MOVIES

[Saylors_Tiny_Willie]

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8368368/

[Scouts Honor]

5 hours ago, mspart said:

I also like the movie Hidden Figures about NASA and the Mercury program.   Very good, like extremely good.

mspart

its a good story line and there are some really good parts.. and those ladies needed to be recognized.

but it reminded me too much of Spirit, the animated horse movie... all the running for me to consider it a great movie

[ILLINIWrestlingBlog]

I forgot to drop this in a previous comment:

 

[ILLINIWrestlingBlog]

BEST CHRISTMAS/HOLIDAY MOVIES

These are my rankings. Are these the best rankings? Is Aaron Brooks too short for 197? Of course. One caveat: I don't consider Die Hard to be a Christmas movie. Nor is Home Alone. If you disagree, all I can say is, with all due respect, and in the spirit of the holiday season, bite me. 

 

1.  THE GRINCH WHO STOLE CHRISTMAS (1966). I just checked the Wikipedia article on the movie and learned some things. First of all, it did not debut on a movie screen. All that work for a TV special. Second, it's running time is only 25 minutes. There's so much perfect packed into 25 minutes, I would've sworn it was at least 75 minutes long. Boris Karloff's voice acting, the characters and the songs. Those songs! 

2. IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE (1946). After my opening paragraph, you might say this is a hypocritical pick. You would be right. Your reviewer is the worst kind of hypocrite. I will hypocrite right in your face and then dance around in wanton celebration of my hypocrisy. This writer at Forbes, the one who first called Die Hard a Christmas movie, wrote an article explaining why this 1946 Frank Capra holiday classic wasn't a Christmas movie.

Talk about a hypocrite! 

That Forbes writer/hypocritical dick argues that only "47% of the movie [is] set during Christmas Eve." But that's why the message works! George Bailey/Jimmy Stewart was given the greatest gift. In fact, the movie was based on a short story entitled "The Greatest Gift." It could only happen during the holiday season.

On the other hand, the message from Die Hard is that dropping Germans from a skyscraper is good fun. I'm down with that, sure, because that's entertaining, but that ain't Christmas, not even in Somalia. 

3. ELF (2003). "If you're really Santa, what song did I sing for you on your last birthday?" "'Happy birthday,' of course." The snowball fight is classic. Perfect cast. Will Ferrell is a genius. "Smiling's my favorite." Santa is real. 

 

THE WORST CHRISTMAS MOVIE

1. THE POLAR EXPRESS 2004. All I'm going to do is tell y'all about "The Uncanny Valley." I think that explains exactly how and why this movie creeps me out. So, here goes:

Robotics professor Masahiro Mori's "original hypothesis states that as the appearance of a robot is made more human, some observers' emotional response to the robot becomes increasingly positive and empathetic, until it becomes almost human, at which point the response quickly becomes strong revulsion."

 

[Lipdrag]

1 hour ago, ILLINIWrestlingBlog said:

Those songs! 

The insults thrown at the Grinch in the song are priceless.  My personal favorite:

You nauseate me, Mr. Grinch, 
With a nauseous super "naus"! 

[ILLINIWrestlingBlog]

2 hours ago, Lipdrag said:

The insults thrown at the Grinch in the song are priceless.  My personal favorite:

You nauseate me, Mr. Grinch, 
With a nauseous super "naus"! 

Excellent choice! I wouldn't touch that Grinch fellow with "a thirty-nine-and-a-half-foot pole!"

[Wrestleknownothing]

 

11 hours ago, Lipdrag said:

The insults thrown at the Grinch in the song are priceless.  My personal favorite:

You nauseate me, Mr. Grinch, 
With a nauseous super "naus"! 

 

9 hours ago, ILLINIWrestlingBlog said:

Excellent choice! I wouldn't touch that Grinch fellow with "a thirty-nine-and-a-half-foot pole!"

I am partial to:

The three words that best describe you are as follows, and I quote: "Stink! Stank! Stunk!"

[ionel]

[mspart]

A Christmas Story is great.   Polar Express is a good movie but the animation is a little bit creepy I admit.   But the story is good.   The animated Grinch from 1966 is a classic that needs to be watched every year.   Positively brilliant.

mspart

[Danny Deck]

On 10/9/2024 at 10:25 AM, Danny Deck said:

So far the year has been kind of hit or miss, but I'm looking forward to the fall for movies.

• Saturday Night
• Venom: The Last Dance 
• Conclave
• Juror No. 2
• A Real Pain
• Gladiator 2
• The Brutalist
• A Complete Unknown

 

Enjoyed Saturday Night well enough. I'm glad other people are commenting about the mannerisms Cooper Hoffman has like his dad. I was thinking about it several times watching the movie.

Conclave is a perfectly 3.5 star movie. 

Unfortunately none of the theaters here were among the few David Zaslav deigned to put Juror #2 in so I haven't seen it.

Gladiator 2 and A Real Pain this weekend. Looking forward to both.