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The Rise of Skywalker. Saw it yesterday with my kids.

My one word review: No.

Die Hard

The Lighthouse. About what you'd expect if you expect R-Patt abuse, crusty Dafoevian purple monologues, Melvillian homoeroticism, and unanswerable questions about mermaids. I liked it!

The Social Network

It's the second time I've seen it, but this time we watched it with subtitles and I was able to understand all the dialogue. I'm old!

Caught a matinee of Rise of Skywalker today. It was fun.

Red Dawn- I am an unabashed John Milius fan, but man this movie suuucccckks.

Villians- Lotsa fun, Bill Skarsgard and Maika Malone are lovable dumbasses robbing gas stations on their way to Florida and are forced to break into the home of Jeffery Donovan and Kyra Sedgewick. Things go wrong and they get more than they bargained for, etc, etc. Everyone is really having fun (with Donovan being the standout as a psychotic Southern gentleman), there are twists aplenty, and the relationship between Skarsgard and Malone is actually really sweet. Not super-deep, but a great movie.

Star Wars IX: The Rise of Skywalker

I saw this on Jan 1. It wasn't bad nor great, but great to watch if you want to see the original characters and ships re-done in modern technology (filmography). For that reason alone, it was worthy of a watch.

Pacific Heights- Great movie, even when kinda slumming it John Schlesinger is still a master. Also, I love any movie featuring Michael Keaton being weird. But I forgot how utterly worthless & toxic Matthew Modine's character is and enjoyed how Melanie Griffin ends up being super-competent once her jerk of a partner is sidelined.

The Great Gatsby (1974, Robert Redford, Mia Farrow, Sam Waterson, Bruce Durn)

some where in time and the lake house

Beetlejuice (TV repeats)

Bombshell. Very good. I had no idea this happened with Fox News. Great portrayals.

robeiae said:

The Rise of Skywalker. Saw it yesterday with my kids.

My one word review: No.

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I actually enjoyed it, but during the kiss scene at the climax, this grown man screams at the top of his lungs "NO!" My family was trying so hard not to die laughing. I was actually for that ship, but whatever.

Over the Edge (1979)

Sort of a forerunner to the John Hughes style movies of the 80s.

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Weird but fun (it is Tarantino, so I guess that's to be expected!)

The Great Gatsby 2013 with Leonardo Dicaprio and Tobey Maguire. I enjoyed this version more than the 1974 Robert Redford. The characters in each are a different matter.

The best cast according to cindyt:

1974 - Mia Farrow, Bruce Dern, Sam Waterson

2013: Leo

It's a Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood:

What a beautiful movie. My eyes were misty the entire time. I loved it. At first I thought it would be about how Mr. Rogers started his show, but it wasn't and I am very happy with the direction the movie took. I loved how they focused on someone's (a grown man) being impacted by Mr. Rogers.

Judgement Day.

Came out in 1999, I had no recollection of it but it just showed up on Hulu. It's kinda...wow.

An incoming meteor is threatening Earth, and the only a disgraced scientist can power the anti-matter bombs to stop it. Unfortunately, he's been kidnapped by a black militant religious sect called the New Taborites (headed by a particularly excellent Mario Van Peebles). To find the scientist, a badass lady FBI agent must team up with Ice-T, and they take to """The Streets""" against the ticking clock of meteor explosions. Coolio & Tiny Lister Jr. also make appearances, because the Nineties.

Both incredibly bad and highly entertaining, I ROTFLed the whole way through. Def going in my good bad movie hall of fame.

The Mean Season - Kurt Russell and Mariel Hemmingway

Jumangi 1 and 2. Probably old age, but I was a bit confused about the identity of the characters. Maybe I shouldn't have watched them in a row. A lot more quips and humor than I would expect.

Yesterday -- written by Richard Curtis, directed by Danny Boyle, starring Himesh Patel and Lily James, and with a good supporting cast including Meera Syal, Sanjeev Bhaskar and Ed Sheeran. It's charming and fun, but it follows a very predictable path.

Jurassic Park III on TV

Color Out of Space, with our greatest living actor, Nicholas Cage.

It's good. Fun, kinda goofy, entertaining characters (including Cageman as a constantly screaming alpaca farmer), and some colorful body horror.

Finally saw Ford v. Ferrari. I liked it, but honestly I expected a great deal more from it, especially from the Ferrari side of things.

Emma. Huge fun, a slightly comic take on Austen. I only recognized a few of the actors but they're all first-rate (I see in IMDb that the ones I didn't know all have long lists of credits in things I just haven't seen), and the physical production is gorgeous. If you can see it on the big screen, it's worth it for the scenery porn!