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Maverick... fun movie with the family... I would love to replay it if I had some dials.. to get someone different than Miles Teller... just to see. to try to deal with Mav/Goose Jr and make it more believable and heartfelt...
I kinda wish I'd known it was going to be such a copy of original... might have set my brain better...

Jennifer Connolly is so friggin hot... then find out she's 51 ... AMAZING... may edge out my addiction to Marisa Tomei
Probably a better choice than bringing back Kelly McGillis
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Been over a year since my last theater experience
 
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Just got back from Thor: Love and Thunder. It wasn't bad, certainly not as bad as the first two Thor films, but it was not Ragnorok great either. It was just… too much Taika Waititi. This film is absolutely manic. Spectacular visuals, especially the hard cut from a film so vibrantly colorful to essentially being black & white for a spell in the final act. Christian Bale is predictably brilliant as Gorr, The God Butcher; but the interludes with Zeus (Russell Crowe) are gratuitous and overdone, as are the bleating goats (its setup as a funny "I'm not doing 'Get Help,'" from the previous film… it isn't. The screaming goats goes on the entire film — like a 14 year old discovering a fart noise soundboard app for their phone).

Uneven, but not unenjoyable. Probably still the best part of Phase 4, which is a pretty low bar.

If you've been spoiler free, I'll just say there are both a mid-credits scene and a post-credits scene.
 
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P.S. — People may overlook the fact Love and Thunder has a PG-13 rating. It was warranted. While The Grandmasters orgy vehicle from Ragnorok was dismissively mentioned in a throw away line, the Greek Pantheon enjoying orgies is gratuitously played for laughs (poorly) by Zeus in this. The scene goes on too long and I think orgies were mention three times (along with a shot of Chris Hemsworth’s naked ass and a sight gag of women fainting at seeing his dick). Know your audience if you think you can take your kids to this one.
 
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I absolutely hated this movie. was rushed. too many gaps. Gorr’s origin needed more time and time to breathe.
Seeing Thor relegated to the IQ of a 5 year old and relegated to dick jokes is a farce. thankfully the audio in the theater cut out a few times so I got my money back. just awful.
 
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Dryden said:
Just got back from Thor: Love and Thunder. It wasn’t bad, certainly not as bad as the first two Thor films, but it was not Ragnorok great either. It was just… too much Taiki Waititi. This film was absolutely manic. Spectacular visuals, especially the hard cut from a film so vibrantly colorful to essentially being black & white for a spell in the final act. Christian Bale is predictably brilliant as Gorr, The God Butcher. But the interludes with Zeus (Russell Crowe) are too gratuitous and go on too long, as are the bleating goats (its set up as a funny “I’m not doing ‘Get Help,” from the previous film… it isn’t. The screaming goats goes on far too long — like a 14 year old with a fart noise soundboard app on their phone).

Uneven, but not unenjoyable. Probably still the best part of Phase 4, which is a pretty low bar.

If you’ve been spoiler free, I’ll just say there are both a mid-credits scene and a post-credits scene.
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Dryden said:
P.S. — People may overlook the fact Love and Thunder has a PG-13 rating. It was warranted. While The Grandmasters orgy vehicle from Ragnorok was dismissively mentioned in a throw away line, the Greek Pantheon enjoying orgies is gratuitously played for laughs (poorly) by Zeus in this. The scene goes on too long and I think orgies were mention three times (along with a shot of Chris Hemsworth’s naked ass and a sight gag of women fainting at seeing his dick). Know your audience if you think you can take your kids to this one.
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I absolutely hated this movie. was rushed. too many gaps. Gorr’s origin needed more time and time to breathe.
Seeing Thor relegated to the IQ of a 5 year old and relegated to dick jokes is a farce. thankfully the audio in the theater cut out a few times so I got my money back. just awful.
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I thought it was pretty damn good and my daughter (13) and son (11) thought so too. A notch below Ragnarock for me. My daughter said it was so much better than she thought it would be. She hates the Jane Foster character but thought she was tolerable in this one.

The soundtrack is great. They could have done more with Gorr for sure. The comedy is just as good as Ragnarock or the Guardian movies.
 
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Just got back from 'Thor: Love & Thunder.'

I'll start by saying it was a fun and fairly enjoyable movie. One of the things that has made the MCU movies so enjoyable is their ability to wink and inject bits of comedy to lighten the mood. They're teetering on the edge of being too "winky" with this one. I suppose maybe they felt it was needed after the much darker tone of 'Multiverse of Madness', but it felt a bit overboard and forced a lot of the time. Gorr could have been one of the great villains of the MCU, but he felt like an afterthought to all of the gags which is disappointing, because Christian Bale was phenomenal in the role and they kind of just wasted him to get in some dick jokes and trot out Russell Crowe (who has slowly morphed into Phil Margera before our eyes.)

Overall, I'd give it a 5/10. One of the weaker MCU movies, but if you're just looking for a fun cinematic experience, it's worth a go.

Side note - They were really trying to revive Guns 'n Roses, huh? It felt like a two hour advertisement for 'Appetite for Destruction.'
 
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Side note - They were really trying to revive Guns 'n Roses, huh? It felt like a two hour advertisement for 'Appetite for Destruction.'
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Guns N Roses are really trying to revive Guns N Roses. They’re licensing their name to everything. The new GNR pinball from Jersey Jack is phenomenal. You can have one of these bad boys in your own home for the low low price of $11,000, plus tax and freight!

http://store.jerseyjackpinball.com/...-N-Roses-Limited-Edition-Pinball-Machine.html
 
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This week on TCM's Noir Alley (tonight at midnight, tomorrow at 10:00 AM).... The Third Man, which isn't really American (it's British, despite the fact that the AFI lists it as the 57th-best Hollywood movie), which means it isn't really film noir, but that's an argument for another day....
  • The Third Man (1949). Director: Carol Reed. Cast: Joseph Cotten; Orson Welles; Alida Valli; Trevor Howard; Bernard Lee; Ernst Deutsch; Siegfried Breuer; Erich Ponto.
On a lark, American author Holly Martins (Cotten) travels to post-war Vienna to visit his old friend Harry Lime (Welles). Before Martins can even get acclimated to the war-torn and military-occupied city, he learns that Lime has been killed in a suspicious road accident (he was run over by a truck in front of his own apartment building). At Lime's funeral, Martins meets a pair of British soldiers (Howard and Lee), who tell him that his friend was a ruthless racketeer as they try to send him packing back to America. This, of course, piques Martins's interest in the matter and provides more than enough incentive for him to stick around Vienna and investigate Lime's death, which is beginning to look less like an accident and more like a murder. As Martins travels through the seedy Vienna underworld (filmed on location, complete with bombed-out buildings and piles of rubble), he meets Lime's shady friends (Deutsch; Breuer; Ponto) and sexy paramour (Valli), whose stories about Lime's life and death tend to confirm his darkest suspicions. Welles did not direct or write this movie (although he is generally credited with creating his famous cuckoo clock monologue), and he appears on screen for only a few minutes, but he is clearly the star of the show, the X-factor who not only drives the plot but also turns a standard thriller into a cinematic masterpiece. Justly famous for Robert Krasker's dark cinematography, Anton Karas's haunting zither score, Graham Greene's taut screenplay (from his own novella), the climatic chase scene in the sewers of Vienna, and the very un-Hollywood coda at Harry Lime's grave. A must-see classic.​
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Years after buying the blu-ray (apparently the worst version, with no English subtitles), I finally watched The Third Man. Wow. What a great film. Pretty much everything about the film is well done, from the set up, to the characters, to the primary mystery and investigation, and finally to the resolution. Many of the film's elements have Hitchcock-like qualities. It is all satisfying.

All that being stated, those last two scenes steal the show. The Ferris Wheel scene is the best face-to-face prelude to the ultimate resolution that I've seen - it has all the greatness of the similar showdown in the movie Heat where the DeNiro and Pacino characters lay down what's to come in the diner, but with a couple added elements in the form of being isolated and suspended in air during the confrontation (if that's not a dreamlike feeling of no-turning-back then I don't know what is), and the sheer physical imposition and disproportion of Welles' character. Then, the final chase scene is so well done. It has surely influenced countless films in that regard in the many many years since.

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