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What Was The Last Movie You Watched and Rate it!

Superfly said:
We watched The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare last night. Story of the first special operations team, created to cripple the German u-boat fleet.

Loved it.

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Your judgment is validated. That was a hella fun movie.

If you like watching Nazis shot, stabbed, blown up, mocked, ridiculed, and strangled, then this will fill up two hours nicely.

Alan Ritchson reprises his role of Jack Reacher as Jack Reacher circa 1942, killing with the same calm joy that defines his role in the tv show. I don't know what it is about Alan Ritchson that sets him apart from any of the countless dozens of other action stars I grew up with, but I really like watching him murder. He does it with a kind of zen that seems to elude every other action star I've known.
 
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Cardinal said:
Your judgment is validated. That was a hella fun movie.

If you like watching Nazis shot, stabbed, blown up, mocked, ridiculed, and strangled, then this will fill up two hours nicely.

Alan Ritchson reprises his role of Jack Reacher as Jack Reacher circa 1942, killing with the same calm joy that defines his role in the tv show. I don't know what it is about Alan Ritchson that sets him apart from any of the countless dozens of other action stars I grew up with, but I really like watching him murder. He does it with a kind of zen that seems to elude every other action star I've known.
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Exactly! I love this guy and I love the show Reacher. He’s just a lot of fun.
 
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Music by:
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8/10
 
the peanut butter falcon
netflix

wife and i saw this when it was first released just before covid
it was a bit uplifting
the acting was good
the storyline was different
but the budget must have been minimal
you will not be wowed by the special effects

imdb says 7.6 ... i'll go with that
 
justabubba said:
the peanut butter falcon
netflix

wife and i saw this when it was first released just before covid
it was a bit uplifting
the acting was good
the storyline was different
but the budget must have been minimal
you will not be wowed by the special effects

imdb says 7.6 ... i'll go with that
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I have this on my list but keep bumping it. Thanks
 
Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare

 



Furiosa (2024)- I've been a huge Mad Max fan since I was a kid, and even though the lengthy runtime and being a prequel turned me off, I decided to give it the benefit of the doubt and watch it. Not bad. There's a lot of good action sequences, and while not on the level of Fury Road or MM2, they're still among the best I've seen in a long time.

Now for the bad stuff: it does get repetitive, plus being a prequel its totally predictable. Also it tends to be episodic. Many scenes just end in an anti-climatic fadeout. I would rank this as my #4 of the franchise (MM2 still the best, the original being second best, then Fury Road is my #3). All in all, even a lesser Mad Max movie (especially without the titular character) is still way better than most of what's currently out there. Rating: 7.5/10
 
Godzilla Minus One:

Excellent movie, and I'm not into Japanese big-monster movies at all. Typically, disaster/big-monster/alien-invasion movies are made to appeal to audiences who go to the theater to watch shit get wrecked, and have little to nothing of any other substance propping them up. If you've seen 2012 or the laughably awful Godzilla movie starring Matthew Broderick, then you've seen every disaster movie there is: the writer violently cram a human interest component into the story in order to try to get you to care about the people in it. This plays out the same in every movie: the hero is a down-and-out father who's estranged from his ex-wife, who's seeing a new guy who's okay but is clearly the competition for the protagonist. By the end of the movie he gets back together with the family and everything's okay. This cliche is always insincerely handled and the viewer's primary interest, if he's seeing it at home, is to find the fast forward button in order to get to the "shit gets wrecked" parts.

Godzilla Minus One is completely different. The story is a sincerely and sensitively handled sociological look at Japanese society post World War 2. The writer clearly has something to say, and he says it well. As a result, the human interest component accomplishes something unlikely in a disaster movie: the sociological exploration is just as interesting as the monster itself. It's a fascinating look into Japanese culture because it deals with something most of only know about tangentially from history class. (If I'm being vague it's because I believe that people who post spoilers should be shot on sight. No trial, no judge, no jury).

Plus, shit gets wrecked and it's pretty awesome.

The Fall Guy:

This should be considered first and last a date movie. It's fun and often funny, but it's a date movie just the same. Save this movie for a date. It's feel-good and will leave the both of you in a good mood. I really don't have anything else to say about it.
 
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Civil War. Mixed reviews, but that's only because it's politically polarizing. This was a fantastic movie and we were on the edges of our seats the whole time. Definitely recommend.

Not a date movie.
 
Cardinal said:
Civil War. Mixed reviews, but that's only because it's politically polarizing. This was a fantastic movie and we were on the edges of our seats the whole time. Definitely recommend.

Not a date movie.
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Which isn't to say that both of you can't enjoy it just the same. You absolutely can. I'm just sayin'...it's not the sort of thing you save for your wedding anniversary or Valentine's Day.
 
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Godzilla Minus One:

Excellent movie, and I'm not into Japanese big-monster movies at all. Typically, disaster/big-monster/alien-invasion movies are made to appeal to audiences who go to the theater to watch shit get wrecked, and have little to nothing of any other substance propping them up. If you've seen 2012 or the laughably awful Godzilla movie starring Matthew Broderick, then you've seen every disaster movie there is: the writer violently cram a human interest component into the story in order to try to get you to care about the people in it. This plays out the same in every movie: the hero is a down-and-out father who's estranged from his ex-wife, who's seeing a new guy who's okay but is clearly the competition for the protagonist. By the end of the movie he gets back together with the family and everything's okay. This cliche is always insincerely handled and the viewer's primary interest, if he's seeing it at home, is to find the fast forward button in order to get to the "shit gets wrecked" parts.

Godzilla Minus One is completely different. The story is a sincerely and sensitively handled sociological look at Japanese society post World War 2. The writer clearly has something to say, and he says it well. As a result, the human interest component accomplishes something unlikely in a disaster movie: the sociological exploration is just as interesting as the monster itself. It's a fascinating look into Japanese culture because it deals with something most of only know about tangentially from history class. (If I'm being vague it's because I believe that people who post spoilers should be shot on sight. No trial, no judge, no jury).

Plus, shit gets wrecked and it's pretty awesome.

The Fall Guy:

This should be considered first and last a date movie. It's fun and often funny, but it's a date movie just the same. Save this movie for a date. It's feel-good and will leave the both of you in a good mood. I really don't have anything else to say about it.
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Just watched godzilla minus one,

It really is a great movie,
 
scoop

netflix

the lead up to and then the interview of randy andy, the queen's favorite, regarding his association with epstein and epstein's underage girls

better than the description might indicate

mentions of tRump are LIGHTLY sprinkled throughout. he is in no way prominent and is treated evenhandedly
 
My Blue Heaven

Steve Martin, Rick Moranis, Joan Cusack, Carol Kane.

One of my top ten all time favorites. Worth watching just for the soundtrack. Steve Martin, brilliant brilliant. I had to say it twice because he's that brilliant. Rick Moranis is an FBI agent. Joan Cusack is the DA.

Can't take your eyes off it entertainment.

Steve Martin gives a tour de force performance as a mobster in witness protection.

Brilliant.
 



Godzilla Minus One (2023) I tried really hard to like this, but I struggled to finish it. It had everything going for it- with a good, well rounded cast of characters compared to the others in this franchise, but I thought it was very slow at times, and should have been trimmed to a 90 minute movie. It was also fairly predictable, which was another pet peeve. Rating 6/10
 
An oldie Kevin Costner movie: Dances with Wolves
 
Finally watched the two recent Dune movies. Liked them well enough although they did drag at times. Felt exactly the same about Oppenheimer and Killers of the Flower Moon after watching.

Third of the Trilogy is said to be based on Dune:Messiah which could mean it's set 12 years after the events in 2. Might have to wait to see, reading December 2026 as a possible released date.

Watched Beverly Hill's Cop: Axel F on Netflix. Wife liked, I got bored very quickly. There's some nostalgia value bringing back the actors and characters from the earlier films.

Looking forward to watching Civil War this weekend.
 


The Last Stop in Yuma County (2023) Its supposed to be some kind of Tarantino-esque crime thriller about bank robbers who end up in some run down diner in the middle of a highway, and all sorts of predictable complications ensue. The story is generic, the characters are pretty much cardboard cutouts and the direction is so amateurish it makes a 90 minute film feel like 4 hours. Terrible. Rating 1/10



The Bikeriders (2024) Movie about a motorcycle club in the 1960s Midwest. Tom Hardy tries his best to imitate Brando, but there's just not enough meat in the story. Austin Butler tries to play it tough, but he lacks the physicality, even though he's a good actor. In the end, I thought it was just a very small, very low-key show, and would have probably been better off as a TV movie. Light fluff. Rating 4.5/10
 
On TCM they have PAPER MOON with Tatum & Ryan O'Neal. One of a few black and white movies that needed to be filmed that way. Totally enjoyed the film. It's about a not so slick jerk who gets stuck with a child that's more than likely his. When I first saw PAPER MOON back in 1973, I had to get me one of those Panama hats with the crease down the middle and grow me a mustache. I've had it ever since. I owe it all to this movie. It's one of those perfect films where everything just comes together. The actors, the scenery, the automobiles, the music, and the comedic timing is perfect. You think at first maybe I'll hate it, but it just gets under your skin and off you go... "Where's my 200 dollars!" :cool:
 
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