Recently Watched Movies

Last night we watched Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.  It's one of my favorites and never seems to get old.  Steve Martin and Michael Caine are excellent.  Glenne Headly does a great job too.

The Hitman's Bodyguard
Meet Me in St. Louis
White Christmas 
The Bishop's Wife

Since I am down with the flu:


Rogue One:  A Star Wars Story
Star Wars:  A New Hope
Star Wars:  The Empire Strikes Back
Star Wars:  Return Of The Jedi

Spider-Man:  Homecoming

Meh.  I have to concur with alldat's earlier assessment.  This is kind of weak.

Oh, it has it's moments.  Wasn't expecting to, but I really liked the Vulture.  He's yet another example of how MCU characters tend to be cooler than they are in the comics.

Wish I could say the same for Spidey.  Tom Holland got on my nerves after a while.  Spider-Man is a young character of course (at least the incarnations I've seen), but this time they made him a bit TOO much of a kid.  I just don't like characters like that.  Also, watching him screw up and bungle his way through things was amusing at first, and I understand he's a new hero here, but it got old after a while.  And he definitely should have had Spidey-Sense.

The Stark suit was interesting.  It's different for Spider-Man, but I didn't mind it.  The drone thing was pretty cool.

Kerrick wrote:Last night we watched Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.  It's one of my favorites and never seems to get old.  Steve Martin and Michael Caine are excellent.  Glenne Headly does a great job too.

LOVE this movie!  Hilarious, and what a great cast!  It's one of my favorite films too.

Speaking of Spider-Man: Homecoming .....

Star Wars:  The Last Jedi

^ Same

also Spaceballs

alldatndensum wrote:Star Wars:  The Last Jedi

I'm itching to go see that, but I thought that it's a pretty safe bet that the theaters would be packed Friday and the weekend, and that would hurt the experience for me.  Maybe I'll try tomorrow morning.

Driven wrote:also Spaceballs

Love that movie. 

Kingsmen: The Secret Service. The action scenes are impressive and very entertaining. Shame about the sex stuff near the end (plus, the film seems to have a bizzare obsession with a certain four-letter word).

The Last Jedi

Imperium
Blood Father
A Christmas Carol
It's A Wonderful Life 
Jumanji

The 12 Dates Of Christmas (it was okay--typical Hallmark fare)

Good Luck Charlie, It's Christmas!  (it was pretty lame--my wife finished it and I went to bed)

The Santa Clause

I hadn't seen this one for YEARS.  It's pretty good!  Tim Allen is great in it and really makes the movie.

Saw "Last Jedi" with the whole fam the other night.  We had a good time.

"Birth Of The Dragon"

Star Wars: The Force Awakens

Amityville- The Awakening 
Dunkirk 
The Kingsmen - The Golden Circle 
Flatliners
Cars 3
Pirates of the Caribbean- Dead Men Tell No Tales
The Circle

I recently saw Cinderella (the 1950 cartoon) for the first time. Enjoyed it more than I expected.

The Case For Christ

^What'd you think of it Alldat?  I've heard it is surprisingly (for a Christian movie) quite good!  I read the book eons ago and thought it was good.

I recently watched Cool Hand Luke with the wife.  I've seen it numerous times and love it but she wasn't too impressed.  She liked everything except the ending.  It's more about Luke's (Paul Newman) character than anything else and doesn't exactly have much of a "point" I guess.  I think it's great nonetheless.

I re-watched the new Planet of The Apes trilogy after getting it on Blu-ray for Christmas, gotta say it is one of my favorite trilogies of all time, so good from beginning to end

Except it isn't just a trilogy.  These are the first three in a FIVE movie ark.  The next two will finally remake the best elements of the original Planet Of The Apes series.  What we have now are prequels to that story.  We are set for the next one to have the return of the Mars mission shown briefly in the first movie in this series to return to find the earth populated by apes.

alldatndensum wrote:Except it isn't just a trilogy.  These are the first three in a FIVE movie ark.  The next two will finally remake the best elements of the original Planet Of The Apes series.  What we have now are prequels to that story.  We are set for the next one to have the return of the Mars mission shown briefly in the first movie in this series to return to find the earth populated by apes.

Where did you get your info?!

I havent heard anything about that?

Unless your just pulling my leg

I heard they could make more but because War didnt have huge box office returns it might not happen

Dont forget Disney now owns the franchise as well

Kerrick wrote:^What'd you think of it Alldat?  I've heard it is surprisingly (for a Christian movie) quite good!  I read the book eons ago and thought it was good.

I'll chime in. And this from a guy who normally dislikes the average Christian movie, it's not too bad. It's more of a movie around Lee's conversion process, rather than a documentary of his interviews, so you see the tensions in his life. I'd say watch it, it's not a must watch, but it doesn't make me cringe.

Hardcore Christian wrote:

alldatndensum wrote:Except it isn't just a trilogy.  These are the first three in a FIVE movie ark.  The next two will finally remake the best elements of the original Planet Of The Apes series.  What we have now are prequels to that story.  We are set for the next one to have the return of the Mars mission shown briefly in the first movie in this series to return to find the earth populated by apes.

Where did you get your info?!

I havent heard anything about that?

Unless your just pulling my leg

I heard they could make more but because War didnt have huge box office returns it might not happen

Dont forget Disney now owns the franchise as well

I read an article a few months back and that was what the studio was planning.  Of course, Disney can't take full control yet as the buyout of Fox will take up to 18 months for the Federal Trade Commission to review and approve.  They have the rights, but the FTC will determine if and when Disney really starts flexing those rights.  Same with the Marvel characters they again own the rights to.

Personally, I hope they do make the two more to do this as a prequel and then retell the best moments of the original films.  Some of them just had poor stories.  The first two or three were pretty cool for their time.