Author Topic: The last movie I saw was... (Read 661433 times)

jonhammstein · « **Reply #4950 on:** Jul 27, 2024, 02:38:34 PM »

Yeah... Yeah. They try to have it both ways, too. After all the Deadpools make their dramatic entrance, Deadpool Prime makes a speech about multiverses being played out and haven't we had enough of this already, etc. Yes, but you're still doing it. But because you're furiously winking and nodding at the audience, that's meant to bring it all back around to being entertaining again? Nope.

To be fair, it's all just setup for a prolonged murder montage that's actually pretty fun, if ultimately meaningless. Because what is Deadpool known for? Getting back up after being horribly mangled/mutilated.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #4951 on:** Jul 30, 2024, 01:40:07 PM »

Huh. They liked it.

Also, it made like almost $450m this weekend. I guess the cow will continue to be milked into the foreseeable future.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Rodent of Unusual Size · « **Reply #4952 on:** Jul 30, 2024, 07:10:17 PM »

I'll watch it for free later on. I'm not a big fan of Deadpool, but I find those flicks more entertaining than roughly 75% of everything else Marvel produces.

BTW, the Justice League: Crisis on Infinite Earths movies are utter trash. The resemblance between these and the source material is virtually non-existent, and it only exists to kill all the animated movie continuity from the last ten or so years.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #4953 on:** Aug 28, 2024, 03:12:26 PM »

Watched this. Damn fine movie.

Rodent of Unusual Size · « **Reply #4954 on:** Aug 29, 2024, 07:34:39 PM »

The first half of the animated Watchmen effort was actually enjoyable, although I could live without the herky-jerkiness of the animation. But it actually looks like the book, which counts for something. However, the live-action Watchmen was one of the few adaptations that actually improved on the book, so take it as you will.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #4955 on:** Sep 07, 2024, 06:03:26 PM »

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. Eh. It was okay. Way too many subplots. In fact, it was nothing but subplots, with no real main throughline. The "threat" spends the entire runtime searching for Beetlejuice, only to be vanquished almost immediately in the final act.

Almost as if the writers held a brainstorming session and didn't really land on any one great idea, so they just settled on throwing in all the middling ones.

I'm kind of baffled by the mostly positive reception it's getting. Maybe "good enough" is enough for some, but I certainly wouldn't call the movie good.

B E C K · « **Reply #4956 on:** Sep 08, 2024, 10:41:18 AM »

Quote from: jonhammstein on Sep 07, 2024, 06:03:26 PM

Beetlejuice Beetlejuice. Eh. It was okay. Way too many subplots. In fact, it was nothing but subplots, with no real main throughline. The "threat" spends the entire runtime searching for Beetlejuice, only to be vanquished almost immediately in the final act.

Almost as if the writers held a brainstorming session and didn't really land on any one great idea, so they just settled on throwing in all the middling ones.

I'm kind of baffled by the mostly positive reception it's getting. Maybe "good enough" is enough for some, but I certainly wouldn't call the movie good.

Any cool visuals in it? Or a snazzy musical number?

jonhammstein · « **Reply #4957 on:** Sep 08, 2024, 02:23:51 PM »

It seemed like a lot of the effects were practical, which I appreciate, but when the visuals aren't really serving the plot/characters/humor, they're quickly and easily forgotten.

That's another big problem, it's just not very funny. I heard some snickering and mild chuckles scattered throughout, but they almost sounded obligatory. As in, "I paid for a comedy, I should probably be laughing a little bit." Exceedingly lukewarm audience reactions.

As for the music, I'm sure you're wondering if there's anything like the Harry Belafonte sequence from the first film. There is, but it's utterly forced and (forgive me) CRINGE as fuck. Not only that, it absolutely goes on FOREVER.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #4958 on:** Sep 21, 2024, 02:24:37 AM »

Transformers One was alright. Some of the attempts at humor didn't land with me, but overall it was a pretty decent modern reimagining of the Transformers' origins. I'd certainly take more of these purely animated things over another hybrid live action trainwreck.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #4959 on:** Oct 04, 2024, 03:58:05 AM »

The new Salem's Lot is hot garbage. I can totally understand why WB didn't know what to do with it. I would have skipped a release altogether and stuffed it in the water tower with Yakko, Wakko, Dot, and Batgirl.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #4960 on:** Oct 05, 2024, 12:25:43 PM »

Joker 2 was okay. Critics and audiences alike really seem to be dogpiling on it, though...

B E C K · « **Reply #4961 on:** Oct 05, 2024, 08:58:54 PM »

I watched a review and read a summary of it and it sounds boring. But I didn't even bother with the first one. "Lee"? What's with the "Lee" thing? What the fuck was wrong with "Harley"?

jonhammstein · « **Reply #4962 on:** Oct 06, 2024, 02:38:47 AM »

jonhammstein · « **Reply #4963 on:** Oct 07, 2024, 10:47:19 PM »

Went and saw Look Back. Really good. Beautifully animated. Sad, of course, but you know.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #4964 on:** Oct 21, 2024, 12:42:49 AM »

Terrifier 3. Fuckin' yuck.

It was a good time, though.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #4965 on:** Oct 24, 2024, 11:34:46 PM »

Venom: The Last Dance wasn't awful. Probably the best Venom movie? Low bar to clear, I know.

B E C K · « **Reply #4966 on:** Oct 25, 2024, 08:12:42 PM »

I didn't even know there was a third one until people at work were talking about seeing it. And it was, like, oh, they're still making those, I guess.

Rodent of Unusual Size · « **Reply #4967 on:** Nov 02, 2024, 08:45:10 PM »

Watched Transformers One. I didn't find it atrocious, but it's about ten years too late for me to care about the property as a film franchise anymore.

B E C K · « **Reply #4968 on:** Nov 16, 2024, 01:23:43 AM »

Weird these days how I hear about a remake or reboot and I'm crossing my fingers that it doesn't happen. Like how the Xena reboot curled up into a ball and died. Oh, yeah and the Daria reboot where they tried to shoehorn her black friend as a title character. So glad that shit died, too. I know that's mega cynical and we shouldn't want this stuff to fade away and "they can't ever take the old one away from you" or whatever. But I also like the idea that sometimes things begin and then end. And they get put to rest peacefully instead of greedy suits spending twenty years playing Weekend at Bernie's with their corpse.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #4969 on:** Nov 16, 2024, 11:05:16 AM »

I forgot to talk about Heretic. It was good, but it's already begun to fade. I will say it's the first time in a long while that a movie has made me feel like I was sitting on the edge of a panic attack for a decent chunk of its runtime.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #4970 on:** Jan 24, 2025, 09:01:57 PM »

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_colors_within

Super pretty to look at. No real conflict to speak of. Just a nice story, I suppose.

B E C K · « **Reply #4971 on:** Jan 25, 2025, 09:16:45 AM »

Do you go to theaters to watch anything when you watch movies? Or just the theater of the high seas?

jonhammstein · « **Reply #4972 on:** Jan 25, 2025, 02:00:05 PM »

Hmm. I'll flag stuff from now on. On this page, only Salem's Lot was yo ho ho and a bottle of rum, everything else was at the theatah, darling!

jonhammstein · « **Reply #4973 on:** Feb 26, 2025, 12:30:56 AM »

Went to The Monkey. I liked it, but... is it supposed to be a horror movie? It's not scary, nor is it upsetting. It's too bizarre and completely unmoored from reality. I would recommend it, but it's just such an unusual thing.

I'm curious about the original short story now.

B E C K · « **Reply #4974 on:** Mar 15, 2025, 11:30:40 PM »

There's this old Troll movie on Netflix. It's not old old. Only a few years. But Merla's been watching a bunch of Netflix and she knows I like the movie Trollhunter so she thought we'd watch Troll together. I actually had heard of Netflix's Troll movie when it came out but skipped it because it's clearly super-Americanized garbage so I had no interest in seeing it.

But this is my sister and I've seen worse movies with her in the name of sibling bonding.

You know how sometimes you watch a trailer and make a judgement? Then you watch the movie for whatever reason and everything you initially thought was wrong?

This was not one of those times.

This was exactly the weird Americanized dog-shit I thought it was. It had a protag that was called in by the military but it was never explained why they bothered with her when she's a paleotologist. There was a strange father-daughter subplot that made no fucking sense. (Actually, none of the plot made any sense.) It only had one type of troll, which is boring. The troll acted like Godzilla except when it didn't. Trolls had fucking bones (bro, they're made of stone). The huge-ass troll was stomping around in daylight but no one hears it and the thing doesn't turn to stone when clearly should've. And the film did odd things like ring bells from helicopters because trolls hate bells but there was no purpose behind ringing the bells to begin with and no reason to attach them to the helicopters. To piss off the troll, I guess? For what reason?

There was a scene that was almost gold. Part of troll lore is that they can smell the blood of a Christian. So this Christian dude starts praying out of fear and the troll's all *sniff, sniff*. (Why the troll didn't smell his ass earlier, I dunno. I guess the act of praying stinks in this universe or something.) There's other characters with the Christian guy and they look at each other and then start sneaking off without him! But then the movie wimps out and they alert him at the last moment but the guy gets killed by the troll anyway. We're supposed to see that scene and go, "oh, well they tried" except their effort was half-assed. It would've been a funnier scene if the movie had been brave enough to allow the characters to ditch the guy. Alas, this movie isn't a comedy. At least not intentionally.

B E C K · « **Reply #4975 on:** Apr 28, 2025, 11:02:33 PM »

I forgot to post this but I watched The Glassworker a few weeks back. Someone put it on Daily Motion. Actually, there may be more than one upload there. I'm surprised there's no distributor for it: independent Pakistani hand-drawn animation with at least a touch of Ghibli inspiration for the visuals. And it's already in English, too. It seems like the perfect pickup for GKIDS or someone like that but maybe the whole Toho acquisition thing changed the type of risks GKIDS takes now.

So, how's the movie? As I suspected, I'm giving it an A++ for effort but the movie itself's maybe a B.

The world seems interesting. The animation is decent given how this film came to be. The music... I don't remember that so much so it must've been good enough to serve the story but not great enough for me to note it. I liked the characters to an extent but it was hard to get invested in their story. The characters felt a bit shallow. Partly because the voice direction seemed a bit stiff and partly because of the writing.

There was a scene where the father and son talk about the boy's mother and it was so badly written. It does that one story sin where two characters talk about a thing they both already know about it and it's only being talked about that way so the audience is aware of some sort of backstory element. Like, come on, the dad and his son have talked about this woman together before. Don't behave like you haven't.

And kind of like what joe and I were talking about elsewhere in this thread, it has some of that soulless quality of faux anime. I'd say to a much lesser degree than other faux anime but it's still there. That seems like an unfair assessment because I can't really tell you why it feels that way and the people who made this put a lot of blood, sweat and tears in it. Maybe that effort is why this doesn't feel as soulless as something like, say, Onyx Equinox.

Also, the ending... meh, it was a bit odd. Not the worst ending or anything. I think it either needed to be more tragic or more happy. Instead it's a bit unhappy, ambiguous, yet mildly hopeful: and that all together feels middling at best.

jonhammstein · « **Reply #4976 on:** May 02, 2025, 03:28:54 AM »

Thunderbolts* is a good Marvel movie, but also just a good movie. It manages to strike the balance between action, drama, and humor that's been so out of whack in all the other recent Marvel outings. Hopefully Fantastic Four can follow suit, but man does that one look like a turd in everything they've shown of it so far.