What's the latest movie you've seen?

[Leo656]

Originally Posted by Hamato Yoshi

"I was frozen to-day !"

Nobody else is gonna get it but I popped for that.

[Sumac]

Spider Man: Far from Home.
So far the most uneven movie from last MCUs, I've seen.
Plot doesn't make much sense and sometimes outright stupid, Peter's class mates are annoying and make me think as if SMFFH is some sort of parody. Misterio's power are underutilized. MJ doesn't really feel like she is the same character from the first movie.
The are some good parts, but all in all I feel like its probably my least favorite movie from the MCU, next to Hulk.

With that I've finished all MCU movies and might say, regardless of quality of some separate pictures, it is an amazing project. And I hope future will net even more good movies from this series.
Of course, they are not some sort of groundbreaking "Citizen Kane" stuff, but they are serviceable fun, not worse than any other generic summer blockbusters from the last few years.

Jurassic World 2.
If JW1 felt like a retread of JP1, this movie feels like a retread of JP: Lost World. Just instead of 90% on the island, 10% in the city, this movie is like 40% on the island, 60% in the city.
All in all it is fun movie, which feels more like an adaption of some countless comic books based on Jurassic Park. In particular the one where some drug kingpin steals several Raptors to use them as personal army or something. On one hand, this movie thematically feels close to the idea of the first movie, on the other - it is so on the nose with its message it makes me feel a bit odd. Dinosaurs a bit less humanized, than in JW1, so that's a plus.
All in all, its a good movie, but nothing incredible.

[IndigoErth]

Netflix's animated movie "Klaus" was quite good.

My only criticism of it is literally what the character says right at the end of it because there is zero basis or explanation for how or why that (what is said) is.

Spoiler:

Did Klaus become immortal after he disappeared and presumably had died? Are we just left to assume that happened to a mortal man for some reason?

[Leo656]

Final Fantasy VII: Advent Children. I've seen and enjoyed it a few times before but I always wanted to watch it immediately after finishing the game, and I finally had the chance.

It's very divisive but I like it a whole lot.

[IndigoErth]

I love the Polar Express (and playing on AMC several times lately), but isn't it a little messed up?

Poor Billy, the kid from the poor side of the tracks has, presumably, never actually had a Christmas. And he's reluctant to even participate with the rest of the kids on the train because "Christmas just doesn't work out for" him and doesn't believe it could ever be any different.

Santa has apparently forgotten about this kid and has overlooked him all those years of his young life. Santa even later rubs it in by checking with the kid and getting confirmation that yes, his name is Billy

But. The train showed up for Billy. As it did for all of those kids on the cusp of no longer believing. Which suggests that Santa DID know of Billy after all. So wtf Santa... Way to just brush a kid off and ignore him in a world where you actually do exist. So wrong.

As a bonus point, lets throw in that Santa also tells Billy that "There's no greater gift than friendship," with a couple of the kids from the train. Kids who he will probably never see again. So much for the gift of friendship.



Though personally I'd love to see a Polar Express 2 that revisits the three kids (Hero Boy, Hero Girl, and Billy) as adults, who have recently cross paths and reconnected. Hero Boy of course still being able to hear the bell from Santa's sleigh, while the other two, like most adults, no longer can, and this leads to a story of rediscovering the magic.



12/14 -- While on the subject of Christmas movies, Netflix's "Elliot the Littlest Reindeer" (who is actually a miniature horse) is pretty cute and watchable.

[ranger_scout]

I went to see Greta Grewig's new version of Little Women today. I think it is one of the best films of the year. The acting in it was absolutely superb.

[Sumac]

Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation and Fallout.
I can't say I am big fan of MI series, I like it, but not too much. Even than I must admit, that throughout the years MI movies were always ranging from good to very good and two new sequels I've watched recently were not an exception.

Rogue Nation reminded me about very first MI movie, with its focus on espionage and conflict with the traitors. I felt like it had some problems with pacing, but nothing too bad.

Fallout, however, was a pleasant surprise. It was a direct continuation of the Rogue Nation, it had amazing action scenes and, surprisingly, it was a nice exploration of Ethan Hunt as a character. It is weird that this comes up only in a sixth movie in the franchise, but it was done very nicely. Also, soundtrack is amazing. And I felt, that Fallout was a good contender for being called a "serious Bond movie done right". Also, I loved how many sides were involved in the conflict, it is not something you see everyday in modern movies.

What I liked the most about those movies is a new character Ilsa Faust. Usually it is hard to take female super agents in movies seriously - they are either look like top models, who never lifted anything heavier than a lipstick in their lives or they are just trying so hard to channel "tough attitude", it becomes really cringe to look at. Surprisingly, Ilsa Faust somehow managed to avoid all those pitfalls - on the screen she looks very confident and competent without annoying "tough attitude / grrrrl power". She is naturally organically cool in the movie and this looks refreshing, compared to many other modern blockbusters.

Star Trek Beyond.
I am not big fan of a Star Trek, so I don't have a lot of attachment to its universe and characters and I must say, I genuinely liked STB. I've recently rewatched ST'09 and found out it being not very good and I barely remember ST Into Darkness. But STB was good in my opinion. It was fun, had a lot of charm, characters were entertaining and charismatic. And the action scenes were cool, SABOTAGE scene in particular.

What was not particularly good is that the story was ridden with cliches and extremely generic and predictable. It felt, like a generic episode adapted to the big screen.
But still I had fun watching this movie, so this what matters the most for me.

[Sumac]

Spectre.
Latest James Bond movie and probably one of the my least favorite ones in the series. James Bond movies run on the cliches and tropes, but Spectre is so aggrisively cliche and so blandly tropey that it is really hard to enjoy it. Everything is painfully predictable.

Another problem is that it constantly creates tension with a little payoff. The movie constantly pretends that there is something BIG and COOL about to happen and then it fizzles out.

The big revelation was not bad as I thought it would be, and it is very par for the course for the Bond movies.

Pacific Rim.
One of the very few movies, which made regret that I haven't seen it on the big screen. Simple (and rather nonsensical story, to be honest), encrusted by one of the best mother****ing action between big mother****ing robots and big mother****ing monsters I've ever seen.

Characters are not bad either and fairly lively, but monsters and robots are the real meat of this movie and it's a shame it was not a big hit.

Ghost in the Shell.
As rare as it may be I've watched original anime and Stand Alone Complex series before this movie, so I was familiar with the source material.

Movie itself was somewhat slow. There was not enough action to consider it a good action movie, and there were too little drama to consider it a drama. But as a big fan of cyberpunk genre I found visuals are breathtaking and for that alone I can completely overlook slowpacedness of the movie.

Pacific Rim 2.
Couldn't watch it for more than 30 minutes.
It has no even a tiny shade of style of the original movie and looks like a cheap Transformers knock-off. Also I can't stomach teenage and kids actors, especially when they play some super wunderkind kind of children.

[IndigoErth]

Horse Girl (on Netflix). Bleh.

I liked it fine enough until it ended and became one of those movies that just leaves it far too open ended and resolves nothing. I get, and often like, some films leaving things open to speculation and interpretation and make you think, but I like it better when you can kind of figure out what they probably meant while not having been told. This one though... After wondering the whole time what's going on with this woman and what her real diagnosis is, and expecting to find out, it's annoying for it to never actually answer any of it and then end with a "wtf" moment.

[T-U-R-T-L-E POWA!]

I took my 9 year old son to watch Sonic and we both had a blast watching it. I was honestly surprised by how much I liked it but figured he would really like it.

[IndigoErth]

Freaks (on Netflix). Not bad, but I feel like there is a lot of aspects about this that needed more attention and background and the concept would have benefited from being a short series, not a movie.

[IMJ]

Finally saw Ford vs Ferrari. What a terrific movie... seriously great flick.

[sdp]

I saw that pierce brosnan / jackie chan film, super convoluted, wish it had more action from both, especially brosnan. Wish it wasn't so dramatic either but overall could've been a boring mess like many 2010s jackie chan movies.

[IMJ]

Just finished watching Bloodshot - the launch of the Valiant U on film and I think this can be kept pretty short.

It's not a bad movie at all. But there was no way this flick, even in a good movie-going economy, was going to launch a Universe on film. It lacks iconic archetypes completely. It's a decent Vin Diesel flick, but it wasn't much more than Vin Diesel in a nike jump suit or a tank top as a guy that occasionally reassembles himself amidst cybernetically enhanced "bad guys", none of which are iconic or superbly visual on screen.

If you didn't tell someone this was a comic book flick, they probably would just think it's your typical sci-fi movie in Diesel's catalog, no different than something like Babylon A.D.

Vin Diesel wears a workout jump suit and fights cyborg-guy and "eyeball suit guy" with obligatory Michael Bay-style hot chick who probably soaks up instagram followers on the side. I'm glad I saw it. I won't need to watch it again, which is unfortunate. It was fine.

[MsMarvelDuckie]

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes. This was just- I just, I dunno. WTF did I even watch here??!! Plot made NO sense, dialog was all over the place and cheesy/dumb/at times nonsensical, the acting was deadpan serious yet still awful, and the movie took turns trying to be serious and trying to be idiotic on purpose, but never seemed to figure out a balance, and the effects were just- um, extremely amateurish. The movie never even makes any attempt to explain how they got that way, it just runs with the idea that it had already started and starts right in what would be the middle of most such "horror" movies.

And yet- despite all this, I found myself laughing at this one, often for the wrong reason, or scratching my head in disbelief that anyone even MADE this tripe, but I kind of had fun doing it. I think my brain may have melted a little from it, but it was at least entertaining for the gaffes and "WTF" moments if nothing else!

[newfan]

A few recently can't remember them all.

Hero, recommended by another member here, I'd watched a few weeks back and forgotten to talk about it here, I found it enjoyable, aged well as the user pointed out and I liked seeing how the chain of events unfolded throughout. Good for those who would like scenes similar to those in Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

Scary stories to tell in the dark. Just come up on Prime, pretty much what I expected, regular horror movie not bad if you are in the mood to watch one.

Child's Play (new) Just came up on Netflix, I hadn't cared a lot to watch this and I am not massively into these movies anyway. I was surprised that I liked it more than I thought I would though (expectations we go in with I guess), interesting to see a different spin here even if not preferred. Doll wasn't bad for the 'Ugly killer doll' either but I still prefer the original design.

Edit: Also watched a couple of animated movies on Netflix, I found Spirited Away enjoyable.

[Icebot]

Just saw A Night At The Roxbury.

[MsMarvelDuckie]

I just binged the entire first season of Good Omens, and we recently Redboxed Cats. The movie was surprisingly good, considering all the bad press it got. A few minor quibbles about songs cut short, some that had their tunes altered a bit (one rather significantly) and the like, but honestly, as one who LOVES the play, I was quite impresssed by how well they managed to adapt it for a movie. Victoria had a MUCH bigger role in this, which I loved, since the play always just had her as "white cat dancer" who wasn't featured at all. I love how they gave one of the most prominently placed dancers in the show an actual character to play! (And I might be biased since the white cat was both one of the prettiest and also shares something in common with me, so there's that.)

Hubby also liked it, and neither of us understood why this got so much bad press, especially with the addition of Victoria's song, which I love. It was beautiful, moving, and fits purrrfectly with the rest. (Yes, I made a cat pun. Deal with it.) I liked the cg fur and tails, although the cockroaches and mice were a bit odd. Taylor Swift was great, and so was Ian McKellan. Judy Dench, too. Wonderful performances by all, in fact!

Good Omens- this is hilarious and fun, for a show about the end times. Tennet and Sheen were amazing together. Never once saw the twist at the end coming, either. A bit shorter than I would have liked, but here's hoping that they can do another season, and maybe get more out of the side characters like Adam, Anathema, and Gabriel. (And does that guy ALWAYS play such a d**k? Cause he was just as big of one here as in The Boys!)

[Hamato Yoshi]

Asterix and gauls 4/6 , okay but not as good as later adventures

Two Women (TV movie) , Loren again in ww2 drama , 4.5/6

[Leo656]

"Punisher: War Zone". My wife and I always watch at least one movie on our anniversary so this time I picked one we hadn't seen too many times. It's probably been about 10 years since we watched it, too. She didn't remember much about it.

I actually like both of the "official" Punisher movies just fine (I haven't seen the one with Dolph in ages so no real opinion there). The one with Tom Jane is very different from this one, but I feel that they both represent the comics very well in their own way. This one definitely feels a bit more like the Punisher comics I'm most familiar with, though, particularly the violence and black humor. I think this film was predominantly based on the Garth Ennis Punisher stuff, is that right? It certainly feels like it, especially when he punches the one guy right through his face. That was very Ennis-like.

Overall, I like the movie a lot, I mean it's good for what it is. It definitely nails what a Punisher movie in my head looks like, for sure. It's not a classic by any means though, and it was definitely made cheap. Most of the cast is pretty amateurish in their delivery, but they're at least fun to watch. And it's a bit "off", visually, like the edits whenever someone gets shot are a bit choppy, I guess to hide the squibs or whatever, but it happens almost every time anyone gets shot, and a LOT of people get shot in this movie, and it becomes very noticeable. There's also a bit near the end that makes very little sense, story-wise, at least if you think about it too much, and almost feels like an excuse to tack ten minutes on and have Frank kill three more dudes. I mean I guess it kinda makes sense but it also almost doesn't, I don't know.

Spoiler:

Like when Micro tells Frank that "It's only a matter of When, not If" Jigsaw goes to the Donatelli's house to take revenge on the woman and her daughter... and then Jigsaw and his goons immediately do Exactly That, while Frank goes to try and find find the three parkour goons so they can tell him where Jigsaw is. Meanwhile in that time, Jigsaw kills Micro's mother and kidnaps Micro, then they go directly to the Donatelli's house and starts f*cking their sh*t up. If Frank had stayed where he was for a few more minutes, he would have intercepted Jigsaw and Co. at Micro's place and prevented that part, OR even if he didn't do that and decided to head straight for the Donatelli house to keep watch over them - which seemed fairly logical - he could have stopped that from happening, too. Instead he goes off chasing down three goons who are only in the movie to get killed - they do absolutely nothing else - and they essentially give him information he should already have, or at least be able to guess at. That part felt messy. It's like they came up with the sequence of "One of his allies has to die by his choice" and then forced a scenario where that had to happen, even though one or both of said allies being kidnapped was probably preventable if Frank had put any thought into it.

I mean, I don't know, I'm probably over-thinking it. But it bugged me a little bit.

Warts aside, fun little action movie. Lots of gore, even if it's a bit cheap. I dug it.