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Watched Oppenheimer. I liked it though I definitely felt the length of it as I got a little sleepy during the later scenes. Fantastic job by Cillian Murphy capturing the man himself, the scene after they drop the bomb and everyone is celebrating but the effect of dropping a bomb on civilians starts to haunt him is fantastic, one of my favorite scenes.

The testing of the bomb scene was probably the standout scene for me, I was totally glued to the screen. Another great scene is when they are discussing which city to choose to bomb. The Einstein scenes were great too, especially the haunting words to wrap up the movie.

My least favorite scenes were mostly Robert Downey Jr ones, not that he did a bad job, he actually did quite well. its just that it started to get a little confusing to me his role, his past relationship with Oppenheimer and his motivation for tearing him down. I got kind of annoyed each time they pulled me out of Oppenheimer storyline to bring me back to this guy I didnt care for. I kind of wished some of his scenes were cut out or at least trimmed down.
Good thoughts.
Basically the whole reason Downey tore down oppenheimer was simply because his feelings were hurt by oppenheimer a couple times when oppenheimer made him look foolish

Weak sauce

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Gotta plug 2 movies...


Civil War. Just go see it. Powerful. Incredibly prescient for our times and the MAGA crowd and psycho Republicans. How far away are we from a real civil war anyway? This movie will show you in graphic detail a pretty damn accurate portrayal of how that just might actually look.



Then the Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare. Part "based on a true story" WWII movie, part origin story for James Bond. Obviously not super close to the actual events but a good entertaining movie nonetheless with a stellar cast. We both enjoyed it and my wife typically hates war movies. Worth the movie ticket.
 
Saw two today. Despicable Me 4. Solid. I fell asleep. Kids liked it a lot though.

Longlegs. Retarded. I was so hopeful based on IMDb and RT. Society is doomed. Spoilers below.

















There is about a 0.0000000001% chance the female fbi agent ever gets a job as an fbi agent lest the Feds one day decided to skip the results of her psychological profile during the hiring process. Just so dumb. She was basically one note the entire film too. Anxiety-ridden. That’s it. There were a half dozen completely unnecessary moments too where the director just couldn’t help his or herself. Like wtf. You’re trying to be a real film. Cut the Nic Cage doing unhinged Nic Cage moments and the gratuitous gore and scare moments. They didn’t drive the plot at all. It just made the film feel more like a C- Cage flick. Maybe most importantly, it was just obvious where it was headed. Terrible writing. Just rife with issues that are so easily fixable which is what makes it and Hollywood in general so frustrating.
 
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I just read your review of the Killers of the Flower Moon. You know this was based on actual events, right? Now, I don’t know exactly how closely Scorsese stuck to the details and real life events but in general, this did happen. White people married Osage. The Osage were killed off. The Whites inherited. That said, I know what you mean. Everyone had to have known Deniro was the puppet master. I also thought the ending sucked. This odd denouement with Leo and his wife. Per the events of the film, Leo was an absolute POS. And there was this odd moment between them that felt tough to believe.

Iirc Leo signed on to play the Plemons role. Then he changed his mind and played Gladstone’s husband and they completely rewrote the script. I wonder if it would have been better off the original way.
 
Saw two today. Despicable Me 4. Solid. I fell asleep. Kids liked it a lot though.

Longlegs. Retarded. I was so hopeful based on IMDb and RT. Society is doomed. Spoilers below.

















There is about a 0.0000000001% chance the female fbi agent ever gets a job as an fbi agent lest the Feds one day decided to skip the results of her psychological profile during the hiring process. Just so dumb. She was basically one note the entire film too. Anxiety-ridden. That’s it. There were a half dozen completely unnecessary moments too where the r just couldn’t help his or herself. Like wtf. You’re trying to be a real film. Cut the Nic Cage doing unhinged Nic Cage moments and the gratuitous gore and scare moments. They didn’t drive the plot at all. It just made the film feel more like a C- Cage flick. Maybe most importantly, it was just obvious where it was headed. Terrible writing. Just rife with issues that are so easily fixable which is what makes it and Hollywood in general so frustrating.
I saw despicable me on Monday. Pretty good.
I have been looking forward to longlegs more so than any movie in a long time. Sad to hear you didn't like it. I was hoping for silence of the lambs level
I just watched apocalypse now and Jacob's ladder. Both were ok but old movies just don't ever do it for me.

Watching how to train your dragon 2 with my daughter right now. It's really good.

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We also saw the new despicable me movie. Have to agree with @Keefe , very boring and derivative. Sadly they just thought the only thing anyone likes about those movies are the sight gags and overacting characters, so they just threw a ****-ton of that in there instead of bothering to have a plot of any kind. But usually by the 4th film most franchises like that hit bottom, and this was no different. Too bad because we’ve generally liked those and the minion movies for the most part.
 
I've never liked a movie when I've gone in with high expectations. The worst thing you can do for your enjoyment of a movie is go in expecting it to be great.
That's probably why I liked despicable me more than some. Plus it was at the drive in movies so it was kind of a cool experience.

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We also saw the new despicable me movie. Have to agree with @Keefe , very boring and derivative. Sadly they just thought the only thing anyone likes about those movies are the sight gags and overacting characters, so they just threw a ****-ton of that in there instead of bothering to have a plot of any kind. But usually by the 4th film most franchises like that hit bottom, and this was no different. Too bad because we’ve generally liked those and the minion movies for the most part.

I didn’t really say any of that about DM4.
 
I've never liked a movie when I've gone in with high expectations. The worst thing you can do for your enjoyment of a movie is go in expecting it to be great.
Are we talking about high expectations for Despicable Me 4? That's like expecting your McDonalds order to taste like fine dining.
 
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