What movie are you viewing at the moment?

[aknevomn]

A bootleg DVD of 'The Post'..Great film and performances (especially from Streep)!

[movieman88]

Originally Posted by Silicone Carne

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Originally Posted by Silicone Carne

Visiting Hours



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Nice, I put both those down to watch a few days ago, on a slasher kick right now.

Originally Posted by Brecht

Blade Runner 2049 (2017)



1 - For most of the time it's simply emulating the original, trying to appeal to the viewer's nostalgia.
2 - How often have we already seen this in science fiction cinema of the last 40 years?

1 - I never felt it copyed the original much at all in terms of plot or characterization.
2 - Alot of people would say not nearly enough, for a long time we have been swamped with Independence Day/Transformers style sci-fi and little else. This, Arrival & Ex Machina have brought hard sci-fi to the forfront again.

[trailmaster]

These are three movies that I rented from Netflix this week. I can't say much about either one that is really good. The first one called "Beatriz at Dinner" starring an aging Salma Hayek and John Lithgow is basically about Hayek a masseuse and holistic healer at a cancer hospital accidently going to a dinner party at one of her customer's house because her car broke down. She unfortunately meets people of a class much higher than her own who are all very well to do and executives of corporations that build office buildings after they have destroyed all the land. This upsets Hayek to a point that she wants to kill herself by the end of the film. I thought the ending was just too ludicrous.

The second film "Hero" starring Sam Elliott one of my favorite actors from way back in the 1970's is now in his 70's. He stars as an aging western movie star who became a legend(like a Clint Eastwood type western actor) who develops pancreatic cancer and was told by his doctor that it is incurable. Knowing that he is dying he tries to get back to getting to re-know his daughter who he became estranged from years ago, and get back to re-living his life as a lothario with many younger women. I thought his acting was kind of wooden, and the movie ends abruptly after just 84 minutes.

The third movie is an American biographical film of Tupac Shakur who by the age of 25 became the all time biggest seller of rap or hip-hop music in the world. He had composed over 750 songs, had five albums that went platinum, and had songs that were on the top of the Billboard top 100 song list for periods that were higher than any other songs composed at the time. However, Tupac had a difficult career often filled with violence at home , in the recording studios and on stage in concerts. His songs also became very contentious, often filled with cuss words and words demeaning women, and promoting violence. He was gunned down and killed in a limousine while doing a concert venue in Las Vegas. His murder to date has never been solved. While audiences liked the film the critics did not saying that it too often spent too much time on the violent parts of his life.

[Brecht]

Originally Posted by movieman88

1 - I never felt it copyed the original much at all in terms of plot or characterization.
2 - Alot of people would say not nearly enough, for a long time we have been swamped with Independence Day/Transformers style sci-fi and little else. This, Arrival & Ex Machina have brought hard sci-fi to the forfront again.

Perhaps less in plot or characterization than visually. It's definitely trying to reproduce the atmosphere of the original film, music included. The only really positive thing I can say about this film is Ryan Gosling's performance.

By the way, the opening scene in which K waits for Sapper Morton in his kitchen was taken from the first script written by Hampton Fancher for the original Blade Runner but left out after David Peoples was hired.

I wasn't aware Blade Runner 2049 qualifies as hard science fiction. The reason is simple: it doesn't. There are hardly any films that might pass as hard sci fi except Kubrick's 2001 maybe. Solaris would have been another example if Tarkovsky followed Lem's book. Most of the hard science fiction never went beyond literature. I haven't seen Arrival yet but Ex Machina is far from what's usually understood as hard science fiction.

[victor meldrew]

Silver River

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040789/

[Wendigo]

One of my favourite films of the 80's, a low budget horror movie concerning The Windigo, I have seen this so many times

Ghostkeeper (1981)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0128232/


Three friends, one male, two female (one love triangle) are on a snowmobiling trip they ignore the warning of a local storeholder to return to their hotel and continue to explore the mountains. After an accident with one of the machines they decide to spend the night in an abandoned (albeit warm) lodge in the mountains.
The only inhabitants of the hotel appears to be an elderly woman and a cat, but it hides a dark secret in the cellar


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4vdWVK3XBo

full movie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJJ6UIowWyc

[Silicone Carne]

Ticks



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A bunch of troubled kids from L.A are shipped out to the woods to get down with nature, and instead run smack dab into an infestation of mutated ticks and two sleazy drug dealers.

Pretty funny film from 1993, Ticks is directed by the same guy who made Hellraiser 2 and Pumpkinhead 2 and features 90s Hottie Ami Dolenz, Fresh Prince's Alfonso Ribeiro and a younger Seth Green. Unfortunately they don't make movies like this anymore. The SFX were created and supervised by specialist Doug Beswick and they're pretty good. The hungry little insects looks good, gooey & ready to kill.
The characters, except for Ribeiro's thug with a heart and Green's resourceful geek, are annoying and not very likeable, but that's not a big departure from the horror genre. Ticks runs 80mn and is easy to watch. But the main issue here is that the body count is very poor! With such effective mutant killers, we could have expect blood, gore and dead teenagers but nooo!
Tony Randel is very shy with the death tool and that's a bummer considering the possibilities of his movie. Despite this disappointment, Ticks remains a well handled soft horror flick.

[Silicone Carne]

Bug Buster aka Some Things Never Die



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When Shannon and her family move to the idyllic town of Mountview, urban stress becomes the least of their problems. A local girl is attacked by a strange creature while swimming in the town lake.
Tension mounts as several townspeople are found dead, their bodies infested by a strange form of insect larva. Soon the town is overrun by some mutant insects. Shannon and other suvivors must trace the creepy creatures to their source and save the town from total annihilation...

Another killer bugs movie for me this afternoon!
This one's definitely a comedy trying to find an old 50s monster flicks vibe. The problem is that it's not very funny because most of the gags and humoristic moments are overacted, like in a parody. But Bug Buster isn't a complete failure. First, a then 20 years old buxom Katherine Heigl is the heroine and gosh...she was hot back in 1997! And not that shy since she almost let a boob out during a bathroom scene! The gorgeous Meredith Salenger who grew up nice since The Journey Of Natty Gann, is also in there.
Randy Quaid plays a veteran who's now a bug exterminator. His commercials in the film are quite funny. We also have the chance to count on two Star Trek pals, James Doohan & George Takei, who aren't taking themselves very seriously and add to the good points of Bug Buster.
Some gory effects are alright and the Mother Bug, the main monster, is well made by Alterian Studios.
Bug Buster isn't a great movie, neither a good one. It's a horror comedy a little too lazy to satisfy but while playing with your smartphone or eating crisps on a rainy sunday afternoon, it's worth a watch. Especially for Quaid and Heigl!

[J J]

I’ve just got back from the cinema with my son.

Saw Black Panther ...........great film, recommended !

[maildude]

A Futile And Stupid Gesture (2018) tells the story of the troubled and talented co-founder of humor magazine The National Lampoon Doug Kenney (Will Forte, Martin Mull) from his childhood days in Chagrin Falls, Ohio, to his triumphs as the writer for the hit movies Animal House and Caddyshack. It's a mostly funny but bittersweet tale of a rich kid who was Dad's second choice, and whose wisecracking cynical nature landed him in more trouble than his gifts were worth. From the free-wheeling days at Harvard, through numerous failed relationships, a teetering marriage, drug abuse, and self doubt, the layers of Kenney's life unfold often at a staccato pace--one almost misses the point unless, like me, you subscribed to the magazine in college and actually lived the era. Critics panned this Netflix film, rather harshly and unfairly, although I could see some of its kinks. But I lived this...so it meant more to me I suppose. Young actors and established names alike portrayed their counterparts accurately and often stringently...from Joel McHale playing a deadpan Chevy Chase, to Matt Walsh becoming Matty Simmons. I liked it. And give Doug Kenney some respect and his due: whether you like it or not, he was the stepfather of SNL and a legacy. B