I haven't seen the new Avengers Infinity War movie.

I don't run to comics books movies and the last over one and a half dozen plus comics books based movie I've seen regardless of franchise (Avengers, Thor, Iron Man, Guardian of the Galaxy, Wonder Woman, Captain America, Dead Pool, Dr. Strange, X-Men, Spider Man, Justice League, Man Of Steel, Superman, Batman, Fantastic Four, Incredible Hulk, etc etc), I have watched on home video.

But I am sure this version is so much better than what's in the theater.

 

Skyjacked (1972)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069278

Decent thriller with good acting on the part of both Charlton Heston as the Captain of the hijacked Boeing 707 and a young James Brolin as the hijacker.

It features all the cliched characters you will come to expect in a standard 1970's disaster film:

the U.S. Senator who is on a secret mission for the President and he just happens to be on the wrong flight;

the young lovers couple: 20 year old Susan Dey's first movie role, she went on to play in the Partridge Family and in L.A. Law;

the expectant mother who is not due for another month but of course, excitement and tensions in a movie like this will always induce early labor;

the airliner co-pilot who is in love with the Head Stewardess and hoping she will fall in love with him;

the Head Stewardess who is having an affair with Charlton Heston's Captain character, who is of course married.

Heck! You can't get any better than this bunch of God Forsaken paper thin characters!

I do have a complaint about the accuracy of this film when the hijacked airliner is diverted into restricted Russian airspace before landing in Moscow.

That's not a 1970's Russian jet fighter and Russian soldiers don't use those automatic rifles.

4/5

Edited May 1, 20188 yr by j7wild

Game Night (2018)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2704998/

I don't understand why this movie, a blatantly obvious copycat rip-off of David Fincher's The Game, received so many rave reviews.

The characters, all of them, are annoying.

It was like watching 8 adults acting like 2 years old fighting over toys and cookies.

Most of the dialogue was asinine and the behavior of these character was even more asinine.

We kept screaming at the screen:

Why did you do that???

You are a dumb BEEP!!

You are a BEEP idiot!

You just made things worse, you BEEP!

If this is what makes movie goers and movie critics give good reviews, I weep for the future!

1/5

It's not a Predator movie without Ahnold.

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

 

 

 

I can watch the original and the 2nd one and be fine.

2 hours ago, Tom@LCO said:

I can watch the original and the 2nd one and be fine.

Get To The Choppa!!!

lol

7 hours ago, j7wild said:

Get To The Choppa!!!

If it bleeds, we can kill it!

What's the matter? The CIA got you pushing too many pencils? 

Stick around!

15 minutes ago, Morph said:

Stick around!

I saw this in a sold out theater on the first showing of release Friday.

When Ahnold said that, everyone in the entire theater cheered and clapped!

After the movie ended, my friends and I went out to the box office, bought tickets for the next showing, and we watched it again.

Dutch: Knock-knock.

 

I really miss the cheesy one-liners! They were either brilliant, hilarious or both, and good old Schwartz had the bulk of them.

I like this scene.

 

Revenge (2017)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6738136/

WOW!!

JUST WOW!!

That's my IMMEDIATE REACTION when the end credits started scrolling.

What is this movie about?

Well, it's best explained this way in the words of English playwright and poet William Congreve, who wrote these lines in his 1697 play The Mourning Bride.

"Heav'n has no Rage, like Love to Hatred turn'd,
Nor Hell a Fury, like a Woman scorn'd."

What makes this movie even more fascinating is that it's directed by a woman:

French director Coralie Fargeat - who with this film has proven that women can hold their own in the horror film genre dominated by male directors.

Brutally honest in its social message reflecting today's mores regarding men's treatment of women, it features a few scenes that will make even the most seasoned horror movie watching veterans squirm in their seats, this movie is on the same level as other recent horror celluloids out of France such as Haute Tension, Martyrs, Frontier(s).

It's refreshing to see in today's glut of PG-13 horror cheap thrills wannabes, there is still someone with the guts to make a real horror movie - from a woman no less.

This is truly a satisfying horrific overload that should not be missed!

5/5

On 2/4/2018 at 10:34 PM, j7wild said:

It's the CUCKOO guy again!!

First official full trailer with the CUCKOO CUCKOO Guy back playing the James Bond wannabe:

 

Terminal (2018)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4463816/

Visually stylish, flashy with a la Blade Runner neon bathed noir mystery thriller with a twisted Tarantino style mixed with Alice In Wonderland twist, this movie was crucified by the critics.

It's actually pretty good and the ending will make you say:

"Wait !! What the heck just happened ?!?"

Stunning Margot Robbie shines in this and the entire cast around her [composed of Simon Pegg, Dexter Fletcher, Max Irons and Mike Myers] is there to support her in her quest for revenge.

To all the critics who gave this movie a low rating, I will give them both of my special finger while at the same time, I will give this movie a:

4.5/5

Now that a new movie is coming out this year, I decided to revisit the Predator franchise.

Predator (1987)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093773/

Not only is this the first and best entry in the franchise, this is easily also Arnold Schwarzenegger's best film.

Conan the Barbarian and Conan the Destroyer got Schwarzenegger's foot into Hollywood, The Terminator gave him his first taste at fame, Commando and Raw Deal proved that he could act and not just play a speech slurring big muscle warrior again in Red Sonja, Predator showed what a good script can do for a little known Austrian body builder turned actor giving Schwarzenegger his first near $100 million grossing film, which lead to three more action films (The Running Man, Red Heat, Total Recall), two $200+ million grossing comedies (Twins, Kindergarden Cop) and then the $523+ million grossing movie that made Schwarzenegger an international household name: Terminator 2 Judgement Day.

But to me, Predator will always be Schwarzenegger's best film and furthermore, Predator is also one of only 8 movies ever made that I consider to be near perfect or perfect.

5/5

Predator 2 (1990)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0100403/

The studio bigwigs wanted Arnold to star in the sequel but didn't want to pay him what he was worth so they got Danny Glover instead.

This movie is a big not so hot mess and you can't blame Danny Glover - he is a professional who always does his best even when he is handed a stupid script helmed by a sub par director whose one of his previous movie directing gig prior to this was one of the A Nightmare On Elm Street sequels.

1/5

Predators (2010)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1424381/

I can see the meeting that took place that gave birth to this movie. A couple of 20th Century Fox studio bigwigs were trying to figure out what to do next and one of them says:

"Hey we haven't made a Predator film in almost 20 years and the last one without Arnold Schwarzenegger barely made a profit and it was killed by the critics. Let's make another one and this time, once again, we will go without Arnold!"

If I thought Predator 2 was a not so hot big mess, this one is ridiculously absurd. The whole concept of being on another planet doesn't help it. The ending left it open with unanswered questions and unfinished plot lines which we may never see answered and resolved by another film.

At a budget of over $40 million and a cumulative combined domestic and woldwide gross of $127 million, it didn't make any money by Hollywood Accounting standards.

1/5

I personally have a 3-word phrase to describe Predator 2 and Predators:

Dumber and Dumberer!!

So will the new Predator film be any good?

It's written and directed by Shane Black who wrote 4 Lethal Weapon films, The Last Boy Scout and Iron Man 3 -  which he also directed.

I hope so but from the story line I could see in the trailer, the Predators were accidentally summoned back to Earth by a kid, I don't have much hope for it.

I would think after 8 years since the last film, they could had come up with a better story.

Solo came out yesterday and the reviews are mostly bad and mostly directed (which I was expecting to be) at Ron Howard's directing skills.

He is not an action director. 

He ruined the Robert Langdon books movie adaptations.

Ron Howard is only good at directing comedies and light drama.

Can't believe Disney brought him in when they fired the original directors.

There were so many better choices than Ron Howard.

I have nothing against the guy: he has made some of my favorite movies over the years like Cocoon and Splash and Gung Ho and Apollo 13 and starred in one of my favorite TV series, Happy Days.

But he is just not fit to direct action movies.

Just finished the entire TV mini-series

Picnic At Hanging Rock (2018)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6038954/

Beautiful!! Stunning!! Breathtaking!! Mysterious!! Suspenseful!! Thrilling!!

10/10 !!

Don't mind the idiots who are giving this a bad review on IMDB and other websites saying they gave up after the 1st or 2nd episode because it was boring to them or they couldn't get into it or that they didn't understand it.

Their not liking it is their own fault for not sticking with it until the end.

The only one complaint I have is if you Google Search for Picnic At Hanging Rock, you will find many articles online identifying it as Amazon or Amazon's Picnic At Hanging Rock.

It's NOT Amazon's!!

This series, just like the 1967 book it's based on and the 1975 film before it, is Australian,  made by FoxTel and Screen Victoria and Film Australia in cooperation with the Australian Government and the owners of Hanging Rock, filmed on location at the real Hanging Rock.

Quite a majority of the actresses and actors in it are Australian born, many of them either still residents there or living abroad.

Amazon is only responsible for streaming it online to make it available to the U.S. market ONLY.

The series was also acquired by the BBC for broadcast in the United Kingdom and by Canal+ for broadcast in France but you don't find GOOGLE search results calling it BBC's or Canal's show.

Give the CORRECT credit where credit is due.

NOT EVERYTHING is OWNED, MADE, CREATED, by freaking Amazon!!

Edited May 30, 20188 yr by j7wild

Oh For the Love of G.....

He is 55 years old.

Isn't that past the maximum age to be a jet fighter pilot for the U.S. Navy (or even for the U.S. Air Force)????

https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/31/entertainment/tom-cruise-top-gun-sequel/index.html

Next will be Risky Business 2

I looked it up.

The age limit for military flyers in the U.S. Navy and the U.S. Air Force, regardless whether they are piloting a jet fighter or a cargo plane full of rubber dog poop out of Hong Kong is in the mid 30's.

Media is suggesting they using F/A-18s so maybe the twisted logic works.  Old planes for old actors for a movie made way too late ?

Journey's End (2017)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3780500/

A harrowing realistic portrayal of a British infantry company in the trenches on the front line in Northern France during 1918: the final year of World War 1.

Each infantry company is required to spend 6 days each month on the front line before being rotated out.

This is the story of one British infantry company during those 6 days.

This film is also the 4th film adaptation of a 1928 play:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey's_End

The tension and suspense was so thick, I could feel butterflies in my stomach as if I myself was really in the trenches with those poor men, most of them just boys, waiting to go over the top to run across the 60 yards or so of open space between the British and German trenches, with most of it completely zeroed in by dozens of German machine guns.

Not only there aren't enough movies about World War 1,

there are even less good movies about World War 1.

This is one of the few good ones I've seen.

5/5

Edited June 4, 20188 yr by j7wild

A Star Is Born (2018)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1517451/

Well, this looks so much better than the 1976 Barbara Streisand version which was the second remake of the original 1937 film.

This was originally a project in 2011 by director Clint Eastwood with Beyonce in the lead female role but she got pregnant so Eastwood dropped out in 2015 when the movie languished in development hell.

Lady Gaga replaced Beyonce which is definitely a good thing.

At one time Tom Cruise and Johnny Depp were in talks to take the lead male role which is not a good thing, thank God they didn't get cast.

May be an academy awards nominee comes next February?