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Recent movies you saw - recommend or no

J_F said:
think I'd seen it before
but watched it again - American Made
many probably have the same opinion of Cruise
that I have of The Rock

2 entertaining hours though
a lot of factual license is taken about the life of Barry Seal
but it just works, the dark comedy, the soundtrack
and Cruise seems to be laughing at himself
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I enjoyed American made as well. The past couple MI movies have been great also in my opinion and The Mummy with Cruise was good.
Made it about 45min into 1917 but it just wasn't holding my attention even though I enjoy most WWI/II movies.
 
Hardwrkr13 said:
I enjoyed American made as well. The past couple MI movies have been great also in my opinion and The Mummy with Cruise was good.
Made it about 45min into 1917 but it just wasn't holding my attention even though I enjoy most WWI/II movies.
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Regarding 1917,

It was OK, nothing amazing
 
Was flipping channels last night and came across The Pursuit of Happyness. I had never seen it before, Will Smith was brilliant in the role. Definitely a tear jerker watching his struggle to build a better life for him and his son.
 
Michael0124 said:
Was flipping channels last night and came across The Pursuit of Happyness. I had never seen it before, Will Smith was brilliant in the role. Definitely a tear jerker watching his struggle to build a better life for him and his son.
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Great film.
 
Watched Star Wars Rise of the Skywalker.... :sneaky: :rolleyes:
Boring, meh, just lousy and generic.
I guess after the train wreck of the Last Jedi, they had to regroup some efforts, but it felt totally disconnected.
The pacing was off, just wham, wham wham any chance to savour a moment was gone, so emotionally it was not connecting.
It wrapped up 1 major plot point (maybe 2 (but didn't matter)), and it was done.
Pretty unsatisfying ending to a long, culturally en-grained, movie series.
It's entertaining to watch it for that, if noting else.
 
The Hunt - Had super low expectations, but fantastic action fun. Highly recommended if you need a mental break from our impending doom.
 
Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) - It needed the name change, because it's mostly a Harley Quinn movie. A lot more and better written than "Suicide Squad." Doesn't suffer from the grim-dark of so many other DC live action movies, nor is it sold solely on a Margo Robbie butt shot. It's not Hamlet but, like I said, fun.
 
Rob MacLennan said:
Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) - It needed the name change, because it's mostly a Harley Quinn movie. A lot more and better written than "Suicide Squad." Doesn't suffer from the grim-dark of so many other DC live action movies, nor is it sold solely on a Margo Robbie butt shot. It's not Hamlet but, like I said, fun.
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I watched a bit of it yesterday, couldn't watch the rest. Robbie as Quinn is great, and some interesting fight scenes. But they movie is tough to watch, just all over the place, drags, no direction, and just blah. Yes the lighter tone was a nice change from the dark DC movies so far.
 
Bad Boys For Life - Terrible, so bad I fell asleep watching it. A couple good moments and a couple good action sequences, but overall very blah. None of comedy chemistry of the first two.
 
Michael0124 said:
Was flipping channels last night and came across The Pursuit of Happyness. I had never seen it before, Will Smith was brilliant in the role. Definitely a tear jerker watching his struggle to build a better life for him and his son.
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I ”accidentally” booked accommodation in San Francisco literally 1 min up the road from the large mission that was shown in this film. My wife still hasn’t forgiven me for that.
 
Watched Contagion. I thought I had seen this, but it was Outbreak that I kept remembering.
It was kinda erie to watch considering the situation.
Just ok.
 
sburns said:
Watched Contagion. I thought I had seen this, but it was Outbreak that I kept remembering.
It was kinda erie to watch considering the situation.
Just ok.
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We just saw this a couple of days ago.

Felt like I had seen the movie before, everything was so familiar!

The movie was well researched. It got so many things right, like:

Origins of the novel virus - bat -> pig -> humans
Unproven cure - forsythia = hydroxychlorique
Conspiracy theorists
Social distancing as a preventative measure
Shutting down borders - between cities even
Strains on resources - healthcare, transportation, law enforcement
People being contagious *before* they started showing symptoms
Efforts of the WHO and CDC trying to track down the vector of the virus and heading it off before it could spread

But one glaring item it didn't foresee was the run on toilet paper...

The movie was like a "what if" scenario, like if you could tweak all the variables of a virus what would the resulting panic look like.

COVID-19 R0 = 2.3
Movie virus R0 - 4+

COVID-19 Mortality Rate = 1.5%
Movie's virus mortality rate = 25%+

Also the time to death was like 3 days, compared to a week+ for COVID-19.

But I think what cemented the panic was way people died. With COVID-19, you suffocate to death. In the movie, you froth at the mouth and turn black. Now I'm sure that was done for cinematic effect, but if people in the US actually saw people on the bus and in the street keeling over frothing at the mouth and turning black, you'd be damn sure they'd pay more heed to all these calls for social distancing.
 
Lightcycle said:
Felt like I had seen the movie before, everything was so familiar!
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So true!
Lightcycle said:
Unproven cure - forsythia = hydroxychlorique
Conspiracy theorists
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This part struck a nerve with me. I know someone who keeps saying hydroxychlorique is the cure, and tells everyone to wait a few weeks for some amazing news about this. They also believe too easily other conspiracy theories.
 
Rambo Last Blood - Horrible. Last one was a ok watch as were the others but this one is horrible.
 
Watching the Apocalyptic series of Mad Max. The veil has to show you your future :)


The guy formerly known as Mladin.
 
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