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

[SimpleG]

12 hours ago, Bloodporne said:

Midsommar

 

I don't know about a rating but I flat-out disliked this movie. it felt like a pseudo-artsy, silly and idiotic hodgepodge of Wicker Man, Hostel-style American xenophobia and shallow trauma porn. The film is drowning in self-congratulatory, pointless 'style' and I say that because it ultimately felt devoid of any actual emotional gravitas to me, those 'tools' were never actually evocative. None of its trauma excesses, style nor characters felt like anything but a flat exercise in movie-making prowess, which at this point, I just see as the A24 Horror template.

 

I disliked Hereditary but wanted to give Ari Aster another shot and went in actually somewhat excited for a new Horror film. Turns out I just don't like this guy's style at all. Much like Hereditary after the sister's death, this movie lost any and all steam for me after the ritual suicides scene and again much like Hereditary, I actually laughed out loud at the sheer silliness of the ending.

The amount of people tugging each other’s dicks over these films was nauseating.

[johnny]

midsommar is great! 

 

Quo Vadis, Aida? 4/5 

- i highly recommend this one 

[Fizzzzle]

The Fast and the Furious - 7/10

 

It's stupid, but it's also iconic. Maybe I can't separate myself from my nostalgia, who knows. I can't help but love it.

 

Also, holy shit at how dangerous the stunts were in this movie. Like, they did most shit practically, like actually driving cars under semi trailers with real drivers. Working for Rob Cohen 20 years ago must have been terrifying. It doesn't help that one of his stuntmen fucking died during the filming of xXx, and they still kept the shot in the movie. I just look at some of the shit and I'm like "oh, that could have gone HORRIBLY wrong." Oh and plus he allegedly drugged Asia Argento during the filming of xXx and may be a complete garbage person, but that's neither here nor there.

[Keyser_Soze]

 

Glass: 8/10 - The conclusion to the trilogy you never knew you wanted. I thought this was interesting as the film somewhat defied expectations, if you had any expectations to begin with. The movie feels a lot like the second movie but the tables have turned so to speak. However, it was not surprising to find out the Doctor's true intentions after a while. I did think it did a good job of tying all the movies together, even more remarkable retaining the same cast members from a 20 year old movie. I also think that James McAvoy is somehow better in this than he was in Split. When I looked around it seems like people were unhappy with this movie but I thought it was interesting and maybe even better than Split, probably just based on the expanded scope of the movie.

[Fizzzzle]

2 Fast 2 Furious - 4/10

 

It's a lot more disjointed and corny than the first. There's still some nostalgia factor, but it's... not great. Holy tits on the sound engineering, though. Listen to that movie in 7.1 and you'll have an orgasm. You'll notice that in this movie there's hardly any real stunts or action scenes, it's just close-ups of actors going "WHOOO!" I don't know, I love how this movie fits into the Fast & Furious legendarium, but it's objectively not good.

[Bloodporne]

 The Parallax View

 

I can't remember who recommended this to me on here? Anyway, I really liked some aspects but ultimately felt rather confused and somewhat disinterested in it. I didn't finish it, probably just wasn't in the mood. It seemed objectively good.

[elbobo]

Sound of Metal

 

Depressing but really good. Riz Ahmed was outstanding.

 

9/10

[Greatoneshere]

7 hours ago, Bloodporne said:

 The Parallax View

 

I can't remember who recommended this to me on here? Anyway, I really liked some aspects but ultimately felt rather confused and somewhat disinterested in it. I didn't finish it, probably just wasn't in the mood. It seemed objectively good.

 

That was me, and yes, it's a trippy film. 

[Bloodporne]

26 minutes ago, Greatoneshere said:

 

That was me, and yes, it's a trippy film. 

I think I just lost the thread because I was a bit sleepy and that ain't the movie for that!

[heydude93]

Mortal Kombat (1995)

 

First time seeing it since forever, maybe the 90's. Definitely wasn't expecting it to hold up so well.  Humor is surprisingly low on cringe, high on fun. Long torso goro steals all his scenes, the liu kang vs reptile fight is still iconic, and all of the goofy and over the top bombastic stuff leads you to an ending that still feels surprisingly & genuinely emotional.  What a disarmingly earnest and faithful adaptation of a 16-bit arcade fighting game that ends up being Enter the Dragon meets Star Wars.  My only critique is with how basic the fight choreography is, and yet it's still fun to watch.  ^_^

 

[Fizzzzle]

Fast & Furious - 5/10

 

It's not bad, and I'm glad the movie exists. Fast & Furious is basically the bridge on which the shit pipe of the Fast & Furious Cinematic Universe was built. And it kind of feels that way. Why the fuck was Brian O'Connor in the FBI again after 2F2F? No fucking idea. Doesn't matter. It's a serviceable story. It's the first movie where they kind of started to give Dom super powers.

 

It's the movie that turned The Fast and the Furious into "The Fast and the Furious Cinematic Universe." For good and for not so good. Also Dominic Toretto is the most ethnically ambiguous character in cinema history. First movie? Who knows. 4th movie? He's apparently fluent in Dominican Spanish. 5th movie? His sister speaks Brazilian Portuguese. 9th movie? His brother is John Cena. Dominic Toretto is the King of ethnic ambiguity.

[johnny]

Over the Moon 3/5 

Shaun the Sheep: Farmageddon 2.5/5 

 

watched these because they’re nominated for an oscar. still need to watch Wolfwalkers for the animated category, which i’m looking forward to! 

[Bloodporne]

Choppertown: The Sinners - 7/10

 

I'm a big fan of car and bike garage kind of shows and this was a really cool no-budget style documentary on a small California motorcycle club building a chopper together for one of the members. It's from 2005 I believe and came before all the shitty 'build a $80,000 toy for some rich cultural tourist client' shows. 

[Dre801]

Honest Thief - Liam Neeson gets chased and shot at and gets even.  5.5/10.

[Bloodporne]

17 hours ago, Dre801 said:

Honest Thief - Liam Neeson gets chased and shot at and gets even.  5.5/10.

This sounds so brutally uninteresting, I got bored even reading this description. 

[Dre801]

33 minutes ago, Bloodporne said:

This sounds so brutally uninteresting, I got bored even reading this description. 

Lol.  It's basically the "Taken"  formula but watered down; better off just rewatching any of those films over this.

[gamer.tv]

Line of Duty, season 6,  episode 5. Everyone should watch this as it’s just an awesome programme.

[elbobo]

Attack on Titan the finale season

 

The high points in the first half are so high then the back half drags. I didn't realize until the end that this wasn't the full final season just first part of it and second part doesn't come out till next year, is it really one finale season if it is spread over 2 years?  

 

7/10

[Fizzzzle]

Fast Five - 8/10

 

I love this movie, and you can't change my mind. Is it nostalgia manipulation? Absolutely. But they honestly just take Ocean's Eleven and rework it into the Fast and the Furious Cinematic Universe. And there's nothing wrong with that, Ocean's Eleven is the tits. Brian is George Clooney, Dom is Brad Pitt, the Dominican guys are whoever Scott Caan and Casey Affleck were, Gal Gadot is the Chinese guy, Jordana Brewster is Julia Roberts, Sung Kang is Matt Damon probably, I'm kind of losing the plot here, but you get the point.

 

It just works, and it's the linchpin of the Fast and Furious Cinematic Universe. The one movie that is objectively good that ties everything together. I didn't even mention The Rock. Imagine if The Rock was in Ocean's Eleven.

[Fizzzzle]

Fast & Furious 6 - 7/10

 

Honestly, some of this movie is stupid (that's true of every movie in this franchise, but whatever), but I think this is peak Fast & Furious, even if some of the stupid makes me take it down a notch from Fast Five Like, it's not as good, but I kind of like it more. Also, assuming they're averaging about 60 miles per hour during the climax scene on the runway, that runway would be roughly 13 miles long. Yes, I did the math. They were probably going faster.

 

Five movies deep into my F&Fuckfest, I have a few random thoughts:  1) I love how multicultural these movies are. Yes, Paul Walker is there as the golden boy, but you have the ethnically ambiguous Torettos, Israeli Giesele, Asian Han, and black Tej and Roman. And vaguely latino Letty. And Samoan Hobbs. It's a very inclusive Avengers squad. 2) Amnesia is a dumb plot device, no one should ever use it. The JRPG fan in me hates to say it.

[Fizzzzle]

The Fast & The Furious: Tokyo Drift  - 5/10

 

Acting is wooden as hell, and it's corny as fuck. The racing scenes might be the best in the series, though. Also Brian Tee's Japanese is not great. He definitely sounds like it's not his first language. Which it isn't. I fucking hate immersion breaking things like that. Sometimes I wish I lived in a world of obliviousness where I would never notice stuff like that. I'm sure they spout car nonsense jargon throughout all of these movies that makes no sense but I would never know because I haven't driven a car since high school. But Brian Tee lets his vowels flow too freely and I'm like you don't talk like you know Japanese. And I'm pretty sure he actually was born there.

 

I am excited to see Tokyo Drift get reintroduced to the canon in the next movie. Han is back, Jason Tobin's character is in it, I'm pretty sure Lucas Black's character had a little cameo on F7, whatever that was called. I hope Bow Wow gets a cameo.

 

I don't know what I'm doing anymore.

 

Edit: You know what, I'm taking another point off for how dumb the plot is. Some random white guy pisses off a low level mobster and somehow "leT's SeTtLe ThIs By RaCiNg" is a thing, and I can't not think that's stupid. It's like a bad nickelodeon cartoon from 1997. 4/10.

[Greatoneshere]

11 hours ago, elbobo said:

Attack on Titan the finale season

 

The high points in the first half are so high then the back half drags. I didn't realize until the end that this wasn't the full final season just first part of it and second part doesn't come out till next year, is it really one finale season if it is spread over 2 years?  

 

7/10

 

Season 3 did the same thing. There was always too much manga material left for it to be done in 16 episodes. Most people assumed a Part 2 or film sequels until Part 2 was announced.

[Fizzzzle]

Furious 7 - 5/10

 

hahahahaha, Lucas Black is still supposed to be in high school, he was well into his 30's when this movie came out, and you can tell.

 

You know how fucking big of a parachute you would need to skydive a car? Let alone how you would steer the fucking thing from inside the vehicle, which doesn't even make sense. Furious 7 is when the movies take a different turn into stupid than they did in the first 2. Like it's just as stupid, just a different language of stupid.

 

I will say, the eulogy of Paul Walker at the end of the movie actually made me cry. That is one of the most beautiful things I've seen in a movie. They were willing to shatter the fourth wall in an instance where it would have been so much easier to kill off his character. It's fucking beautiful and you can fight me on that.

[Fizzzzle]

ALSO, having been somewhat recently punched in the face, it's totally jarring to me when people get like 4-5 socks to the grill in a movie and they don't show any marks at all. I got hit one time in the forehead and got my face busted. Dude was wearing a ring and hit me on my eye. I had a black eye and a fairly nasty mark on the ol' chrome dome for almost a week. People in movies just kind of casually take punches to the face. I also fell down some stairs recently. Let me tell you that is also not as fun as it seems in movies.

[Bloodporne]

33 minutes ago, Fizzzzle said:

Furious 7 - 5/10

 

hahahahaha, Lucas Black is still supposed to be in high school, he was well into his 30's when this movie came out, and you can tell.

 

You know how fucking big of a parachute you would need to skydive a car? Let alone how you would steer the fucking thing from inside the vehicle, which doesn't even make sense. Furious 7 is when the movies take a different turn into stupid than they did in the first 2. Like it's just as stupid, just a different language of stupid.

 

I will say, the eulogy of Paul Walker at the end of the movie actually made me cry. That is one of the most beautiful things I've seen in a movie. They were willing to shatter the fourth wall in an instance where it would have been so much easier to kill off his character. It's fucking beautiful and you can fight me on that.

I actually thought this was a solid 8/10 of pure fucking cinematic idiocy. I actually loved how insanely stupid this flick was, it entertained me greatly and I have no idea about, nor interest in, this franchise. 

[johnny]

Collective 3.5/5

Eurovision Song Contest 3/5 

[EternallDarkness]

12 hours ago, Bloodporne said:

I actually thought this was a solid 8/10 of pure fucking cinematic idiocy. I actually loved how insanely stupid this flick was, it entertained me greatly and I have no idea about, nor interest in, this franchise. 

 

I take the movies for what they are and what they are intended to be. They aren't meant to be taken serious, just pure insane over the top popcorn fix, and so I love them.

[Fizzzzle]

9 minutes ago, EternallDarkness said:

 

I take the movies for what they are and what they are intended to be. They aren't meant to be taken serious, just pure insane over the top popcorn fix, and so I love them.

I enjoyed the movie just fine and it has great moments (that's why I gave a 5 and not a 3), I just think you can differentiate a mess like furious 7 vs. an actual popcorn masterpiece like the matrix or die hard. I like all of the F&F movies, otherwise I wouldn't be asininely marathoning all of them. But other than Fast Five, they ain't exactly winning any oscars.

 

Also I championed a Highlander reboot with vin diesel as the star long before they actually made that movie where he plays an immortal and it actually kind of sucked, but I still want a Highlander reboot with vin diesel

[Dre801]

Finished up Invincible - Season 1. 

Liked it overall, will watch more if there's a Season 2.

[Fizzzzle]

F8 of the Furious (I refuse to call it by its proper name) - 7/10

 

Honestly, I liked this one far better than I remember. Charlize Theron kind of sucks as the villain, but other than that it basically hits on everything. It leans even heavier into the stupid, but I think following after Furious 7 kind of primes the palette for it.

 

I can't help but think of all the reports that said that Vin Diesel and the Rock don't get along, as they are hardly in any scenes together in 7 or 8, then The Rock got his own offshoot franchise and isn't in F9.

 

Also, furthering the King of Ethnic Ambiguity, Dominic Toretto is Cuban in F8. So he's now Dominican, Cuban, and Brazilian.

 

AND WE'RE NOT DONE! Oh no, there's still Hobbs and Shaw to go. I've only seen it once and it was on a plane, I think I was asleep for a good chunk of it. I can't decide if I'll do it this morning or wait until tomorrow night. I have bruised ribs so it kind of hurts to sleep, I might give it a go.

[Greatoneshere]

9 hours ago, Dre801 said:

Finished up Invincible - Season 1. 

Liked it overall, will watch more if there's a Season 2.

 

How'd you swing that? Only 6 out of 8 episodes are out.

[Dre801]

33 minutes ago, Greatoneshere said:

 

How'd you swing that? Only 6 out of 8 episodes are out.

Then I guess I didn't finish it   Was not aware they were doing the weekly release thing.  I arrived LTTP on this one.  Derp.

[Greatoneshere]

16 minutes ago, Dre801 said:

Then I guess I didn't finish it   Was not aware they were doing the weekly release thing.  I arrived LTTP on this one.  Derp.

 

Haha no worries. Yeah it's week to week, drops om Fridays on Amazon Prime Video I believe. Last Friday was episode 6. Nothing was resolved if that had been the end that'd have sucked!

[Guest]

Watching this sorta lame network show Salvation. It’s got all the trappings of a standard network show, but fun concept and goes down easy without any mental effort. A great show to fall asleep to.

[best3444]

Watched an episode of King of Queens when it was hitting its stride. Both Kevin James and Leah Remini were comedy gold at times. It can be so fuckin funny.