What is the last movie you watched and how was it?
What is the last movie you watched and how was it?
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Across the Spiderverse. So good. Highly recommend.
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Agreed. I've only gone to the movies twice in the last 2-3 years and I am soo very glad I managed to drag the wife out for spiderman.
It was fantastic. Recency bias completely but I really do think it's better than the first.
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Massive Talent - I loved it!
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That was also mine, didn’t really have a clue about what it was going in (other than it had Nick Cage in) and enjoyed it pretty much all the way through, great movie!
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When they're tripping in the car, I was laughing my ass off. That movie was way better than it had any right to be.
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Fucking masterpiece is what it is.
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I love the dancing in that film!
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Donnie Darko. It was cool tho I had to ask my partner to explain what happened at the ending lol
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This is legitimately one of my fave movies of all time
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Was it the Director's Cut version? When the movie came out, a lot of arguably necessary content was accessible on the website. A few years later the DC version added title cards to provide some of the additional content you couldn't go online to find anymore. One of my favorite moves.
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Ye it was the DC. My partner'd seen it before and I asked her if I should do the DC or not. She sorta shrugged her shoulders and was like "I guess probably?"
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The Banshee of Inisherin, I really enjoyed it. Very odd and funny in an uncomfortable, uneasy way. I especially enjoyed Kerry Condon as Siobhán, her performance was a great emotional counter point to the dead pan comedy between Colm and Pádraic.
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Across the Spiderverse. I really like Mile's story... But I was a little disappointed by how slow paced the story seemed to be imo. Nothing got resolved. The whole movie was a lead up for the ending. Really disappointed with how the studio overworked artists (although that's par for the course these days) and how shitty the audio was before they finally fixed it. Music didn't live up to the first movie. The first movie has music that works great as stand-alone songs, but the second movie's soundtrack just sounds like a soundtrack.
I still enjoyed it though. I'd give the first movie a 9/10 and the second a 7/10.
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Network (1976).
A prescient film that is just as relevant today as it was almost 50 years ago. A little monologue-y at times, but that's just the style.
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A must watch film IMO, even just to see how prescient things can be.
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Spiderman ATSV
It was fuckin incredible, this trilogy is going to be one of those once in a lifetime trilogies, like the Matrix Trilogy or the Dark Knight Trilogy, you mark my words.
Can't wait for BTSV
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Just saw this in the theater with my kids. I didn't know going in that they were setting up for a third one, so was kind of bummed when (mild spoilers) they left things unresolved at the end. Still an amazing movie.
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Hot Fuzz, very comedic and got intense in the last moments
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The latest Dungeons and Dragons film. I've never played the game and know nothing of the lore but found it to be pretty enjoyable.
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Same here, it was a pretty funny popcorn film
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Been playing for 2 years and still know practically nothing about the lore but also found it pretty enjoyable.
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John wick surprised me in being an actual good movie. No brains whatsoever but nice action.
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I just watched it too. Really enjoyed it over the second and third.
I felt they did a better job of setting the mood and scene than the previous ones.
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Watched John Wick 4 last night with my wife. Keanu Reeves is a legend.
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My dad had on Starship Troopers earlier and it was definitely much scarier to me a decade ago. I cannot say it's the best sci-fi film I've ever seen, but it's pretty decent.
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It's a pretty smart film in the context of when it was made and the political situation in the U.S. I remember when it was released a lot of people were pissed at it, it performed pretty poorly.
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I watched Tokyo Drift and Fast X back to back. Finished Tokyo Drift and loved it, felt like an actual movie with 3 acts. I made it a bit over an hour into Fast X before quitting, I honestly don't know what I was expecting after the 9th one.
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Guardians of the Galaxy 3, pretty good.
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John Wick 4. Seemed like 2 uninterrupted hours of people shooting one-another in the face. I only made it 30 minutes.
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Isn't that the appeal of the series though?
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It was probably a bit minimal in the story department, but I thought the cinematography was outstanding, especially in the last hour or so. That one-shot sequence in the building was probably one of my favourite sections in any movie I've seen recently.
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I had another experience. The power of the first John wick movie was the very simple story of a man listing his dog and his car, to an orgasmic vengeance bullet bukkake.
Four is the other way around. The story is so complicated and, too be honest, weak, that all the fantastic fight choreography in the world can't offset it. It gets boring as you're not even remotely emotionally engaged.
I will treat the wick saga like I did with the matrix. There is only one, shame they didn't shoot a sequel.
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I watched the whole, but spoiler alert, you didn't miss much
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Mulholland Drive
A strange masterpiece and artwork. Been thinking about it for a few days now.
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I re-watched it recently after a number of years and was surprised at how more I liked it despite knowing the story (whatever it means) and how "weird it gets". Lynch has become one of my all time favs, especially after watching Twin Peaks recently and then Twin Peaks Season 3!!
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Last one I really liked was Valerian. Kind of a hokey sci-fi, but good story and engaging. I actually liked the lead characters a lot.
Last one I can't believe I watched was John Wick 4. I mean I knew what it was going to be like. Was almost three hours long with thirty minutes of actual story, the rest just shooting and fighting, but I had to see it, just like the three before it.
One thing that was really cool about John Wick 4 is there's a set of scenes where he's driving a 1971 Plymouth 'Cuda. I had that exact car with all the performance options except the Hemi engine (had a 440 six pack engine). It's by far the favorite of all cars I've owned. I found it in the mid 80's wasting away in a garage and restored it. To this day I think I should have kept it, found a way to store it properly. The whole time I was thinking don't you dare destroy that car, but it looks like they CG'd all the crashes. I'm sure the owner would never let them damage that priceless car.
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Asteroid City. It was... more meta than expected. Not so much breaking the forth wall as featuring the forth wall!
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"check out this cool wall guys. Guys? Guys? GUYS! CHECK OUT THIS COOL WALL.
CHECK OUT THIS COOL WALL I FOUND GUYS"
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28 weeks later. Was recommend by Disney plus in the what to watch tonight section and I just went with it.
Overall it was an OK movie. A bit too constructed maybe. Would watch it again in a year or so.
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The first one (28 days later) is significantly better than the sequel you watched
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Yes, I've also watched 28 says later, but that was a couple of years ago. It's not available on disney+ though, so I can't watch it again
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Just a great great first scene though!
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The first scene is absolutely amazing.
I didn't enjoy the rest, however ... there's a few dumb decisions that were made like most horror movies that made me not enjoy it.
That first scene though, I've seen it like 20 times it's so good.
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Have you seen 28 days later beforehand?
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Marcel the Shell with Shoes on
A refreshing, slow paced and very touching "fictional-documentary" about the little microcosm of a shell with shoes and how he discovers what's beyond. Its based on three YouTube short films from 2010-2012 made by the director. Highly recommend both the short and the feature.
Fittingly, it also touches on the feeling many of us had when first discovering the Internet. For me, that's also what's happening right now on Lemmy again (a tiny bit).
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Coincidentally, I just went down the rabbit hole of the A24 production company. Very cool film-makers behind some of my most recent favourite flicks, including Marcel the Shell with Shoes on!
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The last one I saw in theaters was Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. It was gorgeously animated and detailed, and I'm excited for Beyond the Spider-Verse.
Last night I torrented a camrip of The Flash. It wasn't terrible, but the ending kinda dissappointed me. (I'm not sure how to put spoiler tags on Lemmy, so for now I'll just leave this comment as it is.)
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"You Hurt My Feelings" I loved David Cross.
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The terminal; always a good movie! I watched it multiple times now, but this one never gets old.
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The platform (2019) https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_platform
Its worth a watch if you like movies where people have to survive in crazy games like Cube, Squid game, Circle or similar.
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Hm, I love the Platform, watched it twice, but I really wouldn't place it in the category of Cube or Squid Game. They aren't playing a game. It's much more similar to Snowpiercer.
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Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.
I liked it, and it seemed like a good way to show characters changing without actual growth.
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My girlfriend and I recently decided to watch every Arnold Schwarzenegger movie in order. We saw Hercules in New York this weekend. It was pretty amusing. They clearly shot all the mt Olympus scenes in central park because you can hear the traffic in the background and the occasional crying baby or what not.
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Arnold is always a great choice. Commando has been one of my favorite films since it first came out on tape. Not an award-winning movie by any means, but it's sure fun to watch.
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Flesh Gordon.
No that isn't a typo.
Yes it is exactly what you think.
Yes it is hilariously bad.
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Where'd you watch it? I've never been able to find it streaming anywhere.
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Not streaming, torrented it. I think it's on Soulseek but I can't check rn.
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My lord, do I want to google that one or stay far away from it?
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Haha only you can make that decision, it's a 70's porn parody of Flash Gordon, there is sex and nudity but it's honestly pretty tame compared to today's porn. It's more silly than anything, silly with boobies.
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Just watched Monsters, Inc. It's great, the ending is really sweet too. I miss old Pixar ;(
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One of my favorite movies of all time. It's so creative and charming. It has aged very well, I think.
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Avatar: The Way of Water
I liked it. Not much happens story wise but I love exploring the lore and stuff of Pandora.
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The Flash, mildly funny, awful awful CG, the most interesting bit was spoiled in the trailer, I’ll never watch it again. 2/5
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Over the years I've learned not to watch any trailers if it's a movie I'm interested in watching. They seem to want to give the whole movie away in them these days.
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Shoplifters sweet, harsh, and with a nice reveal at the end. It was my second watch as I wanted to revisit it
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I watched Django Unchained by Quentin Tarantino yesterday for the first time, after being in my list for so long.
Such a masterpiece. Lengthy, but it gives it enough room to have a nice pacing. Great photography and dialogue, of course. One of Tarantino's best, imo.
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I watched Despicable Me with the kids recently - for the very first time - and was pleasantly surprised. It was actually good fun!
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Fast X. It's gone off the rails.
I went into it expecting it to be over the top, with a weak story, crazy twists.. but holy shit.
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Evil dead. It was entertaining.
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Good Time I liked it the end was pretty sad
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fantastic movie. you seen uncut gems?
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Yeah I watched it a while ago was surprisingly good
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Fall (2022). The concept is pretty simple: Two women climb a TV tower and are stuck at the top. Before watching it I thought: How are they going to make a movie out of that? Well, they did and it was better than I would have expected. If you like those movies with a limited cast and set and without much action, I can definitely recommend it.
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Shorter is not necessarily better: "THE Fall" from the early 2000s was a much better value-per-minute movie. :P
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I love that movie, it's so beautifully shot.
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As a former climber that film made me angry
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Ice Age 6(?) with my daughter watching on repeat. I couldn't help but immediately notice that the voice actors were discount versions of the original actors (no shade to them considering what they had to work with). 1/10 would highly recommend this masterpiece.
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To Leslie
Loved it. The lead actress was fantastic and it’s no surprise that she was nominated for an Academy Award.
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Extraction 2 was a lot of fun. The story was kind of a predictable action movie but man, the camerawork and stuntwork was superb.
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The 21 minute long one-take... Chef's kiss
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Just watched it last night. That one-er was truly glorious.
Then at the end of the next action sequence, Hemworth seemed to me, to just appear on the roof with no know way of getting there. Did I miss something? Or was this one of the very few genuine examples of a actual plot hole.
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Decided to re-watch the hobbit trilogy to see if they were as bad as I remember them being. Whilst there were some scenes I thought were well done (Bilbo's conversation with smaug for example) the films just aren't good in the way the Lord of the Rings movies are. The LOTR movies feel properly epic and the hobbit movies just feel so "Hollywood" for lack of a better term. All the fight scenes are stupid with excessive cgi but the worst part I feel is the acrobatics of them all with characters leaping off scenery and twirling around whilst slicing up enemies. None of the battles feel "real" or realistic in the way they do in LOTR. The dialogue in the hobbit movies also suffers from what feels like Joss Whedon-esque script writing with tons of witty quips and "humorous" observations on the situation.
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Have you seen any of the fan edits? They're limited by the source material obviously but you can do a lot with just cutting out all the unnecessary nonsense.
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I have not. I thought about finding one of the fan edits that remove a ton of filler and so cut the 3 movies into 1 very long one but the pacing of the films wasn't my main complaint with them. There are totally scenes I would have been happy to have been cut and whilst that would have been an improvement, I just disliked so much of the actual movie part of the movies and I don't see how any fan edit could polish that turd into something I would happily re-watch over and over again like I do frequently with the LOTR movies (and don't get me wrong I still have some minor gripes with those movies too - such as how Faramir's interactions with Sam and Frodo differ from the books and how they turned Gimli into comedic relief for most of his scenes). But (despite being high fantasy) LOTR always feels real. The characters aren't just flanderised and walking one-liner machines. The battles are brutal and grounded in reality and don't feature any of this cinematic bullshit (goatshit?)
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They truly are some of the greatest disappointments of our cinematic era. So much hype for nothing. The Hobbit and Game of Thrones will outlive most movies and shows culturally just based on how badly they were received
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I mean, the hype when Del Toro was on the film and they were gonna split it into only two films to fill in the surrounding story ... that was highest hype that ever deflated hard, at least for me.
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I liked The Hobbit and GoT. Furthermore I liked the higher framerate when I saw The Hobbit in a theater which was showing the higher framerate. 🤷
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I rewatched for the third time what we do in the shadows (2014), I love the quirky humor and the mockumentary type of filming
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Just finished "smoking causes coughing" which is a weird french movie that goes in weird directions. I don't know whether there's a term for gore comedy? This is that in places
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Underwater. 2020 horror movie that takes place - you guessed it - underwater. It wasn't bad, just kinda mediocre. It was pretty action packed, and the effects weren't bad, but I never really felt for any of the characters, and I thought the monster(s) were underdeveloped and poorly utilized. Still, not a bad way to waste an hour-and-a-half.
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Same movie for me and same impression too. Not sure if the monster's were even necessary. Also it had more of a "run away from the explosion" vibe than a "oh this uboat is about to implode" vibe. But I can confirm it is ok-ish.
Edit: That's crazy. I've looked at your profile since I thought it's a funny coincidence. I've also lived in South Korea for a while and I've also used Pop OS in the past. Really interesting. May I ask what you are doing in Jeju-Do?
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Finally got around to watching Stalker last night! Partner and I both really loved it. Absolutely deserves the legacy it has, it explores so many philosophical and existential questions but still stays incredibly clear. Would recommend wholeheartedly if you're in the mood for a slow paced philosophical/psychological sci-fi.
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I watched a night to remember the 1958 movie about the Titanic. It's out this morning on YouTube remastered with color. Phenomenal movie, there's actually no fictional characters or fictional side plot, it's basically just a docu drama. Most of it focuses on the most senior surviving staff member who had a pretty wild story of survival that night.
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Friends of mine were hyped for Across the Spider-Verse and that was my opportunity to go watch the first with them. If you're an animation nut, then yeah, this movie is brilliant for that. A very fun movie, definitely going to pick up the Blu-Ray when I pop to HMV in the future.
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Just watched Greta Gerwig's Little Women, it was quite enjoyable.
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