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[Olivia Wilde]

"Manhunter" (1986)

 

Basically the original version of "Red Dragon"

 

William Petersen plays Will Graham, an FBI profiler coaxed out of retirement by Jack Crawford (Dennis Farina) to try to stop a serial killer on a lunar cycle

 

Part of his investigation leads him to Dr Hannibal Lektor (note the spelling), Brilliantly played by Brian Cox

 

Tom Noonan is even freakier than Ralph Fiennes as this new killer

 

written and directed by Michael Mann

 

a solid 9/10, the music and editing styles are horribly dated

 

The blu-ray transfer is much better than the Anchor Bay DVD

[Elhanan]

^ Still can hear 'IN-A-GADDA-DA-VIDA' each time I think of that film. While I like Anthony Hopkins and the start of Red Dragon a bit more, Manhunter remains my personal choice of the prequels.

[Olivia Wilde]

^ Still can hear 'IN-A-GADDA-DA-VIDA' each time I think of that film. While I like Anthony Hopkins and the start of Red Dragon a bit more, Manhunter remains my personal choice of the prequels.

It predates "Silence of the Lambs'" by five years, but I get your meaning

[Elhanan]

It predates "Silence of the Lambs'" by five years, but I get your meaning

Yep; saw it soon after release, and am a fan of the book. It is a hidden treasure; glad you mentioned it here.

[Kaiser Arian XVII]

Finished the first season of Justice League animated series. 26 episodes of coolness and epicness. Nuff said. 9/10

[Joseph Warrick]

Crouching tiger hidden dragon

[Fast Jimmy]

Watched 2014 film Coherence yesterday. Interesting enough premise, but it wasn't scary enough to be a thriller and the parts where they actually discuss "science" are a bit of a muddled mess because no one has any idea what they are saying or proposing.

Still, unique concept and interesting take on the ending.

Also, watched



Underrated film, in my opinion. The way it used action scenes at the end to actually portray how Sonny was more sentient and "human" is interesting - you rarely see action scenes used to touch intellectual issues. Great way to kill an hour or two around the house.

[mybudgee]

Ha. One time I was like "Hey babe, you should watch the Bonndock Saints, it's good."

 

Aaaand then she wanted to shut it off after an N-bomb. Like, really?

 

I don't know if ya'll have ever seen Red State, but its' about some crazy WBC types that are all 'God hates everything' and they end up killing some gay people.

 

"I can't watch this. Ugh, this is disgusting."

 

"Babe, it's a movie. Also, they'll get theirs in the end too, I bet."

 

There was a big 'ol fight about her being an SJW weenie, so I said **** it and finished it in my car lol.  

 

She still fine tho.

LoLmarriage

[leighzard]

The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift.

 

It was on HBO.  I was bored and lonely.

They're supposed to be in high school?  High School???

The premise of just about any anime ever is more convincing.

 

I gotta say, if this one is representative of the franchise, I don't get the appeal.

[TheClonesLegacy]

It's really not, Tokyo Drift was essentially an attempted reboot. Paul Walkers not in it. And Vin Diesels only at the end for (later retconned in) Furious 7 reasons.

Watch Fast Five. Fast Five is fun.

[metatheurgist]

I don't know if ya'll have ever seen Red State, but its' about some crazy WBC types that are all 'God hates everything' and they end up killing some gay people.
 
"I can't watch this. Ugh, this is disgusting."
 
"Babe, it's a movie. Also, they'll get theirs in the end too, I bet."

The end of that film is one of the funniest things I've ever seen.

[Rawgrim]

The trailer for the new Terminator movie.....That was all I needed to see of that movie. R.I.P Terminator franchise.

[Obadiah]

A Little Chaos



A fictitious story of Sabine (Kate Winslet), a professional gardener, selected by the head royal gardener, Andre (Matthias Schoenaerts) because of her unconventional designs, and tasked with building an open air concert hall within the royal gardens of Versailles of King Louis XIV (Alan Rickman). Sabine, of course, the consummate professional must overcome the usual palace intrigue that attempts to sabotage her vision, as well as her own slowly revealed tragic past. Alan Rickman seethes, even when he's playing a "good" guy. Stanley Tucci's flamboyant bisexual noble steals every scene. Matthias Schoenaerts... uh.. does he ever do anything else but brood in movies? As a romantic drama period piece, it is an enjoyable distraction.

Who knew French royalty were such nice people?

[Kaiser Arian XVII]

Interesting movie with supernatural/hell-wise story. Too bad it has too much "maturity"... nudity, gore, profanity, somehow to an annoying level. First half of the movie is kinda disappointing, but the second half is good.

Good acting by Nicolas Cage, Amber Heard and William Fichtner.

 

 

6/10

[Dominus]

Went on a Movie Splurge at ye olde rental spot.

Saw A Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. Starring Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman amidst a strange spot in their marriage, as one small part of a very large and wealthy family. They movie does great character work and explores it over the course of the film. Has a memorable intro, to boot. It's a bit weird seeing how directors handle film versus today, there's a lot less cutting to new shots - more like it's recording a stage play. Not that I'm complaining, though. Very good stuff.

Next was The Color of Money. Starring Tom Cruise. It's probably my favorite film involving the man - the role as a young upstart fits his energetic, showboating personality. It's got 80's written all over it and bounces between a rags-to-riches story and butting heads with his unexpected mentor. Can you guess who took the role sided with him as a retired man missing his glory days? That's right, the very same Paul Newman from his 1955 film. Even so many years after the above film, he's aged well and was apparently chosen by People magazine in 1990 as one of the 50 Most Beautiful People in the world. A bit slow-paced, but I enjoyed the film.
 

Finished How to Train Your Dragon 2. A bit like Dreamworks' Kung Fu Panda 2, it lends itself a greater focus exploring the protagonists' past and taking a serious & emotional tone. I was very bleh about it for the first 1/3, but it gets a great deal better after the introductions finish - the second half of the movie really nails it. Complaint wise, there's a running gag involving a hormone-striken blonde woman that gets real old, real quick. Coulda done without that. Visually they do well, and one locale that seems almost otherwordly. They also have some of the best action scenes from their library, reminiscent of LOTR schtick. They're also one of the few family-friendly films that

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Depicts a major character's death without falling for the Super-Wacky-Revival move.

Overall, the movie's pretty great.

I watched Fargo... for about 5 minutes, and the disc wouldn't work due to scratches.

[Olivia Wilde]

The Color of Money is a sequel (more or less) to 1961's "The Hustler"

[Obadiah]

Terminator: Genisys



Do you remember when Terminators were uncaring, unfeeling, unstoppable killing machines? That's all gone. They should call this movie Terminator: Conversation, because the Terminators talk too damn much!

The good: The time-bending head-scatcher of a plot kept me interested enough to see how time traveller Kyle Reese's sudden emergent memories of Sarah Connor would come to be realized as the movie progressed and the previous movies' timelines subtely shifted. This shift also caused some classic scenes from the other movies to be re-imagined: Reese gets chased by an exoskeleton, first terminator appears in 1984, "Get out", etc....

These recreations ask the question: is there really some kind of inevitability to fate, or is our fate only what we make for ourselves? Who cares! Because...

The bad: Some of the scenes in this movie are just horrid, impausible, stupid, and giggle-worthy. Aside from the iffy special effects used to render one particularly silly helicopter chase, here are a few of the poor decisions off the top of my head:

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Kyle and John stand out in the open, at point blank range in front a giant killer robot, and decide to stand their ground and shoot (doing almost no damage) instead of run for cover, because I guess in the future humans are bullet-proof?

A T-1000 bothers to answer questions from a human just because the human, Kyle Reese in this case, had a pistol pointed at its head at point blank range. Shouldn't it just have... you know... terminated him by stabby hand real quick?

A T-800 Terminator jumps from one flying helecopter to another, when it has a crap load of guns still at its disposal that it could have used to just shoot.

If you thought the chemistry between Nick Stahl and Claire Danes in T3 was lacking, prepare to be perplexed at whatever the hell is going on between Jai Courtney and Emilia Clarke.

[Voxr]

An Unexpected Journey

The Desolation Of Smaug

The Battle Of The Five Armies

I am a D&D junky so there is no way this could get anything other than 10 of 10. Evangeline Lilly too!

Read the books then watch them, that's how..... 

 

 

 

Cocaine is a helluva drug.

[Kaiser Arian XVII]

An Unexpected Journey

The Desolation Of Smaug

The Battle Of The Five Armies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVAgTiBrrDA

I am a D&D junky so there is no way this could get anything other than 10 of 10. Evangeline Lilly too!

 

I didn't know Evangeline Lilly was in these movies... she's a cutie!

 

I forgot to watch the 2nd and 3rd Hobbit movies despite having them! Should be watched soon.
 

[themikefest]

[Kaiser Arian XVII]

Is this Terminator Genisys the reboot people are talking about or it's Terminator 5?

[mybudgee]

Is this Terminator Genisys the reboot people are talking about or it's Terminator 5?

They're one in the same ... And they're both stupid

[Jorji Costava]

I saw Jurassic World with my girlfriend this past weekend. I enjoyed it on the level of the social experience of going to the movies with someone you really care about (especially since she absolutely adores the original Jurassic Park), but as cinema, it's entirely skippable. Jurassic Park in my view is a franchise that should never have been a franchise. The core of the original film was that familiar tension between the joys and the dangers of discovery, but the problem is that you can't discover the same thing more than once.

Jurassic World itself attempts to grapple with this problem with a major plot point concerning the need for genetically engineered dinosaurs in order for the park to maintain novelty and relevance; the banality of dinosaurs is a recurring idea. Ultimately, however, it turns into a straight-ahead monster movie of the most predictable sort. The dropped plotlines, thin characterization and failure to understand cinematic language all speak to an inability of the filmmakers to grapple with ideas the way the original Jurassic Park did.

 

The most egregious misstep of all, however, is that the Indominus Rex wasn't based on this:

 

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[leighzard]

It exceeded my expectations. 

Sure there was some fantastic action movie scenes and lots of things blew up, but the time travel plot was pretty good.  Sarah Connor is still a badass and I like that in this movie there was a theme of her taking power and making her own choices instead of following the one road she has to.  Or does she?  It's sort of hard to know when you mess around with time.  Does she or anyone have agency over their destinies, or is the future predetermined? 

Good movie.  Made me think.