THE MIDNIGHT SKY - George Clooney, Felicity Jones, Kyle Chandler and many more. 2 tedious hours long, dying George trying to warn space crew not to return to Earth which has nothing living left except him way up near North Pole. The space crew shots are amazing and must have cost millions but it's all for nothing as is the movie. A 1 on the Moizmeter.
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BLACK CHRISTMAS - Imogen Poots, Cary Elwes and a bunch of Kiwi's. Imogen and her girlfriends attend college life and are harrassed by the male pledges incl. one masked monster who goes on killing spree. Filmed in New Zealand and will the girls get even? Watch and see. A 2 on the Moizmeter.
THE LITTLE GIRL WHO LIVES DOWN THE LANE - Jodie Foster, Martin Sheen, Alexis Smith, Scott Jacoby, Mort Shuman. A oldie from 1976 but nothing else on except Trump and Covid. Little Jodie's father is dying and goes off after showing her how to administer cyanide to her mother and preserve her body down in the cellar. Landlady Alexis accidently kills herself making the discovery while her creepy son Martin tries to seduce Jodie who gets help from Scott. Jodie pulls a trick on Martin and everyone lives happily everafter. A 2 1/2 on the Moizmeter thx to cutie pie Jodie.
HOUSE AT THE END OF THE STREET - Jennifer Lawrence, Max Thieriot, Elisabeth Shue, Gil Bellows. From 2010/12, JLaw and mom Elisabeth discover a double murder took place many years ago at a house just down the street from their new digs. Naturally JLaw can't resist getting to know Max, the now grown-up son who survived the horror and now lives there alone. Or does he? The murder was committed by daughter Carrie-Anne who disappeared after the event. But Max has someone locked up in the cellar and JLaw makes a scary find. Mom to the rescue and you must watch to see what transpires. A 2 1/2 on the Moizmeter. (filmed around Ottawa)
I watched the first seaon and started on the second of The Mandalorian.
Everyone is raving about it but I was hesitant to watch it because of the OVER focus by fans on the cutesy baby crap with the yoda puppet.
THANKFULLY the baby yoda shit is NOT a major part of the series. It's there but there are Way, way better things to keep you distracted from it.
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The series itself-
It's actually as good as its reputation.
No wank. The writers have gone right back to basics, they're not trying to be clever or secretly thinking they'r better than the soucre material or embarrssed by it and so producing shit like the latest sequals.
What I mean is that exactly like the first Star Wars movie ("Star Wars" not "a new Hppe" or "episode four" or any of that wankery, it was just called Star Wars), the stories are simple action adventure, simply told. No attempts are twists and turns, no wanky tricks, just scifi action adventure that's fun and engaging enough that it makes you willingly suspend your disbeleif.
That's all these stories need to do. It's not hard.
So far the series works well!
Saw The Rise of Skywalker
This is the final film in the latest Star Wars trilogy.
It had some beautiful scenes, truly amazing looking stuff! The acting and the chracters was also great.
The writing was very uneven though unfortunately…
It's like they had some really good, competent writers and some really crappy beginer writers working together and the beginers didn't pull their weight, manily in terms of the characters and their relationships:
We have characters with completely unearned relationships to each other, so much so it's like we missed a whole other film from the series… They just parrachute in with feelings, relationships and even whole new charcters. As a watcher that's very disconcerting and hard to follow.
—SPOILERS—
Examples are Lando Calrisian really caring for our new guys, really LOVING them specifically, plus C3PO, Plus Rei and Leia with a mother/daughter lovey dovey super caring relationship, our new crew caring SO MUCH about Chewbacca that they risk the universe to save him, the same crew caring so little that they DGAF whether C3PO gets his memory wipied and "dies" just so they can get somewher faster, a new Daft Punk golden helmet charater that wants to KILL Po for trope reasons and then LOVES him and then wants to sacrifice her one ticket to salvation to him and then doesn't care one WHIT for him… They give the audience no reasons for any of that.
Seriously WHO writes this badly???? Is JJ Abrams a moron?
If he's only good at big exiting scenes he should just have minimal story and do what Ridly Scott used to do. He was shit at stories but Brilliant at beautoful images so he let his editor and the audiece craft a story together out of his amazing scenes.
Anyway, there was a lot of fan service, a lot of it quite clunky, but they DID try and make a David Brent/Michael Scott* style guesture to fans of the original movies as well as the preqquels.
*The bosses from the Office who were hamfisted and awkward but had good intentions.
I didn't hate it as a film, I just wish they'd spent more time doing some really basic editing on the writing so it was above a Saturday morning cartoon level.
LADY BIRD - Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Lucas Hedges, Timothee Chalamet, Beanie Feldstein, Tracy Letts, Odeya Rush. Coming of age story in Sacramento, where Saoirse (Irish, pronounced Sur-sha) attends Catholic school and has difficulty getting along with her Mom, Laurie. Gets bf Lucas but he turns out to be gay, then she goes for Timothee. Her main goal is college in New York but financial and acceptances bog her down. Will things finally work out? A 2 1/2 on the Moizmeter.
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LADY BIRD - Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Lucas Hedges, Timothee Chalamet, Beanie Feldstein, Tracy Letts, Odeya Rush. Coming of age story in Sacramento, where Saoirse (Irish, pronounced Sur-sha) attends Catholic school and has difficulty getting along with her Mom, Laurie. Gets bf Lucas but he turns out to be gay, then she goes for Timothee. Her main goal is college in New York but financial and acceptances bog her down. Will things finally work out? A 2 1/2 on the Moizmeter.
That's been on my list to watch…out of curiosity, how high does the Moizmeter go? 2 out of 5, or 2 out of 10?
moizmad wrote:
LADY BIRD - Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Lucas Hedges, Timothee Chalamet, Beanie Feldstein, Tracy Letts, Odeya Rush. Coming of age story in Sacramento, where Saoirse (Irish, pronounced Sur-sha) attends Catholic school and has difficulty getting along with her Mom, Laurie. Gets bf Lucas but he turns out to be gay, then she goes for Timothee. Her main goal is college in New York but financial and acceptances bog her down. Will things finally work out? A 2 1/2 on the Moizmeter.
That's been on my list to watch…out of curiosity, how high does the Moizmeter go? 2 out of 5, or 2 out of 10?
TENSA1 wrote:I really liked Bojack Horseman and binged it a while ago!
Now, I'm watching Bojack Horseman and It's quickly become one of my favourite shows. I'm one of those types who can appreciate both comedy and soul-crushing depression, but it's rare to find a show that blends the two elements so seamlessly.
There was one sour note for me though: Diane had a bit of the Lisa Simpson disease. i.e. we had a whole bunch of interesting and highly flawed characters, while she'd have relatively few (if any flaws) and she was very intelligent so not as funny as the others in a derpy way, so it robbed her off the same humanity as the rest of the cast.
You never need a character who is more perfect than everyone to point out their foibles and bring common sense because any other the other flawed characters can have a turn at that. All it does is make them stand out as not being part of the same group and not fit into the show as well.
JACKIE - Natalie Portman, Peter Sarsgaard, Greta Gerwig, Billy Crudup, John Hurt, Caspar Phillipson. Follows heavy smokin' Jackie just before and after the assassination of JFK in 1963. Sarsgaard as Bobbie makes no attempt at his voice, Caspar looks quite alot like JFK in his few scenes. Hard to hear Natalie, speaks in whispers mostly. And of course no attempt to show who fired the fatal shot. Almost fell asleep sometimes and a drowsy 2 on the Moizmeter.
Live nude Girls
Well this was weird.
It's set in the 1980s, about a man that inherits a failing strip club from his uncle in LA. He drives across country with his best friend in a replica of Kit from Kightrider. They encounter the strange people at the strip club, there are boobs and butts, the club is under threat and they save it…
The story is straight out of a conventional low budget 1980s D-movie sex comedy, complete with bad acting and terrible scripts, except this was made in about 2015 and stared some pretty noted actors, like Dave Foley for goodness sake, as well as a whole lot of porn stars.
It was weird. It was just as bad as a real 1980s sex comedy. Deliberately so. So what was the point? Even the actors looked like they were from the 80s, just fatter, because people were all skinnier in the 1980s.
Ozoneocean wrote:Many actors need to top their Superann. up, once in a while, Oze B-)
Live nude Girls
Well this was weird.
It's set in the 1980s … people at the strip club, there are boobs and butts, the club is under threat and they save it…
The story is straight out of a conventional low budget 1980s D-movie sex comedy, complete with bad acting and terrible scripts, except this was made in about 2015 and stared some pretty noted actors, like Dave Foley for goodness sake, as well as a whole lot of porn stars.
It was weird. It was just as bad as a real 1980s sex comedy. Deliberately so. So what was the point? Even the actors looked like they were from the 80s, just fatter, because people were all skinnier in the 1980s.
THE VANISHED - Anne Heche, Thomas Jane, Jason Patric, Aleksei Archer, Kristopher Wente, Alex Haydon, John D. Hickman. Seems Anne & Thomas's young daughter has gone missing at this trailer park. Police, led by Jason, organize massive search of park and lake area. No luck finding young girl but a few other bodies are found shot or stabbed, and park manager is killed by Anne when he tried to assault her. What a mess and finally Jason makes a stunning discovery and wraps up the case and everyone goes home. I really liked it getting a 4 on the Moizmeter!
SIGHTLESS - Madelaine Petsch, Alexander Koch, December Ensminger, Jarrod Crawford. Madelaine is a well known concert violinist who loses sight when attacked in street. She is placed in large apt high-rise? by herself? A male nurse is used? and detective doesn't notice anything unusual? weird next-door neighbors? then she gets attacked by male nurse but months later she returns to play violin and all is well? What a crazy movie getting a 1 on the Moizmeter.
THE DIG - Carey Mulligan, Ralph Fiennes, Lily James, Johnny Flynn, Ben Chaplin, Ken Stott, Monica Dolan. Carey is a rich land owner and she hires Ralph, an excavator, to dig up some weird mounds on her property. He makes a very interesting find and it attracts government types and the question of who this find belongs to arises. I found it quite boring as I was hoping it would be an alien spaceship maybe? but just some old gold coins and the outline of an old boat which had rotted away. They fill the hole up and so be it and Carey's character dies 3 years later. Based on a true story. A 2 on the Moizmeter.
The Vanished gets a 4 on the moizmeter? Dang, that's gotta be a standout! I haven't seen many who pass mustard on your metric! I'll have to look that one up!
I'm watching WandaVision - compelling stuff. An intriguing departure for Marvel. Well, so far. From the start it's clear that the characters are living in a non-real, temporary condition. But the specifics of how this strange existence came to be and what it's all about - I'm eager to learn the answers.
The two leads are fantastic at capturing the vintage sitcom energy in their performances - it's a masterclass on that level. And the 50's/60's comedy world is a perfect contrast that really emphasizes the feeling of horror whenever the illusion is briefly weakened.
The latest episode has a shift in perspective. I found myself greatly annoyed by the pov character's dialogue and delivery though. The 10-quips-a-minute style has paid off for Marvel obviously, but to me it's been overdone, and needs to be delivered (or directed) well to work. Not everyone has the comedy chops of Robert Downey Jr. It's funny to lampoon/capture the humorous style of those outdated shows, and then be seemingly blind to the modern stylistic prison. The ‘real world’ episode was cringe-inducing.
I may be coming across too negatively. I do like the show but jeez, Marvel - tone that crap down a bit, I beg ya!
p.s. I KNOW it's ‘pass muster’, not ‘mustard’! xD
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