namepeace said:

sexton said:

Ace said:

I liked the first (more-character-based, more comic) half better than the second.

The movie was inventive (if more than a little implausible). And Colin Farrell was great!

I love this movie. I watch it often during the holidays. I even visited Bruges during Christmastime because of the film.

I would not visit Bruges at any time. Strongly identified with the Farrell character's distaste for that kind of thing.

sexton said:

Love & Friendship (2016) - Lady Susan Vernon takes up temporary residence at her in-laws' estate and, while there, is determined to be a matchmaker for her daughter Frederica -- and herself too, naturally.

I didn't expect it to be so funny. And it was very funny. 4/5

Nice to see Whit having a "comeback"!

namepeace said:

Ace said:

sexton said:

I love this movie. I watch it often during the holidays. I even visited Bruges during Christmastime because of the film.

I would not visit Bruges at any time. Strongly identified with the Farrell character's distaste for that kind of thing.

Why wouldn't you visit? It's like a fairytale!

I didn't have a "gay beer" when I was there though.

X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) - With the emergence of the world's first mutant, Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan.

Ignoring the fact that the source material has been ripped to shreds, I found this to be a very mediocre superhero movie. 2/5

sexton said:

Ace said:

I would not visit Bruges at any time. Strongly identified with the Farrell character's distaste for that kind of thing.

Why wouldn't you visit? It's like a fairytale!

I didn't have a "gay beer" when I was there though.

sexton said:

X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) - With the emergence of the world's first mutant, Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan.

Ignoring the fact that the source material has been ripped to shreds, I found this to be a very mediocre superhero movie. 2/5

Fassbender as Magneto was it's only redeeming quality

Brendan said:

Totally agree. Need to watch this again. Although I'm interested in almost any type of movie, I remain a neophyte on superhero films. This film and "The Dark Knight," a polar opposite, remain my favorites in this genre of my ignorance. (I mean even more ignorant than normal.)

Those 2 are on opposite ends of the spectrum, but are probably my top 2 as well.

thekidsgirl said:

sexton said:

X-Men: Apocalypse (2016) - With the emergence of the world's first mutant, Apocalypse, the X-Men must unite to defeat his extinction level plan.

Ignoring the fact that the source material has been ripped to shreds, I found this to be a very mediocre superhero movie. 2/5

Fassbender as Magneto was it's only redeeming quality

I thought Nicholas Hoult was kind of interesting. He grew up well.

It's time for another exciting installment of Movies That I Only Watched The Last Half Of! Today's installment is the Robert Redford classic "Three Days of the Condor".

I came in about halfway through. Pretty close to when the "mailman" showwed up and Redford killed him in a fight. Then I started trying to figure things out.

Near as I could tell, Redford stumbled onto a secret plot within the CIA to do Bad Things. He tried to blow the whistle but I think the person to whom the whistle was blown was the Main Doer Of Bad Things. Then s*** got real.

But Redford was cool! If the Bad Guys thought he was just some nerd analyst, boy were they wrong! He out-manuevered these dudes all the way through. It was really cool watching his old-school phone-hacking abilities. That was how we did it in the days before iPhones, kiddoes!

And this movie contains one of the best pop references of all time! You remember "Seinfeld", right? Remember the episode where Kramer opted out of the US Mail system? A classic! So anyway Newman (Hellooooooooooo, Newman) tries to warn Karamer about the trouble he's going to be in:

Kramer, seeing Newman pull up along side him in his truck: "Hey."
Newman: "Kramer, what the hell are you doing?"
Kramer: "I know, I'm gonna switch the bucket to something else."
Newman: "Not that!"
Kramer: "What?"
Newman: "You're in trouble, Kramer. I shouldn't even be talking to you, but
I'm telling you as a friend. Here's how it's going to happen: you may be
walking. Maybe on a crisp, autumn day just like today. When a mail truck will
slow beside you, and a door will open, and a mailman you know, maybe even
trust, will offer to give you a lift."
Kramer: "Are you through?"
Newman: "No! And no one will ever see you again!"
Kramer: "Are you through?"
Newman: "Yes. No, wait! OK, yes."
Newman, seeing postal security officials walking towards Kramer: "Quick! Get
in!"
Kramer: "Oh, no, no, no. That's exactly how you said it was going down."
Newman: "There's another way it can go down, and it's going down right now!"
Kramer: "No. You said a mailman I know, and you're a mailman I know!"
Newman: "I know you know, but you don't know what I know."
Kramer, being grabbed by the security officials: "Hey!"

That leads to this AWESOME scene with Kramer and the incomparable Wilfred Brimley!



OK, back to "Condor". Max Von Sydow plays a freelance hitman who is contracted to kill Redford. He's the guy that hired the "mailman" to kill Redford, which is where I came in. The "mailman" failed of course and Von Sydow is still tasked with killing Redford. But in the big finale he kills The Main Doer Of Bad Things (I forget why, but Redford was already there and he was going to kill The Main Doer Of Bad Things too). Redford asks, "Aren't you going to kill me too?" Von Sydow says, "I was, but I was hired to do that by The Main Doer Of Bad Things and as you can see..." and then points to the hole he'd just put in the Main Doer of Bad Things's head.

Then, in a moment of absolute cool, Von Sydow asks Redford, "Can I drop you anywhere?"

HOLY MOLEY WAS THAT COOL! Von Sydow is just beyond cool. Redford is absolutely blown away by Von Sydow's cool, so he asks Von Sydow for advice on staying alive. Von Sydow says, "Leave. Go somewhere far away. Personally, I like Europe". But Redford says he wants to stay in New York, whereupon Von Sydow replies:

"You have not much future there.
It will happen this way:
You may be walking,
maybe the first sunny day of spring.
And a car will slow beside you,
and a door will open
and someone you know, even trust,
will get out.
And he will smile. A becoming smile.
But he will leave open the car door
and offer to give you a lift.

HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, NEWMAN!

This was a great movie. It reminded me of how cool Robert Redford is. I honestly cannot think of a pairing of two cooler dudes that Robert Redford and Paul Newman. I've got to watch "The Sting" again, and "Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid" as well.

But "Three Days of the Condor" gets a rating of Four Crossed Phone Lines out of a possible Five Crossed Phone Lines. You have to watch it to see what that means, but you won't be sorry!

.

[Edited 6/23/16 15:15pm]

RodeoSchro said:

It's time for another exciting installment of Movies That I Only Watched The Last Half Of! Today's installment is the Robert Redford classic "Three Days of the Condor".

I came in about halfway through. Pretty close to when the "mailman" showwed up and Redford killed him in a fight. Then I started trying to figure things out.

Near as I could tell, Redford stumbled onto a secret plot within the CIA to do Bad Things. He tried to blow the whistle but I think the person to whom the whistle was blown was the Main Doer Of Bad Things. Then s*** got real.

But Redford was cool! If the Bad Guys thought he was just some nerd analyst, boy were they wrong! He out-manuevered these dudes all the way through. It was really cool watching his old-school phone-hacking abilities. That was how we did it in the days before iPhones, kiddoes!

And this movie contains one of the best pop references of all time! You remember "Seinfeld", right? Remember the episode where Kramer opted out of the US Mail system? A classic! So anyway Newman (Hellooooooooooo, Newman) tries to warn Karamer about the trouble he's going to be in:

Kramer, seeing Newman pull up along side him in his truck: "Hey."
Newman: "Kramer, what the hell are you doing?"
Kramer: "I know, I'm gonna switch the bucket to something else."
Newman: "Not that!"
Kramer: "What?"
Newman: "You're in trouble, Kramer. I shouldn't even be talking to you, but
I'm telling you as a friend. Here's how it's going to happen: you may be
walking. Maybe on a crisp, autumn day just like today. When a mail truck will
slow beside you, and a door will open, and a mailman you know, maybe even
trust, will offer to give you a lift."
Kramer: "Are you through?"
Newman: "No! And no one will ever see you again!"
Kramer: "Are you through?"
Newman: "Yes. No, wait! OK, yes."
Newman, seeing postal security officials walking towards Kramer: "Quick! Get
in!"
Kramer: "Oh, no, no, no. That's exactly how you said it was going down."
Newman: "There's another way it can go down, and it's going down right now!"
Kramer: "No. You said a mailman I know, and you're a mailman I know!"
Newman: "I know you know, but you don't know what I know."
Kramer, being grabbed by the security officials: "Hey!"

That leads to this AWESOME scene with Kramer and the incomparable Wilfred Brimley!



OK, back to "Condor". Max Von Sydow plays a freelance hitman who is contracted to kill Redford. He's the guy that hired the "mailman" to kill Redford, which is where I came in. The "mailman" failed of course and Von Sydow is still tasked with killing Redford. But in the big finale he kills The Main Doer Of Bad Things (I forget why, but Redford was already there and he was going to kill The Main Doer Of Bad Things too). Redford asks, "Aren't you going to kill me too?" Von Sydow says, "I was, but I was hired to do that by The Main Doer Of Bad Things and as you can see..." and then points to the hole he'd just put in the Main Doer of Bad Things's head.

Then, in a moment of absolute cool, Von Sydow asks Redford, "Can I drop you anywhere?"

HOLY MOLEY WAS THAT COOL! Von Sydow is just beyond cool. Redford is absolutely blown away by Von Sydow's cool, so he asks Von Sydow for advice on staying alive. Von Sydow says, "Leave. Go somewhere far away. Personally, I like Europe". But Redford says he wants to stay in New York, whereupon Von Sydow replies:

"You have not much future there.
It will happen this way:
You may be walking,
maybe the first sunny day of spring.
And a car will slow beside you,
and a door will open
and someone you know, even trust,
will get out.
And he will smile. A becoming smile.
But he will leave open the car door
and offer to give you a lift.

HELLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, NEWMAN!

This was a great movie. It reminded me of how cool Robert Redford is. I honestly cannot think of a pairing of two cooler dudes that Robert Redford and Paul Newman. I've got to watch "The Sting" again, and "Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid" as well.

But "Three Days of the Condor" gets a rating of Four Crossed Phone Lines out of a possible Five Crossed Phone Lines. You have to watch it to see what that means, but you won't be sorry!

.

[Edited 6/23/16 15:15pm]

In theaters, The Jungle Book. I was sadly underwhelmed for a majority of the film, but the scenes involving King Louie were really well done, I was impressed with those.

As for in-home, Sign 'O The Times, for the first time. Rocked my absolute socks off.

[Edited 6/26/16 16:14pm]

Man Up starring simon pegg, very funny movie, sweetly, comedically romantic with deep bits. five stars:

To The Wonder (2013)

Magnificently shot, well-acted, at different times tedious, pretentioius and extraordinary. The minor characters were the most compelling.

1/2

Visually stunning. But as empty as the lifestyle it takes to task. I'd say that that was the point, but that'd be giving Malick far too much credit. These days, he seems content to just let his cameras roll during magic hour, cobble together the pretty pieces, then slap on some pretentious voiceover and call it a day.

Ace said:

Visually stunning. But as empty as the lifestyle it takes to task. I'd say that that was the point, but that'd be giving Malick far too much credit. These days, he seems content to just let his cameras roll during magic hour, cobble together the pretty pieces, then slap on some pretentious voiceover and call it a day.

Funny, I just posted a review of his last film. I can't say you're off base. The same drawbacks could arguably be seen in To The Wonder.

namepeace said:

Ace said:

Visually stunning. But as empty as the lifestyle it takes to task. I'd say that that was the point, but that'd be giving Malick far too much credit. These days, he seems content to just let his cameras roll during magic hour, cobble together the pretty pieces, then slap on some pretentious voiceover and call it a day.

Funny, I just posted a review of his last film. I can't say you're off base. The same drawbacks could arguably be seen in To The Wonder.

Yeah, I noticed that when I went to post.

Can you tolerate magical realism? Haven't seen a movie of this genre in a long time and rarely in English.

Highly recommend

An easy 5 star. One of the most gorgeous films I ever seen.

Hamad said:

I ONLY saw this because Jeff Golblum is in it. I have the biggest celeb crush on him.

It was utter shit...like really...just very stupid.

1 outta 5 - just because Jeffy was in it.

Hamad said:

An easy 5 star. One of the most gorgeous films I ever seen.

Fantastic movie. I wish the quasi-sequel 2046 would get a real Blu-ray release.

JustErin said:

Last movie I watched was Graffiti Bridge when it was on last week. I rate it a 7 because I love the entire sound track, Like the long hair with neatly trimmed beard that Prince sports in that movie. Though I gotta be honest Morris Day's character in that movie and Purple Rain had me hating with a passion! It took forcing myself to watch interviews of him on youtube to realize he seems like a pretty cool dude.

XxAxX said:

Man Up starring simon pegg, very funny movie, sweetly, comedically romantic with deep bits. five stars:

Saw it . It was funny.

Ace said:

sexton said:

Love & Friendship (2016) - Lady Susan Vernon takes up temporary residence at her in-laws' estate and, while there, is determined to be a matchmaker for her daughter Frederica -- and herself too, naturally.

I didn't expect it to be so funny. And it was very funny. 4/5

Nice to see Whit having a "comeback"!

i'm really looking forward to this movie. i'm planning on revisiting his films over the weekend.

whit stillman was interviewed on a podcast i follow recently. link below if you're interested. i thought it was quite a good listen.

https://ricochet.com/podc.../#comments

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Independence Day 3/5 Very obvious paint by the numbers storytelling, but amusing in parts. Seriously how far can movies go with the destruction level. 5 years from now they'll have to destroy the entire planet in every single CGI movie just to get the same entertainment impact at this rate. Weird watching a movie set in your own timeline that has far more advance technology than actually exist. Yep giant creatures still give me the willies. And how exactly did that hole in the ocean floor magically fill up I mean given how close they were, there would be some serious (not even including the damage that ship caused just landing) ecological issues after all that?

I watched "Eddie the Eagle". I wrote 2,300 words on what a turd this movie is. For some reason, my 256K dial-up internet connection cannot handle that. I guess that's one of the prices I pay for being on top of a mountain.

When I get back to sea-level I will post the full review. It's awesome but for now just know this - "Eddie the Eagle" flies about as well as a Thanksgiving turkey.

damosuzuki said:

Ace said:

Nice to see Whit having a "comeback"!

i'm really looking forward to this movie. i'm planning on revisiting his films over the weekend.

whit stillman was interviewed on a podcast i follow recently. link below if you're interested. i thought it was quite a good listen.

https://ricochet.com/podc.../#comments

[Edited 7/1/16 9:17am]

Whit's first three movies were recently reissued as a nice Criterion Blu-ray box set. I may pick that up sometime this month during the Barnes & Noble Criterion half-price sale.