Amph What was the last movie you saw?

That's sad.

 

A Nightmare on Elm Street (1984) 8/10. Great movie. A true horror classic.
A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010) 6/10 Nowhere near as good as the original. A very bland movie with a stupid back story.

 

I did a three-movie Films Where Colin Farrell Dies in the End marathon:

Fright Night
In Bruges
London Boulevard

 

he didn't necessarily die at the end of in bruges.

 

Fright Night and PATTON

Humperdink kicks ass

 

Was she aware that it's actually a spoof of romantic comedies and not an actual romantic comedy?

Love is Strange (2014)



I was really looking forward to this movie. It’s an indie drama that’s been getting a lot of raves and the central casting of John Lithgow and Alfred Molina as an aging gay couple dealing with hardship seemed like it could be really great. Unfortunately, I was incredibly disappointed by the film. Lithgow and Molina are both as good as you expect, but the script is clunky, filled with stupid coincidences, sloppy characterization. And unfortunately the rest of the cast isn’t up to snuff. Marisa Tomei is fine in a supporting role, but the guy playing her husband, Darren Burrows, gives one of the worst performances I’ve seen in a theater in a few years probably, even worse than Wagner Moura’s dreadful turn in Elysium. And it doesn’t help when he’s yelling horrible lines like, “When someone your age steals something, it’s usually because he’s into drugs” at his son. And the son . . . oh, God. That would be Charlie Tahan and he’s also brutally awful. Which is doubly unfortunate since director Ira Sachs decides to give him, not one, but two really protracted “powerfully dramatic” moments near the end. In the first, he does what is, I am not exaggerating, the absolute worst crying I have ever seen on film. This is the kind of fake crying that you’re likely to see on the playground; I expect better from a gosh-darn movie. And Sachs decides to actually end the movie on a scene with Tahan instead of, oh, I don’t know, the MAIN CHARACTERS, ie. The ONLY ONES I GIVE A CRAP ABOUT! The heck?! Oh, did I mention that the main conflict of the film is resolved when Alfred Molina just happens to sit down at a party next to a guy who just happens to have exactly what Molina needs in order to fix ALL THE PROBLEMS IN THE MOVIE. The guy literally says, “Well, interestingly, I just happen to have in my pocket . . .” Oh, and this guy, he’s an ARCHAEOLOGIST. Yeah, **** you too, movie.

All of this is really too bad; Molina and Lithgow both give really strong, very minimal performances. When they’re together, they have real chemistry and make you really believe in the history of their shared lives together. Unfortunately, the mechanic of the story keeps them apart for fully three-quarters of the movie and neither of them can be particularly compelling in their separate story threads, surrounded as they are by pretty rotten actors. There’s a late scene in the film when the two, reunited at last, share a drink at a bar; it’s sharply written, sweet, funny and really charming and melancholy. It’s a scene so good that it just made me even angrier at the rest of the movie. Yeah, there’s a great, great movie in here, but this certainly isn’t it. This is two really fine central performances struggling against an absolute tidal wave of crap: crap script, crap direction, crap performances from everyone else. What a travesty. This is a movie that I strongly recommended against seeing. 1 ½ stars.

tl;dr – Lithgow and Molina are reserved and wonderful in this quiet drama, but the script is contrived and loaded with horrible dialogue and the supporting cast is full of genuinely dreadful performances. 1 ½ stars.

More Movie Reviews!

 

That's an....interesting double feature.

 

thing is, it's more like a spoof of a spoof of a romantic comedy. i gave up at or around the point that jibbidajoobadooba probably did. bad.

 

Untraceable. Altogether very dull.

 

You know your You've Got Mail spoof is in deep trouble when it's even less funny than You've Got Mail.

 

Halloween: Resurrection (2002) 4/10. A very boring movie. The worst in the series. Defiantly not a proper ending to the original series.

 

Double post.

 

Triple post

 

When I tell you the movie I watched last night is all about, you'll say "Yeah, that's the kind of film DantheJedi would watch....", and well, I'll just get right to it.

It's a movie called The Favorite, about a French girl in the early 19th Century who is kidnapped by pirates and sold into the harem of the Turkish Ottoman Sultan, where she gets involved in court politics and whatnot. F. Murray Abraham played the Sultan, and Maud Adams was the woman who was in charge of all the girls in the harem. They were probably the only recognizable name actors in this movie, which isn't saying much.

Also, I remember watching a little bit of this years ago on HBO or Cinemax, but I didn't have the title then (obviously), all I could remember from the part I watched was a young boy accused of being a thief getting his hand (rather gruesomely) cut off, and when that part came up, I was like, "So this is that film!".

 

Total Recall (1990)

 

I was a fan of that film at the time. The blood red, the claustrophobic sets without windows, the bizarre violence, which goes directly against its themes of dreams, deception, deceit. I watched it again a few years ago however and was particularly bored with the final act, when the film just throws its hands in the air and becomes a dumb action movie.

 

The Last Stand - This was an entertaining movie but oh my god, is Johnny Knoxville a bad actor, can't take him seriously

 

Sharpe's Company. Bad Things (TM) need to happen to Sgt Hakeswill. What a filthy piece of sadistic pig****. Sharpe seems to be a little more mellow now that he's the father of a bouncing baby girl.

 

The Expendables 3

 

Grand Piano

 

I watched Space Station '76. I kind of liked it.
I watched Godzilla from this year. That was actually kind of neat with strong visuals and score. One of my complaints about action movies in recent years is they lack noteworthy scores.

 

What's not to love about
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Anyway I just watched Jodorowsky's Dune. My mind is a little blown, Jodorowsky is as mad as I expected and his vision for Dune was just amazing. A lot of his ideas for the film were nothing to do with Herbert's plot, but the same was true for the Lynch version we ended up with. One of the most intense documentaries I've seen in a long time. If you love scifi and love (or hate) Dune, you should probably see this.

 

X-Men: Days of Future Past

(Not a review but an observation *spoilers*...





Doesn't this movie not work at all if you don't have either Magneto or Mystique there at the school when Logan wakes up in the present? The whole point of the movie is that people are not shackled to destinies that cannot be avoided. We are supposed to have faith in these characters that they could be redeemed and choose a more righteous path. In the end by their omission from that final scene we are lead to believe that they don't make the right choice presumably so you could have them back as villains in a sequel. And that this movie which was supposed to be about redemption is just another comic book film about nothing. )