What's The Last Movie You Watched? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Part 51

[Ash J. Williams]

 

[Luigi]

Lady Bird

7.5/10

 

[blueharvest]

Sully

 

[Darepool]

 

[guitarsingerguy]

The Running Man

 

[hammerhedd11]

Three Colors: Blue - 8/10

 

[Sculder]

Five Corners (1987)

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Psycho (1960)

 

[DawnWarrior]

Coco

 

[MMMMM...Pancakes]

Krampus

 

[Loden Greatstorm]

Justice League

 

[blueharvest]

The Terminal

 

[3dman27]

legend of the eight saurai

 

[hammerhedd11]

Small Crimes - 5/10

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

The Haunting (1963)

 

[NotNickFury]

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri. Very dark. In fact, I'd say it leans more towards dark drama than outright dark comedy, though it has its humorous elements in addition to all of the tragedy. All well acted, particularly Frances McDormand and Sam Rockwell. Peter Dinklage is great as well, but man, I wish he was in it longer.

I would put good money on McDormand getting nominated for Best Actress. Whether she'd win, I don't know, but I do think she can at least get a nod.

 

[Web-Head]

Hey Arnold! The Jungle Movie

 

[Ash J. Williams]

 

[Jesse]

The Kindred (1987)

The highlight of this low budget monster movie is its gruesome practical special effects. A doctor is warned by his dying mother to return to his childhood home and destroy her mysterious experiment. He invites a group of his colleagues to help and they discover a hybrid tentacle monster created from his own DNA. It attacks them and traps them in the house while a rival scientist who creates his own animal human hybrids wants to capture it. The ending is over-the-top and exciting with some genuinely gross moments.

 

[MMMMM...Pancakes]

Step Brothers

 

[blueharvest]

Gladiator (2000)

 

[Jesse]

Legend of the Werewolf (1975)

The werewolf design in this is really cool and I quite like the use of first person shots from its perspective. I don't think I've seen the boy raised by wolves becomes a werewolf scenario in a horror film before. It's not as eerie as some of Peter Cushing's better horror movies but I think it's one of Freddie Francis' better directorial efforts. What Francis may lack here in mood he makes up for with suspense as the buildups to the attacks and final confrontation are very well done. It's written by Anthony Hinds who also wrote Hammer's The Curse of the Werewolf (1961). The story is interesting and the werewolf attacks are exciting with a bit of gore. Cushing plays a forensics expert that investigates a series of brutal murders that look like animal attacks. David Rintoul gives a strong performance as Etoile and the climactic confrontation at the end is both thrilling and tragic.

 

[Kane52630]

Patti Cake$

It's a coming of age movie that is pretty much Sing Street meets 8 Mile. You follow Patti around dreaming to be a famous rap star and forming a team behind her to make her first album. Best thing I can say about this movie was its direction and cinematography. Geremy Jasper did a great job on making it feel unique with some of it's visual cues. Performances was good and expected for the indie level of filmmaking. The girl playing Patti actually did a decent job on rapping even though lyric wise it feels kinda dated. There's some obvious trope-ish things that they do which makes the final act predictable. Overall, it's a good entry level indie film that has some things to be admired.
7/10

Cars 3

As someone who thought the first one was decent yet hated the 2nd one, I expected nothing good to come out of it. Surprisingly, I thought this was a good return to form. They put the focus back on Lightning McQueen and made sure Larry the Cable Guy is almost nowhere to be seen. I know this will sound strange, but Cars 3 is pretty much the '06 Rocky film for this series. They made him the has been trying to give it one more shot against someone who has out class him. Granted, this movie is still a far cry from PIXAR's greats, but I thought it was enjoyable.
7/10

 

[Kane52630]

Batman vs. Two-Face

Loved it. While I thought Return of the Caped Crusaders felt like the real final bowout and celebration which encompasses that era of Batman, this feels like a great 3 parter episode done in animation. William Shatner as Two Face was great and having his ticks worked greatly. Adam West and Burt Ward also did a fine job as usual. It's a damn shame the great Adam West left us, I would have loved to see them make at least one more of these.
9/10

Coco

Where Cars 3 felt like PIXAR was trying to course correct, Coco feels like a return to PIXAR's classics. This was by far the best thing they have done in years. They have an interesting take for Day of the Dead and how it functions. It has a great heartwarming narrative that doesn't dumb it down for kids to understand. The story is all about family and who you look up to and on that aspect it's done masterfully. I feel like the animators who worked on Moana came back to PIXAR to make this because animation wise it's just beautiful to look at. Side note, this movie came with a obnoxious tv episode length special for Frozen and Coco makes that look like a really crappy bargain bin movie. Speaking of, the music was also great in Coco and it actually integrates with the story unlike Frozen. Overall, it's about time PIXAR made something worth while and I hope Incredibles 2 continues that.
9.5/10

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Rings (2017)