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What Was The Last Movie/Anime You Watched?
Cartagia:
The Quick and the Dead - Nobody has ever made movies like Sam Raimi. I've always liked this, and it was interesting to watch now that I'm more familiar with Westerns and their tropes. It just feels a tad disjointed plotwise, with stuff like blind kid feeling like remnants of a cut storyline. Hackman delivering, as always.
Bridget Jones's Diary - Genuinely don't understand what Bridget was supposed to have seen in Mark. More surreal and whimsical than I expected. Not really my bag, in general, but I don't regret watching it at all.
The Monkey - Totally unhinged in the best possible ways. Liked this so much more than Perkins' Longlegs.
Malone - I liked this quite a bit. It's a solid cast all around, Burt isn't quite phoning it in. It's a decent mash-up of The Beekeeper and Road House, but without any of the silliness.
The French Connection - Masterfully edited and perfectly paced. It's a classic sports car of a film. It has a look you love, and, when running, it just purrs. Subtlety? Nuance? What're those?
Postcards from the Edge - Great performances from a deep bench cast, but it just feels so... slight? Like the mother / daughter stuff is great, but it kind of glosses over the actual addictions and just uses them as ammunition in the family fights.
Married to the Mob - Pretty much everything in the criminal focused storyline is completely fantastic, but the screwball federal agent story only works about 50% of the time. Terrific cast across the board, with Modine being the weakest link, but I think that might just be related to how the character is written.
A Man Called Sledge - The first 10 minutes or so are so poorly shot and edited I'm surprised that the rest of the film is even watchable, let alone actually pretty good.
Cartagia:
Lady Snowblood - I thought I'd seen this before, but guess I was wrong. Just absolutely slick as hell, and easy to see why QT was so enamored with it.
Crimson Tide - Not sure how this one slipped past me for so long. Denzel and Hackman are just electrifying, and Tony Scott, as he is wont to do, directs the shit out of it.
Mickey 17 - A lot of really fun stuff in this, but I feel like they never spent quite enough time on most of them. Ruffalo is a riot and Pattinson is game for everything they're having him do. Third act gets a little messy and drawn out, but never outstays its welcome.revenge.
Promising Young Woman - It treads water quite a bit in the first half, but the last act really landed for me.
weirdfeline:
heart eyes was decent enough but it was too much rom com over slasher
companion was amazing, so much better than i expected and very satisfying
womocratouzo:
I recently watched Furiosa: The Mad Max Chronicles, personally I really enjoyed this movie and I think it's one of the best movies I've seen in 2024
Cartagia:
The Little Mermaid - Song for song the strongest soundtrack in the whole Disney canon, with Part of this World and Under the Sea being favorites for the best individual song. Also just staggeringly gorgeous, again arguably the best looking film in the company's history. Beautiful colors and silky smooth animation. The only, sadly notable, flaw is how little agency Ariel has in the finale. But the rest is just so perfectly executed.
Kill - This is really good, and I appreciate the use of a unique confined space, but it feels cheaper than it should based on the rest of the production value because of all the bad CGI blood. I'm sure that the promised violence would have felt appropriately overwhelming if there was way more practical work. Doesn't really earn any of the pathos it tries to wring out of the final confrontation, either.
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