Red Mosquito

tragabigzanda wrote:I want to watch a crime movie I’ve never seen before. American Gangster or The Drop?

Definitely The Drop

Farmer John wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:Babylon. Eh it was ok, but really started to lose me as it dragged on. Three fucking hours to tell this bare bones, silly story?! I couldn't imagine sitting in a theater hearing Robbie screech at me for three hours. That scene with the sound guys was torture. The various minority characters seem added only to appease the modern diversity gods. All are wasted.

But I actually liked the overall coked out vibe of it. It looks very pretty and is well acted, and the critics are idiots for disliking it for the reasons that they did. It's all fake, tawdry bullshit, but it was interesting... but not for three hours!

C+

That was the best scene in the movie!

I do agree that it dragged on too long and loses steam towards the end.

I think with that scene, they went to eleven about halfway through and didn't have anywhere left to go but to have the actors yell a lot. Could have been tighter. Basically my review for the whole movie.

Literally the point of the scene

Ban Burt and Jorge. Clearly idiots.

Lenny can stay. He's easily misled is all.

thats scene was so fucking good.

Also, damn that tobey maguire scene ...just remember that one. Man.

The best scene in movie might be that conversation Jean Smart has with Brad Pitt when she's laying down some hard truths.

epilogue wrote:Literally the point of the scene

No, tedium was not the point of the scene.

I don't even agree that it "looks pretty". It looks (and moves) like it was directed by Brett Ratner.

Farmer John wrote:The best scene in movie might be that conversation Jean Smart has with Brad Pitt when she's laying down some hard truths.

that was another good one yeah

Jorge wrote:I don't even agree that it "looks pretty". It looks (and moves) like it was directed by Brett Ratner.

oh cmon.
You are just very angry to say that.

Watched these during my flight just now:

Hypnotic - What a strange fucking movie. The premise is compelling enough and I liked how the main hypnotic baddie could unleash chaos so effortlessly to accomplish his goals, but then the movie takes a bunch of bizarre turns and ends with that hallmark of modern cinema: a scene of the lead characters standing around explaining the plot to each other. Pretty bad, a waste of a good idea, Robert Rodriguez is such a weird director.

A Good Person - As per usual, Florence Pugh is very good in what is kind of a waste of a movie. Morgan Freeman also acts alive for the first time in what feels like forever. But the problem is the writing. There are a lot of overwrought, overwritten scenes and the movie gestures vaguely at profundity without developing it. I dunno, it was just kind of boring.

Beau is Afraid - I definitely need to watch it again, because this is when I started to give in to exhaustion and I nodded out several times. My feelings are generally positive, I liked the vibes and how funny it was, as well as the funky lens play and how they used camera techniques to convey anxiety. This one merits a rewatch, but I was into it until I started falling asleep

i wanna see Beau..but i need to be in the mood.

A Good Person seems the best choice for a really awful movie on a plane.

Beau is so good

I too wouldn’t mind seeing Beau

Daddy’s Home 2

Hopefully has some funny scenes.

BurtReynolds wrote:Beau is so good

Beau is bad. boo Beau boo.

(Do an RM search for beau with author argo for a more complete review)

Farmer John wrote:

epilogue wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:

Ms Harmless wrote:off to see TMNT right now!

there's a LOT to love about "TMNT: Mutant Mayhem"; there are a few changes to the original lore, which make sense for this generation of kids and kids media, and given what they can (and I hope they will) do to further things in future sequels; they've gone right back to the beginning, much like "The Batman" did recently -- so yes, left wanting more, but they've suggested more could be coming; I love how they gave New York a genuine sense of place that feels "real" even though it's animated, and I particularly liked how they wrote the crime culture: there are big "kingpins", and there are the small-time "crooks", real people who don't super want to be doing what they're doing but are exploited by the bosses and trapped by poverty and discrimination; in this way, the movie paints a world much like a teen-friendly Hell's Kitchen of Marvel's "Daredevil", which is SO appropriate, given that the original comic, its characters and its world-building, was a love letter to, and a parody of, Daredevil itself

also fuck the haters, love what they did with April, taking her back to her roots

8/10

Love this review. I'm dying to see it and this has me even more excited! Hopefully this weekend...

Taking my nephews to see this tonight and we are HYPED

report back! to me it feels like a prequel to the Turtles we know and love, and this morning I saw an "ending explained" theory that BLEW MY MIND about the Cynthia character

The Argonaut wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:Beau is so good

Beau is bad. boo Beau boo.

(Do an RM search for beau with author argo for a more complete review)

I'm definitely gonna give it a proper watch on a big screen and without airplane exhaustion. I was really feeling it, though

I look forward to seeing it as well.

Jorge wrote:

The Argonaut wrote:

BurtReynolds wrote:Beau is so good

Beau is bad. boo Beau boo.

(Do an RM search for beau with author argo for a more complete review)

I'm definitely gonna give it a proper watch on a big screen and without airplane exhaustion. I was really feeling it, though

It deserves that