The Last Movie You Watched

[Gawdzilla Sama]

'Ant-Man And The Wasp'. Only take away:  Michael Douglas is aging well.

Boru

I've got that on hold at the library.  I'm like the bazillionth person in line.  It got good reviews, but sometimes that's not enough.

If you like comic book movies it will be fun. If you worship comic book movies, not so much.

[Brian37]

I watched the original Friday The 13th early this morning. It scared the shit out of me as a teen, but looks sooooo fake now. Still have an appreciation for the mood music though.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I watched the original Friday The 13th early this morning. It scared the shit out of me as a teen, but looks sooooo fake now. Still have an appreciation for the mood music though.

Take away from that one: Have sex, do drugs, die anyway.

[onlinebiker]

The Matrix

Holy shit... This movie is 20 years old???


It' s probably been 10 years since I saw it - but the funny thing??

All sorts of other movies have paid homage to it - in subtle ways. 

Watch it again - and you'll see..
 

[Gawdzilla Sama]

"Paid homage" = "lack of imagination".

[Rev. Rye]

This week in the DEEP HURTING PROJECT: Glitter.

This is a film with a very bad reputation. So bad that this is actually on the Wikipedia article:

 

And shockingly, as I watch this, I have to admit, this is actually the most tolerable film I've watched for the Deep Hurting Project. Granted, it's nowhere near a good film, but at least it has some idea of what the general shape of the plot is supposed to be, unlike Saving Christmas or The Disappointments Room (even if it is poorly sketched and the character development just barely existent). Unlike Jem and the Holograms, it can go at least a minute without doing something so stupid I think about watching something else (don't get me wrong, there's a bunch of stupid things, like the fact that the film can't tell 1983 from 2001 or the fact that Mariah Carey and her love interest manage to collaborate on a song psychically). It at least doesn't try to butcher beloved franchises like Fant4stic or Jem and the Holograms (even if it did temporarily derail Mariah Carey's career). And when the most unlikeable character in the film shows up, at least it takes a while before I want him dead, like how Carey's love interest Dice slowly starts showing shades of Paul Snider and the film doesn't realise it, unlike in Bio-Dome when I hate Pauly Shore's character the second he comes on screen.

Why, yes, that is some damn faint praise. The plot is a pretty stock melodrama, Mariah Carey's tits do a better job acting than her, and they don't give enough of a shit to make a film set in 1983 look like the Eighties. Seriously, in Todd in the Shadows' review of the film, he scores an early scene with the Talking Heads' "Burning Down the House" and that's still far more Eighties than the actual production team put into the film. Still, is this one of the worst films of all time? No, not really. Hell, I can think of five films from that year alone I hated more than this film off the top of my head:

• Pearl Harbor
  
• Monkeybone
  
• Planet of the Apes remake
  
• The Animal
  
• Ghosts of Mars
  

It's shit, but if it wasn't a cinematic vehicle for a huge pop star, nobody'd give a shit about it.

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Re-watched 'Casino Royale' late last night.  The BEST Bond actor in the BEST Bond film ever. Not to mention Mads Mikkelsen positively glowing with evilosity and Eva Green at her sultry, slinky best. 

10/10 as Bond films go, 8/10 in general.

Boru

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Re-watched 'Casino Royale' late last night.  The BEST Bond actor in the BEST Bond film ever. Not to mention Mads Mikkelsen positively glowing with evilosity and Eva Green at her sultry, slinky best. 

10/10 as Bond films go, 8/10 in general.

Boru

Started watching it last night, but oxycontin made lip reading a bit of a challenge. I still want to do the whole Craig-Bond schtick in one run.

[Anomalocaris]

'Ant-Man And The Wasp'. Only take away:  Michael Douglas is aging well.

Boru

I don’t get this fail to grow out of comic book thing. It seems to me growing out of comic books is as unavoidable as day following night, or pubic hair growing during puberty, Yet for so many day inexplicably never comes and infantile state of hairlessness remains for life.

I will sidle away now.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I dropped comics like a bad habit when we moved within walking distance of a public library. (Walking distance = 4.3 miles in a straight line.)

I'm currently watching "Infinity Wars" again.