The real question is, would George Lucas be embarrassed to admit writing it? (Looking at SW EP I-II-III, in particular.)

At our house we watched two movies on Saturday - we watched Hidden Figures, and we all loved it. Daughter's planning on being an engineer when she goes into college, so the science side was interesting to her.

Then my wife and I decided to show our daughter a classic film - Highlander. Wow. Our memories of that film were sooooo much better than it actually was. It was so painful to watch, we turned it off 40 minutes in. Even with us all doing our own version of MST3K, it was still unwatchable. Makes me shudder to even think of seeing 2&3 which, in my memory were even worse than the original...

The soundtrack was great, but DAMN the writing, acting, cinematography, and the sound effects were painful...

Funny thing to note, Michael Keaton was Batman, Birdman, and The Vulture...

I read the books, and I understand movies are just fantasy, but I had such a difficult time accepting Cruise as Reacher. From the author's website ( http://www.leechild.com/jack-reacher.php ), Jack was 6'5", 220-250 lbs., 50" chest. Tom Cruise is 5'7, 170....just a SLIGHT difference.

For example, here is a picture or Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson who is 6'4, 245#, he is with Mark Zuckerberg who is the same height (5'7") and build as Tom Cruise...

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My interpretation of crlush's post was that MK was "Crazy scary" (i.e. majorly scary) not "Crazy and scary".... As the scene developed and we saw where it was going my daughter and I looked at each with the "ooooooo daaaamn" look on our faces...and then we laughed at the "not too good of a time" line. Which, thinking back on it, is one of the reasons why we liked the film , it had serious parts, and fun parts it was really well balanced and did a good job of showing the 'teenage kid' side of Peter while dealing with the side of Peter wanting to be 'more'.

We loved, loved, loved the final scene before the credits with Aunt May's line getting cut off. We laughed quite a lot at that.

Were they wearing white armor?

He is one actor I can not stand, especially after meeting/working with him during the filming of "Hardball" in Chicago in the fall of 2000. I was a stand-in for a different actor and was on set for six nights (from 8p-4a, while also working my regular office job from 8a-5p). He had a hard time remembering his lines, was extremely arrogant, and during the last night I was on set, I asked for his autograph on my script call sheet (which I still have) he got all indignant saying, "Professionals don't ask for autographs on set." My response was, "I am an office worker who has no desire to be a professional actor, I was called by the casting company for this. Acting is fun for me, not a career." He still wouldn't sign.

Conversely, I absolutely fell for Diane Lane during the time I was on set. The Production Assistant (PA) knew that I was working my office job during the day and allowed me to find places to sleep when I wasn't needed, as long as I let him know where I was going to be. One night, it was raining and he allowed me to sleep in the makeup area, and lo and behold, Diane Lane comes in for makeup testing. She and I chatted for hours like we were old friends about everything, my life, her life, etc. She was as personable as she was (is) pretty. I was just so awestruck by her that I forgot to ask her for her autograph. (This was three nights before I tried asking Keanu.)

True but at least tom Cruise wasn't a dipshit to me in person.

Yep that was good, too. It came out after I met her. (2002)

We saw Thor today. Very entertaining, nice humor moments (Banner dressed as Stark constantly adjusting his pants was one) and the music was good too...done by Mark Mothersbaugh of Devo. I'd give it a solid 8...

I just watched "Jim & Andy The Great Beyond" it is a documentary of the movie, "Man on the Moon" where Jim Carrey portrayed Andy Kaufman. Interspersed with current interview segments with Jim. It really have a great insight into how far her delved into Kaufman's persona and how the role affected him.

If you were a fan of the movie, it would be 9/10, but dramatically less if you didn't like/see the Man on the Moon.

Lego Batman Movie - 9/10 popcorns! - I went into it thinking, this could be bad, or awesome. Well, as my family all agreed, it was the best Batman movie of all the Batman movies. Hands down. The writing on this was great, it lampooned the other Batman fils, yet beat them all at their own game. That and they made fun of other DC films as well - "What am I gonna do, get a bunch of criminals together to fight the criminals? That's a stupid idea." LOL

Great film, a must see!

Last night we watched "A Monster Calls." It was a good film and we all enjoyed it, just be prepared, it is a solid kick in "the feels." I don't want to give anything else away, so I won't give any more of the plot away.

I would give it 6 out of 10 popcorns.

You do_ realize that this is the movie adaptation of George Orwell's book of the same name that was an allegory about the events running up to the Russian Revolution and Stalin...right? On top of it, this movie was financed by the CIA as a bit of Cold War propaganda.

Just saying...

I have a major fear of anticipointment for RP1...I hope I'm wrong.

You and millions of others... We will be freeze framing the heck out of the Blu-ray when it comes out.

I can agree with that - my daughter and I were not impressed with it either. Wasn't that thrilling and we had figured it out before the reveal.