I watched the Baby Sitter and it was entertaining.  Since you have Netflix watch What Happened To Monday this was a sleeper for sure.

If it was in the theater if would have done well IMO.

WOW!

How long has it been?

13 years?

Surprised they didn't get a sequel out sooner!

 

 

12 hours ago, Tom@LCO said:

I watched the Baby Sitter and it was entertaining.  Since you have Netflix watch What Happened To Monday this was a sleeper for sure.

If it was in the theater if would have done well IMO.

August 21st post

http://www.laracroftonline.net/index.php?/topic/3935-everything-about-movies-and-dvds/&page=31

 

Titanic is back in the theaters for its 20th year anniversary.

 

Can you believe that?

 

20 years already!!

 

http://variety.com/2017/film/news/titanic-20th-anniversary-re-release-1202616007/

 

I'm watching the BluRay.

 

Strange that Kate Winslet's career didn't take off after Titanic.

 

You would think she would become a A-list actress commanding millions per movie like Julia Roberts

4 hours ago, j7wild said:

August 21st post

http://www.laracroftonline.net/index.php?/topic/3935-everything-about-movies-and-dvds/&page=31

lol I hope you saw it. It was better IMO than the reviews.

 

Wind River (2017)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5362988/

Every year there is one movie that strikes a critical, artistic and visceral chord with me that I think deserves Oscar nominations in January-February and every year that one movie is passed by the Academy for a more commercially successful movie.

This is the movie I hope the Academy will not pass by come January 23, 2018 but knowing those sell out idiots there, they will.

4.75/5

Edited November 20, 20178 yr by j7wild

Kedi (2016)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4420704/

Original Trailer:

U.S. Trailer

Winner of the Critics Choice Documentary Award's 2017 Best First Documentary award, Best Documentary Director award and most Compelling Living Subject of a Documentary award.

An intriguing look at the stray cats living in the city of Instanbul and how their lives are often intertwined with the lives of their human neighbors.

Many of the cats living there are independent creatures but there are quite a few who are attention seekers, free loaders, trouble makers and just plain always imposing themselves on the humans around them.

This is a close up look on 7 of these cats.

Heart warming, moving, touching, beautiful.

Even if you are not a cat person and/or you are a dog person, you will still love this film.

5/5

Edited November 21, 20178 yr by j7wild

I took my allergy pill after watching that clip. 

6 hours ago, Tom@LCO said:

I took my allergy pill after watching that clip. 

HAHA! Tom is silly!

Ingrid Goes West (2017)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5962210/

This is a dark comedy about a woman, Ingrid, played by Aubrey Plaza, who takes social media too seriously;

the movie itself is also using her psychotic social media obsessive compulsive exterior to send an underlying message to the audience.

Aubrey Plaza gives a great performance but she can't just carry the movie on her own when the rest of the script doesn't bring much material and supporting characters to help her and the story.

That makes it difficult for the audience to connect with Ingrid and to take her seriously.

It's too bad too because I like Aubrey Plaza. She brings so much depth and versatility to just about any characters she plays.

But I did learn one thing from this movie: social media acceptance, social media status and to be liked on social media such as Facebook, Instagram, Twitter is going to be the end of the human race.

3.5/5

Justice League 3D - it had good development and some cool moments. There was not much I didn't like about it. All in all it was better than BvS. The 3D was pretty good for the most part. It had some weak 3D that was probably due to having to do reshoots. 

3.5/ 5

Had a bunch of Christmas movies that I'd never seen before in my Netflix queue since last year. I finally decided to start watching them last week.

The 12 Dogs of Christmas -5/5

The 12 Dogs of Christmas: Great Puppy Rescue- 4/5

Jingle All The Way 2 - 3.5/5

Deck The Halls - 3/5

 

 

Kingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4649466/

Not as good as the original.

I has kind of lost its freshness and discovery of the first film.

Plus if you have seen all or most of the 24 Bond films, it references and/or copies from about 13 of them.

Then there are some parts that are hokies and the plot is a bit dumb and far fetched.

Hokie, adjective: corny and contrived, fake and melodramatic, insincerely emotional.

The sub-part with a real life person playing themselves as a minor character in the movie is also stupid.

My review of the first movie back in May 2015:

quote:

"Why the poor ratings and bad reviews?

What was wrong with it?

4/5"

I can say that I can only give this sequel a 

3/5

Wasn't as good as the first but wasn't bad.

Watching George Lucas' American Graffiti (1973)

Why do I feel like I am watching a Happy Days/Laverne & Shirley crossover movie?

That's Ron Howard (credited in the opening credits as Ronnie Howard) on the right.

That's Charles Martin Smith in the middle.

To me, he will always be Mark Shermin in Starman and Agent Oscar Wallace in The Untouchables.

That's Richard Dreyfuss on the left. 25 years old in 1973 when this movie was released. What the hell happened to him? :eek: Jaws was only 2 years later and he looked old in there. Then 2 years after that he was in Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind and he looked like he aged another 10 years!!

That's Cindy Williams of Shirley Feeney character fame first in Happy Days and then in the spin off series Laverne & Shirley.

... and that's Suzanne Somers (about 27 years old at the time, 4 years before Three's Company) as the mysterious Blonde in the white T-Bird that Richard Dreyfuss character falls in love with.

For those who don't know, she was also the blonde at the bad guys swimming pool party in Magnum Force, released the same year as American Graffiti, before one of the rogue cop killed everyone.

She was also supposed to be a blonde in the airport terminal in Steve McQueen's 1968 Bullitt toward the end but I have not been able to find her scene - lasting only a few seconds.

By the way, she is worth about $100 million, not bad for someone who left Three's Company in a huff and lots of controversy because ABC wouldn't give her a raise from $30,000 an episode to $150,000 an episode plus 10% of the profits.

In 1980 money adjusted to today, $30,000 would be $89,000 and $150,000 would be $449,000.

Still, back in 1980 you could live really well, like a King, with a $30,000 per year income; she was making $30,000 per episode, 21-24 episodes per season per year, and yet she wanted more.

Greedy woman!

The Foreigner (2017)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1615160/

This was very painful to watch.

 

Jackie Chan is over 60 years old and he is still trying to do martial arts scenes.

 

Pierce Brosnan is also over 60 years old and sporting a very bad fake Irish accent while playing an Irishman.

 

I also can't believe director Martin Campbell (Goldeneye, Casino Royale, The Mask of Zorro) agreed to make this UK/China co-production.

 

I guess after the success of Llam Neeson "Taken" franchise, everyone wants a slice of the "Revenge" movies box office pie.

2/5

It's almost Christmas! That means it's time to watch the best and most perfect Christmas movie ever made in human history!!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0095016/

I watch Die Hard every year at Christmas season - never get tired of it.

How can you get tired of a movie that covers all the things good and pure that encompasses the meaning of Christmas?

Love, family, selflessness, compassion, giving, human sacrifice and eggnog!!

 

 

Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (June 22nd, 2018)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4881806/

Teaser Trailer:

 

First official full trailer will be available online on 12/8.

Edited December 4, 20178 yr by j7wild

No, thank you!

Robin Williams got to be rolling in his grave.

This movie is an insult to his memory and great works.

Furthermore, it stars the girl that can't act from the Oculus movie.

 

Thelma (2017)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt6304046/

There is a brief scene, which I won't give away, between the first few seconds of this movie showing the studios, producers and distributors logos and the movie title card;

but it's enough to convey to the viewer 2 things: 

1. WHAT THE HECK????

and 

2.

All I you need to know about this movie is:

1. Carrie have nothing on Thelma.

2. Official Norwegian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards, to be held in 2018.

3. Rated 90% certified Fresh on Rotten Tomatoes.

So what are you waiting for?

The next universal flood?

See Thelma today!

4.5/5

I purchased Atomic Blonde and Terminator 2: Judgement Day 3D on sale today.

Unfortunately didn't get a chance to go and see T2 3D on the big screen, but I'm hoping my own Cinema 3D makes it look just as good.

4 hours ago, Morph said:

I purchased Atomic Blonde and Terminator 2: Judgement Day 3D on sale today.

Unfortunately didn't get a chance to go and see T2 3D on the big screen, but I'm hoping my own Cinema 3D makes it look just as good.

I saw T2 in the theater but it wasn't 3D then.

Enjoy it, Morph.

Happy Holidays to you and your family.

7 hours ago, j7wild said:

I saw T2 in the theater but it wasn't 3D then.

Enjoy it, Morph.

Happy Holidays to you and your family.

I would have been one when T2 first played in theaters, so I was a bit disappointed I missed it this time around, but oh well, haha.

Thanks J7! Happy Holidays to you and your family too! I hope you all have a good one!  

Finally finish watching

CONTAINS SPOILERS!!

The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5715874/

Remember this scene from Pulp Fiction?

Almost every dialogue scene in this movie is like that.

WIKI explains it best:

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

Quote

The unpleasant nature of such silences is associated with feelings of anxiety as the participants feel pressure to speak but are unsure of what to say next

If the dialogue scene is not uncomfortable silence, then it's ludicrous dialogue like when one main character is in a pivotal scene with another main character and instead of saying something that's related to the dire situation at hand, he talks about....

a crucial time in his childhood.

WHICH HAD NOTHING to to do with that scene right there, right then!

WHO wrote this STUPIDITY?

The whole story and premise could had been interesting but the way the characters and the story and the structure of it was written and then executed on film was just asinine and ludicrous.

At about 41 minutes into a movie, I said to myself

Quote

OH WOW!

Because there was a scene which made me (and I am sure I wasn't the only person who had the same thoughts while watching it) think something worthwhile was finally happening and this is going to get good and intriguing and interesting from then on and nope, it never delivered.

A waste of Colin Farrel, Nicole Kidman and a talented young cast.

Also there were 2 other things that annoyed the heck out of me.

1. Almost every other scene between dialogues are like this long camera shot:

2. The constant suspenseful ominous music in the background in almost every scene building up to a crescendo but nothing ever happens or come of it. What was the point of that?

The director of this film is the same one that did the Lobster and those other very weird movies.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0487166

I think I will have to put him on the list of directors who make weird empty movies that if you see his name on the marquee, you will know to immediately pass on, no matter what the trailer looks like!

Stay away from this movie!

I'd rather spend the 2 hour and 1 minute to get a root canal!

A waste of Colin Farrel, Nicole Kidman and a talented young cast.

0/5

Edited December 15, 20178 yr by j7wild

Sounds likes the title should be oh deer.