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[thebobmaster]

A ★★★★★ review of Mulholland Drive (2001)

“It’s been a very strange day.” “And getting stranger.” This film initially began production as a TV pilot for a David Lynch series to follow up his success with Twin Peaks. However, after the pilot concluded filming, the network was unhappy with several elements of it. Given that some of those...

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[hanselthecaretaker2]

Wicked.


“Don’t make me angry. You wouldn’t like me whe…” oh my bad, wrong IP.

Couldn’t help drawing the comparison, regardless of trading in the muscles for mystics.

It didn’t sway my predictions any closer to musicals either, but like prior outings to Oz I expected as much going in. It’s enjoyable enough when Grande isn’t trying to steal the stage (and her arc really needs expanding to save her character in part 2), but more engaging when exposing the hypocritical flaws of human nature, along with digging into a character that’s worth rooting for even in the face of tragedy. While the baddies were rather predictably set up it’s always frustrating without fail to see these kind of witch-hunt setups. The ending may be set, but with any luck the yellow brick road to it will reveal a few new treasures.


Trap.

Certainly wasn’t a bad use of an aging Josh Hartnett, even with yet another generous helping of Shyamalanadingdong slop greasing the wheels to avoid a derailment. It’s mostly an inverse of Knock at the Cabin, which outside of the lead felt like the ending was all the movie had going for it.


Also watching Den of Thieves 2: Pantera while texting this for light background noise, and I’m still barely hanging onto it.

 

[Old_Hunter_77]

We finished season 1 of Invasion and then I went to read online reviews and wow did people hate this show hahah.
It's one of those things where I can agree with most of the criticism, but I enjoyed watching anyway.
The biggest criticisms are:

1- They take too long to get to the aliens, and when they get there it's underwhelming
Since I was going in for the drama and characters and treated the aliens more like monsters, I didn't have a problem with this. I think the marketing and folks' expectations hobbled its reception.

2- Sam Neil, the biggest name actor, only appears in the first episode.
This caught us by surprise- we got like 5 episodes in and my wife is like "where's the sheriff?!" and I'm like "oh yeah." Apparently there was some health issues and behind the scenes stuff that took him out and I'm sure that messed things up a LOT.

3- A bunch of spoilery plot stuff, character decisions, etc...
Yeah the writers had the characters take some huge leaps of logic and there was some wtf I'm obviously not gonna get into in case anyone wants to watch this.

If you take it as a bit of slickly produced TV schlock with a couple of solid actors then it's a good time.

 

[Old_Hunter_77]

A ★★★★★ review of Mulholland Drive (2001)

“It’s been a very strange day.” “And getting stranger.” This film initially began production as a TV pilot for a David Lynch series to follow up his success with Twin Peaks. However, after the pilot concluded filming, the network was unhappy with several elements of it. Given that some of those...

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For real an all-time favorite like top 5 movie for me. One of the few I've purposefully (meaning, not just cause it's on TV or as a joke or to have in the background while hanging out with folks) rewatched multiple times.

 

[thebobmaster]

For real an all-time favorite like top 5 movie for me. One of the few I've purposefully (meaning, not just cause it's on TV or as a joke or to have in the background while hanging out with folks) rewatched multiple times.

Legitimately still thinking about it after last night. That's the sign of a great movie. Came across this quote from Justin Theroux describing working with Lynch, and it really sums him up.


"You get the whole script, but he might as well withhold the scenes you're not in, because the whole turns out to be more mystifying than the parts. David welcomes questions, but he won't answer any of them."

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

+1 Mulholland Dr. being one of the best films ever made.

 

[thebobmaster]

A ★★★★★ review of Shutter Island (2010)

“Sanity's not a choice, Marshal. You can't just choose to get over it.” This film, an adaptation of the novel by the same name by Dennis Lehane, first began being considered for a film version in 2003, with Columbia Pictures being optioned the rights. However, they allowed the rights to lapse...

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[PsychedelicDiamond]

I gotta be the contrarian here, of Lynch's three movies set in Los Angeles, Mulholland Drive is actually my least favourite. Still a great movie, though.

 

[thebobmaster]

A ★★★★★ review of The Big Lebowski (1998)

“Yeah, well, you know, that's just like... uh... your opinion man.” Many of the characters in this movie were based on friends of the Coen Brothers. When it came time for casting, quite a few people were offered the role of the titular character. No, not The Dude, the actual Big Lebowski. Robert...

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[thebobmaster]

A ★★★ review of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001)

“I suppose you think I'm a greedy, unscrupulous sellout who'll do just about anything for money?” “Yes, that's right.” “...Well the money bit's true I guess.” This film only had a few minor issues when it came to production. The script was rewritten several times, by several different people...

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[thebobmaster]

A ★½ review of Alien: Covenant (2017)

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[McElroy]

A Working Man
I'd say with sufficiently low expectations one can take some enjoyment (sadism) out of this. But... I expected at least some sense in there, because of the Twitch ad in which Statham's character seems to be on a detective hunt on top of the hunt to kill everyone. And he is. Very briefly. Otherwise the plot is ridiculous. The itty bitty twist in there is some Russian gangster drama, but the rest is by the numbers.

That doesn't make this movie total garbage, but what does is the rather terrible action. There are a couple of motorcycle stunts. Then there is shooting (bad guys shoot around Statham and Statham caps them without breaking a sweat), and melee that cuts hastily between 1-2 moves. The biggest disappointment is that there is another character who supposedly knows martial arts and of course Chekov's skill and all, so... they don't do martial arts. They do some stomps into the air that cut to a *smack* and other fake crap. Got me laughing out loud in the theater.

It's the sort of film that makes me appreciate "decent" action films. Not that comparisons are always fair budget-wise but still.
3/10

 

[BrawlMan]

A Working Man. Not as good as a Beekeeper, but I find it entertaining. Gets a 7/10 for me.

 

[Phoenixmgs]

A Working Man. Not as good as a Beekeeper, but I find it entertaining. Gets a 7/10 for me.

The Beekeeper was not a good movie and this is even worse, then I'll pass.

 

[thebobmaster]

A ★★½ review of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)

"Follow the spiders? Why couldn't it be follow the butterflies?" It's been a while since I reviewed the first movie, so I feel I need to make the same disclaimer I made there. Anything I say about this movie has nothing to do with my views of J.K. Rowling or her very upsetting beliefs. I am...

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[Gordon_4]

A ★★½ review of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)

"Follow the spiders? Why couldn't it be follow the butterflies?" It's been a while since I reviewed the first movie, so I feel I need to make the same disclaimer I made there. Anything I say about this movie has nothing to do with my views of J.K. Rowling or her very upsetting beliefs. I am...

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Its ironic one of your big complaints is Philosopher's Stone and Chamber of Secrets cramming in too much from the books, where the major fan complaint for the films from Azkaban onwards is cutting and condensing too much. But yeah, Ron got screwed.

 

[thebobmaster]

I honestly expected this to be worse.

A ★★ review of Hellboy: The Crooked Man (2024)

“Flesh rots, but the sin goes on.” This film serves as a second reboot of the Guillermo Del Toro duology, because the last one went so well. Directed by Brian Taylor, who also directed Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance, and with a script written by Hellboy creator Mike Mignola and Christopher...

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[thebobmaster]

Its ironic one of your big complaints is Philosopher's Stone and Chamber of Secrets cramming in too much from the books, where the major fan complaint for the films from Azkaban onwards is cutting and condensing too much. But yeah, Ron got screwed.

It wasn't just them including so much from the book, it was the fact that they didn't even rework it to fit in with a faster pace for the film. For example, they kept in the exposition dump about the legend of The Chamber of Secrets, but rather than have it be brought up in the History class like in the books, it was reworked into Hermione randomly bringing it up in the middle of Transfiguration with Professor McGonagall, so everything just screeches to a halt for about 10 minutes of pretty clumsy exposition, when they could have, for example, just had the trio look it up in the library or something in half the time.

 

[Phoenixmgs]

Fight or Flight - 4/10

This movie is essentially, as my friend put it, Bullet Train on a plane. However, this is not nearly as well written as Bullet Train. It's one of those movies that's really really trying to be cool, funny, and fun and you can feel it trying really hard to do that. And when you can feel the "try", the script totally then fails at that. The characters all are kinda written the same and feel very same-y. The script isn't very good concerning the plot either. There's a bit of a MacGuffin that only a few characters actually care about that's a super computer (probably a quantum computer) that at the end of the movie, a character says they can use it to expose all the lies of such and such, but you don't need that computer to do that, you can literally just release that info... The ending is made as happy as you can in a really contrived manner. The movie isn't all bad at all though. The action is legitimately well done, usually interesting, and pretty fun overall. It's well directed but the director got a shit script.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Black Bag

Second Soderbergh movie I see in theaters this year. Well, it's a better spy thriller than Presence was a horror movie. I'd recommend it to anybody who liked Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy. It's a simpler variation of that plot - a dry, George Smiley type (Michael Fassbender) is told to oust a mole and given a list of five suspects, including his wife - and lives on that slick, sexy, jazzy wavelength of smart people politely outsmarting each other.