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[Iduno]

Ronin is a heist movie. Even the bad ones are generally worth a watch.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

After the tumblr posts and Rick n Morty episode, I'm still waiting for the 100% crew assembly movie.

[Reelya]

Or that scene in movies where they recruit the hacker. There should be a whole movie that's just a string of those scenes, which each hacker getting younger than the last.

[Yoink]

I'm nearing the end of Riphagen: the Untouchable, and I think it's pretty damn great.   
Always nice to dive into a well-made film (or book!) about a fascinating historical figure you've never read about before. Although, of course, this also means that I've no idea what kind of artistic liberties they've taken with the subject matter, but the end result certainly makes for good viewing for the uninitiated.   
Thrilling stuff!   

Soundtrack's pretty bangin', too.   



Edit: yeah, that was a bloody good film. Honestly had some real pulse-pounding moments, too - though it presumably wouldn't have been the same if I knew how the story went beforehand.   

[Eschar]

Did I note that I watched Scott Pilgrim? Anyway, I liked it. Other people's thoughts on that movie?

[scriver]

It's an excellent little thing.

[Kagus]

Captain Vegan America

[scriver]

So what? Anyone can be vegan.

[TD1]

No they can't, you need a special certificate.

[Yoink]

Just watched Black '47. I thought it was pretty swell.   

[Il Palazzo]

Has anyone seen The Blackcoat's Daughter? 'Cause that's some proper hairy stove Satan right there. Would be a nice double bill with The Witch.

[Kagus]

Got to watch the delightfully cheesy classic Fright Night today, a lovely romp!

[Iduno]

Got to watch the delightfully cheesy classic Fright Night today, a lovely romp!

It's Sunday.

[Kagus]

Got to watch the delightfully cheesy classic Fright Night today, a lovely romp!

It's Sunday.

Netflix don't care.

[nenjin]

I think modern cinema has ruined me.

I watched Jurassic Park with my mom over dinner tonight. And after the big finale of the two velociraptors and the T-Rex, fighting over the bones of the big dinosaurs, the cast drives away and gets in a helicopter and fly away.

And I couldn't help thinking "Wait, that was it? Isn't there a bigger finale?" Like my brain actually expected, I dunno, Dr. Grant to dive on the back of a T-Rex with a knife and stab it and hold on for dear life while it thrashes around, and velociraptors with firing lasers from their heads are doing back flips through the frame. Or pterodactyls attacking the helicopter while it's flying through the gorge.

But no, that's the all the sequels and threequels where all that happens.

Looking back, despite all the ghee-whiz CGI that made that movie (which still honestly holds up), I think it was like one of the last, honest blockbusters before CGI and sheer bombastic action completely took over. Watching the action in JP and how it's choreographed and stuff, it seems so...plain and kinda quaint by today's standards. Like actual actors doing realistic and practical stunts, believable tension. (Although I couldn't help but kinda laugh as I realize the height of the movie's action is basically the cast awkwardly hanging from bones suspended from the ceiling.)