Aside from "Silver Linings Playbook" ..which IMO ..she was bona fide & that 70s movie thing she did,,,I agree w/ u..but,, I will say that she looks so delicious that I would drink her through a plastic straw..or ..if I was ever so much 2feet in front of her ,,I would more than likely orgasm in my pants. A Lovely Woman..by the way,,check out her 1rst movie called "Winters Bone"..4 a powerful performance that won me over yrs. ago b4 she was anybody.

The first time I ever saw Jennifer Lawrence was in X-MEN: FIRST CLASS as Mystique. She was good and then again in THE HUNGER GAMES series but what won me over as a fan of her's was JOY funny enough. I felt she gave a really strong performance (I've still yet to see SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK).

OH Fuck dude..GREAT movie..& Jen did an outstanding performance,,even up against Bob Deniro U must see!!

I love De Niro (obviously being on this board you pretty much need to) and I'm curious as for J-Law's role since she won an Oscar for it but I'm not a big fan of David O. Russell. His movies to me have always been kinda meh and forgettable (I HEART HUCKABEES, THE FIGHTER and AMERICAN HUSTLE); although I did enjoy both THREE KINGS and JOY. I'll have to add it to the list but even after seeing previews, the movie just never seemed to interest me that much. I'll have to take the plunge one day.

I'm sorry ,but we thought THE FIGHTER..& (well, not so much my wife on this one) AMERICAN HUSTLE were not bad flicks...But ,anyways.. J. Lawrence is not a bad actress & a good mind memory when ur having problems in the hay w/ the wife,,which is not often,, but still ...my wife works 16 hr. shifts as a nurse & I take a shower every 12 hrs......now do the math,,& figure out what I'm sayin'......LOL.

Just saw “Tarzan’s New York Aventure” on Turner classic movies.

Best Tarzan movie in my oppionion. Johnny Weissmuller jumps off the Brooklyn bridge in it to get Boy back

I love Johnny Weissmuller. I use to watch the old Tarzan movies all the time as a kid. They'd have a 4:00 movie, after school and if it was Tarzan, I watched. I really liked Tarzan and his Mate, Tarzan the Ape Man. Heck, I even learned some jungle talk. Just shout, "UNGOWA" and all the jungle animals come to you.





TIS

TIS, I remember that language too. Well, I remember about it, but I can't recall the words (except Boy). Do you remember any of the other words?

Saw that this morning..my time on screen I think is messed up,,it was on around 10:00 wed. morn ..right??T.C.M.

TOMB RAIDER

As an action film, it felt bland. Alicia Vikander was passable as Lara Croft and I was really happy to see Walton Goggins stretch his wings further as the lead villain as I've always been a fan of his from first seeing him on FX's THE SHIELD (an underrated show IMO). Even Walton I felt was bland, the action scenes were somewhat dull with the exception of the waterfall and Lara grabbing onto part of a plane that is briefly shown in trailers. I believe I saw the original 2 starring Angelina Jolie but don't remember anything good or bad about them so they obviously didn't make much of an impression on me. Overall, this felt like a cheap rip off of an Indiana Jones film. 5.5/10

7 DAY IN ENTEBBE

The true story of Palestinian and Palestinian sympathizers who hijack a plane headed for Paris and reroute it to Entebbe, Uganda to negotiate the release of Palestinian prisoners. The trailer hooked me as it looked pretty interesting and it was. Rosamund Pike has been putting her work in lately with HOSTILES, this and BEIRUT coming out later this summer. I enjoy her work as well as Daniel Brühl's who is also one of the hijackers. Not very suspenseful but still enjoyable watching it all pay out. I don't say that to be disrespectful towards the victims but rather as a movie going experience. 6/10

Anyone have a Letterboxd account? I'm here.

PACIFIC RIM: UPRISING

The original PACIFIC RIM I only saw once and that was in the theaters. With a movie like this, I figure you should see it on the biggest screen possible. Anyway, the first one didn't leave much of an impression on me but this one did because it was bad. The story was weak and rushed. I'm also not a fan of most children or young actors/actresses and Cailee Spaeny reminded me why. I just found her and her character to be somewhat annoying. It's a good thing John Boyega has STAR WARS to fall back on because his work outside of that hasn't impressed me much. I do enjoy Charlie Day and he provided a little comedy to the movie, but overall, it was a mess. I'm glad it wasn't overly long and bloated as well. I would have given it a lower score but the visual FX were good (although some of the battle scenes between the robots and monsters were boring). How do you screw up a robot/monster battle!? 5/10

Tarzan's New York Adventure is awesome all the way around. I love Charles Lane as the lawyer, the same nasty character he'd play for the next 40 years.

Daddy's Home 2 was pretty awful compared to the first one. The rule of diminishing returns in effect.

It was, but don't sleep on BAD MOMS 2. The first wasn't bad (kind of a nice surprise for recent comedies) but the sequel was wretched!

UNSANE

I really enjoyed this film, in fact, more so than I originally thought I would. Steven Soderbergh does a great job with his directing, especially in the early parts of the film. When viewed outside, main star Claire Foy is usually observed from a stalker's POV. However, when it's an inside setting, the camera angle is usually off slightly and closer than it should be, giving the audience an awkward or uncomfortable feeling. This was my first time seeing Claire Foy and she gives an amazing performance of a woman who is committed against her will, trying to convince everyone else she's perfectly sane and that she doesn't belong there. However, in the process, she appears to make herself look even more insane to the hospital staff. In addition, it gives more of an insight into how trapped women of stalkers can feel. Having to change their name, telephone numbers and location, all while constantly always looking of their shoulder. Again, I thoroughly enjoyed this and will probably see it in theaters again! 7/10

Great reviews.

I plan on passing on the PR:U

Pass on DH2

Will see UNSANE since this would be one the Wife and I both will enjoy.

Thanks

The Rising of the Moon on T.C.M.

I'd be curious what you and the Mrs. think.

THE BLOOD SPLATTERED BRIDE

Another film I was able to find on Amazon Prime. I watched it because it was referenced in Quentin Tarantino's KILL BILL, however, this film has very little, if anything to do with Tarantino's work. The film is a Spanish horror movie about a man whose gross sexual appetite alienates his new bride, who eventually recoils from his advances and ends up seduced by a female vampire. The story moved pretty slow and it lost my interest somewhat about halfway or more through. 5/10

saw that, interesting movie. Love getting a good view of the old days in other countries and getting great insight.
The Black & Tan Wars.




Will do, we should be to see it soon, also looking to get to The Shape of Water this week.

I wasted two hours of my life on 3 Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri yesterday.

Shockingly bad movie.

A couple of minutes in I realized what kind of agenda the movie had with the first interaction between Sam Rockwell's character and one of the black gentleman putting up the billboards, the first of several lamely written proxies in the film.

Every character is a caricature; Rockwell's aforementioned character reminding me of Dax Shepard's character in Idiocracy. Every person in the movie is portrayed as a dribbling moron, apart from McDormand and all the black characters.

The script, too, is poorly written. What is this woman's motivation for putting up the billboards I kept waiting patiently to figure out? Yes, her daughter died brutally, but how were Willoughby and the rest of the police department culpable of not doing their jobs properly? We never really figure out. The closest we come is one of several ham-fistedly scripted scenes where McDormand says every man in the country should be put into a database or some shit. Eh, ok? Apparently, the police department is racist, though, but this has no real tangible link to the investigation surrounding her daughter's death. It merely gives Rockwell an excuse to chew scenery, and the Oscars to celebrate how racist America is while lauding another movie that portrays the entire American South as racist and/or stupid.

Another example of the movie's poor scripting, tone deafness and chronically bad dialogue is a cack-handed flashback where McDormand's daughter says she "hopes she gets raped" after storming out of the house the night, she, you know, gets raped and murdered.

The movie struggles, and fails, to find a balance between the seriousness of the subject matter and humour. All through the movie I was wondering is this supposed to be a comedy? An example is the girlfriend of McDormand's ex-husband. I thought it would have had more merit if the ex had shacked up with a 19 year old because he was subconsciously trying to replace his daughter, but, no, the movie basically uses the 19 year old as comic relief in a movie that already has several comic relief characters, including a midget, and doesn't really warrant comic relief.

This brings me to McDormand. Her acting was very good, but a better writer and director would've gotten a better sense of the character. As it is, she resembles a female version of Kevin Bacon in Death Sentence or Bruce Willis in Death Wish playing the female lead in an exploitation movie, rather than shouldering the serious, character-driven piece this should've been. The scene where she kicked a male and female student respectively in the groin area after throwing a can at her car is probably the most egregious example of this movie being a tonal mess and looking for laughs at the wrong time.

Rockwell's character's "redemption" takes the cake in terms of poor writing, though. Someone who turns from dribbling, racist lunatic to conscientious, hard-nosed detective in the space of what must be days in the movie. Don't get me started on the sequence where he attempts to murder someone (which the movie appears to subsequently forget about, as he doesn't appear to be under any sort of IA investigation) and one of the mea culpa proxies, Lester Freamon from The Wire, is introduced in a predictably heavy-handed manner.

I keep mentioning tone deafness, but I haven't even mentioned the best part. The ex-husband having a 19 year old girlfriend is a recurring plot device, yet Woody Harrelson's wife doesn't look a day over 25!

I will end my rant now before I accidentally spoil anything, but, it bears repeating; Rockwell's arc is crucial to the second half of the movie, but, it is written poorly, Freamon's character doesn't really go anywhere and seems to basically be a morally upstanding black character for the sake of the movie's liberal bent in a movie that portrays every white "redneck" character as racist and/or stupid caricatures, and the movie doesn't figure out how properly to transition the co-lead role from Harrelson to Rockwell.

I wasn't a big fan of THREE BILLBOARDS either. I was looking forward to it because from the trailers it looked pretty funny. Same as you, I was caught off guard with the change in tone as the film progressed. I thought Frances McDormand was good and deserving of her Oscar. I like Sam Rockwell too but wasn't as convinced with his Oscar win. I believe the movie is more hype than anything. Not a bad movie in my opinion, but not as great as what some of the critics have given it.

Will do, we should be to see it soon, also looking to get to The Shape of Water this week.

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I saw it again last night. If you and the Mrs. see a lot of movies in the theaters, then you should definitely sign up for MoviePass! $9.99 per month (per person) for unlimited* movies every month.

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Wow, that is a great deal..... if I had the schedule for that , I would.
When I retire, this is happening.

Just watched the last half of The Force Awakens. Given the rich history of the Star Wars saga, I thought this episode could have been much more dramatic, both performances and storyline.

I SPIT ON YOUR GRAVE

This film, not only being controversial for many reasons, but is also difficult to watch. While the subject matter is nothing to praise, I at least give credit to Director Meir Zarchi for his honest account and portrayal of a woman, played by Camille Keaton, who is repeatedly raped by 4 locals when she ventures off for a summer at a cabin to write her novel. Many view this as filth and exploitation while some commend it for its feminism. It at least gives the audience the chance to think where they feel it belongs without the director giving us his opinion or forcing his upon us. A lot of respect to the cast and crew who shot this as a few people did quit the production due to the violence portrayed. Also, this was shot in 1978 and with a low budget, meaning only one camera was used and the rape scenes had to be filmed multiple times from different angles. In addition, I appreciate the fact very little music is used in the film, rather leaving the characters and the audience left with the tranquility of silence that nature provides, while at the same time, reminding us just how alone this girl is. Again, this is not a film for everyone but I appreciate the honestly it provides as something as selfish and hideous as rape should not be glamorized on the big screen like it has so many times before and since this film's release. 6/10

ACRIMONY

Don't even waste your time, unless you want to spend 2 hours listening to Taraji P. Henson complain for the entire film about how she was fleeced by her ex-husband. The premise of the story follows Taraji as she's in a therapy/anger management session telling us how she came to be in that office. She talks about her ex-husband and how they met in college and she supported him financially (her mother recently died so she came into a little bit of money as a result). He was working on his invention for their entire relationship (18 years later) and she finally divorces him after suspecting him of cheating. Once his invention takes off after their divorce and he's newly engaged to the woman he was suspected to cheat with, Taraji comes out of the woodwork wanting her cut. I've only seen Taraji in PROUD MARY and this and while she did a decent job with this character, I'm not overly impressed with her work. 4.5/10

READY PLAYER ONE

Wow, this was an absolute visual and nostalgic treat. A little more than half of the film takes place in the Oasis which I am absolutely fine with as it's just stunning with an awesome 80s soundtrack to back it up! Without giving away too much, my favorite part of the film was during the second challenge. Vintage Spielberg and his most enjoyable film I believe since 2005's MUNICH. Definitely the type of film to see on the big screen and I will be seeing it again in theaters. My favorite film so far of 2018, with ANNIHILATION right behind it. 8.5/10

Again I watched The Force Awakens. I liked Rey having the Force power. However, when Darth Vader's grandson took off his mask, I almost laughed. He looked like a refugee from a 70s rock band with that long hair and benign face (reminded me of Ray on Everybody Loves Raymond) And what is it with the Supreme Leader? How pedestrian a title! I think that's what they called Castro.

Well, one of these days I'll watch the Last Jedi. Hope it's better.