Netflix has two of my favorites in streaming rotation right now: Leon by Luc Besson staring Jean Reno and The Blues Brothers who are on a "Mission from God!" Good watching even though my son asked why watch the Blues Brothers when I already know all the lines and scenes. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Leon. The Professional. Love it. Proof that a great action film can also tell a great story. It is no surprise to me that Natalie Portman became a big star. Her performance is first rate. Great choice...T
Direct TV took it upon themselves to bless us with a subscription to Showtime and they expected us to pay an extra $13 per month for something we never ordered. With that being said I watched "Rare Bird" with William Hurt on Saturday and found it quite amusing and it was filmed in Newfoundland so the scenery was great. Later today I will be watching "The Million Dollar Hotel". Is anyone familiar with these two movies?
Ultron. The exotics dealership rented out theater for private showing with free popcorn and drinks. Didn't matter I was looking at my watch half an hour in. Silly story arc with Hawkeye and his family, fabricated and totally fake romance with Black Widow and Banner. Ending goes Michael Bay Transformers. Just like Captain America 2. Visual sensory overload. Guess what Tony Stark still driving an old ass R8. I love scarlett johansson. Black Widow does nothing for me. Olsen chick as Scarlet Witch was hotter. Don't waste your time Tom. Batman v Superman is where it's at. 4 days till Mad Max Fury Road. Tom Hardy. Charlize Thieron. Two hour extended car chase. Huaaaahhhh!
Leon is also a very tightly scripted story. There is nothing wasted anywhere. Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login Image Unavailable, Please Login
Disappointing. Love the Iron Man movies, well 1 and 2, waiting for 3 to come on free TV. Of course, if Tony Stark drove a Ferrari, he'd be even cooler. We will have to agree to disagree on Black Widow. T
Leon easily makes it to my top ten list across all decades. I still put Blade Runner at the top slot. Mulholland Drive is in the number two slot right now.
The Gambler. Quit after 30 minutes. Marky Mark's tirade teaching his literature class gave me a migraine. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I'm an old movie buff, including back into the silent era. There's not a lot of more recent movies I've seen, & the few I have seen, very few I've enjoyed enough to watch again. Have not seen the ones you've mentioned, or Sling Blade, which Gregg mentioned, so I guess I should try & watch a few more.... T
Avengers age of Ultron. The storyline wasn't as good as the first one imo, but the action scenes looked great in Imax 3D. I'd recommend seeing it for that alone. Thor's comments always make me laugh. I won't give away any spoilers, but when he talked about gout I almost lost it... As I mentioned earlier in this thread, the Jurassic World movie looks pretty bad. The Imax 3D preview looked like horrible CGI. Even with all that said, it will be hard for me not to go see it in Imax 3D just for the Imax audio...as you can tell I have a thing for Imax.
I see a lot of movies and the most recent standout for me (and wife) is "Ex Machina." Next time you do a Google search, you will think about this movie. Critics and fans got it right with the high ratings, MB Ex Machina (2015) - IMDb
If you watched (or read) To Kill a Mockingbird, and liked - you might humor Sling Blade, as it's a Boo Radley story, of sorts.
Lots of good movies 'about but very few great ones. Action and adventure cook noodles but a truly great movie/story will leave you depleted because every nerve/emotion will be touched. When I watch "The Shawshank Redemption" or "Sling Blade" I am emotionally spent and dehydrated. Did I get to deep or does that make sense?
Nope. I think you got it right on, Gregg. A good movie should be emotionally & mentally engaging, well perhaps a drama should be. As someone mentioned above, it should also be "tight" - no filler, no wastage, everything happens for a reason. For me, the test of a good movie is: A) Would I watch it again? Maybe not right away but in a year or so. B) If I watch it again, do I see some new nuance to the plot, some attribute to the acting, etc. that I did not see before? To me, this adds more texture and depth to the movie. If I look at my all-time faves - Grand Hotel, Good Earth, Grapes of Wrath, The Big Parade and Casablanca - I can, and have, seen each many times, the last one probably a dozen times to the point I know most of the dialogue. But, yet, I see something new each time. I'll have to try Sling Blade, since To Kill A Mockingbird is a fave of mine. Ditto for Mulholland Drive. I've heard good things about it, and I've liked the two other Lynch films that I have seen - Eraserhead (still no idea what it's about!) and Blue Velvet. If nothing else, maybe it'll get my wife to stop teasing me about only liking B&W movies .T
Blade Runner is one of the greatest sci-fi movies of all time. Rutger's monologue in the rain is mesmerizing. "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like [small cough] tears in rain. Time to die " Mullholland Drive was a complete mindf-ck. I felt like I was tripping yet completely sober. I had a 30 minute discussion of the film with my sister. Naomi Watts was amazing. I was a huge Twin Peaks fan in my childhood. Loved the fantasy world in that TV series. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Has anyone seen "A Most Violent Year"? Worth watching? (I used to like movies, but now for some reason I can't get past the first 30 min of 90% of films, so I figured I'd ask before starting another one I wont finish)
