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Mad Max: Fury Road
I'm a fan of this series of movies.
The only complaint I have with this one is that a lot of the scenes were too jumpy (ya know, when the camera just won't stay still), and that made it a bit irritating to watch.
Once again, the hero gets left behind so others can escape.
I'm a fan of this series of movies.
The only complaint I have with this one is that a lot of the scenes were too jumpy (ya know, when the camera just won't stay still), and that made it a bit irritating to watch.
Once again, the hero gets left behind so others can escape.
Anto9us
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I don't go to movies much - but my son is here from college for the summer -- we usually go to all the SuperHero Movies and we DID see "AVENGERS - AGE OF ULTRON"
Hulk in love - lol - fantastic -- also first appearance of Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch - a brother/sister pair of Avengers...
Monday night we went to see
TOMORROWLAND
with George Clooney
way - way out Science Fiction
George Clooney NEVER GETS CLEANED UP in this movie, neither a full beard nor clean-shaven --
he is just STUBBLE all movie long --
baggy clothes - but a good performance
his character also has a child actor playing Clooney as a boy
There IS NO ADULT FEMALE LEAD !!
There is a High School Age girl
as well as an elementary school age girl
it's all clean -- it's a trip --
imaginative science fiction
you just wish Clooney would either go ahead and shave or else grow a decent beard
Hulk in love - lol - fantastic -- also first appearance of Quicksilver and Scarlet Witch - a brother/sister pair of Avengers...
Monday night we went to see
TOMORROWLAND
with George Clooney
way - way out Science Fiction
George Clooney NEVER GETS CLEANED UP in this movie, neither a full beard nor clean-shaven --
he is just STUBBLE all movie long --
baggy clothes - but a good performance
his character also has a child actor playing Clooney as a boy
There IS NO ADULT FEMALE LEAD !!
There is a High School Age girl
as well as an elementary school age girl
it's all clean -- it's a trip --
imaginative science fiction
you just wish Clooney would either go ahead and shave or else grow a decent beard
Saved.One.by.Grace
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I watch the Amazon Prime series Bosch and it was really good. I was already a fan of Michael Connelly's books so I was pleased the Amazon Prime series did justice to the H. Bosch character. There will be a second year for the series too which I'm happy about.
The next show I watch on Amazon Prime will probably be BBC's Luther. I've seen enough episodes on BBC America to know I will like it. Idris Elba plays the title character, a British detective with a secret and a female killer as a stalker who likes to play mind games on him.
The next show I watch on Amazon Prime will probably be BBC's Luther. I've seen enough episodes on BBC America to know I will like it. Idris Elba plays the title character, a British detective with a secret and a female killer as a stalker who likes to play mind games on him.
Fishing Naked
This movie is pure overacting silliness; but strangely in a good way!
As silly as it is, it will hold your interest!
It's fly-fishing country.
Two teen boys use a big-foot costume to scare tourist away from their favorite fishing spots.
They also use it to scare girls that are camping (so they can rescue and protect them - in their arms).
Two savvy gals foil their plot. At first the girls are mad, but then they decide that they want in on the action ----- but to crank it up a notch.
Things get even sillier. And just when you think it can't get any sillier, it does!!!!!
My review -----
It's not a movie you will be proud of watching.
But you will definitely remember it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
This movie is pure overacting silliness; but strangely in a good way!
As silly as it is, it will hold your interest!
It's fly-fishing country.
Two teen boys use a big-foot costume to scare tourist away from their favorite fishing spots.
They also use it to scare girls that are camping (so they can rescue and protect them - in their arms).
Two savvy gals foil their plot. At first the girls are mad, but then they decide that they want in on the action ----- but to crank it up a notch.
Things get even sillier. And just when you think it can't get any sillier, it does!!!!!
My review -----
It's not a movie you will be proud of watching.
But you will definitely remember it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Saved.One.by.Grace
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Speaking of silly, one shouldn't forget Amazon Women on the Moon. I found it more entertaining than Kentucky Fried Movie, but that's just me. Arsenio Hall was hilarious in the first segment. It's loosely based on 1950's SF movies.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092546/
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092546/
Pound of Flesh
Action movie starring Jean Claude Van Damme.
This movie presents an interesting dilemma. One of those that makes you wonder "What would I do in that situation?".
Deacon (Van Damme) is scheduled to donate one of his kidneys to his niece (turns out to be his daughter). She is 6 years old, and he was the only one in the family to have a match.
Deacon wakes up after being drugged by a woman he picked up at a bar to find that someone has surgically removed his kidney.
The race is on to get back the kidney before his niece dies.
In order to save his niece, he ventures to find the culprit, kill him, and take back his kidney.
He finds out that a rich old man was responsible.
He finds the old man, and is ready and willing to kill him to take back his kidney to save his niece.
Here's the dilemma ......
The kidney was not transplanted into the rich old man. It was transplanted into his grandson - a little boy.
Would you kill one innocent child in order to save your own child?
Action movie starring Jean Claude Van Damme.
This movie presents an interesting dilemma. One of those that makes you wonder "What would I do in that situation?".
Deacon (Van Damme) is scheduled to donate one of his kidneys to his niece (turns out to be his daughter). She is 6 years old, and he was the only one in the family to have a match.
Deacon wakes up after being drugged by a woman he picked up at a bar to find that someone has surgically removed his kidney.
The race is on to get back the kidney before his niece dies.
In order to save his niece, he ventures to find the culprit, kill him, and take back his kidney.
He finds out that a rich old man was responsible.
He finds the old man, and is ready and willing to kill him to take back his kidney to save his niece.
Here's the dilemma ......
The kidney was not transplanted into the rich old man. It was transplanted into his grandson - a little boy.
Would you kill one innocent child in order to save your own child?
"And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire...," Revelation 20:14.
Time Bandits - classic - funny/cool, for kids too -
Dreamscape - Dennis Quaid - spooky -
Dreamscape - Dennis Quaid - spooky -
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Divergent (2014) - Excellent movie, acting and story. I've seen it several times now and I'm not tired of this first of three movie trilogy. Highly recommended for SF fans and adrenaline junkies. My rating: 4.5 out of 5.
Daddy's Little Girl
This is classified as a horror movie. It's an Australian film.
But it's really a torture movie.
I was raised on a farm, so seeing flesh being cut up and blood everywhere doesn't shock me.
And I've seen a lot of horror movie with torture in them. But this one made me cringe!
So if you are squeamish, skip this movie.
The story line is about a little 6 year old girl being abducted and left murdered on the beach.
Her daddy is devastated.
Daddy finds out who took his daughter. He knows the man well, it is his own brother.
And he plots.
He does research to learn just how much trauma a body can take, and where (on a body) the most trauma can be caused. And he also learns certain medical techniques of how to revive a person quickly when they pass out.
He then sets up a special room in his basement.
He drugs his brother and binds him to a sturdy bench table in the basement room.
He tells his brother that he is going to torture him for 6 days for what he did to his daughter, and then he will turn himself in to the cops so they can find him alive in the basement.
And the torture begins.
But here's something that really stuck me about the movie ..... how my own emotions changed as the movie progressed and ended.
I was glad the guy was being tortured at first. He deserved it for what he did to that little girl. And come to find out, this was not his first victim. There had been others (both boys and girls) that he had taken, raped, beaten, and murdered.
But then the torture got soooooo brutal that I was praying for that 6th day to hurry up and get there so the guy could be rescued.
I was beginning to feel sorry for the guy.
But then, at the very end of the movie when the cops are shown entering the basement and handcuffing him, the background sound of the movie was one short newscast clip after another telling of child molesters that got off easy. The clips went on and on while newspaper clipping began flashing up on the screen with the same type stories - child molesters getting off with short easy sentences, or getting off scott free (but with pictures of all the little innocent children).
And my mind quickly went back to "He deserved everything he got, and more".
In fact, as soon as I saw and heard all those news reports of molesters getting off easy, I was ashamed that I ever felt sorry for the pervert even for a minute.
This is classified as a horror movie. It's an Australian film.
But it's really a torture movie.
I was raised on a farm, so seeing flesh being cut up and blood everywhere doesn't shock me.
And I've seen a lot of horror movie with torture in them. But this one made me cringe!
So if you are squeamish, skip this movie.
The story line is about a little 6 year old girl being abducted and left murdered on the beach.
Her daddy is devastated.
Daddy finds out who took his daughter. He knows the man well, it is his own brother.
And he plots.
He does research to learn just how much trauma a body can take, and where (on a body) the most trauma can be caused. And he also learns certain medical techniques of how to revive a person quickly when they pass out.
He then sets up a special room in his basement.
He drugs his brother and binds him to a sturdy bench table in the basement room.
He tells his brother that he is going to torture him for 6 days for what he did to his daughter, and then he will turn himself in to the cops so they can find him alive in the basement.
And the torture begins.
But here's something that really stuck me about the movie ..... how my own emotions changed as the movie progressed and ended.
I was glad the guy was being tortured at first. He deserved it for what he did to that little girl. And come to find out, this was not his first victim. There had been others (both boys and girls) that he had taken, raped, beaten, and murdered.
But then the torture got soooooo brutal that I was praying for that 6th day to hurry up and get there so the guy could be rescued.
I was beginning to feel sorry for the guy.
But then, at the very end of the movie when the cops are shown entering the basement and handcuffing him, the background sound of the movie was one short newscast clip after another telling of child molesters that got off easy. The clips went on and on while newspaper clipping began flashing up on the screen with the same type stories - child molesters getting off with short easy sentences, or getting off scott free (but with pictures of all the little innocent children).
And my mind quickly went back to "He deserved everything he got, and more".
In fact, as soon as I saw and heard all those news reports of molesters getting off easy, I was ashamed that I ever felt sorry for the pervert even for a minute.
McFarland USA
Good movie, starring Kevin Costner.
It touches on parenting, class distinction, family, neighbors, and teamwork.
The story line is about a high school football coach that gets fired from his last few jobs.
He has to accept an assistant coach job in a small town school consisting mostly of poor Mexicans.
The kids in most of the families have to help work the fields in order for their family to have enough food to eat. They work the fields early before school and also after school.
The football team is atrocious. But he does recognize some talent - but not for football, but rather cross country endurance racers.
This small town school of underprivileged kids try their best to form a decent cross country race team, without neglecting their duties in the fields.
This rag-tag team of nobodies end up winning the state (California) championship. And go on to win 9 championship in the next 14 years.
Cool Cinderella type story.
But the real story is about putting family first.
The coach, who frequently put the team ahead of his own family, learns a powerful message from the very team he put together.
While he was helping them to become a great team, they were helping him see that dedication to the sport was secondary to family.
Good movie, starring Kevin Costner.
It touches on parenting, class distinction, family, neighbors, and teamwork.
The story line is about a high school football coach that gets fired from his last few jobs.
He has to accept an assistant coach job in a small town school consisting mostly of poor Mexicans.
The kids in most of the families have to help work the fields in order for their family to have enough food to eat. They work the fields early before school and also after school.
The football team is atrocious. But he does recognize some talent - but not for football, but rather cross country endurance racers.
This small town school of underprivileged kids try their best to form a decent cross country race team, without neglecting their duties in the fields.
This rag-tag team of nobodies end up winning the state (California) championship. And go on to win 9 championship in the next 14 years.
Cool Cinderella type story.
But the real story is about putting family first.
The coach, who frequently put the team ahead of his own family, learns a powerful message from the very team he put together.
While he was helping them to become a great team, they were helping him see that dedication to the sport was secondary to family.
He couldn't get anyone to complete the financing so he put up nine million of his own money to make the story.
I watched Three Days to Kill the other day. It was surprisingly entertaining given what I'd heard and the box office on it. Costner plays an aging CIA operative who discovers he has a short time to live. The last thing he does for the CIA goes South, but during a gunfight (and before he gets the bad news) he sees a character that is on the most wanted list at Langley and who no one else has come close to finding.
Costner, who is estranged from his wife and daughter, determines to reconnect with whatever time he has remaining. His wife will allow the contact with his daughter provided he promises that he's out of the CIA life. Easy promise, given he's been discharged...except for the early bit I mentioned about him seeing a certain villain. Enter mysterious female agent X with an offer: help her get the bad guy and he gets a serious experimental drug that may save his life.
And so it goes.
I was about to list this one!
Loved it.
One of things that was entertaining was while he would have some bad guy captured and tied up, he would start asking them advice on how to raise a teenage daughter!
That was part of what snagged me too. :chuckle: The one guy with two daughters especially. Surprisingly tender in places, though I think it would have been a much better movie without the unbelievable model as super agent. I'd have rather had a Tommy Lee Jones like character running him. It was a pointless and at times crass note in what was to me an overall success.
I think the box office was bad because they did a horrible job selling the movie. I saw the trailer for it and went, "Meh." It didn't communicate the film at all. Too bad, but it's one for people to discover.
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Three Days to Kill is from Luc Besson so i checked it out
liked it
he also did
The Professional
Transporter
Colombiana
hehe! I know!
I was laughing when he had the accountant (an Italian) tied up in the bathroom and was interrogating him. His daughter calls during the interrogation wanting to know if he has any spaghetti sauce recipes because she was going to cook dinner for her boyfriend and wanted to impress him.
He looks down at the Italian and tells his daughter to hold on. Then he makes the Italian call his mother in Italy for her sauce recipe before he continues the interrogation!!!!
Cracked me up!