Discuss and Rate the Last Film You Watched

[BrawlMan]

Mission Impossible: The Final Reckoning. A smashing finale. I did not expect call backs to MI1 and MI3. They brought back two different plot points or a macguffin from the third movie. Thank you, Mr. Cruise for a wonderful film franchise for three decades. Go home and rest now everyone. S-Rank!

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning

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That's the first hour of the movie.
It gets better the next two hours though. There's a sequence inside a drowned submarine rolling down an underwater cliff that would make James Cameron yelp.

 

[thebobmaster]

A ★★★★ review of Clueless (1995)

"She's a full-on Monet! From far away she's okay, but up close, she's just a big ol' mess!" This film was originally planned as the pilot to a TV series. The idea was to make a film set in high school, but rather than focus on the nerds as was typical of such plots at the time, have the cool...

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[BrawlMan]

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How else is the audience supposed to know who the villain is?

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

How else is the audience supposed to know who the villain is?

Hol' up. You're telling me The Entity was the villain?

 

[thebobmaster]

A ★ review of The Little Mermaid II: Return to the Sea (2000)

“A fork? We’re risking our tails for a fork?” This is your standard Disney DTV sequel, with all the production fun you'd expect. So...I'll just cut right to the chase. That said, I will also acknowledge that while he doesn't play enough of a role to really be worth discussing further, I will...

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[Phoenixmgs]

Watched a few movies from the following Youtube video about movies people loved and critics hated.

Domino - 2/10

I totally agree with the critics here, I didn't really like anything about this movie outside of Kiera Knightly being a hot bounty hunter and I do like Tony Scott's "modern" directing style (Man on Fire, Unstoppable, etc). The characters and the plot are garbage, no one is really interesting and the plot is extremely meandering. The action scenes aren't good either. There's a character death you don't even see happen nor do the other characters find the body either and you're not sure if they died or what as so many other people make it out of that accident completely unscathed somehow. Even the moment-to-moment stuff doesn't make much sense.

Man on Fire - 8/10

It's been like 20 years since I've seen this, and it's another Tony Scott movie starring Denzel Washington in a tale of revenge in Mexico. Denzel is a bodyguard to Dakota Fanning, who obviously will get kidnapped, the ransom goes wrong, and Denzel is out for blood. Denzel always owns the role and it's no different here, I almost always love every second of time I spend with just about any Denzel character. Plus, his best friend just so happens to be Christopher Walken so you got that too. The action while never stylish or really impressive gets the job done and it feels gritty and calculated. I'd say the movie is too long but I just love spending time with Denzel and Walken along with loving Tony Scott's directing. There's some super cheesy lines that really shouldn't work but the actors manage it somehow. I will say it's pretty obvious that Dan Houser just fucking loved Man on Fire and completely copy-pasted it for Max Payne 3 while not actually getting why Man on Fire is good; Max Payne 3 is so trash and a wannabe Man on Fire.

Hook - 7/10

Probably a movie that's been like 30 years since I've seen it and only remember liking it vaguely. I was thinking it might be some weird remake with Robin Williams as Pan (and the reason critics didn't like it) but it is a sequel to Peter Pan that's rather enjoyable. Disney needs to stop with all these remakes and give us movies like Hook or Maleficent that are new stories in the same beloved universes. Not that Hook is doing anything that far off from Peter Pan but it's nice to not literally see the same story again. Dustin Hoffman is just having a ball playing Hook and it's so fun to watch. The sets are also just wonderful to look at vs the detached CGI backgrounds we usually get now. The movie does run a little long and Robin Williams' Pan does spend too much time convinced none of it is real (even when in Neverland).

 

[Zykon TheLich]

The Phoenician [strike]Project[/strike]* scheme, lol!

I'm not really into films or fiction these days, but my girlfriend likes Wes Anderson so I took her to see it at the Cinema on her Birthday.

It was weirdly intriguing. The plot was... Idk, I suppose just there as a vehicle for all the weird characters and their weird character interactions.
Mia Threapleton (who I've never heard of, but that's not saying much) as the MCs incredibly expressionless daughter was the best part for me, and Benicio del Toro was 50s guy to the max. Michael Cera (though it was Jesse eisenberg until I looked it up, shows how familiar I am with these things) character was... Um...weird AF too. The other characters had the odd scene but these 3 were the bulk of the film.

Having only seen The Life Aquatic before I would say it feels pretty similar. Strange but compelling for some reason.

I give it 3 hand grenades out of a sardine.

*Well fuck, that doesn't work anymore, not only did I get the title wrong, I fucked up making a joke about it too.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Watched two horror movies: I Saw the TV Glow and Cuckoo. One of them was pretty good, the other was Cuckoo.

I Saw the TV Glow is probably closer to psychological drama than actual horror. It's a very muted, going-on-munblecore movie. And it stars Justice "Mumbles" Smith, that mumbliest of actors, in the role of a lifetime. Smith plays a kid who is drawn to a cheesy 90s kiddie horror show (looking remarkably like the real deal) called The Pink Opaque. Joining him in his obsession and late night sleepovers is a slightly older schoolmate. The show is canceled and ends on a cliffhanger, and his friend disappears - only to reappear years later claiming that the show was very real, and that the two of them are the reincarnations of the ill-fated protagonists.

What I liked about the movie is that it works seamlessly on all three levels: 1) yes, the mythology of the show checks out and we're watching the fallout of a cheesy cliffhanger (orchestrated by a fantastically creepy being that looks like something out of Courage the Cowardly Dog); 2) yes, the two characters have been driven insane by the show, 3) yes, the movie is actually a metaphor for the trans experience and how a person might unsuspectingly find themselves randomly, discover something about themselves and act out with a mix of horror, confusion and fascination.

The horror ultimately comes from watching this poor person slowly die inside (quite literally if you take The Pink Opaque at face value) while never really confronting his own repression. Riveting stuff. Also very depressing.

Cuckoo on the other hand is kind of a send-up to 70s mindfuck conspiracy shlock, improbably starring 26 year old Prada ambassador Hunter Schafer as a snarky teenager (uh huh) and 32 year old Jessica Henwick as her stepmom (hmm), who somehow already has a 10 year old with her dad (ew). Before you tell me that the ick is the point: the movie, and Hunter, forgets both parents long before we're close to done.

My thought process for the first half of the movie was to consider it annoying and meandering and allergic to making a point or landing a single scene sensibly. Then we got into exposition land and never really left, while also somehow raising even more questions.

There's one very good scare involving the creeping shadow of a hand. But for the most part the prevailing effect is jarring and silly. The movie ends on a gunfight straight outta Naked Gun, too.

 

[Casual Shinji]

I Saw the TV Glow is probably closer to psychological drama than actual horror. It's a very muted, going-on-munblecore movie. And it stars Justice "Mumbles" Smith, that mumbliest of actors, in the role of a lifetime. Smith plays a kid who is drawn to a cheesy 90s kiddie horror show (looking remarkably like the real deal) called The Pink Opaque. Joining him in his obsession and late night sleepovers is a slightly older schoolmate. The show is canceled and ends on a cliffhanger, and his friend disappears - only to reappear years later claiming that the show was very real, and that the two of them are the reincarnations of the ill-fated protagonists.

What I liked about the movie is that it works seamlessly on all three levels: 1) yes, the mythology of the show checks out and we're watching the fallout of a cheesy cliffhanger (orchestrated by a fantastically creepy being that looks like something out of Courage the Cowardly Dog); 2) yes, the two characters have been driven insane by the show, 3) yes, the movie is actually a metaphor for the trans experience and how a person might unsuspectingly find themselves randomly, discover something about themselves and act out with a mix of horror, confusion and fascination.

The horror ultimately comes from watching this poor person slowly die inside (quite literally if you take The Pink Opaque at face value) while never really confronting his own repression. Riveting stuff. Also very depressing.

It felt like a Todd Solondz movie, but without any of the dark comedy, only leaving the horrible suffocation of American suburbia.

 

[gorfias]

"Black Bag" on Peacock

Steven Soderbergh has had an interesting career. He directs movies where his characters seem somewhat affect-less. To date, my favorite from him is still one of his earliest works, 1989's "Sex, Lies and Videotape" and all of those actors seem extremely low key in a movie about emotions run amok.

Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett play a married couple that both work for some sort of special intelligence agency. Fassbender has been given a week to sniff out a mole in his organization. And that mole may be his own wife.

Like one of Soderbergh's 1st, most successful outings, 1998's "Out of Sight", the two leads have some on screen sexual energy. That's necessary to the plot.

As a movie industry story, it's a pretty interesting one. It had a budget of about $50 million. It made $42 world wide.
This put Soderbergh in the odd position of complaining of the problems with making movies today. If it is genuinely for adults, those adults (like this old fellow) will just wait for it to be on streaming. This is odd for him as he did, for the time, a shot across the bough of the industry: He released 2005 "Bubble" on DVD the same day he had it released in theaters. You reap what you sow? Ah me. They're all going to get replaced by AI and kids with laptops posting from their basements.

B+

 

[Old_Hunter_77]

"Black Bag" on Peacock

Steven Soderbergh has had an interesting career. He directs movies where his characters seem somewhat affect-less. To date, my favorite from him is still one of his earliest works, 1989's "Sex, Lies and Videotape" and all of those actors seem extremely low key in a movie about emotions run amok.

Michael Fassbender and Cate Blanchett play a married couple that both work for some sort of special intelligence agency. Fassbender has been given a week to sniff out a mole in his organization. And that mole may be his own wife.

Like one of Soderbergh's 1st, most successful outings, 1998's "Out of Sight", the two leads have some on screen sexual energy. That's necessary to the plot.

As a movie industry story, it's a pretty interesting one. It had a budget of about $50 million. It made $42 world wide.
This put Soderbergh in the odd position of complaining of the problems with making movies today. If it is genuinely for adults, those adults (like this old fellow) will just wait for it to be on streaming. This is odd for him as he did, for the time, a shot across the bough of the industry: He released 2005 "Bubble" on DVD the same day he had it released in theaters. You reap what you sow? Ah me. They're all going to get replaced by AI and kids with laptops posting from their basements.

B+

I'm glad it's not bad! I like these actors but for some reason the trailer hit us really silly.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Ballerina: From the World of We Promise Keanu's In It

It's a better spin-off than that TV show. First half is a mashup of the John Wick movies, and either Chad Stahelski stepped in to save the day or the director of Underworld copied his homework. The second half turns into Resident Evil 4 in Croatia (so I guess technically Resident Evil: Village - haven't played it myself). I liked the flamethrower duel and all the wacky grenade kills. Keanu's around, and has a couple of scenes with Ana, although I don't believe the two have ever actually met.

 

[Phoenixmgs]

Ballerina: From the World of We Promise Keanu's In It

It's a better spin-off than that TV show. First half is a mashup of the John Wick movies, and either Chad Stahelski stepped in to save the day or the director of Underworld copied his homework. The second half turns into Resident Evil 4 in Croatia (so I guess technically Resident Evil: Village - haven't played it myself). I liked the flamethrower duel and all the wacky grenade kills. Keanu's around, and has a couple of scenes with Ana, although I don't believe the two have ever actually met.

I'd hope it's better than the show, I watched the 1st episode and it was so boring, I'm not even sure if I finished the episode.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

I'd hope it's better than the show, I watched the 1st episode and it was so boring, I'm not even sure if I finished the episode.

Oh yeah, by a metric fuckton.

 

[gorfias]

I'm glad it's not bad! I like these actors but for some reason the trailer hit us really silly.

I watched it with my buddy that remarked how relieved he was that it was only a tight 93 minute rather than the 3 hour behemoths coming out these days. The silliest thing I can write about it is the two leads, very attractive people for their age are old to be acting like horny for each other teens. But that affection, like I wrote, is part of the plot. Reminds me a bit of Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017). The two leads in that, who were relatively young but are very mid, act like Dane DaHaan and Cara Delvinge are 007 and a Bond girl. Other than that, rather then silly, the characters act in a oddly sedate manner.

 

[PsychedelicDiamond]

I watched it with my buddy that remarked how relieved he was that it was only a tight 93 minute rather than the 3 hour behemoths coming out these days. The silliest thing I can write about it is the two leads, very attractive people for their age are old to be acting like horny for each other teens. But that affection, like I wrote, is part of the plot. Reminds me a bit of Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets (2017). The two leads in that, who were relatively young but are very mid, act like Dane DaHaan and Cara Delvinge are 007 and a Bond girl. Other than that, rather then silly, the characters act in a oddly sedate manner.

The only thing I remember this movie was how miscat Dane DeHaan was for that role. He was supposed to play that overconfident, swashbuckling action hero and he just come off like kind of a dork. Felt that role would have needed someone like a young Tom Cruise or a young Brendan Fraser.

 

[Gordon_4]

The only thing I remember this movie was how miscat Dane DeHaan was for that role. He was supposed to play that overconfident, swashbuckling action hero and he just come off like kind of a dork. Felt that role would have needed someone like a young Tom Cruise or a young Brendan Fraser.

I did about of background reading on Valerian - because I liked everything and everyone else in that movie - and it seems that Valerian is meant to be in in his mid 30s with Laureline being a bit younger. So I'd argue a little less youth was needed here, along with talent of course.


Also it turns out Laureline was a peasant girl from 11th Century France that Valerian brought back with him after he skull-fucked the temporal prime directive and had 28th century knowledge uploaded into her brain. I mean, that's a fucking movie right there.

 

[Casual Shinji]

I watched Rebuild of Evangelion 1.0 + 3.0 = Whatever, and...

 

[thebobmaster]

A ★★★½ review of Fear Street: 1994 (2021)

“I said it isn’t a tragedy when it happens every week. It’s a joke.” Technically speaking, the idea for a movie based on the Fear Street series by R.L. Stine first materialized in 1997, when Hollywood Pictures purchased the rights with the intent to capitalize on the popularity of Scream...

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If you are wondering where my reviews have been, it's hard to write reviews in a hospital bed. I'm better now, but that was not a fun three days.