What movie did you see recently?

Pacific Rim: Uprising.
It was alright. Not as many giant robot fights as I would have wanted though...
 
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R.A.E.L. said:
I just saw it and enjoyed it a lot too. Gets a 9/10 from me. Though my one complaint is:
why would you knowingly get pregnant in a situation like that? Unless we're supposed to assume the mom was already pregnant during the opening scene. Glad the death flags for her were copouts, but I wish John Krasinski’s character had lived too.
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Sense of progress in life. They walked in circles waiting to die, unable to convey emotions and they lost a kid already. It was probably a basic bitch move to replace the kid at the time.

The Outsider. I really love those super cramped Japanese settings (Yakuza, Shenmue), so thematically it was down my alley. Was it good? Eh. I liked how nobody seemed invincible but it was all down to honor being the 'plot armor'. Once honor was out of the question people died.

I love how the big upset was Jared Leto playing.. An American. I assume people didn't read the description.
 
A German silent movie from 1921 on youtube called The Haunted Castle, which contained neither a haunting, nor a castle. It did contain a crazy lady endlessly making O-faces at the camera, and alot of men trying to make standing around doing nothing look terribly dramatic.

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J'accuse!

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Bitch, please.

It is a very silly film, but at least I wasn't bored.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcLAlW0iYHg
 
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I should see Avengers: Infinity War sooner or later. I'm disappointed in myself for not seeing Pacific Rim: Uprising, so I need to make up for it, as soon as I can get away with it!

EDIT: Just saw said movie today and like Black Panther before it, enjoyed it well enough - it sucks that it's only part 1, so it's up in the air if Part 2 can truly deliver in the end. Here's hoping it does - the way Part 1 ends was one hell of a downer for me.
 
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Just rewatched “High Spirits”, an old 80’s comedy. Haven’t seen it in probably over 20 years. It’s not a deep or moving movie, but as a silly and ridiculous one I think it holds up.

The whistling fish scene made me laugh. “I don’t hear anything, do you?”
 
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Three billboards outside Ebbing, Missouri and shape of water.

I finished three billboards, but couldn't get through half of shape of water before I switched to three billboards...maybe some other day.

Also picked up a new tune.

 
Watched "Wild" over the last few days. True story, and the movie isn't bad, but the book is better. Part of me wants to do the hike, but not a chance doing it alone like she did.
 
mulliganfarmer said:
I got stuck going to Tomb Raider today with my father, we were meant to be seeing Isle of Dogs but we got the cinema times mixed up with another cinema in a different town. Since we'd already driven out from the middle of nowhere we asked what else was on, and we happened to be just in time for Tomb Raider.

I never played the games so it didn't bother me as much as it would probably bother someone who had, but there were some real cringe moments. The dialogue in particular was clearly written by an American because it had colloquialisms that no Brit would use and a lot of the bantery moments were awkward because flirty sitcom-ish wisecracks just sound wrong in a cut-glass English accent.

Between that and the 'tense-booby-trap-room-of-death' that was ruined by the puzzle pieces looking like giant jellybeans, it was far too silly to take seriously and not silly enough to be an actual parody. It mostly just confused me.

My Dad loved it.
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It annoys me when dialogue is clearly written by someone with no grasp of how the characters are supposed to sound. Brits written by Americans unfamiliar with British speech patterns and dialect are a good example of that. It's jarring and takes you out of the movie.

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Last night I used one of my Free Admision tickets I got from volunteering at my local theatre to see A Wrinkle in Time. It was meh, nothing great, but nothing to get overly pissy about like just about most users on this site did.
It was definitely one of the weirdest things Disney’s put out in a long time, but certainly not their worst.
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A Wrinkle in Time seems like it would be a hard book to film even if it didn't have Oprah wearing makeup the color of toothpaste.
 
Just watched The Last Jedi for the first time... boy oh boy, what the fuck were they thinking.
I knew the Casino subplot went nowhere beforehand, but to think that the "Rey meets Luke" subplot went nowhere, too... essentially the entire movie goes nowhere. It starts with the rebels on the run and you could cut straight to the scene where the notrebels resistance abondon ship (cut pretty much every scene that happens until the fleet fires upon the transport ships) and Admiral Tumblr supercruises into the hostile fleet.
I'll give them this: The effect looked amazing, but holy fucking shit, this movie is absolutely terrible. [edit]But if using the jumping capabilities of a ship to fuck up another ship is this effective, why has noone done so before. You'd think it would become their go-to ship-to-ship weapon. Jesus, this movie hurts my brain.[/edit]

For some reason, the idea that the Resistance uses rings that look like they were straight from a cornflakes box as some sort of secret identification method slays me.
 
Saw Infinity War last night in IMAX 3D( cause I figured why not). Really liked it. Actually surprised me at parts.
 
Saw Avengers: Infinity War yesterday.

Didn't really plan on seeing it because I'm burned out on superhero movies (and I spoiled the movie for myself anyway) but I had nothing better to do. It was okay. It's got everything I dislike about superhero movies in general, like the overabundance of comedy and the extremely bloated plot and run time. Plus if you missed several movies you're going to be mildly confused; I skipped Thor 3 and Dr Strange and those ended up being really important to the plot of this one.

It was entertaining though, and the fight scenes were really cool. Some moments were a bit more emotional than standard Marvel fare, but I really wonder if they're going to allow any of it to stick after Part 2 comes out.
 
Saw The Quiet Place and once again good reviews led me to disappointment.

I think I was particularly disappointed because the premise had such great potential and the first 45 minutes got my hopes up.

Bitching, but Spoiler for those who haven’t seen it.
Making sounds gets you eaten by some monster. Yet for some reason they chose to live above ground on a farm, rather in a sound proof bunker they happen to have or by a big river and waterfall in walking distance. Also to have a baby, the nosiest humans on earth, so they can endanger the entire family. At the end we find out guns work on these things????? How did they take over the world of a good rifle shot works? Oh and a frequency from a coclear implant can harm them? Really it took a 12 year old girl, and the death of most of humanity, to notice the sound creatures could be killed using sound? Guess those Bell Lab guys really are useless.

Don’t get me started on somehow having electrical power on their farm yet not using it to have sound alarms at the perimeter to lure the creatures away from themselves when needed. Nope will stick to a fireworks that has to be manually run to and lit.

Also they really went all in by showing the creatures way too much and for too long towards the end, it went from scary to absurd. I lost all fear of the creature after he got too much hammy FX screen time.

I’m usually pretty disappointed when I bother to go to a movie but at least the new Bladerunner and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing Missouri restored some hope that my $20 wouldn’t always be wasted. But The Quiet Place really took a great premise for a horror film and shit the bed.

RomanesEuntDomus said:
Just watched The Last Jedi for the first time... boy oh boy, what the fuck were they thinking.
I knew the Casino subplot went nowhere beforehand, but to think that the "Rey meets Luke" subplot went nowhere, too... essentially the entire movie goes nowhere. It starts with the rebels on the run and you could cut straight to the scene where the notrebels resistance abondon ship (cut pretty much every scene that happens until the fleet fires upon the transport ships) and Admiral Tumblr supercruises into the hostile fleet.
I'll give them this: The effect looked amazing, but holy fucking shit, this movie is absolutely terrible. [edit]But if using the jumping capabilities of a ship to fuck up another ship is this effective, why has noone done so before. You'd think it would become their go-to ship-to-ship weapon. Jesus, this movie hurts my brain.[/edit]

For some reason, the idea that the Resistance uses rings that look like they were straight from a cornflakes box as some sort of secret identification method slays me.
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For some reason, even after the prequel trilogy shitpile, I did go see TFA. TFA cured me of any desire of ever watching another new SW film ever again. It’s a shame the original trilogy has to be associated with all the dumpster fires that have come after it.
 
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Watched 'you are umasou' the other day, whole film is on youtube. Pretty good if you like anime dinosaurs fighting.
 
Just finished watching Mel Gibson's Apocalypto for the first time thanks to Netflix.

It was alot better than I expected. The opening of the movie was very well done, and made me give a shit about the people who would be the protaganists. It also made me greatly dislike the badguys when they showed up. The action was competantly done and the sets were really impressive looking.

That said, if you are in anyways a pussy, or a vegan, I would avoid this. The violence is graphic and they weren't afraid to just dump buckets of fake blood everywhere, especially during the scene with all the human sacrifice, which was just fucking badass.
 
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