Recommend some good movies!

Here are a few movies I've watched recently

Life – 6/10. Its fine, rarely boring, but not all that exciting either. Pretty good characters but lacks the sense of dread that was in 'Alien'

XXX Return of Xander Cage – 7/10 Completely ridiculous, but I have a high tolerance for these kinds of over-the-top international blockbuster action movies. At one point, Vin Diesel and a minor character are in dire mortal peril, and the film shows in detail how Vin escapes and then it just shows the other character strolling up with no explanation for how he escaped.

Assassins Creed – 4/10 I never had any idea what was going on. Fassbender is cool but I've even played a couple of these video games and I still had no clue what was happening or why.

Kong Skull Island – 5/10 This was fine, I didn't hate it, but once it was over, I didn't think of it again until just now.

Logan – 7/10 Close to an 8 but not quite there. I liked this a lot but I've never really accepted Wolverine into my heart so it didn't have that special resonance/reverence that it does for others. Still, I enjoyed it.

Taken 3 – 3/10 Good god this movie is so dumb, SO DUMB. Like I said, I have a very high tolerance for action movies that are completely realistic. But movies like XXX establish a certain 'world' and then stick with it somewhat consistently (though there's holes like the one I explained). Tak3n tries to be this gritty realistic movie, but it is annoyingly inconsistent that I basically hate it.

Space wrote:

Julian, wrote:
Here's my finalized top 10 from 2016:

(1) Toni Erdmann
(2) Paterson
(3) Certain Women
(4) The Lobster
(5) Moonlight
(6) Manchester By The Sea
(7) The Handmaiden
(8) Love & Friendship
(9) Gimme Fiction
(10) La La Land

Gimme Fiction is a Spoon album. It's also a movie?

Whoops, weird Freudian slip; I am listening to Spoon. Meant to say Gimme Danger, Jim Jarmusch's Stooges doc.

Space wrote:
As I get older and blinder, my tolerance for subtitles goes down. But Elle was totally worth putting up with subtitles for.

I liked Elle.

I mean, pretty early on in Tak3n, Liam Neeson is proven to be innocent of killing his ex-wife via videotape that is analyzed by the police, and yet they still keep chasing him and shooting at him and there's all these enormous disasters and crashes and mayhem and fatalities that result because Liam is trying to escape the police who know he's innocent.

Trainspotting 2 - Good not great.  Worth checking out if you're a fan of the first.  Funny and without the grosser scenes from the first sans maybe one.  Having the entire original cast helped. 7/10.

SideOfBacon wrote:

dyecraig wrote:
"danny says" - the life and times of danny fields
ramones, iggy, v.u., nico, doors, alice., etc.

Did anyone see the Iggy Pop and Jim Jarmusch on Stooges Doc 'Gimme Danger'

Finally got around to seeing this…what a great film
and such a sad tale, but glad that the ashtons and James Williamson got a nice coda before dying
and iggy is still standing…

SideOfBacon wrote:

SideOfBacon wrote:

dyecraig wrote:
"danny says" - the life and times of danny fields
ramones, iggy, v.u., nico, doors, alice., etc.

Did anyone see the Iggy Pop and Jim Jarmusch on Stooges Doc 'Gimme Danger'

Finally got around to seeing this…what a great film
and such a sad tale, but glad that the ashtons and James Williamson got a nice coda before dying
and iggy is still standing…

Two thumbs up from us on that one. Iggy is the man.

On a side note, I found Jarmusch's Paterson to be pretty boring. Movies about nice people are boring, I guess. My wife fell asleep during that one.

I loved both the Jarmusch films in question. Got a really cool poster for Gimme Danger when it played at the Byrd Theatre in Richmond.

Paterson  was the closest Jarmusch has come to Stranger than Paradise,  technique wise, especially in regard to the pacing, relationship of the lead male/female characters and use of blackouts between scenes….  Loved the dog!

Bagley wrote:
Paterson  was the closest Jarmusch has come to Stranger than Paradise,  technique wise, especially in regard to the pacing, relationship of the lead male/female characters and use of blackouts between scenes….  Loved the dog!

heard that the dog won the "palm d'og" award, which is actually a thing.
best part of that film, which i enjoyed also.

dyecraig wrote:

Bagley wrote:
Paterson  was the closest Jarmusch has come to Stranger than Paradise,  technique wise, especially in regard to the pacing, relationship of the lead male/female characters and use of blackouts between scenes….  Loved the dog!

heard that the dog won the "palm d'og" award, which is actually a thing.
best part of that film, which i enjoyed also.

speaking of good dog's in film…watch a dogs purpose last night with the family.
man what a tear jerker, but really good

I'm looking forward to the new blade runner

^ thx for the tip.
major dog fan.

The Red Turtle. Mindblowing. But I still fell asleep.

Brennsers had a lot of plane time recently so heres what I've watched recently - some of these have been around for a while but I don't get out to the movies much these days

Spotlight - A - fabulous treatment on a wrenching topic
Moonlight - B - v surprised this won an Oscar - last third was baffling
Life, Animated - A - delightful documentary about an autistic kid who learned to communicate via Disney movies
Manchester by the Sea - A- - Amazing performance by Casey Affleck
Hidden Figures - A- - great, inspiring, fun movie
Arrival - B- - sort of didn't really go anywhere
Amy - A- - very good, super sad portrayal of her downward spiral and her skeevy exploitative Dad

http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/dark-crystal-returns-netflix-preps-prequel-to-henson-film-w482958

WOW

herman wrote:
http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/dark-crystal-returns-netflix-preps-prequel-to-henson-film-w482958

WOW

very cool.  let's hope they don't butcher it…

sweetcell wrote:

herman wrote:
http://www.rollingstone.com/tv/news/dark-crystal-returns-netflix-preps-prequel-to-henson-film-w482958

WOW

very cool.  let's hope they don't butcher it…

agreed
man my kids hated it…made me turn it off after 20 mins
I think if they'd gotten through the first part they might have liked it more,
but Skeksis dinner

and these guys showing up

gave them nightmares for weeks

I used to rent the shit out of that film from the library, when I was a kid.  ah, the good ole days when we rented movies from the library.  3 to 5 at a time, if I was lucky.

didn't you borrow them?

my kids love the library… the oldest walks out with at least 10 books each time and reads them all
and they get dvd's there as the play room just has DVD player

Yes, borrow.  Interesting. I didn't think people even still went to the library except to use free internet access, anymore.