What Movies Are You Watching Lately

[Oswald Cornelius]

A Paris police vice captain makes his rounds of the nighttime club circuit.

Sorry for my circular logic. Imagine my embarrassment.

 

[otc]

2 was terrible. Easily the worst of the series. I think they peaked around 4-6, then have been getting steadily bigger, more ridiculous, and worse ever since.

Disagree

2 is when they said screw having a plot, let’s just get ALL the cars.

That makes it great.

 

[edmorel]

I’m sure this has been discussed but if someone would humor me please. What was the appeal of Barbie that made it such a big money maker? Saw it with the wife yesterday at home and neither one of us got it. It’s messaging was so heavy handed and the Wonder Woman movie did the whole “women world good/man world bad” thing much better. That America Ferrara speech, after 15 seconds even my wife was like

 

[jcman311]

Only one I've never seen.

Its because of Eva Mendes right? @beargonefishing will never be the same after she stole Ryan from him.

 

[Texasmade]

Its because of Eva Mendes right? @beargonefishing will never be the same after she stole Ryan from him.

They did a sequel without proper fambly!

 

[beargonefishing]

Its because of Eva Mendes right? @beargonefishing will never be the same after she stole Ryan from him.

Ain't no fun if Eva can't have none.

 

[FlyingMonkey]

Finally got round to watching Edward Norton's Motherless Brooklyn last night. What an excellent movie. A film by someone who loves and understands the source material but realises that a film is a different thing from a book. A film by someone who understands that cinema should be more than a serious of random action sequences, and that character, cinematography and sound all matter. A film that makes you happy that they still do, sometimes, "make 'em like that."

 

[edmorel]

My daughter requested this over the weekend.
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She made multiple observations- a) she knew how to play a couple of the pieces the string quartet was playing at the party, b) obviously, it's a Christmas movie; why would anyone think it isn't?, and c) that doesn't look like Professor Snape at all.

Maybe I can talk her into watching Die Hard 2 this weekend...

You should get her “The Nakatomi Paradigm” for the holidays.

 

[edmorel]

Finally got round to watching Edward Norton's Motherless Brooklyn last night. What an excellent movie. A film by someone who loves and understands the source material but realises that a film is a different thing from a book. A film by someone who understands that cinema should be more than a serious of random action sequences, and that character, cinematography and sound all matter. A film that makes you happy that they still do, sometimes, "make 'em like that."

I can watch pretty much anything he or Gary Oldham are in. Gary Oldham to me is the most underrated actor in the history of the wacky Hollywood world.

 

[Ambulance Chaser]

Silent Night, the return to American film of legendary Hong Kong director John Woo. The movie's gimmick is that it is almost completely devoid of dialogue--thus, the title. (The movie also largely occurs at Christmastime.) The idea might have worked with a better movie. The problem, aside from almost nothing happening the first hour, is that it felt like John Woo doing a John Wick movie, not a John Woo movie. Hopefully Woo gets better source material next time.

 

[double00]

i've started Joker like 3 times . impossible to finish . what a ************* .

in other news , i watched a bit of Sommersby (1993) and ended up emailing the wardrobe designer b/c i thought the production design was so good

 

[Geoffrey Firmin]

Think David Lynch meets Tim Burton in a steam punk remix of Frankenstein meets My Fair Lady and I do not know with Emma Stones performance how it’s not R Rated
A good time was had by all…highly recommend.

 

[VaderDave]

We just got back from seeing Ferrari. I thought it was really well done.

 

[FlyingMonkey]

Wim Wenders's Perfect Days is a slow, subtle and beautiful story of a few days in one life in Tokyo, with wonderful acting. With the possible exception of Cafe Lumière, the most Japanese film made by a non-Japanese director I've ever seen.

 

[TheLawBeard]

Watched The Iron Claw a few days ago. It had some really great performances in it. However, prior to the movie I had no idea how tragic the Von Erich family's story is. It's a bit of a rough watch.