The Last Movie You Saw?

[TheDarkKratos]

Terrifier & Terrifier 2

[Crzy Minus]

[Don_Chipotle]

Chaos (2005 action film) - Wikipedia

 

Interesting movie that totally gets absurd in a good way and over the top action and movie ideas and direction of the plot, its a fun straight cops movie, with great actors, and an absolute product of 2005

[Fing3rButt3r3]

Sakra

(free to watch)

 

[TheDarkKratos]

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[sk_lp_him]

Night Swim

The Cabin in the Woods

[mephisto3dg]

It Follows

 

just another lame horror movie imo

[TheDarkKratos]

World War Z (5th viewing).

 

I don't know why, but I'm a sucker for Zombie movies. I really like this film.

 

Spoiler

But the one scene that always gets to me above (pun) all is this...

 

 

 

[Dinniestar]

Ted 2 needed a good laugh while trophy hunting 

I wish new Ted show was available in uk 

[BacklogBeast]

Just got done with another viewing of Top Gun Maverick. A sequel that wasn't needed but is absolutely brilliant. It understands what a movie should be first and foremost, fun! Not a vehicle for ideology or politics.

[Don_Chipotle]

4 hours ago, TheDarkKratos said:

World War Z (5th viewing).

 

I don't know why, but I'm a sucker for Zombie movies. I really like this film.

 

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But the one scene that always gets to me above (pun) all is this...

 

 

 

Maybe you already seen it, but i totally recommend this movie

 

[sk_lp_him]

Happy Death Day 2U

[LastMinuteSavior]

[ 5/10 ]

Structurally messy, sometimes cringey, and even a little distasteful. The stilted dialogue and underdeveloped characters don't help either.

 

Enzo's reaction of mild annoyance to his driver getting wrecked in one of his rolling death traps pretty much sums up how cold and unrelatable the titular character is. But, truth be told, it is hard to care about his drivers since we barely spend any time knowing them before the third act race. Or about Shailene Woodley's character, who's given very little to do. The one saving grace is Penélope Cruz's Laura, who's actually quite entertaining to watch.

 

Oh, and that one guy who upset Adam Driver during a Q&A session was not wrong—those car crashes do look goofy as hell.

 

 

[ 5/10 ]

There's nothing particularly bad about this one, it's just kinda bland. There isn't much going on with the characters, and the story is extremely derivative.

The creepy hallucinations in the later half of the movie are cool, though. Still, nothing to write home about since it's stuff you've certainly seen elsewhere a bunch of times.

 

 

[ 6/10 ]

I have mixed feelings about this one. It does have its own unique style, beautiful photography, and a few earnest moments that make it overall enjoyable, but some stylistic choices and subpar dialogue really took me out of the movie at times.

 

 

[ 8/10 ]

The only thing more tragic than this story is how badly Efron got snubbed by The Academy.

 

Hard to believe movies like this and The Holdovers were shot nowadays. Wardrobe, sets, props, and every single aspect of the cinematography make it seem like these came straight out of a time capsule.

 

It's a delight to watch such a well-crafted film. My only nitpicks are a couple of moments where the story fast-forwards when it should instead have added a little more context.

 

[TheDarkKratos]

Rabid (2019).

 

A pathetic remake of sorts of the original David Cronenberg film of the same name.

 

Avoid this movie

[Thephoenixshow]

On 2/16/2024 at 2:54 PM, Dinniestar said:

Ted 2 needed a good laugh while trophy hunting 

I wish new Ted show was available in uk 

its on sky

last thing i watched was madame web not as bad as the reviews was saying but still was disappointing 

[Crzy Minus]

[Slava]

The Matrix Reloaded

 

 

Lots of spoilers ahead.

 

Machines know what love is, but they don't understand what it means to love. They know what choice is, but only see it as a matter of cause and effect. The Matrix Reloaded focuses on the things that make us human, for better or for worse. Love and hope are simultaneously our strengths and our weaknesses. Sometimes we make choices that can't be explained by logic and reason. That's why the Matrix is stuck in a cycle of collapsing and rebuilding - no matter how hard the programs try to perfect it, there are minds that keep rejecting the fake reality.

 

The events of the movies go beyond logic too: Neo resurrecting himself in the first part is a big moment, him saving Trinity by restarting her heart is a miracle the machines couldn't predict (or maybe they could, but lied). I don't remember how much the third movie explains, but the moment where Neo controls the sentinels in the real world breaks the logic of the world as well.

 

Faith is another very human thing the movie's plot covers. Morpheus and his almost religious belief in the prophecy and The One guide his choices over logic, and the movie underlines that multiple times. Neo himself is portrayed like a religious figure in Zion. Another smaller example is Link's lucky talisman which he decides to wear after saying "well, it can't hurt".

 

The last but not least most human thing is dancing in a cave with other sweaty people. That intimate scene is probably one of the best in the film.

 

Action sequences remain the series' strength. The fights are more floaty this time, and some poorly aged CGI is mixed in. You'd think CG would make sense in a virtual world, but flyng and spinning on wires was already suspended by that logic. The shots with animated Neo on top of that look out of place. Despite that, action looks awesome overall thanks to good choreography and brilliant camera work. The highway part is without a doubt the main highlight. Building that road for the film was entirely worth the budget 😁.

 

Acting is alright for the most part, but not without weak parts and not without cringe. Keanu Reeves doesn't fully succeed in selling the romantic chemistry in particular. Thankfully, Carrie-Anne Moss saves that plotline with my favourite line in the movie: "In five minutes, I'll tear that whole goddamn building down". I believed she would.

 

As you can see, I enjoyed the sequel quite a lot on the rewatch. I do think it's no match for the first film, but it's still underrated. The Matrix Reloaded has depth, it has spectacle, and it has Hugo Weaving. What more can you want?

 

13 hours ago, LastMinuteSavior said:

Adam Driver

 

Fitting name for this movie 😁

[LastMinuteSavior]

34 minutes ago, Slava said:

13 hours ago, LastMinuteSavior said:

Adam Driver

 

Fitting name for this movie 😁

 

The one scene where he "drives":

 

 

I imagine Michael Mann's excuse for the ridiculous comp shot is that it's an homage to the vintage method of rear projection.

But it just looks like something out of a Looney Tunes cartoon and has nothing to do with the rest of the movie.

 

 

🐇 ⬇️

 

The Matrix didn't need any sequels. But at least Reloaded has some badass action scenes.

 

[Redgrave]

 

There is a channel I sometimes see videos of that had a video on this recommended to me which interested me into watching it. I didn't watch the video to keep the experience fresh but I'm glad I did because it was interesting not knowing what was going to happen.

 

It's about a girl named Sarah that works at a restaurant called Big Taters which is pretty much a parody of Hooters and she wants to become an actor. She also has a group of friends that apart from one or two of them don't really seem like they are her friends because I think the implication from one of them was she intentionally stole a role from her. Eventually though Sarah winds up getting called to audition for a role and right away you can tell something is off with the way the people in charge of the auditions act.

 

The guy isn't given a name or at least I don't think he was but he talks in a way where he exaggerates his facial expressions and mouth movements to where he looks like a character from LA Noire. The woman with him on the other hand barely talks and looks like she's just one costume change away from being a witch. During this audition Sarah worries she botches it and then goes to the bathroom to throw a fit where she literally pulls her hair out. This causes the woman to do a jumpscare and ask her to audition again in which she winds up succeeding.

 

After this Sarah winds up becoming full of herself to where she starts acting like she's already made it big and starts seeing herself as above her friends and her job even though nothing really happened yet. There is even a part where one of the other girls trips and makes her nose bleed and Sarah laughs, so for me Sarah is a protagonist that I started losing favor for and it works out in the movies favor pretty well.

 

I'll leave it there with the rest in the spoiler section since I think it's worth checking out for yourself.

 

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Eventually she winds up getting a call to meet the producer of the production company and he tries to feel her up for her to get a role. She escapes from this and later regrets it thinking she won't ever get enough role. I had a feeling this was the direction the movie was going and I would have laughed really hard if the producer wound up looking like Harvey Weinstein.

 

However it gets even more sinister from here because she winds up getting another chance to "audition" and this time the producer has her give him a blowjob and during this some robed figures wearing masks come in and it's revealed that it's a cult that worship a demon named Astraeus. It's a movie that takes place in Hollywood and there's demonic cult, so I can't even make a joke about it since it pretty much writes itself.

 

Anyway after this Sarah winds up getting sick to where she starts looking like a ghoul and puking up maggots. She gets a call from the producer basically telling her she needs to kill her friends in order to be "reborn" and she does just that. I was kind of hoping she would have been stopped eventually but after killing them she takes part in a ritual to where she gets "reborn" out of the ground where she comes back with bright green eyes and a bald head. I think she is also supposed to have some kind of mind control powers since she winds up hypnotizing the last girl of her group from running away. The movie ends with her putting on a wig and I guess she will become a star like the others in the cult.

 

So basically it's kind of a "the bad guys win" ending, and by the credits I wished Doomguy came out of nowhere to shotgun the cult members. I suppose in the long run the joke will still be upon Sarah eventually because there are older people in the cult as well and so her good looks likely won't last forever. Either that or Judgement Day is going to be really awkward for her when the Lord's wrath descends upon her for making a deal with demonic forces. Or one more alternative is where Hollywood winds up bowing to the might of Big Taters.

 

 

I really like Whiplash and so it's one of those movies I can re-watch and still feel like it's new each time. I like it in the same way I do Do The Right Thing where it's just interesting seeing Andrew start off as a normal kid that wants to learn how to drum and eventually spirals into a self-destructive need to keep pushing further and further because of Fletcher. And speaking of Fletcher, he's played very well by JK Simmons and I like to watch his scenes in the same way I do Sergeant Hartman in Full Metal Jacket. I mean the characters are pretty much the same except Fletcher screams at people for either RUSHING or DRAGGING instead of not knowing your left from your right and hiding jelly donuts in your footlocker.

 

It's also kind of funny because in a way I sort of see where Fletcher is coming from in regards to pushing talent but the way he goes about it is too harsh. I have also felt that the ending is kind of deceptive in the sense that I don't think it's the "Yeah they respect each other now" way it comes off as but maybe that's just because I don't see how Andrew could respect Fletcher after everything that happened and Fletcher knew about how he was why he got fired. Otherwise there's really not much else to say about it. It's got great music, great drama, and great casting which makes it very re-watchable for me.

 

18 hours ago, Slava said:

Action sequences remain the series' strength. The fights are more floaty this time, and some poorly aged CGI is mixed in. You'd think CG would make sense in a virtual world, but flyng and spinning on wires was already suspended by that logic. The shots with animated Neo on top of that look out of place. Despite that, action looks awesome overall thanks to good choreography and brilliant camera work. The highway part is without a doubt the main highlight. Building that road for the film was entirely worth the budget 😁.

 

I always felt like the sequels (well Reloaded and Revolution at least since I haven't watched Resurrections) went a bit overboard with the philosophy and other stuff that I had a hard time fully understanding them but despite that I remember re-watching the fight scenes a lot since they are done really well and I like the soundtracks to them. The Burly Brawl one was probably my favorite one but I liked the Chateu one because of the song.

 

Also if you haven't yet, The Animatrix is pretty good. It even shows the machine war with some nightmare fuel visuals But with the other shorts they have pretty good animation in them and show another side that you don't see in the movies pretty well.

[wolvieware]

Been a bit quiet on the movie front recently but watched a few this week:

 

The Marvels - this was surprisingly better than I expected considering the backlash against the film. I found it quite amusing and enjoyable, and while it may not be as good as peak Marvel movies I still thought it was their best release for a while. 
 

While You Were Sleeping - a classic 90s rom-com suitable for Valentines. I think some of the morals are a bit murky in today’s age but they don’t really make movies like this anymore so it was quite a refreshing watch. 
 

[Slava]

35 minutes ago, Redgrave said:

I always felt like the sequels (well Reloaded and Revolution at least since I haven't watched Resurrections) went a bit overboard with the philosophy and other stuff that I had a hard time fully understanding them but despite that I remember re-watching the fight scenes a lot since they are done really well and I like the soundtracks to them. The Burly Brawl one was probably my favorite one but I liked the Chateu one because of the song.

 

Also if you haven't yet, The Animatrix is pretty good. It even shows the machine war with some nightmare fuel visuals But with the other shorts they have pretty good animation in them and show another side that you don't see in the movies pretty well.

 

The second film is not as tight as the first one, but I can't complain about the worldbuilding and philosophical dialogues, really. I liked what the movie had to say and explore.

 

I did have to rewatch that one part with the Architect to make sure I understood wtf he was saying 😁. I was watching in English, and his way of talking and choosing words was heavy on my non-native speaker ear. Listening a second time was enough. Some of the scene doesn't make sense still. Unless I misunderstood, it sounded like he expected that Trinity would be in danger, even though the whole situation happened because of one rusty pipe. How did he know it would break 😁. In any case, I tend to care less about plot holes as the years go by.

 

But there's one part I agree with the reviews I saw: the new characters weren't very interesting in Reloaded. Link, Niobe, and that one young guy who follows Neo everywhere. Although I never caught myself thinking "When will that councillor guy shut up" or stuff like that. 

 

Watching Animatrix after Revolutions was my plan from the beginning. I remember hearing good stuff about this anthology and people talking about their favourite episodes. I don't know why I haven't watched it until now. It's like a precursor to Star Wars: Visions (which I haven't watched yet either). I remember liking the idea behind the runner's story in particular. Breaking the virtual limits of human abilities set by machines sounds cool.

 

Whiplash is peak fiction 😎. One of my favourite movies and one of the reasons Damien Chazelle is somewhere in my top 5 favourite directors. 

 

I liked the ending because it implies that his methods, despite being horrible, had results. Do you have to pay such price for greatness? Maybe you don't, maybe you do. 

 

19 hours ago, LastMinuteSavior said:

But it just looks like something out of a Looney Tunes cartoon

 

It does look a bit goofy when it cuts to Adam Driver.

[Redgrave]

13 minutes ago, Slava said:

 

The second film is not as tight as the first one, but I can't complain about the worldbuilding and philosophical dialogues, really. I liked what the movie had to say and explore.

 

I did have to rewatch that one part with the Architect to make sure I understood wtf he was saying 😁. I was watching in English, and his way of talking and choosing words was heavy on my non-native speaker ear. Listening a second time was enough. Some of the scene doesn't make sense still. Unless I misunderstood, it sounded like he expected that Trinity would be in danger, even though the whole situation happened because of one rusty pipe. How did he know it would break 😁. In any case, I tend to care less about plot holes as the years go by.

 

But there's one part I agree with the reviews I saw: the new characters weren't very interesting in Reloaded. Link, Niobe, and that one young guy who follows Neo everywhere. Although I never caught myself thinking "When will that councillor guy shut up" or stuff like that. 

 

Watching Animatrix after Revolutions was my plan from the beginning. I remember hearing good stuff about this anthology and people talking about their favourite episodes. I don't know why I haven't watched it until now. It's like a precursor to Star Wars: Visions (which I haven't watched yet either). I remember liking the idea behind the runner's story in particular. Breaking the virtual limits of human abilities set by machines sounds cool.

 

Whiplash is peak fiction 😎. One of my favourite movies and one of the reasons Damien Chazelle is somewhere in my top 5 favourite directors. 

 

I liked the ending because it implies that his methods, despite being horrible, had results. Do you have to pay such price for greatness? Maybe you don't, maybe you do. 

 

 

Yeah, I liked the idea of The Merovingian and his group being like a group of outcasts/old programs and having strange powers like the twins. I like the idea of there being other characters like them that are "supernatural" and could have made the setting more video game-y but I think it could be justified with it being the Matrix after all so I think it would have been cool to see more of that. In The Animatrix there actually is one short where a group of kids think an abandoned area is haunted and they see glitches that they interpret as paranormal, so there is something kind of like that but at the same time I'm not sure how that would work in a sequel with high stakes unless maybe The Merovingian want to take over the Matrix themselves.

 

I would have to see it again but I remember the last time I tried listening to him I couldn't really understand it either As for him apparently knowing I guess you could argue that he used a bajillion different calculations and saw the most likely outcome although I remember it does come off as him having some divine foresight rather than it just being a really good program. I also think for Niobe and the other characters you were expected to play the Enter the Matrix game since they debut in that and they also used live action footage for some cutscenes although I don't remember too much about the story and apparently the game itself isn't well liked but I remember having fun with it because of the bullet-time mechanics and my only complaint at the time was you couldn't play as Neo.

 

Cool, I look forward to seeing your thoughts on it 👍 I'm not sure what my favorite one was since they are all pretty good in their own way. Apart from the nightmare fuel in Second Renaissance I think Kid's Story stuck with me because of the chase sequence and the song that plays. And yeah, the runner's story was cool too and it would have been cool to see if other characters wind up doing that too.

 

Yeah, that's true about how he got results in the end. It's kind of like how he talked about the one drummer whose friend threw a cymbal at his head which was a weird thing to do but it wound up working in the end.

[ozymandias1994]

 

Holy crap, this movie is the craziest thing I ever seen. Never watch this with family, guys NEVER!

[alexandra-jane09]

On 2/16/2024 at 12:14 PM, TheDarkKratos said:

World War Z (5th viewing).

 

I don't know why, but I'm a sucker for Zombie movies. I really like this film.

 

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But the one scene that always gets to me above (pun) all is this...

 

 

 

That's a great film, we can also see where The Last of Us got its inspiration from.  

 

Just saw Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part 1 last night.  

[shadaik]

2 hours ago, Slava said:

Unless I misunderstood, it sounded like he expected that Trinity would be in danger, even though the whole situation happened because of one rusty pipe. How did he know it would break 😁.

Because the Matrix can make it break if need be.

Free Will is an illusion inside the Matrix, even to those who think themselve sfreed from its machinations. In order to keep up this illusion and make the rebels complete the cycle, it will create a perilous situation that seems random but is indeed fully planned out, rather than do something more obvious like sending in the agents. The illusion of free will has to be maintained to keep the Chosen One on the path to reboot the Matrix thinking they do so by their own choice defying the system. It's all mind games so that, even when Neo knows the truth, he still has hope keep him going and fulfill his function for the simulation.