ZombieKitten said:

kewlschool said:

The story is better and so are the sub-plots, it's based on a real book.

Dinosaurs are lame though

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Inside Out (2015) - After young Riley is uprooted from her Midwest life and moved to San Francisco, her emotions - Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness - conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house, and school.

Explaining the workings of the brain was overly elaborate at the beginning, but ultimately, it was a very heartfelt movie. 4/5

RodeoSchro said:

Ace said:

I usually like Baumbach, but I HATED this movie.

And I found Grodin's character's decision (at the end of the movie) totally inconsistent with his...well...er...character. Rang false, for me.

Absolutely right! I'm surprised a pro like Grodin let that happen, although I bet it was Grodin that added the scene where he and his daughter were about to leave, and he said he'd been ruthless in order to get what he wanted.

Although I was moved by the ending, I found this way overrated. Essentially, just a high school tearjerker, with no-name leads and some "indie" flourishes (none of which were really original). And the camera was almost always in motion. The performances of Molly Shannon, Nick Offerman and the kid who played Earl were cartoony ("Me" and "The Dying Girl" did very, very well with what is sometimes some very melodramatic material).

Don't get me wrong: Better than most of the dreck out there and has a good message. But don't go in looking for anything mind-blowing. It's a high-school dramedy with "quirky" shit.

ZombieKitten said:

kewlschool said:

The story is better and so are the sub-plots, it's based on a real book.

Dinosaurs are lame though

Watch out for Barney. He doesn't take well to negative responses!

I just watched the first 45 minutes of "Get Hard". The reason I'm typing this now is because that was the dumbest, stupidest, suckiest movie I've seen in many years.

Total waste of 45 minutes. Will Farrell's career is over, and Kevin Hart is about as unfunny an actor as there is.

I need to watch three hours of "The Big Bang Theory" to get the horribleness of that piece of crap out of my mind.

RodeoSchro said:

Jurassic World: It was decent, definitely don't wanna see it twice..I agree with some of the critics when they said the sexual innuendos was a bit much for a Family flick, but the special effects gives you your monies worth. I agree with Sexton, so I give it 3/out of 5 Stars..

Really enjoyed this, it painted Lemmy very honestly. Not sure what you'd think if you didn't like Motorhead though. 4.5/5

Sidenote: In the movie Lemmy says he used to score dope for Prince (& acid for Hendrix). I'm surprised that bit got in!

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Watched Hercules 3D. B+ Alot of fun & Great 3D I ducked through most of it.

Cache (Hidden) 5 stars out of 5

Juliette Binoche doesn't have a big role in this tense film, but it's still a great one in the Hitchcock tradition.

The Tribe (2014) - A deaf teenager struggles to fit into the boarding school system.

It's a unique film in that every scene is one continuous single camera shot, but even more significantly, there is no spoken dialogue, subtitles, narration or any translations whatsoever. The characters (all deaf actors) communicate through sign language leaving the viewer to determine the plot through their facial expressions and actions alone. I rate this film highly more for its technique and cleverness than the story which is a bleak downward spiral not unlike Requiem for a Dream or Irréversible. There are also more than a few similarities to Larry Clark's Kids. 4.5/5

7thday said:

Cache (Hidden) 5 stars out of 5

Juliette Binoche doesn't have a big role in this tense film, but it's still a great one in the Hitchcock tradition.

Not my favorite Juliette Binoche movie, but I like that it generates conversation.

My top three Juliette Binoche films:

1. L'Heure d'été / Summer Hours

2. Clouds of Sils Maria

3. Copie conforme / Certified Copy

Going Clear: Scientology and the Prison of Belief (2015) HBO film

* Horrilbe

This documentary was two and half hours too long... it could have been presented in 60 mins. Do I think Scientology is a cult? Yep. I thought HBO tried really hard to make Scientology some-type of sinster organzation with plans to take over the World. Scientology leadership isn't that deep... just a bunch of greedy manipulative, phony-ass people getting their jollies off on controlling others who are gulible and naive.

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sexton said:

7thday said:

Cache (Hidden) 5 stars out of 5

Juliette Binoche doesn't have a big role in this tense film, but it's still a great one in the Hitchcock tradition.

Not my favorite Juliette Binoche movie, but I like that it generates conversation.

My top three Juliette Binoche films:

1. L'Heure d'été / Summer Hours

2. Clouds of Sils Maria

3. Copie conforme / Certified Copy

I still have to see all three of those films. *So many films, so little time.*

7thday said:

ZombieKitten said:

7thday said:

I still have to see all three of those films. *So many films, so little time.*

Have a cup of strong coffee before attempting the first one

Pay no attention to this stalker, 7thday. She thinks the Transformers franchise is awesome.

sexton said:

Victoria (8/10, although it's difficult to really rate this...)

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I hope this movie, just like "Lola runs" back then, will be known and talked about outside Germany as well. It really is an experience. 140 minutes in Berlin with 5 characters and absolutely ZERO cuts.

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The trailer, even though it's quite spoiler-ish:

Terminator Genisys

1.5 / 5

crap, horrible, B-movie but with xpensive CGI, nothing more

HORRIFIC box office bomb so far...

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It's time for another exciting chapter of Movies I Watched The Last Half Of! Today's installment features "The Atticus Institute".

I walked in on this movie because my daughter and wife were watching it and kept saying "Holy Moley!!!!" Alright - a scary movie! I haven't seen one in a long time!

I still haven't.

Now don't get me wrong - this is a suspenseful movie with some psychological shock value. It's a "mockumentary" but not in the same vein as "This is Spinal Tap. which is the greatest mockumentary of all time, and ranks at #4 on my All-Time Greatest Movies Ever list.

This movie is about "the only government-acknowledged instance of demonic possession". Well, I guess. Remember, none of this is true. Although I can think of a couple people that, if they ever see this movie, will immediately post in P&R that the government and the Illuminati are in cahoots with the Rothschilds and Bildebergers, and have known about this all along and have been using it to control Major League Baseball and the music industry, as evidenced by Miley Cyrus and Rihanna. But I digress.

This movie apparently revolves around a lady with ESP. Remember - I missed the first half of this movie so I have no idea how they found her, or where they are, or why they always have her strapped to a chair, or even who "they' are. But it has something to do with her ESP.

Things get wild so of course the Department of Defense comes in and takes over. They have this lady do some stuff, and then the lady does other stuff they don't know about, and then a kid sticks a paper clip in a light socket and fries himself. One guy is sure that paperclip is the exact same paperclip that somehow appeared in their sterlie lab, made its way into his pants, survived going through a washing machine and a dryer, fell out of his pocket at the kid's birthday party, and the guy knew something had fallen out of his pocket but didn't even look down to see what it was. If that's not demonic control, I don't know what is!

So they step it up a notch but of course so does the demonically-possessed woman. She blasts open a frog's heart, which makes her a hero in my eyes.

Then the government brings in a priest for an exorcism but that doesn't go all that well. They try to control her with nerve gas and electric shocks but one of the electrodes comes off, so the head Army guy goes into the chamber where they're holding her, and he's wearing a gas mask (just like the priest had to. If you've never seen an exorcism by a gas-mask-wearing priest, then this is your movie).

Sh*t goes down and everyone in the lab dies, except actually they are just passed out. You know this because this is one of those movies where the plot is told by present-day anecdotes from the scientists and government guys, and augmented by video from 40 years ago that they just happened to have found. And yes - they even have video of the little boy barbecueing himself with the paperclip.

So everyone is passed out except one scientist and then BOOM! The lady's heart explodes and there's a hole in her chest, and then that one scientist who is awake goes into a zombie trance and disappears. The ending credits tell you that to this day, no one has seen him again.

I really did like The Last Half Of This Movie. Although it's not really scary, it's well done and all the actors and actresses did a great job IMO. I recommend this movie and give it:

Four Exploding Frog Hearts out of a possible Five Exploding Frog Hearts.

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Being on a roll, I decided to watch an entire movie. Hoping to break my streak of being forced to watch turkeys like "While We're Young" and the absolutely putrid "Get Hard", I exercised my Man Card and picked "Run All Night". How could a movie about Liam Neeson and Ed Harris spending a night trying to kill each other possibly go wrong?

It couldn't!

This is a really good summer movie. It's almost a great summer movie, and actually would be a great summer movie if you watched it while drunk and therefore missed a couple glaring plot holes.

Liam Neeson is a hit man and Ed Harris is his lifelong friend. For some reason Neeson is broke, but Harris is rich. It's made clear they worked together in crime all their lives but trickle-down economics didn't work for Neeson. To be fair, trickle-down economics never works for anyone, so this might not be considered a plot hole. At least, not by Alan Greenspan.

Both guys have sons. Neeson's son is a good guy and therefore hates his hitman father. Harris's son is a total sleazebag and therefore is going to die.

Harris's son - his name is Danny - is trying to arrange passageway for heroin shipments from some Armenians. NOTE: It appears Armenians are the new Mafia. I've seen a few movies lately where the bad guys are Armenians. I don't have any experience with Armenians but I anxiously await Donald Trump's view on them.

Danny takes a bunch of money from the Armenians based on getting his dad's cooperation but surprise! They have a meeting where Ed Harris tells the Armenians that he went legitimate many years ago because all his buddies died from cocaine. Therefore he does not want to get involved in heroin and see the same thing happen all over again. Plus, he's legitimate anyway.

So he tells the Armenians to "Get the f*** outta my house!" which is actually a death sentence for Danny, because of course Danny has already blown the Armenians' down payment and you can't return snorted cocaine.

The Armenians hire a limo to take them to Danny's house that night and guess who the limo driver is? That's right! Neeson's son, Michael. What a small world!

The Armenians go in to kill Danny but he blows them right out of their track suits. He sees Michael and realizes Michael is a witness so, even though their dads are besties, he tries to kill Michael but Michael gets away and goes home.

For some reason, Liam Neeson shows up at Michael's home, and then gets thrown out. Then Danny and his buddy show up in order to finish killing Michael. But just as Danny is about to pull the trigger and execute Michael - who remember, has done absolutely nothing except drive a limo - Neeson reappears and shoots Danny through the neck.

SIDENOTE - The guy that played Danny looked a lot like Mackauly Culkin. Let's check and see if it was. <Googling> Nope, it's a guy named Boyd Holbrook. But he sure looks like a Culkin!

OK, so now we have a totally justified shooting. Neeson has several options here, one of which is to take Danny's body and dispose of it somewhere, and then kill Danny's friend before Danny's friend can snitch. He could have made it appear the Armenians and the Danny Crew had a shootout where everyone died. He could have just made everyone disappear and let Ed Harris wonder forever what happened to his no-good son. By the way, Ed Harris does NOT like Danny at all. So what does Neeson do?

He calls Ed Harris and says, "I just killed your son. He was about to kill my son, and I had no choice". WTF?!?

Is there some Mobster Code that made him do this? Apparently! Because Ed Harris gets all steely-eyed and says, "You know how this has to go down. I'm getting you and Michael". Neeson says he understands about himself, but can't Harris just let Michael alone? After all, Michael didn't do anything. "No" says Harris. It's an eye for an eye, and a son for a son. But if you think about it, that's not an even trade. On the one side we have Harris/Danny with only Danny getting killed. And on the other side we have Neeson/Michael but both of them have to be killed? What kind of code is that?

Even though Harris has by his own admission been totally legit for a couple decades, he still has about 10 mobsters that are always with him, and that are all eager to go out and kill the Neeson Crew. And if that's not enough, he has a direct line to a paid assassin named Price.

Michael, being the good guy that he is, makes Neeson leave and calls the cops to report the shooting. The cops show up but it turns out the two cops are business associates of Danny and so they arrest Michael and take him to the boonies to kill him. But first they call in to say Michael did the shooting, is on the run, and is armed. Michael figures out what's happening and is disheartened.

However, Neeson is following the cops in his totally rad 1988 Camaro and is able to free Michael, and also shoot the cops. Hey, I forgot to mention - there's this detective that has made a career out of chasing Neeson and trying to nail him for murder. Neeson has a really cool nickname - Gravedigger - and the detective figures Neeson has killed 17 men over the years. Which really isn't a lot, considering Neeson's career must have spanned almost 40 years. One rubout every other year doesn't sound like someone worthy of a cool name like Gravedigger.

So now Neeson and his son are wanted for Danny's murder, and the cops' murders. They are also wanted for murdering by Harris, and in a few minutes are going to be also wanted for murdering by the professional assassin Price. They now have to RUN ALL NIGHT.

And they do! But weirdly, first Neeson and Harris meet at their favorite restaurant where Neeson tries to bargain with Harris for Michael's life. But despite the fact that they are life-long buddies, despite the fact that Harris has always told Neeson they would "cross the line" together (meaning die), despite the fact that Danny was a POS that Harris totally despised, despite the fact that Harris is now legitimate and probably can't afford to be tied up in murder any longer, and despite the fact that Neeson even killed his own nephew once in order to protect Harris, Harris throws all that out the window and says, "It's on, beyotch!" (He didn't really use those words but it would have cool if he had.)

Suffice to say that Neeson kills all of Harris's men, and then chases Harris down and shoots him a couple times, including the death shot in the back. He shot his best friend in the back! But it's OK because then he cradles Harris in his arms and Harris squeezes his hand as he dies from being shot in the back by his best friend. Man, this Mobster Code must be intense.

There are all kinds of great shoot-outs and escapes in this movie. I didn't bother to count but I bet Neeson doubled his lifetime kill stats in this one night alone.

Neeson and Michael's family all make it to a hidden cabin and they are all touchy-feely now, and everyone is happy. Of course, you and I know they have forgotten about Price The Professional Assassin and guess who shows up uninvited?

Yep! But you can also guess who doesn't make it to dessert.

Actually, two guys don't make it. Price and Neeson. But Neeson dies in the arms of his son, with that detective who has spent his entire career trying to catch Neeson looking on. And Neeson has a parting gift for the detective! He's written a list of all the people he's killed, which is very important to the detective because it will provide closure to all the victims' families. Never mind that all the victims were certainly hoodlums, and never mind that everyone already knew who killed their loved one. This list is important, dang it!

And this isn't just any list, either. Neeson wrote it on the back of a letter someone left beside the hospital bed of his mother, who is dying. When Neeson sneaks into the hospital to see his dying mom, and picks up that note and starts writing something on the back, you're probably thinking, "He's writing a note to his mom telling her that he's sorry for all his mistakes! What a decent thing to do!"

Uh....no. Forget mom - he's got a list to write for a detective!

So let's leave it at the list, and rate this movie. I give it Four Death Lists out of Five Death Lists. Watch it!

The Wrong Man 4 stars out of 5

You can see where a lot of directors of today got their tricks from in this movie.

Torn Curtain 2 stars out of 5

I thought this movie was spoiled by some bad acting by Julie Andrews.

Notre Musique (Our Music) 2 stars out of 5

A lot of people say this one is great, but I don't agree.

sexton said:

ZombieKitten said:

Have a cup of strong coffee before attempting the first one

Pay no attention to this stalker, 7thday. She thinks the Transformers franchise is awesome.

A friend loaned me a DVD of the first Transformers movie, I turned it off after 5 minutes.