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olderthanIusedtobe Member
Joined: 05 Sep 2011 Posts: 7708 | TRs | Pics Location: Shoreline |
I enjoyed Passengers. You could go ahead and watch and decide for yourself if it sucks or if it's decent.
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olderthanIusedtobe Member
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Watched John Wick Chapter 2 last night. They tried to up the ante way too much from the first one. Jumped the shark at some point. Pretty convoluted plot, too. If you like a high body count and lots of head shots and red mist, this is the movie for you.
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Backpacker Joe Blind Hiker
Joined: 16 Dec 2001 Posts: 23956 | TRs | Pics Location: Cle Elum |
I liked the heck out of Passengers. Good story line, good plot. Good acting. Like how it ended as well. I went and saw Wonder Woman again. Love that movie!
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— Abraham Lincoln
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— Abraham Lincoln
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Backpacker Joe Blind Hiker
Joined: 16 Dec 2001 Posts: 23956 | TRs | Pics Location: Cle Elum |
Jack Reacher 2 was semi bad as well. Many second movies have been bad lately.
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
— Abraham Lincoln
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
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gb Member
Joined: 01 Jul 2010 Posts: 6308 | TRs | Pics
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Mon Jun 19, 2017 4:42 pm
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Backpacker Joe wrote: | I liked the heck out of Passengers. Good story line, good plot. Good acting. Like how it ended as well. I went and saw Wonder Woman again. Love that movie! |
Hey, don't get me wrong, I love Jennifer Lawrence, and enjoy Chris Pratt. The beginning of the movie was interesting, the personalities, too. But the physics in the movie were so far over the top as the climax of the movie approached that I found the whole thing completely unbelievable - it even made me laugh on more than one occasion. About as believable as pigs flying.
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olderthanIusedtobe Member
Joined: 05 Sep 2011 Posts: 7708 | TRs | Pics Location: Shoreline |
Sometimes I can suspend my disbelief, sometimes I can't. I laughed hysterically during Vertical Limit, and it wasn't supposed to be funny. They got pretty much everything having anything to do with climbing terribly wrong in that film, even w/ Ed Viesturs as a technical consultant (I can only assume they completely ignored everything he told them). Stallone's Cliffhanger was pretty bad too in that regard.
I'm not an astrophysicist or any other kind of scientist. I don't really care if a film doesn't realistically portray interstellar space travel.
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gb Member
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Tue Jun 20, 2017 5:19 am
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olderthanIusedtobe wrote: | Cliffhanger was pretty bad too in that regard. |
There was a scene in Cliffhanger in which, while falling, Stallone pulled an ice axe out of his a** and did a self arrest. He had not been carrying an ice axe......
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olderthanIusedtobe Member
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gb wrote: | There was a scene in Cliffhanger in which, while falling, Stallone pulled an ice axe out of his a** and did a self arrest. He had not been carrying an ice axe...... |
I seem to recall Vertical Limit had a fairly unlikely scene with ice tools too. Something about jumping across a huge gap and landing on an icy sheer cliff, sticking the landing like it was velcro. Methinks with that much velocity you would just bounce off, or wouldn't be able to get the tools to stick, or something.
But my absolute favorite was a desperate dyno move, shoving a cam into a crack, getting it solidly set instantaneously, and then hanging off of it. I've used cams a few times. Never tried that maneuver, pretty sure there's no possible way to pull it off.
Or the ludicrous theme of the movie, used at the beginning and the end--"Cut the rope. Any good climber would."
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Backpacker Joe Blind Hiker
Joined: 16 Dec 2001 Posts: 23956 | TRs | Pics Location: Cle Elum |
"If destruction be our lot we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen we must live through all time or die by suicide."
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Sat Jun 24, 2017 9:11 pm
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Backpacker Joe wrote: | LOGAN! I didnt like it! |
Yeah, weak. *½ The girl was awesome though.
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Mon Jun 26, 2017 7:08 am
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olderthanIusedtobe Member
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Just watched Logan last night (already had it from Netflix before I saw the negative views above). Didn't hate it, but didn't like it that much either. Too long, several stretches of it were tedious. Aging/physically/mentally declining Wolverine and Prof. X were no fun at all. The Wolverine movies in general are a mess. No continuity at all, each basically exists as if none of the other Wolverine or X-Men movies occurred. The girl was pretty kick ass, but with her being mute most of the way thru the film other than screaming, she kinda seemed like a knock off of the feral little boy from Road Warrior.
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Double feature tonight, although the movies couldn't be more different. Lego Batman Movie was pretty funny. Will Arnett just kills it as Batman, plenty of other strong vocal work as well. Was mostly just a fun, silly movie, and yet a pretty darn good deconstruction of the Batman mythology and skewers the history of the character in TV and film. And most other superhero movies while it's at it.
The other movie was Before I Fall. Maybe there's something wrong w/ me, I keep watching YA films even though I'm well beyond that age range. I liked it. Maybe cliched, but it was decent. Yet another iteration of the Groundhog Day setup, this one set in high school with the clique of pretty, popular, mean girls. I like Zoey Deutch (there's just something about women named Zoey or Zoe or however they spell it). I like Halston Sage, too, although she had a pretty thankless role. Kept up the Hollywood tradition of 20 somethings playing teenagers. Jennifer Beals is an ageless wonder.
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olderthanIusedtobe Member
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Another double bill. "Collision" was an enjoyable B grade movie. Wasn't trying to be more than it was. Really solid cast. Nicholas Hoult and Felicity Jones are younger actor/actress that have gotten some acclaim, and Ben Kingsley and Anthony Hopkins did a fair bit of scenery chewing. Both of those guys, but Kingsley in particular don't seem to be very choosy about their roles. Just as happy doing totally cheesy stuff as Oscar bait.
The other one was "The Zookeeper's Wife." Jessica Chastain was really good. Well done, based on a true story film about the plight of the Jews in Warsaw, Poland during WWII. Chastain's character and her husband rescued and sheltered over 300 Jews at their zoo, which was defunct during the war. It was however occupied by Nazi troops during the day, so they were sneaking them right under their noses.
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Thu Jul 06, 2017 10:37 pm
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olderthanIusedtobe wrote: | so they were sneaking them right under their noses. |
Given how they did it, that's a good choice of words. . . .
An amazing story.
It is as though I had read a divine text, written into the world itself, not with letters but rather with essential objects, saying:
Man, stretch thy reason hither, so thou mayest comprehend these things. Johannes Kepler
It is as though I had read a divine text, written into the world itself, not with letters but rather with essential objects, saying:
Man, stretch thy reason hither, so thou mayest comprehend these things. Johannes Kepler
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