What's the latest movie you've seen?

[Guybrush]

Recently watched Terrifier 3. Hadn't see the previous films but my mate just decided to buy it and we really enjoyed it. It's plenty gory and the main villain is incredibly well acted.

Hey and it's a Christmas movie too, right? I may have to see it myself.

[DJChameleon]

Recently watched Terrifier 3. Hadn't see the previous films but my mate just decided to buy it and we really enjoyed it. It's plenty gory and the main villain is incredibly well acted.

I did the same thing but I went to see it in the theater. The first two movies are on Amazon Prime if you want to see them.

[DJChameleon]

Hey and it's a Christmas movie too, right? I may have to see it myself.

Yep it's a Xmas movie.


I went to see Kraven on Friday as it's the last movie in the Sony Spiderverse villian thing they were trying to set up. So they made a villian into an anti hero and gave him like 3 to 4 mini bosses/antagonists to square off against. It was such a mess. I dozed off during it and woke up for the fight scene near the end. I just got up and left as soon as the credits started rolling not caring if they decided to do an after credits scene. I later researched and they didn't, which makes sense.

[Psy-Fi]

Fog Island (1945)

B&W mystery-thriller about a wealthy ex-con living in a mansion with his daughter on a secluded island. While there, he plots revenge on his associates responsible for his imprisonment and the murder of his wife. He sends out invitations to his intended victims, asking them to visit him on his island and enticing them with the prospect of finding a hidden fortune located there.

[Psy-Fi]

Between Midnight and Dawn (1950)

B&W crime drama about two Los Angeles prowl car cops working the night shift. They have an encounter with a young local racketeer which becomes more complicated and dangerous as the story unfolds.

[SGR]

Soooo... @DJChameleon @Lexi Darling has anyone seen Sonic 3 yet?

I saw it last Monday with my bro, but don't wanna spoil anything 

[DJChameleon]

Yep I saw it last Monday afternoon too.

It was a good time even though I went into it without knowing Shadow's lore all that well. The theater erupted in cheers at the end credits scene.

[Lexi Darling]

Soooo... @DJChameleon @Lexi Darling has anyone seen Sonic 3 yet?

I saw it last Monday with my bro, but don't wanna spoil anything 

Not yet, I've been alternating between being sick and being really busy this holiday season, I think I'll probably just wait for streaming. DJ's post has me intrigued tho haha

[SGR]

Without spoiling anything, I thought the way they handled Shadow's backstory with Maria was downright excellent, definitely tugged on my heartstrings since SA2's story is one that's been welded into my brain since childhood. I'd go so far as saying that the movie humanized her better than the games ever did (the games more often treat her simply as a plot device than a true character).

I thought Keanu Reeves did an excellent job at voicing Shadow - and I was very happy to see, as someone who hasn't even watched the first two Sonic movies yet, that the human characters (other than Eggman/Gerald Robotnik) were given very little screen time. After all, I'm here to see Sonic on the big screen, not these lame characters who cosplay as Sonic's 'parents/guardians'.

Per Eggman/Gerald, their antics were often a little bit too much for my liking. The dance number they did in the laser room went on far longer than it should have - and damn did I dislike their 'interactions' in the last 5/10 minutes of the movie - like I know it's a kid's movie, but come on, how much levity do we need in what's supposed to be the epic finale? Per the game's canon, Gerald shouldn't even be alive during this sequence of events and I know the movies aren't following the games beat for beat (nor should they), but I can't help but wonder if I would've liked the movie more if Gerald's only role in the movie was in flashbacks and it was Eggman releasing Shadow and leading him around. It often felt like instead of having Eggman's more evil and deranged grandfather in the movie, you simply had two Jim Carrey's, playing "Jim Carrey" (as Jim often does), dressed in Robotnik outfits. I think it would've been more compelling to have had Gerald be more of a counterbalance to Eggman - more serious, cunning, and even-keeled - or even just the 'straight man' in the Robotnik comedy troupe. But he behaved as eccentrically and as silly as Eggman did, so no counterbalance at all really, it's just that Eggman followed his lead in the story.

Another thing that confused me - the movie kinda treated the master emerald and the chaos emeralds as one in the same, or at least it appeared so - I'm no Sonic lore professor, but I don't think that's accurate. Maybe the first two movies would dispel my confusion about how this is handled.

Without spoiling things for Lexi, there were a lot of things I really liked about the ending, but I don't feel like it had nearly the same amount of emotional weight as the ending of the game did. If the movie was maybe 5 minutes longer, and it just gave the characters more time to reflect, and the story more time to breathe, I think I would've loved it. At its base, the story of SA2 is one about handling grief and loss and ultimately how you can find redemption - it hits on all that, but the game handled it better imo. Still one of my favorite video game endings ever.

As someone who grew up with these games, I'm the demographic they were trying to pander to with this movie, and it mostly worked - but I wouldn't have minded a little more pandering (with references, and line pulls and the like). I definitely noticed some missed opportunities. 

[DJChameleon]

No way. That's the highlight of the movie just letting them have two goofy over the top Jim Carreys and I love that dance sequence.

Also you need to watch at the very least the second movie to see how they handled the chaos emeralds. The thing that you liked about this one with the humans ended up having more story in the previous two movies though. It's like they heard criticism about them and decided to reduce their roles more in 3.

[SGR]

No way. That's the highlight of the movie just letting them have two goofy over the top Jim Carreys and I love that dance sequence.

Also you need to watch at the very least the second movie to see how they handled the chaos emeralds. The thing that you liked about this one with the humans ended up having more story in the previous two movies though. It's like they heard criticism about them and decided to reduce their roles more in 3.

I mean, I get the appeal. I guess I had competing interests in this movie, as a fan of Jim Carrey myself. Seeing Jim Carrey be funny and do the things only Jim Carrey can do - and then as a huge fan of Sonic (especially SA2) - wanting Eggman and Gerald Robotnik to be portrayed well, and for the dynamic between them to be interesting and compelling. I got a lot of the former, and not as much as I'd like of the latter. If you're not personally into the backstory of Shadow/Maria/Gerald and aren't that emotionally invested in it, I totally get why it wouldn't bug you at all, and that you'd be happy with the setup serving as an excuse for Jim Carrey to play off of his own gags.

Gerald did have one line near the end of the movie that was cold as fuck though, and I just wish there was more of that Gerald in the film.

I'll check out the first 2 movies when I get a chance. Maybe when the third one hits streaming, I'll watch them all together.

[Psy-Fi]

Kronos (1957)

B&W sci-fi thriller about an unusual object which appears on the viewer of a scientist's telescope, enters the Earth's atmosphere, and crashes into the ocean off the coast of Mexico. A large robotic machine eventually emerges from the ocean and runs amok, sucking up electrical energy from power plants, while on its way to a stockpile of nuclear weapons in America.

[Psy-Fi]

Flat Top (1952)

War-action flick told in flashback style. The Commander of aircraft operations on an aircraft carrier in the Korean war, reminisces about his time serving as Fighter Squadron Commander on the same carrier during WWII, while fighting the Japanese in the Pacific. A good bit of actual combat footage from WWII is added to the movie, but it's blended into the action quite well and doesn't interfere with the story or vibe like it sometimes does in other war films which use that same technique.

[Psy-Fi]

Monster from Green Hell (1957)

B&W sci-fi/monster flick about a rocket carrying a payload of wasps into space for an experiment, which malfunctions and veers off course and crashes in a remote area of Africa. Several of the wasps survive the crash and mutate due to being overexposed to cosmic radiation during the flight. They grow to an enormous size and begin to terrorize the wildlife and the local natives. The two scientists in charge of the space experiment, find out about reports of giant monsters wreaking havoc in central Africa, and decide to travel there to investigate.

This was one of those films that seems to drag on longer than the running time. It clocks in at 71 minutes, but it seemed to be twice as long as it actually was. Much of the film is spent showing the scientists and their entourage, trekking through the African bush, plains, and jungle, which just made the movie drag on.

[Psy-Fi]

The Underwater City (1962)

Sci-fi adventure into the world of "inner space" below the waves. An underwater "city" made up of several airtight structures, is constructed and anchored to the sea floor, to conduct an experiment to see if humans can live underwater in such an environment. The acting wasn't bad but the special effects were ridiculous and the story just plodded along without much of interest happening for the most part until the action picked up a bit during the last few minutes of the film.