The thread for movies that aren't going to get their own thread but are still in theaters

Alien Love Gardener wrote:

Watched Decision to Leave, the latest Park Chan-wook. What a good movie.

That looks excellent. Looking forward to seeing it.

Baron Of Hell wrote:
Baron Of Hell wrote:

Watched Puss in Boots The Last Wish and thought it was very good. I don't know if all jokes were I appropriate for children. I seen Shrek but don't recall any of the movies so can't say if the jokes are inline with the series. Lots of easter eggs to everything. Also had a high body count.

The animation was good for the most part but did have some slow down and animation shifts. I'm not sure if it was because of budget or if that was what they were going for.

I give the movie 8 lives out of ten. Makes me want to check out the first movie.

Also this is a big screen movie. Go out to see if you can and feel safe doing so.

I have been avoiding spoilerific videos on this movie, but a few folks sent me the service dog/panic attack scene because of my own history with anxiety attacks and I nearly cried.

Okay. I watched Puss in Boots The Last Wish and it has absolutely no business being as good as it is. None.

Wow was it amazing.

I'm still not sure why we don't have a John Wick thread. I rewatched all 3 last week and so very good.

Anyway, new trailer for 4 drops tomorrow.

I think I have only seen 2 or 3. I forget which, but it had Peter Cenochenofinickiwizwitzicki, and I love that guy. Is there a convenient way to watch all of them?

Mixolyde wrote:

I think I have only seen 2 or 3. I forget which, but it had Peter Cenochenofinickiwizwitzicki, and I love that guy. Is there a convenient way to watch all of them?

HBOmax has all 3

ranalin wrote:
Mixolyde wrote:

I think I have only seen 2 or 3. I forget which, but it had Peter Cenochenofinickiwizwitzicki, and I love that guy. Is there a convenient way to watch all of them?

HBOmax has all 3

I think they were removed at the end of January. I binged them a few weeks back and had forgotten how much Aikido is in the fight scenes.

JC wrote:
ranalin wrote:
Mixolyde wrote:

I think I have only seen 2 or 3. I forget which, but it had Peter Cenochenofinickiwizwitzicki, and I love that guy. Is there a convenient way to watch all of them?

HBOmax has all 3

I think they were removed at the end of January. I binged them a few weeks back and had forgotten how much Aikido is in the fight scenes.

With a liberal splash of eskrima as well...

Keanu Reeves has trained heavily in Brazilian Ju Jitsu, Arnis (for the knife work) and Krav Maga for his role in the John Wick movies (as well before these films as part of his personal growth and training for other films). No mention of Aikido but of course it's derived from Ju Jitsu.

It helps that his co-stars tend to have similar backgrounds.

Obligatory appetizer:

How is that not, like, 4 hours long?

SpacePProtean wrote:

Obligatory appetizer:

Okay that was terrific, and I mostly agree with it. Thank you for sharing it.

The trailer

What will be the standing of Cocaine Bear, rated among the great achievements throughout the history of cinema? Leave it to the scholars of tomorrow and the fullness of time to make such judgments. For the now, it shall suffice that I have seen Cocaine Bear.

SpacePProtean wrote:

What will be the standing of Cocaine Bear, rated among the great achievements throughout the history of cinema? Leave it to the scholars of tomorrow and the fullness of time to make such judgments. For the now, it shall suffice that I have seen Cocaine Bear.

If I was only gonna hit the theaters for 1 movie this month, would you lean towards recommending Avatar: The Way of Water or Cocaine Bear?

Both, I can only presume, are about the tenuous relationships between sentient species' and nature. But which one is worth my buckeroonies?

You can get water out of any number of tubes in your home. Can you say the same for cocaine, let alone bears?

How much do you care about the theater experience? I'm pretty sure Cocaine Bear will translate to TV viewing just fine. On the other hand, James Cameron has demonstrated that he's the only person who can actually make good use of 3D in a movie.

On the gripping hand, Cocaine Bear probably benefits a lot more from an enthusiastic audience.

So the real question is: what do you want from the theater experience? The spectacle on screen or the communal experience?

Vargen wrote:

So the real question is: what do you want from the theater experience? The spectacle on screen or the communal experience?

The germs.

TheMostRad wrote:

If I was only gonna hit the theaters for 1 movie this month, would you lean towards recommending Avatar: The Way of Water or Cocaine Bear?

hbi2k and Vargen really hit on the main points to consider. I enjoyed Avatar 2 quite a bit. I'd only add that Cocaine Bear is refreshingly short, and properly R rated, both movies in short supply these days. With Avatar 2, though, you do get to stick it to the meme space just a little bit. It doesn't have a bear on cocaine, but it does have Carmela Soprano drinking coffee in a boxing mech rig.

TheMostRad wrote:

If I was only gonna hit the theaters for 1 movie this month, would you lean towards recommending Avatar: The Way of Water or Cocaine Bear?

Cocaine Bear, but only if you're ripped to the tits on coke yourself.

I saw Avatar 2 last weekend and I have no regrets. It is pretty.

Watched House Party 2023 and like it. Most of the reviews I have seen were bad. The movie is stupid and the logic is dumb but I expected that. Thought it was fun movie with some heart to it. Lots of cameos and some entertainers have big parts.

My wife said she never laughed so hard in recent years while watching Cocaine Bear.

merphle wrote:
Vargen wrote:

So the real question is: what do you want from the theater experience? The spectacle on screen or the communal experience?

The germs.

Hmm. Sign me up.

Saw John Wick 4. Unfortunately I opened an article from somewhere when I searched to see if there were post credit scenes and I got a big spoiler. But if you're wondering, this actually have a post credit scene. Don't go looking around the internet like I did.

I liked it, but it was long. They probably could have cut 3-5 minutes out of several fight scenes where he's repetitively killing people in nearly the same way and had a better movie. Also, the motivation of Wick at times makes little sense.

Spoiler:

He goes to Osaka's Continental for reasons unfathomable? Only explanation given by another character (Caine?) was that he only had a few people left he could count on. If true, why now just hang out with the Bowery King who was already on the outs with The High Table? Why bring more people you like into your fight to get them killed?

Also, the "Nobody"/Tracker character just seemed a setup for a spin off. Or a substitute for Sofia's dogs without having to pay Halle Berry to come into this one?

Then the overall Wick motivations seem unfocused. To start, it's his mission to destroy the High Table. Then somehow it switches to "let's take down this de Gramont fellow to get our obligations to the Table removed...but I don't really get why he should trust this when his other paths have always failed. The High Table gets what it wants.

As evidence, you've got an agreement for a duel, yet the table allows one participant to put out contracts on the second participant up to minutes before the sanctioned duel? Geez. That seems like a loophole in the rules somebody should look into.

I guess in the end, the only way to get out from under the Table's power is to die. But as I'm sure you see, Dog alerts on something at Wick's grave that leave them an opening to bring Wick back somehow.

That all said, I still enjoyed it. Very little time in the theater was spent thinking about this. It was only after that I started having thoughts. They just could have had editors a bit less in love with their action scenes and just another script logic pass on Wick's motivations and rules of this society. Maybe this is just an offshoot of the fact that the first movie was fairly simple but as the sequels stack up, this society thing seemed kind of cool and they needed to make up rules as they went.

In the end this is a big, dumb, stylistic weapon action movie. It's great at that part. Just about 20-30 minutes long.

Pooh Bear Blood and Honey was really bad. The killers looked like they were wearing rubber masks. There weren't many callbacks to the book. The ending wasn't a ending. I couldn't tell you the name of any of the ladies. I can't say if the acting was bad but the directing was terrible.

This was just boring, a waste of the IP. Hopefully the porn parody will do better.

Baron Of Hell wrote:

Pooh Bear Blood and Honey was really bad. The killers looked like they were wearing rubber masks. There weren't many callbacks to the book. The ending wasn't a ending. I couldn't tell you the name of any of the ladies. I can't say if the acting was bad but the directing was terrible.

This was just boring, a waste of the IP. Hopefully the porn parody will do better.

According to the movie Margin Call, there are only three ways to make a living in business: be first, be smarter, or cheat. They didn't cheat and it certainly isn't a smart movie.

Children of the Corn 2023 or 2020, the movie is listed under both dates. It had a limited release in 2020 and got put on the shelf until now. So there seems to be 11 Children of the Corn movies and I believe I have seen 5 of them. I liked three of them and hated the the other two. This is one of the ones I hated. The story and directing is bad. At one point someone switches sides for no reason. Murdering parents one moment and then helping the hero the next. Why? Hell if I know.

There were a couple of interesting kills but nothing ground breaking. We do get to see the monster which might be a first for series. On the down side it is a bad CGI monster. Then there is another cgi moment that was better but made no sense.

The jump to different scenes are going to confuse people. If you watch just take note that when the S hit the fans there are multiple groups of people that get captured but they look like the same group. So no they didn't kill them twice they just killed different groups at different times for reasons they didn't share in the movie.

The protagonist was okay. There was a dumb moment with fire but that wasn't her fault. I didn't care for the main bad kid. Again it wasn't her fault. They dropped the religious preacher which was a mistake. Instead they went with a kid that acts more like a mean adult.

MannishBoy wrote:

Saw John Wick 4. ....
That all said, I still enjoyed it. Very little time in the theater was spent thinking about this. It was only after that I started having thoughts. They just could have had editors a bit less in love with their action scenes and just another script logic pass on Wick's motivations and rules of this society. Maybe this is just an offshoot of the fact that the first movie was fairly simple but as the sequels stack up, this society thing seemed kind of cool and they needed to make up rules as they went.

In the end this is a big, dumb, stylistic weapon action movie. It's great at that part. Just about 20-30 minutes long.

That about sums up my thoughts. It would be easier on my brain if they made it a comic book movie (or at least made it clear it it) The leaps of logic you have to make for it to work just wore me out.
It was really to long but I think if they had just cut all walking across rooms to half the length they could have saved 10 minutes.
I want to complain so I will spoiler the rest - it is just ranting so feel free to ignore

Spoiler:

1. how do they just hop all over the globe without passports, money, or luggage?
2. how does the kelvar jacket stop the impact of the bullets? I mean sure it my stop penetration but you would still be being hit with an object going very fast with huge impact. Their arms would break.
3. why were none of the patrons at the dance club freaking out and running when people are being shot, stabbed, etc.? "How was the club last night, Bob?" "Oh great met a nice woman, saw a few people get their heads blown off, and drinks were 2 for 1!"

Overall it was just as dumb, unrealistic and silly as Commando, or Lethal Weapon. I felt like the first one was pushing it but then they cranked it up with each sequel until this is just raving mad.

My biggest complaint though is that it was boring. Like the video I posted in the video thread of 100 Greatest Movie Threats of All Time, after about 10 your bored, and by 20 your looking at your watch, and when you get to 100 you just want it to end! The first few killings were neat, but by the 30th guy John shoots on the steps of Montmartre I just don't care anymore. They are faceless masses that mean nothing and it is dull.
It was dull, that is the biggest problem with the movie.

JW3 was pretty much the same from what I remember. There wasn't much coherence in the plot and none of the characters really left you with any incentive to bother with their motivations. It was basically just a spectacle of stylized violence with no emotional investment.