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I'm a massive fan of his Apocalypse Trilogy too. Plus Big Trouble in Little China is my all time favorite action comedy.

Harshaw said:

Don't get me wrong. I have a copy of all the John Carpenter movies around here somewhere. I am just saying that most of his movies are cult classics, while just a couple were successful at the box office. I think those were Halloween and Escape from New York.

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Fair enough. You passed the test.

Dr.Retarded said:

One Hour Photo is pretty good, saw that back in college and was pleasantly surprised. I wasn't what I was expecting when my buddy and I went and caught a matinee. I think it came out before insomnia and I was kind of surprised he took on the role.

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Insomnia was also one of Christopher Nolan's better films in my opinion.

Kajiimagi said:

Re-watched Leon - The Professional with my wife last night. She'd never seen it, for me it was so long I didn't remember the ending. My wife actually thanked me for introducing her to it. The movie and my wife are a keeper! Movie 9/10, wife .................................................


not putting that in print where it can come bite me in the ass! Lol

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Leon is a good movie up until the very end when you realize Natalie Portman's character was talking about romantic love not fatherly/nurturing love then it's just like man, the fuck is wrong with French people.

Rewatched rush hour 1 & 2. Both hold up surprisingly well, though 2 is clearly better than 1.

Also neither of those two movies could be made today.

Big Phoenix said:

Leon is a good movie up until the very end when you realize Natalie Portman's character was talking about romantic love not fatherly/nurturing love then it's just like man, the fuck is wrong with French people.

Rewatched rush hour 1 & 2. Both hold up surprisingly well, though 2 is clearly better than 1.

Also neither of those two movies could be made today.

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It took you until the end to figure out it was romantic love?

Sanrith Descartes said:

It took you until the end to figure out it was romantic love?

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i gave Hollywood the benefit of the doubt.

Big Phoenix said:

i gave Hollywood the benefit of the doubt.

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Wife pick for Friday night. It wasn’t a bad little movie for a low key family type film. 7/10 may be pushing it but 6/10 is fine.

The big issue we both felt the movie has is that it feels out of place in time. It is set very modern day but the themes just don’t work as well as if it had been set in say WW1 or WW2 era. The idea of Indian food being this huge unknown in France and this one Indian chef single handedly introducing the world to garam masala in 2010 or whatever just seems ridiculous. The other issue was the whole family’s immigration to France. They obviously have money, enough to buy and remodel the whole villa in France to open the restaurant, yet they sit there and reminisce about India as if there’s some impossibility of them ever going back. There’s literally nothing preventing them from leaving France except they don’t want to go back to shitty India. So, again, if this was set in a period where some conflict or war or other large geopolitical backdrop was occurring, maybe it would be more impactful.

Other than those complaints it was fine for a Spielberg and Oprah produced book-of-the-month club movie. I think she wants to watch The Menu tonight, which I have already seen but she has no idea. Just thinks it is about cooking.

Intrinsic said:

Other than those complaints it was fine for a Spielberg and Oprah produced book-of-the-month club movie. I think she wants to watch The Menu tonight

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Tell Oprah I said hi and that she’s a fat bitch.

Seven Days in May. If you are tired of modern movies with shitty DEI scripts and a focus on CGI instead of acting, you might enjoy this. Made in the early 60's, it features a cast of White people amd a distinct lack of trannies or other alphabet people.

Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas lead the cast. It's a political thriller about a liberal President who signs a nuclear disarmament treaty with the USSR and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs who plots a coup to replace the President before he can enact the treaty. No meaningless side quests or other filler shit in the script. Every scene advances the film.

It was for rent of Amazon, but found it for free on YouTube. The story could easily be relevant today with a COTJC trying to remove Trump because he ends wars.
9/10.