What Was the Last Movie You Watched?

[Ash J. Williams]

 

[writer0327]

Overlord this afternoon. Fan-effing-tastic!!

 

[Hunter Rider]

Starts off interestingly but loses it's way a bit in the second half of the film, the three lead performances are good though. 6/10

 

[Luigi]

Mini-Rocky marathon before Creed II.

Rocky II

Never fails to crack me up seeing Apollo try to instigate a fight with Rocky while they're both in wheelchairs.

Rocky Balboa

I know everyone always references Rocky's speech but the scene that's always stuck out to me is Rocky and Paulie visiting the demolished ice rink. Talk about heartbreaking.

Creed

Pitch perfect continuation of the franchise.

 

[blueharvest]

Public Enemies

 

[Loden Greatstorm]

Kong: Skull Island

 

[nightwing06]

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald




Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) returns to track down the woman he has fallen for ina Goldstein (Katherine Waterston) and to be commisioned by Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) to find Credence Barebone (Ezra Miller), before dark wizard Grindelwald (Johnny Depp) can get his hands on him.


PRAISE : So much better this time around !! The silliness and long drawn out moments to just show off SFX are kept to a minimum.It's well acted by the entire cast which includes : Claudia Kim, Carmen Ejogo, Zoe Kravitz, Alison Sudol, Dan Fogler, and Callum Turner.
Director David Yates keeps things moving steadily for the most part.
The inclusion of some characters give the film a boost.I actually felt something for the characters.Some strong emotional moments and multiple romances brought strength to the story,actually making the film intriguing.
I found the climax to be very involving and action packed.Some really amazing and stunning SFX and a great score by James Newton Howard.


PROBLEMS :I was about to pull out a notepad or hoped there was an App i could use to keep up with the numerous story threads.If you dont pay close attention especially to the flashbacks you will be confused.
Depp was good but i felt he wasnt given enough time to shine,and was only able to display his skills fully at the films climax.There are a couple of dull moments.Some characters are sidelined.

Im far more invested and im actually looking forward to the next 3(?)chapters in this tale

Scale of 1-10 a 7½






WIDOWS



After their husbands are killed during a heist the widows of the men are cornered into trying to pulloff a heist themselves.



PRAISE:The acting in this film is off the charts great.The cast does a great job which includes :
Viola Davis, Daniel Kaluuya, Brian Tyree Henry, Robert Duvall, Colin Farrell, Cynthia Erivo, Carrie Coon, Elizabeth Debicki, Michelle Rodriguez, Liam Neeson.
Their perfomances are laces with intensity,intimidation and raw emotion.
Scenes crackle with devestating dialogue.
The opening action sequence hit me like a lightning bolt.I liked how the film displayed how the women were novices to anything criminal and had to find their rhythm together and individually.
I loved how Director/writer Steve McQueen and writer Gillian Flynn didnt make it easy for the widows.


PROBLEMS: A major plot twist was extremely predictable.The film meanders here and there and i kept saying wow i wish they would pick up the pace here.It was odd how some scenes were shot but maybe the director was trying to show off or it was anod to something i couldnt recall
Theres a big plot hole i couldnt make peace with long after i left the theatre.


Widows is a good film but not the great one i hoped it would be and may be a bit over hyped.

Scale of 1-10 a 7½

 

[NewYorkSpider]

Clerks 2

 

[THORin]

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

(very good film, takes the #2 slot on my Top 3 movies of all time - discounting the LotR and Hobbit trilogies, which are in a class of their own)

My only problem with the movie is that Nagini was sidelined, and Yusuf Kama really didn't do much for me as a character. All the actors, though, really owned their roles - especially Johnny Depp and Jude Law.

 

[Sculder]

S fung bou / S Storm (2016)

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Dogma

 

[Loden Greatstorm]

Rampage

 

[blueharvest]

What About Bob?

 

[Loden Greatstorm]

Batman v Superman

 

[psylockolussus]

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

 

[NDX]

Recoil
The Family

 

[Iceman]

Immortals - enjoyed this a lot, although I love films based on mythology.

 

[Rodimus]

Dogma

One of my favourite films that!

 

[NDX]

Tango & Cash

Because who needs sleep for work?

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Big Trouble in Little China

 

[Iceman]

Warcraft - quite a lot better than I remembered from my initial watch. The human characters need to be improved a fair bit but the orcs are great. The special effects are also really good - I think this would have gone down so much better with the GA if the human characters had more to them.

 

[Sculder]

Handsome: A Netflix Mystery Movie (2017)

 

[3rdstone]

Blue Ruin (2013)

Second watch, and it's still bloody great. Now I need to watch Green Room again as well, as I found it fine but slightly overrated the first time.

 

[Kane52630]

The Ballad of Buster Scruggs

It's a extremely well crafted western anthology film by the Coen brothers. There are 6 short films that doesn't have anything connecting them besides the Coen's style of dark humor mixed with drama. I liked all of them, but there are some I love more than the others. Particularly The Ballad of Buster Scruggs... which was pretty much a Tex Avery/Looney Tunes cartoon in the best way possible... All Gold Canyon... which was a great slow burn one man show... And Meal Ticket.. which was a very dark and depressed look on humanity. Overall though, if you're a fan of westerns or the Coens... or just great cinematography, it's a must watch.
8.5/10

1. The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
2. All Gold Canyon
3. Meal Ticket
4. The Gal Who Got Rattled
5. Near Algodones
6. The Mortal Remains

 

[Hunter Rider]

7.5/10