Agree with T2 being a masterpiece. Incredible film. Makes me wish Cameron would return to making cool original stories again instead of being constantly tied up with all this Avatar nonsense. T1, T2, the Abyss, Aliens, True Lies… give me more of that stuff, please.
His potential is frankly wasted on Avatar.
He could even quit the movie business and just make a safer/superior deep dive sub excursion business to shipwrecks and it would be a better use of time and talent than the Avatars.
####'s sakes, Jimmy!
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I watched Den of Thieves. Somebody posted a trailer for the sequel in the Do You Like Movie Trailers thread, and I realized I had missed it.
It was a good heist action film. I like Gerard Butler. If I had to compare it to better movies I'd say it's Heat-lite maybe with a bit of Usual Suspects. Not as good as either of those, but I was never bored.
I watched Den of Thieves. Somebody posted a trailer for the sequel in the Do You Like Movie Trailers thread, and I realized I had missed it.
It was a good heist action film. I like Gerard Butler. If I had to compare it to better movies I'd say it's Heat-lite maybe with a bit of Usual Suspects. Not as good as either of those, but I was never bored.
Check out Plane from 2023- Great GB brainless action flick
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The Substance had me hooked for 2/3rds of the movie and then I couldn't wait for it to end. Demi Moore was great, Margaret Quallay was great, but I think the final act needed 15 minutes less to wrap up.
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The Substance had me hooked for 2/3rds of the movie and then I couldn't wait for it to end. Demi Moore was great, Margaret Quallay was great, but I think the final act needed 15 minutes less to wrap up.
Haven't seen the Substance (yet), but I feel like this is true of almost all films made in the last decade or so.
Endings always drag on and there's very often some unnecessary new twists that take up space without adding much.
Haven't seen the Substance (yet), but I feel like this is true of almost all films made in the last decade or so.
Endings always drag on and there's very often some unnecessary new twists that take up space without adding much.
The last couple of plot event were unnecessary IMO. We knew where it was going already, they could have just ran it shorter, good movie but the repetition of plot points kind of stalled what was a great little flick.
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The last couple of plot event were unnecessary IMO. We knew where it was going already, they could have just ran it shorter, good movie but the repetition of plot points kind of stalled what was a great little flick.
The movie is over the top in every way. I looked at the last few scenes as the writers basically saying; "You've had enough? Well we aren't done yet! There's still another stop on this roller coaster!". I love the campiness but then again I love movies like Dead Alive that unapologetically push all the buttons with nary a concern about good taste.
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Terminator Genisys was a disappointment. I remember liking it in theatre but after watching it so close together with the others in the franchise I found myself not liking it. They just do crazy things for no reason that completely change the first 2 films. Let's make Sarah Connor be raises by a Terminator. Maybe let's make Kyle Reese be a Terminator. Probably my least favorite of the franchise. I will say it does look rather nice on 4K so if you are looking for a demo disk this is a solid option.
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Terminator Genisys was a disappointment. I remember liking it in theatre but after watching it so close together with the others in the franchise I found myself not liking it. They just do crazy things for no reason that completely change the first 2 films. Let's make Sarah Connor be raises by a Terminator. Maybe let's make Kyle Reese be a Terminator. Probably my least favorite of the franchise. I will say it does look rather nice on 4K so if you are looking for a demo disk this is a solid option.
I'm going through the Terminator series as well, and also watched Genisys yesterday. What a disaster.
It's just a really bad nostalgia-driven mess that feels more like a machine trying to mimic human emotion than an actual movie.
It takes everything iconic about the franchise--the grit, tension, and stakes--and tosses them into a blender of cartoony CGI, convoluted time travel nonsense, questionable acting, and hollow fanwank.
Ugh. I still have one left. Thankfully the last one doesn't appear to be streaming anywhere.
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I watched Godzilla vs Megalon yesterday, for lack of anything more productive to do. It was so over the top cheesy it was AWESOME! Actors in rubber suits stomping buildings and fighting WWE-style, all to a prog-rock soundtrack. I had to check that this movie actually existed and I didn't imagine it:
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I'm going through the Terminator series as well, and also watched Genisys yesterday. What a disaster.
It's just a really bad nostalgia-driven mess that feels more like a machine trying to mimic human emotion than an actual movie.
It takes everything iconic about the franchise--the grit, tension, and stakes--and tosses them into a blender of cartoony CGI, convoluted time travel nonsense, questionable acting, and hollow fanwank.
Ugh. I still have one left. Thankfully the last one doesn't appear to be streaming anywhere.
I actually enjoyed the last movie (Dark Fate). The return of Sarah Connor was a lot of fun, and the main hero being an enhanced super soldier was pretty cool. Ignoring the previous three movies and making it a direct sequel to T1 and T2 was a good decision as well.
It's still nowhere near the same level as the original two films, but overall I thought they did a pretty decent job. And it's arguably the best movie out of all the sequels.
The reviews were fairly solid as well. 70% from critics and 82% audience score on RT.
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Nosferatu. I've waited for this one since it came out.
I loved the aesthetic, but I came away wanting more from it everywhere else.
As bad as Keanu was, Bram Stoker's Dracula is still the best Vampire movie.
You mean the best vampire movie since the 80s? Because the best vampire movies of all time all came out in the 80s; Lost Boys, Fright Night, Near Dark.
Recommend a movie!
