What movies have you watched recently?
I recently saw Rang Song (2021), The Worst Person in the World (2021), and Donnie Darko
I recently saw Rang Song (2021), The Worst Person in the World (2021), and Donnie Darko
Just watched Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent. It’s 140% more Nick Cage per Nick Cage than any other film.
Im about to go watch Galaxy Quest with the movies community
Last night I watched an old DVD copy of Old School I found on a "free stuff" shelf. Some dated humor but also some really good moments.
My last few movies were:
Ah Dr Horribles. An underrated classic that all nerds should see, something that could only come out of the writers strikes back then. Such a unique and funny thing. Of course now the songs are stuck in my head
What did you think of both? I’m my town once a year we have a big Lebowski movie night where the theater serves White Russians and everyone says the lines. It’s super fun.
I enjoyed it. Didn't laugh all that much but I was definitely entertained. Put it it on cause I couldn't sleep so wanted something light to watch and it was perfect.
Godzilla Minus One. What an amazing treat! I went in expecting the big guy to stomp around Tokyo, but old timey, and instead got the best human story in a Godzilla film ever!
Also, Furiosa, which I liked too.
Godzilla Minus One also is fantastic everywhere, effects that harken to the miniature cities but kick in 21st century cg destruction, a sound track that plays real homage to classic DUN-DUN-DUN gojira melodies homage to the og TOHO scores...
I enjoyed it thoroughly.
Hundreds of Beavers (2024)
Basically a "silent" film in the vein of slapstick Loney Tunes-esque nonsense. Except it has a coherent, albeit quite silly, plot.
In independent film and the most madcap and creative I have seen in a long time.
I've seen the style compared to lofi music, a very simple aesthetic. It sets your expectations accordingly. Its well done in its own unique style.
Come for the story of Jean Kayak and his wilderness adventures.
We watched the big short for the 4th or so time and I wanted to see what other movies were directed by Adam McKay.
So we watched vice which is about dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld and I knew how corrupt those fuckers we’re but damn that movie did a great job of breaking down some of the shady shot that went on with the bush presidency. Highly recommend but if you’re like me you are so repulsed by that time period that it’s hard to give it a shot.
If you liked the big short then you will like vice.
Dune part 2 because I couldn't sleep and happened to check out Max like 30 minutes after it went up.
This is supposed to be a trilogy? What's the 3rd movie gonna cover? The first 2 parts were just the first book. Are the rest of the books just gonna be condensed into a single 2-3 hour movie?
The third movie will cover the second book and Denis will conclude his trilogy there. I hope you watched it on a decent sized TV at least.
I watched it on a virtual movie screen in VR. Although maybe I should have used the floating in space environment for it. 🤔
As a book reader Messiah wraps up Paul's story, which is what I assume Dennis is going for. There's absolutely no reason to make Children unless you want to make God-Emperor and God-Emperor would be very difficult to make into a watchable movie. Plus going past that would be outside most regular viewers' tastes. So I expect he'll mostly do Messiah, sprinkle some bits from Children in there and leave it with a pretty solid ending that could be continued. Spoiler prediction: ::: spoiler spoiler I'd guess he'll end it with Leto II assuming control of Arrakis and the Empire while looking at a sandworm in the distance or sandworm larva, hinting at where God-Emperor is going :::
I recently watched LA Confidential for the first time. It's like a noir film except in color. Russell Crowe looks super young, and the setting of LA/Hollywood in the 50s is exquisitely realized. The plot is pretty intricate, it often expects the viewer to be able to connect the dots. Great film.
Watched Greyhound not too long ago, very engaging the whole way through. If you’re in a mood for a war movie I can’t think of a better one in recent times. May have to sail the seas in another sense though because it’s an apple plus exclusive last I saw.
I moved my projector and screen into the back garden and watched Gladiator once it had got dark enough. It's really not quite good enough weather for it, but it was a neat experience nevertheless. I accidentally clicked the extended edition and the Blu-ray was too much of a ball-ache to go back: Ridley Scott introduces it with "this is not the Director's Cut ... you've probably already seen that at the theatre, this is just the film with some scenes we cut out that *maybe* you'll like". Way to sell it Riddles.
I think the latest movie I watched was the second installment of Dune, most times these days my attention span isn't long enough to manage a feature-length film. Series of 45-60 min per episode are ideal (and ironically then I can watch 4 in a row, no problem).
The latest series I watched is called Unforgotten (UK crime series about bodies of long since deceased people recovered recently). Really well done with excellent character development throughout which almost requires starting from S01.
Superstar, Being John Malkovich, Pride and Prejudice (with Keira Knightley), Lisa Frankenstein.
Decided to watch American Fiction today, because it was advertised on Amazon Prime and the trailer seemed interesting enough. Also, apparently it won an Oscar this year for best screenplay adaption. Basically, the protagonist is a black author (and professor of literature) who is frustrated because his ambitious and highbrow novels aren't selling too well, because literary critics seem to prefer more "ghetto" style stories that lean heavily on black stereotypes and ebonics as being a more authentic representation of the black experience. After getting hit with some unexpected bills, he breaks down and decides to write his own ghetto novel, with plenty of violence, crime, and gratuitous expletives, and releases it under an alias. The critics end up loving it and pretty soon he is getting inundated with interview requests and movie deals while having to lead a double life as a gangster turned novelist so as to not break his cover.
Long story short, while I definitely enjoyed the premise, the movie turned out to be rather long-winded and boring, with lots of semi-relevant side stories that ultimately didn't go anywhere, while teetering erratically between the same two extremes the author finds himself caught up in, and it doesn't really have much of a satisfying ending either. Best I can say is there was an attempt to make a black American Beauty, but it ultimately lacked conviction and panache.
That sounds really interesting, I’d love to watch it. I still haven’t seen I am Not Your Negro yet, it seems pretty on point too
Like I said, the premise is solid, but don't get your hopes up too high, because it just sort of ends up haphazardly petering out without even being able to decide on a clear message.
In theaters: Furiosa. Very meh and disappointing compared to Fury Road (which is IMO the best action movie ever).
I was in a movie's to see it and liked it a lot. It had that vibe I've known from the first Mad Max movies and some of the stuff was quite crazy, compared to Fury Road it was even more graphic and twisted, which I liked.
It looked like they just cut their effects budget by a lot. The green screen work was terrible and super apparent. The motorcycles would be obviously riding in a studio instead of on sand (just look at them not affected by any bumps).
A bunch of the CGI was just super obvious and in some places poorly done.
And then the plot had the random love interest and most of the dialogue was bad.
And worst of all
::: spoiler Tap for spoiler They skipped the final battle completely! What a cop out!!! :::
Then at the end when they show scenes from the last movie, it was just so obvious how bad the effects were in comparison!
I'm really trying to get through my absurdly backlogged watch list, so the last three days have been pretty cramped, but I'm glad I watched all of them.
Vivarium 2019, The Beach House 2019, The Belko Experiment 2016, nomad: in the footsteps of Bruce chatwin 2019, successful alcoholics 2010, kung Fu panda 2008, come out and play 2012, await further instructions 2018, my own private Idaho 1991
Buena Vista Social Club. It's about the making of the album and the rich Cuban history is the backdrop. I bought it in 1997, and it's still such a great album. A nice encapsulation of a type of music that would have died quietly without Ry Cooder.
Love it, I’ll have to watch it. Speaking of movies with a Latin cultural backdrop, I saw a thriller called Bacurau (2019). It’s a little rough around the edges, but has memorable scenes. Some characterization of antagonists was a bit of a caricature, imo
Oh I'll definitely watch that. I want to watch this other one called Havana Motor Club as well.
Watches civil war, it was interesting I didn't realized it was following war photographers through a Civil War so that was pretty cool since I've always thought about that line of work.
Then I put on 1934 the man that knew too much. I didn't actively watch the whole thing but the parts I saw with Peter Lorre were great.
Then rules of engagement, this also I didn't actively watch because it's hard with a new baby but I did have to rewind it a few times to get what was happening when I saw a good scene and I wanted the context
Before this me and the wife got through the xmen movies and the wolverine movies but haven't done the dead pools yet to get ready for the new pool movie