Discuss and Rate the Last Film You Watched

[thebobmaster]

I tried to like this movie, but it took itself way too seriously, and was lacking the charm the series is known for. Even while goofy, many of the different TV series did most serious moments well. They expected at least two or three more of these movies.

I wasn't being facetious with what I said. This is definitely one of those movies I mostly vibed with, but I can completely understand turning people off. I did feel like there was enough campiness in the script for me, but I especially felt the Snyder with the visuals.

 

[Chimpzy]

Another one of my bad movie nights, this time themed around John Travolta.

Battlefield Earth, 2/10

This is the infamous sci-fi bomb from 2000 based on the works of L Ron Hubbard. In a post-apocalyptic earth aliens from the planet Psychlos are mining earth for its resources and humanity has regressed basically back into the bronze age. Then one hero starts fighting back and your typical oppressed vs oppressor narrative follows. It's complete nonsense. This movie is infamous for its horrific excess of dutch angles, but even then you have to see it to truly grasp the sheer scale of the madness on display. Literally almost every shot is a dutch angle with zero rhyme or reason. The effects are gloriously dated early 00s CG slop, the dialogue is just bizarrely bad, the acting is all over the goddamn map. The visual design of the aliens is unorthodox in all the wrong ways. The amount of dialogue the aliens blabber about bureaucracy, trade customs and basically office drama is truly hilarious. John Travolta is an absolute blast, he is just on shrooms and coke the whole movie. Just total brainrot the whole movie, and a whole bunch of fan with drunk friends.

Killing Season, 2/10

This was the other one we watched, and instead of fun bad it's just boring bad. It's about a Yugoslav war vet coming to conflict with a serbian man whom he once faced during the war. The only reason this glorified straight to DVD stinker even got into theaters in 2013 is because somehow Robert DeNiro agreed to it. Perhaps he wanted a paycheck for spending some time in a woods lodge. It's just quite not bad enough to be completely worthless, but neither is it ever really interesting. The film's structure is basically yapping -> torture -> running in the woods -> yapping -> torture -> running in the woods in the laziest, most padded out way. It's like an overly serious bad episode of Tom & Jerry, but stretched torturously over 90 minutes. Not even Travolta is any fun sans his magnificently fake chin beard, the dialogue's in one ear, out the other, the filmmaking is just passable enough to not really warrant making fun of. It's just nothing.

Not The Fanatic? Written and directed by Fred Durst. I mean, if you're hankering for peak cinema.

 

[BrawlMan]

but I especially felt the Snyder with the visuals.

That especially is what did it for me. I don't hate Snyder and I love Man of Steel, but aping his visual style was and will always be a bad call for Power Rangers. What's funny, is that the franchise has done dark colors or visuals throughout certain shows' runs and not be overly in slick murky looks.

 

[thebobmaster]

A ★★★½ review of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (2004)

"Listen, dementors are among the foulest creatures to walk this earth. They feed on every good feeling, every happy memory until a person is left with nothing but his worst experiences. The dementors affect you more than others because there are true horrors in your past, horrors your classmates...

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[Bartholen]

Not The Fanatic? Written and directed by Fred Durst. I mean, if you're hankering for peak cinema.

Shit, kinda forgot about that. But I also had Killing Season on DVD, and wanted a reason to justify owning it I suppose.

 

[thebobmaster]

A ★★★★★ review of Fight Club (1999)

"This is Bob. Bob had ***** tits." This film, an adaptation of the novel of the same name by Chuck Palahniuk, had at least one scout from Fox Searchlight Pictures interested before publication, with the scout sending a galley proof to creative executive Kevin McCormick. McCormick then sent the...

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[thebobmaster]

A ★★½ review of Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World (1998)

“I beg your pardon?” “Fine. You have it.” Unsurprisingly, given the throwaway nature of most DisneyToon productions, there isn't a lot to note when it comes to this film's development. The only real interesting thing is that due to schedule conflicts, Mel Gibson was unable to return to voice...

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