What movies have you seen recently?

[Majingir]

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Guardians of the Galaxy 1&2
Pratt in these movies reminds me a bit of Ashton Kutcher. Batista is surprisingly good. Drax and Groot(baby groot) are my 2 faves in it. 2nd movie especially since its much funnier with those 2. 1st movie was the better team movie, but 2nd was funnier one with more character development. Fave funny moment in 2nd was either Rocket with Baby Groot and the button, or the opening credit scene. Final credit scene I hope doesn't really mean what I think it does.

[dickey1331]

What movies have you seen recently?

The Witch is terrible. I hated it and I'm usually a big fan of that genre. It was just a big disappointment. I knew it wasn't going to be a horror film going in so my expectations were adjusted.


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[tdawg3782]

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Split

I really enjoyed this one. James McAvoy did a tremendous job with all those characters. His transitions were so well done. Love the teaser at the end as well. Looking forward to where this goes.

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[DieHardYankee26]

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American History X

Lived up to the hype.

[Armor and Sword]

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American History X

Lived up to the hype.

One of the great movies ever made and should be shown in every high school civics class as standard viewing despite how vulgar and violent it is.

It needs to be seen.

[Blzer]

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Saban's Power Rangers

I thought the production was very messy with poor editing, awkwardly-contrived development, lazy humor and cheap effects... yet I also liked it a little bit. Kind of an origin story that could be left as is, and I wouldn't necessarily care for a sequel even though I heard they planned on like six of them. They put nearly everything in this one: Zordon, ALPHA, Rita, Megazord... everything except Tommy.

I warmed up to the entire cast once the credits rolled as well, but I don't think it did enough to nerdgasm fans of the original or pull in newcomers the same way that, say, Star Trek (2009) was able to do. It gave me only a slight bit of nostalgia, this is not going in my Blu-ray collection ever unless this becomes a massive and successful franchise, which I don't think studios will pony up the money for given the box office flop that it was.


The Bye Bye Man

I personally think the title gives this film a bad rap before even seeing it, kind of like Gone Baby Gone. However, unlike GBG, upon viewing it you also find out that it's kind of just a bad movie. Truth be told, I actually liked where the ending was heading with the final act. I appreciated how the psychological aspect somewhat reflected that of The Babadook, and although I might deem some people who like one and not the other to be hypocritical, I can also see where someone just calls The Bye Bye Man as a poor man's Babadook, thus the comparison itself is the difference.

Anyway, as these count for something, the film wasn't that scary at all (even got downright silly at times like a parody of itself), the lead female has a terrible American accent and took me out of it several times, and I thought the cinematography was downright amateur. It is not the worst idea of a film, but it has done better before and it starts off with a poor name... so it won't really win much of anybody over, including myself.


There Will Be Blood

My brother-in-law is a petroleum engineer and insisted that my family saw this movie with him. As much as I've always "wanted to see this," I had no reason to ever sit and watch through it myself; in fact, if I did, I likely would have turned it off at some point and never got back to it. PTA is a unique director that I think you appreciate the more you get him, and although he is not my favorite I knew what kind of film I'd be getting going into it, which in my opinion helped a lot.

I personally did not find the story very compelling as I am also not historically fascinated on the oil bloom, but DDL was a fantastic draw that molded every part of the character piece together up until and through the very end. Also every twenty minutes when it decided to build a bit more suspense, the even pacing in between it really dramatized those moments much better (especially when the score would pick up after a long silence). It was beautifully shot and carefully crafted, but if DDL wasn't a part of this I might have snoozed through it and outright hated it. Because of his mannerisms throughout the entire film, I'm actually inclined to watch it again at some point, on my own no less.


The Accountant

I didn't expect much going into it, but once I kind of knew what kind of character Ben Affleck was playing, I immediately became enthralled by it. His character reminds me a bit of Dr. Gregory House: not that they have the same personality, but they are somebody who I can only be entertained watching interact with others on the screen, but they are not somebody I would be happy to be a client of in real life. Affleck's character cracked me up about three times a minute through some pretty clever dialogue (clever by the writer, not necessarily the characters).

Anna Kendrick has not failed me once as an actress, and though Pitch Perfect 2 is her only dud so far her character was a perfect complement to Affleck's. This film is set to have a sequel which I'm actually excited about now and would see in theaters, and though I'd love for Kendrick to reprise her role I can understand how she's not a necessary component given the way the story would go.

This film got a little slow in the middle and even lost me at times with its accounting talk, but I think it his a lot of right buttons and is headed into a good direction for a franchise. When everything else in the grounded action world has been done before, they did right by differentiating our main character in a very flawed way that frankly deserves more insight, more so than that of somebody like The Transporter.


Wonder Woman

Okay, I have now seen this movie twice. I liked it significantly more the first time around than I did the second time, but I still really liked it. The first act on Themyscira was nothing more-or-less than I'd expect, so it was just ho-hum and okay. I'm not really into the fantasy stuff that CBM's have like Thor or Man of Steel also presented, so it's just whatever for me. C+ or B- kind of stuff.

The second act, however (which lasted exactly an hour long, upon checking a second time), was amazing. Right up there with some other upper-tier CBM's of late like Iron Man and Captain America: The Winter Soldier. A solid A- act right there. Gal Gadot was very funny, the tone of each scene was well portrayed, the fighting was phenomenally empowering, and the characters showed a lot of depth.

It's the last act that took this thing down as a whole, and it's nothing short of what every other CBM is doing today with a craptastic CGI-fest. Batman v Superman just had this issue last time with WW included, and they learned nothing from it. Since The Avengers, I've been sitting with my chin on my hand wondering why I should care for anybody's well-being during the fight. I just felt like punches have no tolling weight to them. I see why the story dictated they had to escalate to that, so I don't know... maybe it's just because of the poor CGI (not that it's treacherous, but maybe I'm just sick of CGI in general. Same thing happened with the Power Rangers film, to be honest. D- act, with its only redeeming quality being the emotional impact on Diana herself.

Also, I do have some questions regarding Diana's vulnerabilities, limitations and aging factor though, so I can understand exactly what the stakes are at any moment or what her main role will serve as going into Justice League. Maybe somebody can help me out there. Anyway, as I said before, serviceable CBM especially during the second act, whose rewatchability is not the best of the bunch and that really loses me by the end like most of these movies do with nonsensical and explosive final battles.


War for the Planet of the Apes

Upon rewatching the first two films before this one, I have come to realize that visuals are a huge factor of my moviegoing experience. When Rise should have grabbed me more, the CGI held me back. Dawn and War did not have these issues, especially War given the ocular performance each ape was able to bring. They really gave life to these apes, and you saw it in the eyes.

So given that, I don't know why Reeves had to resort to cheap dramatic tropes in the film that Hollywood must shove down our throats. I just think they should expect more out of their audience without needing to force-feed everything is all. Not to mention the number of convenient plot devices to keep the story moving. I think some people can get by seeing this film without being frustrated by it, but if you saw the screenplay of it you'd probably go, "You're kidding, right?" Dawn didn't have any of these issues, and whenever Rise did it was caused by character choices and was still rather realistic.

I think one thing this movie really did right was choose not to escalate too much. You hear "War" in the title and you think one thing, but then for 90% of the film you get a really indie-like tale that maintains an intimate focus and battle between ape & human, ape & ape, and human & human. There is a lot of sign language, but then you get a blend of English chatter even with the apes... then randomly you get one ape who signs to a group where two of them don't know sign language, and somehow the message gets across all of them without any other translating needed.

I like how this really felt like Caesar's trilogy in a way, even though the first two films you almost feel the protagonists to be one of the humans like James Franco. As divided as you can be between team human or team ape, here they just really seem to want to steer you toward team ape only, which I am okay with because of how much it really focuses on Caesar. It was a nice slow-moving epic with fantastic moments and visuals, but my ranking will easily sit Dawn --> War --> Rise, with Rise lacking in its second half of the film and rough CGI.


A Cure for Wellness

I really wanted to like this film, and for about the first 45 minutes I think I did. Gore Verbinski brought us into a creative environment with his own injection of mental calamity going on from the characters to the imagery, and I thought all of it was probably even more beautiful than that of Scorsese's Shutter Island. Then suddenly, I felt like I was just getting the same thing over and over again with no real conclusive leap that you weren't exposed to way earlier in the movie. The story had no sense of direction, and that upset me quite a bit. Its drive for being different than other films like it left it in a state of saying: "See, this is why we make movies a certain way."

It was so much longer than it needed to be, and I thought if crafted properly it could have been better as a miniseries with a different kind of focus than that of a feature-length film. I want Verbinski to not be demoralized in making films of this accord, but I think he flubbed this one early on and it never could pull me back in.


Deepwater Horizon

Whenever I see a trailer for a movie like this, I always ask how they can spent 100 minutes making something like this last for the viewer. I guess I can understand how since the event itself could have lasted much longer than even two hours, but we always need to have something happening to be as entertained as we are haunted over the true story behind the event. Of the films I have left impressions for, this is the most forgettable regarding individual moments and I am a few weeks removed now from seeing it, but when I was watching it I think I liked it.

I don't think it Dunkirk'ed me in any sort of way, and Wahlberg had a better performance in Patriots Day just prior to this, but they really do find a way in making the seemingly uninteresting actually very interesting without taking the realism wheels off the ground or losing its message. I was impressed with how well it was shot, how they maintained strong continuity, and thought they took the scope of the scope of the rig to a massive level despite how small they actually are, but when the chaos ensued it really did just feel like one long scene and I have a lot of trouble recalling individual instances that stuck out to me.

Maybe that's the point of a film like this though. A film like Unstoppable had the same feeling but had time to breathe and break from the tracks to other parts of the city. This did not have the same opportunity, and I would not like them to have too many creative liberties on true stories, so I guess I respect what it did.

[Gotmadskillzson]

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One of the great movies ever made and should be shown in every high school civics class as standard viewing despite how vulgar and violent it is.

It needs to be seen.

That and Rosewood.

[Blzer]

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On another note, my friend asked me what my three favorite Keanu Reeves movies are not named Matrix or Wick.

I'm a bit torn with the list as I have some honorable mentions (Street Kings, The Replacements, Parenthood though his role in that film isn't huge), but if I'm going to speak presently on it I would say Hardball, Point Break and Speed. Bill & Ted doesn't touch this list, sorry folks.

I have Constantine on the DVR and am soon to watch it. I'd also like to see A Scanner Darkly sometime.

[Gotmadskillzson]

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Constantine honestly is the best movie he ever did outside of The Matrix and John Wick franchises.

[Fresh Tendrils]

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It's obviously Dracula.

[daflyboys]

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Agree about There Will Be Blood. People fawn over Daniel Day Lewis, but overall even after trying to give it a re-watch years in between, it never gripped me.

[Majingir]

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Recently finished my MCU marathon(though haven't seen Spiderman yet)

Ironman- First one was good, though I felt the cave stuff dragged on too long. Rest of movie after that was good. Second one was also good, but not as good as the 1st. And the 3rd one was probably the worst of the Ironman series.

Thor- Like Ironman, the 1st was way better than the 2nd, but the 2nd had a real nice ending, especially that final scene to set up the next Thor movie.

Captain America- This one is probably my fave series of all the MCU series. 1st one was a nice introduction into origin of Captain America, but the 2nd one I really liked because of the main storyline branching off of the same events that happened on Agents of Shield(which was my fave Agents of Shield storyline of the tv series). And even the 3rd one was basically like another Avengers movie which was also good.

Avengers- The 1st one was the best of the first 2 so far. Would be nice if they found a way to bring Coulson back into this. Wonder what the reaction of the characters would be finding out he is still alive.

Ant Man- Didn’t think I would like it but I ended up liking it. Not as much as most of the others, but still a fair amount. And the parts near the end adds more suspense which just like Thor 2, makes you really want to see what happens in the next one.

Guardians- Both movies were great. Much diff tone here compared to the other MCU films in a good way. Batista as Drax was surprising, especially in 2nd movie to see how comedic his character was. And Baby Groot is my fave character of the MCU.

My likely controversial rankings from best to worst. Most of these middle rankings probably aren’t fixed:
Captain America Winter Solider
Avengers 1
Captain America Civil War
Guardians 2
Ironman 1
Guardians 1
Captain America First Avenger
Thor 1
Avengers Age of Ultron
Ironman 2
Antman
Thor Dark World
Ironman 3
Hulk
Doctor Strange

[LionsFanNJ]

Re: What movies have you seen recently?

On another note, my friend asked me what my three favorite Keanu Reeves movies are not named Matrix or Wick.

I'm a bit torn with the list as I have some honorable mentions (Street Kings, The Replacements, Parenthood though his role in that film isn't huge), but if I'm going to speak presently on it I would say Hardball, Point Break and Speed. Bill & Ted doesn't touch this list, sorry folks.

I have Constantine on the DVR and am soon to watch it. I'd also like to see A Scanner Darkly sometime.

The Watcher, Speed and Constantine for me.

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[daflyboys]

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My likely controversial rankings from best to worst. Most of these middle rankings probably aren’t fixed:
Captain America Winter Solider
Avengers 1
Captain America Civil War
Guardians 2
Ironman 1
Guardians 1
Captain America First Avenger
Thor 1
Avengers Age of Ultron
Ironman 2
Antman
Thor Dark World
Ironman 3
Hulk
Doctor Strange

I gotta put IM2 low, but above Dr. Strange (didn't feel that at all). IM 3 would be up higher save for the Mandarin debacle (though they say it's still in play). Thor 2 isright above Dr. S for basement dwellers. Having gone back and rewatched GOTG1, I do give it a slight edge over 2. Of course, all is just a matter of preference and like you said, the middle ground is very variable. Didn't see Spidey yet either but got a few mixed reviews here from what little I read, though that and I imagine Black Panther will break the top 1/3 for me.

Of course, once a Deathlok the Demolisher movie comes out, then it's all bets off!

[SeaTownGamer]

What movies have you seen recently?

Saban's Power Rangers

I thought the production was very messy with poor editing, awkwardly-contrived development, lazy humor and cheap effects... yet I also liked it a little bit. Kind of an origin story that could be left as is, and I wouldn't necessarily care for a sequel even though I heard they planned on like six of them. They put nearly everything in this one: Zordon, ALPHA, Rita, Megazord... everything except Tommy.

I warmed up to the entire cast once the credits rolled as well, but I don't think it did enough to nerdgasm fans of the original or pull in newcomers the same way that, say, Star Trek (2009) was able to do. It gave me only a slight bit of nostalgia, this is not going in my Blu-ray collection ever unless this becomes a massive and successful franchise, which I don't think studios will pony up the money for given the box office flop that it was.


The Bye Bye Man

I personally think the title gives this film a bad rap before even seeing it, kind of like Gone Baby Gone. However, unlike GBG, upon viewing it you also find out that it's kind of just a bad movie. Truth be told, I actually liked where the ending was heading with the final act. I appreciated how the psychological aspect somewhat reflected that of The Babadook, and although I might deem some people who like one and not the other to be hypocritical, I can also see where someone just calls The Bye Bye Man as a poor man's Babadook, thus the comparison itself is the difference.

Anyway, as these count for something, the film wasn't that scary at all (even got downright silly at times like a parody of itself), the lead female has a terrible American accent and took me out of it several times, and I thought the cinematography was downright amateur. It is not the worst idea of a film, but it has done better before and it starts off with a poor name... so it won't really win much of anybody over, including myself.


There Will Be Blood

My brother-in-law is a petroleum engineer and insisted that my family saw this movie with him. As much as I've always "wanted to see this," I had no reason to ever sit and watch through it myself; in fact, if I did, I likely would have turned it off at some point and never got back to it. PTA is a unique director that I think you appreciate the more you get him, and although he is not my favorite I knew what kind of film I'd be getting going into it, which in my opinion helped a lot.

I personally did not find the story very compelling as I am also not historically fascinated on the oil bloom, but DDL was a fantastic draw that molded every part of the character piece together up until and through the very end. Also every twenty minutes when it decided to build a bit more suspense, the even pacing in between it really dramatized those moments much better (especially when the score would pick up after a long silence). It was beautifully shot and carefully crafted, but if DDL wasn't a part of this I might have snoozed through it and outright hated it. Because of his mannerisms throughout the entire film, I'm actually inclined to watch it again at some point, on my own no less.


The Accountant

I didn't expect much going into it, but once I kind of knew what kind of character Ben Affleck was playing, I immediately became enthralled by it. His character reminds me a bit of Dr. Gregory House: not that they have the same personality, but they are somebody who I can only be entertained watching interact with others on the screen, but they are not somebody I would be happy to be a client of in real life. Affleck's character cracked me up about three times a minute through some pretty clever dialogue (clever by the writer, not necessarily the characters).

Anna Kendrick has not failed me once as an actress, and though Pitch Perfect 2 is her only dud so far her character was a perfect complement to Affleck's. This film is set to have a sequel which I'm actually excited about now and would see in theaters, and though I'd love for Kendrick to reprise her role I can understand how she's not a necessary component given the way the story would go.

This film got a little slow in the middle and even lost me at times with its accounting talk, but I think it his a lot of right buttons and is headed into a good direction for a franchise. When everything else in the grounded action world has been done before, they did right by differentiating our main character in a very flawed way that frankly deserves more insight, more so than that of somebody like The Transporter.


Wonder Woman

Okay, I have now seen this movie twice. I liked it significantly more the first time around than I did the second time, but I still really liked it. The first act on Themyscira was nothing more-or-less than I'd expect, so it was just ho-hum and okay. I'm not really into the fantasy stuff that CBM's have like Thor or Man of Steel also presented, so it's just whatever for me. C+ or B- kind of stuff.

The second act, however (which lasted exactly an hour long, upon checking a second time), was amazing. Right up there with some other upper-tier CBM's of late like Iron Man and Captain America: The Winter Soldier. A solid A- act right there. Gal Gadot was very funny, the tone of each scene was well portrayed, the fighting was phenomenally empowering, and the characters showed a lot of depth.

It's the last act that took this thing down as a whole, and it's nothing short of what every other CBM is doing today with a craptastic CGI-fest. Batman v Superman just had this issue last time with WW included, and they learned nothing from it. Since The Avengers, I've been sitting with my chin on my hand wondering why I should care for anybody's well-being during the fight. I just felt like punches have no tolling weight to them. I see why the story dictated they had to escalate to that, so I don't know... maybe it's just because of the poor CGI (not that it's treacherous, but maybe I'm just sick of CGI in general. Same thing happened with the Power Rangers film, to be honest. D- act, with its only redeeming quality being the emotional impact on Diana herself.

Also, I do have some questions regarding Diana's vulnerabilities, limitations and aging factor though, so I can understand exactly what the stakes are at any moment or what her main role will serve as going into Justice League. Maybe somebody can help me out there. Anyway, as I said before, serviceable CBM especially during the second act, whose rewatchability is not the best of the bunch and that really loses me by the end like most of these movies do with nonsensical and explosive final battles.


War for the Planet of the Apes

Upon rewatching the first two films before this one, I have come to realize that visuals are a huge factor of my moviegoing experience. When Rise should have grabbed me more, the CGI held me back. Dawn and War did not have these issues, especially War given the ocular performance each ape was able to bring. They really gave life to these apes, and you saw it in the eyes.

So given that, I don't know why Reeves had to resort to cheap dramatic tropes in the film that Hollywood must shove down our throats. I just think they should expect more out of their audience without needing to force-feed everything is all. Not to mention the number of convenient plot devices to keep the story moving. I think some people can get by seeing this film without being frustrated by it, but if you saw the screenplay of it you'd probably go, "You're kidding, right?" Dawn didn't have any of these issues, and whenever Rise did it was caused by character choices and was still rather realistic.

I think one thing this movie really did right was choose not to escalate too much. You hear "War" in the title and you think one thing, but then for 90% of the film you get a really indie-like tale that maintains an intimate focus and battle between ape & human, ape & ape, and human & human. There is a lot of sign language, but then you get a blend of English chatter even with the apes... then randomly you get one ape who signs to a group where two of them don't know sign language, and somehow the message gets across all of them without any other translating needed.

I like how this really felt like Caesar's trilogy in a way, even though the first two films you almost feel the protagonists to be one of the humans like James Franco. As divided as you can be between team human or team ape, here they just really seem to want to steer you toward team ape only, which I am okay with because of how much it really focuses on Caesar. It was a nice slow-moving epic with fantastic moments and visuals, but my ranking will easily sit Dawn --> War --> Rise, with Rise lacking in its second half of the film and rough CGI.


A Cure for Wellness

I really wanted to like this film, and for about the first 45 minutes I think I did. Gore Verbinski brought us into a creative environment with his own injection of mental calamity going on from the characters to the imagery, and I thought all of it was probably even more beautiful than that of Scorsese's Shutter Island. Then suddenly, I felt like I was just getting the same thing over and over again with no real conclusive leap that you weren't exposed to way earlier in the movie. The story had no sense of direction, and that upset me quite a bit. Its drive for being different than other films like it left it in a state of saying: "See, this is why we make movies a certain way."

It was so much longer than it needed to be, and I thought if crafted properly it could have been better as a miniseries with a different kind of focus than that of a feature-length film. I want Verbinski to not be demoralized in making films of this accord, but I think he flubbed this one early on and it never could pull me back in.


Deepwater Horizon

Whenever I see a trailer for a movie like this, I always ask how they can spent 100 minutes making something like this last for the viewer. I guess I can understand how since the event itself could have lasted much longer than even two hours, but we always need to have something happening to be as entertained as we are haunted over the true story behind the event. Of the films I have left impressions for, this is the most forgettable regarding individual moments and I am a few weeks removed now from seeing it, but when I was watching it I think I liked it.

I don't think it Dunkirk'ed me in any sort of way, and Wahlberg had a better performance in Patriots Day just prior to this, but they really do find a way in making the seemingly uninteresting actually very interesting without taking the realism wheels off the ground or losing its message. I was impressed with how well it was shot, how they maintained strong continuity, and thought they took the scope of the scope of the rig to a massive level despite how small they actually are, but when the chaos ensued it really did just feel like one long scene and I have a lot of trouble recalling individual instances that stuck out to me.

Maybe that's the point of a film like this though. A film like Unstoppable had the same feeling but had time to breathe and break from the tracks to other parts of the city. This did not have the same opportunity, and I would not like them to have too many creative liberties on true stories, so I guess I respect what it did.

Good golly miss molly that is a lot of movies. U went on a movie binge or something? Good feedbacks though bro!


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