Discuss and Rate the Last Film You Watched

[Chimpzy]

Ah, that explains it. I normally don't even hear about straight to DVD type movies anymore.

If you want to watch Doom Annihilation, here's my tip, watch Aliens again. It's a poor (or rather, destitute) man's version of the latter, so why even bother with the former.

Which amusingly brings things full circle, since the first Doom was originally planned to be based on Aliens, but couldn't get the license or something, so they retooled it into early 90's trash metal in game form.

 

[Gordon_4]

Captain America: The Winter Soldier

Man I fucking love this movie, and Chris Evans' turn as Captain America is for my money sitting right up with Christopher Reeve's Superman as genre defining. But that's only a piece of the puzzle; this entire movie has very little wasted talent in even its bit players, with the only exception being Emily Vancamp as Agent 13/Sharon Carter. She's not awful but rather superfluous. The action is well thought out and fun to watch, each character gets their moments to shine that reflect their skill sets, and I find the the score has several memorable beats.

And Cap's mic drop speech is......still damn good.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Kingsman: Secret Service

Not nearly as clever as it thinks it is, and having CGI is not a replacement for a story. Every movie has lots of CGI nowdays, you aren't special cause you do as well.

Better than Spiderman: Homecoming, though, but not saying much.

 

[Dalisclock]

If you want to watch Doom Annihilation, here's my tip, watch Aliens again. It's a poor (or rather, destitute) man's version of the latter, so why even bother with the former.

Which amusingly brings things full circle, since the first Doom was originally planned to be based on Aliens, but couldn't get the license or something, so they retooled it into early 90's trash metal in game form.

I've literally watched movies that were both so bad and so deriviative of ALIENS that I spent the entire film being reminded I could be watching ALIENS right now.

 

[Casual Shinji]

I recently watched Us.

That movie sucked. I quite enjoyed Get Out, but Us was fucking weak. I guess the whole doppelganger angle was supposed to be creepy, but it just came off as really try-hard. And Lupita Nyong'o seems like a fine actress, but her voice as the doppelganger was just silly and snuffed out any threat she might've carried. I figured the movie would be about family versus doppelganger family, but then it suddenly turns into the doppelganger apocalypse? What?! And were they suggesting the government made them or what? This whole thing was freaking lame.

 

[Wintermute]

Balle Perdue - 7/10

It's a french film, that alone earns 2 points. Tell anyone you saw a FRENCH FILM, don't say MOVIE, and they'll think you're cultured, that you watch obscure cinema, you're above the rabble, you don't watch that Marvel shit. Good fights, good car chases, this is a very Jason Statham-y FILM, a nice alternative to the over the top action of the Fast and Furious movies with Vin Diesel and The Rock.

 

[Xprimentyl]

I recently watched Us.

That movie sucked. I quite enjoyed Get Out, but Us was fucking weak. I guess the whole doppelganger angle was supposed to be creepy, but it just came off as really try-hard. And Lupita Nyong'o seems like a fine actress, but her voice as the doppelganger was just silly and snuffed out any threat she might've carried. I figured the movie would be about family versus doppelganger family, but then it suddenly turns into the doppelganger apocalypse? What?! And were they suggesting the government made them or what? This whole thing was freaking lame.

Agreed. From a director who prides himself on the intellectual aspects of and cultural relevance in his works, Us was just dumb. My eyes rolled hard when Nyong’o asked, well, ‘herself’ the inevitable “who are you people?”, and she dropped the ominous “We’re Americans” in response. Good lord, I half expected to find Jordan Peele appear in the seat next to me and start nudging me in the ribs to ensure I got the message. Or maybe it IS really smart and I’M the dumb one.

 

[BrawlMan]

I recently watched Us.

That movie sucked. I quite enjoyed Get Out, but Us was fucking weak. I guess the whole doppelganger angle was supposed to be creepy, but it just came off as really try-hard. And Lupita Nyong'o seems like a fine actress, but her voice as the doppelganger was just silly and snuffed out any threat she might've carried. I figured the movie would be about family versus doppelganger family, but then it suddenly turns into the doppelganger apocalypse? What?! And were they suggesting the government made them or what? This whole thing was freaking lame.

Agreed. From a director who prides himself on the intellectual aspects of and cultural relevance in his works, Us was just dumb. My eyes rolled hard when Nyong’o asked, well, ‘herself’ the inevitable “who are you people?”, and she dropped the ominous “We’re Americans” in response. Good lord, I half expected to find Jordan Peele appear in the seat next to me and start nudging me in the ribs to ensure I got the message. Or maybe it IS really smart and I’M the dumb one.

I thought Us was just regular good, but he did not have to go that far with the twist. It works better if it were more supernatural/ambiguous and not the bog standard "ITZ A GUVERNMENT CONSPIRACCEEE!!!". Even with the hints given to me. This did not ruin the film for me, but I understand the frustration. I just see the movie as one big Twilight Zone episode, so that works for me.

The dual performances is amazing on all fronts. The doppelgänger family worked well in being creepy in my opinion.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

I liked Us up until the "tethered" showed up in the living room and started chasing the family like it's an episode of Scooby Doo. I thought the ending was fine too and that they did well in losing *that* scene from Get Out where Exposition Man shows up on TV to explain what's going on. The whole second act is pretty meandering and the movie as a whole isn't as tightly written as Get Out but I still enjoyed it.

 

[Kae]

I just watched Mandy.
All I can say is that I really loved the aesthetic and dream-like atmosphere, I guess it's more of a Nightmare but they also nailed that Heavy Metal video look and feel and it's overall a pretty interesting watch, I can also see why they originally wanted Nicolas Cage as Jeremiah but he was also a very good fit for Red and his performance was overall very good, and I do recommend watching this.

 

[Casual Shinji]

I just watched Mandy.
All I can say is that I really loved the aesthetic and dream-like atmosphere, I guess it's more of a Nightmare but they also nailed that Heavy Metal video look and feel and it's overall a pretty interesting watch, I can also see why they originally wanted Nicolas Cage as Jeremiah but he was also a very good fit for Red and his performance was overall very good, and I do recommend watching this.

I think I watch this movie once a month, I love it that much.

 

[Kae]

I think I watch this movie once a month, I love it that much.

I can see why, the presentation in general is absolutely fantastic and I'm pretty sure it has some interesting things to say but honestly I'm not all that great at reading subtext and even worse at expressing my thoughts on that, but what I can see it's how much it was influenced by that Heavy Metal video, and old grindhouse horror movie aesthetics not to mention that the use of colour makes for absolutely gorgeous shots, it's kind off simultaneously really ugly and really beautiful, I'm kinda sad I delayed watching it for so long, but now that I watched it I'm really glad that I did.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Maleficent: Mistress of Evil

Starring Angelina Jolie as Maleficent. Who is only in there about half the time (and she's not mistressing evilly very much), which is a shame, because she's the best thing in the film. Seemingly every scene she's wearing a different outfit, except maybe once where she appears to be topless but has poured a thick layer of plastic on her chest or something. Maybe she ran out of outfits and had to make do for that scene.

Also has Michelle Pfeiffer, who apparently the poster people thought should look like Charlize Theron in the Huntsman films. As an aside, why is it in these films that people think that having a powerful witch/fairy in the family is a bad thing? Especially if you're royal and you have political marriages anyway.

Anyway, not as good as the first, but quite decent, and has some nice Angeline Jolie-ing. Especially when she's hanging out with the United Nations of bird people, which could have been expanded on a bit.

 

[Bob_McMillan]

Watched The Old Guard on Netflix. Its a fun action movie. I really enjoyed Charlize Theron as one of the main characters, that lady is a fucking badass. Very few actresses in Hollywood can be as convincing an action star as her. The movie also joins the elite group of movies that adapted a comic book, but made it better. The action scenes are a little sparse, and it definitely looks like a "Netflix movie" aka lower budget. But the characters are all good fun and likeable and I think they do a good job of exploring an interesting premise.

EDIT: I forgot to add that right after finishing the movie, I looked up the comics it was based on and finished reading them today. They're... okay. Honestly, there's not many indie comic books that have enough issues for me to really start caring about them.

 

[XsjadoBlayde]

Moana.
Music good, film great. Most vitamin D I've had in the last year.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Spenser Confidential

Netflix is where you wanna go if you're an A-lister with a mediocre screenplay for an action vehicle and delusions of executive production. 2020 alone gave us The Old Guard, Extraction and Spenser Confidential, a ready-made buddy cop flick with Marky Mark and Winston Duke of "Us". Crucially, both feel miscast and with zero chemistry. I don't buy Marky Mark as a man-of-the-people gumshoe and I don't see any sparks with Duke. Buddy cop flicks are about opposites but these two barely clash on anything. The plot is boilerplate and uninteresting. It wants to be grim and foreboding about the unravelling conspiracy but also celebratory - in a really dumb way - of its sparse action scenes which have Marky Mark whooping ass like I give a shit.

And why do they all have to go over the 2 hours mark too? You could lose 30-40 minutes at no cost. Editors would probably be thankful for it.

 

[Wintermute]

Late Shift 6/10

An interactive movie. I was looking to clear some of my backlog on Steam, when I saw this. I didn't even remember what it was, but apparently I bought it during a sale. I don't think it's worth the full price, but it isn't bad. It's certainly better than Black Mirror Bandersnatch in my opinion. Now that I've seen a couple of these, I'm not sure about the use of this gimmick. This would've been a neat little heist movie without the YOUR CHOICES MATTER! crap. Besides, the ending I got was garbage, and I'm not rewatching this. It's not good enough to warrant a second or a third viewing just to get some different scenes. Apparently I made 55 choices, I only got 11/14 chapters, not to mention the 6 different endings I didn't get to see. So I imagine there's another hour of movie I didn't see.

It wouldn't hurt if it "unlocked" the alternate scenes and endings, considering you don't get to fast forward to the next choice, so you'd have to watch the entire thing again. Instead I'm resorting to youtube to watch the different endings.

 

[Thaluikhain]

Fant4stic, the terrible reboot of the Fantastic 4 films, that was awful because...something? It wasn't as silly as the first, took itself a bit more seriously than it should have, and everyone is rather young, but...so? Not seeing the awfulness. The US government people being evil and incompetent gets tiresome, but, well, look at the news, and it wasn't that bad this time.

I actually liked the bit about them doing the really stupid dangerous thing because they've gotten angry and then gotten drunk. Nothing special, but not bad.

Birds of Prey, taking the best (or second best, if you prefer Will Smith as Deadshot) part of Suicide Squad and make it about not liking the worst part of Suicide Squad seems like a decent idea. Harley Quinn is a bit of a mess and not a great person, so making the film a bit of a mess and not a great movie...yeah, that wasn't such a decent idea.

Gets a pass from me, there were some good bits, but there were lots of not great bits. Actually, now that I think of it, the best bits were Harley Quinn being unhappy with her break up, being a mess, and then getting some cool friends to hang out with. The action and the plot and all that was a distraction from this.

 

[BrawlMan]

Fant4stic, the terrible reboot of the Fantastic 4 films, that was awful because...something? It wasn't as silly as the first, took itself a bit more seriously than it should have, and everyone is rather young, but...so? Not seeing the awfulness. The US government people being evil and incompetent gets tiresome, but, well, look at the news, and it wasn't that bad this time.

The problem with the reboot that it was just so fucking boring. They were just making a Chronicle 2. No heart, no soul. Say what you will about the other fantastic four films, but at least they were entertainingly bad. This film is generic corporate mandate trash.

 

[Thaluikhain]

The problem with the reboot that it was just so fucking boring. It but why they were just making a Chronicle 2. No heart, no soul. Say what you will about the other fantastic four films, but at least they were entertainingly bad. This film is generic corporate mandate trash.

That's a fair point, yeah, not much substance.