ODT: FVSports Movie Review Thread

[sctrojan]

The writers of all movies getting a C or worse on this board should be hung upside down and flogged and shouldn't receive a dime from any contract negotiations between the WGA and the studios.

[riker7]

The writers of all movies getting a C or worse on this board should be hung upside down and flogged and shouldn't receive a dime from any contract negotiations between the WGA and the studios.

That's not how unions work.

[sctrojan]

That's not how unions work.

Well then everyone of the WGA members needs to pay the price of a few bad writers. Isn't that how unions work?

[riker7]

Well then everyone of the WGA members needs to pay the price of a few bad writers. Isn't that how unions work?

Sounds more like it.

[riker7]

TCM is killing it tonight. Von Ryan's Express followed by The Great Escape.

[sctrojan]

TCM is killing it tonight. Von Ryan's Express followed by The Great Escape.

Oh man my favorite WW2 movies

Throw in Guns of Navarone and it's a trifecta

[riker7]

I certainly haven't seen them all, but I would say North by Northwest and To Catch a Thief. His Girl Friday starts off well but the rapid fire dialogue gets tedious. My Favorite Wife is a bit contrived. I also liked Charade.

Monkey Business has recently climbed the rankings. Ginger Rogers and a young Marilyn Monroe. The dialogue is great.

[CheaterMichael]

I saw the first half of the Elvis movie on HBO. Caught the second half the other day. It's total bullshit they don't go down the fat/karate Elvis mode where he was taking a plane to get sandwiches and whatnot. No death scene either. If I'm going to invest watching that movie with Tom Hanks' horrible accent, I was to see fat Elvis dead on a toilet.

[PokesBo]

Monkey Business has recently climbed the rankings. Ginger Rogers and a young Marilyn Monroe. The dialogue is great.

Didn't realize other liked that Brenda Fraser movie as well.

[worldofx]

Asteroid City (A)
As is usually the case with his best films this one gets better the more time you spend with it. Gorgeous, poignant, and thematically it's kind of a perfect bookend to Rushmore. Best performance of Schwartzmann's career and ScarJo is perfect for Wes. Adored it.

Mission: Impossible - Dead Reckoning Part I (B+)
I don't have the undying worship for this franchise that so many cinephiles seem to have - Ethan Hunt as a character does next to nothing for me - but I thought this was just as fun and entertaining as the other ones where Cruise let McQuarrie pretend to be a director. It was certainly the campiest - I loved all the actresses bouncing off one another in the Venice club scene - and the final set piece was pretty impressive.

Showing Up (B+)
After the showboating maximalist filmmaking of First Cow this was a nice change of pace for Kelly, she needs to tone it down a little every once in a while.

Sick of Myself (B+)
Funny and cruel with a great lead performance from Thorp.

The Flash (C-)
Muschietti saying this movie was designed to look like shit on purpose is my second favorite filmmaker quote of the year, trailing only Snyder calling Rebel Moon an R-rated Star Wars only for it to get a PG13 rating.

Renfield (D)
Haven't cringed this much during an action comedy since Max Landis was banished. Cocaine Bear saves this from being worst of the year.

Chevalier (C+)
Just one of those missed opportunity films. I liked everything about this concept but it feels a little cheap and literal when it should feel lush and musical. Kelvin is usually a charisma machine and somehow this script managed to neuter him.

Theater Camp (C)
Striving to be Waiting for Guffman for theater kids but is way too enamored with its subject matter to have any real comedic bite. Also one of the most blandly directed films in a while - I am begging people to stop using shot-reverse shots in mockumentaries, it's a lazy technique that doesn't reflect any sense of documentary filmmaking.

[sctrojan]

Started watching Asteroid city in my flight to London and ran out of time. So I'll have to finish it on the way home

[JTrain]

Past Lives (A)- Fuckin beautiful movie. Its about the Korean concept of In-Yun (connection/fate/destiny of two people)...This one hit home from personal experience, but the performances of the adult actors were awesome. Like Waldo said the first act could have used more time to breath/be fleshed out, which kept this from being an A+ from me. Loved it, but won't recommend it to every0ne here.

[CheaterMichael]

AMC is playing all these horrible 80s horror movies in the afternoon and I’ve gotten sucked into them when making phone calls. Saw one yesterday where I recognized the box as something scary from the 80s. Some teenager thinks his neighbor is a vampire (he is) and gets a local tv vampire Hunter to help him kill him and his probably gay friend. The teens love interest is Marcy Darcy of all people. They stab the vampires and they turn to skeletons and melt green. Marcy Darcy got bit but they killed the vampires in the morning so she’s ok.

Nightmare on elm street 1/2 are great and hilarious. I have never really cared for horror movies but to see what scared people shitless back then is quite amusing

[riker7]

AMC is playing all these horrible 80s horror movies in the afternoon and I’ve gotten sucked into them when making phone calls. Saw one yesterday where I recognized the box as something scary from the 80s. Some teenager thinks his neighbor is a vampire (he is) and gets a local tv vampire Hunter to help him kill him and his probably gay friend. The teens love interest is Marcy Darcy of all people. They stab the vampires and they turn to skeletons and melt green. Marcy Darcy got bit but they killed the vampires in the morning so she’s ok.

Nightmare on elm street 1/2 are great and hilarious. I have never really cared for horror movies but to see what scared people shitless back then is quite amusing

Fright Night is a great movie. Shame on you for calling it "horrible". Nightmare on Elm Streets 1 and 3 are good. The rest are awful.

[riker7]

Another of my favorite 80's "horror" movies: Once Bitten. Stars pre-In Living Color Jim Carrey, Lauren Hutton, and Cleavon Little.