Dr. Strange. "Mister?... Doctor...Mister Doctor?...It's Strange....Maybe" Marvel just makes good movies.
Jack Reacher 2. Rule #1 about putting teenagers in your action movie: don't put teenagers in your action movie.
Assassin's Creed. This was just as bad as everyone said.
Passengers. This was better than everyone said, despite the uncomfortable love story.
Kind of fun to go back and read through this thread actually...Originally Posted by sancho
I've expressed that I've tired of the MCU movie formula and so I had some high hopes for Dr Strange. Didn't hate it but didn't love it.
I like Passengers. Slow moving movie but that is okay. I'm apparently a sucker for the alien/space movies.
I'll add the movie Sing. Rented for my girls, they loved it, not all that great. Music is good. I think I already reviewed Trolls, but low expectations made that bearable. If you have young daughters they'll get a kick out of dancing around to the music. Justin Timberlake does a good job on the music for Trolls.
Rogue One: This has actually become my favorite Star Wars movie. Yes, beating out all of the rest. I've watched it multiple times now, and unlike Episode 7, it gets better with more views and has in my mind a pretty compelling storyline. There is an element of doing wrong for right and the inner conflict. I love the distrust between characters. It actually fixes some of the goofy stuff with the original trilogy. Director Krenick is a compelling character as well.
Perhaps one of the reasons that I like the movie is the (spoiler alert) ending where the protagonists are killed by the death star is nearly identical to the most vivid and disturbing dreams of my life. In my dream my wife and I are out on a bike ride. We are up by the Huntsman Cancer Institute and I tell her that we should go up and check out the cafeteria on the roof, that it has one of the best views in the city. We are up there looking out at the valley when we see nuclear rockets coming into the valley. The first strikes and we see the blast spreading out across the valley. Everyone runs but I just grab my wife and we fell to our knees holding each other while I said to her, "It's over... It's over... I love you... " until the blast reached and obliterated us.
Weirdest, most disturbing but also strangely beautiful dream I've ever had. That scene and that dream still brings tears to my eyes.
Finally time for LA LA Land. Why make a happy musical have a sad ending? Bummer. Fine movie though. Made me glad that I'm living the dream.
The Great Wall. This is a really bad movie. Never did find out what the yellow armor was for. Blue was for diving, black for foot soldiers, purple for shields, red for archers. What's the yellow for, Matt Damon? And where is your character's accent from?
I kind of liked the ending. Most of us have a first love that for whatever reason didn't work out.
You sap! If the movie had ended with a happy ending I would have asked for my money back. The ending was the best part about the whole thing.
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It was a real-life ending and I liked the discussions it provoked. But like that sap sancho I go to movie musicals to escape reality and live in the cinematic fantasy world. You dour-minded realist.
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye."
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
"Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold."
--Yeats
“True, we [lawyers] build no bridges. We raise no towers. We construct no engines. We paint no pictures - unless as amateurs for our own principal amusement. There is little of all that we do which the eye of man can see. But we smooth out difficulties; we relieve stress; we correct mistakes; we take up other men's burdens and by our efforts we make possible the peaceful life of men in a peaceful state.”
--John W. Davis, founder of Davis Polk & Wardwell
This is true. I wouldn't have spent another minute thinking about a happy ending movie. As it was, I spent some time thinking about what they were saying about achieving your dreams and being happy.
See!
That's the spirit.
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