thekidsgirl said:

Don't Breathe

For all the good reviews this has gotten, I was expecting a lot more. It had a plenty of action (which I could pass on), but not nearly enough intrigue. The plot was light and the charaters were just anonymous people-shells to me. I'd give it a 2/5 . The "lights-out" scenes were filmed well.

I watched it this friday i liked a lot, but come on you can't get rid of a blind guy?

I went to the videostore and watched this gem of a movie for the third or fourth time.

It is a bit on the sentimental side but I love it and it is my all time favorite Bill Murray movie.

It´s a warm, beautiful and sad story about a bitter and cynical old Vietnam vet who becomes the new best friend of the kid who´s just moved in next door (Oliver).

It is set in Brooklyn and I could watch it again and again and again.

Eight Days A Week (2016)

Compelling documentary about the Beatles' touring years. I gained a new respect for them for sticking together as long as they did, dealing with absolute global mania, and actually using the experience to grow and break ground artistically.

After the show, the theater aired about 30 minutes of footage from the Shea Stadium show in '65. After watching the doc, it was almost like performance art -- seeing the expressions of fun, fatigue, panic, and anxiety on their faces.

Ringo was a heckuva drummer.

namepeace said:

Eight Days A Week (2016)

Compelling documentary about the Beatles' touring years. I gained a new respect for them for sticking together as long as they did, dealing with absolute global mania, and actually using the experience to grow and break ground artistically.

After the show, the theater aired about 30 minutes of footage from the Shea Stadium show in '65. After watching the doc, it was almost like performance art -- seeing the expressions of fun, fatigue, panic, and anxiety on their faces.

Ringo was a heckuva drummer.

Thanks most def gonna check this out.

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

Sheer, exhilarating fun, well-acted. It's easy to see why it's considered one of the best films of the decade. George Miller is a genius.

As Good As It Gets (1997)

My annual viewing. Wonderful movie that still makes me laugh out loud.

.5

namepeace said:

namepeace said:

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

Sheer, exhilarating fun, well-acted. It's easy to see why it's considered one of the best films of the decade. George Miller is a genius.

i finally got around to watching that myself the other night, and loved it a whole bunch. truly a thrilling, exciting, spectacular-to-look-at movie, and one that i really regret missing on a big screen. gets a 5/5 from me.

damosuzuki said:

namepeace said:

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

Sheer, exhilarating fun, well-acted. It's easy to see why it's considered one of the best films of the decade. George Miller is a genius.

i finally got around to watching that myself the other night, and loved it a whole bunch. truly a thrilling, exciting, spectacular-to-look-at movie, and one that i really regret missing on a big screen. gets a 5/5 from me.

Yes it is

damosuzuki said:

namepeace said:

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

Sheer, exhilarating fun, well-acted. It's easy to see why it's considered one of the best films of the decade. George Miller is a genius.

i finally got around to watching that myself the other night, and loved it a whole bunch. truly a thrilling, exciting, spectacular-to-look-at movie, and one that i really regret missing on a big screen. gets a 5/5 from me.

I love some of the outrageous character designs. A blind flamethower guitarist playing in front of a giant soundsystem riding on top of one of the trucks at full speed--how awesomely bonkers.

sexton said:

damosuzuki said:

i finally got around to watching that myself the other night, and loved it a whole bunch. truly a thrilling, exciting, spectacular-to-look-at movie, and one that i really regret missing on a big screen. gets a 5/5 from me.

I love some of the outrageous character designs. A blind flamethower guitarist playing in front of a giant soundsystem riding on top of one of the trucks at full speed--how awesomely bonkers.

Or, put another way when I was watching it last night . . .

"George Miller crazy as hell!"

Last night we watched an oldie but a goodie - "The Sting"!

Great movie!

You can't go wrong with Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning, Ray Walston, and Harold Gould.

No sense it trying to write a long review on this - there's no way to do it without giving too much away. Just watch the movie - you won't be sorry!

"Sting" gets 5 crooked roulette tables out of 5 crooked roulette tables. An all-time classic!

damosuzuki said:

wiener-dog, the new-ish todd solondz movie, is one of the most hilariously bitter & bleak films i've ever seen. i loved it. 4/5

I gotta see this. I loved her in Frances Ha, and "bitter & bleak" hilarity is right up my alley.

214 said:

thekidsgirl said:

Don't Breathe

For all the good reviews this has gotten, I was expecting a lot more. It had a plenty of action (which I could pass on), but not nearly enough intrigue. The plot was light and the charaters were just anonymous people-shells to me. I'd give it a 2/5 . The "lights-out" scenes were filmed well.

I watched it this friday i liked a lot, but come on you can't get rid of a blind guy?

I guess when he's a super-strong, ex-military blind guy with a vengence and a Rottweiler you can't

Production has started on "Deathgasm 2 - Goremageddon". I know you're all thrilled.

RodeoSchro said:

Last night we watched an oldie but a goodie - "The Sting"!

Great movie!

You can't go wrong with Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning, Ray Walston, and Harold Gould.

No sense it trying to write a long review on this - there's no way to do it without giving too much away. Just watch the movie - you won't be sorry!

"Sting" gets 5 crooked roulette tables out of 5 crooked roulette tables. An all-time classic!

great film, great score, great duo 4 out of 5

namepeace said:

Mad Max: Fury Road (2015)

Sheer, exhilarating fun, well-acted. It's easy to see why it's considered one of the best films of the decade. George Miller is a genius.

great film......intitally I thought it was gonna suck.....but it didn't 4 out of 5 and Charlize Theron was awesome

Goddess4Real said:

EmmaMcG said:

Goddess4Real said:

great film......intitally I thought it was gonna suck.....but it didn't 4 out of 5 and Charlize Theron was awesome

The only negative thing I could say about it was that Mel Gibson wasn't in it.

To me is the villain's death, it was just like... mehhh

On the weekend I saw an advance screening of The Magnificent Seven (2016) which a remake of The Magnificent Seven (1960) which is also a remake of the classic Seven Samurai (1954) . I really enjoyed this version which is about a group of seven outlaws led by a bounty hunter who helps out a town which is being controlled by the deadly industrialist Bartholomew Bogue (played by the awesome Peter Sarsgaard ) and his gang. It's a great cast led by Denzel Washington, Ethan Hawke and Chris Pratt, there losts of action and it didn't drag on. I give all three films 4 out of 5 because they are all great in their own way. But if I had to choose my fav, its the 1960 version cause I love Steve McQueen and it has a memorable film score by Elmer Bernstein. However, the sequels Return of the Seven (1966), Guns of the Magnificent Seven (1969), and The Magnificent Seven Ride (1972) that followed left me so they get a 1 of 5 Anyway I highly recommend this film, its a good solid entertaining western

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RodeoSchro said:

Last night we watched an oldie but a goodie - "The Sting"!

Great movie!

You can't go wrong with Robert Redford, Paul Newman, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning, Ray Walston, and Harold Gould.

No sense it trying to write a long review on this - there's no way to do it without giving too much away. Just watch the movie - you won't be sorry!

"Sting" gets 5 crooked roulette tables out of 5 crooked roulette tables. An all-time classic!

Amazing movie Rodeo - hubby and I watched it last winter and hadn't seen it in years. We just loved watching it again. Paul and Robert were fantastic and I loved Robert Shaw in it too.

After watching both The Magnificent Seven films I went back and re-watched I Am Steve McQueen (2014). He is one of my all-time fav actors and I have watched every film he as ever done (even The Blob (1958) when he was known as "Steven Mcqueen"). Narrated by Robert Downey Jr this is one the best docos about the "King of Cool" warts and all by those who knew him (all 3 wives are featured) by those who have worked with him, and fans of his films eg. stuntwoman Zoe Bell. I highly recommend this doco and I give it a 4.5 out of 5

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RodeoSchro said:

Last night, I got settled in bed and did my usual channel-flipping while my wife drifted off to Never-Never Land. What would it be? The usuals? "Big Bang Theory"? "Rules of Engagement"? "Curse Myself For Not Getting My DVR Fixed So I Could Watch Something I've Recorded"?

But wait! What was that? "Unforgiven"? The awesome Clint Eastwood cowboy movie? And it's just started?!? Heck to the YEAH!

So I watched "Unforgiven".

Clint Eastwood plays William Munney, a murderous cowboy. Or, as you will see, an assassin. Isn't that an interesting word for a cowboy movie? Now, I've read well over 100 Louis L'Amour western novels, probably 50 or 60 Louis L'LAmour western short stories, and at least 30 other western novels by people like Zane Grey, etc. Let's not forget that I've watched 100s and 100s of western movies and TV shows. Also, I am RODEO Schro. R-O-D-E-O, as in ""Yee haw, watch this!!!!" R-O-D-E-O. Well, OK - I myself am not a rodeo cowboy. But I do work for one, and I ride a horse, and I have own a lot of cowboy hats. So between all this cowboy experience, do you know how many other times I've heard the word "assassin" used in a western context?

Zero.

That's what makes this so great! We'll come back to the greatness of this word in a moment.

I tuned in about 10 minutes after "Unforgiven" started. The great Gene Hackman is Little Bill, the sheriff of Big Whiskey and he's got English Bob in his jail cell. He has beaten the absolute crap out of English Bob. Also in the jail cell is another English guy, but his name isn't Bob. It's Mr. Peepers, or something like that. Mr. Peepers is a biographer and has written a story about a great shoot-out that English Bob was involved in. Except, Mr. Peepers wasnt actually AT the shoot-out and has written down how English Bob says it went down. Which is fine, except...

Little Bill WAS at the shoot-out, and tells Mr. Peepers it didn't happen at all like English Bob said. It was basically two drunks that messed up, and one ended up dead. So Mr. Peepers is now enamored of Little Bill.

And he shouldn't be. You see, the proprietor of Big Whiskey's saloon/bordello is a real a-hole who is mean to his hookers. And he lets the cowboys mistreat them, including one time where a couple of cowboys lay into one of the girls with their knives and turn her into the female Joker. What does Little Bill do? Nothing.

So the hookers pool their money and send for Clint Eastwood to come and kill the two cowboys, as well as the saloon proprietor, who let these guys get away with it. I don't know why they didn't also hire Eastwood to kill Little Bill but they didn't. However, guess what happens?

Eastwood, Morgan Freeman, and The Kid ride into town. Freeman and The Kid go upstairs with the hookers, while Eastwood sits at a table. He's really sick, though. Little Bill and his deputies come in and ask Eastwood for his gun. Seems there's an ordinance that says all guns must be checked into the sheriff's custody while the cowboy is in town.

SIDE NOTE - This really IS how it was in The Old West. Gunplay got to be so bad that towns outlawed the possession of guns. You had to check your guns with the sheriff. So the next time some right-wing gun nut goes on about how he wishes 'Murica would go back to how it was in The Old West, or how Open Carry is going to make us all safer, direct him to this movie review.

Eastwood makes a mistake and says he doesn't have a gun. Of course he has a gun! He's Clint Freaking Eastwood! He was BORN with a gun! This infuriates Little Bill, who proceeds to kick the dogpoop out of the sick-and-near-death Eastwood. Bad move! Eastwood crawls out of the saloon, and he, Freeman and The Kid make it out of town.

The Kid is a little braggart, always yapping about how he's killed 5 men so far and can't wait to kill the two cowboys they've come to assassinate.

Assassinate! There's that word again!

Eastwood almost dies but doesn't; turns down "a free one" from the scarred hooker; sees ghosts; and decides he's sick and tired of The Kid's constant yapping. But now that he's recovered, it's time to earn his money.

They ambush one of the bad cowboys while he's riding the range with some buddies. Freeman shoots but hits the horse instead of the cowboy. The horse is laying on the cowboy, who is now defenseless. But Freeman just can't bring himself to finish it. The Kid starts yapping, so Eastwood takes Freeman's rifle and completes the assignment. However, they are only there to kill that one cowboy (the other cowboy isn't there at the time), so they don't shoot his buddies. This, of course, leaves those guys free to ride into town and tell Little Bill that assassins got Cowboy 1 and are coming for Cowboy 2.

Morgan Freeman quits and rides away.

Little Bill's deputies hole up Cowboy 2 in the ranch house. Although everyone in the world knows Eastwood and The Kid are going to stake out the ranch house, Little Bill places no deputies outside. They're all inside, playing cards and laughing and drinking. Now, playing cards and laughing are fine, but drinking? Well as we guys know, drinking leads to peeing and do you think the ranch house has indoor plumbing? No, it does not!

Eastwood and The Kid stake out the outhouse, knowing that sooner or later Cowboy 2 is going to have to empty his bladder. Which he does! Eastwood tells The Kid, "You can shoot him". The Kid kicks open the outhouse door and there's Cowboy 2 on the pot. Cowboy 2 puts up his hands, asks for mercy, and gets shot 3 times whilst pooping. The Kid now has his first notch on the old gun belt! (Sure, he was lying about killing 5 men. No one believed him anyway.)

This leads to my whole reason for watching "Unforgiven"!

The deputies in the house hear the gunshots. The big fat deputy bursts out the door (which, upon reflection, was pretty impressive considering his girth), sees Eastwood and The Kid hightailing it out of there, and says,

"Assassins!"

Man, I just love that. I don't know why. Maybe it's because I've heard hired killers called everything you can think of except that. And make no mistake - it's an accurate term. But it's one that has just never, ever, to my knowledge, been used in any genre of western. Let's say it again!

"Assassins!"

Eastwood and The Kid get away and meet the scarred hooker outside their hideout. The hooker informs Eastwood that Morgan Freeman had been caught, tortured and killed by Little Bill. This makes Eastwood very, very mad. Mad enough to do exactly what you think he's going to do.

But The Kid declines to join the party. It seems that killing a man wasn't quite as much fun as he thought it would be. So he gives Eastwood his gun and says he's never going to own a gun again. Left unsaid is that now, The Kid will spend the rest of his life as a wanted man until the day he's caught and hung.

Eastwood rides back into town and enters the saloon. He's got a shotgun. He asks, "Who owns this place?" The sleazy proprietor says, "I do". Eastwood says, "You people next to him better move away". And then Mr. Sleazy Proprietor gets the first barrel of the shotgun.

Then Eastwood looks at Little Bill and tells all the people around Little Bill that they'd better move away. Little Bill tries to play tough but Eastwood pulls the trigger.

Click!

"Gun jam!" says Little Bill, smiling as he now sees his chance. Fool!

No one EVER has a chance against Clint Freaking Eastwood in a gun battle! Eastwood shoots Little Bill and everyone else that has the temerity to draw their gun. All those guys are dead except for Little Bill. He's still alive but Eastwood notices that and stands over him with a rifle.

"I don't deserve this," says Little Bill. "I'm building a house. I don't deserve to die this way". I'm thinking, what? You deserve to die falling off a ladder? Anyway, Eastwood delivers the second-best line in this great movie when he says:

"Deserves got nothing to do with it".

Blam! Goodbye, Little Bill.

Eastwood then tells everyone else alive that they can either leave, or get shot. Then he walks out of the bar to his horse and yells at the town, "Anyone that shoots at me, I'm going to kill you, your family, your friends, and then I'm going to burn down your house!" No one shoots at him. As he rides out, he passes Morgan Freeman, whose body Little Bill had placed in a coffin and put up a sign that said "This is what happens to assassins in Big Whiskey!" Eastwood looks at it, turns to the town, and shouts, "You people better give Ned a proper burial or I'm going to come back and kill every one of you sons of bitches!"

And......scene!

The epilogue tells us that Eastwood apparently rode back home, collected his kids, buried his wife, and went to San Francisco where he prospered in the dry goods business.

Great movie! You should watch it! Since Eastwood mainly used a six-shooter, I rate "Unforgiven" as 5 bullets out of 6 bullets. Bang!

great film, one of Clint's best as an actor and director 4 out of 5

another shitty year in movies....

I still love this movie.

Brilliant parody of '80s and '90s teen flicks.

If you're quick, you can still catch it for free (with commercials) here:

http://www.crackle.com/no...een-movie

Ace said:

I still love this movie.

Brilliant parody of '80s and '90s teen flicks.

If you're quick, you can still catch it for free (with commercials) here:

http://www.crackle.com/no...een-movie

Ohhh yes, it's hillarious, great movie. I love it too. When this girl is painting and you expect something amusing ahahaha and... it's just great.

214 said:

Ace said:

I still love this movie.

Brilliant parody of '80s and '90s teen flicks.

If you're quick, you can still catch it for free (with commercials) here:

http://www.crackle.com/no...een-movie

Ohhh yes, it's hillarious, great movie. I love it too. When this girl is painting and you expect something amusing ahahaha and... it's just great.

Phoenix (2014)

After reconstructive surgery renders her unrecognizable, a German Jewish Holocaust survivor returns to postwar Berlin and locates her husband, who may have played a role in her arrest and internment. A little muddled at times but still affecting.

luvsexy4all said:

another shitty year in movies....

It ain't over yet! We still have the next Jack Reacher movie to look forward to. And we got "Bad Moms" this year, which is a Top 10 Funny Movie IMO!

Ex-Machina

best sci fi thing I've seen for a few years,

reminded me of Kubrick and Under the Skin

7.75 / 10