What Was the Last Movie You Watched?

[Luigi]

Spider-Man 3

 

[3rdstone]

Damn, there's so many great posters for this when you search it's hard to choose one.

Anyways, it came up on the telly. I'd heard about this getting praise, but didn't know anything about it (and had missed out that it's the same director who did Oldboy, duh!). It's pretty excellent, and apart from great visuals there's some stuff coming up that you totally don't expect watching the first act.

 

[Zorro]

 

[blueharvest]

 

[Zorro]

 

[Zorro]

 

[C. Lee]

My wife bought this for one dollar to keep me entertained during the lockdown....she paid 99 cents too much.

 

[Kane52630]

The High Note

Mostly decent for a romcom/feel-good summer movie that's set in the LA music industry. It doesn't try to do something new, but it sticks to all the reliable romcom clichés that you expect a movie like this to have. It does go a little deep into how music is made within the industry and how music stars try to stay relevant. A big misstep this movie has is making Dakota Johnson the central character of the movie, but her chemistry with Tracee Ellis Ross mostly works. There's a lot of notable supporting characters that were good like Ice Cube and Bill Pullman, but Kelvin Harrison Jr. continues to outshine everyone. Overall, not bad. It's comfort food for a general audience.
3/5

 

[Kane52630]

Possessor

A literal mind**** by the son of David Cronenberg. Don't wanna give everything away plot wise, but it's if he had Scanners crossed with Under The Skin and The Cell with a little bit of Ghost in the Shell and Inception thrown in. Andrea Riseborough, who's always great in everything, delivers an all time performance and Christopher Abbott was incredible in it when it got to the 2nd half of the movie. In classic Cronenberg fashion, the body horror was gruesome in a bizarre way. Cinematography and the music was also excellent. That being said, I will say the movie is a bit rough around the edges, it's not as glossy as it wants to be and there's a bit of a pacing issue. Overall, it's worth checking out if you are a Cronenberg fan or a fan of trippy scifi horror films like Mandy.
4/5

 

[C. Lee]

Not a high point in the careers of anyone involved.

 

[C. Lee]

 

[Captain Tired]

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

The Italian Job (1969)

 

[C. Lee]

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Nails

 

[ObiWanCon]

War of the Worlds (2005)

 

[Captain Tired]

 

[Zorro]

 

[Kane52630]

Becky

A slightly above average revenge thriller that sadly doesn't use its full potential. It so wants to be a rated R Home Alone meets Straw Dogs or Funny Games, but the script doesn't give you much to chew on. It's overly simplistic and straight to the point with its plot. They don't even give you enough to know what the MacGuffin of the movie does. Kevin James tries to do something with his character who's a Neo Nazi, but they don't give him much to do or say outside of a couple of moments. Joel McHale and Amanda Brugel are just barely there as characters. The main star and highlight of the movie goes to Lulu Wilson as Becky who is way better than the material they give her. She alone (and maybe the gore) carries the movie to above average. Overall, it's just alright.
3/5

 

[Luigi]

Constantine

 

[Sculder]

Outlawed (2018)

 

[C. Lee]

 

[kvz5]

 

[Ash J. Williams]

 

[Zorro]

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