3021

Yes, although Rush is my favorite racing movie.

3022

I haven’t seen Rush yet although I’ve seen the title come in different places. Will definitely watch it eventually.

It will be interesting to see how I rate Rush in comparison to these two.

For some reason I find GT to be almost offensively bad the more I think about it. No idea why I dislike it so much. There are other mediocre movies I openly enjoy. I guess maybe I expect my mediocre films to have more spectacle.

Examples of mediocre films I find enjoyable:

X-men Origins: Wolverine
Gods of Egypt
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
Aliens vs. Predator
GI Joe Rise of the Cobra
The Great Wall
Van Helsing

3023

Interestingly, I liked all of those. But my aim for watching a movie is entertainment. I tend not to pick them apart nearly as much as some do.

3024

If you really like a movie, do you consider it mediocre?
For me, I don’t (though I do thoroughly enjoy some movies that get an IMDb score below 6.5)

3025

Also @raccoon

Maybe “critically divisive” would be a better way to describe them. Of the movies I listed, there is at least one positive thing in each that stuck out to me and probably several. I actually own all of these. None of them rank particularly high in audience scores though.

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3026

:+1:

3027

Delivirance

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3028

The last movie I watch is The Roundup: No Way Out, which is a funny cop movie. The main cop is fat guy who punches like Mike Tyson

3029

Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)
 

Finally got around to watching this movie. I was going to stream it much earlier but it was not available on a platform I could access without a subsription IIRC. Now you can rent it anywhere. (everywhere all at once? :P)

 

There are elements of the film that I thought were extremely well done. For example, there are so many cuts but somehow the editor manages to make things perfectly comprehensible. Some of the humor was pretty hilarious. I liked the overall concept of borrowing skills from alternate versions of yourself too.
 
Unfortunately the film didn’t work for me as a whole. I didn’t think that the family drama was well-realized. Also, the absurdist humor undermines both the science-fiction elements and drama. I like wuxia films but I thought the wuxia elements (like overpowered pinky) also undermined the science fiction aspect. You can borrow skills from other “yous” but nobody said anything about the laws of physics being subverted.

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The movie’s message seems to be:

Everything is meaningless, so be kind to each other because kindness is the only thing that counts.

I think this message is completely obliterated by the fact that Joy went on an inter-dimensional killing spree and there are apparently not going to be any consequences. I guess if you’re upset about something, you can just waive the whole kindness thing and skip straight to murder and torture.

Like seriously, Joy is an evil person in this movie. Her mind is “fractured” but apparently she did not lose her powers of reason since she was defeated with words and not force.

The movie states that all versions of Joy are essentially one and treats it that way for the resolution. I would not have gone this route if I was writing the story. I’d keep the versions separate so that the mother-daughter reconciliation plot would not be undermined by the actions of Evil joy. Also, make the Evil Joy actually crazy and unable to be reasoned with.

I would have been more strict with the rules of the universe hopping too–I’d rather see a hard sci-fi version of this concept.

3030

Tarzan and his Mate.
104 minutes gets the job done.
wish modern movies would economize.

3031

I hope it wasn’t The Monkey…

3032

Saw Godzilla Minus One in the theatre with friends. It’s in Japanese with english subtitles for those that don’t know. Lot’s of melodrama in it. A bit slow in the beginning as it concentrates on the characters/people and not the monster (as opposed to the recent other ones, which I did like). Reminded me of the original Godzilla (1954) a bit. I thought it was pretty darn good though and I’m not sorry I paid to see it on the big screen.

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3033

I saw Godzilla Minus One this weekend too. :+1: :+1:
 

There was lots of drama, but I thought it was fairly well-executed. When Godzilla starts smashing things you actually care about who may be physically hurt or fiscally impacted.

Personally I thought it was a vastly superior movie to the recent offerings from Warner Brothers. No doubt, Godzilla vs. Kong had more spectacle, but nothing that happens in it has any emotional impact.

3034

I plan to get Godzilla Minus One (when I can.)
I hope I can get a dubbed version because I prefer listening to English (compared to a foreign language), but either way, I’ll get the movie.
I don’t really mind if the dub job is terrible, just as long as I can understand what is being said. :+1:

3035

“Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” was also one of those movies that really suspended the laws of physics… and of human endurance to pain & damage. I was left with mixed feelings. There were things I liked, and much I didn’t like.

“Everything Everywhere All At Once,” is extremely imaginative. It’s kind of like Jackie Chan meets Inception. But in a convoluted kind of way. I agree, the family drama wasn’t well realized, although there were a number of interesting elements. I wonder how much of real Chinese family life was captured. Given Daniel Kwan and the bulk of the acting cast, I would think they’d strive for much realism in that respect. But it fell short of telling a complete story.

Consciousness beaming across multiple realities… is really pushing the limit. Memories are physically stored in the brain. Overtaking a mind and then leaving it would be a destructive event. There’s no “magical self-repair” that takes place.

Anyway, suspending disbelief is required. It’s entertaining to a degree. I think it’s a curious film worth seeing once. I will probably not seek out to watch it again. If I were to rewatch with a friend who hasn’t seen it, I’d need to wait a couple of years before doing it again.

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3036

Mob Land 2023
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mob_land

I wouldn’t bother on this one. I am not a Travolta fan to begin with , but the plot and dialog on this one did him no favors.
Maybe 4/10. That is probably being generous. I removed it from the movies I recommend to my friends list.

3037

Wuxia films like “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” fall into the legend or fantasy category for me. They all have a similar internal logic whereby mastery of martial arts and chi allows you impossible levels of agility in some cases, and literal magic in others.

 
Science fiction differentiates itself from fantasy by explaining how things work in the context of the fictional world’s science.
 

“Everything Everywhere All At Once” Is trying to be both fantasy and sci-fi at the same time. It’s set in the modern day and universe hopping is shown as being a technological advancement with rules and risks. You gain the skills of other versions of yourself through cross-dimensional link to their minds. But NO amount of skill or strength will allow you to launch a large squishy human with your pinky.

 
In order for this movie to work for me, either the universe hopping needs to be magic too, or the physics require a science-fiction explanation.

This approach of hand-waving physics undermines all the action, because nothing has consequences and there is no tension.

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3038

Saw it years ago. Liked it.
Wonderful photography and wire work fights,
All the Best,
Jeff

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3039

Yep, great movie. And the 4k bluray looks fantastic! I wish that House of Flying Daggers would get the 4k treatment.

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3040

He he, I just watched Barbie. In my defence, my wife has been ill and needed some TLC, so I cooked comfort food and we watched it together. Quite enjoyed it if I’m honest. :two_hearts: :sparkling_heart: :revolving_hearts: