Film What was the last movie you watched? Part 2

[NDX]

RED

 

[psylockolussus]

Oppenheimer 2023

 

[emielaen]

 

[Wildcard]

 

[-Arya-]

Felt like doing a Scott brother’s double feature.

 

[Hunter Rider]

Cheap, silly made for TV thriller.

4/10

Lighthearted romantic action comedy with a likeable pair of leads and a couple of good action sequences.

7.5/10

Some nice footage of the mountains and Ivanna Sakhno portrays the survival fatigue of her character convincingly, but it's fairly dull with an irritating ending.

5/10

 

[3rdstone]

Felt like doing a Scott brother’s double feature.
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Hunger is so damn underrated (or maybe just unknown?) Love it. Never realised it was directed by Tony Scott though.


The Decline Of Western Civilisation Part II: The Metal Years (1988)

I watched this documentary about late 80s metal decades ago, and felt it was time again since I've forgot most of it. Lots to say about this, but I have an intention to tryyy to keep it as short as possible (which of course will royally fail).

I was disappointed back then that the "Heavy Metal"- bands here mostly consist of hair/glam bands in LA at the time, which never was my thing. We also get short but interesting comments from older geezers like Ozzy Osbourne, Kiss, Lemmy Kilmister (Motörhead), Aerosmith and Alice Cooper. But the live performances and most interviews we see include below bands:

Lizzy Borden, Faster Pussycat, Seduce (I kinda liked those guys, a decent power trio from Detroit), Odin, London, Megadeth (obviously pretty opposite in attitude, music, lyrics, awereness etc. Thrash metal really was a reaction to bands like above, and Dave Mustaine was kind in his comments here lol).

Yeah, most of these got lost in history in early 90s when some bands from Seattle suddenly got to be the new cool thing. One (of many) clichés that mostly disappeared then is the glaring sexism/misogynism we see here, wich I remember reacting to back then but got reminded of as it was worse than I remember. The most embarrassing scenes might be with Paul Stanley commenting from a bed with like five women around him. Not even Gene Simmons sank that low here (he kept himself commenting at a women's under wear store as a backround lmao).

The most heartbreaking scene which I also remembered from the last time is with Chris Holmes from WASP; As he's floating around in his pool with his mother quietly sitting beside, pouring Smirnoff over his face and totally declaring himself as a full blooded alcoholist with full insight. At only 29. It's truly haunting.

Listening to the interviews of some of these bands, I really appreciate looking at this from the old school era, when you didin't have internet/social media to market your band. Instead you just had to work your ass off playing at various local joints constantly without earning a nickel during lots of years (and living of girl friends like mentioned here), and then at best might get bigger tours (maybe even abroad..?). Todays ridiculously big bands like Iron Maiden and Metallica started off exactly like that.

Despite my disappointment now and then with the focus beeing on these bloody overrated hair bands who disappeared a few years afterwords, it's still interesting as a time stamp, and with some interesting comments. And as predicted the most intelligent men in the room here as usual is Lemmy and Alice Cooper. Some fun quotes to consider:

Interviewer: What do you think about the pretty rock and roll stars? (the LA glam/hair bands wearing lots of hairspray and make up)

Lemmy: Good luck to them if they're pretty, wish I was.

Interviewer: Do you get mad when people copy your style?

Lemmy: No. Good Luck to them. Maybe they do something we can copy later.

Alice Cooper: Rock'n Roll should corrupt kids enough to think. There's nothing wrong with thinking.

Ozzy: Just remember one thing: You meet a lot of people on the way up, don't **** them 'cause you'll meet them on the way down as well.

Etc, etc.

Aaand yes I totally failed to keep this somewhat short lol. Sorry.

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Batman and Harley Quinn

 

[Frodo]

DESPERADO (1995)

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Salem's Lot (1979)

First time (I think) since we lost Lance Kerwin (RIP).

 

[Gothamsknight]

Finally got around to seeing this. As expected, it was fantastic.

9/10

 

[Batgirl0202]

7/10

 

[Wildcard]

Finally watched this one fully for the first time last night/this morning & really enjoyed it. Normally I hate origin stories in slasher movies because they're usually handled poorly but I felt like it was handled extremely well here.

Olivia Hussey gave a phenomenal performance as Norma & was pretty much exactly how I imagined Norma would be when she was alive. Both her and Norman are very fascinating characters psychologically & I'm so glad these movies exist.

 

[KaijuDude1992]

This kind of ran out of steam towards the end but I enjoyed it. There aren't many good killer elf movies anyways so I was surprised by how decent this ended up being, but I doubt it will become a holiday classic.

6/10

 

[Immortalfire]

Smokey and the Bandit

 

[Ash J. Williams]

 

[NDX]

Godzilla Minus One

 

[Luigi]

We Have a Ghost

It's one of those movies that just refuses to end. Total misfire from Christopher Landon.

4/10

 

[Sculder]

Big House, U.S.A. (1955)
Storm Fear (1955)
Silent Night (2021)
Bellezonismo (2019)
Ang pangarap kong Oskars / The Oskars Fantasy (2023)
Bird Box: Barcelona (2023)
B&B Merry (2022)
His House (2020)

 

[3rdstone]

I highly enjoyed this. It's Fincher at a great form, and a performance from Fassbender I haven't experienced since quite a while. Just only hearing Fassbender's protaganist constantly pedantly narrating how everything should work out through his missions is truly fascinating. And when things goes unexpected it gets of course on a higher level.

Even though we don't get to know the backround of the protagonist we automatically try to figure him out through his narrative and actions, and I love that. Btw, I totally LMAO'd at his sudden comment about reality show Storage Wars, unexpected but perfectly fitting this character, as there is some occassional dry humour here as well.

The pace is slow but never bored me since Fincher and Fassbender made sure to get me envolved here. Since I was aware that Tilda Swinton would be involved, I kinda wished we'd see more of her, but her short performance was truly glorious IMO. And having to endure all these bloody The Smiths songs - I was soo happy at one point that Glory Box by Portishead suddenly appeared as a very welcome break. ( )

 

[Immortalfire]

Scrooged

 

[Immortalfire]

Scrooged

 

[Batgirl0202]

Better than I was expecting

8/10

 

[Luigi]

Extraction 2

Everyone's talking about the long takes but no one's talking about the guy getting crushed by the leg press. Replayed that one about five times.

7/10

 

[squeekness]

Watchmen