The Last Movie You Watched

[pocaracas]

Inception.  

Not sure I understand it, but equally unsure if I want to.

Just dreams within dreams within dreams and some paranoia in the mix!


I just watched Ready Player One.
Nice futuristic plot with tons of retro gaming/movie references.

[T0 Th3 M4X]

Inception.  

Not sure I understand it, but equally unsure if I want to.

Just dreams within dreams within dreams and some paranoia in the mix!


I just watched Ready Player One.
Nice futuristic plot with tons of retro gaming/movie references.

Loved this movie.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

The wee tykes are complaining that the references were too obscure. They'd probably go over my head as well.

[Mr.Obvious]

Train to busan.

Been wanting to see this one for a long time. 

Did not dissapoint. A true recommendation.

Very creative setting for a zombie flick. And good acting too. (Visually, don't understand the language so can't comment on that.) Good feel for tension. Very claustrophobic. Little use of jump scares, but still good at getting you to the edge of your seat. A good rush over all. A smaller story than 28 days later, but better for it. More compact, allowing for bigger impact. More realistic this way: like a snippet into a catastrophe, cutting away from the disaster before you're bored of it. A taste leaving you wanting more. A smaller story that thus manages to grip you by the balls. 
Even a bit of self-reflection for the main protagonist with the older corporate bigshot as the main human antagonist and his possible future. As all the best zombie stories are about something else than actual zombies, underneath the skin.

And most important of all: consistent zombies.
While I am more of a fan of the classic, slow zombie. Rather than fast infected... It's most important, to me, that the zombies are consistent. I've been watching the walking dead, into season 3 right now. It's not bad, though I've heard ill of further seasons. But the inconsistent zombie-rules keep pulling me out of it. Depending on the plotthey can only stagger, then again they can run. They can smell or recognize the living unless they are camouflaged, except when the living just lie down on the middle of the road pretending to be corpses. They rot and decay, but they continue to do so for extreme periods of time without losing in mobility or muscle-strentgh. (I've heard the story's progressed  over 6 years?) They are only attracted to screaming living victims, and not things that are already dead. That's why in the barn they're fed with chicken with a broken leg. But then when the convict wants to use them for a trap he can lure them with a bloody heart....

Anyway, this was about train to busan, not my gripe with TWD.
Very refreshing yet familiar take on the zombie film. The daylight, the tone of the movie... It's zombies, but from a genuine unique, similar yet different, approach.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Mowgli: Legend Of The Jungle

Very well done and (personally) satisfying take on Kipling's 'Jungle Book' stories.  I especially enjoyed seen Kaa correctly portrayed as one of the good guys in the cycle (although wrongly depicted as female), Baloo being less of a buffoon, and Bagheera somewhat ethically flexible where Mowgli's welfare is concerned.

I understand that this film didn't make a lot of money, so it's unlikely to undo the damage that Disney et al have done to Kipling's stories.  Sad.

Boru

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Morgul Engines* Eye candy: 9 Plot: 4. Based on a juvie book, so that's not that bad. Rotten Tomatoes: 28% Audience: 60%.



*Because Elrond

[onlinebiker]

Inception.  

Not sure I understand it, but equally unsure if I want to.

Just dreams within dreams within dreams and some paranoia in the mix!


I just watched Ready Player One.
Nice futuristic plot with tons of retro gaming/movie references.

We saw RPO when it first came out- and the SO rented it - not being sure if we had seen it.


We still enjoyed the hell outta it.

[onlinebiker]

A classic --


One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest.

Holy shit - I forgot what a great movie this is - and was amazed at how many of those actors went on to other great movies and TV.

But damn -- they were all so young!!! Danny Devito even had hair.

[Fake Messiah]

Recently I had a bout of watching movies that I didn't watch since 90s and it was mostly a positive experience like with "Flirting With Disaster" which turned out to be much better than when I first saw it.

But then also I watched "Stargate" which turned out to be much bigger garbage than I remembered it.
I mean just look at the sky of that other planet



It's our frickin Moon pasted three times in the sky!!! But they also disappear later since we don't get to see them anymore, just that one shot. I wonder what happened to them?

[Rev. Rye]

Well, I think I've mentioned my plans to watch a film from TVTropes' "So Bad It's Horrible/Film" page every week this year. Since I'm about to start Film #2 in this series, I may as well do a brief review of the film I used to start this: Kirk Cameron's Saving Christmas.

Well, I think a lot of us have heard of this film, and Brad Jones' Cinema Snob review of the film pretty much goes over most of the film's problems:



It's cheap as all fuck, and its plot basically involves Kirk Cameron convincing his brother-in-law Christian that all the materialistic, conspicuous consumption in Christmas these days is actually meant to be a reflection of Christian history, up to and including Santa being an ancient bishop who beat an opponent of the Trinity during the council of Nicea (which most historians agree is almost certainly a myth) and this final monologue:

"So, this is Christmas. Pull out your best dishes, your finest linens, your nicest silverware, the biggest ham, every side dish you can imagine, and the richest butter. It's time to feast. ... and don't buy into the complaint about materialism during Christmas. This is a celebration of the eternal God taking on a material body. So, it's right that our holiday is marked with material things. Things that we can look upon and touch with our hands."

Well, that monologue basically has our bases covered for Avarice and Gluttony. I think that much of this film is based on pride, and that story about Nicholas of Myra silencing Arias with his fist certainly would appear an endorsement of wrath. So, ironically for a Christian film, we got four of the Seven Deadly Sins being pretty explicitly endorsed.

Anything else to mention? Well, there's also sloth. I honestly can't remember watching a movie that was so filled with filler. That plot about Kirk Cameron convincing his brother-in-law about the true meaning of Christmas being everything cynical about the holiday that literally every other Christmas special admonishes against? It only gets going about 10 minutes in. It's over 50 minutes in. The movie is about 80 minutes long. And, of course, in between, there's this obviously-dubbed rant from a random conspiracy-minded motor-mouthed black guy about nothing in particular at one point. So, yes, this movie is over 50% filler. I'm pretty sure that makes five Deadly Sins this Christian movie is embracing.

Well, given that Kirk Cameron is infamous for refusing to do kissing scenes with any woman other than his wife, and it appears his sister (who also appears in the film and is NOT married to Christian IRL) has the same rules, so, even after he teases a big kiss scene, it doesn't happen. Well, at least we get spared one Deadly Sin.

So, why not imply the seventh with a piece of Christian media I remember from when I was actually a Christian?





Is there anything good about it? Well, Christian does seem like a vaguely compelling character, but that could be because of his looking like Walter White in Felina and the fact that he opposes Kirk's bullshit (and is actually fairly eloquent in the first scene he voices his qualms, though his speech quality does degrade as the argument goes on), but then again, he's played by Darren Doane, the film's director, so, yes, you know that he's given his approval to all this horseshit, including this dance scene:





I would like to point out that Doane has a history as a director of music videos (Wikipedia lists 126 and it still claims to be incomplete.) One would think he'd do something a bit more interesting. To be fair, I only recognised two of the songs on the Wikipedia list, and I don't remember their videos, but he did film Van Morrison's Astral Weeks concert film, which I know, is going to be a lot less physically intense, given that it's a 70-something man crooning into a microphone with an orchestra to back him up, but at least that one looked better than this.

Also, one little bit most reviews failed to mention: Mrs. Nicholas of Myra in her one line sort of reminds me of Kelly MacDonald. Well, it's a tiny thing, but it at least keeps it from turning into utter cinematic oblivion.

And honestly, I can only suppose that the next film in this traversal of cinematic shit will actually be better. Well, at least I know going in that it has at least one redeeming quality, and, surprisingly enough, it rhymes with Ass. Stay tuned to see me take on Fant4stic.