What Movies Have You Seen Lately?

Quote: rxwine

Well, it can be distracting. Anyway, I'll take the residuals from the "unsuccessful"

Success has nothing to do with quality.
There are plenty of mouth breathers
out there who will always think shows
like Matlock and Quincy are just great.
And Bones. 12 seasons of pure drek.

I saw The Secret Life of Pets a week ago. I feel asleep through about half. So did my wife. That should be about all I need to say.

Quote: Wizard

I saw The Secret Life of Pets a week ago. I feel asleep through about half. So did my wife. That should be about all I need to say.

I feel asleep during Gravity. Nuff said.. You're
also over 50 now, welcome to pre-senior life.

Quote: Wizard

I saw The Secret Life of Pets a week ago. I feel asleep through about half. So did my wife. That should be about all I need to say.

That film seems to scream "small screen".

Quote: Pacomartin

in all his years of training for the SEALs they never shot or bayoneted a target once. It was always against realistic depictions of people. It was considered a natural part of training you to kill people, you had to desensitize your feelings.

Even gun ranges now offer cans of tomato juice behind the paper targets so it looks more realistic. Wearing head phones and shooting at paper is all fine and dandy, but in the real world its human targets and they are shooting back and blood, gore, noise and confusion is everywhere. And the consequences for reacting to blood, gore, noise and confusion is death.

Glory was the 1989 movie about the black soldiers that served in the Civil War

'Glory' was probably the most authentic-looking ACW movie ever made, and was a good movie period.

Quote: Wizard

I saw The Secret Life of Pets a week ago. I feel asleep through about half. So did my wife. That should be about all I need to say.

I thought the guinea pig would have a bigger role. hehe

It was disappointing. The best gags were all in the trailer. The theater I saw it in was crowded (~75% full) for late on a Sunday night. If anyone is considering this for their pre-K kids, think twice. There are multiple car chases, scary scenes in the sewer, near drownings, and a character gets killed.

Quote: Ayecarumba

. If anyone is considering this for their pre-K kids, think twice. There are multiple car chases, scary scenes in the sewer, near drownings, and a character gets killed.

I don't know if I talked about it before here, but there is an old movie I saw as a kid about beavers. It was very Disney-like about the happy happy life of a couple of beavers until unexpectedly a grisly scene where our hero gets run through with a spike and skinned.

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Reddit fanboys mention many callouts to the series Enterprise. Did you notice that?

Much of the story in the new Star Trek movie revolves around an old starship that predates the events in the TV show "Enterprise". The writer's tried very hard to make the "timeline" work, so there are many references to the "Enterprise" TV show since that was supposed to be a prequel to the original 60's Star Trek show.

Here's some trivia: The registry number of this old starship (NX-326) is a reference to a beloved Star Trek character. What is the connection?





I also thought the film had too many scenes in dark areas that made the 3-D worthless (I saw it in a "Real3D" equipped theater, but doubt that IMAX 3-D would be better).

There was also a big hullaballoo made about the gay Sulu. In the film it was really a non-event. As the way it was played, his "husband" could have been interpreted as his brother or college roommate. I suspect this may have been done purposefully to get the film past morality censors in international markets.