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

[EternallDarkness]

Coherence    very trippy/10 

[silentbob]

EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE 9/10

 

I’m in agreement with @elbobo on the weirdness and how well it works character/story wise. They better not overlook this come award season for assemble, acting, story, directing and who the the fuck wants to compete for editing. Ok I forgot about Miller’s Three Thousand Years of Yearning, and if Fury Road can be matched again by his wife with that movie, who knows. (wanna see too) Still what a fantastic blend of

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I wanna say Arrival, Matrix, and Lokie: S1

all rolled into one. Also some of the weirdest but well filmed fight scenes that weren’t from Asia itself (although highly influenced for sure) So far my movie of the year but I have tons to catch up on. (The Batman) The subwoofer action is impressive and intense with each segment and some great use of overhead action with the Atmos track. Watch this movie Everyone Everywhere Now!

[Keyser_Soze]

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Tekken: Bloodline - 8/10

 

This is pretty much a straight retelling of Tekken 3 and the events leading up to those events. It centers around Jin Kazama on his journey to avenge the death of his mother. The thing with Tekken stories, especially in the early days are they were very light on exposition, I think most of the story was pieced together through wikis (maybe the instruction book) but this seems to follow the story pretty closely, even the ending. But the best part is it elaborates on the story and gives everyone some depth. There are a lot of fight scenes which is what you want out of a show about a fighting game. What really takes it to the next level is all the characters are using their moves from the game so it adds a lot of authenticity to the show.

 

The only other Tekken thing I've seen is the live action movie and this is much better. It really goes to show you that you can take an animated medium a lot further than a live action adaption. Things that look silly from a person, costumes, fighting moves, etc are right at home in an animated series. As for the look of the show I wavered on it early but ending up enjoying the look of the show, I think young Jin looked maybe a little awkward but adult Jin worked out a bit more. It's one of those 3D but looks 2D type of styles that I think works pretty well, especially since the backgrounds and other effects are hand drawn / painted as well. I can't imagine too many fans of the series would be disappointed with the show but I also think it is friendly to those who don't know anything about Tekken either, but like all things related to established franchise you will get a lot more out of it if you're familiar with the games.

[elbobo]

Nope

 

Fairly original plot and some goodput you in the moment camera work. Didn't really care about the characters that much though.

 

7/10

[Bloodporne]

Revisited Hereditary because my girlfriend wanted to watch it. 3rd act gets more asinine and unintentionally funny every time I see it. Still think this is one of the biggest self-destruction moves in memory for me in regards to a Horror flick. I keep thinking I can get into it because the movie has so much promise and I love family drama type Horror so this was the third time. 

[silentbob]

THE LEGEND OF VOX MACHINA: S1 (Prime) 8.5/10

 

I'm no D&D fan but I guess some of it has rubbed off on me from Stranger Things. It’s a cartoon with a bunch of lovable characters that are sometimes dirty to the extreme. Which is why I kind of really enjoyed the show and watching them high, all the better. Good voice cast and on par with Invincible or slightly better animation wise but very close in style. Worth a watch and I look forward to season 2, whenever it drops but has been confirmed.

[Keyser_Soze]

 

Azumi 2: Death or Love - 7/10

 

Azumi 2 is, of course, the follow up to Azumi, a film about a female assassin who's mission is to assassinate. It turns out at the end of the first movie that she only killed 2 out of 3 targets so the second movie picks up where the first one left off on a mission to kill the 3rd guy. Ueto Aya reprises her role as Azumi and a lot of it feels very like the first movie. This movie, however, has the distinction of being directed by Shusuke Kaneko instead of Kitamura Ryuhei. So the movie feels a lot less over the top and a bit more ordinary, not that is a bad thing. I felt it was a bit easier to follow in a way as it's pretty straightforward. For some it might not have the same magic as the first one but it feels the same but different to me.

[elbobo]

Top Gun Maverick

 

Maybe I fell to deeply for the internet hype but I only liked it and didn't love it the way many did. Its weird too it seems like it is a movie tailor made for me; I'm a child of the 80s and watched the original a billion times growing up, I can tell you the difference between a 4th and 5th gen fighter, I actively choose to wear New Balance sneakers, I couldn't be more the target audience for this movie if I tried.

 

7.5/10

[elbobo]

Jurassic World Dominion - director's cut

 

There are 40 separate plots in the first hour that don't interconnect and they are all dumb as hell, the whole World series was so dumb.

 

3/10

 

 

[Dre801]

Catwoman: Hunted - eh, it was OK. 

[Nokra]

I watched Unorthodox, a Netflix miniseries (4 episodes, about 1 hour each) about a woman who escapes her arranged marriage and Hasidic community in New York and flees to Berlin. An excellent story about making your own way, the importance of connection, the goodness of people, and more, all without being preachy or condemning religion very harshly. As a bonus, it was also fun for me to hear both Yiddish and German. 

 

8.5/10

[unogueen]

Gravity 3/10

 

I thought I found my anti-Arrival in Interstellar, but this one is far stupider. Beyond the constant contrivances of circumstance, the overuse of personal monologue, which is a noted storytelling sin for fucking reasons, fails to float the performance beyond the moment to moment. There's pressure on all sides but literally no tension because if all you do is throw a character through an endless gauntlet for dramas' sake without any sort of development, it's pretty assured the audience is played for spectacle with nothing to say for itself.

[silentbob]

READY OR NOT 3/5

 

I had always heard great things about the film and finally streamed it tonight. It’s a fun flick but moved a little slow for my overall liking. Some fun characters and a few out of nowhere good laughs. Not shy on the swearing, deaths and overall top tons of gore deaths. The ending of the movie is almost worth the viewing alone because they have so many *chefs kiss* payoffs too all these small stories/lore for the characters. Plus it’s only like 95mins long 

[Keyser_Soze]

 

Man of Tai Chi: 8/10

 

Man of Tai Chi marks Keanu Reeves first and only directed movie. It's an interesting style and a slight homage to kung fu movies. Keanu Reeves plays a rich dude named Donaka Mark who runs an underground fighting ring in China. The fights are high stakes (at least eventually) ending in the combatant being asked to finish the other opponent and refusal to do so ends in your death as well. So Donaka has his eye on a pure fighter Tiger Chen (played by Tiger Chen) that uses Tai Chi as his fighting style. Through some manipulation he's able to get him on board in his fight club.

The interesting part of Tai Chi is it's not a traditional fighting style and something the relies on balance to defeat the opponent. Balance is a pretty big theme in the movie not only does it apply to the fighting style but the nature of the character as the film progresses. Heck even Tiger's master represents the Yin and Donaka the Yang. Fighting is a big part of the movie and it delivers on almost endless fighting. The fight choreography is quite good and not something you see a lot of these days at this type of quality. In any case it's a fun straightforward movie that respects the source material. When is the next Keanu Reeves directed movie?

[elbobo]

Thor Love and Thunder

 

Thematically this movie is all over the place but fairly fun, significant step down from Ragnarok but better than the first 2.

 

6.5/10

[Mercury33]

15 hours ago, silentbob said:

READY OR NOT 3/5

 

I had always heard great things about the film and finally streamed it tonight. It’s a fun flick but moved a little slow for my overall liking. Some fun characters and a few out of nowhere good laughs. Not shy on the swearing, deaths and overall top tons of gore deaths. The ending of the movie is almost worth the viewing alone because they have so many *chefs kiss* payoffs too all these small stories/lore for the characters. Plus it’s only like 95mins long 

It’s a basically a perfect “ohhh nice this is starting on HBO in 5 minutes” type movie for October 

[Keyser_Soze]

 

Happiness: 9/10

 

Happiness is a semi satirical horror tv show. It follows a couple of officers who married each other under unusual circumstances (because to get an apartment your personal score goes up if you're married). It takes place hot on the heels of covid where another outbreak has taken place. This time it's due to a defective pneumonia drug called NEXT. Anyone who takes the drug effectively turns into a zombie. (Could this be the show the Resident Evil haters wanted by a different name? 🤔 @Phaseknox ) So when the outbreak happens the couple are forcefully quarantined inside their apartments (the military puts up barriers around the apartments) and everyone in the apartment must survive until a cure is developed. Now this isn't your typical zombie situation, for those like @Greatoneshere who allegedly have "zombie fatigue" because the infected do not stay in zombie form. So the show has almost a "The Thing" vibe going on since you never know who is infected.

 

But the show is also almost a parody of real life, perhaps similar to what we had already gone through. The people who live in the apartment all have self centered priorities they value over everything else. The building representative is not concerned with the disease or anyone who is affected but rather how it will affect the real estate price of their apartment. A guy who lives with his parents and streams all the time, only concerned with his viewers rather than the safety of anyone else. It continues to showcase that all lawyers are cowards. And so on.  Speaking of lawyers it has Baek Hyun-Jin in it, if you recall he showed up in another show, The Devil Judge, as an almost Trumplike president. Somehow on this show he's become an even bigger piece of scum. Usually it's a sign of poor writing if a character does something dumb, but this show is smartly written in that you could believe that anyone of these people would compromise the survivors to get what they want

 

Happiness is a captivating watch from beginning to end. At only 12 episodes it doesn't wear out it's welcome and achieves what it sets out to do. A fresh take on "zombie" type media.

[Bloodporne]

 

I just saw the 4K/Surround restoration at the IFC Center twice because it was so fucking good. Really does the film justice and brings out the beautiful details in Lynch's filthy sets even more. The shitty, inch-thick matte black paint on half the interiors of the apartment building, the Edward Hopper-ish interior of her apartment and so on. I feel like the added detail really brings out the contrast between the quaint exteriors and dingy netherworld apartments these characters inhabit even more. 

 

Still one of my favorite movies of all time and I enjoyed seeing a new generation of viewers get gut punched by the outburst of psychosexual darkness. Much bewildered laughter and giggling before that sharp turn the film does, none after. People huffing and sighing on their way out in front of me, so I felt like the movie did its job. My girlfriend was also pretty shocked but not in a bad way, more like "they can do that in a movie?". This movie just lingers in my mind, much like most of Lynch's work. There's so much left to the imagination and only implied that I want to know and keep thinking about. 

 

I can't say enough how much I love this flick and how it slightly concerns me every time lol 

[EternallDarkness]

One Dark Night  a blast from the past, one of the earlier horror flicks I can remember seeing in the theater

[Bloodporne]

Mystic River - 8/10 

 

I really liked most things about it but those absurdly bad Boston accents almost made it comical in pivotal scenes that should've been gut-wrenching. I just really can't understand how sometimes somebody doesn't step in and just goes "guys...nah...this is bad".

 

 

[Greatoneshere]

3 hours ago, Bloodporne said:

Mystic River - 8/10 

 

I really liked most things about it but those absurdly bad Boston accents almost made it comical in pivotal scenes that should've been gut-wrenching. I just really can't understand how sometimes somebody doesn't step in and just goes "guys...nah...this is bad".

 

Yeah, but it's a great movie though anyway, as you said. Seen it a couple of times, always enjoy it. The final scene or two things jump the shark a bit, I imagine the novel explains those heel turns better.

[Bloodporne]

2 hours ago, Greatoneshere said:

 

Yeah, but it's a great movie though anyway, as you said. Seen it a couple of times, always enjoy it. The final scene or two things jump the shark a bit, I imagine the novel explains those heel turns better.

No, it is. I think it might be worse if you live in the Northeast and hear these accents regularly. It just kind of drags me out of the movie in pivotal scenes a lot. I do agree with the epilogue, if I can call it that, thing as well. I get what they're saying but the movie does do an awfully quick turn into straight up "oh wow, they're not just small time crooks but straight up hardcore murderers" territory in the blink of an eye when the rest of it moves at a very methodical pace.

[Greatoneshere]

21 minutes ago, Bloodporne said:

No, it is. I think it might be worse if you live in the Northeast and hear these accents regularly. It just kind of drags me out of the movie in pivotal scenes a lot. I do agree with the epilogue, if I can call it that, thing as well. I get what they're saying but the movie does do an awfully quick turn into straight up "oh wow, they're not just small time crooks but straight up hardcore murderers" territory in the blink of an eye when the rest of it moves at a very methodical pace.

 

Yeah, the accents are definitely distracting, some times more than others. And yeah, the film is very methodically paced then at the end the wife is suddenly like Lady MacBeth and Sean Penn is like serious business and Bacon is coming for them. I'm like - welp, that's quite a change from, as you said, small time crooks.

[Bloodporne]

9 minutes ago, Greatoneshere said:

 

Yeah, the accents are definitely distracting, some times more than others. And yeah, the film is very methodically paced then at the end the wife is suddenly like Lady MacBeth and Sean Penn is like serious business and Bacon is coming for them. I'm like - welp, that's quite a change from, as you said, small time crooks.

Dude it goes from petty liquor store hold-ups to like decades of murder in 30 seconds lol. ESPECIALLY his wife, yes! Also, this was my first time seeing it so I wasn't entirely sure if I missed something but I kept waiting for the opening abduction scene, and abduction in general, to circle back around and tie into the plot and...am I mistaken that it did not beyond Dave being a mess from it? I was half expecting one of those perps to still be around and tie into it all. 

[Greatoneshere]

14 minutes ago, Bloodporne said:

Dude it goes from petty liquor store hold-ups to like decades of murder in 30 seconds lol. ESPECIALLY his wife, yes! Also, this was my first time seeing it so I wasn't entirely sure if I missed something but I kept waiting for the opening abduction scene, and abduction in general, to circle back around and tie into the plot and...am I mistaken that it did not beyond Dave being a mess from it? I was half expecting one of those perps to still be around and tie into it all. 

 

Oh it was your first time seeing it? Nice. As to your question: 

 

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You are correct - Dave being abducted as a child had nothing to do with the accidental murder of Emmy Rossum (Sean Penn's daughter in the film). However, what it did do is mess him up (understandably) really badly, which does cause him to murder someone the same night Emmy Rossum was killed, causing all the problems. Dave killed a child molester he found with a child prostitute the same night because he got super triggered. This makes Sean Penn think Dave (Tim Robbins) killed Emmy Rossum, because he's guilty as shit over something, but it's for killing that child molester the same night, not for killing her. 

 

In terms of them being killers, even when they kill Dave that felt personal, like a rare one time thing. Still believable for me. But then the very end, it's like, okay, what now? Still, this was good Clint Eastwood directing, which I often miss these days.

 

[Bloodporne]

1 minute ago, Greatoneshere said:

 

Oh it was your first time seeing it? Nice. As to your question: 

 

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You are correct - Dave being abducted as a child had nothing to do with the accidental murder of Emmy Rossum (Sean Penn's daughter in the film). However, what it did do is mess him up (understandably) really badly, which does cause him to murder someone the same night Emmy Rossum was killed, causing all the problems. Dave killed a child molester he found with a child prostitute the same night. This makes Sean Penn think Dave killed Emmy Rossum, because he's guilty as shit over something, but it's for killing that child molester the same night, not for killing her. 

 

In terms of them being killers, even when they kill Dave that felt personal, like a rare one time thing. Still believable for me. But then the very end, it's like, okay, what not? 

 

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Right, I did catch all that but that was a good summary. Furthermore I took the vampire TV speech, him basically wanting to die because he thought he'd "turn" and the fact he was even AT that spot as showing that Dave was possibly harboring similar feelings and may have eventually acted on them. I took him killing the pedo as an act of self-loathing rage, like he knew where to look and he saw his future self in that almost. Not sure if I read any of that correctly though, what's your take on that?

 

I honestly thought that the Dave killing was them being pushed into it by the overwhelming personal grief and all. The subsequent revelation that Jimmy and the boys view it as no biggie and are some remorseless killing machines (obviously I'm exaggerating a bit here but hey...) that just chill at the parade and also shit on Celeste kind of retroactively dulled the emotional impact for me and felt weird. The movie clearly emotionally led us down that path, that seemed to be the whole major tragedy here besides the obvious death of his daughter, but that very end takes the wind out of that sail for me. 

 

It's still a very good film but yeah, I actually docked the full 2 points down to an 8, tops, for that. 

 

[Greatoneshere]

41 minutes ago, Bloodporne said:

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Right, I did catch all that but that was a good summary. Furthermore I took the vampire TV speech, him basically wanting to die because he thought he'd "turn" and the fact he was even AT that spot as showing that Dave was possibly harboring similar feelings and may have eventually acted on them. I took him killing the pedo as an act of self-loathing rage, like he knew where to look and he saw his future self in that almost. Not sure if I read any of that correctly though, what's your take on that?

 

I honestly thought that the Dave killing was them being pushed into it by the overwhelming personal grief and all. The subsequent revelation that Jimmy and the boys view it as no biggie and are some remorseless killing machines (obviously I'm exaggerating a bit here but hey...) that just chill at the parade and also shit on Celeste kind of retroactively dulled the emotional impact for me and felt weird. The movie clearly emotionally led us down that path, that seemed to be the whole major tragedy here besides the obvious death of his daughter, but that very end takes the wind out of that sail for me. 

 

It's still a very good film but yeah, I actually docked the full 2 points down to an 8, tops, for that. 

 

 

I think an 8/10 is exactly what I would give it. And: 

 

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I read it the same way - I think Dave fears he could become like that now himself as a result of his trauma and past experiences. I know the Boston accents are variable (I thought Bacon was pretty good if I recall) and the ending is weird hence the two points docked. Otherwise the film is basically a perfect Dennis Lehane adaptation (also see Shutter Island, Gone Baby Gone, and The Drop). 

 

[Bloodporne]

2 hours ago, Greatoneshere said:

 

I think an 8/10 is exactly what I would give it. And: 

 

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I read it the same way - I think Dave fears he could become like that now himself as a result of his trauma and past experiences. I know the Boston accents are variable (I thought Bacon was pretty good if I recall) and the ending is weird hence the two points docked. Otherwise the film is basically a perfect Dennis Lehane adaptation (also see Shutter Island, Gone Baby Gone, and The Drop). 

 

I actually really love Shutter Island, both the movie and book. I've seen the movie at least three or four times and I like it more each time.

[Phaseknox]

I just finished season 5 of Cobra Kai, and it was another great season as always. The final episode was especially good. The Karate Kid movies were some of my favorites growing up, and this show has been a perfect continuation to them IMO. Despite almost everything being resolved this season, I hope that there’s still at least one more.

[EternallDarkness]

21 hours ago, Phaseknox said:

I just finished season 5 of Cobra Kai, and it was another great season as always. The final episode was especially good. The Karate Kid movies were some of my favorites growing up, and this show has been a perfect continuation to them IMO. Despite almost everything being resolved this season, I hope that there’s still at least one more.

 

why does everyone keep saying everything resolved
 

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Kreese is on the loose, they've entered the world wide competition, and do you think that evil bitch isn't going to come for revenge?  And I think we've now seen everyone from the original trilogy...so now we have to move onto the next karate kid and have Hillary swank show up to kick the butt of that chick. 

 

[Phaseknox]

1 hour ago, EternallDarkness said:

why does everyone keep saying everything resolved
 

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Kreese is on the loose, they've entered the world wide competition, and do you think that evil bitch isn't going to come for revenge?  And I think we've now seen everyone from the original trilogy...so now we have to move onto the next karate kid and have Hillary swank show up to kick the butt of that chick. 

 

I said almost everything, not everything. There are still a few things left unresolved such as the things that you mentioned that could definitely allow for at least one more season. I’m sure that there will be despite them not officially announcing it yet.

[EternallDarkness]

1 hour ago, Phaseknox said:

I said almost everything, not everything. There are still a few things left unresolved such as the things that you mentioned that could definitely allow for at least one more season. I’m sure that there will be despite them not officially announcing it yet.

 

definitely would be shocked if we didn't get more

 

of course the real question is 

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what will Cobra Kai do for students ??

 

[Keyser_Soze]

 

Transamerica: 7/10

 

Released in 2005 perhaps a film ahead of it's time. Felicity Huffman nearly unrecognizable as Bree Osbourne, a trans woman a week away from her sex reassignment surgery. She gets a call from a son she didn't know she had and her psychiatrist won't sign off on the surgery unless Bree meets her son. The dilemma is she's very reluctant to meet him because she wants to leave her old life in the past. So she takes the middle ground and lies about herself, not revealing he is her son and they embark on a road trip across the country to LA.

 

It's an alright movie, certainly carried by the performances. As for the movie I didn't feel like there was a lot of drama. For the most part everyone was fine with who Bree was, and if they weren't they warmed up to her very quickly. Everything just kind of works out and any kind of drama is more of a speed bump than a sharp cliff. I think it would be interesting to get a perspective on this movie from someone who is trans, while I think the film can be enjoyed by anyone it might resonate differently with a trans person. But then again, what do I know?

[Bloodporne]

X - 5/10 

 

It's competent enough and the cinematography is often beautiful but I'm just too jaded for this type of flick at this point. I've been watching Texas Chainsaw Massacre since I was a teenager and while it obviously tried its hand at some sort of clever spin "wink wink" type of thing, there's no way I could look past the absurd levels of theft. One can call it tribute, homage, whatever but to me, the movie was neither tongue-in-cheek nor clever nor well-written enough to not feel like a tired plastic pastiche. What little initial buildup it had with the old couple was blown on the boring, tired and inevitable "well, time for the killing spree" moment because...I mean what else is there to do I guess? What little it tried to do fresh was just way too little for me, it had no meaningful impact on the tired-as-fuck Texas ripoff format to me. By the time the killing spree started, I just wanted this nonsense to end. 

 

I fully acknowledge it's probably because I've just seen way, way too many of these type of flicks but good god, this was one too many. And I still count TCM as one of the best, vicious Horror films ever made and just revisited it last year. I only give it a 5/10 because it IS obviously competent on a technical level and I did like the sets and lighting. 

[CastlevaniaNut18]

Stephen King’s Storm of the Century - 8/10

 

It’s on Hulu, so I figured it was time to watch it. It certainly shows its age, but I found it to be a compelling story about small communities and the secrets they keep.