What was the last movie you watched?

Diamond Cobra Vs. The White Fox, a couple of days ago.

No, it's even worse than it sounds, if you can believe it. Best six dollars I ever spent though, so enjoyably bad it was.

Maleficent - On the one hand it's set pieces are beautiful to look at, Angelina Jolie is amazing as Maleficent and I feel was perfectly cast for the role, Aurora I feel is kind of more interesting than her animated counterpart and her relationship with Maleficent is believable. On the other hand, the movie was really not needed, it's basically taking the story of Sleeping Beauty and just making Maleficent far more nicer than what her character should be, it's not the worst in terms of the live action stuff but it's not great either, the counterparts to Flora, Fauna and Merryweather feel like downgraded versions of those characters and. WILL. NOT. EVER. EVER SHUT UP AT ALL. Plus they are idiots, King Stefan's portrayal of him going insane was completely out of nowhere and just felt annoying after a while. Ultimately this movie is a meh from me. 5/10.

Cam. That Netflix original horror film about a camgirl who tries to log into her account one day and finds there's already another copy of her doing her show. It's interesting and goes somewhere a bit different than what you would expect from a horror film with this kind of setting - I looked things up after and it turns out the screenwriter actually was a camgirl and drew on her own experiences.

Child's Play (2019) - I actually think this was a fun, interesting reinvention of the franchise - changing Chucky from a serial-killer-posessed doll to malfunctioning AI that's programmed to be friendly but accidentally learns to be a serial killer makes him oddly sympathetic at first. It is arguably a little silly that the whole plot was kicked off with a disgruntled worker tampering with a "Buddi" doll - maybe it just makes me think of that Treehouse Of Horror segment where it turns out the Krusty doll was only trying to kill Homer because it was switched on "Evil" mode.

Edited by MikeK on Oct 7th 2020 at 8:11:32 AM

Attack of the Clones

The first two Insidious movies. They're the edgy younger brother of Poltergeist for sure, but they're the definition of Ooh, the sounds, I don't like 'em.

I Still Know What You Did This Summer - I caught just the tail end of the first movie on TV followed by all of this one. This gets unintentionally self-parodic and silly even in comparison to the original but it's still entertaining. Also Jack Black has a minor, uncredited role as a dreadlocks wearing stoner comic relief character.

Witch's Night Out. Weird yet charming Canadian animated Halloween special I found on You Tube. Unusual character design (most characters are all one solid color - hair, skin, clothes and all), a few well known actors in voice roles (e.g. Dan Ackroyd and Gilda Radner), and a synthesized and vocodered "disco" theme song that weirdly reminds me of Black Mother Super Rainbow.

I finally got around to watching Invictus. It's excellently made, and Morgan Freeman did an excellent job of portraying Nelson Mandela (may he rest in peace). :)

Revenge of the Sith

Still on my "scary" movie kick, but lately I've been deliberately picking things that are more silly than scary - maybe it's because I'm juggling movies with Buffy and The Haunting of Hill House and the latter has been getting pretty intense as it goes on.

Witchboard. This looks low-budget enough that I was surprised when I looked it up later and learned it wasn't either made for TV or Direct to Video - blood tends to look like red paint, there's obvious green screen when a character falls to their death, and when someone gets possessed it's mainly represented by them changing outfits and suddenly having an electronically lowered voice ^note Okay, maybe they avoided makeup because they wanted a more "realistic" take on possession than The Exorcist, but if so, the "evil sounds deep" effect kinda cancels that out when they coulda just conveyed things entirely through acting. Still, the plot is not bad and has a decent twist to it, and I like the character Zarabeth, the punk rock/valley girl, er, Bunny Ears Medium.

It Conquered the World. I came for the silly looking monster, but stayed because everyone Took the Bad Film Seriously.

The 2020 remake of Valley Girl. I liked it.

Nosferatu. It's been on my watchlist for ages, and I finally made the time a couple of days ago. It's a cracking good watch if you can get past the limitations of it being a silent film; Orlok is amazingly creepy and unearthly.

The Tenant. The third part of a so-called "apartment trilogy", basically three movies by the same director thematically based around paranoia and Mundane Horror in apartment building settings (the other two being Repulsion and Rosemary's Baby). Of the three, I've only actually seen Rosemary's Baby previously, but regardless it's sorta interesting this is the only one with a male protagonist - in Rosemary's Baby anyway, the main character is meant to be vulnerable to manipulation due to being a pregnant woman, here, it's more about the main character being a foreigner subject to prejudice/being deported.

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark. I didn't realize I'd seen this before until I started streaming it - I summed up my memory of it to myself as "oh yeah, the weird, whispering rat things in the furnace".

Just got finished watching The Crow. Classic movie, and especially good considering the season.

Dark Skies was a pretty decent movie.

The Cannonball Run. It has an excellent mixture of action and comedy. XD

The Interview was just another raunchy comedy. Had some funny moments though.

Tombstone was a pretty good western. Doc has the best lines.

The Wicker Man (1973): I love this one and try to get it in every Halloween season.

Rocky Horror Picture Show: I still have yet to go to an actual showing of this. One thing that's sort of funny is I've also been watching all the way through Buffy the Vampire Slayer, I'm on a facebook group about the show, and just before I started this movie, someone pointed out a slight physical resemblance between Kristine Sutherland (Buffy's mom in BTVS) and Susan Sarandon (Janet in Rocky Horror).

Hubie Halloween: I think I only laughed a few times, but it's not terrible or anything. Maybe worth a watch if you've still got some nostalgia for 90's Adam Sandler movies, which this comes off as a slightly more family friendly version of.

Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Armitage III (Poly-Matrix). It's still as good as I remember. :)

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

The Addams Family. I don't watch movies much.

O Brother, Where Art Thou? I've never seen a Coen Brothers movie before, but this seems like one hell of a good first movie to see of theirs.

You got that right.

Update for today: The Princess Diaries. I thought it was pretty good, better than I was expecting. :)

Edited by Demetrios on Nov 6th 2020 at 10:08:35 AM