What movie did you last see?

[Chas]

Country Music, Ken Burns

[Gawdzilla Sama]

"Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle". Priming for the next movie, due on Dec. 13th IIRC. We loved this movie and I hope they keep the vibe for the sequel.

[Dancefortwo]

Whollyweird has no reason to be historically accurate. It just slows down the action. We'll never see a movie where the Kree attack Pearl Harbor, it just wouldn't work at the box office.

Wait a minute there, Gawd.  The Kree attacking Pearl Harbor, hummmm   I think it might work.  So what if it's not historiclly correct, who cares.  



Geeze, you people sure do watch a lot of movies.  Where do you find the time to see all these movies?

[M.Linoge]

Whollyweird has no reason to be historically accurate. It just slows down the action. We'll never see a movie where the Kree attack Pearl Harbor, it just wouldn't work at the box office.

Wait a minute there, Gawd.  The Kree attacking Pearl Harbor, hummmm   I think it might work.  So what if it's not historiclly correct, who cares.  



Geeze, you people sure do watch a lot of movies.  Where do you find the time to see all these movies?

Movies is how I rest. Eventually there comes a day when all the work and chores are done; then I binge.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I retired in 1989.

[Fireball]

Whollyweird has no reason to be historically accurate. It just slows down the action. We'll never see a movie where the Kree attack Pearl Harbor, it just wouldn't work at the box office.

Wait a minute there, Gawd.  The Kree attacking Pearl Harbor, hummmm   I think it might work.  So what if it's not historiclly correct, who cares.  



Geeze, you people sure do watch a lot of movies.  Where do you find the time to see all these movies?

Some people watch a lot of movies. I've seen two this year, which is a record high. Robin Hood and Ford Vs Ferrari. I have way too many other interests to watch movies too much. For instance, I'm currently waiting for the glue to dry on a fixture I made to use to hold wood while I carve it, called a "bench hook". I catch some news off the TV, but usually it's online.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Whollyweird has no reason to be historically accurate. It just slows down the action. We'll never see a movie where the Kree attack Pearl Harbor, it just wouldn't work at the box office.

Wait a minute there, Gawd.  The Kree attacking Pearl Harbor, hummmm   I think it might work.  So what if it's not historiclly correct, who cares.  



Geeze, you people sure do watch a lot of movies.  Where do you find the time to see all these movies?

Some people watch a lot of movies. I've seen two this year, which is a record high. Robin Hood and Ford Vs Ferrari. I have way too many other interests to watch movies too much. For instance, I'm currently waiting for the glue to dry on a fixture I made to use to hold wood while I carve it, called a "bench hook". I catch some news off the TV, but usually it's online.

I used dumbbells for bench pucks.

[Dānu]

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The sequel is just as good, if not better. "Jack-Jack vs. the trash panda" was hysterical.

[M.Linoge]

Anna and the Apocalypse (2017)
Anna, a highschool student in Australia can’t wait to get away. As the school prepares the Christmas celebration, the dead start to walk. 

Australian musical zombie apocalypse horror comedy; so rare it’s almost original. 

Live by Night (2016)
A small-time thief reluctantly gets involved with gangsters to get revenge on the man who killed the woman he loved.
A struggle that lands him in a position of power and enemies to match.
Will he be able to stay on top?
 
A decent gangster drama.

Why Him (2016)
An old-fashioned man visiting his college-age daughter, who is dating a 32-year-old man who made a fortune creating an app and live like a teenager in a mansion with videogames, an AI and a moose in a tank full of urine....
 
Funny. A relatively clean tortured-overprotective-dad-vs-nightmare-boyfriend, with some things I haven’t before.
 
The Irishman (2019)
As an old man Frank Sheeran reminisces about his time affiliated with the mob, keeping the confidence of powerful men in the shadows and public figures like  Jimmy Hoffa.  
 
A good gangster drama. Superb cast. Unlike the other it keeps a monotonous pace. No highs, no lows; just an interesting story.

Vacation (2015)
Rusty Griswold takes his wife and two children on a road trip to an amusement park. 

Hilarious. Some evil humor and more family friendly humor, not completely unlike the original Griswold family trips. 

Into The Looking Glass (2016)
Alice returns to the Wonderland to save her friend the hatter.

Not as good as the first one, unless you are deeply curious about the history of the characters before Alice showed up the first time. 
 

[Alan V]

Ghost in the Shell was an okay action movie. The art direction was beautiful, and owed a lot to the original animated version.

[brewerb]

[Dānu]

Wreck-It Ralph

I've seen it before and enjoyed it. I just signed up for a 3 month trial of Starz on Amazon Prime Video for $1 a month, and am up early, so, I need something to watch.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Waves to Shelly.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Ghost in the Shell was an okay action movie.  The art direction was beautiful, and owed a lot to the original animated version.

Well, it was a live action remake. The animaniacs are having fits about it, of course.

[M.Linoge]

Ghost in the Shell was an okay action movie.  The art direction was beautiful, and owed a lot to the original animated version.

Well, it was a live action remake. The animaniacs are having fits about it, of course.

Understandable. 
They kept the name and nothing of the plot, which makes everything look out of sync if you know the original. 


They should have called it Section 9, or something. 

And no, I don't think I qualify as a animaniac; I'm just a plot Nazi with a long memory  

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Nothing of the plot... Okayyyyy...

[M.Linoge]

Nothing of the plot... Okayyyyy...

Well, they changed her, her backstory, the puppet master, the deep dive, made new enemies, etc.
Admittedly they did keep the camouflage tech, Batou's eyes, her diving in water and the tank-fight, so 'nothing' was an exaggeration.

(bows head in shame)

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Nothing of the plot... Okayyyyy...

Well, they changed her, her backstory, the puppet master, the deep dive, made new enemies, etc.
Admittedly they did keep the camouflage tech, Batou's eyes, her diving in water and the tank-fight, so 'nothing' was an exaggeration.

(bows head in shame)

Minor changes. The original was a bit sloggy.

[Alan V]

Well, they changed her, her backstory, the puppet master, the deep dive, made new enemies, etc.
Admittedly they did keep the camouflage tech, Batou's eyes, her diving in water and the tank-fight, so 'nothing' was an exaggeration.

(bows head in shame)

Minor changes. The original was a bit sloggy.

I preferred the movie to the animated version.  The animation was too talky and difficult to follow for me.  The movie preserved the best visuals and action sequences and put them in an order that made more sense, for my poor, aging brain.

[Dānu]

I thought Johansson's performance was flat and the plot lacking. I don't think the animated version was perfect, but it had good things in it where the live version had very little.

[Dānu]

Disney's Fantasia

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I thought Johansson's performance was flat and the plot lacking.  I don't think the animated version was perfect, but it had good things in it where the live version had very little.

What did you like in the animated version?

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Disney's Fantasia

Have you seen Fantasia 2000?

[Alan V]

I thought Johansson's performance was flat and the plot lacking.  I don't think the animated version was perfect, but it had good things in it where the live version had very little.

Well, now that you mention it, neither of the versions had that great a story to tell IMO.  But I wasn't particularly interested in the story.  That kind of movie is good for action sequences, visual effects, and other eye-candy -- and I don't typically expect much more. 

Three out of five stars.