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A Quiet Place was extra fun to see in a theater...because with the whole premise of needing to be completely quiet, the crowd in the audience feels compelled to be completely still and silent as well. In my theater, the tension was palpable--you could hear a pin drop.
Bird Box was good, mostly because it was relentlessly TENSE. Plus, Sandra B. really committed to the part. It's cool to see her in a gritty role like this, rather than the typical vulnerable/sweetheart roles.
I do like this genre, and thought A Quiet Place, in particular, was a great new take on suspense movies. Halloween 19, and all the jump-scare "haunted/ghost" movies are so....played out. WHat we NEED....is a great suspense movie that has as much to do with character development as it does the quandary--like Jaws. I'm sorry....but The Meg was the ANTITHESIS of Jaws. Just venting now...
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Threadkiller....I completely agree. I think people are looking for political implications and reading them into these kinds of movies. Malcolvich's character....while abrasive and blunt, proved to be 100% correct with regards to letting strangers in. And, he was heroic...in confronting (and getting a shot off) against the crazy guy. So, if his character was supposedly representative of Trump (abrasive and blunt, but ultimately...he was right), I suppose anyone can read things into the movie (based on their own leanings).
As a whole, it was a good movie, with lots of good, TENSE scenes. Some missed opportunities. But some nicely done scenes as well. The scene with the crazy affected guy in the river was nice and creepy. I just wish they would have better explained how the crazy guys were "immune" to the self-destruction component.
Interesting. And perhaps a missed opportunity...because night scenes in movies like this tend to add extra spookiness. Maybe they felt a night scene could reveal a flaw in the premise. In the dark, could the "creatures" be as easily "seen"? And if not, would it make it easier to go outside/go on runs at night?
I love that scene. They're stealing millions of dollars in bonds....yet this guy looks both ways before slyly swiping a candy bar. LOL
She definitely has a new nose. I wish she didn't go under the knife....she was already beautiful. Still looks great, but a bit more generic...with a generic, tiny nose. She's also VERY talented.
I seem to recall as a kid.....(back in the 70's)....a version of this tale (animated, mind you).....but it was darker. And it featured a scene which showed Mowgli's wolf father missing a kill on a hunt, and then essentially getting banished from the pack by Sher Khan. I remember it spooking/upsetting me a bit. And I've never seen that version on TV again. DO you happen to recall that version? I'm sure those darker kinds of scenes won't be in this (2018) adaptation. But it's just odd....that there's so many variations on the same tale/book.
A couple of my favorite inconsistencies, besides the ones already mentioned are...
1) Leia has a half-assed English accent some of the time...and no accent at all at other times.
2) Why such a push to find the plans/blueprints of the Death Star? Even if the empire retrieved the originals, you mean to tell me there are no Kinkos in the galaxy? They have enough technology in the Star Wars universe for space ships, laser guns and hyper-space travel.....but not enough technology for a xerox machine?
3) Along those same lines....there's enough technology for spaceships and lasers...but yet NOBODY has a cell phone?
4) Why would R2-D2 communicate only with beep-beep-beeps? WHy wouldn't he have the capability to communicate with people directly? There's enough technology that droids have AI, can think...and even feel emotions....but R2 can't talk??
5) There's enough technology for holograms......but yet there's not one computer or computer screen seen anywhere in the films. Just rows and rows of square, red and white buttons (lol), like in Star Trek.
6) There's enough technology for hovercrafts, robots and landspeeders.....yet there's no cyborgs? Instead, we get goofy, beeping robots ambling around, beep-beep-beeping, looking like something out of a 1950's sci-fi comic book.
7) When Lucas went back and retro-fitted some new footage in various scenes, mostly using CGI.....there's one scene in particular I've wondered about: The added scene with Han walking next to, and talking with...Jabba. Did they shoot that scene in 1977....and just have Harrison Ford walking next to and talking with a regular guy (an early version of Jabba?), which ended-up on the cutting room floor? And then...many years later, Lucas cut out the old version of Jabba (just a regular guy walking with Han)....and CGI'd that giant slug version?
8) Why the goofy, juvenile.....terminology? I mean...."blasters" "The Death Star"? Really? LOL
"The DEATH STAR??" And how about....."The Force"? Isn't that a bit basic and generic? If it's some mystical, universal force, belief, ideology and pseudo-religion....couldn't they have come up with some kind of really cool name for it, like: Quin-shi-DOH? Or Zoook-YAMA?
ANYTHING....would be better than "The Force". Calling it "The Force" is as basic and arbitrary as calling it "The Stuff". LOL
This is the top 5 list I most agree with.
A Few Good Men never gets old. It's like Jaws. Excellent every single time.
And....The Firm? Please. That movie is so great and so underrated.
Tom Cruise is the last of the great movie stars. He RARELY puts out a dud. 99% of his movies are GREAT.
He had great turns in Tequila Sunrise and Outbreak as well. Usually, he was cast as the bad guy or the jerk (like in Tequila Sunrise--he was great). But in Outbreak he was (in a rare turn), cast in the role of a decent, honorable man, and nailed that as well. Similarly in A Few Good Men....he played an honorable guy. But usually, he played the a-hole. I truly miss J.T. Walsh.
Liam Neeson
Answer: Because it's an action movie, and jumping out of a plane made for a cooler scene.
One word: Romano
It's not about whether or not the Elba/Bond thing actually happens, moron. It's about the premise. The trend. The principal. But nice try. You worked up quite a sweat and got...nowhere. Pussy.
Why so angry, dickattack? Seriously...why so angry? You come across like an a-hole. Bond was conceived and written as a white man. But there seems to be an agenda in the last few years....to retrofit minority actors and women into the roles that were at one point written as white males. It's actually rather patronizing to women and minorities. It's like....charity. Rather than say: "Superman has been a white male for too long. It's time to make him a Pakistani woman." Instead, why not say...let's start making more roles that happen to feature....Pakistani women?? Rather than try to "right a wrong" by pandering and making Bond a black man, why not just create a NEW character which features Edris? Kinda like how a secret agent role was created for Tom Cruise. Create a franchise for Edris, and he'd no doubt be great in it. Why re-write a character's history just to pander and feel righteous? It's condescending. It would be like making Lora Croft a Bangladeshi male. It's not necessary.
You feel all righteous and indignant in your posturing and protesting....but it's just naivete and misguidged, indulgent self-righteousness. And you will outgrow it. But in the meantime, you're just a kid with limited sophistication and self-indulgent anger.
Yes, Edris would be great in a secret agent role. But making Bond a black guy would be like casting Ryan Gosling as Black Panther. You simple douchebag.
I think Rocky is still compelling in small doses. I'd be bored watching 2 hours of Rocky wabbling around all sullen like he is now. His character's soul comes from his love of boxing. Even if he's no longer in the ring, his wisdom from the corner (like Mickey in the early films) is the backbone of the franchise. If you take him out of the boxing context, it would be like taking Batman out of the superhero context....and just doing a feature-length on Bruce Wayne, walking around being rich all day.
At this point, as the baton has been passed, Rocky's presence gives the franchise its soul. But too much of his character in these Creed moves....would be too much of a good thing. He should be used sparingly. In that context, he's still very compelling.
One word: Florence
Great points. Yes, they could have done something really cool with Dillihunt's character. I suppose they didn't because the focus is on the female empowerment--and their ensemble being the heroes (anti-heroes).
IMO....the past few episodes have been very good. It's like a ZA Western. I was worried about how the show would carry on without Rick...but it has taken on a new life. I'm in it for the long haul!
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This is good insight, and I appreciate your opinion.
For me (saw it last night), I really liked it. It was intelligent without being overly convoluted or complicated.
You don't see many intelligent, stylish heist films like this anymore. And the (fantastic) soundtrack really adds to that style, and tone.
It was a nice twist on the typical heist story...having female leads (Ocean's 8 notwithstanding). And extra cool to see Viola Davis really exercise her range. And I think the casting in general was great. A couple of the smaller roles I quite liked were...Lucas Haas and Garrett Dillahunt. A typical cliche I was expecting would be....that the Lucas Haas character would come across as nice and decent, only to end up being a wretched abuser. Instead, he was just a decent guy...with flaws like the rest of us. They (the writers) didn't see the need to make him just another one-dimensional abuser/misogynist, to their credit.
With the Garrett Dillihunt character, GH is always so great in whatever roles he takes. In this movie, I was hoping he'd get a little more screen-time, and would end up doing something heroic. Sure, in a sense he did. But I REALLY wanted to see him do something bad-ass in a scene, which would have tipped us off that maybe in his past, he was quite a bit more than just a driver. Like maybe just....eff-up most of those hitmen in an epic brawl and go down swinging, taking a few of them with him before Daniel K ends-up barely getting a shot off to finally stop him.
Special kudos to Daniel K, by the way. He made for a very menacing enforcer.
In general, this movie had a cool tone and style. I enjoyed it. The nice bonus was hearing Nina Simone...and Sade!
I really liked the movie. But I think that voice was...overdone.
It was distracting to the point of offputting.