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  On 1/26/2025 at 10:02 PM, Player said:

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On Prime - a chilling look inside a small group of white supremacists who declared war on the federal government and waged a campaign of terror across several western states in the early 80s. Jude Law is really great.

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Saw it last weekend and liked (but didn't love) it.  Agree that Law did a fine job, and I also thought Hoult was really good in his role.  Jurnee Smollett, OTOH, was out of her depth.  

One of the things I didn't like was . . .

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  On 1/24/2025 at 6:28 PM, Buzzrock said:

Hell or High Water still holds up pretty well. It would be nice to see Sheridan show some restraint sometime and get back to that kind of writing. 

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Love that movie.  The final scene between Bridges and Pine is worth the price of admission alone, IMO.

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  On 1/30/2025 at 12:53 AM, Carl Spackler said:

Saw it last weekend and liked (but didn't love) it.  Agree that Law did a fine job, and I also thought Hoult was really good in his role.  Jurnee Smollett, OTOH, was out of her depth.  

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I watched it a couple of nights ago with my daughter.  We enjoyed it, and it spurred some questions from her.  I laughed when they showed the meeting between the guy leading the violent splinter group and the preacher trying to talk him out of it by telling him that the violence wasn't necessary because, in ten years, they could change things by having people in the House of Representatives and the Senate.

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  On 1/30/2025 at 1:07 AM, NeverMarryAStripper said:

I watched it a couple of nights ago with my daughter.  We enjoyed it, and it spurred some questions from her.  I laughed when they showed the meeting between the guy leading the violent splinter group and the preacher trying to talk him out of it by telling him that the violence wasn't necessary because, in ten years, they could change things by having people in the House of Representatives and the Senate.

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Yeah, that elicited a chuckle from me as well.

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  On 1/30/2025 at 1:58 AM, Buzzrock said:

Watched The King’s Speech on a flight. I hadn’t ever seen it. Good movie, well acted, interesting true story. 

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Watched it a few years ago as I felt it was a movie that I’d wouldn’t be interested in when it came out but found it to be an excellent movie. 

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Someone above mentioned The Taste of Everything, but I think they meant The Taste of Things and we just saw it. 

If you are into food/cooking and don't mind subtitles, check it out.

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Finally watched The Substance. Yo.

I like horror but body horror tends to really creep me out. But this was so over the top all I could see was the crazy makeup/prosthetics. 

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Saw Conclave. Fabulous cast and solid scenes. Dull movie for me. I never gave much of a shit about who becomes Pope, the violence outside of the conclave didn't really connect to anything for me, and the mystery of Cardinal Benitez probably should have been explored earlier to give it more dramatic impact.

I hope the other other obscure Oscar nominees are better. 

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  On 2/1/2025 at 3:03 PM, Underdog said:

The Perfect Game… incredible story but movie was a bit schmaltzy as these movies tend to get and the actor playing the Coach was atrocious, imo. 

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I've probably seen The Perfect Game about 30 times in my life. My youngest son watched three movies over and over for years. The Sandlot, The Perfect Game and 42.

The Perfect Game is a good movie and yes it's biggest weakness was Clifton Collins.

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Presence, Sodsrbergh's new one.

A family moves into a house with a ghost and the whole movie is from the ghost's pov.  Not really a horror movie but has some fucked up stuff.  A pretty small contained movie but I liked it.

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  On 2/3/2025 at 2:03 AM, The Original Greaser Bob said:

Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (2024).

Great.  Best cartoon villain ever.  Hearkens back to Nick Park's earlier, great first three short films.

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Agree agree agree. We caught it on Netflix recently and it was great to have the old gang back. All time family favorite is the short where Wallace takes the rocket to the moon (A Grand Day Out) and encounters the robot.

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  On 2/7/2025 at 1:20 PM, Mrs Whiggins said:

Agree agree agree. We caught it on Netflix recently and it was great to have the old gang back. All time family favorite is the short where Wallace takes the rocket to the moon (A Grand Day Out) and encounters the robot.

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I had quite the emotional response t that robot.

Whenever the subject of cheese comes up in the house, me or my daughters always say "Cheese!" in their best Wallace voice.  Whenever someone actually takes a bit of a piece of cheese from a board/platter, we query:  "Wenslydale?"  

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  On 2/7/2025 at 3:05 AM, WBT said:

Presence, Sodsrbergh's new one.

A family moves into a house with a ghost and the whole movie is from the ghost's pov.  Not really a horror movie but has some fucked up stuff.  A pretty small contained movie but I liked it.

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I had looked at this because I've been wanting to catch a film but there is fucking NOTHING out right now. Maybe I'll go kill 2 hours and see if it doesn't suck. 

I briefly considered going to see Sonic 3 earlier today. That's how bad it is. 

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I saw Companion last night.

Hughie from The Boys, Gizmo, and a couple of sexbots.

I thought it was creative and a lot of fun.

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Caught Bubba Hotep at Joe Bob's event at Texas Theater. 

Had only seen it once back in the Netflix delivery days,  man what a funny movie.  Whole theater was cracking up. 

 

Bruce Campbell for the win. 

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  On 2/7/2025 at 10:42 PM, ztejas said:

I had looked at this because I've been wanting to catch a film but there is fucking NOTHING out right now. Maybe I'll go kill 2 hours and see if it doesn't suck. 

I briefly considered going to see Sonic 3 earlier today. That's how bad it is. 

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I'm guessing there maybe a hundred screens for movies in Austin. They're all showing the same five or six movies and they're usually shit comic book movies or cartoons. Fine if you love those, but I miss the variety that was once available to moviegoers.

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  On 2/10/2025 at 3:41 AM, RomaVicta said:

I'm guessing there maybe a hundred screens for movies in Austin. They're all showing the same five or six movies and they're usually shit comic book movies or cartoons. Fine if you love those, but I miss the variety that was once available to moviegoers.

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I'm in Bastrop. There's a decent little theatre here. 

It's just a timing thing. Sometimes I have to decide what I want to go see - times like now I have to decide whether anything is worth the ticket. 

I do agree that the downfall of cinema is really sad. Big part of the enshittefication.

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  On 2/10/2025 at 3:41 AM, RomaVicta said:
I'm guessing there maybe a hundred screens for movies in Austin. They're all showing the same five or six movies and they're usually shit comic book movies or cartoons. Fine if you love those, but I miss the variety that was once available to moviegoers.

I literally just checked and counted over 20 movies playing at different Alamos on Tuesday. About 10 or so were old movies that they were showing (Se7en, Scott Pilgrim, etc) and the rest were new. I counted one animated movie. There is always something new to see. Whether those things are of interest is up to you.

There is going to be a fewer movies in the summer with a lot being comic book, cartoons or sequels but that’s been going on for decades at this point.

September 5th - A chronicle of a sort of the ABC Sports television crew attempting to cover the terrorist hostage situation at the 1972 Munich Olympics. It thought it was really good and moved at a fast clip. Also, seeing the process of the coverage and the moral decisions they had to make was really interesting. Definitely recommend.
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  On 2/10/2025 at 4:49 AM, Stringer said:


I literally just checked and counted over 20 movies playing at different Alamos on Tuesday. About 10 or so were old movies that they were showing (Se7en, Scott Pilgrim, etc) and the rest were new. I counted one animated movie. There is always something new to see. Whether those things are of interest is up to you.

There is going to be a fewer movies in the summer with a lot being comic book, cartoons or sequels but that’s been going on for decades at this point.

September 5th - A chronicle of a sort of the ABC Sports television crew attempting to cover the terrorist hostage situation at the 1972 Munich Olympics. It thought it was really good and moved at a fast clip. Also, seeing the process of the coverage and the moral decisions they had to make was really interesting. Definitely recommend.

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Twenty years ago, you could go to the Westgate and there would 7 or 8 movies playing all along the spectrum. They and other multi-screen venues kept a couple of small rooms for well regarded movies of limited interest. 

As for the Alamo note, they list movies for many different days. On any given day, I believe, the choices will not be many and all the houses are showing the same things. They do maintain spots for niche films. 

The studio have just about got completely out of making movies of a smaller scale that may push the narrative envelope. They don't promote those films if they don't make them. If a studio made over a hundred million net on a movie, they might takes 10-20 of that to fund smaller productions just because they liked them. The executives were actually movie people.

I lecture. I just miss the days when I could go see four maybe five movies in a week all the way from big action to quirky. There is a huge stream of good material coming to our TVs which I love. As is common knowledge, that where quallity drama can be developed over a limited series.

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  On 2/4/2025 at 3:13 PM, RomaVicta said:

Saw Conclave. Fabulous cast and solid scenes. Dull movie for me. I never gave much of a shit about who becomes Pope, the violence outside of the conclave didn't really connect to anything for me, and the mystery of Cardinal Benitez probably should have been explored earlier to give it more dramatic impact.

I hope the other other obscure Oscar nominees are better. 

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Kinda same. Felt like a more “serious” take on the “only murderers in the building” / “knives out” genre of murder mystery except there is no physical murder, just ambition and title murder. At first I couldn’t unsee “The Menu” Ralph Fiennes but that faded quickly enough.

All in all 5.5/10

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  On 2/11/2025 at 11:26 PM, PittsburghTiger said:

I’ve spent a lot of time down in Coweta and the surrounding counties.

Kind of funny to see Andy Griffith playing a character not in the same vein as Andy Taylor or Matlock.

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I think that Griffith’s character, in real life, was the first white man in Georgia sent to the electric chair on the testimony from two black men.

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  On 2/10/2025 at 5:32 AM, RomaVicta said:
  On 2/10/2025 at 4:49 AM, Stringer said:

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Twenty years ago, you could go to the Westgate and there would 7 or 8 movies playing all along the spectrum. They and other multi-screen venues kept a couple of small rooms for well regarded movies of limited interest. 

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I remember being blown away when I saw a 4 screen drive-in, Nothing could ever top that technology. 

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  On 2/12/2025 at 2:30 PM, RPM said:

I remember being blown away when I saw a 4 screen drive-in, Nothing could ever top that technology. 

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If you were lucky, an "M" rated show was on another screen. This is before "R." You could look out the back window and snag one of your first views of a woman's breasts. It was exhilerating. I could fall in love in an instant because these were actresses not porn-stars or prostitutes. Margo Kidder owned me.

When I first got on the internet, I was kind of shocked that you could find links to dogs fucking women or anything imaginable. Whenever I might go to a sight to see pictures, these links would volunteer themselves through pop-up.

I often contemplate what that does to a teenager. There's no stopping someone from exploring all that. 

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  On 2/10/2025 at 5:32 AM, RomaVicta said:

 

The studio have just about got completely out of making movies of a smaller scale that may push the narrative envelope. They don't promote those films if they don't make them. If a studio made over a hundred million net on a movie, they might takes 10-20 of that to fund smaller productions just because they liked them. The executives were actually movie people.

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I do agree with this on the big studios.  It's become a numbers game and they aren't as concerned about the originality or quality of the movie.  The mid level movie from those shops have virtually dried up and if one does slip through, they don't put their promotional resources toward it.

The smaller studios like A24 and Neon are putting out great work, but they don't always have the resources to promote on a large scale.  They have to get more creative and depend on word of mouth.  

So, it takes a little more work to find movies you want to see.  I listen to a podcast (The Big Picture, which has been mentioned), but there are easier ways.  Places like this board and this particular thread are a great place to check too.  

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After watching the most recent Severance episode last night, I checked out The Gorge (also on Apple). It starts out promising with an interesting setup, setting, and premise. Once you hit about the middle, it starts to drag, gets really predictable, and ends as an irredeemably dumb mess. Basically, someone in Hollywood had one interesting idea and fed it into an AI machine, which shit out a cliched action movie full of tired tropes.

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