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Mar 26, 2019 22:58:23 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2019 22:58:23 GMT -5
He is terrible in Hugo. I have no idea why Scorcese thought it would be a good idea to expand the role of that character with Cohen, but it was a bad idea.
Scorcese is so overrated.
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Mar 26, 2019 23:01:29 GMT -5
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Post by mikegarrison on Mar 26, 2019 23:01:29 GMT -5
Scorcese is so overrated. Yeah, what's he ever done that was any good, anyway?
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Mar 26, 2019 23:04:26 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2019 23:04:26 GMT -5
Scorcese is so overrated. Yeah, what's he ever done that was any good, anyway? Glad you agree with me. Just a bunch of Italian/New Jersey/New York accents and single-take scenes. Seriously, I do not like his movies. But Hugo is really bad.
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Mar 27, 2019 13:04:58 GMT -5
Post by Wolfgang on Mar 27, 2019 13:04:58 GMT -5
The Brothers Grimsby (2016)
Early on, Daniel Radcliffe (who plays himself) gets AIDS due to some mishap caused by the Sacha Baron Cohen character.
“Because of you,...Harry Potter has AIDS. You managed to do in three seconds what Voldemort failed to do in eight movies!”
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Post by holidayhusker on Apr 2, 2019 17:02:14 GMT -5
The Highwaymen on Netflix. So good I cannot stop watching it.
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Post by yoda on Apr 2, 2019 17:23:13 GMT -5
The Highwaymen on Netflix. So good I cannot stop watching it. I liked it too. I liked the rural Texas vibe it gave off too. However, I did stop watching it once the credits rolled.
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Apr 4, 2019 0:04:53 GMT -5
Post by gnu2vball on Apr 4, 2019 0:04:53 GMT -5
The Highwaymen on Netflix. So good I cannot stop watching it. I liked it too. I liked the rural Texas vibe it gave off too. However, I did stop watching it once the credits rolled. Maybe 'cause it looked like they filmed it in the actual locations. Kevin Costner (and Harrelson for that matter) have done some great stuff lately.
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Apr 4, 2019 0:27:24 GMT -5
Post by XAsstCoach on Apr 4, 2019 0:27:24 GMT -5
Just watched Olympus Has Fallen, with Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman. Interesting scenario where Korean terrorists (North or South, still don't know...but Korean nonetheless) captured the White House and holds the President and his staff hostage. Butler is the lone secret service agent tasked to give intel to the military outside as he tries to save the President, Eckhart. Not bad, a typical gung-ho movie where you chant "USA USA USA" towards the end. Going to watch the sequel, London Has Fallen, this weekend when visiting the in-laws.
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Apr 4, 2019 2:03:30 GMT -5
Post by mikegarrison on Apr 4, 2019 2:03:30 GMT -5
Just watched Olympus Has Fallen, with Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman. Interesting scenario where Korean terrorists (North or South, still don't know...but Korean nonetheless) captured the White House and holds the President and his staff hostage. Butler is the lone secret service agent tasked to give intel to the military outside as he tries to save the President, Eckhart. Not bad, a typical gung-ho movie where you chant "USA USA USA" towards the end. Going to watch the sequel, London Has Fallen, this weekend when visiting the in-laws. If you like that kind of stuff, you might like Alistair MacLean's The Golden Gate. Criminals secure control of the Golden Gate Bridge as the President's motorcade is driving over it. They hold not just the President but also the bridge itself hostage. They first flood the area with gas that knocks out everyone, then they search everyone. Anybody with a gun they identify as a security agent and they kick them off the bridge. But they let the press that had been coving the President stay. The only one who is in position to do anything about all this is an FBI agent named Revson, who was slipped into the press pool undercover with no weapons or anything else that might betray him as an agent. The book dates back to 1976, so it may be hard to find, but MacLean's novels were popular enough that many libraries have them and copies of them aren't rare. This was actually the first MacLean book I ever read. It dates from the second half of his career, when he had started to be a little more formulaic. But I thought it was a great read when I first discovered it (when I was about 12, probably).
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Apr 16, 2019 20:17:40 GMT -5
Post by Wolfgang on Apr 16, 2019 20:17:40 GMT -5
Well, I've got Tomb Raider(2018) and Chappaquiddick (2018) on DVD. Should I even bother watching either of these or am I better off watching Piper Perabo in Covert Affairs (season 5)?
(Covert Affairs (s4) was reasonably good, despite Piper Perabo)
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Post by mikegarrison on Apr 16, 2019 20:22:58 GMT -5
Well, I've got Tomb Raider(2018) and Chappaquiddick (2018) on DVD. Should I even bother watching either of these or am I better off watching Piper Perabo in Covert Affairs (season 5)? ( Covert Affairs (s4) was reasonably good, despite Piper Perabo) Tomb Raider not too bad. Mostly an excuse to watch Alicia Vikander look attractive in an athletic way. (Don't make me chase your posts as you move them from thread to thread!)
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Apr 18, 2019 1:24:32 GMT -5
Post by Wolfgang on Apr 18, 2019 1:24:32 GMT -5
Watched Tomb Raider and Chappaquiddick with the wife.
Tomb Raider (2018) -- I didn't like it. Of course, I was comparing this 2-hour movie with a 50+ hour video game, which was pretty damn good. Sure, Alicia Vikander was nice to look at but there were so many things wrong with almost every scene. Just take all the "puzzle" scenes whether she's working on a puzzle toy herself or the puzzles in the tomb (except for the stupid yellow + blue = green puzzle). The filmmakers decided to not show the audience what those puzzles were or how they were solved. Take the puzzle to the tomb itself. How the frick did Lara open it? She just turned some dials and voila! it's open. We don't know because they didn't involve us in the puzzle! In the Indiana Jones movies, they ALWAYS showed what the puzzle was and how Indiana Jones solved it -- or at least what the premise of the puzzle was and what the solution was.
Chappquiddick (2018) -- It was a lot better than I thought. I knew some of the details from the actual incident and yet I felt I got something out of the film -- at least the emotions. I particularly liked the interactions between Ted Kennedy (played by Jason Clarke) and his cousin Joe Gargan (played by Ed Helms). Ted always told Joe that the latter was valuable to him but whenever Ted asked Gargan for advice or counsel, Ted never took it -- reporting the accident to the police immediately (Ted didn't), don't wear the neck brace (Ted wore the neck brace), and resigning from the U.S. Senate (Ted didn't resign). All the performances were great. I also liked how Ted Kennedy was sitting at the Police Chief's desk and controlling the "meeting." These rich and powerful people...Oy vey...
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Apr 19, 2019 22:27:05 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2019 22:27:05 GMT -5
Still no explanation for how the hell Ted got out of the car.
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Apr 20, 2019 13:24:50 GMT -5
Post by Wolfgang on Apr 20, 2019 13:24:50 GMT -5
Still no explanation for how the hell Ted got out of the car. Yes, we were wondering about that, too, but when I watch a movie, I don't look for factual accuracy. I'm looking at a work of art so I treat it as such. If you want facts, you have to seek out news articles, documentaries (although these can be works of art), radio interviews, etc. I'm planning on watching this documentary, although I suspect it won't address how he got out of the car: (I suspect no one knows what really happened except for Ted and Joe.) I think I've already seen this one several years ago:
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Apr 20, 2019 15:16:03 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Apr 20, 2019 15:16:03 GMT -5
Just seems like a basic plot point -- not to mention an actual fact in the death. Mary Jo is trapped in the car, but somehow Ted got out? It makes no sense and needs explaining.
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