What Was the Last Movie You Watched?

[Frodo]

The Omen (1976)

 

[KaijuDude1992]

 

[Loden Greatstorm]

Super Mario Bros Movie

 

[Babillygunn]

 

[Babillygunn]

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I love this movie. Such a guilty pleasure. And my life’s ambition is to be like Robert Loggia’s character, who seemingly employs a guy just to follow him around and give him candy bars on demand.

“Leo! Gimme a Crunch!”

 

[Gothamsknight]

 

[emielaen]

Ichi the Killer (2001) - 7/10
Tokyo Sonata (2008) - 8/10
John Wick: Chapter 4 (2023) - 7.5/10
The Brood (1979) - 6/10
The Original Kings of Comedy (2000) - Still funny
The Queens of Comedy (2001) - Still funny
Linoleum (2023) - 7.5/10

 

[Iceman]

Both awesome!!

 

[Hunter Rider]

Classic Hollywood epic, strong performances and spectacular production values, the Chariot race remains one of the greatest sequences ever committed to film.

9/10

Charming and engaging adventure tale, the sledding sequences are fantastic.

8/10

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Scooby-Doo! And Krypto, Too! (2023)

The Justice League have gone missing! As if that isn't enough, guided tours of the now abandoned Hall of Justice are being disrupted by a fiery phantom! After Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen witness the apparition themselves they decide to call on the best team to solve the mystery. So, the Justice Society? Doom Patrol? Suicide Squad? No, they call in... Mystery Incorporated!

This movie, although completely finished, was one of the casualties of WBD's tax write-off purge (and the fourth Scooby-Doo project cancelled under Zaslav after Scoob! Holiday Haunt, Scooby-Doo and The Haunted High Rise, and Scooby-Doo! and the Mystery Pups). Word on various Scooby forums is that this particular cancellation was the last straw for one anonymous exec, who felt it crapped over both Scooby and DC, and decided to leak it.

One of the first things you notice is that whilst previous Scooby/DC crossovers involved superheroes coming into Scooby's world, here it is definitely the other way around; Scooby and co have entered the world of DC, and it really puts a different spin on it. There's some great stuff... Fred's crush on Harley Quinn; Scooby's fan-dogging over Krypto; Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen's inability to recognise Velma without her glasses (subtle!); Shaggy and Scooby inadvertently jumping on Flash's cosmic treadmill and getting chased through time; and Lex Luthor's dog being called 'Rex' - and Scooby's inability to differentiate between the dog's name and Lex's own. There are also a ton of callouts to the old Super Friends/Challenge of the Superfriends shows in the backgrounds, as well as to some more modern DC live-action.

But, minuses... Some of the timing seeming a little off in the dialogue; Fred's constant insecurity over Daphne having spent summer camp with Jimmy Olsen when they were both nine years old (it's not that funny the first time); the lack of screentime given to some villains; the climax battle going on far too long; and worst of all... Daphne. I have no problem with the fact that at various times over the years she's taken the leader role, demonstrated pretty impressive martial arts skills, proved herself one heck of an investigator, and been extremely capable in a crisis. But here it is ridiculously overdone, as though her sole purpose is to make everybody else look unnecessary. On top of that, it's done with a level of snark that I've never seen in Scooby-Doo before. It's jarring, and completely unnecessary. I've no idea why the writers and director went that way.

However, the regular voice cast (Frank Welker as Scooby/Fred, Grey DeLisle as Daphne (and Wonder Woman), Matthew Lillard as Shaggy, and Kate Micucci as Velma) are bang on, whilst the supporting cast (Charles Halford as Luthor (doing a fine 'Clancy Brown'), Victoria Grace as Mercy, Nolan North as Joker (a not bad 'Hamill') and Superman, Tara Strong as Lois Lane and Harley Quinn, and Fred Tatasciore as Solomon Grundy and Perry White) are all rock solid.

It's a shame this release was cancelled, but at least Scooby fans get a chance to see it. 7/10

 

[Shinobi Shaw]

Hands down, the best video game movie adaptation to this very day.



The American soundtrack with Alice in Chains, Korn and KMFDM still holds up too.

 

[Gothamsknight]

This film has gotten so much better with age. One of the best Star Wars films.

 

[KaijuDude1992]

 

[C. Lee]

THE BIG RED ONE (1980)
THE BIG RED ONE: THE RECONSTRUCTION (1980/2004)
Wrote and directed by Samuel Fuller (based on his experiences during WWII) it stars Lee Marvin, Mark Hamill, Robert Carradine, Bobby Di Cicco, and Kelly Ward.

THE BIG RED ONE is an excellent low budget WWII film that manages most of the time to not look low budget. It follows a group of soldiers from the landing in Algiers, North Africa to the invasion of Sicily, to the landing of Normandy during D-DAY, to the Battle of the Bulge, to finally the liberation of a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. You must remember....all of the WWII events were actually witnessed by the director Sam Fuller.

THE BIG RED ONE: THE RECONSTRUCTION.....movie critic Richard Schickel was a good friend of Fuller. He spent years trying to find the deleted footage and put it back together in the way that Fuller had intended by using the original script. The RECONSTRUCTION puts 48 minutes back into the movie.

There are multiple scenes that include or are all about children. Fuller wanted to show that unlike what is shown in most war movies, from his experiences the events of children in war are the most heartbreaking. I will put a couple of these scenes in spoiler tags....

Spoiler

when the concentration camp is liberated, Marvin's character finds a young boy near death. The boy at first can't even bring himself to eat the food that Marvin offers him. He takes the kid out into the sunshine and under a tree and sets up a kind of picnic. The child finally eats some food and smiles at Marvin. Marvin then puts the kid on his shoulders and walks him around....until the kid slumps over and dies. The death of this poor child affects you more than the hundreds of deaths you have seen for the rest of the movie. This scene was in the original release, but there is a new added scene during the Sicily invasion that tugs at the heart also. During a lull in the fighting, a little girl puts flowers in the webbing of Marvin's helmet. While the otther soldiers laugh at him and says he looks ridiculous, he smile and says he likes it while patting the girl on the head and shoulders. A Nazi watching this decides to shoot at them....and kills the girl. While many MEN are killed in the movie, the deaths of two innocent children are remembered the most.

 

[Pennywise]

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Batman: Mystery of the Batwoman

 

[Luigi]

Puss in Boots: The Last Wish

Was not expecting this to have such a large body count.

8/10

 

[Sculder]

Carry on Cruising (1962)
Fast Food Nation (2006)
Johnny Nobody (1961)
Fulci for fake (2019)

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Dead Over Heels: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery

 

[MilkmanDan]

The Gray Man

 

[Frodo]

Damien - The Omen 2

 

[Frodo]

Sky Captain And The World Of Tomorrow

 

[Sculder]

Kill Boksoon (2023)
Infinity Pool (2023)

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

A Bundle of Trouble: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery

 

[Teelie]

We Have A Ghost

More like We Have No Idea We're Doing

It starts off "family friendly" like Casper then goes pseudo-E.T. and then veers again into something else. At 2 hours and 7 minutes, it needed the time to twist so many ways. Will give Harbor this: he can still act even without speaking.