What movies have you seen recently?

**Master Live 013** · 04-01-2021, 06:17 PM

Re: What movies have you seen recently?

Mary and Max: 6/10
The Blind Side: 4/10
Mr. Nobody: 6/10
Invictus: 6/10
Orphan: 4/10
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: 5/10*
Inglourious Basterds: 7/10*
127 Hours: 6/10
How to Train Your Dragon: 6/10
Charlie St. Cloud: 5/10

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**KSUowls** · 04-03-2021, 04:21 PM

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Godzilla vs. Kong was entertaining. It was a bit slower than I expected, but the fights were a lot of fun.

**Blzer** · 04-05-2021, 12:08 AM

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Wonder Woman 1984

I liked it. In fact, I quite liked it a lot. As I was watching, I understand where some people saw lacking action and maybe wanted something more from there, but I come not from comic book lore and enjoy other aspects of Diana kind of molding into the world as she's supposed to. In fact, this movie turned the tables a bit nicely having Steve be the "fish out of water." I was glad he was brought back, as he helped bring the emotional core of the movie. And personally, Kristen Wiig was also great. I can't tell if she was cast because the character they wanted to write, or they brought that kind of character after she was cast. Regardless, it worked. Yup, this was a solid 90-minute movie.

. . . . .

Oh, wait. This movie wasn't 90 minutes, was it? There... there's still an hour more? Not that I think where they were was an ending by any means, but that was a first strong 90 minutes so I figured the rest of the movie will end up being just as good anyway. Okay, let's keep watching.

Spoiler

Wh... what the bloody hell? What happened to this movie? There was one good action set-piece and one or two good emotional moments, but the rest of this was absolute drivel. Shameful, in fact. I'm going to soon find out what others disliked about this, and I wouldn't doubt if it was the same problems I had. The thing of it is, it could've so easily been redone as well and accomplished the same result just by tweaking little things here and there, or removing things completely (maybe a good 10 minutes if they wanted to).

Until just a few minutes ago, I actually didn't know Patty Jenkins was a writer for this movie, so when people were blaming Patty for this film I assumed it was for directing only. This last hour would confirm my belief in that alone, and honestly finding out that she wrote it makes me a little more hopeful for her to stick around for story reasons and less for directing ones. I mean they're all ultimately interconnected, but come choices that were made were simply the wrong ones.

. . . . .

Now none of this is to say that I thought the first 90 minutes were perfect. I have several questions about the wishing facet of the story that really break things, and I think overall we can look at this and ask how this can be the same WW that we end up seeing in BvS and JL given all that happened. Regardless, if the movie stayed on that path for its final hour, I would've liked it plenty, bought it, and in some ways made comparisons against the first WW film.

Though when I think about it, the first WW film falls apart for me at the end too, though that one only falls apart in maybe the last half hour with the Ares reveal and the final battle, but the rest was serviceable. The first film definitely has higher highs overall though. This one was just a nice different kind of story, and one thing I liked about it for that first 90 minutes is it never tried to escalate like other sequels do; it just tried to tell another story, and I really liked that.

But yeah, this thing fell flat on its face at the end. That's just too bad. I'd still like to see where they go forward with it, though.

EDIT: On a completely unrelated note, I looked up the ages of these actors: Gal Gadot (35) and Chris Pine (40). Piney is definitely looking older these days, but it's weird for me as a 32-year-old now to think that he was 28 when the first Star Trek film released, likely even 27 when filming. I like to think of myself as a kid still sometimes (which I'm not), and it's crazy to have that inkling of how much I'm actually wasting my life away while Pine was heading a major franchise like that at my little sister's current age (who is a nurse in LA lol).

**DieHardYankee26** · 04-06-2021, 08:42 AM

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Superman '78: 5/5 (the bullet catch to faint is magical everytime)
Force Awakens: 4/5 (much less like ANH than I remembered, and the cast is great)
The Last Jedi: 2.5/5 (I still like the ideas they were going for, but execution just wasn't there)
Rise of Skywalker: 3/5 (a mess but an enjoyable mess somehow)
Birds of Prey: 3.5/5 (way better than it had any right to be)
Shazam: 2.5/5 (the kids are great, adults acting like kids are terrible)
Into the Spider-Verse: 4.5/5 (just love everything about this movie)
Spider-Man Homecoming: 4/5 (pretty much how I remember it, still great)

**Master Live 013** · 04-15-2021, 08:42 PM

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Insidious: 4/10
Shutter Island: 7/10*
Black Swan: 6/10*
Inception: 8/10*
Beetlejuice: 7/10*
The Silence of the Lambs: 10/10*
Chinatown: 6/10*
Gran Torino: 6/10*
Inherent Vice: 7/10*
Traffic: 7/10*

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**JayBee74** · 04-16-2021, 10:56 AM

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The Night of the Hunter (1955) starring Robert Mitchum. Although he was superb the movie fell flat for me. This is actually considered one of the great films of all time? I wanted to feel something from the Shelly Winter's underwater scene but at that point the tedium of the movie wore me down.

Jailhouse Rock (1957)-The most flawed film I absolutely love even after several viewings.

KG · 04-18-2021, 05:07 PM

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Watched The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Awesome at times with crazy amounts of tension
Painfully slow at times

Overall probably a little too long but I really like the narration parts. Wished there were more of those in there.

**Blzer** · 04-18-2021, 05:24 PM

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The New Mutants

It honestly wasn't all that bad, but not enough really happens and the final act sort of just comes and goes. I enjoyed the characters and really liked the tone, and though the scope was narrow I'd be interested in continuing along this path if we had an option to (though it's unlikely). They all have pretty good backstories that could almost make for their own movies if written well, though I'm not saying that's what should happen. I think they could've gone full bore with this one too and hit an R-rating, and maybe even extending this out 15-20 more minutes hitting a few more psychological aspects.

Don't expect this movie to be like any of the other X-Men films, though. That's not what they were going for, and that's plenty obvious. In the end it was just okay, but it played with good promise and was ambitious by going for a different approach with a rather modest budget.

**Fresh Tendrils** · 04-19-2021, 01:19 PM

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Godzilla Versus Kong
I really wished I had seen this in a theater, but it was still a fun and entertaining movie. The side-story with Eleven and Paper Boi was pretty meh to me and kind of threw off the whole logical core of the movie, but whatever. I enjoyed Brian Tyree Henry on the "big screen" so props to him. To me the Kong crew was at least made some kind of sense and certainly helped to give Kong a bit of real character not to mention create some interesting universe mythos for these monsters. The "why did you say Mothra" meme floating around the internet is spot on for the culmination. I didn't think there was enough fight scenes, but what we had was still fun. I was cheering Kong at the end like it was a WWE match. I just wanted him to tap his elbow and drop it on the lizard once.

Godzilla King of the Monsters
To me this was a half or whole step up above GvK. The story made (a little) more sense although there was still some glaring illogical character decisions and rationale. At least the monster fight scenes made up for it and half of the movie felt like a badass battle of monsters. Definitely felt like there was plenty of action here and Godzilla supercharging was excellent.

JoJo Rabbit
This was truly masterful to me. The offbeatness of the film really gives it a sense of charm which is absolutely wild considering not only the subject matter, but the delivery of it too. Certainly a lot of humor throughout, but ultimately not something I would call a comedy. The foreshadowing was nicely done, too. Great cast with topnotch performances.

**DieHardYankee26** · 04-19-2021, 01:27 PM

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You might be the first person I’ve seen put KOTM over KvG. I think Skull Island is my favorite top to bottom, but KvG is right after that. Zilla 2014 I like but is my least favorite. Counting KvG as a Kong movie since so much is about him, I think they did much better with his movies than Zilla. I actually think the monsters were handled pretty well in both sets but Kong’s people were better IMO.

**Fresh Tendrils** · 04-19-2021, 01:56 PM

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GvK was the first one I watched and we've been working our way backwards from there. Figured it wouldn't really matter in the grand-scope of the narrative. After watching it, a co-worker told me to watch King of the Monsters next since he liked that one more. I had to agree with him after seeing it. I don't really need these things to be humanized - just have them destroy a bunch of **** and battle it out marathon style. Plus, who doesn't like seeing Boston completely demolished?

**allBthere** · 04-19-2021, 03:19 PM

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finally saw "knives out" on prime

extremely well written and executed. Great cast, great acting, nice film-making overall. 8/10

**Blzer** · 04-19-2021, 04:39 PM

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My rankings for the monsterverse:

1) Godzilla
2) Kong: Skull Island
3) Godzilla vs. Kong
4) Godzilla: King of the Monsters

None of them are impeccable films by any stretch, and all of them vary in tone so much to make comparisons a little difficult at times (given that they all have different directors, that's not exactly hard to accomplish).

**Armor and Sword** · 04-20-2021, 07:45 PM

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My rankings would be:

1) King of The Monsters
2) Kong Skull Island
3) Godzilla vs Kong
4) Godzilla

I enjoyed them all. King is just total bad ***. I love it. Skull Island is the best acted film and I love Kong and it was sweet seeing Skull Island re-imagined. GvK was flat out fun for the most part. Godzilla is very good too.....but it simply does not have enough....you know Godzilla.

**Gotmadskillzson** · 04-21-2021, 07:08 PM

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Wrong Turn

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The Devil Down Below

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I give both a 7 out of 10. Way better then I expected them to be.

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