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On 2016-12-25 at 2:20 PM, gurn said:

Starman- with Jeff Bridges and Karen Allen, a light hearted alien tries to get home flick. Jeff does a very good job as fish out of water. 6.5/10

The Outlaw Josey Wales- Clint Eastwood western, nobody alive does better westerns                                                                             8/10

 

Haven't watched this since I was a kid. I'm thinking early 90s. Wife and I are watching it now. So happy.

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11 hours ago, Down by the River said:

 

Yeah that was one, but his whole thing was 'don't trust the system, its an authoritarian/fascist regime, and then when a kid of his wanted to debate a decision he'd just yell and swear as a response (i.e., the very definition of an authoritarian parent).

I thought the Noam Chomsky scene was a fairly open and genuine invite to River Phoenix look alike for an actual debate. The son didn't say anything because he can't come up with a legit argument (probably as a result of his upbringing as well, but that's another topic). Other times, yeah, he was authoritarian, but then so are most parents; they are just authoritarian about other things, not political philosophies.

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1 hour ago, Hugor Hill said:

I thought the Noam Chomsky scene was a fairly open and genuine invite to River Phoenix look alike for an actual debate. The son didn't say anything because he can't come up with a legit argument (probably as a result of his upbringing as well, but that's another topic). Other times, yeah, he was authoritarian, but then so are most parents; they are just authoritarian about other things, not political philosophies.

 

That wasn't an open debate. There was no logical argument to be made, and the father knew it, and was patronizing him. It was open on the surface, but if you take into context the family dynamic, it wasn't open at all. The kid wanted was to be like a 'normal' family, but if he made that argument, his Dad would have torn him to shreds about what it means to be a normal family in America. 

 

"So are most parents"..... This is statistically really inaccurate. 

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Bought Suicide Squad 4k on boxing day. Probably one of the worst big-budget movie I have ever watched.

 

Cast was cheesy, plot had no direction and confusing. Only bright spot was Margot Robbie in her undies the whole movie, her acting could have been better though.

 

Big disappointment considering the marketing and hype behind it.

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1 hour ago, CanucksHomer said:

Bought Suicide Squad 4k on boxing day. Probably one of the worst big-budget movie I have ever watched.

 

Cast was cheesy, plot had no direction and confusing. Only bright spot was Margot Robbie in her undies the whole movie, her acting could have been better though.

 

Big disappointment considering the marketing and hype behind it.

Didn't get the 4K , but have to agree with you on every point you made, Robbie did have a cute ....  

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Wasn't able to enjoy Rogue One because the theatre was basically sub-zero temperatures and I didn't have a jacket. Could barely tell you what happened in the last 30 minutes. 

 

I did find that the conversations between guys in the X-Wings was another 'oh member Empire Strikes Back' moment. The films refuse to try and stand apart from everything that came before it.

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The Accountant  6.5/10 - Could have been better, could have been worse. Kept me entertained.

 

War Dogs 7/10 -  True story of two dopes who start bidding on government weapons contracts to supply the army in 2004. The tomfoolery they go through to keep things running is pretty amusing.

 

Loving 7.5/10 - Story of an interracial couple in Virginia in 1958. Arrested for being married and banished from the state they take their case to the Supreme Court. If you're only into Spiderman and X-men you should avoid this. It's slow but very good.

 

Lion 8/10 - Five-year-old Saroo gets lost on a train which takes him thousands of Kilometers across India, away from home and family. Saroo must learn to survive alone in Kolkata, before ultimately being adopted by an Australian couple. Twenty-five years later, armed with only a handful of memories, his unwavering determination, and a revolutionary technology known as Google Earth, he sets out to find his lost family and finally return to his first home. (lifted the description from Tomatoes)

 

The star of the film is the kid who plays 5 year old Saroo through the first half of the movie. I give his debut performance a 10/10.

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The Rise and Fall of Tower Records - 8/10

very interesting doc i watched on craveTV about the pioneers of big store album distribution, Tower Records.

interesting notables: Elton John was featured in the doc cause he was their biggest customer and a bit of a promoter for them at times over the chains 36 year history.

 

i love these back story kinda movies, and being a record junky back in the day myself, this one in particular i found very interesting.

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these were watched through a haze of post Christmas cheer food poisoning, so they might not be accurate

 

Keanu  5.5/10

Handful of actual laughs, otherwise just mediocre and mildly entertaining. It helps that Key & Peele are so likeable.

 

Nocturnal Animals  4/10

Various flavours of trash. There's a cold, postmodern artist story that feels like a glossy soap opera. She gets an unpublished novel from an ex, and the movie spends more and more time acting out the trashy redneck East Texas action story - why, I don't know, it's so boring Michael Shannon can't even save it. And then randomly they jump back to how the two of them met, and it's generic rom-com NYC social drama crap.

 

Where To Invade Next  8/10

Michael Moore is much better served directing with a light, funny touch here. Especially liked the bits on Slovenia and Tunisia, two places I knew very little about.

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13 hours ago, tbone909 said:

Rouge One 

6/10

The last 40 minutes and Vader saved this.

 

I think it got more exciting towards the end, but I don't know that the last 40 minutes saved the movie for me personally. If anything I could say it reminded me just how little I cared about 95% of the characters (The 5% was Jin).

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I think Kim's Convenience on CBC is low key one of the better comedies on TV right now. It's not always clever or anything, but it's funny, very human, and handles its emotional elements with a certain tact that makes me feel feels. 

 

It's not a direct comparison or anything, but I think the kind of person who would take the most joy from watching it would be someone who enjoys something like Last Man on Earth. Different formula, similar results.

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5 hours ago, g_bassi13 said:

I think Kim's Convenience on CBC is low key one of the better comedies on TV right now. It's not always clever or anything, but it's funny, very human, and handles its emotional elements with a certain tact that makes me feel feels. 

 

It's not a direct comparison or anything, but I think the kind of person who would take the most joy from watching it would be someone who enjoys something like Last Man on Earth. Different formula, similar results.

How come the commercials / trailers CBC shows us suck so bad?

Their trailers make me NOT want to watch the show.

 

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7 hours ago, The Bookie said:

these were watched through a haze of post Christmas cheer food poisoning, so they might not be accurate

 

Nocturnal Animals  4/10

Various flavours of trash. There's a cold, postmodern artist story that feels like a glossy soap opera. She gets an unpublished novel from an ex, and the movie spends more and more time acting out the trashy redneck East Texas action story - why, I don't know, it's so boring Michael Shannon can't even save it. And then randomly they jump back to how the two of them met, and it's generic rom-com NYC social drama crap.

 

 

I'd say you got it right. Gyllenhaal was hoping for another Nightcrawler-esque film and instead got a director that was (1) from Texas, (2) lived in New York, and (3) a fashion designer. You see more of the director in the film than you do the original book.

 

The guy does make great suits though. 

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