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purbeast0 said:
I tried to watch this movie based on your recommendation but stopped like 20 minutes into it. It was just boring and the acting was so painful.

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LOL after IMDB'ing, I see there are 2 "The Mummy" movies that both came out this year and it appears I started the other one.
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I didn't realize there was another recent one that's odd, but I discovered this one is called "Lee Cronin's The Mummy" Which seems like a stupid name for a movie, but now I know there was a different one I guess the name makaes sense. If you found this one, you probably saw the reviews are all over the place. So I don't know if you'll like it, but I'd imagine you'd at least make it much further than 20 minutes lol.
 
QueBert said:
I didn't realize there was another recent one that's odd, but I discovered this one is called "Lee Cronin's The Mummy" Which seems like a stupid name for a movie, but now I know there was a different one I guess the name makaes sense. If you found this one, you probably saw the reviews are all over the place. So I don't know if you'll like it, but I'd imagine you'd at least make it much further than 20 minutes lol.
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I definitely want to see : "Lee Cronin's The Mummy".

I just finished : "The cleansing hour".
That was an oke horror movie.

I also watched : "Arcadian".
Strange movie.
 
i don't think im gonna make it to the end, and i'm barely half an hour in. Reynolds is constantly playing this buffoon that completely clashes with any attempt at making this serious.
I'm also hating both his attitude as scientist, which again clashes with the rest of the cast trying to be serious, and the ridiculous trope of "we're sending the least qualified person on the planet".

seriously tho, can this guy stop for a fucking second embarrassing himself?
 
DigDog said:
i don't think im gonna make it to the end, and i'm barely half an hour in. Reynolds is constantly playing this buffoon that completely clashes with any attempt at making this serious.
I'm also hating both his attitude as scientist, which again clashes with the rest of the cast trying to be serious, and the ridiculous trope of "we're sending the least qualified person on the planet".

seriously tho, can this guy stop for a fucking second embarrassing himself?
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- Ohhh you're watching the Ryan Reynolds Hail Mary.

The rest of us watched the Ryan Gosling Hail Mary.

Its like the Mummy situation above, can be confusing. 🤣
 
igor_kavinski said:
Watch the first Silent Hill and avoid the latest Silent Hill.

And Legion https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1038686/reference/

Some scary monsters in that.
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The latest Silent Hill's 28% on RT, which is fucking terrible. I think that might be a little too high. I was so bored watching it. The story was shit, the acting was terrible, even the CGI was bad.



I just finished season 1 of TED. It's the show version of the movie. It's pretty fucking funny, the dad's becomes beyond unhinged at basically any and everything. He's like a modern-day Archie Bunker. Errr, the show takes place in the eairly 90s so I guess a 90's Archie. He comes across as sexist and a bit racist, but like Archie, I think his heart's in the right place but he's just not the smartest and speaks without thinking. It's incredibly inappropriate, tons of sex talk, and Ted is doing bong rips pretty much every episode. It's hilarious seeing a teddy bear smoking a bong. I also like that since it's an online show the episodes aren't the usually 22 minutes. I think all of them have been 45. I read online it won't be coming back for a 3rd season because it's too expensive and hard to make with the CGI. Which really sucks because it's pretty well written.

There's one episode I especially related to where John & Ted get a hold of a porn tape and the shit gets stuck in the VCR. I had that happen to me when I was 15, right around when this show takes place too :|

I love the toilet humor, and all the regular characters are funny. The mom's completely clueless to anything sexual. It's not a show for people who can be offended, it's not as bad as South Park or It's Always Sunny In Philly. Not yet at least, but it's definitely not something kiddies should watch. Well, there was a scene where the dad recalls a story where he jacked off a dog. So I guess it might be pretty fucking bad lol. The complete silence and look on the whole family's face after he told that had me rolling.

The guy who plays John looks nothing like Mark Wahlberg, I'm assuming he's supposed to be the John from the movie when he was 16. My only beef is Seth MacFarlane the man of 1,000 voices made Ted's voice identical to Peter Griffin's. So when I hear Ted I can't not think Peter.
 
DigDog said:
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Realistic as in:

1. Plausible issue (space noms = chilly planet)
2. Plausible technology (spaceship etc., no magic Star Wars type of stuff)
3. Plausible alien interaction (personality, communication, alternative approaches to technology usage)

Not serious & not heavy like:

1. Interstellar
2. Gravity
3. Ad Astra
4. Apollo 13

Fun fact!

www.usatoday.com

Fact check: Yes, Jack Black's mother worked on system that helped save Apollo 13 astronauts

A post circulating on Facebook claims Jack Black's mother helped design a system that saved the Apollo 13 astronauts. That is true.
www.usatoday.com www.usatoday.com

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Saw Desert Warrior, it's a beautiful and brutal movie. A lot of the reviews online are 1 star and bitching about how it was a saudi funded training movie for saudi movie makers. The visuals are stunning and the horse & camel chase scenes were epic. Not the greatest acting, but I enjoyed it overall. The cinematography really won me over.

Film synopsis - Defying a ruthless emperor, a princess flees into the Arabian desert, hunted by mercenaries. Forged into a warrior and aided by a legendary bandit, she unites warring tribes for a last stand that will change history.

It's worth watching for the scenery and chase scenes alone. I definitely don't understand all the 1 star reviews.
 
TBF there's probably about a million mummy movies out there and at least half are probably called 'The Mummy' or something similar 🙂

I wonder which there's more of: Dracula movies or mummy movies.


Fancy mistaking Ryan Reynolds for Ryan Gosling though.

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mikeymikec said:
TBF there's probably about a million mummy movies out there and at least half are probably called 'The Mummy' or something similar 🙂

I wonder which there's more of: Dracula movies or mummy movies.


Fancy mistaking Ryan Reynolds for Ryan Gosling though.

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Both Canadian, both goofy in movies, both Ryan. It's understandable. Even the writer of Project Hail Mary, Andrew Weir, mixed them up xd.
 
IronWing said:
I think a realistic space movie would be dull like one of those 1960s art films showing four hours of a blank wall.
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- Every space movie really just needs to employ a good "one big lie" to overcome the most BS element of a realistic space movie: It takes god damn forever to go anywhere or do anything.

The Expanse had the unfortunately named Epstein Drive.

Project Hail Mary has Astrophage (source and solution to so many problems)

Everything else usually just does hyperdrives/warp drive/Gravity Drive whatever McGuffin lets people zip around from point A to point B in a narratively satisfying way.

Project Hail Mary definitely did a better job of it then most. As far as the book was concerned, a good amount of time was spent explaining why Astrophage could be used to do the things that it could, even if the fundamental mechanism by which Astophage functioned is still ultimately a McGuffin. It's closer to "realistic" sci-fi than not if we're looking at the spectrum.
 
DigDog said:
whatever dude. mr stupidface up there.
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His character in the book is like he is in the film. And while he is a brilliant scientist, as they state he had a big falling out with the scientific community when he went for a crazy theory on the ability of life to exist, and just went to teach kids - and he was just a goofy and funny school science teacher after that. His persona in the movie is correct, and one of the more endearing parts of the book is the humor.

I do wish the movie was like fifteen minutes longer to have incorporated some more of the science than it did, and also a couple parts should have been longer.
 
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