What movies are you watching?

[coptheriotact]

martin (1977) i was thinking 3/10, but the next morning its more of a 2/10

very minimal memorable/enjoyable scenes

[LoathedVermin72]

Martin fucking rules gtfo

[bart]

you’re a 2/10!!!!!!

[BurtReynolds]

Cherry 2000 - Melanie Griffith's fame utterly eludes me. Completely talentless, and a 7/10 at best. Both her and the male lead are terrible in this. But at least Brion James makes an appearance, and Tim "Dollman" Thomerson is the bad guy. Would normally be right up my alley, but this one mostly sucks.

House : How does one even begin to write a movie like House? Absolute nonsense from start to finish. 10 stars.

House 2 : This one is too silly and formulaic and low stakes and the puppets suck.

High Spirits I totally forgot this movie existed until I saw it yesterday and remembered that I watched this one many times as a youngin. It's alright. Kinda loud and dumb.

Dragonslayer : i kinda hate this movie. Classic case of the heroes being annoying and terrible and worse than the bad guys. Looks alright though.

Robot Jox : I remember this being boring as hell, but it was a little less boring than I thought. Still not enough robot violence though. The ending is absurd. I give it a little more credit for being made in 1987, and not 1990 when it was finally released.

[LoathedVermin72]

I’m not sure I can process knowing Burt hates Dragonslayer. Upsetting.

[BurtReynolds]

I can understand how it may come as a shock to some, but I can't abide this interventionist propaganda.

This is the story of a good and reasonable king making hard decisions for his people while protecting his only daughter. The death of one peasant girl every five years to stave off genocide is perfectly rational. But then a group of oikophobic dissidents appeal to foreign powers to destabilize their homeland.

In comes the arrogant, self righteous Westerner with no understanding of the local culture - a fool who vastly overestimates his own power - and immediately declares this foreign land's government invalid and its religion a fraud. He unilaterally launches a poorly conceived attack on a sleeping enemy, stirring up a hornet's nest that gets a lot of innocent people killed.

The wise king tries to re-establish order, but his moronic liberal daughter, her brain rotted out by NGO propaganda, rigs an election and leads a peasant revolt against a system that suits the peasantry just fine.

Her ideological possession leads her to pointlessly sacrifice herself for no gain, further destabilizing the lives of the common people and also robbing the kingdom of an heir. The "hero" then murders the enemy's children in reprisal.

Then our idiot adventurist hero is bailed out last minute by what is essentially a Deus ex machina.

It really says a lot about our society.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Just like the fucking movie, Burt. Good lord.

[LoathedVermin72]

Okay but it’s so beautiful though, one of the best-looking movies of the ‘80s without a doubt

[BurtReynolds]

I do miss when movies had shadows.

[BurtReynolds]

Runaway : Tom Sellick flights some toasters and printers. Tom deserved much better than this. I could forgive a lot of this movie's flaws if the robots weren't so damn silly. It's important to have cool robots, folks!

Quicksilver : Have you ever wondered about the exciting, fast-paced world of bicycle messengers in New York? Well have I got the movie for -- wait... no? Oh me either, actually. Why did I watch this?

[Anders]

Now I want to watch Dragonslayer.

[bada]

When I was a kid I would watch anything Sci-Fi / Fantasy and love it but even back then Cherry 2000 sucked. Loved the first House.

[bada]

Burt watch Nate and Hayes.

[Buby]

Michael... Even for a very Hollywood-esque biopic, it's way too sanitized and condensed to shit.
I'm sure by now plenty of videos about the glaring omissions and discrepancies have hit all our feeds.

It had me singing and dancing the whole time though.

[wease]

Runaway : Tom Sellick flights some toasters and printers. Tom deserved much better than this. I could forgive a lot of this movie's flaws if the robots weren't so damn silly. It's important to have cool robots

Gene Simmons is the bad guy in this.

Written and directed by Michael Crichton. Also has Kirstie Alley in it.

[LoathedVermin72]

Crichton was a pretty good director

[VinylGuy]

saw two on the plane to NYC

- Tron Ares; ey i had fun! looked good too.

-Roofman: it was alright i guess? kinda sad.

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10 Cloverfield Lane

Straightforward:

Really enjoyed it—tense, well-acted, John Goodman is incredible. Just wish it stayed a pure psychological thriller. The ending didn’t feel earned and took it down a notch for me.

A little sharper:

90% of a great psychological thriller, then it pivots into something else entirely. Goodman carries it, but the ending feels unearned and undercuts what made it work.

More blunt:

Loved the bunker stuff—could’ve been a classic. The ending feels like a tacked-on genre shift that doesn’t match the rest of the movie.

More casual:

Super tense and engaging, Goodman is awesome. Just wish it didn’t go full sci-fi at the end—it felt kind of random and not really earned.

[Ms Harmless]

10 Cloverfield Lane

Straightforward:

Really enjoyed it—tense, well-acted, John Goodman is incredible. Just wish it stayed a pure psychological thriller. The ending didn’t feel earned and took it down a notch for me.

A little sharper:

90% of a great psychological thriller, then it pivots into something else entirely. Goodman carries it, but the ending feels unearned and undercuts what made it work.

More blunt:

Loved the bunker stuff—could’ve been a classic. The ending feels like a tacked-on genre shift that doesn’t match the rest of the movie.

More casual:

Super tense and engaging, Goodman is awesome. Just wish it didn’t go full sci-fi at the end—it felt kind of random and not really earned.

Sportsmanlike:

"Swing and a miss!"

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