What's the latest movie you've seen?

[Psy-Fi]

The Incredible Petrified World (1959)

Low-budget adventure/exploration flick with a ridiculous plot and tedious pacing. A film where you are waiting for something interesting and/or exciting to happen but it never does.

[Psy-Fi]

Daughter of Horror (1955)

A low-budget B&W horror film with an interesting twist. A mentally disturbed young woman awakes from a nightmare in a cheap hotel room... but was it just a nightmare? The story has a visual film noir style but there's no dialog except from an unseen narrator who occasionally speaks throughout the story while music plays in the background.

[Guybrush]

Popped by Disney+ and was very surprised to see Poor Things available there 🤩



We promptly watched it and I loved it! Very funny and absurd comedy that bravely features Emma Stone in a lead role that must've been challenging for a couple of reasons. I believe she won an Oscar for this role?

She plays Bella Baxter, a character who (slight spoiler) starts out as having the mind of a child, but matures gradually throughout the movie, enchanting or frustrating everyone she meets.

Mark Ruffalo and Willem Dafoe are also both good here with Willem as a fatherly figure and Ruffalo more as a comedic character.

I'm very happy weird movies like this get made.

[Psy-Fi]

Hickey & Boggs (1972)

An action/crime thriller with Bill Cosby and Robert Culp teaming up as a couple of struggling private detectives who get hired to find an elusive woman. The trail to the woman leads to several murders and a large sum of money missing from a violent bank heist.

[DJChameleon]

Leading up to the Oscars I saw Poor Things and SaltBurn because I was hearing good things about both of them.

I watched Saltburn first, it's basically a black comedy thriller where you are constantly questioning the motives behind the main character. The ending is interesting, but it was telegraphed near the beginning of the second act. I think you might enjoy this one also @Guybrush



I died laughing at the end of Poor Things. Poor Things is such an odd movie that it's getting a lot of backlash with people thinking the entire premise of the movie is creepy. The fact of having a woman with the mind of a child(adolescent) engaging in sexual acts is something that's not easy to get over. Everything else about the steampunk esque designs and the costumes were A+ though. There is a reason that the movie itself won so many Oscars and yes Emma Stone did win an Oscar for her role in this but it definitely should have went to Lily Gladstone.



Antebellum

I felt like I saw this movie before and wanted a re-watch because I couldn't remember what the twist ending was. It's essentially a horror thriller where the main character witnesses the horrors of slavery and I'll just leave it at that. I can't say anymore without ruining a large chunk of the movie. Janelle Monae showed off her acting chops once again. I feel like she does well in any role that she's been given.



The Haunting of Queen Mary.

Mid way through this movie I went looking for a wikipedia article to explain the plot and catch me up to date on what's going on. I have to re-watch this movie because I felt so lost throughout the entire thing and even when it ended I still wasn't completely sure what happened. A quick google search showed me that I wasn't the only one that felt this way about the movie. I think the movie is good but I can't tell because I'm a bit clueless about what happened. The gore was A+ though.  I'm not even rating this movie until I figure out what happened after watching it a second time through. Maybe I just need to pay attention more and everything was laid out in front of me but I doubt it.

[Psy-Fi]

Black Tuesday (1954)

B&W crime thriller about a manipulative crime kingpin on death row, breaking out of prison with help from his gang and some fellow prisoners, just before he is about to be executed in the electric chair. 

[grindy]

Started watching Inside Out and stopped midway through. Such a lame movie. Can't understand why it's so acclaimed.

[Janszoon]

Started watching Inside Out and stopped midway through. Such a lame movie. Can't understand why it's so acclaimed.

I liked that move!

[Lexi Darling]

Dune 2 (2024)

Aaron and I went to this while we were out last weekend despite me having never seen the first one. I didn't know Christopher Walken was in the movie before we got there, so that was a nice surprise. Obviously I was a bit confused on the lore, I followed it alright but I think a lot of it would have meant more if I'd seen the first one. At any rate he wanted my company during the movie so I was happy to be there even if it wasn't the best experience with the movie that it probably could have been.

[Guybrush]

Started watching Inside Out and stopped midway through. Such a lame movie. Can't understand why it's so acclaimed.

On the whole, I don't love animated movies, but I thought the way the movie portrays how we process memories and how our personalities can, in some ways, get torn down and rebuilt, how we're controlled by certain emotions etc. was great.

My daughter had some anxiety troubles after her brother lost an eye (she was slightly traumatised by that event) and Inside Out was actually a helpful tool in talking about difficult feelings (and also more trivial ones).

[grindy]

On the whole, I don't love animated movies, but I thought the way the movie portrays how we process memories and how our personalities can, in some ways, get torn down and rebuilt, how we're controlled by certain emotions etc. was great.

My daughter had some anxiety troubles after her brother lost an eye (she was slightly traumatised by that event) and Inside Out was actually a helpful tool in talking about difficult feelings (and also more trivial ones).

I can totally see how it can be helpful and interesting for kids but it did nothing for me. I wasn't at all invested in the story and the characters did nothing for me. I also didn't particularly like the animation. We have seen Soul a few weeks ago and that one was far more enjoyable for me.

[Marie Monday]

I thought inside out was a really nice concept wrapped up in a very dull film (and I didn't like the animation either). Which is a pity, because the but at the end is moving, but sitting through the rest of it isn't really worth it

[Lexi Darling]

Yeah, I didn't love Inside Out that much. It was fine as a fun little romp, but honestly the real world segments were the only part I felt like I could actually care about.

[DJChameleon]

Saw Godzilla X Kong today. I'm so ready to see it again. I had so much fun watching it. Love big monster movies like this. There were a few great surprises in it that I wasn't expecting.

[Guybrush]

Saw Bones and All from 2022 I think it was.



Young Maren who has had a very protected upbringing is set loose on the world when her father can't take more of her cannibalistic ways and all the questions it raises. Damn girl, stop eating people! So she's on her own and eventually hook up with another rogue-ish cannibal, Lee.

It's kinda like a teen romance vampire road movie, only instead of being vampires they're cannibals. Sounds weird? It is, a little bit, but also more droll than you might expect.

Our two main characters are very well played by Taylor Russell and Timothee Chalamet and lends credence to a story that is sometimes a little hard to swallow.



It was okay, but I'm not gonna watch it again.

Also, it was based on a book.