Movies you've just watched

A place where you can chat about anything that isn't to do with games!
Ixmucane2
Posts: 760
Joined: Mon Jan 19, 2009 3:26 pm
Location: stuck at the continue prompt

Re: Movies you've just watched

Post by Ixmucane2 »

Nobody

Probably meant as a parody of a certain subgenre of action plots (enormously badass protagonist takes on powerful enemies), but I'm sure someone is going to take it seriously. For me it was quite funny from beginning to end.

Hutch Mansell, a middle aged white collar worker, randomly gets into trouble with an important Russian gangster, crushing his whole organization with a little help. He's more superior than John Wick (several enemies sensibly run away; his background is more scary; and he doesn't really confront any worthwhile opponent in a duel, only mooks with a leader). Fights are a mixture of vague realism (without fancy martial arts) and preposterous feats, if not gags (for example, killing three imprudently lined up Russians with one rifle shot).

The unexplored corners of the story (in particular, the interesting and special people in Hutch's family: his mother is completely missing) are both a good way to avoid wasting time with pointless exposition and ample sequel/prequel hooks.
User avatar
cj iwakura
Posts: 1729
Joined: Tue Jan 27, 2009 2:28 am
Location: Coral Springs, FL

Re: Movies you've just watched

Post by cj iwakura »

BIL wrote:Ah, I've wondered myself. Completely slipped past me, but then I'm waiting on Saul to rack up a few more seasons before I marathon the bastard. From very peripheral glances, it doesn't seem to have left a bad impression.
It's a solid show, and starts out being a very unique beast, then slowly becomes more like BB as it goes on and cameos rack up. :lol:
Image
heli wrote:Why is milestone director in prison ?, are his game to difficult ?
User avatar
BIL
Posts: 18989
Joined: Thu May 10, 2007 12:39 pm
Location: COLONY

Re: Movies you've just watched

Post by BIL »

I did wonder, with all the Badass Mike Beatdown clips my dad's sent me over the years... :mrgreen:
User avatar
GaijinPunch
Posts: 15646
Joined: Mon Jan 31, 2005 11:22 pm
Location: San Fransicso

Re: Movies you've just watched

Post by GaijinPunch »

BIL wrote:I did wonder, with all the Badass Mike Beatdown clips my dad's sent me over the years... :mrgreen:
Really hard to say which is better. I know that's heresy to most, but Better Call Saul is currently the best thing still airing.

Image
RegalSin wrote:New PowerPuff Girls. They all have evil pornstart eyelashes.
User avatar
Herr Schatten
Posts: 3259
Joined: Wed Jan 26, 2005 12:14 pm
Location: Germany
Contact:

Re: Movies you've just watched

Post by Herr Schatten »

Midsommar. I really had been looking forward to watching this, as I had heard a lot of good things about it, but I found it disappointing. Maybe I expected too much.

Cinematography is very good, the movie successfully creates an eerie atmosphere, and Florence Pugh delivers a memorable performance ...and that's about it.

The plot is paper thin and moves at a glacial pace. Even if you buy into the notion that it's all symbolism, that meta level works just barely. Large parts of the movie are spent showing people standing in front of long tables, sitting down at large tables, staring and making random noises. The build-up is too slow and the movie (in its already edited theatrical release) is a good hour too long. None of the characters are the least bit likeable, it's almost a relief when they start, predictably, getting killed off one by one.

Solid craftsmanship, not much more on offer. A huge disappointment. 5/10
Spoiler
The characters also don't really act like human beings. They watch someone jumping off a cliff, landing headfirst on a stone pedestal, and another person getting his head smashed in with a large sledge hammer, and they are a bit upset, naturally. But then they learn that it's tradition, and they're immediately fine with all the head smashing. They also seem completely oblivious when their friends start disappearing without a trace.
Spoiler
What is it with that director and heads/faces anyway? I haven't watched his previous movie Hereditary (and after this one I'm not likely to), but I hear there's quite a bit of decapitating going on in that one.
User avatar
SuperPang
Posts: 945
Joined: Mon Feb 14, 2005 12:20 pm
Location: UK
Contact:

Re: Movies you've just watched

Post by SuperPang »

GaijinPunch wrote: Better Call Saul
It's Kim Wexler's show and I'm not sure how I'm going to handle her inevitable death.
User avatar
GaijinPunch
Posts: 15646
Joined: Mon Jan 31, 2005 11:22 pm
Location: San Fransicso

Re: Movies you've just watched

Post by GaijinPunch »

SuperPang wrote:
GaijinPunch wrote: Better Call Saul
It's Kim Wexler's show and I'm not sure how I'm going to handle her inevitable death.
Yeah I'm a bit unsettled about the ending of her story. Hoping she makes it into witness protection but the odds of that are slim. Maybe her and Ignacio run off together?
RegalSin wrote:New PowerPuff Girls. They all have evil pornstart eyelashes.
User avatar
lilmanjs
Posts: 1572
Joined: Fri Oct 10, 2008 12:36 am
Location: Lawrence, Kansas

Re: Movies you've just watched

Post by lilmanjs »

Animal House
Seen it a bunch of times, but recently picked up the 4K release that came out this year. Wow! Looks stunning and just blows the awful original blu ray right out of the water. Universal doing good on the 4K discs so far from the ones I've seen.
User avatar
Obiwanshinobi
Posts: 7463
Joined: Sun Jul 26, 2009 1:14 am

Re: Movies you've just watched

Post by Obiwanshinobi »

vol.2 wrote:It's written by Laurie Anderson, who is probably best know as the wife of the late Lou Reed (Velvet Underground), but she's not really in it as far as I can see, and I wouldn't have known if her name wasn't attached to it.
I'm pretty sure that at least in Poland, she's been mostly known just from her records. Could be the same with all of "Middle Europe" - a couple of years ago I was at the gig of Maarja Nuut (Estonian) and found some of her ways strikingly converging with those of Anderson.
The rear gate is closed down
The way out is cut off

Image
User avatar
chempop
Posts: 3461
Joined: Sun Jul 31, 2005 7:44 am
Location: Western-MA USA

Re: Movies you've just watched

Post by chempop »

Raya and the Last Dragon - Worth checking out.

I expected it would be at least decent and I was pleasantly surprised. Good pacing throughout, comic relief wasn't too painful, solid voice acting (maybe I'm not 100% sold on Sisu's casting), and great animation as expected. The story, while totally predictable, flowed nicely. I think a little more backstory into Raya's youth could have buffed her character a good deal, a flashback or slightly longer opening act could have done the job. The music was fine, although it wasn't as integral as I'd hoped - but then again after seeing Pixar's Soul (Trent Reznor blew the OST out of the park), my expectations of how important music is to a good animated feature is likely skewed.

There wasn't anything nearly as jaw dropping as say, Te Kā and Moana's epic confrontation, but there likely won't ever be.. a Sho'nuff cameo would have helped too.

What did you think?
"I've had quite a few pcbs of Fire Shark over time, and none of them cost me over £30 - so it won't break the bank by any standards." ~Malc
User avatar
Vexorg
Posts: 3055
Joined: Wed Jan 26, 2005 1:33 am
Location: Greensboro NC

Re: Movies you've just watched

Post by Vexorg »

Hobbs and Shaw: **1/2

Haven't seen the latest Fast and Furious yet, but we watched this one over the past couple of days. The result of Dwayne Johnson wanting to do more Fast and Furious movies without the risk of getting Vin Diesel's cooties on him, this movie stars him as walking tank Luke Hobbs alongside James-Bond-Gone-Bad-Then-Somehow-Gone-Good-Again Deckard Shaw (Jason Statham), formerly seen as the lead antagonist in Furious 7, but then somehow moved over to the good-guy side because he's pretty much the biggest star they could get. When Idris Elba (as pretty much a Discount Terminator, a fact so obvious the movie just lampshades it straight up) decides to reschedule that apocalypse he cancelled back in Pacific Rim, Hobbs and Shaw are forced to work together to stop him in spite of their mutual hatred for each other, expressed mostly in macho Alpha-male elementary-level playground insults (with a few of those words Mommy tells you not to use thrown in, just to keep things appropriately PG-13.) Also featured is Vanessa Kirby as Deckard Shaw's sister Hattie, who seems to alternate between being another badass secret agent and a damsel-in-distress McGuffin as the plot demands.

All that said, the action is up to the usual F&F standards (which typically means that the Laws of Physics have been reduced to mere suggestions), and Helen Mirren's appearance as Deckard Shaw's prison-bound (but presumably not for long) mother is, as it was in Fate of the Furious, probably the best part of the movie. Also customary for the series, the film throws in about 45 minutes of unnecessary filler involving previously unmentioned family members and prior history that was never mentioned until suddenly it all becomes oh-so-important now (in a way, it's almost impressive the way that F&F can just pull backstory out of thin air in a way that Marvel and DC could only dream of.) Even so, you get the sneaking suspicion that if they had just sent in Dom Torretto and his team to do the job, this film would have been about 20 minutes long.

In short, much like any other F&F movie, this one is pure cinematic junkfood. Think of it like you would when you go to the theater to see a movie and end up eating an entire large bucket of popcorn and a whole box of Junior Mints. Sure it was tasty and you probably didn't even think about it while you were doing it, but when the credits are rolling you start to realize that you just consumed about 900 calories during the movie and you're still hungry at the end. But given the fact that this movie made $760 million off a $200 million budget, it seems that junkfood still sells pretty well.
We want you, save our planet!
Xbox Live: Vexorg | The Sledgehammer - Version 2.0
neorichieb1971
Posts: 7668
Joined: Wed Jan 26, 2005 1:28 am
Location: Bedford, UK
Contact:

Re: Movies you've just watched

Post by neorichieb1971 »

The tomorrow War - Amazon prime.

Takes a lot of 80's Sci fi movies like Starship troopers, The thing.. Even steals the sounds of Predator, mixes it all up and gives you an up to date movie.

Someone on Facebook gave it 10/10 hence my watching it. I would give it a 6/10.


It loses 4 points for all the family reunion shite, loads of filler, taking the story away from the main event, a ridiculous family coincidence, an even more ridiculous plot where a kid at school knows more about volcanoes than Sir David Attenborough and bringing a Green political agenda (albeit sneakily) to the table. It has its moments, but its no 10/10. Its not as good as Aliens.
This industry has become 2 dimensional as it transcended into a 3D world.
User avatar
SuperPang
Posts: 945
Joined: Mon Feb 14, 2005 12:20 pm
Location: UK
Contact:

Re: Movies you've just watched

Post by SuperPang »

Tomorrow War is hot garbage. Cool aliens and special effects though.

Also surprisingly disappointed by Nobody. Good fight choreography but you need more than that to stand out in such a crowded sub-genre.
User avatar
Mischief Maker
Posts: 4802
Joined: Thu May 08, 2008 3:44 am

Re: Movies you've just watched

Post by Mischief Maker »

neorichieb1971 wrote:80's Sci fi movies like Starship troopers
Starship Troopers came out in the late 90s.

Also if you're copying the style of Starship Troopers, you're doing it wrong. That movie intentionally looks bad as a satire of fascist propaganda.

Pissed me off as a stupid teenager who was a fan of the books. Made me laugh my ass off as a grown adult who realized what the movie was doing.
Two working class dudes, one black one white, just baked a tray of ten cookies together.

An oligarch walks in and grabs nine cookies for himself.

Then he says to the white dude "Watch out for that black dude, he wants a piece of your cookie!"
User avatar
vol.2
Posts: 2436
Joined: Mon Oct 31, 2016 3:13 pm
Location: bmore

Re: Movies you've just watched

Post by vol.2 »

I would add that Verhoeven wasn't just satirizing fascism, he was commenting on the effect of the media on culture and the public consciousness. It's a meta-message that he pushes in an auteuristic way. In the case of Starship Troopers, fascism was simply the "low hanging fruit."
User avatar
Mortificator
Posts: 2808
Joined: Tue Jun 19, 2007 1:13 am
Location: A star occupied by the Bydo Empire

Re: Movies you've just watched

Post by Mortificator »

The movie has a similar problem as later 40k material, where it's giving a surface-level satire of fascism, but making its footsoldier goon the audience surrogate as he stands against inhuman hordes. This is pushed further by whitewashing the book's Filipino protagonist into Casper the friendly fash and having women fawn over him. Rico makes it with exactly zero chicks in the novel (where Dina Meyer's character is a dude).
RegalSin wrote:You can't even drive across the country Naked anymore
User avatar
drauch
Posts: 5637
Joined: Thu Oct 30, 2008 6:14 am

Re: Movies you've just watched

Post by drauch »

Ya, they should have made it more like the novel where he talks about math for like an hour instead.
BIL wrote: "Small sack, LOTS OF CUM" - Nikola Tesla
User avatar
Mortificator
Posts: 2808
Joined: Tue Jun 19, 2007 1:13 am
Location: A star occupied by the Bydo Empire

Re: Movies you've just watched

Post by Mortificator »

Book-Rico ended up in the infantry because he was unqualified for any other branch, so I'm not sure when that'd be. Are you sure you didn't get it mixed up with your grade school algebra textbook? Starship Troopers is the one with giant bugs.
RegalSin wrote:You can't even drive across the country Naked anymore
User avatar
drauch
Posts: 5637
Joined: Thu Oct 30, 2008 6:14 am

Re: Movies you've just watched

Post by drauch »

Nah, I failed Algebra a bunch and had to retake it, so I've got those books down. Starship Troopers is the book with the giant bugs like at the end and the rest is just oooooh the military is so great, I'm gonna study hard and be a citizen when I should be murdering scum.
BIL wrote: "Small sack, LOTS OF CUM" - Nikola Tesla
xxx1993

Re: Movies you've just watched

Post by xxx1993 »

Just saw Space Jam: A New Legacy. It was okay.
xxx1993

Re: Movies you've just watched

Post by xxx1993 »

Escape Room: Tournament of Champions. It's pretty much like the first one. But I still thought it was okay. I hope we get a third movie soon.
Ixmucane2
Posts: 760
Joined: Mon Jan 19, 2009 3:26 pm
Location: stuck at the continue prompt

Re: Movies you've just watched

Post by Ixmucane2 »

Black Widow

Natasha, in the do-it-yourself period after the temporary break-up of the Avengers, takes on the Red Room (the assassin organization she comes from) with the help of her parents and her sister. Not quite a traditional origin story, mostly for lack of origin and story (assassin training would be grim and boring), but rather a family biography that starts from childhood.

Unfortunately, with allusions and characters and major events coming out of nowhere, it looks like seeing episode 3 of 6 of a random TV series. Only for fans who invested into watching pay-per-view products I haven't even heard about.
User avatar
EmperorIng
Posts: 5065
Joined: Mon Jun 18, 2012 3:22 am
Location: Chicago, IL

Re: Movies you've just watched

Post by EmperorIng »

Pig is a disarming and excellent movie. Very moving, sad and sweet. It's well worth a watch and I'm glad I saw it on the big screen.
User avatar
drauch
Posts: 5637
Joined: Thu Oct 30, 2008 6:14 am

Re: Movies you've just watched

Post by drauch »

Every time I see someone talk about Pig I keep thinking about the horrific Wedding Trough, aka Pig-Fucking Movie. If you aren't familiar, no need to look it up. The alt-title is very fitting.
BIL wrote: "Small sack, LOTS OF CUM" - Nikola Tesla
User avatar
vol.2
Posts: 2436
Joined: Mon Oct 31, 2016 3:13 pm
Location: bmore

Re: Movies you've just watched

Post by vol.2 »

At first I thought you were talking about Dead Pigs. https://watch.eventive.org/parkway/play ... 003ef80641

I didn't even know about Pig. Looks interesting. Truffle pig guy does thriller. I guess it's supposed to be a vehicle for nicholas C's artsy career comeback that got off the ground with Mandy.
User avatar
Mischief Maker
Posts: 4802
Joined: Thu May 08, 2008 3:44 am

Re: Movies you've just watched

Post by Mischief Maker »

Well I finally saw blade runner 2049. Honestly I was disappointed. I mean the visuals were amazing though honestly the Los Angeles of the future in this movie felt so much more empty and lifeless then the original blade runner.

I think the thing that bothered me with the plot is it was basically some sort of nerds nod to the dark days making of blade runner docu feature. It features the same opening scene from the original script concept the blade runner killing a farmer who is boiling some beans. Also one of the tidbits from the documentary was Ridley Scott told the director of photography that he wanted Gold light glittering off Tyrell at the office building and it drove the DP crazy because he kept asking where is the glittering light coming from? And Ridley Scott didn't care. Well in this movie The Golden light is reflecting off of a water effect from gold colored lights at the top god dammit I will explain.

Spoilers from now on.

And I don't know what they were thinking but the final battle scene is literally the final battle from drive. Ryan gosling's emotionally deadened character walks away from his romantic relationship in the movie and then attacks the bad guys by side swiping them with his car in the darkness and then gets out of the car and drowns the bad guy with his bare hands. What were they thinking?

But I think the thing that bothered me the most about this film was the cartoonishly evil bad guys. Tyrell in the original movie, and most of the characters in general, viewed the replicants as little more than machines to be done with as will. Tyrell wasn't malevolent, he was just working within a malevolent system. He seemed like he was ready to break into a corporate seminar at the drop of a hat.

Jared Leto on the other hand does evil monologues in front of his Hench woman just for the sake of doing an evil monologue. He kisses a replicant then disembowels her for no reason other than to look evil. Then shakes his fist and says slaves, I need more slaves!! And then he kidnaps Harrison Ford and says you will learn the true meaning of pain mwahaha!

I guess the only plot point I appreciated might have been unintentional. As Ryan gosling's character Arc is kind of the opposite of the replicants in the first movie. His final act and everything else turns out to be something that was programmed into him. He was not becoming a real man or expressing his true desires. The dream that led him on this journey was literally implanted into him. He was more himself at the very start when he was just working as a servant and disregarded the memory because he knew it was fake. So I guess that's neat.

I actually didn't mind the new soundtrack, what I really hated was the weird tonal shift when they suddenly brought in the vangelis licks every once in a while and they clashed so hard with the film's proceeding soundscape.

Between this and the second trailer for dune I'm really not looking forward to the dune movie anymore.

Written on a smartphone using voice recognition so blame any weird typos on that.

Edit: oh yeah, I just remembered they did the sex scene from the movie her. What is with all the weird references to movies that have nothing to do with blade runner?
Two working class dudes, one black one white, just baked a tray of ten cookies together.

An oligarch walks in and grabs nine cookies for himself.

Then he says to the white dude "Watch out for that black dude, he wants a piece of your cookie!"
User avatar
vol.2
Posts: 2436
Joined: Mon Oct 31, 2016 3:13 pm
Location: bmore

Re: Movies you've just watched

Post by vol.2 »

I thought BL2049 was great. Ryan Gosling was amazing, the world-building stuff was incredible, and HF made a nice return without being too annoying like he was in the crystal skull pile of shit and other things.


Pig was mediocre. I liked it up through halfway when it basically gave up on being inventive or interesting in any way and just cashed in it's story chips for whatever the cliché solution to the wrap-up you can think of will be. I suppose that was inevitable with the movie being so short, but the main "bad guy" in the movie turned in a horrible performance and the writing of that whole part of the movie is sub-par.

6 out of 10 purely on the virtue of the first half of the movie and the excellent build-up.
User avatar
GaijinPunch
Posts: 15646
Joined: Mon Jan 31, 2005 11:22 pm
Location: San Fransicso

Re: Movies you've just watched

Post by GaijinPunch »

Yeah I really dug MR2049. Watched it again recently. Obviously it's not the original, but I guess that's why I liked it. 30 years have past - it makes sense that the world is a bit more lifeless. Compare Harlem from the 70's to the 00's.
RegalSin wrote:New PowerPuff Girls. They all have evil pornstart eyelashes.
xxx1993

Re: Movies you've just watched

Post by xxx1993 »

Jungle Cruise was pretty fun! It’s the first time I saw Emily Blunt on the big screen!
User avatar
GaijinPunch
Posts: 15646
Joined: Mon Jan 31, 2005 11:22 pm
Location: San Fransicso

Re: Movies you've just watched

Post by GaijinPunch »

The Onion wrote:‘Jungle Cruise’ Hailed As Thrilling Reminder To Cancel Disney+

NEW YORK—Saying the film “couldn’t have been released at a better time,” critics reportedly hailed Jungle Cruise Thursday as a thrilling reminder to cancel Disney+. “Action and adventure aficionados will love Jungle Cruise, the movie guaranteed to get your adrenaline pumping as you remember your Disney+ subscription is definitely expiring soon, but you’re not sure exactly when,” said ABC News critic Peter Travers, who lauded the film as a “swashbuckling ride” filled with twists and turns that would have viewers on “the edge of their seats” attempting to recall if their subscription was about to auto-renew at the end of the month or if they were still on a free trial period. “It’s not too often a movie comes around that makes you say, ‘Wow, I almost forgot about that.’ Run, don’t walk to go find your laptop and try to remember your log-in password. Trust me, folks: you’re not going to want to wait to hit that cancel button.” Travers added that the film was the biggest wake-up call since the Mulan remake.
RegalSin wrote:New PowerPuff Girls. They all have evil pornstart eyelashes.
Post Reply