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

[Cousin_Itt]

Just saw Good Luck Have Fun Don’t Die. My local theatre had it today. There was literally 4 people in the theatre. My 2 friends and some random dude who was using his phone the entire movie. I feel like the movie would have been much better had I been on drugs. Not a masterpiece of a movie by any stretch, but a good mindless movie to numb your brain through.

 

[max 330 megafartz]

I find her very distracting in just about any movie I've seen her in... she is not easy on the eyes. At all.

I must be the only person who finds her hot as shit…. Through most of her years
#gutterpunkthings

 

[Tarma]

I must be the only person who finds her hot as shit…. Through most of her years
#gutterpunkthings

Well, they say beauty is in the eye of the beholder.


















You need to get your sight checked, dude.

 

[max 330 megafartz]

Well, they say beauty is in the eye of the beholder.


















You need to get your sight checked, dude.

Lol punks dont have eye care

 

[terry.330]

She was looking pretty damn good in those tight ass leather pants.


Predator Badlands- Not bad. A ton of action that’s extremely well done and surprisingly violent for a PG-13 rating. It was also really creative, it seemed like they put a lot of thought into everything. Environments, weapons etc.

I did think it was a little too goofy which felt out of place and crossed the line into being annoying a couple of times. Elle Fanning was mostly fine but that other thing… nah, that’s some Disney level shit. Also some of the writing is pretty lame. But the action is so well done and there’s so much badass stuff and creativity that it outweighs most issues. Definitely worth checking out.

I’d probably rate this just a bit lower than Prey. That has a more satisfying story and feels a lot more like Predator. Badlands has way more cool shit and insane action but the spectacle doesn’t have a lot of weight despite the serious revenge story and the goofiness also hurts it.

 

[Tarma]

Showdown In Manilla - this promised so much, but, sadly, failed to deliver. This is an action movie directed by Mark Dacascos, and features Tia Carrere, Cynthia Rothrock, Olivier Gruner, Don "The Dragon" Wilson, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, and, um, Casper Van Dien as a sex-addict ex LAPD officer.

Sounds like an explosive action film, filled with 90s martial arts stars kicking ass? Yeah, it's not.

It stars some Russian dude called Alexander Nevsky who is wooden as fuck, and only has two facial expressions - smile, or grimace. The plot is a basic revenge set up, but it's riddled with holes.

I'm surprised that the action was fairly weak, and the fight scenes were nowhere near as good as they should have been given the talent behind and in front of the camera.

It's not awful. Just meh. Very, very, meh.

 

[100proof]

Yeah well it’s Shout Factory, they put out steelbooks for all kinds of junk. Pretty sure they did one for Ghosts of Mars…

Quick. Somebody put up the STK signal!

I must be the only person who finds her hot as shit…. Through most of her years
#gutterpunkthings

Nah man. There's a ton of dudes who are into crazy goths. They probably fuck good but I don't wanna always have one eye open at night in case she tries to slit my throat for a blood ritual.

 

[terry.330]

Unfortunately STK died from explosive decompression on the way up from his last deep sea welding stint. RIP buddy.


Clown in a Cornfield- As a generic modern slasher it’s fine. It’s well made, the acting is solid, there’s a couple funny moments and the pacing was good. A definite step above most of the junk horror that gets pooped out onto streaming services. As a film from the Tucker and Dale guy it’s pretty disappointing. There’s nothing clever about it, in fact the big reveal is lame as hell. Also the name is fucking terrible and so is the whole clown mascot gimmick. A corn syrup mascot, seriously?

So yeah, a competent little slasher but disappointing considering the director and a generally lame theme/gimmick.

 

[Tarma]

VFW - awesome action thriller about a VFW that gets besieged by drug crazed addicts hellbent on recovering a package of narcotics. This has a great cast - Stephen Lang, Martin Kove, Bill Saddler, Fred Williamson, David Patrick Kelly and George Wendt - who all give solid performances. Throw in a great synth score, hilariously OTT violence, and you've got a great homage to the early work of John Carpenter.

I picked this up on a whim, and don't regret it. Shows you can make a really good film with a veteran cast of actors on a low budget if you try.

 

[LoneSage]

Father of the Bride II - what a weird little white 90s movie. The biggest conflict in the story was Eugene Levy's Arab character going to demolish Steve Martin's old house until he gave him 100k, which Steve Martin promptly did. There's no real story here, just a 50 year old-ish couple having a baby the same time as their mid 20s daughter. And Martin Short doing some German accent with his Asian assistant. The whole thing is really, really fucking gay and angers me in my post-drunk stupor.

 

[jro]

That trailer for Michael is really making me hope that HDR will come back for one last gasp at defending his kiddy fiddler.

 

[Tarma]

The Thomas Crown Affair - great remake of the Steve McQueen film, starring Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo.

Solidly entertaining from start to finish, there's great chemistry between the two leads, and a strong supporting cast which includes Denis Leary and Frankie Faison. Director John McTiernan proves he can do a lot more that just Die Hard movies.

 

[max 330 megafartz]

That trailer for Michael is really making me hope that HDR will come back for one last gasp at defending his kiddy fiddler.

I really hope not.

 

[100proof]

We'd have to unban Fami in that case so he could have an autistic crashout when HDR does try to defend him.

 

[Dr. Jigglin]

The Lighthouse 2019
B&W and in 4:3, I'd say it had the direction of a wes anderson film but the content of a dark european art house flick. Strange film, too much wanking and a whole lotta nothing.

 

[Tarma]

Apocalypse Now: Final Cut - for a three hour film this is still a compelling watch from start to finish. The 4K restoration looks amazing, like it could have been made yesterday.

Definitely better than Jack.

 

[HornheaDD]

I guess this doesn't *really* count since I turned it off about 15 minutes into it but:

Altered:

Tom "Malfoy" Felton stars in this sci-fi flick about a society that is in the nearish future after a nuclear holocaust, genetic experimentation/manipulation is widely available and the only people that don't get it are people that have an immunity to genetic manipulation. Also after the war society finds some kind of flower that gives off tons of clean/renewable energy. People that are altered are called "Genetics" (wow, original) and those that cant are called Specials. Felton plays a dude who is in a wheelchair who steals one of the flowers and going by the trailer, he creates basically a suit of powered armor and I guess becomes a hero. Or something, I dunno because I turned it off 15 minutes in because other than Felton, everyone in it was either phoning it in, spouting HORRIBLY written dialogue, or had a weird european accent and were overdubbed. They overdubbed people - and included the accents.

I wanted to give it a chance, because I like Felton and it seemed like a decent Sunday evening popcorn flick with the wife. Couldn't make it through.

Instead we just watched Team America: World Police.

 

[rarehero]

The Thomas Crown Affair - great remake of the Steve McQueen film, starring Pierce Brosnan and Rene Russo.

Solidly entertaining from start to finish, there's great chemistry between the two leads, and a strong supporting cast which includes Denis Leary and Frankie Faison. Director John McTiernan proves he can do a lot more that just Die Hard movies.

I think the remake is better than the original, but man, and I'm going to sound like a prude here, but what's up with the sexual montage of them going at it for about a few minutes, they take a water break, and they go on for longer, it felt like soft core. It just felt way more gratuitous then it needed to be. Just me comparing it to the original with Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway where it was mostly innuendo.

Also, related but unrelated me and the wife went to see wuthering heights in the theater, my wife likes English literary romance from Austen and Bronte. There was alot of licking each other's faces and no nudity sex scenes. My wife and I left the movie like wtf, I asked her if that was like the original book and she said it was way off. We watched the ralph fienes adaptation when we got home and it was totally different.

Actual review of the new wuthering heights, both the main characters were contemptible, Margot robbie's character was a brat. Jacob eldori's character was pretty mean in the original material but to more deeper depths of depravity here. It didn't feel like a Gothic tale of unrequited, mistimed love, it was 2 hours of the main characters being assholes to themselves and everyone else while having self loathing sex and licking each others faces. I did like the race swapped asian lady in waiting, she had a stereotypical asian stoicism and judgement, that was the only real good rewrite of the updated adaption. Also, the music wasn't terrible, it was done by Charli xcx. Not for kids, not for fans of the original material. 1 out of 5 stars.

 

[100proof]

Unsurprising. Everything Emerald Fennell makes is about shitty, stupid people being shitty and stupid.

 

[pixeljunkie]

Saw Luc Besson's take on Dracula yesterday. I'd watched a few reviews that weren't very friendly, and Besson is capable of making stinkers.

However, I really enjoyed it. It was quirky, and despite what I had read, offered a pretty legit tonal twist on the subject matter. It had quite a bit of dry comedy as well. It was the antithesis of Hot Topic girl porn that Nosferatu was.

 

[terry.330]

Overlord- WWII horror piece about US troops that land in occupied France on a mission to take out a transmission tower. Their plane gets shot down and only a handful manage to survive. With help from a local young woman they attempt to complete their mission but discover the nazis have been conducting some bizarre experiments, trying to create superhuman nazi zombies.

Not terrible but pretty unoriginal and filled with cliches. I think instead of taking itself so seriously it probably would have benefitted from leaning into its schlocky premise.


Creature- A shameless and lazy Roger Corman ripoff of Alien and The Thing. Super low budget and unfortunately lacking almost any charm or creativity, it’s shockingly dull. There is however one amazing head explosion.

 

[HornheaDD]

Knives Out: Wake Up Dead Man

I liked this one more than Glass Onion, but the first one is still the one I like most. Maybe because of Ana De Armas. Probably. Truth be told the Benoit Blanc character is starting to feel like Columbo or Diagnosis Murder. I think 3 is time to call it. Still a decent flick, I liked it. But maybe leave it be for now.

 

[terry.330]

Truth be told the Benoit Blanc character is starting to feel like Columbo

You should be ashamed of yourself for saying that.

The entire Knives Out franchise is utter trash.

 

[Lagduf]

Columbo is the GOAT.

 

[jro]

Honey Bunch - fun little Shudder indie from mostly out of nowhere. Girl's in a rehab center that gets very strange, her husband is clearly lying about why she's there, then everything gets far more insane than you'd imagine. Slow but really good overall.