Recent movies you saw - recommend or no

mimico_polak said:
Not a movie. Not a tv show.

But REALLY enjoyed ‘Come From Away’ last night with my wife.

Recommendation came from @oioioi and glad I listened.
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Glad you enjoyed it.
I'm considering seeing it for the second time.
 
Watched Deadpool and Wolverine. What a convoluted mess............unless they were lampooning the Marvel Multiverse, in which case it was brilliant.
 
FullMotoJacket said:
Watched Deadpool and Wolverine. What a convoluted mess............unless they were lampooning the Marvel Multiverse, in which case it was brilliant.
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Lampooning is what the Deadpool character is all about. He constantly breaks the Fourth Wall and comments in a way that only an outside viewer int he real world could, for example.
 
Rob MacLennan said:
Lampooning is what the Deadpool character is all about. He constantly breaks the Fourth Wall and comments in a way that only an outside viewer int he real world could, for example.
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It's the same Van Wilder/Blade/Green Lantern/Hitman's Bodyguard/etc./etc./etc. "inside joke" schtick Reynolds has always used. I'm talking about the anti-plot plot of the movie, not his acting or delivery.
 
I may have mentioned it before on here. I am not a movie guy.
However I recently watched Wardogs with Jonah Hill and Miles Teller.

Mainly because I watched a YB interview with the real life David Packouz whose movie character is based on.

The YB interview pretty much tells the whole true story (unscripted) of the relationship between David and Efraim and how the business dealing and contracts were handled etc.

Movie was good but because I already knew the plot, it wasn't as exciting. But than again, no many movies give me the feeling of "WOW, you gotta see that movie. "

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Watched “How to Train Your Dragon” for the first time in many years.

I forgot how good it actually is. The animation is amazing. The story line even more so.;

How a “reject” bonds with an “physically impaired” creature and shows his entire clan the error of their ways of continuous prejudice against things they don’t understand.

If you’ve never seen it, please do. Watch it with the kids if you have any. The whole movie is amusing and fun, but carries a very serious undertone to it.
 
We saw Conclave yesterday. IMDB of 7.7

Really enjoyed it, nice plot twist at the end.
 
Fantastic

I've read the books etc and this one really brings it home what that whole crew accomplished. That Antarctica Ocean voyage of 800 miles in a 22' row boat will top all....plus the trek through uncharted mountains.
We visited the Mawson Museum in Tasmania and saw how primitive the gear of the time was. Incredible to see not only photos but actual movies of the Shackelton expedition

The guy doing much of the narration also duplicated Mawson's solo survival trek as well as Shackletons voyage and mountain trek.
All nearly killed the Aussie doing the re-enactments.
Seeing how small that damn boat is ( they duplicated it for the docu ) you wonder how they ever made it.
It's one of the best docus I've seen.
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Also very good
 
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MacDoc said:
Fantastic

I've read the books etc and this one really brings it home what that whole crew accomplished. That Antarctica Ocean voyage of 800 miles in a 22' row boat will top all....plus the trek through uncharted mountains.
We visited the Mawson Museum in Tasmania and saw how primitive the gear of the time was. Incredible to see not only photos but actual movies of the Shackelton expedition

The guy doing much of the narration also duplicated Mawson's solo survival trek as well as Shackletons voyage and mountain trek.
All nearly killed the Aussie doing the re-enactments.
Seeing how small that damn boat is ( they duplicated it for the docu ) you wonder how they ever made it.
It's one of the best docus I've seen.
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Also very good
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Funny the kid (the character) in Atypical is obsessed with Shackleton, kinda made me curious about him, may have to watch this afterwards.
 
I just suffered through 2001: A Space Odyssey. Why is this movie so revered? Is it just because it was ahead of it's time as far as special effects are concerned? The plot was crap, the acting was crap, the script was crap, and there was so much wasted time it could have been done is 35 min but instead was dragged out for over 2 hours. If you value your time, don't waste it on this. It seems this movie was the trailblazer for producers to rely on special effects to sell tickets rather than substance.
 
Renboy said:
I just suffered through 2001: A Space Odyssey. Why is this movie so revered? Is it just because it was ahead of it's time as far as special effects are concerned? The plot was crap, the acting was crap, the script was crap, and there was so much wasted time it could have been done is 35 min but instead was dragged out for over 2 hours. If you value your time, don't waste it on this. It seems this movie was the trailblazer for producers to rely on special effects to sell tickets rather than substance.
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I believe it's a movie you can't fully appreciate on a first viewing. I certainly had a similar reaction. It's definitely a slow slog, compared to more modern movies, and has some artsy flare some might not appreciate. But if you view it more in the context of when it was made it might make more sense. Trying to demonstrate a realistic view of space travel, considering landing on the moon didn't happen until a year after the movie was released. Somewhat forward thinking when they were blasting tin cans into outer space. Also surprisingly relevant the rise of Ai and how perverse and different the logic would be from humans or humanity. Add on the sci fi elements about Jupiter, was thought provoking. The last half builds up nicely for me.

Yeah fast forward to today, and all those concepts seem pretty well played out and overly familiar, and the level of visual details in movies is outstanding. Plus we all have super computers in our pockets which can take some cool photos. So the movie seems over simple by todays standards, but that is almost 60 years of evolution right there.
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