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MOVIES: New Ideas Welcome!

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Beware of the newest propaganda coming out of the Communist Chinese owned production houses: "Logan".
 
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Had two nine hour flights in the last week so had a chance to watch some of the free movies from Delta.

The accountant- agree with what's been said here. Pretty good overall.
Inferno- good book, but not a good movie. Just didn't work.
Office xmas party- just as dumb as expected, but I like Bateman so I watched
Arrival- just as good if not better second time around.
 
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Kepler said:
This is good to know. I can typically watch the same movie 20 times, but sometime movies that depend on the build and release of tension don't replay well.
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I've probably seen contact 100 times. I love that movie. I've worried it will eventually lose its lustre. But so far it hasn't.
 
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Hacksaw Ridge:

The overall scenes and story were beyond awesome, but the final touches of Hollywood, for lack of a better word took away from the movie. If they left it raw, easy 5/5 stars. As it is, 4/5 stars. DEFINITELY recommend either way.
 
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FreshFish said:
...like seeing The Sting for a second time?
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Excellent example.

OTOH, I think the Oceans capers hold up very well, probably because their charm is the interaction between the characters and not the details and surprises of the actual heist.

Funny thing about The Sting: evidently con men really hated the movie because at the time of the film "The Wire" had been out of circulation for so long marks were falling for it again and bunko squads in smaller cities were not savvy to it. In the movie the main reason Gondorff chooses to run that particular scam (during the Depression) is that "it's so old nobody knows it."
 
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Brenthoven said:
Hacksaw Ridge:

The overall scenes and story were beyond awesome, but the final touches of Hollywood, for lack of a better word took away from the movie. If they left it raw, easy 5/5 stars. As it is, 4/5 stars. DEFINITELY recommend either way.
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The last Gibson movie I saw was a sort of environmentalist/anti-corpie thriller, can't remember the name, but it was satisfying. As much as I loathe paying his royalty checks, I'll have to check this one out. Braveheart was good, so another war movie from him shouldn't be bad, right?
 
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Brenthoven said:
Hacksaw Ridge:

The overall scenes and story were beyond awesome, but the final touches of Hollywood, for lack of a better word took away from the movie. If they left it raw, easy 5/5 stars. As it is, 4/5 stars. DEFINITELY recommend either way.
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I really want to see the documentary that convinced Gibson to make that movie.
 
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Kepler said:
Funny thing about The Sting: evidently con men really hated the movie because at the time of the film "The Wire" had been out of circulation for so long marks were falling for it again and bunko squads in smaller cities were not savvy to it. In the movie the main reason Gondorff chooses to run that particular scam (during the Depression) is that "it's so old nobody knows it."
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Seriously?

Is there an original bone in any writer's body anymore?
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
The last Gibson movie I saw was a sort of environmentalist/anti-corpie thriller, can't remember the name, but it was satisfying. As much as I loathe paying his royalty checks, I'll have to check this one out. Braveheart was good, so another war movie from him shouldn't be bad, right?
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Hacksaw Ridge is aided by the fact that during the credits they took a lesson Band of Brothers, and showed an interview with the gentleman who's at the focus of the movie. He discussed some of what you see in the movie, thinking that it's pure Hollywood, but he's giving an aww shucks mannerism to his answers on those very topics, and not any sort of accusation in his tone at all about the hardships he faced.
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
Seriously?

Is there an original bone in any writer's body anymore?
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"Gondorff" is a vaguely-ethnicky-but-non-specific name in the Midwest (the movie is set in Chicago). There's no evidence that David S. Ward read an obscure fantasy novel only popular at that time among MIT and Cal sophomore druggies and, well, my junior high school friends who thought -- and I swear I am not making this up -- that Hobbits were Jewish.
 
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St. Clown said:
Hacksaw Ridge is aided by the fact that during the credits they took a lesson Band of Brothers, and showed an interview with the gentleman who's at the focus of the movie. He discussed some of what you see in the movie, thinking that it's pure Hollywood, but he's giving an aww shucks mannerism to his answers on those very topics, and not any sort of accusation in his tone at all about the hardships he faced.
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Those scenes at the end were from the the documentary I mentioned in my last post...
 
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Kepler said:
"Gondorff" is a vaguely-ethnicky-but-non-specific name in the Midwest (the movie is set in Chicago). There's no evidence that David S. Ward read an obscure fantasy novel only popular at that time among MIT and Cal sophomore druggies and, well, my junior high school friends who thought -- and I swear I am not making this up -- that Hobbits were Jewish.
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LOL.

Irish stereotypes, duh. But you know that.

As a Midwesterner, I have literally never met anyone with the last name "Gondorff", so I'm still calling bullsheet.
 
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FadeToBlack&Gold said:
The last Gibson movie I saw was a sort of environmentalist/anti-corpie thriller, can't remember the name, but it was satisfying. As much as I loathe paying his royalty checks, I'll have to check this one out. Braveheart was good, so another war movie from him shouldn't be bad, right?
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Check out Get The Gringo. Dunno if he directed it, but he starred in it. Great popcorn movie.
 
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Logan. B+, all for story and acting. The 'splosions and mutant magic tricks were boring, and a lot of the Jean Luc fan service was mawkish. But it was a solid story, something almost no comic book movie can say.
 
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