Road House (2024) 7/10

I will always take the original over this version, as 80s nostalgic cheese is hard to beat. However, this take was entertaining enough. Jake Gyllenhaal's easy charm carries the film, and Conor McGregor cracked me up whenever he appeared on screen.

It perhaps loses a point for the fat chick diversity hire in the bar.

“Toy Story” might have won you the point but you got cocky and threw in “The Santa Clause”.

So there we have it, “Galaxy Quest” is far and away the best film that Tim Allen ever got involved with. Followed closely by “Joe Somebody”.

This is The End seems like a appropriate movie to watch or Armageddon LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Santa Clause is a classic christmas movie. Youre daft

The first "The Santa Clause" movie was pretty good... a classic as Destor says....

But not as classic as Toy Story or Galaxy Quest. (Well, to the majority of the public probably more classic than Galaxy Quest.... but not to me, dammit!)

"Dream Scenario" really good nicolas cage one... suspended my rule about not liking movies that include dream sequences for this one. bit of a bummer ... lots of connections

I enjoyed Dream Scenario a lot. The rendezvous with the girl from the marketing firm was hysterical and it had a lot of salient points about collective hysteria/hive paranoia

I never made a case that it was better and certainly not objectively better my point is that GQ is "far and away" better is definitely not above contestation. The guy has been in some objective all time classics.

I want to see Dream Scenario...

Saw Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire. I was entertained. Certainly not as bad as everyone seems to say. It is very much "disposable content" in that it really doesn't add anything to the "mythos" or "lore". Honestly feels like an extended pilot episode for a new cartoon show.

Venom: Let There be Carnage - 5/10

I actually really liked the first Venom movie. It was kind of ridiculous but in a way that took you a bit off guard. This one was like "ha ha, remember how ~quirky~ our first movie was? Let's amp that up a bit and use a bunch of dated cringy jokes teehee"

also Carnage didn't really kill a whole lot of people which sucked, I wanted to see him kill like 200 people or something, felt very non-threatening

its the first film of the franchise that felt like it was made just do have the brand out there. No one involved was inspired in any way

IT WAS SO BAD

Yeah, that's what I am saying like it was just pretty much a brand exercise.... but even saying all that if I just accept that and move on, I was entertained for what it was.

I would say it entertained me but it wasnt bad. Just existed. Non offensively

Watched Michael Mann's Thief for the first time. 8.5/10. Great fucking movie. Sizzling dialogue. And the diner scene with Tuesday Weld is magic. Plus, Jim Belushi's bullet-ridden corpse gets thrown into a vat of acid, and that's awesome.

It’s trite, lowest common denominator rubbish: a cash grab aimed at dimwits and that’s totally fine, but it’s not a classic for exactly that reason.

It is classic in the sense that it is a typical turkey of a Christmas film, but it is not a classic in the sense that it is an outstanding example of quality judged consistently over time.

It ranks higher than Fred Clause, but not by much.

Yep. That's a good description.

Ricky Stanicky - 7/10

Feel like John Cena is really typecast in a specific type of role now... and he does it well. A couple laugh out loud moments in this. Decent way to pass an hour and 40 minutes on a day free from work.

@Seanny its a classic in the sense that its a classic. Everyone knows about the movie. GQ is a cult classic. Every dork knows about the movie. Santa Clause surely has a Q rating in mid 30s. Its staple. GQ, though great, simply doesnt.

Classic isnt a comment on quality. McDonalds is a classic example of the american diet. Its garbage food.

That’s why you should use the phrase “classic example” when going with the secondary definition of the word in text format. Otherwise you sound like you revere it.

I dunno. SEEMS LIKE A STRETCH. But i dont wanna get in the middle of a semantics argument when the forum will crash any second now spiraling this dispute across months.

Ill take my toy story victory as enough to refute your claim. +1 me

And McDonalds is great, fuck the haters!

Haha i do like a McRib

Imagine a five page argument that took five years though.

Millions of bots reading our posts.

I typo’d and wrote boys there which would have been the best time to crash

The 1st time i wish it had crashed :lol:

The Adam Project - 7/10

listen the movie was basically another classic "Ryan Reynolds being Ryan Reynolds", the plot was predictable, the main antagonist was dumb, and I'm sure the science stuff made no sense. but I really enjoyed it, maybe I just needed to see a sappy movie about a boy and his dad but it tugged the right heart strings

Ghostbusters: Afterlife - 6/10

I love Paul Rudd but this movie was kinda mid. The stuff with Egon was nice but I hate kid actors

I'm watching Uncharted now and the movie kicks off with a "15 years ago" flashback AND TOM HOLLAND IS THE "AFTER" VERSION WHAT, he is a baby

Don’t sleep on Joe Somebody. It’s got a good Jim Belushi performance in it as well.

It’s not better than anything that ‘s been mentioned, but wanted to give it a shout out.

It’s Tim Allen doing “Three O’Clock High” which is a great movie in it’s own right.
I remember Charlie Day did one with Ice Cube that was ludicrous but still pretty funny too.

The fighting a bully genre needs more.

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire 7/10

The CGI in the movie is incredible. Seriously might be some of the best CGI I have ever seen in a movie. Kong again steals the show, and is a good “leading man.”

Godzilla is kind of side show in it. He does have some good scenes, but some silly scenes. I imagine by the next movie the silly will be turned all the way up.

Fun movie though. I’ll always support Godzilla.

Don't Look Up - 6/10

A bit on the nose and heavy-handed in its approach but enjoyable enough. Apparently people hated this movie when it came out.

I didnt hate it but i dislike these lectures parading as narratives. I always feel im a frame away from the characters looking dead into the screen and reading their speaches to me. I might as well just turn C-Span on

I thought people loved it when it came out?

I did not... it was ok, but a lot of the concepts could have been done in a much better way.

The Iron Claw (2023) - 7/10

I really enjoyed this. Ill keep this brief in fear of the forums:

I feel like cutting chris out was distasteful but i understand there are time constraints. Still it makes me feel gross. A human life erased somehow.

The wrestling is poor but its better than most movie wrestling. It comes off bizarrely though. Its a work and it isnt and it doesnt do any work to differentiate. It doesnt affect the film though. These points will only impact wrestling fans, maybe even workers specifically in many instances. Stuff where guys arent grabbing wrists properly etc. It strikes me visually but thats only because i know too much.

That said when i heard of a Von Erich movie i assumed Efron was playing Kerry. Turns out Kevin is the lead. Makes sense in hindsight. Efron is outstanding in this. Its the performance of his career. Easy. The film is gripping and hits some high emotional moments that really resonate.

I think this is a fine wrestling film for general audiences.

I liked “The Paperboy” with Zac Efron but his performance was better in “The Iron Claw” even if the film as a whole has an awful lot wrong with it. Cutting Chris out is unforgivable. They really should have made it a miniseries.

Double Indemnity (1944) - 8/10

Classic film noir is very much a guilty pleasure of mine. This has all the tropes one would expect from the genre but its not a hard nosed detective instead we get the culprits as the protagonist. This allows us tto drift into a Crima and Punishment/Tell Tale Heart space. The dialogue is sharp and beats are compelling. I really enjoyed this and i think for people who arent necessarily into this peroid of film or genre if they were to like anything of this ilk this film would be one I'd recommend to try and sway them.