What's the latest movie you've seen?

[Guybrush]

Saw this slice of cheese:



I haven't been keeping up with the Mission Impossibles, but thought we'd give this a shot as the train sequence and climax at the end were filmed in Norway (while presented as Austria).

The script seemed a little childish at times, like how quickly this romantic subplot develops and just the spy stuff etc. but whatever. You watch it for the popcorn action sequences. After all, it's just a series of big action sequences strung together with minimal bits of story and acting in between.. and the spectacle is good. Tom Cruise is a bit bland as Ethan Hunt, a man who unfailingly excels at everything, but he gets the job done. That he does his own stunts is honestly impressive.

The rest of the cast isn't too memorable, but I liked Vanessa Kirby's White Widow.

Enjoyable, but I won't watch it again. Another 3.5 stars for me.



I've also been to Austria and can clearly see the difference between here and there 😄

[Guybrush]

Saw this one:



Pearl from 2022. I think it is a prequel to X (which I haven't seen) and fleshes out an origin story for a character which is an old lady in that film.

In Pearl, the titular character is a young woman in 1918 whose husband is soldiering in Europe during WW1. She dreams of being a star/celeb, but is trapped in a life on the family farm with a non-verbal father stuck to a wheelchair and a very controlling mother. Without spoiling too much, Pearl's attempt to break free from this life is an important part of the plot.

The movie is a genre mix between drama and horror and while some scenes are very emotional, the movie doesn't take itself too seriously. There's a little bit of hyper violence, but it shouldn't have too much of an impact on the viewer compared to some other offerings in the genre.

I liked it, but probably won't watch it again. At times, it felt a little like that episode in the series you're watching when they leave you on a cliffhanger to instead explore the somewhat more boring backstory to a character.. but then I guess that's almost exactly what this is.

The character Pearl seems a little unlikely, I think, being a psychopath who is also very emotional, but she's well played by Mia Goth.

I believe this is part of a trilogy with X being the first, then Pearl and then the upcoming Maxxxine.

Pearl, from me, gets:

[DJChameleon]

I feel the same way about Pearl but I want to re-watch it. I watched it out of order like you as well so I want to go back and re-watch it. I also dozed off on it so I want to watch it fully.  I think you might like X more.

[Skittler]

The Witch (2015) - 8/10


Rewatched it last night. Watching the whole family slowly turn against each other because of evil was intense. Great acting all around.

"Wouldst thou like to live deliciously?"

[Guybrush]

Rewatched Everything Everywhere All At Once because it was on Amazon prime and my wife quickly fell asleep the last time we saw it.



Still a very enjoyable watch the second time around. I'm impressed that this movie got made and with such a great result. I mean, they must have filmed so many scenes and there must've been so much editing to get to a final cut. Of course, editing was one of the many Oscars it won.

It's fun, sweet and all over the place.. very well casted. Jamie Lee Curtis especially makes me laugh in most of the scenes she's in.

It's a little busy for my tastes, but still a joy. If you haven't seen it, bump it up on your list of movie priorities 🙂

[DJChameleon]

Wow that movie wasn't good enough for a 5 stars?


I give it 5 stars all day everyday.

[Guybrush]

Wow that movie wasn't good enough for a 5 stars?

I give it 5 stars all day everyday.

In terms of how clever and well made it is, it probably does deserve more, but 4 stars is more a reflection of my enjoyment of it.

If there was a 4.25, I'd give it 😄 it's good, but no Forbidden Zone.

[Guybrush]

Saw this a couple of days ago:



We watched it on Amazon prime basically because the description made it seem like it was probably inspired by The Silence of the Lambs and I've kinda missed those kind of thrillers.

This one isn't terribly original and the opening reminds me of Dirty Harry. A young, female beat cop ends up helping an FBI agent track down a mass murderer. It's decently acted and entertaining.

A thing I didn't like was the killer, but I'll hide my comment in a spoiler.

To Catch a Killer

The killer seems a little Ted Kaczynzki inspired and at odds with modern society, but we dont actually get into the nitty gritty of why he murders people and, despite everything, seems like he could be a nice guy.

He's well casted with Ralph Ineson doing a fine job, but there's none of the menace that you get from the aforementioned movies.

[close]

So a decent crime thriller that would probably be safe for your parents to watch.

[Guybrush]

Also saw this:



Fitzcarraldo is Werner Herzog's epic about an Irish entrepreneur who, being in Peru during a rubber boom, decides to claim and exploit a seemingly unreachable plot containing millions of rubber trees. He can't take a boat up the river where it is due to violent rapids, but plans to take the boat up a neighbouring river and then drag the boat over the hill that separates the two rivers (quite a feat).

This movie has a crazy production history. For one thing, while Herzog was inspired by a real story, the boat used in the movie was 10 times heavier than the historical one and Werner didn't want to use special effects, so.. how do you make a movie about pulling a 320 ton boat over a hill? You do it and you film it.

From Wikipedia: The film production was an incredible ordeal, and famously involved moving a 320-ton steamship over a hill. This was filmed without the use of special effects. Herzog believed that no one had ever performed a similar feat in history, and likely never will again, calling himself "Conquistador of the Useless".

Furthermore, the original star got dysentery and got replaced with, yup, the acting world's most antagonistic individual, the constant tantrum that was Klaus Kinski. He'd get into several dust fights just about every day, scream in people's faces and some of the tribespeople who play in the movie offered Werner to kill Kinski. He said no. By the way, people offering to kill him is a recurring theme through Kinski's career.

Mick Jagger was supposed to play Kinski's character's assistant, but had to tour instead.

The movie is kinda slow and the acting felt a little off. I honestly think a large part of it was just a weird English dub that frequently felt off.

Klaus Kinski mostly seems batshit insane with his yellow, unkempt hair and big blue frog eyes. He has his dead eyed, bulging stare that is put to frequent use throughout and which makes him seem even more like a nutcase. In addition, he feels like a character void if any real passion or morality, a bit like Kinski himself.

It's really cool how they made it and the boat pulling etc. is indeed impressive. However, I wouldn't recommend it in a general sense. Movie / cinema buffs might like it. You know who you are.

Fir me, this was a,:

[robhr]

Heat.

It was fine.

I knew the ending from the moment it started. Good guy wins.

I like Collateral a lot more. I really really like Collateral this one was just okay fine. Al Pacino "She's got a great ass" okay fine.

[Psy-Fi]

Heat.

It was fine.

I knew the ending from the moment it started. Good guy wins.

I like Collateral a lot more. I really really like Collateral this one was just okay fine. Al Pacino "She's got a great ass" okay fine.

As far as bank heist scenes go, that movie has my all-time favorite one.

[Hope]

Spontaneously went to a late showing of Sofia Coppola's Priscilla on Saturday.  Everything else was sold out.  It was poetically directed and filmed as expected with a Sofia film, but unfortunately so boring and uneventful we took turns drifting to sleep.  Possibly 80% of the film was Elvis coaxing the much younger Priscilla to take pills and nod off in his velveted blacked-out bedroom.  Maybe that's why I got so sleepy.

The two lead actors were fine and Jacob Elordi a dead ringer for Elvis in both appearance and mannerisms.  But that was about it, imho.

I am not ashamed to say I'll be watching that just to look at Jacob Elordi.

[grindy]

Watched Borgman once again, probably for the fifth time now.
I just love this movie so much. It's so entertaining and creepy and funny and weird and yet internally logically consistent.

[Marie Monday]

oh I gotta watch thta, I was completely unaware that it exists. I love Alex van Warmerdam

[grindy]

oh I gotta watch thta, I was completely unaware that it exists. I love Alex van Warmerdam

He's one of my favourite directors! Sadly not nearly as widely known as he'd deserve.