Last film you watched and your rating

Jumanji the new one.

This definitely deserves a 6/10. But I really quite enjoyed it, so I'll give it a 7.

deathofcows wrote:Now that I know my Kubo opinion isn't controversial, can I try out another?

Spiderverse was great and warm and hilarious. But 1) There wasn't enough actual city-swooping and majestic swinging (compared to lots of dense and detailed action scenes with skittering, quick movements and cuts) and 2) The Borderlands-esque comic book cel-shaded eyes and facial features would have been better left without the ink effect to make it seem slightly more stop-motion/puppet-y in feel.

Great film, mind. And I'm excited for view 2.

As someone who works in the creative industry, the art direction was incredible and dare I say it visually unique. The comic book inspired vibe was perfectly done in my opinion. The skittering movements, quick cuts, reminded me of the old spiderman comics i used to read brought to life.

souljahsstory wrote:
deathofcows wrote:Now that I know my Kubo opinion isn't controversial, can I try out another?

Spiderverse was great and warm and hilarious. But 1) There wasn't enough actual city-swooping and majestic swinging (compared to lots of dense and detailed action scenes with skittering, quick movements and cuts) and 2) The Borderlands-esque comic book cel-shaded eyes and facial features would have been better left without the ink effect to make it seem slightly more stop-motion/puppet-y in feel.

Great film, mind. And I'm excited for view 2.

As someone who works in the creative industry, the art direction was incredible and dare I say it visually unique. The comic book inspired vibe was perfectly done in my opinion. The skittering movements, quick cuts, reminded me of the old spiderman comics i used to read brought to life.

Agree with all that.

I think it's just a matter of my own expectations. I often play games and watch films (and too many youtube dance videos) for movement and flow and was excited for Spiderman to have those scenes of city-spanning tarzan-spider-parkour where just traversal is epic and amazing and free. Where music and movement is in sync and almost impressionistically rewarding, without the need for plot or dialogue or action or whatever else.

- Like the bit that starts around 2:00 in this video (or lots in Spider-Raimi 2) - with the swelling, heroic musical theme errupting and the swing and scale and dive from road to train. I love these kind of movie moments.

But this wasn't the movement style the film went for in its motion, which is fine (better than fine, I thought the film was gorgeous and great), and I'm sure without my preconceived wishlist I;ll love it even more the second time round. But as my cousin put it - 'it didn't get you pumped' in the way some films mirror their way into you and wind you up, making you want to move and jump and train afterwards.

I should probably just get a PS4 and play the Spider-Man game for that fix, tbh.

After the scientific break thru this week of the first ever picture of a Black Hole being photographed seemed right to watch
Interstellar 9/10

Brilliant film and soundtrack

Hellboy - 2019 - 3/10

As forgettable a film as countless others I can't remember. A pointlessly film that add swearing and gore but without malice so both feel light and pointless.

It doesn't feel like a Neil Marshall film, it feels cheap and at times the film looks cheap too. Some poor cgi at times and crap green screen. Also the ghosts talking cgi is genuinely a terrible choice as it looks cheap and tacky and like a actors head copy and pasted into a cgi body....Which it is.

It's a film that does nothing.

It has no purpose and all it does is reminds everyone how amazing the first two films were.

The script has no laughs, its attempt at humour is a swearing mutant pig who makes the second turtle's film take a giant pig look classy.

Milla who I normally love looks good but has nothing of interest to do here.

It's all just silly and pointless and just meh. A flat, boring and really odd film.

Not worth seeing until it comes on TV.

Three billboards - 8/10

This movie is a real slow burner. Very thought provoking and some great scenes.

Us -6/10

It was so ludicrous that I failed to be scared at all. Maybe Jordan Peele is on another level and we wasn’t supposed to be but eh, silly fun for an afternoon.

Wow, Hellboy appears to be getting an absolute panning across the board. :dread:

Number of reviews mentioning that they tried to copy the Deadpool format and failed spectaculary. Thought it stank of a copy of paste job when I saw the trailer.

Shame, I liked the series and David Harbour

Nightcrawler - 9/10

For some reason I assumed I would dislike this movie so never bothered watching it. I was very wrong, it’s fantastic and Gyllenhaal is amazingly creepy.

Gyllenhaal in Nightcrawler as the story moves along he gets more and more creepy and makes your skincrawl

Pacific Rim. 2/10. Thats 2hrs i want back. If there is a heaven, St Peter will punish me for watching it.

mcjihge2 wrote:Pacific Rim. 2/10. Thats 2hrs i want back. If there is a heaven, St Peter will punish me for watching it.

I wasn't impressed by it either.

Enjoyed the critically mauled sequel a lot more.

I liked Kubo.

Thought it was a solid 7/10 and my four kids loved it.

mcjihge2 wrote:Pacific Rim. 2/10. Thats 2hrs i want back. If there is a heaven, St Peter will punish me for watching it.

Its good if you just take it as it is and don't overanalyse everything .

I will watch most things involving giant robots and godzilla esque monsters though.

mcjihge2 wrote:Pacific Rim. 2/10. Thats 2hrs i want back. If there is a heaven, St Peter will punish me for watching it.

Heathens, heathens everywhere.

The sequel is one of the worst films I've seen in years though.

Akira (1988) - ****
American Beauty (1999) - ****
Apocalypse Now (1979) - ****
Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991) - ****
Dazed and Confused (1993) - **
Dog Day Afternoon (1975) - *****
Gone Girl (2014) - ****
Léon: The Professional (1994) - *****
Risky Business (1983) - **
Robocop (1987) - ****
Seven Psychopaths (2012) - ***
Shame (2011) - ****
Straight Outta Compton (2015) - ***

Venom - 7/10

That wasn't anywhere near as bad as I expected, yes the first half of the film dragged on a bit and the CGI was a tad shoddy but it was a fun watch nontheless.

The post credits scene was exactly as I predicted Carnage will be in the sequel - although I don't see how considering how all the other symbiotes apparently died

Yes.

Gemini73

The Dark Tower

Never read the books but I even I can see that huge amounts of content was missing given how the plot jumped all over place. Aside from one cool gunfight all rather forgettable.

3/10

Corazon de Leon

Ironhide wrote:Venom - 7/10

That wasn't anywhere near as bad as I expected, yes the first half of the film dragged on a bit and the CGI was a tad shoddy but it was a fun watch nontheless.

The post credits scene was exactly as I predicted Carnage will be in the sequel - although I don't see how considering how all the other symbiotes apparently died

The Carnage symbiote is Venom's asexually produced child.

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