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

[Charmonium]

Atomic Blonde - 2017 - 9/10

First, I'm a huge Charlize Theron fan so, it's important to understand that going in.

I really can't decide here. It's either a really drab and understated (but overly serious) spy thriller or . . . .

It's the precise opposite.

 

[pmv]

Saw that Civil War movie (though didn't have high hopes for it, based on reviews, as with every movie I ever see it was because someone else suggested it).

It was...OK. But could have been vastly more interesting than it was.

Wasn't really political at all, at best it was a movie about the profession of war photography with the 'civil war' angle just being an attention-grabbing backdrop.

Reminded me of the novel DelCorso's Gallery, or various biographies of war photographers I've read - also reminded me of Monsters and even The Walking Dead (just skipping the zombies and jumping straight to the "the real threat is other people" part.)

On the other hand, had it been more explicitly about the Civil War, it might have ended up as a filmed version of The Turner Diaries, and nobody (apart from neo-Nazis) wants that.

The most obvious sign of its determination to be boringly apolitical was the reference to Texas and California being part of one faction.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Bladerunner 2049 - yes it's a bit too long and self indulgent at times, but it is so hypnotically atmospheric and the story so achingly beautiful that you just gotta go with it.

That's the sort of movie Ryan Gosling shines in.

 

[igor_kavinski]

nah, it was not bad. The music was very well used and i'm a fool for a good use of I Was Made For Loving You. Jason Momoa was a nice touch in the very last few minutes, which is saying a lot, given how absolutely horrid of an "actor" he is. The photography was excellent throughout, and Gosling is still a very capable actor, for what he does. It may not be *my* kind of film, but it deserves a fair rating.

You may be inviting quite a few users to disagree vehemently with you, especially those who hate cheesy comedies like this movie.

Agree on the Mamoa part.

Gosling is capable which boggles my mind as to why he is doing crap roles. That Barbie crap affected (infected?) his mind

 

[igor_kavinski]

Atomic Blonde - 2017 - 9/10

First, I'm a huge Charlize Theron fan so, it's important to understand that going in.

I don't recall seeing anything where she wasn't fantastic. She has the brains to choose the right roles.

 

[akugami]

I remember going to the theater and seeing Charlize Theron when she was relatively unknown in 2 Days in the Valley and was totally captivated by her. But that could just be teenage hormones, considering how scantily clad she was in some scenes in that movie. I can't really rate 2 Days in the Valley right now since it's been so long since I've seen it.

 

[MrSquished]

June is going to be a bit lit. These are three of the shows dropping, and there could be more. House of the Dragon S2, The Boys S4, The Bear S3. Maybe at another point later this summer Shrinking S2 or Severance S2 will come out.

 

[Dr. Detroit]

The Royal Hotel - 5/10 (Streaming on Hulu)

Wen't into this blind reading that it was Australia Outback psychological thriller. Film wasn't very tense, most every character was a wise and beautiful woman, not much Outback cinematography.

Meh!

 

[DigDog]

a wise and beautiful woman

typical aussie

 

[igor_kavinski]

typical aussie

Been down under?

 

[DigDog]

Been down under?

i have never been and now i'm worried i missed the golden age of 'Straya. But then again i guess everyone had a golden age in the 80s.

However you should know, there is a specific word that when typed into the Anandtech forum, gets auto-corrected to "wise and beautiful woman". It is a typical Australian word. In fact, they love that word more than they love a barbie.

 

[Dr. Detroit]

i have never been and now i'm worried i missed the golden age of 'Straya. But then again i guess everyone had a golden age in the 80s.

However you should know, there is a specific word that when typed into the Anandtech forum, gets auto-corrected to "wise and beautiful woman". It is a typical Australian word. In fact, they love that word more than they love a barbie.

Glad someone caught it!

 

[zinfamous]

Saw Furiosa over the weekend...probably the only flick I've had any real interest in over the last eh, 9 years or so, after Fury Road was released and reminded us, finally, that action movies and simply great, perfect films could still be made.

Don't expect Fury Road going into this one, though. It's much more narrative and character driven, and so a lot slower than the 2 hours of straight unrelenting action that we got from Fury Road. I compare it to Kill Bill 1 and 2: straight action set pieces in the first, characters and well-paced story in the second. We get a lot more of Gastown and the Bullet mine, much more of Miller's world that he's toyed with, piece by piece, since the Road Warrior.

There is some really cool trickery with merging the child Furiosa's face with Anya Tailor Joy's as she ages, before Joy finally shows up as the adult Furiosa. You don't really notice it for a while and it feels like Joy only shows up for the final act. She is fantastic...and so is Hemswroth. A very different kind of villain, who's character evolves (reveals a bit more about who he actually is), as Furiosa ages and becomes more familiar with the world. The bike chariot is fucking awesome, if not completely useless--but this is why we love these flicks.

Fury Road was an 11/10 (I'm still doubtful humans will manage to make a better movie than that one at this point); Furiosa is a 9/10.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Fury Road was an 11/10 (I'm still doubtful humans will manage to make a better movie than that one at this point); Furiosa is a 9/10.

Nah. You like chaos and mayhem. Fury Road was pretty good, no doubt. 8/10 for me. Wouldn't call it the greatest movie that humans have offered so far. Furiosa sounds like it should've been a Netflix mini-series. Kind of the same problem that Dune has in movie format.

Just curious. What are some of your 8/10, 9/10 and 10/10 movies?

 

[mikeymikec]

Sexy Beast (2000)

Brit crime caper type plot. Ben Kingsley put in a pretty intense performance* (Oscar nom'd) as a bullying gangster who's used to getting what he wants.

It wasn't quite my cup of tea but it was engaging. The ending, while it makes a certain amount of sense, felt a bit flat and unvarnished IMO.

* - I initially did a bit of a double-take because the last film I saw him in was Shutter Island, a film I like quite a bit and his character in that was completely different to this

 

[Artorias]

They need to get Mel back while he is still alive and capable. Hardy and Mel on screen would be a great combo.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Ben Kingsley

His performances are often intense. Like the one in House of Sand and Fog.

His other notable movies worth watching at least once are:

The Physician
Ender's Game
An Ordinary Man (Nudity alert!)

 

[Charmonium]

Argyle 2024 - 8/10

Very odd movie but strangely watchable. It deserves an 8 just for originality but you really need to give it at least halfway through in order to really get the joke.

 

[Charmonium]

Watched first episode of Dark Matter and I'm getting that creeping LOST feeling. If this another show that doesn't go anywhere, I'm pulling the plug before I waste my time.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Watched first episode of Dark Matter and I'm getting that creeping LOST feeling. If this another show that doesn't go anywhere, I'm pulling the plug before I waste my time.

Unfortunately, you have to watch till Ep03 from where the story and action picks up. Ep04 was also good and waiting for Ep05 now.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Damaged (2024) - IMDb

Damaged (2024) Reference View

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Started off pretty good as a cerebral homicide detective thriller. 3/4th of the movie is fine and then suddenly, the director/writer(s) decide to pull a fast one on the viewers and it just devolves so bad from there. Hated the music at the end, cheering on the killer.

The IMDB rating is CORRECT.

 

[Charmonium]

Bullet Train - 2022 - ?/10

I really have not f'ing idea. I suppose it's possible to follow what's going on but given the fact that I paused this halfway thru about a year ago . . . I really don't know.

Hint - watch for the water bottle.

 

[DigDog]

Bullet Train - 2022 - ?/10

I really have not f'ing idea. I suppose it's possible to follow what's going on but given the fact that I paused this halfway thru about a year ago . . . I really don't know.

Hint - watch for the water bottle.

give it another go. I won't lie, i too started watching it and shut it down because of too much info, but the next time it went by smoothly. We're getting old, bruh.

 

[zinfamous]

Nah. You like chaos and mayhem.

No, not really. I appreciate things that do their thing expertly. Fury Road is it exactly what it is and nothing can really touch it. It's also just a perfectly executed film in every way. There's barely a smidgen of dialogue, but what there is is completely precise and necessary to get the very simple plot moving along. 98% of this is told completely visually (film is a visual medium--dialogue only ever secondary and generally shouldn't be necessary). Fury Road didn't even have a script--it was all storyboarded and existed entirely in the brain of George Miller, which seems to have made the project miserable for most everyone else, especially Hardy and Theron. From set design, to costume, to stunts to cinematography--every single element creates this world and you know exactly what is going on instantly, as it's happening, even though you are joining this world in the middle of it. All of the factions just instantly make sense. This is flawless filmmaking, and there are maybe like 4 other examples of this.

I don't particularly care about action movies, but Fury Road reminded us that it could be done properly and what real spectacle means. This sort of film really hasn't happened in a very long time...I don't even know what compares. What I do know is that Fury Road makes it plainly obvious that shitclowns like Michael Bay are completely useless, and the world would be better off if we just harvest his vital nutrients and apply them to keep George Miller alive well into and past his nineties, so that he can hopefully give us at least 1 more Mad Max flick like Fury Road or Furiosa. Literally no one else knows how to do it like this.

 

[igor_kavinski]

We're getting old, bruh.

I watched it in cinema. It was worth it. Yes, the boring parts were pretty boring, especially the two villains going back and forth in a dialect I wish could be changed to normal English. Maybe AI will help in future and VLC player will have an option to realtime translate any non-"US English" language.