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(01-12-2018, 10:40 PM)homebiscuit Wrote: [ -> ]Anyone else here a fan of Coen brothers films? I got my first exposure to them with Blood Simple around 1990. I pulled it off the shelf at the video rental store (remember those?) because it looked kind of interesting. I loved it, like almost all of their other films. Another one of their little known films is A Serious Man. I watched it on a long overseas flight, and like Blood Simple, it stuck with me. Dem boys be good.

I'm not a huge fan of their films, but one in particular that I love, is O Brother Where Art Thou? I love quirky, offbeat comedies and you don't get much quirkier than this one. It's a take on Homer's epic poem, The Odyssey. It takes place in depression era Mississippi and follows three criminals who escape a chain gang. From there, it follows the adventures they get into. I don't know why I like the movie so much, but I do. I also really liked Blood Simple as well. I have not seen A Serious Man. Unlike a lot of my friends, I hated The Big Lebowski and No Country For Old Men. I also thought Raising Arizona and Fargo were completely overrated. So for me, the Coen Brothers are hit and miss.

How can anyone hate The Big Lebowski man!??

I watched The Lego Ninjago Movie with my niece and nephew. It was really disappointing. The commercials made it look pretty funny, but it wasn't. It was actually a pretty serious film. Much different than Lego Batman. The kids weren't even that into it either.

I just got done watching Logan Lucky. I loved it. It was like a white trash version of Ocean's Eleven. The acting was good, the dialogue was funny and the plot was really engaging. Honestly, it was one of the most enjoyable movies I have seen from 2017. I highly recommend this one.

Saw 3 lately-

The Last Stand with Arnold S and Johnny Knoxville. Thought it was stupid.
Walking Tall- Dwayne The Rock Johnson...it was OK but the original WT was much better
Dogville- Nicole Kidman...interesting but pretty weird. Still thinking about it days later so it had some effect on me.

It's been a cold, dreary weekend and I'm running low on funds, so when I saw I had a free HBO/Cinemax  weekend, I decided to stay home and "veg out" on several films. Here is what I watched.

1. Gifted- This is a film that has been on my Netflix que for a while now. It tells the story of a brilliant man, raising his niece in Florida. The little girl is a math prodigy, but he just wants to raise her to be a normal, happy kid with good morals and lots of friends. He is raising her, because her mother (another math prodigy), commits suicide and he is afraid his mother will try and raise the little girl like he an his late sister was raised, basically as "human computers" with no outside life and focusing only on academics. When the grandmother tracks them down, the story really begins. This movie was every bit as good as I expected it to be. Chris Evans played the lead role and proved he is much more than just "Captain America". This guy is a really good actor. The little girl who played his niece was excellent as well. The story was captivating, the dialogue was on point and everything just flowed really well. This is my pick so far, as my favorite film of 2017. I highly recommend it. I put it in my top 100 films of all-time.




2. Hidden Figures- This one was recommended to me by my uncle and he was right about it. It is the true story of three brilliant black women in the early 1960's who have low level jobs at NASA. They prove their worth as they work their way up the ranks and become key figures in the first American manned flight in space. This film was not only informative, but it was interesting and brilliantly put together. The acting was fantastic, the cinematography was very well done and the story was excellent. In my opinion, such a film should be shown in every classroom during black history month. This is another movie I highly recommend.



3. The House- This one was as expected. It was another Will Ferrell comedy that was neither good, nor bad. It was forgettable though. There were a couple of spots where I chuckled, but no real LOL moments like the magic that was captured in my favorite Ferrell movie, The Other Guys. Instead, this one just kind of fell flat. If you are a Will Ferrell fan, by all means, watch it, just be sure to keep your expectations to a minimum.



4. November Criminals- I actually got this one in the mail via Netflix. I saw the previews for it and thought it looked quite interesting. I was right. It stars Ansel Elgort and Chloe Grace Moretz as a high school couple who secretly make their own investigation into the murder of a friend who was killed minutes after they left him at work in a coffee house. I was really surprised how much I liked this movie since it was a straight to video release. I thought the direction was good, the acting was solid and for the most part, the story was fairly believable. There were some instances where you wonder why the main character goes off all "half-cocked" into dangerous situations, but when you hear his backstory, it kind of makes sense. I wonder why this movie didn't get a cinematic release? Considering some of the garbage that hits theaters nowadays, this movie was a refreshing change. I recommend you give it a chance.



5. When We First Met- This is a made for Netflix film that just came out. It stars Adam Devine as a guy who was "friend-zoned" by the girl of his dreams and he somehow finds a magic photo booth that propels him back into time, allowing him to try over and over to become the guy that she wants to be with, before she marries another man. I know, I know, the premise sounds ridiculous and it is. The story isn't as bad as you might think though. It's not good, but it's not horrible either. It is, what it is. If you're bored and have nothing else to do, you can give it a watch and be semi-entertained for an hour and a half, but like me, you'll probably forget about it in a week.

My wife had already gone to bed last night so I figured I'd go through the DVR queue. I watched Darkman. That was one of the stupidest, cheesy, movies I have ever seen. I can't believe that I made it all the way to the end of the movie. Liam Neeseon must be embarrassed he made that movie.

(02-18-2018, 08:28 AM)Rico Wrote: [ -> ]My wife had already gone to bed last night so I figured I'd go through the DVR queue.  I watched Darkman.  That was one of the stupidest, cheesy, movies I have ever seen.  I can't believe that I made it all the way to the end of the movie.  Liam Neeseon must be embarrassed he made that movie.

He actually made that movie before he became one of the biggest stars in the world. I guess they all have to pay their dues. That was a really bad movie.

Whoever has netflix watch What Happend to Monday

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or if you have firestick

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Seen 50 Shades Freed last week with my girl. This one was much better than the first 2.

Continuing my weekend of binge watching.......

6. Fist Fight- This one stars Charlie Day and Ice Cube and is exactly how it sounds. It's about two public school teachers and one decides to beat the other one up on the last day of school. Pretty much the entire movie revolves around Day's character scheming and plotting in order to get himself out of a fight he believes he has no chance to win. This one had some pretty decent humor, but was nothing special. In fact, the longer the film went on, the more I disliked Day's character. The fight scene was pretty well done, but overall, the movie is ridiculous and unbelievable, so you pretty much have to suspend all disbelief. I'll call this one a slightly entertaining time killer and leave it at that.

(01-12-2018, 10:40 PM)homebiscuit Wrote: [ -> ]Anyone else here a fan of Coen brothers films? I got my first exposure to them with Blood Simple around 1990. I pulled it off the shelf at the video rental store (remember those?) because it looked kind of interesting. I loved it, like almost all of their other films. Another one of their little known films is A Serious Man. I watched it on a long overseas flight, and like Blood Simple, it stuck with me. Dem boys be good.

Yes.

Several of their films are on my "all time" list. 

I went back and watched Blood Simple after I saw Barton Fink and Fargo in the mid nineties.  Been a huge fan of their stuff since. 

A pretty good comedy from them that get overlooked often is "The LadyKillers."  Tom Hanks, Marlon Wayans and J.K. Simmons are all hilarious planning a robbery.

The "waffle hut" scene is pretty good.

I took my niece and nephew to go see Black Panther today. I didn't have that high of expectations for the film, but it turned out being much better than I thought it would. The story was enjoyable, the acting was good and everything tied in well to the Marvel universe. The theater was absolutely packed. That may have been the most crowded I've ever seen the place. If you go see it, make sure you stay all the way through the end credits. As per all Marvel movies, there is a secret scene at the very end of the movie which is definitely worth staying for.

I got a free Showtime weekend and since I'm basically snowed in, i had to find something to watch. The prospects were slim, but here's what I saw.....


The Light Between Oceans- This film had potential to be very good and was well on it's way to being so. It stars Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander and Rachel Weisz. It tells the story of a WWI vet and his wife. He works as a lighthouse keeper and one day a rowboat washes up on shore with a dead man and a live baby. The lighthouse keepers wife has suffered multiple miscarriages and she begs her husband not to report what has happened, fearing the baby will be sent to an orphanage. Later, when the lighthouse keeper realizes the baby's real mother is alive and mourning the death of her husband and daughter, and he is racked with guilt. The story is really good, the acting is excellent and the cinematography is beautiful. I would've given this very high marks, but the last act is very, very rushed and it kind of ruins what is otherwise an excellent film. Had they drawn out the last act a bit more and got the audience more engaged in the aftermath of what had happened, this film would have been excellent, but the rushed ending left me extremely unfulfilled.



Bad Moms- I had pretty low expectations for this one and I wasn't wrong. It's about 3 women who decide to basically put their needs first and have fun rather than breaking their backs to be perfect wives and mothers. It was mildly entertaining considering there was nothing else on, but it was also one of those movies that is very, very forgettable and probably a lot more humorous to women than it is to men. Personally, I didn't think it was funny at all. This movie was just meh.



Game Over, Man!- I had some hope for this movie as it stars the three main characters from Comedy Central's former series, Workaholics. It's about 3 losers who work in a luxury hotel, dreaming about ways to become millionaires. When the hotel is taken over by terrorists, they must work together to save the guest and staff. God, was this movie bad! The dialogue was forced, the humor was juvenile and gross and completely without humor and I'm a huge fan of South Park, so I normally like that kind of stuff. The plot line was predictable and over the top as well. Everything about this movie was a steaming pile of crap.

Speaking of free Showtime. I just watched this older movie. Man , I would have been some kind of pissed off if I had paid money to see that in the theaters. Good Lawd that was cheesy!!

(03-25-2018, 11:13 AM)Jagwired Wrote: [ -> ]Speaking of free Showtime. I just watched this older movie. Man , I would have been some kind of pissed off if I had paid money to see that in the theaters. Good Lawd that was cheesy!!

Written by the same guy who started The Church of Scientology. What did you expect? LOL.

I just got done watching The Blackcoat's Daughter. Wow! was that an odd movie. It was extremely confusing. It's supposed to be a horror film set in a girl's boarding school, but the storyline flips back and forth between three girls at all different periods of time. It's a very slow burn and there is very little dialogue. When the characters do speak, they say very weird things. I'm still not totally sure I understood the entire film, because a lot of questions were left open in my mind. I kind of feel like I just wasted time on this one. I wouldn't recommend this at all.

(01-13-2018, 02:07 AM)TheO-LineMatters Wrote: [ -> ]I hated The Big Lebowski.....

https://youtu.be/pWdd6_ZxX8c

(03-25-2018, 11:13 AM)Jagwired Wrote: [ -> ]Speaking of free Showtime. I just watched this older movie. Man , I would have been some kind of pissed off if I had paid money to see that in the theaters. Good Lawd that was cheesy!!

The book was considered something of a sci-fi classic so I decided to read it after seeing the movie thinking it had to be better. It wasn't.

(03-25-2018, 11:13 AM)Jagwired Wrote: [ -> ]Speaking of free Showtime. I just watched this older movie. Man , I would have been some kind of pissed off if I had paid money to see that in the theaters. Good Lawd that was cheesy!!

That was one...dumb...movie.

(03-26-2018, 08:11 AM)Rico Wrote: [ -> ]

(03-25-2018, 11:13 AM)Jagwired Wrote: [ -> ]Speaking of free Showtime. I just watched this older movie. Man , I would have been some kind of pissed off if I had paid money to see that in the theaters. Good Lawd that was cheesy!!

That was one...dumb...movie.

And to think, this hack sc-fi writer scammed a lot of people into joining his "cult".