What was the last movie you watched?

I watched La Haine the other day.

...Holy shit. What a film. That ending left me shocked. I just sat and stared at the screen for like five minutes after the credits.

Rush Hour, again.

I liked it a LOT more than the first time.

X-Men: Apocalypse

I guess it was alright I might have to watch it again I wasn't really paying attention.

Sinister 2: The first one was way better, and this one did away with the "Buguul lives through pictures" thing, unfortunately. But it was okay.

How to Train Your Dragon 2

I did not enjoyed it.

The Hunger Games. I just recently read the first book, and the movie is always the next step for me if I find I enjoy a piece of literature. It's a pretty well-done, faithful adaptation. The most significant departure is not keeping it 100% from Katniss' perspective at all times, which isn't too distracting and gets some plot points across you couldn't logically have in dialogue. I even liked how the film handled one of my least favorite scenes in the book, the whole wolf muttations that turn out to have the brains and eyes of dead tributes for some reason thing: The wolves do show up, and while there's no dialogue or close up shots that reveal the bit I just spoiler-marked, there's nothing that contradicts that plot point either, so if you want it to be canon in the movie too, you can interpret it that way. Finally, I watched the Bad Lip Reading version before reading the book or seeing the movie, so I was unable to take certain scenes seriously because I was remembering Katniss getting the squirts or declaring herself to be the queen.

edited 8th Mar '17 4:14:56 PM by MikeK

Step Brothers

I've seen this multiple times and it is still funny.

Scott Pilgrim vs. The World

Definitely interesting.

The Sword Art Online movie.

The Thin Red Line

I honestly don't get the hype surrounding Terrence Malick. He sure can shoot a pretty movie, but I'm always bored to tears by the inner musings of his characters. Speaking of characters, there were waaaaay too many of them. I just couldn't care about them because I couldn't keep track of who was who.

I thoroughly enjoyed the scene where Jared Leto died though. Every movie needs one of those.

edited 10th Mar '17 3:23:57 PM by Sedmikrasky

Manchester By The Sea.

I'm sorry, but I do not like this movie at all. Everybody was an insufferable prick in it except for Lee and the pacing was agonizingly slow. >_<

Saw Get Out! and Sword Art Online: Ordinal Scale in theaters two days ago. Get Out is fantastic, I can totally see why it has a 100% Fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Super well-written, directed, acted, everything about it is fantastic. Went to see it with Webby and the two of us being an interracial couple added a bit of uncomfortableness to it though haha.

Ordinal Scale surprised me with how good it was. I just finished watching the show (mostly so we could go see the movie together) and found that I really only enjoyed a third of it, with most of the rest of the show being super cringeworthy and just plain bad at times. The movie, however, seemed to emphasize its positives far more than its faults (though some of the faults were definitely on display, such as a villain with nonsense motives and an overuse of clips from old episodes), and it was overall just a fun romp. It also had some nice payoff for some of the arcs that happened in the show itself. Honestly it was way better than it had any right to be haha.

Another Harry Potter double feature: Sorcerer's/Philosopher's Stone and Chamber of Secrets.

John Wick: Chapter 2.

Despite the sommelier scene featured in publicity, this is mostly a handgun affair. Definitely as enjoyable as the first, if lighter on the Black Comedy side.

Quantum of Solace. It was good!

The Fifth Element. The first time I saw it was by around the end of the movie, then just about half of the beginning. Got to actually see it in full yesterday, thankfully.

The Two Towers. Balrog had wings.

The newest iteration of King Kong

Dear Billy, this was an interesting film, and I liked the post-credits scene.

The Core, starring Aaron Eckhart and Hilary Swank. Pure, unadulterated, unscientific, unrealistic drivel.

Loved every minute of it. There were some good actors therein and they gave it their all, which is all I expect from a film like that.

Last few movies I've watched this week:

Irréversible: Been putting this off for some time and finally got around to watching it. I'm usually pretty good with shakycam stuff, but the first 30 minutes of this actually had me violently nauseous. The combination of the crazy fluid camerawork and droning music left me seriously disoriented. Throw in a helping of extreme violence and of course the 8 minute long-take rape scene and this is one of the most uncomfortable movies ever made. Still, enjoyed it very much for those reasons. Gaspar Noe is a master director.

Threads: Another one that's been on my watchlist for a while. The first hour or so is a bit slow, but it just keeps building tension as events in the world grow more and more worse. And then the bombs fall and everything goes to hell. After that point, it's a world of unrelenting nihilism, with the ultimate message being that life does not go on, and there is no hope for survival after a nuclear war. Might be the most depressing movie I've ever seen.

Moonlight: Took a break from the dark and depressing movies to watch something calmer. I had heard so many great things about this, and was not disappointed. This fully deserved to win Best Picture. Full of emotion and beauty, this is a seriously important film right now. The acting is superb as well. The actors for Chiron and Kevin through all three parts are completely convincing, and it actually feels like they're growing up on screen.

Martyrs: This one I didn't like too much. It felt like 5 different movies smashed into one, with it feeling like its about to end every 15 minutes leading to some nasty Ending Fatigue. And then the actual ending comes, and it feels somewhat unsatisfying. The effects were quite good though, especially what happens to Anna at the end.

History of the World Part I. It's still as funny as I remember. XD Although I still think that in the Roman Empire part, the statue behind the characters should have fell on them. It was right there!

The Equalizer, starring Denzel Washington and Chloë Grace Moretz, and directed by Antoine Fuqua. Bloody good film, much better than I was expecting, and Washington makes an utterly believable utterly ruthless bastard. Far more controlled a performance than the one he got the Oscar for in Training Day too, imho.

Moana. It's still as good as it was when I saw it in the theater.

Two days ago, Beauty and the Beast (2017) as my birthday treat. Worth the wait.

Godzilla (2014). I wanted to reevaluate it after seeing—and loving—Kong: Skull Island.

It's a'ight.