Watched 1987s The Running Man based on a book by Stephen King and staring Arnie. Set in the future of 2017 the world was collapsed and the government has censored all art , music and TV. The hottest TV show is called The Running Man where contestants are convicts try to run to freedom while avoiding death by the Stalkers chasing Arnold plays a former military man who was framed for killing innocent people and must win back his freedom on the show.
I absolutely loved it, they really don't make it like this anymore, just a fun throwback action/sci fi movie that is criminally under appreciated, highly recommend this hidden gem.
and nothing like the book at all. It was written by Stephen King's alias, Richard Bachman, and was far better than the movie.
Actually surprised they havent made a movie from The Long Walk, also part of that series.
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Black Panther 2 was pretty good, I'd much rather re-watch that than the first one, which had mostly just two things going for it: combat rhinos and Killmonger.
2 is also fairly well reviewed and has a significantly higher audience rating in Rotten Tomatoes than the first one, and has made well north of 800M in the box office. By every possible standard it's a well made and popular addition to the franchise.
People here are just curmudgeons who really love to hate every new superhero movie.
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Black Panther 2 was pretty good, I'd much rather re-watch that than the first one, which had mostly just two things going for it: combat rhinos and Killmonger.
2 is also fairly well reviewed and has a significantly higher audience rating in Rotten Tomatoes than the first one, and has made well north of 800M in the box office. By every possible standard it's a well made and popular addition to the franchise.
People here are just curmudgeons who really love to hate every new superhero movie.
I am a curmudgeon that loves New Hollywood more than anything else, but I do wonder how much stock you can put in the audience score for the first one due to bad faith review bombing etc.
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Black Panther 2 was pretty good, I'd much rather re-watch that than the first one, which had mostly just two things going for it: combat rhinos and Killmonger.
2 is also fairly well reviewed and has a significantly higher audience rating in Rotten Tomatoes than the first one, and has made well north of 800M in the box office. By every possible standard it's a well made and popular addition to the franchise.
People here are just curmudgeons who really love to hate every new superhero movie.
No curmudgeonlyness here. It's a bad movie from my perspective. Reviews or not. People can enjoy it and share their thoughts, I'm not going to argue anyone about it if they liked it. For me, it wasn't good plain and simple.
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and nothing like the book at all. It was written by Stephen King's alias, Richard Bachman, and was far better than the movie.
Actually surprised they havent made a movie from The Long Walk, also part of that series.
Edgar Wright has signed on to remake The Running Man, looking forward to what he does with the property.
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It should be a rule in this thread that if you recommend a show you have to state where you watched it. Ie. theatres, Netflix, Crave.., etc. there’s a ####ing thousand apps and programs and million shows on all these networks so for the love of god if you’re going to recommend something save everyone 20 minutes and just say what platform you saw it on. Those who violate this rule should get punched in the taint.
It should be a rule in this thread that if you recommend a show you have to state where you watched it. Ie. theatres, Netflix, Crave.., etc. there’s a ####ing thousand apps and programs and million shows on all these networks so for the love of god if you’re going to recommend something save everyone 20 minutes and just say what platform you saw it on. Those who violate this rule should get punched in the taint.
The Justwatch app will tell you where you can watch movies and tv shows. It takes no time at all.
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It should be a rule in this thread that if you recommend a show you have to state where you watched it. Ie. theatres, Netflix, Crave.., etc. there’s a ####ing thousand apps and programs and million shows on all these networks so for the love of god if you’re going to recommend something save everyone 20 minutes and just say what platform you saw it on. Those who violate this rule should get punched in the taint.
another +1 for Just Watch here.
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Banshees is terrific. Should probably win Best Picture.
Just watched Banshees (on Blu ray, no clue where it's streaming) and I agree excellent film, dealing with some deep topics while also at times being really funny. I would highly recommend this, it deserves all the praise it's getting from the Academy.
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