What Was The Last Movie/Anime You Watched?

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Heart Eyes - Too much kooky, not enough spooky.  It's not bad, I just wish it took itself more seriously.  Mason Gooding is terrific.

Wolfs - Looks slick, and Brad and George are two of the most watchable actors to ever do it, but man is this thing bereft of substance.

The Invisible Man (1933) - Wildly impressive and totally chaotic for a 1930s production. Not especially scary but an effective thrill ride.  Lots of maniacal laughing.

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The Invisible Man (1933) - Wildly impressive and totally chaotic for a 1930s production. Not especially scary but an effective thrill ride.  Lots of maniacal laughing.

Of the few classic horror films I've watched, The Invisible Man was far better than I was expecting it to be. Claude Rains plays the titular protagonist in such an unhinged manner, and those practical effects are commendable.

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The Invisible Man (1933) - Wildly impressive and totally chaotic for a 1930s production. Not especially scary but an effective thrill ride.  Lots of maniacal laughing.

Of the few classic horror films I've watched, The Invisible Man was far better than I was expecting it to be. Claude Rains plays the titular protagonist in such an unhinged manner, and those practical effects are commendable.

He's so much more of a bombastic personality than all those other Universal Monsters.  It was great.

The Gorge - My kind of ridiculous, high-concept, sci-fi claptrap. Derrickson does a lot of interesting stuff with tone here, practically flailing through different genres, and makes it look easy. A good 50% of the script is cliché platitudes from those genres though. So much that neither of the talented leads can make it sound convincing.

Flow - Like watching someone play a walking simulator.

Lake Michigan Monster - Not quite as good as Hundreds of Beavers, but these guys are hugely talented filmmakers.  Pretty sure they're going on my "I'll watch anything the make" list.

Paddington in Peru - Pretty handily the weakest of these films, but when they are all still this good can you really complain? I still had a big smile on my face the whole time.

Fancy Dance - The road to hell is paved by the concern of a well-intentioned but ignorant white lady.

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TITANIC




Titanic is one of those that is simply impeccably done. Theirs no man that could have directed a better nautical disaster than James Cameron. We kinda knew this. What we didn't know until this point is that he was also capable of penning, directing and producing one of the greatest love stories of the 1990s. A decade drenched in them.

Flawless Blending of fiction and reality


Now the movie could be 1 thing. It could be the greatest historical account of the titanic in terms of scope and presentation. In a way that will make a united consensus of half the world remember a ship that would have been lost to history the way the Carpathia was.

Or it could make a sweet romantic drama on par with a walk to remember or even more expanding than casablanca. A full on shakespere level, Romeo and Juliet, rich and poor blending of sweet sultry worlds that break the chains that bide a damzel in materialistic distress.


Its hard to say this without expletives. But boy oh boy. IT DOES BOTH!!


The movie is half titanic, it somehow takes enough time to talk about the ship, its course, why it sunk, the horrifying gut wrenching visual of a mother holding a frozen baby with icicles for eyes.  I know me just typing it reminded you of that scene. It's that powerful.  The pain. The dispair and huge income disparity between the haves and have nots. It's this symphony that plays along the love tale. The love tale and the historical non fiction drama kinda lovingly toe tap eachother under the proverbial table. So so beautifully done. WW2 has done this before.  Blending a love story with a terrible real tragedy.  But Titanic I believe is yes im gonna say it

The greatest movie ever made

But ive felt that since I was 12. Watching it when it rereleased in Imax. When I was 6 watching it on VHS. Which came with like 4 VHS tapes lol. 23 when I first watched it with my girlfriend.  And 28 when ive watched it last.  One thing follows. I never fail to be gripped. I rarely fail to cry.  It's a movie that is 3 hours plus long.  But feels disney movie short.  Its all plot, all action.


the acting

Leonardo Dicaprio put the 90s in a bloody sleeper hold.  His presentation. The lines. The way he carries himself. It all gives this daveneer, poverty James Bond, a sorta guiltynpleasure for Rose that becomes a key to a damp dark cell. Kate Winslet conveys so much with so little.  Theirs this scene where a little girl is folding a doiley hankerchief over her lap being instructed on how to be formal by her mother. An obedient girl.  And Rose's face conveys 1000 words without a single one. In that moment. She leaves the control. She sees herself. Either die a poor dream. Or live a rich nightmare.  Frozen in the atlantic waters with a man of empty wallets. Or warm with a man of full security and empty soul.


The movie is timeless. Whimsical. Poetry. And it's still thengreatest box office whopper of Cameron to me.  Those numbers in the late 90s are not the same as those numbers in 2020-2025.

100/100

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Sonic the Hedgehog 3 - Finally got around to it, but I had a fun time.  It's goofy, very unserious, and much like the previous movies, I think they mostly work thanks to the Sonic crew and Jim Carrey as Robotnik.  The less that there are other humans around, short of maybe Stone, the better lol I would say that I think this is the best one, not that they are amazing to me, I feel like some of the writing is a little "meh", a little too "just do whatever, it's a kids movie", but again, I still had fun, I'm always gonna be a casual Sonic fan. 

One annoyance I have with the movie, same for previous ones, and stuff like the Mario movie, is that they don't have enough classic Sonic music.  I think they have only one front and center towards the end and a light nod to one midway, but that's mostly it unless I missed something notable.  The Chao Garden was a fun nod.  I understand for a mainstream movie audience, they just want to put other stuff in, especially licensed music, but man it sucks not getting more.
 
I'm really hoping the next movie they get to do some world jumping, I feel like they've kinda done what they can on Earth at this point and it makes sense for them to explore other worlds.  It also gets them away from just doing stuff on Earth which is more fun to me.  Kinda turns from it a live action movie into more of just a straight animated movie.  Basically what the next movie I'm gonna watch will be...

Transformers One - Was also looking forward to this as it's been a Transformers movie I've wanted to see for years.  No humans, no Michael Bay, just Transformers and it's great.  It's funny, great animation, and the story is really good for the origins of Megatron and Optimus Prime.  Everyone did a great job as their character and I think Chris Hemsworth and Brian Tyree Henry are awesome in the leads in particular.  Chris Hemsworth gets a nice bit of that Peter Cullen in him at times too, especially at the end, which I appreciate.

Geostorm - After watching two good movies, I guess I decided to watch something much less good lol A random watch for sure, wasn't expecting much, I got a weird soft spot for the dumb, over the top environmental disaster flick.  While this wasn't something super dumb like Moonfall, I don't know if I'd put it up there with like a 2012 or Day After Tomorrow.  It feels like it's sorta just regurgitating alot of what those did.  It's a totally functional movie, it's just really generic other than the the concept of it all being handled by a network of weather satellites.  I'll never watch it again, but sometimes you just want something to turn your brain off to lol