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Forum: General Movie Discussion 6 days ago
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The Beast
Minus :popcorn::popcorn: (yeah, that's minus two popcorns)

If it had not been so visually interesting and well produced, it would probably get minus four popcorns. I don't feel like...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 1 week ago
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Rate The Last Movie You Saw
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- :popcorn::popcorn:

Yeah, that's minus two popcorns for Civil War.

It would have been a minus four if it had not been so well produced and had such good FX, but yeah, what's the point. The US...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 1 week ago
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Rate The Last Movie You Saw
Posted By skizzerflake
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:popcorn::popcorn::popcorn::popcorn:

In the mood for a foreign language movie, this one qualifies, is Italian with subtitles, La Chimera. I'd actually like to see it again since I was not sure...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 3 weeks ago
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Rate The Last Movie You Saw
Posted By skizzerflake
Popping a DVD into the player for my late night...

Popping a DVD into the player for my late night movie. It's that classic from 1942, Casablanca. Movies have rarely been better than this. With wartime drama and urgency, music performance from Dooley...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 3 weeks ago
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Rate The Last Movie You Saw
Posted By skizzerflake
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Popping a DVD into the player for my late night movie. It's that classic from 1942, Casablanca. Movies have rarely been better than this. With wartime drama and urgency, music performance from Dooley...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 3 weeks ago
Replies: 81,590
Rate The Last Movie You Saw
Posted By skizzerflake
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Popping a DVD into the player for my late night movie. It's that classic from 1942, Casablanca. Movies have rarely been better than this. With wartime drama and urgency, music performance from...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 4 weeks ago
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Rate The Last Movie You Saw
Posted By skizzerflake
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:popcorn::popcorn:
Ghostbusters Frozen Empire - Saw it last night....not surprisingly, I was underwhelmed. I was not interested in other movies that were showing and my expectations of this...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 03-16-24
Replies: 81,590
Rate The Last Movie You Saw
Posted By skizzerflake
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:popcorn::popcorn::popcorn::popcorn:

One Life - Wow, is this ever a rough movie to watch. It's not graphically violent but you clearly know what is happening to these people and it doesn't...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 03-03-24
Replies: 81,590
Rate The Last Movie You Saw
Posted By skizzerflake
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It's tonight's late night movie - The Hound of the Baskervilles - It's from a cheap DVD set of those old British movies made from Sherlock Holmes stories, The Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection. ...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 03-02-24
Replies: 81,590
Rate The Last Movie You Saw
Posted By skizzerflake
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Dune Part Two - My first comment is, how many parts will it be. Isn't two enough? OK, I admit to not having read the book. I can't compare the two, so I just see it as a movie. In that regard, on...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 02-26-24
Replies: 81,590
Rate The Last Movie You Saw
Posted By skizzerflake
I recollect seeing that long ago, as well as Bram...

I recollect seeing that long ago, as well as Bram Stoker's Dracula (the movie, not the book) and they were good in their own way. I've always been curious, however, what it would take to duplicate...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 02-26-24
Replies: 81,590
Rate The Last Movie You Saw
Posted By skizzerflake
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I like finding a movie like this - The Last Voyage of the Demeter - Rewatching this one tonight. It's one of those off-the-mainstream, low budget, no-name movies that turns out to be pretty good. ...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 02-25-24
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Rate The Last Movie You Saw
Posted By skizzerflake
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We'll see how this one goes. So far, in all of the various movies that used Dracula as a character, nobody has actually done a movie that's much like Bram Stoker's book, even including the one...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 02-17-24
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Rate The Last Movie You Saw
Posted By skizzerflake
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Is there a minus two Popcorns? minus :popcorn::popcorn:

Wow....can you ever miss this one. It's Lisa Frankenstein. This dog don't hunt. Vaguely hinting at Tim Burton, Johnny Depp and Winona...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 02-02-24
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Rate The Last Movie You Saw
Posted By skizzerflake
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How can you take a decent cast, including Bryce Dallas Howard, Henry Cavill and Sam Rockwell and make them do a movie like this - Argyll - I don't know. I guess they signed the contract before the...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 01-18-24
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Rate The Last Movie You Saw
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This is such a terrific smart, sci-fi movie, one of my all time favorites. Micheal Rennie is an ET and Patricia Neal as the woman who believes in him. Klaatu has been sent to warn the earth that...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 01-14-24
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Rate The Last Movie You Saw
Posted By skizzerflake
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Godzilla Minus One - Terrific, really enjoyed it. There's nothing especially surprising here since the big reptile is back and now is self-healing, but it hits all the right notes for this Kaiju...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 01-05-24
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Rate The Last Movie You Saw
Posted By skizzerflake
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American Fiction - It's been a while since I saw a movie that is smart, high on dialog, low on FX and near zero in action. American Fiction is all that and it's a really enjoyable novelty in the...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 12-31-23
Replies: 81,590
Rate The Last Movie You Saw
Posted By skizzerflake
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Tonight, it was The Boys in the Boat - It's a feel-good, true, athletic challenge movie. It's 1936, time for the infamous Berlin Olympics, a showcase for Hitler and the nazis and "aryan" supremacy. ...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 12-16-23
Replies: 81,590
Rate The Last Movie You Saw
Posted By skizzerflake
Glad I missed that one. One of my least favorite...

Glad I missed that one. One of my least favorite "genres" (if that's a genre), is a bunch of adults locked in a room arguing, bringing up each others' flaws and infidelities, usually accompanied by...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 12-15-23
Replies: 81,590
Rate The Last Movie You Saw
Posted By skizzerflake
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It wasn't my idea, but Wonka. Having not seen any of its predecessors, I went in as a virgin. Yeah, there's lots of chocolate, in fact, so much chocolate and so much mystique about chocolate that...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 12-08-23
Replies: 81,590
Rate The Last Movie You Saw
Posted By skizzerflake
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:popcorn::popcorn::popcorn:

I have no idea how anybody would ever make a biopic about Leonard Bernstein, arguably the most important classical music conductor of the 2nd half of the 20th century,...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 12-02-23
Replies: 81,590
Rate The Last Movie You Saw
Posted By skizzerflake
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One of my recent visits to Film Noir - He Walked By Night - It's an early version of Film Noir (1948), in one of my noir DVD sets. Cops are assigned to catch a killer..."loosely based on the...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 12-02-23
Replies: 81,590
Rate The Last Movie You Saw
Posted By skizzerflake
I have a fairly contrary view of Saltburn. I'd...

I have a fairly contrary view of Saltburn. I'd rather have spent those two hours trying to get salt to burn. Imagine a summer long party. Everybody is drinking all the time, and everybody other...
Forum: General Movie Discussion 11-18-23
Replies: 81,590
Rate The Last Movie You Saw
Posted By skizzerflake
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There's often a point in art, literature or movies when a genre is used up...no sense in doing more of this. Westerns got there a long time ago, WW II movies also. Private eye movies are...