Recommended Newer Movies

tophatjohnny
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With a lot of replies to what's the worse movie, please share your thoughts on what may be some good movies that are more recent. I'll start it off with Red2, we all loved it. Family that is!! Say you??
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  • jeremymarcinko
    jeremymarcinko Posts: 3,785
    "Blended" with Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore. One of the funniest family films I've sewn aa long time.
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  • tophatjohnny
    tophatjohnny Posts: 4,182
    jeremymarcinko wrote: »
    "Blended" with Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore. One of the funniest family films I've sewn aa long time.

    We liked that as a family too. Seems talking about what the worst movies are beats talking about what the best movies are! We watched "Safe Haven" last night (wife and I) and that was a winner.........for us. I know it's all personal and everyone has an opinion.

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  • drumminman
    drumminman Posts: 3,396
    "Fury", with Brad Pitt, Shia La Boef, Jon Bernthal, etc. One of best movies I've seen about the life of a soldier, combat, WWII, etc.
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  • tophatjohnny
    tophatjohnny Posts: 4,182
    Thanks fellow drummer. I have not seen that one. Will do!!
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  • whgarrett1394
    whgarrett1394 Posts: 217
    edited November 2014
    If you are into movies that are off beat or weird I would suggest a couple that i rented recently.

    Locke - Tom Hardy - quite a performance that is in the same vein as Robert Redford's All Is Lost

    Enemy - Jake Gyllenhaal - pretty out there, but interesting. DONT WATCH IF YOU HAVE SPIDER PHOBIA.

    These movies are from the same production company and put out some cool indie films.

    I want to see the these movies in the theater: Nightcrawler, Interstellar, and Birdman.
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  • tophatjohnny
    tophatjohnny Posts: 4,182
    whgarrett1394 wrote: »
    If you are into movies that are off beat or weird I would suggest a couple that i rented recently.

    Locke - Tom Hardy - quite a performance that is in the same vein as Robert Redford's All Is Lost

    Enemy - Jake Gyllenhaal - pretty out there, but interesting. DONT WATCH IF YOU HAVE SPIDER PHOBIA.

    These movies are from the same production company and put out some cool indie films.

    I want to see the these movies in the theater: Nightcrawler, Interstellar, and Birdman.
    Locke???? All is Lost???? They are sleepers to me, I mean, the kind of movie that I would be asking for a refund from if I were to waste the time in a theater, I know it's personal taste but those 2 are among the worst I could imagine and would not recommend to anyone I cared about. Sorry, again personal taste here I know, Glad you like those flicks!! I want to see Nightcrawler as well!! Thanks
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  • whgarrett1394
    whgarrett1394 Posts: 217
    Lol!! Definitely not for everyone. No hard feelings for sure. :smile:
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  • dromunds
    dromunds Posts: 10,018
    St. Vincent w/ Bill Murray, Gone Girl
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  • gudnoyez
    gudnoyez Posts: 8,124
    jeremymarcinko wrote: »
    "Blended" with Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore. One of the funniest family films I've sewn aa long time.

    Yeah the Wife's a huge Sandler fan him and Drew made another enjoyable movie together, I will have to check out St. Vincent, huge Murray fan.

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  • chipmunk202
    chipmunk202 Posts: 4
    any new actionthriller coming up? I never manage to track all the new movies coming up and I love actiontriller. Would be great to get some suggestions :-) Thanks!
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  • kevhed72
    kevhed72 Posts: 5,059
    tophatjohnny wrote: »
    With a lot of replies to what's the worse movie, please share your thoughts on what may be some good movies that are more recent. I'll start it off with Red2, we all loved it. Family that is!! Say you??
    Not to start riff but only express an opinion....we found Blended one of the worst movies we have ever seen and regretted taking our kids. The 'kicked in the nuts' humor was bad on many levels, and the story was dumb. Weird...I consider my liberal on many fronts, but I cringed exposing our kids to this.

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  • gce
    gce Posts: 2,158
    Headed out the door now to go see "Birdman" with Keaton. Got good reviews...we'll see.
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  • cnh
    cnh Posts: 13,284
    edited November 2014
    Not new but out on rental. The latest X-men film. I'm giving it a Thumbs up. Not bad. Saw it on B-ray last night. Good pacing, decent story-line. Good mix of old and new. Would appreciate a Mike LeKeiko review though? They're the "best"!

    Thumbs down (also rented last night)? The latest Godzilla, although there are some OK monster fight scenes here and there, the film fails in the end and I'm an ORIGINAL fan of the RUBBER suit Godzillas! So what does that tell you?

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  • Mikey081057
    Mikey081057 Posts: 7,127
    Some more off the beat films:

    Killer Joe with Matthew McConaughey

    Lawless with Tom Hardy

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  • gce
    gce Posts: 2,158
    I can recommend "Birdman" the casting and acting was top notch. A very dark comedy.
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  • jeremymarcinko
    jeremymarcinko Posts: 3,785
    Not a movie but we have been watching season 1 of "the 100" on Netflix. Really liking it so far.
    Oh, Listen here mister. We got no way of understandin' this world. But we got as much sense of this bird flyin in the sky. Now there is a lot that bird don't know, but it don't change the fact that the world is happening to him all the same. What I am tryin to say is, is that the course of your life, well its changing, and you don't even see it- Forest Bondurant
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  • westmassguy
    westmassguy Posts: 6,850
    edited November 2014
    Not so new, Man of Steel (great re-re-re-boot), Captain America: The Winter Soldier,
    Iron Man 3, Thor: The Dark World, Star Trek: Into Darkness,
    Like I told you Johnny, if you like Red 2, See RED, it's better.
    Expendables, all three for a hoot.
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  • ROHfan
    ROHfan Posts: 1,014
    edited November 2014
    Wifey and I watch tons of movies here, all kinds, with emphasis on indies. So here's three we'd recommend as our favorites this year:

    1) "Loveship Hateship," Starring Kristen Wiig. Probably the best movie we've seen this year. Most of you probably haven't heard of it unless you're a big indie fan, but Wiig's performance, IMO, is one of those once-in-a-lifetime performances. Reminiscent of the one Michael Shannon gave in "Take Shelter." It's a story about a kind of frumpy, 30-something female caregiver who starts having feelings for a man for the first time in her life and how she clumsily deals with it and is such a decent soul, lacking the ability or desire to judge others. For all the movies out there with awful, predictable endings, this one's a breath of fresh air. Great and satisfying ending to a great and satisfying film.

    2) "Maleficient." Angelina Jolie OWNS the title role with some of the best acting we've seen from her. Not your typical Disney movie, this one is a kind of a re-imagining of the "Sleeping Beauty" tale. Excellent visuals and marvelous DTS soundtrack. Will be buying this one on 3D Blu Ray as one of my reference movies.

    3) "A Million Ways to Die in the West." Love "Family Guy?" Love "Ted?" You'll laugh your **** off then with this offering from one of our favorite funny guys, Seth MacFarlane. Don't love Seth? Don't love potty humor? You'll probably hate this one. Go read "War and Peace," instead.

    I would have to disagree with those who liked "Blended." We love Sandler and Barrymore but this one felt very forced and contrived to us. Almost switched it off a few times.
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  • StantonZ
    StantonZ Posts: 444
    edited November 2014
    If you like Sci-Fi at all, you should rent "Edge of Tomorrow". Great action, best time-travel story since..."Looper". This is the movie that "Elysium" SHOULD have been.
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  • BlueFox
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    I was going to also post Edge of Tomorrow. I have watched it 3-4 times now. You catch something different each time.
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  • tophatjohnny
    tophatjohnny Posts: 4,182
    Let's be Cops was good silly fun! We all got a lot of kicks out of it!
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  • dromunds
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    Went to see the Hunger Games new one last night, got there about twenty minutes early and every space in the lot was full, even the overfill lot was full, they said there were only a couple seats left, went in and only a few in the very front row, got my money back, maybe try again in a few days or whatever. Maybe not. Lots and lots of teen and pre-teen girls. They really dig that Katniss.
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  • dromunds
    dromunds Posts: 10,018
    Well, I went to see the Hunger Games last night and that was a waste of dough. Should've known better.
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  • westmassguy
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    I have seen both, and I guess you either get it or you don't. I didn't, and found the whole concept unrealistic.
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  • tophatjohnny
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    Thanks for the heads up. I am saving dough and just watching movies on our Samsung 559000 4K set and loving it. I know there is still magic in the imax theaters, so when we go to moviess, that's the way we like to see them. Kinda dwarfs the home tv when we do that though?? lol Just sat through "Into the storm" last night and acting was bad the tornado scenes were awesome.
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  • jeremymarcinko
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    I watched Edge of Tomorrow: live die repeat, the other night. I didn't have high expectations for this film but I actually really enjoyed it.
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  • voltz
    voltz Posts: 5,384
    I just watch it several days ago, and really like it. It had a few moments were you just say damm!
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  • westmassguy
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    jeremymarcinko wrote: »
    I watched Edge of Tomorrow: live die repeat, the other night. I didn't have high expectations for this film but I actually really enjoyed it.
    I actually enjoyed that movie too. Cruse hasn't had a decent flick in a while.

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  • tophatjohnny
    tophatjohnny Posts: 4,182
    We just finished Hercules with the Rock and it was very entertaining. Yes, yes!!
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  • Mikey081057
    Mikey081057 Posts: 7,127
    westmassguy wrote: »
    jeremymarcinko wrote: »
    I watched Edge of Tomorrow: live die repeat, the other night. I didn't have high expectations for this film but I actually really enjoyed it.
    I actually enjoyed that movie too. Cruse hasn't had a decent flick in a while.


    I actually watched blu ray and enjoyed it and i think TC is a bore... I kept getting the feeling of Deja Vu tho.
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