Rate Movies You've Recently Watched.

With the kiddo this week we watched:

Flight of the Navigator - This is near and dear to my heart but ooohhhhh boy is the acting so much worse than in memory. The little kid (who went on to being arrested for robbing a bank in Canada) was really atrocious. Was cool seeing Howard Hessman and Sarah Jessica Parker. Even rewatching and seeing just how bad certain aspects of the movie are can't take away from how special it was growing up. Really got me in to the whole alien, space, and chicks with up dos and purple streaks in their hair.

Raya and the Last Dragon - I actually think this would have been really cool except for the fact that Awkwafina just ruined the entire movie. The voice acting, script, whatever was so out of place it detracted from everything else going on. Maybe my expectations are rooted in what Robin Williams did with the Genie in a similar-ish roll, but Jesus H. Christ it had to be one of the more annoying characters in a kids movie of late. Otherwise it was probably a strong 7/10 as a kids movie.

Luca - Didn't really click with me. Kid basically stopped watching. It just wasn't engaging or exciting enough to capture a 5 year old's attention and for a parent watching it, it was just dull. There were 1 or 2 moderately funny parts but otherwise it was pretty forgettable. 4/10.

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Watched Clockwork Orange for the first time a couple weeks ago. Really good. In retrospect 10 out of 10. There's a really good video on Youtube that gets into the real meaning of the movie and how it parallels the modern world. Look up Empire of the Mind's video on Clockwork Orange and watch the first one. (Pts 2 and 3 are significantly less interesting and focus on other things).

Also watched The Grudge. Heard it was "the scariest movie ever". Stars Sarah Michelle Gellar which is always nice to see. Kind of a Japanese version of The Ring, except scarier. I feel like I've seen this whole "curse movie" genre done to death at this point and this went exactly like the rest of them. However it WAS scary and if I'd seen it 20 years ago (before the mass glut of curse movies) it would have made a big impression on me. 9/10.

My kids don't have school today so took the day off to hand with them. We just watched Better Off Dead, 10/10!

I had forgotten that a lot of the movie was filmed in my home town. A lot of the school scenes are filmed and a Junior High that had the exact same design as my Junior High, brought back a ton of memories.

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Top Gun: Maverick - This damn movie had no right being as good as it was. The original is amazing and trying to pull off a competent sequel 30 whatever years later in [current year] should have been a disaster. Instead we get a completely awesome fighter jet porno that keeps trying to one up itself and veer in to Michael Bay absurdity, but somehow stays the course and holds true.

Seriously though, this was great. I had low expectations and avoided the thread here so went it totally unsoiled except for trailers. Was not at all disappointed except that now I regret not seeing in on IMAX.

The way they handled Goose and his son was fine. Val Kilmer’s stuff was incredibly emotional. And sure they show horned in a romance and a kid, but even that worked for what it was.

The pilots were a little too douche bag at the start and I felt like no way would they get away with as much shit talking as they were doing to Maverick. But once things kicked in gear they moved on and away from that quick enough.

Could probably write a lot more about it. Need to go read the thread maybe and see what the board consensus is just for kicks.

Oblio said:

My kids don't have school today so took the day off to hand with them. We just watched Better Off Dead, 10/10!

I had forgotten that a lot of the movie was filmed in my home town. A lot of the school scenes are filmed and a Junior High that had the exact same design as my Junior High, brought back a ton of memories.

$2!!!!!

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Better off Dead? That's funny, I grabbed a bunch of movies I hadn't seen yet from the library a few weeks ago because I had some free time coming up and wanted to laze about with some movies and weed. Then I ended up not having much free time after all and doing a CRPG thing that gobbles up what I do have. One of them was that one. I just returned a bunch of the movies yesterday, went through them and weeded out all the ones I probably won't get to. Now I want to go back and re-get it and actually watch it.

Top Gun and Maverick are two of the others I haven't seen and got, they're still here.

Movies I've seen in the past bit of time that come to mind. Apologies if I already wrote about/rated one of these here or somewhere else:

The Abyss - Considering this is probably one of James Cameron's least-talked-about movies (it isn't even available anywhere on a streaming service), I expected this to be kind of dull or slow or an acquired taste. Instead what I got was an incredible movie that should have been iconic. Has the earliest incarnation of the "T-1000 tech" with the liquid creature the crew encounters midway through the movie. Absolutely gorgeous movie and a proto version of Avatar 2 in some ways (protect the oceans, etc). Also was cool to see Michael Biehn playing a villain for once. He's a proto version of Colonel Quaritch from Avatar, a military guy with one way of doing things who is very difficult to stop. There are several versions of the movie with several different endings, and I hear the endings are varying quality and can make or break the movie. I guess I got the good version because the ending was incredible. The scene where Ed Harris struggles to revive his wife was probably the first time I FELT something while watching a movie in a long time. This was great. I think it's also the last James Cameron movie I hadn't seen (unless you count Sanctum, which he produced and was very involved in, but didn't write or direct...and was also kind of a follow-up to this movie, so I'll look for that next). 10/10. I mean I'd give this 11/10, I forgot movies could make me feel anything like this. 80's-90's James Cameron is the best moviemaker of our time.

Bad Boys - I watched this as a kid but remembered nothing about it. Haven't seen either of the sequels and been meaning to for a while so I revisted this as catch-up. Good buddy cop movie with a fair amount of humor, but it loses points for the whole "they're pretending to be each other" plot that doesn't really serve a purpose and is more annoying than anything else. At least the chick who ends up being their sidekick is phenomenally hot, and wears short-ass outfits for the entire movie. 7.5/10.

Grown-Ups: Adam Sandler and his stupid friends, who all seem to have wives waaaaay better-looking than they are, goofing off in parks and stuff for two hours. There are worse ways to spend your time and it was really great to see Rob Schneider, David Spade, and Chris Rock all on the same screen at the same time just playing themselves and having fun. I guess the only stupid friend is Kevin James, who I really can't fucking stand. Like I hate that guy and I don't know why. He and Bella Ramsey are two actors I just don't feel like even looking at in anything. Maybe it's because he was Chris Farley's replacement in their group. Impossible shoes to fill either way, and they filled those shoes with the blandest dumbass ever. I feel like Kevin James is the kind of asshole who is rude to waiters at restaurants because he thinks he's smarter than they are. Anyway, I like this...for Schneider/Spade/Rock. Will watch sequel. 6.5/10.

Doctor Sleep - Fooking fantastic movie, villain might be the sexiest woman I've ever seen on film. Not the actress specifically, but the actress + the character. An evil sorceress who slinks around in a perpetual state of yoga poses, smooth motion, and ridiculous levels of confidence. Good sequel to The Shining, and the whole third act paid incredible tribute to it after a very tense and suspense-building first two acts. Only thing I didn't like about this was that the coven of adrenochrome-huffing ancient vampire people torture a little kid to death midway through the movie and it kind of fucking sucks to sit through. Between this and Georgie, maybe Stephen King gets off on killing kids in his stories, IDK. I don't think he had much to do with this actual movie though aside from writing the story it's based on. 9/10