I just re-watched Donnie Darko a good 10-15 years after I last watched it. Richard Kelly went to my kids' high school and based it our suburbia at the time apparently, so wanted to give it another watch. I never realized what a crazy cast it had. A bunch of A listers and every scene has someone I recognize from somewhere.
Funny thing too, Vince Gilligan went to a rival high school in our county, and he definitely played homage to the airplane engine thing in Breaking Bad.
It’s a remake of Akita Kurosawa’s High and Low which imo still holds up today and is what I would consider AK’s best film.
From what I’ve heard of the Spike Lee version, people should just skip it and watch the original.
High and Low is a pretty accurate description of Spike Lee’s filmography. Some of the best films I’ve seen and some of the worst. Hardly much in between.
Happy Gilmour 2 was a disappointment even with my low expectations. Should have known it was going to be bad from the start when a character is killed off seemingly so Sandler’ daughter can be the lead actress. There was actually some potential for a good movie with the PGA cameos, poking fun of LIV, the team up with Shooter, and I liked the scene when he joined a threesome on the course, but the story is a lazy unfocused mess. The original was silly but it had a straightforward story that got laughs out of stretching the rules of golf. This one goes way over the top and is strangely almost a golf sci fi. The absolute worst parts were the constant references to the original with flashbacks that treated the audience like idiots. Then again I did just spend 2 hours watching a Netflix Sandler movie so maybe I am an idiot. 4/10.
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For a movie touted as a love letter to cinema, Empire of Light is a film about very little. It's a mishmash of underdeveloped characters and half-baked ideas that fail to coalesce into a coherent story.
So I watched the Fantastic 4...and it was just 3.6 Roentgen.
It was okay. Kind of? Its like the set designer was the only one who GAF about this movie.
The acting...wasn't bad, but it wasn't great, it was just kind of there.
The story? Just...kind of there. It is, by all accounts a film that was made and it exists but I dont think I've been that bored by a movie since Eternals.
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My hottest take is I don't hate the 2015 Fantastic Four and liked the direction they were going. It was just missing an entire 2nd act but I would have loved a team up between them and the X-Men franchise
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New Downton Abbey is wash/rinse/repeat of previous shows and movies. Papa (or whatever his name is) hesitant about change/future; Mary's confusing love life; ugly sister exceeding low expectations she places on herself and the family places on her; upstairs/downstairs mutual respect; blah blah blah.
I liked it. Such a comfy world and a happy way to spend a couple hours.
It’s a remake of Akita Kurosawa’s High and Low which imo still holds up today and is what I would consider AK’s best film.
From what I’ve heard of the Spike Lee version, people should just skip it and watch the original.
It is an English-language remake of Akira Kurosawa's 1963 Japanese film High and Low, itself based on the 1959 American novel King's Ransom by Ed McBain.
If we're talking about the Nic Cage thriller by Brian De Palma I love that movie. The last 10 minutes aren't great but the rest leading up to it is fun with fantastic atmosphere . The GI Joe spin off Snake Eyes I've never seen.
If we're talking about the Nic Cage thriller by Brian De Palma I love that movie. The last 10 minutes aren't great but the rest leading up to it is fun with fantastic atmosphere . The GI Joe spin off Snake Eyes I've never seen.
Speaking of Nic Cage thrillers in that era, 8MM is rarely talked about and was deemed to be pretty mediocre when it was released.
It's a crazily dark movie with plot choices that are seldom made in mainstream releases these days.
Loaded cast with J. Phoenix, James Gandolfini, Peter Stormare, etc... I think there are themes in 8MM that are worth revisiting.
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Speaking of Nic Cage thrillers in that era, 8MM is rarely talked about and was deemed to be pretty mediocre when it was released.
It's a crazily dark movie with plot choices that are seldom made in mainstream releases these days.
Loaded cast with J. Phoenix, James Gandolfini, Peter Stormare, etc... I think there are themes in 8MM that are worth revisiting.
Love that movie, it was the first movie Joel Schumacher directed after Batman & Robin
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Speaking of Nic Cage thrillers in that era, 8MM is rarely talked about and was deemed to be pretty mediocre when it was released.
It's a crazily dark movie with plot choices that are seldom made in mainstream releases these days.
Loaded cast with J. Phoenix, James Gandolfini, Peter Stormare, etc... I think there are themes in 8MM that are worth revisiting.
Underrated movie IMO. And it's dark as hell. Cage was very low-key in that role and I thought he was quite good. Phoenix makes a great sidekick, and Gandolfini and Stormare are both terrific playing reprehensible scumbags. Solid flick!
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In John Wick there are no strings attached. If they come for him...he's going to kill them. If they hurt or even mildly mistreat his dog, he's going to kill them.
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^I've seen that before. The Mother Theresa argument from the bishop is one of the stupidest things I've ever heard and it actually makes the point for the secular social worker being a superior person to a religious person.
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