I also like that movie :y:

Frozen II-7/10

Not as good as the first one, and the plot is a little more complicated. There's no true, tangible villain. But it's beautifully animated, the new Elsa song is a great number, and if you've got a kid, like I do, they're going to love it. My biggest issue is the story they're trying to tell is actually an interesting one, but the limited run time forces the story to move at a break neck pace and some of the characters get pushed to the side.

Still, it's an enjoyable movie and credit to Disney for not phoning it in and insulting their target audience with something loud and dumb.

I finally got to John Wick 3. I liked it..but..it definitely feels like it's a sandwich filler movie where a bunch of stuff happens but not much important and it's just leading to #4.

8/10

X-Men: Dark Phoenix 6/10

Definitely the weakest of the (most recent) series.

The Irishman-7/10

Definitely a good, but not great film. It falls short of Goodfellas, and my personal Scorsese fave, the Departed, but the performances here are captivating. 3 Hollywood legends in top form help move a film where timelines can get foggy and characters get lost in the shuffle due having so many to keep up with.

Knives Out - 9/10 was really fun. Loses a point for Daniel Craig's southern accent

I'm currently watching Altered States.
So far it could go either way, William Hurt is fantastic but I'm not sure about Blair Brown at all. Nobody converses like that, not even a scientist. I feel like The GilmoreGirls ripped this speech pattern off and turned it into a whole show.

The actual representation of other scientists in day to day conversation is very well done though. Bob Balaban and William Hurt look and sound like the people my folks used to have round for parties when I was growing up. A touch of pretention surrounds their intelligence.

Fuck sake.

I'll have to write a proper review, this is nuts.

This film has one of the best lines ever written in it.

"I'm trying to tell you I love you."
"I know that, and I'm trying to tell you this is an all bets are off kind of thing."

Altered States - 3/4

A 1980's psychological acid science fiction/horror which delves wonderfully into some mysterious, unnerving visual horror. The story is pretty basic, a scientist decides to become his own test subject in his investigations into psychoactive substances and sensory deprivation similar to the real life experiments done in the 60's by various controversial scientists and hallucinogen advocates. After a progression of increasingly terrifying and realistic trips the scientist begins to experience tangible, physical reactions.

William Hurt and Charles Haid steal the show here as two colleagues with extremely opposing philosophies and outlooks towards this research. Bob Balaban and Blair Brown provide grounding support to the extremes of Hurt and Haid with strong if not spectacular or particularly taxing performances.
The dialogue flits between witty and heavily pretentious with the sort of abandon that a real conversation might, despite there being several instances early on of very pointed and almost angeringly unrealistic "philosophy spreading". It's fancy exposition and it's done early on in a way that you can forgive, however it does make me wonder(especially after reading up on this) is perhaps the director Ken Russell decided to trim the most infuriatingly out-of-touch lines just to streamline an already dialogue heavy film.
The troubled production history sounds worthy of a documentary, however the result is a film with enduring relevance as the mysteries of the human mind are as intriguing today as they were forty years ago - and for that matter so is Bob Balaban's seemingly ageless face. I say ageless... he has looked 60 for his entire life.

The technical visual effects and practical special effects are of a high standard for a film made in 1980 and despite containing moments that on paper must surely have seemed utterly absurd, it leaves you with genuine primal fear in a couple of very well executed moments.
And while all of this is good and of a high standard, I feel that the audio work in the film is of a superior standard to anything besides the lead performance.

I very much enjoyed this film but I feel that it is a step below classic as there needed to be more respite from the breathless, fast paced and annoyingly regular protracted speeches and exchanges.
I wanted more visuals and this is not a film that skimps on the visuals.

I'm really surprised Ken Russell once made a good film.

Everything else I've seen of his was so dreadful it had to be turned off.

Motherless Brooklyn - 4/5

Not bad, Ed Norton. Not bad at all.

Ed Norton is a treasure and it's a bit of a disgrace that he has been continually overlooked because of his bad reputation for dominating the creative side of the films he's in.

The man is a genius of his trade.

The Peanut Butter Falcon.

8.5/10

God Damn It, I should never give anything with Shia Lebouif in it, This high of a score but it won me over.

If you're asking me if you should watch it, then just listen to the Star and

JUST DO IT!

Please elaborate on his reputation. Never heard this before.

Tony Kaye, the writer/director/creator of American History X hates him because Ed Norton fixed it and made a great film out of it, cutting and reshaping great chunks of the film that Kaye had envisioned.
Tony Kaye then went insane and I dunno if he has worked since. Kaye's version sounds like a real mess if you ever get a chance to read about it.

The Incredible Hulk film, Ed Norton went a bit mad and is possibly the reason it was so incoherent. I remember a lot of shit got thrown his way for his idea that Omar(literally the character of Omar from The Wire) had to be in it. There are apparently a few scenes of Omar that didn't make it.

There are other examples but if you watch Birdman his character is essentially an OTT parody of his reputation. Oddly everyone thinks the main parody is Keaton because of similarities with his career but that only goes so far. Norton in that film is basically playing himself to the Nth degree.

The Irishman - 9/10


the story telling here is truly excellent but the 4th wall is constantly shattered when all the CG industrial light and magic can muster can reshape their faces to appear younger but fails to hide the movements of its aging cast constantly giving it all away. It's this break in the immersion that keeps this from being Scorsese's magnum opus. There are several insrances where a tighter shot would have been preferable to better mask the issue but by using a more pleasing-to-the-eye wide shot is ruined as its all star cast hobbles away.


All in all its a great film, highly reccomend it, but the films goal, backed by a $200 million budget, is ultimately a failure.

Paranormal Activity : Ghost Dimension - 5/10

They went hardcore on the special effects mixed with real camera effects. It looked a bit like shit. They had a hot mother and she didnt get naked. They had this huge tittied blonde who was hot as fuck and the tittied didnt come out. There was a good scene where they're watching an old vhs of some girl seeing visions and she's seeing them watch her on video. They should have went with that more in this movie. I like that.

Pet Sematary - 1/10

I decided to check out the movie after listening to the audiobook (narrated by Michael C. Hall). It was a bad decision.

Lithgow was good.

Very restricted too. The whole movie is such a mess.

Get Shorty - 7/10

Knives Out - 9/10

Blindspotting -10/10

One of the best movies i've seen all year. Would have won a Oscar if they had Spike Lee's name attached to it because white people love Spike Lee.

Guru dave doesnt rate movies. Migjt delete all his posts. Undecided

Tony Kaye went on to film Marlon Brando hosting acting classes and the videos to this day are forbidden from release by the Brando estate.



You can read more about it here:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...t-tango-801232

That is phenomenal.

Knives Out - 4/5

Pretty slick whodunit. I'll agree with everyone else that Daniel Craig could've ditched the accent. Probably would have been better if speaking normally.

Marriage Life - 10/10

Does the wife fuck a black man in Marriage Life, Guru?

Knives Out - 4.5/5. Yup, Daniel Craig's accent loses half a point. Fun movie overall.

300: Rise of Empire - 3 out of 5.

The first 300 film was better than this one.

Black Christmas (2019) - 3/10

I could never tell if this film was trying to be a parody or serious commentary on Toxic Masculinity/Woke Culture. It's so over the top on both topics IDK how anyone could tell. In fact, I'm just flat out going to spoil the ending of the movie below, when the killer's identity is revealed:




I would say, in general, not more than 3-4 minutes go by at a time without someone mentioning how toxic men are. The acting/plot/really everything is sort of 'bad and cheesy'....so in the sense I enjoy bad films I enjoyed it and had fun but it's also a truly terrible film. The song these women sing at a fraternity karaoke contest about how rape is wrong and the frat guys are evil was kind of funny, with all the men booing really over the top and the women in the audience cheering and saying "you go girl" and things of the sort.

Richard Jewell - 7/10

Paul Walter Houser and Kathy Bates give tremendous performances in this. Yves Bélanger gives some really good cinematography too. Where I think the film gets in trouble a bit is playing up the FBI and Media as one-sided villains too much and portraying Jewell at times as so stupid/clueless it took me out of it a bit.

In the end, it's a Clint Eastwood flick and Eastwood is one of those guys who always delivers a certain quality of film, and once again, at age 89, he does that.

Marriage Story - 10/10


Adam Driver is flawless. Phenomenal performance. Film expertly encapsulates divorce. A+.

Not putting myself through that.

not all good film is fun but on the brightside there is a song;)

He can never be flawless with that fucking face.

Clue - 4/5

such an amazing cast from Tim Curry to Lesley Ann Warren to Christopher Lloyd & more.

Tim Curry as usual is his amazing self as the butler Wadsworth. He was the MVP of the movie.

Tim Curry is wheelchair bound and likely not long for this world.

Was watching Home Alone 2 with my brother, who told me the same about Curry. Sad.

His stroke was like 6 years ago. He's since done a lot o f voice work. Unless somethings happened in the past few days his health in fine...?

He doesn't look good though.
I mean, find a recent picture and tell me he has five years left in him.

He's in his 70's anyway.

I just checked out his pic. He had a stroke?

His face looks that way.

Yeah he had a bad one in 2012

Midsommar - 9/10

Joker 9/10. Great movie I was hoping for a bit more violence though.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker- 7/10


pacing issue plague the film and keep it from being satisfying. Extremely busy film and due to that nothing has the weight it should. Theres a lot to like here tho. Poe finally feels like a fleshed out person id want to go on adventures with. The conclusion to the major arcs are mostly satisfying. Its the technical failings of the writing that hold the film back

Extremely wicked, shockingly evil and vile- 7/10

I've been debating watching that.
I still think the Ted Bundy film from 2002 is an underrated film. Sure it almost turns into a pitch black comedy at points but I doubt anyone will ever find an actor that looks as much like the real Ted Bundy and who is willing to throw caution to the wind like that.

Rise of Skywalker 7/10

CATS - 1/10


Sadly, CATS is not The Room 'so bad it's good, bad'.

Nearly plotless, weirdly hypersexual and asexual at the same time, dystopian, antromorphic, off-key, incoherently strange disaster, where every choice made onscreen is the wrong one. For about two minutes I thought the critics might be wrong and the tone/production design were interesting. Fifteen minutes into the movie I knew it would be the weirdest film of 2019.

CATS has The Razzies in the bag. It's never boring, I'll give it that.

Sounds exactly like the play (awful)

I have no clue why this is one of the most successful musicals on Broadway of all-time. It doesn't really have a plot, and what little plot it does have never explains any of it. The music, minus 'Memory' isn't memorable or good. I actually thought Memory was outdone by the new song added to the movie, 'Beautiful Ghosts'. It was more interesting to listen to (and it doesn't help Jennifer Hudson oversings everything and has constant snot hanging out of her nose - CGI snot or real, no clue - but good lord it's distracting).

The play, i think, succeeded because it was a visual spectical tourist could go see. Like a mindless vegas show but for new york. It was never good and when i heard they were bringing it to the screen my immediate reaction was "are they going to write a plot?"



...and then i saw the trailer and realised they were going to try and sell the visual spectical...big oof

Ghost World - 8/10

A Hologram For The King - 7/10

Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker-6/10

Meh. Big meh. Felt like a jumbled, over stuffed mess racing to get to its ending. The Big reveal that ties Rey intothe heart of the Skywalker saga is admittedly lame and is a complete u-turn from the overall theme of the second film.

Palpatine being back never tried to make sense or explain itself. Kylo Ren just kinda happens with no build or gusto to his arc coming to a finish, Leia was useless, and was more of a hindrance to the story by being forced into it.

It didn't feel like it retconned everything from TLJ, but it did feel like a conscious change in tone and direction and because they chose a completely different direction, instead of building off the last film, this one feels disjointed and not like a sequel at all.

Parasite - 8.5/10

Was P good.....

Men in Black: International - 3/10

Was P bad.....

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker - 5/10

Rise of Skywalker- 8/10

Watched some movie called Jelleyfish Eyes... weird Asf... japanese augmented reality shit... mad fuckin weird

Cool music tho...

Please watch The Calamari Wrestler and tell me what you think of it.

Oh God - 8/10.

George Burns and John Denver were a great fun duo in this film.

I hadn't watched it in years. it was one of my favorites as a kid.

The Farewell - 9/10

Ready Or Not - 7/10 (wondering if this is Slik Certified Fresh)

I did enjoy Ready or Not!

Knives Out-10/10

God I fucking loved this movie. The performances are so great. Stellar cast making themselves ridiculously worthy of your hate. Ana de Armas as a sweet, good hearted nursecaught up in an impossible situation, is so damn likeable. And the end twist was great even if a little obvious.

Also, i loved Daniel Craig as the overly theatrical southern PI.

Border 3.5/5 - The subtitles I had for the movie were a bit trash at times, but the film was great enough I didn't even need them to be good. I really enjoyed the vibe and turns this movie had. Can't stop thinking about that penis.

Chained for Life 3/5 - Technically as a movie, I felt it had some flaws but overall I enjoyed the layers of movies within a movie. Adam Pearson was great in this, I think he'd be hilarious in something with a The Office UK Vibe to it.

Uncut Gems - 10/10

Amazing. My favorite movie of the year. Very anxiety-inducing throughout. Felt "on the edge of my seat" for the entire movie and was freaking "amped up" afterwards... S0 good

The musical score was also incredible at adding to the uneasy feeling throughout

My brother had the same anxiety inducing comments about watching it. Prob gonna check it out soon.

The Grudge (2020) - 6/10

Predictable and slow at times, but not the worst.

Parasite (2019) - 10/10

Freaking great...

It's disheartening that you think that Schindler's List is pro-nazi propaganda. Sad.

Aladdon (2019: ) 3/10

Aladdon? Is that like the cheap black market remake of the remake?

Ready or not - 8/10

Sorry its Aladdong. Its the porn remake of the remake

Coulda done without the magic carpet ride

I haven't watched a new film for ages. I need to get back at it.

1917 - 7/10

Was pretty alright. Thought that the single take thing was going to lead to a lot of "tension", and it did at times.... but at others it was just like "I get the point get on with it". Also distracted me a bit via always looking out for where they hid the cuts.

Underwater - 7.5/10

Stylish - but average - flick, would recommend streaming one day since it's a breezy 90 minutes. Not sure why it wasn't advertised this was a very HP Lovecraft film since it really is. Alien meets Lovecraft meets the Ocean meets K-Stew.

Mandy (2018) - 7/10

Obviously very influenced by David Lynch movies... but not as good or strange or funny. Very very cool visually and some sweet specific parts, but found myself bored for a chunk of it and the story was pretty standard. Would have been better if it was like 30 mins shorter.


Hereditary (2018) - 6/10

Was fine... I liked it but not that much. Maybe it was overhyped to me. The story felt pretty standard again, but I did like the twist on it. Felt bored for a lot of it though... I don't really like horror movies...


Get Out (2017) - 6/10

Same as above, maybe my expectations were too high. Felt like a pretty average/standard movie to me and "nothing special." Even without the hype, I would have probably given it the same rating... Was "alright" / "pretty good."

Aladdin (live action)

I liked it. 8/10

The Grey 6.5/10

Standard Liam Neeson film.

Bad Boys for Life.

Pretty fun but if you are a pretentious movie snob don't see it just so you can bitch.

Weathering With You - 9/10

Really great animated film. Nice story, gorgeous animation. Sort of a modern day fable/romance. Would recommend.

Samurai Cop

funny bad movie... watched with some friends... funny enough

saw Arrival... liked it... friend was saying it was "life affirming"... agree it was powerful... all these ppl kept telling me i would like it cus its about language and stuff... guess they were right, took me long enough

do Youtube documentaries count for this thread... i watched The Platform Master about that guy Ulillillia, that guy who has that mad weird voice and spends 2000+ hours playing Disgaea and Bubsy 3D... interesting... slow... weird

also Fighting in the Age of Loneliness... not that into MMA but very cool seeing why it is popular... history... sad

Fighting in the Age of Loneliness was really good...

I watched Togo on Disney+ last night. Not gonna lie..I teared up. 10/10

Fuck Balto

1917 - 4/5

Enemies Closer - 2.5/4

"Jean Claude Van Damme goes mad in the woods" would be a fine alternative title for this bafflingly put together but fun and enjoyable action film. It's also a pretty spot on synopsis of the film itself.
Okay, lets count the ways in which this film turned my expectations on their head and surprised me with some genuinely ballsy decisions even for a B Movie:
-Tom Everett Scott plays a Park Ranger that is secretly a badass former soldier or marine or something. If you know Tom Everett Scott then this is the ultimate in playing against established type. Well, at least until...
-Orlando Jones appears as an antagonist then turns into a protagonist and doesn't supply one laugh in the entire film. Again playing a secret badass but this time not an army one, because he's a black comedian he gets to be an ex convict who isn't funny. He appears to be even better than Tom Everett Scott's guy is at fighting, so that's good because they end up fighting against a whole gang!
-Jean Claude Van Damme takes a sharp heel turn very early into the film and immediately begins destroying people and things then hitting some surprisingly classic one-liners. This wouldn't be unusual for James Bond but Jean Claude Van Damme is traditionally lacking in charisma despite his hick kicks. However the unhinged mania in his face when he does it is just magic and I can't stress that enough. Jean Claude Van Damme can be hilarious now that he's older and wiser, especially when he gets the right material and direction. In this fairly violent film he is put to good use doing lots of action spots and firing off zingers and insanity like he's been coked up and hasn't been to bed for a week. Of course they surround him with a gang of incompetents which makes his ability much more obvious and gives his personality a chance to pop out for a change.
-There's some pretty hilarious stuff involving a traitorous woman and the way it is dealt with cracked me up, especially given the current social climate and opinions with regards to beating women rounds the face(as equals).

I can't say it's a groundbreaking film, nor can I say that it's as much fun as that dancing scene in Kickboxer but it has it's charm and it made 80 minutes disappear from my lifetime with the greatest of ease. It appears that this film was one of the few involved in the Van Damme renaissance from a few years ago so I will have to get involved in the Kickboxer sequels and that film he made about being himself in Belgium because I can dig it when he's actually acting.

Seanny shouldn't you be watching Stargate?

I downloaded it and watched it that night. I thought I had posted saying as much but apparently not.

It was alright, Jay Davidson and James Spader were the best things about it but Kurt Russell was woefully miscast. I think they overdid the flat top army hairdo so badly it became a flat top fade.

Then I thought about Kid N Play for ages.

I watched "The Night Listener" last night.
I think Slik would enjoy it for Toni Colette's unsettling performance.
Also based on fact.

The series was better.

Uncut Gems-9/10

100 mph pacing keeps you on the edge of your seat the entire time. Sandler is frenetic and the movie was seemingly shot with the idea of matching his energy. I didn't expect it to be a commentary on gambling but that's what I took from it. Highly entertaining but also an exhausting watch due to Sandler being so good and high energy with it.