What Was the Last Movie You Watched?

[Iceman]

The Jungle Book - loved it. The definitive version of this story now.

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Dead Mine (Indonesian horror that attempts to cross The Descent with Outpost, and manages to be nowhere near as good as either)

 

[C. Lee]

Interesting movie. The American release is 25 minutes shorter than the Chinese version. I will assume most of Adrian Brody's role was in those missing minutes since he's onscreen for less than 5 minutes in this version. Also.....Bruce's daughter Rumor Willis gets prominate billing in the opening credits....while having less than a minute screen time and one line of dialogue (that sounds like it was dubbed by someone else). The story takes place in late 1930's China....they are under constant attack by the Japanese....Bruce Willis is American Colonel Chennault (he left the U.S. military in 1937 due to some medical problems). The Chinese government hired Chennault in 1937 to train and lead their air forces (in early 1941 the U.S. government ships over a bunch of brand new planes and American pilots and he becomes the leader of the famous Flying Tigers). The movie follows him training flyers and the journey of a truck cross country carrying a British decoder machine. The main thing for me was the fighting. One of the main problems with making a WWII film today is....the machinery from the war (in working order) is practically nonexistant. To do a movie today about airial dogfights it has to be done in cgi. The dogfights are plentiful and decently done. If you like WWII movies and want to see a movie about an aspect of the war we usually don't see....then I recommend it.

 

[Immortalfire]

Deep Impact

 

[blueharvest]

Collateral

 

[Slade W]

Full Metal Jacket (1987)

 

[-Arya-]

Isle of Dogs - 7/10
Rushmore - 7/10
Stalker - 8/10
The Hateful Eight - 8/10
Kubo and the Two Strings - 8.5/10

And the highlight:
Solaris (1972) - 10/10
A masterful Sci-fi film on par with 2001: A Space Odyssey

 

[BlackFox]

 

[Web-Head]

Doctor Strange

 

[C. Lee]

 

[Immortalfire]

North by Northwest

 

[Ninjablade]

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

 

[C. Lee]

 

[squeekness]

Green book

 

[tzarinna]

Lady Bird.

 

[JimThompson]

 

[Web-Head]

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

 

[blueharvest]

Downsizing

 

[JimThompson]

 

[-Arya-]

The King of Comedy - 9/10

Funny and often unsettling, The King of Comedy is in my opinion Robert Deniro’s best performance and Martin Scorsese’s most underrated film. On the surface it’s about the beuracracy of show business, but underneath it’s really about delusional obsessions and the inability to take no for an answer.

 

[Immortalfire]

The Odd Couple

 

[MMMMM...Pancakes]

Blade Runner (theatrical cut)

 

[TheGuy]

Raw - 5/10

Other than being an extremely gory take on subconscious primal hunger, Raw falls flat without fully exploring or presenting a juxtaposition of growing cannibalism to social commentary about eroticism in an emotional aspect. The themes are present, but it slugs along the way. Garance Marillier delivers a disturbing and electrifying performance that carries the film, as her character slowly spirals down towards cannibalism. The film's production design fails to convey a sense of claustrophobia that could nurture the protagonists primal hunger for flesh. As sexuality and cannibalistic desires collide, the scenes are truly terrifying. They are conveyed best with the characters, not the visuals, which is a let down.

Raw leaves a mark for its violence alone, but not on an intellectual level.

 

[Spider-Aziz]

POKEMON: DETICTIVE DEADPOOL (2019)
QUALITY = 7/10
JOY = 6/10​

II found it less interesting on first view, and this is a movie I was really hyped for.

GINTAMA (2017)
QUALITY = 8/10
JOY = 9/10​

It's a bit iffy at points, because the original anime arc is rather iffy itself at those specific points.
When you're a fan of the anime the way I am, hearing different voices for the main characters beside the original Japanese voice cast, especially for the goofball title character. And the goofy expressions don't work that well when done by real people.

But it's good, the plot is good, the chapters adapted to introduce the characters is handled well here, and the battle choreography is really impressive. It needs to revel in the absurdity of the source material like this did, but some stuf don't work that well for me.

 

[TheGuy]

Spider-Man: Far From Home - 4/10

Far from being a serviceable film, the latest Spider-Man instead merely serves as a palette cleanser to the Infinity Saga with a half-baked and disjointed story line. Sony has to strike with the Marvel craze while the iron is hot. Definitely one of the worst interpretation of the character in live action.

First off, there are some good elements about this film. Jake Gyllenhaal as Mysterio brings sympathy, likeability and an underlying sinister element to the character. The design is wonderful owing to its faithfulness to the comics. Outside of the villain, the rest of the film is subpar. Lifting the film can't be done by a single character alone.

The plot of the film follows Spider-Man and his classmates as they travel Europe for a class tour. None of it makes sense. The character does not grow and the different cities have no relevance emotionally and thematically. Setting this in New York City would have resolved this issue. After all, the character lives there. Plot details and decisions matter less over character development. However, the plot here serves little purpose other than to present "spectacular" visuals.

Usually, jokes and comedy in the Marvel films land when they serve the characters or are not jarring to the point of being included for the sake of laughs. In here, everything is forced and contrived. Even the awkward teenage love story. Tom Holland and Zendaya, who plays MJ, frankly have no chemistry. Immediately as the film starts Spider-Man is head over heels for MJ who he has shown no liking for in Homecoming. While it is understandable considering the characters are teenagers, infatuation starts from something and this is something the film failed to present. Marrisa Tomei as Aunt May is worse here with her relationship with Happy Hogan, played by Jon Favreau. Teen drama does not mean being dumb down. Maturity can be threaded in the teenage love story without being caricatures.

Thematically, Far From Home is a repeat of Homecoming and it does so on a lesser note. Iron Man is shoehorned, again. Spider-Man now seeks approval and meaning from Iron Man, again. Mysterio and his allies find motivation through Iron Man's past mistakes. It's time for Spider-Man to be his own man as he really is and leave Iron Man alone. Spider-Man is the same character as he was in Homecoming, which is disappointing after four previous appearances in the same continuity. Coming on the heels of Infinity War and Endgame, Far From Home should have explored what it was like for the world to recover after Hulk re-snapping half of the universe, but is mentioned only in passing during the beginning. The film is further hampered by sloppy pacing and editing due to these lapses in story lines. The technical qualities are poor, aside from the score and soundtrack. The CGI is also serviceable at best.

If audiences care about concluding the Infinity Saga, Far From Home is a must watch. But as an engrossing film like its predecessors, it fails.