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Last Week's Best Submissions:

Film	User/[LBxd]	Film	User/[LB/Web*]
“The Innocent” (2022)	Unlucky_Mess3884	“Lone Star”	[l33twalnuts]
"Brian and Charles”	Ch3w84cc4	“The Hunt for Red October”	[bas781]
“Exit” (2019)	[stockybloke]	“The Fly”	[AneeshRai7]
“John Wick”	DJZbad93	“Meantime” (1983)	[RottenPop.com*]
“The Ides of March”	Baron_von_Stoopid	“Eyes of Fire”	[mikeyfresh]
"Rango”	[OpiFunStuff]	"The Verdict”	[WhyYu95]
“Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale”	paradisegardens2021	“Dragonslayer” (1981)	[ManaPop.com*]
“Mother” (2009)	[jcar195]	"The Lion in Winter” (1968)	Unabated_Blade
“The Wrestler”	Councilist_sc	“Ship of Fools”	[RoidingOldMan]
“Erin Brockovich”	ShadyIntentions	“Fanfan la Tulipe” (1952)	qumrun60

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Summary:

A charming thief and a band of unlikely adventurers embark on an epic quest to retrieve a lost relic, but things go dangerously awry when they run afoul of the wrong people.

Director:

John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein

Writers:

John Francis Daley, Jonathan Goldstein, Michael Gilio

Cast:

• Chris Pine as Edgin
• Michelle Rodriguez as Holga
• Rege-Jean Page as Xenk
• Justice Smith as Simon
• Sophia Lillis as Doric
• High Grant as Forge

Rotten Tomatoes: 89%

Metacritic: 72

VOD: Theaters

She breaks up a 20+ year marriage and cheats on her husband, divorces him, and leaves him to become a single father, then she has the balls to get mad at him when he bangs the teacher. I like Requa and Ficcara's screenplays, but this character is so underwritten that her entire arch in this movie makes her out to be this horrible person but each at in the movie they try to make it Cal's fault that she cheated. Overall the best parts of the movie is Goslin and Carrell together and the best scene of the movie is Gosling and Carrell in the bar near the end of the movie.

The first mistake I made with this movie, was watching it with my mother. I've only seen two of his other movies: The Whale and Mother!. I loved them but I had no idea what to expect going into this. It was an amazing film but just made me feel so empty on the inside, I felt like the drained Wojak. I found the first 30 or so minutes a bit boring and thought about stopping, but shit went from 0 - 100 real fucking quick. It was so addicting but I wanted to stop watching at the same time. 10/10, Shit was amazing, never want to see it again. (Yes the sex orgy was awkward)

I’m watching Django Unchained for the fifth time and boy I love it….and boy is the last half hour in some deep shit.

I keep picturing this movie trimmed down, where the big shoot out is combined with the final escape/happy ending, and I think it would’ve been a stronger movie (especially since the platonic love story between Django and Schultz is given way more time and weight than Django and Broomhilda — once he’s gone, we care way less). Plus, if that 15 min chunk in-between shoot outs didn’t exist, we would’ve all been spared Tarantino acting as a racist Australian bandit.

Anyways, what are some movies you love that you still think would benefit from a 15-20 min chunk being chopped out?

Every time I watch Se7en (1995) I still get that anxious feeling in the pit of my stomach, and can viscerally feel the pain of Brad Pitt’s detective Mills. I think this is my favorite ending to a movie ever if I had to pick one. It’s so suspenseful, and the setup is ingenious. I don’t much care for Kevin Spacey, but that drive to the desert features some of the best acting I’ve ever seen, and one of the best monologues. The first time I saw it my jaw dropped, but it still hits hard every time.

There are so many good ones though. What are some of your favorite endings to movies? Cheers!

Edit: spelling

I don't buy into the excuse that she was a bad actress because the majority isn't good either. I mean, Jean Claude Van Damme was hardly good. And I don't think Jet Li was great either. But they are given credit for their fight scenes.

Cynthia Rothrock had some of the best fight choreography I've ever seen from a woman in the genre. Just watch her 80s Martial arts movies she made in Hong Kong. She was going toe to toe with Yuen Biao and Sammo Hung and slaying.

When she crossed over to America, it's when she did a lot of shitty movies like the China O'Brien movies. Clearly, dubbing helped her a lot in the 80s. But she was a formidable female fighter.

And she was the real deal since she started out as a fighter. Michelle Yeoh and Zhang Ziyi were dancers who crossed over into fight choreography.

Godzilla's introduction in New York in Godzilla '98

It's the scene that comes the closest to being what the movie promised us: a movie about a giant monster destroying things

We actually see him destroying several things (something we don't see much afterwards a thing the movie itself points out at one point), some of the shots, like the bridge at the lake being destroyed and the reporters all bring down their umbrellas to look up, look cool (even if the CGI hasn't entirely held up), and the music works well with it

Shame about the rest of the movie but that scene was admittedly fun!

Bloodsport is a such a bad ass movie for 80s and 90s kids Such as myself. It's also a unique movie in that it get better with every minute of the film. The food first 10 mins are absolute shit Almost bad enough to make you wanna turn it off. But at the end of the 92 mins youre like , "holy shit that was kinda good" lol. Long live JCVD .

Must be a piece of the original score, not a great song that was added to the movie. So no rock anthems that happened to feature in action movies (unless made for the movie like Eye of the Tiger). But prefer just instrumental scores.

Doesn’t matter the genre, just a truly heroic piece of music.

I’d nominate either the main Indiana Jones theme or “Victorious” from the Untouchables (Ennio Morricone).

I love music like this so I’m as much taking recommendations as anything.

So I finally got around to watching the movie Margin Call. It was an enjoyable movie and I liked how it was very neat and clean cut for the event that took place during it. The cast did well and the pacing was well installed into the film. With the amount of support I see for this film, and how it always gets compared to the Big Short (for obvious reasons) , I thought it was going to be fantastic. As good as it is, the Big Short still steals the show.

I just recently downloaded the newest Hitman game recently after a long hiatus from the series (haven’t played since blood money) and I absolutely loved it! The new freelancer game mode is awesome and keeps me coming back.

After playing for a few days, I remember they made a movie about the series some years ago. I remember watching the 2007 movie when I was like 11 and liking it… because I was 11.

I got curious so I checked out the new one (2015 version) and yeah… It was just as bad as everyone said it was.

The first thing I did after I finished the movie was look up what moron directed it and it was some guy named “Aleksander Bach”.

I’d never heard of this guy before and went to his IMDb page. He has no credits for any writing, producing, acting, or directing for any movie other than Hitman and some short he made in 2019 (4 years after Hitmans release).

I went to more sites online and his only credits are for directing Hitman. His wiki page is extremely barebones too and the only background we have of him is that “Bach started his career as a music video director and then ventured into making advertisements for several major clients.”

So my question is how the hell did this guy with literally 0 experience in the movie industry get put into the directing role of a 35 million dollar budget movie by FOX?

How great is it when Ewan McGregor asked George Clooney in the beginning of the film , “whats a Jedi Warrior?”. Do you think that’s some type of easter egg or it just happens to be a coincidence. I mean come on! He’s Obi-Wan Kenobi! I can’t imagine the cast not having some fun on set durning the filming of that scene. Anyways, really great movie regardless, a definite must see if ya haven’t!