The Cinema Thread

[Vrede too]

Margot ... Robbie will reportedly make $50 million off the billion-dollar grossing Barbie.

[GoCubsGo]

It's been a long time since I watched RED.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1245526/
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/red

I had never seen Red 2.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1821694/
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/red_2



Mary-Louise Parker is one of my all-time crushes, for decades. Still, 2022:

[Vrede too]

East Side Sushi
2014 PG 1h 46m



An immigrant (Mexican) single mother disenfranchised by her regular life decides to take a chance working at a Japanese restaurant and realises her dreams to become a sushi chef to provide a better future to her family.

Tomatometer 95%, Audience Score 83%

Not a film I normally would have picked, but nothing else was on. It's very good.

WARNING: Watch on a full stomach or you will be ordering takeout, or maybe even going to dine-in sitting at the sushi bar.

[Vrede too]

The Conjuring 2
R, 2016, Horror/Mystery & thriller, 2h 13m
Tomatometer 80%, Audience Score 81%

Sequels often flop and I'm not much of a horror buff, but this one is well made - good story line, nonstop frights. Fwiw,

The Conjuring
R, 2013, Horror/Mystery & thriller, 1h 51m
Tomatometer 86%, Audience Score 83%

[O Really]

Well, we went to see Barbie. I thought it was fun and entertaining; Lady O didn't much care for it. On a somewhat rainy cool Tuesday afternoon, with no line and only a few in the theatre, it was a good use of time. Good dialogue, and all the Barbies were both believable as doll toys and also alive. One fun thing:

Spoiler:

Barbie was, as now a human, distraught that she thought she was no longer perfect, not pretty anymore. A voice was heard from offscreen (but part of the movie) saying "Note to casting director - casting Margot Robbie for this part was not a good idea if you wanted to make that point" (that Barbie isn't pretty anymore)

[Vrede too]

Funny spoiler.

Well, we went to see Barbie. I thought it was fun and entertaining; Lady O didn't much care for it....

Insight into your relationship? Nttawwt

[Vrede too]

It had been a long time since I saw this:

Enemy of the State
1998 R 2h 12m

A lawyer becomes targeted by a corrupt politician and his N.S.A. goons when he accidentally receives key evidence to a politically motivated crime.

Stars: Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight, Lisa Bonet, Gabriel Byrne, nepo babies Jake Busey and Scott Caan

Tomatometer 71%, Audience Score 78%

Good political/spy thriller. 3 years before 9/11 and the "Patriot" Act, 15 years before patriot Edward Snowden's whistleblowing, 25 years before today's mass surveillance and national security state. Impressive.

[GoCubsGo]

It had been a long time since I saw this:

Enemy of the State
1998 R 2h 12m

A lawyer becomes targeted by a corrupt politician and his N.S.A. goons when he accidentally receives key evidence to a politically motivated crime.

Stars: Will Smith, Gene Hackman, Jon Voight, Lisa Bonet, Gabriel Byrne, nepo babies Jake Busey and Scott Caan

Tomatometer 71%, Audience Score 78%

Good political/spy thriller. 3 years before 9/11 and the "Patriot" Act, 15 years before patriot Edward Snowden's whistleblowing, 25 years before today's mass surveillance and national security state. Impressive.

Never saw it, looks good.

[Vrede too]

Never saw it, looks good.

It's on FXHD. All times EDT:
Today at 5:00 PM
09/15/2023 at 10:30 AM
09/15/2023 at 11:00 PM
https://tvlistings.zap2it.com/overview. ... aid=gapzap

1998, I'm sure it's also streaming from the usual places.

[GoCubsGo]

Never saw it, looks good.

It's on FXHD. All times EDT:
Today at 5:00 PM
09/15/2023 at 10:30 AM
09/15/2023 at 11:00 PM
https://tvlistings.zap2it.com/overview. ... aid=gapzap

1998, I'm sure it's also streaming from the usual places.

Just checked, it's on hulu.

[Whack9]

Amazing documentary:

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt3358086/

Can be found in YouTube

Radical Evil:

How do normal young men turn into mass murderers? With detailed accounts from the diaries of Nazi death squads, Academy Award winning director Stefan Ruzowitzky crafts a chilling study on the nature of evil.
Radical evil is a documentary asking why ordinary people become mass murderers.its particular focus is on nazi soldiers who murdered Jewish civilians with pistols and rifles in the years 1941 to 1943. About two million Jewish civilians are estimated to have been killed by these death

squads in Eastern Europe.

[Vrede too]

Amazing documentary:

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt3358086/

Can be found in YouTube

Radical Evil:

How do normal young men turn into mass murderers? With detailed accounts from the diaries of Nazi death squads, Academy Award winning director Stefan Ruzowitzky crafts a chilling study on the nature of evil.
Radical evil is a documentary asking why ordinary people become mass murderers.its particular focus is on nazi soldiers who murdered Jewish civilians with pistols and rifles in the years 1941 to 1943. About two million Jewish civilians are estimated to have been killed by these death squads in Eastern Europe.

Thanks.

Speaking of horrors:

Horror Noire: A History of Black Horror is a 2019 American documentary film directed by Xavier Burgin and based on the 2011 non-fiction book Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films from the 1890s to Present by Robin R. Means Coleman. The film examines the relationship between African-American history and the evolution of the horror film genre, and the roles that African-American people have played in the genre's development....

It received critical acclaim, with critics praising its informativeness, entertainment value, and variety of interview subjects in the fields of both filmmaking and academia.

I agree. Sometimes, I missed the culture that's happened around me.

Tomatometer 100%, Audience Score 67%

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The Matrix Resurrections (2021)

Critical response

The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes reported an approval rating of 63% based on 356 reviews, with an average rating of 6.2/10. The site's critics consensus reads: "If it lacks the original's bracingly original craft, The Matrix Resurrections revisits the world of the franchise with wit, a timely perspective, and heart." On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 63 out of 100, based on 57 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B−" on an A+ to F scale, the lowest of the series, while PostTrak reported 60% of audience members gave it a positive score, with 46% saying they would definitely recommend it....

I agree with all of that. It's not stunning like The Matrix and The Matrix Reloaded, but is much better than The Matrix Revolutions. I don't regret the time spent watching it.

[billy.pilgrim]

Movie trivia
Who knew, or I never knew that Jagger once owned A Clockwork Orange and had some had their way he would have played the lead.

While interesting enough, it was nowhere near as weird as the article that followed.

John Lennon's involvement in endorsing Alejandro Jodorowsky's Acid Western film El Topo, a horrifying feature, particularly given the extremely problematic nature of circumstances surrounding the film's production.

Has anyone else seen this movie, or even heard of Acid Westerns?

[billy.pilgrim]

No one?

[Vrede too]

No one?

I've heard of Acid Westerns and they're close to what I would have guessed. However, I was never a huge fan of any westerns and have seen very few in the Example filmography (not El Topo ) and those were all so many decades ago that I can't remember them. Sorry.

[GoCubsGo]

I've not heard of acid westerns.

Westerns probably stopped with me with John Wayne although I did like the Lone Ranger (Clayton Moore version).

And Blazing Saddles.

[billy.pilgrim]

No one?

I've heard of Acid Westerns and they're close to what I would have guessed. However, I was never a huge fan of any westerns and have seen very few in the Example filmography (not El Topo ) and those were all so many decades ago that I can't remember them. Sorry.

This film was just wrong, wrong on so many levels, but at the same time an experience all its own.

[O Really]

I've never heard the term "Acid western" nor seen El Topo. From the list, I saw Pat Garret and Billy the Kid. OTOH, however, back in the day when everybody had CB radios, for a while my handle was "Clockwork Orange" after the film, but fitting for an orange car.

[billy.pilgrim]

I've not heard of acid westerns.

Westerns probably stopped with me with John Wayne although I did like the Lone Ranger (Clayton Moore version).

And Blazing Saddles.

I was never much on Wayne either, and the Spaghettis were all the same, but a younger me did like the Lone Ranger. A favorite movie was Cochise. (Did ya know that he was a big tall white dude who looked like the Rifleman?)

The best Western ever made is Once Upon a Time In the West. Henry Fonda, Jason Robards and Jack Elam are so evil that you'll start liking Charles Bronson. Oh, and there's Claudia Cardinale too.


https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0064116/