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

[Takhisis]

WTH there's a second bill and ted film?

 

[Laurana Kanan]

WTH there's a second bill and ted film?

Three now actually.

 

[tjs282]

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.

Woooaaaahhh...

I heard a rumour that this was in the pipeline, but I hadn't realised they'd actually made it and released it already!

Most excellent...

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.

That's exactly how I felt about the book it was based on.

 

[The_J]

Watched different stuff over the weekend, including some things I already seen before (Mad Max 4; the 40 years old virgin).
Saw Rising Phoenix
This is a pretty good documentary, do recommend. It's about the paralympic games. They introduce different athletes and their stories, they tell something about the old story of the games (how they developed) and about the recent history (2008, 12, 16). I actually found it inspiring, and if I'm ever somewhere where the games are, I'd try to get a ticket. Stuff like wheelchair rugby actually looks interesting. Very good movie, do not regret.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

WTH there's a second bill and ted film?

Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey

 

[Sommerswerd]

WTH there's a second bill and ted film?

C'mon Tak, jeez get with it

 

[Takhisis]

I'm withholden to syndication! It's not my fault!

 

[hobbsyoyo]

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.

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.

When I wrote the above, I had about 10 minutes left in the film and I had correctly guessed two major twists but there was much more to come that I did not see coming. I ended the movie extremely satisfied, it definitely redeemed all its flaws with the ending.


Gemini Man was awful and I can't get over how bad the CGI was. Truly atrocious, and the plot was boring and forgettable too. I mean the main conceit of the movie is interesting - some bag guys clone secret assassin Will Smith and send the clone out to kill him - but the execution was just bland and dumb. And of course they made the pretty chick strip down to her undies because of course they did. I will say it was nice they didn't really try and shoehorn a romance plot in like I thought they would.

But man, that CGI....just awful. Not only did the face of his clone look like a video game avatar (at best), they decided to use full-CGI to render his entire body in almost every scene, rather than just pasting a face on a body-double's head. I have no idea why they went that route and it looked ridiculous because while the face itself was semi-passable, the body was not. So they had this CGI imp-looking thing hopping around doing stunts that for the most part could have easily been handled by a stunt double and it was just really awful and distracting.

 

[tjs282]

Watched Ender's Game the other night. I guess it was a competent enough adaptation, but the plot was no less horrific (when you actually stop and think about it) for all that.

 

[Lemon Merchant]

Ender's game wasn't bad as a literary trick disguised as a book, but the rest of the books sort of fleshed out the first one nicely. It's a shame that there was never a sequel to the movie that elaborated on the events of the first one. Might have been nice to show Ender evolving after what he did.

 

[Kyriakos]

Wind River (2017)

It wasn't anything special, imo. Good protagonist, but the story has been done (over) 9000 times already, and to me it felt forgettable.

 

[Synobun]

The Next Karate Kid. I didn't even know there was a sequel made to the original trilogy.

It sucked.

 

[Kyriakos]

The Next Karate Kid. I didn't even know there was a sequel made to the original trilogy.

It sucked.

Not only was it pitiful, but it was cancelled entirely by the success of the Kobrai Kai series.

 

[Synobun]

Not only was it pitiful, but it was cancelled entirely by the success of the Kobrai Kai series.

I was referring to the movie with Hilary Swank. You mean there was a show besides Cobra Kai made?

 

[Kyriakos]

I was referring to the movie with Hilary Swank. You mean there was a show besides Cobra Kai made?

Whatever, all non-Larusso KK are the same to me

 

[hobbsyoyo]

The Peanut Butter Falcon was a decent feel good movie about a miscreant (played by Shia LeBouf) who finds a runaway man with Down Syndrome (Zack Gottsagen) while on the lamb. Lacking much else to do (and on the run from people he wronged), Shia escorts Zack to a wrestling school that Zack had seen on TV and become fixated with. It was a charming, quirky movie. Shia surprised me with the depth of his acting, though I don't feel it was a particularly challenging role as he played the basic 'nice guy with rough edges' stereotype.

 

[Terxpahseyton]

Tenet
Was distracted most of the time. I don't know. Was cool. I really immersed into the soundtrack, but used entirely for my own subconscious devices most of the time.
What I can say: Characters: entirely bland and robotic.
Story: Only clever if making sense. Daring in its high goal of playing with entropy in an action flick. But not, decidedly not, good.
Action: Good. But then - only good.

Reading myself: A movie we can be glad exists and is certainly an upper to the movie universe. But still somehow not a good movie. Frack you Nolan. You messed up. But it is okay. No really. Only denial is what will make it sting its poison. You are only human, too. And it is okay. A good effort. No really. *clapping his shoulder* A good effort. *smiling encouragingly*

Pause

Deep Man-Voice, as deep as my dark thick eye brows "But you can do better."

 

[abradley]

Great tale of man against nature with Mads Mikkelsen (Casino Royale) battling nature.

Great!

 

[Birdjaguar]

"My Octopus Teacher" on Netflix. Its a documentary about a man's obsession with a particular octopus. Extraordinary! It is worth one's time.

 

[Synobun]

"My Octopus Teacher" on Netflix. Its a documentary about a man's obsession with a particular octopus. Extraordinary! It is worth one's time.

Is this a Netflix remake of The Shape of Water?