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Johnnie wrote: Sun May 19, 2019 7:47 pm Just saw Endgame. I was able to avoid legit spoilers about the movie despite the fact that...
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On 3 separate occasions I was told that Thanos killed Tony Stark.

Once in the comments on Instagram for an NBA highlight I was watching. The second was during Charlemagne Tha God's Donkey if the Day rant against Alabama. And third was this morning after watching the latest Bill Maher. I'm quite happy that it wasn't true.

Kinda silly that Captain Marvel can cut through that crazy flying fortress thing Thanos had shoot at everyone only to get smacked by Thanks and seemingly disappear during the fight.

The Audi product placement was slick both times, but not overbearing.

Super cool scene when all the women assembled during the fight. That so damn awesome to watch.
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Watched Stan and Ollie with my nearly 13 year old son. Thought he would not like it...but he liked it. It was not slapstick but brought enough to keep him very engaged. The tale is just heart warming and crushing at the same time. Fantastic job by John C. Reilly and Steve Coogan.
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Starting watching all the MCU movies. Pretty good so far!
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bfj wrote: Mon Apr 22, 2019 8:30 pm I may be very late to the party, but I thought Black KKKlansman was very well done. I listened to the book also and that was great. It’s narrated by the author and he does sound “white”.
Just watched it, and it's weird, because it's better than the book, but it pretty much avoided some of the most interesting parts of the book.
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HOT TAKE: there’s a little too much Bill
Murray in the original ‘84 Ghostbusters
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I tend to agree with chedda but I totally get where rass is coming from. I’m on the fence here.
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I have a pretty good handle when I see/hear about a movie that sounds like it's going to be bad, but ultimately will be viewed as a Good Bad Movie. This doesn't sound like it.
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L-Jam3 wrote: Mon Jun 10, 2019 12:12 pm I have a pretty good handle when I see/hear about a movie that sounds like it's going to be bad, but ultimately will be viewed as a Good Bad Movie. This doesn't sound like it.
Firmly agree, though I'm tempted to watch it on Prime as soon as possible while I still can.
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If I told you I just watched a movie featuring matthew mcconaughey, snoop dogg, jimmy buffett. isla fisher, zac effron, martin lawrence, and jonah hill......

a.) Who do you think in that cast I was making up?
b.) How many stars would I give it?
c.) Above or below TOMATOMETER pf 50%
d.) Above or below rotten tomato audience score of 50%
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trick question on a....they were all in the movie
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wlu_lax6 wrote: Thu Jun 20, 2019 6:06 pm If I told you I just watched a movie featuring matthew mcconaughey, snoop dogg, jimmy buffett. isla fisher, zac effron, martin lawrence, and jonah hill......

a.) Who do you think in that cast I was making up?
b.) How many stars would I give it?
c.) Above or below TOMATOMETER pf 50%
d.) Above or below rotten tomato audience score of 50%
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trick question on a....they were all in the movie
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sancarlos wrote: Thu Jun 20, 2019 6:23 pm
wlu_lax6 wrote: Thu Jun 20, 2019 6:06 pm If I told you I just watched a movie featuring matthew mcconaughey, snoop dogg, jimmy buffett. isla fisher, zac effron, martin lawrence, and jonah hill......

a.) Who do you think in that cast I was making up?
b.) How many stars would I give it?
c.) Above or below TOMATOMETER pf 50%
d.) Above or below rotten tomato audience score of 50%
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trick question on a....they were all in the movie
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The Beach Bum. wlu, did you like it? Would you recommend it? Harmony Korine seems like a weird dude, who makes weird movies. I saw Gummo, which was a weird, somewhat disturbing movie.
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Good lord, why?
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Forgot to mention that Saturday before last I watched my favorite movie, Raiders of the Lost Ark, with my son at an outside ampitheater with the Reading Orchestra providing the score. Just a couple of notes:

1. Seriously, how good was Stephen Spielberg in his first peak? Within a 7-year span he did Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders, and E.T. (along with the misfire of 1941). Who could stand up to that run in so short a time? Maybe Billy Wilder, but I need to check imdb on that one.

2. "Dad, are these the bad guys?"
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brian wrote: Mon Jun 24, 2019 9:33 amGood lord, why?
I like the idea of a Matrix TV show, tbh.
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Giff wrote: Mon Jun 24, 2019 9:49 am
brian wrote: Mon Jun 24, 2019 9:33 amGood lord, why?
I like the idea of a Matrix TV show, tbh.
Yeah, I could get behind that. I don't necessarily have an issue with remakes into TV shows -- Fargo was incredible of course and there's some other examples as well.

Remaking the movie by the same directors only 20 years after it initially came out lends me to believe these two don't have any other ideas though.
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L-Jam3 wrote: Mon Jun 24, 2019 9:44 am Forgot to mention that Saturday before last I watched my favorite movie, Raiders of the Lost Ark, with my son at an outside ampitheater with the Reading Orchestra providing the score. Just a couple of notes:

1. Seriously, how good was Stephen Spielberg in his first peak? Within a 7-year span he did Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Raiders, and E.T. (along with the misfire of 1941). Who could stand up to that run in so short a time? Maybe Billy Wilder, but I need to check imdb on that one.
An incredible run.

But Francis Coppola's 70s run was unbelievable. Oscars for screenplay, directing, producing. 12 nominations and 5 wins. (Bob Fosse for Cabaret beat him the year of The Godfather)

He wrote Patton, then came The Godfather, The Conversation, Godfather 2 and Apocalypse Now. He even had time to produce American Graffiti. In 1974 he was nominated for producing and writing two films that he directed The Conversation, Godfather 2. 5 nominations that year.

And then... no films that had any real impact.

But jeez - what a decade.
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The Conversation. What a great movie. Didn't even think Coppola, even though Godfather I and II are my #3 and #2 movies, respectively.

Godfather II is a better movie than I. Fight me.
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L-Jam3 wrote: Mon Jun 24, 2019 12:43 pm The Conversation. What a great movie. Didn't even think Coppola, even though Godfather I and II are my #3 and #2 movies, respectively.

Godfather II is a better movie than I. Fight me.
No argument. And III is underrated only because it gets judged against the other two.
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L-Jam3 wrote: Mon Jun 24, 2019 12:43 pm The Conversation. What a great movie. Didn't even think Coppola, even though Godfather I and II are my #3 and #2 movies, respectively.

Godfather II is a better movie than I. Fight me.
No way I could choose between them. Both are absolutely perfect.
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L-Jam3 wrote: Mon Jun 24, 2019 12:43 pm Godfather II is a better movie than I.
I love them both, but I agree with this statement.
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Just watched Major League with my son. Still holds up. Also noticed that the janitor from Scrubs is longshoreman who they cut to a few times asking who are these guys (before they cut to the Asian grounds crew saying they're shitty).
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wlu_lax6 wrote: Mon Jun 24, 2019 8:28 pm Just watched Major League with my son. Still holds up. Also noticed that the janitor from Scrubs is longshoreman who they cut to a few times asking who are these guys (before they cut to the Asian grounds crew saying they're shitty).
I noticed that last time I watched!
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wlu_lax6 wrote: Mon Jun 24, 2019 8:28 pm Just watched Major League with my son. Still holds up. Also noticed that the janitor from Scrubs is longshoreman who they cut to a few times asking who are these guys (before they cut to the Asian grounds crew saying they're shitty).
And of course he was a cop in The Fugitive ... and his appearance as a cop in the Fugitive gets mentioned in Scrubs.
And his one problem is he didn’t go to Russia that night because he had extracurricular activities, and they froze to death.
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Steve of phpBB wrote: Tue Jun 25, 2019 12:28 pm
wlu_lax6 wrote: Mon Jun 24, 2019 8:28 pm Just watched Major League with my son. Still holds up. Also noticed that the janitor from Scrubs is longshoreman who they cut to a few times asking who are these guys (before they cut to the Asian grounds crew saying they're shitty).
And of course he was a cop in The Fugitive ... and his appearance as a cop in the Fugitive gets mentioned in Scrubs.
And, the dad in The Middle, right?
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sancarlos wrote: Tue Jun 25, 2019 1:53 pm
Steve of phpBB wrote: Tue Jun 25, 2019 12:28 pm
wlu_lax6 wrote: Mon Jun 24, 2019 8:28 pm Just watched Major League with my son. Still holds up. Also noticed that the janitor from Scrubs is longshoreman who they cut to a few times asking who are these guys (before they cut to the Asian grounds crew saying they're shitty).
And of course he was a cop in The Fugitive ... and his appearance as a cop in the Fugitive gets mentioned in Scrubs.
And, the dad in The Middle, right?
Yes.
And his one problem is he didn’t go to Russia that night because he had extracurricular activities, and they froze to death.
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finally, a movie I'm excited to see...

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DaveInSeattle wrote: Fri Jun 28, 2019 12:16 am finally, a movie I'm excited to see...

I always wanted to see Dickinson belt out Rio, too.
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Jackie Brown is not only the most underrated Tarantino movie, it’s probably his best movie.
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brian wrote: Fri Jun 28, 2019 6:53 pm Jackie Brown is not only the most underrated Tarantino movie, it’s probably his best movie.
I like it. But no.
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Anyone else see Toy Story 4? Thoughts?

Yesterday seems like a cool premise for a movie.
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Agree about Yesterday.
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Yesterday sounds like a good premise for a 20 minute piece from a film school student. Not sure about a full length movie though.
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Booksmart was terrific.
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EnochRoot wrote: Fri Jun 28, 2019 8:33 pm Yesterday sounds like a good premise for a 20 minute piece from a film school student. Not sure about a full length movie though.
I have a sneaking suspicion it isn’t good.
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A_B wrote: Fri Jun 28, 2019 9:33 pm
EnochRoot wrote: Fri Jun 28, 2019 8:33 pm Yesterday sounds like a good premise for a 20 minute piece from a film school student. Not sure about a full length movie though.
I have a sneaking suspicion it isn’t good.
There’s a way to make that movie good though. The one guy aware of the Beatles is re-imagined into the Beatles timeline as a goofy teenager, Ringo Starr in Liverpool, England. He’s got to alter drummer Pete Best’s path as the future drummer of the Beatles, because if he doesn’t become the drummer, the world’s timeline becomes irrevocably altered where future radio airplay gets dominated by say, Neil Sedaka and Frankie Avalaon, and all the future bands draw influence from them than say, the Beatles, The Who, the Kinks, the Stones, etc. It’d have to be done tongue-in-cheek, but alternative timelines could be shown based on whatever scenarios they find themselves in. It’s all up to Ringo. Who the band at times openly mocks, and who music critics tend to dismiss as the luckiest guy on the planet, to keep the world from burning.
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