Last movie you watched and rating (1-10)

Orlando_Eagles said:
That creates a whole new discussion. I would nod to all of them. We get inundated with the kids from Different Strokes, Macaulay Culkin, Lindsay Lohan, etc. All the horror stories of children being actors and being fucked up.

We’ve clearly learned that being a child actor is a fucking minefield of possibly traumatic experiences....whether it’s just the job, how parents treat them like a cash cow and not a child, or worse.

For worse....read up on Dan Schneider and the latest generation of kids he’s fucked up. Top of that list...Amanda Bynes decline makes more sense now.

Digressing....I like a discussion on all the kids who came through. Drew Barrymore actually had that “will she spin out” moment in her teens....I remember Poison Ivy well. But, she got it back together. And good thing too....I heart her.

Are you putting Leo #1 because of the heights he’s reached? I have to say....the first I remember him from was Gilbert Grape (in which he was amazing). I don’t remember him from the tail years of Growinf Pains and am only aware of this because it’s come up since his ascension as an adult.
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I believe DiCaprios movies are more than likely higher grossing than any others on the list with a small exception probably going to Bales Batman trilogy. Everything he touches practically turns to gold, he is recognized as being one of the best actors of our time. I have never seen Gilbert Grape, but he was a good child actor as well, I remember watching him in A Boy's Life with DeNiro.

What do you think of Shia LeBeouf? He hasn't exactly done mainstream movies, but he has kept working, had some critical successes and failures as well.... but he also went off the deep end a bit a few years ago. But he is still around lol.
 
1615480158553.png Not bad. I'll give it a 7.
 
Blackshirts BLVD said:
I believe DiCaprios movies are more than likely higher grossing than any others on the list with a small exception probably going to Bales Batman trilogy. Everything he touches practically turns to gold, he is recognized as being one of the best actors of our time. I have never seen Gilbert Grape, but he was a good child actor as well, I remember watching him in A Boy's Life with DeNiro.

What do you think of Shia LeBeouf? He hasn't exactly done mainstream movies, but he has kept working, had some critical successes and failures as well.... but he also went off the deep end a bit a few years ago. But he is still around lol.
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Forgot about Leo in A Boys Life. Fantastic one too. Gilbert Grape is worth the watch for how well he plays a special needs role (or at least it has resonance with me).

Shia....good question. He comes from that “Disney/Nickelodeon kids show” world that I’m seeing all kinds of nastiness coming out on the open. But, being fair, he was also a boy. I think his falls under the old school “very young and given too many chances to get into bad things” that so many fall into.
 
Blackshirts BLVD said:
I believe DiCaprios movies are more than likely higher grossing than any others on the list with a small exception probably going to Bales Batman trilogy. Everything he touches practically turns to gold, he is recognized as being one of the best actors of our time. I have never seen Gilbert Grape, but he was a good child actor as well, I remember watching him in A Boy's Life with DeNiro.

What do you think of Shia LeBeouf? He hasn't exactly done mainstream movies, but he has kept working, had some critical successes and failures as well.... but he also went off the deep end a bit a few years ago. But he is still around lol.
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Shia crushes Leo in highest grossing movies!
 
rsw626 said:
Wrong.
Leo - 30th ($ 2,632,842,524 total)
Shia -79th ($ 1,923,757,575 total)

Top 100 Stars in Leading Roles at the Domestic Box Office
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I think he meant that Shai’s movies are more gross than Leo’s...


That said, I am surprised at how low on the list Leo is and at how high on the list Shia is. Though, he was in the Transformer movies and the last Indiana Jones movie, so those right there boost his rank...
 
SU Nittany Tide said:
I wasn't talking cumulative. I was talking biggest.
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Titanic is still the #2 movie ever, I think (maybe 3? And if you adjust, then I think it falls to 7 or 8, but still...). Shia has not been in any movies that compare with that.
 
calsnowskier said:
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Titanic is still the #2 movie ever, I think. Shia has not been in any movies that compare with that.
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Shit I forgot about that one. Shia has three that are bigger than Leo's #2!
 
SU Nittany Tide said:
Shit I forgot about that one. Shia has three that are bigger than Leo's #2!
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I get what you are saying, but Leo is always the lead while Shia was the “lead” only in his 2 Transformer movies (and even there, the SFX were the real lead). He was the annoying sidekick in Indy 4.
 
calsnowskier said:
I get what you are saying, but Leo is always the lead while Shia was the “lead” only in his 2 Transformer movies (and even there, the SFX were the real lead). He was the annoying sidekick in Indy 4.
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I don't use many exclamation points when I'm actually really trying to make a serious point.
 
Near Dark - Katheryn Bigelow (Point Break, Hurt Locker) directed a bunch of ex-Aliens folks. Henricksen, Paxton, Goldstein.

Vampires cruising in a blacked out Winnebago.

Love it.

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Near Dark (1987) ⭐ 6.9 | Horror

1h 34m | R
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Let Me In

7.7

A movie about some bullied Middle School kid who befriends a vampire girl that moves into his apartment complex. Apparently a remake of some foreign movie. Was worried it would be some kid movie but it was rated R and most certainly not a movie for kids. Very bloody violent scenes within.

I've wanted to check it out for awhile since it was directed by Matt Reeves who is making the new Batman movie and I really like the trailer for that new Batman. He made some of the recent Planet of the Ape movies which I was never that into and Cloverfield which was alright. So I figured let me check this movie out.

Loved the dark style of it. And it was interesting for what it was. The kids were good actors but something about intimate love between kids in movies always creeps me out. Also there wasn't much backstory in these vampires, didn't really get an idea on where they came from or how old they were which I like in my vampire tales.


 
Orlando_Eagles said:
Forgot about Leo in A Boys Life. Fantastic one too. Gilbert Grape is worth the watch for how well he plays a special needs role (or at least it has resonance with me).

Shia....good question. He comes from that “Disney/Nickelodeon kids show” world that I’m seeing all kinds of nastiness coming out on the open. But, being fair, he was also a boy. I think his falls under the old school “very young and given too many chances to get into bad things” that so many fall into.
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Both of you dickwads loved it so much that you fucked up the title :lol: "This Boy's Life".

And since we're speaking of abusive fathers and Shia let's combine the two. Anyone seen "Honey Boy"?
 
I have decided that now that I have logged enough reviews it is time to define what my scoring system is panning out as.


Anything 8.0 and above is a movie that I felt was good enough that I would recommend those who have not seen it to see it. Anything 7.5-7.9 is a movie that while maybe I wouldn't say you gotta see it, it was still enjoyable to the point that I did not regret watching the movie. Anything below 7.5 is where I start to feel like I was wasting my time watching it. The further below 7.5 that the score goes the more I felt I was wasting my time watching it.

Anything 9.0 and above is a movie that I feel is genuinely great. And with that, I present my updated list of movies reviewed in this thread thus far:



Meloncholia 9.5
All I Can Say 9.5
No Country For Old Men 9.2
The House That Jack Built 9.0
The Handmaiden 9.0
Incendies 8.7
Sound of Metal 8.6
Embrace of the Serpent 8.6
The Exorcist 8.5
i'm thinking of ending things 8.4
He Got Game 8.3
The Thing 8.3
Polytechnique 8.2
Burning 8.1
Coherence 8.1
Mother! 8.1
To Die For 8.0
Bad Trip 8.0
The Fly 8.0
The Witch 8.0
The Man From Earth 7.9
Memories of Murders 7.9
The Skin I Live In 7.9
The Machinist 7.9
Predestination 7.9
Tenet 7.8
Nocternal Animals 7.8
End of Watch 7.8
The Devil All The Time 7.8
Let Me in 7.7
The Salesman 7.7
The Conversation 7.7
Joint Security Area 7.6
Darket Hour 7.6
Source Code 7.5
Stoker 7.5
Bliss 7.5
A Simple Plan 7.4
Dark City 7.4
The Bridge on the River Kwai 7.2
First Cow 7.1
Manhunter 6.7
Borat Subsequent Movie Film 6.4
Mank 6.3
 
Greyhound

7.5


Bought a new 65 inch 4k TV, LG CX back the weekend of the Super Bowl. Got 3 months free of Apple TV with that but didn't actually start that until today. First thing I watched was the Tom Hanks WW2 movie made for that where he captains a destroyer tasked with trying to protect supply shipments across the dead zone of the Atlantic where planes can't provide air cover. Super short movie, only hour and a half and it is really consistent with action with very little backstory being done with characters or any real additional story being shown beyond just the action of these skirmishes at sea between these German U-Boats and these allied destroyers. Gave some interesting insight into how those battles played out and the maneuvering that was necessary in order to win them.

The actions and special effects are good but it is very bare bones and compact in the story. I like a little emotional build up and pull with my war movies and this didn't really provide too much with it. There was also this strange thing of this black cook/waiter/something on the ship that would keep bringing Tom Hanks food and the movie made it a point that every time this happened Tom Hanks would look at him and you just thought it was trying to set something up where this black cook would be some hero later in the movie or something but it went absolutely nowhere so in the end it was just odd.



 
rmilia1 said:
Yep. Anya Taylor . You should definitely check it out. I'm pretty tough to impress movie wise and I really liked it a lot
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i'm pretty easy to impress movie wise and was bored out of my mind with what so many others had given high praise to. the disappointment probably came with the claims of how good it was only to be underwhelmed. am i supposed to be scared of a goat?
 
Mondo said:
I Care Alot.
6/10

Held my interest. The premise is interesting.
Every character is pretty much scum.
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I caught this one the night it came out, i don't think people knew what i was getting at when i said rosamund pike plays a cunt you really want to see die well. but yeah, as far as that goes, it was a movie where near the end it's kind of like, r
from the opening, you knew chekov's gun was going to come up later
but even after that, meh.
 
RememberTheKoy said:
The Bridge on the River Kwai

7.2

Been meaning to watch this for years but not really a fan of movies prior to the late 60s with very few exceptions. A bit long, a bit boring. Ending was interesting. No desire to watch it ever again.
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liked the witch, thought the bridge on the river kwai was boring....

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The Black Stallion.

Good story, terrible casting. Terri Garr is the worst actress...lol.

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