Would you recommend it to others?
The Boy and The Heron
A truly excellent movie made by Ghibli, fantastic studio with some really high quality films. Definitely recommend giving it a watch.
Same here, although I confess I wasn’t blown away by this one. I often find that while Ghibli films always crush it on the imagination front, the writing can be hit and miss. I understood the autobiographical origin of the plot, but there were several parts that felt underdeveloped or poorly explained. Overall, was good but definitely not up there with Mononoke or Spirited Away, imo
I do agree, not their best one. Although I really like the animation in this one.
That was the second-to-last I watched. :)
Clue. 1985 Yes, Tim curry is fantastic in it.
Who isn’t fantastic in that movie!?
Communism?
No, Mr. Green, Communism is just a Red Herring.
Not gonna bite on that one. I’m gonna go home and have sex with my wife!
“AND NOW! I’m going home to sleep with my wife!”
Ah, I see somebody listens to the Blank Check podcast, the Special Features one on Patreon!
Also RIP Martin Mull.
I guess I’ll be the thread’s normie:
Deadpool & Wolverine
And yes I would recommend it. (If one is a fan of the genre of course)
Same. I’d recommend it to almost anyone, especially if you liked the previous ones.
Yeah, that’s the most recent movie for me, too. I thought it was all right; I’ve been listening to a lot of Insane Clown Posse recently so a lot of the jokes weren’t as shocking/outré as I think they were trying to be. But it definitely had its moments, like the… uh… “fingers to the face” scenes and the… “skin-related incident”.
Same! Loved it. Deadpool is now one of the best Marvel and Fox comic book movie trilogies in that it manages to nail all 3 movies. Have only seen that with Captain America and Guardians (imo).
The Life Aquatic
Wes Anderson movies are an acquired taste. But this one in particular is very accessible, and very funny. And it has a very emotional ending.
The only thing an uninitiated viewer needs to know is that the effects are intentionally low-budget. Just take them as seriously as the characters do, you’ll warm to them.
“What is scientific purpose of this mission?”
“Revenge.”
My first time watching this movie I stopped paying attention about 30 minutes in. Some time later the final act started and I was drawn back in. I have since watched it from start to finish about 5 times. Which doesn’t sound like a lot, but I’m the kind of person who doesn’t generally watch a movie more than once.
Right up there with Tenenbaums for me. Wasn’t as impressed with it when I saw it in theaters, but it really grew on me. Still get the feels when Queen Bitch plays at the end.
That’s my favourite Wes Anderson film! The story and design are beautiful and the writing is brilliantly clever.
the effects are intentionally low-budget
Some of them are for aesthetic reasons, but this film was actually pretty expensive to make. Famously it did a lot of damage to WA’s reputation among Hollywood execs because the studio greenlit a high budget for him and gave him a lot of creative control and the movie ended up doing really poorly at the box office. It cost 50M to make and only earned 25M in box office sales.
Lilo and Stitch. Of course I’d recommend it. One of the best movies of all time!
The 1st one? I saw them listed in Kodi as of recently… And I didn’t remember there were 3 movies lol, I only remember about 2…
The dark times when Disney was full tilt on direct-to-video sequels that were okay at best.
Safety Not Guaranteed (2012) - Aubrey Plaza in an engaging character piece that has hints of Eagle vs Shark among others. It’s not outstanding by any means and not among Plaza’s best, but still witty and touching.
Nausicaa of the valley of the wind. A Studio Ghibli film.
Yes, would definitely recommend! A classic. It’s older at this point but still a great movie
Nausicaa SLAYS. If you’re in the US, there are often annual “Studio Ghibli Fests” that show Ghibli movies on the big screen, btw. The manga’s amazing too, you can often find it in libraries.
Ohhhhhh I will absolutely have to check that out! Thank you!
Interstellar. It was like the 4th or 5th time I’ve seen it, so yeah, I’d definitely recommend it if you’re into sci-fi epics.
The last movie I saw for the first time was Barbie. I went in with low expectations and was pleasantly surprised. It also didn’t take itself too seriously, despite having a very positive message for women.
I just watched one, like 30 minutes ago. It’s Doraemon the Movie: Nobita’s Earth Symphony
It’s about music, and honestly animated films about music are some of the coolest films, as they can have infinite imagination of synchronizing and visualizing the music.
I know Doraemon isn’t that popular in the west, but it’s one of the top franchises here in Asia.
Twisters, the one that just came out.
Generic, corny, unoriginal, boring collection of green-screen effects
Turned it off after about 40 minutes
I went to see it in one of those 4DX cinemas, that completely made the experience one of my favourites in the cinema for a while IMO.
Can’t imagine watching it like a normal film
That’s probably the issue
I never understand people who make comments like this, what were you expecting going into Twisters? Citizen Kane? I watched Twisters today, it was a mindlessly fun little movie, exactly as expected.
I’ve not seen this movie
Even mindless movies need a hook to pull you in. Fast & Furious has all that hokey family stuff, but the relationships between characters is the emotional core that makes you give a shit about all the garbage flying around on screen.
I’m sure this movie probably has/attempted something like that, but it doesn’t hit for everyone and they’re just left wondering why they’re watching a pointless animation for 2 hours.
I’ve been in both sides of this. X-Men: Apocalypse stands out in my mind as being just a bunch of pointless tropey CGI garbage that I was relieved to finally walk out of. But I enjoy all the F&F movies just the same, even if I wait to catch them on streaming since Paul died.
Oh believe me, I watch the utmost crap,and read trashy thriller novels by the barrow load
Twisters was so generic it was like it was written and directed by ChatGPT
Robocop & Robocop 2 back-to-back. I’d recommend the first one but not the sequel. Even though it’s the same main actors, the writers seemingly decided to lower their IQ and make their personalities more shallow in the sequel.
I feel the second one is worth it for the warehouse attack scene and the press conference/final fight.
I don’t feel it’s a bad movie, but it’s got more silly than satire and focuses too much on the bad guys POV rather than RoboCop. Plus they literally wreck his personality.
First movie is still amazing though. One of my favorites!
City Lights. (1931)
Found it on a harddrive at work. It was fun to watch, if you can find a copy somewhere I can recommend it.
Deadpool vs. (and?) Wolverine. Meh. They try to be funny by making fun of the megacorps that produce such movies (how witty indeed!) while being the same thing you’ve watched 1000 times before.
I can’t say I ever saw Deadpool get stabbed in the taint 1,000 times before… that was new…
Red Rock West, 1994
Nic Cage movie I heard about in a thread here the other day.
Cage is unemployed and down on his luck when he gets mistaken for a hitman and is paid to do a job. He takes the money and tries to run, but gets caught up in a more intriguing whirlpool of trouble than I expected.
Nothing groundbreaking here, but it had more surprises than I had expected and it’s fairly well acted for a 90s movie. If you want something interesting that isn’t too deep and has a vaguely No Country for Old Men flavor, this isn’t bad.
Deadpool and wolverine. It was a pretty good movie.
