Movies Rate and Discuss the Last Movie You Saw v.16

KowboyMMA said:
Cyborg

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Well, what did you think of it?
 
The Saga of the USS Franklin

The introduction of the documentary is the function of a log book on a Navy ship. USS Franklin was sent to the coastline of Honshu, Japan to support combat operations in World War 2. A Japanese Kamikaze aircraft struck the USS Franklin and caused severe damage. The crew was able to persevere and sail to the shipyard for repairs. It is an important military history lesson if you find the time. Thumbs up!
 
Sneakers (1992)

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Really stacked cast. Robert Redford, Dan Aykroyd, Sidney Poitier, David Staithern, River Pheonix, Mary Mcdonnell, and Ben Kingsley.

it works very well as a popcorn spy comedy/thriller/heist movie. Lighthearted with focus on crowd pleasing over deep cinema. The main team, led by Redford, is really great.

Overall, It does lack one "signature scene". But it is consistently good and at times, very good. In the fun popcorn heist movie genre it might be secretly upper tier.

7.5/10 range
 
revoltub said:
Sneakers (1992)

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Really stacked cast. Robert Redford, Dan Aykroyd, Sidney Poitier, David Staithern, River Pheonix, Mary Mcdonnell, and Ben Kingsley.

it works very well as a popcorn spy comedy/thriller/heist movie. Lighthearted with focus on crowd pleasing over deep cinema. The main team, led by Redford, is really great.

Overall, It does lack one "signature scene". But it is consistently good and at times, very good. In the fun popcorn heist movie genre it might be secretly upper tier.

7.5/10 range
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Cootys rat semen / 10.
 
RAD (1986)

I had fairly fond memories of this movie from watching it a long time ago but...I don't know man. It's not as good as I remembered it being through rose colored glasses. It is produced by Talia Shire's husband with Talia playing the mother of a BMX kid under the auspices of the production company Taliafilm, but it plays out a lot like a Cannon Films movie. Just enough dialogue and plot to get its way to the big BMX kid race. I guess it's kind of like Breakin' or Skatetown USA in that regard.

It's about nine minutes of BMX montage stuff before a character utters a meaningful line. The first scene in the movie is a full length song montage of the kids doing their paper route...after the opening credits montage of BMX stunts. We get to know the kids a little bit and the big bad corporate guy who is going to ruin everything a little bit...for a few minutes before we're back in time filler bike montage territory at 15 minutes, now on a Bloodsport type running from the cops scene that is almost exactly the same except there are BMX bikes. I have no idea why the cops are even after them.

If you're into BMX stunts and can't get enough of them then this movie would be heaven on earth. If you don't care that much about that kind of stuff...you'll be wishing for character development and plot advancement pretty early in the process. This movie makes Rocky 4 look like it has no montage sequences at all. Including a high school dance hall sequence meant to build up the villain as good at everything but all the scene does is make his two henchmen look gayer than Top Gun painted in rainbow colors sitting on top of the world's biggest fruitcake.

All the actors under 30 are pretty bad. Lori Loughlin shouldn't be acting circles around everyone else. But anyway, it's a passable version of Hot Dog: The Movie, just with BMX bikes instead skiing and largely for kids instead of a sex comedy.

I don't know if I could call it rad, awesome, tubular or gnarly...but it's all right.

5.1 / 10.
 
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THE GREY (2011)

This may go down as the last good movie Liam Neeson ever made or will make. This was around when he decided to mostly specialize in what felt like a dozen different versions of Taken, none of them terribly worth watching as far as I can recall. The movie, like Pig or Under the Skin or several other films, shows how a movie can keep you watching even with relatively little dialogue or spectacle if it is made well and the actors are giving a good project the effort it deserves.

I have it squarely in the fight for second place among creature features with The Edge, Jaws 2 and maybe a few others.

8.1 / 10.

I still think Joe Anderson who played the young kind of annoying guy in the pack of survivors would have been a good choice for Kyle Reese if they had made a good Terminator movie with the original characters instead of Genisys at the time. A movie about the future war, escaping from the camps etc. I haven't seen a better Reese candidate that I can think of offhand.
 
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Finally got around to Past Lives going with a 9 . Celine Song looks like a lock for original screenplay and for a directorial debut this was amazing. Can't wait to see greta Lee's next performance.
 
BisexualMMA said:
RAD (1986)

I had fairly fond memories of this movie from watching it a long time ago but...I don't know man. It's not as good as I remembered it being through rose colored glasses. It is produced by Talia Shire's husband with Talia playing the mother of a BMX kid under the auspices of the production company Taliafilm, but it plays out a lot like a Cannon Films movie. Just enough dialogue and plot to get its way to the big BMX kid race. I guess it's kind of like Breakin' or Skatetown USA in that regard.

It's about nine minutes of BMX montage stuff before a character utters a meaningful line. The first scene in the movie is a full length song montage of the kids doing their paper route...after the opening credits montage of BMX stunts. We get to know the kids a little bit and the big bad corporate guy who is going to ruin everything a little bit...for a few minutes before we're back in time filler bike montage territory at 15 minutes, now on a Bloodsport type running from the cops scene that is almost exactly the same except there are BMX bikes. I have no idea why the cops are even after them.

If you're into BMX stunts and can't get enough of them then this movie would be heaven on earth. If you don't care that much about that kind of stuff...you'll be wishing for character development and plot advancement pretty early in the process. This movie makes Rocky 4 look like it has no montage sequences at all. Including a high school dance hall sequence meant to build up the villain as good at everything but all the scene does is make his two henchmen look gayer than Top Gun painted in rainbow colors sitting on top of the world's biggest fruitcake.

All the actors under 30 are pretty bad. Lori Loughlin shouldn't be acting circles around everyone else. But anyway, it's a passable version of Hot Dog: The Movie, just with BMX bikes instead skiing and largely for kids instead of a sex comedy.

I don't know if I could call it rad, awesome, tubular or gnarly...but it's all right.

5.1 / 10.
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idk what you’re talkin’ about, this movie rules! if this new update didn’t suck so badly, i’d upload an image of my sweet lightup vhs copy
 
Octopus3nergy said:
Finally got around to Past Lives going with a 9 . Celine Song looks like a lock for original screenplay and for a directorial debut this was amazing. Can't wait to see greta Lee's next performance.
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made me weep like a big ol’ baby
 
HenryFlower said:
idk what you’re talkin’ about, this movie rules! if this new update didn’t suck so badly, i’d upload an image of my sweet lightup vhs copy
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Okay I'll finish it. I quit with a fair bit of the movie to go because they just kept doing montages of people they haven't given me a reason to care about yet.
 
BisexualMMA said:
Okay I'll finish it. I quit with a fair bit of the movie to go because they just kept doing montages of people they haven't given me a reason to care about yet.
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it’s one of my all time favorite schlocky 80s movies. is it a great film? no, of course not. but it’s endlessly fun & silly, & is a perfect artifact of its time.
 
Ned Rifle (USA, 2014)

American black comedy drama film written and directed by Hal Hartley. It stars an ensemble cast including Liam Aiken, Aubrey Plaza, James Urbaniak, and Parker Posey.

After I watched this film I discovered that it is the 3rd film in a loose trilogy going back to the 90's. Ned Rifle stands by itself but presumably the context would be different if I had watched the previous 2 films.

Ned (Aiken) is an 18 year old devout Christian who has been in witness protection for 4 years following the conviction of this mother (Parker Posey as "Fay") for domestic terrorism. Ned's goal is to track down and kill his father, whom Ned blames for his mother's predicament.

Along the way Ned catches up with his uncle Simon (Urbaniak), a poet laureate with no discernible sense of humour who is now focused on becoming an online comedian and failing terribly at it. Ned also meets Susan (Plaza), a brilliant but weird graduate student who is obsessed with Simon's work.

If this all sounds a little weird it is because all of it is weird. Every character is off kilter. Everybody speaks with an affectation; deadpan but filled with philosophical musings. It is that sort of movie.

Needless to say, the film perfectly suits Plaza. She was born for these sorts of roles. We discover that her character, Susan, was a film reviewer best known for referencing every movie back to Simon's rather obscure poetry. We see Plaza and we find this believable.

(As an aside, if I ever go to a book store with Aubrey Plaza and she says "I will be in erotica if you need me", I guarantee that I am going to end up in the erotica section and I am going to be banned from that book store for life.).

The film has a few surprises and the final act takes on a pretty major taboo. I did not fully understand the ending. Perhaps it would have more context if I was familiar with the earlier films.

Rating: 5/10

 
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D-Day: The Day That Won The War

In 1943, General Dwight D. Eisenhower was appointed as the Supreme Commander of Operation Overlord planning. Operation Overlord was the joint-Allied Forces beachfront invasion of Normandy, France. Normandy was a heavily fortified position held by the German military in World War 2. In London, England the newspaper press indicated the D-Day Invasion did officially happen! I recommend the documentary
 
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom.

Should have been called Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom of Time and Fucks You're About to Lose.

Holy shit that was bad. After 10 minutes I almost walked out. I didn't think they could make a worse comic book movie that Thor: Love and Thunder, but they succeeded. Anything they did with the kid was beyond cheesy, the special effects looked like they were done by a "special needs" kid, the action scenes were boring, and 95% of the comedy was straight ass (not good ass, Lizzo ass).

2 outta 10 and I'm being VERY generous.
 
Delta Force 2

A feared drug lord, Billy Drago/Ramon Cota has already killed Paul Perri/Major Bobby Chavez and DEA Federal Agents in South America. To respond to the American deaths and the escalating cocaine smuggling in South America the U.S. government brings in the Delta Force. Chuck Norris/Colonel Scott McCoy and the Delta Force raid a remote compound in the mountains believed to be Billy Drago/Ramon Cota's hide-out. The sequel is more of just a Chuck Norris action movie.
 
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RogerB08 said:
Roadrunner, the Anthony Bourdain documentary. I'd rate it a 10.
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I saw this the other day, and I liked it very much. It was very painful though to see a 60+ year old dude who had already been in serious relations, turning into a totally pussy-whipped douche over a space case like Asia Argento. He basically became like a teenage who swoons over the first girl he has feelings for and put her on this massive pedestal and he totally changed who he was to accommodate her and be the person he thought she wanted him to be.

I do think though that he tried to conform to society by getting married and having that kid - it didn't really seem to be who he was at heart, which was a free spirited unconventional person. But anyways, incredible how mindfucked himself over that broad.
 
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