What Was The Last Movie/Anime You Watched?

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Before Sunset - I liked Before Sunrise, but I loved Before Sunset. The wistful nostalgia of what could have been hit me so much more than the magic of a single night. More tightly constructed, even more realistic feeling conversations. Just a real sucker-punch of a film.

Ghost - Too many different movies rolled into one.  All of them are solid, but they are fighting against each other.  Whoopi is a powerhouse, though, and deserved that Oscar.

What We Do in the Shadows - Maybe the funniest movie of the '10s.  Every line is perfectly calibrated to make me smile.

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Women Talking - Just an absolute powerhouse of a film where the only qualms I have with it are the color grading and what is perhaps an unnecessary voiceover narration.

Good Will Hunting - First full watch in probably 25 years, and it hit me like a ton of bricks this time.  Robin and Matt are incredible of course, but the scene that really stuck out to me this time was the fight between Will and Skylar.  Minnie Driver just annihilated it.

Broken Arrow - Remarkably progressive for 1950, but still hamstrung by the fact the most noble of Apaches are just some white dudes.

The Good Dinosaur - Extremely pretty to look at, but not a ton going on for it otherwise, except for maybe those pterodactyls.

Marathon Man - Loved the slow build (and unexpectedly) espionage heavy front half, and once it hits the halfway point it really does just pickup and go like a marathon.  Great performances all around, with Scheider and Devane being my stand-outs.  It get a bit messy in the climax - like why does Hoffman choose that specific punishment, but it doesn't really hurt the overall package.

Gladiator - Top tier dad-fernoon fare.  Over-dramatic, bombastic, and decadent in all the right ways.  All-timer of Zimmer soundtrack as well.

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Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom - You know, if you just ignore Shazam 2, Black Adam, and Flash, and look at Blue Beetle and this movie, these were good fun movies to go out on for the DCEU lol This is much like the first one, it's fun, colorful, fantasy adventure movie, does all the things right. 

I have no real complaints, like maybe they leaned a tad goofy in spots, especially the interactions between Arthur and his brother, Arthur feeling abit more..."Thor Ragnarok" levels of goofy, not that he was super serious in the last one, but tonally it starts to come across between him and Orm as that like Thor and Loki dynamic.  Might be a smidge unfair to say if it's a superhero brother combo where one is good and the other is bad/contentious, it must be compared to those two, but these movies don't exist in a vacuum and studios like to utilizes successful things from other movies.

Good watch though, I'd recommend it.  With me finished with the DCEU (Other than abandoning Shazam 2 part way in, I think this, the first Aquaman, The Suicide Squad (2021), and Blue Beetle are my favorite movies of the era.  Parts of Wonder Woman, Man of Steel, and Shazam were fine.  Everything else was either awful, or just middling to me.  Really hopeful this next era of DC is alot better.

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Gladiator II - It was never going to be the original, but this mostly hits even though it is as shameless a legacy sequel retread as The Force Awakens.  Its bigger, broader, more bombastic, but thats what makes it inferior to the first film.  Where that one is an intimate story with big implications on the back burner, this sequel is all about the big implications, and the more intimate moments don't land as hard.  Paul Mescal is fine, but he is not the same magnetic beating heart that Russell Crowe portrays in the previous film.  Denzel is the perfect spice in the stew, though, bringing the exact right amount of Denzel to the picture, and keeps it from getting too self-serious or bogged down in its convoluted machinations.

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Wifey and me enjoyed watching the first 5 Puppet Master movies for the 1st time

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Flow was cute and pretty good.

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DuckTales: Treasure of the Lost Lamp - Yeah, pretty typical "I saw this a ton when I was a kid, but it doesn't really hold up as an adult," fare.  It has a couple of moments, but it is most just bland and forgettable kid's fare.

Oz the Great and Powerful - Woof.  Franco doesn't work as the lead and Mila Kunis doesn't carry the menace of the Wicked Witch at all.  The sidekicks are tolerable, and Raimi gets to be Raimi a few times, but the story just flits from beat to beat with no real sense of themes or cohesion.  Comfortably Sam's worst since Crimewave.

Wicked - This is really good, but not nearly as good as your theater kid friends are telling you. Erivo and Grande are great, but an overabundance of flatly directed and color corrected pastels makes the world feel anemic and kinda dead. Still one of the better films ive seen this year, even if its getting a bit overpraised. Popular and Defying Gravity are rightful showstoppers.

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In the Line of Duty III
Tiger Cage

Re-watched these three HK action flicks and they are all still very fun, cool, and brutal.

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The Santa Clause - It's a really fun and macabre premise that just grinds to a complete halt every time the family drama crap starts. More stuff like his heartbeat being Christmas carols, less custody drama.

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Diehard - I wont get into the debate on weather it's a christmas movie or not..... mostly because I am deeply passionate about weather it is or not. And most likely would not be able to be humane if opinions differed. Id probably revert to homo habilis dialect from 13 million years ago lol


 With that elephant in the room well addressed. It is a wonderful movie. Filled with action, drama and some of the best character development ive seen.  John McLane is a likable relatable man. His character has flaws but overall the acting does not.  I also grew to love the cop that kept in contact with him.  Wish I remembered his name.  The movie is a semi wholesome mostly bloody family cult classic and I do enjoy it.  - 95/100

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Nation Lampoon's Christmas Vacation - I didn't grow up with this, so I've got no nostalgia for it, and I've recently come to the conclusion that I'm not really that fond of Chevy as a leading man.  That's not to say there aren't some good bits here, including Clark's freakout in the climax, but overall kind of a miss for me.  Really prefer the OG Vacation.

The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim - I actually kinda think I would have liked this more if it weren't a Lord of the Rings story.  It looks and sounds mostly incredible, but it just feels generic for an LotR story, and the most obvious attempts to tie-in are the most ham-fisted parts.  There are a couple of baffling storytelling decisions,and I think the pacing sags, but overall I had a good time.

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Dredd- finally fixed this wrong of never seeing this movie 11/10 on the badass scale. Go watch if you haven't and if you have it's probably been a while since you last watched it anyways

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Carry-On - If this were 90 minutes it'd be best of the year material.  It's tense, well directed, got good performances and a tight knit plot, but no reason for this bare bones of a story to be 2 hours. Plus no reason it had to be LAX.  It wasn't nearly big or busy enough for me to buy that.  Just say it's Toldeo or some place.

The Holiday - Liked this way more than I expected, but it's definitely flawed.  It's two movies mashed into one which makes for an overlong movie with pacing issues.  I've got a simple solution: drop the Jack Black thread entirely.  Never actually been much of a fan, anyway.  Make Kate Winslet's whole arc be about finding herself with Eli Wallach.  You could ditch the Rufus Sewell bits, too.  Maybe she was just generally unhappy, and not such a sad sack simp.  Trims at least 30 minutes.

Jim Henson: Idea Man - Mostly pretty standard bio-doc stuff.  Lots of glowing words, maybe not enough fine detail, some insight into early life and career you may not know, then the life gets too big and they can't fit it all in.  That's all buoyed by the fact that Jim Henson is maybe one of the most important figures in the formative years of pretty much anyone aged 30-60.  His work has had a much farther reach than maybe half a dozen creatives from the same generation.

One Ranger - Wildly hammy performance from Thomas Jane here. Hated it at first, but it really grew on me as I got more engaged in the story. A couple of really great action sequences prop it up, but it's still my least favorite Jesse V. Johnson flick.

Juror #2 - A sturdy morality play with some light thriller tendencies.  A few too many weird contrivances and oversights to be truly great, but it's got shades of 12 Angry Men and Rashomon.  Sturdy.

Hundreds of Beavers - I went into this completely blind other than knowing that it was a highly acclaimed low (really low) budget indie, and it's safety say I was completely blown away.  I was completely unprepared for how singular of a creative and comedic vision this was going to be.  The joke does start wearing a little thin around the 90 minute mark, but I still can't help being anything but wildly impressed I am.