What movies have you seen recently?

[dubcity]

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I think For Your Eyes Only is ranked highly because at the time it was seen as a return to a more serious tone compared to Moonraker and other Moore Bond films. Watching it now it doesn't quite have that effect, but I still enjoy it.

It feels like there are so many examples of the series moving in one direction and then back to the other in terms of the campiness and seriousness. The Living Daylights compared to A View To A Kill, Golden Eye compared to License To Kill, Casino Royale compared to the last Brosnan one, etc.

I've always thought the best ones post-Connery were the ones that balanced the two. The Spy Who Loved Me and both Dalton films being some of my favorites.

[LambertandHam]

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Grace Jones is badass, both as May Day and in real life. Still enjoy FYEO.

I think For Your Eyes Only is ranked highly because at the time it was seen as a return to a more serious tone compared to Moonraker and other Moore Bond films. Watching it now it doesn't quite have that effect, but I still enjoy it.

It feels like there are so many examples of the series moving in one direction and then back to the other in terms of the campiness and seriousness. The Living Daylights compared to A View To A Kill, Golden Eye compared to License To Kill, Casino Royale compared to the last Brosnan one, etc.

I've always thought the best ones post-Connery were the ones that balanced the two. The Spy Who Loved Me and both Dalton films being some of my favorites.

I think The Living Daylights and License to Kill are underrated when it comes to Bond movies in general imho. License to Kill's tone is darker but has enough Bond goofiness added in, also Carey Lowell and Robert Davi are solid.

[J_Posse]

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Malignant is easily one of the most bat****, insane movies I've seen in a very, very long time. I've never had an interest in watching Italian Galileo films, but maybe this crazy ****ing movie has changed my mind.

I give it a 7/10

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[Gotmadskillzson]

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Malignant was an 8 out of 10 for me. Very good movie, the ending was kind of goofy though.

[Armor and Sword]

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I liked it better on my second watch (Malignant)

Wan was finding his inner Cronenberg. Heavy 80’s influence all over this film.

Insane final act.......just insane.

[Blzer]

What movies have you seen recently?

I tried to watch a 10:15 showing of Shang-Chi tonight (which really means 10:35 with previews), and it was just a mistake to try.

My mind was ready but my body wasn’t. Slept five hours the night before, waking up at 4:30 AM and working most of the day plus some safe social events. I pretty much slept through most of the movie after the first half hour, catching glimpses in between.

Weird that the theater played the movie really quietly, despite the previews before them being normally loud. I’ll definitely watch it properly soon enough. Sad that I couldn’t get it all in one take though.

Of course, as it works, I’m wide awake now. Going to go home and watch another movie lol.

[J_Posse]

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I tried to watch a 10:15 showing of Shang-Chi tonight (which really means 10:35 with previews), and it was just a mistake to try.

My mind was ready but my body wasn’t. Slept five hours the night before, waking up at 4:30 AM and working most of the day plus some safe social events. I pretty much slept through most of the movie after the first half hour, catching glimpses in between.

Weird that the theater played the movie really quietly, despite the previews before them being normally loud. I’ll definitely watch it properly soon enough. Sad that I couldn’t get it all in one take though.

Of course, as it works, I’m wide awake now. Going to go home and watch another movie lol.

The same thing has happened to me on occasion at the movies too.

In particular when I saw Ex Machina and Midsommar. Both which are good slow burn Thrillers, but I should've been more energized before viewing. [emoji38]

Gonna watch Shang-Chi once it hits Disney+.

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[DieHardYankee26]

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Best week in the Bondathon is over, and I've found my favorite 3peat.

The Living Daylights (4/5), Licence to Kill (4.5/5), Goldeneye (4/5)

Spoiler

TLD: I just love Timothy Dalton, what a beast. The song is not one of my favorites, I would've hated it outright if Duran Duran hadn't already opened the door to stuff like this. Some cool not so serious moments ("why didn't you learn the violin" trying to stuff a cello into the Aston Martin, the Bondmobile using a laser to cut a cop car in half, cello case sledding, the carnival date) but still in a serious movie. I forgot Bond teams up with the Mujaheddin lol, what a time. Good choice to have only the one Bond girl, even if she isn't the best. Her dodging turret fire in the SUV was cool. At the end when the Mujaheddin comes through, "we had some trouble at the airport" "I can't imagine why" lol. Just a wild movie, I really like the SUV parachute escape, something about using parachutes on cars just always hits with me.

LtK: TLD starts with a HALO jump, this starts with Bond dropping from a helicopter onto a plane with the theme blaring, you'd think I'd be sick of this song by now but it really never gets old. Great villain, and cast altogether with Baby Benny del Toro and Pam, a top tier Bond girl for sure, even Shang Tsung with a quick appearance. The whole Lupe Pam thing was fun. Q is really starting to stick out as an MVP in these movies, "explosive alarm clock, guaranteed to never wake up anyone who uses it". Dalton constantly hanging from moving vehicles, using a hill to drive a tanker on one side and then popping a wheelie in it to get through fire, great Bond moments. And this movie starts with a Gladys Knight song and ends with Patti Labelle, too good.

Goldeneye: First one after I was born and the one that started it all for me. I didn't realize it was contract shenanigans that led to Dalton leaving and Brosnan coming in but it's interesting that Brosnan was supposed to come in almost a decade earlier but had to make Remington Steel, wonder how different things would've gone, or if he would've been the one that had to dip out during the disputes. Anyway, great movie. Brosnan is great, great Tina Turner song, Jean Gray straddling dudes to death, the one Bond Moneypenny scene is already better than anything since Connery, Floop as a hacker. The woman, the myth, the legend Judi Dench as M comes in and immediately sets the tone. "You think I'm an accountant, a bean counter, more worried about my numbers than your instincts." "The thought had crossed my mind." " Good because I think you're a sexist, misogynistic dinosaur, a relic of the Cold War. Q is great again (leg cast RPG), Bond driving a tank for like 10 minutes, and Sean Bean of course. The first hour of this movie, incredible. The last 45 minutes, incredible. The 30 minutes in between when Bond is with Natalya, meh. Watching this again, the Bond Alec fight reminded me so much of the Cap Bucky fight in Winter Soldier.

New Rankings through 17:

Spoiler

Goldfinger
Licence to Kill
On Her Majesty
Goldeneye
From Russia
The Spy Who Loved Me
The Living Daylights
Dr. No = YOLT
The Man with the Golden Gun
Moonraker
A View to a Kill
Thunderball
Live and Let Die
Octo*****
For Your Eyes Only
Diamonds are Forever

A Bug's Life 3/5

Ever watch a movie that you remember seeing as a kid and then understand yourself a little better afterwards?

"It's a bug eat bug world princess, one of those circle of life type things. The sun grows the food, the ants pick the food, and the grasshoppers eat the food." Hopper

"You let one ant stand up to us, then they all might stand up to us. Those puny little ants outnumber us 100 to 1, and if they ever figure that out there goes our way of life. It's not about food, it's about keeping those ants in line." Hopper

So yeah, good children's movie. And the rain animation is super cool, it's like Dunkirk for bugs. Shout out to Comrade Flik, **** the bosses and the grasshoppers.

[Fresh Tendrils]

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The Craft

That time of the year. As many times as I know Fox had this movie playing on TV as a kid I've never watched the actual movie.

Fun movie for the most part. Definitely not breaking any molds or bringing much to the table outside of it's dated 90s charm and at times hokey homages to 70s and early 80s horror films with no budgets. Basically this feels like the precursor to The Charmed series without the hotness of Alyssa Milano.

Fairly basic and straightforward "new kid and mean girls" narrative.

I'm not sure what it is, but as a kid Neve Campbell always hit that nerve with me. Maybe it's the biting lip thing she does, but she works it here in the second half of the movie. Nancy (Fairuza Balk) is the MVP of the movie. New kid Robin Tunney made me think of Gilmore Girls the whole damn time. And this is yet another 90s movie that includes a black girl as one of the main friends, but gives her barely any dialogue or any role of consequence.

If you like witches, 90s alt rock, and teenage female empowerment this is your jam.

As an aside I want to watch either all the Freddy movies or Jason movies. What say you, OS?

[cima]

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Just watched The Amazing Spiderman (2012) for the first time and I liked it a lot. I really enjoyed the different take on Peter Parker and I see why each of the 3 Spidermans have their own fanbases that think they're each the best Spiderman.


It was especially fun(ny) to watch right after watching the Tobey Maguire Spiderman because my God the special effects have aged terribly lol.

[DieHardYankee26]

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Something about the Amazing movies never looked right to me, I remember sitting in the theater thinking this **** looks like a video game.

[cima]

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Something about the Amazing movies never looked right to me, I remember sitting in the theater thinking this **** looks like a video game.

I dunno, it looked great on my Oled. It's funny how much better the special effects keep getting and how poorly so much of the old CGI has aged. I don't recall anything too unrealistic in Amazing. We'll see how the 2nd one holds up.

[Fresh Tendrils]

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I've only seen it once, but it just felt too clean and polished with the abundance of random CGI.

[Blzer]

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Something about the Amazing movies never looked right to me, I remember sitting in the theater thinking this **** looks like a video game.

I've only seen it once, but it just felt too clean and polished with the abundance of random CGI.

This leads to my "Uncommon Opinion" that Spider-Man: Far From Home has the best visual effects in the franchise since Spider-Man 3. TASM 1, TASM 2, and SM:H are all inferior to SM3, in my opinion.

Same goes for Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom besting Jurassic Park III and Jurassic World in visuals, in my opinion. The Lost World: Jurassic Park was the best looking until Fallen Kingdom came out (and I think that Fallen Kingdom looks worse until they get off the island).

[Armor and Sword]

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The Craft

That time of the year. As many times as I know Fox had this movie playing on TV as a kid I've never watched the actual movie.

Fun movie for the most part. Definitely not breaking any molds or bringing much to the table outside of it's dated 90s charm and at times hokey homages to 70s and early 80s horror films with no budgets. Basically this feels like the precursor to The Charmed series without the hotness of Alyssa Milano.

Fairly basic and straightforward "new kid and mean girls" narrative.

I'm not sure what it is, but as a kid Neve Campbell always hit that nerve with me. Maybe it's the biting lip thing she does, but she works it here in the second half of the movie. Nancy (Fairuza Balk) is the MVP of the movie. New kid Robin Tunney made me think of Gilmore Girls the whole damn time. And this is yet another 90s movie that includes a black girl as one of the main friends, but gives her barely any dialogue or any role of consequence.

If you like witches, 90s alt rock, and teenage female empowerment this is your jam.

As an aside I want to watch either all the Freddy movies or Jason movies. What say you, OS?

I always enjoyed the Craft.....nice underrated late 90’s teen angst flick with a good story.

As far as Freddy and Jason. Watch them both!! Here are the essential’s of both those series IMO

Nightmare On Elm Street
Nightmare On Elm Street 3 Dream Warriors
Nightmare On Elm Street 4 The Dream Master
Wes Cravens New Nightmare

Forget the rest.

Friday the 13th
Friday The 13th Part 2
Friday The 13th Part 3
Friday The 13th Part IV The Final Chapter
Friday The 13th Part VI Jason Lives
Friday The 13h Part VII The New Blood
Jason X
Freddy vs Jason

Forget the rest.