What was the last movie you watched ....

Which is good for the small fish lol

 

Resurgence felt like a movie that tried really, really hard to be an international hit by aiming for the Chinese market. The characters' relationships and arcs all felt like some dude in a board room saying "OK, but how do we make sure it plays well internationally?" Little details - the casting of Angelababy. The fact Liam Hemsworth's girlfriend decides to abandon a career as a fighter pilot to care for her ailing father, who's also the President of the US and a world hero that could probably take care of himself or get an aide. The way the directors made a big deal about a homosexual relationship taking place between two of the characters but then had those two characters show nothing but platonic affection to each other.

The whole thing dragged and dragged and dragged so that by the time

Spoiler

the alien queen showed up

I was just bored. The film needed to be streamlined and edited like whoa.

By contrast I also just watched the movie Drive and I gotta say, it was amazing. It was a movie based on a book, but through it all I didn't feel like it was based on a book. In fact, thinking about just the general plot, I think it would have felt like a really boring book - not much happens and when it does it's elevated by the director and his choice of shots. There's a normalization of violence, one that influences people, and we can see the cost that it takes from them.

Just an example, from early in the movie: the main character has to interrogate one of the bad guys in a strip club. I think in most action flicks, we'd have our protagonist walk in, see dancers dancing, there'd be music going down, and then he'd get into a shootout with the bad guy, strippers would run screaming etc.

In Drive he walks through the backstage, a woman in a bikini is texting, she tells him where her boss is without looking up. When he interrogates the man, the strippers are silent. One of them passes him a pen. They know what business they're in.

Drive felt entirely elevated by the directorial choices. Nothing in the plot could have sustained the movie without the emotional performances of Beth Mullen, Ryan Gosling, and others or the cinematic choices of staging and shooting.

Seriously loved the movie. Go watch it.

 

Have you read the book? Worth reading if you haven't. There's a few things that are made a little clearer in the book and it sheds a little more light on the character...whatever his name was...the main bloke! Fast read too if you don't enjoy it.

 

Drive was awesome. Ryan Gosling's iconic scorpion jacket, hard to forget Cult classic material for sure. If there had to be a movie similar to Grand Theft Auto, Drive would be it. Soundtrack was amazing too

[ame="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TyXuGOfqyZw"]Desire Under Your Spell - YouTube[/ame]

 

No kidding! I guess I should read it, I'm curious how much of the tone stays true to the movie's.

@Endolphins - yo, that soundtrack was AMAZING.

 

Funny, personally I found the film utterly forseeable and wasn't surprised at all in the end

At some point I will watch that movie again, but I wasn't impressed by it all the first time around.

 

That's the beauty of movies, you can watch the same one many times and always take something new or overlooked in many cases. Some films that come to mind that are like that:

- The Usual Suspects
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
- A Scanner Darkly
- Scarface

So many more though

 

That works with a lot of movies indeed.

When I first watched "Unbreakable" with Bruce Willis I thought it total rubbish.
When I watched it later it still wasn't awesome, but good enough that I watched it three times by now
It won't become my favorite movie though

 

Wow, haven't heard that title in years! Now you've got me wanting to watch it again. I remembered I loved the whole idea and premise of the movie, even though it may not have been made ideally.

M Night Shamalan though, has made some pretty trippy movies over the years lol.

 

I'll never get how the same person can make incredibly awesome movies on one hand and.... well, less awesome movies on the other.
Or how a movie can seem to be actually good and suddenly become meh.

 

I really can't remember to be honest. But I think that they toned down Driver's (had to check IMDB for a name!) personality to appeal to the female audience...The ladies like Ryan Gosling after all.

I'm reluctant to give more details. And it could just be my take on the book and character.

 

Suicide Squad.

 

The Siege of Jadotville

Well made, great cast, emotionally charged. Worth the first watch but not a second.

 

That comment actually made me watch the video.
Looks good.

But all the time I keep thinkg: "There are commercials for schools?"

 

I can hear the sound of that "dude" Alfred Hitchcock spinning in his grave.