The Movie/Film Thread

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Awesome movie, great lines, badass scenes, based Clint. If it wasn't for some inadequacy in camera-motion-aspect it would be great. 8.5/10

There are a lot of great movies out there but few match the opening of The wild bunch. Hmm the ending is somewhat special as well.

I went onto a Tom Hanks binge lately watched Sully, Bridge of Spies and Inferno. All surprisingly good movies I must say. Sully especially, I really enjoyed that movie. The companionship between two of the guys in that movie made me feel all mushy inside.

I don't really remember a movie with Tom Hanks that I didn't enjoy though, so I suppose I shouldn't be too surprised.

The only major Coen Brothers film I've missed to date, would rank it as a close runner-up with Fargo.

The main villain is one of the most terrifying antagonists I've seen, but has a set of principles to him that sets him a bit apart; At the very least, it's enough to wonder what makes a man tick like that. The scarce scenes he does have with other characters tend to have this subdued, chilling version of the Samuel Scene from Pulp Fiction, like a forgiving form of Predator Versus Prey. A bit like Pulp, the slow pace is drastically made up for by absorbing dialogue and memorable scenes. As for the rest of the characters, seemed like it shifts away from Coens' overtly quirky character roster - perhaps one can make characters interesting without being exceptionally weird? Tommy Lee's role is more a background character as the Quick Breather B-Story, but pays off well in a surprising way. Even though well acted, it's not *too* far off from what he's known for.
As Roger Ebert once said in a Hunt For Red October review, it's typecasting without stereotyping.

I love what they're doing with sound design during some of these chase scenes that avoids the philharmonic-orchestra-follows-you-as-the-killer-does mentality - absence makes the heart grow fonder, and likely beats faster as you're more sensitive to potential action if it hits. Reminds me a bit of Dark Souls, where ambience and well-placed audio pieces make up for a lack of enveloping melodies to spark a particular mood. Their use of framing these bright, gorgeous desert-based establishing shots reminds me a bit of There Will Be Blood, Breaking Bad, and Sicario; Probably your cup of tea if you enjoyed those, too. It's an exceptionally well-cut piece of film, and kicking myself for missing out on it all this time.

A Witch Come True
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My Film Review Compendium

I admit I didn't see BvS

I saw all the rest though...

I just saw Passengers and so that was my first time seeing this trailer:



The cover of Enjoy the Silence makes this.  Looking forward to this one.

Ed Harris as Francis X Hummel is one of my fave movie antagonists ever.

I feel exactly the inverse

Young Bruce Campbell for me.

I saw this movie the other day



i like this movie a lot but there is one particular scene that i do not like so much. And that is the scene where Bryce Dallas is standing in front of the T-Rex cage with a flare in her hand waving. She probably did not see the original Jurassic park movie where Jeff Goldblum is doing something similar haha.

I remember enjoying the 13th Warrior.  I would imagine the Krogan would be big Viking fans.