Author Topic: What Was The Last Movie/Anime You Watched?  (Read 234034 times)

Re: What Was The Last Movie/Anime You Watched?
« Reply #2280 on: May 28, 2023, 01:58:20 am »
Smokey and the Bandit - Odd movie moods lately, going from space/scifi to war films to late 70's/early 80's car films lol Smokey and the Bandit was one of the many old flicks I'd watch with my Dad on a weekend afternoon if it was on a rerun, just goofy car chase nonsense.  I funnily thought it had Dom DeLuise in it, of which I know he's in Cannonball Run with Burt, a movie I like more, but apparently I was remembering Smokey and the Bandit 2 lol  Silly old movie, definitely a product of its time for better or worse, but overall it's just a goofy light watch.  No real story to it, just a long car chase that I forgot that  the plot hinges on Burt and his buddy smuggling some crappy cheap beer across state lines lol  Stuff like this has abit of a soft spot for me.  Gonna watch the sequel next.
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Re: What Was The Last Movie/Anime You Watched?
« Reply #2281 on: May 28, 2023, 10:49:07 am »
Smokey and the Bandit - Odd movie moods lately, going from space/scifi to war films to late 70's/early 80's car films lol Smokey and the Bandit was one of the many old flicks I'd watch with my Dad on a weekend afternoon if it was on a rerun, just goofy car chase nonsense.  I funnily thought it had Dom DeLuise in it, of which I know he's in Cannonball Run with Burt, a movie I like more, but apparently I was remembering Smokey and the Bandit 2 lol  Silly old movie, definitely a product of its time for better or worse, but overall it's just a goofy light watch.  No real story to it, just a long car chase that I forgot that  the plot hinges on Burt and his buddy smuggling some crappy cheap beer across state lines lol  Stuff like this has abit of a soft spot for me.  Gonna watch the sequel next.

The theme song pretty much tells you the story, lol. I loved that movie back in the day.

Re: What Was The Last Movie/Anime You Watched?
« Reply #2282 on: May 28, 2023, 09:40:09 pm »
Fast Times at Ridgemont High - Never actually watched this before. Liked it, didn't love it. Like a more unfocused Dazed and Confused.

Captain Ron - Hadn't seen this in like 20 years. Kurt Russell is great, but the rest is kind of a waste.

Hell Comes to Frogtown - Well this was weird as hell.

Re: What Was The Last Movie/Anime You Watched?
« Reply #2283 on: May 30, 2023, 12:39:01 am »
The theme song pretty much tells you the story, lol. I loved that movie back in the day.

lol I meant it more like there isn't much that happens as a regular story would, you get like your beginning, middle, and end, just more of a beginning and sort of an end, which is totally fine, it's fun.

Smokey and the Bandit 2 - This was what I was remembering a little more with Dom DeLuise in it and gotta say...not as good as the first movie lol They ramped up the "wackiness" for this and I never thought it worked.  The story I joked about with the first one is certainly here, but it suffers because of this.  The first one was built around the delivery, and it's one long wild romp for the most part, compared to this one, where they keep having stops and there's Bandit trying to mend his relationship with Frog, and Bandit is dealing with his waning popularity, despite still tons of people willing to risk life and truck for him lol Dom Deluise is nice to have here as a bonus, but I don't think he adds as much to the film compared to them together in like Cannonball Run.  It also just ends? Sure Bandit and Frog are back together, the Elephant isn't delivered to where she was supposed to, but it kinda just waves away the whole point of the delivery, like they should've had a whole section where the two from the beginning are upset at Bandit not delivering and then go after him, but nope, just ends, happy ending...Kinda boring, big pass on this one.

I was actually going to watch Cannonball Run next, but it's not on a single streaming service.  Crappy digital age.  Tempted to buy it on Blu-Ray as it's an old favorite, but not sure right now.
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Re: What Was The Last Movie/Anime You Watched?
« Reply #2284 on: June 04, 2023, 10:26:10 am »
Say Anything - Far more just plain cute than I was expecting.  Excellent teen romantic comedy, and a far better film, overall, than the other Crowe written 1980s hit - Fast Times at Ridgemont High.

Lone Wolf and Cub: White Heaven in Hell - Overall I didn't like this series quite as much as I expected to, but still they average out to a pretty solid six movies.  I appreciate the focus of this final installment, especially since feeling too disjointed and sporadically paced were the main issues I had with earlier films. Also very into the fact it started leaning more supernatural.

Quigley Down Under - Tom Selleck is a US cowboy hired by Australian cattle baron Alan Rickman. "Hired to do what?" You might ask. Well, based on the jaunty score and his adorable shenanigans filled relationship with "Crazy Cora" you sure wouldn't guess indiscriminately murder the local indigenous population.

It's a decent enough movie, but man the tonal inconsistencies hurt it. They don't sink it, but they keep a good movie from possibly being great.
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