General Entertainment ~Rate The Last Movie/TV Show You Watched Thread~

[Mercury33]

Ready or Not - 5/5

 

So much fun. Not truly a comedy but more of a light hearted horror movie, if that makes sense. Kinda like Cabin in the Woods buts it’s not a satire of anything. Just fun. The main actress was kinda oddly bad at the beginning. Like i felt like she’s was playing a drunk person but isn’t supposed to be. But then when the screaming started...oh, that’s why she got the job haha. Really fun movie that I can see becoming something I ended up watching over and over. 

[EternallDarkness]

7 hours ago, Mercury33 said:

Ready or Not - 5/5

 

So much fun. Not truly a comedy but more of a light hearted horror movie, if that makes sense. Kinda like Cabin in the Woods buts it’s not a satire of anything. Just fun. The main actress was kinda oddly bad at the beginning. Like i felt like she’s was playing a drunk person but isn’t supposed to be. But then when the screaming started...oh, that’s why she got the job haha. Really fun movie that I can see becoming something I ended up watching over and over. 

 

Ready or Not was an absolute blast.

 

 

 

 

Black Christmas....holy crap. I went in expecting it to be a mediocre horror flick at best, but even that was expecting too much. Utter garbage. Instead of a horror flick it was a woke/toxic masculinity tirade. 

[Iculus]

6 Underground 

It's beyond goofy, and rarely makes any sense. This will probably be one that audiences love, and critics will overthink. It's a Michael Bay film so it has lots of stuff blowing up that shouldn't even be able to, Ryan Reynolds doing Ryan Reynolds things, and a cheat code towards the end that had me crying from laughter. I thought it was great, but I certainly wouldn't try to convince anyone who thought otherwise. 

[SimpleG]

Once Upon A Time In Hollywood

2/5

It was shot well and well acted but other then that it was a waste of time. The plot was so meandering I found myself watching the clock and the dialog felt like someone doing a QT impersonation. I did love his version of Sharon Tate but holy shit was the alternate history ending just bad.

[elbobo]

Rambo last blood

 

Feels like a generic revenge/Taken0style script that had Rambo grafted onto it, the last 15 minutes are Commando level good/bad

 

5.5/10

[elbobo]

Freaks

 

First 40 minutes is a really good what the hell is going on movie with enough clues and progress to keep it on the interesting side instead of frustrating, the rest of the movie is quite good.

 

I went into this one blind.

 

8.5/10

[5timechamp]

Clear and Present Danger 8/10...still a great watch.. Joaquin Almeida does good work here.. plus its inclusion of Ding Chavez and the US commandos doing clandestine operations just rubs the Ghost Recon and Rainbow Six fanboy in me  just the right amount

[elbobo]

Silicone Valley season 6 - final season

 

I short season but good send off to the series

 

8/10

[Bloodporne]

Singles

 

That Grunge era sorta-romantic-comedy with lots of famous people pretending to be like, totally Seattle and Gen X. It's kind of an interesting time capsule looking back now but the "artsy" aspects feel really stilted and corny.

 

6/10

[TwinIon]

Dark Waters - Dark Waters is, for better and worse, so very much a New York Times Magazine article brought to the big screen. It's an important story, dense with information and carefully molded by professional craftsmen, but it's also a bit dull. Based on a real life story, Dark Waters doesn't have the creative opportunities afforded other Lawyer investigatory dramas like Micheal Clayton. Still, despite it's message being far more relevant than something like The Report, it was difficult to connect. I'm far more likely to be slowly poisoned by chemical companies than I am tortured by the CIA, but there's a lack of urgency surrounding the core mystery that, even in the face of gross maleficence, couldn't quite raise the on screen drama. 3/5

[Greatoneshere]

4 hours ago, TwinIon said:

Dark Waters - Dark Waters is, for better and worse, so very much a New York Times Magazine article brought to the big screen. It's an important story, dense with information and carefully molded by professional craftsmen, but it's also a bit dull. Based on a real life story, Dark Waters doesn't have the creative opportunities afforded other Lawyer investigatory dramas like Micheal Clayton. Still, despite it's message being far more relevant than something like The Report, it was difficult to connect. I'm far more likely to be slowly poisoned by chemical companies than I am tortured by the CIA, but there's a lack of urgency surrounding the core mystery that, even in the face of gross maleficence, couldn't quite raise the on screen drama. 3/5

 

As an ex-lawyer, Michael Clayton doesn't get enough love - nice shout out.

[Dre801]

Finally watching The Punisher: Season 2.

7.5 - 8/10 so far

[silentbob]

SPIDER-MAN: FAR FROM HOME 3D 4.25/5

 

2nd time watching but first time at home on my setup. I imported a 3D of the disc from Germany to have this in my collection (plus the Mysterio steelbook looked amazing and I wanted it) The theatre presentation was pretty good but I found it even better at home. No ghosting noticed (saw it in theatres) and great depth and pop-outs that aren’t too extreme/often but effective and fun. It started a little rough like I remember but then the action starts and my enjoyment level climbed like a night monkey. Gyllenhaal is the real standout in the film and loved the way they built his character for the movie and he delivers on it. Plus this has probably one of my favourite comic book, come to life scenes on screen that even tops Dr. Strange. Glad to see that Tom Holland’s drunk call was able to save Spidey in the Marvel Universe and not sent away into the Spiderverse (which I believe he is going to appear with the new deal between Sony/Disney)

[SimpleG]

1 minute ago, silentbob said:

I imported a 3D of the disc from Germany to have this in my collection (plus the Mysterio steelbook looked amazing and I wanted it)

Dont tease, we need a pick of the steelbook in all its glory.

[silentbob]

6 minutes ago, SimpleG said:

Dont tease, we need a pick of the steelbook in all its glory.

Nothing special inside but high gloss front/back

 

[elbobo]

For All Mankind

 

Got a little too Hollywood drama near the end and the homefront plots are nowhere near as good as the space stuff but I enjoyed it overall. Some great looking space effects shots, especially the moon scenes. One of the better What If stories told long format.

 

8/10

[5timechamp]

Its a Wonderful Life 10/10..

still effortlessly good.. humorous, well acted.. the ending is so clean, deserved... so glad my elementary school teacher decided to show this soo many years ago

[SimpleG]

Tokyo Drifter

 Seijun Suzuki absolute bonkers yakuza film thats a mash up of gangster/spaghetti western/60's pop and LSD trip. Its about a Yakuza gang that decides to go straight and the blow back that follows. 

Visual: Criterion does a hell of job on this , its clean.

Audio: Its a 60's film so you only get a mono sound but there is no hiss or pop. 

 

 

 

[Bloodporne]

23 hours ago, SimpleG said:

Tokyo Drifter

 Seijun Suzuki absolute bonkers yakuza film thats a mash up of gangster/spaghetti western/60's pop and LSD trip. Its about a Yakuza gang that decides to go straight and the blow back that follows. 

Visual: Criterion does a hell of job on this , its clean.

Audio: Its a 60's film so you only get a mono sound but there is no hiss or pop. 

 

 

 

This movie is cool as fuck, saw it back in the day when I was obsessed with Japanese cinema for a few years and this one definitely stuck in my mind. 

 

 

[darkness35]

Cats

 

I'm already fucking crazy and I'm traumatized by Rebel Wilson/10

[johnny]

Uncut Gems 5/5 one of the best movies of the year 

[elbobo]

6 Underground

 

Michael Bay at his most self indulgent

 

5/10

[Dre801]

6 Underground, aka, "Michael Bay: The Movie."

 

Peppermint - a by the numbers , generic, vigilante movie but hey, I have a thing for Jennifer Garner, so I watched.

[elbobo]

It Chapter 2

 

Significant step in the wrong direction, overuse of CGI big monsters that were not scary. Also it almost 3 hours long for some reason.

 

5/10

[Bloodporne]

21 hours ago, elbobo said:

It Chapter 2

 

Significant step in the wrong direction, overuse of CGI big monsters that were not scary. Also it almost 3 hours long for some reason.

 

5/10

I just watched it over the holidays and I thought this was spectacularly bad, nearly offensively bad at points.

 

Just a muddled, aimless, meandering, boring, shitty-effects-having snooze fest all around. The only thing more dreadful and paper-thin than the acting and characters (what an achievement for a King adaptation) was the pacing. It's baffling that nearly an entire 3 hour movie amounted to one shitty jump-scare setup after another. The script and dialogue must've been an utter trainwreck for these actors to appear this dreadful on screen. Bill Hader's literally fucking nonstop, hyper-ironic one liners made me want to put my fist in the TV at one point.

 

I've rarely done this but my girlfriend and I actually ended up abandoning the movie completely during the hideously shit ending somewhere 20 minutes prior to the end of its runtime. We both hated it so much, even the 20 more minutes were too much to handle. 

 

A legitimately bad movie as far as I'm concerned, I'd give it a 3/10. 

[Bloodporne]

Bone Tomahawk 

 

Finally got around to seeing this last night and thought it was really interesting and very good, especially considering it's a clearly low budget effort. I really enjoyed the dialogue and pacing specifically and overall thought its rather fresh feeling lack of genre boundaries came off shockingly assured and natural. 

 

8/10 

[Brian]

His Dark Materials - S1 - 7/10 - Never read the books but it was enjoyable.  Best thing about it was learning there is a new season of Curb this January! Let’s gooooo

[TwinIon]

Bombshell - 3/5 - It plays like an Adam McKay explainer movie about sexual harassment, but it's obsessed with recreating Fox News. The makeup folks did a lot of work, but I don't think it makes the film much better, and it definitely doesn't help clarify the film's message. It wants to call out Fox as being a cult and Ailes as being a monster while also having them stand in for every workplace and predator, and it's just not deft enough to pull any of that off. In a film full of laborious facsimiles, Margot Robbie and Kate McKinnon stand out as the most human characters, despite being completely fictional. I wouldn't be surprised to see this movie get a lot of awards talk because it certainly has a lot of acting and a lot of makeup and a lot of directing, but it's not all put to any good use.

 

Marriage Story - 5/5 - Where Bombshell felt like it was a ton of acting to no great reward, Marriage Story is almost it's opposite. Quiet and lovely, Marriage Story is superbly written and acted, and simply the most human story of the year. Adam Driver is stereotypically stellar, and Scarlett Johansson turns in her best performance yet. It's not the loudest or even the most emotional film of the year, but it's perfectly executed simplicity.

 

The Two Popes - 4/5 - A textbook example of not letting the truth get in the way of a good story, Two Popes is (as far as I can tell) entirely fictional, but still quite touching. Go in with the understanding that this is how you'd like the world to be and not a vehicle to learn about how it is, and you'll find two lovely characters brought to life by two great actors, beautifully in some of the most iconic places in the world. It's the Once Upon a Time in Hollywood of the Catholic church, and another example of how fiction can be a powerful lens.

 

 Mike Birbiglia: The New One - 5/5 - I think Birbiglia's Sleepwalk with Me might be my favorite stand up special of all time, and while this one isn't quite as good, it's another great example of setups and payoffs and the power of good storytelling in comedy.

 

Little Women - 4/5 - A charming adaptation that was impeccable cast and directed with an obvious warmth and care.

[johnny]

9 hours ago, Bloodporne said:

I just watched it over the holidays and I thought this was spectacularly bad, nearly offensively bad at points.

 

Just a muddled, aimless, meandering, boring, shitty-effects-having snooze fest all around. The only thing more dreadful and paper-thin than the acting and characters (what an achievement for a King adaptation) was the pacing. It's baffling that nearly an entire 3 hour movie amounted to one shitty jump-scare setup after another. The script and dialogue must've been an utter trainwreck for these actors to appear this dreadful on screen. Bill Hader's literally fucking nonstop, hyper-ironic one liners made me want to put my fist in the TV at one point.

 

I've rarely done this but my girlfriend and I actually ended up abandoning the movie completely during the hideously shit ending somewhere 20 minutes prior to the end of its runtime. We both hated it so much, even the 20 more minutes were too much to handle. 

 

A legitimately bad movie as far as I'm concerned, I'd give it a 3/10. 

To me It chapter two went downhill fast after the scene at the Chinese restaurant 

[Mercury33]

I really wanna see Marriage story but I really hate Scarlet Johansson. So I’m not sure what to do haha

[Greatoneshere]

6 hours ago, Mercury33 said:

I really wanna see Marriage story but I really hate Scarlet Johansson. So I’m not sure what to do haha

 

Weird to hate her - but either way she's excellent in Marriage Story. Adam Driver has more scenes and as a result is even better, but she's fantastic.

[Bloodporne]

55 minutes ago, Greatoneshere said:

 

Weird to hate her - but either way she's excellent in Marriage Story. Adam Driver has more scenes and as a result is even better, but she's fantastic.

I just saw Lost In Translation for the first time the other day and was amazed that I didn't hate her in that. She somehow also annoys  me in everything she's in usually.

[Greatoneshere]

Just now, Bloodporne said:

I just saw Lost In Translation for the first time the other day and was amazed that I didn't hate her in that. She somehow also annoys  me in everything she's in usually.

 

Strange, what is it about her acting or her that's an issue? Lost in Translation she's also excellent in. 

[Bloodporne]

3 minutes ago, Greatoneshere said:

 

Strange, what is it about her acting or her that's an issue? Lost in Translation she's also excellent in. 

I don't even know. She just...annoys me. Don't you ever see an actor and just think "fuck, this person is annoying"? That and I sometimes hate on people's faces, like someone's facial expression just perpetually annoys me. Somehow she's one of them and I have no logical explanation. 

 

Lost in Translation though was an excellent movie all around and I did really like her there. She also works in Ghost World. 

[Greatoneshere]

2 minutes ago, Bloodporne said:

I don't even know. She just...annoys me. Don't you ever see an actor and just think "fuck, this person is annoying"? That and I sometimes hate on people's faces, like someone's facial expression just perpetually annoys me. Somehow she's one of them and I have no logical explanation. 

 

Lost in Translation though was an excellent movie all around and I did really like her there. She also works in Ghost World. 

 

Haha, I do not. I usually just focus on the acting, and if they're selling the character to me in that movie. While some peoples' faces look more douche-y and "punchable" than others, I've found how someone looks has little to do with their acting talent. But at least you're honest!