Movie Theaters

[monkeylizard]

On 6/26/2024 at 1:51 PM, TGO David said:

JW4 was hard to watch.  I've never seen so many dudes get shot in the dick before.   

Here's one more dick shot worth watching. The good stuff starts at 9:25. 

 

 

[Chucktshoes]

[mikegideon]

6 hours ago, Chucktshoes said:

Before Costa. Probably where he got the idea.

[gregintenn]

We saw Horizon today. It is worth watching, but I wouldn’t call it a great western. I’ll definitely go see the second part though. It is long, and there’s a lot to keep track of. The story line is fair. The cinematography is good and so is the acting. I’d give it a 7 out of 10.

[LangdoniousRex]

50 minutes ago, gregintenn said:

We saw Horizon today. It is worth watching, but I wouldn’t call it a great western. I’ll definitely go see the second part though. It is long, and there’s a lot to keep track of. The story line is fair. The cinematography is good and so is the acting. I’d give it a 7 out of 10.

I've got 115 John Wayne movies downloaded. I'm good. 99.8% of modern movies are trash.

[deerslayer]

On 6/28/2024 at 10:38 PM, gregintenn said:

We saw Horizon today. It is worth watching, but I wouldn’t call it a great western. I’ll definitely go see the second part though. It is long, and there’s a lot to keep track of. The story line is fair. The cinematography is good and so is the acting. I’d give it a 7 out of 10.

Saw it last night - 7/10 here too.  The theater was pretty full of mostly older folks (younger people don't like westerns?).  The guy next to me was griping about his popcorn, griping about the temperature (the theater was definitely not cool), and at the end said, "Well that was a waste of three hours."  People need to keep in mind that it's chapter 1 of 4 - there are three stories developing, rather slowly I might add.  A half hour could have easily been trimmed.  The acting was superb (especially the two brothers and the crazy blond) and the scenery was spectacular.  If you are the type that likes non-stop action, you will hate this movie, but I plan to see chapter 2.

Edited June 30 by deerslayer

[Darrell]

1 hour ago, deerslayer said:

Saw it last night - 7/10 here too.

My wife and I are probably going to go and see it this week. Is there an intermission?

[deerslayer]

32 minutes ago, Darrell said:

My wife and I are probably going to go and see it this week. Is there an intermission?

Nope.  I purposely didn't buy one of those $8 fountain drinks lol

[deerslayer]

One other thing - it is rated R, but it didn't seem as R-rated as most modern R movies.  Some brief barely nudity and not as much language.  I don't recall any F-bombs.  

Edited June 30 by deerslayer

[monkeylizard]

A Quiet Place: Day One is good. I watched it today at the AMC Dolby in Cool Springs. The Dolby Atmos sound system is outstanding and for a movie all about sounds, it was an added boost to the film. It's the opposite of Horizon at just over 90 minutes (2 hours with previews).

I plan to see The Bikeriders this week and maybe Horizon if I can fit it in the schedule. 3.5 hours with previews is a long time.

[deerslayer]

19 hours ago, monkeylizard said:

A Quiet Place: Day One is good. I watched it today at the AMC Dolby in Cool Springs. The Dolby Atmos sound system is outstanding and for a movie all about sounds, it was an added boost to the film. It's the opposite of Horizon at just over 90 minutes (2 hours with previews).

I plan to see The Bikeriders this week and maybe Horizon if I can fit it in the schedule. 3.5 hours with previews is a long time.

Not sure if it was just the theater where we were, but Horizon had two quick previews that lasted 6-8 minutes total.  

[monkeylizard]

+1 to Bikeriders. Very good acting.
I plan to go see Despicable Me 4 tomorrow and Horizon on Thursday morning

[Darrell]

My wife and I went to an early showing of Horizon this morning, and we both enjoyed it. There was quite a lot of violence, but it wasn't as bloody as a lot of movies I've seen. A lot less profanity than what passes for normal these days. I'm looking forward to seeing part 2 now. 

Generally, I get tired if a movie runs for more than two hours, and Horizon ran for about three, but I never got bored and the time passed pretty quickly.

It's too bad the nearest theater is about an hour away in Oak Ridge, but at least that theater is clean and has reclining lounger seats. And the matinee tickets are under $7.00/

[NoBanStan]

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/kevin-costner-horizon-2-removed-from-theatrical-calendar-1235937513/

[gregintenn]

14 minutes ago, NoBanStan said:

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/kevin-costner-horizon-2-removed-from-theatrical-calendar-1235937513/

Well, chit! I'll forget what I saw in the first part.

[NoBanStan]

1 minute ago, gregintenn said:

Well, chit! I'll forget what I saw in the first part.

$100,000,000 to make it and the opening weekend was $11,000,000. That's brutal. Unless it catches up on streaming, you may just have to forget everything you saw regardless, because there won't be a second one.

[gregintenn]

9 minutes ago, NoBanStan said:

$100,000,000 to make it and the opening weekend was $11,000,000. That's brutal. Unless it catches up on streaming, you may just have to forget everything you saw regardless, because there won't be a second one.

I expect the second one is already finished, but I've been wrong before. How on earth would it cost a hundred million dollars to make a western movie? Was the government in charge of it?

[NoBanStan]

37 minutes ago, gregintenn said:

I expect the second one is already finished, but I've been wrong before. How on earth would it cost a hundred million dollars to make a western movie? Was the government in charge of it?

From my understanding, most of the movie costs these days are from the unions and special interest groups.

[Grayfox54]

Kostner is well known for making overly expensive and overly long movies that flop. Remember Waterworld and The Postman? Nether was a particularly bad movie, but word got out that they were too long and the story dragged. So they flopped at the theater. People just don't want to pay good money to sit in a theater for 3 hours for a slow story. That's why I've already decided to wait for Horizon to get to streaming. 

[BigK]

I have nothing better to do, so I already bought tickets for the Sat. afternoon showing of Horizon. I'll be in a leather'ish electric recliner with a belly full of popcorn and soda, so if I fall asleep it'll be a comfy, albeit expensive, nap. LOL

[Darrell]

3 hours ago, Grayfox54 said:

Remember Waterworld and The Postman?

I liked both of those movies. I even bought Water World on DVD.

[NoBanStan]

Honestly I liked water world. Horizon is probably good too. The trouble for me watching 3 hours of movie, getting invested and then it never gets finished

You're not getting me! I learned from George RR Martins writing!

[monkeylizard]

Horizon is good. I definitely was interested in seeing how it develops . . . oh well. My theater had the full 30 minutes of previews so 3.5 hours . . . yeesh. I picked a hot day and went to a 1:00p showing or something when I would have been staying indoors anyway so that worked out.

I also liked The Postman. Water World was meh.

[deerslayer]

2 hours ago, NoBanStan said:

 I learned from George RR Martins writing!

Amen 

[et45]

I liked Horizon.I sat the entire 3 hrs plus previews without going to the restroom,a major accomplishment for my 60 yr old bladder. I had a feeling part 2 wouldn’t be shown in the theater.I had no idea they had planned a 3rd and 4th installment.It should have been a HBO miniseries.Back to the original post I‘ve been a movie goer since I could drive.Since Covid I have probably been 4 times.There’s just nothing I want to see coming to the big screen. I don’t have a streaming service so I’m missing some good stuff there.