Movie opinions thread (what have you seen, what did you think?)

[famicommander]

So, Tenet, WW84, Midnight Sky all sucked.

The Rental is about the only movie of the year I remember liking.

Bill and Ted 3 was aight.

 

[fake]

You guys didn't like Cats?

 

[jro]

Bill and Ted 3 was aight.

I have not seen it, but I'll have to check it out pretty soon. Good reminder.

You guys didn't like Cats?

LOL.

 

[terry.330]

Yeah Midnight Sky suffers from the same shit as all the other recent big budget sic-fi movies. Interstellar, Gravity, Ad Astra, Arrival etc. Big name star, dumbed down sic-fi, predictable and a heavy dose of schmaltz.

 

[SouthtownKid]

So, Tenet, WW84, Midnight Sky all sucked.

The Rental is about the only movie of the year I remember liking.

Check out Mank. Just watched it last night and it was fantastic.

 

[@M]

Just let Disney buy WB and let it be over with.

I only want this so that Capcom can finally make a wonderful Marvel vs. DC vs. Capcom fighting game with a gazillion characters. Interdimensional shit between Thanos, Darkseid, and M. Bison is going to be off the hook (Bison is way out of his weight class, but, we'll pretend that he isn't, so that his feelings don't get hurt). Also: Our perverted friends in Japan will draw mountains of Shuma Gorath + Wonder Woman/Harley Quinn/Batgirl/Black Canary/Poison Ivy/etc. tentacle porn.

 

[2D_mastur]

What We Do in the Shadows: I can't believe I slept on this for so long. I laughed out loud multiple times. LOVED Petyr. Gonna have to watch the TV show.

The show is pretty damned funny. Probably one of the best comedies to come out in recent years.

If you liked the movie you will like the show, they are in the same vein.

 

[SouthtownKid]

I only want this so that Capcom can finally make a wonderful Marvel vs. DC vs. Capcom fighting game with a gazillion characters.

That's like wishing for another complete covid shutdown so you can get a $200 stimulus check.

 

[Syn]

Resident Evil Series

Halfway through them, just finished RE Extinction. These films are so much fun and good brain candy. It's amazing how they created Alice and intertwined with the game making it not only work but being pretty popular.

Xbox offered all 6 movies 24 bucks.

 

[evil wasabi]

I have fond memories of watching all these in the theater. Bought the blu ray set a few months ago. Milla Jovavich was a fantastic human for giving so much to that series.

 

[famicommander]

 

[jro]

Come to Daddy - Elijah Wood takes some of the strangest roles in the weirdest movies. Hard to describe this without giving the whole thing away, but it went from kinda odd to batshit crazy, in a good way, and stayed there. Some of the more striking violence that I've seen in a while.

The New Mutants - meh. Not really actively bad, but certainly not good either. Charlie Heaton's bizarre take on a Kentucky accent was kind of fascinating at least.

 

[evil wasabi]

Come to Daddy - Elijah Wood takes some of the strangest roles in the weirdest movies. Hard to describe this without giving the whole thing away, but it went from kinda odd to batshit crazy, in a good way, and stayed there. Some of the more striking violence that I've seen in a while.

I loved it. I tried to get people to watch it almost a year ago, and feels like you’re the first. Maybe in a few months people will give Guns Akimbo a try as well.

 

[Syn]

Yeah, after you recommended Guns I did watch it and definitely think the keyboard warriors here should see it.

 

[jro]

I loved it. I tried to get people to watch it almost a year ago, and feels like you’re the first. Maybe in a few months people will give Guns Akimbo a try as well.

I loved Wood's mustache and his bowl haircut. Without ever being explicitly acknowledged, they somehow really helped me get his character and added to the movie as a whole. There really were some amazing scenes in the movie, with the one fight scene and the explanation about the ear in particular going in directions I did not see coming. Indeed, very fun movie, always fun to find some random oddity that Amazon recommends and then have it turn out to be so surprisingly entertaining.

Guns Akimbo was great as well, agreed. Daniel Radcliffe, Elijah Wood, and Samara Weaving are probably the only three actors going right now that can get me watch a movie just based on being in it.

 

[Burning Blade]

Tenet was trash. Hate to admit that because I usually love Nolan’s movies, and The Prestige is in my top 10 of all time. I just couldn’t get into it at all.

 

[Neorebel]

I loved it. I tried to get people to watch it almost a year ago, and feels like you’re the first. Maybe in a few months people will give Guns Akimbo a try as well.

I'm gonna watch it - after seeing Elijah Wood in the Maniac remake I imagine he can play any part at this point

 

[terry.330]

Watched Come to Daddy the other day thanks to this thread. It was awesome.

 

[NeoSneth]

watched The Rental based on this thread.
great character building for a horror flick. the characters had more suspense than the horror, which made the horror seem very weak. No real sense of dread.

 

[SouthtownKid]

Gave 2001 another shot after not watching it for a couple decades. Still a ponderous, self-indulgent bore. About 20 minutes of actual story stretched out to over 2 hours. I still like the end, but the rest I can do without. Solaris (1972) > 2001 by a billion miles. Solaris also has a long run time, but it actually does stuff with that time.

 

[evil wasabi]

Gave 2001 another shot after not watching it for a couple decades. Still a ponderous, self-indulgent bore. About 20 minutes of actual story stretched out to over 2 hours. I still like the end, but the rest I can do without. Solaris (1972) > 2001 by a billion miles. Solaris also has a long run time, but it actually does stuff with that time.

What do you think 2001 is about?

 

[fake]

Gave 2001 another shot after not watching it for a couple decades. Still a ponderous, self-indulgent bore. About 20 minutes of actual story stretched out to over 2 hours. I still like the end, but the rest I can do without. Solaris (1972) > 2001 by a billion miles. Solaris also has a long run time, but it actually does stuff with that time.

Tarkovsky had Chris wear monographed pajamas in space. Kubrick could never have pulled that off!

 

[SouthtownKid]

What do you think 2001 is about?

Practicing special effects for the faked moon landing the following year...?

I get what the movie's about, I liked the original short story it's based on, and I like the concepts added to the movie. But the movie is so slow and so dry, I find myself just marking time until the great ending. I don't know if you remember, but at the start of the movie, there's a full five minute musical overture with blank black screen before they even show the MGM logo, much less begin the opening credits. Five minutes of black screen in a movie that's already well over 2 hours is excessive. I'm also not a fan of source music being used in place of original score. It's not that I dislike the song choices. Quite the opposite. The problem is that the choices are all so well known and you quickly figure out that whatever is happening slooooooowwwwwwwwwwwly on screen, like the lunar landing, is not going to end until the song finishes. And since you know how much is left of the song, the pacing becomes irritatingly artificial and predictable.

It's beautifully shot, and everything in it holds up visually today perfectly... in many ways much better than 90% of the CG-heavy productions of today. Visually, it's a masterpiece, no question. But it's fucking ponderous. It's probably the only Kubrick movie I don't enjoy watching.

Tarkovsky had Chris wear monographed pajamas in space. Kubrick could never have pulled that off!

In addition to better pajamas, Solaris also has actual human characters in it. 2001 only has plot-forwarding automatons with human shape. Beep-beep-beep now this happens beep-beep-beep

 

[evil wasabi]

Practicing special effects for the faked moon landing the following year...?

I get what the movie's about, I liked the original short story it's based on, and I like the concepts added to the movie. But the movie is so slow and so dry, I find myself just marking time until the great ending. I don't know if you remember, but at the start of the movie, there's a full five minute musical overture with blank black screen before they even show the MGM logo, much less begin the opening credits. Five minutes of black screen in a movie that's already well over 2 hours is excessive. I'm also not a fan of source music being used in place of original score. It's not that I dislike the song choices. Quite the opposite. The problem is that the choices are all so well known and you quickly figure out that whatever is happening slooooooowwwwwwwwwwwly on screen, like the lunar landing, is not going to end until the song finishes. And since you know how much is left of the song, the pacing becomes irritatingly artificial and predictable.

It's beautifully shot, and everything in it holds up visually today perfectly... in many ways much better than 90% of the CG-heavy productions of today. Visually, it's a masterpiece, no question. But it's fucking ponderous. It's probably the only Kubrick movie I don't enjoy watching.



In addition to better pajamas, Solaris also has actual human characters in it. 2001 only has plot-forwarding automatons with human shape. Beep-beep-beep now this happens beep-beep-beep

The problem is that you have seen the movie too many times already. And so why bother watching the whole thing? I just stick to a few parts anyways. But that goes for just about any movie I like and have watched over and over, unless it’s a comfort movie, like History of the World part 1.

Solaris is ultimately a boring rewatch. I can’t really bring myself to rewatch any Tarkovsky.

 

[NeoSneth]

Possessor
-well the fruit didn’t fall far from the “wtf is this dude on?” tree as David Cronenberg’s son made a action horror movie just like his old man. I got lucky with a digital screener and I would definitely like to watch this again

Watched Possessor this weekend.
This is what I needed. A surreal sci fi horror with some serious WTF moments. phenomenal acting as well.