Oh I'm sorry, Did I Break Your Conversation........Well Allow Me A Movie Thread by S&T

[Master Zik]

it was 90% hopelessness which was intended of course

but the climax felt like I was watching john wick

Haven't seen John Wick in a while. It was a really good movie. What was so bad about the ending?

From what I remember in the end he kills the mob boss/father or maybe he killed the son last. Then he went home.

what's the point of having a protagonist who (along with the audience) is kept in the dark for most of the movie only to break away from her and turn things into a cool action movie where we see everything as is?

 Kept in the dark from what?

The audience was told everything. The whole point of the movie from Brolin's and Del Toro's character was to get the kingpin of this particular cartel. Brolin cuz it was his orders and the mission was to take out the cartels and make one in charge of all the drugs. Del Toro's cuz he wanted revenge.

You're told everything you need to know along the way. From why they took the brother and got escorted out of Mexico, why he was tortured, what they got from that, why they targeted that underboss dude, and why and how they got to the main boss. This is not a legit complaint.

most people on NT and that I've talked to about this movie think del toro's character was really cool and they should have focused it on him. That just totally undercuts the core message they were trying to convey, we should not want to see more senseless glorified violence after a movie like this. 

That's probably cuz they wanted a different movie of this just solely being a revenge flick with a lot of action and cool ****.

Like I said before I don't think that was the intent of the movie at all. All the stuff with showing Silvio and his son speaks to that, especially with the ending there where the gun shots interrupt the soccer match.

Not a major problem but I would have liked to see one or two short scene's where we get more of an insight into kate's personal life, would have made the character more dynamic and relatable. 

Well like I said before I can understand this, maybe in the beginning they could've really hammered down her character to make it clear why she doesn't change even if it was as small as some other characters talking about how she's such a hard *** and by the book. I picked up on it and it didn't really bother me throughout the film.

 

[CP1708]

They told you in the very opening, Sicario means Hitman.

We all knew she wasn't a Hitman.
Brolin wasn't no Hitman.

So who did that leave?

The "bad guy" is faceless, because he doesn't matter. Cartel is a cartel, no matter who assumes control. They just work out a nicer deal. (Like Brolin mentions). Still drugs, still violence, still Wars against rival Cartels, but at least the bodies in walls, and beheading, and **** like that would stop. Organized chaos I guess.

Blunt had NO idea what she signed up for. She wasn't ready, no one is. She wants to help, but like her boss said "do you feel we're, winning?"

She tried to play by the rules in a war with none. Brolin, Benicio knew this, and told her as such. He told her to keep her eyes open and learn something. He told her don't go in the bank. She didn't listen.

I loved all 3 leads, I loved that they lulled you to sleep "Sicario means Hitman" and I watched for 105 minutes completely forgetting there would be a need for a Hitman and just wondering what Brolin's endgame was.

Soon as Benicio shot her and took the cop, I remembered. He wasn't sneaking in to file paperwork and make arrests, he was gonna cut the Head off an entire Cartel.

And somehow the Director slowplayed me, and kept me in the dark, even tho he'd already told me the meaning of his film.

Excellent film.

 

[CP1708]

The Big Short was ******* OUTSTANDING!!!!

How did they manage to make a story like that so interesting????

 

[Master Zik]

Only thing I wondered about is when he told them don't go in the bank and she did, right there and then I thought oh maybe one of the guys in the cartel will look at the bank surveillance and have them followed.

That kinda didn't happen since we find out dude just wanted to know what she knew but I found it all kind of fishy that her partner is never marked the way she is and the guy who was gonna do it was friends with her partner.

A good 15 min after and while they were in the tunnel had me thinking they were gonna reveal her partner was the hit man the whole time or something but that was just what was going on in my head that didn't play out that way.

 

[getback]

Spent my NYE watching Argo

One of my favorites from the past few years.

 

[stuntman mike]

one of my few dislikes about the big short was when the actors addressed the audience. one of my biggest liked is what they did with celebs like bourdain, selena gomez etc. i really enjoyed bale in this movie.

i'm with the guys that loved sicario. easy in my top 10 for the year, possibly top 5.

 

[KingParappa]

Why haven't we all watched a movie together using Rabbit https://rabb.it/ ?

 

[robtoofresco]

Martian has been pretty universally well received on here. So, I'll have to put aside my Matt Damon aversion and check it out. Don't know exactly why, but I generally find him annoying. I recognize its irrational, but it is what it is.

My man, these are my exact sentiments regarding Matt Damon

His face just always screamed "punch me."

 

[KingParappa]

Finally got around to What We Do In the Shadows. Good stuff.

Loved this movie.

Just finished this.

Smooth 6/8

Stu was the highlight of the movie

 

[sea manup]

Matt Damon just plays scumbags

Interstellar, departed, playing himself in house of lies

 

[Master Zik]

one of my few dislikes about the big short was when the actors addressed the audience. one of my biggest liked is what they did with celebs like bourdain, selena gomez etc. i really enjoyed bale in this movie.

It was one thing when Gosling's character did it with the you'll see me later that was obnoxious but then no name actors I didn't recognize started doing it

They went full throttle on keeping the audience engaged and wanting to make them laugh in various ways.

Matt Damon just plays scumbags

Interstellar, departed, playing himself in house of lies

Now that I think about it he was a snarky jerk in Goodwill Hunting and Rounders

 

[big j 33]

Why haven't we all watched a movie together using Rabbit https://rabb.it/ ?

I've never heard of that, it's pretty cool, but I can only assume time is the biggest issue. I remember we tried the movie club awhile back and it worked for the first few weeks, but then we dropped off a little. So that was just giving everyone like a week to watch the same movie, not even on the same night.

 

[big j 33]

I watched The Big Short tonight, and I loved it as expected.

The cast was top notch.. even the supporting roles from the non-big names nailed their parts. The writing was sharp and I loved the way they managed to not only keep the audience engaged throughout the movie, but they switched it up by breaking the 4th wall and bringing in others as themselves to explain the more detailed and intricate details of the movie.

I knew the basic story after watching the trailers, but I thought all of the characters would be dealing with each other, so the format of following 3 separates people/groups as they all slowly discovered this was fascinating. And the movie did a great job of building the drama as more and more layers are peeled back and you see how far and deep the fraud, stupidity, and corruption goes.

A must watch and Best Picture contender.

 

[CP1708]

It Follows was ok. I wasn't blown away, but wasn't terrible.

 

[KingParappa]

Sicaro. 5/8*


*I was barely paying attention. I'll watch it again in a week and see how I truly feel.

 

[Master Zik]

The Big Short was great. Like surprisingly better than I thought it'd be after reading ppl's posts praising it.

Just about everything I wanted it to be after I watched those other movies and documentaries about the gov't bail out.

That synthetic CDO though

I was already interested but adding in Robbie, Bourdain, and the music videos made it hard to lose interest I was engaged throughout.

Bale was excellent. Gosling was also really good in this. I enjoyed Pitt and the rest of the cast as well.

Carrell was THE BEST. Son just nailed this. He was SO GOOD. He made it hurt so bad in being right I could've watched a movie just about him calling ppl out on their bull ****.

McKay did a great job directing this movie.

7.6/8

 

[sea manup]

going to catch big short, spotlight, hateful 8 and the revenant next week

my body is ready 

 

[sea manup]

this is a top 5 scene of the year

 

[cash money 1999]

Sicario was outstanding

 

[mugen81]

Clockwork Orange was aight...
The scene with the eye drops ****** me up tho[emoji]128557[/emoji][emoji]128557[/emoji]

 

[shogun]

Watched the first episode of The Man In The High Castle. I'm in. Will probably finish it up before I start Narcos again.

Binge watched it last week. Really enjoyed it. The bad guys are way more interesting than the good guys (counting Joe as a good guy)

On episode 9 now. Yo, the audacity of this bish juliana to ask Frank to save that guy lusting after her. That Colt still has 2 bullets in it, i'd put a bullet each into that trollip and snake's skulls.

 

[robtoofresco]

Also, who's got a helpful link that'll teach a brother about this /8 ranking system you guys use

I've been told only heathens use /10 or /5.

Pls respond.

 

[big j 33]

It's just something that became the thing to do in here, I want to say rck started it but I'm not sure. Nothing to it, just ranked out of 8 instead of 5 or 10.

 

[johnnyredstorm]

It's just something that became the thing to do in here, I want to say rck started it but I'm not sure. Nothing to it, just ranked out of 8 instead of 5 or 10.

6/8 explanation

 

[lawdog1]

It's just something that became the thing to do in here, I want to say rck started it but I'm not sure. Nothing to it, just ranked out of 8 instead of 5 or 10.

I'm fairly sure Rck did start it and at one point explained his reasoning for the 8 scale, but that was probably like 500 pages ago. Now, it's just what we do,

On that note, caught Ant-Man last night and enjoyed it. The main players were good, including Michael Pena, and I liked that it was more overtly comedic than most Marvel movies. 6.575/8. I had to knock off a few points for Evangeline Lily's haircut, which I did not like.