Movie Round-Up 2.17

vostok

vostok

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With life so dull with RIU absent I was reduced to visiting the movie house, I rarely do it as its such a commercial rip-off these days, and the volume is too load, + I can't toke (?)
Passengers: I really liked, I say that from the arguments that gush forth at the bar once the movie is done, this space ship is taking the long way round to a distant earth like planet
Halfway there a guy pops outta his bed and can't get back to sleep, so he wakes this chick for company
...so you can imagine the shit flying when neither can get back to sleep, he has no skill to seduce her as much as he wants too, shes not into him at all, so what was this story about again...it does fizzle out, mostly due to the lack of acting skill of both actors.
But the cheese has to be, why didn't he do the good Riu thing and boot all the guys of the ship, claiming the females as future breeding material for the forth coming settlement? SCORE 7/10

ARRIVAL: UGh! Don't its a slow boring pedantic chick flick with strong and cheesy flicky stuff from the 1970's
a highly manipulative diector that likes to piss take his crew, worse its up for a academy award
maybe for having the biggest vertical pill ever ...junk AVOID SCORE 3/10
but good to see Forest Whitikker again

The Great Wall: European mercenaries searching for gun powder recipe, become embroiled in the defense of the Great Wall of China against a horde Russians,
Very Good I like it even if we had green skins back then
Hi-end classy big time China Flick, better without the white men and their greed ....lol as been pointed out if you want the USA market you need to paint them skins white ...Na
Costumes are fantastic, action is full on, continuity is crap, best of all White Guys speaking english like Chinese guys funny as....lol, compulsory addition to my Bluray rack SCORE: 8/10
 
esh dov ets

esh dov ets

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i'm waiting to see
Transformers
Resident Evil
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Logan
t2-train spotting
this year.
last year i watched about 60 movies. how many movies do you think you see year?
 
abalonehx

abalonehx

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Arrival is that bad eh? I thought it could have potential when I first heard about it.

I might go see a movie tomorrow.... "Split" would be my choice. Trailer looks good, good reviews.
 
abalonehx

abalonehx

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Why do I always suspect Morgan Freeman is in every movie I've ever seen in my life as a lead actor or as an extra somewhere in the background? I think he made like 75 movies in a four month period one year in his career.
 
Aeroknow

Aeroknow

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esh dov ets said:
i'm waiting to see
Transformers
Resident Evil
Spider-Man: Homecoming
Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets
Logan
t2-train spotting
this year.
last year i watched about 60 movies. how many movies do you think you see year?
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What about the new power rangers movie? You waiting for that one?

I had one of my nephews convinced that i was not only the actor who played Barney but I was also the black power ranger, the actor in the suit. He believed that shit for years lmao.

He was sitting next to me when the trailer for power rangers came on during this last star wars movie. He punched me in the shoulder and all of us had a good laugh.
When the movie ended, there was a cardboard life size sign with the power rangers out in front. I stood right up next to the black power ranger was exactly the same height, just a little fatter now. Looked at my nephew and winked.
 
mo841

mo841

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I seen the Accountant. Starts off slow and at first your like oh, another ass hole that is a bad ass but turns into a giant pussy to live happily ever after with some bitch but in the end he just goes back to being a bad ass. Think he just wanted to hit it a few times inbetween killing people off.
 
vostok

vostok

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mo841 said:
I seen the Accountant. Starts off slow and at first your like oh, another ass hole that is a bad ass but turns into a giant pussy to live happily ever after with some bitch but in the end he just goes back to being a bad ass. Think he just wanted to hit it a few times inbetween killing people off.
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the Accountant: it started well for an action flick

but fell to mush with the climax being a total shit mess

how'd it go ..? oh my bro I haven't you seen since a kid

Now I must kill you ..blah! Blah!

Junk with a totally wrong actor score 4/10 (imo)
 
vostok

vostok

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abalonehx said:
That movie trailer reminded me of Contact. Isn't it similar in plot?
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I'll have to compare but I think Contact was far better
Astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway has long been interested in contact to faraway lands, a love fostered in her childhood by her father, Ted Arroway, who passed away when she was nine years old leaving her then orphaned. Her current work in monitoring for extraterrestrial life is based on that love and is in part an homage to her father. Ever since funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) was pulled on her work, which is referred to some, including her NSF superior David Drumlin, as more science fiction than science, Ellie, with a few of her rogue scientist colleagues, have looked for funding from where ever they could get it to continue their work. When Ellie and her colleagues hear chatter originating from the vicinity of the star Vega, Ellie feels vindicated. But that vindication is short lived when others, including politicians, the military, religious leaders and other scientists such as Drumlin, try to take over her work. When the messages received from space are decoded, ...
Contact (1997)
The alien explains to her that it is easier to do things this way. After they talk, Ellie returns to Earth believing that she has been gone for 18 hours, but from the point of view of everyone watching, the transport pod did not leave the Earth and enter a wormhole, but simply dropped through the machine's rings and into the ocean below it in a matter of seconds. Determined to prove that she really went to Vega and was gone for 18 hours, Ellie asks the authorities to examine her video footage, but her recording headset reveals only static. National Security Advisor Michael Kitz (James Woods) leads a special executive inquiry. It is his belief that it was all a hoax engineered by Hadden, who can no longer be questioned because he has since died of cancer, and that Ellie was an unwitting victim who merely suffered a 'self-reinforcing delusion'. To him, that's a lot easier to accept than a message from aliens resulting in a magical machine that whisked her away to the center of the galaxy 'to go windsurfing with dear old dad' and a split second later returned her to Earth without a single shred of proof. Ellie and Palmer Joss (Matthew McConaughey) emerge together from the congressional hearing to find a huge crowd of people honoring Ellie for being the 'discoverer of the new world.' When asked what he believes, Reverend Joss simply replies that he believes Ellie. Now unified in their seemingly disparate pursuits for the 'truth' and an understanding of the power of belief, Ellie and Palmer ride off together. Meanwhile, White House Chief of Staff Rachel Constantine (Angela Bassett) points out to Kitz one of the findings in the investigative committee's confidential report noting that, while Ellie's video unit recorded only static, it recorded 18 hours of it. In the final scene, which takes place 18 months later, Ellie is back at the VLA, having received a healthy grant from the government allowing her to install 45 more radio telescopes and to continue with her search for extra-terrestrial life in the cosmos.

(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118884/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2)
 
cannabineer

cannabineer

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vostok said:
I'll have to compare but I think Contact was far better
Astronomer Dr. Ellie Arroway has long been interested in contact to faraway lands, a love fostered in her childhood by her father, Ted Arroway, who passed away when she was nine years old leaving her then orphaned. Her current work in monitoring for extraterrestrial life is based on that love and is in part an homage to her father. Ever since funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF) was pulled on her work, which is referred to some, including her NSF superior David Drumlin, as more science fiction than science, Ellie, with a few of her rogue scientist colleagues, have looked for funding from where ever they could get it to continue their work. When Ellie and her colleagues hear chatter originating from the vicinity of the star Vega, Ellie feels vindicated. But that vindication is short lived when others, including politicians, the military, religious leaders and other scientists such as Drumlin, try to take over her work. When the messages received from space are decoded, ...
Contact (1997)
The alien explains to her that it is easier to do things this way. After they talk, Ellie returns to Earth believing that she has been gone for 18 hours, but from the point of view of everyone watching, the transport pod did not leave the Earth and enter a wormhole, but simply dropped through the machine's rings and into the ocean below it in a matter of seconds. Determined to prove that she really went to Vega and was gone for 18 hours, Ellie asks the authorities to examine her video footage, but her recording headset reveals only static. National Security Advisor Michael Kitz (James Woods) leads a special executive inquiry. It is his belief that it was all a hoax engineered by Hadden, who can no longer be questioned because he has since died of cancer, and that Ellie was an unwitting victim who merely suffered a 'self-reinforcing delusion'. To him, that's a lot easier to accept than a message from aliens resulting in a magical machine that whisked her away to the center of the galaxy 'to go windsurfing with dear old dad' and a split second later returned her to Earth without a single shred of proof. Ellie and Palmer Joss (Matthew McConaughey) emerge together from the congressional hearing to find a huge crowd of people honoring Ellie for being the 'discoverer of the new world.' When asked what he believes, Reverend Joss simply replies that he believes Ellie. Now unified in their seemingly disparate pursuits for the 'truth' and an understanding of the power of belief, Ellie and Palmer ride off together. Meanwhile, White House Chief of Staff Rachel Constantine (Angela Bassett) points out to Kitz one of the findings in the investigative committee's confidential report noting that, while Ellie's video unit recorded only static, it recorded 18 hours of it. In the final scene, which takes place 18 months later, Ellie is back at the VLA, having received a healthy grant from the government allowing her to install 45 more radio telescopes and to continue with her search for extra-terrestrial life in the cosmos.

(http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118884/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2)
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Contact and Arrival are two of my favorite movies. Although they both have a theme based on first contact, I find the premises and development to be very different as befits the different takes on cosmos and consciousness the two movies portray.

I find fascinating that the earlier movie accepted time's arrow as axiom. The newer one questions that very effectively. We are living in great times for physics, as the movies' different philosophical underlayers attest.
 
esh dov ets

esh dov ets

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Love me some hard sci-fi. Passengers was great. My parents don't do sci-fi and liked it. Lot's of metaphor and clean and plausable. Arrival is in my que. Maybe i will pic something from late 2016 to give a short review. Or come back later with a 2017 to recommend.
Peace
 
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