Not bad, pretty good, but emotionally didn’t move me much.
Just what you’d expect…. Oscar bait……
Judi Dench is of course very powerful in the part of playing the Queen of England ( she always is…. lol! HOW many times has she played the Queen? of England?).
Everyone else is good. Lots of foggy cinematography, period costumes and stuffy British accents. Conspicuous Oscar bait all around. Like an overlong episode of Downton Abby.
It also reminded me a bit of the Shirley MacLaine / Nicholas Cage movie “Guarding Tess” about the tumultuous relationship between a widowed former First Lady and her Secret Service bodyguard. By the end of the movie we see the real relationship between them is that she sees him as a better son surrogate than her actual birth son.
I choked up more when Hobbes died in “Arthur” than when SPOILER Queen Victoria dies ( oh please, you couldn’t guess THATs how it ends????)
This got great reviews, Oscar Buzz…… I just didn’t get what was great about it.
OMFG that movie was terrible! The life of sub white trash who live in a motel on the outskirts of Floridas Disneyworld. A hundred or so unrelated boring scenes of a scuzzy trailer trash hooker / stripper her dirty 6 year old brat and other dirtbags that float around the edges of this toilet.
NO plot until the very end….. could have maybe made an OK short film. I had to fight the urge to walk out at the first hour.
The symbolism of the millionaires helicopters buzzing past the poor people… OK we get it. We got it the first 3 times.
Little to no character development, endless redundant scenes of 3 brats getting into increasingly cringeworthy trouble…
It could have / should have been cut down to a 20 or 30 minute short film.
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Saturated Colors and Screeching Children Cursing Obscenities Do Not Mix and Left Me Disappointed
Seldom have I walked out of a preview screening. But after enduring one hour of screeching, unsupervised children, dripping obscenities as casually as they dripped ill-gotten ice cream, unsupervised by adults who were as misbehaved and irresponsible as they were, I mercifully exited the theater.
This film neither amused me, nor held my attention. I kept thinking of the times I was on a flight in which the cabin had a child or two who were constantly crying, or kicking the back of my seat, only this viewing experience was worse, because I was expecting better.
In the row to my right was a morbidly obese gentleman with a backpack on the seat next to him filled with chips and other snacks that he dipped into regularly, taking time between bites to laugh uncontrollable at the obscenity laden dialogue, as other members of the audience got up to leave in twos and threes.
This was worse than going to a restaurant and selecting something from the menu that I was sure would give me indigestion.
I go to films, not primarily to be entertained, but for the impact of drama that consists of conflicts and their eventual resolutions, that also reflect and reveal truths about myself, and the world in which I live.
Maybe I left too soon to experience any resolution of conflict, but this so-called “drama” meandered aimlessly for a full 60 minutes, while I wished that I could look out the window at the passing clouds on that imaginary flight at 35,000 feet, and order a double Jack Daniels.
I started the evening in a good mood, on a full stomach, with high hopes, and left hungry, but relieved to be out in the fresh night air.
I did briefly enjoy the fantasy created and alluded to by the lush, saturated colors with references to the Magic Kingdom, but other than that, I could not find anything to like about this very painful experience.
I may be in the minority, and perhaps this was too rarefied a creative effort for me to fully appreciate, but life is too short, and my instincts told me that I made the right decision to exit early.
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Not worth your money
Author:Joe
3 October 2017 *** This review may contain spoilers ***
Most annoying movie, period. Don’t waste your money! I had to watch it for a class.
It’s about a girl and her friends continuously causing trouble for their neighbors and maintenance guy. And somehow they get a way everrry single time. No lessons are learned. But I blame the mother of the girl, who’s a bad influence and can’t seem to change. Yet it ends somehow in an ideal candy-wrapped fashion. Nothing gained, nothing achieved.
The characters themselves have no redeeming qualities whatsoever. Moreover, this movie has no heart, just a flat story line, not much plot, bad acting (except Willem Dafoe), weak dialogue, and just emptiness.
The cinematography is also kinda messy: a lot of tracking shots from behind and awkward framing. (I get it’s supposed to be voyeuristic look but come on, this is a visual medium, man. At least make it somewhat decent). Also, the sound design isn’t that smooth. Very noisy and rocky.
There was Q&A with the director, cinematographer and actors after the movie. The director apparently strove to capture the feeling of childhood (and also because -fun fact- he liked the Little Rascals). I’m sorry man, but this movie fails to deliver.
Other than Willem Dafoe who lends solid credibility to this thing, it is almost unwatchable. I’m actually surprised children can work on a movie and be verbally assaulted and sworn at incessantly at the workplace. Even at the end of the movie when there could have been a moment of breakthrough to justify the rest of this random event, well, that too was missed. There is nothing redeeming about this unless you want to be assaulted without any insight. Simply offensive. Think about Ken Loach and what tremendous heart he would deliver with the same actors and setting.
General Public: This movie has no storyline. This movie literally made no sense. I might not be a professional movie critic but speaking from a logical perspective, this is a movie not worth wasting your time watching
The movie’s focus is on the girl and her mother. The girls role is seriously exaggerated, no kid of that age speaks or acts like that. Her style of humour is NOT funny to begin with and the movie producers made sure to milk it! She certainly know’s how to act so the blame is not on her.
Quality over quantity, a popular saying that certainly is not applicable here. A lot of random scenes that attribute no value to the movie. Cant emphasize that enough – what on earth was the point of the old paedophile scene? Or the random helicopters coming and going? Or the random guy who helped the Motel manager move the fridge/freezer?
The mother’s acting was OK, a representation of a lower class American individual. An adult making irresponsible decisions, yes, we’ve never seen that in a movie before.
1 Good thing though is the shooting of the movie, some nice shots here and there. Very colourful, not worth watching this movie for though. Nothing out of the ordinary.
My honest and genuine advice as a regular guy who enjoys good movies: this is NOT worth watching.
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A worthless mess
Author:Don Jindra from Los Angeles
30 September 2017
I’ve walked out on two movies that I can remember. This was one of them. At this stage in my life I simply refuse to sit through a movie that has no worthwhile characters and doesn’t even try to tell a story. I lasted 45 minutes before giving up. It’s about a bunch of bratty kids who keep getting into trouble, and their parents who, not surprisingly, don’t know how to set an example. Willem Dafoe is the only watchable character and he’s not given enough to do to make him worth watching. Nothing original here. No heart. I suggest people skip this one.
This world is less crowded than the first Blade Runner. It doesn’t have the banal narration ( that apparently Harrison did so lifelessly in the hopes that it wouldn’t be used?)
As badly written and edited as this second one may be, its a bit better than the first one.
The first one spent so much time on its eye popping anime / “Heavy Metal Magazine” visuals that it was hard to connect with the characters. It was MTV a few years before MTV.
SPOILERS
The street hooker who bonds with the hologram….. why did she put a tracker on “K” if shes secretly working for the replicant resistance? She just helped the Corporation FIND Decker. Oh wait, they WANTED Decker dead ( they told K to kill him so he wouldnt lead the authorities to his offspring….
If the replicant resistance doesn’t want Decker to meet his daughter, AND they are also in Las Vegas, why didn’t THEY put a bullet in Decker?
Didn’t K’s flying car get destroyed in Vegas? Then how did he get back to Los Angeles, and HOW did he know what cars Decker was in?
Didn’t K know that he was somehow tracked to Vegas? Then why would he think he or Decker wouldn’t be tracked to the daughters workplace?
What was the point of the hologram Elvis and Marilyn? In a good screenplay EVERYTHING is supposed to mean SOMETHING. Why all the attention to the hologram Sinatra / Elvis etc… to show that replicants are one step above holograms? I thought Ks hologram girlfriend would somehow have something to do with that scene.
We never see Replicants doing any work. WHY have them if not to use them as slaves. And why send K to retire that replicant who went out to the middle of nowhere to farm? What was he hurting out there that the police would be interested in killing him? If he was growing protein and …. garlic- why not LET HIM grow that stuff? ” we think there is a replicant living out in the middle of nowhere growing things to keep us all alive- get find him and kill him!”
“Why??” ” I dunno?”
So IS Decker a replicant? Why would a replicant have semen?
Did they CG Sean Youngs face onto a lookalike actress like they did with Princess leia in Rogue One? And at one point its obviously just another woman dressed up as Rachel.
Was “LUV” in favor or against the idea of a replicant having a baby? It seems like Niander (Jared Leto) fears the power of replicant babies, Luv talks about a replicant baby like its th emessiah. And the cop reacts to th eidea like Dr Zaius fear sthe arrival of Astronaut Taylor in the original APES.
WAYY too much time to see K wandering around Las Vegas and that hotel.
Oh by the way, if the forgettable SOLDIER happens in the same universe as Blade Runner, does this 2049 film take place in the same universe as….”AI”? The enormous stripper statues in this film look a LOT like what we saw in A.I.
This movie was like a directors cut DVD with the deleted scenes kept in.
Arangetram is the debut (Arangettam – in Malayalam) on-stage performance of a former student of Indian classical dance and music. The word Arangetram is from the Tamil language and means ascending the stage by a dancer on the completion of formal training.
Dracula vs. Frankenstein is a 1971 American horror film directed by Al Adamson. It was released as Blood of Frankenstein in the UK and was retitled The Revenge of Dracula on early VHS releases in the US. Other US re-release titles are Teenage Dracula and They’re Coming to Get You.
Wheelchair-bound mad scientist Dr. Durea (J. Carrol Naish), the last descendant of the original Dr. Frankenstein, takes to murdering young girls for experimentation in hopes of perfecting a serum of his own creation with help from his mute assistant Groton (Lon Chaney, Jr.). Count Dracula (played by Roger Engel under the pseudonym “Zandor Vorkov”) comes to the scientist, promising to help him revive Frankenstein’s monster (which he has exhumed from its secret grave in Oakmoor Cemetery) in return for Durea’s serum which he hopes will grant him immunity to sunlight.
As a cover, the duo work out of the Creature Emporium, a throwback to the old side show days located on the boardwalk amusement park in Venice, California. They bring the Monster (John Bloom) back to life and send him out to exact revenge on the man who discredited and crippled Durea, Dr. Beaumont (Forrest J. Ackerman). Las Vegas showgirl Judith Fontaine has also arrived, looking for her missing sister Joanie who was last seen hanging out with a group of hippies led by Strange (Greydon Clark). Judith has gotten no satisfaction from Sgt. Martin (Jim Davis). She says she is going to investigate on her own and does so, attracting the attention of biker Rico (Russ Tamblyn) and his gang. Rico slips her some LSD at a dive bar and Judith, while on a trip, is taken by Strange and his girlfriend Samantha (Anne Morrell) to the home of aging hippie Mike Howard (Anthony Eisley) who agrees to help her find Joanie. Judith, Mike, Samantha and Strange go to the Creature Emporium and show Durea a picture of Joanie, but he says he has never seen her.
More girls turn up missing, the Monster kills a couple of police officers and Groton takes to the beach with an ax and kills Rico and his gang who were attacking Samantha, then Groton takes her inside the Creature Emporium. Judith and Mike go to the Emporium and confront Durea who explains that the girls (including Joanie) were frightened before their deaths and this created an enzyme in their blood which is the main ingredient for his serum. He also tells Judith that, after he has Mike (with whom she has fallen in love and he with her) killed, her fear will help him complete the serum at last. Durea sends Groton and the dwarf Grazbo (Angelo Rossitto), the ticket taker at the Creature Emporium, after them (Durea’s original reason for creating the serum in the first place was to heal his damaged legs and to make Groton and Grazbo into normal people). Grazbo falls through a trap door in the laboratory which leads to the beach below the Emporium and onto an ax he had dropped, which kills him, and Groton goes after Judith. Sgt. Martin and Strange arrive with the police and Martin shoots Groton from the rooftop of the building from which he falls to his death, while Durea falls from his wheelchair into a guillotine in the Emporium while attempting to escape and is beheaded in it.
Dracula confronts Mike, who sticks a lit car flare in the Monster’s face, forcing him to briefly turn on Dracula in his pain. As Mike is running away with Judith, Dracula blasts him with fire shot from his demon-headed ring, burning him to ashes.
Judith faints and awakens to find herself tied up in an abandoned church outside of Venice where Dracula’s coffin is located. Dracula is about to make her his vampire bride, but the Monster (who has fallen for her beauty) wants none of it and forces Dracula out of the church and into the woods (but not before removing Dracula’s ring from his finger), where a fierce battle ensues between the two monsters. Dracula literally rips off the Monster’s arms and head, but gets caught in the rays of the sun before he can make it back to his coffin and crumbles to dust. Judith manages to free herself and picks up Dracula’s ring, but drops it and leaves in fear.
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This was Lon Chaney, Jr.‘s final horror film role and J. Carrol Naish‘s last film. Chaney filmed his part in mid-1969 when the film was titled The Blood Seekers. Naish filmed additional footage in 1970 when Dracula and the Frankenstein Monster were added to the story (in his confrontation scene with Dracula, he appears noticeably older).[1] Director Adamson’s wife, Regina Carrol, appears in the film as Judith Fontaine, one of the people who discover the two title monsters. The film was released on DVD by Troma Entertainment[2] and later by Media Blasters under its “Shriek Show” imprint in widescreen and HD for the first time. Cheezy Flicks also released it on DVD as well.
Two other films titled Dracula vs. Frankenstein were made around the same time as Adamson’s film. In 1969, Spanish horror film icon Paul Naschy starred in Los Monstruos del Terror which was later released on VHS as Dracula vs. Frankenstein. Meanwhile, in 1972, famed Spanish schlock film director Jesus Franco turned out his Dracula vs. Frankenstein (also released as Dracula, Prisoner of Frankenstein), apparently unaware that Al Adamson was already using that title.
I saw the movie “Hitman’s Bodyguard ” at the Alamo Drafthouse New Braunfels last Night.
The pompous pretentious film snob in me wants to knock it BUT its good lighthearted fun.
Riggs and Murtaugh from the Lethal Weapon movies are recast with Ryan Reynolds and Samuel Jackson and inserted into a Jason Stratham “Transporter” movie.
Much of it felt too “digital” and in the middle of real looking car chases they’d add clearly fake digital explosions, actors obviously green screened onto boats and such.
What saves it is the hilariously snappy dialog between Reynolds and Jackson, and they way it almost spoofs itself. Melodramatic / romantic scenes with gag tastic 80s power ballad music underneath, impossible stunts that aren’t played for a joke, but it comes close.
Samuel Jacksons character was clearly written FOR him, its like he is spoofing Samuel Jackson. The script probably sets a record for the amount of times Jackson says “mother f–er”. Salma Hayek is almost spoofing the hot yet badass Latina stereotype.
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Here is a movie that could save you years of watching the Late Late Show; it’s like Creature Features died and went to heaven. “It Came from Hollywood” is a 90-minute guided tour through the worst parts of nearly 100 of the worst movies ever made, from “The Amazing Colossal Man” to “Zombies of the Stratosphere.” It turns “That’s Entertainment!” into “That’s Entertainment???” And now that I’ve finished with my cornball one-liners, let’s get on to the movie.
But “It Came from Hollywood” goes beyond the Medveds to encompass whole genres of awfulness. It uses montages to show us wave upon wave of flying saucers, tray upon tray of human brains, attack upon attack by savage beasts, and a sequence in which a series of utterly unconvincing giant insects stumble jerkily over cardboard cities.
My favorite scenes in the movie, however, are not the moments that are obviously awful, but those moments which are awful in spite of themselves; scenes in which the actors are really trying, but don’t have a chance. There is a pseudo-Busby Berkeley dance number, for example, in which several very badly rehearsed dancers get totally out of synch with each other and start jostling for position in a chorus line while inflatable bananas take over the background.
And then there’s a classic scene where a young engaged couple goes to see the doctor, and he greets them cheerfully, telling the woman there are no complications resulting from the birth of her baby and telling the man his case of V.D. cleared up fine. The man shouts at his intended: “You’ve had a baby?” She replies, “You’ve had one of those awful diseases?” He says, “One scandal at time.”
The movie has been assembled by Malcolm Leo and Andrew Solt, who have made a specialty of compilation films. Their credits include “Heroes of Rock and Roll” and the remarkable “This Is Elvis,” in which documentary footage and film and TV clips created an uncanny portrait of Elvis Presley’s rise and fall.
This time they organize their material into segments introduced by Dan Aykroyd, John Candy, Cheech and Chong and Gilda Radner –whose names are exploited in a very bad advertising campaign that for some reason chooses to obscure the fact that this is a film of highlights from bad films.
The hosts are all right in their introductory segments; Radner has a great moment barricading her door against gorillas, and Aykroyd turns up in Glen (or Glenda’s) white angora sweater. But the movie makes the annoying decision to let the hosts speak during the scenes from the bad movies, one-upping the original footage with wiseguy comments that should be left for the paying audience to make.
Something else bothers me: At times, I got the impression that the filmmakers were adding things to the original soundtracks to make them “funnier,” as when a hairy monster burps after eating a victim. Surely these movies are funny enough in themselves. Consider some of their titles: “Attack of the Killer Tomatoes,” “The Brain from Planet Areas,” “The Crawling Eye,” “Horror of Party Beach,” “I Married a Monster from Outer Space,” “Incredible Melting Man,” “Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies,” “Mars Needs Women,” “Slime People” and, of course, “Teenagers from Outer Space.”
“Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies,” “Mars Needs Women,” “Slime People” and, of course, “Teenagers from Outer Space.”
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Much of it felt too “digital” and in the middle of real looking car chases they’d add clearly fake digital explosions, actors obviously green screened onto boats and such.
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