What movie are you viewing at the moment?

[Wendigo]

Finally got round to it

Justice League (2017)
www.imdb.com/title/tt0974015/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cxixDgHUYw

Apparently the joint second most expensive film ever made
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...ve_films#Films

It gets a reasonable 7/10 in imdb and I'd put it about 6.5 or 7 too, the villain Steppenwolf is a relatively minor one in the DC universe and who just appears to be born to be wild with very little substance, the appearance of another villain (not the boat owner) in the end credit sequence made me smile a bit more.
It's a decent enough action flick but with the money they spent I expected my socks to be rocked a lot more, but apart from Wonder Woman, and oddly Aquaman who I had very low expectations of it didn't quite hit the mark as well as a few good lines from Jeremy Irons.

Steppenwolf's appearance along with the Mother Boxes and the as yet unnamed Boom Tube may have been be a precursor to a future big screen appearance of Darkseid but there appear to be other financial issues which may put the kibosh on that.

https://www.express.co.uk/entertainm...yllenhaal-DCEU


Off to see Marvel's The Black Panther later this week and I totally expect that to kick ass big style

[movieman88]

Madman (1982)
Another decently good slasher. Killer is very meh, however the film is fairly more stylish then the typical Friday 13th rip off. Very good use of lighting & shadow.
Gaylan Ross from the original Dawn of the Dead is a good final girl, sexy despite a odd looking face, gets naked.
Score is very unremarkable.
Kills are good, 1 really brutal hanging is kinda hard to watch with the victim struggling & skin turning purple.


Shakedown (1988)
Fairly damn underrated buddy cop film IMO.
Weller & Elliot have fantastic chemistry together, Weller despite looking kinda geeky in premotional photos is charismatic as hell & his enthusiasm is palpable. A sequel with them 2 would have been nice. Patricia Charbonneau is very sexy here.
Flaws, villains are non entities, finale is absolutely absurd, I've seen people say all the action in the film is outlandish, I don't think so, just the ending. And it isn't even the lack of realism it's the preposterous negligence of it. Spoilers: [Elliot has climbed on the wheel of a private jet and is then shooting at the engine to bring it down while in flight but the imagery they splice in behind Elliot has the plane above NYC and so it looks like he is gonna crash it right into the World Trade Center or Empire State Buildings, then the plane is landing because of the engine failure, he could just go arrest the bad guys on board, instead he throws a grenade inside killing the villains and their innocent pilots]

[Mr Lucas]

The Red Pill (2017)

Hard hitting documentary made by a young woman (Cassie Jaye) about MRA - and how she came to understand it and abandon feminism - so refreshing, but scary to see how it was treated like a hate film and protested over by manic blinkered feminists.

[Brecht]

The Belly of an Architect (1987)



Excerpt

The Chicago-based architect, Stourley Kracklite (Brian Dennehy), gets the chance to realize his dream project, an exhibition in Rome, dedicated to his personal hero, the French 18th century architect Étienne-Louis Boullée. He's accompanied by his wife Louisa (Chloe Webb) who's more interested in Caspasian Speckler (Lambert Wilson), the snobbish co-organizer of the exhibition, than Kracklite's project and increasing health issues. His social and physical decline is worsened by stomach pains and paranoia. Soon after his arrival in Rome, Kracklite becomes obsessed with the Roman emperor Augustus who was poisoned by his wife Livia, thinking Louisa is trying to do the same. Meanwhile, the organization of the exhibition faces the risk of ending up in a disaster since barely anyone is familiar with an obscure architect from the 18th century. And those who are express their doubts about the whole thing since Boullée was greatly admired by Hitler's architect Albert Speer.

Another stunning film by Peter Greenaway with a strong performance by Brian Dennehy. It may seem a little snobbish at times but its strength and beauty outweigh all the small flaws. Personally, I think Greenaway could have hired a more fitting composer than Wim Mertens whose awful score sounds like something that was written by Philip Glass. Also, the casting of Chloe Webb as Kracklite's wife is something of a puzzle. Her terrible performance was almost painful to watch. But other than that, The Belly of an Architect is a small masterpiece.

[neo2008]

Maze Runner: The Death Cure





In my opinion out of all the post apocalyptic,dystopian future,YA movies The Maze Runner series has been consistently exciting,action packed and involving.
The story of a virus that is turning people into horrifying zombies and those that are captive...teenagers,that may hold some type of preventiveto the virus in their genetic code,and those that try to control them to keep the preventive/cure for the elite.

The film opens with a great action sequence.Dylan O'Brien as Thomas has enough presence to uphold his part of the story and he will likely continue to get roles that will help him put his talents to use.
There are also good acting turns from,Thomas Brodie-Sangster as Newt,Giancarlo Esposito as Jorge,Aidan Gillen as Janson,Walton Goggins as Lawrence ,Ki Hong Lee as Minho,Will Poulter as Gally and Rosa Salazar as Brenda.
The action sequences are terrific,coupled with great visuals.
The only problems i had with the film were far to convenient moments,the pacing and i counted at least 3 endings...but hey at least we get a big screen ending...yes im talking about you Divergent...but uhmm let me keep my mouth shut...dont want to talk it up.

Scale of 1-10 an 8


The 15:17 to Paris





On August 21, 2015, Stone and his childhood friends Alek Skarlatos and Anthony Sadler, were traveling together during a sightseeing vacation in Europe.They boarded a Paris bound trai. Little did they know that an armed to the teeth terrorist also boarded the same train,and that there lives would be forever changed.

Director Clint Eastwood lays out a story that has it's charms and involving turns in the films first half.It is interesting that he decided to cast the real life heroes.When the film focuses on how the three men bonded as kids,and the military training of Spencer Stone and Aleksander Reed Skarlatos it really excels.
Then an odd thing happens in the middle of the film.Eastwood decides to to have the audience go along with the men on their tour of Amsterdam,that is so drawn out and made even more grating with dull dialogue,and yes i know the guys arent actors but there is something so robotic about the way they emote i started to laugh a little.It actually reminded me of the 2012 Act of Valor movie in which real life Marines were cast.

When the terrorist act happens it is quite riveting and its like a bolt of lightning after almost being rocked to sleep by the aforementioned tour of Amsterdam portion.

I praise the 3 men and the other passengers that assisted that day,Eastwood still has some spark in his direction,but this really could have been better.

Scale of 1-10 a 6½


Fifty Shades Freed




So this is it ,the nail in the coffin to the Fifty Shades series.
So is this final film more exciting and stimulating than the last ...well yes and a big NO !!
Christian Grey and Anastasia 'Ana' Steele are in wedded bliss on their honeymoon,but soon they are being stalked and terrorized by Jack Hyde, Ana’s former boss
So between some lukewarm kinky sex they must put a stop to the sinister Hyde


Out of the maybe 5(?) sex scenes there is only one that is partially erotic.
Dakota Johnson has her moments of presence,so she uplifts the film here and there
Jamie Dornan...not so much as Christian Grey has always been kind of aloof,and one note in these films and continues here.
There is a small dose of suspense,and it's visually stunning
Other than that the movie is empty with silly situations and aggravating turns.
It attempts to give the other characters and actors something to do but it's just filler.
I have to......i must go into spoiler territory...because i want to rant about a portion of this film that is completely ridiculous !!


SPOILERS AHEAD....YOUVE BEEN WARNED...SPOILERS AHEAD


So Christian hires all of this top notch security to protect his beloved Ana and the rest of his family from Hyde.Hyde not only breaks into Christians offices but also is able to download data,get away easily,on top of that he's able to enter their home attack Ana and then later on kidnap Chritiians sister.I mean this guy should be hired by the Suicide Squad or The Legion of Doom or something !!And why is he doing all this ?? Because Christian was adopted before him and had a life of wealth and pleasure and he didnt !! WAH !! Wah !! WAH !!

Scale of 1-10 a 3

[MaxJoker]

Great ,



Never seen any of the actors before in anything else. Oh and I don't use the term "Actors" lightly. As they all can do that. Especially the almost ludicrously attractive Juliana Harkavy. Who`s a fresh faced vulnerably raw recruit newbie cop here. That unfortunately get`s assigned to spend her first proper shift overseeing a decommissioned police station. A station that may or may not be haunted by a crazed cult and it`s victims.

Hmmmm , or is she just imagining everything ?. Due to being traumatised by something , I`ll annoyingly not go into



There are so many fun moments in this movie. One of my favorites though (No spoilers) is when the phone doesn't just ring. It seems to be alive and thoroughly pissed off .



Kudos to all involved. Hell yes we`re talking a stonking triple

[ultimatewarlord]

Well I watched Independence Day: Whatever. Oh Geez. Bill Pullman has no shame. Jeff Goldblum has no talent.
If you have a film with good guys vs bad guys you are supposed to identify and support the good guys. That's difficult when they are uniformly irritating assholes.

I found time to watch a film called 13. It's a version of a French film. The premise is excellent but not made the most of.
A young man in desperate need of a lot of money assumes the identity of another man and finds himself involved in a very secret, very deadly game, where the stakes are your own life.
Annoying fat prat Ray Winstone, the man who put cock in the word cockney is at his fattest and sweatiest in this film. Mind you, ira supporting prick Micky Rourke is an ira supporting prick which makes him the biggest prick in the film.

[Rogerbh]

I watched East Side Sushi (2014) on cable. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Side_Sushi
A young single Hispanic mother tries to become a Sushi chef. The actress Diana Elizabeth Torres is younger taller thinner less busty version of Salma Hayek. Acting was very good, storyline was alright. Not a waste of time. My own dislike of Sushi probably made me not like the film as much as it deserved. No female nudity either. Nobody gets killed. Not really sure why I watched it. It was in English but subtitled for Spanish. When they spoke Spanish, there were no English subtitles and my high school Spanish was not up to the task of understanding everything they were saying.

I still don't understand why white people like Sushi so much, guessing it must be a Californian thing.

[MaxJoker]

This ,



Stars A.J. Cook as defense attorney Kate who is called to defend freaky hairy looking giant Talan Gwynek. After he is charged with the vicious murders of a vacationing family. She and her team believe in the monosyllabic mans innocent. Thinking he might be suffering from a rare illness. Which seems to be the case and if can be proved would vindicate him.



Boy are they ever wrong



I can't remember the last time I've seen a Werewolf film that felt like a true ugly down and dirty proper wild bestial Werewolf movie. Actually I've never seen one. Although this comes bloody close. Considering the minuscule budget (Which I`m guessing wouldn't cover The Last Jedi`s cast and crew food one for a week) they've done marvelous work here with real props mostly and careful CGI effects where necessary. They made it seem as real as they possibly could. Acting is mostly solid across the board. Even the score is good. Don't be put off by the beginning as it isn't a found footage film. Give it a handful of minutes.



Might just grow on you

[Silicone Carne]

Ghoulies 3: Ghoulies Go To College



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When the sinister Professor Ragnar exercises some of his dark powers, he manages to summon three bloodthirsty ghouls who terrorize the college campus. Only students Skip Carter and his girlfriend realize who is behind the chaos.

Campy, funny, Cheesy...and intended to be!
Directed by SFX artist John Buechler, the second sequel to the Ghoulies franchise was shot in 1990 and the least I can say is that it has nothing to do with the previous films. There's always been some elements of comedy but still they were horror flicks. Not any more, Ghoulies Go To College is really a comedy with some fantasy things in it, like the little creatures and the magical comic book that is a tool to summon them.
The film takes place in a californian college during the prank week so it's all about frats, parties and fun. The 3 monsters are still mean and lethal but now they talk like humans and themselves are clearly used for humorous purposes.
It's like a crossover between Animal House and Critters. Sure the ghoulies are killing people but the body count isn't very high and every dead teenager is murdered in a goofy way. The dialogues aren't very poetic and subtle but it's really entertaining and you'll laugh numerous times watching all the stupid things the main characters do.
The hero is cool and likeable, his girlfriend is more of a pain in the ass I must say. But she's hot. Plenty o'hot girls in there, by the way. Especially the gorgeous B-Movie goddess Hope Marie Cartlon as Veronica, the horny student who gives us a view at her good during a nice striptease scene.
It's funny to realize that a lot of famous people were involved in Ghoulies 3 like the great Kevin McCarthy as the villain professor Ragnar, Eva LaRue, Richard Kind, Stephen Lee, Evan McKenzie, Patrick Labyorteaux, Griffin O'Neal, Billy Morrissette, Jason Scott Lee, stuntman and horror legend Kane Hodder, Matthew Lillard, Marcia Wallace from The Simpsons...the producer Lawrence Kasanoff also produced Mortal Kombat, Blood Diner and Kathryn Bigelow's Strange Days.
Ghoulies 3 is definitely the best of the franchise, which countains 4 films.