Topic: Latest Movie You Watched

[goldshirt*9]

Mortal Engines 

   

Velvet Buzzsaw

   

A Private War 

   

[8ullfrog]

Private war looks like a movie you'd watch when you're too happy and need to lower that level.

How was Velvet Buzzsaw? I noticed the robot changed what he said. During the crowd scene he says "I cannot help you"

Then when he's all creepy storage unit terminator, he says "I can help you". 

I was guessing the trailer was just going to be a hook and have nothing to do with the robot, dream sequence, etc...




Witchboard - 1986. Put this one off because it was too stupid, but for about a month I've left the wikipedia tab open, so I figured why not. So why not? Because it's a shitty movie! Funny enough, watching this both spoils AND ruins Paranormal Activity. Like I thought the Ouija board poo in Paranormal activity was shorthand to scare the excorcist crowd, but Witchboard damn near makes Paranormal Activity a comedy!


I mean we join this story at a raucous 80's party, where a dude who doesn't drink, and doesn't smoke, but does have a mullet, and is wearing a suit when everyone else at the party is casual, whips out his... Ouija board! But the movie couldn't be called Ouija board, so they called it Witchboard! but they never call it a witchboard, it's a Ouija board!

I mean it's all there. The boyfriend who doesn't believe, the girlfriend who slowly gets sucked in by The EVILS. Witchboard literally spells it out, it's Teh EVIL!


I mean there's a lot more to this long boring movie, like how the two dudes in the movie, who both lust after the same chick go on a weekend vacation together in Big Bear.... Are they actually after the girl? They grew up together, are spending the weekend together. OH, an axe in the face clears things up not at all.


Dude even carries his best friend out of the lake and cradles his corpse, almost implying the movie is better than it is. And it isn't... good at all.


So he goes back and things go typical 80's horror. Dead serial killer possesses 1980's hairspray video girl, Security deposits are voided, and SHOCKER, THE APARTMENT BUILDING IS WHERE THE DEAD SERIAL KILLER LIVED!

Huh, that kinda shits on AHS too. Nothing new under the sun.

[goldshirt*9]

Private war looks like a movie you'd watch when you're too happy and need to lower that level.

How was Velvet Buzzsaw? I noticed the robot changed what he said. During the crowd scene he says "I cannot help you"

Then when he's all creepy storage unit terminator, he says "I can help you". 

I was guessing the trailer was just going to be a hook and have nothing to do with the robot, dream sequence, etc...

Agree with A private war comment

Velvet is predictable from the first time the artist is "found" to the end.

[8ullfrog]

Wow, just read the Wikipedia on Velvet Buzzsaw, that seems like a script that would have been rejected from the 90's Outer Limits show for being utter crap.

Would probably have been rejected from the 1960's Night Gallery for being too "On the nose". I can see Rod Serling looking at the script in disdain. Shame about the robot, I thought it would be a character, but it's a one off gag. (I learned gags don't have to be funny from a making of Event Horizon video. They were showing some severed limb gag that sprayed blood.)

A lot of film synopsis are being removed from Wikipedia articles, but someone disliked the movie enough to spell it all out. That was nice of them.

Another reason to be sad Siskel and Ebert are dead is some of their flaming of crap movies is FANTASTIC. They could tear a film down in two sentences, and Ebert really had a soft spot for enjoyable poo movies. I wonder why tragedy seems to visit good people more often then absolute scum. Rumsfeld kept a piece of the plane that hit the pentagon in his office to "Start conversations" The bless'ed ghoul. Cheney literally has no heart.

[goldshirt*9]

Robin Hood 2018

you just cannot polish a turd

[Beatrix]

Right, and I had heard that about the new Robin Hood.  Good to know, I would have end up turning it off the other night.

I showed my mom and her boyfriend the Hateful Eight the other night. They enjoyed it. 

As much as people went on about bird box after I watched it, I just didn't look, ha
To be honest, I really enjoyed the movie, it had a relaxing tempo and every now and again that's all it takes for me. Plus I had just come out of watching the haunting of hill house, needed a thriller fix.
Not sure if I mentioned I liked guardians of the galaxy and the second one, really had a great time watching them. 
Keep it up 8ully, you choose some fine films, I havent seen many of the ones you wrote about.  Mainly because my movie watching, it is now limited to Netflix and hulu.

[6pairsofshoes]

Vice.  A light n laffy overview of the rise and train wreck that was the public life of richard Cheney.  Really.  Does 9/11, the specious wars that ensued, and the printing of facts about the 600000 Iraqi civilians sacrificed on the altar of American arrogance compensate for the casting of Steve Carell as Don Rumsfeld?  Henry Kissinger gets reduced to a stick figure, as do other key figures:  Paul Wolfowitz, Mary Matlin, Karen Hughes, sort of stand around, doing little other than supplying lookalikes to their historical counterparts.  The production might have saved money by substituting some cardboard stand ups.  Other key figures, are similarly reduced to mere sketches:  Condoleza Rice is distinguished only by her black skin and constant fretting over Cheney's regular power grabs.  This sad -- tragic, really-- chapter in our history certainly deserves a film with greater gravitas.

It was entertaining, but not in a good way, and it didn't give the story the serious nuances that it deserved.  In short:  Cheney bad.  Iraq War: Bad.  George W Bush: a laughable ex drunk who served as Cheney's puppet.  That characterization does no credit to either Bush or to Cheney.  Surely the writers could have managed better.

Christian Bale did a creditable job in his role, as did Amy Adams in hers, given the poor material they had to work with.  The makeup was fantastic.  Otherwise, I'd advise you to pick up a serious history book instead of waste 2 hours of your life on this one.

[8ullfrog]

Somebody really wants them a Robin Hood movie. It's probably someone my age. I remember picking up a book in the early nineties with all sorts of robin hood stories.

I realized he never made anything better and declared him lame. And he is. let him live on in the Mel Brooks sense, but he is not someone to base a cinematic universe on.

Hell, nothing is worth a cinematic universe at this point. Marvel's running their scam on inertia and RDJ, and going by the dying in space trailer, stark ain't lookin' so good.


So I'm up to 2001 in my movies by year experiment. Nothing amazing.

I just watched Valentine (2001) Hell of a soundtrack, absolute turd of a film. A contemporary review said gratuitous nudity could have saved this absolute bore of a film, but it probably wouldn't have done much.


David Boreanaz did a hell of a job making a date rape vampire seem sinister in Buffy The Vampire Slayer, but the character here just limps along. Seriously. I read he had two weeks to film his scenes, and it shows. He's checked out of a film in which he is the friggin pillar on which the island of sand was built.


And it don't work. Do not watch this movie. Maybe buy the soundtrack, it's pretty good. And the soundtrack netted an SNL sketch, not too shabby.


I guess 2001 and Jurassic Park III was my first introduction to "Stop bless'ed that corpse, you've already defiled it enough" as a cinema goer.

I mean seriously, golly that movie.

I guess Jay and Silent Bob was okay? I mean not a good movie, but got damn 2001 was a shitshow.


I apologize, I'm going month by month here, Training Day is BOSS AS HELL.

Oh poo, "The One"? Yu Law, is NO ONE's madam!

Hot Damn, Brad Pitt gave up the option to play Jason Bourne to co-star with Robert Redford in an anti-china movie everyone has forgotten. Great job, Detective Mills!

Lard of the rings: Trees and walking. I remember saying many words about this shitty film series, to be cut low by the clerks 2 Randall scene. So yeah, golly this hobbit infested, anti-technology Wizard fellating shitfest. Thatched hut enthusiasts are sexual deviants. I said it!


Black Hawk Down. There is a deep dark place in Americans that got put in storage after 9/11, but Black Hawk Down is a very good illustration of it. We feel that native life is worth less than American life, even when it's being played by Europe's best. We've got: Obi-wan, as a specialist, Horatio damn' hornblower as a Lieutenant, Lord Lucius Malfoy plays a Captain, Bane, or Shinzon as a specialist, Legolas shows up as a fucken PFC, Chopper Reed, AKA not Ed Norton/Mark Ruffalo hulk is a SFC, and Jaime damn' Lannister shows up as a Master Sergeant.
Tywin is gonna be pissed!

In reality, BHD beat the drums of war against dark people, and mockery aside, that's not a good thing.

[Beatrix]

I just read all of that.  You are a captivating writer, my friend.
Goodnight

I'm not sure I watched the end of jurrasic world 2.   Showbox is a great app.  I watch gunsmoke and bonanza at work.

[goldshirt*9]

nothing new

That's Entertainment

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Yes I did enjoy it, you know what your getting and you get it !

[8ullfrog]

The Interview - Holy crap was it hilarious. my favorite bits were Eminem and the Margarita joke.

[goldshirt*9]

  action and  Wahlberg at his fastest talking yet 

  I fell asleep

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but had a bottle of red wine and hikes

  Enjoyed, but it has dogs in 

[8ullfrog]

Overlord 2018

I liked the movie, but a lot of things felt like they got cut down for time, and just like sicario 2, there are entire scenes that are not subtitled. Even worse, the CC has crap like [Speaking French] or [Speaking German] instead of saying what the hell the characters are speaking.

I for instance, wanted to know what the reanimated head was saying, but all I got was [Speaking French].

The sets are also way more designed, as if there was supposed to be more movie down there. That being said, some of the scenes in the farm house drag on before we get into WTF country.

So, overall it's a decent film, extremely gory if you're going to watch it with other people, maybe don't let the kids watch it.

[6pairsofshoes]

I read the Wikipedia synopsis.  Sounds intriguing, except I'm not so big on gore.

I watched "The Trials of Henry Kissinger" tonight.  He was not a nice man, prone to play chess with the lives of millions of innocent civilians.  Christopher Hitchens was central to this film.  I saw him speaking at the U of CA Berkeley law school once.  He was brilliant.  I really miss him and his insights.  Lord knows we could use him these days.

[goldshirt*9]

Overlord 2018

Have watched was OK thats it

Green Book, struggled at first but then I really enjoyed.
Was it worth the Oscar ? Dont care