Discuss and Rate the Last Film You Watched

[hanselthecaretaker2]

I Know What You Did Last Summer 2025


It isn’t saying much, but had it come out in place of the original back then it’d be the better one. Not that it would make sense given the characters and twist, but yeah I’ll stick to that. Also, nice cameo and I’ll also watch those two in a sequel together should there be one.

 

[thebobmaster]

A ★★★½ review of Arachnophobia (1990)

“In this first generation, the original male also produced a queen, and together they will construct a primary nest which the queen will guard. But eventually, she will create reproductive offspring of her own. And when that happens, this town is dead... and the next town... and the next town...

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[Xprimentyl]

Crackoon: No / Great

A racoon exposed to a crack cocaine terrorizes a mountain community.

Obviously inspired by the popularity of the at least somewhat respectable Cocaine Bear, it’s hands down, the dumbest, most insulting waste of time and intelligence I’ve ever watched. My expectations were “zero,” and I watched just to see how bad it would be, and it impresses, clocking in a solid negative 1,000 on the expectation scale. Budget was probably about $500 plus a few unpaid bar tabs because I find it hard to believe anyone could convince this many people to willingly sign on to be a part of this travesty.

It says something when even being self-aware and intentional make your efforts fall flat. I’m reminded of another recent watch, Hundreds Of Beavers. It’s self-aware, but parodies its inspirations in such a way that you can recognize and appreciate it. This shit? It’s like an homage to mid-20th century B-horror but with none of the intent; it’s just bad at everything. It’s billed on Amazon Prime (yeah, it’s on Prime) as a comedy, but it’s not tongue-in-cheek funny; it’s funny because it’s trying to be tongue-on-cheek, and it’s very bad at it. I wanted “so bad, it’s good,” and got “so bad, it’s worse.” It says something when a viewer expects to waste their time, and walks away upset they actually wasted that time they wanted to waste.

I’d say it’s the worst movie I’ve ever seen, but that’d be an insult to every other movie I’ve ever seen to include it in their ranks as “a movie.” This was the worst thing that I’ve ever allowed to happen in front of my eyes, and I apologize to myself and you that I’ve used this many words to express my disappointment.

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Wolf Man (2025)

Yet another werewolf movie about generational trauma and insidious masculine id. It's not terrible or anything but it's a remarkably flat journey: you know every stop and you know exactly how it ends, because it's the only way it can end, and there's nothing to distract you the whole way through.

 

[thebobmaster]

A ★★★★★ review of Isle of the Dead (1945)

“We will make a wager. The doctor can use his science, I’ll pray to Hermes. We’ll see who dies and who lives.” This film, the second of three collaborations between Boris Karloff and producer Val Lewton, did not have a smooth production process. It all started out fine, with filming starting in...

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[Johnny Novgorod]

I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025)

Look, neither of the first two movies is all that great. They're just cheap Scream knockoffs trying to ride that particular wave. Now comes a third one trying to crib off legacy sequels instead, and it's especially godawful. All you really need to know is that it was written and directed by the hack behind Thor: Love and Thunder (no, the other one), and it strives for the same brand of shallowness and moronic energy.

 

[BrawlMan]

I Know What You Did Last Summer (2025)

Look, neither of the first two movies is all that great. They're just cheap Scream knockoffs trying to ride that particular wave. Now comes a third one trying to crib off legacy sequels instead, and it's especially godawful. All you really need to know is that it was written and directed by the hack behind Thor: Love and Thunder (no, the other one), and it strives for the same brand of shallowness and moronic energy.

This is actually the fourth movie. The last movie came out in 2006.

Ich werde immer wissen, was du letzten Sommer getan hast (Video 2006) ⭐ 3.3 | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

1h 32m | 18

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Who keeps asking for these movies?

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

This is actually the fourth movie. The last movie came out in 2006.

Ich werde immer wissen, was du letzten Sommer getan hast (Video 2006) ⭐ 3.3 | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

1h 32m | 18

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[BrawlMan]

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Don't be too depressed. You never saw it, so that's the best fortune you can get in this scenario.

 

[thebobmaster]

A ★★★ review of 28 Years Later (2025)

“Do you know the words memento mori?” “No.” “It’s Latin. Ironically, a dead language. It means ‘remember death’. Remember you must die.” To say this film had a bit of trouble getting made is an understatement. While it was announced that plans for a sequel to 28 Weeks Later were in place pending...

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[thebobmaster]

This is actually the fourth movie. The last movie came out in 2006.

Ich werde immer wissen, was du letzten Sommer getan hast (Video 2006) ⭐ 3.3 | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

1h 32m | 18

m.imdb.com

Who keeps asking for these movies?

The third movie is legitimately one of the worst horror movies I've ever seen. Not exaggerating.

 

[Agema]

OT, The Substance.

According to IMDb trivia, Universal execs wanted the ending changed after seeing it, and ultimately pulled distribution when the director stuck to her contractual Final Cut privileges. She was forced to shop it out at Cannes where it was picked up by MUBI, which was for the better. Outside of Moore’s ground breaking performance it relies so much on all forms of explicitness that it wouldn’t have worked as well if watered down. I always thought it’d be funny in a movie if some drunk person was in line at a checkout and projectile vomited all over the tabloid stand. This is kinda like a very much more on-the-nose version of that, almost strictly relegated to higher society’s unrealistic beauty standards. It’s of course equally unrealistic in premise, but it kinda needs to be to add some levity, ironically.

The standout influence imo was The Shining’s room 237, but there are certainly others. Despite some serious thematic elements, laughter ultimately wound up the key emotion, for better and/or worse.

The Substance is very much comedy-horror. I'd be astonished if a director who made that ending had not watched early-career Peter Jackson (Bad Taste, Braindead, Meet The Feebles).

 

[Bartholen]

Sisu, 7/10

This is a finnish, small scale over the top action movie from 2023 that even became a modest success internationally. It's about a gold miner towards the end of WW2 who finds gold that gets stolen by nazis, and then he goes and kills all the nazis to get his gold back. It's about as narratively bereft and single-mindedly straightforward as action movies get. It's basically just a series of escalatingly implausible and downright silly action setpieces, and in those it succeeds very well. Its sole focus is on gritty carnage: limbs fly, blood sprays, and the protagonist survives increasingly stupefying odds, laughing at the laws of physics and causality in the process. Said protagonist literally has 10 words of dialogue in the entire film, and the rest of the limited cast are quite taciturn as well. This film makes John Wick look like Beverly Hills Cop by comparison in terms of dialogue.

The filmmaking is quite excellent: despite taking place entirely in the flat and barren landscapes of Lapland, it still manages to find a fair bit of visual identity and variety in its setpieces. The cinematography's pretty great, and the gruesome special effects are done mostly practically, which goes a long way to maintain the sense of grit and physicality in the film. While it is gritty, it's by no means grounded: its sparse dialogue is for the most part incredibly cheesy, all the villains are filth-caked sniveling nazis, and the amount of abuse the protagonist's body takes veers into straight up Looney Tunes territory pretty quickly. You've got using gasoline as disinfectant, hanging from a plane with a pickaxe, and those are by no means the most ludicrous action action movie bits this movie has in store.

Since it's so incredibly stripped down, there's fairly little to say. Was it entertaining? Yes. And that's all you can really ask from a movie like this.

 

[thebobmaster]

Sisu, 7/10

This is a finnish, small scale over the top action movie from 2023 that even became a modest success internationally. It's about a gold miner towards the end of WW2 who finds gold that gets stolen by nazis, and then he goes and kills all the nazis to get his gold back. It's about as narratively bereft and single-mindedly straightforward as action movies get. It's basically just a series of escalatingly implausible and downright silly action setpieces, and in those it succeeds very well. Its sole focus is on gritty carnage: limbs fly, blood sprays, and the protagonist survives increasingly stupefying odds, laughing at the laws of physics and causality in the process. Said protagonist literally has 10 words of dialogue in the entire film, and the rest of the limited cast are quite taciturn as well. This film makes John Wick look like Beverly Hills Cop by comparison in terms of dialogue.

The filmmaking is quite excellent: despite taking place entirely in the flat and barren landscapes of Lapland, it still manages to find a fair bit of visual identity and variety in its setpieces. The cinematography's pretty great, and the gruesome special effects are done mostly practically, which goes a long way to maintain the sense of grit and physicality in the film. While it is gritty, it's by no means grounded: its sparse dialogue is for the most part incredibly cheesy, all the villains are filth-caked sniveling nazis, and the amount of abuse the protagonist's body takes veers into straight up Looney Tunes territory pretty quickly. You've got using gasoline as disinfectant, hanging from a plane with a pickaxe, and those are by no means the most ludicrous action action movie bits this movie has in store.

Since it's so incredibly stripped down, there's fairly little to say. Was it entertaining? Yes. And that's all you can really ask from a movie like this.

I love that the protagonist of Sisu literally takes so much damage throughout the movie that they literally imply that he's supernatural.

 

[Bartholen]

I love that the protagonist of Sisu literally takes so much damage throughout the movie that they literally imply that he's supernatural.

Not only that, but the final scene stops just a hair short of explicitly confirming it, as the protagonist crawls out of a bog after a plane crash, seemingly having healed from some of his injuries.

 

[thebobmaster]

A ★★★★★ review of The Black Phone (2021)

“If you don’t play ‘naughty boy’, The Grabber can’t beat you. And if he can’t beat you, you can’t move on to the next part. And the next part of ‘naughty boy’ is his favorite part.” This is actually a movie Scott Derrickson wanted to make for a while, after being impressed by the original short...

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[Bartholen]

Sisu 2, or SI2U, 8/10

You'll never guess which movie this is a sequel to.

This takes place two years after the first one, after the end of the war. The Soviet Union has assimilated a part of Finland, and hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to relocate to other parts of Finland. The protagonist heads the other way: into the Soviet Union, to reclaim his home by taking it apart log by log, and transporting it back across the new border. Then a wrench gets thrown into the gears when the Soviet commander responsible for the deaths of his family starts hunting him. This might sound like a more extensive setup than the first, but it's over in like the first 10 minutes, and the following 80 are precisely what the first one offered, but bigger.

This is in many ways a perfect sequel: taking what worked about the first and blowing it up, but without messing with the formula. If anything, this is in some ways even more stripped down than the first: in the first you had the carriage of women the nazis had captured, in this movie there's not a single female character present. In the first movie the protagonist said basically nothing, here he says literally nothing. If I were to guess the amount of dialogue overall is even smaller in this than the first. This is pretty much a movie about the finnish Doomslayer. I'm eagerly waiting for edits of the movie which replace the soundtrack with "BFG Division".

Where the dialogue and story have been leaned down to bare bones, the action has been bulked up, and boy has it ever. In the first movie you had two cars, one tank, and one airplane. Here you've got cars, motorbikes, multiple airplanes, tanks, and a train. The kill count is probably like 6 times that of the first. The gore and violence have been amped up majorly, finding all new creative ways to mutilate the human body. The action is even more over the top, laughing in the face of the laws of physics in gloriously entertaining ways all the way through. The first movie had occasional inserts of pitch black gallows humor, this veers into straight up Tom & Jerry territory multiple occasions and it's hilarious. Stephen Lang is a fantastic casting choice as the villain, because he has that exact same stern, gruff, stone-faced charisma Jorma Tommila has, making him the perfect foil. The finale is a glorious, balls to the wall action spectacle that deserves to stand among the best of the genre.

I don't know if I've seen an action film this singularly pure since The Raid. Even John Wick has much more worldbuilding, dialogue and characterization than this. Genuinely among the best action sequels I've ever seen.

 

[Xprimentyl]

Sisu 2, or SI2U, 8/10

You'll never guess which movie this is a sequel to.

This takes place two years after the first one, after the end of the war. The Soviet Union has assimilated a part of Finland, and hundreds of thousands of people have been forced to relocate to other parts of Finland. The protagonist heads the other way: into the Soviet Union, to reclaim his home by taking it apart log by log, and transporting it back across the new border. Then a wrench gets thrown into the gears when the Soviet commander responsible for the deaths of his family starts hunting him. This might sound like a more extensive setup than the first, but it's over in like the first 10 minutes, and the following 80 are precisely what the first one offered, but bigger.

This is in many ways a perfect sequel: taking what worked about the first and blowing it up, but without messing with the formula. If anything, this is in some ways even more stripped down than the first: in the first you had the carriage of women the nazis had captured, in this movie there's not a single female character present. In the first movie the protagonist said basically nothing, here he says literally nothing. If I were to guess the amount of dialogue overall is even smaller in this than the first. This is pretty much a movie about the finnish Doomslayer. I'm eagerly waiting for edits of the movie which replace the soundtrack with "BFG Division".

Meaning that where the dialogue and story have been leaned even further, the action has been bulked up, and boy has it ever. In the first movie you had two cars, one tank, and one airplane. Here you've got cars, motorbikes, multiple airplanes, tanks, and a train. The kill count is probably like 6 times that of the first's. The gore and violence have been amped up majorly, finding all new creative ways to mutilate the human body. The action is even more over the top, laughing in the face of the laws of physics in gloriously entertaining ways all the way through. The first movie had occasional inserts of pitch black gallows humor, this veers into straight up Tom & Jerry territory multiple occasions and it's hilarious. Stephen Lang is a fantastic casting choice as the villain, because he has that exact same stern, gruff, stone-faced charisma Jorma Tommila has, making him the perfect foil. The finale is a glorious, balls to the wall action spectacle that deserves to stand among the best of the genre.

I don't know if I've seen an action film this singularly pure since The Raid. Even John Wick has much more worldbuilding, dialogue and characterization than this. Genuinely among the best action sequels I've ever seen.

Holy crap, there's a Sisu 2??? Why did no one tell me???

 

[thebobmaster]

Holy crap, there's a Sisu 2??? Why did no one tell me???

It just came out in a few places. Hasn't even come out in the US yet, set for November 21st here.

 

[Xprimentyl]

It just came out in a few places. Hasn't even come out in the US yet, set for November 21st here.

Alright, sweet. Surprised I haven't seen any trailers or anything.