Which movies have you watched? IE': NO CAPES!

[Kyriakos]

You know what day today is?
Today's Wednesday.
That's 'anything can happen' day.

 

[Sommerswerd]

Bad Boys for Life - Terrible. All the main actors just dialing it in. The repetitive, recycled, soulless, washed up nature of the story was reflected in the performance of the main actors. The newbies were OK. Tried to do the whole washed-up and the past is coming back to haunt you... but without any of the charm, thoughtfulness and feeling of Skyfall (James Bond).

Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation - I forgotten whether I'd seen this one before... I'm pretty sure after watching it that I had seen at least part of it. In any case, it was pretty good. Pretty solid, standard Mission Impossible stuff. Entertaining, with plenty of action and twists.

Mission Impossible: Fallout - This one I was actually seeing for the first time. Pretty good and worth a watch if you like these kinds of movies. Again, pretty standard Mission Impossible. Lots of action and twists.

 

[Synobun]

The Half of It. Bad. Main character is a terrible person.

Vampires Suck. Bad. Parody movie about Twilight. Unfunny.

Meeting Dr. Sun. OK. It felt more like a student film than a real movie. Silly plot. Not really my style. But watchable.

Robin Hood: Men In Tights. Meh.

 

[Zkribbler]

The Soul of the Game because it's Jackie Robinson Day today. The movie is about the events leading to the crossing of the color line in baseball. Stupendous acting by all concerned.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Chadwick Boseman (the star from Black Panther) died last night from colon cancer. He suffered with it for the last four years and filmed many of his biggest roles while afflicted. RIP.

The Soul of the Game because it's Jackie Robinson Day today. The movie is about the events leading to the crossing of the color line in baseball. Stupendous acting by all concerned.

Coincidentally, Chadwick also portrayed Jackie Robinson in 42 in 2013.

 

[Berzerker]

Watching Planet of the Apes... Rod Serling wrote the original script but it was heavily reworked, a similar storyline appeared on the Twilight Zone. My God the movie's bad in certain ways. For example, they crash in Lake Powell with 3 days of food and immediately walk up and away from the water looking for life. They left a sizeable body of water to wander into the desert?

They walk a while in desert canyons/landscape, run into mankind and then the apes, and end up finding the remains of the statue of liberty. Thats NYC damnit!

 

[Yeekim]

Just went and saw Tenet, mostly because parts of it were shot in Tallinn.
Some cool action sequences, but let's say that this is a movie that probably needs to be watched several times to fully understand all the inverted stuff... but I certainly don't feel like watching it again.
Seeing parts of my hometown on screen was a first for me, however, so I'm OK with it.

 

[Berzerker]

thats funny, the 2 ape docs are making the case for earlier humanoid life before the sacred scrolls and the 3 orangutans sitting on the high council refuse to listen - one covers his mouth, another covers his ears, and the 3rd covers his eyes.

oh yeah, no moon... That would have informed Heston's character where he really was...

 

[Zkribbler]

Frozen one of Disney's best.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Frozen one of Disney's best.

The sequel is hot garbage. I'm sure kids/grankids will love it but it's a pale shadow of the original. The tagline for Frozen 2 should have been: "Now with 200% more songs (and none of them are good)!"

I watched Upgrade which is a movie about a paraplegic who gets a cybernetic enhancement that restores his ability to walk and gives him superhuman abilities. It's pretty interesting and good but I saw the two major twists coming from the second the guy was paralyzed. It has a really cool depiction of self-driving cars that I thought was pretty good.

 

[Synobun]

The sequel is hot garbage. I'm sure kids/grankids will love it but it's a pale shadow of the original. The tagline for Frozen 2 should have been: "Now with 200% more songs (and none of them are good)!"

I watched Upgrade which is a movie about a paraplegic who gets a cybernetic enhancement that restores his ability to walk and gives him superhuman abilities. It's pretty interesting and good but I saw the two major twists coming from the second the guy was paralyzed. It has a really cool depiction of self-driving cars that I thought was pretty good.

Throwback to when Upgrade and Venom were releasing at the same time and I thought they were the same movie because the guy in the Upgrade trailer looked like Tom Hardy.

I still haven't seen Upgrade. It's on Netflix or Prime Video now, though. Maybe I should.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I also thought the guy from Upgrade was Tom Hardy but he's not nearly as good of an actor.

 

[EgonSpengler]

I kind of want to see Upgrade. It was directed by the same guy who did Invisible Man with Elisabeth Moss, which I liked, and was made for only $5m.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

It's pretty OK. It's not ground breaking and like I said I saw the twists coming but it wasn't bad. I suspected it was low-budget but they actually did a really good job of making it not seem like a low budget film. The effects are really good, the camera work in the fight scenes is very cool and a new spin on The Matrix and the plot is decent. The movie in a lot of ways other than just the fight coreography actually reminded me of The Matrix.

Oh and the voice of the robot implant is basically Hal from 2001 which was rad.

 

[Sommerswerd]

Finally saw Ready Player One... I know, I know, I'm ashamed, I saw it finally, OK? Just shaddap about it...

Anyway I thought it was awesome, albeit they got beaten to the punch, badly, by Wreck-It-Ralph. I think the fact that Wreck-it-Ralph had already been made makes this movie come off as a knockoff/copycat and diminishes its value. I still thought the movie was great and a lot of fun, especially if you are old enough to get all the pop culture references, but I watched it with my kids and they enjoyed it too... although the language was a little cringey for young children... much moreso than I'd expected, but certainly no worse than your typical Marvel movie.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Finally saw Ready Player One... I know, I know, I'm ashamed, I saw it finally, OK? Just shaddap about it...

Anyway I thought it was awesome, albeit they got beaten to the punch, badly, by Wreck-It-Ralph

I looked it up and Wreck-it-Ralph came out in theaters a year after Ready Player One (the book) was published. I guess this means it's plausible that the idea for the movie was independent of the book as it I think CG movies are years-long productions. I had assumed W-I-R was a ripoff of RP1 but I guess that's not necessarily correct.

Have you read the book? I read the book and hated it, but I'm open to the movie being a good experience as I suspect a lot of what I hated from the book would not make it on screen.

 

[Synobun]

I looked it up and Wreck-it-Ralph came out in theaters a year after Ready Player One (the book) was published. I guess this means it's plausible that the idea for the movie was independent of the book as it I think CG movies are years-long productions. I had assumed W-I-R was a ripoff of RP1 but I guess that's not necessarily correct.

Have you read the book? I read the book and hated it, but I'm open to the movie being a good experience as I suspect a lot of what I hated from the book would not make it on screen.

It's not faithful whatsoever to the book. It's just a pop-culture movie that uses the same name.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Then that's probably an improvement!

 

[Sommerswerd]

I looked it up and Wreck-it-Ralph came out in theaters a year after Ready Player One (the book) was published. I guess this means it's plausible that the idea for the movie was independent of the book as it I think CG movies are years-long productions. I had assumed W-I-R was a ripoff of RP1 but I guess that's not necessarily correct.

Have you read the book? I read the book and hated it, but I'm open to the movie being a good experience as I suspect a lot of what I hated from the book would not make it on screen.

The Wreck-It-Ralph movie came out in 2012. The Ready Player One movie came out in 2018. I didn't even know there was a book.

So I'm guessing that most people saw the latter as a knockoff of the former. Book notwithstanding.

 

[BenitoChavez]

Bill and Ted Face the Music - Bill and Ted try to save all of space and time through the power of music. It's pretty dumb but I still enjoyed it.

Atonement - It's certainly a very pretty movie and well acted but the movie has the wrong name. It tries to convince the viewer that one of the character atones for what she did. But really she just wished she could have atoned. It should have been called Guilt instead.

Changing Lanes - It's about two guys who are having really bad days and when they meet they just make it worse. It was really fun watching how the two main characters evolve and react to each other throughout the movie. It's got a lot more depth than it lets on. It feels like a very 'real' movie but some things happen that are very unreal which can be jarring.