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I watched Time Trap last night and enjoyed it quite a bit. A few things don't hold up under intense scrutiny but the concept was pretty cool and it had fun with it.
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Chaotic Flame posted:I watched Time Trap last night and enjoyed it quite a bit. A few things don't hold up under intense scrutiny but the concept was pretty cool and it had fun with it. Fun concept, terrible acting, needed more visual stuff with the whole reveal / ending but I get it was super low budget.
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Oct 7, 2019 04:37
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Time Travel movies never hold up under scrutiny, especially the endings, but Time Trap did a better job than most B movies of developing real suspense and tension while avoiding a lot of common tropes. The acting was good considering it's low budget and inexperienced cast. I also liked that almost every character had their time to shine and it wasn't a vehicle for just one actor. It probably helped that I went into it blind, knowing nothing about it.
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Oct 7, 2019 05:59
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Time Trap is a bad movie elevated to a very entertaining experience by a likable cast and absolutely bonkers premise that they utilize extremely well. That ending was something else.
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Oct 7, 2019 07:47
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I’ve never read the story for In the Tall Glass, but it’s good that they embraced King’s weirdness. A lot of adaptations tend to focus on the broad strokes and try to stay accessible. But a lot of King’s stuff goes off the rails in a way I hadn’t actually seen done until this one.
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Oct 8, 2019 05:02
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Double Dare, a documentary on stuntwomen following Zoë Bell when she first comes to America, is up on Amazon Prime and well worth a watch. Bell is freaking adorable.
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Oct 8, 2019 06:40
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I'm only 22 years late but I finally watched Event Horizon. It's great and it's on Hulu, so watch it if you can! Also watched Mom and Dad on Hulu. Enjoyed it up until the end.
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Oct 9, 2019 18:14
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I just saw: In the shadow of the moon. Fun movie.
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Oct 9, 2019 18:44
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My wife was watching In The Shadow Of The Moon the other day and I happened to catch maybe the last 5 or 10 minutes. I went back and read the description and to be honest I don't think I would ever have watched it unless someone else put it on. But seeing the ending and reading the blurb has me a little interested in how it gets from A to B.
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Oct 9, 2019 20:09
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The Spy on Netflix was really good. I had no idea it was based on a real guy until the end.
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Oct 9, 2019 22:44
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Inspector 34 posted:My wife was watching In The Shadow Of The Moon the other day and I happened to catch maybe the last 5 or 10 minutes. I went back and read the description and to be honest I don't think I would ever have watched it unless someone else put it on. But seeing the ending and reading the blurb has me a little interested in how it gets from A to B. It is nothing special, but it is ok for a watch. The one part that really was weird is the music in the beginning when they arrest some people. It was so weird compared to the tone the film set earlier.
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Oct 10, 2019 05:01
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Inspector 34 posted:My wife was watching In The Shadow Of The Moon the other day and I happened to catch maybe the last 5 or 10 minutes. I went back and read the description and to be honest I don't think I would ever have watched it unless someone else put it on. But seeing the ending and reading the blurb has me a little interested in how it gets from A to B. You've seen the ending so this won't matter to you, but it's not hard to figure out whats happening really early and who the killer is + what their motivation is and I just wasn't interested in Lockhart's descent over the years, so I didn't really like it that much. It plays like an inferior imitation of a Nolan film. Although the film is at it's best in the 1988 and 1997 bits. And I know these questions always come up in films with this content,but (BIG SPOILERS) once again in a time travel film I am just filled with questions of whether it's a loop, different timelines etc. People seem convinced that Lock will have to raise his grand-daughter, train her and send her back to be killed by him all over again. But if she prevented the terrorist attack and the civil war, there is no need to send her back? But that's a literal grandfather paradox. Also she is told he will kill her and is like "Well, it's already happened, can't change it." But her entire mission is to change the past (you see the terrorist attack rewinding at the end of the film, so she did change it?), she could change her own death surely?
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Oct 10, 2019 23:57
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I think shadow of the moon would have been more interesting told from the opposite perspective, that of the time traveler being raised by her hermit old grandfather to fix the past only as she starts her mission she slowly realizes that this man who lovingly raised her was trying to catch/kill her.
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Oct 11, 2019 01:56
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Shadow of the Moon was pretty fun but also really bad.
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Oct 11, 2019 05:23
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Watched El Camino last night. It was ok I guess, but also felt really unneeded. I mean, no movie is needed, but this just showed events you could assumed happened after the Breaking Bad finale, but you didn't need to know the exact details of how. Well, now you know how, but I wasn't really asking. It is really well shot, acted, edited of course, but the content just feels limp. It's like the scenes of Mike in Better Call Saul being hyper-competent at like, finding a tracker in his car or tracking a guy down. Some people really love that poo poo, it is very well done by the creators, but personally, I'm always like "Just get to the point". There is one scene in this that is basically just the same as Mike finding the tracker in his gas cap. Jesse searching for money in Todd's apartment. Also, they seemed to realized that everyone who could be a villain left over from the series is already dead, so there's no real antagonists for Jesse to face, so they just make some up and retcon them into a part of the story. Didn't seem needed, the situation itself/cops were problem enough, didn't need that dude at all. And all the cameos were really gratuitous. But if you like the way Vince Gilligan does things, I would give this a recommendation. Just ask yourself how you feel about the slow nature of BCS. If you like that, you'll like this.
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Oct 11, 2019 23:45
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I felt that El Camino was pretty much exactly what I expected, I was at least 96% sure it was at least.
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Oct 11, 2019 23:48
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Yup, agree with the previous two posters. It’s well made but, to paraphrase James Cameron, it’s not answering any questions I didn’t know I had. Oh, and if you haven’t seen the series you should absolutely not watch the movie because you will get nothing out of it.
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Oct 12, 2019 02:06
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Really appreciate the recap on el camino reminding me how poo poo the last season of breaking bad was
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Oct 12, 2019 05:12
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Wrong.
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Oct 12, 2019 05:39
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Terminal autist posted:Really appreciate the recap on el camino reminding me how poo poo the last season of breaking bad was Amazing username / post combo here.
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Oct 12, 2019 05:43
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I'm sure we can agree that BB5 is the worst season of the series. It had some amazing individual episodes but both viewings I was ready for it to end long before it did.
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Oct 12, 2019 09:36
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garycoleisgod posted:Watched El Camino last night. It was ok I guess, but also felt really unneeded. I mean, no movie is needed, but this just showed events you could assumed happened after the Breaking Bad finale, but you didn't need to know the exact details of how. Well, now you know how, but I wasn't really asking. I don't really have anything to add to this but I think this is pretty spot on. I found it enjoyable and well made. Really no complaints about the viewing experience, but it also felt gratuitous. BCS at least does it's own thing but El Camino mostly feels like an info dump for things that were better off left to the imagination.
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Oct 12, 2019 09:49
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Carnival Row was awesome, but it really feels like the first season was all just a prequel for the actual story in season 2.
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Oct 12, 2019 13:39
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Terminal autist posted:Really appreciate the recap on el camino reminding me how poo poo the last season of breaking bad was The lovely hot takes on these forums never cease to amaze me.
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Oct 12, 2019 13:48
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Seems like we had a couple of years of all Sam Worthington all the time (for some reason), we collectively went "please, enough of this guy" then he disappeared for a decade. Anyway, anyone watch Fractured?
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Oct 12, 2019 15:29
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El Camino was pretty good. The story functioned fine without this added chapter, but it was a good epilogue and it was nice to get some extra closure on Jesse's story.
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Oct 12, 2019 16:08
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Aw, Robert Forster died yesterday  Pretend I made a funny yet touching joke about vacuum cleaners
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Oct 12, 2019 18:17
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El Camino was extremely pointless but definitely well shot
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Oct 12, 2019 18:31
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God Hole posted:Seems like we had a couple of years of all Sam Worthington all the time (for some reason), we collectively went "please, enough of this guy" then he disappeared for a decade. Yeah it was dumb
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Oct 12, 2019 18:32
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Yeah. It's always nice to see Stephen Tobolowsky, but you're generally just waiting around to see just how much of what's happening the twist reveals to be fake, and Sam Worthington does nothing to make it worth the time.
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Oct 12, 2019 18:39
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I dont think Fracture really even has a twist does it? It was bad.
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Oct 13, 2019 02:44
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veni veni veni posted:Wrong. The Jessie-Hank-Walt dynamic was fantastic, so I can't disagree, at the same time I can't help but have a sour taste in my mouth from the amount of weight they assigned to cardboard cutout bad guys.
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Oct 13, 2019 03:45
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I don't really disagree with any of the criticisms of El Camino, but I also just absolutely loved the poo poo out of it. And to me it had felt like the last season was a little too cruel to Jesse, and "hey he finally escaped the Nazi deathpit after they murdered his gf" wasn't quite the satisfying ending for the character that they wanted it to be
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The Walrus posted:I dont think Fracture really even has a twist does it? It was bad. I mean, you see it coming a mile away, but I'd qualify the reveal of what he's been hallucinating as at least an attempt at a twist.
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Oct 13, 2019 05:06
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It was super dumb but the reveal that he had kidnapped a random patient in surgery was pretty good Such a dumb movie though.
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Oct 13, 2019 05:11
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Man I thought you guys were talking about Fracture with Anthony Hopkins and Ryan Gosling. Didn’t even know there was a new dumb Netflix movie, what a twist!
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Oct 13, 2019 05:15
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I’ll give it this much it’s entertaining as hell.
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Oct 13, 2019 05:16
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veni veni veni posted:It was super dumb but the reveal that he had kidnapped a random patient in surgery was pretty good Yeah, the shot of him gasping in the backseat was pretty intense. It's not a movie without well-made elements. It's just in service of so little.
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Oct 13, 2019 05:31
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In The Tall Grass would have been better if they cut about 10-12 minutes to up the pacing. It still would have been middling but better.
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Anyone checked out Goliath season 3? I absolutely loved the first season, but the second was a little meh, though Patty is still a fantastic character.
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