Author Topic: What Was The Last Movie/Anime You Watched?  (Read 1081608 times)

Re: What Was The Last Movie/Anime You Watched?
« Reply #2610 on: October 02, 2025, 01:00:45 pm »
KPop Demon Hunters is worth the hype. I watched it to prepare for their inclusion in Fortnite and enjoyed it a lot. I'd compare it favorably to Trolls Band Together. After it ended I already wanted to watch it again.

Re: What Was The Last Movie/Anime You Watched?
« Reply #2611 on: October 02, 2025, 05:07:04 pm »
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.

I've started my October movie-a-day habit again!

Smile 2 - Unreal performance from Naomi Scott. Absolutely better than the first, but leans too hard on a trope I really don't like in the third act, though.

#Alive - I had fun with this! Well-made minimalist zombie story, that starts out spending a lot of time focusing on logistics and what it might actually feel like in a zombie apocalypse. It starts to lose focus and not really make sense by the end, though.

Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust - This looks just absolutely stunning. Good pacing, great action, but it gets pretty muddled in final act and I wasn't quite sure what happened.

The Grand Duel - Shame is has such a soggy middle, as the opening and ending are both great, and the soundtrack is an all-timer.

Sputnik - I was getting major X-Files vibes from this one.  Cool mystery, well-directed, excellent production design.  Spends a little too much time on the set-up, and the scientists kinda leap to some wild conclusions without much evidence, but it also makes excellent use of its early 80s USSR setting.
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Re: What Was The Last Movie/Anime You Watched?
« Reply #2612 on: October 06, 2025, 03:16:00 am »
Hacksaw Ridge - I believe I have seen this one before I think, feel like I vaguely remember some scenes, but it was interesting, because while it has what you expect from these types of war movies, the story about a conscientious objector going to war as a medic, refusing to carry a rifle, and ended up saving dozens of men himself, is a pretty strong story.  It feels a little schmaltzy in the beginning in places, but decent setup as to why Doss is the way he is, a man of faith, but it isn't all just a thing of faith, some of it having to do with his alcoholic father who is a veteran of World War 1 and is clearly haunted by his time there, and growing up under that man lead to how he wanted to live his life.

Looking into the factual elements, it's interesting, because it did some changes for narrative purposes, combining characters into one for the sake of convenience, and apparently the ending where Doss gets hurt after deflecting grenades, which I think happened, but instead of being carted off, in actuality, he gave his stretcher to another soldier after helping bandage him, and then was shot in the arm and crawled 300 yards to safety after hours of being left alone, but they thought audiences wouldn't believe that, which is wild honestly.  There was also some time shifts, as apparently his time there was spent over three weeks saving people rather than the shorter length of a few days that it was for the movie.  So, accurate, but not out inaccurate for the sake of sensationalizing the events in particular, at least with the actual war aspect, apparently the pre-war part of the beginning isn't very accurate, which is abit less important to me in particular.

Re: What Was The Last Movie/Anime You Watched?
« Reply #2613 on: October 06, 2025, 08:31:03 pm »
MadS - This really surprised me.  I barely knew anything about it going in, so I spent a lot of the first act just trying to figure out what kind of movie it is, and once it shows it's hand it really takes off and becomes one of the most refreshing takes on zombies I've seen in ages.