RyanSz

For me,

It was the pacing. It was just slow and not for the reason of building tension in a way that reminded me of The Witch, but at least with this film the impactful scenes more than made up for the lulls. This film does a great job of messing with your head as to what you think is going on, almost like an attempt to give you a feeling of mental uncertainty within yourself as you watch these characters deal with the situations in front of them. I think if they cut out the lull moments it really would have tightened up the whole film and made it a 5 star film rather than a 4 1/2 star for me.

Shit I completely looked past the best possible route to go with dirty money. You all should know it as well since they made a very famous movie on this route.

So I saw Hereditary today and was not disappointed for the most part. I wasn't surprised by the difference between critic and audience scores, since the movie isn't a straightforward horror film and it does run a bit longer than it should making the slow pace seem slower. The performances were really good, especially Toni Collette and Alex Wolff, and the trailers didn't really reveal much of anything in regards to where this movie was heading, especially the big shock early in the film. I would love to see Collette get some award recognition as this isn't a run of the mill horror film and her performance is easily the best of her career, but with this being a June release and the rarity of horror films getting big award love, I think it's a slim to none chance.

So in regards to ways to cleaning money, I would think opening different bank accounts would be too time consuming to be worth it, and would be more risky than buying a business. Since you would be donating under 10k per location as to not draw instant IRS scrutiny, let's say $9500/day, for $600 million it would take 63,158 separate deposits to deposit the whole amount. Now with a small crew of 10 people, you're looking at over 6,300 deposits for each person, and because you would want to do only a deposit a day as to not bring higher scrutiny onto yourself, because you better believe the bank will take notice with an account getting daily deposits of $9,500, it will take over 17 years to fully deposit the amount. By getting a mix of cash friendly companies like a gym, strip club, check cashing store, car wash, convenience/liquor store, you could move the money quicker and it would be harder to identify the laundering. Another route to go would be to buy various stocks, at differing amounts, spread out over the gamut of fields and businesses. Let it sit for maybe a month before you start selling the stocks at random amounts and times, while there is a risk of losing some of the money, it was stolen to being with so it's not a total loss, and you could actually make more in the long run.

That was maybe the most detailed way laundering was ever shown on TV or film, the problem being that by that time Walt had made so much money making meth that there would never be a way to fully launder it by the time Skylar or he were dead. Another couple great ways laundering was shown were in The Town and Hell or High Water, albeit with much smaller amounts of money. In those examples the thieves went to places where money was turned around quickly like a strip club or a casino. They don't get a return from going to the strip club, but they offload some of the dirty money for a night on the town with no out of pocket expense, while in the casino they may lose some money but can also increase their earnings if they win big. In the case of Hell or High Water, Chris Pine's character gets his money converted into chips with his dirty money and then waits in the bar for an hour or two and then takes the chips back to get switched for clean money. In a case of $600 million, the thieves would have to buy multiple high end businesses to handle that amount of cash, which would raise some eyebrows in seeing these people buying or investing in numerous places, but if done right would work.

This is literally the plot of Den of Thieves. The gang of crooks are robbing the Treasury of $30 million in bills that are going to be shredded, because their serial numbers ARE being deleted from the Treasury records. I did some research and it's vague at best about how serial numbers are changed over the years but they can include letters and even star symbols so it's plausible enough to get away with $30 million and not be found out for a lengthy period of time, $600 million on the other hand would be rather difficult to get out clean.

They could have gone the route and bought every domain iteration to cover their bases, but then they'd probably end up like Toys R Us which owned HUNDREDS of domains with "R Us" in the name, eventually adding fuel to the bankruptcy fire.

I will say that Bautista is really good in Hotel Artemis, albeit with a horrible Mexican accent, but I couldn't imagine him getting any bigger than his peak WWE days, but somehow he ate his former self because he is gigantic in this movie. Like Den of Thieves being a near copy of of Heat, this film is a copy of Hard Rain, right down to basically nearly every character but the leads becoming bad guys, and then turning on each other. I assume they are raised by the hurricane, it's why Will knows so much about them, and I assume Breeze was influenced to serve in the military after witnessing Operation Desert Storm. Also when did the hacker couple start helping out the good guys, by the end of this movie I was skipping forward a bit and had no idea why the leads were trying to pull them from the truck they were driving. Lastly, the fans of this film are like that of Deep Blue Sea, as many of the positive reviews I read had the phrase "fuck you Geostorm."

Very interested in this because of the people involved and the fact that they are basically retconning the entire series after the first film. That cause me to be leery as that would mean Laurie Strode would not know Michael Myers was her brother, as that was revealed in Halloween 2, after reading an interview with Danny McBride where he mentions they did a slight retcon to the original's ending and seeing in the trailer how they handle that topic, it looks like it will do a pretty good job of making a more coherent story than the original series did from part 4 onward.

That is a stacked cast for sure. It reminds me of a graphic novel that's now being made into a film called The Kitchen about three wives of Irish gangsters who take up the rackets after their husbands get sent to jail, eventually moving further up the crime ladder than they did. I'm kind of intrigued by this one as the YA book it's based on is pretty well regarded and it's definitely a unique take on the dystopian/Mad Max worlds that have been put on screen over the years, especially as it mixes in some elements from video games like Bioshock Infinite. I'm just wondering if it will actually go into detail about how the various cities were propped up on these big movie machines or if it's expected to be taken at face value as fantasy.

I'm five minutes in and I am so glad I started the thread in the recommendation section, especially after seeing a FUCKING DEMONIC SKULL in the hurricane! I'm starting to wonder with these recent releases if studios are trying to Producers this by releasing a clearly horrible film in the chance it gets picked up for this show, leading to a huge increase in revenue from rentals or ticket sales.

Made in 2016 but only recently released, this crime thriller in the loosest sense of the word, features a grizzled Jim Carrey as a Polish detective investigating a cold case involving a dead businessman. This film comes in with a luxurious 0% on Rotten Tomatoes and is based on a true case from 2007. What's odd is that it's like Basic Instinct in that the main suspect is a novelist who wrote books and had mentioned aspects from the real crime in his books. Carrey is incredibly wooden and his accent is terrible, and at many points you have no idea what the fuck is going on. It's weird seeing the roles Carrey is choosing now as this and his role in The Bad Batch and they are so different than what he was doing when he started acting or even a few years ago with the Dumb & Dumber sequel. Even with a name like Carrey's attached to this film, this still is getting released direct-to-video, which is amazing considering Carrey was at one point the highest paid actor in the world.

Yeah if went that route where he did a string of darker roles closer to his wheelhouse as Williams' dark trilogy of films (Insomnia, One Hour Photo, and Death to Smoochy) were some of his best performances, it would really suit Carrey at this point in his career. And you're right about Carrey and this role, he was actually pretty good in this film along with the antagonist, but this movie just flomped like when you put a can of beans on a campfire and watch it slowly rise out of the can only to fall into the fire.

See I understand him at least giving a complete 180 type role a shot, because if it works it really opens up opportunities for him. This film isn't like he's doing gunfights and karate battles, but a dreary police procedural, so it seemed like a safe shot for him to take. Yet no matter how hard he tried it couldn't compensate for how bland the overall film is. I will also say if I never see Jim Carrey's hardcore O-face, it would be too soon.

He is definitely trying in this role but it appears that they cut back on his dialogue when it looked like he couldn't pull off the accent. I remember the Emma Stone thing but that was also when he went off the rails after doing Kick-Ass 2 and started to boycott his movie to combat gun violence, which one of the creators of the comic then called him out for not understanding that he could have used the movie as a platform for that message because the character he plays was anti-gun and did what he could to fight crime without firing one. It also doesn't help he went full-on anti-vaxxer over the last couple years which just seems to have alienated him more from his audience. In regards to his paintings, I think they're okay, despite the very overt political message, I did see some of his earlier artwork at an exhibit in Las Vegas and those were leaps and bounds better than what he's been putting out because it looks like he put time and effort into them, while it seems like he's putting out a new painting each week as of late. The other problem with this movie is that it is edited so horribly you have no idea what's going on or what happened in the lead up to the start of the film. There are some clues given by characters, but not enough for you to grasp the overall story. I had to rewind the final 30 seconds three times to just understand what the hell was going on in the ending, and even then it's pretty ambiguous.

Also, Captain flows off the tongue so much smoother than a rank like Lieutenant or Corporal, which helps with branding. Sky General sounds like a store and Sky Major could work but to me doesn't have the same kind of grandeur that Sky Captain does.

What's interesting in this film in comparison to Sin City is that Robert Rodriguez clearly looked to see what went wrong with this film and made sure not to make those mistakes with his film. While Sky Captain was so focused on showcasing big robots and city scapes along with dogfights, Sin City was almost always small locations and focused on the characters, thus hiding the early flaws in digital-backlot films. I do kinda get the director's skepticism about the end budget as he really only had three A level actors and a couple character actors in the cast, while Sin City had an entire cast made up of recognizable celebrities, but I think what I mentioned about them using so much CGI for the overall environment in comparison to Sin City led to that bigger budget. Also this film further cements my feelings that Roger Ebert was one of the most overrated movie critics of all time as he gave this film 4 out of 4 stars, which is more than such classics as The Godfather part 2 and Shawshank Redemption. I have to assume that the reason this has such a high RT score is because people were into the idea of the digital backlot style of filming and what could be done with it. Lastly, I would love for them to cover Den of Thieves on the show, although it really is a slog at 2 1/2 hrs. Gerard Butler is easily the best part as an unhinged cop and the handful of gunfights are pretty well shot and exciting.

That never gets old. I am 15 minutes into this garbage fire of a film and I hate everything about it. This makes me appreciate even more the work that went into making Sin City appear like an old-school noir film with half the budget. I hate that somehow character faces are lit despite there being no possible way, like in Jude Law's office where he turns his lamp AWAY from his face towards Gwyneth Paltrow but then his face is even more lit up than before, or somehow how actor faces always have that single bar of light going across their eyes to make it seem like what someone would think an old radio serial would look like as a movie. Also, why did they think that the enemy planes needed to have flapping wings?

It's not so much that it's okay that its junk is being touched just because, but because that's a part of the dog show judging procedure and this cop dog had no idea that was a part of it. It didn't need to be in the film, but people are making way too much of this, especially a crap movie like this, to the point I wouldn't be surprised if the studio started this outrage to try and generate any kind of buzz for this film.

Having seen this trailer with its god awful CGI and premise, this needs to be a double live show with Geostorm or Hard Rain. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56whWF2NJrM

To be fair, go-to 80s action assholes/villains were basically interchangeable.

It's not even Robert Davi, it's bobo Davi actor Andrew Divoff who would be an HDTGM All star as he was also in Mac and Me.

I think that's what the Cujo remake is actually going to be based on early plot details that have been released.

From what I read in the same article about the rest of the band wanting Mercury to die early in the film and then it be about them moving past, they also wanted it to be a PG family friendly film. Cohen and the director left the project shortly after and it was being rewritten by the guy who did The Theory of Everything. I'm hoping it's at least PG-13 because otherwise it's completely whitewashing the man's life. I keep reading mixed theories on what length of time it will cover, as I've read both that it is meant to end with their Live Aid performance while other articles say it does reference his death due to AIDS, but this could simply be a quick montage/text box before the credits. They are releasing this in November so it makes me think that they are trying to put this in for some award consideration, making it seem they put some time in to make this a quality film, but that was also the case with the Steve Jobs biopics. It just sucks that this could be a great film based on an incredible singer and person, only for it to be ruined for petty reasons. I mean it's been so long since we've had a singer as talented as him, you know, outside of the two closest talents from the last 20 years: