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What Was The Last Movie/Anime You Watched?
marvelvscapcom2:
--- Quote from: kamikazekeeg on September 20, 2025, 11:41:53 pm ---Minecraft - Gonna be honest...I made it to Lava Chicken, which is around 40 minutes in and stopped lol I didn't expect it to be good and I'm usually all for a silly comedy, but the whole thing feels like a bad parody. I'm also kind of a Jack Black apologist, I like him in most anything, but this is just cartoonish levels of Jack Black done in the wrong way. It's all playing directly to the camera and it just feels off to me. I've watched all the way through far worse movies, and it's not specifically bad, to me it's just not working. Maybe I'll go back, I don't know.
Sully - For a more serious and better movie, got around to watching this. I'd actually seen clips for awhile, bad habit of watching clips for movies on there sometimes, not many, but for some reason, a few would pop up for this one about the flight tests at the hearing, so I'd seen all that, but the movie is a decent biographical drama, nothing flashy, nothing over the top, I appreciate that they didn't hype up the actual crash with big music or anything and we even get it kinda twice from different viewpoints slightly at a certain point before the crash and it works well for that. I didn't even know this was a Clint Eastwood film, and I think he can understand when a movie needs to be as grounded as can be.
As usual for a biographical drama, I like to look up the wiki, see what people thought, how accurate it was, and it sounds like they did a decent job. There was maybe abit too much to make out the Safety Board investigation as being more out to find Sully as being in the wrong, which I can sorta see in the film slightly, but didn't think it was too aggressive, and that's about it, otherwise it's apparently on point, so good to know.
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I agree heavily about Minecraft movie. Jack seemed like he was cosplaying more than acting a role. Like his kids made him dress up as Steve and then he basically just recycled his school of rock energy to try to wing it. Bowser Barely worked but Steve? Jack Black cant be every game character to ever exist. Hes too recognizable to keep recycling. But i'd actually take it further by saying Minecraft as a whole is such a shitty game to adapt to a movie. Its a beautiful excellent game but its not a movie style game. It's a cathartic game with very vague plot. I feel it was made as a IP cash grab. The fact it isn't unwatchable is my only shock of it.
marvelvscapcom2:
Taxi Driver [1976]
Quite the controversial movie for it's time. Robert Deniro.. I mean what can be said that he hasn't already etched into our brains with 30 other great films but boy oh boy does he enter a niche and disgustingly offputting bag here. The ending is most shocking to me because it sorta tugs at the internal duality of man aspect of humans like a dog tugs a rope. This movie is actually a fairly decent representation of skitzophrenia disorders and the dangers of politic obsession. And not to get political. Many of the actions in this movie have recently played out and have many times in history. Jodie Foster was an infant in this movie being only 12 yrs old. Very young yet absolutely crushed and obliterated her role. Child stars back then were simply on another level of talent. And expected to do much more challenging plots. The movie paces itself well and leaves the viewer longing for conclusions that never come. That is intentional. The 4k remaster I watched was pretty. Neons drip on black roads, new york glows, the 70s shine through. Feels like a time portal.
Robert in general is great at playing the wacko, the polished corrleone and many things in between but seeing him buff, young and mohawked is something that every human should do ince lol.
95/100
kamikazekeeg:
Superman (2025) - Loved the movie, it's just a whole lot of fun, it's vibrant, it's funny, it embraces some of the more silly side of the comics, it has me very hopeful for the future of the DC movies. I was kinda surprised we got so little Clark Kent/Daily Planet stuff, but it makes sense, we've gotten so much of that with past movies/shows, so Gunn just embraced everything being more setup for Superman and jumped right into the action of it all. I thought I might've been spoiled on a good amount of the movie just through casual internet awareness, but there were a few surprises, along with general execution of the film not being quite what I thought.
It's great to be excited for comic book movies after being rather middling with a lot of Marvel stuff these days, though I'm also planning to watch the new Fantastic Four movie later which I'm expecting to like.
Cartagia:
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country - Underseen by general audiences, considering the overall quality. It's great! Such a fitting send off for the TOS crew right when TNG was hitting its stride.
Pulp Fiction - The first time I really noticed just how good Travolta is in this. It's no wonder it revitalized his career. What an absolute bombshell on the industry this must have felt like in the 90s.
Cat Ballou - Jane Fonda and Lee Marvin are great, and I really like the level of energy it has. Not a big fan of the horny henchman, though. Kinda undermines Cat as a focus of the film.
One Battle After Another - I don't think it's PTA's best, but it is almost certainly his most important. It's gonna win a bunch of awards, and I'm not gonna disagree on pure technical level, but I didn't fully connect with it on an emotional level. The tone felt just a bit too at odds with itself for me.
dhaabi:
Throughout 2025, I haven't been drawn to watching movies. Last Halloween was when I watched a film last, and it was the giallo film Suspiria. After some thinking about whether I wanted to resume watching movies, I unknowingly began this year's horror season last night by watching another giallo film, albeit an American one this time. I'm not going to post my full thoughts on the film here (though I have elsewhere on a more appropriate site), but Alice, Sweet Alice was better than I anticipated and clearly has ties to Argento's own works despite the director's dismissal of such claims.
In 2023 and 2024, I watched a horror movie each night in October. I wasn't sure if I'd be feeling up for that again this year, but I'll see if I can manage it for 2025.
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