Honestly, if it wasn't for Leto, I'd be super down for Tron. Legacy was awesome. But Leto is keeping me away. They could have chosen basically anyone else.
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Honestly, if it wasn't for Leto, I'd be super down for Tron. Legacy was awesome. But Leto is keeping me away. They could have chosen basically anyone else.
Yeah, generally I just haven't enjoyed watching him on screen except for in Bladerunner 2049 when he was a tertiary character.
It's too bad that they left Wilde and Hedlund on the shelf because I guess they were deemed irrelevant after this much time, but even just to pass the torch it would've been nice.
I'll check it out because of the good will built over the first two. If it can just be fun with a bumping soundtrack then it won't be a waste at least. But I wish it was more of a direct sequel than a re-quel.
Disney just bombs at identifying when and where they need to build/invest or cut their losses.
The Civil War had some good moments, but the ending was underwhelming. Great concept, poor execution
This is my take as well. The movie was a missed opportunity for me. I had high hopes for it. I know some like it but it could have been so much more imo.
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Honestly, if it wasn't for Leto, I'd be super down for Tron. Legacy was awesome. But Leto is keeping me away. They could have chosen basically anyone else.
Yeah, I went in cold and didn't even know he was in it. Was really surprised as whenever you see him you're like, 'jared leto jared leto jared leto jared leto'. I don't buy him as anything other than Jared Leto.
Plus I though he was the leader of a cult or something. Should we cancel the guy or whatever we do now?
Anyway, I was able to overlook it and just chill to the 3D visuals (which I like...never understood people not liking 3D) and NIN soundtrack (even though it was pretty mid as far as how good NIN can be).
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The Civil War had some good moments, but the ending was underwhelming.
Great concept, poor execution
You must have left before the end. It was great. Full circle to the first scene where she photographs the president on TV from her hotel room bed. Pablo Escobar or whoever the guy was was only after a quote. He got it. New plucky photographer had a great arc going from naive to capable and finishing what Dunst started in scene 1.
Just a terrific movie.
Perhaps the army and fighting stuff took you out of the moment if they weren't operating in a realistic way given your life experience. I don't know jack squat about any of that stuff, so it wasn't a distraction and I absolutely loved every millisecond of that 10/10 movie.
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You must have left before the end. It was great. Full circle to the first scene where she photographs the president on TV from her hotel room bed. Pablo Escobar or whoever the guy was was only after a quote. He got it. New plucky photographer had a great arc going from naive to capable and finishing what Dunst started in scene 1.
Just a terrific movie.
Perhaps the army and fighting stuff took you out of the moment if they weren't operating in a realistic way given your life experience. I don't know jack squat about any of that stuff, so it wasn't a distraction and I absolutely loved every millisecond of that 10/10 movie.
ending was unbelievable.
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The problem with Civil War is that it wasn’t a movie about civil war. It was a movie about journalism using a fictional civil war as the backdrop. But they didn’t give us nearly enough of the backstory to make it interesting, which of course was the intention because it wasn’t actually about Civil War it was about journalism. And when they did go a little more in depth on the civil war it got a little hokey.
In Dead Poets Society, Robin Williams does an impression of Marlon Brando. The Godfather was not released until 15 years after the events in Dead Poets Society.
In Dead Poets Society, Robin Williams does an impression of Marlon Brando. The Godfather was not released until 15 years after the events in Dead Poets Society.
Being October I've been on a run of horror movies. I've watched most of the highly recommended horror movies of 2025 over the year, so was going off the map a bit, based on random recommendations. Still need to watch new Conjuring movie.
- Terrified- 2017 Argentinian movie- lots of creepy visuals so worth a watch, but overall ok. Lots of skin-crawling visuals don't always make a solid story.
- Last Shift- Looked a bit low budget- but overall good creep factor. Entertaining.
- I watched most of the V/H/S series over the last couple of weeks, only having seen 1 and 2 before this. As it's five mini movies to each series, lots of bad..... and some good. The 'wraparound' stories linking the movies are generally meh.
- For me, VHS 1 and 2 still had the most segments that were decent, with a few bad ones. Amateur Night (VHS) and Safe Haven (VHS 2) were some of the best. The 'wraparound' stories in those was maybe the best of the series, but still meh.
- VHS Viral was awful, IMO.
- VHS 85, 94, 99 meh- a couple of good segments. But not great overall. Not many memorable stories there.
- VHS Halloween was one of the best since the first two. The mini movies within had a good, creepy, fun, halloween vibe. I tend to like horror movies when they don't explain the entire story or have an unexplained villain or aspect to it (see Stephen King short stories), so this movie was good for that. 'Fun Size' was wacky, disgusting, campy and funny.
I will say though... the Kidprint segment in VHS Halloween was disturbing and hard to watch, for me- a bit too real. I did not like it at all and thought that it was pretty sick (in a bad way). I'm not a lightweight on gore or a horror movie prude, that wasn't the issue. If you watch the movie maybe look up what that segment is about for some idea before you watch it. It was quite a disturbing outlier, as compared to the other segments.
- VHS Halloween was one of the best since the first two. The mini movies within had a good, creepy, fun, halloween vibe. I tend to like horror movies when they don't explain the entire story or have an unexplained villain or aspect to it (see Stephen King short stories), so this movie was good for that. 'Fun Size' was wacky, disgusting, campy and funny.
I will say though... the Kidprint segment in VHS Halloween was disturbing and hard to watch, for me- a bit too real. I did not like it at all and thought that it was pretty sick (in a bad way). I'm not a lightweight on gore or a horror movie prude, that wasn't the issue. If you watch the movie maybe look up what that segment is about for some idea before you watch it. It was quite a disturbing outlier, as compared to the other segments.
Yea, the Kid Print segment was downright nasty, dark and visceral. I saw a great comment on Reddit that perfectly summed it up:
"If VHS Halloween is a candy bar, Kidprint is the razor blade hidden inside it."
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I am a big Jordan Peele fan, and I went to see "HIM".
I didn't like it. I don't recommend it.
I was wondering wtf happened, and then read that I was one of those people easily bamboozled. Peele was just a producer, and the Director / Script guy was some no-name.
So be warned - it's a bad pseudo thriller vaguely football related. Third act totally flops in it's attempt to pay off the building tension. There isn't really any football to be had in the film, it's more of a "young guy on a famous guy's compound filled with weirdos and occasional sadism".
It's also a very visually dark movie - so watch it at night if you ignore me and decide to take a run at it.
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