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Think Like a Dog (2020)
Cute but not great talking dog movie
Like a copy of "look who's talking," and "young Sheldon"
Cute and amusing
The opening credits show that Chinese money produced this movie, and then there's shots of the kid playing a Chinese VR video game, he Skypes with a Chinese inventor... his friend is Chinese American...
The best actor is Kunal Nayyar
At first it seems like a repeat of his "Big Bang" character, but towards the end when he ( spoiler)
turns out to be a villain he's a pretty good bad guy.
I feel old now that Megan Fox is playing a mom.
This is nothing great, and the sound / music mix is bad, but it's a pretty good kids movie.
Oddballs (1984)
So bad it's funny
Cheap copy of "meatballs" mixed with Benny hill, porkys/etc .... it's terrible with cartoon sound effects and bad one liners but if you go into it knowing it's terrible, there's a LOT to groan and laugh at
Mary Poppins Returns (2018)
I loved the heck out of this movie!
I loved the heck out of this movie, BUT I am curious..
why is a non Disney company listed in the credits for the 2D animation.
DISNEY got another company to do the animation?!?!?
Why? How?!?!?
80 Blocks from Tiffany's (1979)
well done
watched all but one part of it on you tube (chapter 7 had the sound removed- why?) amazing- BRAVE filmmaker going into THAT neighborhood! There's something to be said for just turning the camera on and just letting what happens.. happen. It captures a time (thankfully) gone.
Feels very real, but don't forget- everyone knew they were being filmed! Most of these young kids were clearly "fronting" for the camera- the best parts are when the camera is semi hidden.
(spoiler)
no violence shown- but two characters arrange for a fist fight- no guns or anything- just a fist fight
Blood, Sweat & Teeth (2000)
One of the first of its kind
This film follows a wrestler and boxer from Austin, Texas (David Rivera) as he trains for his first "no holds barred" mixed martial arts tournament in Macon Ga (one of the few places these fights were legal at the time).
It touches on the concerns of his friends and family about his safety and comments from his fellow fighters about the (then) new sport of mixed , martial arts.
This was shot several years before Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) was popular on on TV- so it was one of the first of its kind.
At the time it was made- it was praised in the martial arts community as one of the most honest looks at MMA ever made. It covers all aspects of his training, and not just bloody fight footage.
It also has some rare footage of some amateur fighters who are now very well known in the martial arts world.
Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Naked Now (1987)
Not as good as I remembered it...
I really liked that episode at the time, I taped it on VHS and kept it for many years... "The Naked Now" Where they contract the same virus as in the Original Series "Naked Time" and act drunk. Data and Tasha get it on, Wesley takes over the ship.
Its funny how interested I was in watching the characters develop. They eventually developed them so well by the end of the series that watching first season episodes like this seems so embarrassingly stupid and primitive.
I often wanted them to revisit planets/ideas from the original series on TNG- this is a good example of why it was a good idea that they didn't do that.
But I liked it at first, even if I wince at it now. They reference the events of this episode in at least 2 other later episodes and in the Movie Star Trek: First Contact (1996) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0117731/
Date with a Kidnapper (1976)
Kidnapper Double Feature
I just rented a "Something Weird" Double Feature DVD.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0140174/ Hitch Hike to Hell (1977) and Date with a Kidnapper. (SPOILERS)
BAD BAD BAD. Horrible harsh lighting, static boring acting, lame still static camera-work. Phony acting except for the mother, the cop who was played by Russell Johnson ( The professor on Gilligans Island) and one of the victims mother. A Norman Bates type is mad that his sister ran away from home- so he murders runaway teens on the highway. I tried to find it so bad it was funny- just BAD.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077401/ Date with a Kidnapper (1976) Another Kidnap movie- but this one was WAY better. Clean color- VERY good camera work (nearly every shot was on a dolly). Eddie Matlock, a guy who looks like a cross between Ted Bundy and Gil Gerard (Buck Rogers) kidnaps a dorky college girl. He hides her in a sleazy motel- then 2 other unrelated gangsters come in and rape her.
someone on IMDb said: "A woman living in a boarding house is kidnapped by a small-time criminal. Soon others in the gang try to take her away from him so they can get the ransom."
I don't think I agree with that- I don't think they were part of the same gang. At one point Eddie Matlock says " I don't know you!"
Some VERY cool shots. But it got bizarre when the two fall in love and wind up at a farmhouse owned by an insane ex cop who looks like Santa Claus. He comes after Eddie with a knife and he shoots Santa. Then we see Santa with a pitchfork in him (?). Then they just let 3 hoodlums take the ransom money (!)
Did the 3 hoodlums kill them?
Was the money traceable? Is that why they let the robbers have it? I didn't buy them falling in love- unmotivated.
I agree that I like the direction- the little touches like the old man ignoring the screeches.
PS- did they just abandon the mute girl at the farm?
The Big World of Little Adam (1964)
Saw it at Comic Con
At Jerry Becks "Worst Animation EVER" show! It felt like the storyboards for an unfinished cartoon, not an actual cartoon itself!
The characters held books up to their mouth to hide the fact that the lips weren't animated!
But I also the person also did some better work later.
From another site:
Capitalizing on the phenomenon, producer Fred Ladd secured the rights to a series of NASA color documentaries about space, technology and all things futuristic, packaging them together into half-hour bundles as The Big World of Little Adam.
The show's title came from its cartoon host, a curious lad named Little Adam. Rather than simply present the documentaries as they were, Ladd created a pair of animated siblings to help explain things to the kids at home. Adam and his freckled kid brother Wilbur appeared in limited animation wraparounds, setting the scene for the series' showcase of NASA innovation and hopes for the future.
110 five-minute episodes of The Big World of Little Adam were produced during the show's syndicated run, but unfortunately, the series couldn't keep pace with its subject. Like all things technological, NASA's documentaries quickly became obsolete as the U.S. spent billions trying to beat the Soviets to the moon. With so much happening so fast, the world of space exploration simply became too big for Little Adam, and the series faded into memory.
Dream on Silly Dreamer (2005)
Good not great
I saw this at comic con 2006.
This is a good (but not great) doc about the demise of Disney's traditional 2D animation division.
Lots of sketchbook art given simple animation ( I expected better- especially since its all about how there's a lot of unemployed animators now).
Why not one good clean shot of the house hat animation building?
There's a drawing of it and a shot of some fireworks near it...
is it still there?
what would the cartoonists have preferred?
no interviews with Walts relatives?
No examples of fine 2D vs 3D? I understand about copyrighted images- but aren't you allowed to use short sample of copyrighted stuff for criticism and review?
Superman Returns (2006)
Too much CGI! Lois is too young!
I had the same problems with a lot of the effects that I have with almost every new movie. The curse of the green screen. Even if you don't ever see that 1970's style black line around the image layers- it just doesn't look right.
The scene on Lex's yacht- all that trouble to build a boat set in a green screen room- why not just - oh I don't know- put the boat on water and shoot it for real?!?!?
Kevin Spacey was awesome, and this Brandon Routh really looks ( and REALLY sounds) like Christopher Reeve! DIE Dean Caine you Chippendale's weenie!
Kate Bosworth?!!? Ehhh- her not so much- where was the Lois Lane aggression?!?! To me the word "Lois Lane" equals "power b---h" Bosworth as Lois looked too young. I would have used Jennifer Connelly or Selma Blair. Bosworth is younger than Anna Paquin!?!?!
SPOILERS!
That Plot twist- the superb----rd! I did NOT see that one coming! Richard- NOT a bad guy- you want to hate him to get out him out of the way - but he's a noble fellow- he too saves the day by flying in. HOW DO a reporter and a junior editor afford a riverfront house like that AND a private plane(?!?!?!)
I loved all the tie-ins to the first 2 Superman movies- especially Lex's dialog.
Jimmy Olsen said "P--sed" and "Lois already DID Superman" huhuhuhuhuh!
That kid who took the classic Action Comics #1 pose with his cell phone- AWESOME! Will the DVD explain why Lex had one of his henchmen carry a camcorder?
The boat scene was almost verbatim copied from Titanic.
That obviously 3D CGI Superman looking over the Earth- why do they bother? Why not just have the actor in shots like that?
I didn't get Luthors plan either- a little TOO much of a nod to the first movie. (As a kid Gene Hackman and his plan bored me- too "real" and not Superman-ey enough.)
I liked that Supes had to strain- but then again- if a plane was a strain HOW did he lift that kryptonite island?
I look forward to "Superman Returns 2"
United 93 (2006)
I never cry at movies, I did at UNITED 93
The song line "Im the kinda guy who laughs at a funeral, If you understand you soon will"normally describes me. Not Today.
I am so shaken I can barely write
BUT
If GW Bush doesn't want me to see a movie
I'm GOING OPENING DAY- FIRST SHOW!
United 93 (2006)
I arrived just as it was starting, I missed nothing. The Alamo Village
The theater was crowded. I sat in between a lot of apparently retired people.
They used a lot of that shaky, hand-held "nypd blue" camera work . At first I was analyzing the film-making, not the film. I ruin everything for myself.
No big stars. No effects that I noticed, at least nothing felt like effects.
TITANIC puts you on that boat and sends you DOWN. It shook me it was so emotional.
SAVING PVT RYAN. The first 20 minutes
. What can I say- it puts you ON THAT BEACH and wont ever say "its just a movie" I was shaken and teary eyed.
Very few movies make me cry. Most tear jerker's annoy me. Maybe make me laugh.
I saw "Crash" with my friend Ginger. She cried, I saw it as an annoying emotional con game.
"Jack the Bear." A few teary scenes
"The Mighty" had be BAWLING! (I don't think I could EVER watch it again)
" A Tree Grows in Brooklyn" (the old 1940s one.)
The Sesame Street Episode where they tell Big Bird that Mr. Hooper died.
The old "Brians Song"
Maybe a few others
.
This movie.
The final scene.
It puts you IN a plane seat. On THAT flight. You think, (or someone like ME thinks) "Hey Look- he dropped the detonator - go NOW! NOW! NOW!"
(spoilers)
I fantasized being the guy punching the hijackers.
Thats what guys like me do. We watch action movies/ war movies. etc and pay attention like its a training video- I'm gonna have to DO this for real sometime later- right? HAHAHA!
They go after the first guy... I pounded my first into the theater seat and blurted out "Fn A Right!".
The old guy next to me grunted at me "d--n straight"
They charge down the aisle. "Its about time!!!"
They get the bomber. "HOO YAH!"
The second one- a scrawny little punk with a knife. I could beat the S--- out of that -----.
I scan my "friends" on screen. Hmm HE could take him
"HE" tried, and failed- but the next one in line got him. I'm a liberal, and I wanted to cut his --- yeah.
"Yeah- give him a good one for me!"
SMASH THAT DOOR! BATTER IT DOWN!
Don't quit now! You can do this.
YOU"RE IN!!!
"F----N A!!!"
Grab the controls. Aww the poor Arab is upset you grabbed the controls
Yeah that's it! You can DO this!
That's how movies end right? The Americans always win in the end right?
Right?
We all know how it ended.
But I didn't know nothing.
The credits rolled. I was tearing up. I looked at my aisle neighbors. Can we get a group hug?
We sit, ALL OF US, for a long while after the credits have stopped.
Somebody- not me- got it together to get up.
At some point I get up. Tears flow down my face- I cant stop it
..
This isn't me.
Matt K-------i is a callous tough guy I don't CRY!
I go into the lobby.
TV news lights are blasting in my face.
They see me, a big manly man, in tears, "Hey THAT'S TV!"
I don't know what I said
. I was sobbing like at a funeral.
Please don't laugh at me.
Can I have a hug?