What movie did you see recently?

Watched Snow White tonight after not seeing it for almost 30 years. It's a great film where you can really appreciate the fluid animations and beautiful art.

The movie itself is kind of a mess, though. It has a fairly slow beginning that banks on the audience being impressed with the music and animation (ironically, both seem worlds better than most modern animation), while the middle part is the most memorable fun part (whistle while you work, heigh ho, silly song), and the ending feels like it's just there because somebody tapped Walt on the shoulder and said "Hey, uh, Mr. Disney, sir? You know this had to end at some point, right?"

Overall, not bad. Not particularly good, but the memorable parts really are by far some of the most classic and "singable" songs ever produced.

I look forward to Pinocchio tomorrow night.
 
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Last night I viewed Starship Troopers. Fun movie, but the characters and story were all very one dimensional and wooden, much like the old science fiction pictures from the '50s which I feel it resembles. But I hear the movie is meant to be satirical, so perhaps that was intentional on Verhoeven's part.

I'm also not sure if they remastered the CGI since the movie's original release (First time viewer), but the 4K version I viewed looked stunning and I'd argue the computer effects hold up very well for being over 20 years old now.
 
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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.
 
I rewatched the laughably stupid Atomic Train. The flaws of this movie are legendary but my favorite is It always amazes me they expect the audience to buy Montreal Locomotive Works locomotives as United States locomotives.
 
I recently watched Independence Day 2 and oh boy... what a mess that movie was.

I feel this whole thing could have been vastly improved if it had been made a standalone movie that's not a sequel to anything, dropping all the stupid "Brown pilot hates orphan pilot" subplot that goes nowhere and scaling down the alien mothership to make it look less ridiculous.

Just make it a movie set in a not-so-distant future and some alien menace showing up to ruin humanities day. It would be generic as fuck, but at least it would be fun to watch.


That said, the one thing that I least looked forward to was the shoehorned in Brent Spiner character that died in the first movie and was retconned to being in a coma, but Spiner is just such a charismatic actor, I actually enjoyed his performance, even though nothing about him made sense.
 
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Last night I viewed Starship Troopers. Fun movie, but the characters and story were all very one dimensional and wooden, much like the old science fiction pictures from the '50s which I feel it resembles. But I hear the movie is meant to be satirical, so perhaps that was intentional on Verhoeven's part.

I'm also not sure if they remastered the CGI since the movie's original release (First time viewer), but the 4K version I viewed looked stunning and I'd argue the computer effects hold up very well for being over 20 years old now.
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Starship Troopers is definitely satire, the book plays it straight though.

The last movie I got through without dozing off was We are Still Here, it was a nice little homage to House by the Cemetery.
 
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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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Got back from seeing A Quiet Place. I did like that it did not go into what the creatures were (but if a sequel/prequel comes about, chances are it will expand on them). While the movie isn't long, it felt like it was particularly with the third act. Also any time something is being touted with how much it has a "fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes, I often wonder if it will hold up well in the future or be seen as a bit overhyped.
 
I was watching Such is Life. It's a 1924 silent film starring Baby Peggy. I hadn't heard of her before so I googled her. Turns out she was the Shirley Temple of the 1920's and made 1.5 million a year. And she's still alive at age 99. She's the last living big name silent film star. Pretty amazing since her career started in 1921 and that was almost a century ago.
 
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The Boondock Saints, gotta love the scene where scottish comedian Billy Connolly plays some old-as-dirt mafia hitman, strapped with six pistols. It was also interesting that near the end where he confronts the twins, it basically becomes a "No Luke, I am your father." moment. Fun Fact: the reason why Billy Connolly's character was chomping a cigar was that when he was cast in that role and went to do the scene, he uncontrollably grinned at the opportunity that they had him chomp said cigar to hide his grin.
 
I saw A Quiet Place at our cinema last night, and really enjoyed it. It was very well made, and the premise was handled well. There were some genuinely tense moments, and I loved how seriously the threat was taken, and all the various small but clever ways the characters went about their daily lives while trying not to make a sound. I would highly recommed it.
 
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I saw A Quiet Place at our cinema last night, and really enjoyed it. It was very well made, and the premise was handled well. There were some genuinely tense moments, and I loved how seriously the threat was taken, and all the various small but clever ways the characters went about their daily lives while trying not to make a sound. I would highly recommed it.
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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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The Chinese movie "Young Detective Dee" from 2013.

Not to spoil anything, but there's a climactic piss-drinking montage.

Seriously, the cure to a parasitic infection plaguing the Imperial court is piss from a eunich and the montage shows not just Emperor Tang drinking the "golden soup" but a bunch of kids as well.

I rate this film :islamic: out of 10.
 
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Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle - 8/10
Really enjoyed this, nice moral to the story as well elevates it above a typical romp and Karen Gillen, yum.
 
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"The Chess Player." It wasn't very good. Its Nazis played the "Ve haff vays uff mecking you talk!" trope very straight. Not interesting. On the upside, it didn't fall prey to the technical errors (e.g., sideways boards, pieces jumping around from shot to shot) that plague so many other chess movies.
 
Elvis Presley: The Searcher (HBO documentary). It was ok if you like Elvis's music but I was disappointed at the lack of a tasteless reenactment of him sitting on the crapper in his final hours. On the plus side, it contains relevant and insightful tidbits of information, such as Bruce Springsteen's observation that nobody had thought to mix gospel, rock, AND country before Elvis came along.
 
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