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Post by libgirl2 on Apr 26, 2021 22:27:12 GMT
"Stowaway" on Netflix. Worst. Movie. Ever. WE had it on last night but I lost interest pretty fast. My husband stayed until the end and said it was just "okay".
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Post by waywyrd on Apr 26, 2021 22:28:53 GMT
"Stowaway" on Netflix. Worst. Movie. Ever. What, you didn't like how it just ended with no resolution or explanation for all the silly plot holes?
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Post by Critical on Apr 27, 2021 0:30:43 GMT
I read a review of Stowaway last night, which is a good thing because otherwise I might have wasted my time on it. I like the cast, but the review used the word "tedious" among many other unflattering adjectives. It's disappointing because the concept was good. It could have been an exciting movie.
ETA: I watched Mortal Kombat yesterday and it was exactly what I expected. A solid 5 or 6 out of 10. Good action, silly story and unintentionally funny dialogue. Still, it didn't pretend to be anything it wasn't, so I'm okay with a brainless action film. Maybe people who are into the video game would get more out of it.
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Post by AZChristian on Apr 27, 2021 2:13:02 GMT
"Stowaway" on Netflix. Worst. Movie. Ever. What, you didn't like how it just ended with no resolution or explanation for all the silly plot holes? That plot had more holes than some of the openwork afghans I've crocheted.
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Post by AZChristian on Apr 27, 2021 16:01:00 GMT
waywyrd{Spoiler} Hubby and I are still laughing at the ridiculous ending, but then we got creative.
Maybe it was the setup for a sequel!
At the beginning of the sequel, Doctor Zoe steps off into space and miraculously catches up with the oxygen canister that went flying off earlier. Then, as the vehicle continues to spin (to create "artificial gravity"), it spins back around and the rest of the crew is able to throw out a line and reel the good doctor back in.
She marries the "Stowaway" (who wasn't really a stowaway), and they go back home, hook up with a bunch of vampires (because Doctor Zoe was in the "Twilight" movies and has vampire friends) and raise his sister and a whole bunch of kids of their own.
The end.
Actually makes more sense than the original movie, right?
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Post by waywyrd on Apr 27, 2021 16:46:30 GMT
AZChristian your sequel makes more sense than the "science" in the original. I mean... {Spoiler}{Spoiler}A very critical CO2 scrubber had no backup? NOTHING??! How did he even get stuck in that compartment? They had to remove screws from the outside to even open it up. Why did the algae all die so quickly? The stuff in my aquarium is damn near bulletproof. Why couldn't stowaway guy go get the oxygen tanks? He was an engineering grad student, I'm sure he could figure it out. Instead, let's send our only doctor. I won't even get into the "artificial gravity" stuff. Or risking your life for an oxygen tank and not bothering to tether it to yourself, or the pole, or anything.
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Post by AZChristian on Apr 27, 2021 16:52:46 GMT
Your second point was the BIGGEST plot hole, in our opinion.
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Post by rembrant on Apr 29, 2021 7:33:37 GMT
Thankful for Tubi once again. They have, for a limited time (I think it ends soon), Critters 2, which was a big favorite of mine as a child. I got a lot of those memories back watching it today.
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Post by acookertv on Apr 29, 2021 10:52:52 GMT
I love coming across those childhood memory movies like that! It sometimes scares me how much of them I remember when I watch!
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Post by rembrant on May 2, 2021 4:36:27 GMT
Indeed. It's why I love revisiting movies and TV shows I watched when I was very young... though, sadly, not all of them hold up today.
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Post by acookertv on May 2, 2021 11:32:34 GMT
Last night I started my free trial of Coda Collection on Amazon in order to watch Dave Grohls new documentary What Drives Us. It’s promoted as being about musicians telling stories of their early days touring in a van, but it’s so much more. I really enjoyed it and highly recommend for any music fans.
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Post by waywyrd on May 2, 2021 23:47:25 GMT
Mortal Kombat - it was actually pretty decent for a movie based on a video game. Lots of over the top fighting, silly gore, and an easy to follow story.
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Post by Kao on May 3, 2021 2:35:24 GMT
Hustlers: JLo was amazing in this; no wonder she got Oscar buzz. Her ability to flow from mother figure to menacing was quite impressive.
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Post by beerbelly on May 4, 2021 10:57:18 GMT
I watched The Mitchell's vs. The Machines yesterday and absolutely loved it! Lots of SNL-voiced characters, and it was very funny. Also really sweet about the relationship between a daughter and her dad. It's an animated family movie, but that didn't stop me from adoring it.
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Post by waywyrd on May 6, 2021 13:35:04 GMT
Without Remorse (on Prime) - meh. It had almost nothing to do with the original Tom Clancy novel, but it was an okay action movie. The usual fights, explosions, bullets flying and Russian bad guys...but Michael B. Jordan's abs are a sight to behold.
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Post by Arielflies on May 6, 2021 21:11:40 GMT
I left after awhile. The violence/explosions/mean faces got to me.
I looked forward to John Kelly in the Ryan books. He brought strength and imperturbability. This is too much over the top, even for an origin story.
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Post by stargazer161 on May 10, 2021 18:35:17 GMT
Things Heard & Seen (hubby and I enjoyed it)
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Post by waywyrd on May 11, 2021 11:43:56 GMT
Greenland - an end-of-the-world disaster movie with Gerard Butler that was actually quite good, IMO. Fast paced, tense, and not all about the special effects.
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Post by libgirl2 on May 11, 2021 15:15:46 GMT
I watched Nomadland over the weekend. Some people say it was depressing, others uplifting. I found it neither. It was good but it felt more like a documentary that needed more with the actual people who live this life. It was interesting however. I also wondered that we didn't see anything bad such as robberies or assaults. I can't imagine that not happening.
My cousin, who has lived that lifestyle in his earlier years including staying at the place in the movie, said that there were several incidents, some people just left on foot and didn't come back.
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Post by momrek06 on May 11, 2021 15:47:59 GMT
Our theaters all opened back up April 1st.
With the semester OVER (5/5/21) one of my GF's and I have been hitting up matinees. (Hubby has been away for work on the East Coast for almost 4 weeks.)
I have to say if you have not been to the movies since they reopened, you will be amazed at how theaters have so many CDC rules that they are abiding by.
Limited people in each theater. While you can sit with the person you came with, there are then four seats between guests. And every other row is used.
As far as snacks, all I saw was popcorn and bottled soda. Nothing else. (I bring my own; a banana and a water).
We have seen: ($5.00pp senior discount).
Nomadland
Together Together
Four Good Days
Hey There
I have to say we both agreed we liked them all. I esp loved Hey There and Nomadland.
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Post by stargazer161 on May 12, 2021 2:36:49 GMT
The Tent (started out weird but the ending made up for it..kind of a tear jerker).
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Post by waywyrd on May 13, 2021 16:26:47 GMT
Breach - a sci-fi stinker that I only watched because Bruce Willis and Thomas Jane were in it. It was SO bad. Bad acting, bad story, bad effects...it would, however, make a fantastic movie for MST3K to take on.
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Post by waywyrd on May 16, 2021 12:54:32 GMT
Those Who Wish Me Dead - if you can imagine a painfully thin Angelina Jolie as an ass-kicking, hard drinking firefighter, you might like this one. It's a decent action film if you can overlook some of the silliness, and at 100 minutes it didn't feel dragged out.
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Post by AZChristian on May 16, 2021 15:12:47 GMT
"The Woman in the Window" on Netflix.
Save yourself an hour and 40 minutes. It was dreadful. Even Amy Adams and Gary Oldman couldn't save this one. (Although the white hair is very becoming on him.)
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Post by Kao on May 16, 2021 18:56:27 GMT
"The Woman in the Window" on Netflix. Save yourself an hour and 40 minutes. It was dreadful. Even Amy Adams and Gary Oldman couldn't save this one. (Although the white hair is very becoming on him.) OMG, you never lied, AZChristian!
It's best left as a drinking game because so much of it is a mess! I heard they had to change some of the things from the book because the author blatantly plagarised parts of the movie "Copycat" in it, and it gave the whole movie a disjointed feel. I laughed at parts that weren't meant to be funny (like Gary Oldman slapping his son and Amy Adam's character screaming "You slapped your SON....in my HOUSE!") and then the random people who were there to move the story along (like her tenant who at first says he's never seen the woman she thinks is Gary Oldman's wife, then when the cops are there changes course and is like "Oh yeah, I remember her! I slept with her a few weeks ago!" Juliana Moore was utterly wasted in this movie and quite frankly was acting like she smoked that demon weed before filming her part but at least she can act; that "boy" who played the son was absolutely horrible.
I can see this becoming a cult favorite a la "The Room" because its so unintentionally hysterical at parts. I laughed so hard when Amy Adams screams at the teenage boy "WHERE IS YOUR MOTHER?!" from this teeny-tiny window and when the wife calls Amy Adams and yells in the phone "If you don't quit watching my house I'll call the police!" I read the book before all the scandal about the author came out and it couldn't happen to a more horrible person; I got the "Copycat" references right away and was like 👀 but it was an interesting thriller book that went haywire in movie form. I also read the expose the New Yorker did on the author again and if even 1/10th of it were true he's a horrible person; it's a great read and more entertaining than the movie. I wonder how his next book project is going to do since he's been outed as a pathological liar and worse?
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Post by AZChristian on May 16, 2021 19:16:37 GMT
The tenant was played by Wyatt Hawn Russell - son of Goldie and Kurt. Sure looks like his folks.
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Post by FannyMare on May 16, 2021 21:16:30 GMT
"The Woman in the Window" on Netflix. Save yourself an hour and 40 minutes. It was dreadful. Even Amy Adams and Gary Oldman couldn't save this one. (Although the white hair is very becoming on him.) I read the book and loved it. Watched it last might and just knew it would be dreadful...
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Post by Critical on May 16, 2021 22:58:23 GMT
Kao - I'd never heard that story, but WOW! I found the New Yorker article and it is bananas! I did like the one review of the book that was something like, "The most self-conscious thriller I've ever read." Telling that, as soon as his real name was revealed, so many publishers dropper out of that bidding war. Shades of James Frey and Tom Ripley, for sure. I read a review of the movie the other day that said the Rear Window parallels were ham-fisted and that the movie was a waste of a good cast. Hard pass on the movie AND the book. I hate plagiarists and people who rely on other writers' characters. Same reason I won't read anything Cassandra Clare or EL James write. I watched Wonder Woman 1984 last night expecting to hate it, but I didn't. It obviously wasn't as good as the first movie and I hate that they made sexy beast Pedro Pascal so gross and creepy, but I enjoyed it. I don't go into those movies expecting a masterpiece. I guess my expectations were low. I watched Greenland the other day. Typical disaster movie with Gerard Butler and Morena Baccarin. It was good, but predictable.
Also watched The New Mutants and....meh. It felt like the first episode of a not-so-great TV show. I mean, it wasn't terrible, but nothing really happened. It had a good cast that was largely wasted.
Why are so many movies lately just so mediocre? I'm glad, at least, that I'm watching the new releases on HBO Max instead of going to a theater and plunking down $15 for this stuff.
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Post by momrek06 on May 17, 2021 14:42:41 GMT
We went to the movies yesterday saw WRATH OF MAN and loved it. TONS of action. GREAT s/l. JASON STATHAM.......
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Post by Kao on May 17, 2021 16:00:46 GMT
Critical: That article is a coaster ride, and in a way was a damnation of the hiring process in the publication field in the aughts; when you're more concerned about whether people "look" like they fit the role as opposed to actually being qualified these things happen. What got to me was all the lies...and not just little ones, but killing off family members that were still alive? And HOW many times did he have cancer across how many publishing firms? I've known people like this before and they are no longer in my life because every third word they say is a lie so what's the point?
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