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

I watched Us on HBO last night. It starts pretty strong, I guessed the twist, and it kind of goes downhill when you get the info dump.

Not a bad film, but not a must-see film either.

ChristopherMD wrote: Parasite - This movie has gotten a bit of buzz and absolutely deserves it.

Agreed. It's excellent: dichotomouspurity.blogspot.com/2019/11/c...ayers-like-rock.html

So where are the Frozen 2 reviews?

Saw it Saturday and loved it! It’s a better film than the first one, I think- the story is stronger and I like the development of the setting. It has some kid-friendly messages about colonialism and exploitation, which is kind of surprising. Continues the “family love” and sisterhood themes well.

Songs are solid. “Into the Unknown” isn’t quite as instantly classic as THAT SONG, but it’s another shouty anthem that will stick with you. I don’t like Panic at the Disco, but their version is a banger. Kristoff’s song is being wrongly characterized as “cheesy 90s” when it is clearly a Journey/Foreigner joke. Elsa’s big show-stopper number is great. Overall time will tell if they have the same staying power as the original songs.

Olaf is great and his song rules. “Samantha?”

Thwy leaned into the fact that the kids that saw Frozen 6 years ago are now 6 years older and I love that they did that.

Last night I saw Knives Out, the star-studded murder mystery. Christopher Plummer, Chris Evans, Don Johnson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Michael Shannon, Daniel Craig, etc.

This movie is a ton of fun! Cleverly written, awesome performances, just a great time all around. Highly recommended.

Interesting. I saw the trailer and was mildly repulsed, since it looked like another Clue: The Boardgame movie, except with a lot of big names. Yours is the third recommendation (that I trust) that I've seen about it. Maybe I was wrong.

In my experience, if Jamie Lee Curtis is in it, it's probably worth your time.

hotseatgames wrote: In my experience, if Jamie Lee Curtis is in it, it's probably worth your time.

Perfect was awful.

I finally got around to seeing Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey. I heard it wasn't as good as the original, and it wasn't. But it's a pleasant enough movie, and I did enjoy the scenes where Bill & Ted played various games with Death. Each game was somehow sillier than the previous one, and I laughed when they got to the electric football game.

Shellhead wrote:

hotseatgames wrote: In my experience, if Jamie Lee Curtis is in it, it's probably worth your time.

Perfect was awful.

I don't think I've even heard of that film. I don't doubt she has done some clunkers; but I always enjoy seeing her.

The Irishman - Scorsese does a 3 1/2 hour Scorsese movie culminating with the disappearance of Jimmy Hoffa. If it sounds like something you'd like then I'm confident you won't be disappointed. A lot of people are talking about Pesci and he was great but I'd say Pacino as Hoffa conquered every scene. Really everyone in the movie was at the top of their game down to the smallest parts. The story was interesting and although I did take an intermission it never felt slow.

I was lukewarm on it. I've read the book (I Heard You Paint Houses) and this was something close to a note-for-note retelling. I'd like to say the performances were good, except it was pretty much all of the Scorsese regulars in all of their usual typecast roles. There's a point where you know that X director is going to use X actor in the same fashion, over and over, and I think we've reached that with Scorsese and some of his usual suspects. All it does is remind you of stuff they've done before and that atmosphere was heavy over this one. There were a lot of little style details that I found questionable, too. Why keep announcing the date and method for all of these former gangsters? Most of them were connected to the Philly mob war and didn't have anything to do with Sheeran or the Hoffa situation. If you're telling Sheeran's story, then tell it. If you're doing another "this is how the mob lives" thing, we got that already with Goodfellas. And Casino. Plus, the road trip framing sequence was totally unnecessary. You could have told the story easily from just Sheeran sitting in the hospital, rather than including all of the fairly tedious scenes on the road with the bored wives sitting in the backseat or by the pool. I think he ended up doing it this way because he knew Netflix would give him the space to indulge himself in all of this, rather than the 2-2.5 hours he would've been allotted in a regular theater release.

It's not a bad film. It's just kinda "meh" and certainly below Scorsese's usual output, IMO.

I agree that the Irishman is... fine. It's no Goodfellas.

Another meh vote for THE IRISHMAN. Theater owners were in an uproar over the terms Netflix were offering ( very short window between release and streaming date ) but frankly I am glad I didn't see it in the theater. Clocking in at 3.5 hours it really drags in places - I split my viewing into three blocks I think. The performances are fine - I'd disagree that they are the usual mob characters from prior Scorsese films with the exception of Pacino as Hoffa. Pesce in particular is much more understated than his past roles.

Much has been made of the de-aging technology used and I will say it looks pretty damn good - much better than Tarkin in ROGUE ONE . However, there is one thing it can't overcome - the actors still move like their "real age" . And some actors were aged OLDER - why not just pick an older actor to begin with ?

Speaking of casting choices, not sure why they bothered casting Anna Paquin for a part in which she literally speaks only 7 words . That gets to a bigger issue in that compared to his past movies, there are not female parts that really shine a la Sharon Stone in CASINO or Lorraine Bracco in GOODFELLAS. The one that was interesting was the actress who played Hoffas wife also played the drug mule babysitter with the lucky hat in GOODFELLAS.

This movie will undoubtedly get all sorts of awards showered on it as a sort of sendoff to the Scorsese mob genre, but it really fell flat for me. For an example of an epic crime movie I think its hard to beat ONCE UPON A TIME IN AMERICAN.

For some reason, my daughter and boyfriend had the urge to see Knives Out last night. I wouldn't have thought Agatha Christie-esque whodunit would be their thing, and given my druthers I would've seen Ford vs. Ferrari. But I had heard, from here and elsewhere, that it was pretty good. They were right; it's well worth seeing. However, it's not the sort of movie I would normally see (Marvel movie number CXVII, horror) on the big screen. Unless you're dying to see something at the theater that isn't Frozen 2, I'd wait until it shows up on Redbox.