What was the last movie you watched? Part 2

[Brutikus]

 

[3rdstone]

Red Sonja (2025)

I actually don't remember the original flick with Arnie and Brigitte Nielsen, still pretty sure I must've watched it once considering the ridiculous amount of crap VHS-movies/DVDs I rented during the 80s and forward. Don't remember seeing it on the telly as well. Whatever.

I went in thinking this would be a totally stinker considering comments and reviews. And in many ways this feels like a direct to streaming service-film on a lower budget. Still turned out partly decent. I thought Matilda Lutz did really well as Red Sonja/the protagonist, regardless the amount of crappy acting around her lol. The production design was decent as well. The gladiator scenes were entertaining (but way too short) as were the action scenes over all. And IMHO that nod to the classic skimpy Red Sonja armour worked with the humour involved.

I also wished the pacing could be more forward (I mean we're here for the sword action). Having enjoyed this partly as a decent enough turn-of-your-brain actioner, I now realise that the only really good thing here was Matilda Lutz, and missing more action scenes with her. Well whatever, I wouldn't mind seeing Lutz in another action-packed film, being it swords and sorcery or some modern themed flick.

The ending kiiinda left it open for a potential sequel..

 

[Rozen Thorne]

 

[MilkmanDan]

Twisters
Going in Style (2017)

 

[Immortalfire]

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

 

[KaijuDude1992]

Is this a good movie no but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't entertained by it especially seeing Alan Ritchson just having the time of his life here and hopefully the dude does more comedies in the future.

I'm definitely looking forward to seeing him in that Schwarzenegger Christmas movie whenever that's suppose to come out.

6/10



This was good and it was nice seeing another film from this director but I kind of understand why it didn't do better at the BO. It just felt like something that was made for streaming but that doesn't take away from the fact that I really liked the performances from Tatum and Dunst in this and the whole thing is pretty sad in the end especially since it is based on a real person.

7/10



I can't say that I laughed a whole lot but this was a really charming film. Like Roofman though it definitely felt like something made for streaming. Keanu was very likeable in this though and probably the best of the movie honestly but it was also cool seeing Seth Rogen and Aziz Ansari in another film together after all these years.

7/10

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Seven Deaths in the Cats Eyes (AKA Seven Deaths in the Cat's Eye ~ 1973)

Italian/French/German produced gothic horror/giallo, directed by Antonio Margheriti. The film is set some time in the late 1800s.

Dragonstone Castle is the Scottish ancestral home of the MacGrieff family. Corringa MacGrieff (English actress/singer Jane Birkin) arrives unexpectedly (keeping quite about her expulsion from boarding school for 'cavorting' with boys) to visit her mother, Lady Alicia, and her aunt, Lady Mary (who actually owns the castle). Also present are the family physician Dr Franz (Anton Diffring), French teacher Suzanne (Doris Kunstmann), Mary's arrogant, wastrel son Lord James (Hiram Keller), and newly arrived priest, Padre Robertson (giallo regular Venantino Venantini). Mary is desperately short of money and pleads with Alicia to help her out, but Alicia refuses. That night Alicia is murdered, smothered with her pillow.

The family have a legend; any MacGrieff killed by another MacGrieff returns as a vampire. As more people are mysteriously killed, the discovery that Lady Alicia's body is missing from the family crypt and that her coffin appears to have been forced open from the inside has Corringa wondering if the legend is more than just superstition...

Antonio Margheriti was a variable director, but when he got it right he scored. He gets it right here. The cinematography, lighting, and mist-shrouded atmosphere are bang-on, with lots of lurking in moonlit graveyards and searching secret passages by candlelight. I don't know if he set out to make it look like a Hammer film, but he certainly manages to do so (put me in mind of The Brides of Dracula and Kiss of the Vampire). The score by Riz Ortolani is perfect. The performances are all good (Diffring could play the unsympathetic Teutonic a-hole in his sleep - but he always did it so well!). Birkin and Kunstmann provide the glamour. There's barely any nudity, and only a moderate amount of gore, but this gets by on atmosphere. The story itself isn't particularly original - the Sherlock Holmes adventure The Hound of the Baskervilles is obviously an influence, with maybe a bit of Edgar Allan Poe - but that doesn't detract from a good evening watch for this time of year. 7/10

 

[Simon Phoenix]

 

[squeekness]

McVeigh