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Do movies generally suck since the pandemic?
It was ass...
Which software program was Blair using?...
The beginning has a very dumb scene...
Where do they Shit and when do they Shower?!...
I miss the good ol' days of MovieChat!...
So, was I right about the ghosts?...
My random thoughts...
Does the technology disappoint you?...
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Yes...the entire movie -- and all the jokes -- are in the trailer. You don't need to see the entire finished product. It was garbanzo.
If you're interested, we'll bet. I'll provide proof of my banking transaction and ticket stub to a independent arbitrator. I'll give him $10,000 of my money. You give him $5,000 of your money to hold. The arbitrator then decides who was correct and doles out the money appropriately.
Let me guess...you're not interested, right? You just like talking shit then, right?
I should have said "pixelated like it's the 80's at the latest". Those screens didn't last very long in history. But, of course, I'm not sure how they could have either envisioned or built a more futuristic flat-panel in the 70s. I'm not ripping on Alien like some think, I was just curious if the dot-matrix style devices now feel out of place for a futuristic movie.
One of my favorite movies is "Children of Men" but it still bothers me a bit that their "future" had a lot of old fashioned newspapers in it. In fact, the newspaper industry was at the start of their downfall when this movie was made...they maybe should have seen that one coming a bit more than they did. "Minority Report" was on the right track with newspapers being gone but made a hilarious-in-hindsight error...They still had the paperboy "deliver" the electronic newspaper iPad-type of device to your home each morning! Again, probably should have thought that through a bit more and realized that a new one wouldn't need to be delivered each day, that one device could simply update itself throughout the days and years. The paperboy even threw the device in the front hedges like he was delivering a paper in the 80's, lol!
I didn't watch it? Pffft! Care to put your money where your mouth is? I can prove it via my bank transactions. Let me guess, no, right?
"Great" reviews? Pffft! A 73 Metascore...while Green Dot, just barely. I agree with The Guardian’s Peter Bradshaw: "The majority of the movie a long and essentially plotless extravaganza of crashes, bangs, jumps, punches and PAEs (Pointless Action Explosions).” Exactly.
Are you meaning to tell me you actually watched that pile of garbage and came out impressed?! Wow.
Here's just a few of my issues with it: 1) I can't think of one great line or stunt that wasn't already in the trailers...can you? 2) It seems as if Gosling wanted Blunt romantically but stopped acting because of a back injury that...checks notes...didn't seem to be injured whatsoever. He seemingly had no side effects and jumped right back into action just because he thought Blunt wanted him on set. If he wanted her so bad that he was willing to drop everything for this movie...why didn't he simply call her up?! He was the one ghosting her for crying out loud! And Blunt still wanted Gosling but was just sore at him for Ghosting her. So...You know how this could quickly get rectified? If they simply go out on another date! Why all the banter?! If you both like each other, which you obviously do, spare your friends and colleagues the drama and just go out! 3) Wasn't the bantering "the love between the alien and human in the script" bit they kept doing a little too long and forced?? They started out with a never-ending 15 minutes of this early in the movie and really never let up. That bit was tiring by the middle of the movie.
It was a formulaic PG-13 action movie with way too much romance that nobody cared about and could easily solve. I didn't even see the ending and I'm 100% sure that they got back together...was too simple, made for the masses, and not enough high stakes.
Thank you. Yes...I have "I'm Thinking of Ending Things" in my Top 50 since 2000 list...I didn't talk about it because it was the Netflix movie I was speaking of earlier, therefor didn't arrive in theaters (or very limited). Great little flick though.
"Everything" movie was Ok...a bit hard to understand. Holdovers, decent. Nomadland had its moments. None of those 3 would land in my top 100 since 2000 list though, much less my Top 50. I haven't seen the other ones yet.
Yeah I kind of agree w CaptBeefBlower...there's a bit of quality there, but most of that list is unmemorable at best. And, seriously, I see movies all the time and never heard of half of that list. The Batman was a heaping pile of dogshit. John Wick 3 and 4? We're not on the same wavelength...I was complaining about comic book movies and sequels in my monologue lol! I'm talking about classic, real, adult movies (like Oppenheimer or Killers of the Flower Moon). They're few and far between.
I'd say X/Pearl, those would be near my "Honorable Mentions" list, they were good. Dune was Ok. The Holdovers, seems to have been ripped-off from the original writer, but wasn't bad. Barbarian wasn't terrible either. But still...that's not a great list of movies overall for a 4-year span.
But who's sitting down and writing a program which determines the percentage of likelihood that the human population is infected by an alien organism?! And they brought the floppy disk to Antarctica...for what reason?!
LOL!
My response:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRm-Rcm65SM
The only people deranged are the ones who storm the Capitol because of a whining crybaby who couldn't accept defeat.
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