The Movies

[Dave Joksimovic]

Pretty disturbing, even if it is derivative at several levels.

That's a really polite way of saying "kinda sucked".

I wanted to like it, I really did, but there was way too much stupid on too many levels. Lazy concept and lazy writing.

[MarinePMI]

Speaking of classic westerns, I have to say "The Cowboys" with John Wayne remains one of my all time favorites. A classic story of boys becoming men, and the power of role models in that transformation. A damned good flick...

[Balazs Egerszegi]

Absolutely love Jake Gyllenhaal.

The name Jake Gyllenhaal will forever remind me of the "Snake Gyllenhaal" scene in Central Intelligence. A really stupid movie, but that scene was hilarious.

[Pluripotent]

That's a really polite way of saying "kinda sucked".

I wanted to like it, I really did, but there was way too much stupid on too many levels. Lazy concept and lazy writing.

I think that "disturbing" in this sense as it relates to Life actually means disturbing. Some parts were a little silly, but it was also disturbing. The word I used was "sickening."

[Mark Rippetoe]

Watched Victor/Victoria the other night. One of my favorite movies. Blake Edwards is just a funny human being, and he makes very clever visual comedies. Julie Andrews is a stunning beauty, physically and vocally. Alex Karras and Jim Garner are fabulous, and Edwards' usual assembly of character actors really makes this underrated gem one of the best music-based comedies of all time. Watch it.

[Alex Ptacek]

GoodFellas is on Netflix right now. Brutal, hilarious, sad. The prison cooking sequence is one of my favorite of all time.

[Dave Joksimovic]

The Cloverfield Paradox was a bait and switch. Showed a little bit of promise early on, but it ended up being just a bunch of complete nonsense crap with no payoff. I read somewhere that the studio may just be buying up unused scripts, tweaking them, and slapping the "Cloverfield" name on it to force a tie-in. After the stupid/confusing ending to 10 Cloverfield Lane (which was otherwise a decent movie) it seems very plausible.

[Alex Ptacek]

The Cloverfield Paradox is a worse version of Life dumped onto Netflix. Seems like they realized their movie was garbage, then reshot some stuff, and gave it the Cloverfield name. I hope this isn't a projection for the future of "direct to Netflix" or "direct to Amazon" films. I think we all wish theaters would die, but this is not the way to do it.

[Mugaaz]

Saw "The Ritual" on Netflix last night. Fairly clever suspense/horror movie with some cool ties to Norse Mythology. Not saying it was amazing, but I did like it and I hate the suspense/horror genre. The Norse stuff was a welcome change.

[Mark Rippetoe]

Which one? The are several with that title.