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Finally saw La La Land. Music didn't suck. Whatshername with the red hair was really good. Enjoyed the ode to old Hollywood while delivering the un-old Hollywood ending. Good direction/cinematography. But still thought at the end that it was good, not great. Worth a nomination, perhaps. Reinforces my opinion that this year was an exceptionally weak crop.
 
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Finally saw La La Land. But still thought at the end that it was good, not great. Worth a nomination, perhaps. Reinforces my opinion that this year was an exceptionally weak crop.
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So perfect: it was nominated but didn't win best picture.
 
Surprised that a person who describes Moonlight as the "gay handjob movie" didn't think it was great.

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I saw The Circle at Cinebistro in Raleigh this week. It was terrible. The dialogue was laughable and 90% exposition. The acting was shit, particularly two guilty parties: Emma Watson, and Ellar Coltrane, the kid from Boyhood. Tom Hanks and Patton Oswalt were solid. It was sad to see Bill Paxton go off in such a bad movie, but his character with MS only had 5 minutes of screen time. The plot is very jarring and seems to have been edited, re-written, and re-shot to death. 1 scene Emma Watson is being invited into a conspiracy against the company, the next scene she has a totally different outlook and motivation, with no juxtaposition. Don't go see this. It sucks.
 
myDeaconmyhand said:
I saw The Circle at Cinebistro in Raleigh this week. It was terrible. The dialogue was laughable and 90% exposition. The acting was shit, particularly two guilty parties: Emma Watson, and Ellar Coltrane, the kid from Boyhood. Tom Hanks and Patton Oswalt were solid. It was sad to see Bill Paxton go off in such a bad movie, but his character with MS only had 5 minutes of screen time. The plot is very jarring and seems to have been edited, re-written, and re-shot to death. 1 scene Emma Watson is being invited into a conspiracy against the company, the next scene she has a totally different outlook and motivation, with no juxtaposition. Don't go see this. It sucks.
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I read the book last month. With so much internal monologue, it was always going to be hard to turn it into a coherent movie.
 
myDeaconmyhand said:
I saw The Circle at Cinebistro in Raleigh this week. It was terrible. The dialogue was laughable and 90% exposition. The acting was shit, particularly two guilty parties: Emma Watson, and Ellar Coltrane, the kid from Boyhood. Tom Hanks and Patton Oswalt were solid. It was sad to see Bill Paxton go off in such a bad movie, but his character with MS only had 5 minutes of screen time. The plot is very jarring and seems to have been edited, re-written, and re-shot to death. 1 scene Emma Watson is being invited into a conspiracy against the company, the next scene she has a totally different outlook and motivation, with no juxtaposition. Don't go see this. It sucks.
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I thought the concept was intriguing and timely when I saw the first trailer a few months ago. After the savage beating it's gotten by critics and movie-goers alike, it sounds like it's not even worth a Netflix viewing.
 
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I thought the concept was intriguing and timely when I saw the first trailer a few months ago. After the savage beating it's gotten by critics and movie-goers alike, it sounds like it's not even worth a Netflix viewing.
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Yeah... There were a few weeks there where I was like, "Why isn't this getting more hype?" And then I saw the reviews. Waste of a good cast and timely story.

There are like 4-5 movies coming out soon that I am interested in seeing, but I'm not sure they're not going to suck.
 
Not surprised The Circle sucks. The previews were about the worst I've seen for any movie. Stilted acting and incoherent overall. Can't believe how much money they threw into advertising it with that particular preview.

Been on a movie binge lately, mostly with on-demand stuff. The only newish one was Lion

Lion was good. Excellent first part, as I don't think I've ever felt as filthy watching a movie as I did that. The grime and dirt of India really came through, even if that probably wasn't difficult to convey. Dragged a bit in the middle part.

A Most Violent Year was ok. Only time I've been able to tolerate Jessica Chastain, but it was kind of a pussy gangster movie, probably because it really wasn't one but tried to portray itself as one. The main dude in it was definitely watching a lot of Pacino in the Godfather movies.

Terminator Genesis was ok. Plot had good twists up to a point, then it became ridiculous. Dialogue was clunky and not true to the original characters, and the alternate timeline doesn't provide an excuse for that. Better than the Christian Bale snorefest, but definitely not on par with the first 3 (I'm one of those people who enjoyed the shit out of T3).

Star Trek Beyond was better than the last disaster with Benedict Cumberbund, but they're all kind of mailing it in at this point. Again, the dialogue is not consistent with the characters. Pegg's Scotty and Quinto's Spock are the only guys even trying. Uhura maybe too. And they really had to work in a pretty stupid angle to get the Beastie Boys in the big finale. C'mon.

13 Hours is the Benghazi movie. Much better than expected. I think it got overlooked or shunned due to the subject matter and the controversy over "stand down." Absent that, it's typical Michael Bay from the 90s when he was kicking ass. Tense throughout and-- assuming the sets were correct-- really gives you an idea of the layout. Definitely a different role for The Office dude, and he pulled it off.

Mechanic Resurrection was on Cinemax on-demand. I guess there was a Mechanic part 1 or something, never saw it. Mindless action. Kind of fun to see him kill people in different ways and certainly not boring, but definitely one for the kind of folks who have seen all the Fast & Furious movies.
 
Just watched Manchester by the Sea.

A real "feel good" movie.

My wife was sobbing at parts. At one point, she stopped the movie to go upstairs to hug our daughters.
 
Watched Gold yesterday and it was just ok. The editing was weird. They went way out of the way to ugly up mcconaughey and it was distracting.

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Saw hidden figures. thought it was pretty good. I thought the woman who became the manager of the fucking computer room was more amazing than the main storyline.
 
Watched Lucy on cable last night. Not good. It was bad the first time I saw it, when it was called Limitless.

Also, rewatched San Andreas. As far as disaster movies go, it's mediocre at best, but great googily moogily, Alexandra Daddario. I could watch her file her taxes.
 
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