Scouts Honor Posted October 23 Posted October 23 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 1
ILLINIWrestlingBlog Posted October 23 Author Posted October 23 I forgot to drop this in a previous comment: 1
ILLINIWrestlingBlog Posted November 18 Author Posted November 18 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 Posted November 18 Posted November 18 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"! 2
ILLINIWrestlingBlog Posted November 18 Author Posted November 18 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 Posted November 18 Posted November 18 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!" 1 Drowning in data, but thirsting for knowledge
mspart Posted November 18 Posted November 18 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 1
Danny Deck Posted November 22 Posted November 22 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. 1
ILLINIWrestlingBlog Posted November 29 Author Posted November 29 WIZARD OF OZ JUST STARTED ON TBS! That overture! A movie dedication to the Young at Heart! Masterpiece! 1
ILLINIWrestlingBlog Posted November 29 Author Posted November 29 Can you love a movie more each time you watch it? I had forgotten how good the special effects were (for the time), and how many incredible brilliant songs were sung or played. I had forgotten that, when Dorothy saw Auntie Em in the crystal ball while the ticking clock (hourglass) was running down, the face of her Aunt morphed into the Wicked Witch, and then, the Wicked Witch broke the fourth wall when she turned to the camera. I wonder if 10,000 kids across America saw The Wizard of Oz for the first time just now, and the Wicked Witch scared the jammies off of them. I had forgotten just how clever it was. One of my favorite quotes of all time comes near the end of the movie, "A heart is not judged by how much you love, but by how much you are loved by others." Others disagree with this quote on a philosophical basis, and I can see their point, but where it exists in the script and in the Oz universe, it is perfect. It perfectly described how the Tin Man would go through the rest of his life. As the song goes, "Oz didn't give nothing to the Tin Man, that he didn't, didn't already have." The Artists crafted this movie with supernatural care. I'm amazed again! The one thing that I'd change is the Cowardly Lion's song, "If I Were the King of the Forest." I would keep all of the clever clothing arrangements, the pitcher that Tin Man turned into a crown, the rug becoming his royal cape, and the end with the dialogue: Quote [TIN MAN] Not even a rhinoceros? [LION] Imposserous! [DOROTHY] How about a hippopotamus? [LION] Why, I'd trash him from top to bottomamus! I'd just ask for a second draft of the song. It was close but not perfect. The rest of the movie is perfect. 2
ILLINIWrestlingBlog Posted December 1 Author Posted December 1 I've just finished Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971), and it does belong at #6 on my list of best movies of all time. The film has everything from Dr. Seuss to Edgar Allan Poe and everything in between. All of the people in this world are either snarky or rude except for Charlie. I didn't remember an epic rivalry between Veruca Salt and Violet Beauregarde, but it's there, hoo boy, and it is snap! Veruca steals every scene she's in, and what about the amazing bit near the end when Willy Wonka slowly covers the Everlasting Gobstopper with his hand, while saying, "And so shines a good deed in a weary world"? That quote was lifted from Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice. I told you it had everything from Seuss to Poe, and William Shakespeare fits right in there. Snuggly. But, my friends, our story has a sad ending. You see, I've never--not once in my life--felt a powerful urge to murder anybody, not even a movie critic. Not even a movie critic from Iowa! After perusing the Rotten Tomatoes (92%, 87%) post on Willy Wonka, I now have four such urges. 1
Danny Deck Posted December 2 Posted December 2 They did end up expanding Juror #2 so I was able to see it this weekend. I really enjoyed it. It has some of the usual Eastwood weaknesses, the pros, Nicholas Hoult, JK Simmons, Toni Collette, have no trouble delivering good performances in 1 or 2 takes, but the rest of the jury could have probably used a few more takes. But I found the premise, a juror thinks he was involved in the case, very compelling gives you something to think about well after leaving the theater. My showing, Saturday 3:30, was pretty full which is impressive for a movie that has gotten no promotion. It's unfortunate that WB-Discovery is so broke they can't put any money behind this. They could have sent Eastwood out on a much higher note than they did. 1
ILLINIWrestlingBlog Posted December 5 Author Posted December 5 MY TOP 5 MCU MOVIES AND A WRESTLING ANALOGY FOR EACH This has been a cumbersome segue into a review of Deadpool & Wolverine. And before we get into that, yes, Deadpool (2016) is in the MCU. Don't be a splitter. That's how we got Southern Baptist and Primitive Baptists and Seventh Day Baptists and eight types of Baptists in Central Africa, ten in Southern Africa. Don't be an MCU splitter. Anywho, D&W has a 79% rating from critics at Rotten Tomatoes, while the audience has gone gaga for it at 94%. That tells me something: Some of you unthinking and unfeeling bastards brought your girlfriends to watch it. I can see 6% of girlfriends not liking Hugh Jackman's six pack and all of that gashing and cleaving. On the other hand, I liked the movie a lot. And not because of Hugh Jackman's six pack, although I think all superheroes should have them. Well, except Underdog, who gets grandfathered in. The movie had two separate villain timelines, which is interesting and seems pretty novel to me. Additionally, I just like Ryan Reynolds and the Deadpool character. So, a world filled with Deadpools is a pretty cool place. I especially enjoyed Nicepool and Dogpool. They were very friendly. I'm going to give the movie a solid B+. It's not an A because of a sick prejudice that I have acquired: I hate the X-Men and Spiderman. I don't know why. I just want to vomit. Wolverine was an X-Man. Ergo.... Yet, Wolverine wasn't bad in this movie, but, hey, this is a dark deep-seated prejudice that I can't get rid of. The second problem is best described with a pizza analogy. If you've ever been to small town Southern Italy, they will sell you pizza by the weight. They put it on a scale and sell it to you by the kilogram. Lovely stuff! Perfect pizza with homemade sauce, dough that is better than the finest bakeries in America. It makes me want to unvomit. It's a perfect world! Then, you m-fers ruin everything by putting pineapple or small fish or feta or buffalo chicken on it. Even the Italians will put a hard-boiled egg or freaking artichokes on your pizza unless you specifically tell them: "Se metti un uovo o un carciofo sulla mia pizza, ti pugnalerò tante volte quante Wolverine ha pugnalato Deadpool." That roughly translates to "If you put an egg or an artichoke on my pizza, I will stab you as many times as Wolverine stabbed Deadpool." You see, Deadpool is awesome, but it is a fragile thing. Too much Deadpool is ... too much Deadpool. I think even the screenwriters and director got this, as Deadpool not shutting up was a running gag in the movie. Still, it was-a $5.99 and 128 minutes-a well spent-a, arrivederci, amici miei.
ILLINIWrestlingBlog Posted December 5 Author Posted December 5 Thanks to our friends, who have posted reviews of more current movies. Those reviews are appreciated. That's one of the main reasons this thread exists. You are helping all of us movie-goers. As Nicepool said before he was riddled with hundreds of bullets and did not regenerate, "It costs nothing to be kind." A question for folks: My next rental will probably be Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga. Smart or unsmart?
mspart Posted December 5 Posted December 5 Never got into Mad Max movies. I extraordinary a few favorites. Princess Bride, Stardust, Prince of Persia, John Carter of Mars, and League of extraordinary gentlemen. I also the Hulk movies. Granted they are not premier productions, but I love the Hulk. I have others that I have mentioned before, but i watch these repeatedly. I know some have been panned but I like them. Stardust is under rated i think. Great story!. mspart 1
ILLINIWrestlingBlog Posted December 6 Author Posted December 6 1 hour ago, mspart said: Never got into Mad Max movies. I extraordinary a few favorites. Princess Bride, Stardust, Prince of Persia, John Carter of Mars, and League of extraordinary gentlemen. I also the Hulk movies. Granted they are not premier productions, but I love the Hulk. I have others that I have mentioned before, but i watch these repeatedly. I know some have been panned but I like them. Stardust is under rated i think. Great story!. mspart I did get into the Mad Max movies. Thing is, the movie's apocalyptic theme was somewhat fresh back then. Is it still fresh? I hope so. But we've pretty much explored that genre for the last two decades. Time to find out. I had to google John Carter of Mars and realized it is John Carter. That's a bold pick. I knew that a movie by that name existed, but had no other inkling about it. On Rotten Tomatoes, it has a 52% critics rating and a 60% audience mark. Over to the Wikipedia, there's this: It grossed $284 million at the worldwide box office, resulting in a $200 million write down for Disney, becoming one of the biggest box office bombs in history and also becoming the film with the largest estimated box-office loss adjusted for inflation ever, losing $149–265 million. With a total cost of $350 million, including an estimated production budget of $263 million, it is one of the most expensive films ever made. Due to its box office performance, Disney cancelled plans for Gods of Mars and Warlord of Mars, the rest of the trilogy Stanton had planned. Much of the film's failure has been attributed to its promotion, which has been called "one of the worst marketing campaigns in movie history." That last sentence provides some hope. So, I read the plot. It actually sounds interesting. Anyway, I've decided that I'll watch it, and if it's good, I will congratulate and thank you, but if it is bad, I'll hit you over the head with something heavy and hard.
mspart Posted December 6 Posted December 6 Yes it was a big box office flop, but I thought the filming and story were good. I enjoyed it. Hopefully you will. I don't need to get hit in the head with something heavy and hard. mspart 1
ILLINIWrestlingBlog Posted December 6 Author Posted December 6 1 hour ago, ionel said: Anyone seen Jombo II - The Return of the Stall JOMBO™ on the big screen? Can a one-joke character compete with today's modern cinema? I say that the answer to that question is an emphatic maybe. 1
ILLINIWrestlingBlog Posted December 6 Author Posted December 6 18 hours ago, mspart said: Yes it was a big box office flop, but I thought the filming and story were good. I enjoyed it. Hopefully you will. I don't need to get hit in the head with something heavy and hard. mspart Your head shall remain free of heavy and hard objects! Thanks and congratulations. The movie was interesting and entertaining. I did not buy or rent the movie. Instead, I watched one of those YouTube chains-of-videos that show all or most of the movie. The first video in the chain starts here. What the movie has going for it are in order, starting with the best: Lynn Collins as the Princess of Helium, the story, the CGI and those weird aliens who can go invisible all of a sudden and are there to "manipulate" worlds. What it has going against it are in order, starting with the worst: The year 1999 and a freakishly bad title. It is hard to imagine a worse title. Maybe, "If You Watch This Movie, You'll Get Herpes"? As for 1999, that year saw Keanu Reeves in The Matrix, and if John Carter starred him instead of John Wick, it would've made a lot more money and been seen by a much, much wider audience. It was also in 1999 that a movie called Wild, Wild West ruined sci-fi and old West movies. Finally, 1999 saw the emergence of the anti-star known as Jar Jar Binks in The Phantom Menace. Still, for what I paid for it, it was superbly entertaining. Cheers! 1
Danny Deck Posted December 9 Posted December 9 Went to this over the weekend. I enjoyed it. Jude Law trying his best to be Gene Hackman. They did great with the robbery scenes. 1
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