Discuss and Rate the Last Film You Watched

[thebobmaster]

A ★★★★★ review of Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)

“My first day as a woman, and I’m getting hot flashes.” This film, based on the novel Madame Doubtfire, didn't have a troubled production, but the original ending was changed at the insistence of both Robin Williams and Sally Field. As far as casting went, the first choice for Daniel...

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[thebobmaster]

A ★★★★½ review of Galaxy Quest (1999)

"Well, forget it! I'm not doing it! This episode was badly written!" This film was conceived by one David Howard after watching a trailer for "Americans in Space" that was narrated by Leonard Nimoy. That got him thinking about all the Star Trek actors that ended up getting stereotyped, and then...

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[Gordon_4]

A ★★★★½ review of Galaxy Quest (1999)

"Well, forget it! I'm not doing it! This episode was badly written!" This film was conceived by one David Howard after watching a trailer for "Americans in Space" that was narrated by Leonard Nimoy. That got him thinking about all the Star Trek actors that ended up getting stereotyped, and then...

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“To see if there’s a pub!”

God I miss Alan Rickman.

 

[thebobmaster]

A ★½ review of RoboCop 3 (1993)

“Where the hell is Robocop?” “We could drive around and listen for explosions.” Contrary to popular belief, it wasn't a lack of motivation that led to Peter Weller not returning for the third film. Rather, he had just been cast in Naked Lunch, and he felt that after having campaigned to get that...

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[Johnny Novgorod]

The Lasy Showgirl

A movie that inevitably must be compared to The Substance, because it came out last year and it too ia about an industry telling a woman she's too old to continue living off her body. It boils down to style, which is very reminiscent of Sean Baker's, and if I had a million dollars I would put it all down on black and "The director showed The Florida Project to the cast and crew". Except this is a little more performative and doesn't flow as naturally. I understand the point of casting Pamela Anderson but it would've maybe benefitted from casting lesser known actors, or no actors at all. With Sean Baker you always feel you're looking into a world (of hookers, mostly), but here everything feels justa smidgen manufactured. But it's Vegas so maybe that's the point.

 

[hanselthecaretaker2]

Nosferatu 2024

I still prefer Bram Stoker’s Dracula 1992 regarding these flicks, but Skarsgård’s Orlok is pretty commendable. The voicing stood out most, and while it’s absolutely ripe for parody fodder, the IMDb trivia affirms its formulation as anything but perfunctory. Also can’t ever complain about Dafoe in a supporting cast. Lily-Rose Depp is otherworldly at times, although the “Take me!” sex scene might be the most fictional part of the whole movie.

 

[thebobmaster]

A ★★★ review of One Hundred and One Dalmatians (1961)

"My only true love, darling. I live for furs. I worship furs! After all, is there a woman in all this wretched world who doesn't?" Based on the 1956 novel The Hundred and One Dalmatians, this film's conception began when screenwriter Charles Brackett brought it to the attention of Walt Disney...

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[thebobmaster]

A ★★★★ review of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

“If he just paid me what he’s spending to stop robbing him, I’d stop robbing him!” While William Goldman was inspired to write the screenplay for this film after coming across the story of Butch Cassidy, he intentionally did not aim for historical accuracy, instead being inspired by the fact...

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[thebobmaster]

A ★★★ review of John Wick: Chapter 3 – Parabellum (2019)

“He shot my dog.” “I get it.” The only real production note is that while Hiroyuki Sanada was meant to play the assassin Zero, he was forced to drop out when he tore his Achilles tendon, and the role was recast with Mark Dacascos. This film follows up immediately after the events of the previous...

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[thebobmaster]

A ★★★★★ review of Mean Girls (2004)

“Oh my God, Karen, you can’t just ask people why they’re white.” This movie, an adaptation of "Queen Bees and Wannabes", got the attention of Tina Fey, who then pitched the concept of making an adaptation to Lorne Michaels. Considering the book is non-fiction, however, the script was written...

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[thebobmaster]

A ★★★★★ review of Dog Day Afternoon (1975)

“Is there any special country you want to go to?” “Wyoming.” “Wyoming? No Wyoming, that’s not a country. That’s all right, I’ll take care of it.” This film is somewhat loosely based on the real life bank robbery of a Chase Manhattan bank in the Gravesend area of Brooklyn, New York by John...

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[Johnny Novgorod]

El rey del Once ("The Tenth Man")

A very folksy comedy about a schlub named Ariel who comes back home from NYC to the Jewish quarter of Once in Buenos Aires to see his elusive dad, who is to this movie what Godot was to Beckett. The dad runs a confusing charity/local shy and makes an errand boy out of his adult kid, constantly hounding him over the phone while always just missing him.

It's not very funny. The one joke is the dad remains an absent yet chastising presence, while everybody else guilts Ariel about his lack of commitment to Judaism or the community. Naturally by the end he learns to let go of his hangups, embrace the warmth and chaos of the environment and even pick up a selectively mute hottie along the way.

 

[thebobmaster]

A ★★★ review of RoboCop (2014)

“You have two options. Option A) I stun you with 50,000 volts which can lead to organ malfunction, severe burns, and loss of bowel and bladder control, and then I arrest you. Option B) You tell me where John Biggs' drug lab is located, and then I arrest you. You have two seconds to decide.”...

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[thebobmaster]

A ★★★★ review of Blade II (2002)

“You’re human?” “Barely. I’m a lawyer.” This sequel was greenlight fairly quickly after the success of the first film, with initial plans to use Morbius before Marvel decided they wanted to save him for his own franchise. Either because he was unavailable, or because he didn't want to return to...

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[Johnny Novgorod]

Gatillero ("Gunman")

This is the first 2025 movie from Argentina that I like, and one of the rare action movies that's actually not half bad, though the action is the least of it. The camera work is the impressive part: it's all done in a single shot, or at least faked to look like a single shot, and takes place over the course of a single night as hoods gun each other down and scurry around the more scenic parts of noted shithole Isla Maciel. There's nothing much to the gunfights beyond whip-panning between people firing their guns and people falling dead, but I liked the choreography of sneaking and chasing around the hood, and the Warriors/Assault on Precinct 13 vibes. Features some half-assed hmm society subplot about a group of decent folks reclaiming the hood that is so dettached from the rest of the movie it felt like DLC.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Transmitzvah

A Jewish kid renounces his Bar Mitzvah by coming out as trans at 13; they reappear years later as a trans singer named Singer, first demanding a Bat Mitzvah (the female version) under her new name - which Jewish law forbids, apparently - but later deciding they'd rather have a Bar Mitzvah under their original name - also apparently forbidden by Jewish law. I didn't follow the numerological mumbo jumbo about how the letters in 'Reuben' have a difference of 350 energies with the second syllable of Singer's new name, and how that provides a legal loophole to blah blah, but none of it really matters because ultimately she time-travels 800 years into the past to make up her own goddamn I'm-at-peace-with-myself ritual (with blackjack and hookers). I got nothing from the songs or the musical numbers.

 

[thebobmaster]

A ★½ review of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003)

“Need I remind you that I am naked in the snow? I can’t feel any of my extremities, and I mean ANY of them.” This...adaptation, if you want to call it that, of Alan Moore's/Kevin O'Neill's graphic novel of the same name, did not have the smoothest of productions. While I can't find many specific...

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[PsychedelicDiamond]

Transmitzvah

A Jewish kid renounces his Bar Mitzvah by coming out as trans at 13; they reappear years later as a trans singer named Singer, first demanding a Bat Mitzvah (the female version) under her new name - which Jewish law forbids, apparently - but later deciding they'd rather have a Bar Mitzvah under their original name - also apparently forbidden by Jewish law. I didn't follow the numerological mumbo jumbo about how the letters in 'Reuben' have a difference of 350 energies with the second syllable of Singer's new name, and how that provides a legal loophole to blah blah, but none of it really matters because ultimately she time-travels 800 years into the past to make up her own goddamn I'm-at-peace-with-myself ritual (with blackjack and hookers). I got nothing from the songs or the musical numbers.

I'm gonna be honest, that title and synopsis make it sound like a recurring joke from 30Rock.

 

[Thaluikhain]

A ★★★★ review of Blade II (2002)

“You’re human?” “Barely. I’m a lawyer.” This sequel was greenlight fairly quickly after the success of the first film, with initial plans to use Morbius before Marvel decided they wanted to save him for his own franchise. Either because he was unavailable, or because he didn't want to return to...

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A quibble, I didn't think Eli Damaskinos took over after Deacon Frost, I thought Damaskinos was always in overall charge of the vampires, and Frost was just a lesser leader of a particular group of vampires, that the council in the first film was the council in charge of a certain region, not overall.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

I'm gonna be honest, that title and synopsis make it sound like a recurring joke from 30Rock.

I'm 83% sure they made up the movie purely to work in that pun.

The director, Daniel Burman, is a more or less respected local 90s holdover who made it big(ish) with a string of Antoine Doinel-like movies about a self-insert growing up/getting married/divorced while documenting life in the Jewish quarter and clearly working through some daddy issues (see: post #10,052). He's usually somewhere between Truffaut and Baumbach. This is him trying to be Almodóvar, but you can tell he can't figure out the tone and is not very comfortable with the subject matter.