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Peep_Show said:
"Fatman"

Finally a holiday movie about Santa Claus that isn't dripping in schmaltz. In fact, quite the opposite. "Fatman" is about Santa, but a Santa few of us would've imagined who swears, drives a Ford pickup to do errands, has sex, eschews the red outfit, drinks Jack Daniels with Alka-Seltzer, who despises the Government, and seems pretty ordinary despite his magical powers, but a Santa who nonetheless still delivers gifts handmade by elves or lumps of coal to the boys and girls of the world. And it is some of those evil coal-receiving ne'er do wells that want to take out Santa!

Husband and I both enjoyed this gritty assassin-based movie if not for the novelty, then for the over the top performances by Mel Gibson and Walton Goggins, and a steady performance by Marianne Jean-Baptiste as the voice-of-reason Ruth a/k/a Mrs. Cringle. Good does triumph over evil and, yes, reindeer do fly....along with lots of bullets and a couple of explosions at Santa's Workshop.

Definitely not a film for the kiddies (unless you forever want to mar them.) View this movie with an open mind and you will be entertained.

(Out on Redbox DVD)
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In general and as a rule I tend to avoid movies with santa or christmas in the title but I have seen some very few good ones. Thanks for the review...it certainly sounds different than the hallmark garbage.
 
I got the new Mulan movie for Christmas. It was okay. I am really stuck on the animated one, so it was really hard to separate the two. I feel like the animated one captured Mulan's free spirit more and showed her relationship with her family better--why she would risk death for her family.

Good things about the new one, it had Friesian horses in it (which are my favorite), the message was very good--don't hide your true self. I've also been starting to practice Qi Gong in my life and was surprised to see "Qi" mentioned in this movie--so I was excited about that! Overall a good movie, I'm just prejudice based on the first animated one.
 
Peaches Lee said:
I got the new Mulan movie for Christmas. It was okay. I am really stuck on the animated one, so it was really hard to separate the two. I feel like the animated one captured Mulan's free spirit more and showed her relationship with her family better--why she would risk death for her family.

Good things about the new one, it had Friesian horses in it (which are my favorite), the message was very good--don't hide your true self. I've also been starting to practice Qi Gong in my life and was surprised to see "Qi" mentioned in this movie--so I was excited about that! Overall a good movie, I'm just prejudice based on the first animated one.
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Thanks for the review!
 
"Mercy Christmas"

Since the beginning of December my cinematic diet has included being force fed one holiday movie per night. Christmas night DH offered to cook dinner which he foretold would take a while and so he suggested this movie was right up my alley for holiday fare.

Just don't. Avoid. I kid you not. WORST HOLIDAY MOVIE EVER!! Unless you're into cannibalism and sadistic bosses who kidnap lonely lowly office workers for family holiday dining and a basement slaughterhouse, this is not a movie anybody should view. Just wrong on so many levels..... 'Nuff said.
 
"Tenet"

This is a mind-bender of an action movie and deserves a second viewing to try to piece it together as it's loaded with Easter Eggs hints and previews. If you're a quantum physics geek and can extrapolate time being a measure of String Theory turned into a mobius strip, then this film is for you. If not grasping that concept, it's a confusing mess full of "Huh?" stuff.

The basic premise is there's two teams: One trying to save the world and one trying to destroy it. There's a machine made of 9 algorithms that, once complete, can destroy every living thing on the planet which the villains covet. The bad guys and good guys trying to find the machine's components both make use of a time differential machine that splits existence into past and future with a brief interlude of the present. Lots of comings and goings in this woven tale. The story is happening and has already happen or is about to happen. Past selves and future selves keep intersecting outside of their realms. It's a great cat-and-mouse story, but is more like playing 3D chess with a board hidden in another dimension. Follow? It's definitely more complicated than Terminator's simplistic "I am my grandfather" twist. Caffeine imbibement to keep your wits sharp definitely recommended over aperitifs for this one. (I will admit, this movie was a wee bit over my pay grade. If I have to earnestly try for comprehension, I've no doubt a goodly amount of audience got lost in the who, what, where, when, why.)

There were enough requisite explosions in the movie to keep DH interested. I found annoying several wardrobe "Oops," but then I'm just kind of anal-retentive about detail. Written and directed by Christopher Nolan, it stars John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Dimple Kapadia, Michael Caine, and Kenneth Branagh

They have set it up for a sequel, but I'm not sure if audiences will readily subject themselves to a second dose of "What just happened? Or is happening? Or... What??"
 
Peep_Show said:
"Tenet"

This is a mind-bender of an action movie and deserves a second viewing to try to piece it together as it's loaded with Easter Eggs hints and previews. If you're a quantum physics geek and can extrapolate time being a measure of String Theory turned into a mobius strip, then this film is for you. If not grasping that concept, it's a confusing mess full of "Huh?" stuff.

The basic premise is there's two teams: One trying to save the world and one trying to destroy it. There's a machine made of 9 algorithms that, once complete, can destroy every living thing on the planet which the villains covet. The bad guys and good guys trying to find the machine's components both make use of a time differential machine that splits existence into past and future with a brief interlude of the present. Lots of comings and goings in this woven tale. The story is happening and has already happen or is about to happen. Past selves and future selves keep intersecting outside of their realms. It's a great cat-and-mouse story, but is more like playing 3D chess with a board hidden in another dimension. Follow? It's definitely more complicated than Terminator's simplistic "I am my grandfather" twist. Caffeine imbibement to keep your wits sharp definitely recommended over aperitifs for this one. (I will admit, this movie was a wee bit over my pay grade. If I have to earnestly try for comprehension, I've no doubt a goodly amount of audience got lost in the who, what, where, when, why.)

There were enough requisite explosions in the movie to keep DH interested. I found annoying several wardrobe "Oops," but then I'm just kind of anal-retentive about detail. Written and directed by Christopher Nolan, it stars John David Washington, Robert Pattinson, Elizabeth Debicki, Dimple Kapadia, Michael Caine, and Kenneth Branagh

They have set it up for a sequel, but I'm not sure if audiences will readily subject themselves to a second dose of "What just happened? Or is happening? Or... What??"
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Thanks for the review!

Tenet is on my list to watch
 
MaryJanet said:
Hi folks we saw Nomadland on NYE and we found it very compelling, although a little bleak and troubling too. Our main takeaway was that freedom can't be found on the road, it has to be carefully grown in the heart.
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Thanks for the review!

Did you watch it in a theater?
 

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