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What Was The Last Movie/Anime You Watched?
Cartagia:
Weapons - Weapons isn't gonna be for everybody, but it was definitely for me. Weird, funny, scary, structured masterfully. Don't say this a lot, but maybe it should have been a TV show. I could have watched 3 or 4 more vignettes about this whole messed up scenario.
kamikazekeeg:
Captain America: Brave New World - Finally getting around to watching this as there was no rush, heard it wasn't good and was not expecting much. Something I feel like pointing out, but in a post-John Wick world...How do we still get big budget action movies that don't have high quality action scenes? Sure, it's a comic book film and you gotta work in more cartoonish things like ricocheting shields and bird suits, but a lot of these fights are just normal dudes fighting, as Sam doesn't have powers (Though they make it feel like he does at times), and they just feel weak, hell they don't even match up to fights we had in previous movies, like the action was better back during like Winter Soldier. Just feels lacking proper punch and real good choreography and camera work just isn't here.
This movie I feel like doesn't work, because it's not a Captain America movie, it's a Hulk movie. It's a Hulk movie without the Hulk. It's functionally a sequel to the 2008 Hulk movie, but for some reason it's about Captain America trying to prove himself as Captain America with a story that isn't about Captain America really. Yeah it puts him up against a threat that would make even Steve Rogers struggle with, but I don't know, it doesn't feel like it works.
The bad guys in this are boring, a waste of Giancarlo Esposito, they half-assed The Leader, about the only good things I think are Harrison Ford and the guy who plays Isiah Bradley, they definitely put all they had into the role. I did like the backdrop of the dead Celestial and how they are connecting it with Adamantium, and the brief finale of the White House and Washington Monument getting wrecked, but...this is just another middling MCU movie.
Predator: Killer of Killers - Now this was sick as hell. Three different eras, three different protags, basically getting right to the action of each story. This is such good Predator media, as it gives us a wide variety of Predators, each more different than the last, with leads having their own unique skillsets from a Viking Valkyrie to a Samurai/Ninja, to a fast talking American pilot. I think the pilots story is maybe the weakest depending on how you want to look at it, it has the good moments, and it introduces a completely different type of Predator who fights in the air, but as a story, the Viking and Samurai are the most interesting, all three stories leading to a very interesting finale.
Dan Trachtenberg really understands Predator, he did Prey before this which brought Predator back in a damn good way and this animated movie was fantastic. Has me really excited to see what he's doing with Badlands coming up later this year and I would love to see a sequel for Killer of Killers because the things they are setting up are pretty awesome. I think with Alien revived and Predator going strong, and the idea of Badlands being a runt Predator teaming up with a Weyland-Yutani Synth, I hope Dan also directs a potential Alien vs Predator to make for the first two dumb movies lol
Cartagia:
Dog Man - It's a ton of really good jokes that are probably too clever, abstract or self-aware for your average 5 year-old to really understand why they are funny, but told with the constant freneticism of a TikTok for toddlers. I also love the way it looks.
Stagecoach - It's always nice when important and influential movies are also good.
The Naked Gun (2025) - Not quite as silly as the 80s ZAZ output, and with a slightly lower rate of JPM (jokes per minute), but it is still very worthy of the Police Squad legacy. The jazz and snowman bits were my favorites.
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - The 4K restoration looks incredible, but that also makes it easier to see some of the seams and shortfalls of the (still) impressive practical effects and production design. Fortunately this mostly adds to the overall charm, instead of detracting from it.
I don't think enough credit is given to how much restraint this screenplay has, especially considering the subject matter. It's smart enough to leave some things for the audience to figure out on their own, without beating you over the head - namely how Chief Sterns is extorting Charles to rein in April, by dangling criminal charges over Danny's head.
Heaven's Gate - Never has the discrepancy between a film's reputation and its actual quality made so much sense, because I cannot fathom a world where critics rejected the movie I just watched. This movie is just an obscenely rapturous vision of the great American novel, but there is no way it works the same way for critics at release with the running time it had. Every dollar spent is visible on screen, with such vivid indulgence, and that indulgence and excess are what make the film work. 20 minutes less of this movie would cripple it. Over an hour would kill it. Not for a lack of plot, but for lack of proper scale and scope.
Hot Tub Time Machine - The only reason the ending of Back the Future works and isn't the dystopia that Eric Stoltz thought it was is because Marty was still a kid. Upending the entire lives of 3 middle aged men and every person in their lives does not work the same way.
The Three Musketeers (2011) - Dangerously close to actually being Paul WS Anderson's best. Great set and costume design marred by some ghastly green screen and CGI. Maybe my favorite Orlando Bloom performance? Doesn't do nearly enough alt history stuff to justify airships, and Logan Lehrman, while better than Chris O'Donnell in the 93 version, doesn't really fit in. At least he's least up for the action stuff.
Monsters, Inc - The fact that the first Best Animated Film Academy Award went to Shrek instead of this is a war crime.
Airport - Kinda wild that this basically spawned an entire genre. It's not bad or anything, but it's a bit sprawling and drawn out.
kamikazekeeg:
Thunderbolts - Been waiting to see it after hearing it was actually pretty decent and I thought it was just alright. I will say, where were the fight choreographers that did this movie when they made Brave New World? Those fights sucked in Brave New World and the fights here were actually fine lol I think the movie is okay, it's a tad oddly paced and goes in a direction I wasn't expecting, for better or worse. I thought it was gonna be a darker movie based on the trailer due to Sentry's powers, but there's a moment where that changes and it kinda made the movie less interesting because of it.
The whole "New Avengers" is weird as you can just kinda see the jokes coming of them meeting up with whatever Sam's team will be, and the "We are the real avengers, no you aren't, we have the copyright", it's a lame joke that is brewing.
Also a character getting killed immediately is wild, like why even have the character there if you are gonna do that? It's kind of an embarrassing addition to I guess just throw that character away and adding literally nothing to the plot?
It's not bad, but I'll probably never watch it again, like it's better than Brave New World, Quantumania, and Marvels for more recent movies, but I enjoyed Deadpool & Wolverine and Guardians 3 way more than this.
Cartagia:
War of the Worlds (2025) - Astronomically bad. There's only one thing that might have possibly saved this movie, and it would have to be a tremendous and magnetic lead performance. Ice Cube gives the opposite. So, so stupid. There's a funny 'safe space' joke, and I thought the opening credits sequence was OK.
The Call of the Wild (2020) - If you want to make an animated movie, make an animated movie, not whatever this half-measure is. Once Harrison Ford actually becomes a character things pick up, but that's not until an hour into the movie, so too late to really save it, but he comes close.
F1 - Looks and sounds phenomenal, but there's no reason this needed to be 2.5 hours long.
Jonah Hex - Yeah, it's pretty bad, through no fault of the impressive cast. There's just too much crappy 2000s nuMetal DNA in this thing to actually be good.
Goodfellas - Archetypal. A looming masterpiece of the medium. Every moment perfectly and purposefully selected. Joe Pesci is iconic, but Ray Liotta is unfathomably great. He's so good you forget it's a performance.
Kelly's Heroes - Just a light-hearted romp through WWII, as one does.
The Empire Strikes Back - It's wild how much of this movie is just out and out flexing over the first. Oh? You thought that was impressive? You ain't seen nothing yet. How about we throw a muppet in for just a little extra flair? Don't worry, it'll just be one of the most iconic characters of all time. You like the big ships? Check out the new super star destroyer. One of the greatest of all time.
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