What Movie Are You Watching?

House on Haunted Hill (1959)- I enjoyed this, but somehow it did not feel complete, not even sure there were any ghosts, even with the insistence by one of the characters that the house was full of ghosts. 😐 I’ll say the remake was better, at least from the ghost aspect. 🙂 Exterior filmed at a Frank Lloyd House (Ennis House, LA).

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Jurassic World: Rebirth (2025)- If this is meant to be a reboot of the franchise, ehh. Ok, but it just feels too calculated and unlikely of a story, or maybe I’m no longer impressed with just dinosaurs eating people and am a bit jaded. The plot needs something creative beyond what’s been done before. Not unlike me an Aliens, why I’m really blah now about most of the last Aliens chapters, and why in contrast I did like Alien Earth, something different and new.

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Frankenstein (2025)- Seems well produced, but I hate this version of Frankenstein as an un-dieing super monster, a story that plays fast and lose with what science is plausibly capable of, versus delving into pretty hardcore supernatural. I prefer the sympathetic abomination. :)
Disclaimer: Did not finish, so not only I may have missed something, but my impression might be skewed. Sometimes remakes run too far away from the irigbstory, and viewers vested in the original story might have difficulty accepting.
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Wargames (1983)- Cyberthriller, a high school student tries to hack into a game company to play it’s latest game, but does not realize he’s connected to DOD computer tasked with controlling the US’s nuclear arsenal for a WWIII scenario. It learned by playing games, and just wants to play a game, along with chess, Geothermal Nuclear War. 😐 Entertaining…with young Mathew Broderick, and Ally Sheedy.

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Huntn said:
View attachment 37536Wargames (1983)- Cyberthriller, a high school student tries to hack into a game company to play it’s latest game, but does not realize he’s connected to DOD computer tasked with controlling the US’s nuclear arsenal for a WWIII scenario. It learned by playing games, and just wants to play a game, along with chess, Geothermal Nuclear War. 😐 Entertaining…with young Mathew Broderick, and Ally Sheedy.

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It so good, and it holds up so well, even though the tech is from '1983, because really, not much has changed.

I did a little wardialing back in the day.





OK, a lot :D
 
Ready Player One (2018)- Mixed live action/CGI. A good story about a crappy future where average people spend a large amount of time in a virtual reality world owned by a single corporation. I’m not exactly sure if the coin earned in the game equates to anything in the real world other than status, but it does represent status and in-game advantages. Debtors in this game world can become real world incarcerated prisoners carrying out their sentence in the virtual world. The plot revolves around the eccentric deceased owner of the corporation who has devised a contest where the finder of 3 keys will become owner of the 500 trillion dollar empire. This results in real world consequences, elimination competition, and frantic action. 👍🏻

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Avatar (2009)- Still the top grossing film of all time for a reason. Amazing film and premise, and I dismiss my wife’s scorn as a Dancing with Wolves remake. It’s so much more. 😁

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