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I'd gladly sit through either of the 3. Goodfellas was great for the fact that real life Henry Hill was such a fuckup afterwards. It was hilarious the amount of times he would call into Howard Stern drunk off his ass.
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if you're a huge godfather fan you owe it to yourself to download "Godfather-A.Novel.for.Television.1977.UNCENSORED.EXTENDED" its a cut of the first two movies Coppola authorized to pay for being wildly overbudget on Apocalypse Now. Its 7 hours long and has footage that is not in GF1 or GF2. Its almost 75 minutes of extra footage so its not just a minute or two.
I've only watched it once and I do prefer the (new 4K) re-releases but its an interesting watch for any big fan. There is a second version that adds the third movie too, but not the new Coda GF3 edition. I watched that recently and while its a little better than the original GF3 release, its still very bad especially whenever Sofia is on screen and you REALLY wonder if the movie would have been better if they had gotten Robert Duvall back as Michaels brother/lawyer. It was completely ludicrous having tanned George Hamilton in that role.
I've only watched it once and I do prefer the (new 4K) re-releases but its an interesting watch for any big fan. There is a second version that adds the third movie too, but not the new Coda GF3 edition. I watched that recently and while its a little better than the original GF3 release, its still very bad especially whenever Sofia is on screen and you REALLY wonder if the movie would have been better if they had gotten Robert Duvall back as Michaels brother/lawyer. It was completely ludicrous having tanned George Hamilton in that role.
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We were looking for New Years movies and put this on. What a crazy movie. Just a hilarious premise. Everyone was great. Was odd seeing Fred MacMurry in that role. We watched Caine Mutiny a couple months back.
Great film.
2nd “new years” movie. I’ve actually never seen it so wife was excited. Honestly didn’t hate it. Dumb premise but cute. Hard to hate Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks in 1993. Lots of other cameos too with Victor Garber and some others. Oh and the little boy’s girlfriend I recognized from Uncle Buck bc I watched that a ton with my Aunt growing up.
Worth making my wife happy!
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I'm pretty sure I've seen that, didn't it have
a scene where the godfather tells the guys who to send to cut the horse head off?
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Watched Boy Kills World. Man, Bill Skarsgard has been freaking everywhere this year. He's in debatably the worst movie of the year (The Crow) and debatably the best movie of the year (Nosferatu). Somewhere in-between is Boy Kills World. He's got some serious acting chops and makes a good action star (wish we'd gotten an actual fight between him and John Wick in Ep. 4 instead of him getting away with hiding behind his proxy).
As for BKW, liked it, was cool to see the main henchman from The Raid get a bigger role. Whole thing felt like one of those "comic book movies" based on an obscure graphic novel, designed to appeal to uber film geeks who like zombies and Kick-Ass and stuff. Which isn't my crowd, or scene. But regardless, it told a good story and the setting almost reminded me of a Far Cry game with its dystopia and malevolent monarchy. Only thing that brought it down, was, being a 2024 movie, there's a female lead introduced midway through who steals a lot of the main character's moments from then on. She beats him in a fight, is the one to finish off the villain, and is pretty much a masculine leader who leads things for the rest of it (to hammer home the political nature of the whole thing). At some point I started wondering if I was watching Girl Kills World now instead. All the female characters in the movie were domineering and masculine and most of the male characters were just sorta hiding behind their skirts for the most part, come to think of it, acting like little pansies and/or ineffectual buffoons.
Putting aside all of that shit, the twist towards the end of the movie is really good, I liked the Fallout New Vegas silver ornate 1911, and Skarsgard is a rootable protagonist. Cool to see disabled people being portrayed as huge bad-asses in these movies, like the main character of this movie being deaf / mute and Donnie Yen in John Wick 4 being blind. Is it realistic? No, but it's still cool. One of these days maybe one of these movies will portray autism as a superpower too. No, probably not, because Elon Musk already does that and any such portrayal might actually acknowledge that or make him look cool so we can't have that.
Anyway morning tangent-fest over, giving this a 7/10
As for BKW, liked it, was cool to see the main henchman from The Raid get a bigger role. Whole thing felt like one of those "comic book movies" based on an obscure graphic novel, designed to appeal to uber film geeks who like zombies and Kick-Ass and stuff. Which isn't my crowd, or scene. But regardless, it told a good story and the setting almost reminded me of a Far Cry game with its dystopia and malevolent monarchy. Only thing that brought it down, was, being a 2024 movie, there's a female lead introduced midway through who steals a lot of the main character's moments from then on. She beats him in a fight, is the one to finish off the villain, and is pretty much a masculine leader who leads things for the rest of it (to hammer home the political nature of the whole thing). At some point I started wondering if I was watching Girl Kills World now instead. All the female characters in the movie were domineering and masculine and most of the male characters were just sorta hiding behind their skirts for the most part, come to think of it, acting like little pansies and/or ineffectual buffoons.
Putting aside all of that shit, the twist towards the end of the movie is really good, I liked the Fallout New Vegas silver ornate 1911, and Skarsgard is a rootable protagonist. Cool to see disabled people being portrayed as huge bad-asses in these movies, like the main character of this movie being deaf / mute and Donnie Yen in John Wick 4 being blind. Is it realistic? No, but it's still cool. One of these days maybe one of these movies will portray autism as a superpower too. No, probably not, because Elon Musk already does that and any such portrayal might actually acknowledge that or make him look cool so we can't have that.
Anyway morning tangent-fest over, giving this a 7/10
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This was hilarious and crazy. About what you’d expect from a 1959 movie about two guys doing drag. Very over the top, quick, witty. Jack Lemon and Tony Curtis are great. Monroe is actually kind of annoying for the 1st half but seems to get better. Apparently Billy Wilder hated working with her so much that he refused to cast her in The Apartment. We’ll probably watch Seven Year Itch tonight to compare her work. But this was great.
8/10
Kind of amazing that in 1960 they were doing 2hr movies that were entertaining and didn’t involve all the modern day stuff. Not to get all five bees about things, will end rant there.
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Congo (1995) 
5.3 | Action, Adventure, Mystery
4K version recently released, haven’t watched it since it first came out on VHS. This was schlocky, but didn’t take itself too seriously and had a sense of fun that made me overlook the lesser parts. Whether you are laughing with or laughing at the movie, it’s a decent cheesy rewatch.
5.3 | Action, Adventure, Mystery4K version recently released, haven’t watched it since it first came out on VHS. This was schlocky, but didn’t take itself too seriously and had a sense of fun that made me overlook the lesser parts. Whether you are laughing with or laughing at the movie, it’s a decent cheesy rewatch.
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The ending with the monkeys pushing each other into the lava was hilarious.Congo (1995)
4K version recently released, haven’t watched it since it first came out on VHS. This was schlocky, but didn’t take itself too seriously and had a sense of fun that made me overlook the lesser parts. Whether you are laughing with or laughing at the movie, it’s a decent cheesy rewatch.
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There is ONLY the extended edition, there is not a standard edition. It never existed.
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Plus there's references to this in vanilla WoW.Congo (1995)
4K version recently released, haven’t watched it since it first came out on VHS. This was schlocky, but didn’t take itself too seriously and had a sense of fun that made me overlook the lesser parts. Whether you are laughing with or laughing at the movie, it’s a decent cheesy rewatch.
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Those were all over like a month and a half. Dick.
Latest movie: Late Night With The Devil. Interesting movie and legitimately unsettling. I thought it was leading to the late night host having done something to the girl in the Bohemian Grove (which would have been when she was about 4 or 5 if my math was right) in order to get into the cabal that gave him his success. However they tiptoed around that and made it more about him meeting the devil in the Grove before his career got going, instead. The host's seeming confusion at all of this was weird. Wouldn't he be well aware of the agreements he'd made? There was some other weird stuff, like how his co-host was treated as some sort of enemy/threat for the whole movie, despite just being this unassuming little bald guy who didn't really have much power. The girl staring at the cameras was probably the most unsettling part of the movie. I guess the host sacrificed his wife? But he still never beat Carson. Except maybe for that one last episode, before presumably getting hauled off to jail immediately afterwards in a bit of Monkey Paw ism. 9 out of 10 for this one and it should probably be in the best picture conversation.
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Wife & I have been on a movie binge this last week:
The Substance - fantastic. I thought this was excellent. A little long but a great movie all round. 9/10
Civil War - a good movie but I wouldn’t watch it again. Don’t regret watching it. 7/10
The Holdaways - heard lots of hype about this. It was okay but nothing special for me. Very tropey. 6/10
Late Night with the Devil - we enjoyed this a lot. It may have helped that we had a few edibles beforehand. Enjoyed the way it was shot, the plot and the authentic 80s feel. 9/10
Anora - this may genuinely make my top 10 or 15 films of all time. I loved it. I didn’t look at my phone once the entire movie. Movie of the year for me. 10/10
Next on our to watch list is Heretic and then All of us Strangers & Love Lies Bleeding.
The Substance - fantastic. I thought this was excellent. A little long but a great movie all round. 9/10
Civil War - a good movie but I wouldn’t watch it again. Don’t regret watching it. 7/10
The Holdaways - heard lots of hype about this. It was okay but nothing special for me. Very tropey. 6/10
Late Night with the Devil - we enjoyed this a lot. It may have helped that we had a few edibles beforehand. Enjoyed the way it was shot, the plot and the authentic 80s feel. 9/10
Anora - this may genuinely make my top 10 or 15 films of all time. I loved it. I didn’t look at my phone once the entire movie. Movie of the year for me. 10/10
Next on our to watch list is Heretic and then All of us Strangers & Love Lies Bleeding.
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Finally got around to the last couple of things on my Halloween list over the past week.
Longlegs - What a freaky movie. The killer / demon / whatever he actually was freaked me the fuck out. Nic Cage disappeared into it. Probably wouldn't watch it again, because it freaked me out so much, but it was a perfectly good movie. 8/10.
The First Omen - Really well done, has a couple of really attractive main actresses in it, leads directly into the beginning of the 1976 The Omen by showing us who birthed Damien and how it came about. Has some really gross-out moments and a bit of "the church is evil lol" but it was good enough to successfully make me interested in The Omen after not giving a flip since I saw and liked the first one as a kid. 8/10.
The Omen - Rewatched the 1976 movie after seeing TFO, still holds up, still a really creepy movie. For a long time I thought it was standalone and essentially left off on a cliffhanger where we didn't know what'd happen with the antichrist, and that was probably a better idea than doing sequels quite frankly. 9/10.
Damien: Omen II - Continued this impromptu bender and watched the 1978 sequel. Super boring movie. This one has Damien as a teenager in military school, which had plenty of storytelling promise. Only issue is that the dialogue was terrible and it was constantly bogged-down by these long exposition dumps where the corporate guys were talking about corporate shit that the audience doesn't care about AT ALL. Was also weird having Damien discover that he's the Beast of Revelation, when I would have assumed he just inherently knew that about himself. A sequel that didn't need to be made, and I assume anyone who saw this in 1978 probably left the theater underwhelmed. Pretty much all setup for a third movie later on. 4/10.
Omen III: The Final Conflict - 1981. This one's a lot better, with grown-up Damien (played brilliantly by Sam Neill) basically in an Elon Musk role of being the most successful businessman on Earth and now having the ear of the President of the US (while also on the shortlist of future presidents). The main issue with the movie is they go too small-scale with it. At first it sounds like it's moving toward Damien becoming president circa 1992 or 1996 and then having his big battle with The Nazarene circa 2000 to determine who rules Earth from then on. He's running for Senate in 1984 and guaranteed to win it, and The Nazarene is being born as of 1981 so he'll be 19 in time for their battle. However the second half of the movie scales things way back and just sorta drops all of that, with Damien sending his cult of followers out to kill all the babies born during a celestial alignment and prevent The Nazarene from existing to begin with. There are a bunch of monks trying to assassinate him, and they're the most bumbling, incompetent assassins you've ever seen. They set up these bizarre mouse trap situations that repeatedly fail, wildly, to the point of being comical. That "mouse trap" theme isn't just the monks either, Damien's followers are equally weird and set up all kinds of weird things to kill babies instead of, you know, just going and killing 'em. Whole movie is kinda weird when it comes down to it, but it tells a reasonably decent conclusion to the story. 7/10.
Later they made an Omen 4 with a new female kid playing antichrist (essentially, The Next Karate Kid), and after that they made a reboot in 2006 or so, but I'm not gonna bother with either. First Omen -> Omen 3 is the story and all that needed to exist. That said, you're missing nothing if you don't watch Omen 2 or 3. If you liked the original, check out First Omen, and don't be surprised if it prompts a rewatch of the original.
Longlegs - What a freaky movie. The killer / demon / whatever he actually was freaked me the fuck out. Nic Cage disappeared into it. Probably wouldn't watch it again, because it freaked me out so much, but it was a perfectly good movie. 8/10.
The First Omen - Really well done, has a couple of really attractive main actresses in it, leads directly into the beginning of the 1976 The Omen by showing us who birthed Damien and how it came about. Has some really gross-out moments and a bit of "the church is evil lol" but it was good enough to successfully make me interested in The Omen after not giving a flip since I saw and liked the first one as a kid. 8/10.
The Omen - Rewatched the 1976 movie after seeing TFO, still holds up, still a really creepy movie. For a long time I thought it was standalone and essentially left off on a cliffhanger where we didn't know what'd happen with the antichrist, and that was probably a better idea than doing sequels quite frankly. 9/10.
Damien: Omen II - Continued this impromptu bender and watched the 1978 sequel. Super boring movie. This one has Damien as a teenager in military school, which had plenty of storytelling promise. Only issue is that the dialogue was terrible and it was constantly bogged-down by these long exposition dumps where the corporate guys were talking about corporate shit that the audience doesn't care about AT ALL. Was also weird having Damien discover that he's the Beast of Revelation, when I would have assumed he just inherently knew that about himself. A sequel that didn't need to be made, and I assume anyone who saw this in 1978 probably left the theater underwhelmed. Pretty much all setup for a third movie later on. 4/10.
Omen III: The Final Conflict - 1981. This one's a lot better, with grown-up Damien (played brilliantly by Sam Neill) basically in an Elon Musk role of being the most successful businessman on Earth and now having the ear of the President of the US (while also on the shortlist of future presidents). The main issue with the movie is they go too small-scale with it. At first it sounds like it's moving toward Damien becoming president circa 1992 or 1996 and then having his big battle with The Nazarene circa 2000 to determine who rules Earth from then on. He's running for Senate in 1984 and guaranteed to win it, and The Nazarene is being born as of 1981 so he'll be 19 in time for their battle. However the second half of the movie scales things way back and just sorta drops all of that, with Damien sending his cult of followers out to kill all the babies born during a celestial alignment and prevent The Nazarene from existing to begin with. There are a bunch of monks trying to assassinate him, and they're the most bumbling, incompetent assassins you've ever seen. They set up these bizarre mouse trap situations that repeatedly fail, wildly, to the point of being comical. That "mouse trap" theme isn't just the monks either, Damien's followers are equally weird and set up all kinds of weird things to kill babies instead of, you know, just going and killing 'em. Whole movie is kinda weird when it comes down to it, but it tells a reasonably decent conclusion to the story. 7/10.
Later they made an Omen 4 with a new female kid playing antichrist (essentially, The Next Karate Kid), and after that they made a reboot in 2006 or so, but I'm not gonna bother with either. First Omen -> Omen 3 is the story and all that needed to exist. That said, you're missing nothing if you don't watch Omen 2 or 3. If you liked the original, check out First Omen, and don't be surprised if it prompts a rewatch of the original.
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Den of Thieves - 9/10 never heard of this movie until I saw the announcement for the sequel coming out. Awesome heist action flick. The last 45 mins were definitely edge of the seat. I was almost rooting for the bad guys to get away with it their plan was so good. Gerard Butler never disappoints.
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I love the scene when the kid shows up to take the daughter to prom.
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