They should have gone back to the source material and turned back it into a horror movie where the heroes are trapped inside with camouflage dinosaurs outside a la The Lost World (book).
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Yes. I disliked this movie enough to express it on multiple platforms.
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On the plus side, Iāve now heard of Velocipastor. It may have the best description on IMDbā¦
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Videodrome.
War is being fought for the minds of North America via screens. Everyone will have a screen name to make the screen resonate. Your reality is already half video hallucination. The screen is the retina of your mindās eye. Have you been hallucinating lately? You should be.
Death to Videodrome. Long live the new flesh.
I speak of Roadhouse often, and claim it as the best bad movie of all time.
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Park-chan Wook.
Brilliant Korean director with a rather unique vision for mixing violence with peculiar sexual situations. Be warned, these films are not for viewing with your significant other unless youāve seen at least one and know what youāre getting into.
I started with the AMC mini-series Little Drummer Girl, which was decent.
The Vengeance Trilogy is the top of the list. Oldboy is the best of the three. Lady Vengeance has a cool alternate version where the film gradually shifts from full color at the beginning to black and white at the end. Spike Lee remade Oldboy about 5 years ago with Josh Brolin, Samuel L Jackson, and Elizabeth Olsen, but I much prefer the original. (Yes, thatās Thanos, Nick Fury, and the Scarlet Witch in A Spike Lee Joint!)
The Handmaiden is a bit more recent. It has several unexpected plot twists in a story told from several points of view. Even though itās an Amazon Original, the dialog is in Korean and Japanese (and the subtitles are colored to indicate which language was spoken).
Stoker is his only other film Iāve seen that is in English besides Little Drummer Girl. Nicole Kidman gives a strong performance.
Also, I highly recommend justwatch.com. It tracks all of the streaming services, which makes it easy to find where you view a movie, and whether it is āfree with adsā, from a service that ārequires a subscriptionā, or if you have to pay for individual rental (and the best prices for those rentals).
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I canāt say Iām interested in any of that except Little Drummer Girl, but that because itās a Le Carre story. You called it ādecent.ā Good enough to give a go?
Oldboy and Stoker are incredible. His other films are merely excellent.
Just got back from the PokĆ©mon movie with my kids. It was surprisinglyā¦decent. The story went off the rails a bit, but that really didnāt matter - the PokĆ©mon were just awesome! I didnāt care a ton for the Ryan Reynolds pikachu, but Iām sure heās a hit for many. The movie did have a couple intense moments for the kids.
My wife took my 8 year-old last night. He didnāt want to go saying that he didnāt like Pokemon anymore, but since his return he wonāt stop talking pokemon and begging his brothers to get their old cards out and play with him again. So, I guess it worked.
Letās see if you still feel the same way when heās begging you to take him to the store to buy more cardsā¦
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I liked it, but not as well as any of Parkās previous work. It seemed to stretch the story a bit to fill 6 hours when all of the other films delivered more in 2 hours. Michael Shannon keeps getting better every time I see him in something, and Florence Pugh does a good job in her role. If you like Le Carre, it is probably worth your time.
They gave him 4 packs at the movie theater last night, so Iām hoping that tides him over until the excitement abates.
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The first one is always free.
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Set him up with a PokƩmon TCG online account. You can get a ton of free packs in game.
Wine Country, on Netflix.
I could go on a lengthy diatribe about this affront to comedy movies everywhere, but itās not even worth my time to do that. Suffice it to say that even my wife disliked this driveling attempt at resurrecting careers couched as a senior chick flick.
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Aladdin. I quite enjoyed it even though it was more or less a re-skin, but thatās exactly what I expected. Will Smith wasnāt bad as Genie but there isnāt a soul past or present that could replace Robin Williams. Obviously, we enjoyed this as a family; I canāt say I would have seen it on my ownā¦
Only my favorite movie of all timeā¦
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