NEW: List some movies you've watched recently. Theatre, rental, TV... and give a */10

[DigDog]

i watched Mad God - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15090124/reference/

i mean, i sat there while mad god did its thing, then left, and did not expand further.

70+ min long claynimation w/ various miniatures and other practical effects (i mean, nothing mindblowing, but cute), about .. about .. i don't know.
*sigh* there is no dialogue.
Nor is there any attempt to convey a story aside from the visuals. No voiceover, no title cards. There is less dialogue here than in Dernier Combat, but at least, in DC i can LOOK AT HUMAN BEINGS, but no, ooh no. No you gotta stare at a ball of plasticine mounted on some painted plastic cups.

I gather that .. some kind of cataclysm happened. And after this cataclysm, a explorer ventures into the deadlands in search of something. He is captured by the bad guys, at which point the film abandons any pretense of realism and becomes purely abstract, at which point i gave up.

4.5/10 idk i guess if you LOVE stop-motion than yeah, sure, knock yourself out.

 

[IronWing]

HBO's His Dark Materials - I finished the series. It is better story telling than the books were though it still has enormous plot holes and follows Phil Pullman's lead in creating characters for no particular reason and then killing them for no particular reason. The HBO series expands on a few characters from the books and does a good job of it. The worst never-ending ending since the LOTR. "Hey, the story's wrapped up." "Crap, we got forty more minutes to fill." "Fill them, we must." Still, overall entertaining. 7.5/10

The Golden Compass movie told the first part of the story better than the books or the HBO series but ended with no sequels.

 

[Charmonium]

Documentary - Four Seasons Total Landscaping.

I'm not going to say this is a must watch, because it's definitely anything but. That said, if you remember the episode right after the 2020 election where Rudy the red nosed alky summoned the press to a dildo shop in Philly, you will laugh until you puke up your guts.

Check local listings (hint - 10pm EDT tomorrow)

 

[igor_kavinski]

The Golden Compass movie told the first part of the story better than the books or the HBO series but ended with no sequels.

Loved that movie. It was magical. But this is the first instance I'm hearing of a movie outdoing the source material (if there are others, do enlighten!).

 

[igor_kavinski]

Tetris (2023) 10/10

I would give it a 7.5/10

Mainly because if it had been any other country (even China or North Korea), I would not have cringed as much.

Russian society and politics makes NO sense to any human of sound mind. It's a cancer that needs to be eradicated from the root and the roots need to be burned and then the ashes loaded onto a Falcon Heavy rocket, with a trajectory directed out of our solar system, straight towards a supermassive blackhole. And then something unprecedented might happen to a supermassive blackhole in the known Universe. All bets are off, as to what that might be.

 

[IronWing]

Loved that movie. It was magical. But this is the first instance I'm hearing of a movie outdoing the source material (if there are others, do enlighten!).

Phil Pullman could have used an editor. The books ramble and the author loses his way. He had a bunch of good ideas he tried to fit into a single story and ended dropping balls all over the place. He literally created characters who did nothing but wander around for a bit and then die without doing anything to further the plot. The HBO series takes up some of these characters and gives them purpose. Phil Pullman is an executive producer on the series* so perhaps the series is what he intended the books to be. The series still has holes but nowhere near as many as the books. The movie was much tighter than either the books or the series but it stuck to a much smaller story than the other two and trimmed a lot of fat.

*I've never seen any movie or TV series with as many executive producers as this HBO series.

 

[DigDog]

 

[Charmonium]

Documentary - Four Seasons Total Landscaping.

I'm not going to say this is a must watch, because it's definitely anything but. That said, if you remember the episode right after the 2020 election where Rudy the red nosed alky summoned the press to a dildo shop in Philly, you will laugh until you puke up your guts.

Check local listings (hint - 10pm EDT tomorrow)

I'm rewatching this and it's still a laughing gas hoot.

 

[JEDI]

Continuation of Movie Thread 7/30/23.

Previous thread can be found here: https://forums.anandtech.com/thread...ntly-theatre-rental-tv-and-give-a-10.2178406/

Enjoy! And host a cold one for Keith Talent while you do.

ok, i'll bite.

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What happened to him?
His last post didnt mention anything about quitting Atot, unlike Shorty.

And he was an Administrator of ATOT?!?
How did i miss this??
Thought E-Squared and Allison became the Administrators when DrPizza rage quit?

You have incorrect information and are posting this in the wrong place. That's 0 for 2. Please quit while you're behind.

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[JEDI]

As for my addition to this new movie thread:

Transformers: Rise of the Beasts 6/10



Remember the Saturday morning cartoon Transformers: Beast Wars from the 1990s?
Well, they made a movie out of it.

Optimus Primal, Rhinox, etc
but no Rattrap

This movie is a Copy/paste from the Bumblebee movie (ie: a human befriends Bumblebee).
Meh.
Oh, Optimus Prime and crew (including Bumblebee) are in it as well.

Wiki says This movie is a sequel to the Bumblebee movie and a prequel to the original Transformers movie (2007).

It has earned $430M so far but is the lowest grossing of the Transformers movies.
it is planned to be a Trilogy so expect 2 sequels.

The final fight was stupid.
Unicron has imbued Scourge with dark energy which makes him next to impossible to defeat.
And he kicked Optimus Prime's ass in the beginning of the movie.
Yet near the end of the movie of course he loses.
but What changed?
Meh indeed

sidenote:
I gave the score +1 because it brought back good memories of my favorite sat morning cartoon

 

[Dr. Detroit]

Nate Diaz vs. Jake Paul - 5/10
If I paid for this crap it would have been a 2, but it gets a 5 as I streamed it. Glad Team 209 got paid and had fun acting a clown in this mockery of boxing that JP is promoting.

 

[JEDI]

I posted 9 reviews (out of the 10 movie pack) from Studio Ghibli.



Here's my most recent one in the old movie thread:

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'The Wind Rises' is the last film directed by famed animator Hayao Miyazaki before his retirement in 2013.

In February 2017, Suzuki announced that Miyazaki had come out of retirement to direct a new feature film, The Boy and the Heron (2023), which he intends to be his one final film.[8][9]

That movie came out last month!

The Boy and the Heron - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I was afraid he was going to die before finishing it.
He's age 82

My review will be coming...

 

[Charmonium]

I haven't seen any recent stats, but I don't think it's unusual for the Japanese to live to 90 and beyond. I'm going to guess however that the median (not mean) age is under 90.

 

[JujuFish]

I haven't seen any recent stats, but I don't think it's unusual for the Japanese to live to 90 and beyond. I'm going to guess however that the median (not mean) age is under 90.

According to https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.DYN.LE00.MA.IN the average life expectancy for a Japanese male is 81.

 

[allisolm]

Went to see Meg 2: The Trench in 3D. Thought it would be a perfect movie for 3D - giant shark mouths agape coming right out of the screen. Didn't happen. There was a dragonfly at the beginning of the movie flitting around my seat and I had to dodge a piece of blown-up shark later on. Those were it. Certainly not a great , or even good movie, but it is Jason Statham and he goes a long way in any movie. Thankfully my tickets were free. I give it a 6 but only because of Statham and I never looked at my watch to see how much time there was left in the movie.

 

[Charmonium]

@allisolm - you gotz to luv JS.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Those were it.

I think you suffer from whatever I suffer from: https://www.lifewire.com/why-doesnt-3d-work-for-some-people-1996

When I saw The Rise of Skywalker, the only 3D thing that popped out for me was the Star Destroyer. My left eye is considerably weak so that might be why I can't perceive depth in 3D video.

 

[Ajay]

Liked Silo on AppleTV. I'll give it my standard 7/10 for shows/movies I don't hate or love.

 

[MrSquished]

Liked Silo on AppleTV. I'll give it my standard 7/10 for shows/movies I don't hate or love.

I thought it was a great start to a sci-fi series. I would say 8.5/10

I didn't want to wait for years for the show, so I started reading the first book. Basically the end of season 1 on the show is about 37% into the first book. There are three books. It's too good to wait that long to finish the story, so I'll be reading them all.

They definitely changed some things from the book, but I see why, and they do make sense in the grand scheme of things. They are not doing the book an injustice at all, but it's nice to read the books.

 

[stargazr]

Domina - 8/10

TV Series based on the perspective of Livia Drucilla (wife of Augustus) on the power struggles in ancient Rome. This one is set in a time period not usually covered in film - after Cleopatra and Antony died.

Very well done; great writing and acting. I thought the pacing was pretty good, and it held my interest through the first season. Not a popular period of Rome but if you like ancient history I would recommend.

 

[lxskllr]

Star Trek V 3/10

I was rewatching Star Trek movies this weekend, and thought I had seen them all. Somehow I missed the gem of #5. It's like an extra shitty Star Wars knockoff. I'd be mildly annoyed if it were a typical tv episode, but to spend the amount of time I did on a movie length episode makes it egregious. Unfocused, stupid action, and a plot that was barely explained. Most likely the last time I see it

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Star Trek V 3/10

I was rewatching Star Trek movies this weekend, and thought I had seen them all. Somehow I missed the gem of #5. It's like an extra shitty Star Wars knockoff. I'd be mildly annoyed if it were a typical tv episode, but to spend the amount of time I did on a movie length episode makes it egregious. Unfocused, stupid action, and a plot that was barely explained. Most likely the last time I see it

-Ahh the odd #'d Trek movies...

 

[purbeast0]

Kaleidoscope on Netflix. Goes from interesting to less so, esp. the last two episodes. Cool twist, which I figured out, but I got the 'why' wrong. Ending is lame, IMHO. 7/10 - only because the Mrs. and I had fun talking it over while watching.

Pretty sure the whole gimmick about that show was everyone watches it in a different order, so your last two episodes won't be everyones last 2 episodes.

 

[Ajay]

Pretty sure the whole gimmick about that show was everyone watches it in a different order, so your last two episodes won't be everyones last 2 episodes.

Ah, in that case I guess I didn't like my order. Weird. THX.

 

[akugami]

Guardians of the Galaxy 3
7/10

I did not watch in theater. I did enjoy the movie.

Chukwudi Iwuji as the High Evolutionary is absolutely sinister and I hope they bring him back.

Emotional sendoff for everyone's favorite raccoon.