Which movies have you watched? xi --- straight to dvd
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War Machine. This is the Brad Pitt made for Netflix movie. It's a fictional account based on a true book. And if the true story is even half as bad as the movie portrays, it's no wonder we're losing in Afghanistan.
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Training Day (2001 74% rotten tomatoes)
Denzel Washington won a Best Actor award for this. So, perhaps unsurprisingly, he's quite good in it. Training a "rookie" detective. Or something.
Nice movie. And, let me tell you, a lot happens in this one day.
Inception (2010 86% rotten tomatoes)
Leonardo DiCaprio dreams that he's dreaming about dreaming... in his dreams.
Yeah.
To be honest, I did get a little bit confused.
But it'll be alright when I eventually wake up.
Denzel Washington won a Best Actor award for this. So, perhaps unsurprisingly, he's quite good in it. Training a "rookie" detective. Or something.
Nice movie. And, let me tell you, a lot happens in this one day.
Inception (2010 86% rotten tomatoes)
Leonardo DiCaprio dreams that he's dreaming about dreaming... in his dreams.
Yeah.
To be honest, I did get a little bit confused.
But it'll be alright when I eventually wake up.
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Did you spot Jackie Chan?
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I have recently watched Split (2016)
I am split on this movie. Didn't fall for it. But also appreciated and enjoyed it, in parts. I feel like it tried to be too many different things and missed how to get it elegantly together. But the ravers who praised it as Shyamalan being back to form had me expect something better. But it is still clearly outside of a league of Signs, Unbreakable or the Sixth Sense, which were all three IMO great movies. Split is not. But it is an interesting movie which one can indulge.
I am split on this movie. Didn't fall for it. But also appreciated and enjoyed it, in parts. I feel like it tried to be too many different things and missed how to get it elegantly together. But the ravers who praised it as Shyamalan being back to form had me expect something better. But it is still clearly outside of a league of Signs, Unbreakable or the Sixth Sense, which were all three IMO great movies. Split is not. But it is an interesting movie which one can indulge.
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Finally decided to power through the first painful 25 minutes of Lethal Weapon so I could watch it in its entirety and maybe give the other movies in the series a shot. Thankfully enough the movie turns good after it works through its "everyone is suicidal" phase. Not great but not bad. Good enough to give the others a try.
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Ah saw that one too just a few weeks ago. I thought it did a decent job showing the clash of necessity and the political game.
But what distracted me was how Brad Pritt, as the main protagonist, was also somewhat a comic relieve character through-out the movie. It really put me off in the beginning where they introduce the movie by narrating him as this hyperbolic model general caricature. I guess it works to underline the general parody-them of the movie, reflecting the utter absurdity of the aforementioned conflict. But it also was cheap comedy, which did not really work for me. Still an interesting movie, however.
It feels as if Borachio were me writing from 20 years into the future.
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I watched this thriller called No Escape last night. It's about a family who just got relocated to a fictitious Asian country for the dad's engineering work. The day after they arrive there's a giant rebellion/riot where all these people form street gangs basically and go out and kill everyone associated with the government and every foreigner they can find. The family then has to find a way to survive and escape somehow. It is intense. Maybe not the greatest movie I've ever seen, but shot pretty well and the acting is good. If you have kids it makes it that much more intense imo. I have two girls close to the ages of the two girls in the movie. I guess I won't be travelling for a while.
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Every time I'd go to watch it, I'd turn it off because the beginning is truly atrocious. But it got 4 movies and a show, right? Gotta be something in it worth seeing. So I powered through this time and got rewarded.
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Spider-Man: Homecoming
I'd have to go back and rewatch Raimi's Spider-Man 2 to be sure, but this was probably the best Spider-Man movie I've seen. Outstanding cast. Tom Holland is definitely a better Peter Parker than Tobey Maguire, who was okay. Michael Keaton was great. He and the SFX team made The Vulture actually kind of scary, and the writers gave him a good origin-story that fit into previous movies. They even came up with a plausible idea for that furry neck on his costume. Marisa Tomei kind of stayed in her lane, playing the cute dork that she's had in her pocket for 30 years (yes, I watched A Different World, I'm not too proud to admit it), but I thought that worked great, and I liked the total revision of the Aunt May character. All of the other "kids" (read: 20-somethings) at the high school were fantastic. Off the top of my head, I think all of the updates to the character and his world, bringing the 1960s character into the 20teens, worked beautifully. I caught several "easter eggs", and there was one more that I know I missed. And yes, I stayed for the mid- and post-credits scenes. What can I say, I'm a sheep.
I'd have to go back and rewatch Raimi's Spider-Man 2 to be sure, but this was probably the best Spider-Man movie I've seen. Outstanding cast. Tom Holland is definitely a better Peter Parker than Tobey Maguire, who was okay. Michael Keaton was great. He and the SFX team made The Vulture actually kind of scary, and the writers gave him a good origin-story that fit into previous movies. They even came up with a plausible idea for that furry neck on his costume. Marisa Tomei kind of stayed in her lane, playing the cute dork that she's had in her pocket for 30 years (yes, I watched A Different World, I'm not too proud to admit it), but I thought that worked great, and I liked the total revision of the Aunt May character. All of the other "kids" (read: 20-somethings) at the high school were fantastic. Off the top of my head, I think all of the updates to the character and his world, bringing the 1960s character into the 20teens, worked beautifully. I caught several "easter eggs", and there was one more that I know I missed. And yes, I stayed for the mid- and post-credits scenes. What can I say, I'm a sheep.
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The Alamo with John Wayne. IMHO, one of the Duke's finest. 
I wouldn't go as far as watching the show, myself.
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No, I didn't! Well, I never!
It did occur to me he might be in it, though.
The Drop (2014 89% Rotten Tomatoes)
Nice film. I enjoyed this immensely. I especially liked the understated nature of the principal character. And the menacing Chechen gangsters in the background.
And, of course, the line "No one ever sees you coming, do they, Bob?"
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Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom (2013). 8/10. Underrated... Elba deserved an acting nomination for this.
Rear Window (1954). 8/10. I think this is the first Hitchcock film I've seen. I have to admit I was mostly interested in seeing it because it was parodied on The Simpsons.
Airplane II (1982). 4/10. I didn't even know Airplane had a sequel. It wasn't very good. Most of the jokes were rehashes from the first film, although it did have some funny moments. The only thing I enjoyed about it was the 80'sness of it. Pretty lame.
Rear Window (1954). 8/10. I think this is the first Hitchcock film I've seen. I have to admit I was mostly interested in seeing it because it was parodied on The Simpsons.
Airplane II (1982). 4/10. I didn't even know Airplane had a sequel. It wasn't very good. Most of the jokes were rehashes from the first film, although it did have some funny moments. The only thing I enjoyed about it was the 80'sness of it. Pretty lame.
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Yup, great movie. Tell me the easter eggs in spoilers, I probably didn't catch them all.
I did spot
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Spider-Man: Homecoming easter eggs I spotted:
Yup, great movie. Tell me the easter eggs in spoilers, I probably didn't catch them all.
I did spotSpoiler :
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Desparado The second installment of the bloody El Mariachi trilogy. Great shoot 'em up!
Poor timing on my part though/ I'd just watched Born in East L.A., a wacky comedy starring, written by, and directed by Cheech Marin. Now, here he was playing the bar tender--although he only kills one guy before he's shot in the face.
Poor timing on my part though/ I'd just watched Born in East L.A., a wacky comedy starring, written by, and directed by Cheech Marin. Now, here he was playing the bar tender--although he only kills one guy before he's shot in the face.
Desparado The second installment of the bloody El Mariachi trilogy. Great shoot 'em up!
Poor timing on my part though/ I'd just watched Born in East L.A., a wacky comedy starring, written by, and directed by Cheech Marin. Now, here he was playing the bar tender--although he only kills one guy before he's shot in the face.
So much for Christos.
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