To each his own.
Of course my opinion of your opinion has dropped a bit, not that it matters in reality
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Whiplash (2014) 6/10
Rotten Tomatoes has this as rated 8.6 by the professional reviewers. This boggles my mind, having watched it last night. My thinking was that it was more than a little egregiously over the top. A lot of things happened that beg the question, why didn't so and so say [whatever]? The script, while witty as hell, certainly, was highly preposterous at times. The movie seemed to be trying to trump itself as it went along,just how overbearing and contemptably abusive of his power could this Fletcher guy be? Stick around and find out. Well, TBH I was wondering when the damn thing would end by midway through it. Do you really think that this is the way that things go in the world of jazz orchestras on any level? Maybe in some degree at times, yes, and what goes on behind closed doors noone sees, but this movie takes all that too far. The scenes where the protagonist abuses himself (I'm not talking about sex here, there's no sex in this movie at all, except in the frequent gratuitous verbal onslaughts coming from Fletcher), are likewise way way over the top.
If you fall for all of this, too bad.
On a side note I did not even know that they were making a new Jurassic Park movie until I saw the commercial for it last week.
Does anyone else think that it is going to be a major letdown? To me it looks like just another CGI crapfest. I doubt Spielberg will show anything all that crazy with the movies PG-13 rating.
I'm skeptical.
I drug the wife to the first one at a DTS theater as I think it was brand new at the time, against her wishes, and she became a Jurrasic Park fanatic after that.
I think she want's to see it just from that, personally I think it might be better than the last few attempts.
Kingsman 7/10 Doesn't quite pull you in. and that lisp jackson was doing was annoying as helll.
Any comment on the poltergeist remake?
Not the same jump factor as the original, but at least the movie wasn't a word for word carbon copy either.
More entertaining than horror.
I think it held its own.
Partly true, perhaps, but at Wikipedia's page on it it does say that 'In modern vernacular usage, "to beg the question" sometimes also means "to raise the question" (as in "This begs the question of whether...").'That doesn't mean what you think it does.
I don't always trust my opinion either, so that makes two of us.To each his own.
Of course my opinion of your opinion has dropped a bit, not that it matters in reality
Holiday Box Office Lowest Since 2001.
Tomorrowland’ from Disney was a big disappointment.
The key reason for the empty multiplexes was the weak performance of “Tomorrowland,” the weekend’s sole new big-budget movie and a rare misfire for Walt Disney Co. Borrowing its title from an area at Disneyland but featuring an original story, the science-fiction film garnered mixed reviews and opened to an estimated $41.7 million over the four-day holiday weekend.
Last year, “X-Men: Days of Future Past,” grossed $110.6 million on Memorial Day weekend. The prior year, “Fast & Furious 6” opened to $97.4 million.
Fury Road? Assuming so, how could you say that? You must've downloaded it.Wow. Tomorrowland. What a bomb. Ka-BOOM!
What a hodgepodge of sci-fi mess.
George Clooney? Really?
That alone is enough to put the audience to sleep. And it did.
More like some low budget Disney TV movie at best.
I actually liked Mad Max better, and thats not saying much.
And I'm not alone.
I was going to see Tomorrowland, but the opening showing on Thursday was an actual midnight showing unlike the usual 7 or 8 PM showings. Every review for the movie that I've seen complains about the last third just feeling completely contrived, but should you expect anything better when Damon Lindelof is one of the writers?
Peaky Blinders 8/10 Netflix
This has become one of my favorite TV shows ever, now that I have gotten into it several episodes. I would have rated it even higher, but the thick English accents & colloquialisms are really hard to understand sometimes. Still, even though Mrs Ned & I probably catch only 50% - 60% of what is being said, it's fairly easy to have a general understanding of how the plot is progressing. The production values & acting are top shelf, and the story reminds me a lot of other great gangster shows like the Sopranos, The Godfather, etc. Highly recommended.