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Rotfish said:

Dune: Part Two - 9/10

Same rating as the first and I think if both were combined into a single six-hour film, I'd rate it the same.

My only gripe is that I don't have a strong emotional connection to the individual characters or their relationships, but I suspect that's because the scope of the story is almost impossibly grand. It's more about The Plan™ and the macabre, sometimes impersonal way every chess piece - from entire regimes to single people - is moved around in service of it. And watching that unfold, lamenting the toll it takes on everyone, is where most of the emotion comes from. Still an achievement.

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Nicely put! Felt very much the same but I expect a rewatch will be a more rewarding - much like Part One.

Dune: Part 2 - 8/10
I think this movie needs a couple of rewatches before I appreciate it more. Same thing happened with Part 1.
For now it was a very good watch, but I didn't always like the pacing. Some parts felt rushed and others dragged on. Unfortunately my movietheatre had the volume turned up way too high to uncomfortable levels at times, so that didn't help either.
I agree with @Rotfish about the lack of emotional connection to the characters. I want to have that, but it just isn't there.

Grizzly: 4/5

An objectively bad movie in almost every way. But, there are a handful of really insane scenes that make it worth watching. Best is the bear materializing out of thin air, decapitating a horse with one chop, mauling it's rider, burying him in the dirt, then hanging around awhile until the rider stumbles out of the grave only to maul him again. About as blatant a Jaws ripoff as you can make with a bear.

Ricky Stanicky - 6/10
I knew absolutely nothing about it, but suddenly it was there on Prime Video. Being in the mood for something silly I decided to give it a go. It was actually a very decent movie. It was a lot of fun and John Cena absolutely stole the show.

The Living Dead at Manchester Morgue: 3.5/10

This brought zombies to Europe. At the time it might have been enjoyable considering it was in the spirit of Night of the Living Dead, and it did have some interesting innovations, but it isn't a well made movie in my opinion and is weird in a bad way. Ending apes Romero's movie to a fault.

Don't Open Until Christmas: 3/10

Also bad, in some ways worse because much of it doesn't make sense (killer initially won't kill when he realizes the Santa is a woman, then goes on to remorselessly murder other women) and the movie has no real flow. It apparently had 4 different directors which shows. But it is really creepy and makes you feel dirty after watching it so that's something.

The Train 8/10
Watched this based on an interview with Christopher McQuarrie where he said this was an inspiration for the train sequence in MIDR1. You can definitely see it. This is a strange yet very compelling film by John Frankenheimer. Strange that it jumps around a bit with the characters and stories but does eventually settle down with Burt Lancaster taking control (he’s amazing). Compelling in the story of taking back the artwork the Nazi’s had stolen during the war and had loaded onto this train. But it really wasn’t what I expected (in a good way) and was a lot more introspective than McQ had led me to believe.

A Christmas Horror Story: 6.5/10

Very solid anthology film. Ending kind of bummed me out but at the same time is pretty fun and satisfying in its way. I would love to see an entire film based around the zombie elves subplot.

Kung Fu Panda 4: 6/10
I didn't watch 2 or 3 (I don't think?), so my daughter had to explain some of what was going on after it ended, but this was serviceable. Reasonably likable characters, reasonably funny, reasonably good action I guess. But I wouldn't watch it again if I could help it.

Oppenheimer: 8.5/10
Pretty amazing film in just about every way. Nolan is one of the best out there, and that was quite a cast he put together. I also like that despite the grand scope of what Oppenheimer did and the context behind the actions in this movie, it ultimately focuses on the relationship between two people who were motivated by very petty human impulses.

Road House 2024: N/A

Can't rate it cause I had to turn it off.

About ten minutes in, Dalton arrives at the Road House and the waitress is a fat ugly broad.

That's not what Road House is all about. Road House is about bare-knuckle brawlin' and titties. Period.

I can't handle this new world we live in. I'm a caveman. I just wanna eat red meat and watch movies with PRETTY girls. Send me back to the 80s.

Otomofan said:

Road House 2024: N/A

Can't rate it cause I had to turn it off.

About ten minutes in, Dalton arrives at the Road House and the waitress is a fat ugly broad.

That's not what Road House is all about. Road House is about bare-knuckle brawlin' and titties. Period.

I can't handle this new world we live in. I'm a caveman. I just wanna eat red meat and watch movies with PRETTY girls. Send me back to the 80s.

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Hollywood, out of fresh ideas. Let's remake Roadhouse.

Sam Elliott's character Wade said it best: "The Double-******."

8/10

Chemistry between actors is good, action is solid, music is nice, Gyllenhaal works, McGregor is not annoying, but very funny.

Problems: this isn't Dalton.
Solution: watch the OG. Get's a 4K mediabook release in germany now.

Soft recommend.

Road House 0/10

An absolute embarrassment of a movie. The writing was so cringeworthy that all the actors looked like a bunch of first-time amateurs.

The "fights" looked like absolute **** because of all the idiotic CG enhancements and terrible camerawork.

Moronic on every level. If I was Amazon, I would have put that trash straight to streaming as well.

I didn't like the trailer, but this was far worse than I could have even imagined.

Best thing about the original Roadhouse was Terry Freakin Funk!

Don't Open Till Christmas: 3/10

Horrible. The only sort of good thing about it is that it turns a lot of Christmas horror movies on their head by making the killer someone who hunts and kills Santa Clauses instead of a Santa Claus that kills people.

Berberian Sound Studio: 6/10

The mood of this film works very well and the acting, particularly by Toby Jones, is well done, but it is essentially an art film. The story isn't linear, it's not clear what is real and what isn't, ultimately I'm not sure what is really happening and what (if anything) gets resolved. If you are into David Lynch type movies you might enjoy this, but it didn't connect with me the way Lynch does on a visceral level. It helps a little if the viewer is familiar with Italian Giallo films, which I guess is a good parallel since those movies also rarely make total sense.

A Bucket of Blood: 7.5/10

It is simple, it is cheap, but it works really damn well in my opinion. A Roger Corman classic that set a path for Dick Miller to be one of the the greatest character actors of all time.

Deathstalker: 7/10

This is not a quality film. The acting is mediocre at best, the effects are amateurish, the story is terrible. Yet this movie is awesome. This is a Conan rip-off that goes balls out way beyond what a major studio film would. Women are rarely wearing more than a loincloth, and constantly being sexually assaulted and then rescued by shirtless, muscular heroes who brutally kill their attackers and then get the women for themselves. People and monsters with dollar store rubber masks are constantly being sliced to pieces, and I'm pretty sure the ending (which makes no sense) inspired He-Man's transformation in the cartoons. In my favorite scene, the hero of the movie decides not to kill someone at the very end of the film, a first for this character, seeming to have decided that killing is not always the solution. Then he lazily pushes this guy into a mob who ties his limbs to horses which proceed to rip him apart as the hero looks on blankly. This one is worth watching.

Star Trek Into Darkness 3/10
I hadn’t seen this since it came out and I always wanted to give it another chance.

Not sure why I bothered.

Abrams really is an empty hack isn’t he? Every since ROS it has dawned on me this guy has little talent. I guess he’s good at lens flares though.

And he reminds me of Steve Buscemi in Reservoir Dogs constantly yelling out that they need to be “!$#%ing professional thieves”.

Here's another huge problem with this new Road House.

This is America in the 2020s. Since when did anyone ever solve a problem with their fists?

The first time "Dalton" would try to break up a fight, he'd be so full of bullet holes he'd be swiss cheese before his corpse hit the ground.

I know movies all require some degree of suspension of disbelief, but the idea that a bunch of violent criminals aren't packing heat, or that innocent bystanders in Florida aren't ALSO packing heat? Nah, not a chance.

We saw the beekeeper good movie.

Dungeons and Dragons - liked way better than I thought I would. Pretty fun. 7/8 out of 10.

karamazov80 said:

Deathstalker: 7/10

This is not a quality film. The acting is mediocre at best, the effects are amateurish, the story is terrible. Yet this movie is awesome. This is a Conan rip-off that goes balls out way beyond what a major studio film would. Women are rarely wearing more than a loincloth, and constantly being sexually assaulted and then rescued by shirtless, muscular heroes who brutally kill their attackers and then get the women for themselves. People and monsters with dollar store rubber masks are constantly being sliced to pieces, and I'm pretty sure the ending (which makes no sense) inspired He-Man's transformation in the cartoons. In my favorite scene, the hero of the movie decides not to kill someone at the very end of the film, a first for this character, seeming to have decided that killing is not always the solution. Then he lazily pushes this guy into a mob who ties his limbs to horses which proceed to rip him apart as the hero looks on blankly. This one is worth watching.

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Deathstalker II is one of the greatest movies ever made.


TC 2000 (1993) - 4/10 - 90 min movie with 80 min of non stop fighting!

Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire (2024) - 5/10

Road House (2024) - 6/10

Alienator (1990) - 4/10

Deep Space (1988) - 5/10

Mean Business (1979) - 4/10

First Man Into Space (1959) - 5/10

Fantastic Voyage (1966) - 7/10

The McPherson Tape (1989) - 5/10

The Hunted (2003) - 6/10

Trucker's Woman (1975) - 5/10

Air Force One Down (2024) - 3/10

Damsel (2024) - 5/10

Dune: Part Two (2024) - 7/10

Combat Shock (1984) - 7/10

Drive-Away Dolls (2024) - 6/10

Ms .45 (1981) - 8/10

Dune 2 : 10/10
Ghostbusters Frozen Empire 8/10
Five Nights at Freddie's: 6/10
Shogun TV (8/10 so far)

Streets Of Fire 8/10
Seeing 19 year old Diane Lane miming Steinman songs in glorious 4K just makes me weak at the knees.