What MOVIE(s) have you been....seeing? watching?

Saw The Nice Guys last night. Really fun movie. Who would have thought Crowe and Gosling would make such a great duo? But they have a wonderful dynamic together. And the film is quite funny but in a cool way that feels authentic. I mean, I'll take funny in any form (see Get Hard above), but this also works pretty well as an engrossing 70's crime flick, while also being really funny. My only negative is that it slows down and drags just a bit in the middle, but that may be more because we went to the 10 pm showing and I hadn't slept much the night before. So it might actually be well-paced, but I couldn't appreciate it as well while fighting to stay awake for a little while.

Was Slither that one with turd like things in the bath tub?

I really hate that film if it was. Really quite sickening and I'm like a super tough, take no prisoners kind of person.

SLITHER was good fun, but yeah, it's pretty gross.

Saw JUPITER ASCENDING. Fucking terrible.

Rewatched Man of Steel and The Spectacular Now. Man of Steel was even worse than I remember it, only the flashback scenes are good. Spectacular Now was still fantastic.

Do you know how many breakout roles were in that one movie ?! Miles Teller, Shaleane Woodley, Brie Larsen, it's crazy. Jennifer Jason Leigh is unrecognizable in that movie too. The dude from the Wire is in it too.

The Spectacular Now? I've never even heard of that. Stop making up fake non-movies, Barney!

Speaking of Brie Larson, I watched Trainwreck a while ago, the Amy Schumer vehicle that has Brie Larson as her sister. Has its funny moments, but wasn't great. LeBron James was surprisingly good, though. He might have a career in acting if that other thing doesn't work out.

Yeah, seriously. On his recommendations I've tried to find:

Mrs. Flaherty's Reminder
The $20 Sandwich Club
A Biscuit to His Liking
The Pontiff
Hunkadola
Girls of the Lustwaffe
Hoss County Fair

Barney, are these Canadian films or something?

I would very much like a $20 sandwich.

Remember his Five Minute Reviews of these gems(?):

Ain't Nobody Got Time For That
Vortex, My Darling
Jumanji 2: Game Over
The Nonagon View

Where does he find this shit?

jeb wrote: Remember his Five Minute Reviews of these gems(?):

Ain't Nobody Got Time For That
Vortex, My Darling
Jumanji 2: Game Over
The Nonagon View

Where does he find this shit?

Maybe there is a canadian website called NotFlix.com.

You guys are idiots. The $20 Sandwich Club asked a lot of important questions. And Vortex, My Darling was a challenging picture both for the screenwriter and the viewer.

Black Barney wrote: You guys are idiots. The $20 Sandwich Club asked a lot of important questions. And Vortex, My Darling was a challenging picture both for the screenwriter and the viewer.

And the vortex, of course.

I was skeptical when I sat down to watch It Follows. I read a bit about it in a review some time back, and the concept seemed very contrived. And despite a promising opening, I was underwhelmed at first. Fortunately, the movie got better. And then it got really good.

No spoilers here, but I will say that It Follows could have been a huge and important movie if it had come out sometime in the late '80s or early '90s, when the theme would have tapped directly into the cultural zeitgeist. Even so many years later, it is an extremely effective low-budget horror movie, possibly one of the best cheap movies ever.

There were a few seeming strikes against It Follows in the early running. I wasn't close enough to the screen and the volume was too low at first, so I mistakenly got the impression that the movie started with a big spoiler for the ending. Not the case, as it turned out. While I don't begrudge a low-budget movie for using cheap synthesizer music along the lines of early John Carpenter, it was deployed at excessive volume in a very unsubtle bid for tension at times during the movie. Eventually the music was deployed more tactfully, or I got used to it. And early on it seemed like the acting was all weak, but later the same actors seemed to be delivering tastefully restrained performances. Maybe the reality is a mixture of those two impressions.

In his extensive book on the horror genre, Danse Macabre, Stephen King advanced the idea that the highest form of horror is purely psychological, absent of gore or other grossness. It Follows certainly aspires to that lofty goal, though it does fall slightly short. The better horror movies also often tend to establish and follow an arbitrary set of rules for the nature of the scariness, and It Follows succeeds with a reasonably intelligent execution of an arbitrary idea. And that arbitrary idea is no worse than the concept for The Ring, another great horror movie. Best of all, It Follows has a fine ending, the kind that lingers with the viewer for some time afterwards.

Grudunza wrote: Saw The Nice Guys last night. Really fun movie. Who would have thought Crowe and Gosling would make such a great duo? But they have a wonderful dynamic together. And the film is quite funny but in a cool way that feels authentic. I mean, I'll take funny in any form (see Get Hard above), but this also works pretty well as an engrossing 70's crime flick, while also being really funny. My only negative is that it slows down and drags just a bit in the middle, but that may be more because we went to the 10 pm showing and I hadn't slept much the night before. So it might actually be well-paced, but I couldn't appreciate it as well while fighting to stay awake for a little while.

The Nice Guys has kind of an Ameican Hustle or Big Leboski feel to it. Good acting, takes you back to the era, critics love this kind of movie but it kind of fell a lttle flat for me. As you mentioned maybe it was the pacing or maybe the comic timing was just a little off. I liked the movie but I didn't love it and it wasn't nearly as good as Ameican Hustle or Big Leboski.

Watching Civil War I began to get the feeling that the Cap's face was CG for a lot of the film. Same with Spidey. Their normal unmasked faces. Anyone see it?

Dan Lamb wrote: Watching Civil War I began to get the feeling that the Cap's face was CG for a lot of the film. Same with Spidey. Their normal unmasked faces. Anyone see it?

They didn't use CGI to make him skinny, they used it to bulk him up.