What was the last movie you watched? Part 2

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Mickey 17 (2025)
 
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This was a really fun action comedy with a very different but badass role for Josh Hartnett. I never imagined seeing him in something like this but he pulls of the John Wick stuff pretty well IMO. If you enjoy those kinds of films or stuff like Bullet Train I'm sure you'll enjoy it too.

7.5/10

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This was really overlong but I wasn't really bored while watching but it definitely won't be everybody especially if you don't like subtitles. I'm trying to get more into Asian/Japanese films and movies and based on what I've seen so far they definitely know how to deliver some brutal action scenes and aren't afraid to show carnage either.

7/10

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An interesting medieval flick that like 11 Rebels is a bit overlong and won't be for everybody. I'm a huge fan of stuff like this especially after seeing The Northman which is far superior but it's exceptionally well made with some cool visuals and some pretty gory, brutal, battle scenes.

7/10
 
2 once di piombo / My Name Is Pecos (1966)
Den of Thieves 2: Pantera (2025)
Bandidos (1967)
Oh, Canada (2024)
Nosferatu (2024)
E Dio disse a Caino... / And God Said to Cain... (1970)
Companion (2025)
Mafia Mamma (2023)
Megalopolis (2024)
 
Mausoleum (1983)

US possession horror, starring Playboy-Bunny-turned-Scream-Queen Bobbie Bresee, and evangelist-preacher-turned-B-movie-block-of-wood Marjoe Gortner. On the day of her mother's funeral 10 year-old Susan becomes possessed by a demon. The demon lays dormant inside her until 20 years later - on the anniversary of her mother's death - when Susan (Bresee) begins to display abilities of fire-starting and telekinesis. She also becomes uncharacteristically sexually promiscuous and unfaithful to her new husband (Gortner). As Susan's behaviour-changes become more pronounced she starts to undergo increasingly grotesque physical transformations, until finally the demon within is loosed upon the world, and it's up to a local psychiatrist to battle the forces of evil for Susan's soul.

This plays out like an attempted cross between The Exorcist and Lucio Fulci's Gates of Hell trilogy - but isn't anywhere near as good as either. That's not to say it isn't enjoyable; the effects are all practical in that unmistakeable 80s way, there's plenty of gore, and the kills are pretty effective. Bresee gives it a good go and seems to be enjoying herself (her recollections of the film now are entertaining), but Gortner displays an astonishing lack of charisma (you'd expect more from a former evangelist preacher) and the rest of the cast are pretty forgettable. The tone is uneven (although Michael Dugan is credited as director, apparently on any given day a different person would be calling the shots; this may be due to the claims by several people that the whole thing was just a money laundering scam by the mob - who weren't that bothered with how the film turned out). The movie's big selling point was that Bresee gets naked - a lot (her comments on this are very funny; she was never under any misapprehension as to why she was hired!). A lot of things about the movie don't make sense (not least a WTF 'twist' that screams 'afterthought'), but as purely dumb fun it gets a 6/10
 
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