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mdmost said:
Alright. Taking the kids to Chicago in 2 weeks. Best movies to show them about Chicago? They're 13 and 15 so we can do some PG-13 to soft R movies. Ferris Bueller's Day Off is on there. Thinking maybe Blues Brothers. Maybe Adventures in Babysitting and Backdraft. Any others?

Wife and I will watch About Last Night and Nothing In Common.
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Seconding @TenderLovingKiller® 's recommendation of Road to Perdition (it's R, so you might want to watch it first). It's a great movie, especially about fathers and sons, and happens to be set and filmed in Chicago. Sam Mendes directed Paul Newman, Tom Hanks, Jude Law, Daniel Craig, Stanley Tucci, Jennifer Jason Leigh, etc.



EDIT: also came across this list: Look for Movie History from the Window of Your Private Car
 
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Kids loved Ferris Bueller's Day off. I kept pointing out all the places we would go that were in the movie.

Next up is going to see the Little Mermaid today. Tonight could be watching Nothing In Common with my wife. That one's a little too raw for teens. Plus Tom Hanks is a womanizer like his father. But he lives in the Wilco Towers.
 
Little Mermaid was good. There were parts that didn't work for me like its version of Under The Sea and the god awful Awkwafina rap. I love Lin Manuel Miranda but like George Lucas, someone needs to know when to tell him no. Halle Bailey was very good and Melissa McCarthy was also good in a role that would hard for anyone to live up to. All that said, Disney needs to move on from remakes and get back to making great original content. I'm hoping Wish will be that. Elemental looks good but feels like something we've seen before.
 
mdmost said:
Little Mermaid was good. There were parts that didn't work for me like its version of Under The Sea and the god awful Awkwafina rap. I love Lin Manuel Miranda but like George Lucas, someone needs to know when to tell him no. Halle Bailey was very good and Melissa McCarthy was also good in a role that would hard for anyone to live up to. All that said, Disney needs to move on from remakes and get back to making great original content. I'm hoping Wish will be that. Elemental looks good but feels like something we've seen before.
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I enjoyed the little mermaid too, but I didn’t love it. That rap is no good and honestly I didn’t even like Awkwafina’s performance in general.


Agreed about Elemental. Looks like it could be cool visually but the story feels so similar to any number of Disney / Pixar films.
 
Bennnnn said:
I enjoyed the little mermaid too, but I didn’t love it. That rap is no good and honestly I didn’t even like Awkwafina’s performance in general.


Agreed about Elemental. Looks like it could be cool visually but the story feels so similar to any number of Disney / Pixar films.
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Reviews out of Cannes indicate that Elemental is not great, but I still want to see it.
 
Last night's Chicago movie. This was a huge player when I was a kid. I wanted to be in advertising, live in Chicago, drive a jeep, having a terrible relationship with my parents, and have a kickass apartment.

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other than somehow not knowing until the credits rolled that the new spider-verse movie was the first of a two-parter (thus leaving the theater still wanting more), i can't heap enough praise on this and the first spider-verse film. i still cannot believe the first one did not get a best picture nom. this one should, too, but maybe it being a part I will sink that. imo, both of the spider-verse movies have been utterly fantastic and incredible, top-to-bottom achievements in movie making.
 
AndySlash said:
other than somehow not knowing until the credits rolled that the new spider-verse movie was the first of a two-parter (thus leaving the theater still wanting more), i can't heap enough praise on this and the first spider-verse film. i still cannot believe the first one did not get a best picture nom. this one should, too, but maybe it being a part I will sink that. imo, both of the spider-verse movies have been utterly fantastic and incredible, top-to-bottom achievements in movie making.
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The first one won the Best Animated Film Oscar!
 
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