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Recent movies you saw - recommend or no
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J_F
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I've been known to have the occasional opinion on things 
maybe you guys are right about The Rock
but I doubt it
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maybe you guys are right about The Rock
but I doubt it
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I've been known to have the occasional opinion on things
maybe you guys are right about The Rock
but I doubt it
Sent from my Mi Note 3 using GTAMotorcycle.com mobile app
Was flipping channels last night and came across The Pursuit of Happyness. I had never seen it before, Will Smith was brilliant in the role. Definitely a tear jerker watching his struggle to build a better life for him and his son.
Great film.
sburns
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Watched Star Wars Rise of the Skywalker....
Boring, meh, just lousy and generic.
I guess after the train wreck of the Last Jedi, they had to regroup some efforts, but it felt totally disconnected.
The pacing was off, just wham, wham wham any chance to savour a moment was gone, so emotionally it was not connecting.
It wrapped up 1 major plot point (maybe 2 (but didn't matter)), and it was done.
Pretty unsatisfying ending to a long, culturally en-grained, movie series.
It's entertaining to watch it for that, if noting else.
Boring, meh, just lousy and generic.
I guess after the train wreck of the Last Jedi, they had to regroup some efforts, but it felt totally disconnected.
The pacing was off, just wham, wham wham any chance to savour a moment was gone, so emotionally it was not connecting.
It wrapped up 1 major plot point (maybe 2 (but didn't matter)), and it was done.
Pretty unsatisfying ending to a long, culturally en-grained, movie series.
It's entertaining to watch it for that, if noting else.
-Maverick-
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The Invisible Man
Excellent movie!
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Excellent movie!
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Birds of Prey (And the Fantabulous Emancipation of One Harley Quinn) - It needed the name change, because it's mostly a Harley Quinn movie. A lot more and better written than "Suicide Squad." Doesn't suffer from the grim-dark of so many other DC live action movies, nor is it sold solely on a Margo Robbie butt shot. It's not Hamlet but, like I said, fun.
sburns
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I watched a bit of it yesterday, couldn't watch the rest. Robbie as Quinn is great, and some interesting fight scenes. But they movie is tough to watch, just all over the place, drags, no direction, and just blah. Yes the lighter tone was a nice change from the dark DC movies so far.
I ”accidentally” booked accommodation in San Francisco literally 1 min up the road from the large mission that was shown in this film. My wife still hasn’t forgiven me for that.
J_F
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yes, really enjoyed that
We just saw this a couple of days ago.
Felt like I had seen the movie before, everything was so familiar!
The movie was well researched. It got so many things right, like:
Origins of the novel virus - bat -> pig -> humans
Unproven cure - forsythia = hydroxychlorique
Conspiracy theorists
Social distancing as a preventative measure
Shutting down borders - between cities even
Strains on resources - healthcare, transportation, law enforcement
People being contagious *before* they started showing symptoms
Efforts of the WHO and CDC trying to track down the vector of the virus and heading it off before it could spread
Unproven cure - forsythia = hydroxychlorique
Conspiracy theorists
Social distancing as a preventative measure
Shutting down borders - between cities even
Strains on resources - healthcare, transportation, law enforcement
People being contagious *before* they started showing symptoms
Efforts of the WHO and CDC trying to track down the vector of the virus and heading it off before it could spread
But one glaring item it didn't foresee was the run on toilet paper...
The movie was like a "what if" scenario, like if you could tweak all the variables of a virus what would the resulting panic look like.
COVID-19 R0 = 2.3
Movie virus R0 - 4+
COVID-19 Mortality Rate = 1.5%
Movie's virus mortality rate = 25%+
Also the time to death was like 3 days, compared to a week+ for COVID-19.
But I think what cemented the panic was way people died. With COVID-19, you suffocate to death. In the movie, you froth at the mouth and turn black. Now I'm sure that was done for cinematic effect, but if people in the US actually saw people on the bus and in the street keeling over frothing at the mouth and turning black, you'd be damn sure they'd pay more heed to all these calls for social distancing.
sburns
Well-known member
So true!
This part struck a nerve with me. I know someone who keeps saying hydroxychlorique is the cure, and tells everyone to wait a few weeks for some amazing news about this. They also believe too easily other conspiracy theories.
Rambo Last Blood - Horrible. Last one was a ok watch as were the others but this one is horrible.
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