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A "Hey I just watched a movie" thread
April 23, 2010 at
06:49 PM
One of the other forums I go to has one of these threads and I've been turned on to some good movies that other regulars just watched. I was kind of surprised not to see a similar thread here (at least not that I could find.) 
I just rewatched "Kinamand" - a cute drama about a Danish plumber who gets involved in an arranged marriage with a Chinese illegal. Good stuff (Netflix instant.)
So what have you folks watched recently?
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I just rewatched "Kinamand" - a cute drama about a Danish plumber who gets involved in an arranged marriage with a Chinese illegal. Good stuff (Netflix instant.)
So what have you folks watched recently?
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Since they only had this movie in 1 theater near me, I thought it'd be more of an indy flick and boring like a lot of the movies that get nominated for the golden globe but it was a good watch.
Further proof that George Clooney is overrated. (As are the Coen Brothers.) Clooney's best acting is the way he's convinced people he's a good actor. And he somehow keeps being allowed to direct even though his directing is even worse than his acting.
The Shape of Water.
Further proof that Guillermo del Toro is overrated. A woman at a not-secure secure facility falls in love with The Creature from the Black Lagoon.
It's an R-rated movie that could have been PG if not for gratuitous violence, language, sex, and nudity which added nothing.
It's a stupid and boring movie about zoophilia/bestiality that could have been not stupid (but probably still boring) if the characters' behavior were more believable. And the creature can barely move but then suddenly is super strong. And the only way to get to the ocean is wait for the harbor lock to fill up even though the ocean is a mere 200 feet farther away. And there's a sudden musical dance number. There's more, but I'm losing brain cells even thinking about it.
Downsizing.
Further proof that Matt Damon is overrated. People choose to get shrunk to a small size because it's cheaper to live that way and to help save the environment and stuff.
People probably see ads for this movie and think it's an adult version of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. It's sort of like that, for the first 20 minutes. And then it basically ignores all of the shrinking stuff and no one interacts with regular-size objects since everything around them is also shrunk, so it's like watching a typical movie. And the various people you may encounter in regular life have also been shrunk down. So being shrunk for cost-of-living purposes still strangely winds up having different classes of people and shrunken ghettos and poor people doing tough jobs for little pay, etc.
There are a couple spots where things started to get more intellectually stimulating, such as when a bar patron says why should shrunk people still have the same voting rights etc as everyone else when it's everyone else who has to protect the shrunk people and do all sorts of things for them.
But then fleeting spots like that go away and we go back to being preached to about the environment and being forced to care about a grumpy Asian woman who is mean to everyone but she has a prosthetic leg and Matt Damon's character kind of has a thing for her, (he's a doormat to every woman in the movie), so apparently that means it's ok if she's mean to everyone, and we're supposed to like the character and give the actress many awards because she did a weird accent or something.
Further proof that George Clooney is overrated. (As are the Coen Brothers.) Clooney's best acting is the way he's convinced people he's a good actor. And he somehow keeps being allowed to direct even though his directing is even worse than his acting.
The Shape of Water.
Further proof that Guillermo del Toro is overrated. A woman at a not-secure secure facility falls in love with The Creature from the Black Lagoon.
It's an R-rated movie that could have been PG if not for gratuitous violence, language, sex, and nudity which added nothing.
It's a stupid and boring movie about zoophilia/bestiality that could have been not stupid (but probably still boring) if the characters' behavior were more believable. And the creature can barely move but then suddenly is super strong. And the only way to get to the ocean is wait for the harbor lock to fill up even though the ocean is a mere 200 feet farther away. And there's a sudden musical dance number. There's more, but I'm losing brain cells even thinking about it.
Downsizing.
Further proof that Matt Damon is overrated. People choose to get shrunk to a small size because it's cheaper to live that way and to help save the environment and stuff.
People probably see ads for this movie and think it's an adult version of Honey, I Shrunk the Kids. It's sort of like that, for the first 20 minutes. And then it basically ignores all of the shrinking stuff and no one interacts with regular-size objects since everything around them is also shrunk, so it's like watching a typical movie. And the various people you may encounter in regular life have also been shrunk down. So being shrunk for cost-of-living purposes still strangely winds up having different classes of people and shrunken ghettos and poor people doing tough jobs for little pay, etc.
There are a couple spots where things started to get more intellectually stimulating, such as when a bar patron says why should shrunk people still have the same voting rights etc as everyone else when it's everyone else who has to protect the shrunk people and do all sorts of things for them.
But then fleeting spots like that go away and we go back to being preached to about the environment and being forced to care about a grumpy Asian woman who is mean to everyone but she has a prosthetic leg and Matt Damon's character kind of has a thing for her, (he's a doormat to every woman in the movie), so apparently that means it's ok if she's mean to everyone, and we're supposed to like the character and give the actress many awards because she did a weird accent or something.
Loved your reviews. I laughed. I cried. But I mostly laughed
Going by early reviews, this is the greatest movie in the history of cinema. In reality, it's disappointing. The Star Wars effect is going on where all the professional reviewers are obviously bought and paid for, or are too scared of backlash to make an honest review, while normal people basically say it's meh.
The main character is super-serious and boring. The whole movie is super-serious and boring. The fight scenes and "surprise" plot points are cliched and boring.
The nation of Wakanda and its people are isolationists, anti-immigration, anti-diversity, and have a big wall to keep everyone else out in order to preserve their culture. (Similar to the isolationist, anti-immigrant, anti-diversity nation with a big wall to keep everyone else out in the Wonder Woman movie.) By the way, if you look around, there are people today who think Wakanda is a real place.
Wakanda is such AN ADVANCED SOCIETY that they still have a king for a ruler, who becomes king through one-on-one, hand-to-hand combat.
And the movie is such a PRO-BLACK movie that when some black teenagers see the Wakanda invisible jet they wonder how to steal it and sell it for parts.
Arg Stairs.
A "so dumb it's good" low-budget dry comedy about a caveman who has to deal with the good and bad effects of sudden popularity after he invents stairs.
This won't win any awards, but it's something different, and it's not a bait-and-switch movie that is overhyped to the moon.
Blade Runner 2048. Zzzzz....
Aquaman ~
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1183252/
great Kung Fu from Thiland
Great movie if you like star wars etc....
Rented it from VuDu.
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Not a bad trip down memory lane.
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That was a great series.