What was the last movie you watched ....

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  1. Simon

    Simon Administrator Admin Supporter MAP 2017 Koyo Award

    95% of the way through bright.

    What a stupid film.

    3/10.
     
  2. Mushroom

    Mushroom De-powered to come back better than before.

    5/10 for me. Its very Alien Nation, Shadowrun. The dialogue is terrible, but the World building was very well put together. Will Smith is just being Will Smith.
     
  3. Ero-Sennin

    Ero-Sennin Well-Known Member Supporter

    I thought this was a Netflix tv show. Then an hour in I was like, "damn how long is this?" and saw I had another hour plus and figured out it was a movie and not an extended first episode.

    I feel like this movie would be really good as a show (it was that quality with the writing). It wouldn't have had to move so fast and there would be a whole world to explore that was pretty interesting.
     
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  4. Mushroom

    Mushroom De-powered to come back better than before.

    There's a sequel that was greenlit prior to release. So it'll be interesting if they follow these 2 or go a different direction with completely new characters.
    Obviously theres the social class/race issue so they might go more into that.

    Yeah the dialogue is terrible and the characterisation is so broadstrokes, might as well used a big wet mop.
     
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  5. Van Zandt

    Van Zandt Mr. High Kick

    Molly's Game.

    The true story of Molly Bloom, a former Poker game runner who became embroiled in an FBI investigation against the Russian mob. There are absolutely fantastic performances here from Jessica Chastain and Idris Elba. Very entertaining, and also pertinent in the current climate of male domination in most industries.

    9/10
     
  6. Smitfire

    Smitfire Cactus Schlong

    So I watched me some Last Jedi...

    I can't actually see a button for spoilers so don't read any further if you don't want it spoiled.

    Anyway....random thoughts...I thought it started really awkwardly. The whole "is this on?....can you hear me?" interaction between Poe, Hux and Eddie Hitler was really badly judged and awkward. Strange tonally. Considering the interaction and chemistry between Gleeson and Isaac in Ex Machina this could have gone better I feel. Pretty much all the humour fell flat for me to be honest. Quite jarring in places. Casting Ade Edmondson was also quite jarring for anyone that grew up watching the young ones, filthy rich and catflap or Bottom. Kept expecting him to whip out a fake cricket bat. Not good casting at all. Overall the film was too long and had too many sub plots and side missions that didn't really do much to the main story (the whole casino planet could have been much shorter and more punchy or just handled differently). It didn't hang together as whole as well as it could have. That said there were some great moments across the whole movie and the ending with the red planet covered in salt was visually superb. Even my daughter (who was getting a bit bored) said "wow" in the cinema (for which I admonished her for talking of course). At long last a Star Wars location that wasn't a conventional looking desert, forest or snow. More of that please. Really liked Luke's arc. Annoyed I didn't spot the twist of him not actually being on the planet when he was fighting Ren but loved that part of the film. Really showing what a powerful jedi could do (but as in most cases of force use leaves you wondering why it wasn't used more by other jedi on other films?!). I'd probably give it an average of 6/10 with some elements going up to 8.5/10 and others about 3/10.
     
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  7. Mushroom

    Mushroom De-powered to come back better than before.

    Autopsy of Jane Doe

    On Netflix. Story of a Father and Son coroner service for a small town, are given a female's body who died of mysterious conditions.

    It's about 1hr 25min and essentially set in one place, some very creepy and tense moments. I liked it loads.
     
  8. Mushroom

    Mushroom De-powered to come back better than before.

    Anyone doing the 1 Marvel Movie a week challenge?
    If you watch 1 a week starting 01-06 January (the Marvel Studios ones, not the Sony/Fox ones) then it perfectly leads to Black Panther and then a short break till Avengers Infinity War
     
  9. Chimpcheng

    Chimpcheng Yup... Giant cow head... Supporter

    I made the mistake of watching that alone in the house, at night... That was a hard nights sleep I can tell you...
     
  10. aikiMac

    aikiMac aikido + boxing = very good Moderator Supporter

    I actually hadn't heard of that, but -- LOL, that could be fun! I've enjoyed all of the Marvel movies so far. All of them. Actually, last month I re-watched "Dr. Strange" on Netflix.

    'Course, it's a setup, you know. If you do the Marvel movie challenge then you're mind will be zombie mush with respect to the new Marvel movies -- you **will** go see them opening weekend. Marvel **will** get your money! LOL! :p
     
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  11. Mushroom

    Mushroom De-powered to come back better than before.


    The order to watch...kinda..
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  12. Mushroom

    Mushroom De-powered to come back better than before.

    Thats of course, Thor Ragnorok manages to come out in time on Bluray/DVD/VCD/VHS/Netflix
     
  13. Van Zandt

    Van Zandt Mr. High Kick

    I don't see Green Lantern in that list.
     
  14. Mushroom

    Mushroom De-powered to come back better than before.

    Just slot it in the middle somewhere... be fine.
     
  15. Xue Sheng

    Xue Sheng All weight is underside

    Sat down with the youngest and the oldest (who is home from college) and watched
    "Howl's Moving Castle"

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  16. Van Zandt

    Van Zandt Mr. High Kick

    Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri.

    Wowzers. The praise being heaped on this film is well deserved. Possibly the best black comedy film I've seen in the last 10-15 years. I can see it picking up Best Film and Sam Rockwell winning Best Supporting Actor at the Oscars next month (Francis McDermond is excellent as Mildred Hayes, but Rockwell steals the show with a very understated performance as Officer Dixon).
     
  17. aikiMac

    aikiMac aikido + boxing = very good Moderator Supporter

    My college girl likes that movie, too. She's watched it many times. I sat through it once and didn't really understand the ending, but the amount of detail in the artwork astounded me. It's quite a pretty movie when you start focusing on the details.
     
  18. philosoraptor

    philosoraptor carnivore in a top hat Supporter

    Just saw Blade Runner 2049 and man, I have a lot of thoughts about this movie. Everything is spoilered as I am going to give away basically everything, and discuss the thematic content of the original Blade Runner as well.

    First things first - I've never liked the "Deckard is a replicant" addition that Scott made to the director's cut of Blade Runner. I think it undercuts the thematic irony of the whole film; Deckard is a nihilist, a man without hope, jaded, and cynical, who is taught something about how precious life is and what it means to be human by a machine. Having them both be mechanical is just... well... kinda silly and reeks of trying to shoe horn a twist into a movie that really doesn't need it.

    I think Blade Runner depicted a sexist world - women in it are dolls, strippers, or prostitutes, the relationship between Rachel and Deckard seems full of contempt and distaste for each other, even having a violent quasi-rape scene. But the women pursue their own agendas and have their own desires. This stands in contrast to 2049.

    Like Blade Runner, 2049 is a visual delight, the world it builds is incredible and feels lived in. The film isn't afraid to take its time, to such an extent that it sometimes feels self-indulgent. Oh well, I'd indulge as well if I had that to work with. I liked Gosling's character - he does detective things and figures stuff out for himself. I didn't even mind the twist at the end when he realizes... well, you'll see.

    What I took terrific exception to, and here are where the spoilers really start, is the film's depiction of women. The film centers around the child that Rachel and Deckard have - it's never really explained how they have a child, save that it's a miracle. Robin Wright's character Joshi, a stern police woman, wants the child destroyed. Society depends on maintaining a strict line between replicants and humans, and if it's revealed that replicants can reproduce on their own that would upheave social order. The replicants tend to agree, and for some reason believe that if they can find the child, that means that they are no longer slaves (this part didn't really make sense to me). Wallace, Jared Leto's industrial tycoon who's taken over for Tyrell, is interested in finding the child to begin production of trillions of replicants to take on extra-solar system colonization missions, claiming that there's no way he can produce replicants fast enough to fill the need. This also didn't make sense to me as Rachel and Deckard's child grew at the normal human rate.

    Anyway, onto what I see as the misogyny of the film. Like I said, the original Blade Runner takes place inside a sexist world. I'd distinguish this from 2049 in that the script and the characters seem like a sexist plot and sexist depictions. Rachel and Deckard are reframed as true lovers, their story in Blade Runner a romance, which is really a disservice to the original. Despite centering on the possibility of female reproduction, Rachel is killed off screen, Sean Young makes an appearance later but as a digitally enhanced de-aged creature. Wallace violently murders an android because it is not able to reproduce. When male characters are killed in this movie, it is done quickly, a bullet to the head or a light shined in their eye. Women die slow, they're tortured sometimes first, and then drowned or suffocated or knifed or turned off as they profess their love to the male protagonists. The child of Deckard and Rachel occupies and infantile existence, shut in a bubble, living in a literal fantasy world of birthday parties and snowfall. Joi, the main female character, is an accessory that was purchased in a store to serve Gosling's character K. She's a hologram and a computer program that exists only to serve Gosling in every way possible. In one scene she pays a prostitute to sleep with Gosling while she holographically overlays herself on top of the prostitute. Joi does relatively little and has very little dialogue besides telling K that she loves him, he's special, he needs to keep going, etc., etc. The other women are femme fatale or ice queen tropes.

    I dunno, I expected a lot more from 2049 and was surprised that no one said "Seriously? Time for a redraft."
     
  19. Xue Sheng

    Xue Sheng All weight is underside

    Both of the kids are really ino studio Ghibli movies (Howl's moving castle is Ghibli) the oldest owns all of them and the youngest has several
     
  20. Mushroom

    Mushroom De-powered to come back better than before.

    The Fan (1996)

    Obsessive De Niro, going nuts over his favourite baseball player, Wesley Snipes.

    The cast list is insane. And people forget that Leguizamo has been around for years and is a great versatile actor. (Also peep the Jack Black as an extra)

    Saw this in the cinema and probably the 2nd time ever watching this.
     
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