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Shrek the 3rd. Now to find the sequel...

Backcountry

The Bear attack is brutal!

No Hard Feelings (2023)


awkwardly funny

The Human Bureau

The Spy who Loved Me. My wife and I love older Bond movies.

BaleMaster wrote:Nope.  Badlands was a lot more talkative.   Sissy Spacek's annoying voiceovers slowed down the plot quite a bit, but were probably necessary to infuse some humanity into the plot.  

I hear ya.  That was the director Terrence Malick's first film which I thought was very good, though I always liked his next one Days Of Heaven better.  Days Of Heaven has some similar themes and feel as Badlands, but feels a bit more thought-out and mature IMO.  But all of his movies are quite pretentious and stylized, so if that's not your thing, you probably won't enjoy any of his flicks.  I believe he's one of the very few Christian movie directors in Hollywood, so that's cool.

Kerrick wrote:

BaleMaster wrote:Nope.  Badlands was a lot more talkative.   Sissy Spacek's annoying voiceovers slowed down the plot quite a bit, but were probably necessary to infuse some humanity into the plot.  

I hear ya.  That was the director Terrence Malick's first film which I thought was very good, though I always liked his next one Days Of Heaven better.  Days Of Heaven has some similar themes and feel as Badlands, but feels a bit more thought-out and mature IMO.  But all of his movies are quite pretentious and stylized, so if that's not your thing, you probably won't enjoy any of his flicks.  I believe he's one of the very few Christian movie directors in Hollywood, so that's cool.

Did not know Malick claimed to be a Christian.  Here's a few I can name off the top of my head (mostly Catholic): Jon Woo, Abel Ferrera, Mad Mel, Brian Godawa, Robert Davi.

Superjuice wrote:

Kerrick wrote:

BaleMaster wrote:Nope.  Badlands was a lot more talkative.   Sissy Spacek's annoying voiceovers slowed down the plot quite a bit, but were probably necessary to infuse some humanity into the plot.  

I hear ya.  That was the director Terrence Malick's first film which I thought was very good, though I always liked his next one Days Of Heaven better.  Days Of Heaven has some similar themes and feel as Badlands, but feels a bit more thought-out and mature IMO.  But all of his movies are quite pretentious and stylized, so if that's not your thing, you probably won't enjoy any of his flicks.  I believe he's one of the very few Christian movie directors in Hollywood, so that's cool.

Did not know Malick claimed to be a Christian.  Here's a few I can name off the top of my head (mostly Catholic): Jon Woo, Abel Ferrera, Mad Mel, Brian Godawa, Robert Davi.

That's what I remember hearing, though haven't looked into whether he is or not.

Terminator Genesys
Terminator Dark Fate

Sevenoneself wrote:Terminator Genesys
Terminator Dark Fate

I’m sorry. Are you ok after that???

I'm going in a different direction now...Gladiator, here I come.

AKA Endless Descent


Definitely a cheap B movie, but elevated by Ray Wise and R. Lee Ermey. Decent watch if you like this sort of thing, but Leviathan and DeepStar Six are superior.

I just got Nefarious! Heard nothing but good things about it.

Pethead wrote:

Sevenoneself wrote:Terminator Genesys
Terminator Dark Fate

I’m sorry. Are you ok after that???

Dark Fate is super woke to the point where Cameron was willing to kill off his hero that the series is based on to fulfill a politically correct agenda.

I should write a review of it, since I was forced to see it opening night, because my roommate is, I kid you not, an Arnold Schwarzenegger impersonator and Terminator is where he made his bones.  But I really don't wish to revisit the pain of dealing with the death blow to the series.

I refused to see Dark Fate because of that.

I really knew nothing about all of that until just now. I did not know it would cause such a stir! 

I did find it curious that they turned Connor into the villain and seemed to erase most of the original timeline, but what do I know? I'm not into movies like I am into Christian metal, so I've never read any of the backstory or surrounding info around the Terminator series.

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. I thought it was a good send-off to the franchise.

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny. I thought it was the best of the franchise.

Better than Raiders? That's a very high bar.

BaleMaster wrote:Better than Raiders? That's a very high bar.

Heck, I'd actually say Last Crusade is the best film of the series.

Clueless. Just a dumb mid 90s highschool rom-com. Sometimes I enjoy watching those with my wife. This one was extraordinarily bad though.

Atomic Blonde. 
Gladiator.

At the movies for

The Sound of Freedom

Andreas89 wrote:Clueless. Just a dumb mid 90s highschool rom-com. Sometimes I enjoy watching those with my wife. This one was extraordinarily bad though.

Cher Horowitz did not age well. At all.

Doesn't surprise me one bit, apparently she's a vegan