The Last Movie You Saw?

[GUDGER666]

Legend. I'm glad they didn't do too much Back to the Future and focused more on his life. 

[Boni_Neto]

Just watched Philadelphia. Fascinating to see how people saw aids back in the early 90s.

[ChilledBrandon]

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)

 

My favourite Guy Ritchie film personally. I love Snatch as well.

 

[Slava]

My Scorsese marathon continues with

 

New York, New York

 

 

I wasn't feeling the (mostly improvised, according to the actors) dialogue at all. More than once, I found myself waiting for a wordy exchange to end, especially in the beginning. Significant parts of the main pair's relationship were absent, and you realise that the conflicts and verbal battles take the stage on purpose. Still, I think there should've been a better way to build towards the conclusion.

 

The musical aspect was actually the stronger part of the movie, in my opinion. I liked the songs and Liza Minnelli's amazing voice. Some of them conveyed the emotions better than the dialogue. The jazz tunes with cool sax parts filled the rest of the soundtrack nicely.

 

The last third of the movie brought most of the parts that I liked, so that's where the movie peaked for me. New York, New York is certainly not my favourite Scorsese film, but it is an interesting part of his filmography nonetheless. 

 

I have to mention that one shot in the very beginning where Scorsese just decided to flex. Made me smile.

 

Also, I'm now convinced that this movie was the main inspiration for La La Land. Damien Chazelle must've thought "I can do something like this as well" and brought his story to the other coast.

Edited July 2, 2023 by Slava

[voodoo_eyes]

[Redgrave]

 

 

I saw all the movies got added to HBO and decided to watch them all. I think of all of them in the original trilogy I saw Army of Darkness the most but of the initial three they are all pretty good. It's kind of funny seeing how obvious the special effects are but they have their charm and I love how campy Army of Darkness is.

 

As for the more recent ones I wrote off the 2013 one since I knew it was like a remake or re-imagining and I lumped it in with other remakes that were considered bad at the time. Upon seeing it I thought it was pretty alright and felt like it did well to be its own thing without trying to out-do the original. Evil Dead Rise was also alright although I feel like if it weren't for the staple Evil Dead stuff like the Necronomicon and the chainsaw moment I think it would have been seen more as a demonic possession movie that takes place in an apartment complex.

 

 

The Hobbit except this time in one single movie but sadly doesn't have as much Bombur or cameo characters from the other trilogy. It was pretty enjoyable though and I liked the singing segments. I know this was like the original Lord of the Rings thing but it's both funny and interesting seeing the different interpretations between back then and now. Probably the one that stuck out to me the most was Gollum was like a weird mutant frog man and you just know the Peter Jackson trilogy would have been a lot different if there was a walking frog with Frodo and Sam. Gandalf's introduction was also pretty funny since it starts off with him shadow dashing out from behind a tree and there's this very strange ominous closeup of him when talking to Bilbo accompanied with a lightning strike. If I didn't know any better I would have thought he was going to be the villain all along and that was just foreshadowing.

 

There's also a part where I think Bilbo accuses Thorin of "cringing" away from battle and I know what they meant by it but I've been so catastrophically ruined by the internet I couldn't help but laugh at hearing them say that. But yeah, like I said it's enjoyable and I think the animation is nice to look at even if it doesn't have the blood, sweat, and tears poured in like the Bakshi version has.

[Lenzsotic1]

In cinemas last Thursday: Transformers: Rise of the Beast.

As a Transformers fan of the old movies, I still don't really know what to say about this reboot. But I still give the film 4 out of 5 stars because there were some parts in the film that were done really well, but I still think that the film lacks that certain something. Form your own opinion and take a look at yourself, is worth a recommendation.

[HellcoreFire]

This weekend I watched Knights of the Zodiac which is a movie based on one of my favourite cartoons from when I was a kid. They changed the whole story but it was still better than the Netflix adaptation. Also watched Nimona which had pretty funny moments.

[Feral]

One of my favourite series as a kid so had to see this. It’s pretty good, I liked it a lot more than I expected to.

Edited July 4, 2023 by Feral

[Night-Shades13]

Pulse (2001)

Watching it again and this is still good.

 

Suicide Club (2001)

If only I discover this earlier, awesome stuff.

[ResiGamer_28]

The gentleman, another fantastic Guy Richie film. 

 

If you like Snatch or Lock Stock, you will love this. 

On 30/06/2023 at 9:38 PM, ChilledBrandon said:

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)

 

My favourite Guy Ritchie film personally. I love Snatch as well.

 

The TV series of Lock Stock is pretty good too. 

[Crzy Minus]

[ChilledBrandon]

Better Watch Out (2016)

 

I really liked the direction this one went in. Starts out good but gets even better the further it goes along.

 

[R123Rob]

10/10

 

[Night-Shades13]

RE: Death Island

I finally watched it today! ?? This movie is a love letter to all RE fans out there. If I would rank both animated movies and series:

1. RE: Death Island
2. RE: Damnation

3. RE: Degeneration

4. RE: Vendetta

5. RE: Infinite Darkness

[blacklight-nero]

[:?_?:] 

[Caquis_1]

[shadaik]

Tenet

Okay, I really need to stop listening to what people tell me are good movies, because that was terrible. I think I get what it's about (the power authors have over their creation), but this feels more like one of those compilation videos on youtube that make "full movies" from random snippets that are only coherent in so far as they don't directly contradict each other. Like Nolan had a lot of cool ideas for scenes but was missing any connective tissue and started filming anyway. I feel like Nolan is going down the same route as Shyamalan in changing from a great director into a self-indulgent one believing his own hype and forgetting to actually make his movies good.

[LastMinuteSavior]

 

"Scary Movie" but it's Elevated Horror. Except it really isn't. Quite silly actually. But fun.

 

Really enjoyed the characters. Got a couple of good laughs outta me.

 

[GUDGER666]

Today's movies. 

 

Not bad, worth a watch. Did not expect it to be as gory as it is. 

 

Easily the worst movie I've seen these 2 in. It's so bad, the acting is terrible. 

 

Bit daft but worth a watch I guess. 

 

Good film, one of the better ones I've seen this year. 

 

One of the better Shark movies, CGI is pretty decent. The characters are dumb AF though. Worth a watch. 

 

Better than I thought it would be, crazy how many horrors Lin Shaye is in. 

 

Edited July 12, 2023 by GUDGER666

[LastMinuteSavior]

 

Watched this for Margaret Qualley (The Nice Guys, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) and I was not disappointing.

 

It's a never-ending layered mind game between a dominatrix and her cuck employer that keeps you guessing till the last possible second.

 

[Crzy Minus]

[LastMinuteSavior]

 

Everyone knows Sydney Sweeney for her "talents".

Turns out she's also very talented. Great performance in a very tense slow-burn.

 

[shadaik]

Nimona

I liked it the first time around when it was called The Sea Beast. This new skin for the movie is enjoyable, the dragon is now much cuter and can talk.

Edited July 14, 2023 by shadaik

[Lance_87]

1 hour ago, shadaik said:

Nimona

I liked it the first time around when it was called The Sea Beast.

 

Wait, what?