Discuss and Rate the Last Film You Watched

[Samtemdo8]

It’s not the worst movie, mainstream or otherwise, ever made. However when one looks at the talent involved, the breadth of material and historical works, and the sheer cultural impact and enduring popularity - Superman for example is one of the most recognisable fictional characters ever, alongside Sherlock Holmes and Robin Hood - of the characters the movie is about, and yes even the money spent. Then it is a far worse movie than it should by any logic be.

The DCAU managed to tell a more compelling tale about the Man of Steel and the Dark Knight meeting each other in 61 minutes than BvS did in nearly three hours. That movie got away from them big time.

Reminds me of All Star Batman and Robin.

You have Batman and Robin, set in an origin story so none of the continuity baggage.

You have Frank Miller, the guy that made The Dark Knight Returns, "The bestest batman comic book everz"

You have Jim Lee working on the art, one of the greatest comic book artist ever (can't deny his impact at least)

Clearly All Star Batman and Robin had so much going for it to be the best Batman thing ever......and then the comic came out....

(But to be honest I like the comic as a guilty pleasure/so bad its good kind of thing, though I prefer BvS over All Star Batman)

 

[Gordon_4]

Reminds me of All Star Batman and Robin.

You have Batman and Robin, set in an origin story so none of the continuity baggage.

You have Frank Miller, the guy that made The Dark Knight Returns, "The bestest batman comic book everz"

You have Jim Lee working on the art, one of the greatest comic book artist ever (can't deny his impact at least)

Clearly All Star Batman and Robin had so much going for it to be the best Batman thing ever......and then the comic came out....

(But to be honest I like the comic as a guilty pleasure/so bad its good kind of thing, though I prefer BvS over All Star Batman)

Oh Christ, I’d watch BvS a hundred times before I ever willing cast my eyes over the pages of All Star Batman and Robin. And it’s not like Frank couldn’t write Batman - I still think Year One is a great Batman book - but all of the versions of DCs trinity in ASBAR are just.....awful.

Which is a shame considering how goddamn good All Star Superman is.

 

[Samtemdo8]

Oh Christ, I’d watch BvS a hundred times before I ever willing cast my eyes over the pages of All Star Batman and Robin. And it’s not like Frank couldn’t write Batman - I still think Year One is a great Batman book - but all of the versions of DCs trinity in ASBAR are just.....awful.

Which is a shame considering how goddamn good All Star Superman is.

And yet I think Dark Knight Strikes Again was even worse. I don't even know what the plot was.

 

[twistedmic]

Watching bits and pieces of Batman v Superman, and I still don't think its the absolute worse movie ever that the mainstream and youtubers like moviebob make it out to be.

Are you watching the theatrical cut or the extended cut?

 

[Samtemdo8]

Are you watching the theatrical cut or the extended cut?

Extended Cut

 

[twistedmic]

Extended Cut

That's the way to view it. The theatrical cut removed a bunch of scenes that had story relevant content.

 

[Gordon_4]

That's the way to view it. The theatrical cut removed a bunch of scenes that had story relevant content.

I don’t understand how they needed 3+ hours to tell the damn story in the first place.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

The Lighthouse

I would have liked it more if it wasn't in 4:3.

 

[Ringo]

The Lighthouse

I would have liked it more if it wasn't in 4:3.

A film that's mostly faces, cramped spaces, and a lighthouse? The material doesn't really lend itself to scope. I don't like the film, but the aspect ratio is a totally appropriate choice.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

A film that's mostly faces, cramped spaces, and a lighthouse? The material doesn't really lend itself to scope. I don't like the film, but the aspect ratio is a totally appropriate choice.

I bought the whole TV I want to use the whole TV!

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Sound of Metal

A drummer suddenly loses 80% of his hearing while on tour with his screamy singer girlfriend and is promptly dumped in a rehab center. The movie naturally conflates deafness with addiction - I guess being cut off from the rest of the world would do that to you. The drummer happens to be a former junkie too so the movie is mostly him dealing with the fear/anger/denial of the situation while walking a tight rope between falling for easy fixes and accepting otherwise. It's a good movie, great acting from Riz Ahmed and I 100% accepted the treatment of the subject and something genuine and not at all romanticized.

My beef comes mostly from that Hollywood treatment of poor people, that also annoyed me in Hillbilly Elegy, and it's that these movies clearly have no idea what being poor means. In Sound of Metal we learn in the first act that an ear canal operation costs "between 40k to 80k". Drummer wants it desperately, but money is a problem... until it isn't? All he has to do is sell his crummy RV van for 26k (and everything inside), which apparently covers "40k to 80k" and still leaves him with money for 4 weeks of motel life and a flight to Paris. Uh huh. So there was never any reason for him not to get the operation ASAP, and nothing really stood in his way. Of course the point of the movie is that there're no easy fixes and ultimately you have to learn to be at peace with yourself, but I feel they should've scripted the movie in such a way that the guy didn't really have any other options when he checked into the rehab farm in the first place. He certainly didn't want to be there and just wanted the operation.

 

[Baffle]

Color Out of Space. It's a Nicholas Cage gurn-fest with no redeeming features unless you really like Nicholas Cage's incessant gurning.

 

[Chimpzy]

Monster Hunter - 4/10

My favorite scene was a 5 second bit of a Palico chef cooking a giant steak. Looked f'ing delicious.

 

[BrawlMan]

Monster Hunter - 4/10

My favorite scene was a 5 second bit of a Palico chef cooking a giant steak. Looked f'ing delicious.

After the disaster and controversy this movie had in China, hopefully Anderson stays away from any more game adaptions of movies. We're getting a a reboot of the Resident Evil movies and a proper adaptation of the first game this time, without any of his involvement. No Mila Jovavich, no nothing. Just a straight-up adaption of RE1. He spent way too much time wasting and ruining that franchise. Capcom ain't absolve that either.

 

[09philj]

My friends and I have started doing a thing where one of us nominates a film each week for us to watch and discuss. So far we've done:
Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse - Great superhero film. Well adapted from the comics, really excellent animation.
Cats - It's an insane vortex of terrible ideas and also feels like it lasts about ten years.
Your Name - I'd seen it before and it stood up to the repeat viewing. Lovely film.
Foodfight! - Veers uncontrollably between fascinatingly horrible, completely boring, and uncomfortably sexual. Worse than Cats.
Uncut Gems - This is a film for people for whom watching A24 films is their whole identity.

 

[Samtemdo8]

So I've been watching the most controversial film of the 21st Century so far, The Passion of the Christ.

And I have a rather interesting history with this film.

I may be atheistic now but I've been born into a Christian background of course, and I was good little faithful boy, but until this movie, I never really, truly understood the story of Jesus of Nazareth besides the basic "he did miracles, he died for our sins on the cross, he resurrected and ascended" I never even properly read the Bible as is. (And I don't think I can read it now since I don't think I can follow the kind of written text it has)

So I was 11-12 years old when this movie came out, and my mother brought me to see this movie in the theaters. And thus I was properly introduced to who Jesus was. albeit from a VERY Medievalist/Roman Catholic lens.

Yeah you can say this movie traumatized me as a child, and felt nothing but utter sympathy to Jesus because this could have been ANYONE going through what Jesus went through. Being Scourged and Crucified in such a brutal manner and the jeering crowd and sadistic Roman soldiers reveling in his torment.

Nowadays....I appreciate this film on a lot of technical details. I greatly appreciate its use of Ancient Languages. I always loved to hear films set in completely foreign cultures speaking in their own tongues which here is ancient Latin and Aramaic.

Set and costumes and acting were actually well done. Basically I would go as far as to say that this is Mel Gibson's masterpiece of a film, the problem is its Subject matter and Mel Gibson himself, Especially Mel Gibson at the time of 2004 when he got arrested for DUI and went on a drunken Anti-Semetic tirade at the cops. But I wasn't aware of the anti-semetic things or who exactly was Mel Gibson when I saw this film back in theaters.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Map of Tiny Perfect Things

Cutesy YA movie about a boy-meets-girl and they're both stuck in a time loop. Taps into the cliché teen insecurities (seize the day vs. think of the future) and whoa moments (everybody else lacks awareness, man) via the filter of time loop logic. Cute but nowhere near as witty as it thinks it is. There's some horrendous Buffy/Juno speak going on as well. As much as the metaphor about refusing to move on is obvious the more it delves into the science of the situation the less convincing it is.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Moonrise Kingdom

Cute and melancholy. Coming of age story that looks and plays like your typical Wes Anderson children's picturebook, albeit with some adult or sexual touches. I usually think Anderson is an overly indulgent style-over-substance filmmaker but he nails the sadness/tenderness/humanity of the characters here. And the picture is gorgeous to look at.

 

[Agema]

I Care A Lot

This is a movie about a sleazy woman, Marla Grayson (Rosamund Pike), who gets herself appointed legal guardian of vulnerable elderly and imprisons them in care homes whilst she siphons their assets into her own pocket, which she does with the assistance of a corrupt medical doctor and a well-meaning if dozy judge. Eventually, however, she picks on the wrong senior citizen, who turns out to have connections to some even nastier people than Marla.

This a movie of two halves - the first half works as an amoral, black comedy. Then at some point it just goes completely off the rails and turns into an action revenge thriller in a completely absurd and unbelievable way. It's like the scriptwriter / director took the film's plot along a logical route to a sensible end point, and then suddenly decided that wasn't what they wanted after all, and so hurriedly tacked on a different ending from a completely different type of movie. This mishandling breaks the movie unsalvageably, collapsing it into a nastily cynical potboiler. Disappointing.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Rampage

Dwayne Johnson (looking exactly the same as he does in Jumanji) is a person who gets involved with evil rich people and giant monsters that do evil rich people and giant monster things in the US.

If you like Dwayne Johnson and/or evil rich people and giant monsters that do evil rich people or giant monster things you might want to watch this film.