Which movies have you watched? xi --- straight to dvd

[Traitorfish]

Watched Imperium tonight- the one where Daniel Radcliffe goes undercover as a neo-Nazi. It was good, but I had a little trouble getting into the first half, not because the film wasn't good, but because Nazis are just so goddam ridiculous that it's hard to take them too seriously until they ratchet up the tension into the second act.

 

[Synobun]

Saw "The Fighter" a couple days ago. It was strange to see Amy Adams in a profane role. Christian Bale was excellent as always. Mark Wahlberg was okay.

The movie itself was alright. It's "based on a true story" if that's your speed. I personally would have preferred a little more fighting and less family drama.

 

[Lemon Merchant]

I watched "King Arthur: Legend of the Sword" (28% on Rotten Tomatoes).

It wasn't that bad, really. It was actually a little bit more interesting than the usual sword in the stone nonsense. It's sort of a different take on the Arthurian legend.

That hardest part for me was getting used to seeing Charlie Hunnam with a British accent after just watching all 7 seasons of "Sons of Anarchy."

"Lemon, why is Jax Teller talking like an Englishman?" said my GF.

 

[Arakhor]

He appears to be a Geordie.

 

[Manfred Belheim]

I've decided to watch all the Resident Evil films. Not sure why as I'm not a fan of the games and apparently they're terrible, but I also know nothing about the storylines and sometimes it's just nice to watch things you have absolutely no knowledge about going into them.

I found the first one surprisingly enjoyable, despite the non-characters and the awful music. In hindsight I think it's more a reflection of how awful any similar film would be these days, crammed full of endless CGI explosions and green screen. So I think it just felt refreshing in comparison.

The second film... well due to a mix up with the DVD player I somehow managed to skip the opening of the film and start it at the 20 minute mark. What was notable about this was that I didn't even notice and the film seemed to make perfect sense without it, albeing feeling surprisingly short That probably indicates something, although I'm not sure what.

 

[Arakhor]

I saw the first three films due to various friends, and whilst the first is fairly reasonable and the second moreorless watchable, I wasn't a fan of the third (even by the mild standards of the first two).

 

[Takhisis]

That probably indicates something, although I'm not sure what.

They have so little plot in them that you can skip an entire film and the others still make sense.

If they can be claimed to make sense, that is.

 

[Zkribbler]

Lonesome Dove.

Q: In the scene where the cattle drive is hit by lightning, the lightning plays over the herd but neither harms nor even upsets the cattle. What is this phenomenon?

 

[Takhisis]

I haven't watched the film, but it's probably lightning that fell relatively nearby, enough so that the herd was illuminated?
Or a bolt from one cloud to another.

 

[Zkribbler]

Naw, the movie showed lightning crawling over the herd like when the Jawas shot R2D2. Their horns also glowed.

 

[civvver]

I watched spiderman homecoming last night. AWESOME. It's my favorite marvel movie now. There's still several I haven't seen, thor 2, avengers 2, both guardians. Other than that civil war and original iron man were my favorites but this is better.

It's really funny and lighthearted, a nice departure from the usual marvel movie fare where the entire world is always ending lately. The villain is also cool because he's not like inherently evil like a lot of the villains, he's just a guy trying to make his way in the world and everything doesn't come off as black and white. I like that theme.

The only things I'm a little meh on are it departs a lot from spiderman canon. Which I am not a comic reader, just a cartoon and movie watcher, so I'm the last person to ask about canon, but there's a clear Mary Jane replacement in the movie who isn't named Mary Jane, there's no Gwen like some of the other spiderman movies, and spiderman has a side kick friend. And his origin story seems totally different, as shown in civil war. You know how original spiderman was a wrestling star for cash, let that one thug robbing the place go and that guy ending up killing his uncle ben? I see no references to that moment in the spiderman reboot. No great power great responsibility theme.

Still it's really well done, it's funny, the pacing is great, the guy playing spiderman is perfect and has really spidey like lines like his wisecracks when fighting bad guys are perfect. Toby macguires were never that funny or believable. I find CGI fights in a lot of these newer movies hard to follow, so much going on, but only one part was like that in this one.

And now as a side note, I'll rank the marvel movies in order of best to last in my opinion, omitting ones I haven't seen. Talking about the new marvel universe ones (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Marvel_Cinematic_Universe_films) so no spiderman 1,2,3 or amazing spiderman or that original hulk with eric bana or punisher, blade etc.

Spiderman homecoming
Civil War
Iron Man
Winter Soldier
Avengers
Thor
Dr Strange
Iron Man 2
Iron Man 3
Captain America First Avenger
Hulk

Haven't seen Ant man, age of ultron, guardians 1 or 2.

 

[Manfred Belheim]

I saw the first three films due to various friends, and whilst the first is fairly reasonable and the second moreorless watchable, I wasn't a fan of the third (even by the mild standards of the first two).

Just watched the third one. It seemed to have better production values than the first two and actually looked like a proper film, rather than something made for TV. But no-one seemed to have any motivation for doing anything at all, just... hang around and shoot zombies. Still... at least I hit the half way point.

 

[Smellincoffee]

Spiderman II. That kid really sucks at the whole "secret identity" thing.

 

[Borachio]

The Babadook (2014 98% Rotten Tomatoes)

Now, I don't generally think much of the horror genre. It tends to make me laugh. But this one was really very good. (What do we expect from an Australian film? They don't seem to ever make very bad ones. Mad Max excepted. Or bad ones that come to my attention, anyway.)

It seemed, to me, to be about a woman whose sense of trauma about losing her husband to a car accident, while he was driving her to hospital to have their son, led to her having increasingly psychotic episodes on the anniversary of both his death and the birthday of her son.

Nicely directed and acted.

 

[Kyriakos]

The Babadook (2014 98% Rotten Tomatoes)

Now, I don't generally think much of the horror genre. It tends to make me laugh. But this one was really very good. (What do we expect from an Australian film? They don't seem to ever make very bad ones. Mad Max excepted. Or bad ones that come to my attention, anyway.)

It seemed, to me, to be about a woman whose sense of trauma about losing her husband to a car accident, while he was driving her to hospital to have their son, led to her having increasingly psychotic episodes on the anniversary of both his death and the birthday of her son.

Nicely directed and acted.

While the Babadook is very likely the best recent horror movie, there are unfortunately many terribly bad australian horror films, including a serial killer in the outback and mutants/aliens/ghosts in the sewer.

 

[Borachio]

It's a cheery night-time tale for kids.

 

[Synobun]

Rewatched the first Michael Bay Transformers movie a couple days ago. Good fun for 2 and a half hours.

 

[Takhisis]

It's a cheery night-time tale for kids.

For kids? Same as a knife-wrench?

 

[Borachio]

Gravity (2013 96% rotten tomatoes)

Oh, yeah. Sandra Bullock and George Clooney drifting about in space.

The visual effects were, of course, stunning.

The plot was rather thin and it moved along a bit too slowly, for me.

All things considered, though, a good film.

 

[Borachio]

Killing Them Softly (2013 74% rotten tomatoes)

That 74% is absolutely unbelievably low.

This was a great movie, imo.

The plot only had one or two holes in it, (Or maybe my attention lapsed.) which is phenomenal in my experience.

Brad Pitt was good, and the two main protagonists at the start were suitably sleazy.

"America isn't a country. It's a business. Now give me my money!" was a very nice ending.