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Drive-Away Dolls (2024)

MLZ MAP (Score): 94.68 / Zedd MAP (Score): 90.69 / Score Gap: 3.99

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IMDb Summary: Jamie regrets her breakup with her girlfriend, while Marian needs to relax. In search of a fresh start, they embark on an unexpected road trip to Tallahassee. Things quickly go awry when they cross paths with a group of inept criminals.

Starring Margaret Qualley, Geraldine Viswanathan, Beanie Feldstein, Colman Domingo, Pedro Pascal, Bill Camp, and Matt Damon.

This film was a highly anticipated film around the Zedd homestead. We had planned a theatre visit, but did not make it, so I put in a pre-order for it and expected to have a long wait. It said likely to ship in December. It ended up being a great surprise when it showed up last week!

Directed by Ethan Coen and written by Coen and his wife Tricia Cooke, the idea of this film was born in the early 2000’s and took a long time to grow up all the way into a very adult-themed movie. This is not something to watch with your family, for sure.

Led by the two gorgeous but very different ladies, Margaret Qualley as Jamie and Geraldine Viswanathan as Marian, we truck off on an adventure in a not-so brand new Chrysler K-Car in order to get from Philadelphia to Tallahassee. Jamie needs to catch her breath after a nasty break-up, and Marian needs some fun, and how!

There are tiny but very key parts for Pedro Pascal, Miley Cyrus, and Matt Damon. Joey Slotnick is awesome as a slick-talking (he thinks) thug who looks only slightly like the actor from a sitcom that has stayed in our minds for some reason since it was on TV in the mid-1990’s called The Single Guy.

I agree with writer Tomris Laffly of RogerEbert.com when she says “There is a disarming what the hell, why notquality to Cooke and Coen's writing, with the carefree words and actions of Jamie and Marian jovially bouncing off the page and landing on the viewers' eyes and ears with the same jubilant vigor.”

A couple of the stars of the film might have some familiar qualities, if not names. Margaret Qualley is the daughter of beautiful Andie MacDowell and Beanie Feldstein is the younger sister of Jonah Hill.

It was a seriously fun film, with a decent amount of love, sex, travel, food, and a wonderful MacGuffin. Our stars really get a head in this adventure, but all in all, Zedd notes that it feels like there is a tiny something missing (and he’s not talking about the thing NOT in the case.)

I believe we’ll grab this off the shelf again soon and Movie On with these fantastic ladies. After all…as long as we’re here…

((Marian: We don't need to see the world's largest Dixie cup.

Jamie: We don't need to enjoy life, but as long as we're here.))

This is one of the most expertly told stories I have ever seen on screen- thanks largely to a superbly crafted screenplay and a remarkable performance from Zendaya.

The script is the artistic equivalent of the engine in a high performance sports car. It fires on every cylinder with astonishing power and drives the story forward and across the finish line with intense drama that makes you want to hold on to your armrests for dear life.

I’m saying this about a love-triangle movie set in the tennis world? Yes. Yes I am. The fact that tennis is the vehicle for the action is a stroke of genius in itself as most of the film cuts between scenes with Zendaya watching her rival love interests play a nail biter of a match, turning her head between each man with every volley- back and forth- back and forth. And in her most conflicted, inward looking moments she stands out against the rhythm of the crowd by staring dead on into a fix point in the distance- unable to choose.

Tennis, her character says early on, is a relationship. In the heat of competition, she continues, she and her opponent understand everything about each other and the world disappears.

This sets up the film’s final match as stand-in for the love triangle at the heart of the story. And as the intensity builds with each furious volley the three characters become lost in the thing they desire the most, a curious mix of love for one another entwined in a fierce whirlwind of cutthroat competition.

The ending moment is about as perfect and satisfying as a film can manage- so well done even the most prudish of filmgoers might find themselves saying “Daaaaammmnn!” It’s that well done.

Be aware, this a film with a lot of adult themes, and may not be for everyone. You should also keep in mind that tennis is merely the device in which the drama is delivered. It is not, strictly speaking, a “tennis movie” or anything approaching a typical sports-based film at all.

The acting, directing, editing and cinematography are all superb- but Zendaya stands out the most. Let there be no doubt- she is not to be dismissed as merely Disney-princess/superhero arm candy as some have done. Not anymore. Alongside her role in Euphoria, she has shown herself to be an inordinately talented actress that can stand with the best of them. This was an extremely nuanced and difficult role to play, and I can’t imagine any known actress doing it as well as she did. It’s early days for calling Oscar nominations, but if she doesn’t get nominated for Challengers she most certainly will get one later. The woman can act, and I can’t wait to see what else she has in store.

The screenplay also deserves Oscar consideration. It is a sublime bit of writing and deserves every kudo the industry can offer.

I was expecting a pretty good movie. What I got was something approaching cinema perfection far beyond anything I anticipated. This is not merely a good movie. It’s a great one, and I think it will stand the test of time.

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Last night i tried to watch jojo rabbit by taika watiti, and i got into 20 minutes of the movie i didnt laugh at all except for the hail htler part in the beginning. But what makes me cant stand it is the J girl that lives in his wall is so fu**in ungrateful i cant stand another second with her on screen i turn off the movie. I know its for comedic purposes and everything but its not funny, i mean if i risk my life and my familys life to help you and you abuse my son ill kll you myself

I first watched the movie a week ago, i originally expected the mivie to be meh but damn i was wrong. I originally didnt know about the charles manson thing i just thought they were just a bunch of hippies doing hippies stuff. But still, even with that lack of knowledge i still love the movie. Every scene was great literally no scene was bad in this movie, every scene and chapter was a fun ride.

I love every rick dalton scene especially the one with trudy frazer (marabella lancer) when they were reading a book together, my favorite scene of the whole movie. This movie is 11/10, its definitely in my top 5.

https://youtu.be/7CYEqJNEb6M?si=uEiW7G8cCy9z9HaV

A fun, energetic, sensual, and entertaining sports romantic drama with fabulous performances, visuals, and music! One of this year’s best films!

Hello everyone! I’m new here, and I’ll often ask questions about movies and if you guys recommend me allowing my sons to watch them, or us watching it together. I’ve been thinking about watching The Lord of the Flies with them, but I read some reviews online and apparently there’s a seen where one of the boys’ butt is visible briefly, but on other websites I read there’s no nudity in the movie at all. If there is, could someone please tell me the time stamp of it? I don’t want my younger son seeing any nudity until he’s at least 13, so if the scene isn’t absolutely crucial for the movie I’d skip that scene. Also, do you guys think this movie is okay for an 11 and a 14 year old to watch? Also, I know there's a lot of younger people on this platform, so please don't troll. Thanks :))

4.6 Stars would be 5 but some of the nice characters I liked died and the bullets and music were like 50% louder than the rest of the movie otherwise it was great

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Well that was fun. I loved the references to the original PotA, I thought they were done tastefully and added plenty of flavor to the story without needing to be there to understand what was happening.

The story contains the origin story to the original PotA, taken from the lore created by the sequels of the original; Scientists try an experimental drug meant to help humans on chimps which makes the chimps smarter, a baby is born with the drug already in its system, it gets sent off to a sanctuary, learns how to escape, and leads a rebellion against the humans.

The CGI is beautiful and done exceptionally well, while the mocap was a great choice to be able to capture intricate emotions and put them onto an animal’s body. The rest of the acting was mediocre, relying heavily on shots of frustration and confusion instead of giving the actors much more to do. Or if they had more to do, they didn’t capitalize on it.

The plot and writing was basic and uninteresting, at times cheesy and boring (looking at the entire character of the executive of Genysis, whose only care in the world seemed to be related to money). The action ramps up at the end, but there’s not enough of it to sustain the remainder of the slog that is the rest of the movie. There’s very little character development outside of Caesar, and most characters are relegated to extremely small roles. Honestly, most of them didn’t need to be there at all. We don’t ever even learn the names of the characters, or if we did I certainly didn’t catch them a single time. Was that intentional? If not it was neglectful, as the only name that was said multiple times was Caesar’s.

The sound design was incredible, creating the sounds of the different apes as well as the different foley used as they explored the world around them. The score was also fun and held my attention, never detracting from any scene. The production design was solid and made everything feel very realistic and modern without being too gimmicky or cheesy.

This was definitely an entertaining movie, but it left me wanting more, and not in a good way; more in a “that was all I got?” way. I felt like the build up could have been done quicker, leaning more heavily on action and adventure, that it didn’t need to be stretched out as long as it was. I’m definitely excited to see where this goes from here.

6.75/10

Finally got around to watching part 2 of Zac Snyder's new Sci-Fi movie. Have you seen it? What are your thoughts?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IAK8_XW_BBM

https://youtu.be/WZnr5OgdD2s?si=iQ1rwOcweewzntPv

Finally watched this movie! To be honest, way better than Jayam Ravi’s last few solo ventures. But, still a predictable and cliched story. It was entertaining to a certain extent and Ravi did a good job here!

Just watched it. Amazing and fun action movie. My favourite were the action/stunt scenes. The film has a good plot, but the music is a bit lacking in some parts. I loved the 'making of' sequence by the credits. My only complaints are the Bad Guy's plan - it was convoluted and impractical, and the romantic dramedy they snuck in. Overall, I recommend watching it.

But... I suppose antagonists can't be too smart, or the heroes can't beat them, right? I agree with the movie: There should be Oscars for stunt performers! 8/10

100 Years of… The Thief of Bagdad Douglas Fairbanks was the Tom Cruise of a century ago and in 1924’s The Thief of Bagdad, Fairbanks’s favourite of his own films, you get to see him at his very best, in the peak of physical condition, in a film that’s one remarkable action set piece after another.

As you’ve probably guessed, it’... https://tinyurl.com/28k95phk

The First Omen accomplishes something I never thought possible with this franchise.  Instead of being an exercise in campy spectacle, it's a credible horror movie that is filled with dread and actual suspense.  Like the movies that preceded it, The First Omen is a contrivance, a story jerry-rigged to take us from point A to point B and deliver a series of shocks along the way.  However, this movie differs from others because it was made to be a horror movie first and an Omen movie second.  Whereas previous entries emphasized shocks at the expense of character development, we get to know Margaret intimately throughout her ordeal.  This means that when the shocks do arrive, they are genuinely horrific because we like Margaret and care about her.  Even though the story is routinely outlandish, I never chuckled at any of it because everything was grounded by writer-director Arkasha Stevenson’s character-driven approach.

In order for this re-imagining of Omen mythology to succeed, The First Omen had to have an incredible performance at its heart.  As Margaret, Nell Tiger Free never lets us believe that her character is doomed, even though we know she is.  Free’s Margaret is a fully-formed character who runs through an impressive gamut of emotions until she finally realizes what she was put on earth to do.  And when that moment arrives, it's a white-knuckle affair because Free imbues   Margaret with a sadness and vulnerability that’s palpable.  A movie like this could easily have become ridiculous, but it never does because of Free’s emotionally raw performance.  In her first feature film, Arkasha Stevenson has delivered an ominous and impeccably paced horror movie.  (The beautifully atmospheric cinematography is by Aaron Morton.)  I didn’t care for the ending, which sets up a sequel I don’t believe will ever get made.  Regardless, The First Omen is a surprisingly effective horror movie that is far better than this franchise deserves.  Recommended.

https://detroitcineaste.net/2024/04/23/the-first-omen/

Have any of you watched this and is it worth it? Is there any explicit content? Watching with my family I’m not trying to be in a awkward spot lol

a review by Evan Landon

**I suppose, since we are discussing a classic film that should not be remade, repurposed, reimagined** ***(yet is)*****, we should start here. Why the fuck do we keep doing this? I honestly haven't seen any of the actors in this movie speak to it because we, as they do, know it will fail. Put** ***Post Malone*** **tattoos all over Bill Skarsgard's face and it's still the dumbest way to beat up a dead body** ***(no pun intended)*** **that we have been watching for the past few decades. Yknow what was cool? The first movie. But Hollyweird is so bereft and bankrupt for ideas, that we are getting a new one that absolutely nobody asked for. So, you ask...?**

**Let's talk about the good parts of my pick for one of the movies that defined my generation, shall we?**

**Before anything else, let's examine one of the Greatest parts of this movie: this movie broke the mold as far as graphic novels go, especially when it comes to translating to the silver screen. Written, painted, and drawn by James O'Barr back in the early nineties to bring peace to his mind after paintings and illustrations of his time in the U.S. Marines. He made certain illustrations to accompany the music for the band through comic books that was soon bought up by Caliber Press, then packaged by the band** ***“Trust Obey”*** **signed to Trent Reznor's label. After being passed through many hands, the treatment for a screenplay went to splatterpunk writer, David J. Schow, and John Shirley (of Blue Oyster Cult fame), and Miramax Studios.**  

**The premise, as simple as I can make it, is that a crow will be sent to ferry those wayward souls into the afterlife. Sometimes, the crimes against them are so far gone that they have to atone for all of the wrongdoings that besmirched them in order to make it to the other side. Basically, like a revenant. What ensues is not hard to figure out, but I don't think it needs anymore of an explanation than that.**

**I think when the hats at Miramax had this cross their desks, it was not something they were looking for. You could say, at the time, that Paramount Studios were not too keen on such an unsecured property. There was no guaranteed money. That was part of the Miramax appeal though: small endeavors through major distribution never gets anything accept for awards and large ticket sales. Not too bad of an idea, if you ask me.**

**If'n we all want to get blurry-eyed, we can discuss the mishap onset that left us with only questions as to how great Bruce Lee's son could have become, but I will not do that. It has been talked about at nauseum for the past quarter of a century and I had a close friend of mine that used to dress just like him and repeat his lines, word-for-word. Even pro-wrestler Sting took up the persona as a gimmick that seemed to work in WCW, until it didn't, just because it was so popular. Shit, he even dawned the** ***Joker*** **vibe when that wore off.**	

**Director Alex Proyas did an amazing job with what he had here. He went on to make a lot of other movies, most notably “*****Dark City”*****, but I should save that review for another time. Of course, the acting is also way better than expected; we get, not only, Brandon Lee** ***(in his final performance)*****, but Ernie Hudson, Michael Wincott, and the dude from** ***The Warriors*** **pulling off some magnetic dissonance. The soundtrack was definitely some of the greatest songs ever, at the time. It really did revolutionize music.**

**The truth is that we will never have a movie such as this. The way we go about trying to make something out of something out of something that happened before... it does not matter when shit is this good. Instead of bottom-feeding off of intellectual property that came from an amazing space, why steal from nostalgia, aside from destroying it? Isn't that the real gamble? Trading memories for monetary gain?**  

**I have no answers for that.**

The Crow cleaned up $94 million on a $23 million tab worldwide and is considered to be one of the greatest films of a generation. It has gone on to do more than anyone involved in its creation could have ever thought possible. This is the definition of what anybody who creates could possibly comprehend being around to see it come to fruition.

**R.I.P. Brandon Lee (1965-1993)**

4.5 out of 5

https://youtu.be/NbTvfLNaVfM?si=Y5tugTpKiDMPkZfn

Not as bad as everyone is saying, but, a severely average rehash of Seven Samurai. Again, with the budget and resources given, Snyder could’ve made something better. An okay watch at best!

Roxanne (1987)

MLZ MAP (Score): 82.01 / Zedd MAP (Score): 75.90 / Score Gap: 6.11

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IMDb Summary: The large-nosed C.D. Bales is in love with the beautiful Roxanne; she falls for his personality but another man's looks.

Starring Steve Martin, Daryl Hannah, Shelley Duval, and Rick Rossovich.

C.D. is just one of those really nice guys. Everyone in town knows him. He’s friendly, congenial, and always there to help out a townsperson.

He’s also incredibly lonely. His physical persona does not match who he is inside. I mean, heck, he should be the most handsome man in town with that amazing personality. Unfortunately, his physical stature is just too much to get over for the women he meets.

Around the same time Chris and Roxanne move into town, not together you understand, it’s just a coincidence. Roxanne is a beautiful and intelligent woman who is in town to study what she believes is an undiscovered comet she has found.

Chris is in town to work as a firefighter for C.D., who is the town’s fire Chief. He is dumb as a bag of hammers, but pretty handsome, by the standards of the day, and I guess, to Roxanne.

Roxanne thinks Chris is very much someone he is not. In fact, Roxanne falls for Chris’ body, and C.D.’s mind. We are just the lucky watchers in this comedy of errors, which is based upon Cyrano de Bergerac.

Steve Martin is of course amazing. Daryl Hannah was somewhat of an “it girl” of the time, and fits the part well enough (she’s just never been a favorite of mine, not sure why.) Rick Rossovich plays Chris so well I am not sure he is smart enough to dress himself.

We are blessed with a small part for Shelley Duvall, who plays C.D.’s friend and the local bar owner. Fred Willard has a small part as well, and Zedd mentioned he probably supplied his own wardrobe for the part.

Of course we want it all to work out. We want Roxanne to love C.D., not Chris. I won’t spoil it for you, but I will say that attractiveness and love is not always what the “nose knows”, sometimes it is way more than skin deep.

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There's nothing civil about war. In Alex Garland's latest film, we're taken across the battle-scarred East Coast of the US in a hyper-realistic and not-so-distant dystopian future that sees the lines between right and wrong blur as nearly everyone has turned on each other.

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Not as good as the directors’ other films. But, Abigail is still a fun, entertaining, and bloody good film!

Hey guys! I have decided to post a review of Alfred Hitchcock’s “Psycho”. Pros: Amazing dialogue Good acting Good suspense Smart characters Cons: NONE

I saw abigail today heres my review: a
Pros:

1. Alisha Weir as Abigail - she was amazing a \
2. Cool interesting premise a \
3. The gore , some funny lines and moments a \

Cons:

1. Melissa Barrera wooden performance a \
2. Excessive exposition from start to finish, lazy writing..esp on the character development. a \

Overall enjoyable movie, I do feel like this could have been a real modern classic up there with cabin in the woods .. with a better cast , smarter script I think she had huge potential.

https://youtu.be/3Ol7IpkeKGw?si=2DavGKnB_MyrrjTl Technically a documentary, but, here’s a review of this excellent travelogue with Conan. His excellent comedic timing and humour helps make this 4 episode watch a blast! Great fun for fans of the legend!

Just got done watching this movie and man, it was awful. I mean in terms of recent movies that have come out I think it’s almost, but not quite as terribly executed as Napoleon.

I’ll give credit where credit is due - and some of the action scenes are pretty enjoyable, but as I was watching the final scene in D.C. I just got the impression that Alex Garland played BF4 once and decided that in lieu of making any effort to simulate what an actual battle would look like he’d just throw some armored trucks and tanks in there and have troops moving with them. Not to forget how little justice they did to the Beast which is a technical marvel and not fragile like just any limo, it was a shame they threw that opportunity in the trash.

But I digress. The film simply was just terrible writing. Within the introduction of every main character in the movie I knew which of them would die by the end and in exactly which fashion… to the dot. But on the topic of characters, there really was no emotional connection to any of them! The character arcs were nonexistent and by the end of the movie the most emotion I felt was a dislike of Jesse due to her role in getting everyone killed. The best scene in the movie was by far the mass grave scene - the “what kind of American” quote really got me. But instead of explaining how the situation arose, it’s left up to the audience to decipher, or just disregarded in its entirety.

Which leads me here: The word building is in all honesty not that bad - because it just isn’t even there to start! All we know is that there are breakaway regions in the country, at the beginning we hear the President saying victory is neigh, and then towards the end of the movie it apparently isn’t and he’s shot dead in a what is seemingly aiming to mimic Pablo Escobar. We don’t know why anything is happening and are just told how the plot evolves without any deeper understanding.

I’ve seen some people mention that it has or doesn’t have a political stance and I can see where everyone’s coming from - but honestly in my opinion any stance the movie hopes to make is take is so ambiguous out of a fear of alienating parts of the audience that it’s rather pointless. Maybe someone can draw conclusions deeper than the obvious war is hell, and when the world goes belly up many people become monsters, but it simply does not go far enough.

In the end we find ourselves left with a movie that is truly lacking in setup, plot, complexity, character arc, creativity, and a grasp on the reality of how the mechanisms of the world which are being played with by the creators actually work. Truly a disappointment.