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What Was The Last Movie/Anime You Watched?
weirdfeline:
Superman is excellent. Looks amazing, the cast is great, Mr. Terrific (who I never heard of before) kinda steals the movie from how cool he is, Superman saves a squirrel. A great movie I would watch again.
The Fantastic Four: First Steps is a boring slog. Pretty much nothing happens until Galactus shows up for the only fight scene at the end. The majority of superpower usage in the movie was shown in trailers. The Thing pretty much does nothing the whole time. Human Torch is distractingly similar to Robert Downey Jr. The set design is alright I guess?
marvelvscapcom2:
Superman
DC's history with superman is sketch to say the least, like in every media medium they fumble. Superman 64 trailed Spiderman 64. Superman vs Batman was a disaster. Batman and Spiderman seem to always be the golden kids at Thanksgiving getting the first spoon of cranberry sauce despite superman being so powerful. With so much legacy to build off of. This movie is DC's much needed Babe Ruth homerun. The visuals are deliciously lush. Little details bring it all to life. It also introduces other DC icons. But best of all. Bar none. Is the casting and delivery by Lex Luthor. Goodness gracious that man can act. Not to mention sell the dread, zaney jealous/evil hybrid that is the character. The brutality is refreshing in a world of nonsense. James Gunn is talented with this style of story telling. I think superman lends himself to his style better than suicide squad did. Backstory is rich. The love angle is dense. It all feels authentic. The media pundit fun police can sit around crying while box office speaks for itself. Its a great film. 97/100
I know what.you did last summer (2025)
High highs and low lows. The cast is believable and casted well. I do think the star studded cast drenched in both nostalgic icons and modern star kids balances well. It sorta plays on the original. I do find Danica and Teddy's tumultuous unite under dark circumstances vibe to be cute. And I like their love arch. Freddy Prinze Jr. Crushes his role. Overall it has all you'd want. Until the ending. The ending is absolute ass. It is not only statistically, ethically and bogusly improbable but doubles down on absurdity. It is layers of nonsense. It feels shakey on its feet. Like an old Mike Tyson fighting Jake Paul. It has its nostalgia. Its sentimental. It has the 90s tropes. But it has a few dry periods. It isnt what the original was. But its a fun time. Overall I enjoyed it. It's not even near the scream sequels. But its not as bad as a horror movie can be. I also think the way they made modern alternatives to the original cast clever and not all the turns are seen coming. 77/100
Cartagia:
KPop Demon Hunters - This is so much fun! And drop dead gorgeous, to boot. Catchy songs, great action, it just gets kinda muddled over its messaging towards the end. Like what really sets the demons apart from humans? It's never made really clear, but it's a huge part of the plot.
Collateral Damage - Just not the right action vehicle for Arnold, who is also not giving a particularly good performance, even by his standards. It doesn't have the proper balance between earnestness and bombast.
The Magnificent Seven (2016) - Yeah, it's a totally unnecessary remake, but overall it's still a pretty good time, with a (mostly) great cast. Hilarious clunker of a last line.
marvelvscapcom2:
Happy Gilmore 2
Netflix streaming has brought a meriad of adam sandler films but none as high stake and highly advertised as the sequel to his quintessential 90s comedy Happy Gilmore. Whenever you see 2 in comedy movies. You typically go in hesitant. Anchorman 2, Grown Ups 2, Hangover Part 2. Theirs been examples where it just misses. It's so rare for comedy sequels to work and I think the main reason is that jokes in general only work once. Some comedy movies tend to desire to be what they were but they cant because time evolved along with peoples perception of funny.
Happy Gilmore 2 doesnt try to be happy gilmore 1. It tries to beat it. It drags it down to the gallows and fist fights it. It doesnt live in its shadow like a wounded Raven beneath the crow. It goes for it. And quite frankly? It kicks ass. It succeeds in every way.
It's drowned to the gils in cameos. Dozens. Maybe hundreds. But it never feels forced somehow. Social media icons. Rappers. Wrestlers. Comedians. Some of Adams friends. Sandler takes the role of a more seasoned Happy on the yesteryear of his career and that in itself kinda hit my feels.
Adam Sandler defined my childhood. To many he's like a swcond uncle. And now i'm almost 30. Hes over 50. But I remember being that kid. 10 years old. Laughing at Happy Gilmore beating bob barker in fist to cuffs. At times with the cast being partially dead. It felt like a memorium as much as it did a movie at times. A sweet symphonic kiss to the 90s. And heroes of my youth.
Adam killed it. He was funny but not trying too hard. He knows where he is in life. He knows hes a legend. He knows the character is legendary and he plays that into the script. Its well directed.
Two of Adams daughters and his wife star in the movie and I always say this. You can feel when a person loves their costar. Genuine love cant be acted. Adam has dad energy in his comeback. Because he literally is dad energy. His daughter being in direct proximity gives Adam this softer aura thar makes him more believable as a man. Not just a comic relief pun. Hes more human in this film.
But that doesnt mean its not without raunchy wild humor. It's a blast of a good time.
They hit it out of the park with this one. And I cant imagine them doing the sequel any better in the modern ahe. Theirs a lot of ad placement. Maybe a tad too much. But I dont mind because it makes it feel closer to home.
Happy gilmore 2 is a star studden glam fest on surface. But it also digs deep into Happy. Makes unsusepcted twists. Has villains that are detestable. It's mostly family friendly but still raunch heavy like Adam is known for. And his family and costars bring out the most of his talent as an actor. It was a well oiled machine. I laughed at least 50 times.
Rating - Amazing. (Not feeling a number on this one. If I had to? A 97/100)
Cartagia:
The Fantastic Four: First Steps - The most purely standalone Marvel film in years, and that alone is worth some points. Loved the retro-futurism aesthetic and score. Generally hit or miss on the VFX, but not outright terrible, except a shot or two. Wasn't impressed with Pedro's performance at first, but once I realized what they were going for it clicked with me. Paul Walter Hauser is an inspired choice for Mole Man, but the writing for him feels like it came from a different, far inferior, MCU flick. The movie hits our heroes with an interesting moral dilemma, bit it becomes apparent pretty quickly they are only interested in it at a relatively superficial level. Between this and Superman a couple of weeks ago fans of colorful and true-to-character comic adaptations are eating good.
Stuber - A cast full of people I like, consistent laughs, and servicable action. Sure, why not.
Red Heat - It's got a good cast and a nice grimey vibe, but it's just a tiny bit too tight and boring when the bullets aren't flying.
The Night Comes for Us - Probably the most bloody and violent action film I've ever seen. Just a bunch of real brutal stuff here. The story is a bit overly convoluted, and some of the action, while well choreographed, doesn't quite have quite the visceral bone-crunching needed to put it quite on the same level as The Raid. A spectacle, but just a hair too silly for me to let that completely offset the meandering plot.
The Big Country - An epic scale production for a surprisingly low stakes, but compelling, story. Gregory Peck trying solve grievances of the Old West just by being a decent man. A terrific picture.
Together - Dug this a lot, even if it does try to be another modern horror film about trauma. Thankfully it doesn't lean that heavily into it, but, because it is there, it makes it feel a little at odds with itself tonally, especially in the third act. There's some gnarly imagery here, and it's more of a straight up horror film than The Substance. Franco and Brie are unsurprisingly great.
No Country for Old Men - Career best work from like 85% or more the people involved, including Josh Brolin and Tommy Lee Jones. They've just been overshadowed by Javier Bardem's towering monster of a performance.
Non-Stop - Fun action thriller with a great cast that gets dumber by the minute. Total waste of Lupita.
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