I watched Django Unchained by Quentin Tarantino yesterday for the first time, after being in my list for so long.
Such a masterpiece. Lengthy, but it gives it enough room to have a nice pacing. Great photography and dialogue, of course. One of Tarantino's best, imo.
Heat....rewatched it for the nth time. One of the all time great crime movies.
I watched Despicable Me with the kids recently - for the very first time - and was pleasantly surprised. It was actually good fun!
Into the Spiderverse at cinema! It really really blew me away, the visuals, the music, the plot. Honestly an experience. One of the few movies I'd really recommend to watch on cinema (alongside the LOTR movies)
The platform (2019) https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_platform
Its worth a watch if you like movies where people have to survive in crazy games like Cube, Squid game, Circle or similar.
Hm, I love the Platform, watched it twice, but I really wouldn't place it in the category of Cube or Squid Game. They aren't playing a game. It's much more similar to Snowpiercer.
Turbo kid. It’s a gory mess covered in 80s nostalgia.
I really enjoyed this one!
Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. Friends of mine were hyped for Across the Spider-Verse and that was my opportunity to go watch the first with them. If you're an animation nut, then yeah, this movie is brilliant for that. A very fun movie, definitely going to pick up the Blu-Ray when I pop to HMV in the future.
spoilers for Into + Across the Spider-Verse
I did get a new unexpected favourite character, and it was the movie's version of Sp//dr Robot from the Peni Parker version of Spider-Man. Such a great robot design, and I was pretty gutted when it got destroyed in the final fight. Even moreso, I was spoiled on Across the Spider-Verse where they apparently used the comic book design which, ngl, disappointed me a bit. I'm apparently in the minority here but, eh whatever.
The DnD movie and it was great! Jarnathan 🙄
Everything Everywhere All At Once (for the second time) and it's even better the second time.
I feel bad because I just couldn’t get into this. I’ve seen all the praise but I just don’t think it’s for me.
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Watching a second time helped. It's a movie that throws a lot at you all at once and then sort of grabs you by the neck and drags you along. But I liked that. And of course, everything isn't for everyone all of the time. Plenty of fish in the sea.
Watching the Tanya the Evil movie. Enjoying it so far, especially the jokes about the communists.
Star Trek: The Motion Picture. I've seen it before but watched it with friends, including one who had never seen it, after consuming edibles and had fun with it even though it's slow and cheesy.
Donnie Darko. It was cool tho I had to ask my partner to explain what happened at the ending lol
Midnight Special with Michael Shannon, it was very enjoyable.
I think the first Spiderverse movie, if I remember correctly. It was great, it set a new standard for animation in general.
Renfield! I loved it. It was a nice silly distraction from, y'know life. If you like horror comedies, like Cabin in the Woods or Tucker and Dale Vrs Evil I can't recommend Renfield enough.
Saw Elemental on Friday. Wasn't bad. Nice message. I didn't catch the whole controversy about pronouns though. 🤷♂️
Saw Asteroid City last night. Liked it a lot but it's not my favorite Wes Anderson movie. It is, thought, the most Wes Anderson movie imaginable.
My girlfriend and I recently decided to watch every Arnold Schwarzenegger movie in order. We saw Hercules in New York this weekend. It was pretty amusing. They clearly shot all the mt Olympus scenes in central park because you can hear the traffic in the background and the occasional crying baby or what not.
Arnold is always a great choice. Commando has been one of my favorite films since it first came out on tape. Not an award-winning movie by any means, but it's sure fun to watch.
I recently joined in on the MCU Crew's watch-along for Iron Man 3. It was marginally better than I remembered but I still have issues with the one reveal, all the fake out deaths, as well as the entirety of the final action scene.
Asteroid City. It was... more meta than expected. Not so much breaking the forth wall as featuring the forth wall!
My dad had on Starship Troopers earlier and it was definitely much scarier to me a decade ago. I cannot say it's the best sci-fi film I've ever seen, but it's pretty decent.
It's a pretty smart film in the context of when it was made and the political situation in the U.S. I remember when it was released a lot of people were pissed at it, it performed pretty poorly.
I just spent ten minutes attempting to remember. I did not remember but, whatever it was, it was "meh".
Hot Fuzz, very comedic and got intense in the last moments
Barbarian
Sadly it does not stick the landing but everything up to that point is great. Love how it plays with the fact that the audience already expects Bill Skarsgård to be creepy.
Just watched Monsters, Inc. It's great, the ending is really sweet too. I miss old Pixar ;(
Underwater. 2020 horror movie that takes place - you guessed it - underwater. It wasn't bad, just kinda mediocre. It was pretty action packed, and the effects weren't bad, but I never really felt for any of the characters, and I thought the monster(s) were underdeveloped and poorly utilized. Still, not a bad way to waste an hour-and-a-half.
Same movie for me and same impression too. Not sure if the monster's were even necessary. Also it had more of a "run away from the explosion" vibe than a "oh this uboat is about to implode" vibe. But I can confirm it is ok-ish.
Edit: That's crazy. I've looked at your profile since I thought it's a funny coincidence. I've also lived in South Korea for a while and I've also used Pop OS in the past. Really interesting. May I ask what you are doing in Jeju-Do?
My wife and I run a small English school here. It's a nice place, but I do really miss Canada sometimes.
I don't know what Pop OS is though.
Interesting! Hope your school goes well. Pop OS is an operating system. I guess it was just a coincidence you commented there.
John Wick 4. Seemed like 2 uninterrupted hours of people shooting one-another in the face. I only made it 30 minutes.
I had another experience. The power of the first John wick movie was the very simple story of a man loosing his dog and his car, to an orgasmic vengeance bullet bukkake.
Four is the other way around. The story is so complicated and, too be honest, weak, that all the fantastic fight choreography in the world can't offset it. It gets boring as you're not even remotely emotionally engaged.
I will treat the wick saga like I did with the matrix. There is only one, shame they didn't shoot a sequel.
Fall (2022). The concept is pretty simple: Two women climb a TV tower and are stuck at the top. Before watching it I thought: How are they going to make a movie out of that? Well, they did and it was better than I would have expected. If you like those movies with a limited cast and set and without much action, I can definitely recommend it.
Shorter is not necessarily better: "THE Fall" from the early 2000s was a much better value-per-minute movie. :P
I love that movie, it's so beautifully shot.
Good Time I liked it the end was pretty sad
fantastic movie. you seen uncut gems?
Yeah I watched it a while ago was surprisingly good
Just watched Greta Gerwig's Little Women, it was quite enjoyable.
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