Everything about Movies and DVDs

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Oh I am definitely taking our kids to see this!!

 

[Tom@LCO]

Looks Good ;)

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Reminds me of Monsters, Inc.

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The Getaway (1972)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068638/

I just love this iconic theatrical poster:

 

 

One of director Sam Peckinpah's best films along with his The Wild Bunch.

This is also the first screenplay by Walter Hill, who went on to write The Warriors, 48 Hrs., Aliens and Aliens 3.

Hill also produced all the Alien films including Prometheus and Alien Covenant plus both Alien vs. Predator films.

The Getaway is a hard hitting tough as nail and sometimes brutally violent crime heist film that has been copied many times since.

Watch this one and stay away from the inferior 1994 remake with Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger.

4.75/5

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Smokey And The Bandit (1977)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0076729/

 

Can't believe this was the 2nd highest grossing film of 1977, earning $300 million: second only to Star Wars and ahead of the 3rd highest grossing film of that year, Close Encounters Of The Third Kind.

The stars admitted later that many of the scenes were improvised and you can tell. 

There are scenes that just felt out of place or not part of any continuity and that they were just thrown in as filler to make a movie.

2.5/5

FYI:

In honor of Burt Reynolds, Smokey And The Bandit is back in theaters in the USA starting this Friday and through September 20th.

How were they able to dig up a clean negative copy, remaster it to today's audio and video standards and quality and make multiple prints of them and get them in theaters in a week?

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Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3778644/

 

The origin story of Han Solo: where he comes from, how he met Chewie and Lando, how he became a double crossing women chasing scoundrel, smuggler and the best pilot (in his own mind of course) of the fastest piece of junk spaceship in the galaxy.

This movie's intention was good but unfortunately because of issues during production, it resulted in a very poorly executed and put together final product.

The original directors, yes, directors! There were 2 of them working together, were fired after having filmed 70% of the film based on one script.

After they were fired, Ron Howard was brought in to reshoot the film and while doing so, he made changes to the original script by omitting parts in it that were already filmed and needed to be reshot but Howard chose not to do so.

He also added new things to the script that had no continuity or relation to the original script.

So there were things in the original script that were already filmed that needed to be reshot that were left out; there were things in the original script that were not filmed that needed to be filmed that were left out; there were new things added to the original script that no one bothered to check for continuity and adherence to the original script; there were things in the original script that would had helped the storyline that needed to be filmed and Howard also chose not to do so:

in other words, the Final Cut of this movie is a Big Hot Mess.

This Big Hot Mess costs $300 million dollars to make and translated into a box office failure earning only $382 million dollars domestically and internationally.

One of the other times in film making history something similar happened was during the production of  Superman II which was filmed by Richard Donner.

He was fired when the movie was nearly completed.

The movie was almost completely reshot by a new director Richard Lester with scenes that were already filmed in Donner's version that needed to be reshot, featuring big cast members like Marlon Brando and Gene Hackmanm that ended up being omitted when the actors refused to show up for the reshoots.

I have seen both version and frankly, Donner's version is better.

So originally Disney was planning on making 3 Han Solo origin films including this one and a Jabba The Hut origin film.

After the dismal box office performance of Solo: A Star Wars Story, those plans are now on hold.

GOOD!

The actor that plays a younger Han Solo in this doesn't even come close in charisma and character to Harrison Ford's Han Solo.

It's as if he didn't bother to prepare for the role by watching the 3 original trilogy Star Wars film.

Even the actor who plays the young Lando Calrissian is not convincing in his role: 

Billy Dee Williams' Lando Calrissian is cool and aloof and charming. 

This actor (whom I've only previously seen once in The Martian as some NASA whiz kid) has the personality and emotional maturity of a rotting and stinky dead sardine.

Furthermore, both of the aforementioned actors can't act their way out of a paper bag if their heads were stuck in one and they were suffocating to death from lack of oxygen.

Then there is the female lead which is the same high school age kid looking Emilia Clarke actress from Terminator Genisys who I see that 3 years since that film was released and she was criticized for her poor acting, still has poor acting skills. 

Did she not bother to improve her skills by taking acting and speech classes in the past 3 years?

Finally one complaint I have which is the same as many Star Wars fans had after watching Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi.

Directors and producers for Disney's Star Wars films: leave your personal political agenda and social warrior justice liberal politics out of the script of these Star Wars films!!

That is another reason why Solo is the first movie in the Star Wars universe to fail at the box office.

The Star Wars fans revolved and boycotted Solo after The Last Jedi's director Rian Johnson bombarded the film with his own social warrior justice political messages turning it into what many Star Wars fans felt was a social justice liberal propaganda piece.

Sorry Mouse Company but I can only give your latest installment in the "Let's milk the Star Wars cash cow name for every dollar we can because we need to recover the $4 billion investment we paid to George to buy the Lucasfilm and Star Wars trademark" film franchise a:

1/5

Edited September 11, 2018 by j7wild

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Sicario: Day of the Soldado (2018)

[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5052474/

 

Not sure what was the point of this movie.

I didn't much care for the story.

The 2 things I came away with after watching it which I've already knew beforehand:

do not work for the U.S. Government's C.I.A.

To them you are nothing but an expendable asset.

When they don't need your services anymore, they will murder you or abandon you to a death situation that's very difficult for anyone to get out of alive.

The CIA has done so many times in real life:

it's not something that's made up in the movies.

Also do not work for the Mexican Cartels.

Their employee's retirement plan is also like the CIA's: not very attractive.

2/5

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JERKS!!

You just can't watch anything anymore.

I just finish watching the final episode of Season 3 of Shooter.

There was a major timeline and narrative changing event in this final episode.

So I go online to see if there is some insight about it or clue to what they will do with it in Season 4, etc., etc.,

only to find out USA network has canceled the series and there won't be a Season 4 unless another network (or Amazon) picks it up.

You invest time and effort to follow a TV series for 3 years and this is how they reward their fans.

It's like Designated Survivor: cancelled after 2 years with a lot of unfinished plot lines and loose ends.

The Expanse: cancelled after 3 years and Amazon picked it up and saved it so we will get at least another season.

Lucifer: also cancelled after 3 years by FOX and after a major outrage toward FOX on the internet and on social media, Netflix picked it up and saved it so we will also get at least another season.

Buffy The Vampire Slayer was cancelled by the WB network after 5 years and UPN picked it up so it was able to complete the standard 7 years run for a TV series.

[Tom@LCO]

Yeah same happened when i was watching Defiance.

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But the crappy reality shows just keep going and going because people are dumb and that's the only entertainment their little narrow warped brains can understand.

Look at the junk with the Kardashians. How long now? 11 years? I have never seen one episode nor do I care to even if you paid me to.

Or The Bachelor, 16 years now!

[Tom@LCO]

I wish they had a tv package where you just paid for the channels you want to watch.

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The Predator (2018)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3829266/

 

This excruciating slow burn torture stinker takes its place among the ranks of some of "the most anticipated sequels which became some of the worse sequels ever" with plenty of other sequel stinker fails to keep it company.

Stinkers like Independence Day: Resurgence, Speed 2: Cruise Control, Another 48 HRS., The Matrix Revolutions, Jaws The Revenge, Terminator Genisys, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull, Spider-Man 3, Batman & Robin, The Godfather Part III and Robocop 3.

The story is confusing and the intention and motive of the new Predator is never fully explained.

The acting by every actors and 2 actresses (Olivia Munn, Yvonne Stravoski) sucks. But you really can't blame them 100% for it. They didn't have much of a script to work with.

The dialogue was so dumb, I would bet $1 that a retard wrote it.

The action sequences were uninteresting and unexciting.

Every character was just window dressing put in place for The Predator to slice, dice, decapitate, maim, pull apart in two or three pieces and gored a 1000 ways by a multitude of alien bladed and laser weapons.

One of the first ideas for this film was to bring back Arnold but for whatever reasons, the studio decided to shelve it.

My only explanation for that is they didn't want to pay whatever salary Arnold commands.

Big mistake!

You want a movie that brings in big box office returns, you have to pay for the big star!!

You got to spend money to make money!!

Very strange that this is written by Shane Black, the same acclaimed Hollywood screenwriter who wrote 4 Lethal Weapon films, Iron Man 3, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, The Last Boy Scout;

and he also played one of the members of Arnold Schwarzenegger commandos team in Predator 1987.

Considering that it's been 8 years since the last entry in the Predator franchise, there is absolutely no excuse for the way this movie turned out.

Twentieth Century Fox and their powers that be had plenty of time to put out a quality product and they failed.

2/5

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Another comic book movie... this is supposed to be continuation from the end of Black Panther

 

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Why is it taking Cameron so long to make Avatar 2?

Supposedly he is making Avatar 2 and 3 and 4 for almost 10 years now and by the time they are released, it will be 2020, 2021, 2024 and 2025, by the tentative schedule right now - if no one dies before then.

Also why is True Lies and The Abyss not on Blu-Ray?

Cameron is such a champion of the newest latest state of the art video technology and yet 2 of his biggest movies ever are not on Blu-Ray.

He has been promising them forever.

We are now on 4K and beyond. By the time those 2 films are on Blu-Ray, people will have moved on like they moved away from VHS to DVD and then from DVD to Blu-Ray.

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https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/cary-fukunaga-direct-james-bond-25-1145656

They went from Danny Boyle to this guy.

That tells me Broccoli and Wilson want to be the only ones with creative input so they did anything possible to make it difficult for Boyle so he would quit.

So they picked this Fukunaga guy, a small time director with very minimal qualification so he can be a YES man and do exactly what Broccoli and Wilson want.

Skyfall and Spectre and Quantum of Solace, I don't care how many gamillions they earned combined and how many records they broke in the James Bond Films Franchise history were just very marginal.

I like Craig but his Bond films after Casino Royale were just not very good.

Heck!!

Even Brosnan had 2 decent Bond films before it all went downhill for him with The World Is Not Enough and Die Another Day.

Well I guess his guy is a better choice than the other director the Bond producers were looking at:

a lady named S.J. Clarkson who has no experience directing movies. She has only done TV series episode and she has been hired to direct the next Star Trek film.

With a female director, Star Trek will truly gone where no man has one before.

As long as she leaves her personal social justice warrior political agenda and views and feminist interpretation out of the screenplay and movie, it should be okay.

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The Double Man (1967)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061594/

 

A complicated cold war espionage thriller set in the Austrian Alps involving CIA and Russian agents.

If the sweeping aerial snow capped, snow laden skiing sequences look somewhat familiar, it's because the cameraman for this film is also the same cameraman who would go on to film the skiing sequences in the James Bond movie On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969).

This film is also actress Britt Ekland's second major movie role, she will go on to become a Bond Girl in The Man with the Golden Gun (1974).

 

This was one of the many 60's movies that were James Bond copies and it's also one of the better ones - featuring a tight, complex plot and decent action sequences.

3.75/5

[Tom@LCO]

I guess this was a sequel to the single man.

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16 hours ago, Tom@LCO said:

I guess this was a sequel to the single man.

Gosh Dang it, Sir T.

Here I am looking all over the internet for a movie made before 1967 by that name...

... before it dawn on me you were making a silly remark.

[Tom@LCO]

lol Now that's funny! 

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I won't be surprised if this 3rd reincarnation of the original 1937 film finally gets its deserved Best Picture Oscar, 3rd time is the charm:

 

RATED 95% FRESH on Rotten Tomatoes. That is VERY FRESH! 

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/a_star_is_born_2018/

[Tom@LCO]

Looks great and love the song.

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"Sylvester Stallone started shooting for "Rambo 5" on Tuesday. The 72-year-old actor, who reprises his role as troubled Vietnam War veteran John Rambo in the fifth part of the action franchise, made the announcement on Instagram.

He also shared his first look from the film dressed as a cowboy."

 

The last Rambo movie (2008) sucked!

This time around he is supposed to be fighting the Mexican Cartel who may or may not have kidnapped his daughter.

The idea of Rambo having a daughter and he has to come to her rescue has been floating around since the last Rambo film.

Edited October 3, 2018 by j7wild

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Smallfoot (2018)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6182908/

 

Cute movie that both children (and my 5 children enjoyed it) and adults will enjoy containing a message about how we should all get along and tolerate each other while co-existing together on this little blue planet of ours.

4/5

Edited October 5, 2018 by j7wild

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Ant-Man And The Wasp (2018)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5095030/

I enjoyed the first Ant-Man movie.

I was actually surprised by the first one not knowing what to expect.

But this one is just very weak and has a plot that I could care less about:

Michael Douglas character trying to save his wife, played by Michelle Pfeiffer. who has been lost for 30 years.

Furthermore there are 2 recurring scenes and theme throughout the film that by the eon time they replayed it, you will be shaking your head, pumping your fist at the screen and wanting to scream:

"For the love of ...

... Enough already!!"

It was like a continuous broken record being repeated over and over.

By the way, Michelle Pfeiffer's talent and acting skills are wasted in here.

I think the whole point of this movie is so they can throw this at you during the middle of the end credit sequence:

"Hey folks! LOOK!

We have another Avengers movie coming in 2019."

That's exactly what you just sat through almost 2 hours of your precious time to find out:

to be told that there is another Avengers movie coming but most likely you already have knew whether if you saw or didn't saw Avengers: Infinity War.

2/5

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The Mule (2018)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7959026/

Clint Eastwood's first movie since 2008's "Grand Torino" where he is both director and the main actor in it.

Another possible Best Picture and Best Director Oscar for the 88 years old iconic actor and director.

Based on this true story:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Sharp

Opens December 14th in limited release.