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It is the latest film directed by Martin Scorcese. It has the usual Scorsese crew behind the scenes, including Thelma Schoonmacher doing the editing role that she has done with every Scorsese film since Woodstock. And features a killer soundtrack of 1920's blues and HIllbilly music, plus the last film score created by Robbie Robertson of The Band. It Stars Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert Deniro and Lilly Poundstone and a massive crowd of others. The film is an American epic Western crime drama film. It is a true story and Its plot centers on a series of Oklahoma murders in the Osage Nation during the 1920s, committed after oil was discovered on tribal land. I really liked the movie. It's 3 and 1/2 hour run time did not feel like 3 and 1/2 hours. Especially sitting in one of AMC's signature recliners. Lilly Poundstone gave and absolutely amazing performance and I'm ready to predict that she will walk away with the oscar for best Actress this year. It has a plot that thickens by the minute. Its recreation of the USA circa 1920 is superb. they spared no expense. Leo Plays another villain. This time a very complex villain. There is a lot of information to take in. so much so, that I will probably need a second viewing to be able to process it all. It's a heck of a lot better than Oppenheimer, I'll tell you that... But this is not a "feel good" film. It builds to more horrific stuff with every minute. A really sad story. Glad to see Scorcese not repeating himself and trying to turn this into Casino or The Departed. It has it's own feel. as it is its own story. There is some real poetry and serious symbolism going on in some of the cinematography

Last Night's movie that I watched was "Talk to Me" (2023)-- Just in time for Halloween. Every year I try to spend a couple weeks watching horror or scary movies. I missed seeing this one in the theater. I had heard a lot of praise about this film. I had a lot of high hopes as A24 was behind the release of this, and they have a history of being involved with highly creative and expressive releases. Talk to Me, however, is anything but creative and expressive. It was quite a letdown. As the Story was so thin it was almost non-existent. I'm honestly shocked that this got released with such little amount of story behind the one gimmick the movie had : The mysterious porcelain hand that allows you to communicate with ghosts. While you sit through 30 minutes of High school troupes like "This boy is cute, I want to date him" and "I want to go to the party with this boy" the film gives you almost zero reference to anything related to this hand with supernatural abilities. An object unlike any object the world has ever seen. With a storyline of its origin that literally goes no further than this: "I don't know where it came from, It might be some psychic's hand or something, someone could have cut it off. The guy who I got it from let me borrow it"..... And this is all the explanation you get of any possible story to intrigue you. I'm not exaggerating the origin of this hand was laid out in less than 10 seconds. Then it's the "Teenagers try and save the world" routine. Adults and police are made to look stupid and unreasonable. And the plot becomes incredibly predictable and obvious. Then of course it ends in a manner that lays the groundwork for a million sequels to be released (as if on cue) They are getting ready for the great cash cow for decades to come. Including merchandise, physical media sales of box sets, theater rereleases, t-shirts, books etc... There was one surprisingly cool moment in the film. It was in the soundtrack that reworked a hit by Edith Piaf - "La Foule" (1957) with a hip hop beat as the main actress began singing along with the music in a trance like state singing as the voice of a ghost from the distant past, along with time stretched images to coincide with the moments in the music, like a visual dance... (if only more scenes like that were in this movie instead of so many troupes and cliches) If they had made the entire film to be like the musical montage featuring Edith Piaf , this would be called fine art and modern Expressionism... instead, it was a meaningless waste of my night. Talk To Me only teases what could have been and delivers more of like what you get at McDonalds, where the picture of the giant hamburger looks fresh and big, but the sandwich you get is a flat gross thing that looks like it was microwaved. But wait there is the worst part of all this. Talk To Me was A24's Highest-grossing film to date. I predict this will mark the end of the quality and artistic freedom that A24 gave us for so many years, and will now be replaced with cash-grab trash like Talk to me.... SO I guess talk to me, is really more of a Tragedy, than a horror story. A modern Tragedy. 1.4 Stars for the Mcdonald's like experience.

exceptionally average horror film. It would probably have been a lot better if it had stuck more to the original source material (Stephen King's short story) but if it had done that, I suspect some folks would have been "offended". It was a paint-by-number piece that includes all the played-out boring things we've seen in a million other films just like it. Exceptionally average. It excelled in mood-building but with a minimal payoff. Typical monster battle at the end. Felt more like a netflix flick than cinema art... I was not really expecting art, so in that respect, I wasn't completely disappointed. It was simply average content. Meh....

I really wanted to go see a funny movie about a bear on cocaine... well, the previews looked really funny... but the movie tried to be serious. and it just wasn't funny. The "gags" were dumb. and the best parts were shown in the trailer. Pretty hard to make a movie with this "plot" and make it last 90 minutes. Some of the longest 90 minutes of my life. Worse than sitting at the DMV... however, there was one moment about 3/4 of the way through that I slightly chuckled. I was laughing about how bad the movie looked. Especially the Bear CGI... This might not be the worst movie I've ever seen, but it's a top contender.

How can you sum a film like this up in just a few sentences without going on a rant? You can't. Here are a few words. Possibly the best film I've seen since the early 90's. Best Film editing I have EVER SEEN, Hands down. It is extremely fast-paced. Great Acting. Over-the-top zaniness that makes you laugh uncontrollably. Yet it has a real heart and will make you cry. The actors are believable and you love them by the end as it reveals heavy eastern idealism about love and family and rejecting nihilism. Some of the fighting is too much, but nothing a pair of google eyes won't fix. One of the best films I have seen in a long time. Nice to see something original, with actors who don't look like perfect runway models... real people, doing real things and then suddenly thrust into the deepest parts of your imagination. This is not a film for stupid people. For them there is Cocaine Bear.

What a "Turd" this movie was. I like horror movies. Especially classic and iconic ones. However too many of them from the past 20 years are nothing more than jump-scare features with bad effects, bad acting, and plots that feel like the writer of the story painted themselves into a corner and can't get out of the room without making a huge mess. Smile might be the winner of the Biggest Turd award for 2022. It suffers from all the bad cliches mentioned above. What I find more shocking than the bad CGI and jumpscares is the number of people who said "this movie was so much better than I thought it was going to be"... seriously? How low have you set the bar for the Smiling Turd to be on your top pick? Skip this one... Nothing to see here.

The worst movie of the year. (possibly of the past 10 years) Terrible cash grab. Part 2 strays from the winning formula of part one. Ignores Stephen King's story, makes its own story up... falls really flat. Feels like a cheesy kids movie. The only thing scary about this movie is the young people who go see it have been saying it's oscar worthy... Cringe. Is this the future for movie productions? If so, I'll stop going to the theater and star collecting dvd's of 60's and 70's films. lots of treasures there that have been forgotten. Much better than $h-iT chapter 2