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  1. skizzerflake

    Ghostbusters, who you gonna call...........

    This really IS a dark period in American history, when some part of our population seems to be aiming to be brain-impaired luddites. We've had African Americans in movies for quite a while now and the Klan stays mostly quiet about that. Here we have a Ghostbusters remake. It's pretty...
  2. skizzerflake

    Ghostbusters, who you gonna call...........

    I did break down and see it. I'm just getting the funk out of my clothes. What's worse, at the end, they suggested a sequel to this dog. http://www.movieforums.com/reviews/1547005-ghostbusters.html
  3. skizzerflake

    IT'S COMING!! IT'S COMING!!!

    Oh My God.....Once again, I will be traumatized for 6 months...every time a gust of wind appears, I'll start looking over my shoulder for an incoming shark.
  4. skizzerflake

    The Conjuring 2

    It's quite good. There's no direct continuity between the first and second movies. In fact, there's more continuity between Conjuring 2 and the Amityville Horror, since the real life case of the Enfield Poltergeist came after Ed and Lorraine had investigated Amityville...
  5. skizzerflake

    Genius - A Sea of Words and Thomas Wolfe

    When I saw that this was coming, I was intrigued. On the one hand, it’s a movie that portrays my 3 favorite writers, Thomas Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway and F Scott Fitzgerald, along with their Scribner’s editor, Max Perkins. Most of the movie centered on Wolf and his relationship with Perkins. On...
  6. skizzerflake

    Love and Friendship - AKA, The Return of Jane Austin

    Being somewhat spandex fatigued by summer superhero movies, it seemed like time for something very different, so we decided to be about as different from Captain America as the current film offerings would allow. A new movie, “Love and Friendship” was starting at our local art house. The film...
  7. skizzerflake

    Ben-Hur (2016) Why? Why? Why?

    Yikes, a new Ben Hur. It will be interesting to see what they do with it. While the 1959 version is a classic, I don't really think that it holds up that well in some ways, notably the casting of blond Charleton Heston as an unbearded ancient world Jew, nor the portrayal of Jesus that looks...
  8. skizzerflake

    The Family Fang

    The Family Fang - One of the oddest movies I’ve seen recently It’s movie time again and the cineplexes are brimming with fans and repeated showings of the first crop of summer super hero movies. I just was NOT In the mood for more spandex, so we tried this at random. The Family Fang was based...
  9. skizzerflake

    Independence Day 20 years later

    What the heck. I think I had a copy of the old one on VHS and my kids watched it a bunch of times. Big FX but hopefully no superheroes. The virtue of the original was the whole everyman approach to saving the world.
  10. skizzerflake

    Miles Ahead - A Maybe For Jazz Fans?

    Miles Ahead is not a conventional linear biopic. Instead, it leaps back and forth between several time periods in the life of this amazing jazz innovator. The real Miles Davis was a a seemingly inscrutable character, obviously musically brilliant but with a very disorderly personality. His...
  11. skizzerflake

    Batman vs. Superman Dawn of Justice: Aflleck and Cavill thoughts on negitive reviews

    I do think the well will run dry at some point, although I don't know when that will be. Nobody back in the day thought westerns would ever run dry, but they did. I can't deny that leotard movies are very profitable, and, in fact, if you want to turn this around on me, you could note that I...
  12. skizzerflake

    Batman vs. Superman Dawn of Justice: Aflleck and Cavill thoughts on negitive reviews

    My "yeah but" - big money makes big ticket sales until it doesn't and too many of these behemoths fail, like the old westerns. When the saturation point is reached in these flix then the whole money thing will come into question. A movie like Room came in far under a million to make, but made...
  13. skizzerflake

    Batman vs. Superman Dawn of Justice: Aflleck and Cavill thoughts on negitive reviews

    In regard to " Aflleck and Cavill thoughts on negitive reviews " I will bite. On the other site where I generally post reviews, I refrained because I knew that I'd be just p*ssing into a headwind. I admit that I don't get it. Batman and Superman are left over from comix intended to entertain...
  14. skizzerflake

    Midnight Special - Strange Happenings in the Gulf Coast

    Midnight Special is the third feature I’ve seen that was written and directed by Jeff Nichols. Nichols seems to have a razor edged feel for dark side of the southern heartland. His previous films, Mud (starring Matthew McConaughy (before he dedicated his life to adjusting his cufflinks inside...
  15. skizzerflake

    Why is so much new music recorded so so badly?

    I'm willing to bet that, if you could go back to the original multi-tracked recordings as they are in the software, with all of their tracks intact separate, sans Autotune, mixing and dynamic compression, you could probably make them sound great. The awfulness of many contemporary recording is...
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    Hello, My Name is Doris - Time for a strange Rom-Com

    So, just who is Doris? We immediately recognize her as Sally Field, veteran of many movies and TV shows, all the way back to her teen years as Gidget and one of the all time oddest TV shows, The Flying Nun. In this movie, she is Doris Miller, somewhere in her unflattering 60’s. She is doing...
  17. skizzerflake

    10 Cloverfield Lane

    The name 10 Cloverfield Lane was obviously intended to suggest something, but what? This film seems like a mashup of Cloverfield suggestions, with a strong hint of Room and The Witch. Michelle (Mary Elizabeth Winstead), is driving along an unremarkable rural road in Louisiana when she’s hit by...
  18. skizzerflake

    The Witch - Is it a horror movie or a horrifying movie?

    I usually think of horror movies as having some sort of external threat like monsters, vampires, rampaging teenagers, etc but The Witch had none of that. I'm assuming that actual witches riding broomsticks were no more real then than now. The events portrayed in the movie are a condensed...
  19. skizzerflake

    The Witch - Is it a horror movie or a horrifying movie?

    If she's a horror fan, she might be disappointed since, I didn't see it as a horror movie, so much as an illustration of, is it was put in The Forbidden Planet, "Monsters from the Id".
  20. skizzerflake

    Zootopia

    Well…it was a slow week for new movies, so we decided to do something we hadn’t done for a while, like see an animated Disney movie. I was somewhat interested because it’s been sitting at 99% on Rotten Tomatoes and 8.3 on IMDB….what’s going on here? I knew what to expect, having done the...
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