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What Was The Last Movie/Anime You Watched?
sly345:
Christmas Season. Thus:
- Die Hard: Classic, don't need to say much
- Christmas Vacation: It's still a lot of fun to watch if you like low brow humour
And otherwise:
The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone - The new cut of Godfather III. It still isn't a very good movie and now it feels a bit incoherent with a lame ending on top.
Sunset Boulevard: No idea if this is really a Film Noir, i wouldn't call that, but my god is that a masterpiece of a movie. Should be mandatory viewing for everybody who has even a small interest in film.
Cartagia:
The Naked Gun (2025) - So dumb and funny.
Gremlins - If Gremlins 3 is CGI what is even the point.
The Alamo - John Wayne had made enough movies that when he does try his hand at directing he knows what a film should look and feel like, but he doesn't seem to have that extra vision that knows how to make it compelling. The action spectacle stuff is thrilling enough, but the writing and characters are impressive one-note, pretty much across the board.
Live Free or Die Hard - Much better than I remembered, and maybe an underrated action gem of the 00s. More practical effects and stunts than its contemporaries, which really scores it points with me. Still a step down from the previous three films, but I'm glad I revisited it.
A Good Day to Die Hard - If this were a lower budgeted Scott Adkins straight to streaming title it'd be amazing, but it's not. It's supposed to be a Die Hard film, and at that it fails pretty spectacularly. Action was never boring at least.
Sense and Sensibility - Beautiful and moving. Maybe Ang Lee's best movie.
Friendly Persuasion - It's not until the last 30-40 minutes that this really lines up with the logline, and by that time the movie has already delivered something so much lighter that the Civil War stuff feels a bit tonally at odds. It looks incredible, and the acting is all good, it just feels like two different movies thrown together.
Tenet - The most Christopher Nolan movie of them all. Convoluted, incredible to look at, a bit high on it's own supply. He was obviously surrounded by yes men, which is probably for the best because he got it out of his system. Operating almost exclusively on vibes.
Cartagia:
Star Trek - The way this film operates as a sequel, a prequel, and reboot simulateously is a real wonder to behold. Unafraid to do its own thing while also being respectful of the franchise history. Amazing casting and Giacchino's score is straight fire.
Star Trek Into Darkness - Sigh. I didn't hate it this time. In fact, I think it's somewhere around 75% a good movie, but that other 25% I can't stand. Why, why, why is it Khan? He doesn't fit at all in the story they are telling here, nor does any of the extra baggage they saddled him with (magical healing blood?!).
"A story about a paranoid and militarized Starfleet... you know who works for that? The guy not even from their century."
Makes it extra annoying that Cumberbatch is great here.
Star Trek Beyond - Watching the whole Kelvin trilogy makes me bummed we probably won't ever see this cast together again. A total course correction from all the things that didn't work in Into Darkness and expounding on the stuff that did. Everyone gets a chance to shine, and it even manages to explore the post-Enterprise and pre-TOS Federation. I love this one.
The Royal Tenenbaums - Gene Hackman is devastatingly funny in this, and it has Ben Stiller's best performance by virtue of a single line reading.
Jurassic World Rebirth - It opens pretty strong, and the movie is smart enough to understand the plot is dumb as hell - blasting through the exposition fast enough that the audience has no time to say anything other than, "OK, I guess." It really runs out of steam in the last act so much that the try to throw made-up monsters at you to try and keep your attention.
The Furies - Maybe my first Barbara Stanwyck? Shakespearean scheming and plotting that puts way more emphasis on the women that were behind the men of the Old West. Great performances, well-directed by Mann.
Avatar: Fire and Ash - Doesn't do enough with its most interesting ideas (needed way more with the new fire tribe) and instead has a third act which is a carbon copy of The Way of Water.
Cartagia:
Tron - It's pretty impressive how close this is to being unwatchable garbage, but there is just too much charm, talent, and ambition for that to actually happen.
Tron: Legacy - What if that silly thing you liked when you were a kid was actually the coolest thing you've ever seen?
A Chinese Ghost Story - This movie has everything. There's a lovesick ghost, a guy dancing with his sword, Evil Dead camera moves, a bread roll so hard it breaks a rock in half, and goofy zombie FX.
Primate - So, I'm sitting in the theater, the movie starts. It's tense. It's dark. And then a guy gets his whole face ripped off by a monkey. Somewhere in the back row a toddler starts bawling. Excellent cinematic experience.
Tron: Ares - A whole Tron movie without Tron. Ugh.
Shane - How was this dead-eyed too cutesy by half performance nominated for an Oscar? There's a few weird editing choices as well, but the rest of the movie is great.
Aladdin - It's crazy how well-paced this movie is.
Stand by Me - The end of this still hits like a truck.
Blade Runner - It only took like 3-4 tries over 25 years, but it finally fully clicked for me. Not my favorite Ridley, and it does still have a few issues, but I like it now!
weirdfeline:
Primate was way, way dumber than I was expecting. It somewhat delivered on R rated gorey kills but they made it way too dumb. The chimp basically becomes a human serial killer rather than a chimp with rabies. This includes a lot of stupid, slow taunting before kills. This movie isn't supposed to be a comedy but it sure acts like one and made it way less horrifying.
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