What movie did you see recently?

[The Nothingness]

Coco: Most tv and movie cliches ever put into a Pixar movie. Disappointing.

I liked it better when it was called The Book of Life (I know that the plots aren't exactly the same but the whole "meeting your dead Mexican ancestors" stood out to me when I saw the ads).

Just got back from seeing Justice League and I did not see it as the mess the critics are making it out to be. The stuff missing from trailers makes me wonder what the uncut version will show.

 

[XYZpdq]

The original Magnificent 7. I've been wanting to see this for a long time, and this desire had been kicked up a notch after seeing the remake (spits. Fuck that ending) in theaters last year. The original is kinda caught in the middle of the remake and the source material, Seven Samurai by Akira Kurosawa. As such, it really builds up to this big, chaotic battle at the end like the remake whereas Samurai was a war of attrition. Not as flashy as the remake, but it had the right heart and used the right ending (though not as beautifully handled as the source material's). Yul Brynner is fucking awesome and really felt like an American Kambei to me.

So: Seven Samurai (9/10) > Original Magnificent 7 (7.5/10) > Remake (5/10)

Maybe sometime I should get around to watching Samurai Seven. I remember that being on Razer all the time before it became MTV2, and from what I saw it was a pretty good anime.

As far as I've heard Samurai 7 isn't bad.

I saw Shocker a little while back.
Late 80s slasher movie. Serial killer uses his TV repair and occult knowledge to transcend death and serial kill more people. Enjoyable enough. Wes Craven was trying to make another Freddy.

So Shocker went on to be Skinner, Mulder and Scully's boss, and then Agent Doggett was the T1000. Were there other Xfiles cast that had memorable turns as killers?

 

[TheClorax]

I saw Coco a few days ago (due to my theatre only being able to show one movie a week), and I really enjoyed it. The jokes were funny, and there certainly felt like there were things at stake (unlike the Book of Life) sure, BoL and Coco are pretty similar in terms of concept (Person wants to be a musician where his family wants him to be something else, and goes to the afterlife). But Coco did a better job at it’s story, and was incredibly creative with the characters despite most of them being skeletons (or for :autism:, spoopy bois).

 

[Kamen Rider Black RX]

I rewatched Rocky Balboa today and it got me in the mood to finally get around to watching Creed. There's something magic about these last two movies, it's like the creators got their own eye of the tiger back.

 

[Roast Chicken]

Come Out and Play, directed by some dude called Makinov. A guy and his heavily pregnant wife go on holiday to Mexico and end up on an island that's been taken over by murderous, sadistic children.

It was alright; definitly tried hard to go for the shock factor but I was willing this couple to just run them all over with the abandoned car pretty quickly.

It was actually quite comical in some parts; there's a montage of scenes where the kids are shown playing with body parts and one girl even adorns herself with a necklace made of ears, noses and fingers. The scenes near the end are also hilarious. Dude wielded that oar like a pro baseball player.

I couldn't help but wonder though: Who goes holidaying in a hot country while 8 months pregnant?

 

[Kamen Rider Black RX]

Tango & Cash. I can't really put this into words but I'll try. It really felt like it was a focus-group created attempt at creating this buddy cop franchise complete with a Saturday morning cartoon (especially that car at the end). Like, it had everything it needed to do that but it's over the top nature prevents you from ever taking it seriously. It was amazing.

Also watched Big Trouble in Little China last week with my mom. I find it's enjoyable but a little overrated overrated, but my mom loved it. She especially loved how Jack Burton thought he was the hero but in reality he was the goofy sidekick.

 

[Overcast]

Saw Coco a couple days ago. I loved it. Although it's kinda hard for me to be objective about it since my grandfather passed away not long before I saw the film. Seeing it made me feel better about the whole thing.

Plus I have a soft spot for anything related to Mexican culture and music.

 

[John Titor]

The Babysitter on Netflix. It was pretty funny and I thought it could do well as an actual film release.

 

[Kamen Rider Black RX]

I'm checking out Rogue One tonight. 40 minutes in and I freaking love this. I really do. What with the rebels not being shown in an over-idealized light and just how it's a self-contained story in a bigger universe. It feels pretty refreshing considering how each trilogy focuses on a few characters that the universe revolves around. It's not rehashing the story of the original trilogy, it's adding to it.

Watched New Hope again last night. It's a good, fun adventure film as always but it's no Indiana Jones.

 

[Kamen Rider Black RX]

Lets' see.

Last Starfighter is still enjoyable after all these years. Finally got around to seeing Empire Strikes Back, and I must say once everything in that movie comes together nicely. You really feel the strength of the empire in that film. Watching Return of the Jedi tonight, which I have to say despite how great the Jabba's palace scenes are the last half drags on too much. Also, fuck Ewoks. Hate those fuckers and how they made the threat seem like a complete joke.

 

[Squishy Penny]

I decided to watch Despicable Me 3 last week,and I...kinda liked it?
Like,TBH if you take all the Minions out,the movie would've stayed the same,anyway.
but I'm glad the humans get more screentime in the third one. they have a lot of potential and it was a real disappointment seeing it go to waste in the second movie by giving the Minions so much attention.

 

[PuToTyra]

The planet of the apes remake trilogy, few weeks ago. For the first time.

Christ, this was awesome. Koba is sympathetic af imo.

I still occasionally rewatch some best scenes on youtube. The only area they could improve in was soundtrack(and some issues with 3rd movie but I don't want to go in detail about that).

Other than that I don't watch movies often, nether live action nor anime.

 

[neverendingmidi]

Galaxy Quest, still one of my favorite movies. There’s so many good lines in it, and Tim Allen and Alan Rickman play off each other pretty damn well.

Jason Nesmith: You WILL go out there.

Sir Alexander Dane: I won't and nothing you say will make me.

Jason Nesmith: The show must go on.

Sir Alexander Dane: ...Damn you.

 

[Fandom Trash]

Saw coco as well. And I thought it was quite cute and charming. Even went a bit dark with the plot.

The characters and music was nice but what really sold it was the animation and how gorgeous it was.

I never saw the book of life, so i dont have much to base on it. But i do recommend coco and watch it when you have the chance.

 

[That Chris Guy]

Watching Return of the Jedi tonight, which I have to say despite how great the Jabba's palace scenes are the last half drags on too much. Also, fuck Ewoks. Hate those fuckers and how they made the threat seem like a complete joke.

I tend to view Return of the Jedi positively (though it's the weakest of the original three) - Luke's return as a Jedi Knight that has been through all of his trial by fire in The Empire Strikes Back is the most rewarding element of that film; he has earned his skills at great personal sacrifice, and funnily enough it's not even his own power that defeats the Emperor in the end (the final scene of Vader is also special to me).

My own father didn't like the Ewoks and I can see why: A pack of tribal teddy bears defeat the Empire with some logs, clubs and sticks. I don't hate them myself despite the Vietnam War allegory, but everything that happens outside of Endor is what matters to me.

What I found most aggrievous was Lucas going back and editing shit he didn't need to edit. The original music and scene in Jabba's palace is still superior to the remade version, as is the ending music used at the close of the film.

Frankly though, the worst part was replacing the late Sebastian Shaw with Hayden Christensen. It was completely disrespectful.

Galaxy Quest, still one of my favorite movies. There’s so many good lines in it, and Tim Allen and Alan Rickman play off each other pretty damn well.

Agreed. It was an amazingly fun parody.

I never saw the book of life, so i dont have much to base on it. But i do recommend coco and watch it when you have the chance.

There was a segment played on a display TV in the Electronics division (some part where Ice Cube voices some guy), and I had no interest in seeing the movie after that. It looked like fucking Divine Comedy's Inferno: The Mexican Revision.

 

[Henry Bemis]

The Shape of Water.

Heartrending and gorgeous to look at. Its sociological subtlety will keep thinkpiece scriveners well-fed through award season, but goddamn it, I don't go to a fairy tale for subtlety.

 

[TheClorax]

Since my theatre can only play one movie a week, and doesn’t show R rated films, it was a while before I saw Thor: Ragnarok, and I really enjoyed it.

 

[Overcast]

Last movie I saw was The Last Jedi a few weeks back.

To me it's one of those "It's so bad it's good" kind of films. Pretty much every scene in the film is so hamfisted and ridiculous in some way.

Now, the prequels were bad in a lot of ways, no denying that. But at least they tried to do something original. And they provided a ton of material for side stories, spin offs and cool shit in general that turned out to be amazing.

The new movies just feel soulless and created with a checklist in mind. Which is funny, considering The Last Jedi goes out of its way to preach about how the past needs to be put to rest, and yet at the same time, it keeps mimicking the old films and even ends with kids talking about how amazing Luke Skywalker was. Kinda undermining the point they were trying to make.

And yet, I absolutely love it for that.

 

[Roast Chicken]

Eat Locals. Never expected a film with machine gun-wielding vampires to be so boring; it just dragged on and on. It was also meant to be a comedy but I only chuckled about 2 times. Plot is: Vampires are rapidly dwindling in the UK and they need new members, so one of them brings a clueless gypsy guy who thinks he's in for an orgy or something to their isolated farmhouse where they meet every 50 years. These are goodie vampires BTW, they only feed on animals (save for one who's quickly killed off for feeding on children)

The clan is unimpressed by their potential new vampire and have a vote on whether to accept him or not. However, one of them is like "fuck no we're not taking this idiot" so they all decide they'll have to kill him instead. While they're chasing him around the house and outside the house (how vampires can be this incompetent at killing one person is a mystery, no wonder they stick to cows and sheep) it turns out there's a bunch of army-style vampire hunters who are closing in on them.

It meanders so much. You listen to the vampires bicker inside the house, then you listen to the army dudes bickering in the woods on what to do. One of them is really stoked; he wants to kill some vampires NOW NOW NOW but the other guys were like "Naw we'll wait a but longer 'cus we need to pad this shitty plot out as much as we can"

There was a tiny sliver of an interesting subplot where the commander of the vampire hunters wanted to harvest their blood so he could sell it to a cosmetics company to make anti-aging products but it's just kinda brushed over save for a neat faux advert that's shown towards the end. Oh, and there was this political commentary slipped in that made me roll my eyes:

Vampire 1: We should feed on the illegal immigrants; no one will miss them.
Vampire 2: No they will be, because they work the shitty jobs the lazy natives don't want to do so that they can send money home to their poor families.
Vampire 1: Oh ok then.

Oh, and the people who own the house the vampires take over for their gathering are serial killers.

 

[Kamen Rider Black RX]

I'm watching Phantom Menace tonight.

1) I really like Qui-gon. I remember being really interested in him as a kid, but since I didn't like the movie back then I just wrote him off. You kinda get the feeling this guy doesn't have any issues using his powers and is somewhat manipulative. I find him an interesting character, and the fact he doesn't suffer Jar Jar's stupidity is just a bonus.

2) People talk about the kid playing Anakin, but I don't find him that bad. I've seen worse child actors, and his interactions with Padme just feels like a kid trying to show off what little he has. It's kinda endearing really.

3) Plus it just feels like Star Wars to me, something the Disney movies (aside from Rogue One imo) don't.

4) Finally, for a Star Wars movie this feels really fast-paced. It's different, but welcome all the same.