Is only me who thinks a brilliant mind would never use only cards on a access control system?
Despite not being Hughes' finest movie, Uncle Buck is still a funny, endearing and ultimately moving family movie. I slightly prefer John Candy in the hysterical Planes, Trains and Automobiles, but his performance here exudes once again a charm and love that are impossible to resist.
This should cool off the Rambo wannabes. The opening beach assault sequences were the most violent, realistic, and upsetting filming I've ever seen; looked as though the thing was actual combat footage. The shushing noises of rounds cutting through the air was the most chilling part of all. Perfect portrayal of the insane stupidity of war and the anguish of all who enter this most foolish of enterprises. A must see.
Easily one of the most poignant and thought-provoking movies I've ever seen. It let me to examine myself in ways I never had before, and I hope someday to see the play it's adapted from.
I don't think people are really appreciating what this movie offers. It's simple and clear, yet full of feeling. A beautiful little film to watch, it really touches those who are going through the same stuff.
― I'd like an omelet, plain, and a chicken salad sandwich on wheat toast, no mayonnaise, no butter, no lettuce. And a cup of coffee.
― A #2, chicken salad sand. Hold the butter, the lettuce, the mayonnaise, and a cup of coffee. Anything else?
― Yeah, now all you have to do is hold the chicken, bring me the toast, give me a check for the chicken salad sandwich, and you haven't broken any rules.
― You want me to hold the chicken, huh?
― I want you to hold it between your knees.
#Classic
A Mesmerizing masterpiece. I've seen this film and part one several times, and again just now. I don't compare this to part one, being that it's the continuation of one long movie. This film transcends the martial arts / Kung Fu genre in ways never done before and with an unforgettable uniqueness. When I think of what I consider to be Tarantino's best films/screenplays--The Kill Bill saga is in my top three. I can't write a review because too many have already been written; however, This is a must see extravaganza of violence, martial arts, incredible characters with rich development, and of course the fantastic dialogue which Tarantino seems to be unequaled in creating. Uma Thurman was a freaking beast and should've gotten an Oscar for best actress. We know that would never happen even though it would've been great if the world were a bit cooler and open minded. I love this film.
Significantly more balanced between its stylish idiosyncrasies and emotional undercurrents than Vol. 1, injecting the Bride with a fierce matriarchal stimulus, but its wonky structure still confines it from reaching narrative transcendence.
A masterful movie that is quite unlike anything else Tarantino has made, all while being a Tarantino style movie.
The movie might be showing its age, or maybe I'm showing mine. The structure just felt off. The pacing was much too slow until the last quarter. There's something grating about Maverick's character—there's supposed to be, but I couldn't really find anything to like about him. And of course the romance is entirely unnecessary, but that's been a Hollywood problem since long before this movie (and still is).
Top Gun is a movie that is full of cliché with a plot that follows along the lines of a blueprint that is typical for similar movies of that time. It was a movie for the MTV generation with lots of rock music. This wasn´t about the story. Teenage boys wanted to be Maverick and the girls fancied the love story (OK, probably not all of them but a lot)
It still can be an entertaining movie today if you keep that in mind. Just tune down the cheesy stuff. Enjoy the flight scenes, the soundtrack is still great and produced a lot of classic tunes.
I really dont understand why people are hyping this movie so much. Its way too long, has lotsa logic mistakes and on top of it all, this thing cost 135 million dollars to make? Wow. Ridiculous. Great acting by Tom Hardy, average acting by Leo DiCaprio. You could feel he just did something like this to win the Oscar finally, after pretty much every other type of story and film didnt bring him the desired trophy...
A deary long movie that was totally and utterly implausible. Nobody on earth can survive swimming in freezing water in the middle of winter, get out soaking wet and immediately light a fire.
Frontiersman has a comically shit year against an overwhelmingly beautiful backdrop.
The Oscar for Leo was well earned, as are the ones for directing and camera. Yet it isn´t among the best pictures I´ve seen. It´s not boring but it´s very slow paced with very little dialogue over long stretches. The whole tension comes from the wait for Glass to take his revenge on Fitzgerald but since you already know that will happen it isn´t much tension in the first place. And the whole side story with the indians is almost neglectable. Half an hour less might not have been a bad thing.
first 40 mins are great and then .....
I had to stop watching after an hour - the impeccable acting and superb cinematography doesn't cover for the overdrawn and predictable synopsis nor does it make up for the fact that I couldn't take any more of it. I kept asking myself "so what?"
I'm really sick of the whole "porn is evuuuuhl" angle that this film was pursuing. All I saw was a bunch of nice but not very smart girls making some bad decisions and then blaming everybody but themselves afterwards - one went as far as to compare herself to a rape victim because she voluntarily took part in a scene she later regretted.
I got mad more at the weak support networks those girls had than the porn industry, the worst people in the whole film were one girl's family and friends - her obese mother and "music producer"(read: umemployed) boyfriend making her feel like shit and pressuring her into stopping her career, essentially calling her a prostitute as insult and her boyfriend not even defending her when people at a university party were making fun of her and looking up her porn.
This film glossed over some real questionable practices in porn and instead just highlighted that yes, a lot of 18 to 25 year old girls make mistakes and don't think things through. Hell, one of them thought she couldn't get pregnant if guys pulled out.
I feel like this documentary had all the opportunities to dig deeper into several issues and it never did. It was very nice to hear the stories of these women, and the movie was pretty well made, but it did little beyond illustrating what everyone already expected.
Adam comes out to his friends and family, this movie shows how everybody reacts to it differently and how they "handle" it.
I had a great laugh watching the trailer, and that enjoyment stayed throughout the whole movie. I really enjoyed it. Evan Todd did an amazing job and he made everything feel very "safe" of some sort. I liked seeing every character their reactions because they all reacted so differently. I would describe this movie as a "feel good" movie, but one with a messages and I don't think you see that very often. It worked out great. They cover quite a serious subject, but they make it all feel rather "light". I hope to see more movies like these. They did a great casting for this movie, and I think that was a big plus to the story.
Funny and relatable story of a man coming out to his family and friends. Doesn't stint on the drama but doesn't dwell on it either. Very enjoyable.
And YOU get acting lessons!..and YOU get acting lessons!..Aaaaaaaaaaaand YOUUUU get acting lessons!!!
Pretentious!!! Watching a child screaming "LOOK AT ME!", over and over is less pretentious than this film. There is no character development, at all, for any characters. There is so little story that massive amounts of the film time are wasted trying to impress us with the way over used special effects. Seriously, did we need a 10 minute transformation scene. Only one of the plot points is resolved and at the point in which it finally gets around to it, I just could not care anymore.
Boring.
Save yourself some agony, just watch the trailer and make up any story in your own head about what the movie is about and skip watching this garbage.
I'm keeping this one short because I have zero good things to say about this horrible movie.
A Wrinkle in Time is extremely unbalanced, strangely devoid of tension, and very scarreted about the tone. With powerful colors, bright parttersn and exuberant children, this new look from director Ava DuVernay's on this story squeezes through time and space, not knowing how to land any of it. Relying on room-wide music to provide the missing emotional connection and plastering huge plot holes this movie is one hot mess from the first to the third act. There's no saving grace in this movie, not even the acting of Hollywood top actors like Chris Pine, Reese Witherspoon or even critically acclaimed newcomers Gugu Mbatha-Raw.
Every generation gets The Never-Ending Story they deserve, This is not that movie
2,4/10
Terrible. This is what happens when you try to follow the book too closely and not realize book to movie does not always work. The earliest Harry Potter films were awkward, the latter ones were excellent with great pacing and a logical flow. If you haven't read the book, please, read it for the superior experience.
The movie picked up after Reese Witherspoon, Oprah, and Mindy Kaling left. Sadly there were about 40 mins left of the movie.
The movie before that:
- Mindy Kaling looked awkward, esp. in those weird dresses which in turn made her running look more awkward! Oprah looked out of place and hideous, Reese was OK minus her white outfit.
- The camera work was horrible. I hate when they "shake" the camera. I didn't get the point of showing the girl's ear so many times at the beginning of the movie. I kept on expecting something to happen in regards to her ear or hearing but no such thing happened.
It is sad when the best part of the movie was the animation at the end, when they showed the title. And the music was good. Quite a few famous singers in there.
The kids' acting was really good, esp. the little boy. And for some reason Michael Pena stood out.
A fine enough film until the third act falls flat, like a three course meal where everything is fine until the desert comes but they don't have what you ordered and what they end up serving you is bland and hard to swallow.
Staying with the idea of the unbalanced meal, half of the characters disappear in the middle of the film (WTF) and this wouldn't be so bad except there the most interesting characters in the whole affair. The special effects are well done until they, too, disappear, making the third act feel drawn out, like waiting for the check when you have nothing left to say and can't find the waiter anywhere.
For those of you with good taste you're gong to have a lot on your plate with this, and many of you probably won't be able to finish it.
