RodeoSchro said:

Here is A List of the worst movies of 2018. I've only seen one of them - "Death Wish" - and would agree that it was one of the worst movies I've seen this year.

https://film.avclub.com/t...1830996584

The list:

20. God's Not Dead: A Light in the Darkness
19. Caniba
18. Mary Shelley
17. Forever My Girl
16. Death Wish - AGREED!
15. The 15:17 to Paris
14. Sicario: Day of the Soldado
13. The Happy Prince
12. Blumhouse's Truth or Dare
11. Mile 22
10. The Happytime Murders
9. The Darkest Minds
8. Mute
7. The Outsider
6. Future World
5. Dark Crimes
4. Fifty Shades Freed
3. Life Itself
2. The Death of a Nation
1. Gotti

Sicario: Day of the Soldado wasn't great but it wasn't horrible. same with Mute, I liked that one.

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The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

Still superb.

.5

The Angels' Share (2012)


I'm not sure this one quite hangs together perfectly. Starts off as gritty slice of life about a cluster of young ne'er-do-wells on community service - albeit laced with some dry Scottish humour. But it unfolds into more of a caper movie. The early grit does mean that you're rooting for the characters, though, even if also makes it seem a bit fantastical. Very funny, though, and warmhearted - I enjoyed it.

Inception (2010)

It just makes sense.

/5

'the magnificent ambersons' - picked up the criterion (thank you, criterion, for the amazing service you provide to film lovers) release from their recent sale. it's really not about the movie, but the story of the movie. '...ambersons' is probably the best movie that really is very bad, but the whole story is fascinating. i will spend the rest of the day seething with anger and pity that orson welles was (essentially) ruined by the production of this film; which, judging from all the evidence available, could've been a masterpiece. as it is...utter shit. the world deserved the experience of a different orson welles than the one they got.

the motion picture - meh.

the story of the motion picture and its production and welles - rivetting.

Well, shucks - I don't really want to Rate The Last Movie I Watched. Mainly because I was sure I've reviewed it before. I know I've watched it before. However, a quick search of all my reviews (almost 300 pages in a Word doc!) reviews no matches to either "Olympus" or "Gerard". So, per the rule stipulated by the title of this thread which I created, guess what movie I'm reviewing?

"Olympus Has Fallen". Yes, it has.

Last night we opened a bottle of wine and gathered 'round the old TV. Somehow my Favorite Mother-In-Law had landed on TBS and this movie had just begun. I believe the women were captivated by it because Gerard Butler is in it. The only thing I really know about Gerard Butler is that he showed his butt in one movie. It appears that was an incredible career move because he seems to have parlayed those ass cheeks into a lot of movie jobs, despite not really being all that charismatic.

EDIT: I've decided this review needs some spicing up, and ass cheeks are the spice it needs.

I can think of three guys who bared their booty and it worked for them. Here they are:










Obviously I have not gone far enough in my own musical career, what with having only taking my shirt off - even though I've done that numerous times. If I want my career to go any further, I know what I have to do.

So Gerard Butler's ass cheeks got him a "Has Fallen" franchise. "Olympus Has Fallen" was the first movie; "London Has Fallen" followed (another movie I've seen and I did review it); and next year we get "Angel Has Fallen". I can't wait for the fourth movie in this franchise, which will surely be titled "I Has Fallen And I Can't Get Up".

He also was in "RockNRolla" which, although I couldn't understand most of the dialogue, was an awesome movie. So imagine my disappointment when I found out that his film "Machine Gun Preacher" was NOT a sequel to "Hobo With A Shotgun". It appears there are few, if any, machine guns used properly in that movie. Nor is Butler even a preacher. I bet there aren't even any hoboes in it.

But in "Olympus Has Fallen", he DOES use his guns often and well. So he's got that going for him, which is nice. So is having wine to drink when watching movies.

The wine we drank last night is the kind that gets better with age. This movie, however, does not.

Normally sequels are not as good as the original. I rated "London Has Fallen" as 3 Exploded London Bridges out of 5 Exploded London Bridges. I did encourage viewers to watch it drunk, like I did. So naturally you would think the first "Fallen" movie would get more Exploding Bridges, right?

Wrong.

Even though I had a nice buzz, there were so many plot holes that I noticed the second time around that I just can't get too fired up about this movie.

For instance, Dylan McDermott is a sell-out traitor responsible for the bad buys getting into the White House. The bad guy Kang (the totally awesome Rick Yune) tells McDermott to go kill Butler. Somehow, even though no one else can find Butler, McDermott does and tries to pull a Bill Clay Strategem. But the Bill Clay Strategem didn't work in "Die Hard" and it doesn't work here, either.

Butler asks McDermott why he sold out his country and the answer is pretty stupid. "Hey, others have done worse!" he says as he lays dying from a stab wound. Butler then says, "You can die a hero. Tell me who's behind this". First of all, no. No, he would not be a hero no matter what. Second, McDermott DOES spill the beans, as well as his guts (literally), which isn't something a traitor would do. Lastly, no one knows that Butler killed McDermott except Butler, yet McDermott obviously never comes back from his killing mission. But neither Kang nor any other person ever brings him up again. I guess they forgot about him.

The Situation Room people were very ridiculous. In particular, the Army Guy was horrible. Morgan Freeman is the Acting President on account of the president AND the vice president were both hostages. Kang wants the 7th Fleet turned away from South Korea, and he wants all US military out of South Korea. And he wants those things done in an hour.

An hour?!? You couldn't do them in a month! And, as we all know from every Harrison Ford movie, America does not EVER negotiate with terrorists. But Morgan Freeman does! He orders the 7th Fleet to do a u-turn, and he orders the Army to hut-hut-hut right out of South Korea immediately.

Face palm.

Despite negotiating with the terrorist Kang, America is still doomed because the other think Kang wants to do is activate something called "Cerberus". It would give Kang control of all America's nukes and his plan is to set them all off, making America the same kind of wasteland that he claims America has made everywhere else - especially North Korea, which is where Kang is from.

Speaking of Kang, the movie tries to portray him as a Super Villian. All the pointy heads assembled in the Situation Room with Morgan Freeman have heard of Kang. He's the most wanted terrorist in the world. But no one can catch him because there aren't any pictures of him. Except the one they show on their screen, which just happens to be a recent full-frontal head shot.

Face palm.

Butler rescues various people and kills a lot more, forcing Kang's hand. Kang has a back-up plan - the Helicopter Ploy, which is marching 11 people into the helicopter that Morgan Freeman got for him, but covering all of them in black canvas sacks, so you don't know who is who and therefore cannot blow anyone's brains out. After all, you might blowing out the president's brain, and we can't have that.

Of course, the Helicopter Ploy is just that - A Ploy. And it works far better than the Bill Clay Strategem. The chopper is boarded, takes off, and then blown up. By Kang, of course. Kang and the president stayed behind and Kang thinks that everyone will believe he and the president were on the chopper that exploded.

The worst thing about the Helicopter Ploy is that Kang's head henchwoman was on it and got blown up. If there was one person I was absolutely hoping would get their head shot off, preferably in a manner that required four or five bullets, it was the head henchwoman. There's just something about a henchwoman whose only job is cracking computer codes whilst watching her boss murder tons of innocent people that really rankles me.

She was the female version of this guy but no Argyle was there to deliver the Death Blow:




Somehow Kang figures out the final code for Cerberus, which is going to make all our nukes go off. Of course, there is only one way to stop it - with a code that incredibly is in the hands of one of the pointy-heads in the Situation Room.

Face palm.

Butler kills everyone that needs killing and then goes to the Master Console to try and stop Cerberus from turning the USA into smokey jelly. He's only got 45 seconds to do it and luckily for us, that's 3 seconds more than he needed.

Face palm.

I liked this movie a lot better the first time I saw it. I would like this movie a lot less if I ever see it again. "Olympus Has Fallen" is like Bizarro-World Wine: it gets worse with age.

HOWEVER, I remember that I kind of liked this movie the first time I saw it. I definitely liked the sequel enough to rate it 3 out of 5. Therefore, I will rate this movie two ways:

1. The first time I saw this, I bet I would have rated it 3.26 Knife Stabs In The Head out of 5 Knife Stabs In The Head

2. The second time I saw this, my rating goes down to 2.10 Hydra Weapons Systems out of 5 Hydra Weapons Systems.

Get drunk and watch it once. Anything after that is on you!


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[Edited 12/21/18 8:49am]

Venom

1 out of 5

What a bad movie. Maybe if I was 12 I would have liked it but having seen it yesterday I can't even remember anything from it exept the things I already saw in the trailers and that corny credit scene.

I like Tom Hardy, but what was that guy thinking doing this movie??

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Spider-Man: Into The Spider-Verse (2018)

Where is a cute Black girl? She's hard to forget, quit playing.



/5.

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) - Miles Morales becomes the Spider-Man of his reality and crosses paths with his counterparts from other dimensions to stop a threat to all reality.

I wasn't interested very much in this movie when it was announced, even after seeing trailers and the extended scene at the end of Venom. And then the early reviews were released claiming it to be the best Spider-Man movie to date and a guaranteed Oscar nomination for best animated feature and I thought, "Really?" Then I saw the movie. Really--it's that good. The animation is exceptional and the emotional depth of the story took me by surprise. Truly the best Spider-Man movie to date. 4.5/5

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Bottle Shock (2008)

The 1976 competition in Paris, France when a California wine beat the French wines in a blind tasting.

/5

Sideways (2004)

2 friends, wine & women, before the wedding.

/5



I want to drink lots of wine, but I'm afraid it will cause an eating disorder.

sexton said:

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) - Miles Morales becomes the Spider-Man of his reality and crosses paths with his counterparts from other dimensions to stop a threat to all reality.

I wasn't interested very much in this movie when it was announced, even after seeing trailers and the extended scene at the end of Venom. And then the early reviews were released claiming it to be the best Spider-Man movie to date and a guaranteed Oscar nomination for best animated feature and I thought, "Really?" Then I saw the movie. Really--it's that good. The animation is exceptional and the emotional depth of the story took me by surprise. Truly the best Spider-Man movie to date. 4.5/5

i definitely did not expect that one of my favourite movies of this year would be an animated spider-man film. i'm still amazed by its greatness. when i woke up last sunday morning (having seen it saturday) i realized there was nothing more i wanted in the world than to watch it again, so i called my mom & told her i was skipping our sunday morning breakfast & went to see it a 2nd time. & even though i really ought to go see the favourite this afternoon, i'm about 95% sure i'm going to skip that & go see spider-verse for a 3rd time instead.

golden exits (2018) 3.5/5 opening with emily browning singing 'new york groove' a cappella gave me a brief false hope that i was about to see the greatest movie ever made. couldn't quite meet those expectations, and i didn't quite find this to be the nasty pleasure some other alex ross perry films have been, but it is pleasantly shambolic, occasionally biting & i enjoyed the way in meandered about without ever firmly landing on a target.

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Bird Box (2018)

You have to keep your eyes closed to stay alive. Now I want to see A Quiet Place.

/5

In Bruges (2008) - Guilt-stricken after a job gone wrong, hitman Ray and his partner await orders from their ruthless boss in Bruges, Belgium, the last place in the world Ray wants to be.

As much of a Christmas classic as Die Hard in my opinion. 5/5

sexton said:

sexton said:

In Bruges (2008) - Guilt-stricken after a job gone wrong, hitman Ray and his partner await orders from their ruthless boss in Bruges, Belgium, the last place in the world Ray wants to be.

I loved all the parts where Ray bitches about how lame the town is.

It's A Wonderful Life (1946)

A rich, entertaining film.

.25


The Lion In Winter (1968)

One of the greatest films of all time.

.75

Neo Yokio: Pink Christmas (2018)

It's pretty funny.

/5

Rise Of The Guardians (2012)

Jack Frost, Santa Claus, The Tooth Fairy, The Easter Bunny, and The Sandman must fight Pitch to keep hope alive.

/5

Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights (2002)

An animated holiday musical. And comedy.

5 stars out of 5.

Bird Box 3/5 I'm not big on the horror genre even though I don't think this is listed as horror, it's horror to me so my enjoyment level won't reach great heights on this type of movie. But I can say I didn't find any flaws or gapping plot holes nor was I left with questions. Storyline made sense to me. I probably should have bumped it a couple of more points because that opening scene had me all up in my head. Like a aha moment.


I feel my next sentence is kind of a spoiler even though I'm not really saying anything but still don't read this part, it didn't break my heart which for a moment I thought it would. It actually warmed it.

My daughter had jokes for the character named Tom, I could see her point, we all agreed they could have chosen a different name.

[Edited 12/26/18 11:38am]

lol

Ugot2shakesumthin said:

Aquaman 2/so stupid

This movie has made a shitload of money overseas so these people know their target audience and delivered.

It’s like Jason and The Argonauts, Godzilla, Santa Clause Conquers the Martians and and every other cheesy B-Movie ever made rolled into one.

So stupid.

Nicole Kidman still looks hot, the hot dude Jason Mamoa can’t act.

If you go, go drunk or take kids that will enjoy it.

EmmaMcG said:

Ugot2shakesumthin said:

Aquaman 2/so stupid

This movie has made a shitload of money overseas so these people know their target audience and delivered.

It’s like Jason and The Argonauts, Godzilla, Santa Clause Conquers the Martians and and every other cheesy B-Movie ever made rolled into one.

So stupid.

Nicole Kidman still looks hot, the hot dude Jason Mamoa can’t act.

If you go, go drunk or take kids that will enjoy it.

It's a silly action movie. All it needs is good action scenes, decent special effects and Dolph Lundgren. And it's got all 3 of those things. I've seen it twice now and it's my favourite movie of the DCEU. I realise that's not really saying much but still...

Ugot2shakesumthin said:

Aquaman 2/so stupid

This movie has made a shitload of money overseas so these people know their target audience and delivered.

It’s like Jason and The Argonauts, Godzilla, Santa Clause Conquers the Martians and and every other cheesy B-Movie ever made rolled into one.

So stupid.

Nicole Kidman still looks hot, the hot dude Jason Mamoa can’t act.

If you go, go drunk or take kids that will enjoy it.

Ugot2shakesumthin said:

EmmaMcG said:

Ugot2shakesumthin said:

MY CHRISTMAS EVE VIEWING RESULTED IN THE FOLLOWING TWO EVENTS:

1. Nakatomi Plaza was secured; and
2. Black Bart was summarily dispatched.

A night if there ever was one!