What Was The Last Movie/Anime You Watched?

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Ferngully: The Last Rainforest - This is way better than it should be for what is essentially a propaganda film.  It's got really good world building, but kinda drops the ball when it comes to plot. Everything with Zak is basically DoA, but Toxic Love is on the same level as the best of the Disney villain songs.  Solid voice cast, good animation (Toxic Love shines here, too). It could be way worse.

Repo Man - The vibes are immaculate, and I really connected with its sense of humor, but ultimately the narrative wasn't really doing it for me.

Den of Thieves -  A Heat for filmbros of the 21st century.

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the electric state

really enjoyed this for the robots and mr. peanut being a main character for some reason (which is why i watched in the first place)

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longlegs

i want to see the director's latest movie the monkey so watched this first, kinda confused on why it was so popular, it's pretty much just fine and not much more than that but at least the ending was satisfying, could've had a bit more going on throughout instead of so much off camera stuff

update:
the monkey is much better but also very much a dark comedy so completely different tone but it was consistently entertaining and met my expectations

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Greyhound - So relentlessly efficient that it lacks a personality.  Looks drab, and the performances are servicable at best.  Sounds great and can provide the tension needed to make it engaging at least.

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Devil Wears Prada (2006)

"Die the hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain" is a quote that rings through. This movie is expertly casted. And even more expertly directed. First get cast out of the way. Anne Hathaway is about as stellar as an actor can be. Anything Meryl Streep touches turns to gold. Thats a denny's grand slam of talent. Then just sprinkle Emily Blunt and it's like a literal chocolate mouse on top of a who's who sundae. In turn what you get is possibly the best work of all 3 and one of the greatest movies of all time.

Duality of WOman.

The movie engrosses in the concept of sacrafice. Andrea begins her tenure at runwayare as a sort of "i'm too low brow for upper society" kinda turtle necking it blue collar princess of a small studio apartment in Queens. Quickly she is jarred into retrospect by a vicious and passionate workaholic fashion icon boss woman.  The movie tackles themes of double standards, balancing work and romance but most of all losing sight of ones self or others in the pursuit of career. A relatable plot somehow struck in such a hyperbolic, unrelatable and selaciously delicious way. The movie bleeds envy, cutthroat villainy and raunchy sexy betrayal all wrapped up in this Cruella Deville cloth. And it isnt until half way through the film that you realize.

Spoiler

Andrea and Miranda are not so disimilar. Their is a scene where Andrea glances into the mirror after  just shattering her friends dreams in boost her own self image, missing her boyfriends birthday to play cheek tennis with a much hotter fashion entrepreneur. It's this sense of the lamb becoming the wolf. With a grin of decadence, the balance isnt always easy. The viewer spends the plot runtime so critical of the way Miranda leads. But then the main protagonist falls directly into the same cloth. As difficult as her decisions seem. She makes them. She feasts on the proverbial flesh of her contemparies. She was such a work driven perfectionist that someone elses judgement is her downfall. Just like Miranda. This leads her to be everything she mocked. Representing everything because the small town, size 6, coffee jockey act is a facade. And in the famous quote of Miranda. "Everyone wants to be like us" she seen first hand that the reason she got on so well is because she met her equal.


The movie is geniusly sown together with so much substance and also subtle humor as only Anne Hathaway and Mery Streep can pull. Think Jordan and Pippen. Think peanut butter and jelly.  Anne is a powerhouse talent and one of my picks of generational talent. Meryl instantly guides that plane of her abilities on screen like a wicked godmother. The energy is felt. And it all just HITS. Every step of the damn way. The movie is borderline perfection and I couldnt turn my head from it not once. It grips. Its run time is perfect. Giving plenty of plot but not outstaying its welcome.  And above all. It makes the viewer think. The duality of sacrificing the world for self validation. The duality of being tough leader that doesnt fail. And also being empathic, kind, fair. It's as challenging a task as any. Do you risk being the most renouned artist on earth if it means being trapped in your own paint strokes? Selling soul for prada. It's predictive of the world today. A sellout, double cross material world. The world that would shortly follow. I think it's an important piece of filmography for the modern day young intern, most females in competitive work settings or aspiring bosses in general to experience. A sorta guide to life. A lesson to be learned. I wildly loved it.


Overall - 99/100

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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.

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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.

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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!

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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

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The Electric State - the effects are fantastic, visually really impressive

it really did look great, which may be why it cost so much lol

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The Electric State - the effects are fantastic, visually really impressive

it really did look great, which may be why it cost so much lol

Sorta, like it makes sense it's pricey, but I don't know if I would say this is 300+ million dollars good lol  It's really well done, but nothing here was like Avatar level to me lol

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Wayne's World - Didn't strike me until this time just how prescient Benjamin's plan was. Today every corporation is just buying smaller ones, squeezing out the quick buck, and then putting it out to pasture.

Old Henry - A sturdy, no frills, good performances, simple concept Western. Not too sure how I feel about the twist, but also appreciate that it doesn't hide it from you if you are familiar enough with history. The kind of role Tim Blake Nelson was born to play.

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly - While not a flawless film it is probably the absolute pinnacle of the spaghetti western as a genre. But that's a genre that embraces flaws as part it's identity, so I guess it is flawless?

The Conversation - Hackman is amazing in this, and the sound design and editing are incredible. Tremendous motion picture.

Punisher: War Zone - Ray Stevenson is great, the violence is terrific, and the accents are atrocious. I totally get what this movie is trying to do, and it works more often that it doesn't, but man are there a lot of bad performances in this, alongside some really ropey effects and not great action editing (probably for rating reasons).

Snatch - An absolute product of its time, but in a way that makes it endearing rather than irritating.  Dennis Farina giving the best performance I'm the movie by a mile. Still a ton of fun and genuinely funny.

Nine to Five - Only a woman could have written a movie about misogyny that feels this light and breezy. The structure and pace is kinda wobbly and it's a bit too long, but it's still a lot of fun.

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood - Worked better for me this time, not that I hated it before. Really connected with Rick's story in a way I didn't before. And the climax is pretty much perfect from an execution standpoint.  The main thing that makes me hesitate from saying absolute masterpiece is that I still don't know how I feel about intersecting it with a real tragedy to the extent it does.  I understand what QT is trying to with it, but something just doesn't sit quite 100% right with me.

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Once Upon a Time in the West - A visual and aural masterpiece. Perfectly paced for about 85-90% of a 2 hour and 45 minute runtime, but having 10-15% of such a long movie drag isn't a small amount of time. I prefer Leone's previous masterpiece, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, but I'm not gonna fight with anyone who chooses this film instead.

Everybody Wants Some - Just a fun chill rewatch.

Wrath of Man - A bunch unnecessary non-linear storytelling going on here. Good action, but the dialogue is largely bad, and performances are kinda sleepy across the board.

The Fall - Hadn't seen this since the original home video release.  Wonderfully stunning production and costume design, and a great performance from Lee Pace (especially in the third act).  Resonated with me a bit more this time around.

Tombstone - It's easy to overlook because of the titanic shadow that Val Kilmer's iconic performance casts over the rest of the film, but there's not one actor who is anything less than stellar, with Michael Biehn and Powers Boothe both giving what might also be career bests.  A maximalist take on the classic Western that does nothing but slowly accelerate at a perfect pace for the first 75 minutes or so, Tombstone really only stumbles in its third act, which feels a bit disjointed and rushed, but when you read about the troubled production you have to be at least somewhat impressed at how well it actually holds together.

Flushed Away - Had way more fun with this than I expected.  Good voice cast, really fun attention to detail, and just a totally off the wall plot.

Sinners - Ryan Coogler's best by a huge margin, and I liked everything I've seen from him.  You know when a horror film or monster movie is great when you remove the antagonist and you've still got something astounding.  Ludwig Göransson and Ruth E. Carter better make some room on their Oscar mantle.  There's one sequence in the middle that just completely left me in awe - like once in a decade memorable.  Everyone see this movie.

Civil War - Well-made and engaging, but I did not really enjoy watching it. I understand why they kept the story at such a zoomed out focus, but a downside of that is that the logistics start to fail if you ask why anything might be happening.

Weird: The Al Yankovic Story - The first 30 minutes or so wouod probably hit harder if Walk Hard wasnt already around.  It gets better as it goes along and really skews from history, with Evan Rachel Wood giving a shockingly great performance as Madonna. The whole thing cost less than an episode of basically any modern prestige drama.  Take notes Hollywood.

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Conclave - Saw some story about how people were flocking to this movie because of the Pope's death and I was bored, so I figured why not.  I'm not religious, let alone have any Catholic connections, just thought seeing insight into the Vatican during a situation like this (As stylized and dramatic as it probably is), could be interesting.  It's a decent drama, but one of small scale.  It's not as bold as I feel like the initial idea lets on and it does try to have moments of heightened drama, but this isn't trying to be anything drastic, it's more about interpersonal problems between Cardinals and delving into the political infighting that likely exists.

It's fine though, a decent watch.

Sicario - Seen clips over the years, didn't know exactly what sort of movie I was getting into it, but it's pretty intense, didn't go in the direction I expected, pretty gritty and brutal.

Leviathan - Needed something way less serious after the last two movies, so dumb 80's scifi horror schlock is what I went for lol I always got a soft spot for underwater movies, don't know why, setting is kinda that perfect, uncomfortable place, deep water is scary, and I've watched a lot of deep sea movies.  This one was definitely better than the last one I saw, The Rift, generally better budget, though it's mostly just an Alien/Thing knockoff lol

It's that perfect throwaway, old school, horror flick, most people have probably never heard about it, you got a couple known actors in it with Peter Weller, Ernie Hudson, Daniel Stern, and I feel like I generally recognize two others from some other movies.  It's very by the book, of the era, all the tropes are there, but totally functional.  I wouldn't say it's "so bad it's good", because it's not really that bad, and it's not that good, but it fits in that realm if you wanted something goofy for a movie night in that vibe.

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Havoc - The action is brutal and bloody, but this is pretty handily Evans weakest project to date.  Olyphant acquits himself the best out of the cast, although no one is really bad.  Better than both of Netflix's similar Extraction flicks.