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Old 07-01-2021, 09:34 AM   #3081
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We watched Ice Truck on Netflix last night - easily one of the most unrealistic movies ever created. My wife’s commentary was the only thing that kept me interested - god it was awful
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Old 07-02-2021, 08:34 AM   #3082
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We watched Ice Truck on Netflix last night - easily one of the most unrealistic movies ever created. My wife’s commentary was the only thing that kept me interested - god it was awful
Lol

I drove my wife nuts watching this. Apparently they were in a big hurry to get somewhere and time was running out, then the next scene they'd be sitting having a coffee and a chit chat while the brother did some work on the truck.

"We still have 45 minutes" then they proceed to dig an 18 wheeler out of an avalanche, unhook the trailer, hook it to the other truck, pull it out, etc...all that probably only took 5 or 10 minutes right? Yikes

The scene where his brother gets pulled into the hole in the ice road. He just tugs the 200+ pound man around like he's a little kid, somehow gets him up into the cab of a semi and into the passenger seat, revives him LMAO, and they just happen to both be BONE DRY. Never change or anything.

Don't get me started on them needing "well heads" with out ever drilling an actual well.

Liam Neeson has really lost it.
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I drove my wife nuts watching this. Apparently they were in a big hurry to get somewhere and time was running out, then the next scene they'd be sitting having a coffee and a chit chat while the brother did some work on the truck.

"We still have 45 minutes" then they proceed to dig an 18 wheeler out of an avalanche, unhook the trailer, hook it to the other truck, pull it out, etc...all that probably only took 5 or 10 minutes right? Yikes

The scene where his brother gets pulled into the hole in the ice road. He just tugs the 200+ pound man around like he's a little kid, somehow gets him up into the cab of a semi and into the passenger seat, revives him LMAO, and they just happen to both be BONE DRY. Never change or anything.

Don't get me started on them needing "well heads" with out ever drilling an actual well.

Liam Neeson has really lost it.
What? The man is doing slap-dash scenes, not getting wet, skipping costume changes, changing over equipment without working and making bank doing it!

Laim Neeson knows what he's about.
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Old 07-02-2021, 09:19 AM   #3084
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Watched The Tomorrow War on Amazon Prime...god damn waste of 2hrs.

It seems like the original cut was 18 hours and then hacked and slashed it to 2hr while still making some parts feel painfully slow.

They tried to cram way way too much into this movie. Cool concept but awful execution. I also felt Chris Pratt's acting was very weak for some reason.
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Old 07-02-2021, 09:25 AM   #3085
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The concepts were good but like you said the editing (or something) completely butchered the film. First act especially was choppy as heck, laughably bad. Maybe a good time if you're drunk.
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Old 07-02-2021, 10:13 AM   #3086
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I also felt Chris Pratt's acting was very weak for some reason.
As much as I enjoyed Guardians and Parks and Rec.

I struggle to think of anything that requires full on acting from him. He appears to be playing a different version of his true self.
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As much as I enjoyed Guardians and Parks and Rec.

I struggle to think of anything that requires full on acting from him. He appears to be playing a different version of his true self.
Hey...Keanu Reeves has made a career out of that.
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Chris Pratt was good in Passengers and that's an underrated movie.
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Old 07-02-2021, 10:53 AM   #3089
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Watched the Virtuoso, Anthony Hopkins latest...JUST.HORRIBLE.
Stay away, the premise is horrible and acting pathetic.
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Old 07-02-2021, 11:29 AM   #3090
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If any of you Barbarians have access to Shudder the 1987 classic Near Dark is streaming now. It’s been impossible to find online anywhere for years. Bill Paxton, Lance Henriksen, it’s arguably the best vampire film ever made. I know what you’re going to say and yes it is even better than John Carpenter’s Vampires which had a Baldwin brother, a pre online idiot James Woods, and I think one of the Cosby kids? Maybe that’s a different one. Anyway, Near Dark. It’s awesome.
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I also felt Chris Pratt's acting was very weak for some reason.
Ok, but how was Mike Mitchell as Cowan?
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Old 07-02-2021, 04:21 PM   #3092
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F9, incredibly stupid, and also very entertaining. I'm not a huge fan of the series, but I'd have to say that I enjoyed this one. Self aware side characters, and main characters playing it totally straight.

I'm liking Vin Diesel more and more. He's just a nerd who happened to work out too much and landed an action star career.

French Exit. Wanted really hard to be a Wes Anderson movie, and then pivoted and wanted really hard to be a Woody Allen movie. Michelle Pfeiffer saves it by being fantastic.
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I haven't seen a fast and furious movie since fast five I don't think. Maybe bits and pieces here and there. Not sure.

I used to love mindless action but really not liking it much anymore and find myself turning them off a lot now.
I used to never stop a movie once I started it.

Like that new one with Mark Wahlberg. Right at the start with the car chase, as soon as the guy whipped the car into reverse and started weaving thru traffic backwards at high speed so he could lean out the window and shoot the spot light out on a helicopter that was it for me.
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Commando has the best lines of all the Arnie catalogue.
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Commando has the best lines of all the Arnie catalogue.

Speaking of Commando...

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My review of The Tomorrow War: #### #### #### #### #### #### #### #### #### #### #### #### #### #### #### ####. 4 stars.
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Watched Wolf of Wall Street with my wife, 17 yr old daughter and 15 yr old son.

My daughter's take "What a bunch of sexist #######s"

Bang on.

But still an enjoyable movie.
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Watched Wolf of Wall Street with my wife, 17 yr old daughter and 15 yr old son.

My daughter's take "What a bunch of sexist #######s"

Bang on.

But still an enjoyable movie.
Welcome to New York in the 1980s?
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Yeah but her cut to the chase comments are what I enjoy most.
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Chris Pratt was good in Passengers and that's an underrated movie.
That's the Jennifer Lawrence flick?

I'll give it a go.
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