Discuss and Rate the Last Film You Watched

[Phoenixmgs]

Hell of a Summer - 6/10

Hell of a Summer is a slasher comedy that's just decent and fun enough. It's your sorta standard horror setup at a camp (but before the kids get there). Just enough of the jokes land to keep you amused. Anyone coming for gore better turn around because the gore and kills are really weak. But yeah, not really much to talk about, not a horrible way to spend 90 minutes.

 

[thebobmaster]

A ★★★★★ review of The Invisible Man (2020)

“He’s going to haunt you if you let him. Don’t let him.” This film has a bit of a production story. Very loosely inspired by the novel of the same name (as in, they both have a man who can turn himself invisible with the last name Griffin), the film was first conceived by David S. Goyer in 2006...

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Despite my rating, cannot recommend this film without legitimate trigger warnings. If you've been in an abusive relationship, this movie will almost certainly set something off.

 

[BrawlMan]

A ★½ review of Pocahontas (1995)

"What do you suppose the New World will look like?" "Like all the others, I suppose. I've seen hundreds of new worlds, Thomas. What could possibly be different about this one?" This film's origin can be traced back to 1990, during production of The Rescuers Down Under, when director Mike Gabriel...

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The only thing my brother and I like about this movie is the song "Savages". That's it.

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[Thaluikhain]

The War of the Rohirrim.

Ok, so people had complaints about The Lord of the Rings films until The Hobbit films came out, at which point the LotR films were flawless classics and they complained about The Hobbit instead. Following this logic, I think I'm not allowed to complain about The Hobbit ever again, cause this film is just bad.

It starts out with the main character, who is a princess, but is a super special princess because she's not like the other girls, she's like a boy, but her father can't see that and...and it just doesn't get better.

Boo! BOOOOO!

 

[BrawlMan]

Jackie Chan's First Strike aka Police Story 4 - It's the one with the ladder. I honestly like this one more than Supercop. The humor is all on point with the non fight scenes and fight scenes, it's lovely distilled action he is known for. See this fucking movie.

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[Agema]

Monkey Man (2024)

That Dev Patel always seemed like such a nice chap. And yet here he is, tautly muscled and tearing shit up in a fictional pseudo-Mumbai with some serious brutality. It is also his directorial debut. Monkey Man is a graphically violent action movie where Patel plays a basically unnamed protagonist who by night takes money to lose in an underground fighting den where he performs in a monkey mask. By day, he attempts to insinuate himself into a drugs and prostitutes club used by the city's elite in order to gain revenge for a past crime some of them have committed.

Although set in India, it is largely English language. It has a strong sociopolitical theme around the exploitation of the poor and lower caste from a web of corrupt corporate, religious and political elites. Aspects of it could also be described by certain quarters as "woke". Apparently, it still does not have certification to be released in India. Whilst its violent nature is cited as a reason, I suspect a major issue is that the corrupt elites under attack in the film look a lot like India's ruling party, the BJP. Despite these themes, this is not a complex story: it's a revenge flick, even if the vigilanteism is from the direction of social justice.

However, what everyone really wants to know about their action movies is whether the action is good. And yes, yes it is. Not with distinction maybe, but certainly with merit.

 

[thebobmaster]

A ★★ review of Star Trek: Insurrection (1998)

“Can anyone remember when we used to be explorers?” Like several Star Trek movies before it, this film did not have the smoothest production process. After the last several films, the executives at Paramount wanted something lighter in tone, which clashed with their screenwriter's initial...

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[thebobmaster]

A ★★★★ review of Alien: Romulus (2024)

“I’m afraid I must deny your petition. Have a good day.” This film had a bit of a production story, but not as much of one as you'd expect given the gap between this film and Covenant. After the purchase of Fox by Disney, Fox-Disney Corporation announced in 2019 that they planned on making more...

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[FakeSympathy]

Currently in Japan, and after a nice bath in onsen, I told myself why not watch a Japanese Movie? So I finally got around to watch Godzilla Minus One.... on my crappy travel laptop..... with shitty sound output; Do you guys see where I'm going with this?

I mean dont get me wrong, it’s an amazing movie, but I really wish I saw this in theaters. Because clearly there were many scenes where sound effects played key roles, and my crappy laptop can’t capture that.

Not to mention the pictures quality wasn’t too great either

 

[Gordon_4]

Currently in Japan, and after a nice bath in onsen, I told myself why not watch a Japanese Movie? So I finally got around to watch Godzilla Minus One.... on my crappy travel laptop..... with shitty sound output; Do you guys see where I'm going with this?

I mean dont get me wrong, it’s an amazing movie, but I really wish I saw this in theaters. Because clearly there were many scenes where sound effects played key roles, and my crappy laptop can’t capture that.

Not to mention the pictures quality wasn’t too great either

RIP. I still haven't watched that one, for some reason I just can't energise myself to do so.

 

[FakeSympathy]

RIP

Probably gonna watch in again on my main rig back home, though. It won't be theater quality, but will be better than this

 

[Gordon_4]

Probably gonna watch in again on my main rig back home, though. It won't be theater quality, but will be better than this

Sounds like someone needs to build himself a Jellyfin server.

 

[FakeSympathy]

RIP. I still haven't watched that one, for some reason I just can't energise myself to do so.

Also trust me, It is way better than any of the Western-made Godzilla films. It's not a B-tier summer blockbuster. They made Godzilla actually terrifying without hyper-action sequences. Plus, human characters actually written well!

Sucks about the sound and resolution of my crap laptop though

 

[thebobmaster]

A ★★★★ review of Heretic (2024)

“All ten thousand verifiable religions that exist in the world today are as artificial as the symbolic church you're currently standing in. It is farce. There is nothing holy here, your religious text is mere ornament, as hollow and as capitalistic as these ridiculous games.” This film was...

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[Johnny Novgorod]

Borderlands

I guess the art department got it right, mostly. I'm not sure why you would cast any of these people in it though.

Every Borderlands game has been about shooting everything while people harangue you over a walkie talkie. Troilus and Cressida it is not. But if anything that should give you the freedom to go anywhere you want with a film adaptation. Instead they went with some Big Mac plot about ragtag heroes and their merry chosen one. But there's no need for any of these people to band together, no clear threat against them, and their main mission of finding Three Keys is so lazy that not only do they start out with one of them, they later discover they had the third one with them all along too.

 

[thebobmaster]

A ★★★★ review of Power Rangers (2017)

“To assume your Ranger identities, you need to morph. Have any of you morphed before?” “Yes, but only in the shower.” Before I get into things, I feel I should make a disclaimer. While I saw a couple of the seasons of the show as a kid (and I'm old enough for that to mean the OG series and at...

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To Power Ranger fans who dislike this film...I get it. Really, I do.

 

[Agema]

Borderlands

I guess the art department got it right, mostly. I'm not sure why you would cast any of these people in it though.

Every Borderlands game has been about shooting everything while people harangue you over a walkie talkie. Troilus and Cressida it is not. But if anything that should give you the freedom to go anywhere you want with a film adaptation. Instead they went with some Big Mac plot about ragtag heroes and their merry chosen one. But there's no need for any of these people to band together, no clear threat against them, and their main mission of finding Three Keys is so lazy that not only do they start out with one of them, they later discover they had the third one with them all along too.

I would be tempted to say that judging by its reputation, the film was less funny and smart as your review of it; except that judging by it's reputation, that could also be damning your review with faint praise.

 

[thebobmaster]

A ★½ review of Star Trek: Nemesis (2002)

“Not for long. I’m afraid you won’t survive to see the victory of the echo over the voice.” This film did not have a completely smooth production process, although ironically, one of the causes was the opposite of studio interference. You see, screenwriter John Logan had a clause in his contract...

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[Bartholen]

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.

 

[BrawlMan]

A ★★★★ review of Power Rangers (2017)

“To assume your Ranger identities, you need to morph. Have any of you morphed before?” “Yes, but only in the shower.” Before I get into things, I feel I should make a disclaimer. While I saw a couple of the seasons of the show as a kid (and I'm old enough for that to mean the OG series and at...

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To Power Ranger fans who dislike this film...I get it. Really, I do.

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.