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

[MaryKB]

Last night I saw Enola Holmes on Netflix. Wonderful and brilliant movie, with amazing acting from Millie Bobbie Brown. I highly recommend it, everyone should see this movie.

 

[The_J]

I thought it was rather mixed.
I liked the heroine and the scenario (although re-branding Sherlock Holmes for a younger and more female audience doesn't win a creativity price; still like it), but the story itself made only partially sense, since the original issue is not resolved, and the detective work for the resolved case is not extensive. IMHO could have been done better.

Still the best thing I saw last weekend (maybe equal to the Hangover II), so my selection recently hasn't been brilliant :/.

 

[tjs282]

Last night I saw Enola Holmes on Netflix. Wonderful and brilliant movie, with amazing acting from Millie Bobbie Brown. I highly recommend it, everyone should see this movie.

Still the best thing I saw last weekend (maybe equal to the Hangover II), so my selection recently hasn't been brilliant :/.

I have to say, I enjoyed the trailer for Enola Holmes and was thinking about suggesting it to watch with wifey (who has already seen Stranger Things S1–S3), so thanks for the recommendation(s).

Also looks like it will be much more entertaining than the Henry Cavill-starring movie that I saw most recently: B(vs)S: DoJ

So overwrought, overblown and underplotted that I split it over 2 nights' viewing (I think I fell asleep halfway through it!). Best part of that movie was Gal Gadot — for all of the 15 minutes she was in it.

 

[MaryKB]

I love Batman vs Superman, I thought it was really good.

 

[EgonSpengler]

I love Batman vs Superman, I thought it was really good.

My only clear memory of that movie is, "I'm a friend of your son." "Yeah, I figured."


Y'know, I bet Diane Lane would play a great middle-aged Lois.

 

[BenitoChavez]

I'm not sure if I could buy Cavill as Sherlock Holmes. Holmes is supposed to be an intellectual, loner, and a drug addict. Cavill tends to play the charismatic, macho man who throws punches. The two don't exactly mix.

My only clear memory of that movie is, "I'm a friend of your son." "Yeah, I figured."

Martha
WHY DID YOU SAY THAT NAME!?!?!??!

I liked BvS too but that scene was really silly

 

[Zkribbler]

We watched American Graffiti. What a great flick. On the special features, Lucas tells of his trials and tribulations--the studios hated it.

 

[local_hero]

Venom, what an absurd plot do far. The authorities only try to hunt down Venom. Did they not notice the rogue corporation sending out goons and drones, causing destruction and death through San Francisco before Venom revealed himself?

 

[Bugfatty300]

All the fake well wishes for Trump made me reewatch The Death of Stalin.

-sniffles- He's irreplaceable...

 

[Takhisis]

^Due to Ajidica's meddling I'm now stuck watching Yes, Minister clips.

 

[EgonSpengler]

Enola Holmes (2020)

A playful lark that reminded me of the comedic teens-on-an-adventure movies of yesteryear. A scoop of Ferris Bueller's Day Off; a drizzle of Teen Wolf; a dash of Adventures in Babysitting. Millie Bobby Brown has tremendous charm. I thought the breaking of the 4th wall was cute, used as it mostly was to make the viewer Enola's chum rather than for exposition or narration - the best of these moments were when Brown simply looked at the viewer, without saying anything. I'd heard or read some of the criticisms beforehand and was bracing myself, but while I saw what people were talking about, none of it bothered me in the slightest. Style over substance, but that was fine. Clearly meant to kick off a series, if it's successful.

 

[The_J]

Oh man, I tried The Wandering Earth, and I think there's just nothing right with this film.
I guess you already need to be able to massively suspend your disbelief if the movie starts with that they'll outfit the whole damn planet with massive engines to fly it for 2500 years to Alpha Centauri. But the movie continues with failures from every side (rogue AI, disappearing atmosphere, and failing engines, all unrelated), so that you really can't see how any of this could be fixed. I gave up after they decided to drive with a big truck through the ice desert in the middle of China to Sulawesi (roughly 3000 km, straight), which according to the in-movie narrative will only take 10 hours.

I watched afterwards Hard Target with Jean-Claude van Damme, which now seemed like the most realistic movie ever, even if it takes 10 gun shots in the torso and afterwards a kick in the face to knock out some of the bad guys.

 

[Synobun]

What We Do In the Shadows. Kinda boring.

Also rewatched My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Still holds up, still great.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

What We Do In the Shadows. Kinda boring.

What a coincidence, I just started this last night. I think it's great, however.

Oh man, I tried The Wandering Earth, and I think there's just nothing right with this film.
I guess you already need to be able to massively suspend your disbelief if the movie starts with that they'll outfit the whole damn planet with massive engines to fly it for 2500 years to Alpha Centauri. But the movie continues with failures from every side (rogue AI, disappearing atmosphere, and failing engines, all unrelated), so that you really can't see how any of this could be fixed. I gave up after they decided to drive with a big truck through the ice desert in the middle of China to Sulawesi (roughly 3000 km, straight), which according to the in-movie narrative will only take 10 hours.

The whole premise of this movie is so wild that it makes me question how faithfully it was translated from a book to film. The author (Cixin Liu) also wrote The Three Body Problem trilogy, which I consider some of the best science fiction out there, period, and it is not really that unrealistic on the whole.

That said, I still enjoyed The Wandering Earth quite a lot even though it was complete garbage from a scientific standpoint.

 

[The_J]

If you assume that this was somewhat a bit more accurate in the book (I don't know), then someone must have done a great effort to butcher it totally, so I'm not sure if I'd believe that .

I got bored in the middle, I thought they'll need to pull so much unrealistic crap that I couldn't be bothered. Might have deus-ex-machina-ed the whole solution directly, would not have mattered.

What a coincidence, I just started this last night. I think it's great, however.

I'm with you at that one, one of the funniest things I've seen in the last few years.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Honestly even the basic premise is pretty out there from a scientific point. You basically need the energy output of small stars to move planets around.

 

[Zkribbler]

HOT PURSUIT is the best buddy movie I've seen in years.

 

[Chukchi Husky]

I've been watching through the Superman films. Superman and the Mole Men, Superman (1978), Superman II, Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut, Superman III, Superman IV: The Quest for Peace and Superman Returns.

We watched American Graffiti. What a great flick. On the special features, Lucas tells of his trials and tribulations--the studios hated it.

I watched American Graffiti a couple of weeks ago. I followed it with the Back to the Future Trilogy. I mention that because Biff Tannen takes his name from Ned Tanen, the studio executive at Universal when American Graffiti was made.

What We Do In the Shadows. Kinda boring.

I'm frequently recommended to watch that, along with the TV series.

 

[The_J]

There's a series to the movie? Would totally watch.


I just saw The Dawn Wall. About 2 guys climbing a 1km high wall in Yosemite, apparently happened in 2015 with great media coverage, and I totally missed it. The documentary is really great. There are a lot of details and side stories, so it doesn't get boring. The achievement itself is also great, which I only realized during the movie. Would definitely recommend, it's very inspiring. Would be nice to meet this guys, must be really interesting to talk to them.

 

[Sommerswerd]

Been watching through all the Pirates of the Caribbean movies with the family. I'd already seen all of them, except for PotC: On Stranger Tides for some reason... but the kids had never seen any of them.

We watched through the others and ended up skipping On Stranger Tides because it wasn't on Disney plus for some damn reason

Spoiler :

its cause Disney wants to milk more money out of you for some additional premium content, that's why :rolleye:

We finally just ended up watching it on Amazon Prime. Overall, the movies were better than I remember them being, and also much more family friendly than Marvel movies. I mean they aren't deep-thinking movies obviously, but pretty fun for what they are... silly, lighthearted romps.