Most recent movie you saw

[LadyMistDragon]

This is Gwar! (2021)

 

[Rudolph]

Glengarry Glen Ross. It was alright, although I cannot say I really enjoy it, seeing how it is about a bunch of assholes trying to out-asshole each other.

[Professor Hastig]

Django Unchained

 

I didn't like it much, I felt much of the violence was totally out of touch with the actual story. Christoph Waltz was incredible, though.

 

[Rudolph]

17 minutes ago, Professor Hastig said:

Django Unchained

 

I didn't like it much, I felt much of the violence was totally out of touch with the actual story. Christoph Waltz was incredible, though.

I did not like it either, but more because it is way too fucking long. -_-

 

As for myself, I just saw The First Purge. I really like the cast of characters in this one; I was particularly impressed with the decision to make a gang leader one of the protagonists rather than an antagonist, which would have been so easy to do given the premise. His character is also rather well-written: he is obviously not supposed to be a good guy, but still he knows better than to trust a system that was explicitly built to kill people like him. It is one thing that I truly despised about John Carpenter's Assault on Precinct 13: gang members were all framed as zombies mindlessly throwing themselves at the heroes with no sense of self-preservation. Great theme song, however...

 

But back to The Purge, I am so far very impressed with how they have been handling what could have easily been a very schlocky premise; the occasional goofiness aside, it all feels so grounded and believable, especially and probably not-so-coincidentally considering the society it is set in.

[DrWho42]

the poughkeepsie tapes (2007)

Edited July 12, 2023 by DrWho42

[Rudolph]

Binged the first season of The Purge TV series. It drags a bit at times, but good show nonetheless. So far, the franchise has yet to disappoint.

[LadyMistDragon]

Blackbird (2012)

 

It got a little dumber at the end and the moralizing got ham-fisted 

 

 

[Rudolph]

Binged The Purge's second season, which I liked better in a way, because it actually shows the aftermath of a Purge and its effects on the population until the next one. I am impressed with how good at worldbuilding the franchise is - which in itself is also alarming, as it shows just how easily American society would get used to such an insane event that is consistently framed as actively harmful as well as completely unnecessary. It is just a shame that the franchise seems unwilling to take the extra step and seriously question the very legitimacy of the United States as a country to begin with (villains will oftentimes correctly point out that America is built on Purge-like events), but I get that there is only so much you can get away with in Hollywood.

 

Then, I watched The Purge: Election Year, which was released before the series and The First Purge, but takes place chronologically after them all. Pretty good, although you can tell that this came out in 2016, back when liberals were counting on Hillary Clinton to win: that part has aged extremely poorly and so is the whole cringeworthy "When They Go Low, We Go High" message that comes with it, but thankfully, the movie at least had the good sense of not pulling a BioShock Infinite/Legend of Korra/Marvel movie by making the anti-Purge movement to be just as bad somehow and to its credit, it does not try to argue that just voting the right person in will magically make all the deep-rooted problems away.

Edited July 13, 2023 by Rudolph

[Azuris]

The Yakuza Movie to the Games from 2007, it is pretty ok, i like it.

It is really "gamy", at the End it got a bit boring somehow.

Seems like someone on Youtube has gotten the Licence, you can watch it there with Subtitles (and only there), can't even find the DVD or else (for a reasonable price).

Edited July 13, 2023 by Azuris

[Rudolph]

I just saw The Forever Purge, which was supposed to be the final entry, but apparently, with the cancellation of the series, they are making a sixth movie now and I am not sure that this is a good idea. As an action movie, The Forever Purge is fine, but it is easily the weakest of the franchise, since there is little in the way of new twists, memorable characters and set pieces. There is not even any kind of dramatic tension or moral dilemma to be resolved: the immigrant characters immediately team up with the ranch-owning family that was employing them, they are all adept combatants who have no problem working together and the closest thing to a nemesis is just some asshole that they run into quite late into the movie. We are constantly told that the Forever Purge is having deep rippling effects across American society, but we do not even get to see them, aside from the now-familiar sights of chaos in the streets and dead bodies everywhere. It is also not really explained how the NFFA is still around - we are only told that they got reelected after eight years - and why they would even be allowed to bring back the Purge in its original form without much opposition.

 

There was definitely some potential to the idea of a non-stop Purge, but they clearly could not do it justice with a feature-length movie. Oh well.

Edited July 13, 2023 by Rudolph

[joepallai]

65 on Netflix.   It was a good sci-fi story that was tense at times.   I really enjoyed it.

[Billy Baron]

 I saw The Apparition. It had a good and modern look, good audio, and a kind of not-too-flamboyant gothic feel. I don't recognize any of the names, but they're talented enough for a few watches. It tells a real good story, and by the end I kind of want to wear a tin-foil helmet so the ghosts won't get me. Not so dark that you need to join a secret cult....but the ghosts may be real. 

 

I say watch it.

 

[ebrl]

I know OP probably meant the movie you saw most recently, but I'll take the opportunity to interpret the question exactly as it was put forward and say that the most recently released movie that I saw was Joker and it was so bad that I completely stopped watching movies not much later. I used to watch multiple movies per week, I even did six months of screenwriting classes once, but you know what? There's already enough movies out there, and I already watched enough of them. I'll keep the good memories of the good ones I watched, but for me, it was time to find other hobbies, and for movies in general, I think it's a format that has mostly run its course.

 

Anyway. The actual last movie I watched was Porco Rosso, three years ago. Had already watched it before, love that movie.

[Rudolph]

44 minutes ago, ebrl said:

Anyway. The actual last movie I watched was Porco Rosso, three years ago. Had already watched it before, love that movie.

I watched a while back. While I can certainly appreciate Hayao Miyazaki, I cannot say I really enjoyed the movie, mainly because the whole thing seems to revolve around a bunch of grown men trying to woo what seems to be an underage girl. I mean, am I the only one who got creeped out there?

[ebrl]

On 7/14/2023 at 11:35 AM, Rudolph said:

I watched a while back. While I can certainly appreciate Hayao Miyazaki, I cannot say I really enjoyed the movie, mainly because the whole thing seems to revolve around a bunch of grown men trying to woo what seems to be an underage girl. I mean, am I the only one who got creeped out there?

No, plenty of other people also severely lack media literacy and arrive at the same garbage take.

 

edit #2, rudolph didn't like the explanation so I'm replacing it with a more simple "fuck rudolph and his complete hijack of this entire thread"

Edited November 14, 2023 by ebrl
fuck rudolph

[LadyMistDragon]

A Banquet (2021)

 

[Rudolph]

3 hours ago, ebrl said:

So, if you think the movie "revolves around a bunch of grown men trying to woo what seems to be an underage girl" - you didn't understand Fio's character, you didn't understand the movie, you almost certainly don't understand movies, and there's even a very worrying chance that you possibly don't even understand people.

Clearly, you did not understand my issue with the movie.

 

Come back to me when you feel like discussing it in a non-condescending manner.

Edited July 14, 2023 by Rudolph

[ebrl]

Oh, so you aren't just media illiterate, you're also literacy illiterate, seeing as you apparently didn't read a single thing of what I wrote - except for again hyperfocusing on something you felt you could pull out of context for a complete non-argument that conveniently avoids expanding on "your issue with the movie". As such, I don't really see a reason to ever stop being condescending - a word that somehow feels too big for you, but that you probably trained yourself to use since your behaviour could even be classified as condescension bait. Well, I guess it's working. You can go back to twitter now where that kind of baseless shitflinging is better appreciated.

 

Come back to me when you feel like discussing anything, really, anything at all, in any form that could be classified as a discussion. (That's a joke btw. Do not come back.)

[Rudolph]

Porco Rosso actively portrays pedophiles as mere lovable oaves. If this does not bother you, I do not know what else to tell you.

[FecalMystAche]

I watched a movie last night called Boiling Point (1993) starring Wesley Snipes and Dennis Hopper. The trailer leads you to believe it’s going to be a bad ass cop vs mobster action movie revolving around revenge over a murdered partner… the reality? The trailer shows the only action moments of the film. This film is like a crime drama that is rarely thrilling, and while some of the scenes are shot really well the plot fails to keep you engaged when you realize that yeah, this isn’t an action movie and you’ve been duped. Dennis Hopper is great, Snipes plays his part well, but the plot sucks and like I said.. if you see the trailer first before watching (like I did), you are going to go into this expecting an action movie. Would I have liked this more had the trailer been more honest? I’m not really sure.
 

Now, another movie I saw recently was Virtuosity (1995). It has young Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe. The trailer had me hyped but I was not prepared to be as entertained as I was. This is a fun movie. I really don’t want to give too much away, but if you want something like the Matrix but with a more 80s action hero approach (that’s the best way I can describe it) with an over the top villain, this is for you. 
 

In speaking of Denzel… I can’t wait to see Equalizer 3.

Edited July 14, 2023 by FecalMystAche

[Rudolph]

Rewatched Burn After Reading. Neither laugh-out-loud funny nor anywhere near as memorable as The Big Lebowski, but still a good time.

Edited July 14, 2023 by Rudolph

[leejacksonaudio]

Summer School, starring Mark Harmon and Kirstie Alley

[ducon]

Une femme de notre temps with Sophie Marceau and frightening music. lol

[Rudolph]

2 hours ago, ducon said:

Une femme de notre temps with Sophie Marceau and frightening music. lol

Is it any good?

[ducon]

I won’t say that I liked it. The music is too cliché and too loud: I expected some monster but no, it’s just her husband with another woman.

[LadyMistDragon]

Boiling Point. It's about a chef in an extremely high-pressure situation (high-priced chefs are in high-pressure situations? who knew?) with the added complication of addiction battling and resulting family troubles.

 

 

 

[Rudolph]

@LadyMistDragon Hey, that is Tommy from Snatch!

 

How is the movie itself? Is it any good?

[RDETalus]

Just saw the Barbie movie.

 

I thought it was insanely good. Very well put together and entertaining. I think the film does a very good job of packaging its message in its own story. I especially recommend it to people who are on the fence because they recently heard that it was "woke" or feminist rubbish, trust me, it's not bad in how it handles this subject matter.

 

Best parts of the film for me are the cinematography, the set design, the Barbie lore and Barbie world building. 

Edited July 20, 2023 by RDETalus

[LadyMistDragon]

@Rudolph It's....fine I guess? It feels like more could be happening, but almost everyone feels distinct to some degree.

 

Anyway Entwined (2019)

 

[xX_Lol6_Xx]

Watched Flash yesterday, it's decent.