Most recent movie you saw

[HIB]

Arrival. Amazing movie.

[Doominator2]

Saw District 9 recently, It was a great film and it really showed how even humans and aliens aren't all that different from each other. Highly recommend it.

[SWDude]

Doominator2 said:

Saw District 9 recently, It was a great film and it really showed how even humans and aliens aren't all that different from each other. Highly recommend it.

How co-incidental! I just watched it yesterday and yeah, great movie and i started appreciating it only half way through. I too recommend it.

Also Dr. Strange was another good movie that i saw recently. Being a huge marvel fan i enjoyed it to the core. But i guess everybody else can enjoy it equally as well.

[Jaws In Space]

SWDude said:

Also Dr. Strange was another good movie that i saw recently. Being a huge marvel fan i enjoyed it to the core. But i guess everybody else can enjoy it equally as well.

I don't get the love for Dr. Strange to me it seemed surprisingly similar to that awful Green Lantern film from a few years ago.

[SWDude]

Jaws In Space said:

I don't get the love for Dr. Strange to me it seemed surprisingly similar to that awful Green Lantern film from a few years ago.

Opinions differ :p

[june gloom]

Last night we watched Blade Runner for the zillionth time.

Tonight we watched Metropolis, the 1927 German Expressionist silent film (now that's niche!) It's honestly a truly amazing movie for what it is -- the practical effects are just mindblowing for 1927, plus lots of little sci-fi tropes that we take for granted.

[Doominator2]

dethtoll said:

Last night we watched Blade Runner for the zillionth time.

The ending makes me cry when I watch it, its just so beautiful.

[Clonehunter]

I'll concur on Metropolis being amazing. I couldn't believe some of the work and sets and effects they put into that for 1927. Funny enough, I've always found Metropolis and Blade Runner to be somewhat similar, even if only vaguely.

[Cupboard]

XXX

Vin Diesel staring into a load-bearing brick wall with x-ray goggles and flying 50 feet in the air whenever he gets on a motorcycle. And in the first 5 minutes he slams a politician for wanting to ban violent video games. It's like, they made the movie so they could make a series of video games out of it.

[Jill]

I watched hot fuzz recently. Still my favorite comedy ever. Make sandford great again.

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[Trycon]

mistercow said:

I watched hot fuzz recently. Still my favorite comedy ever. Make sandford great again.

The greater good

[Dutch Doomer]

The Accountant with Ben Affleck, saw it in a movie theater in Hong Kong with my gf. Was okay I guess, gf slept through 90% of the movie...geez..wasn't that bad :p

[Walter confetti]

King Kong (1933)
Big Man Japan (2007), the ending is pretty hilarious
The Angry Red Planet (1959)

[Aquanet]

Arrival. Very good, not great.

Also rewatched Children of Men, a dystopian sci-fi thriller from 2006 that is really engrossing.

And Force Awakens for the third time. It raised my opinion after a sophomore slump on the second watching. Ready for Rogue One.

Winter is for movies.

[Megalyth]

Aquanet said:

Children of Men

One of my favorite movies ever.

I watched Batman vs. Superman last night. I thought it was pretty cool, if a bit slow in parts. Also saw The Martian this morning, which was utterly awesome.

[BluePineapple72]

Had my 6th viewing of Pulp Fiction, unfortunately I ran out of time and couldn't watch past the golden watch.

[raymoohawk]

shin godzilla and i have to say that early reviewers really overstated the jingoism in the movie. over all i enjoyed it, it kinda felt like a deconstructed independence day as made for a japanese audience. unlike most godzilla films i found the human portions of the movie were oftenlly the most entertaining, wich is saying something when most of the movie consists of meeting after meeting.

[geo]

AVGN Movie. 110 movie to hype a 5 minute review on a game they can't show or even spell properly (Eee Tee and all art was recreated). The review is in the credits in half the screen. The people who feel he's a misogynist would find more fuel with this movie.

The first thirty minutes was intolerable due to the AVGN fandom, but it gets a lot better once they get conflict going. Playing "spot that GameTrailers video uploader cameo" was fun.

[esselfortium]

raymoohawk said:

shin godzilla and i have to say that early reviewers really overstated the jingoism in the movie. over all i enjoyed it, it kinda felt like a deconstructed independence day as made for a japanese audience. unlike most godzilla films i found the human portions of the movie were oftenlly the most entertaining, wich is saying something when most of the movie consists of meeting after meeting.

It's been a long time since I saw Independence Day. Shin Godzilla to me felt most indebted to some of Anno's own previous work, particularly the Jet Alone and Operation Yashima episodes of Evangelion, for the bureaucratic comedy and the scrapped-together insane gambit at the end, respectively. In general it felt somewhat like watching a live-action Evangelion, even down to the character writing and the unusual shot framing.

I'd agree that the nationalist aspect has been vastly overstated. They're only able to stop Godzilla with the help of international cooperation, after all, and writer/director Anno's thoughts on Japan are much more complex and negative than that. In Shin Godzilla, the United States represents a threat, but not an unreasonable one -- it's a necessary last resort if Japan can't get their shit together.

Much of the movie is a direct and scathing commentary on the learned helplessness that took root in Japanese culture after the end of WWII, as seen in Shin Godzilla's dark-comedy take on its bureaucrats' unwillingness to take sides and speak up and make the hard-but-important decisions. Anno has described modern Japan as "a nation of children", and while there might be some element of resentment toward the United States for the postwar occupation's part in creating that culture, he's mainly criticizing his own country.

[Dragonfly]

I'm really not a movie person by any stretch of the imagination, and the few I watch I feel unmoved by for the most part, but I have to confess the movie currently in the cinemas here called "Doctor Strange" was actually very enjoyable. I do wish I saw it in 3D though, the special effects lend themselves to working well with 3D.

The last movie I saw before that that I actually enjoyed was The Revenant. I get the feeling it's one of those films I'll never re-watch though.

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[Voros]

Saving Private Ryan. Now THAT is an amazing WW2 movie.

[geo]

Kevin James in "True Memoirs International Assassin." It was surprisingly good and that's coming from someone who finds Mr. James irritating. Oddly enough, not one fat joke. It was completely different than I expected, but maybe I didn't pay much attention to the trailer. It falls into the awkward mistaken identity category coupled with "what's he gonna do?" Plus Spanish versions of 80s Miami Vice - ish songs.

I think a lot of Netflix movies and shows are being filmed internationally for whatever reason.

[[McD] James]

Finally watched Warcraft. The characters, performances and emotional depth were lacking a bit, but I thoroughly enjoyed the special effects, battles, environments and story. Not by any means great, but I did enjoy it a lot more than I was expecting.

[jerk-o]

The Director's Cut of this war movie: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0082096/

[june gloom]

We watched the Doom movie the other night. It was just as hilariously bad as I remember. It's pretty much a Studio Asylum ripoff of Aliens.

It's fun, though.

[SWDude]

Sicario. Slow moving and suspenseful throughout. Good movie but it felt pretty conventional at the end.

The director's other movies that i recommend are "Arrival" and "Prisoners".

[Aquanet]

Dragonfly said:

The last movie I saw before that that I actually enjoyed was The Revenant. I get the feeling it's one of those films I'll never re-watch though.

Me. Either. Although it is gorgeous.

Latest completed viewing was ... Sunset Boulevard (1950), which feels like a classic all the way through. And Swingers, the Doug Liman, John Favreau buddies comedy from the 1990s that never gets old. It's like Entourage's much cooler and smarter older brother.

[40oz]

I watched arrival and thought it was retarded.