What movies have you seen recently?

[Blzer]

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^ As anyone who has seen all of the Mission: Impossible movies probably once said.......

"It gets much better from there."

[LambertandHam]

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Tron Legacy. Even with it coming out in 2010, I still love the visual style along with Olivia Wilde's character .

[tdawg3782]

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Extinction

Pretty solid. Some good twists and a really good concept. Story could have been a little tighter but I enjoyed it anyway.

7/10

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[James T. Kirk]

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8/10.

[RockinDaMike]

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8/10.

Makes me sad that the creator of this doc just died recently. RIP Jon Schnepp


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[Fresh Tendrils]

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^ As anyone who has seen all of the Mission: Impossible movies probably once said.......

"It gets much better from there."

And it does.

MI:3 opens and it's clear from the first shot it's different. Sophisticated. Grown-up and mature. The title sequence undercuts some of the dramatic flair of the opening scene, but this is a movie worth watching more than once. Abrams brings back the understated flair of De Palma as he relies on a less stylized vision than John Woo did previously. The narrative is nicely layered as each player weigh their own motivations and each twist brings a new texture and wrinkle. Even better the twisting isn't predictable and the jumping between timelines creates an uneasy tension as fates hang in the balance throughout the film.

My one complaint is why you wouldn't put Philip Seymour Hoffman into more scenes. Seriously. His presence was chilling and unwavering, but he felt underutilized to me. Still, he performed masterfully as the straight-man to Ethan Hunt's budding, uncontrollable rage.

Definitely a step up for the franchise despite doing my girl Keri Russell wrong.

[RockinDaMike]

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PSH was the best villain of all MI.


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[Blzer]

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Ready Player One

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If Cinema Sins makes an "Everything wrong with Ready Player One" video, it's going to be like twenty minutes long.

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Welp, I wasn't wrong. Just came out a few hours ago. Nearly 22 minutes in length.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYRv6iSC-U0

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mYRv6iSC-U0" frameborder="0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen></iframe>

Time to watch this thing and see if they picked out everything that I did (I'm sure they have more to say, but I already had plenty).

[James T. Kirk]

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Welp, I wasn't wrong. Just came out a few hours ago. Nearly 22 minutes in length.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYRv6iSC-U0

<iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/mYRv6iSC-U0" allow="autoplay; encrypted-media" allowfullscreen="" width="560" height="315" frameborder="0"></iframe>

Time to watch this thing and see if they picked out everything that I did (I'm sure they have more to say, but I already had plenty).

I really enjoyed Ready Player One.

[JayhawkerStL]

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I really enjoyed Ready Player One.

I thought it was a fun and nostalgic ride.

[Blzer]

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I really enjoyed Ready Player One.

I thought it was a fun and nostalgic ride.

So did I. If you read my first impressions of it you'll find that I was really in favor of it and want to get a 3D Blu-ray of it when it's at an affordable price. It just has a lot of holes.

Admittedly I haven't watched that video yet (and a lot of their "sins" aren't really anything), but I'm guessing they point out many of the same written issues with it that I have, even if you have to wait about every fifteen sins for them to mention it haha.

[RockinDaMike]

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Blzr do you have a movie review blog? Though I don't agree with you all the time, I enjoy reading your reviews and I think you would have a bigger audience if you do or maybe start up a youtube channel.

[Blzer]

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Blzr do you have a movie review blog? Though I don't agree with you all the time, I enjoy reading your reviews and I think you would have a bigger audience if you do or maybe start up a youtube channel.

Hey man, thanks a bunch and that's a good question! Currently the answer is no, but that may change by the end of the year.

Somebody else asked me that maybe last year, which planted the seed in my mind that I would consider it. I started to give thought of doing video reviews (in some cases, just go verbatim from what I have written) because I wanted something for my students to see since I saw Infinity War after the school year was out, and I wanted to show them that (1) I am enraged over some of the true and false spoilers a few of them wanted to blurt out, and (2) there is a way to spend a long time talking about a movie without really giving away anything about the movie, plot-wise at least.

Honestly, the main thing holding me back right now is my laptop webcam is broken. I'm thinking of getting a higher-end camera though on Black Friday (like the Canon M50) so I can shoot some stuff with that, and maybe I'll start up some YouTube reviews that way. Like I said though, I'll likely do them verbatim with what I write.

I've been further motivated to drop both the shortened and in-depth reviews from pre-screenings I see though, because I put the long ones on IMDb and I put the tl;dr versions on Facebook. You may know that there is a laundry-list of films that I still have yet to leave impressions for, and normally it's because everybody has already seen them or they have been out for a while. Here is that list that's building as we speak:

Alien: Covenant
American Made
Atomic Blonde
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
Central Intelligence
The Commuter
Fist Fight
Friend Request
Game Night
Geostorm
Hostiles
The House
I, Tonya
Incredibles 2
Insidious: The Last Key
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (I left a short snippet but want to dig deeper)
Kingsman: The Golden Circle
Kong: Skull Island
Lady Bird
The Mummy
The Shape of Water
The Strangers: Prey at Night
Tomb Raider
Truth or Dare
Unsane
Winchester

If I leave reviews for these, they will probably be two sentences long unless I feel really committed to write more heh. There are just far too many and I don't remember every detail about all of them anymore.

If I do a YouTube channel thing, what I think I'm going to do is go back to every review I've written on here, and for the more in-depth reviews I'll devote entire videos to them, then for the short-snippet ones I'll probably combine multiple films together. What I'm really fearing is how I want to edit them. Do I include trailer shots? My face the whole time? One cut? I really don't know. That's why I just sort of want to put them on pause for now haha.

I appreciate that you read them, though. Sometimes I sit and wonder: "People don't ****ing read this ****, I type too much." I mean look how much I'm typing right now for your simple question! I'm going to stop now.

EDIT: Wow, I've contributed over 900 posts to this thread. I hope that doesn't mean I've seen 900 films since its inception!

SECOND EDIT: On a side note, I don't ordinarily seek validation when it comes to getting a certain rating approval on things like YouTube videos (I'll never be one of those "Rate, comment, & subscribe" folks, ever!) or IMDb reviews, but I do them for pre-screenings because I like to think that I allow just enough leakage to give readers an informed decision as to whether or not it's a film that they think they may want to see. I also normally don't like giving scores for movies, as you never see me do on here, but I will for IMDb just because. That being said, it is so weird how people upvote/downvote reviews on IMDb, because I normally get about a 50% approval rating on there. That means people actually go out of their way to say that my review is not worth reading and should slide down the ranks. I get people can do that, but I have a sneaky feeling that other reviews sabotage others' to keep theirs up, including doing it from their multiple accounts they may have. I don't consider myself the best writer in the world, but outside of maybe somebody negatively reacting to a score I put, there is no way that the "quality" of my reviews is an F grade each time. Just sayin'.

[thaima1shu]

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Crazy Rich Asians was awesome. So happy and proud to see Asian culture well represented on the big screen. Will be seeing this again.

[daflyboys]

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TAG. This falls into the "I wish this had been funnier" category. It certainly had it's moments, but many of the jokes and interactions just fell flat or were just let go/incomplete.

Hannibal Buress is finding his way into a lot of these types of group interaction movies. Again, not sure if it's the writing or just his presentation, but I think he could be funnier. Annabell Wallis (who was great in Peaky Blinders) character seemed forced into the situation and just out of place. Leslie Bibb was just simply over the top annoying. And when I see Rashida Jones, all I can think of is dad did a good job getting her onto The Office .... her acting doesn't do much for me.

But, ya, some funny, if not sophomoric scenes. Being based on an actual situation I think is the real story here.