Last movie you watched and rating (1-10)

[Bender]

Coming 2 America. One of the worst sequels I've ever watched. I liked the original. I changed the channel halfway through and I almost always watch a movie all the way through. Didn't find anything funny about it.

man, it was trash, but i stuck with it. the start really was the worst thing about it. it had some decent parts after, but the first 20 was like, the fuck you doing? most of the parts after that were like that too, but it had its moments. i don't know if it's because it was so terrible, but one of my favorite moments was a bit about catching the tiger later on where the saving grace was using whatever catfood brand. it was so dumb, but with what the rest of the movie brought, probably my favorite part.

 

[Bender]

That it was. I felt like it could have been OK. I liked seeing Lisa again, she had some good moments.

But there was this “the bastard son is a bad idea....no wait no we love him all of the sudden”. Horrid development and pacing. Not sure what Amazon paid but it felt like a cash grab.

it was so bad it lost my attention at points, but one of my favorite things from that is i thought the barber and his half sister queen in waiting were the same person and i kept thinking, wait, what the fuck are they trying to pull here with this incest bit? like are they really going to do this as a storyline? oh, they're not the same person... moving on.

 

[Bender]

Finally got around to watching The Highwaymen. Enjoyed it, quite a bit. I really like how it intimated that it was kinda the beginning of the media circus and celebrity. 8/10

groundbreaking movie on how to investigate the criminal underbelly.....

hey, why don't we stakeout the house he grew up in or other places they lived while sending all other manpower on wild goose chases?

 

[Bender]

I would watch Woody eat breakfast. He's awesome.


Show me another actor that started with an iconic TV character, and was able to break the typecast better. He's great.


I dug the old pics during the credits too. Fucking crazy how much they unloaded on em'.

I'd say like Tom Hanks or something, but nowadays, I feel like TV and movies are interchangeable on their level of where you start or finish. Like movie stars are switching to tv roles.

That said, he's nice in everything he does. weird how family works. his dad was a hitman that left his family when he was 7 and didn't learn of him again until he was 20 and he was arrested for murder. yet over the years he did what he could to see him released.

 

[Bender]

I saw that early too but some things that happened later in the movie have me a sense they wanted the viewer to want her to win.

after watching the opening of the movie, how could anyone ever want to see her win? i can't see how that was ever an option.

 

[Bender]

You can easily argue that Woody was more iconic than Willis on TV (though from what I understand, his show was pretty popular), but Die Hard had to quit showing Willis on the poster because this goofy sitcom guy was getting such backlash for trying to be some tough guy in the movie. The big unveiling of the trailer got booed and laughed at. People had tried to typecast him and he completely shattered that.

here i've never seen the goofy sitcom guy (death becomes here was nice), but his badass roles to me were just like, yeah, i guess we're rolling with this and i'll by it. not saying they were bad movies, but i never bought him in that role.

 

[Bender]

But until GWH, Williams basically played the same character every time out (I know there are exceptions Like 1 Hour Photo). GWH opened doors for him, sure, but he was already a hugely popular big star when that came out.

if you want to include Williams, you could include Lesley Nielsen or Robert Deniro who both rebooted their careers as comedians late in life.

Lesley Nielsen I feel went for a certain class of movies and nailed it, which is why he was always the one cast in those movies/roles. They've tried to do others, but he something else. I feel like he was in a certain type of movies, then Mel Brooks had his type of movies that were similar, and then we got some bad offshoots from there that occasionally aren't terrible, some are decent enough and have their moments. Like I get what Scary Movie was going for, wasn't bad. A few of them were okay. Once they got around to another disaster movie, not another date movie, etc... it was shit for a while.

Also, Williams tried different shit throughout his career even if people didn't acknowledge it. you mention Goodwill Hunting, but Awakenings and Dead Poet's Society were more serious roles, not to mention other roles he did that mixed the two. He tried, but people didn't go for it and we got Flubber as a result.

 

[Bender]

Have to disagree on GWH. That wasn’t his first dramatic role with significance. Dead Poets Society, Awakenings....these was many years before GWH. And while they aren’t quite on the same level for performance or recognition he was nominated for best actor in 1989 for Dead Poets.

My point is that Robin might have been one of the biggest ones to overcome a type cast rut. He kept taking all the zany Robin Williams type roles while keeping his ear out (and winning) roles that could highlight his dramatic chops. Hell, even a role like Good Morning Vietnam he came in to play his zany role and still made the most of more serious moments to highlight his ability to play the dramatic.

GWH was just to culmination of 10-15 years of rolling with the type casting while working his way into broader roles.

end of the day, while there's some great actors out there, i think we get caught up on how hard it really is. michael keaton was a standup. david cross was a standup, did Mr. Show with Bob Odenkirk. He was one of the best characters on arrested development with what was supposed to be a one off role. Bobby O? He's doing a great job in both Breaking Bad and currently Better Call Saul, a show where Michael McKean crushed it like no other. Mike Mac who you know from the plethora of Chris Guest movies, comedians or comedic actors time and time again show how easy it is to do it with the right script and director.

 

[Bender]

In that case, DiCaprio has to be #1. With the two I mentioned making the list as well....

Natalie Portman
Scarlett Johanson - I remember her as a teen I think.
Christian Bale
Drew Barrymore - she had her problems, but she has kept working and found some good roles over the years. She'd at least be borderline lol.

I'd have to put Bale first, nails everything he's been in and started from day one. Jodie Foster will go two, fuck wasn't her first jam Taxi Driver? Not a huge catalog, but I've never seen her miss, she was understated in the mauritanian, but had her moments later on. Leo's always nice, Natalie Portman is cool, whish i could think of more not on your list at this time, but maybe later. I like Bale and Foster, though. That said, when I think of Foster on the funny side only Freaky Friday is coming up, perhaps there's something else.

 

[Bender]

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.

meh, the whole child star trauma seems less to me now. watched the punky brewster doc on hulu this past week. had a few cats that died on there she had video of, but Jonathan Brandis (Mr. Lady Bug) is the only one anyone would know. the others were like the brother of stephen dorff who died a few years ago in his 30s or various skateboarders, etc... i say this callously, there was a whole picture montage at the end, but it was like, yeah, sorry you knew them even in a second hand way and were at parties with them when you video taped them... it just reminded me more or being on twitter every other week and there's some rapper i've never heard of that's dead now. i mean shit, back in my day at least tupac and biggie had tunes. rip freaky tah, lot of cats that were good. now it's like some soundcloud guy that 20 people heard of that gets elevated.

 

[Bender]

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

I'd give this list merit if it didn't start off with melancholia, though you said meloncholia, so perhaps it's a different epic movie i'm unaware of, would be near the bottom of my von trier flicks, but i don't inflate shit movies, so i guess we differ there. 7.5 for bliss? tell me that's not the owen wilson salma hayak joint? I'm not saying don't watch it, but it really shoudn't be above alot of those movies.... okay, looked at the movies, it can stay above mank, borat, and first cow.

 

[DraftNerd]

end of the day, while there's some great actors out there, i think we get caught up on how hard it really is. michael keaton was a standup. david cross was a standup, did Mr. Show with Bob Odenkirk. He was one of the best characters on arrested development with what was supposed to be a one off role. Bobby O? He's doing a great job in both Breaking Bad and currently Better Call Saul, a show where Michael McKean crushed it like no other. Mike Mac who you know from the plethora of Chris Guest movies, comedians or comedic actors time and time again show how easy it is to do it with the right script and director.

Good points. I’ve surely noticed more often than not that comedians can do drama much easier than many dramatic actors doing comedy.

Bobby O is a huge example. He blew me away in Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul....and I admit the trailer for Nobody looks really good for an action movie.

Still....maybe its my generation...but Robin was the original “holy shit....this comedian is really good” for me.

 

[RememberTheKoy]

liked the witch, thought the bridge on the river kwai was boring....

It's very hard for me to be entertained by movies from prior to the late 60s. Outside of handful of Akira Kurosawa movies from prior that period, Dr. Strangelove and The Wizard of Oz there really aren't many out there for me. River Kwai is a well made and well acted movie for sure. But just like Citizen Kane, it is boring.

 

[RememberTheKoy]

I'd give this list merit if it didn't start off with melancholia, though you said meloncholia, so perhaps it's a different epic movie i'm unaware of, would be near the bottom of my von trier flicks, but i don't inflate shit movies, so i guess we differ there. 7.5 for bliss? tell me that's not the owen wilson salma hayak joint? I'm not saying don't watch it, but it really shoudn't be above alot of those movies.... okay, looked at the movies, it can stay above mank, borat, and first cow.

I absolutely love Meloncholia, the second act particularly is so beautiful.

And yeah 7.5 for Bliss. I heard a lot of really bad things about that movie so going into it my expectations were really down but it wasn't that bad. It wasn't that good but I was entertained by it and when it was over I didn't feel like I necessarily wasted time by watching it.

It seems like people's biggest gripe about it is that it was advertised as this science fiction movie when really it was about a mentally ill drug addicted homeless person having major delusions completely detached from society.

 

[DragonFromTo]

Good points. I’ve surely noticed more often than not that comedians can do drama much easier than many dramatic actors doing comedy.

Bobby O is a huge example. He blew me away in Breaking Bad/Better Call Saul....and I admit the trailer for Nobody looks really good for an action movie.

Still....maybe its my generation...but Robin was the original “holy shit....this comedian is really good” for me.

 

[Kburjr]

Although Clint Eastwood was arguably typecast he has to sit near the top of any list of people to move fro. TV to movies. The greater pivot was to director.

 

[DraftNerd]

Although Clint Eastwood was arguably typecast he has to sit near the top of any list of people to move fro. TV to movies. The greater pivot was to director.

Good call out. Before my time so I forget....he was on some TV western before movies?

Fully agreed on directing. Once I saw Unforgiven I knew this guy was good behind the camera.

 

[Kburjr]

Good call out. Before my time so I forget....he was on some TV western before movies?

Fully agreed on directing. Once I saw Unforgiven I knew this guy was good behind the camera.

He played Rowdy Yates on Rawhide. The character grew from being almost comic relief to headlining the show the last few years.

 

[Kburjr]

Another one is George Clooney, although he made the pivot while still on TV. From recurring comedy roles to top leading man in a drama before going onto the movies.

 

[Kburjr]

Almost Famous. Forgot just how much I enjoyed this movie. Acting was spotty, but the spirit of the movie shined through. No earthshattering message but felt lifted when it ended.

8.0