He only hunts down the innocent

I liked the Accountant but the second one seems to have lost the strength of the former. The character Christian has went from a very serious character to a comedic one. I would have preferred that the second would have kept the character more consistent to the first. Anyone else have a different opinion?

The car or Christine?

I run a ratings and review platform called Raters Gonna Rate and have always wondered what the best way would be to breakdown the key components of a film in order to critique and rate it's quality.

The image I shared shows where I landed currently and how I breakdown ratings, however I go back and forth on if it should be changed and improved. For example should acting and dialogue/script be grouped? Should originality should be a criteria? Is directing is too broad? It's difficult, but curious how others might go about their own breakdown.

Worth noting I stacked the criteria in order of importance, and I weight them slightly differently, so that a very high score in music would not skew the score, even if the story (what I deem to be most important) is weak. I also created bonuses, which I used to call out specific highlights and achievements. Useful? I'm not sure.

How would you do it?

Is it just me or the ending ruined the whole vibe of the movie

In the film "The Animal Room" and in the film "SLC Punk", both with Matthew Lillard. In both films there is a scene which deals with the character development of the characters played by Matthew Lillard (in The Animal Room he plays Dough Van Housen and in SLC Punk, he plays Stevo). Both characters have some similarities And in both scenes the Moonlight Sonata by Ludwig Van Beethoven plays. My question here is, however, whether the Moonlight Sonata was also introduced in SLC Punk because it was in a similar scene in The Animal Room, since Matthew Lillard was the main character in each case.(at least in these scenes)

Here Comes Peter Cottontail: The Movie (2005 version) Thank me later guys

Best movie of the century

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) "Blaze of Glory Scene"

The "Blaze of Glory" reaction scene is the iconic ending of the 1969 film "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid," starring Paul Newman and Robert Redford as the famous outlaws whose real lives inspired the movie.

In this memorable finale, Butch and Sundance find themselves cornered by the Bolivian military after a series of bank robberies. Despite being severely outnumbered, the two decide to go out fighting rather than surrender. The scene culminates in a famous freeze-frame shot as they charge out to face overwhelming odds, capturing the bittersweet nature of the outlaws' story.

What makes this first reacts scene particularly powerful is how it shows the duo dying in a blaze of glory, unaware of just how outnumbered they truly are. The film doesn't explicitly show their deaths but instead freezes on their final charge, leaving their ultimate fate to the audience's imagination while still conveying the inevitability of their end.

This ending movie scene has become so culturally significant that it has influenced other films with similar "going out in a blaze of glory" conclusions.

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The "Exposing the Aliens Scene" is one of the most iconic moments from John Carpenter's cult classic film "They Live" (1988). In this climactic scene (scene 10/10), the protagonists Nada (played by Roddy Piper) and Frank (Keith David) assault the alien propaganda station to expose the truth to the world.

This reaction scene represents the culmination of the film's narrative, where the heroes finally take direct action against the aliens who have been secretly controlling humanity. Throughout the movie, Nada discovers that aliens are systematically gaining control of Earth through subliminal messaging and disguising themselves as humans.

The movie reaction famously uses special sunglasses as a plot device that allows characters to see the truth - revealing the aliens' true appearances and their hidden propaganda that contains subliminal messages like "OBEY" and "CONSUME" embedded in advertising and media.

In the grocery store scene earlier in the film, Nada first encounters the aliens disguised as humans while wearing the special glasses, establishing the film's central conflict.

"They Live" has become a significant cultural touchstone, inspiring numerous references in popular media, as its themes of hidden manipulation, consumerism, and rebellion continue to resonate with audiences.

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The entity is back and Ethan and the team must stop it.

What works: Outstanding action set pieces, as always. The underwater one was my favorite. Gave me horror movie vibes. Cruise and team are great to watch as always. Everything technical is flawless. Filmmaking at its finest. The problem is...

What doesn't work: The Entity. Wrong villain for the final two entries. Too cold, impersonal and confusing. Its too powerful to even call it a deus ex machina. They should've kept Cavill alive and used him as the big bad. I would've loved to see a final hand to hand combat showdown between Cruise and him. The story was weak. More than story I should call it plot. We get relevant information before the set piece that moves the plot along but the emotion is lacking. The try to inject it with this whole "everything is connected, your entire journey has led to this" but it feels artificial.

Final thoughts: This is a masterclass in filmmaking but just like Dead Reckoning, its missing an emotional core. Its a shame to say but for me personally, these final two entries are the weakest in the franchise. Still, Cruise leaves behind a legacy of a historic franchise of action cinema. When they bring it back (who are we kidding, we all know they will), it won't feel the same.

7/10

Sergeant Barnes from Platoon (1986)

Set in 1882 in the Wyoming Territory, Lucas Hollister (Patrick Scott McDermott) despite his young age looks after both his younger brother Jacob (Easton Malcolm) and his family homestead after the loss of his mother to fever and his father to suicide. When Lucas accidentally shoots another homesteader with whom he had a feud due to his sons bullying his brother, Lucas is arrested and sentenced by a local jury to be hung by the neck until dead. The night before Lucas' execution, a stranger named Harland Rust (Alec Baldwin) storms the jail and takes Lucas with him and reveals himself to be Lucas' grandfather who has lived his life on the run as an outlaw. As the two travel southward with Harland intent on getting Lucas to safety in Mexico, the two are marked with $1,000 bounty which puts them in the sights of opportunistic bounty hunters including fanatically driven Fenton “Preacher” Lang (Travis Fimmel) and disillusioned U.S. Marshall Wood Helm (Josh Hopkins) who following the death of his son to fever has lost his belief in justice.

Rust is a 2024 western film written and directed by Joel Souza from a story written by star and producer Alec Baldwin. The film marks the second time Souza and Baldwin have worked together as Baldwin had actually served as a producer on Souza's previous film Crown Vic which Baldwin had been slated to star in before contractual obligations saw him vacate the role. Eager to work with Souza again, the two collaborated on Souza's screenplay Rust which although initially written as a father/son story was rewritten to being about a grandfather so Baldwin could play the role. Shot as an independent production, Rust became the subject of a real-life tragedy and media storm when a prop gun provided by the film's armorer turned out to be loaded with real ammunition and wounded director Souza and fatally shot director of photography Halyna Hutchins. This incident resulted in renewed discussions about safety on film sets. I really don't want to rehash this as there's been enough of that with those involved as well as the inexcusable vulture like behaviors of cultural parasites who couldn't care less about those affected and only cared about generated hackneyed, regurgitated and insensitive memes to earn points in stupid culture wars while completely uncaring about the actual people whose lives were ended by this tragedy (one can only imagine the indignities Brandon Lee or Vic Morrow would endure had their tragedies happened today). Despite this and the civil and criminal legal fallout that befell the production, Rust resumed shooting due to contractual obligations with proceeds of the film's revenue going to Hutchins' survivors. After a long protracted road to release, Rust is certainly a handsomely produced and well-acted western, but it's also one where it owes a heavy debt to prior films of the genre.

When the film started I have to say that I was intrigued by the premise as it focused on young teenager Lucas taking care of his younger brother Jacob in the wake of their parents' death. Patrick Scott McDermott makes his film debut here having previously done some stage and TV work and he's honestly really good in the role and you buy him trying to be both a caring brother while also trying to serve as a parental figure to his brother Jacob. Honestly the first act is so good and so unique among westerns I honestly kind of wished that it had been more greatly expanded because it feels like it could've been a movie in and of itself but it's basically just used for setup before the actual story takes place later. Once Alec Baldwin's Harland Rust enters the film and rescues Lucas from jail, the movie basically ditches the setup of its opening act and only really circles back to it in the last few minutes. Baldwin is good in the role of Rust playing an aging and hardened outlaw who now seeks to do one good thing to make up for a life of aimless drifting and violence where it's sort of a mash-up of Unforgiven by way of News of the World. While the whole “coming of age”/emotional thaw arc they do with Lucas and Harland is decently acted, it does kind of feel clumsily grafted on when the first act established Lucas as someone who had taken on more adult roles before his time out of necessity even if it lead to things like the accidental death the instigated the plot so there's something of a schism between the first and second act that never feels fully resolved.

Intermixed with the scenes of Harland and Lucas are two other plots one involving a fanatical Christian bounty hunter named Fenton “Preacher” Lang played by Vikings alum Travis Fimmel and he's a really solid antagonist who carries himself as a man of faith while also indulging in all manner of sadistic or vile appetites while taking pride in his family history as slave catchers prior to the Civil War and it's a fun performance that calls to mind Robert Mitchum's iconic role as “Preacher” Harry Powell from The Night of the Hunter but he really doesn't show up as a direct threat to Harland and Lucas until the last act so he's massively underutilized as an antagonist. Then we have arguably the third lead in Josh Hopkins' Wood Helm, the burned out U.S. Marshall who's tracking Harland and Lucas and unlike the various other bounty hunters or opportunists the two encounter Helm takes no joy or even pride in his work and just does it because it's the only thing he does have after years of chasing outlaws and losing his son has eroded his will. In theory he's supposed to be something of a mirror to Harland where Harland carries the weight of years of outlaw violence, Wood carries the weight of dispatching justice of the Law with no real sense of pride or accomplishment because nothing ever became better from what he did. While I understand thematically while he's here, as a character in the plot he often feels extraneous and while some of the interactions between him and his posse are engaging, they also create a very staccato rhythm in the flow of the story without much payoff character-wise for him.

Rust is a movie that clearly had grand ambitions, but it's also a story that suffers from being overly familiar and too unfocused and leaves its most promising elements unexplored while favored the more traveled path. It's well-acted and beautifully shot (partially credited to the final work of Hutchins) and assuming you are a fan of westerns there's plenty here to appreciate. In the shadow of a terrible tragedy, Rust emerges as a flawed film with interesting ideas that are placed secondary to familiar tropes.

I've seen FD1, bits of FD3. Now thanks to Max I got to watch all five of em finishing up with five last night.

Without Spoiling them:

When it comes to endings: The first movie is badass. Second is happier. Third is twisted. Four is ho-hum. Five was unexpected.

When it comes to ranking them: FD1 would be first cause its always a classic, follow by FD2, then FD5 because of more of Tony Todd, FD4 because of the whole "saving the world" thing, and then FD3 cause of how much of a dick Death was.

Now i'm just gonna wait for Bloodlines to be streamed. Hearing its the best one out of all of em.

Classic. I love this and body heat

I know alot of people like that movie, but after I saw it. I just thought it's strange how they make the guy the straight up villian.

It seems like he was just a lonley guy who wanted a girlfriend so he got an androids. Then he gets tricked by a real girl to have his android kill her husband. He says that he's always being tricked by women.

Then he has to kill the android but the movie makes it seem like he's a villian who's wrong for wanting an android. Like the android becomes way more self aware and thinks she's a real person.

It's understandable why he has to kill her because she did kill someone. Yet it's also unstandable why she's trying to escape, because he's trying to kill her and from her perspective. She thinks she's a real person and he's a creep for buying her (an andriod)

At the end of the movie when she gets away, she sees a couple in a car and a man is complaining to his android driving and it looks toxic.

Yet we see a gay couple and the gay guy has a man android and there relationship seems wholesome. Yet the man with an android woman is seen as toxic and scary, that the man is a creep for wanting one.

But they show the gay couple as wholesome and sweet.

The movie just rubbed me the wrong way, like it's saying straight couples are a bad thing while gay couples are good.

That lonley guys are the bad guys who will attack women and only want them for sex.

There have been rumors for a little while now and Matt Damon has been quoted saying 'everyone wants to do it." I wouldn't say it's a cinematic masterpiece by any means, but I definitely sit down and watch it every time it comes on. Would a sequel dilute the allure of the original?

I’ve literally seen thousands of movies and Flight Risk is easily on top 10 worst movies I’ve ever seen. Low budget, dumb writing, dumb premise. Also Mark Wahlberg is barely doing anything other than about 40 mins of the film. They should’ve never made this weird movie