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The Pack (2015) - 5/10 Cool concept and okayish execution. Stick with Cujo
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Parasite 7/10
Way overrated movie, but very well done. Asian movies have the weirdest twists.
Way overrated movie, but very well done. Asian movies have the weirdest twists.
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Joker 10/10
I didn't enjoy the beginning (⅔) of this movie because it made me feel so uncomfortable- thats a compliment.
The ending was really great, less creepy because it was seeped less in reality. Joaquin, what can you say. With DDL retired and PSH passed on, I'm thankful we still have a genius in the game.
edit: How spoiled has PTA's career been?
DDL x2, PSH x3? Phoenix x1 (plus just a ton of other amazing actors) & Radiohead.
I didn't enjoy the beginning (⅔) of this movie because it made me feel so uncomfortable- thats a compliment.
The ending was really great, less creepy because it was seeped less in reality. Joaquin, what can you say. With DDL retired and PSH passed on, I'm thankful we still have a genius in the game.
edit: How spoiled has PTA's career been?
DDL x2, PSH x3? Phoenix x1 (plus just a ton of other amazing actors) & Radiohead.
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And the pairing of Joaquin and PSH was one of the best combinations of actors in a movie I've ever seen. I don't even really like The Master that much (as far as PTA's career, Boogie Nights and There Will be Blood are my favorites) but it's got an absolute master class in acting. The scene where Joaquin is getting processed, particularly, is one of the most phenomenal scenes I've seen in a recent film.
These guys both just were fully immersed in the roles. PSH with that voice and just whole demeanor- really different than any role I'd seen him in (and he had been great in so many previous roles as well). And Joaquin was just off-the-charts good in this as well. The guy has a ton of range.
Joker was very good. Final confrontation between Deniro and Joaquin had me on the edge of my seat. Also, the film prompted me to re-watch Taxi Driver, which is an absolute classic. I really feel Phillips' film is a good companion piece to that one.
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I was incredibly disappointed in The Master the first time I saw it (too much hype), but was blown away by two things: the cinematography and JP. I think it was the best acting we've ever seen from JP. I've since rewatched The Master and I really like it now. It is underrated as a period piece, too. PSH is perfect as always.
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Hell yeah. Sad the guy is gone. I'm sure he had a ton of great performances left in him.
That scene in The Master where PSH is being called out by the late actor from Silicon Valley is another favorite. Just such slow burn awesomeness as PSH eventually flips out on him and resorts to expletives.
Joaquin has definitely become one of the best. Anderson should get DDL out of retirement and do a film with him and Phoenix.
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And actually it was PSH x5 - The Master, Magnolia, Boogie Nights, Punch Drunk Love, and Hard Eight
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I have seen it and thoroughly enjoyed it. One of the better sports biopics I have seen.Just watched Borg vs Mcenroe.
8/10 Very decent biopic!
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October 30, 2019
Dragonlord’s Review of TERMINATOR: DARK FATE (Spoilers)
Bottom Line: Ruins the mythology so bad that not even the return of Linda Hamilton’s Sarah Connor could save it, Dark Fate is The Last Jedi of the Terminator franchise and personally my worst Terminator film to date.
[Warning: Review will contain spoilers, so do not read any further. Or just read it anyway since the movie is not that good.]
Rating: 4.5/10
Dragonlord’s Review of TERMINATOR: DARK FATE (Spoilers)
Bottom Line: Ruins the mythology so bad that not even the return of Linda Hamilton’s Sarah Connor could save it, Dark Fate is The Last Jedi of the Terminator franchise and personally my worst Terminator film to date.
[Warning: Review will contain spoilers, so do not read any further. Or just read it anyway since the movie is not that good.]
The film starts in 1998, three years after the events of Terminator: Judgment Day. We see Sarah Connor and a 13-year-old John Connor relaxing in a Guatemala beach. The de-aging or CGI effects for younger Sarah and John are very well-done, same also goes to a young Arnold Schwarzenegger whose T-800 character casually walks by and shoots John dead.
Bringing back a classic character like John Connor (with the meticulous likeness of Edward Furlong) and just unceremoniously killing him pisses me off especially if you’re a big fan of T2. This is like killing off fan-favorites Hicks and Newt in Alien 3 or even what happened with Sarah Connor in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. Dark Fate is off to a bad start and about to get worse as its female empowerment directive threatens to terminate any prominent character with the Y chromosome.
Skip to the year 2020, an advanced Terminator prototype, the Rev-9 (Gabriel Luna), is sent by the new future A.I overlord, Legion, to eliminate Danielle “Dani” Ramos (Natalia Reyes) who plays an important role in the future. Protecting Dani from the Rev-9 are granny-looking Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton), an augmented human solider from the future, Grace (Mackenzie Davis) and an aged T-800, Carl (Schwarzenegger).
At this point, the story is getting stale and repetitive with the whole Terminator chasing the savior of mankind shtick. Time travel paradoxes and plot holes are still there which is nothing new for the series, so that gets a pass from me. Dark Fate just wasted its R-rating as it doesn’t really offer anything except for a few profanity and not-so-gruesome kills. The action from director Tim Miller feels too slick and superhero-ish and doesn’t have the grounded or heavy feel typical for a Terminator movie. At times the CGI action looks fake especially when Grace is involved.
It’s great to see Linda Hamilton again in the Terminator universe but her granny Sarah Connor is a bit unlikable at first because she’s trying too hard to act cool and always trying to say something witty. No major complaints with Mackenzie Davis as she was pretty decent in her role (I did hate the gender pronoun gag though). Arnold Schwarzenegger as Carl, a T-800 that has learned to grow a conscience and become more human over the years, was the better character among the bunch and it shows as the movie became a bit more lively when he finally re-enters into the picture. Too bad this aged T-800 concept feels like a rehash since Genisys already did something similar first. Gabriel Luna is miscast and is just plain boring as the Rev-9.
The worst character is Dani Ramos, the new John Connor of this alternate timeline. The diminutive Latina is just not believable as the future leader of the human resistance, even when they show her in the future scenes as the older version. She is just so cringey to watch when she gets all bratty and orders the other more experienced fighters to take a stand and take out the Rev-9. It’s also laughable how she can’t hit the targets (approx. 40 feet away) with her handgun during a shooting range practice but when she is given a semi-auto shotgun, she managed to become a sharpshooter and cleanly shoot off the targets (without damaging the target stand to boot).
They really went overboard with the girl power aspect as the movie seems intent on killing off any prominent male characters. John Connor - dead. Dani’s father – dead. Dani’s brother – dead. Even though they’re robots, they still looked like men, so Carl and Rev-9 – dead dead. Ultimately, Grace, with her short manly hair and flat chest, looked too much of a man. So they also killed her. In the end, only Dani and Sarah survived which sucks if they are planning on making this the first of a new trilogy because they just killed off two of their more interesting characters in Grace and Carl.
Some of the early critics’ reactions for Terminator: Dark Fate dubbed it The Force Awakens of the Terminator franchise. I disagree. Dark Fate is more like The Last Jedi of the Terminator films with its ability for subverting expectations in the worst way and overall destroying the promising mythology in favor of pushing an unwanted feminist/diversity agenda.
Bringing back a classic character like John Connor (with the meticulous likeness of Edward Furlong) and just unceremoniously killing him pisses me off especially if you’re a big fan of T2. This is like killing off fan-favorites Hicks and Newt in Alien 3 or even what happened with Sarah Connor in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. Dark Fate is off to a bad start and about to get worse as its female empowerment directive threatens to terminate any prominent character with the Y chromosome.
Skip to the year 2020, an advanced Terminator prototype, the Rev-9 (Gabriel Luna), is sent by the new future A.I overlord, Legion, to eliminate Danielle “Dani” Ramos (Natalia Reyes) who plays an important role in the future. Protecting Dani from the Rev-9 are granny-looking Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton), an augmented human solider from the future, Grace (Mackenzie Davis) and an aged T-800, Carl (Schwarzenegger).
At this point, the story is getting stale and repetitive with the whole Terminator chasing the savior of mankind shtick. Time travel paradoxes and plot holes are still there which is nothing new for the series, so that gets a pass from me. Dark Fate just wasted its R-rating as it doesn’t really offer anything except for a few profanity and not-so-gruesome kills. The action from director Tim Miller feels too slick and superhero-ish and doesn’t have the grounded or heavy feel typical for a Terminator movie. At times the CGI action looks fake especially when Grace is involved.
It’s great to see Linda Hamilton again in the Terminator universe but her granny Sarah Connor is a bit unlikable at first because she’s trying too hard to act cool and always trying to say something witty. No major complaints with Mackenzie Davis as she was pretty decent in her role (I did hate the gender pronoun gag though). Arnold Schwarzenegger as Carl, a T-800 that has learned to grow a conscience and become more human over the years, was the better character among the bunch and it shows as the movie became a bit more lively when he finally re-enters into the picture. Too bad this aged T-800 concept feels like a rehash since Genisys already did something similar first. Gabriel Luna is miscast and is just plain boring as the Rev-9.
The worst character is Dani Ramos, the new John Connor of this alternate timeline. The diminutive Latina is just not believable as the future leader of the human resistance, even when they show her in the future scenes as the older version. She is just so cringey to watch when she gets all bratty and orders the other more experienced fighters to take a stand and take out the Rev-9. It’s also laughable how she can’t hit the targets (approx. 40 feet away) with her handgun during a shooting range practice but when she is given a semi-auto shotgun, she managed to become a sharpshooter and cleanly shoot off the targets (without damaging the target stand to boot).
They really went overboard with the girl power aspect as the movie seems intent on killing off any prominent male characters. John Connor - dead. Dani’s father – dead. Dani’s brother – dead. Even though they’re robots, they still looked like men, so Carl and Rev-9 – dead dead. Ultimately, Grace, with her short manly hair and flat chest, looked too much of a man. So they also killed her. In the end, only Dani and Sarah survived which sucks if they are planning on making this the first of a new trilogy because they just killed off two of their more interesting characters in Grace and Carl.
Some of the early critics’ reactions for Terminator: Dark Fate dubbed it The Force Awakens of the Terminator franchise. I disagree. Dark Fate is more like The Last Jedi of the Terminator films with its ability for subverting expectations in the worst way and overall destroying the promising mythology in favor of pushing an unwanted feminist/diversity agenda.
Rating: 4.5/10
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That is what I figured. Thanks for confirming and saving me my time and money.October 30, 2019
Dragonlord’s Review of TERMINATOR: DARK FATE (Spoilers)
Bottom Line: Ruins the mythology so bad that not even the return of Linda Hamilton’s Sarah Connor could save it, Dark Fate is The Last Jedi of the Terminator franchise and personally my worst Terminator film to date.
[Warning: Review will contain spoilers, so do not read any further. Or just read it anyway since the movie is not that good.]
The film starts in 1998, three years after the events of Terminator: Judgment Day. We see Sarah Connor and a 13-year-old John Connor relaxing in a Guatemala beach. The de-aging or CGI effects for younger Sarah and John are very well-done, same also goes to a young Arnold Schwarzenegger whose T-800 character casually walks by and shoots John dead.
Bringing back a classic character like John Connor (with the meticulous likeness of Edward Furlong) and just unceremoniously killing him pisses me off especially if you’re a big fan of T2. This is like killing off fan-favorites Hicks and Newt in Alien 3 or even what happened with Sarah Connor in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines. Dark Fate is off to a bad start and about to get worse as its female empowerment directive threatens to terminate any prominent character with the Y chromosome.
Skip to the year 2020, an advanced Terminator prototype, the Rev-9 (Gabriel Luna), is sent by the new future A.I overlord, Legion, to eliminate Danielle “Dani” Ramos (Natalia Reyes) who plays an important role in the future. Protecting Dani from the Rev-9 are granny-looking Sarah Connor (Linda Hamilton), an augmented human solider from the future, Grace (Mackenzie Davis) and an aged T-800, Carl (Schwarzenegger).
At this point, the story is getting stale and repetitive with the whole Terminator chasing the savior of mankind shtick. Time travel paradoxes and plot holes are still there which is nothing new for the series, so that gets a pass from me. Dark Fate just wasted its R-rating as it doesn’t really offer anything except for a few profanity and not-so-gruesome kills. The action from director Tim Miller feels too slick and superhero-ish and doesn’t have the grounded or heavy feel typical for a Terminator movie. At times the CGI action looks fake especially when Grace is involved.
It’s great to see Linda Hamilton again in the Terminator universe but her granny Sarah Connor is a bit unlikable at first because she’s trying too hard to act cool and always trying to say something witty. No major complaints with Mackenzie Davis as she was pretty decent in her role (I did hate the gender pronoun gag though). Arnold Schwarzenegger as Carl, a T-800 that has learned to grow a conscience and become more human over the years, was the better character among the bunch and it shows as the movie became a bit more lively when he finally re-enters into the picture. Too bad this aged T-800 concept feels like a rehash since Genisys already did something similar first. Gabriel Luna is miscast and is just plain boring as the Rev-9.
The worst character is Dani Ramos, the new John Connor of this alternate timeline. The diminutive Latina is just not believable as the future leader of the human resistance, even when they show her in the future scenes as the older version. She is just so cringey to watch when she gets all bratty and orders the other more experienced fighters to take a stand and take out the Rev-9. It’s also laughable how she can’t hit the targets (approx. 40 feet away) with her handgun during a shooting range practice but when she is given a semi-auto shotgun, she managed to become a sharpshooter and cleanly shoot off the targets (without damaging the target stand to boot).
They really went overboard with the girl power aspect as the movie seems intent on killing off any prominent male characters. John Connor - dead. Dani’s father – dead. Dani’s brother – dead. Even though they’re robots, they still looked like men, so Carl and Rev-9 – dead dead. Ultimately, Grace, with her short manly hair and flat chest, looked too much of a man. So they also killed her. In the end, only Dani and Sarah survived which sucks if they are planning on making this the first of a new trilogy because they just killed off two of their more interesting characters in Grace and Carl.
Some of the early critics’ reactions for Terminator: Dark Fate dubbed it The Force Awakens of the Terminator franchise. I disagree. Dark Fate is more like The Last Jedi of the Terminator films with its ability for subverting expectations in the worst way and overall destroying the promising mythology in favor of pushing an unwanted feminist/diversity agenda.
Rating: 4.5/10
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I knew it was going to suck since that god awful poster they made
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Personally the films with Phenoix are my favourites by Anderson where I think he branches out most on his own. Prior to that his debt to the Coens was a think pretty clear. I mean he was arguably the best example of someone following them by some way yet I did get the same sense of very tightly scripted films.
The parts of There Will be Blood with DDL and Dano really letting rip I think pushed him in a rather different direction and with Phoenix and Hoffman you got the sense that the film was a good deal more free wheeling, not just following the page but being created onset between them.
I think its rare for a film to do that, I mean theres plenty of arthouse films that go with extreme naturalism but it normally comes at the cost of strength of drama. Stuff like the Master, Two Days One Night or Blue is the Warmest Colour manage to tackle their drama head on without being on the nose for me.
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THE LAUNDROMAT
Yeah, skip it.
Yeah, skip it.
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Anyone watch the new robert Pattinson movie on netflix that came out today. It looks decent
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Annabelle: Creation (2017)
This movie had some really creepy and suspenseful moments, but it really dragged early on and took a long time to get to the point. I don't understand why they didn't just do the real orgin story of the haunted doll off of which this is based. Doing a dramatization of the "real" story probably would have been much creepier.
6/10 - "C+"
This movie had some really creepy and suspenseful moments, but it really dragged early on and took a long time to get to the point. I don't understand why they didn't just do the real orgin story of the haunted doll off of which this is based. Doing a dramatization of the "real" story probably would have been much creepier.
6/10 - "C+"
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3 From Hell (2019)
Disclaimer, I didn't like 'The Devil's Rejects' either. Couldn't be arsed with this whatsoever, a rubbish almost blow-for-blow remake of TDR. Quite a 'lazy' film to be honest. I don't get why some people idolise TDR really, one of my good mates thinks its one of the best horrors of all time, has met the cast etc. Bizarre, to me.
3/10
Calibre (2018)
Netflix movie, typical filler that just kills 1-2hrs nicely. Scottish movie, basically two blokes go on a shooting retreat and things go badly tits up. It's got that 'Wicker Man' type "You aren't from 'round 'ere, boy" vibe going on but way more low-key. I didn't mind it actually, its quite bleak and to the point.
6/10
Disclaimer, I didn't like 'The Devil's Rejects' either. Couldn't be arsed with this whatsoever, a rubbish almost blow-for-blow remake of TDR. Quite a 'lazy' film to be honest. I don't get why some people idolise TDR really, one of my good mates thinks its one of the best horrors of all time, has met the cast etc. Bizarre, to me.
3/10
Calibre (2018)
Netflix movie, typical filler that just kills 1-2hrs nicely. Scottish movie, basically two blokes go on a shooting retreat and things go badly tits up. It's got that 'Wicker Man' type "You aren't from 'round 'ere, boy" vibe going on but way more low-key. I didn't mind it actually, its quite bleak and to the point.
6/10
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we ranking movies on a scale of 0-6 now?
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