Watched Absolute Power, 1997, last night. Clint Eastwood's commentary on the Clinton Administration and Democratic party politics in general. An excellent film.
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Watched Absolute Power, 1997, last night. Clint Eastwood's commentary on the Clinton Administration and Democratic party politics in general. An excellent film.
A great movie to be sure. Another good one that had some eerie and somewhat similar plot points was No Way Out with Costner.
The best movies in the past few years have been the Marvel Studios work, especially Joss Whedon's Avengers franchise. And Captain America: The Winter Soldier, the best of the lot.
Really? Everytime I get dragged along to another marvel superhero film I feel like I'm watching the same movie as last time with different characters spliced in. Avengers may as well just be called 'Iron Man & Friends' or 'The Expendables but with Superheroes'. Cringey, predictable one liners wrapped in EXPLOSIONS for 2 and a half hours.
I even thought it was starting to die down a bit but nah, they're gonna keep churning these things out on an annual basis for as long as possible. They're the movie equivalent of the Madden or Call of Duty video game franchises. Make the same game with the same formula every year with a new layer of paint slapped on and watch the money roll in.
Corruption goes deeper than a Monika Lewinsky you know.
Over here our sitting prime minister was removed from office not mind you by the majority of the citizens of this country but by members of his own party, not for corrupt behavior, but for removing all the green Co2 taxes installed by the previous labour (Democrats) government, but that is why we voted him in, because he promised to remove theses odious laws.
We were overruled by a few who are aligned with the UN.
Texas if it were possible should secede from the union, declare an international boarder around the state boundary, remove all federal entities in the state while you still have some independence left. Then the flag ( which can fly at the same level as the US Flag I think) of Texas can mean what it was meant to represent , an independent republic. The lone star state, what a legacy you folk have to live up to.
I don't know what to say about a guy who doesn't like superhero movies. Would you rather watch The Incredible Lightness of Being?
I'm not sure I'd like the guy personally, but he has made several good films.
I've tried to like superhero/comic based movies but I just can't seem to enjoy them. My wife and I are big movie goers and we both feel that we must be missing something.
My current top 10 movies:
Bravehart
The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly
A River Runs Through It
Jeremiah Johnson
A Good Year
No Country For Old Men
Legends of The Fall
Pulp Fiction
Josey Wales
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Interstellar was probably one of the better movies in the last year. Argo was also a damn good movie.
The most under-appreciated science fiction film is Forbidden Planet. This movie delves into more complex issues of the human existence. It stars Leslie Nielsen (way before is Airplane days...), Walter Pidgeon, and Anne Francis. It's worth 90 minutes of your time.
So being tired of movies with painfully predictable story arcs, no surprises and hum drum dialogue makes somebody a potential troll? I liked the first Iron Man movie, plodded through the 2nd one and after watching the 3rd one, my only thoughts were 'what did the 2nd and 3rd films do that the 1st film didn't?'.
They were the same as most superhero sequels: 'I'm a superhero' > 'Something bad happened oh no!' > 'Everything is fine now, here's a cliffhanger'.
The last one I thoroughly enjoyed was Watchmen. Mainly because I didn't finish it thinking 'well, that's that over, guess I'll probably have to watch the next one when it inevitably comes out in two years time'. I went into it thinking I'd get just another superhero movie and got something completely different. I'd gladly re-watch that over any of the recent by the numbers superhero movies.Quote:
I don't know what to say about a guy who doesn't like superhero movies.
I watch one movie a year. This year is either going to be The hateful eight, or The revenant. I hear James bond was utter shit.
I have a few movies I consider my favorites,an old one is They Drive By Night,with George Raft and a young Humphrey Bogart, Easy Rider,Goodfellas are up there.
I go to movies often nowadays,about three times a month. I recently saw Into the Sea,it was pretty good. I movie I recently saw with Christian Bale on cable was Harsh,here is the trailer.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZW9-0wVpuYg
made in 2005. It was similar to another great movie he made called Out of the Rust. Both worth checking out.
The last movie title I mentioned with Christian Bale needs to be corrected, it is in fact called Out of the Furnace.
He has to be trolling about the Avengers, because no one intelligent could like those movies, and from someone that has written a few books, Rip has to be a little bit intelligent at least.
Ex Machina was pretty good.
Over all I find most movies disappointing and boring, very little character development, halfway through I couldn't care less if anyone in the movie lives or dies. It would actually improve most movies if they killed the protagonist. A good superhero movie would be the villain killing all of the superheroes, mercilessly and without prejudice. Then the movie would be over.
I think Hollywood is a pretty good indicator of the overall intelligence of the populace, stupid movies, stupid plots, unbelievable action sequences, dumb viewers. How can anyone today still believe that when you unholster a Glock it somehow makes a clicking sound? 200 bullets fired out of a pistol with a standard magazine? Sure.... One badass taking on 10 other slightly less badasses at once, and winning? Believable. . .
I remember watching, Walker Texas Ranger as a kid. "Hang on bad guy while I round house kick you in the head, don't move... *BAM*" Perfect.
Anyone seen that stupid fucking Scorpion series? Oh my god, it's made by retards for retards. "Let's hack into his computer ECU, and then make his car overheat, while it's off" ... "Oh perfect, it's catching on fire that will get him out". WHAT!?
Man was that a good one. David Bowie's cameo as Tesla was so great. It even managed to slime up the extremely deserving Edison in the bargain.
My personal favorite of all time is The Wind and the Lion. It had everything, Brian Keith as TR, Sean Connery as the Raisuli, Candice Bergen looking very hot, and the USMC kicking ass. That quick time march from the harbor to the palace was classic.
I think Mad Max: Fury Road takes all comers this year, though Creed was quite good.
Bone Tomahawk is outstanding.
Fury Road was a life-changer for me. I knew I wanted action movies with more practical effects, editing that lets you see what's going on, and MORE WOMEN, but I didn't know just how wonderful all of that would be until I saw it. It's rare to see a movie in any genre with such flawless execution.
I find Tarantino somewhat irritating and mannered. At his worst, his dialogue rivals an unrestrained David Mamet, and most of the scenes that other people find shocking leave me cold -- okay, we get it, you're super edgy. That being said, I'll sit down and watch From Dusk Til Dawn any time, but Rodriguez deserves at least equal credit for how great that movie turned out. And I do have a soft spot for the second half of Death Proof, but since I loved Fury Road you could probably figure that out anyway.
Look out we got a bad ass film snob over here.
This makes a little more sense. I love Tarantino and think IB is his worst. Not just compared to his work, it is legitimately bad movie. Made worse by BJ Novak somehow bribing his way into screen time.
Well, I think QT gets too wrapped up in his own style, Pulp Fiction is probably his best movie over all, and Reservoir Dogs would make a much better stage play than a movie (though Harvey Keitel is always great), but his "70's exploitation" obsession is tiring. We get it, you watched a lot of crappy movies 30 years ago. Kill Bill and Inglorious Basterds are only interesting if you've never seen what they're copying.
Fury Road is nuts, though. Really seamless, visually stunning, amazing acting and it tells a complex story without any exposition, whatsoever.
Best traditional purist action film in several years:
John Wick