Doom 3 and it's horror survival setting. If into playing Doom not too bad a watch, all involved clearly put their heart into it, but it is what it is...
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WARNING: Rather gory.
American Graffiti (1973)- Hard to believe this is 50 years old, all the actors in this, now old geezers if they are still with us. I really can’t express the emotions I feel when I watch this, even though I missed it (1962) by about 10 years as a teenager. I was in college when this was released. But I can relate to the theme of leaving home for college. my friends who stayed at home spiraled off into a seperate world, at least from my perspective, But I had no second thoughts about leaving, it seemed to be ordained. 🤔
The theme of this movie is often described as an age of innocence. From a world wide perspective, these characters have no thoughts about how good they had it, it’s just their lives, facing a milestone, leaving childhood behind looking at adulthood. There is a period, they are on the verge of, where the newness of living fades as John Mellencamp said in Jack and Diane- “Oh yeah life goes on long after the thrill of livin is gone.” Chasing the blond in the white corvette seems like an imperative.
Anyway some outstanding music from a previous life (as it seems) , some of it magical.
The theme of this movie is often described as an age of innocence. From a world wide perspective, these characters have no thoughts about how good they had it, it’s just their lives, facing a milestone, leaving childhood behind looking at adulthood. There is a period, they are on the verge of, where the newness of living fades as John Mellencamp said in Jack and Diane- “Oh yeah life goes on long after the thrill of livin is gone.” Chasing the blond in the white corvette seems like an imperative.
Anyway some outstanding music from a previous life (as it seems) , some of it magical.
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Still play Doom 3 to this day, never ceases to entertain. Doom 3 on the dhewn3 source port engine with D3HDP (Essential HD pack) only original game files are pk4 (game data) from the base & d3xp folders the rest is all the work of the dhewm3 & D3HDP mod teams.
Plays beautifully, D3HDP doesn't alter any gameplay aspect nor change the models or tone of Doom 3. Next will be to see if D3HDP can be added to the game on the M1 MBP.
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Transformers Rise of the Beasts (2023)- Decent transformers movie, good CGI, but I’ve already forgotten most of the particulars. Some key, to open a portal and let a bad planet gobbling entity threaten the Earth. If I understand it based on the date it takes place 1993?, this was a reboot.
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Hmmm. A portal opens and monsters come out. What an original concept.
Hmmm. A portal opens and monsters come out. What an original concept.
OMG. That's what happens when Management come down from the top floor and exit the lift...
I used to have the first part of the old "Dragnet" theme as the ringtone for my boss. He never calleed me unless there was trouble. 🎶🎵Dum..da..dum..dum
Check my posts on this thread. I reviewed quite a few noirs (and I will going to). Also if you want a more modern Noir, check HBO’s Perry Mason series. It’s amazing.
The Little Mermaid (2023) dir. Rob Marshall.
Went to watch it yesterday, here’s a quick review.
First, the elephant in the room: the casting of Halle Bailey as Ariel. During the past few
months lots of ink and pixels were wasted with opinions on the race-swapping of Ariel. Personally, I don’t care. She’s a 100% fictional character, and the only thing I care about and that interests me is if she can sing and act. And yes, Ms. Bailey can act quite well, and she sings incredibly. Her acting isn’t Oscar worthy by any means, but I must say that there isn’t really a standard for singing mermaids. Her singing is quite impressive. Said that, I still find it a stupid decision by Disney from a marketing POV: those who grew up with the 1990’s cartoon Ariel won’t see a faithful transposition of their favorite character, which will detach them from the character. Also, kids that are going to see it have been certainly exposed to cartoon Ariel multiple times by those parents that grew up with cartoon Ariel, so the vast majority of them have an image in their mind that won’t be met on the screen. After 30+ years of one-way exposure to certain features it might not have been the wisest thing ever and the struggles at the box office ($450M box office revenues) over a high production cost of $250M might indicate serious problems for Disney here. Time will tell.
As a movie, it’s fairly entertaining. Certainly much better than I expected, and I am glad I went to watch it on the big screen. The music was good, most of the acting was quite decent. I think that most kids will enjoy it, and most adults will find it a good way to spend 2 hours watching a pretty decent musical.
Now, a few things I didn’t like (all the rest you can assume I liked). Minor spoilers, but I assume everyone knows the plot by now as it doesn’t differ much from the 1990’s cartoon.
Recommended: yes, but without much expectations. It ain’t a masterpiece.
Went to watch it yesterday, here’s a quick review.
First, the elephant in the room: the casting of Halle Bailey as Ariel. During the past few
months lots of ink and pixels were wasted with opinions on the race-swapping of Ariel. Personally, I don’t care. She’s a 100% fictional character, and the only thing I care about and that interests me is if she can sing and act. And yes, Ms. Bailey can act quite well, and she sings incredibly. Her acting isn’t Oscar worthy by any means, but I must say that there isn’t really a standard for singing mermaids. Her singing is quite impressive. Said that, I still find it a stupid decision by Disney from a marketing POV: those who grew up with the 1990’s cartoon Ariel won’t see a faithful transposition of their favorite character, which will detach them from the character. Also, kids that are going to see it have been certainly exposed to cartoon Ariel multiple times by those parents that grew up with cartoon Ariel, so the vast majority of them have an image in their mind that won’t be met on the screen. After 30+ years of one-way exposure to certain features it might not have been the wisest thing ever and the struggles at the box office ($450M box office revenues) over a high production cost of $250M might indicate serious problems for Disney here. Time will tell.
As a movie, it’s fairly entertaining. Certainly much better than I expected, and I am glad I went to watch it on the big screen. The music was good, most of the acting was quite decent. I think that most kids will enjoy it, and most adults will find it a good way to spend 2 hours watching a pretty decent musical.
Now, a few things I didn’t like (all the rest you can assume I liked). Minor spoilers, but I assume everyone knows the plot by now as it doesn’t differ much from the 1990’s cartoon.
- The addition of a stupid subplot (Ariel can’t remember her task) that has no point.
- As soon as Ariel loses her voice and becomes human… she sings (a new song). Here they lost an opportunity to provide great cinema showing an immediate struggle and sadness of losing an important part of her identity.
- The animals. This movie is plagued by the same issue that destroyed The Lion King (movie remake). Animals are too real, no expression at all. Like, zero. Flounders is just a moving mouth on a fish. The bird isn’t funny, no funny facial expressions or mannerism. Sebastian is funny, but again he doesn’t do much. All the other animals seem to just mind their own business, resulting in an Under The Sea song scene that is good in colors but very cold.
- CGI wasn’t great in many scenes. Not bad, not great.
- I don’t get the sea king’s daughters. I am not an expert in mairpeople (word used in the movie) mating routines and pregnancies but… once you see you understand.
- The new rap song. Sorry, I just can’t stand rap.
- Some things just don’t transpose well to live action. The famous, iconic scene in which Ariel is on the rock and then a wave hits from behind? Here it’s just a splash of water (with darker colors too!). I actually laughed at how immaterial it looked. Also when the witch becomes gigantic? It looked incredibly stupid.
- The worst sin of all: no Les Poissons scene!! This is a crime, especially since Sebastian is actually funny in the movie. That was one of the best scenes, songs, and moments in the cartoon. It’s epic, fun. I still remember today how much I laughed 30 years ago watching this scene.
Recommended: yes, but without much expectations. It ain’t a masterpiece.
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There's a torture scene in the Maltese Falcon? Granted I have seen the movie in over 20 plus years, if not longer. We are talking about the 1940's movie right?
Not that brutal of one that I can recall...
I remember the one scene where they are grilling the Peter Lorre character...
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Spider-Man (2002)- The-Best-Spiderman…
Exactly my thought, but I was too chicken to ask…
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