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[Centurion]

Monsters INC 10/10
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Yes sir! This one starts off really well and never lets up.
Love the humor and the story and that ending! Ah man, I love how it ends.

 

[Gates70]

Ghost Story - 7/10

 

[ZaCHw117]

Captain America: Civil War: 8/10

Awesome acting.
Awesome story.
Awesome characters.


Complete **** CGI.

 

[Mad Old Lu]

Jane Got A Gun: 5.5/10

Not bad. Definitely a slower paced movie. It was fun to see a prequel reunion with Natalie Portman, Joel Edgerton (who played Owen Lars) and Ewan McGreggor.

 

[highlander1]

Mike and Dave need wedding date's . A crazy/funny comedy from start to end moves fast give a 7. Zac Efron, Adam Devine.

 

[xipotec]

Casino 5/10

This is nothing more than Goodfella's part 2.

Overall, annoying characters.
Boring plot
Typical story

Great actors but that all.....nothing new or surprising here......

It gets alot of love , not sure why?

 

[rushmore223]

Casino 5/10

This is nothing more than Goodfella's part 2.

Overall, annoying characters.
Boring plot
Typical story

Great actors but that all.....nothing new or surprising here......

It gets alot of love , not sure why?

Wow! Someone who feels the same way about Casino as I do!

Didn't think it could happen.

Now I'm not going to ask you about The Matrix, cause I know someone sharing two unpopular opinions that I hold would be statistically slim, especially on this site.

 

[highlander1]

ARQ. A quick Time travel story move's very fast done well give a 7.

The Wilderpeople. A Orphan boy in new zealand at his last chance at a foster home. A lot of heart and good story give a 7.

 

[kryptonianmutie]

Casino 5/10

This is nothing more than Goodfella's part 2.

Overall, annoying characters.
Boring plot
Typical story

Great actors but that all.....nothing new or surprising here......

It gets alot of love , not sure why?

I never understood the love for it either. If Goodfellas never existed then maybe I could see the appreciation for Casino, but I have yet to give the film a full second viewing because it feels like the leftovers of a superior product.

 

[kryptonianmutie]

The Stuff (1985) 5.5/10

If you happen to be in the mood to watch a movie that firmly belongs in the "its so bad its good'' category then this is the movie for you. Pure cheese and camp, no wonder the movie never scared me as a kid. Can't get enough of The Stuff.

 

[Patriot666]

Return of the Living Dead - 9/10

I can't ask for much more out of an 80's horror movie. I also laughed a lot this viewing. I found it much funnier for some reason, in a good way.

 

[kryptonianmutie]

Return of the Living Dead - 9/10

I can't ask for much more out of an 80's horror movie. I also laughed a lot this viewing. I found it much funnier for some reason, in a good way.

That's easily one of my favorite horror flicks and Linnea Quigley in the cemetery made me grow up real fast!

 

[Patriot666]

That's easily one of my favorite horror flicks and Linnea Quigley in the cemetery made me grow up real fast!

Gotta have some TnA in an 80's horror. [emoji4]


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[bboy]

The Blair Witch Project - 10/10, an absolute classic.

The Blair Witch - 8/10, great companion piece, but ends up trading out a lot of the subtlety for a little more fun. (which has its pros and cons)

 

[Khev]

The Dark Knight (2008) - 8.75/10

Gave this a spin after four or five years. Wow, VERY rewarding when you stick it out to the end. The finale was actually quite a bit better than I had remembered it. I had recalled the final moments with Dent and Gordon's family to be anti-climactic after the resolution with the Joker but it actually went pretty quickly and I found myself kind of getting goosebumps when the music swelled on that close-up of Batman as he realized what he would have to do in order to protect Dent's reputation.

My main issues with the film are just that darn first hour and to a lesser extent Maggie Gyllenhaal's character. Up until around the time that the judge and first commissioner get taken out and then the assassination attempt against the mayor at the funeral the film just really is a chore to sit through. The opening bank heist lost its luster long ago, I'm not evenly particular engrossed by the mob meeting/pencil trick/Hong Kong extraction/Harvey's fund raiser bits. The first hour isn't bad per se, just not very compelling. There are a few moments during that time that I like sprinkled here and there, but that alone is enough to keep me from revisiting the film as often as I'd normally like.

Still some jarringly silly moments like the idiot SWAT dude riding shotgun in the armored car who won't shut up and just the pervasive panic among so many of "Gotham's finest" throughout. And I thought it was surprisingly stupid of Alfred not to give Bruce Maggie's letter. "She would have waited for me Alfred." "Yes Master Bruce, but only as a friend. Here." *gives note* Then Bruce gets his closure and can move on with his life. But Alfred thought it would be best to give Bruce even MORE ammo against the Joker and the entire criminal element as a whole? "Yep, you're right sir, you would have lived happily ever after with her but once again criminals ruined your life. Have fun in your permanent rage." Alfred really thought that would be better than just letting Bruce take rejection like a man and then move on? Mind boggling.

I would say that pretty much everything Maggie related brings the picture down a notch and when she thankfully exits things really pick up. There's even about a 45 minute sequence in there from the Joker interrogation straight through to the exploding hospital that might even be the single best 45 sequential minutes ever in a superhero film. Hard to say what is definitively the "best" anymore though with so many quality films in the genre now.

I still prefer Civil War to Dark Knight but I would probably rate TDK a bit higher than Begins now and right about on par with The Winter Soldier. So even though I spent more time describing the elements I found lacking I'm still giving this film high, high praise. The second half is just so good. When Nolan is firing on all cylinders his work really is some of the best in the business. If TDK didn't have those jarring missteps with Maggie's character and Alfred and a first hour that was just a little more interesting this movie would be a 10/10 on par with ESB and FOTR.

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

And I thought it was surprisingly stupid of Alfred not to give Bruce Maggie's letter. "She would have waited for me Alfred." "Yes Master Bruce, but only as a friend. Here." *gives note* Then Bruce gets his closure and can move on with his life. But Alfred thought it would be best to give Bruce even MORE ammo against the Joker and the entire criminal element as a whole? "Yep, you're right sir, you would have lived happily ever after with her but once again criminals ruined your life. Have fun in your permanent rage." Alfred really thought that would be better than just letting Bruce take rejection like a man and then move on? Mind boggling.

He was going to give him the letter later, but then he burned it because the truth was not good enough...or something. See, they're all a bunch of lying, deceptive mofos in the Nolanverse. Bruce lying to Lucius about the sonar tech, Lucius lying to Lau, Alfred lying to Bruce, Joker lying to everybody, Gordon lying to his wife and kids, Batman and Gordon lying to Gotham to protect the Dent act. It's good to see all their lies exposed in TDKR....so they can go on and create more lies

 

[Khev]

Well I think the lying (or "holding my cards close to my chest" as Bruce liked to put it) was just part of the theme across all three films of "how much like a criminal do you have to be to defeat them" that many of the characters had to ask themselves. You look into the abyss/it looks into you type stuff. I just think that some of the characters' actions seemed uncharacteristically foolish. I don't mind grey characters or moral quandaries/damned if you do or don't scenarios, I just get taken out of a scene if I think someone isn't using logic or their own smarts to the best of their ability.

I'm not saying that that makes TDK a bad movie obviously, it just committed some of my pet peeve mistakes that my top tier films tend not to. Also I think the "realistic" (for lack of a better word) approach to the film actually amplified some of those head scratching moments that might otherwise have been less pronounced in other genre pictures.

But just so I'm clear I really enjoyed the overall experience of the film.

 

[kryptonianmutie]

Bruce was in the most fragile state of mind he'd been in since becoming Batman and Alfred new Gotham still needed Bats so yeah, he spared him that grief. Don't forget that in BB Bruce ran away like a child even though he was grown because he felt broken. Alfred didn't want to see that happen again.

 

[Khev]

Bruce was in the most fragile state of mind he'd been in since becoming Batman and Alfred new Gotham still needed Bats so yeah, he spared him that grief. Don't forget that in BB Bruce ran away like a child even though he was grown because he felt broken. Alfred didn't want to see that happen again.

I can buy that. Bruce thinking that he was robbed of the same "happily ever after" that Harvey lost does give him the opportunity to be the bigger man compared to path chosen by Two-Face. It just felt wrong to have the movie end with Alfred not telling him. I guess I feel like they just went one step too far with the compartmentalized lies, so to speak.

The movie ends with Bruce and Gordon lying to the people of Gotham and how much of that lie was perpetuated by the lie of Bruce losing Maggie, which didn't happen in the way that he thought it did? What was the point of that? To show that Bruce was just another pawn of misinformation? To me that undermines almost all of his world class detective bird's eye view perspective on things.

 

[The Clown Prince of Crime]

Bruce was in the most fragile state of mind he'd been in since becoming Batman and Alfred new Gotham still needed Bats so yeah, he spared him that grief. Don't forget that in BB Bruce ran away like a child even though he was grown because he felt broken. Alfred didn't want to see that happen again.

That makes sense and why he finally told him the truth in TDKR. I would have done the same at that moment, but I wouldn't have waited so long to tell him the truth. Burning that latter was a mistake, but maybe Alfred didn't think it would have long term consequences.