ROTTEN PEAS - ongoing movie thread by 2Peas Critics

I saw Fantasy Island tonight. It wasn’t what I expected even though I don’t know what I did expect. I really liked it!!

We saw The invisible Man Saturday night. Soooooooo goooood! It has serious intense edge of your seat moments. The suspense starts in the first 5 minutes and rarely lets up. Great ending too! 😉

We saw Call of the Wild over the weekend and were pleasantly surprised. I think audiences like it much better than the critics do. Hopefully it will do better than all predictions, so there

Anyone here watch Heartland? (Netflix)  I wish we'd discovered it sooner. We may not follow it through all umpteen seasons, but we're liking it now.. it's well cast and fairly well written. Story lines are mainly about the ranch and the horses, with sub-plots involving the various characters. If you've got a teen or even pre-teen who loves horses, this is your show.

Every movie is predictable anymore. Especially with as many movies as I watch.  Just gotta enjoy the middle. 👍😉

Flaws in comparing it to the original or flaws in the science of it?

Tell her he is a psycho perfectionist and mastered the skills. 😂

I like it!! 🤣

I saw invisible man last weekend and really liked it. I thought it could have been a little shorter but overall was happy that I went. Elizabeth Moss was great and very believable.

My friend saw it as well and told me later that she and didn't care for it and thought it was dumb...

We saw it too! Popped up On Demand so we figured why not. Like you, we thought it was gonna be all about Mr. Rogers and were surprised and delighted with the Lloyd Vogel focus. Tom Hanks was a little too pleasant, too picture perfect as Mr. Rogers but still, nothing was lost on us. Lesser viewers would say he nailed it

We also downloaded Ford v Ferrari and although good, it was waaay too long. It certainly captures an important piece of Americana with its coverage of the origins of race car madness. In Tennessee, it's NASCAR or die.

Layce

We watched Uncut Gems. Wasn’t sure what to expect because what little I did read was that it was awful. But not a lot of people have talked about this. My husband said something about reading that people either really loved it or really hated it. But I know that Sandler can actually deliver in dramatic roles. So we watched it.

The movie is well done. There is an intensity right from the get-go. The music is super weird and added significantly to my discomfort. Adam Sandler’s character is a complete shit show. The movie is very stressful. The poor guy has made a serious mess out of things, and he is desperately trying to fix it. And each attempt ends in failure, each failure bigger than the last pulling more and more people in. It’s sad. I thought I knew how it would end based on other movies with the same theme. I was right and I was wrong. I was honestly shocked by the ending. I gasped outloud. And then I squeezed my eyes shut. I don’t squeeze my eyes shut during movies ever. Not even during Hostel. But this shocked the hell out of me and it was too much for a few minutes. I was left feeling very on edge after the movie.

I don’t know what to think about this one. Sandler was great in it. I couldn’t sleep last night. I kept hearing that damn music in my head. I liked it, but I didn’t. I kind of want to watch it again.

Just looked this up and wow that cast! Going to see if I can find this somewhere to watch.