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Unplanned [2019] :

As a Catholic and someone who is Pro Life, Unplanned is a very important movie. Having said that, it is unbalanced, heavy handed and not for everyone. I'm just glad someone had the courage to make it.

7/10

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ORRFForever said:
Unplanned [2019] :

As a Christian and someone who is Pro Life, Unplanned is a very important movie. Having said that, it is unbalanced, heavy handed and not for everyone. I'm just glad someone had the courage to make it.

7/10

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I stopped the trailer at "From the writers of God's Not Dead", to puke. Don't need to see that. Telling any story is fine by me, but using media to spread ignorance is not something I'm comfortable with.
 
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Mama (2016) Directed by Vlado Skafar 7C (very good film, very challenging)

Let's start with the plot. My first time through Mama, I didn't get it. I thought this was an artsy movie about a mopey older woman and a mopey younger woman. They moped about, often in pretty natural settings, and director Vlado Skafar, sort of a one-man Slovenian New Wave, shot film, often gorgeous film, of them moping about. Skafar stays on the surface of their existence and lets the audience figure out what agonies take place within. It is a highly visual cinema and an approach that may have influenced recent Terrrence Malick works though he does this sort of thing less compellingly and far more vacantly than Skafar does. Such an approach makes great demands on the viewer, demands that Skafar appears to see as quite reasonable as his approach, ideally anyway. leads to kinds of fundamental truths that differ from the usual movie-going experience. Others saw a more coherent plot than I did, suggesting that knowing something about the director is a pre-condition to understanding his work--always a dicey proposition. It turns out that the film is about a worried mom trying to find a way to help her seriously addicted daughter get her life back. Reading that description after I saw the movie, it made sense but also seemed almost irrelevant. What the conflict between the two women is isn't as important to Skafar as the human struggle it represents--something that can warp the very core of one's existence. It is humanity under duress that he observes, eschewing dialogue for very long stretches, in the hope of using images to come up with some universal truths about the human condition. In fact, I would say he has developed his particular style as a means of plumbing these depths which can ultimately beggar any attempt by language to describe or explain them. So we look intensively at the exterior of these women's lives to hint at the great emotional forces that churn within. Fair enough. But I have some problems. For starters, Skafar's approach is not so much a melding of style and content as an exercise in pure style, one that makes the content seem arbitrary and even irrelevant as though if we just look at the expression of deep feeling we will understand the truths that lie beneath the surface. However, and here is where the style has its limits, it is hard to seek universal truths without delving into the particular, something Skafar eschews almost like it were a distraction. As a result, these women are more archetypes than individuals. Still, Skafar is doing something quite different than what everybody else is doing. When it doesn't work, Skafar risks banality and incoherence, but when it does work, there is a loveliness to the film that is based on his perception of the fragility of human beings. You don't find such emotions recognized, let alone delivered, every day at the movies.
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Good to hear your thoughts on it. Reading your review, I think in the end I liked it a bit more than you did, also for me the plot was actually not that hard to figure out as I got the feeling pretty early on we were dealing with a mother taking her daughter somewhere, away from whatever problem(s) she was facing. I find it hard to explain why exactly I liked it so much however there's a great line near the end of your review "there is a loveliness to the film that is based on his perception of the fragility of human beings" and that might be the perfect description. It's far from a perfect movie but to me it was filled with magical moments, it also has a beautiful soundtrack.
 
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Savi said:
Good to hear your thoughts on it. Reading your review, I think in the end I liked it a bit more than you did, also for me the plot was actually not that hard to figure out as I got the feeling pretty early on we were dealing with a mother taking her daughter somewhere, away from whatever problem(s) she was facing. I find it hard to explain why exactly I liked it so much however there's a great line near the end of your review "there is a loveliness to the film that is based on his perception of the fragility of human beings" and that might be the perfect description. It's far from a perfect movie but to me it was filled with magical moments, it also has a beautiful soundtrack.
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I certainly plan to follow this director very closely in the future. Thanks again for the big assist in allowing me to see this work. Very much appreciated.
 
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47 Meters Down : Uncaged [2019] :

2 sisters bond while battling sharks in an underground cave as their air runs out.

The movie's best lines of dialogue :

Nicole : Sasha, you can barely get your ass through there.

Sasha : Shut up, Nicole! At least I have an ass.

Unfortunately, that's as good as it gets.

2/10

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

with Johnny Depp, Benicio del Toro, and all the celebrity cameos.

Terry Gilliam's cinematic adaptation of the legendary Hunter S. Thompson's classic tale of deranged debauchery in 1971 Las Vegas. Journalist Raoul Duke (Depp) and his Samoan attorney Dr Gonzo (del Toro) are tapped to head to Las Vegas to cover the Mint 400; a motorcycle race through the desert. And in their own words: “We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.” We follow the creator of Gonzo Journalism through a predominantly hostile Las Vegas as he and his cohort wax philosophical, do all the drugs, and ruin hotel rooms as well as various people's lives.

Still gloriously weird after all these years. And still a travesty how Michael Bay and Uwe Boll somehow keep making movies but Terry Gilliam can barely get work.
 
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ProstheticConscience said:
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

with Johnny Depp, Benicio del Toro, and all the celebrity cameos.

Terry Gilliam's cinematic adaptation of the legendary Hunter S. Thompson's classic tale of deranged debauchery in 1971 Las Vegas. Journalist Raoul Duke (Depp) and his Samoan attorney Dr Gonzo (del Toro) are tapped to head to Las Vegas to cover the Mint 400; a motorcycle race through the desert. And in their own words: “We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.” We follow the creator of Gonzo Journalism through a predominantly hostile Las Vegas as he and his cohort wax philosophical, do all the drugs, and ruin hotel rooms as well as various people's lives.

Still gloriously weird after all these years. And still a travesty how Michael Bay and Uwe Boll somehow keep making movies but Terry Gilliam can barely get work.
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I love the book but always thought the movie to be rather weak, personally. Although Del Toro is great. I wish they could have found a way to include the ordering tacos scene from the book.
 
Vice (2019) - 8/10

I really enjoy the past couple Adam McKay films. But whereas The Big Short felt more educational and tense with a frantic pace and left you feeling sick but satisfied, this was more deliberate and left you feeling sick without the satisfaction knowing these scumbag Republican politicians keep getting away it.

The Quiet Earth (1985) - 7/10

Very solid first half followed by an unpredictable but messy 2nd half. Still felt fairly unique and worth watching for that alone. The sci-fi element is poorly done.
 
Amerika said:
I love the book but always thought the movie to be rather weak, personally. Although Del Toro is great. I wish they could have found a way to include the ordering tacos scene from the book.
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Yeah....it didn't quite capture the bust-a-gut funny quality of the book, but it's still worth watching, if only as a cultural artifact.
 
ItsFineImFine said:
The Quiet Earth (1985) - 7/10

Very solid first half followed by an unpredictable but messy 2nd half. Still felt fairly unique and worth watching for that alone. The sci-fi element is poorly done.
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If you haven't done so already, might want to check out Omega Man and the other films inspired by Matheson's I Am Legend. I went through that path a "few" years ago.
 
Good Boys [2019] :

While I could have done without all the swearing (the movie would have been just as good without it), and showing the kids running across the highway is a BAD idea (kids will try it), I laughed from start to finish.

Good Boys is a really funny movie.
7.5/10

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Just watched Annihilation with Natalie Portman. Really intriguing concept that was rushed along and then goes completely off the rails. I think it would've been better off as a mini-series where they could really build suspense and develop the plot a bit better. The visuals were pretty neat though.

I'd give it a 5/10.
 
Finally watched The Favourite, I thought it was great. It also made me learn more about Queen Anne by reading a lot about her online. She is like the George Costanza of Queens, some of the stuff I read cracked me up. This line in particular:

"And when Queen Anne found herself out of her depth, she would reportedly "move only her lips and make as if she said something when in truth no words were uttered."
 
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Just watched Annihilation with Natalie Portman. Really intriguing concept that was rushed along and then goes completely off the rails. I think it would've been better off as a mini-series where they could really build suspense and develop the plot a bit better. The visuals were pretty neat though.

I'd give it a 5/10.
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Surprised you didn't like it more.
 
Went on a bit of a movie binge the last couple weeks. Going in order watched

Bohemian Rhapsody
3/10
Dumb and obviously a glamorized rendition approved by the band. The final scene was solid however, especially since it was watching the original Live Aid concert that inspired me to watch the film

True Romance
7.5/10
Kind of over the top, maybe that was the point, but some great writing and really fun aesthetic with Hans Zimmer happy ass score backdropped against the fleeing of deranged pimps and coke dealers.

Snatch
8.5/10
Need to watch it again but damn it was a lot of fun.

Django Unchained
8.5/10
Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz) is probably my favorite Tarantino character ever, without that casting/role I feel like the movie would have fallen a bit flat. But Tarantino knows how to execute.


Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
9/10
As they are both quite similar I initially thought I liked Snatch better....but thinking about it now not sure. Snatch had better momentum from the start....but where it keeps getting more and more convoluted Smoking Barrels narrows down to a great climax of the movie, and is overall more rewarding imo. The dialogue is great in both, but I don't need to watch this again to appreciate/fully understand it, so I'm not sure what that means. But I'm going to rate it higher for right now.


Straight Outta Compton
7.5/10
Loved this movie, might be my favorite music biopic ever. Really captures the spirit of the scene and while it's probably glamorized quite a bit as well, it just feels much more real than Bohemian Rhapsody

Fargo
8/10
Maybe I was expecting more of the zainy storytelling like in O Brother Where Art Thou and Big Lebowski, but I felt slightly let down with the movie. I had really high expectations though, and it was still awesome and Frances Mcdormand absolutely killed it. I think will enjoy it a lot more on a re-watch while I'm not just waiting for the infamous
woodchipper scene
 
zombie kopitar said:
Went on a bit of a movie binge the last couple weeks. Going in order watched

Bohemian Rhapsody
3/10
Dumb and obviously a glamorized rendition approved by the band. The final scene was solid however, especially since it was watching the original Live Aid concert that inspired me to watch the film

True Romance
7.5/10
Kind of over the top, maybe that was the point, but some great writing and really fun aesthetic with Hans Zimmer happy ass score backdropped against the fleeing of deranged pimps and coke dealers.

Snatch
8.5/10
Need to watch it again but damn it was a lot of fun.

Django Unchained
8.5/10
Dr. King Schultz (Christoph Waltz) is probably my favorite Tarantino character ever, without that casting/role I feel like the movie would have fallen a bit flat. But Tarantino knows how to execute.


Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
9/10
As they are both quite similar I initially thought I liked Snatch better....but thinking about it now not sure. Snatch had better momentum from the start....but where it keeps getting more and more convoluted Smoking Barrels narrows down to a great climax of the movie, and is overall more rewarding imo. The dialogue is great in both, but I don't need to watch this again to appreciate/fully understand it, so I'm not sure what that means. But I'm going to rate it higher for right now.


Straight Outta Compton
7.5/10
Loved this movie, might be my favorite music biopic ever. Really captures the spirit of the scene and while it's probably glamorized quite a bit as well, it just feels much more real than Bohemian Rhapsody

Fargo
8/10
Maybe I was expecting more of the zainy storytelling like in O Brother Where Art Thou and Big Lebowski, but I felt slightly let down with the movie. I had really high expectations though, and it was still awesome and Frances Mcdormand absolutely killed it. I think will enjoy it a lot more on a re-watch while I'm not just waiting for the infamous
woodchipper scene
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Well rated - at least the ones I've seen.
 
Still waiting to see Midsommar on line - after trying twice in the theater.

I'm shocked it hasn't appeared on line more quickly. Most times, movies are available within a week.
 
Up until this summer the last movie I watched in the theater was Finding Dory lmao. But I've gone a few movie dates this summer so gonna post those as well. In order seen.

Aladdin
7.5/10
I came in with the expectation that I was going to hate it. I was wrong. It was so much fun, I think it's the best live action adaption Disney has done. The musical arrangements were awesome and the grandiose nature is better experienced in a movie theater. I just didn't like Jafaar casting and neutral on Will Smith. But this should be the blueprint on how to re-make their classics, and not Lion King (which I'll get to later)

Toy Story 4
6.5/10
It was formulaic but still Pixar doing Pixar things

Yesterday
NC/10
I'm not rating this movie. I loved the first half so much and hated the second half equally. It gets a no contest from me due to illegal rom com to the groin.

Lion King
.5/10
The worst cash grab I've ever seen in my life, just because of the way it was executed. It could have been something at least worthy of the revenue it's making..but it just isn't. The music and score don't come close sonically to the original, and the voice acting feels really phoned in considering the talent. CGI is soulless and the biggest travesty. Timon and Pumba's nihilist scene is the only thing I truly enjoyed, but man it just really struck me wrong in every way.

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
5/10
Idk it's a scary summer movie and the acting was charming.

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
9/10
I loved it. I will be watching it again. This is Quentin getting to fill 2 hours of the movie with just his amazing writing and stellar acting; and then 30 minutes of ironic action sequences which are hilarious. Kind of the inverse for one of his movies and it's refreshing.
 
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Once Upon a Time in Hollywood
9/10
I loved it. I will be watching it again. This is Quentin getting to fill 2 hours of the movie with just his amazing writing and stellar acting; and then 30 minutes of ironic action sequences which are hilarious. Kind of the inverse for one of his movies and it's refreshing.
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Surprised you liked it as much as you did.
 
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