What's The Last Movie You Watched? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Part 54

[Ozbridge]

A Wrinkle in Time. Love the book but if I hadn’t read it I would have no patience to finish the movie.

 

[blueharvest]

The Wolf Of Wall Street

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

The Magnificent Seven (1960)

 

[Dave McFly]

Finally saw The Founder wow I loved it Keaton was awesome in this but I loved the guys who played the McDonald brothers and their interactions with Keaton.

 

[Ash J. Williams]

 

[Luigi]

Deadpool 2

As someone who loves the first film, I found myself somewhat bored by this one.

7/10

 

[hammerhedd11]

Ready Player One - 4/10

Was really shocked at how much of a mess this was. The appeal to Spielberg, like his Tintin film, clearly lies in experimenting in as many ways as possible with the technology behind the movie. However, whereas Tintin's simple and straightforward narrative served well for fun extended set pieces and an ability to craft each scene in a freewheeling "experimental" fashion, RPO is stuffed with endless exposition, an over-abundance of underutilized characters, and a surprisingly lazy execution of even the most straightforward storytelling beats. Even the set-pieces suffer from overload, with the opening car race being the only scene that successfully captures the chaotic inventiveness that the rest of movie fails to achieve.

 

[nightwing06]

UPGRADE

Grey Trace a stay-at-home mechanic wife Asha is murdered and he is left paralyzed after being attacked.Grey is upgraded with new tech that is inserted in his spinal column and attempts to track down the killers.

I thought Tom Hardy Jr......i mean Logan Marshall-Green did well as Grey ,he showed all the right amounts of raw emotion and pain.
Harrison Gilbertson as Eron Keen an eccentric tech innovator did well also.
Betty Gabriel as Detective Cortez also turned in a fine performance.
The villains were a mixed bag of mence but definitely serviceable.

The action sequences were fun ad well choreographed,some good kills and great cinemaphotagraphy from Stefan Duscio
I dont think i have ever watched a movie that had a couple of predictable moments that lead to a couple of unpredictable moments.A movie with plotholes that are actually filled and explained away !!

The film borrows from so many well known Sci Fi films and comic books ,to many to list here plus it may lead to spoilers.

So some of Upgrade is old hat but i admire the structure of the film and now im realizing seeds were planted throughout the film about what would be it's final outcome.

Scale of 1-10 an 8

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)

 

[NewYorkSpider]

Spider-Man
Spider-Man 2
Spider-Man 3

 

[Sculder]

Cargo (2017)

 

[Kane52630]

Terminal

I thought it was okay. It's a neon noir that's sorta similar with Atomic Blonde and Blade Runner, only it doesn't have fight scenes or replicants. What it does have is a somewhat convoluted spy thriller with Margot Robbie where they do all the predictable tropes that comes with it. There are some good moments between Mike Myers, Simon Pegg, and Margot Robbie and the ending I thought was done pretty well. Overall, it's just average.
7/10

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Batman Begins

 

[Mandon Knight]

Just come back from a 50th Anniversary screening of 2001 : A Space Odyssey. Oh Lawd, never seen it on the big screen before, it was really something else.

I've always read it as a horror film, okay, a U rated horror film but this just amped the whole experience up to 11.

Visually stunning & disorientating (which it is) but to a point where you had expanses of beautiful space and it was breathtaking.

An eclectic audience of various ages and a busy screening, loved it. 10/10.

 

[Web-Head]

Upgrade

 

[Hunter Rider]

6/10

 

[blueharvest]

War For the Planet of the Apes

 

[Flash525]

Tomb Raider (2017)

Wasn't overly hyped about it - certainly didn't watch it on cinema release, though it was entertaining enough. I'm glad about the twist involving the tomb, cause I didn't quite imagine (nor want) this to go the way of Indiana Jones (similar, yet more credible) because of it's grounding.

Thought the lead was good, and the supporting characters okay (though some of them could have done a little more) and the idea that a bunch of mercenaries were bested by fishermen seems a bit farfetched, but I'm willing to overlook that slightly.

The only thing that didn't seem to fit was Lara's position - in that, at no point in the film, short of boxing and archery, did it imply she was skilled in anything else, and yet she had a very survivalistic nature to her (as it should be). The build-up to the actual adventure could have shown a few more flashbacks alluding to her would-be skills.

7/10

 

[Loden Greatstorm]

Tarzan

 

[AverageMan]

Iron Man 2.
Surprisingly re-watchable. Not as bad as I remember. Sam Rockwell was great as Justin Hammer.

 

[Immortalfire]

Star Wars Episode IV

 

[hammerhedd11]

You Were Never Really Here - 10/10

Hard to believe this will be topped by any other releases this year. Along with Ratcatcher and We Need To Talk About Kevin (have yet to see Morvern Callar), Lynne Ramsay has yet to have made a film that wasn't essentially perfect in everything it set out to do.

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

The Dark Knight

 

[Milk Tray Guy]

Iron Man 2.
Surprisingly re-watchable. Not as bad as I remember. Sam Rockwell was great as Justin Hammer.

I thought the same when I rewatched IM2 recently. I certainly prefer it to IM3 (which I didn't originally).

 

[nite-owl]