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Good Movies / Re: 100 Movies Over 3 HOURS Lo...
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 09:00:12 AMQuote from: zombie no.one on Today at 08:37:18 AMQuote from: Rev. Powell on Today at 08:09:41 AMA lot of Bollywood movies are over 3 hours, but this is the only one I'll mention, since it got relatively wide distribution (it was even nominated for a best song Oscar, I believe):
91. RRR (2022)
I believe that's the one at #44?
any other B-wood to chuck in then please do!
Apologies, I think I just assumed no one remembered it! How about
93. THE RIGHT STUFF (1983)
#12
Good Movies / Re: 100 Movies Over 3 HOURS Lo...
Last post by Trevor - Today at 08:53:42 AM92. LAGAAN ONCE UPON A TIME IN INDIA (2001)
233 minutes.
233 minutes.
#13
Good Movies / Re: 100 Movies Over 3 HOURS Lo...
Last post by Trevor - Today at 08:51:09 AM91. SHOLAY (1975)
204 / 198 minutes
My fave Indian film. 😊😊🐢
204 / 198 minutes
My fave Indian film. 😊😊🐢
#14
Bad Movies / Re: Generate Movie Poster with...
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#15
Good Movies / Re: 100 Movies Over 3 HOURS Lo...
Last post by zombie no.one - Today at 08:37:18 AMQuote from: Rev. Powell on Today at 08:09:41 AMA lot of Bollywood movies are over 3 hours, but this is the only one I'll mention, since it got relatively wide distribution (it was even nominated for a best song Oscar, I believe):
91. RRR (2022)
I believe that's the one at #44?
any other B-wood to chuck in then please do!
#16
Entertainment / Re: What have you been listeni...
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 08:21:53 AM
"Through The Wall" by Rochelle Jordan. Pass.
#18
Good Movies / Re: 100 Movies Over 3 HOURS Lo...
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 08:09:41 AMA lot of Bollywood movies are over 3 hours, but this is the only one I'll mention, since it got relatively wide distribution (it was even nominated for a best song Oscar, I believe):
91. RRR (2022)
91. RRR (2022)
#19
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by Rev. Powell - Today at 08:05:27 AMTHE RULE OF JENNY PEN (2024): A judge suffers a stroke and ends up in a nursing home; as his physical and mental condition deteriorates, he becomes the target of a sadistic fellow patient. Great acting by Geoffrey Rush and John Lithgow in this odd (horror? geriatric thriller?) story set in an novel milieu. 3/5.
#20
Good Movies / Re: Recent Viewings, Part 2
Last post by M.10rda - Today at 08:02:57 AMNOW YOU SEE ME (2013):
I took a break from my pre-Octobering to spend couch-time with Madame and watch this absurdly stacked ensemble adventure that immediately comes off as OCEAN'S ELEVEN with magicians, though maybe the producers were really going for THE AVENGERS with magicians as AVENGERS had just premiered and made a literal billion dollars the previous year.
Woody Harrelson and his lil' buddy from ZOMBIELAND Jesse Eisenberg, the lovely Isla Fisher
, and generally inoffensive non-actor Dave Franco 
are Robin Hood's band of Merry Magicians, bankrolled (for a while) by Michael Caine and directed by a mysterious anonymous mastermind. Morgan Freeman, actual AVENGER Mark Ruffalo, the always-welcome Michael Kelly, rapper/actor/pro-literacy activist Common 
, and some vanilla blonde French girl are the anti-Magician faction pursuing and trying to bust them. Caine and Freeman get one (nice) scene together, reminding us that they were both in pre-AVENGERS mega-blockbuster THE DARK KNIGHT. There is lots of (mostly illusion-based) action and some suspense. Some of the "magic" is explained but lots of it retains its "secret" so to speak, which really means of course that it's probably impossible B.S. fabricated by the screenwriters, though that's fine for a popcorn potboiler.
I was honestly digging NOW YOU SEE ME for most of its run-time, but it has two issues which ultimately hamstring it. The lesser issue is that the affable Marxist Magicians become secondary characters in what was presumably their movie and the majority of the focus shifts to Ruffalo's drunken sourpuss Agent. Ruffalo is a good actor who deserves lead roles but the decision to spend most of the screen-time with him ends up underminding the abrupt, probably obligatory USUAL SUSPECTS-type reveal in the final minutes. (Also, his character is just plain less entertaining than Harrelson, Eisenberg, and (mmmm) Fisher.) The more serious issue, however, is the wholly unnecessary and artificial romantic subplot involving the French lady, contrived at great length to no payoff. When the mysterious mastermind breaks down in the film's last scene and tells the tres fade French lady that they "saw everything coming - except for you" [closely paraphrasing here], I could almost hear the screenwriters high-fiving each other somewhere in Burbank. Even my romantic-movie loving wife wouldn't swallow that swill!
3/5
Mild SPOILER: Franco's character appears to die horribly
then of course he comes back. 
I remain unconvinced he is an actor or a director or anything but James' diminutive brother, but maybe eventually I'll watch Allison Brie in TOGETHER and be persuaded otherwise.
I took a break from my pre-Octobering to spend couch-time with Madame and watch this absurdly stacked ensemble adventure that immediately comes off as OCEAN'S ELEVEN with magicians, though maybe the producers were really going for THE AVENGERS with magicians as AVENGERS had just premiered and made a literal billion dollars the previous year.
Woody Harrelson and his lil' buddy from ZOMBIELAND Jesse Eisenberg, the lovely Isla Fisher
, and generally inoffensive non-actor Dave Franco are Robin Hood's band of Merry Magicians, bankrolled (for a while) by Michael Caine and directed by a mysterious anonymous mastermind. Morgan Freeman, actual AVENGER Mark Ruffalo, the always-welcome Michael Kelly, rapper/actor/pro-literacy activist Common , and some vanilla blonde French girl are the anti-Magician faction pursuing and trying to bust them. Caine and Freeman get one (nice) scene together, reminding us that they were both in pre-AVENGERS mega-blockbuster THE DARK KNIGHT. There is lots of (mostly illusion-based) action and some suspense. Some of the "magic" is explained but lots of it retains its "secret" so to speak, which really means of course that it's probably impossible B.S. fabricated by the screenwriters, though that's fine for a popcorn potboiler.I was honestly digging NOW YOU SEE ME for most of its run-time, but it has two issues which ultimately hamstring it. The lesser issue is that the affable Marxist Magicians become secondary characters in what was presumably their movie and the majority of the focus shifts to Ruffalo's drunken sourpuss Agent. Ruffalo is a good actor who deserves lead roles but the decision to spend most of the screen-time with him ends up underminding the abrupt, probably obligatory USUAL SUSPECTS-type reveal in the final minutes. (Also, his character is just plain less entertaining than Harrelson, Eisenberg, and (mmmm) Fisher.) The more serious issue, however, is the wholly unnecessary and artificial romantic subplot involving the French lady, contrived at great length to no payoff. When the mysterious mastermind breaks down in the film's last scene and tells the tres fade French lady that they "saw everything coming - except for you" [closely paraphrasing here], I could almost hear the screenwriters high-fiving each other somewhere in Burbank. Even my romantic-movie loving wife wouldn't swallow that swill!
3/5
Mild SPOILER: Franco's character appears to die horribly
then of course he comes back. I remain unconvinced he is an actor or a director or anything but James' diminutive brother, but maybe eventually I'll watch Allison Brie in TOGETHER and be persuaded otherwise.