Movie opinions thread (what have you seen, what did you think?)

terry.330

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I really enjoyed Snack Shack. I think a lot of people were expecting something more abrasive and wild since it’s by the guys that did Dinner In America. It’s definitely relatable especially for people who grew up in the early 90s. More people need to check it out.
 

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I think Ive gone through almost every Cannon Film.

You do Hero and the Terror yet? For some reason I lump that and 52 pickup together I think I just watched them around the same time.

How about Kinjite? That’s probaly more like 52 Pickup from Cannon.

Another recommendation but more as a guilty pleasure is Dangerously Close

No, not watched Hero and the Terror, it sounds interesting though, despite the lame title. I'd really like to see The Hitman, but I can't seem to find it streaming anywhere and it's yet to get a blu ray.

Kinjite - isn't that Charlie Bronson? I need to see more of his Cannon stuff - especially Death Wish 3 & 4.
 

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Been playing catchup recently:

The Substance: Loved the film. Great if you like older Japanese body horror and a critique of the television business.

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence: My son wanted to watch it since he's been learning to play Ryuichi Sakamoto's piano pieces and I won't say no to a rewatch. It's up there on my top 10 favorite films.


The Ballad of Buster Scruggs: I never got the chance to see this when it was released. It was really enjoyable.

Paris, Texas: After watching The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, I popped in this Wim Wenders classic.

Sonic 3: Took the kids to see this one. Pretty much a movie remake of Sonic Adventure 2 on the Dreamcast. Not going to win any awards, but it was entertaining.
 

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Been playing catchup recently:

The Substance: Loved the film. Great if you like older Japanese body horror and a critique of the television business.

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence: My son wanted to watch it since he's been learning to play Ryuichi Sakamoto's piano pieces and I won't say no to a rewatch. It's up there on my top 10 favorite films.


The Ballad of Buster Scruggs: I never got the chance to see this when it was released. It was really enjoyable.

Paris, Texas: After watching The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, I popped in this Wim Wenders classic.

Sonic 3: Took the kids to see this one. Pretty much a movie remake of Sonic Adventure 2 on the Dreamcast. Not going to win any awards, but it was entertaining.

I still need to watch Buster Scruggs.

Sonic was all it needed to be an entertaining family film
 

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Paris, Texas: After watching The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, I popped in this Wim Wenders classic.
If you like Wenders, check out the new, longer (but still not everything) cut of Until the End of the World. It's really, really good.
 

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Cherry 2000- Quirky 80s post apocalyptic adventure starring Not Don Johnson, Melanie Griffith and Tim Thomerson. I’m Just going to say it; Melanie Griffith is absolutely terrible in this. She looks the part but her acting and line delivery are awful. Actually the entire script is terrible and the tone of the movie is oddly flat despite all the wacky stuff in it. Thomerson and a couple other supporting actors actually really standout and seem to understand the tone that the movie should have (was?) going for.

It’s still pretty enjoyable though despite a slew of issues. While it’s nowhere near as smart or fun as Buckaroo Banzai or Night of the Comet it definitely has that particular kind of 80’s weirdness to it that goes a long way and adds a certain level of charm.
 

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No, not watched Hero and the Terror, it sounds interesting though, despite the lame title. I'd really like to see The Hitman, but I can't seem to find it streaming anywhere and it's yet to get a blu ray.

Kinjite - isn't that Charlie Bronson? I need to see more of his Cannon stuff - especially Death Wish 3 & 4.
Yeah Kinjite is worth a watch. I like Bronson's later output. Most of it is on Prime.
 

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Melanie Griffith does have short red hair in Cherry 2000 and the director also did Miracle Mile which has a chick in it that looks like Molly Ringwald.
 

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Scanner Cop II- A direct follow up with Daniel Quinn returning. This time instead of an insane evil doctor he’s battling another scanner that feeds off of other scanners life force like Highlander. There’s a lot of cool effects sequences and it’s obvious that a lot of the budget went to them. Notable character actor Patrick Kilpatrick is awesome as the bad guy and his performance really elevates a one note role, even if it is pretty goofy at times.

Like the first movie this one‘s also quite entertaining despite the lack of budget and flimsy premise and I think it’s easily the better of the two. As a sort of standalone spinoff to Scanners I think these hold up surprisingly well. As far as 90’s direct to video schlock goes these rank pretty high. Just be prepared for a lot of ridiculous face acting.
 

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Scanner Cop II- A direct follow up with Daniel Quinn returning. This time instead of an insane evil doctor he’s battling another scanner that feeds off of other scanners life force like Highlander. There’s a lot of cool effects sequences and it’s obvious that a lot of the budget went to them. Notable character actor Patrick Kilpatrick is awesome as the bad guy and his performance really elevates a one note role, even if it is pretty goofy at times.

Like the first movie this one‘s also quite entertaining despite the lack of budget and flimsy premise and I think it’s easily the better of the two. As a sort of standalone spinoff to Scanners I think these hold up surprisingly well. As far as 90’s direct to video schlock goes these rank pretty high. Just be prepared for a lot of ridiculous face acting.

I just rewatched the first one of these after seeing your post. It's aged well, considering. Anything with Richard Lynch usually gets me to watch. Now, seeing this I realize I've never seen the sequel?! This is up next.
 

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Someone here mentioned Mars Express a while back, I started watching it but the french got to me so I stopped a while back. I found an english rip and it was indeed a pretty good movie. Kinda reminded me sorta of the Pantheon show.

Thing that stuck out the most for me though was at one point they are investigating the missing girl's apartment and there are some quite obvious references to some Neo Geo boxes. Its a quick thing but cool little detail.
 

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where HDR at?

the michael jackson estate filmed a 200 million dollar biopic and attempted whitewashing of his first (public) child molestation case, then realized after shooting it that they had signed an agreement as part of their hush money settlement to the kid promising not to dramatize his story. so now they have to reshoot the entire second half of a movie they already finished

in their attempt to keep this quiet they accidentally let 5 previously unknown accusers slip out, all of whom also got multiple millions of dollars to keep quiet

this is like a generational own-goal

also a generational W for the kid's lawyer that had the foresight to know that the Jacksons would eventually try to make money off the story of a child rape
 
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There's a Prince documentary that's in basically the same position: 5 years spent working on it by one of the best documentarians in the business, tens of millions of dollars and hundreds of hours of interviews with an incredible cavalcade of people from every step of his life and his estate has killed it because it would absolutely destroy his reputation and their ability to make money off of him. According to people who've seen it, it paints him in a very sympathetic light but it doesn't hide from the fact that he was a child groomer, a serial domestic abuser, a hardcore drug addict and was driven almost entirely by spite and a pitiful lack of self-confidence. Amusingly enough, they apparently spend a bunch of time talking about his seething jealousy of Michael Jackson.
 

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Speaking of George Michael...

Young Guns (Go For It!) - 1988 western retelling of the Lincoln County War and the legend of outlaw Billy The Kid. Directed by the undistinguished Christopher Cain, and starring most of the "brat pack" - Emilio Estevez, Charlie Sheen, Kiefer Sutherland, Lou Diamond Phillips and Dermot Mulroney; with supporting turns from Terry O'Quinn, Jack Palance, and Terence Stamp.
This still holds up pretty well, Estevez is great as the charismatic Billy, and he's well supported by the other "regulators", particularly Kiefer Sutherland. The ending is a little disappointing , and is rather confusingly shot - I still can't workout how Billy and Doc escaped without getting shot. One minute they're standing in front of the house surrounded, and next they're half way down the street. Weird.
 

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Jackie Brown - Tarantino's follow-up to Pulp Fiction, a slick crime movie adapted from the Elmore Leonard novel Rum Punch.

The plot follows Pam Grier's air hostess, the titular Jackie Brown, acting as a cash smuggler for Sam Jackson's illegal arms dealer. Brown is caught by Michael Keaton's ATF character, Ray Nicolette, on one such trip, setting in motion a triple-cross of Jackson and the ATF by Brown, aided by Robert Forster's bail bondsman.

The acting is fantastic throughout, Grier and Forster in particular showing why they are both criminally underrated actors who deserve better. Sam Jackson is as charismatic as he is ruthless as the main bad guy, and there are good supporting performances from Robert De Niro and Bridget Fonda.

While it appears generally not to be held in the same esteem as Pulp Fiction or Reservoir Dogs, Jackie Brown is still a great film that deserves more credit than it gets. Probably what sets it apart from what came before, and after, is it's not particular visceral in anyway. There is violence, but it is quite muted for a Tarantino film, and that's no bad thing, because Jackie Brown doesn't need to be that movie.
 
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The last great Tarantino movie, in my opinion. Everything else he’s made since then has either been a straight cartoon or that revisionist history bullshit. I always wondered if the response to this is where he just said “fuck it.”
 

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The last great Tarantino movie, in my opinion. Everything else he’s made since then has either been a straight cartoon or that revisionist history bullshit. I always wondered if the response to this is where he just said “fuck it.”

Agree to an extent. Kill Bill was an entertaining watch, Tarantino's homage to 70s Hong Kong kung-fu movies, but has no mileage for me as something I'd want to go back and watch again.
Never watched Death Proof... and not bothered if I ever do, despite the fact Kurt Russell is in it.
I do really like Inglorious Basterds, that was a return to form for me.
Django Unchained is alright, there's some colorful performances, but Jamie Foxx isn't strong enough to lead a film that has Christoph Waltz, Di Caprio, and
Sam Jackson in. Shame he couldn't have got Denzel.
Hateful Eight and Once Upon A Time in Hollywood are good, but they're both too long and they drag, especially Hateful Eight - not good when most of the movie takes place in one location.
I think the biggest problem is Tarantino has seemed to default to peppering his films with gratuitous violence, when he's quite capable of putting together a classic that doesn't require it - Jackie Brown.
It's almost like he's making his films for Cannon, but with a budget.
 

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Yeah, I guess the rest aren’t horrible but nothing has ever hit like those first three.

EDIT: saw this the other day, made me think of the movie.
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“Now that there is the TEC-9, a little cheap ass spray gun made out of South Miami. They retail for 380, I get 'em for 2, sell 'em for 8. They advertised this TEC-9 as the most popular gun in American crime. Can you believe that shit? It actually says that in the little booklet that comes with it: the most popular gun in American crime. Like they proud of that shit.”
 
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From a technical standpoint Tarantino’s modern movies are incredibly well made. I think he’s one of the only filmmakers that gets noticeably better at his craft with every new movie. Not that I love everything he makes but he is definitely a top level filmmaker and one of only a handful that never compromises. I think he’s an insufferable twat though.

Death Proof is easily my favorite of his entire catalog. Which is funny because I hated it the first time I watched it and it contains all the things that I usually dislike in his other stuff.
 

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It just seems like after Jackie Brown he lost the ability to edit himself. If you watch like the cut scenes from Pulp Fiction all that shit should’ve been thrown out. (It’s entertaining though.) Watching anything he makes after J.B. I just feel like it’s all left in. I thought it might have something to do with Sally Menke dying, but looks like she was around until 2009.
 
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