The Films and Movies Thread

[Shindig]

30 minutes ago, Zeph said:

I loved Arrival. Annihilation is a good one. Event Horizon is also one of my classic sci-fi favorites.

And now for something completely different: Happy Gilmore 2.

I watched HG1 as an adult, and it was alright, but probably would have been better if I watched it as a kid. HG2 had some good parts, but overall I wasn't a big fan. I knew there would be pros in the movie, but I imagined some cameos, not them being straight up actors through large parts of the movie. They're not actors and it showed. I could've done with a lot less of them and John Daly was maybe the best of the pros. The Maxi part was boring.

First, you have some great choices in there.  Event Horizon remains a birdie movie for me.  It still finds its way onto the October options as Halloween approaches.  It fits well.

I continue to forget that Arrival, when being referenced, is not the Charlie Sheen movie I saw in middle school.

Lastly, what rating are you giving HG2?  Was it a par?  Bogey?  I gather from your review it didn't earn a hole in one on a par-4. 

(I have yet to decide how I'm prioritizing that on my movie queue, and if I should even bother, so I'm looking forward to reviews here)

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19 hours ago, Shindig said:

First, you have some great choices in there.  Event Horizon remains a birdie movie for me.  It still finds its way onto the October options as Halloween approaches.  It fits well.

I continue to forget that Arrival, when being referenced, is not the Charlie Sheen movie I saw in middle school.

Lastly, what rating are you giving HG2?  Was it a par?  Bogey?  I gather from your review it didn't earn a hole in one on a par-4. 

(I have yet to decide how I'm prioritizing that on my movie queue, and if I should even bother, so I'm looking forward to reviews here)

I'm giving it a bogey. It's a silly movie and did what silly movies do, so a double is perhaps a bit harsh, it had some good things going. And it's a movie about golf.

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[dennyjones]

 

De Niro is brilliant.  The series (6) is very well done and full of suspence.  It will keep your interest peaked until the end.  

I give it an eagle!

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19 minutes ago, dennyjones said:

De Niro is brilliant.  The series (6) is very well done and full of suspence.  It will keep your interest peaked until the end.  

I give it an eagle!

I watched this one. I enjoyed it. I wouldn't go "eagle" but it's a birdie.

I watched season 1 of FUBAR and am in season 2 right now. It's an easy par. Not great, but good.

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Earlier today, I saw the latest Naked Gun movie.  I give it a birdie, which I don't do lightly for this one;  it isn't as good as the original television show or the first three movies , but it is a fun movie and had a two minute segment where I had trouble breathing from laughing so much. 

However, it clearly wasn't the same crew as the originals, but it has some of the things you'd expect from them, including fake credits.   It's good in its own right, but if you want the originals sense of humor, and you're reading this review here, remember that Leslie Nielsen also wrote two golf books. 

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Spinal Tap II: The End Continues. Par. The first one is a cult classic, especially with musicians. This one was fun too. Elton John and Paul McCartney are in it as themselves. 

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Tron: Ares, I give it a par. It is an enjoyable movie. The visuals, sound, and music were amazing. The story is generic, but I wasn't expecting something spectacular from a Tron movie. The acting was good, not out of this world. I recommend seeing it in theatres, because it's a movie the deserves to be seen on a big screen with good sound system. 

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Yesterday evening, I watched The Gentlemen, a Guy Ritchie film from 2019 that I evidently missed on first pass.  It's a par, but it's a par on one of those long par-4s where the par feels like a birdie.

It's in a similar vein to some other movies like Lock Stock, Snatch, or Layer Cake (which was Vaughn, not Ritchie).  If you liked those, I think you'll like this.  

A friend suggested it a few months ago, and I started it one night and couldn't finish because I was having trouble following.  In retrospect, that was an artifact of trying to watch the movie too late in the day.  I started the movie at the beginning earlier yesterday and got to enjoy the full thing very much, but unlike some other movies, I encourage anyone to watch this when they're awake enough to catch which characters are which.  In my case, watching with subtitles helped me understand what some characters were saying.