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Movie opinions thread (what have you seen, what did you think?)
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Nebraska - a really bitter/sweet movie about a father and a son going on a road trip to find out a bit more about themselves. Bruce Dern and Will Forte were excellent, but my favorite is probably June Squibb as the mother who was unexpected hilarious. I am not a film guy but I noticed that the camera tend to stay with the scene a touch longer than most, and it is really effective. I really enjoyed it and highly recommended.
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Chozen needs to be in the 4th Cobra Kai show...Have Kumiko end up breaking her leg dancing, shamed and went back to Okinawa. Chozen & Kumiko become sad depress drinking buddies and end up having a kid...Flash forward there is an international karate tournament and paths cross.
Watched Summer Rental last night. Great family show, first time watching it. John Candy was really good in this one. i think im in the mood to binge watch a bunch of his films with the kids. I think im going with Uncle Buck next.
Watched Summer Rental last night. Great family show, first time watching it. John Candy was really good in this one. i think im in the mood to binge watch a bunch of his films with the kids. I think im going with Uncle Buck next.
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Melancholia - good, but not "best movie of the decade" good like Variety would have you believe. Little more restrained than the usual for Von Trier, which was welcome, and the characters were more relatable than his usual. Kirsten Dunst was especially strong, pretty unique role for her to take. Too long, as is the norm for LVT, but the ending was worth the effort to get to.
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Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood - Like the long-form article it's based on, Mr. Rogers is kind of a background character and the movie's mostly about a cynical, fucked-up journalist who learns to forgive and be a better parent over the course of time spent with Fred Rogers. The documentary released a couple of years ago (Won't You Be My Neighbor) is a more complete and interesting look at the man and his cultural influence. Tom Hanks captures the gentility and wholesomeness of Mr. Rogers pretty well (he would often make life-long connections with regular people he came in to contact with) but I never got past seeing Tom Hanks playing dress-up. I do like that they snuck Joanna Rogers and several of the people who worked on the actual show in to the diner scene. If you've watched the documentary, I don't think it's particularly necessary but if you're looking for a pick-me-up, you could do a lot worse.
Honestly, watching this movie and the documentary more than anything makes me think that Fred Rogers was a broken human being but his particularly brand of quirkiness was like the perfect stew to create an unbelievably empathetic and kind soul. Tweak that brew like 5% and he could've been a psycho cult leader. Power of random chance, I guess.
Honestly, watching this movie and the documentary more than anything makes me think that Fred Rogers was a broken human being but his particularly brand of quirkiness was like the perfect stew to create an unbelievably empathetic and kind soul. Tweak that brew like 5% and he could've been a psycho cult leader. Power of random chance, I guess.
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Imagine mixing Home Alone and Napoleon Dynamite. The story is about an ugly ass girl, probably some rich asshole's daughter in real life, acting like a wooden pubescent bitch to her dad, and his GF and son. Kevin James is a neo nazi who just wants his key. She won't give it. So everyone has to hunt down Becky who has trapping skills, improvised weapon skills, dog training skills, and whatever dumb shit skills.
Kevin James plays the neo nazi shot caller well. He's almost too calm and polite, but it works for the character of a nazi lover, who probably sees that polite and well spoken candor as a homage to the nazi way. But losing to that kid was just, well, stupid.
Imagine mixing Home Alone and Napoleon Dynamite. The story is about an ugly ass girl, probably some rich asshole's daughter in real life, acting like a wooden pubescent bitch to her dad, and his GF and son. Kevin James is a neo nazi who just wants his key. She won't give it. So everyone has to hunt down Becky who has trapping skills, improvised weapon skills, dog training skills, and whatever dumb shit skills.
Kevin James plays the neo nazi shot caller well. He's almost too calm and polite, but it works for the character of a nazi lover, who probably sees that polite and well spoken candor as a homage to the nazi way. But losing to that kid was just, well, stupid.
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Tried watching Aliens with my kiddo...also a no-go. Seems the action sci-fi is not her bag.
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Try Darkman if you can can.
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It can be a weird one, regardless of age. I love sci-fi, but I saw this one later on in my late teens for the first time. The GF didn't like the movie but liked Ripley as a character.
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Darkman is a very good idea.
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It was just announced today that the first two seasons of Cobra Kai will hit Netflix on August 28.
No word on when season 3 drops yet but probably not long. Definitely before the end of the year.
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Noice!
I got to level with you guys though, I couldn’t make it through Karate Kid Part 3. Those bad guys were just too much, they made Chozen look like an angel. Those evil sons of bitches in part 3 were raising my blood pressure and making me too upset.
I just hope the movie ended well for Daniel and Miyagi-san
I got to level with you guys though, I couldn’t make it through Karate Kid Part 3. Those bad guys were just too much, they made Chozen look like an angel. Those evil sons of bitches in part 3 were raising my blood pressure and making me too upset.
I just hope the movie ended well for Daniel and Miyagi-san
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You could try Next Karate Kid. Miyagi is in it but Daniel was replaced by Hillary Swank.
It's pretty terrible. There's like this karate team at her high school that acts as some kind of weird ass school police force or something. Like karate hall monitors.
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On a scale of 1 to 10, how evil are the bad guys? I just can’t deal with really evil bad guys at this point in my life.
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Not as evil as the guys in part 3, more evil than the guys in part 1.
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Watched 6 Underground last night, it probably fell somewhere between mildly bad and okay. It's been ages since I saw a Michael Bay film and will probably be ages before I attempt it again, haha. Flash, style, 101 spinning cameras, you know the drill...
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Jay and Silent Bob Reboot
Embarrassingly bad. Kevin Smith has never been a good director but after Chasing Amy, he's been in an ever steady decline. With Clerks 2, I felt he somehow found a great way to perfectly construct an epilogue to his uneven directing career.
Ironically enough, the movie works best when it's NOT trying to be funny. Jason Mewes shows a range that I didn't expect from him as an aging Jay that discovers he is a father. Smith's daughter Harley Quinn Smith (fuck off, Smith) plays Jay's daughter Milly (Millenium Falcon, and that's her character's actual name) and while I wouldn't call her a 'good' actress, with the right director and enough experience, she could eventually be pretty good.
There are a ton of cameos from characters throughout the 'saga's, but none of them are really that great except for, strangely, Affleck once more reprising his role as Holden.
Smith has become an old man and it's kind of embarrassing to see him fall back on so much schtick that he should have outgrown years ago. It's when he's NOT resorting to type that the movie works at all.
Watched it on Prime. Now please, Kevin. Stick to getting high on your podcast and your marginally amusing stage anecdotes.
Embarrassingly bad. Kevin Smith has never been a good director but after Chasing Amy, he's been in an ever steady decline. With Clerks 2, I felt he somehow found a great way to perfectly construct an epilogue to his uneven directing career.
Ironically enough, the movie works best when it's NOT trying to be funny. Jason Mewes shows a range that I didn't expect from him as an aging Jay that discovers he is a father. Smith's daughter Harley Quinn Smith (fuck off, Smith) plays Jay's daughter Milly (Millenium Falcon, and that's her character's actual name) and while I wouldn't call her a 'good' actress, with the right director and enough experience, she could eventually be pretty good.
There are a ton of cameos from characters throughout the 'saga's, but none of them are really that great except for, strangely, Affleck once more reprising his role as Holden.
Smith has become an old man and it's kind of embarrassing to see him fall back on so much schtick that he should have outgrown years ago. It's when he's NOT resorting to type that the movie works at all.
Watched it on Prime. Now please, Kevin. Stick to getting high on your podcast and your marginally amusing stage anecdotes.
