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    I had a chance to see Mile 22 and Halloween yesterday. I found it odd that Mile 22 had mainly poor review and Halloween mainly positive. Halloween was nothing more than the last 15 of them. I mean it was something to watch but I am glad I never paid to go to the theater to see it. Nothing fresh there. Mile 22 I LOVED. I thought the ending was fantastic as I didn't expect it. Other than Mark Walburg was a little over the top in his role.. I LOVED THE MOVIE. Great action thriller for sure.
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    Quote Originally Posted by webstar1000 View Post
    I had a chance to see Mile 22 and Halloween yesterday. I found it odd that Mile 22 had mainly poor review and Halloween mainly positive. Halloween was nothing more than the last 15 of them. I mean it was something to watch but I am glad I never paid to go to the theater to see it. Nothing fresh there. Mile 22 I LOVED. I thought the ending was fantastic as I didn't expect it. Other than Mark Walburg was a little over the top in his role.. I LOVED THE MOVIE. Great action thriller for sure.
    Gotta agree with you regarding "Mile 22". Pleasantly surprised and yeah, Markie-Mark laid it on a tad thick, but he didn't kill the flick. It was tight and had a good story.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Merlin1958 View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by webstar1000 View Post
    I had a chance to see Mile 22 and Halloween yesterday. I found it odd that Mile 22 had mainly poor review and Halloween mainly positive. Halloween was nothing more than the last 15 of them. I mean it was something to watch but I am glad I never paid to go to the theater to see it. Nothing fresh there. Mile 22 I LOVED. I thought the ending was fantastic as I didn't expect it. Other than Mark Walburg was a little over the top in his role.. I LOVED THE MOVIE. Great action thriller for sure.
    Gotta agree with you regarding "Mile 22". Pleasantly surprised and yeah, Markie-Mark laid it on a tad thick, but he didn't kill the flick. It was tight and had a good story.

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    Green Book:
    Fascinating look at what the south was like in the early 1960's, and a great road trip movie. Engaging and witty. 5/6 Beers on the RFSRS.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Randall Flagg View Post
    Green Book:
    Fascinating look at what the south was like in the early 1960's, and a great road trip movie. Engaging and witty. 5/6 Beers on the RFSRS.
    RF, any 6/6 beers for you that you have seen?
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    Quote Originally Posted by webstar1000 View Post
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    Green Book:
    Fascinating look at what the south was like in the early 1960's, and a great road trip movie. Engaging and witty. 5/6 Beers on the RFSRS.
    RF, any 6/6 beers for you that you have seen?
    Of the 52 plus movies I have seen in a theater this year, there are a handful of 5.5 beers, but I don't believe I rated any 6 beers.
    I try to reserve 6 beers for a movie that for me may come along once every 2 or 3 years.
    If I rated 20% of the movies I've viewed as 6, then I would be a sellout to myself.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Randall Flagg View Post
    Green Book:
    Fascinating look at what the south was like in the early 1960's, and a great road trip movie. Engaging and witty. 5/6 Beers on the RFSRS.
    I want to see this. I'm hoping it opens wider soon.
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    The Favourite:


    Normally I don't enjoy costume period pieces, but this movie was a pleasure. Loosely based on Queen Anne's rule in the early 1700's the movie is quite funny. Throwing in over the top costumes, set decorations, and even a break dance routine (yes a break dance) and showing the power women held behind the scenes, the only only difficult part was understanding the British inflection English. Olivia Colman as the fragile queen is fabulous, Rachel Weisz as the queen's friend, puppet master and lover nails the role, and Emma Stone as the former "Lady" now trying to climb back up the social ladder into the queens chambers (and bed) is a force to be reckoned with.


    5/6 beers on the RFSRS.

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    Green Book - Simply a wonderful, wonderful film. Viggo and Mahershala killed, and the rest of the supporting cast (Linda Cardellini was the only one I knew by name) did a fine job as well. I wasn't expecting the film to be so damn funny. I was expecting humour, sure, but the film was practically a comedy. It reminded me a lot of a recent road trip film, Philomena, which I love as well. I was quite happy that it wasn't too on the nose when it came to racism, considering the subject matter. It really focused a lot more on the friendship between the two and the way their shared experience impacted them. And I enjoyed that when it came to racism it wasn't all 'look at these evil white folk', but it showed a lot of nuance and it showed how subtle and ingrained the racism is, instead of being overt. And even in situations where one would consider something to be based on racism, such as a scene near the end involving a bar, it's based on experience with people and not prejudiced. It might be my favourite film of the year so far.



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    Quote Originally Posted by Randall Flagg View Post
    The Favourite:


    Normally I don't enjoy costume period pieces, but this movie was a pleasure. Loosely based on Queen Anne's rule in the early 1700's the movie is quite funny. Throwing in over the top costumes, set decorations, and even a break dance routine (yes a break dance) and showing the power women held behind the scenes, the only only difficult part was understanding the British inflection English. Olivia Colman as the fragile queen is fabulous, Rachel Weisz as the queen's friend, puppet master and lover nails the role, and Emma Stone as the former "Lady" now trying to climb back up the social ladder into the queens chambers (and bed) is a force to be reckoned with.


    5/6 beers on the RFSRS.
    This is one that I've dying to see for a while. I may have to travel to see this one in theaters.

    Let me ask you, RF, have you seen any of the other films Yorgos Lanthimos has directed (Dogtooth, The Lobster, The Killing of a Sacred Deer)?
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    I saw The Lobster and enjoyed it. The Favourite isn't quite so "absurd".

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    Dogtooth is one of my all time favorite foreign films. Probably top 20.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Randall Flagg View Post
    I saw The Lobster and enjoyed it. The Favourite isn't quite so "absurd".
    Yeah, I'm hearing it's his most mainstream and accessible film. My theater in town doesn't have it his weekend, but many of the other theaters around me seem to be showing it, so I don't have to go too far to see it.
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    Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was such an amazing experience. Go see it as soon as you can! And make sure it's on a huge screen, preferably in Dolby Cinema or such, which is how I saw it. It's beautiful to look at, pure art. And it is so funny. My whole theater was in stitches throughout. Also stick around to the very end, there's a really funny end credits scene. In all, this is definitely the best animated film of this year and one of the best films of the year period. It's easily making my own Top 10 for sure.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mae View Post
    Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse was such an amazing experience. Go see it as soon as you can! And make sure it's on a huge screen, preferably in Dolby Cinema or such, which is how I saw it. It's beautiful to look at, pure art. And it is so funny. My whole theater was in stitches throughout. Also stick around to the very end, there's a really funny end credits scene. In all, this is definitely the best animated film of this year and one of the best films of the year period. It's easily making my own Top 10 for sure.
    Have yet to hear even a single lukewarm review of this. Can’t wait to see

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    National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

    I know not a new film, but it's a golden oldie and a fucking funny movie hands down. A Xmas tradition in out house every year. The holiday cannot proceed until we have viewed it together one evening!!! So, the family (sans the grandchildren) watched it this evening and the laughs still abound!!!

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    Just got home from seeing Creed II - loved every minute of it (except maybe the wife's singing, Creed's wife, not mine). A great addition to the Rocky franchise. Just so much fun! 9/10

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    The Mule:


    Classic (modern) Eastwood movie. Eastwood plays a ~90 year old Daylily grower who has spent more time on the road than with his family. With his house being foreclosed on, a chance meeting gets him a job delivering packages-no questions asked. As the delivery sizes increase, so do the risks, and the payoffs. Slowly paced, but never boring, Eastwood "delivers" the good in the movie.

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    Bird Box. I absolutely loved this movie. Kept my attention the whole time edge of your seat style. It’s close to the book to with some pretty cool changes. So well done. 9/10


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    Quote Originally Posted by webstar1000 View Post
    Bird Box. I absolutely loved this movie. Kept my attention the whole time edge of your seat style. It’s close to the book to with some pretty cool changes. So well done. 9/10
    This opened at a theater near you?
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    Bird Box. I absolutely loved this movie. Kept my attention the whole time edge of your seat style. It’s close to the book to with some pretty cool changes. So well done. 9/10
    This opened at a theater near you?
    No,
    It was on the download site I used and I have a pretty impressive home theatre. I loved it... it really a fun movie escape!


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    Quote Originally Posted by webstar1000 View Post
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    Bird Box. I absolutely loved this movie. Kept my attention the whole time edge of your seat style. It’s close to the book to with some pretty cool changes. So well done. 9/10
    This opened at a theater near you?
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    It was on the download site I used and I have a pretty impressive home theatre. I loved it... it really a fun movie escape!


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    Quote Originally Posted by Merlin1958 View Post
    National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

    I know not a new film, but it's a golden oldie and a fucking funny movie hands down...
    Hell yeah - an old fashioned family Christmas indeed.
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    The Mule: A good film that was fairly entertaining with some really good scenes. It was missing something though, something ineffable that could've elevated the material even more. I read some criticisms that Cooper's character was totally bland, as were Fishburne and Pena, who were his boss and parter. And sure their characters were anything special, but I did appreciate that they felt like DEA agents who are in tunnel vision, only caring about getting this sting. And really, that's what their job is, and they're pretty no-nonsense about it. I think that story either had too much devoted to it, or not enough. I did enjoy the humour of the films and I liked Earl's relationship with the members of the cartel. I had read a review that complain of the films xenophobia, casual racism, and stereotypical portrayal of Mexican cartel members, with assault rifles and neck tattoos...but I felt the film actually did a good film of portraying the cartel members as something other than evil, mindless thugs. They laugh with Earl, crack jokes, and one thanks him for asking about his niece. If anything, the film showed that people get sucked into that kind of life, but they're not bad people inherently. The "casual racism" was basically a couple mild, off-handed comments Earl makes, but he says them without malice and as 90 year man who is out of touch, but also without a filter. For instance, while on a run, he sees a young family on the side of the road, and he pulls over to help them out. They're black, and Earl says "negroes" and they say they don't like to be called that, and Earl says "Mea culpa". The idea that Earl's character is racist for saying negroes despite the fact he would've helped that young family with a flat tire no matter their race, I think is not seeing the forest for the trees.



    The film definitely could've been better. I think it mostly comes down the script. It's a little bland, which probably accounts for the criticisms I've read about the performances. The story though is good. But even with that, I still can't put my finger on what is missing from this movie. It's very small and simple that was overlooked by the filmmakers. But I enjoyed myself and I'd probably watch it again down the road.



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    Aqua man. What a surprise!!! Went in with Lowe expectations and was blown away. Wow.... I would give it an 8.5 and equal to Wonder Woman. Such a good theatre experience!!!


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