What movies have you seen recently?

[SPTO]

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Pee-Wee's Big Adventure (1985): Wow, I hadn't seen this movie in YEARS. A lot of it was pretty surreal and actually quite juvenile but there was a charm and innocence to it that made it fun. I forgot just how zany that movie was as Paul Reubens just killed it as Pee-Wee. Everything just clicked and it's definitely one of the top movie debuts of all time both for an actor and director. (This was Tim Burton's first full length feature)


Pee-Wee's Big Holliday (2016): Well...Reubens can't quite recapture what made Pee-Wee Herman work in the first place. He actually looked a little strange what with the tons of makeup and such to make him look as close as possible to what he did in the mid '80s. He also can't do the Pee-Wee voice as well as he used to. All this doesn't matter though as the movie is pretty much a beat for beat re-imagining of "Adventure". In some respects this movie was even MORE zanier and towards the end I think it suffered from trying to one up the previous segment. The segment with Farmer Brown and his daughters was definitely the standout what with all 9 daughters trying to win Pee-Wee's love LOL! You also got to love Joe Manganiello completely spoofing his image and becoming Pee-Wee's friend and the guy that encourages Pee-Wee to leave the town of Fairville and live life a little.

The movie loses a bit of steam towards the end but I thought it was a worthy update of a classic '80s flick.

[daflyboys]

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Reubens ....................... beat for beat

I see what you did there

[Quint75]

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Watched Trainwreck with the wife. Enjoyable and Schumer has a great comic screen presence but it was too long.

[JayBee74]

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Speaking of trains, I watched Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers On A Train last night. Fine performance by Robert Walker, who's tragic death happened a couple of months after the film's release.

[Armor and Sword]

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The Conjuring 2 was excellent. A worthy sequel. James Wan knocks it out of the park again and is bringing high quality horror to the big screen.

Very intense and scary. Some crazy scenes.

[RockinDaMike]

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The Conjuring 2 was excellent. A worthy sequel. James Wan knocks it out of the park again and is bringing high quality horror to the big screen.

Very intense and scary. Some crazy scenes.

So glad to hear this, loved the first one.

[Blzer]

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The Conjuring 2 was excellent. A worthy sequel. James Wan knocks it out of the park again and is bringing high quality horror to the big screen.

Very intense and scary. Some crazy scenes.

So glad to hear this, loved the first one.

It definitely served its purpose within the film franchise. Here were my first impressions: http://www.operationsports.com/forum...post2048225914

(maybe we can get some spoiler conversations going in that thread)

[Gronk4M13]

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I'm going to the movies on Friday. Can you guys help me choose between X-Men Apocalypse and the Conjuring 2? I'm a comic book fan but I love horror movies too. I just watched the Conjuring on Friday for the first time. I liked it a lot.

[Armor and Sword]

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I'm going to the movies on Friday. Can you guys help me choose between X-Men Apocalypse and the Conjuring 2? I'm a comic book fan but I love horror movies too. I just watched the Conjuring on Friday for the first time. I liked it a lot.

Conjuring 2.

I love great horrors films....seems like a comic book movie is coming out every other week.

[Beantown]

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The Conjuring is probably my favorite horror movie all time, and while the Conjuring 2 isn't quite there, it more than lived up to my personal hype and was a damn good sequel. I actually think there is an argument to be made for it better a better overall movie.

The main characters felt developed better to me, and I felt slightly more invested in what happened. It just wasn't as...scary. It had it's moments, and it was a much more psychological build up, but then it went a little heavy-handed/in-your-face with the possession and, while done well, it was just missing that little extra bit of horror to push it over the top as a favorite horror movie of mine, if that makes sense.

Solid ending, too, which is always my biggest issue with horror movies. And the kid wasn't annoying as **** like the child in The Babadook. Solid solid movie.

[The JareBear]

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Solid ending, too, which is always my biggest issue with horror movies. And the kid wasn't annoying as **** like the child in The Babadook. Solid solid movie.

It's too bad, too, because that annoying as F little kid is probably the only thing holding Babadook back from being a classic in my humble opinion. Love that movie so much, but damn, that kid, that freaking kid. The Worst.

[The JareBear]

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I watched a lot of cheesy horror movies on Netflix this past week or so.

I watched V/H/S, V/H/S 2, V/H/S Viral. The first movie is pretty decent, I like the Lily "skit" and the Glitch "skit" in that one. The house stuff was nice too. Creepy. The second was a little bit worse, and Viral was hot garbage IMO. The inter-dimensional travel one was so weird, I kind of dug them trying something new there. The one with the eye and the ear transplant was kind of creepy, forgot about that one. These movies have this weird "gonna try to scare you, then try to show you some boobies" strategy that, ashamedly, kind of works for me.

We Are Still Here: Thought I was done with haunted house films but this one isn't that bad. A couple jump scares, kinda, wasn't too scary IMO and it tries to get you with some gore kills but those don't bother me at all, I have watched all the weird underground/foreign movies with that kind of stuff. The theme of loss, and family, kind of appeals to me and even though it looks like the movie had a budget of all of maybe 7 bucks, the ghosts themselves looked kinda cool and menacing, not your typical wispy apparitions. Film is a little slow. Not great, but not bad.

Honeymoon: I mostly just watched this because it had the wildling chick from Game of Thrones in it. She does a great job, and so does the actor who plays her husband. Their acting is great, but gotta be honest, the movie itself, I just didn't find scary at all. A little creepy here and there but it just didn't do it for me. I dig movies that make you ask questions but not really explaining anything at all kind of bothers me.

Last Shift: This movie scared the crap out of me. I dunno why. Gore/Body horror doesn't bother me, creepy stuff doesn't get me too bad, but straight up jump scares always get me no matter how many movies I watch and I just got "got" a lot in this movie. Pretty effective practical effects and some spooky visuals. Some intense scenes. Not a classic and really makes ZERO sense, like ZERO sense, but for pure B movie scares it got me pretty good

Contacted/Contracted 2

This did nothing for me. No idea why I watched the second one. Guess I was bored and was hoping to see if they took the story somewhere meaningful. Nope. Body horror does nothing for me, and you can only see someone vomit blood on someone else before you just yawn at the sight of it.

Let Us Prey:

Dug this one. Dug the violence, dug the theme, dug the premise. One really solid jump scare that I should have seen coming almost shook me out of my seat. Best movie out of all these ones I watched, probably give it a 8

[Armor and Sword]

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It's too bad, too, because that annoying as F little kid is probably the only thing holding Babadook back from being a classic in my humble opinion. Love that movie so much, but damn, that kid, that freaking kid. The Worst.

Incredibly....I have never seen the Babadook. I need to rent this on Amazon Prime.

[Gronk4M13]

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Incredibly....I have never seen the Babadook. I need to rent this on Amazon Prime.

It's amazing and one of the best horror films I've seen.

[The JareBear]

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It's amazing and one of the best horror films I've seen.

The meaning/metaphor/message behind the film is very powerful and really resonates with me. One of my favorite films of the last decade