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Other than Star Wars Rogue One, I'm not all that excited for movies coming out. I saw Deadpool in the theater and wish I had seen Revenant in the theater, it was a great movie. I wanted to see Captain America, wanted to see Xmen, wanted to see Suicide Squad. I've heard that Captain America Civil War is the best Marvel movie to date, and maybe one of the best superhero movies.

My favorite genre of movies is the post apocalyptic movie. Daylights End looks like a fun, if mindless, movie. Johnny Strong is a knife nut, and a knife maker, his knives were on display as action pieces in the movie Sinners and Saints. Lance Henriksen is a master character actor, like Steve Buscemi, and always entertaining. Who doesn't want to watch vampires meets Mad Max meets Walking Dead?

My cousins fiancée wanted to take him to see Suicide Squad, maybe with all of the other cousins. If we do that, I'm down for it, but I'll just rent it if that doesn't happen. Civil War and Apocalypse will be definite rentals, if not buys at Walmart.

I usually check out IMDB for upcoming movies, are there any movies for 2016 that are worth checking out?
 
I watched Gods of Egypt the other night. Not great but entertaining.
 
My wife and I saw The Revenant at the theater. We don't go often so we probably won't go back unti Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them comes out in November.

As for next year, the "can't miss" list for me is John Wick 2 and Skull Island. The wife is looking forward to the live action Beauty and the Beast due in March.

I haven't watched Civil War yet but recently watch Batman Vs. Superman. It was worse than Eric Bana's Hulk. Wait for it to come on network TV. When it does, watch something else.
 
Wow, I didn't like Revenant and I usually like slow plodding movies, revenge action etc.

Star Trek was amazing and quite possibly the best Trek movie ever made. Don't know why it isn't doing better but it really should be.
Capt. America was really good but I think Winter Soldier was better by a nod. There was too much on its back to be set up for future movies for it to have a definite voice of its own. Still very good though.
Friends went to see both Suicide Squad and BvS and had nothing good to say whatsoever. The only argument was over which was worse with Batman/Superman winning narrowly.
Xmen was a mess. Lazy writing, bad effects and actors trying their best to rescue it the whole while. It's cool for a dollar movie though, just not up to 1 and 2 and for 5 times the budget, not even in the same ballpark as Deadpool.
Zootopia was good enough (to me) to watch again myself and take some family to see a 3rd time. It's dressed like a kids movie but good on its own and not mindless pap as many kids movies are.

While you're waiting, rent Ex Machina, Moon and Interstellar. I thoroughly enjoyed all 3 as some of the best movies I've seen in some time. And if you liked 12 Monkeys or Brazil, Zero Theorem was classic Gilliam awesome.

Oh and Independence Day 2 was worse than a made for TV movie.
 
I love movies and thought Zootopia was good, Star Trek was good tho a lot of it didn't make sense for old trekkie like me. I avoided everything else tho it sounds like i should see "civil war".
 
Our local theater only has one screen and mostly shows kid movies. That's to be expected in a small town with a theater built in 1930. But they seem to keep the same unappealing movies forever. Still, they manage to squeeze something in for the older kids once in a while.

Batman vs Superman was good, one of the better superhero movies I've seen.
Captain America Civil War was entertaining. The boy liked it, especially because it had so many superheros.
The Revenant was excellent.

Star Trek and James Bond, two of our theater's usual staples, weren't even shown. :(
I did get James Bond from Netflix last week, and it was decent.

Some things my son and I are looking forward to:
Skull Island and Rogue One.
And, believe it or not, there's a new Godzilla movie this summer that may be released in the States later this year. Not a phony American Godzilla, but the real thing from Toho. We're expecting that we'll have to travel to the city to see it.

The next Planet of the Apes is next year...
 
I liked Captain America Civil War. Not a great story, but great action.

I liked The Witch, but YMMV. I thought it captured the atmosphere of what 1600s Puritan life might have been like, with a feeling of dread.

The recent Jason Bourne movie was meh.

I thought The Revenant was good, but I wouldn't watch it a second time.

I thought The Conjuring 2 was pretty entertaining.

Black Mass was OK but kind of boring.

Ip Man 3 was pretty decent. Mike Tyson has a small role as a crooked land developer/crime boss in 1959 Hong Kong (!) and has a fight scene with Donnie Yen. I saw it when it was out in limited release. Tyson's character is a complete anachronism. Another anachronism in the movie is a modern-looking automatic knife/switchblade that a thug pulls out.

Saw the last James Bond movie, can't even remember the title. Not too bad, but nothing that really stands out.

I'm sure I've seen others, but I don't find very many of the newer movies nowadays, especially most of the big-budget Hollywood productions, all that memorable.

I don't always go to movies in the theater much anymore. IMO, the moviegoing experience isn't what it used to be. People don't seem to react with the movie anymore. Plus, the older I get, the less I care for places with crowds of people.

Jim
 
I would've been living on ramen noodles by now from seeing so many movies and being broke, but I just haven't felt like it. I have heard that so many movies have been really bad. The MCU is winding down and the DC Universe never got off the ground.
 
Another recent DVD/on demand pick was Sicario. Predictable but still good. There were some suspenseful parts and the gunplay was good.

There are rumors that a new American Godzilla is in the works. The same folks doing Skull Island are behind it. I'm hoping that it leads to a King Kong Vs. Godzilla in my lifetime :cool:
 
Ben Hur was panned by the critics but I thought they did a great job with it. I like Marvel movies but get a little burned out on the computer generated action stuff.
 
I saw "Star Trek: Beyond"; that was an excellent movie!! I also really enjoyed "The Secret Life of Pets." I REALLY want to see the new "Jason Bourne" movie. There isn't much, but I can't remember what else I want to see.
 
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I saw Star Trek, it was one of the best movies I've seen in a long time.
I saw Zootopia, that was pretty good, but it was mostly a kid's movie. I just so happen to still like kid's movies.
I saw Sausage Party, it was exactly what you'd expect from Seth Rogen. Raunchy sex and drug humor, do not under any circumstances take your kids to this movie. I know it's a cartoon, but please, don't.
I saw Suicide Squad, it was... ok. Visually appealing, lots of cool effects and all that, but the story and most of the characters sucked. I liked the Harley Quinn+Joker backstory scenes though, IMO they could have just made a movie about the two of them and ditched all the other D-List super heros/villains.

Lastly, the Jungle Book. It was so good... almost. Christopher Walken was a horrendous choice for King Louie. I was so disgusted listening to him butcher "I Wanna Be Like You" that I would have walked out except I was immobilized by the debilitating cringe that had taken a hold of me. That was literally the worst casting choice of any movie ever, IMO. But, the rest of the movie was great! I will forever resent Christoper Walken for ruining that movie though, I was one of my favorites as a kid.

I know it's 70 years old in 2016, but I also watched Song of the South for the first time just a week or so ago. I wish it had been around when I was a kid, I would have really liked that one. I know it was made when my grandpa was just a baby but Disney had kept it hid away since before I was born. That controversy was completely overblown though IMO. I understand how people could be offended by the overly-jolly black folk, but it never actually said in the movie that they were slaves like so many people assumed, in fact it's actually set AFTER the civil war. Those people are not slaves, they're employees, and is it really so wrong to see black and white people being nice to each other?

Either way, I'd bet you all my life savings that a kid watching Song of the South won't see Uncle Remus as an idealized caricature of a "slave" but simply as the nice old man that lives down the road. But of course, emotional, knee-jerk reactionary, overly sensitive, meddling liberals ruin yet another American classic...
 
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The opening scene to Zootopia was one of the funniest I've seen in a while.

I found the "only bunnies can call other bunnies 'cute.'" and some of the Easter eggs aimed at adults very entertaining as well.

I'd watch it again.
 
silenthunterstudios said:
Other than Star Wars Rogue One, I'm not all that excited for movies coming out. I saw Deadpool in the theater and wish I had seen Revenant in the theater, it was a great movie. I wanted to see Captain America, wanted to see Xmen, wanted to see Suicide Squad. I've heard that Captain America Civil War is the best Marvel movie to date, and maybe one of the best superhero movies.
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That's part of the problem. The backing money seems to want guaranteed return so they do the formula dance or release Batman 29, x-men 16 etc. I noticed about 5-7 years ago that art has taken a back seat to guaranteed profit so we get generic fare. I find myself far less inclined these days to pay the 40 bucks, and experience the usual discussion to shut up yappy adolescents, or to have one remove his feet from the top of the seat next to me. Although some beaten themes are refreshed to the point of being interesting again, like Star Trek. I haven't seen the Revenant yet. It may be on my TV packages, who knows.
 
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