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10 Entertaining Movie-Related Guinness World Records
Which actor has died on screen enough to have a Guinness World Record?
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Blake Lively’s ‘It Ends With Us’ Banned in Qatar Due to Kissing Scenes
Blake Lively's PG-13 romance drama 'It Ends With Us' has been banned in Qatar due to kissing scenes.variety.com
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Madness !!
PRAISE: I like when I'm watching a movie and about 10 to 15 minutes in I'm trying to figure out what's going on. Presented with the character Gretchen, who's slightly off balance due to some past trauma but functioning is at a setting which seems normal but slowly but surely reveals it's the complete opposite. I think this is always a good path to take in movies with a plot like this. Am I going mad or is everyone else playing a sinister role in everything that's happening? Hunter Schafer does really good here turning in a believable performance. Dan Stevens is really great luring not only the characters in but the viewer as well. It's one of those roles Anthony Hopkins,Malcolm McDowell and Christoph Waltz would have been great as. Writer-director Tilman Singer does some great work here in several stand out scenes especially when light and darkness are played with and the terrifying closeness of something or someone sinister.
PROBLEMS: I had hoped the pace and scary tones of some scenes that are only spread out had been maintained Instead they make things more complicated than they need to be trying to explain away everything.Parts of the climax felt uninspired and really basic maybe even a bit generic.
Scale of 1 to 10 a 7½
Had a movie night with my pops and cousin last night, and checked out the movie The Instigators. It was my suggestion as it would probably appeal to us as viewers in the mid-40s to late-70s range.
It was actually better than expected.
A reasonable mix of action & comedy.
Plenty of notable names and faces in the cast.
Also, it didn't overstay its welcome at a brisk 1 hour, 40 mins.
Really good use of the 1960s song "Downtown" in one scene too ... we cranked up the volume when that song came on as it was an unexpected surprise used very effectively.
The Instigators is a 2024 American heist comedy film directed by Doug Liman and written by Chuck Maclean and Casey Affleck. The film stars Affleck and Matt Damon, with a supporting cast that includes Hong Chau, Michael Stuhlbarg, Paul Walter Hauser, Ving Rhames, Alfred Molina, Toby Jones, Jack Harlow, and Ron Perlman. It was produced by Affleck and Damon alongside Ben Affleck under their production company Artists Equity for distribution by Apple TV+ under Apple Original Films.
The Instigators was given a limited theatrical release in the United States on August 2, 2024, before making its streaming debut on Apple TV+ on August 9, 2024.
I tried this on Saturday but it wasn't catching my interest
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Ike Perlmutter Hated Sony/Marvel Deal After Spider-Man (2002) Success
Avi Arad says Ike Perlmutter "developed a fire in his belly of hatred and started terrorizing" Sony "on things that he had the right to and then some"bleedingcool.com
Who the f**k is going to watch a Christian faith based movie starring the human shit bucket Kevin Sorbo?
As happens, Netflix popped up another war movie and I got into it real fast. "Land of Bad" is major league action, with a very modern twist, Russell Crowe is a drone operator based in Vegas, who is following a special ops team in the Phillipines who run into some major shit. The flick held my interest until the number of baddies getting popped started to remind me of a video game.
"A US Army special forces unit is ambushed during a mission to retrieve an intelligence asset and their only remaining hope lies with a remote Air Force drone operator assisting them through a brutal 48-hour battle for survival." Land of Bad is a 2024 American war film directed by William Eubank, who co-wrote the script with David Frigerio. The film stars Liam Hemsworth, Russell Crowe, Luke Hemsworth, Ricky Whittle, and Milo Ventimiglia. Land of Bad was released theatrically on February 16, 2024. Wikipedia
Yeah, I kept pausing it and coming back but never really did it for me.I tried this on Saturday but it wasn't catching my interest
I really enjoyed this flick, but towards the end, it started having that John Wick feel. You know, the guns always find bullets for a never ending group of faceless bad guys and the drone always has more missiles.I have heard really good things.
I alwaysgo to youAny good recommendations for other movies or TV shows to check out?
I could see the humor but it wasn't making me laughYeah, I kept pausing it and coming back but never really did it for me.