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Re: Recent Movies You Saw

Postby Zack Burner » January 14th, 2025, 6:54 am

Another 30th anniversary viewing, this time one of the few video games adaptations that got it right: "Mortal Kombat" (1995) (say it loudly). While it doesn't have the blood and fatalities that made the games famous, there's so much good action you won't care for anything else. The big 3 Liu Kang, Sonya, and Johnny Cage all get awesome moments.

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Re: Recent Movies You Saw

Postby BlasteroidAli » January 16th, 2025, 5:36 am

VideoGameCritic wrote:
Stalvern wrote:Inflicted Catwoman on a friend last night. Fun time, funnier than I had remembered. Please watch the basketball scene if you haven't seen it.


Just watched it. Terrible. Any desire I had to watch that movie is gone completely.

The best thing about watching that scene is the piece of mind of nothing worse will happen to you for the rest of the day.

Watch the Marvels and you will completely change your opinion of the catwoman

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Postby Zack Burner » January 18th, 2025, 3:25 pm

"The 7th Voyage of Sinbad" one of the all-time greats of Ray Harryhausen yet lets not forget the actors and sense of adventure here! Kerwin Matthews is a terrific Sinbad and Kathryn Grant is beautiful as she is compassionate as Princess Parisa. Thorin Thatcher is deliciously evil as the sorcerer Sakoura. But of course the real stars are the stop-motion creations of Harryhausen, ranging from 2 cyclops, 2 headed Roc, a skeleton, and a dragon. You feel sorry for the dragon as its chained and then cheer for it as it battles a cyclops, then feel bad for it when it gets shot by the ballista. Do you get that kind of experience with CGI? Nope!

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Postby Zack Burner » January 19th, 2025, 8:13 am

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines - The first two were masterpieces, this? Safe to say this one's a disappointment. Often times it feels like a rehash of the first two movies, though not without its moments such as the chase in the big vehicles and the bathroom brawl between terminators. The T-X, a female terminator, though cool looking, is simply just a poor-man's version of the much cooler, more frightening T-1000, she does things that the T-1000 could already do. The guy playing John Connor, Nick Stahl, ironically no match for Edward Furlong who played his role with conviction in T2. Not only that John Connor has more of a "devil-may-care" attitude compared to the more concerning part in the previous movie. Just watching this movie felt like Deja Vu all over again, but not with the same impact, even the ending is a letdown, which I won't reveal here, making the Director's Cut of T2 with the alternate ending all the more embracing. All in all, not recommended unless you're a diehard fan.

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Postby Stalvern » January 19th, 2025, 12:37 pm

The Elephant Man, in memory of David Lynch. Beautiful, tender, and startlingly conservative; apart from the very brief "elephant attack", it feels like it was made about forty years earlier. I haven't seen The Straight Story, but I suspect that it's the Lynch movie closest to this in telling, well, a straightforward story.

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Postby Zack Burner » January 19th, 2025, 5:11 pm

Stalvern wrote:The Elephant Man, in memory of David Lynch. Beautiful, tender, and startlingly conservative; apart from the very brief "elephant attack", it feels like it was made about forty years earlier. I haven't seen The Straight Story, but I suspect that it's the Lynch movie closest to this in telling, well, a straightforward story.


Ah yes that memorable movie! I remember seeing it decades ago, almost the entire movie is a tearjerker. And who could forget John Hurt in his Oscar nominated performance as John Merrick?

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Postby BlasteroidAli » January 24th, 2025, 10:15 am

Wolf man. Stuck in the wilds with a werewolf hunting you? I loved it, but I love werewolf movies for the most part.

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Postby VideoGameCritic » January 24th, 2025, 3:18 pm

Did I mention I saw Longlegs recently? Very scary in a Silence of the Lambs kind of way. Every scene is dark, forboding, and intense. I really enjoyed it.

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Postby C64_Critic » January 24th, 2025, 4:51 pm

Zack Burner wrote:Ah yes that memorable movie! I remember seeing it decades ago, almost the entire movie is a tearjerker. And who could forget John Hurt in his Oscar nominated performance as John Merrick?

"I am not an animal! I am a human being! I AM A MAN!"

Except... human beings are animals :lol:

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Postby Stalvern » January 27th, 2025, 6:45 pm

Finally got around to Blade and am really, really mad that I didn't see it before The Matrix when I was a teenager. Sickest movie ever.

Also watched the Talking Heads movie True Stories, which feels surprisingly like Wes Anderson for 1986. Much better than the album, thanks to all the different ways the characters perform the songs. The church scene and John Goodman on stage at the end are incredible.


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