[Aristotle Gumball]

I basically just ignore everything made in the last 20 years. I really enjoy Mike Flanagan's work though. Watched Midnight Mass recently. It'll probably offend you if you're christian, but maybe not. I lost my mind at The Haunting of Hill House because it was so personally relatable. It's like he takes these old works and puts philosophy/social themes into them, but not in a hamfisted way at all. Midnight Mass is wholly original, yet feels like a lost Stephen King novel.

[Jimmy]

I've pretty much lost all interest in serious horror in the past few years. I don't enjoy watching fear, dread, suffering and death and all that shit anymore. I used to be a gore hound. Faces of Death was nothing to me. It doesn't bother me or offend me (even religious shit doesn't offend me, don't care), it's just a snore for me. Unless it's crazy or weird or funny, the horror genre bores the fuck out of me. I'd rather watch The Stuff or Street Trash or Ghoulies.

[MusicallyInspired]

Aleks, on 24 November 2021 - 03:53 AM, said:

You forgot to mention what film you are talking about, it wasn't until well into the text that I realised it must be the new Ghostbusters

Anyway, watched Black Widow, which was just another generic Marvel movie, unfortunately - good to watch with a friend and a couple of beers, but nothing I would remember by the time I watch the next MCU. It did feel like there was more potential to it, but they just made it super schematic. Also I absolutely hated Florence Pugh acting in this one, her voice and accent sounded like she practiced by watching Ukrainian porn.

Ah shoot. I copied and pasted from another conversation and didn't realize I didn't mention the title. Yeah it's Ghostbusters. lol

Also, I'm surprised how many people thought it wasn't good. Truly mystified.

[Aristotle Gumball]

Jimmy, on 24 November 2021 - 05:14 PM, said:

I've pretty much lost all interest in serious horror in the past few years. I don't enjoy watching fear, dread, suffering and death and all that shit anymore. I used to be a gore hound. Faces of Death was nothing to me. It doesn't bother me or offend me (even religious shit doesn't offend me, don't care), it's just a snore for me. Unless it's crazy or weird or funny, the horror genre bores the fuck out of me. I'd rather watch The Stuff or Street Trash or Ghoulies.

Yeah, same. That's why Flanagan's work is a breath of fresh air because it's more than that. But yeah on an emotional level Hill House fucked me up badly because it deals heavily with PTSD, so I guess it's "emotional gore" which might not be your thing.

Love Street Trash!!! 80s B movies are prob my favorite genre of film.

[Jimmy]

I can get why people are into it. CGI has sucked the magic out of movies for me, so where The Thing is worth it for the bizarre effects (and good scripting) something modern just doesn't have a wow factor to keep me going usually. I will say the only modern horror things I've enjoyed lately are more horror adjacent, Wolfcop and Psycho Goreman. Which I highly recommend, they're basically modern 80s B movies.

[Aristotle Gumball]

Rich Evans from RedLetterMedia was in Psycho Goreman. I watched it because of that. You might like Space Cop, lol. Hilariously dumb movie.

[Jimmy]

When I saw Rich my head spun around. Most random cameo ever.

[Aleks]

Finally found some time and motivation to see Dune at the cinema and must say it was well worth it. Can't remember the last time a 2,5-hour movie passed so quickly for me, despite the slow pace, it felt so immersive that I was ready to watch it for another 2 hours easily. Wonder in how many movies they will be able to close the saga, must admit this one made me want to actually also read the books. Loved the visuals and music/sound effects as well. Villeneuve definitely knows what he's doing.

[Merlijn]

I completely agree, seeing Dune in cinema was a fantastic experience. Villeneuve 'gets' sci-fi.
I also quite enjoyed the last Bond movie, even though it's been somewhat divisive. Thought it was a well done ending for the Craig-era.

I'm going to see the new Spiderman this weekend, hopefully it's good. The 3 movies Marvel released this year have been mostly 'fine'.
They're not bad but also pretty formulaic and forgettable.

[Aleks]

I've just come back from the last Spider-Man movie and it's really good. I'm still behind with last 2 Marvel movies and most of the TV series, also I didn't watch all the "pre-MCU" Spider-Man movies, but was still able to catch the references. The movie worked for me mostly on the level of its humor, the plot was very good for a MCU movie, but it's mostly the comedic aspects that did the job here - which is curious for a PG13 movie, so all the better.

[DisgustedGrunt]

I've been watching the Netflix MCU shows on and off, just last night i finished for good.

-Daredevil: all 3 seasons are great imo, favourite show of the bunch. Charlie Cox and Vincent D'Onofrio really owned their characters.

Spoiler

so i'm glad they're back

-Jessica Jones: first season was ok, the second one is awful (the worst of the bunch imo) and the 3rd one was meh. Both later seasons ruined by the most annoying character in the ENTIRE MCU. Like, Holy ****.
-Luke Cage: both seasons were ok, not good, not bad, just ok.
-Iron Fist: 1st season seems to be considered the worst, but i had fun watching it. The second one though was forgettable. Literally, i watched it 2 weeks ago and barely remember anything about it.
-Defenders: was ok (The teamup series, but at the same time Daredevil season 2.5, in the same way you could say Civil War is Avengers 2.5).
-The Punisher: first season was my second favourite, but the 2nd one felt like (mostly) filler. Still, watching Frank Castle tear bad guys to shreds never gets boring.

I do have to say that all of them suffer from pacing issues, like a 8-9 episodes season was stretched to be 13. Daredevil (mostly) escapes it though.
Are they worth watching? personally i consider the following worth it:

DD season 1
DD season 2
Iron Fist season 1*
Defenders
Punisher season 1
DD season 3

On this order, the shows do follow the same continuity so watching them out of order will give you a few headscratchers.

* not really needed, but it does provide more context for what happens later in Defenders.

[MusicallyInspired]

Spiderman No Way Home. Took the wife and kids. We all loved it. My personal favourite MCU film yet. Probably because it was Sony. Disney themselves are really dropping the ball lately. Sony kept Feigi's grubby hands off this one. Really looking forward to Dr Strange 2 though deapite that.

Infinity War is probably objectively the better movie but this one is my new personal favourite.

[Jeff]

The Matrix Resurrections

[DisgustedGrunt]

Just watched No Way Home, loved it. Remember the old Spider-man movies memes? brace yourselves, 'cause they're about to come back in full force.

[Aleks]

Watched The Power of the Dog and no wonder it seems to be the main contender for Oscars in about every category. Really great cinema in pretty much every aspect, Cumberbatch definitely outdid himself there, but also the majestic cinematography, the hypnotizing music - it all sum up for a great movie. It might be quite a typical "festival" kind of movie with lengthy scenes and slow pacing, but the tension build-up and all the little details just make you stare at your screen without losing focus at any point.

[Malgon]

Went to the cinema today and watched Dune and The Matrix Resurrections. I've seen the 1984 Dune version a couple of times but remember practically nothing about it, so watching this one everything felt completely new. The introduction of the world and the setting was established really well, and I got immersed fairly quickly, especially as the score really complemented everything and helped to set the tone. While the last third was a bit sluggish with the pacing, overall I think Denis Villeneuve really helped deliver a great vision and I'm definitely looking forward to part 2 when it arrives.
The Matrix Resurrections was about what I expected. I had a gut feeling that it wasn't going to be something that would amaze me from the first trailer, and partly out of that expectation is some bias but also the reality of how difficult the task is to try and come up with something mind-bending and fresh, especially when there's not really that many directions you could go actually go in, and considering how the trilogy essentially wrapped everything up. While not the worst movie I've ever seen or anything, it was fairly middle of the road and kind of just there, which I think is also due to mainly treading familiar ground with certain story beats and nods to the previous movies, with a mix of meta with 'how are we going to reboot this series for a new audience while acknowledging the previous films?' angle. Anyway, might go check out a couple of other movies during the Christmas break after seeing some trailers.

[Phredreeke]

Watched the first couple of episodes of Lupin on Netflix. Rare for me to watch something not in English (or the occasional anime in Japanese)
So far it's been quite enjoyable, certainly better than the Netflix Cowboy Bebop series.

*waits for Jac to call me a simp for using Netflix and Thrice to call me a pedo for watching something French*

[jkas789]

Phredreeke, on 06 February 2022 - 08:53 AM, said:

Watched the first couple of episodes of Lupin on Netflix. Rare for me to watch something not in English (or the occasional anime in Japanese)
So far it's been quite enjoyable, certainly better than the Netflix Cowboy Bebop series.

*waits for Jac to call me a simp for using Netflix and Thrice to call me a pedo for watching something French*

Lupin is good yeah. Kinda wish they had made a series of Arsène Lupin himself but I will take the wins I can get.

...wait a sec...

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*waits for Jac to call me a simp for using Netflix

You fucking simp.

[Mark]

Aleks, on 26 November 2021 - 05:11 PM, said:

Finally found some time and motivation to see Dune at the cinema and must say it was well worth it. Can't remember the last time a 2,5-hour movie passed so quickly for me, despite the slow pace, it felt so immersive that I was ready to watch it for another 2 hours easily. Wonder in how many movies they will be able to close the saga, must admit this one made me want to actually also read the books. Loved the visuals and music/sound effects as well. Villeneuve definitely knows what he's doing.

Another movie over 2 hours long that I wish would have been even longer was the Lost in Space movie from 1998. I can't remember much about it any more other than really liking it because I don't think it was ever brought to regular cable TV since then.

I was a big fan of the Dune series of books. Read them all multiple times over the decades. After the movie I was online and saw that the original writer's daughter has released another series of Dune books. I can't believe I missed that.

[MusicallyInspired]

Just watched The Goonies again tonight. Still a solid enjoyable fun-filled adventure flick. Why can't Hollywood make movies fun anymore?

[Merlijn]

Aleks, on 17 December 2021 - 11:26 AM, said:

I've just come back from the last Spider-Man movie and it's really good. I'm still behind with last 2 Marvel movies and most of the TV series, also I didn't watch all the "pre-MCU" Spider-Man movies, but was still able to catch the references. The movie worked for me mostly on the level of its humor, the plot was very good for a MCU movie, but it's mostly the comedic aspects that did the job here - which is curious for a PG13 movie, so all the better.

Well it took a bit longer (mostly because our government decided to go for a month of uberheavy lockdown which in hindsight proved to be useless) but I finally saw the new Spider-man movie. I somehow managed to avoid spoilers for all that time (although there were some things I expected to be in there so I wasn't that surprised when

Spoiler

the other 2 Peter Parkers showed up

)

All in all I enjoyed it very much! Easily the best Marvel movie from 2021 and the fan service actually worked well within the story. I thought the dramatic moments were done well and William Dafoe stole the damn show.

[MusicallyInspired]

Agreed.

[jkas789]

MusicallyInspired, on 11 February 2022 - 09:35 PM, said:

Just watched The Goonies again tonight. Still a solid enjoyable fun-filled adventure flick. Why can't Hollywood make movies fun anymore?

The Goonies is such an awesome movie. Seriously, fuck Hollywood.

I saw the new Kingsmen (kingsman?) movie with my pops. It was a fun goofy action movie and God do I miss movies that were just stupid action set pieces and not deconstruction/overly political. And yes this is "political" and there is a "message" buried there as well but the plot is so fucking dumb and over the top I never even noticed until my father pointed it out.

[Aleks]

Watched Eternals last week and I think it was another good Marvel movie. Felt fresh in the universe and more ambitious than your usual MCU movie. I also liked how they could have made origin of like 10 new characters in 2 minute scenes per character instead of making a new movie for each of them The flow of the story, going back and forth in time with retrospectives, worked really nice as well. The movie was of course full of cliches and the dialogues did feel too stiff/pathetic most of the time (although the humour worked better than in your usual Marvel movie), the final twist perhaps reminded me a bit too much of Watchmen (which I think is by far the best comic/superhero movie ever). It's been a while since I've seen Angelina Jolie act and look so good too. Once again, after 2.5 hours I could have watched more of that, good thing there seems to be a continuation coming up. Probably this story would work better in a TV series than movies.

[Mark]

I was disappointed to see back and forth in time in your review. I usually don't care for time flip-flopping or alternate reality swapping. Its not as bad in a movie since they have limited time and can't go crazy with plots like they can on a weekly tv show.

[Jimmy]

MusicallyInspired, on 11 February 2022 - 09:35 PM, said:

Just watched The Goonies again tonight. Still a solid enjoyable fun-filled adventure flick. Why can't Hollywood make movies fun anymore?

Because no one takes chances anymore. The early 70s to the mid 90s were a wild west. Independence Day is probably around where it died. Hollywood found a safe formula. All movies are middle of the road. It's either kind of bad or kind of good. But you never get something really bad or really good.

When you take the risk of being truly bad, you can be truly good. That's why "so bad it's good" movies don't get made anymore.

[MusicallyInspired]

I know the reason, I'm just lamenting.

[Phredreeke]

Jimmy, on 12 February 2022 - 03:18 PM, said:

But you never get something really bad

[Jimmy]

There are thousands of people who like that movie.

[jkas789]

Jimmy, on 12 February 2022 - 10:38 PM, said:

There are thousands of people who like that movie.

With all due respect, they are retarded.

Also I didn't like The Eternals. But then again I'm tired of all the MCU bullshit.