The General Movie Thread

[Big s]

Watched a slightly older movie that kinda flew under our radar from the long forgotten year of 2022. The Contractor with Chris Pine. I think it’s best to totally skip it. The acting for the most part is fine for the kind of story it is and the action isn’t bad, just that there’s a few problems that are highly frustrating about the movie. It’s basically about a guy from the military that had a pretty bad leg injury and has had to take pain killers and steroids to try and keep his career going. He eventually gets booted out for drug use and that creates a lot of drama at home. That bit of the story isn’t so bad, but the filming is constantly done with shaky cam during these slow depressing scenes and kinda was making me feel sea sick.

He’s got an old war buddy that helps him land a job with a military contractor that tells him everything they’re going to do is legit and they’ll always take care of them, of course that’s obviously not true, but when they finally start doing their mission things go south and they’re stealing a mcguffin that is the most mcguffin of mcguffins that I’ve seen in a while. So most of the team dies other than Pine and his buddy that are both hurting. Eventually Pine gets the buddy runnning to an unsure extraction while resting up for the rest of his escape with the mcguffin. So then the story takes a turn and now the people that were supposed to help extract him are trying to kill him and the movie never ever explains why they are trying to kill him and his buddy. Supposedly the boss pays the families big checks anyway even to the people that die and so money isn’t the issue. And I thought maybe they didn’t want witnesses, but then it turns out that when he gets back stateside that his buddy was fine. So then the witnesses thing isn’t really there either. He then makes his buddy cry and they go after the boss I an average action movie type scene, but even after dealing with the big boss nothing really gets explained about why they wanted him dead so badly they’ve risked even more high paid mercenaries lives. They even kill a guy running one of their secret safe houses for no real reason either. Also the shaky cam stopped somehow before the mission started for unknown reasons and I don’t remember it ever returning. Kinda glad they killed the first camera man at least, cause that guy was terrible at his job, hopefully the paid the camera man’s family well for his loss.

I do feel like if there was a bit more work put into this movie it could’ve been a fairly good action film , but weird film styles and bad writing. And the reason they were sent to destroy or steal the mcguffin was because it was some goofy tech that seems to cure birdflu of all things and the company that hired them didn’t want competition with their treatment medications. Like I’ve said, the action wasn’t bad at all, but really was the only stable piece of the movie.

[Old_Nash_II]

The Breakfast Club With Dawn of the Dead

[Old_Nash_II]

Storm Rider without Wind or Cloud, isn't Storm Rider XD

Edited January 29 by Old_Nash_II

[Big s]

9 hours ago, Old_Nash_II said:

Storm Rider without Wind or Cloud, isn't Storm Rider XD

Waterworld meets Death Race 2000

[sh9000]

 

 

 

 

 

[TangledThorns]

That was too cheesy for my tastes. I thought Xfinity's ET Superbowl commercial was waaaaay better. 

[sh9000]

Final trailer.

[Black Valkyrie]

On 2/8/2026 at 11:28 PM, sh9000 said:

Final trailer.

 

I say its gonna be a hit cuz of Prince`s single.  

 

[Dynaman]

Looks decent - between this Supergirl and Mando I might actually get to the theater multiple times this year.

[lechuck]

[Big s]

11 hours ago, lechuck said:

Some of these blumhouse movies actually end up better than I expected, I’ll probably wait till streaming though 

[Old_Nash_II]

Toys X Machines!

[505thAirborne]

 

[505thAirborne]

Watching the movie FALL on Netflix, if you have a fear and anxiety of heights, this movie turns it up to 11!!! 

[Valkyrie Hunter D]

I never had the honor of seeing this one in a theater:

Wish I did.

[electric indigo]

8 hours ago, 505thAirborne said:

Watching the movie FALL on Netflix, if you have a fear and anxiety of heights, this movie turns it up to 11!!! 

The movie was a dirty little gem – so effective in transporting the sense of dizzying height, I was on the edge ofmy seat the whole time. Great craftmanship.

Woman of the hour, the directorial debut of Anna Kendrick, is on Netflix, too, don't miss it.

[Dynaman]

10 hours ago, Valkyrie Hunter D said:

I never had the honor of seeing this one in a theater:

Wish I did.

I never heard of that before.  and I think you just gave away the 3rd MST3K revival movie...

[Big s]

13 hours ago, Valkyrie Hunter D said:

I never had the honor of seeing this one in a theater:

Wish I did.

I don’t know if I actually saw the movie or just the trailer many years ago, but I remember the dude with tracks. I don’t remember anything else though. The guy from X-Men reminded me of him.

We used to watch a lot of bad movies when I was younger and they often had previews for other really bad movies and it’s possible that’s all I saw, but the visual of that guy kinda sticks with you once you see it rolling.

[TangledThorns]

13 hours ago, Valkyrie Hunter D said:

I never had the honor of seeing this one in a theater:

Wish I did.

 

I saw it in the theater, plus lots of other low-budget sci-fi flicks back then too. It looked heavily borrowed from The Terminator but actually it wasn't a total rip-off and was entertained by it. Good action film for its time. 

[M'Kyuun]

13 hours ago, Valkyrie Hunter D said:

I never had the honor of seeing this one in a theater:

Wish I did.

OMG, the 80s cheese! Thought that was Denise Crosby. Saw her in person at a convention here in Spokane years ago. She seemed very grounded and genuinely nice, relating anecdotes from her life and career. Her grandfather, Bing, was a notable alumnus here at Gonzaga University, and she talked about him a bit as well.

5 hours ago, electric indigo said:

The movie was a dirty little gem – so effective in transporting the sense of dizzying height, I was on the edge ofmy seat the whole time. Great craftmanship.

Woman of the hour, the directorial debut of Anna Kendrick, is on Netflix, too, don't miss it.

Been meaning to watch Woman of the Hour and Fall popped up on the movie list recently. Gonna have to watch them.

Saw Predator : Badlands the other night.

Spoiler

I was initially taken aback by the levity and light-heartedness of it. More of a buddy film than anything. It was ok, but not really striking the tone I'd like to see in a Predator film.

Kinda prefer Prey or something more like Killer of Killers. I thought Prey was awesome, my second favorite Predator film next to the original. Predator 2 is third runner up.

[Valkyrie Hunter D]

You got LASERs, a cyborg halftrack and a Kung Fu ninja named Kuchie.  The Eliminators had everything.

[M'Kyuun]

55 minutes ago, Valkyrie Hunter D said:

You got LASERs, a cyborg halftrack and a Kung Fu ninja named Kuchie.  The Eliminators had everything.

Yeah, kinda feels like the writers were like, "what's the coolest stuff in action movies ever?!!!" And then, with their low budget and mediocre skills, they made this. 😄  I have zero recollection of this film having ever been advertised, nor do I recall ever coming across it at old VHS rentals back in the day. Pretty obscure I'm guessing.

[TangledThorns]

Speaking of catching up...

I watched Good Will Hunting on Youtube free movies for the first time, lol. Only saw parts of it but never sat through the whole film. For a film from 1997 it holds up well with Robin William acting that earned him an Oscar. 

How do you like them apples?!

 

Edited February 21 by TangledThorns

[Dynaman]

1 hour ago, M'Kyuun said:

Yeah, kinda feels like the writers were like, "what's the coolest stuff in action movies ever?!!!" And then, with their low budget and mediocre skills, they made this. 😄  I have zero recollection of this film having ever been advertised, nor do I recall ever coming across it at old VHS rentals back in the day. Pretty obscure I'm guessing.

The thing is, even though it is obviously  bad (very bad) it does not look quite cheap enough to have been a direct to DVD (er, videotape) release.  Who am I kidding, Killer Klowns didn't look quite that cheap in adverts and it was direct to video.

[Big s]

8 hours ago, M'Kyuun said:

Been meaning to watch Woman of the Hour and Fall popped up on the movie list recently. Gonna have to watch them.

If it’s between those two, then definitely put fall ahead of the list. Woman of the Hour really wasn’t that great, kinda just ok. Not totally bad, but not good either

[M'Kyuun]

23 hours ago, Big s said:

If it’s between those two, then definitely put fall ahead of the list. Woman of the Hour really wasn’t that great, kinda just ok. Not totally bad, but not good either

Way ahead of ya, watched Fall last night, and yeah, it was good. Excellent cinematography really makes you feel the height at times. Guess the tower doesn't actually exist, but it sure looked real in the fim. SFX are best when they don't look like SFX. That said, ya have to wonder how many similar towers exist around the world and whether something like this has occurred. 

Spoiler

The whole time, I kept thinking had they just brought more rope or parachutes, they'd have been alright. Pretty ill-prepared. Good thing she had that drone, though. 🙄

 

[Big s]

1 hour ago, M'Kyuun said:

That said, ya have to wonder how many similar towers exist around the world and whether something like this has occurred. 

It’s actually somewhat based on a true story 

[505thAirborne]

On 2/21/2026 at 6:27 AM, electric indigo said:

The movie was a dirty little gem – so effective in transporting the sense of dizzying height, I was on the edge ofmy seat the whole time. Great craftmanship.

Woman of the hour, the directorial debut of Anna Kendrick, is on Netflix, too, don't miss it.

Woman of the hour was great, as soon as I saw Anna was in it not to mention directing, I was all on aboard. 

 

Since some of you watched FALL as well, the tower according to the director is based on the KXTV/KOVR Tower (also known as the Sacramento Joint Venture Tower) is a 2,049-foot-high (625 m) communications tower in Walnut Grove, California, United States.

Edited February 24 by 505thAirborne

[Big s]

2 hours ago, 505thAirborne said:

Woman of the hour was great, as soon as I saw Anna was in it not to mention directing, I was all on aboard. 

I kinda feel like her part of the story was the weaker element. I found the other lady to be far more interesting of a story and how she came so much closer to death was just kinda more of a gut punch.

[Old_Nash_II]

First teaser

[azrael]

Got a good giggle from this bit of news. Maybe the younger generation are realizing the "You own nothing and will be happy"-motto doesn't work for the long term. Especially in light of subscription fee increases and removal from streaming libraries.

DVDs are the new vinyl records: Why Gen Z is embracing physical media (LA Times via Yahoo News)

[Old_Nash_II]

 

From the VHS era, a mockbuster classic in a new guise

[Big s]

4 hours ago, Old_Nash_II said:

 

From the VHS era, a mockbuster classic in a new guise

I remember many decades ago knowing that one dude in the neighborhood that had copies of the films and a watch of them would be highlights of sleepovers. Pre internet and very little information, kids couldn’t figure out if they were real or not and everyone would either debate their legitimacy or be jealous they missed out on the fun.

I don’t think that something like that would be anywhere near as entertaining now though since everyone knows the truth and can easily find more disturbing videos by just doing a google search 

[Valkyrie Hunter D]

5 hours ago, Old_Nash_II said:

 

From the VHS era, a mockbuster classic in a new guise

LiveLeak the Movie

[TangledThorns]

1 hour ago, Valkyrie Hunter D said:

LiveLeak the Movie

More like Ogrish (before Liveleak) back in the day...