Movies: Last Movie You Watched and Rate It | Part#: Some High Number +2

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

It gets a no contest from me due to illegal rom com to the groin.

Almost went to see it today but ended up watching Blinded by the Light (gf is a big boss fan). Good intentions with terrible writing end up as subtle as face tattoos. 3/10.

 

[zombie kopitar]

Almost went to see it today but ended up watching Blinded by the Light (gf is a big boss fan). Good intentions with terrible writing end up as subtle as face tattoos. 3/10.

Yeah I saw the ad for that, it looked like Yesterday combined with a sappy Cameron Crowe type movie. I'll probably stream it one day just because if there's a lot of Springsteen music in it I think it should at least be some fun.
And let the record show that Cameron Crowe did make one of my all time favorite movies (Almost Famous), but damn he's made some sappy ****

Oh also one more positive about Lion King that I will say was extremely refreshing is I am pretty sure there wasn't a drop of autotune in the singing. Like they knew that the movie was so damn sterile they had to have some life somewhere. I hope that trend continues, it was a bit heavy in Aladdin but nothing compared to Emma Watson in Beauty and the Beast.....which honestly ruins the movie for me, as I otherwise really enjoyed it.

 

[ORRFForever]

Almost went to see it today but ended up watching Blinded by the Light (gf is a big boss fan). Good intentions with terrible writing end up as subtle as face tattoos. 3/10.

Surprised. It was well received on RT.

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

Surprised. It was well received on RT.

Oh, my gf liked it.

 

[ORRFForever]

Oh, my gf liked it.

 

[ProstheticConscience]

The Beyond

with boring people being boring.

Astronauts working on the ISS see a spatial anomaly that does really weird 2001esque wormhole stuff right beside the Earth and sucks up an astronaut into it. So then what follows is an endless documentary-style series of interviews about what the wormhole thing might be, what it's doing, how the space probes they send into it don't work and how they decide to cut people's brains out and put them into serious cyborg bodies a la Robocop, how the first guy in a wheelchair didn't work out a la Avatar...etc etc etc. You see that sequence of words and you think something interesting would happen, right? You'd be wrong. The relentless tension-free format kills any of that.

It's so boring I gave up watching it halfway through and when I logged in to do this review, I discovered it didn't even have a wikipedia page and I didn't even care enough to do a google search to find out how it ended. That's how boring it is.

On Netflix now.

Recommended for nights when watching icicles forming is just too much of an adrenaline rush.

 

[kihei]

Almost went to see it today but ended up watching Blinded by the Light (gf is a big boss fan). Good intentions with terrible writing end up as subtle as face tattoos. 3/10.

That GIF suggests that Ray Liotta can laugh on screen and the other actor (Frank Adonis?) can't. No mean feat. Lots of actors are awful at laughing convincingly, Mel Gibson, for instance.

 

[ORRFForever]

That GIF suggests that Ray Liotta can laugh on screen and the other actor (Frank Adonis?) can't. No mean feat. Lots of actors are awful at laughing convincingly, Mel Gibson, for instance.

I agree. A fake laugh can ruin a scene very quickly.

Not sure why it is so hard to do, but fake laughing is apparently very difficult.

 

[kihei]

I agree. A fake laugh can ruin a scene very quickly.

Not sure why it is so hard to do, but fake laughing is apparently very difficult.

Everyone should give it a try. It's not easy to do convincingly at all.

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

The Beyond

I was all "oh nice!", but then "oh no, not Fulci's The Beyond". Some titles should remain untouchables!

 

[ORRFForever]

It's not easy to do convincingly at all.

Agree.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus is very good at it. Most just embarrass themselves.

 

[OhCaptainMyCaptain]

End of Watch - 8/10

 

[John Price]

Back to School (8/10) (1986)

Classic Rodney Dangerfield comedy. Nothing really known about what happens after the ceremony at the end though Did he go back to his CEO job or what? He literally just left his job as a CEO to go to college.

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

Back to School (8/10) (1986)

Classic Rodney Dangerfield comedy. Nothing really known about what happens after the ceremony at the end though Did he go back to his CEO job or what? He literally just left his job as a CEO to go to college.

 

[ProstheticConscience]

Constrictor was a great album. And by great I mean that it was the first Alice Cooper album I ever bought and I played the living shit out of it, and Alice Cooper's Trash tour (1990) was the first proper rock concert I ever went to.

Also the last song on the tape was in a Friday the 13th movie. 5? 6? Somewhere in there.



It was a simpler time. We didn't know how cheesy it was. We really didn't. Don't judge us too harshly.

 

[Pranzo Oltranzista]

Constrictor was a great album. And by great I mean that it was the first Alice Cooper album I ever bought and I played the living **** out of it, and Alice Cooper's Trash tour (1990) was the first proper rock concert I ever went to.

Also the last song on the tape was in a Friday the 13th movie. 5? 6? Somewhere in there.



It was a simpler time. We didn't know how cheesy it was. We really didn't. Don't judge us too harshly.

Wow, an Alice Cooper fan! It was in the 6th Friday movie, yes. We must be about the same age, I think I probably got hooked on Alice either on Constrictor or Raise Your Fist and Yell. Still today a great fan of his early work, up to somewhere in the mid-70s.

 

[ProstheticConscience]

Wow, an Alice Cooper fan! It was in the 6th Friday movie, yes. We must be about the same age, I think I probably got hooked on Alice either on Constrictor or Raise Your Fist and Yell. Still today a great fan of his early work, up to somewhere in the mid-70s.

lol looking back, of course Alice Cooper's best work was in the early 70's when Alice Cooper was a band, and not just the guy and a revolving band of musicians that started after he fired everyone before Welcome to my Nightmare (which admittedly was a brilliant album). I was never that big a fan per se, but he was one of the big formative influences of heavy metal generally, and he was the act that happened to come along when my and my best friend at the time decided we were old enough to attend properly big rock concerts. Great White opened up. I had...one? two? of their tapes at the time. I still can't remember a note they played, but I remember a bit of between-song banter from the lead singer: "Oh, you guys are gonna throw shit? Man, if you're gonna throw things, throw $20 bills, man...!" They sucked. Alice was great, though. IIRC Al Pitrelli was still on lead guitar. And I'm 45.

 

[Babe Ruth]

Not Another Teen Movie (2001)

Crass, but funny parody of teen movie clichés. My favorite scenes were the football stuff. The lineman with the never-ending concussions, who was forced to stay in the game while comatose

Basically stupid and gross; but I was breaking up during the football scenes.. I give it a 5 (on 10 pt. scale)

 

[Pilky01]

Mid 90’s

Honestly.....how the f*** did this boring pile of garbage get made?

 

[ORRFForever]

Mid 90’s

Honestly.....how the **** did this boring pile of garbage get made?

Glad it died at the Box Office.

 

[OhCaptainMyCaptain]

Manchester By The Sea - 7/10

I had to stop watching it with like 45 minutes left, and I feel like that really hurt the experience for me. Will want to watch this again at some point.

 

[GlassesJacketShirt]

Overlord (2018)
Dir. Julius Avery

First half of the film was fairly gripping, but as the dumb cliches started piling up I became less and less invested with these characters and the story being shown. It's transition from suspense to action fell flat. How can a movie about Nazi zombie experiments end up being such a bore?

4.0/10

Not good enough

 

[Shareefruck]

Seriously? I like the guy, the performance, and the movie, but 'convincing' would probably be the last word I would use to describe Ray Liotta's laugh in that Goodfellas scene. I always figured it was intentionally meant to be over the top and convey that sort of fake posturing bravado that people like that have in that kind of situation (and Pesci testing him is all part of that). In fact, I liked the performance specifically because it nails real life social encounters where people act like that and you're just thinking "This guy is so full of **** and all bluster."

 

[Tasty Biscuits]

Rick really is something of a self-pitying sad sack and DiCaprio never seems to get comfortable in the role. Cliff is another thing entirely. Pitt has a comic field day with the character, one of his best and most likable performances in ages.

Agree with that assessment. People can say "Pitt just playing himself," but he added nuance to the role. It's one of those "the fact it came off as so easy is why it's so impressive" performances., not unlike the Matt Damon performance in The Martian that @KallioWeHardlyKnewYe likes to champion

Also when Pitt is high at the end of the film, he's high at a comically ridiculous level. Pitt delivers on the comedic delivery, but it is a pretty absurd moment.

I mean, he was tripping on acid. Nothing he was doing seemed out of the ordinary.

Colossal - I really enjoyed it, I can see it as a bit of a marmite film but really surprised it isn't rated higher by many.

I'm a fan of this one as well. The message/metaphor was pretty on-the-nose, but the way that it's presented/handled is so unique and entertaining that it comes off as charming rather than preachy. Wish it got a wider release (and performed better than it did).

A foul-mouthed Ralph Fiennes delivers an especially comedic turn. I laughed when he'd begin imparting wisdom on his protege before dismissing it entirely with a well placed F-bomb.

Fiennes performance gets better every time I see it, which at this point shouldn't be possible, but somehow is. Truly sublime.

Forgive me but I HATED this movie - I know I am in the minority.

re: Prisoners. Deakins and Gyllenhaal made the initial go-around engaging enough, but I had zero desire to revisit it in any way, shape, or form since then.

 

[Trap Jesus]

Besides Once Upon a Time in Hollywood do you think any other movies that have been released up til this point in the year will be in contention for a Best Picture nomination at the Oscars? Seems like there's usually buzz over something else at this point.

 

[Tasty Biscuits]

One additional thought regarding Once Upon A Time In Hollywood:

Spoiler

I see many people took issue with the changing of history. For me, the only reason I even saw the movie in the first place was because I caught wind of the change beforehand, so I knew the ending (at least that part) going in -- I would've passed otherwise. Just reading the in-depth account of the Tate murder was one of the more disturbing things I've experienced, and I have ZERO desire to re-visit that again, let alone see it depicted on screen.