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What Was The Last Movie/Anime You Watched?
kamikazekeeg:
Venom: The Last Dance - This was way more boring than I expected it was going to be lol Also, surprisingly short? I'm actually supportive of movies not always being 2 hours or longer these days, but I didn't realize we were at the finale, I thought we were just at the end of the midway point and we had the actual finale coming up lol This movie just feels like...an obligation to finish up things with Venom. Throw in some stuff with Knull, have a bland alien threat chasing them, have some dumb minor side plot stuff happening, it's all so underwhelming. I was actually fine with the first two movies, they weren't the best, totally fine 6 or 7's out of 10's, but this doesn't feel anything like a trilogy ending should be or even a build up to another film if they were to ever do it, which I can't imagine they are as the movies have been increasingly making less since the first one and the Sony Marvel movies are failing.
I'm not even that into the Venom/Brock dynamic here, that was the thing that I could have fun with in the first two, I like them, but here...I don't know if it's because Brock is played permanently hungover and Venom even more wacky, it just doesn't work here to me and I was skipping through the family stuff because man that was boring. There's other story stuff that bugs me, mostly to do with the Symbiotes, but eh...whatever...
And because it's available and I apparently am a glutton for punishment tonight, gonna watch Kraven lol
Kraven the Hunter - Yeah it's bad. It's such a boring take on Kraven. Much like Morbius, I'm not gonna say I care about the character, but compared to other things I've seen of him before, this is just lame. It's just a boring action movie. The movie is sloppy, poorly written, lots of bad dubbing and questionable effects at time. I would never recommend anyone watch Morbius, but it at least had a style to it, and was kind of a funny bad. This is not that at all. It's probably not worse than Madam Web from the sound of it, but that's such a low bar lol Also this has just the dumbest Rhino. I never really loved what often gets used for Rhino with like a robot suit, but it just seems half baked here.
Cartagia:
Robin Hood (2010) - What an absolute mess. Ridley Scott is probably the only reason this is remotely watchable, as his direction is totally fine. Otherwise it is too long, disjointed, with hit or miss performances, bad dialogue, and an overly complicated plot. A near total misfire.
A couple of other positives: Crowe and Blanchett have excellent chemistry, and Oscar Isaac seems to know exactly what movie he's in.
Novocaine - Not that I expected this to be bad, but I had so much more fun with this than I expected. Jack Quaid is great, the gore and effects are gnarly, it's funny, and the action is all well done.
weirdfeline:
saw novocaine in theaters finally, one of the most crowded theaters i can recall since 2020 (i normally try to avoid crowded showings) and it pretty much met my expectations. the build up was kinda unnecessarily long where it felt like a romcom but once the action started it kept ramping up and delivered
jack quaid is having quite a year with this and companion and his next movie seems pretty interesting to me as well. neighborhood watch is apparently releasing on the 25th of this month. they should probably release a trailer if that's the actual release date!
kamikazekeeg:
The Electric State - It was okay. I had heard a lot of negativity around it, and that for some reason they made the most expensive movie ever, and it's just...fine. I don't know the art/novel this is based on specifically, though I've seen some of his art before and it was cool stuff, but the movie feels so generic. It's kind of just a standard "human/creature go on an adventure to a location while escaping authorities/threats". Despite being set in the 90's, it feels like an 80's throwback family adventure film. So many light hearted cutesy robot characters throughout, Chris Pratt is just doing a weak Starlord, Millie Bobbie Brown is doing her usual thing, not even Giancarlo Esposito can add anything to this. I saw a blurb that brought up how the art was meant to be way more melancholy and this movie is just like cartoonish and garish and yeah, tonally just not what it should've been at all.
I do see where a lot of the budget went, the effects are fantastic, visually really impressive, there might not be lots of real people interacting with the visuals super often, but what's here is really good. About the only positive I can say.
It's not bad, but it's just not super interesting either, especially for a 300+ million dollar film. In moments this movie gave me like Ready Player One vibes and that movie cost half as much as this to make and I don't get why this cost so much, especially with that movie likely be licensing hell to get made lol
weirdfeline:
--- Quote from: kamikazekeeg on April 02, 2025, 02:26:38 am ---The Electric State - the effects are fantastic, visually really impressive
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it really did look great, which may be why it cost so much lol
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