What's the last movie you saw and rate it...

[SkinnyPupp]

Yeah the one major drawback was having to spend a lot of time explaining AI for the grandpas in the audience

[whitev70r]

Who's excited for Barbenheimer weekend?

Honestly, I don't get why the craze for the dorky looking movie Barbie ... If you paid me $20 or whatever the ticket price is now, I wouldn't sit through that. Oppenheimer, otoh, would be cool to see the backstory and all the drama leading up to da bomb.

[SkinnyPupp]

Dude I tried getting IMAX tickets for Oppenheimer thinking I was looking early enough (it opened yesterday), but NNNNNOPE. Everything sold out all week, all weekend, every time including as early as 10am. We have like 6 IMAX theatres here (some fake imax, some real) and they're all flat out booked (front rows notwithstanding, because fuck that).

That being said, regular screens have seating here and there... But I feel like if you go out to see a Chris Nolan movie, it should be on IMAX. So I'll keep waiting.

[mikemhg]

Same issue here. Tried to get IMAX tickets for Saturday/Sunday all evening showings in both Langley and Richmond totally full.

Blah, I assume this movie will be in IMAX theaters for the next few weeks here? Cineplex only gives out showing times up until July 28th.

[supafamous]

I'm going to see Oppenheimer in Langley tomorrow in IMAX (6pm). Bought tickets back on Jun 28 and I'm still up in the 4th row from the front.

Oppenheimer bought out all the IMAX screens for 3 weeks exclusively which is 1 week longer than is normal. If you miss it then you'll have to wait till Royal BC Museum to put it on in a few months.

[SkinnyPupp]

Found a ticket for this Thursday at 5pm, 6th row from the front but this theatre has really good seats for IMAX so it should be good (some others have stadium seating instead of reclined chairs, which makes no sense)

[mikemhg]

Got tickets tonight, gonna go to Metrotown AVX instead. Heard that should be good enough for this film..

[supafamous]

Oppenheimer was excellent. It can be quite hard to follow at the beginning with all the different characters showing up especially if you know of them (Fermi, Feynman, Bohr etc) but the 3 hours didn't feel like 3 hours.

Watching it on the giant IMAX screen was pretty great too though the seats in Langley feel like those of a 737. Maybe I'm spoiled on the VIP seats but there was hardly any legroom and barely enough elbow room.

[mikemhg]

Oppenheimer - 8/10.

I'm so conflicted by this movie, being a Nolan fanboy. This film doesn't even fall in his top 5 for me, (I'd rate Interstellar, Inception, Insomnia, Dunkirk, DK 2 and 3 all higher).

I think the movie could've had about 30 minutes shaved off, I found myself getting a little fidgety and bored by the 2.5 hour mark.

Don't want to get into spoilers, but there are some parts totally omitted that I wished they had expounded on, the lead up to the bomb testing was by far the best part of the film. I wanted more of that.

[mikemhg]

To add to this if anyone is curious, you don't need to see this film in IMAX. Totally unnecessary.

[SkinnyPupp]

Yeah it was fine. Third act dragged, but maybe it was because the kid next to me couldn't stop moving and picking his nose and it was really distracting. At one point about 2.5 hours in his leg started shaking so violently that I thought he was having a seizure! I don't know how his gf puts up with it.

I couldn't believe how many kids were there - the IMAX was packed all the way to the front row with kids aged 16-20's at most. I expect movies to be busy during summer holidays, but why are they watching the 1940's biopic and not Barbie?

I agree that you don't NEED to watch this on IMAX but it definitely made it better. There was some great IMAX cinematography, but not in the third act which also didn't help with that dragging feeling.

[HonestTea]

9/10 Oppenheimer - Much better than Tenet and Dunkirk (for me at least), watched it in Langley 70MM IMAX.

Cillian is such a great actor, he waited almost 20 years to be a main character in a Nolan movie. Well deserved!

[Klondike]

Watched Oppenheimer last night. Recliners at landmark made the 3 hr movie bearable. - 8/10.

Barbie movie is next and somehow the Gran Turismo movie flew under my radar so I'm definitely gonna see that

[sonick]

Extraction 2 - 8/10. Super fun entertaining movie. Just got some cheap add-on atmos speakers for my home theatre setup, was a great demo of the speakers. The 21-minute one-shot was fucking mindblowing.

Felt the end was a bit slow after all the action, but maybe it was coz I had to watch the last 30 mins on a different day.

[6793026]

Oppenheimer - 9/10
Watched the 70mm but didn't see great value in it.
It was a jammed packed theatre, maybe it was 70mm.
Was NOT too impressed as there were less "explosion" .. as in, pretty much none.

Very surprised it was a long 3 hour movie but did NOT feel like it was long
Script was decent; the editing was amazing as it was never ever boring cause the pace was fast. What I did find really really well done was casting Robert Downey Jr in the movie.
He shed his image of "iron man", no more witty or dark Sherlock Holmes but really transformed as a smart, cunning, yet well put together middle aged man.
I would not be surprised he took a huge pay cut to do the movie.

Thank goodness of all the flash back snip-it of scientists mentioned cause there was no way in hell i would remember their names so it was good to know who they were talking around when name dropping.

They could have cut out a the love interest but wifey told me it was important for the communist pull in the story...

TLR - if you think this is a "time" movie - Tenent / intersteller / inception type movie, don't go watch it.
If you want huge visual graphics and big blowing up stuff... you're not going to get it.

Watch it as a historical movie with 2 different perpectives and you wont be disappointed.

[mikemhg]

^I agree the weakest part of the story was the love portion, I think it could've been left out.

I went in to the film thinking it would more revolve around the scientific process of the atomic bomb, where as the scientific portion actually took the backseat.

The film is primarily an autobiographical film about Oppenheimer the person, the bomb itself takes a backseat to the story. I found that somewhat disappointing.

[bokch0y]

I've seen many movies but the last movie i've seen recently was Transformers: The Movie 1986.

10/10

Giant toy commerical but i loved every minute of it.

[sonick]

Ambulance - 9.1/10

Such a fun and entertaining movie. Realistic or good, definitely not but classic entertaining turn off your brain Michael Bay action.

No AI could've come up with the plot twists and turns.

Highly recommended.

[68style]

I really hated that movie lol

[SkinnyPupp]

This looks good, will watch it in theatre for sure

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[68style]

How many vintage cars has Leo had sex in on film now?

[mikemhg]

Originally Posted by 68style

How many vintage cars has Leo had sex in on film now?

Not enough.

[6793026]

didn't know it was based on a real story.
Can't say it was bad, typical movie to say the least. For someone who doesn't know cars would still enjoy this so it's decent. A tad long in a way; glad it didn't have too many dull moments...
I thought David Harbour did a decent job.

[underscore]

I went on a work trip so I watched a bunch of movies that I had heard about/been suggested somewhere at some point without remembering or looking up anything about them before watching them, which is my favourite way to experience a show.

Four Rooms [1994] - 3/10

As soon as I saw Tarantino's name in the opening credits I knew it would be a bit odd. The general concept of having 4 stories written by 4 people occur in 4 different rooms of the same hotel is interesting but the stories they wrote were all pretty weird and not *that* interesting.

The Hunt [2020] - 1/10

One of the worst movies I've ever seen. It's apparently an attempt at American political commentary but it just uses really bad stereotypes and plays up a bunch of made up far right victim complex nonsense. They main villian even looks like AOC. But apparently far right people didn't like it either so it just kind of insults everyone without any intelligence behind it.

Takers [2010] - 5/10

A super cheesy heist movie with a super lazy plot but it has Paul Walker (RIP) and Hayden Christensen and stuff blows up it which helped.

The Monuments Men [2014] - 8/10

Based on a true story from WWII, with a great cast, about the people trying to find the art that was stolen by the Nazis as they were retreating at the end of of the war.

IO [2019] - 3/10

A post-apocalypse movie right as the last bits of the earth are becoming uninhabitable, it sets up an interesting premise but ultimately isn't terribly interesting before a very forced feeling ending. During the end credits I saw it was from the Sundance film festival. Those kinds of movies don't really appeal to me but if you like them you might enjoy this more than I did.

Atomic Blonde [2017] - 9/10

A Cold War spy/action thriller set in East and West Berlin right before the Berlin Wall came down. It's based on a graphic novel and while the premise of what they're after is a huge trope the rest of it is great, the visuals and action are awesome and the late 80's soundtrack was the icing on the cake.

[68style]

I hope the rest of your work trip went better than your movie choices did lol