NOW CLOSED ; List some movies you've watched recently. Theatre, rental, TV... and give a */10

[igor_kavinski]

The Flash 7/10

Saw it in cinema with two friends, one of them a woman. She fell asleep during the movie. Afterwards, she was asking me, why didn't we see the new Transformers movie? Sorry WB/DC, you failed

But it was funny and the CGI was great. Leagues better than Justice League. Slightly worse than Aquaman.

 

[SKORPI0]

Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023)​

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1462764/ 8/10.

Nice chase scenes as always with Indiana Jones trying to get back a stolen artifact which he beleives belongs in a museum.
Some enjoyable moments, timeline start of movie late1944, then just a few days after the Apollo 11 mission ended, July 1969. Worth watching again IMO.

 

[Kaido]

Netflix: The Night Agent
8/10
I noticed this because it had Amenedel from Lucifer in a supporting role. The plot was a little ludicrous at times, but overall very suspenseful and I thought the cast was excellent. I found myself rolling through episodes wanting more, so i guess that's a sign of a good show.

I kept hoping he would slow down time lol. Side note:

 

[Kaido]

Indiana Jones 5:

7/10. Summary:

* Fun for a watch
* OK to watch at home instead (fine to wait for the rental)
* A homage to Indiana Jones, on rails

Spoiler: Long notes

I wish they had Short Round. Very happy to see Jonathan Rhys-Davies & wish he had gotten on the plane with Indy (BAD DATES!). Marion tied the movie up nicely. The "kiss it here" part was a great touch.

It's long (2.5 hours). Use the bathroom before you see it lol.

The time travel bit was done in a surprisingly classy way. I had heard some spoilers that time travel was in it & got a bit worried after Crystal Skull.

My favorite was the dude with the machine gun shooting at the ships at the end from the airplane. Soooooo random lol.

I thought it would have been really fun to have left him back in time, and then show the girl becoming an archeologist or something & finding his hat & whip thousands of years later on a dig.

I was really hoping that they'd eventually get back to Nazi Germany & do some cool fighting & stuff. Maybe fly through the dinosaur timeline or something first.

I just watched Fast & Furious 10 the other day & the trike drifting & going down the stairs on the motorized trike felt verrrrry similar lol. I didn't know trikes had that much power! /s

The A.I. de-aging was really good, although I wish they had edited his voice to match because he LOOKED young but SOUNDED old! I was also kind of hoping that he'd time-warp into a younger version fo himself later in the movie to fight the Nazis, which would have been a really cool application of the de-aging technology.

There was a lot of noticeable green screen, which kind of threw me out of the movie at times. Like, it almost felt like Mission Impossible: 1 sometimes.

The train bit where the gun shoots up the train cars in the beginning was great!

YOU CAN'T JUST KILL ANTONIO LIKE THAT!!

Helena's character threw me off a bit. I actually think this would have been better as a 2-part movie, in particular to develop her character, because she goes from literally auctioning off the magic time machine to being Indy's BFF, bringing him back home, and getting his (ex) wife to visit him, all while being altruistic about "not damaging the timeline" all of a sudden. As a 2-parter movie, the puzzles wouldn't have had to be "instantly easy" & they had so many of them that they could have strewn them out over time. Like finding the box underwater instantly, or seeing the moon shape in the rock ceiling in the tunnel instantly, etc. It never felt like there was really a challenge to figure anything out!

I actually REALLY liked the whole timeline thing, especially flying through the clouds & then showing up to the vintage boat battle.

I was hoping that Archimedes was a time-traveler himself, to explain the watch & propellers, because that would have been fun & letting him visit the future would explain a lot of his cool inventions!

While I like to watch the old Indiana Jones movies from time to time, I don't know if I'd ever watch this again. Not that it was bad, but it was just fun for a watch!

That big dude was a BIG dude.

I didn't like how they kept killing characters. Like the black government lady with the orange leather jacket was just starting to get interesting. She would have been good in a 2-parter movie, where she eventually helps Indy. Or even the main villain just kind of...dies in the plane crash at the end, no real mega-fight with Indiana Jones, you know?

I felt like the movie shifted tones periodically. Like there was a lot of gravity in the beginning with the bad guy, having helped the astronaut program & going to meet the president & the whole ticker-tape parade & whatnot. But eventually it just kind of became a quick-gloss MacGuffin movie. Also, I felt like the bad dude should have had a huge scar on his face from getting whacked in the face on the train in the beginning...that's what I was looking for when he turned to reveal himself to the room service guy in the hotel at the beginning...would have been fun to tie that into part of his revenge on Indiana Jones!

I wish it had had more practical shots instead of CGI shots of certain parts, because part of what made the original movies amazing was that he WASN'T perfect at everything & everything felt more real because they were filming it, so the danger felt more palpable. This bothered me a LOT in Fast X because the CGI on the part where Dom's car goes down the stairs is so incredibly obvious, it just looks bad.

Overall, fun show...I wouldn't say this is a "must-see" in theaters, but it was a fun ride & a nice nod to the movies of the past!

 

[IBMJunkman]

A Man Possessed. Warning: Spoilers 1/10

A bunch of 3-8 minute disjointed scenes stuck together. A cop has sex with his wife. What does that have to do with the story? The cop and his partner interview a victim. She has her hand on her gun most of the time. You don't bring weapons into an interview room. How many times do we have to see the protagonist in flash back with his dead wife? We get it. And the lady in his bed sure did not look like his dead wife. Who was she? Was this filmed with an iPhone? The audio sucked. Old man killed. Dies with his eyes closed. First shot on autopsy table eyes are open. Next shot eyes closed. Guess we did not pay for a continuity person. How did protagonist determine the 3 guys he killed/hurt? No explanation. And why is the cops personal life so important?

 

[mikeymikec]

nvm

 

[MrSquished]

Silo - season one. Pretty darn good sci Fi. Slow burn with lots of tension. Great story so far.

Will be reading the books now because I'm not waiting years until they finish the series

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Who knew the spoiler would be, Nothing Happens! , for a movie called The Happening

-IMO the happening would have worked a bit better if rather than plants trying to kill people, there was some intrinsic genetic kill switch in people that served as a sort of natural limiting factor to our population and spread.

It would have been an incredible apocalypse movie and would have unwittingly tied into our sort of "bizzaro verse" existence post pandemic and likely have elevated to cult status.

Instead we have Marky mark and killer wind.

 

[Kaido]

-IMO the happening would have worked a bit better if rather than plants trying to kill people, there was some intrinsic genetic kill switch in people that served as a sort of natural limiting factor to our population and spread.

It would have been an incredible apocalypse movie and would have unwittingly tied into our sort of "bizzaro verse" existence post pandemic and likely have elevated to cult status.

Instead we have Marky mark and killer wind.

The part where Marky Mark apologized to the plastic house plant was A+ lol

 

[purbeast0]

Creed 3 - 6/10 - it was entertaining but by far the worst of the 3. It was just kind of a dumb and not believable story. They should stop making these now.

 

[DigDog]

i watched Croupier - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0159382/reference/

1998 film directed by Mike Hodges of Flash Gordon fame, and the first major role for Clive Owen (Children of Men).

London, 1980s. Owen is Jack, whose exact profession is a mystery. He *should* be a writer, but is apparently unsuccessful.
We soon are told that he used to be a croupier, previously, in South Africa.
As he is struggling to put words on paper, is dad calls him and tells him he got him a job at a casino. Jack gets the job, showing good croupier sk1lz.
We also see that his dad pretends to be a successful businessman, but is actually a waiter.

Jack is told of the rules of the casino - dont have sex with the other casino staff, don't have sex with the gamblers, and (presumably) don't .. have sex with the money? Yes, don't cheat.

Jack quickly 1. sees a colleague cheating and doesn't report it, 2. has sex with a staff member, 3. has sex with a gambler, the excellent Alexandra Kingston, of recent fame as River Song - Doctor Who's human wife.

Eventually they do a thing, but the point of the film is that Jack sees himself, as a writer, as someone who is estranged from normal life, just an observer; and the casino life pushes this characteristic to the point of it becoming a delusion - jack is further and further from normal emotions as a person.


... it was ok. Georgina McKee stars as the plot-relevant but otherwise insufferable girlfriend, but everyone else involved is decent in their part.
I only really watched it because i wanted to see what else this director had made. (apparently, he also made this)

decent film, worth the time. 7/10

i wish i lived in a world where the narrator of a film called Croupier would at least learn to pronounce the word croupier.

 

[DigDog]

i also watched Living (2022) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9051908/reference/

which is pretty much beat-by-beat the same script as Kurosawa's Ikiru, so i'll just give you that review instead.

Also, i did watch Ikiru - http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044741/reference

i'm gonna be honest, it wasn't easy to watch. The story of mr Watanabe, a director of a bureaucratic department in pre-war Japan. He's typical in his behaviour of bureaucrat, can't get anything done, everything is paperwork, excitement is wrong. One day, he finds out that he has cancer and has very little left to live. In this brief time, he realizes he has wasted his life, and wants to make a difference.
After some brief soul-searching, accompanied by a shady sidekick, he realizes he cannot change from being a bureaucrat, but at least he can be a good bureaucrat - he goes back to work, and starts to get things done.
This getting-things-done does not go down well with his colleagues, for whom slowing down any procedure is the very purpose of their existence. After Watanabe's death (there is a shocking jump in pacing here, the character is almost immediately removed after his arc) they bad-mouth everything good he has done, even at this funeral; and this is where the film really shines, in its attack on Japan's internal policies. Once the film makes his point, Watanabe is reintroduced briefly to muse on how life is brief and we should enjoy it while we can.

It's a well done film with some moderately interesting supporting characters (in a style vaguely reminiscent of Fellini) but not a film i would recommend.

7/10

Same film, same vote

 

[igor_kavinski]

jack is further and further from normal emotions as a person.

Wow. The way the character's lack of emotions is portrayed by Clive Owen is just brutally cold and precise. How can anyone see the love of their life dead in front of them and not register anything? Almost like he never had any feelings for her. Or he just moves onto whatever's real and leaves behind whatever ceases to exist. Like a frickin' robot.

 

[JEDI]

Extraction 2 5/10

The action is good but the plot is perposterous.

Thor spends 9months in a hospital, arm still in a sling and a leg brace because of what happened in Part 1.
he goes Rocky III and gets back into fighting shape in 6 weeks because someone that mattered to him needs help.

Gang leader runs the prison yet the prison warden can be bribed by the star of the show???

The kid knows his uncle's (gang leader's brother) cell phone # by hard?
my parents have had their cell # for 20+ yrs yet i dont know it. (i just have it saved in my phone.)

etc, etc, etc...

 

[igor_kavinski]

etc, etc, etc...

That's typical for a Netflix blockbuster.

Watch Nimona. Great animation with a unique art style. Integrates knights into a futuristic society. 6.5/10

 

[DigDog]

omg ..

i watched Prisoners - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1392214/reference/

Dennis Villeneuve (Dune & BR2049 director) film starring Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal. What a kick to the balls man.

Stylistically, it's perfect. The beginning of the film specially has this beat to it, the direction and editing is absolutely perfect.

But, jesus christ.

In middle america, two children go missing at the same time, two girls from neighboring families. The father (Jackman) quickly is told of a suspicious vehicle that was nearby with a weird guy driving it - he goes rambo mode and quickly captures the suspect.
Cue Gyllenhaal, who is the "100% of cases solved" policeman guy. He does the interrogation, but quickly comes to realize that the suspect in question is just too dumb to plan and pull off such a abduction.
Policeguy explains this to Wolverine father guy, and it doesn't go well - the policeman is all "it's just work, don't stress it" and father guy is all like "i'll kill you and everyone around you and i'll keep killing until only my girl is left alive". So yeah.

Policeguy moves forward with the investigation and the first suspect is released.
Wolverine then abducts the suspect himself, and .. yeah pretty much tortures him for a week straight. (hence the title "Prisoners", as everyone involved is a prisoner, whether literally or metaphorically).

Eventually the investigation moves forward, but it's more of the same thing.

Gyllenhaal is just one of the great actors of our times. Jackman is solid and really suited to the role, and while there are supporting characters, it's pretty much these two guys who make up 95% of the film.

..

I find it difficult to recommend this. It's .. traumatic. It's violent, both in a physical and in a mental way. It's not as vomit-inducing as Bone Tomahawk was, but, i really really cannot in good faith tell anyone that they will "enjoy" watching this.

My vote, is 8/10 with 1 point removed because it's just too much. It's an exercise in oppressive atmosphere. 7/10 final score.


I cannot believe that someone who can pull off a film of this intensity, then goes and makes a fucking puppet show like Dune.

 

[igor_kavinski]

I cannot believe that someone who can pull off a film of this intensity, then goes and makes a fucking puppet show like Dune.

What about Blade Runner 2049?

 

[DigDog]

.. i'm afraid i don't have anything good to say about BR49

 

[igor_kavinski]

Oh Lucy! (2017) - IMDb

Oh Lucy! (2017) Reference View

www.imdb.com

6/10

Interesting story about a 40 something Japanese woman who falls in love with Josh Hartnett

 

[DigDog]

Oh Lucy! (2017) - IMDb

Oh Lucy! (2017) Reference View

www.imdb.com

6/10

Interesting story about a 40 something Japanese woman who falls in love with Josh Hartnett

.. i might actually watch this.

 

[igor_kavinski]

.. i might actually watch this.

The trailer is made up of the best scenes.

It's kind of a dark comedy and sad.

P.S. Japanese are weird. Some movies they show them as very sensitive. Here, you see everyone except the protagonist as insensitive and mean.

 

[Mai72]

Just watched Different Strokes. You know, That 80s TV show with Gary Coleman.

Sad that they have all passed away except for Todd Bridges. They all seemed so happy back then.

 

[MtnMan]

Been watching 1883 on Paramount. About halfway through Season 1. It's well done, intense, and engrossing. 8/10

 

[stargazr]

The Hurricane 6/10

1999 biographical movie about the boxer Rubin 'Hurricane' Carter, starring Denzel Washington. He was falsely tried for three murders in 1967. I first became aware of his story like many others through Bob Dylan's song "Hurricane". It was one of the few songs he co-wrote with someone else (Jacques Levy).

As a movie, it was pretty good for the first half. After that, it really drug on, running over 2 1/2 hours total. There was too much time spent about a group of weird people from a Canadian commune who championed his cause. I probably would have given it a 7/10 as I was somewhat moved by the injustices portrayed in the film.

However, after doing a bit of research the film deviates so far from the facts that I was very disappointed in that I was hoping to get some insight into what really happened here.

I do think the guy was innocent of the murders. After two trials with a guilty verdict, he was finally released from prison in 1985 from a Federal court on grounds of "racism rather than reason" involving his previous trials. So there's a great story there but the inconstancies of the film are too great to note here.

 

[Spydermag68]

80 for brady: -80 out of 12.
slow, stupid, pedictable, woke trash.