What's the latest movie you've seen?

[grindy]

It's already been a few weeks actually but watched Grand Hotel Budapest. I've seen it before and remember enjoying it, but didn't like it at all this time. It felt as fake and hollow as a Tim Burton movie and is similarly transparently aimed at people who consider themselves quirky and weird but are mostly lame and tedious.

[Guybrush]

It's already been a few weeks actually but watched Grand Hotel Budapest. I've seen it before and remember enjoying it, but didn't like it at all this time. It felt as fake and hollow as a Tim Burton movie and is similarly transparently aimed at people who consider themselves quirky and weird but are mostly lame and tedious.

I like it, but I understand the criticism. It was perhaps the tipping point where Wes became too much Anderson. Some of the humanity of his stories can get lost in it, I think.

We already talked about it, but I love Life Aquatic and also adored Rushmore, although that one I haven't seen in 15-20 years or so.

[grindy]

I like it, but I understand the criticism. It was perhaps the tipping point where Wes became too much Anderson. Some of the humanity of his stories can get lost in it, I think.

We already talked about it, but I love Life Aquatic and also adored Rushmore, although that one I haven't seen in 15-20 years or so.

My negative reaction surprised myself. The first time I found it quite clever and well done and I usually don't mind the absence of deep emotions.
Haven't seen the two movies you mentioned but I have seen some other movies of his and generally liked them. Looks like I just changed.

[Marie Monday]

Yeah I feel the same way about GBH and I've always been a bit puzzled about the good reviews. I like some Wes Anderson films (especially Moonrise Kingdom) but there's got to be some substance with the style imo, otherwise it gets dull

[Janszoon]

I like it, but I understand the criticism. It was perhaps the tipping point where Wes became too much Anderson. Some of the humanity of his stories can get lost in it, I think.

We already talked about it, but I love Life Aquatic and also adored Rushmore, although that one I haven't seen in 15-20 years or so.

I loved Wes Anderson's earlier movies, but he's become such a visual stylist at this point that his movies don't do much for me. The French Dispatch was really the tipping point for me. It's visually impressive but I just did not give a shit about anything that was happening.

[Psy-Fi]

Manhattan Tower (1932)

The working day of several people inside a Manhattan commercial tower are revealed and connected to each other through various events which happen throughout the 9 to 5 daily grind. Some humor, some drama, some sex, a villain, and a surprise darkly humorous ending.

[Hope]

I saw Dune Part II last weekend at the theater. I give it 3 stars. The first part was more interesting in my book. To be fair the entire second movie takes place in the desert. Lots of sand and loud noises. I'm getting old.

[Guybrush]

I liked Dune part 2 😊 the visuals were perfect, the sound design was an experience. I'm not quite sure I wanna watch it again because I feel it might drag a bit in the small screen, but I was entertained throughout watching it in the cinema.

It's a for me!

Cons: Chani and Paul seem like such a boring couple. Especially Paul and his humourless demeanor.

[Trollheart]

One good, one bad/not finished. Watched "Once Upon a Texas Train", quirky and funny little western starring Willie Nelson as a just-released-from-jail-after-20-years train robber, determined to pull the last big job before retiring. A little cliche (I was reminded of "Going in Style" to some degree) but it doesn't take itself too seriously and is pretty enormous fun. One of the guys riding a mule and the other a bicyle tells you the kind of thing it's aiming for, and more or less achieves. Very enjoyable.

On the other hand, attempted to watch "Smokey and the Bandit 3" - what the hell? No Burt Reynolds? No Sally Field? Not even that guy whose dog rides in the truck with him? No, all about the sheriff retiring and yet ANOTHER challenge race. Endured about 20 minutes of it, checked Wiki which said it was savaged by the critics and is considered the worst of the three movies, and hit delete. Yee, but no haw!

[Psy-Fi]

Beginning of the End (1957)

Low-budget sci-fi/horror flick about hungry, gigantic, mutant locusts with a taste for human flesh. The locusts grow to enormous proportions after eating plants which were created in an experimental agricultural lab which was using radiation to grow vegetables and fruits into oversized specimens. This one sort of falls into the "so bad it's good" category, but it was just so genuinely bad overall that I couldn't rate it any higher than 2 stars. The poster for the movie gets a solid 5/5 stars from me, though.

[Guybrush]

Yes, great poster!

And kinda weird how the locusts, after growing large, seem to have swapped their insect mouthparts (the trophi) for mammalian style mouths with pointy teeth.

[Janszoon]

Yes, great poster!

And kinda weird how the locusts, after growing large, seem to have swapped their insect mouthparts (the trophi) for mammalian style mouths with pointy teeth.

That's how evolution works obviously.

[Trollheart]

Hollywoodvolution in action. Just ask Darwin.




That's Nobby Darwin, works as an intern at Universal Studios.

[Psy-Fi]

Creature with the Atom Brain (1955)

This one is a bit like 'Frankenstein' with a zombie/robot twist. A wealthy criminal obsessed with revenge, meets an unscrupulous scientist and funds his experiments which produce the ability to reanimate recently deceased people, give them superhuman strength, and manipulate them electronically via remote control. 

[DJChameleon]

I liked Dune part 2 😊 the visuals were perfect, the sound design was an experience. I'm not quite sure I wanna watch it again because I feel it might drag a bit in the small screen, but I was entertained throughout watching it in the cinema.

It's a for me!

Cons: Chani and Paul seem like such a boring couple. Especially Paul and his humourless demeanor.

Yeah I think it's 4 stars too from me but I hate that I dozed off on the best fight between Paul and the younger bald guy that I don't remember his name.

I would watch it again but I want to watch them back to back and wait til they sell them together as a pair.