What Is The Last Movie You Saw

Took my boys to see Guardians of the Galaxy 3 tonight. They are my favorite films from the MCU and this is a solid 3rd installment. Your only prerequisite is to have enjoyed the first two films and you won't be disappointed. Solid 7/10.

I went to see it at Gillette last weekend in Real3D. It was arguably the best MCU film since Endgame, but I agree was not quite to the level of GOTG 1 or 2. A 7 of 10 is fair. The soundtrack was disappointing to me, but I'll take it as a step in the right direction overall. I'm trying to hang in there after some tepid Marvel efforts, but I felt confident they couldn't fuck this one up.

I think the worst thing Marvel has done is to introduce the Multiverse and quantum realm which are needlessly complex and chaotic. Dead people are supposed to stay dead or
nothing means anything and Kevin Feige seems to think we'll keep swallowing whatever he serves up. It's getting to the point where I eyeroll every time I hear the phrase time
travel. It's not fun anymore, but that is why Guardians is so good. It's fun and the characters are comical.

Think of the scene from Guardians 1 where Quill puts his headphones on a curious Gamora and tries to seduce her with "Fooled Around and Fell in Love". It almost works, but
she catches on and rips them off her head and tells him, at knifepoint, "I am not some starry-eyed waif here to succumb to your pelvic sorcery". That's it there.

Let's hope he looks at the box office results from this one and realizes that it's the characters and sharp writing that drives the bus and not the CGI.
 
Really curious to see the 2020 Dark Tower pilot that was made, looks like based on the 4th book. Some interesting casting choices. Can't find it anywhere except as a record on IMDB.

Anyone know how to see it?
I’ve always felt that The Dark Tower would make for an amazing series of films if done correctly. Director Mike Flanagan (Doctor Sleep), has expressed interest in taking on the project. He said he already has the opening of the movie in his head. The sound of wind blowing, and appearing on a black screen the words “The man in black fled across the desert and the Gunslinger followed”.
 
I went to see it at Gillette last weekend in Real3D. It was arguably the best MCU film since Endgame, but I agree was not quite to the level of GOTG 1 or 2. A 7 of 10 is fair. The soundtrack was disappointing to me, but I'll take it as a step in the right direction overall. I'm trying to hang in there after some tepid Marvel efforts, but I felt confident they couldn't fuck this one up.

I think the worst thing Marvel has done is to introduce the Multiverse and quantum realm which are needlessly complex and chaotic. Dead people are supposed to stay dead or
nothing means anything and Kevin Feige seems to think we'll keep swallowing whatever he serves up. It's getting to the point where I eyeroll every time I hear the phrase time
travel. It's not fun anymore, but that is why Guardians is so good. It's fun and the characters are comical.

Think of the scene from Guardians 1 where Quill puts his headphones on a curious Gamora and tries to seduce her with "Fooled Around and Fell in Love". It almost works, but
she catches on and rips them off her head and tells him, at knifepoint, "I am not some starry-eyed waif here to succumb to your pelvic sorcery". That's it there.

Let's hope he looks at the box office results from this one and realizes that it's the characters and sharp writing that drives the bus and not the CGI.
GOTG has a better ensemble cast than the Avengers films. They are just plain FUN,

I agree on the quantum realm, it's basically a plot copout to ensure you have carte blanche to retell any and every story, leaving an absence of finality to everything we've watched up to this point and that will never sit well with me. My son predicted this and although he enjoyed it, tapped out on the MCU after the last Dr. Strange, as a result. Can't say I blame him.
 
GOTG has a better ensemble cast than the Avengers films. They are just plain FUN,

I agree on the quantum realm, it's basically a plot copout to ensure you have carte blanche to retell any and every story, leaving an absence of finality to everything we've watched up to this point and that will never sit well with me. My son predicted this and although he enjoyed it, tapped out on the MCU after the last Dr. Strange, as a result. Can't say I blame him.

I've always been intrigued with the "jump the shark" moment when a show starts to turn bad.

It's hard to say exactly when this happened with the MCU or if it has actually happened yet, so vast is the landscape. It might not be terminal just yet, but
there are so many characters brought back from death now that it's getting really hard to buy into anybody getting fully killed off, outside of off-field issues
like Jonathan Majors' Kang the Conqueror. The final scene of Quantamania with hundreds of Kangs made me sick. Maybe we caught a break when he got
in trouble because Feige has a chance to move away from the whole mess and get back to something more comprehensible. Maybe.

Shit, if you can bring back Bucky Barnes and Phil Coulson, and all the rest of them, why not just bring back Tony Stark and T'Challah? How about Captain America and Peggy Carter? Bring everybody back.

Walking away from this is like quitting cigarettes. There is a part of your brain that just refuses to relent, but even though I got that done I'm not ready to quit the
MCU. I keep hoping that they go back to the original canon and stick to one timeline.
 
Cocaine Bear. And that's an hour and a half of my life that I will never get back. 🤦‍♂️
Kudos for admitting that you went to see it, every time I saw the trailer I just couldn't believe that they actually made a movie out of it.
 
Kudos for admitting that you went to see it, every time I saw the trailer I just couldn't believe that they actually made a movie out of it.
Well I didn't actually go to the theater. We were at the family cabin this weekend. There's no cable, internet or cell phone service for that matter so we went to the red box to rent a couple movies and my son requested that one. I was actually excited to watch it because I'm usually a sucker for a bad movie but this was bad even by my standards. :ROFLMAO:
 
Cocaine Bear. And that's an hour and a half of my life that I will never get back. 🤦‍♂️
Ha! I went to the movies to see it on my birthday and loved it. #NoShameInMyGame
 
Triangle of Sadness. Excellent independent film that debuted (and won) at Cannes last year.
 
The BoogeyMan…….don’t waste your money.


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I'm a big fan of good horror movies and had a chance to watch some when wifey was away for the weekend.

It's not an all-timer, but I thought that Lights Out (Netflix) was a fun watch that put some detail and spin on
maybe the most common of all human fears -- the dark.

I liked the dysfunctional family that was the centerpiece and in particular liked the self-involved older sister who had washed her hands of her Mother and kid brother and moved out only to discover her maternal instincts waking up after learning the kid is under assault from a shadowy presence that stalks the family. Just when you think you're out they pullllll you back in.

Said shadowy presence is portrayed in an extremely creepy manner and the film, while not possessing a plot of sheer diabolical
genius, is generally smart and incorporates both creative wrinkles, humor and, more importantly, manages to be
very scary without insulting the viewer's intelligence a whole lot in the process.

I'd give it a thumbs up and consider it one of the better horror flicks made in the last several years.
 

I'm a big fan of good horror movies and had a chance to watch some when wifey was away for the weekend.

It's not an all-timer, but I thought that Lights Out (Netflix) was a fun watch that put some detail and spin on
maybe the most common of all human fears -- the dark.

I liked the dysfunctional family that was the centerpiece and in particular liked the self-involved older sister who had washed her hands of her Mother and kid brother and moved out only to discover her maternal instincts waking up after learning the kid is under assault from a shadowy presence that stalks the family. Just when you think you're out they pullllll you back in.

Said shadowy presence is portrayed in an extremely creepy manner and the film, while not possessing a plot of sheer diabolical
genius, is generally smart and incorporates both creative wrinkles, humor and, more importantly, manages to be
very scary without insulting the viewer's intelligence a whole lot in the process.

I'd give it a thumbs up and consider it one of the better horror flicks made in the last several years.
Agree about this movie.I love horror movies
 
I went to see it at Gillette last weekend in Real3D. It was arguably the best MCU film since Endgame, but I agree was not quite to the level of GOTG 1 or 2. A 7 of 10 is fair. The soundtrack was disappointing to me, but I'll take it as a step in the right direction overall. I'm trying to hang in there after some tepid Marvel efforts, but I felt confident they couldn't fuck this one up.

I think the worst thing Marvel has done is to introduce the Multiverse and quantum realm which are needlessly complex and chaotic. Dead people are supposed to stay dead or
nothing means anything and Kevin Feige seems to think we'll keep swallowing whatever he serves up. It's getting to the point where I eyeroll every time I hear the phrase time
travel. It's not fun anymore, but that is why Guardians is so good. It's fun and the characters are comical.

Think of the scene from Guardians 1 where Quill puts his headphones on a curious Gamora and tries to seduce her with "Fooled Around and Fell in Love". It almost works, but
she catches on and rips them off her head and tells him, at knifepoint, "I am not some starry-eyed waif here to succumb to your pelvic sorcery". That's it there.

Let's hope he looks at the box office results from this one and realizes that it's the characters and sharp writing that drives the bus and not the CGI.
And as both of us noted, previously: the soundtrack. The first two were killer, and the third one was a disappointment.
 
Looking forward to seeing The Last Voyage of the Demeter and Equalizer 3. Wife and I have been married for almost 20 years and I just learned the other day that she loves vampire movies, so now we have something else in common. We are also both Denzel Washington fans and have seen the first 2 Equalizers, looks like 3 might be his best one yet.
 
Went to see Oppenheimer. A-. Matt Damon completely new character for him. Can't complain about the facts. Too much admission of being a communist when he was actually a socialist. Only lacking thing was seeing the bombs drop on Japan. Seeing the test in the desert was hilarious.

Well worth the 3 hours. Make sure you buy a popcorn. Beginning is a bit slow.
 
My wife and I took a road trip last week and decided to listen to the audiobook of "Where the Crawdads Sing" to shorten the drive. We
both thought it was really good, so when we got home I set up the digital projector and watched the film version (Netflix) out on the deck on a perfect night. One weird
thing is that it turned out to be the night when the treefrogs or insects in the woods around our house decided it was time to sing the loudest they had all year and it sounded like
we were the middle of the Louisiana swamps. It made a realistic soundtrack to a story set in the marshes of North Carolina. Good movie, too. I'd never done a book/movie
in the same week and it was interesting to see, while it was fresh in the mind, how they turned 13 hours into 2 without completely fucking it up.

As a random observation, I've enjoyed plenty of films that didn't turn out to be particularly memorable down the road, but whether it was due to the unusual
double feature of book/film or not I don't think I'll forget Crawdads anytime soon.

One thing I sometimes try to pimp is what I believe to be acceptable "couples movies" to bridge the taste gap that seems to separate the sexes since my wife is more Barbie
than Oppenheimer. We haven't seen either yet, but the other film we saw last week that is available on NF that was "Happiness for Beginners" with Luke Grimes (Casey from Yellowstone and my Wife's prime crush) and ultra-cute Ellie Kemper (who is one of mine) It was a rom com set on backpacking trip on the Appalachian Trail and was fun and not overly Hallmark.
 
I'm a big fan of good horror movies and had a chance to watch some when wifey was away for the weekend.

It's not an all-timer, but I thought that Lights Out (Netflix) was a fun watch that put some detail and spin on
maybe the most common of all human fears -- the dark.

I liked the dysfunctional family that was the centerpiece and in particular liked the self-involved older sister who had washed her hands of her Mother and kid brother and moved out only to discover her maternal instincts waking up after learning the kid is under assault from a shadowy presence that stalks the family. Just when you think you're out they pullllll you back in.

Said shadowy presence is portrayed in an extremely creepy manner and the film, while not possessing a plot of sheer diabolical
genius, is generally smart and incorporates both creative wrinkles, humor and, more importantly, manages to be
very scary without insulting the viewer's intelligence a whole lot in the process.

I'd give it a thumbs up and consider it one of the better horror flicks made in the last several years.
I grew up on horror movies. I am the youngest of 7 and my two oldest siblings loved them so when the VCRs came out in the early 80s, they got one and would rent 3-4 movies a weekend. Not sure it was the best thing for me to see at such a young age but it is amazing to me all the remakes of the 80s and 90s horror flicks. I do enjoy seeing another director's interpretation. On that note, when I was away on vacation a couple of weeks ago, I saw the reboot of the original Hellraiser. It was released in October of 2022. I read the Clive Barker book on which the movie and 10 subsequent sequels are based - the Hellbound Heart.

What immediately caught my eye was the cinematography. I have to say, today's technology really adds levels of exquisite detail and for horror movies in particular, it really creates the tension necessary to create that eerie feeling. What I really enjoyed was the puzzle. If you are familiar at all with the Hellraiser series, it focuses on a puzzle box, made by a French toy maker. It opens a gateway to the Hell-like realm of the Cenobite lifeforms. The Cenobites are an order of former humans who have become monsters who harvest human souls to torture in their sadistic experiments.

In this reboot, the puzzle actually takes on different configurations each time it is solved - the blade which stabs the person who solves it then takes them to the Cenobites as a sacrifice. When the sixth and last configuration is solved the person is then presented with a "gift" from the Cenobites. One of the choices is to have someone resurrect from the dead. The lead character whose brother was the first sacrifice could be resurrected upon her wish but she refuses as she knows the "gift" will be twisted in some way. The Cenobites tell her that by choosing to live with her guilt and loss, she has effectively chosen the gift of "lament." Not sure I have ever heard of lament being called a gift before but that is the brilliance of the series - it paints a very thin line between pain and pleasure.

So the story itself is nothing like the original but obviously it has the same themes. It evokes Barker’s original adaptation in the same way a good cover song recalls its source material: with love, intelligence, and an inevitably crushing sort of redundancy. What I found fascinating is Pinhead who is the star cenobite of the series, is played by a woman, Jamie Clayton. In the other films it is played by Doug Bradley who was simply awesome but Clayton gives the character more of a mysticism and she is referred to as the high priest which is more in line with the novel. It feels much more spiritual than the other movies which were more sadistic and ornery.

Also, it was made by Disney. LOL It’s curious to say the least to see the reimagining pop up on Disney-owned Hulu with a robust budget and glossy sheen, and even curiouser to find that it’s just as gory and just as committed to its unhinged world-building as the films that have come before. It doesn’t always work, and at times it really really doesn’t, but it feels confident and unfettered in a way that so many horror films don’t these days.

Anyways, the acting was probably a B- except for the cenobites who are always an A but it is well done and certainly provides a good fright and as an added bonus, it makes you think about morality and the razor difference between pain and pleasure.
 
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Went to see Oppenheimer. A-. Matt Damon completely new character for him. Can't complain about the facts. Too much admission of being a communist when he was actually a socialist. Only lacking thing was seeing the bombs drop on Japan. Seeing the test in the desert was hilarious.

Well worth the 3 hours. Make sure you buy a popcorn. Beginning is a bit slow.
I saw this as well last week. I absolutely love Chris Nolan. Best current director IMO. Loved how the color scenes were objective and the black and white scenes were subjective.

I am not really a science person although I have 3 close friends who are scientists, I have to say I found the science riveting. I thought Los Alamos was the best part of the movie. I enjoyed the morality story arc too.
 
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