What was the last movie you watched? Part 2

[Gothamsknight]

 

[Dave McFly]

Good call on the score! Interesting listening to it there without the film in front of me. Honestly, it wouldn't sound out of place in a big screen live-action feature.

I have it in my audio collection of MP3 in my soundtrack folder I just love it, i mean come on they even had choir in it!

 

[Hunter Rider]

A bit goofier than the first movie but still fun, the fresh take on the Holmes/Moriarty Reichenbach Falls showdown is really well done.

7.8/10

 

[Luigi]

Sorcerer

 

[Hunter Rider]

Hugely entertaining adventure with likable characters, big visuals, a great soundtrack and some cool action sequences.

9/10

 

[Sculder]

The Vicious Circle (1957)
Joe Bell (2020)
The Long Arm (1956)
A Small Fortune (2021)

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Die, Monster, Die! (1965)

 

[KaijuDude1992]

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

@KaijuDude1992 How was Blue Beetle?

 

[Ash J. Williams]

 

[MilkmanDan]

Attack of the Killer Tomatoes

 

[Dave McFly]

^best theme song ever!

 

[blueharvest]

 

[Hunter Rider]

7/10

 

[Gothamsknight]

 

[Broseph44]

Finally got around to watching this. Absolutely loved it. Definitely my favorite of Peele’s three films so far.

Nope (2022)

 

[Sculder]

Assassin (2023)
Blackadder: The Lost Pilot (2023)
Hollywould (2019)

 

[ObiWanCon]

Blue Beetle (2023)

 

[KaijuDude1992]

@KaijuDude1992 How was Blue Beetle?

I enjoyed it quite a bit and would recommend it if you're interested in seeing a small scale, early 2000's era superhero flick which is honestly more refreshing now than ever IMO.

It's at the very least a really solid matinee flick.

 

[Frodo]

Saw 3 (2006)

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Justice League: Warworld

I watched this a few weeks ago, but decided to sit on it for a bit. Having watched it a second time, I've decided I like it. But it's got some issues. The film starts with three separate tales - with no explanation as to how/why they've come about. The first features Diana in an Old West story, not dissimilar to Clint Eastwood's High Plains Drifter. The second has Bruce as a Conan-type figure in Warlord's Skartaris. The third is a 1950s sci-fi (beautifully shot in black and white), with Clark as a government agent investigating an alleged UFO landing.

Diana's segment is pretty straight-forward; oppressed townsfolk need saving from murderous outlaws. A mysterious woman rides into town. Turns out she has no memory, and wears a lasso on her hip instead of a pistol; but before long she's standing up for the locals, dispensing summary justice - and being called an Angel (nice touch!). Shootings and beatings are pretty bloody.

Bruce's story sees him as a sword-wielding mercenary captured by Warlord, and who bargains for his freedom with an offer to help Warlord and his forces defeat the sorcerer tyrant, Deimos. The climax is reminiscent of Schwarzenegger's Conan the Barbarian, but the spirit of Robert E Howard hovers pretty much over the whole thing. Again, very bloody.

Clark's adventure as a rookie agent has him interviewing a small group of travellers at a snowed-in diner in the middle of nowhere, all claiming to have witnessed a spacecraft crashing and an alien on foot shortly afterwards. Paranoia sets in with the suspicion that one of the travellers may be the alien in disguise... A slight difference here is that Clark's memory - as far as he knows - is fine; he's Agent Kent. He doesn't know there's anything missing. Bruce and Diana both know there's something they can't recall.

So far, so (really) good. Then comes the final act... I'm going to 'Spoiler' tag this bit because it spoils A LOT...

Spoiler

Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman are revealed to be prisoners of Mongul, on Warworld (Batman and Superman were taken at the very end of the previous movie, Legion of Super-Heroes - although it wasn't clear then what was happening). Martian Manhunter - who apparrently was also taken at some point - has been forced to keep the heroes in a cycle of hallucinatory adventures, to provide the emotions (fear, aggression, anger) needed to power the planet-like weapon.

But things get confusing. When Bruce, Clark, and Diana first reunite (during Clark's story) they have no idea who each other are. However, Diana later recognises Clark - but says he's too young to be her Clark, implying she's not the Earth-One Wonder Woman, but the Wonder Woman of Earth-Two who we met in Justice Society: World War II (along with an older Superman). However, Martian Manhunter seems to know all three of them. So, where's he from?

Out of the blue, Harbinger turns up (looking more like Waverider) and whisks Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman off to help deal with a coming... 'Crisis'! We see them briefly afterwards, but there's nothing to indicate that their memories have returned. It feels hurried and muddled

Perhaps the makers were told to move things up and end this universe quickly (Crisis on Infinite Earths is already confirmed as the next movie), in the same way the makers of the DCAMU/New 52 movies were told to bring Apokolips War forwards. If that's what happened I feel for them. They swung for the fences with this, but I feel the rug was pulled from under them (sorry to mix metaphors). I admire what they went for, and don't remember any DC movie trying it before. Goddammit, 8/10

Spoiler: Further indication for COIE

Incidentally, during Bruce's earlier solo adventure he has a brief vision of a glowing, emaciated, male figure who appears suddenly, and says 'It's you, isn't it?' before fading away. The cast shows the 'old man' as voiced by Matt Bomer - who voiced Flash in Justice Society: World War II. I'm guessing that was indeed Flash, recreating his scene from the original Crisis on Infinite Earths (another nice touch).

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

I enjoyed it quite a bit and would recommend it if you're interested in seeing a small scale, early 2000's era superhero flick which is honestly more refreshing now than ever IMO.

It's at the very least a really solid matinee flick.

I will see it!

 

[Frodo]

Above The Law (1988)

 

[CaptainWagner]

Dolores Claiborne (1995) - d. Taylor Hackford

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Definitely one of the greatest King adaptations, but weirdly doesn't get talked about much these days. It's a great mystery, with Bates giving a performance to rival 'Misery' and Jennifer Jason Leigh playing off her in a great way. Save for maybe Shawshank and Stand By Me, this is King at his most pared down, shedding the supernatural for the all-too-real horrors that hit close to home. Tony Gilroy did a brilliant job adapting it to the screen and Taylor Hackford creates some stunning visuals as they weave together a complex story of imperfect but unbreakable bonds formed between women to face the cruelty and pride of men.

 

[Batgirl0202]

6/10