What Was the Last Movie You Watched?

[Frodo]

Outrage (1973)

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Scooby-Doo! and the Gourmet Ghost (2018)

Scooby and the gang travel to New England, where Fred's uncle, celebrity (apparently?) chef Bobby Flay (voicing himself), has inherited a historic colonial inn and turned it into a state-of-the-art culinary resort. But as the grand opening approaches, it seems the ghost of Bobby's ancestor has other ideas, scaring away workers and sabotaging high-tech food preparation equipment. Good job a gang of 'teenage mystery solvers' are on hand!

Beautiful artwork and animation, very good story, atmospheric setting, and one really creepy looking ghost. Flay does well, as do fellow celebrities (?) Marcus Samuelsson, Giada De Laurentiis, and Maya Haile, all of whom voice themselves. Regular voice cast Frank Welker, Grey DeLisle, Matthew Lillard, and Kate Micucci are, of course, note perfect.

One gripe, sound mixing. A few times the tail-ends of comments made by the leads are lost to fade, or other speech/sound drowns them out. I had to replay them a few times to catch what was said. But the script is good. Shaggy and Velma get some great one-liners. At 77 minutes long, it could have done with another five minutes. But this is a solid entry in the Scooby-Doo canon (using that word loosely!). 8/10

 

[blueharvest]

Forrest Gump

 

[Babillygunn]

 

[MissMarvelous]

Unfortunately, a great movie.

 

[Rozen Thorne]

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Scooby-Doo & Batman: The Brave and the Bold (2018)

After (unknowingly) passing an initiation test, Scooby etc are invited by Batman to join the secret 'Mystery Analysts of Gotham' society. Whilst attending their first meeting (with Batman, Black Canary, Plastic Man, Detective Chimp, Martian Manhunter, and The Question) an alarm sounds from Gotham Chemical Storage, and the gang answer the call alongside the heroes. As they arrive they encounter the ghostly 'Crimson Cloak', who swears revenge on Batman for causing his death. This causes Batman to reopen the one case that he was never able to solve...

Scooby-Doo/Batman crossovers are nothing new, and with this one taking place in the world of the Batman: The Brave and the Bold TV show, Diedrich Bader naturally returns to voice the caped crusader. Artwork and animation are very good. Dialogue is good, with Batman, Shaggy, Scooby, and Velma having the best lines (Velma fangirling over the Batcave is fun). We also get Batman driving the Mystery Machine, Daphne driving the Batmobile, Fred love-struck over Black Canary, and

Spoiler

Fred, Daphne, Shaggy, Velma, and Scooby as (respectively) Batman, Batgirl, Nightwing, Robin ('Carrie Kelley'), and Ace the Bat Hound!

Btw, in a flashback which Batman says happened in his first year as a crimefighter, he drives a 1940s Batmobile and wears the cow-horn ears Batsuit and short gloves! He looks pretty spry for a guy in his late 90s!

Minuses for me are that the movie feels like 'Batman, guest-starring Scooby-Doo', rather than 'Scooby-Doo, guest-starring Batman'; some of the guest heroes really don't need to be there; the prologue/set-up wastes a great monster concept and design that I'd love to have seen featured as a main Scooby villain in its own right; and whilst the general plot is okay (with shades of Joker's Red Hood origin), there are some things along the way that don't really make sense.

All in all though, it's a fun movie, and regular voice cast Frank Welker, Grey DeLisle, Matthew Lillard, and Kate Micucci are on point (as ever!).7/10

 

[blueharvest]

 

[Closerframe]

House of Gucci: I’m not sure if it’s intentionally meant to be a comedy, but it was definitely one of the funniest movies I’ve seen in years.

 

[Gothamsknight]

4k rewatch. Months later and I still think this movie is a lot of fun, and a nice epilogue to the trilogy. And also very underrated.

 

[Immortalfire]

X-Men



X2

 

[Frodo]

Moon Of The Wolf (1972)

 

[Ash J. Williams]

The third one is White Cannibal Queen.

 

[Gothamsknight]

Good film but not on the level of The Fugitive.

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Malignant (2021)

 

[Black Narcissus]

Right up there with Goodfellas, The first two Godfather flicks, and casino. A rewatch.

City of God

 

[Frodo]

Death Ship (1980)

 

[Immortalfire]

The Mummy

 

[LoganPool]

Really enjoyed this movie! Never played the video game, so that had no influence on me. 8/10

 

[Captain Tired]

Stargate (1994)

 

[Luigi]

Good film but not on the level of The Fugitive.

 

[Gothamsknight]

This was amazing

 

[Sculder]

Hustle (2022)
Qué pelo más guay / The Coolest Hair (2012)
A Perfect Pairing (2022)
Sanyangeui sigan / Time to Hunt (2020)

 

[Immortalfire]

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

 

[The Caped Knight]

To Infinity and Beyond!!! Lightyear 2022