Which movie did you watch lastֻ

The Crawling Eye - from 1958

KATE: basically it’s John Wick, but with a chick!

Not bad.

Chris

I still think Akira looks amazing. The new 3D animation has no personality in some instances. Disney’s Luca is a good example of using animation the wrong way in my opinion. Instead of using the medium to create something fantastic, they used it to create the most bland an inoffensive content known to man. I’m not saying Disney should make movies like Akira for kids by the way, I’m just talking about art-styles here.

Awesome! And don’t forget “Fiend Without A Face”!

You’ll never view raspberry jam the same way again. :laughing:

oh yeah.
FWAF
brings
back
some
memories
and
nightmares.

I liked Akira and Beetlejuice a lot.

I GIVE UP!!! The Godfather Part III is not worth it. Part 1 and 2 were good but 3 is a slog and I’m never going to bother finishing it.

I just started watching David Breashear’s Mount Everest film and just seeing him step up the very beginning of the film’s tiny col, whoa I realize I’m no better than dog poop. My treks in the local mountains is literally a heavenly down slope warm, cozy meadows picnic! Seated! Great film obviously: the first one that made me immediately understand to stay as far away from Tibet as possible! :weary:

Down To The Sea In Ships .

Once Upon A Time In Mexico (2003)

Hilarious! This movie is the antithesis of John Wick. It’s a glorious example of what can happen when you completely ignore the confines of realism and follow the rule-of-cool instead. The plot is rather simple with any complexity coming from issues in conveying the story rather than the story itself. But the silly action scenes are a blast to watch. This film just looks nice as well. Their is a bit of a yellow filter but overall the colors are vibrant and the camera shots are clear. And a lot of these actors/actresses were also at peak eye-candy moments in their careers.

If the visuals were mediocre, the action flat, and the actors lacked appeal and charisma this movie would be 4/10 or 5/10. But this movie isn’t missing those things and I would give it 6.8/10

I agree. The artistry & imagination of Akira is so engaging. Really wonderfully done. Have you also seen “Spirited Away”? It’s very weird, far more mellow in comparison to Akira, but also incredibly imaginative.

Part One was so groundbreaking in so many respects. A true masterpiece. It killed at the box office. Part Two wasn’t quite as good, but it was still amazing in its own right. Part Three… ugh. I agree. It fell so far below the other two. Kind of an insult to them.

I thought G1 was good but G2 was even better? “Rare case where the sequel is better’n the original”, and all that, no?

Never saw any of the G series, nor “The Goodfellas”, “The Sopranos”, or any of those types of movies/serieses, strangely enough. Was never interested…

Idk about G1 vs G2 they are both good and G2 wouldn’t be good without all the setup from G1.

TBH, I was partially motivated to watch the Godfather movies so that I would understand the references better. (It’s always being parodied) The first two were good watches if a bit slow.

agree…there are certain movies (and books and TV shows) which are referenced often enough
in other ways to make them required viewing in order to fully understand the implications.

the Godfather is certainly one of them.

there are lots of movies which i have never seen that fall into that category:
The Birth of a Nation, The Seventh Seal, and Anchorman/The Big Lebowski
(Anchorman might be the most quoted “modern” movie).

I had a roommate once who was an avid watcher of Family Guy. One day he was watching their Star Wars parody and laughing uproariously. Naturally I assumed he had seen Star Wars and made a comment about whatever scene was being parodied. Turns out he had never seen a Star Wars movie. What the hell was he laughing at? I can only assume that Herbert being a pervert was enough to transform it into high comedy. :person_facepalming:

(btw I did NOT choose this roommate)

I saw Halloween Kills (2021).

It's good, but not great.

The acting is very good for a horror film.

The music is excellent.

The movie is entertaining, but not overly so.

To fully understand the plot, you should watch Halloween (1978) and Halloween (2018) first.

This movie picks up right after the 2018 movie, so conveniently the filmmakers didn't have to address the epidemic.

The 2018 film is better, but this one is pretty good.

Rented Free Guy (2021) for $6.

Basically, I want my $6 and 2 hrs of my life back.

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The main conflict in the real world of this movie is that the AI code for the game was stolen from a couple of genius developers by Mean Game Company.

The main conflict in the game world is that there is true artificial intelligence on the server that will be ended if the CEO of Mean Gaming Company shuts down the server (to hide the fact that he stole the code, even though the code probably exists somewhere besides those servers)

  • Apparently the stolen AI code isn’t just in the game. They also kept the old map from the originally planned game and the new map exists right next to the old one. As in, if you no-clip out-of-bounds the old map is accessible. Idiotic. No way would that be left in.
  • A random gamer found this original map and clipped (a video of) it. That part makes sense, gamers find exploits and easter eggs all the time. What doesn’t make sense is that his video clip of finding it is stored ingame. And it can be physically stolen by other players ingame. WTF?
  • It is established that there is no way to kiss another player character. (no mechanics, no controls) Ryan Reynold’s character is able to kiss a player because he is part of the game and he has complete control over his avatar. Later in the film, a player character kisses him despite having no way of making that happen.
  • In this movie, destroying physical servers destroys chunks of the game world as if each server only supports one section of the world ingame. I don’t think any game has ever been designed like that or ever will be.
  • Resetting the server should reset everything back to its original state but somehow Ryan Reynold’s character, an NPC, retains memories from before the reset. This should have been explained somehow instead of glossed over. Maybe by stealing Player Character status he got access to save files that an NPC would not have had? Otherwise it makes no sense. Either way it was bad writing though because the outcome was so predictable. Of course the protagonist remembered everything. >_>
  • Towards the end there are several rapid-fire references. Two Marvel and one Star Wars. You know, in case you forgot you were watching a product that Disney owns. Wouldn’t want to become immersed in the movie or anything…
  • It seems as though someone decided this movie’s game-world should be a metaphor for how they see America (or the world). In other words, there is over-the-top violence happening all the time and NPCs act like this is normal. This is not very accurate considering that NPCs having realistic reactions is considered a base feature of any open world game.
  • In the movie’s game world, there don’t seem to be any objectives besides violent ones despite this being an open-world experience. So we have a movie about gaming written for people who don’t play games giving them the idea that open world games like GTA have no objectives besides robbery and murder. Great. _
  • Disney wants to have everything both ways. This movie is full of flashy gun violence but it’s also clear they want to tell the audience that guns are scary and bad. Hypocrites! If you’re going to try to undermine my Second Amendment rights then at least be consistent.

In conclusion, if more time was spent on writing the story so that it made sense, and less time trying to tell people how to think, it could have been a decent movie. More time definitely should have been given to the ramifications of having just created actual artificial intelligence!

A great way for Harry Dean Stanton to bow out of his long career. Also stars: David Lynch, James Darren, Tom Skerritt, Barry Shabaka Henley, Ron Livingston, Beth Grant, and Ed Begley, Jr.

You’ll like this quiet drama a lot, if you like movies populated with characters who act and talk like real people, and that deal with existential questions about life in a realistic way. This was the first movie in which a talented, long-time actor, John Carroll Lynch (Fargo, Jackie, Gothika, Beautiful Girls, Guthrie Theater company), tried his hand at directing - and I hope he is able to direct more movies that are this charming and ring this true for many of us.

It may be too late to ask this, but why does this thread, and the “Which TV show did you watch lastֻ” have a kubutz on the t in last?

The OP (kreisler) hasn’t been here for 7 years, and the OP of the tv show thread (2A) hasn’t been around for over 4 months, and they might be the only ones that know.

My Hebrew is, well, non-existent, so if it’s some subtle joke, I’m hoping somebody will explain it to me.

“The Forgotten Battle” on Netflix.

It’s a Dutch World War II war movie. Quite well done.