[SilverEars]

Star Wars was great because George Lucas took Akira Kurosawa's movie The Hidden Fortress and set it in space, and had his first wife Marcia Lou Lucas (an amazing editor) to edit it into something good, and assembled the talent of Industrial Light and Magic to do the terrific design and special effects, and later brought in people like Irvin Kershner to direct movies like Empire Strikes Back. He made the mistake of being too obsessed with the pop mythologist Joseph Campbell and his Hero's Journey which has infected writing workshops for decade's now and lowered the average creative output of cinema. In 1988 he was smart enough to go before Congress and passionately and eloquently defend why films should not be altered after their release (there was rampant colorizing of black and white films at the time), and later he was foolish enough to claim that he had destroyed his original films when he revised them into his special editions. George Lucas has brought me equal parts joy and sadness in my life... right now I am ambivalent about him.

Stopped taking the new Star Wars seriously since 'The Last Jedi.' Why would anybody expect anything good after that garbage? The whole trilogy is ruined. At this point I realized that the original was done due to shear luck of everything coming together with the right crew. The right people came together at the right time, and people had the right spirit. They did it for the sake of making great films that people would enjoy. The Disney version on the other hand is totally about profit, like a lot of movies these days.

Just look at the new Indiana Jones. The newest one was nothing like the originals. That's even with Spielberg directing. The film makers do not have the same spirit they had when they were young.

Original things come from experimentation. These times are not for experimentation. It's all controlled process with no risks.

Yes surely made his misstakes but Disney movies lacks soul. Its just a other step in capitalism they dont dare risking amything.

Exactly. When I watch Marvel movies I notice the lack of something. I just don't enjoy them.

 

[bryceu]

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker
Production value: 9.0/10
Dragging old content/characters through the mud: 4.0/10

 

[wuwhere]

6 Underground, 2019 - 7.77

 

[SilverEars]

6 Underground, 2019 - 7.77

The driving scene was entertaining. I wouldn't mind the whole movie just on the driving.

Transformers don't fit Micheal Bay's strengths. As history has shown, he doee better with car or just regular action movies.

 

[wuwhere]

The driving scene was entertaining. I wouldn't mind the whole movie just on the driving.

Transformers don't fit Micheal Bay's strengths. As history has shown, he doee better with car or just regular action movies.

Lots of action. Too bad they had to destroy that incredible yacht.

 

[tdockweiler]

Gallipoli - 3/10

Well made, but one of the worst war movies i've ever seen. Made me mad I wasted my time even bothering to watch this.
75% of it is basically a comedy!

 

[370685]

The Room with Olga Kurylenko. 8/10
They stole the ideas from Splice 2009, and from Inception 2010, but it still feels unique.

 

[wuwhere]

The Room with Olga Kurylenko. 8/10
They stole the ideas from Splice 2009, and from Inception 2010, but it still feels unique.

I just watched "The Room", I also would give it an 8.00.

 

[wuwhere]

Spider In The Web, 2019 - 4.68

 

[tdockweiler]

Harold and Maude - 9/10

Couldn't find anything to watch before going to bed so I turned this on only expecting to watch it for a few minutes.
Hated the first 15 minutes and find it hard to laugh at faked suicides. I actually don't know if these scenes were meant to be sad, funny or what.
It starts to get interesting when Maude shows up.

Once the movie gets going I found it to be one of the funniest and most entertaining movies i've seen in such a long time.
I was supposed to go to bed, but I ended up watching this until 4am! It was worth it!
I really could see watching this again in the next few days.

Only negative is the fake suicides, but the early ones are kind of required I suppose.
The songs are very very terrible too. Maybe I'd like them if I grew up in the 70's.

Can't remember a movie flying by so fast. Didn't even feel more than an hour long.

 

[bryceu]

The Mandalorian (Show/series) - 3.5/10

 

[SilverEars]

The Mandalorian (Show/series) - 3.5/10

I wouldn't give the show high marks either. The baby Yoda is cute, but that's about it. It feels like an old series with each episode with it's individual storyline. It's not a serial plot-line show.

I gave it a chance with the early episodes and then after watching a bit, it got dull going nowhere. Why I don't get is, why it has good ratings out there. It really doesn't deserve the publicity or high marks.

It's another way of Disney to milk a franchise. I hate how big companies resort to milking crap these days. We need good original content like back in the days.

I don't really care of Jon Favreau's productions. Like his Marvel movies, they lack soul. Scorsese is right about his movies, they are not real movies.

 

[oqvist]

The Witcher 8/10

b-budget but doesn´t really matter. Geralt is perfect. Supporting cast not quite as brilliant and Dandelion should be fed to a bruxa at times but he is supposed to be annoying I guess... A bit hard to follow with time travels in episodes but got the most of it. (I believe)
Another misstake is doing a male dragon without the voice of Sean Connery. That really didn´t work

 

[Zojokkeli]

Really enjoyed Witcher too. Haven’t read the books and only played Witcher 3, but the show was really good regardless.

 

[tdockweiler]

Die Hard with a Vengeance - 7/10

Nowhere near as good as I remember. This is one I won't be watching over and over like the previous two.
BTW when I watched this it was about two hours after watching part 2.
Somehow I never realized they recycled parts of the soundtrack from the first film for this movie.

Part 2 I find to be more entertaining than part 1, but Die Hard 1 is still the better movie.
I find it amusing how in part 2 they feel the need to use the F-word every 10-15 seconds.
Doesn't bother me since my favorite movie "Casino" uses it every 2 seconds.
It's still one of my favorite movies ever.

Lots of cringe worthy dialogue too like "Where you'd come from? Pearl Harbor?" and "Just like Iwo Jima!" after someone said that it's time to kick a**.
Oh and of course "Just the fax mam!".
The General also can't act at all and sounds like he's reading from a script.

Sneakers - 9/10

One of my all time favorites. Probably reviewed this one already.
Really good cast in this one! First saw this back in middle school and have been watching this a few times every year since.