Author Topic: The last movie I saw was... (Read 568767 times)

jonhammstein · « **Reply #4920 on:** Dec 29, 2023, 12:01:13 AM »

Poor Things. Wonderful film. Surprised how much fucking there was. Probably the most fucking I've seen in a non-pornographic movie.

The Iron Claw. Another excellent flick. Super depressing, though. Like, God damn.

Rodent of Unusual Size · « **Reply #4921 on:** Dec 30, 2023, 09:34:37 PM »

That whole story was legendary for its tragedy.

B E C K · « **Reply #4922 on:** Jan 07, 2024, 11:02:20 AM »

You guys sent me down the Wikipedia rabbit hole for this one and goddamn.

Rama · « **Reply #4923 on:** Jan 07, 2024, 06:53:58 PM »

I do want to see Iron Claw the midfortunes of the Von Erich’s are legendary

Rodent of Unusual Size · « **Reply #4924 on:** Jan 08, 2024, 11:55:51 AM »

If Fritz had slipped in the tub and cracked his neck in the early eighties all of those guys would have likely been good but small-time wrestlers who wound up getting real jobs by the time they were 30, and all of them would likely still be living.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #4925 on:** Jan 22, 2024, 11:56:18 PM »

I watched Wish. Not great. A couple of the songs were a little catchy. The backgrounds/environments were all very flat/drab/dreary.

I don't think it's as insufferable as everyone says on its own, but when you factor in that it's supposed to be this grand centennial celebration of Disney's theatrical animated features... yeah. Kind of a dud.

B E C K · « **Reply #4926 on:** Jan 23, 2024, 09:04:36 PM »

Have you seen the concept art? The anthro star-man and the villain powet couple were such missed opportunities.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #4927 on:** Jan 24, 2024, 01:51:22 PM »

Wow. I hadn't heard about that, but having seen it now, it makes so much more sense how hollow the movie feels. What the fuck.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #4928 on:** Feb 08, 2024, 03:00:45 PM »

I watched American Fiction. It was really good, not sure what else to say about it. The trailer had me worried it might lean a little too hard into schmaltz territory, but that wasn't the case at all. I laughed a bunch, got choked up a time or two. I'm fairly confident it's a movie most people would enjoy.

Rama · « **Reply #4929 on:** Mar 09, 2024, 03:47:44 PM »

I really wanted to see American Fiction, but it is only playing one day here...and that's today...while I'm at work. So I won't get to see it. But the preview for that one looked like a winner.

I did see DUNE Part 2. I was super happy with Part 1, but as a fan of the book they did a few changes to the end of part 2 that I don't think make sense or I like.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #4930 on:** Mar 09, 2024, 07:40:31 PM »

Villeneuve's Dune movies are weird. They're really well made. Great performances. I was never bored. And yet, I'm not over the moon about them.

I hope he gets to make another one. I guess that's my endorsement?

B E C K · « **Reply #4931 on:** Mar 09, 2024, 11:56:09 PM »

But can you sleep to them like the Dune audiobook?

jonhammstein · « **Reply #4932 on:** Mar 10, 2024, 03:46:59 AM »

I originally came to Dune by way of Lynch's film, so when I tried reading the novel, I'll admit to finding it rather dry.

B E C K · « **Reply #4933 on:** Mar 11, 2024, 07:41:12 PM »

Well, it's great sleepin' material!

Rama · « **Reply #4934 on:** Mar 11, 2024, 10:17:52 PM »

Well, OK. I mean it’s my favorite book of all time but I guess you can sleep to it. But I tend to sleep to the Harry Potter books.

B E C K · « **Reply #4935 on:** Mar 14, 2024, 12:52:57 AM »

Look, a great sleepin' book is more than the content. It can't be a shitty book and it can't have a terrible audio book presentation either. One of my favorite books is Pride and Prejudice and I've only found a couple of versions that don't ruin it by shrieking Mrs. Bennett's lines. Kenneth Branaugh's reading of Death on the Nile was also a great sleeping book. I hated it when I had to turn that one in.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #4936 on:** Mar 21, 2024, 06:21:02 PM »

I'm so pathetically desperate for this to be amazing, but probably the most I can realistically hope for is that it's not awful.

B E C K · « **Reply #4937 on:** Mar 24, 2024, 11:19:55 AM »

Oh, God, I'm already cringing 12 seconds in. As pretty as slowed-down covers can sound, I'm over their use in movie and show trailers.

And why does Astrid Deetz look so boringly normal? Nobody wants that shit. She needed to be either gothy, punk, super fashionable or super girly. At least make her look like Wednesday, you lazy fucks. She's wearing shit off the rack from fucking Marshalls. She just looks like a normal kid. Boo! Beetlejuice was fun for the weirdos. No one wanted normies. That's why the stupid normies die at the beginning of the first movie.

Also, I think Lydia's progeny should've been a boy. A girl character threatens to repeat Lydia's role from the first movie where a boy would've been a fresher perspective.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #4938 on:** Mar 29, 2024, 02:10:47 PM »

Godzilla multiplied by Kong

It was fine. Much better than the previous one. So ridiculous, though. I was laughing at the absurdity of it.

Where do they even go from here, though? Aliens? And then the one after that they can send Godzilla and Kong into space to counterattack the alien planet. Or maybe they could do time travel. Backward or forward? Both?

It's all just so stupid.

Get Microsoft Copilot to write it.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #4939 on:** Apr 18, 2024, 11:18:23 AM »

I'm okay with them trying to make Transformers fun again.

And hey! No humans!

Rodent of Unusual Size · « **Reply #4940 on:** Apr 21, 2024, 06:32:35 AM »

Seems oddly like a Lego movie.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #4941 on:** Apr 22, 2024, 07:47:46 PM »

Cautiously optimistic...

jonhammstein · « **Reply #4942 on:** May 04, 2024, 02:03:07 AM »

The Fall Guy was pretty good. Ryan really Goslinged it up. Emily Blunt is OM NOM NOM FOREVER AND EVER AMEN.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #4943 on:** Jun 18, 2024, 11:00:43 PM »

I enjoyed the beginning and end of Inside Out 2, but the entire middle was fucking dull.

B E C K · « **Reply #4944 on:** Jun 18, 2024, 11:33:31 PM »

Inside Out sounds like something in the vein of the Saw movies. Like they turn people's bodies... Inside Out.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #4945 on:** Jul 17, 2024, 07:03:08 AM »

Went to Longlegs last night. Another Nic Cage gem.

B E C K · « **Reply #4946 on:** Jul 20, 2024, 05:47:54 PM »

I don't remember if I posted this here because I meant to post it weeks ago: a Ghibli-inspired Pakistani animated film called The Glassworker.

However it turns out--fantastic or mediocre--it's amazing that it even got made: the director-guy started an animation studio in Pakistan just to make this. He had to train animators and everything. There's a whole YouTube playlist of little shorts detailing different parts of the process.

So far though, I don't see any word of a Western distributor picking this up. You'd think this would be right up the alley of GKIDS. I just hope this isn't another Hayop Ka where the film has no Western distribution at all.

Rodent of Unusual Size · « **Reply #4947 on:** Jul 24, 2024, 05:49:51 PM »

You have to give that guy loads of credit for gumption's sake.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #4948 on:** Jul 26, 2024, 01:08:52 AM »

Deadverine. Wolverpool. If I were to average out the parts I liked against the parts I didn't, I'd be left with a flat line. For anyone hoping this is the shot in the arm the MCU so desperately needs... nah. Well, I suppose the box office will tell that tale.

Maybe my enthusiasm is beyond saving.

B E C K · « **Reply #4949 on:** Jul 27, 2024, 01:56:10 PM »

The other Deadpools thing made me cringe so hard. Wasn't that shit already done with Loki?