Post the name of the latest movie you've seen and your rating out of 10.
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Sunshine Boys (t0073766) - 7/10 - loved Burns, hated Matthau.
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Two of a Kind (1951) - Entertaining and little seen 50's crime film. - 7/10
The Uninvited (1944) - Great horror film, in a genre where it is difficult to make good movies. - 8/10
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There are shootouts, there are car chases, but they felt different because this time, the enemy doesn't try to get at the heroes but to kill them, they're means as well as ends. The Terminator is an unstoppable death warrant, guided by fatality. Notice the scene when, for once, Sarah gets the illusion of being finally protected, in a commissariat. The Terminator's "I'll be back", especially when heard for the first time, sums up everything, no matter how far away you try to push him, he'll get back to you.
And this, resonates as the voice of fatality, the omen of an inevitable confrontation, something that neither Biehn nor Sarah can't avoid, the future has come to haunt them, and if Sarah is really the mother of a future fighter, even she will have to express that 'fighting' part of herself. Whether you look at the half-empty or half-full glass, you'll see "Terminator" as a predestination or fatality movie. And I guess this is why the appellation neo-noir isn't gratuitous. Noir is about people who try to escape from a painful certainty but can only triumph over it by confronting it, at the cost of something precious such as their innocence, their optimism, their faith on life or humanity. Sarah starts as a "damsel in distress" but look at her in the end.
And talk about a great confrontation, the contrast between the robotic killer and the harmless target. And this is where the casting pays off; Arnold Schwarzenegger was criticized for the limitations of his acting range, especially at a time where his accent was stronger, but here, he's given a role that only an actor like him could have portrayed perfectly: a cold and implacable killing machine. when you get the right casting, you get half of the film right.
I love T2 but in comparison, it's more "standard action picture" than the first
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I see your point but I think one of the most memorable things about the film was about the killer shooting every woman named Sarah Connor, it's so random yet creepy, to have this properly set-up, we would have needed to see the killer or at least hear the 'Sarah Connor'. Anyway, I don't think Cameron intended it to be a mystery.
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I think that at first it should've been a mystery of who was the good guy and who was the bad guy.I did read though that James Cameron wanted Arnie's intentions to be a secret in Terminator 2, however the trailer spoiled the twist.
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Okay, it's cheesy because it's stop motion, but it's really quite pioneering in it's genre for being so old! :) I mean, there's guys in helicopters dropping things on the giant monster, creature fights in the street which causes mass destruction - that's stuff from new action movies! Actually impressive, in a way.
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Vox Lux (2018), 5/10. Easily one of the worst screenplays I've witnessed for ear.
Tonight:
She-Ra and the Princesses of Power (TV Series 2018– ), season 1: 8/10.
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Ye Olden Days - 6/10
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And One Day at a Time just came on and this episode features...Shelly Fabares!
* cue the Twilight Zone music *
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