What's The Last Movie You’ve Seen?
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Miggs
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Visited Rubie at work?
prodigy
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So everyone knows the prom scene, it's just a incredible piece of cinema that directors like Tarantino and Edgar Wright place in their top movies of all time just because of that scene. The way the camera moves throughout the scene is mesmerizing. It's something you never forget once you see it. Because of that scene I always considered this a horror movie, well really leading up to the prom scene it's not really a horror movie. It's more of a drama/character study of a person who is alone in the world and is pretty badly bullied, the scene in the girls locker room is tough to watch. Those girls are so nasty to her. And Carrie's mom is just a nut job.
The performances are just terrific, Sissy Spacek was cast really well because she just looks and acts the part. Because of that look, there is a bit of creepiness factor to it just makes the prom scene more amazing than it would be with a different actress. And when that scene happens you sympathize for her more because how well she played the role. I really liked the actress who played the gym teacher who is on Carrie's side and encourages her to stand up for herself. When she slapped the crazy chick I applauded.
Everything from the prom scene on is pretty fantastic and certainly elevates it. I would recommend watching the movie as a whole so it makes it the scene have more of a impact knowing everything she's been through.
Douchebag K
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lol yeah Rubie was a dead ringer, way more than his clients
Thee Idiotic Minivan K
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Just got out of Star Wars. I thought it was the best one yet, not going to spoil the end for those that haven’t seen it but the end, a little mind blowing. Going to lead into another film, weather it’s Solo or not.
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Just watched it. Great movie.
Miggs
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I liked the movie A LOT and am pretty good at suspending disbelief when the time calls for it but the whole premise was pretty dumb.
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Dead Pool 2. Not as good as 1 I think, they tried to hard to duplicate it instead of just making another good movie on a similar premise, and the 4th wall breaks were not as pointed as I would have liked. But I liked it. It was fun to watch.
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I didn't like this one as much as I expected despite it being filled with some great De Palma moments and I liked the simplicity of the story of mobster rule over Chicago. But this movie is very inconsistent. Starting with De Niro as Al Capone as you can imagine he is great, problem is that he's sparsely used, you have something great here why not utilize it more. Instead we get more of Kevin Costner's character and his underdeveloped wife, who I thought both were kind of dull/not memorable. I also had some issues with the tone of the movie, it was inconsistent, Ennio Morricone's score is strangely one of it's strength but also one of it's weaknesses. Speaking of performances I was surprised Sean Connery won a oscar for this, like he's at least a memorable character but Oscar caliber?! I dunno. Like everything in this movie his performance there were some highs and some lows.
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This movie is very 80's, so much so there is actually a 80's style music video in it. I really liked the music from this movie, there's something very hypnotic about it that works well with the voyeuristic shots. Some great shots in this movie, there is scene at the mall that stands out that you can tell was carefully planned and it's great. I gotta say a lot of this movie I found just strange up until the ending which reveals some things and it's kind of a ahhh I see what you were doing there, pretty clever. Some of it is predictable but there were things I didn't see coming.
I thought were some scenes that were a bit much/kind of cheesy that hurt the quality of it, there were times I questioned why I was watching it but watch the whole movie through, in the end you'll probably end up liking it like I did. The cast is mostly people you wouldn't recognize, the main character reminds me of Bill Maher, I haven't seen him in anything else but he fits the role here. Melanie Griffith is the standout here though, she's quite good.
I saw "Solo" over the weekend. I enjoyed it, but I hadn't seen the original trilogy in quite a while so some of it didn't make sense to me and I had to look it up when I got home. The irony is that you really need to be an avid fan to get some of it, but the fanboys have been avoiding the movie.
Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom
I hadn't planned on watching this but I had a first date with this lovely girl and while thinking about what to do on the 2nd date I came up with 'movies' and she agreed. There's Solo, Oceans 8 and Jurassic Park and she chose Jurassic... so I was stuck with the choice. Personally I'd prefer Solo, Ocean 8 and Jurassic in that order, but what can you do?
I'm not the biggest fan of Jarassic Park and thought with the exception of the first 2 the instalments have been pretty lacklustre, especially the previous one.
But I thoroughly enjoyed this one. It was a bit different to the previous ones in that most of the 'attacks' happened on the 'mainland' not on the islands.
While plot and acting went out of the window, artistically I love the setting and there were some really memorable scenes. One scene was a mix of 'The Shining' and 'Jurassic Park' and it was AWESOME.
I'd actually love to watch it again once it came out. Was pretty entertaining, especially the final 40 min.
7.5/10 for me and that's a high score of Jurassic for me.
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As far as how the date went, she brought he friend along so it was a non-date. But I'm hoping to invite her home for dinner next week... fingers crossed!!
I hadn't planned on watching this but I had a first date with this lovely girl and while thinking about what to do on the 2nd date I came up with 'movies' and she agreed. There's Solo, Oceans 8 and Jurassic Park and she chose Jurassic... so I was stuck with the choice. Personally I'd prefer Solo, Ocean 8 and Jurassic in that order, but what can you do?
I'm not the biggest fan of Jarassic Park and thought with the exception of the first 2 the instalments have been pretty lacklustre, especially the previous one.
But I thoroughly enjoyed this one. It was a bit different to the previous ones in that most of the 'attacks' happened on the 'mainland' not on the islands.
While plot and acting went out of the window, artistically I love the setting and there were some really memorable scenes. One scene was a mix of 'The Shining' and 'Jurassic Park' and it was AWESOME.
I'd actually love to watch it again once it came out. Was pretty entertaining, especially the final 40 min.
7.5/10 for me and that's a high score of Jurassic for me.
# Extra #
As far as how the date went, she brought he friend along so it was a non-date. But I'm hoping to invite her home for dinner next week... fingers crossed!!
Miggs
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Well she'd since agreed to a 'hot pot' date at my house later this week, so that's gonna be up close and personal and one-on-one. Will let you know how it goes but it's looking promising.