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What Was The Last Movie/Anime You Watched?
marvelvscapcom2:
--- Quote from: Cartagia on January 14, 2025, 09:49:13 pm ---Sonic the Hedgehog 3 - Unquestionably the best of these movies, IMO, and probably my favorite thing in entire Sonic franchise at large. Strikes the absolute perfect tone for about 85-90% of its runtime.
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Do.you know if it can be watched as an entry point or should I watch 1 and 2 first? Is their major plot elements that i'll be stumped on if I just skip ahead? Kinda want to see this on the big screen.
Cartagia:
--- Quote from: marvelvscapcom2 on January 15, 2025, 03:55:17 am ---
--- Quote from: Cartagia on January 14, 2025, 09:49:13 pm ---Sonic the Hedgehog 3 - Unquestionably the best of these movies, IMO, and probably my favorite thing in entire Sonic franchise at large. Strikes the absolute perfect tone for about 85-90% of its runtime.
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Do.you know if it can be watched as an entry point or should I watch 1 and 2 first? Is their major plot elements that i'll be stumped on if I just skip ahead? Kinda want to see this on the big screen.
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I think as long as you know who the Sonic crew are, you'd be fine. There might be a callback joke or two that you don't get, but otherwise it should work.
A Complete Unknown - I love how much this movie loves the music, but as a character study of Bob Dylan it falls completely flat. I didnt learn a goddamn thing about Bob Dylan other than he wrote very good songs and got very famous. The crawling text at the finale gave me more hard facts than the 2 hour plus runtime that cam previous. And it's an absolute shame, because this movie is filled with incredible performances, with Edward Norton as my personal standout, and is just superbly put together by James Mangold.
Support Your Local Gunfighter - Charming cast and a few chuckles. Just not as good as the spiritual predecessor; Support Your Local Sheriff.
kamikazekeeg:
Trumbo - Random watch just because I saw a clip with Bryan Cranston and honestly he was the initial drive to watch this because I love him as an actor, but it ended up having other notable names in it. Period piece set during the communism scare of the late 40's/50's, writers being arrested and put on the blacklist all for the sake of a misguided sense of patriotism as Trumbo does his best to continue working despite it.
Cranston was great in the role, the definite highlight with some fun appearances from people like Alan Tudyk and John Goodman. Only one person felt slightly out of place, was Louis C.K., didn't really fit the era, he was just Louis C.K. and while he wasn't bad, I felt like someone else coulda done it abit better. Might be a tad odd to say as John Goodman was basically just John Goodman in it too, but he's such a big character, I'm more fine with it.
As I like to do, I like to see what the reception was, checking out how close or wasn't close the historical accuracy was and it sounds like the overall story was alright, with some liberties taken with Trumbo in a part or two, but it did a good job of highlighting what a terrible time things were back then with the aggressive fight against communism, people wielding their patriotism like a cudgel, which absolutely still echoes the times right now, even if it's a whole lot stupider now.
Decent watch though, might try to find another historical based flick as it got me in the mood for another.
Cartagia:
The Northman - Just an absolute spectacle from start to finish. Not sure why I waited so long to watch this. Eggers is probably a once in blue moon talent. Amazing vision and execution across the board.
The Sugarland Express - Goldie's Lou Jean is a terrible person, and we are just supposed to root for her because she wants her kid back? It's Spielberg, so of course it's well-made, but I just couldn't get past that plot element.
Transformers One - Better than the trailers by a huge margin, but still not all that great. It looks incredible, and the world-building is the most insane exposition I've ever heard, but it never really came together narratively for me all the way. Also didn't think too highly of the lead voice performances.
Star Trek: Section 31 - Look, I'm all for Star Trek expanding what the franchise can do, and I even dig the idea of Mission: Impossible romps in that playground, but you've got to at least really try. This is just a bad movie, Star Trek or no. Cheap, poorly written, generic, badly directed. Just woof.
bikingjahuty:
I've got to the point where I'm a bit worried about rewatching any of the anime I used to love watching as an early adolescent, back when anime first began to get some mainstream attention in the US. Some I've gone back and rewatched and still enjoy, and in a few cases actually like the series a little more than I used to. However, just as many I've rewatched years later as an adult and either was bored to tears or actually really disliked the series years after first watching them. Unfortunately, The first Tenchi Muyo OVA is one of those series that the passage of time has not preserved my once high option of that show.
Part of me thinks that I was so starved for anime back in the late 90s, I pretty much enjoyed any new anime I was able to get my hands on. I first saw Tenchi Muyo on Toonami, and remember really liking it, along with the Tenchi Universe anime series. The fact that its a harem anime was something that was lost on me back then, although I did find the female characters attractive as a 13 year old. Watching it now, the focus on the harem plot and the reliance on fan service and introducing new attractive female characters in almost every new episode really turned me off. Tenchi Muyo's plot almost follows the same structure as a high budget porno where every scene is constructed just so Tenchi can get in scandalous situation with Ryoko or whoever. The scifi plot almost seems like an afterthought, and for what it is, it isn't that interesting. Sadly, I feel like I'm ready to sell my box set of Tenchi Muyo (and Universe) that have been in my collection for years after finding them on the cheap at some point over the last 15 years. It's a shame I don't like Tenchi Muyo as much as I used to, but I guess people and their tastes change over time and unfortunately Tenchi Muyo just isn't my thing anymore.
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