Recommend (or don't) a movie thread v2

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Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda

I wanted to like Ghostbusters: Afterlife, but to me it's more like a 12-year old's Ghostbuster fanfiction than a true sequel to the first 2. The teenagers were alright, but the kids were not, especially the Asian podcast kid. Everytime he spoke my eyes wanted to roll back in their head. It was also missing most of the goofy charm of the original, the director was taking the source material way too seriously

Why is it so hard to make another regular Ghostbusters movie? Why does it have to be a kids movie, or a female empowerment piece?

Ghostbusters: Afterlife was Ghostbusters + Goonies, and I loved it.

[KTrain]

Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda

Why is it so hard to make another regular Ghostbusters movie? Why does it have to be a kids movie, or a female empowerment piece?

They tried with Ghostbusters II and it was not great. 2016 had entertaining moments (Hemsworth stealing most) but it was not the same kind of comedy and was a mess.

Afterlife wasn't perfect but it captured a lot of the feeling from the first and that ending pulled all the right heart strings.

In my opinion, the original Ghostbusters is a near perfect comedy sci-fi. It'll be impossible to try to replicate it.

I think the best option is an ongoing series so they can take it in a different route and not even try to match the original.

[dino7c]

Afterlife is by far the 2nd best Ghostbusters movie...really enjoyed it

[flames_fan_down_under]

Licorice Pizza was great. One of my favorite movies of the year. A lot of very good performances. Phillip Seymour Hoffman's son Cooper was great, Alana Haim was incredible,

Spoiler!

but Bradley Cooper kind of stole the show though, his bit was absolutely hilarious

. There were so many scenes that stood out it's hard to keep track.

Highly highly recommend.

Top movies of the year in no particular order:

Dune
Licorice Pizza
Azor
Spencer
The Card Counter
Judas and The Black Messiah
Nomadland

Worst movies of the year:
Cry Macho
Old

[direwolf]

Originally Posted by dino7c

Afterlife is by far the 2nd best Ghostbusters movie...really enjoyed it

As did I. It's a wonderful film with just the right amount of nostalgia and respect for the original, as well as a pretty solid passing of the torch story with the new cast/characters. It's not a perfect movie, but it didn't need to be.

The Phoebe character (McKenna Grace) completely steals the show, and I think they could make at least one or two more films with her as the lead and they would probably be successful. For such a young actor, she's got a lot of likeability and charisma.

[Cecil Terwilliger]

Many Saints of Newark was boring. It was too bland to even be bad. The guy who played Dickie and Vera Farmiga as Tony’s mom were the only highlights. The guys who played Sil and Paulie were so bad it felt like an SNL impression. Liotta was wasted in both roles. The plot went nowhere. The call backs were dumb.

It felt like watching two episodes of a crappy sopranos ripoff from Starz or Showtime. And then it just ended and nothing happened.

Spoiler!

The whole black mafia, race riots and frank lucas story was pointless. Tony was barely even featured. And then the way they changed how Dickie died was terrible and gave us no deeper insight into Junior and Dickie’s relationship or how it affected Tony/Chrissy.

[bluejays]

Really liked Ben Afflick's new one, The Tender Bar. Directed by George Clooney which is generally pretty good. Captured the vibe of the 70's and 80's and was more about telling a story as opposed to flash and over the top plothole sillyness involved with most flicks today. It was refreshing in that it was about character development. Really enjoyed it as all the actors were really good.

[Cheese]

agree with all that are liking on Ghostbusters Afterlife, really a fun flick that exudes the feeling from the first few films.


Being the Riccardos was a horrible waste of time though, poorly acted and hugely boring. Kidman was simply the wrong choice, the only saving grace was Javier Bardem as Desi.

[Winsor_Pilates]

Originally Posted by woob

I've been meaning to sit down and watch the Unbreakable, Split, and Glass "trilogy" for awhile now. Finally sat down and watched Unbreakable last night. I had recollections of seeing it previously, though I don't think I had watched the whole thing. It was decent.

Now on to Split, but it's proving a bit difficult to find on streaming, so I'll likely have to rent it. Hope it's a good one!

Glass may be the worst movie I've even seen, but Split is worth the watch.

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Originally Posted by Elkyiv

The Lost Daughter, I think is my favorite film this year. Pretty remarkable that Maggie Gyllenhaal could pull something like this off as a directorial debut. And I think it settles for me that Olivia Colman is the best actor today. The score, by Dickon Hinchliffe, is also incredible.

Watched this last night and thought it was incredibly boring.
Not my type of movie, but I can see how others may like it.

[KTrain]

Originally Posted by Elkyiv

The Lost Daughter, I think is my favorite film this year. Pretty remarkable that Maggie Gyllenhaal could pull something like this off as a directorial debut. And I think it settles for me that Olivia Colman is the best actor today. The score, by Dickon Hinchliffe, is also incredible.

I thought it was very compelling and there was a sense of anxiety throughout the whole film. Though I was disappointed with ending. Felt like it just stopped without any resolution.

[Harry Lime]

Maggie Gyllenhaal doing a Steven Soderbergh impression, and I really dislike the way that Soderbergh tells stories, and shoots. Coleman was great, the rest of the actors looked like they signed up for a movie with a script and were surprised that there wasn't one.

[dammage79]

The tender bar was good . It's on Prime for the next 2 days only.

Reminded me of something like Almost Famous.

Clooney directed it, Ben Affleck was actually enjoyable in his role.

[djsFlames]

Originally Posted by Winsor_Pilates

Glass may be the worst movie I've even seen, but Split is worth the watch.

Have you seen Shyamalan's other films post-The Village?

[ResAlien]

POST The Village? The Village is a goddamned crime against humanity and should have resulted in Night’s public execution. Easily the angriest I’ve ever been while watching a film. Calling it a steaming pile of trash is disrespectful to steaming piles of trash.

[TheScorpion]

Speaking of M. Night... "Old" was the hardest I've ever laughed in a theatre.

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Originally Posted by TheScorpion

Speaking of M. Night... "Old" was the hardest I've ever laughed in a theatre.

Let me guess.. Calcium deficiency cave mangler scene?

[djsFlames]

Originally Posted by ResAlien

POST The Village? The Village is a goddamned crime against humanity and should have resulted in Night’s public execution. Easily the angriest I’ve ever been while watching a film. Calling it a steaming pile of trash is disrespectful to steaming piles of trash.

The Happening says Hi.

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Originally Posted by djsFlames

Let me guess.. Calcium deficiency cave mangler scene?

That was one of the craziest cinematic experiences of my entire life. My gal and I just looked at each other in stunned disbelief.