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

[thebestMAX]

I am watching Shogun. Excellent series but Anjin-San is a douche. Cosmo always looks like he is being given a standing 8 count, horrible actor.

Carry On is just a bad movie 4/10

Boxer - I didn't make it through the movie, garbage 0/10

So agree on Shogun.

 

[DigDog]

I am watching Shogun. Excellent series but Anjin-San is a douche.

So agree on Shogun.

i think that was the character. I also saw him as an insufferable Charming Unique Naturally Talented person but he does have an arc later on; also, i think his arrogance and the "heey mr boss guy i'm totally out for myself here" attitude was because, the guy is about to be put back in the prison with the other lets-chop-his-head-off guys, and is risking it with Toranaga because he think MAYBE this way he can come across as someone worth saving. He's not that much of a Charming Unique Naturally Talented when it comes to Mariko or the old man he got killed, so maybe it's a combination of both.

 

[pmv]

Wallace & Gromit marathon;

for those who were lost at sea and have just returned from 30 years on a desert island, W&G is a series of animation films of varying lengths, about inept inventor Wallace, and his much smarter, anthropomorphic (but mute) dog Gromit. The setting is sort-of modernish england, with anachronisms various mixed in.

Wallace & Gromit: A Grand Day Out (1989) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104361/reference/
(renamed from "A Grand Day Out With Wallace & Gromit")

The original short.
Fairly crude animation when compared to even the second title, but nonetheless charming, albeit in that generic "we do alternative media" way. The jitteryness of the claynimation is stronk. The star of the show is a sad robot somehow abandoned on the moon, which will not be returning for the future W&G adventures.

6.5/10
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Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers (1993) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108598/reference/

The first big W&G hit; substantially better animation, and the first instance of the villain Feathers McGraw. It starts the formula of future W&G shows, where Wallace has some kind of great idea and/or is completely clueless about something nefarious going on, while Gromit has to (quickly) figure out what's wrong, and then there is a big confrontation finale, in this case being a penguin lodger in Wallace's house who turns out to the "chicken" thief McGraw.

7/10
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Wallace & Gromit: A Close Shave (1995) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112691/reference/

As before; this time the intruder is a escaped sheep (the design of which would later be repurposed for the worldwide hit "Shaun The Sheep")and a further villain is introduced later in the form of sheep-rustlers Wendoline and her anthropomorphic bulldog Preston.

6.5/10
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Wallace & Gromit: Cracking Contraptions (2002) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0339881/reference/

10 episode tv series, short shorts, about a minute each. All showcasing another of Wallace's Rube-Goldesque inventions. For example, he invents a tv-channel-changing machine, that requires something to be thrown at it to function; one of the items he chooses to throw is the tv remote.

6/10
[there exists another tv series called Wallace & Gromit: World Of Invention, but it's not an animation, but just a collection of weird IRL inventions which are introduced by a short skit by Wallace. I wouldn't really classify this as a W&G product.]
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Wallace & Gromit: Curse Of The Were-Rabbit (2005) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0312004/reference/

Excellent, proper 80-minute runtime film, where Wallace and Gromit are now running a pest-control business, and are trying to protect the local homegrown vegetables championship from a horde of rabbits, and more. The antagonist is excellent, and the pacing & direction of the film are superb.

7.5/10
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Wallace & Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death (2008) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1118511/reference/

Another short, in this case Wallace & Gromit are bakers, and unwillingly get entangled in the investigation into a bakers murder spree.

7/10
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and finally ..

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (2024) - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt17163970/reference/

It was okaysh.
They brought in some 2010- sensibilities, and it's lost those old world touches which were integral to the series. Feathers McGraw returns as the villain, complete with Captain Nemo organ playing, and you'll spot a few more citations, such as Aliens, or Batman. The resolution was a bit iffy, but my main issue is that, it's .. just a crime action movie. Starring Wallace and Gromit. But it's not really *a Wallace & Gromit film*. One of the main successes of W&G is that it's a show aimed at kids, but that can be enjoyed by adults, and this to me was just a normal hollywood script. The real treasure of W&G is the simple thing, and to have one of their films that doesnt in any way revolve around cheese, well, that's just not cricket.

6/10

Was very relieved that the Wallace who got 'cancelled' recently in a #metoo scandal wasn't this one but that other, less-talented and less funny one off the cooking shows I never watch.

 

[DigDog]

Sydney Seeney as a Barb Wire reboot wouldn't be a terrible idea.


In other "it probably won't work" news, Jason Momoa has been cast as Lobo (yay) ...
in a Supergirl movie (not yay).

 

[DAPUNISHER]

i think that was the character. I also saw him as an insufferable Charming Unique Naturally Talented person but he does have an arc later on; also, i think his arrogance and the "heey mr boss guy i'm totally out for myself here" attitude was because, the guy is about to be put back in the prison with the other lets-chop-his-head-off guys, and is risking it with Toranaga because he think MAYBE this way he can come across as someone worth saving. He's not that much of a Charming Unique Naturally Talented when it comes to Mariko or the old man he got killed, so maybe it's a combination of both.

Cosmo trying to emote looks like this

He looks like cats after I head kick them 🤣 Say your name! Do you know where you are? There are any number of actors that would have portrayed the character far better IMO. It isn't anything he says or does, it is him, the actor, that sucks.

 

[Dr. Detroit]

Juror #2 - 7.5/10 - (Now streaming on HBO)

A film Directed by Clint Eastwood and another in his list of "don't trust the system" movies.
Shot on the cheap, but the acting was solid, main character development was very nuanced, the jury room drama was evident of real life, and Kiefer Sutherland even makes a few appearances.

I enjoyed the ending, although I'm sure that detracts from the average viewer who wants everything cleanly wrapped up and can see why others gave it a lower rating.

 

[DigDog]

i started (and then immediately stopped) watching

The Essex Serpent - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12976224/reference/

a 2022 miniseries of such astounding pretentiousness that makes The Green Knight look like saturday night wrestling.
It hurt my brain.
I'm not talking about oscar-bait, i'm talking the kind of auteur who lives on government grants for alternative media and only shows her films at the Institute of Contemporary Arts biennial.
Absolute shit.

4/10

 

[igor_kavinski]

Absolute shit.

4/10

Now I'm curious. Haven't seen Claire in a while.

 

[KLin]

Watched the Last Detail on TCM. Kinda eh. 6.8/10

Das letzte Kommando (1973) ⭐ 7.5 | Comedy, Drama

1h 44m | 16

www.imdb.com

Randy Quaid is 23 in it. Jack Nicholson is 36. Otis Young is 41. Michael Moriarty is in it too with a bit part. He played DA Ben Stone in the original Law and Order series for the first 4 seasons.

 

[KLin]

Dunno why the embedded link is showing german for the title name. FFS

 

[DAPUNISHER]

i started (and then immediately stopped) watching

The Essex Serpent - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12976224/reference/

a 2022 miniseries of such astounding pretentiousness that makes The Green Knight look like saturday night wrestling.
It hurt my brain.
I'm not talking about oscar-bait, i'm talking the kind of auteur who lives on government grants for alternative media and only shows her films at the Institute of Contemporary Arts biennial.
Absolute shit.

4/10

What does it take to get a 0 or 1 of 10 from you then? 4 seems generous based on your comments. I could not give more than a 1 to something I can't make it through.

 

[igor_kavinski]

What does it take to get a 0 or 1 of 10 from you then?

He would probably have to WATCH the whole movie to give it that rating but since he's not gonna be able to make it through the first five minutes, the rating never happens

 

[MrSquished]

Watched Prospect - a sci-film with Mr. Mandalorian Pascal. A nice change of pace sci-fi with of course a couple cheat scenes in there, but it is kept to a 1.6 hour run-time 6.25/10

 

[igor_kavinski]

Mr. Mandalorian Pascal.

Sorry. That's Mr. Last of Us

 

[DigDog]

What does it take to get a 0 or 1 of 10 from you then? 4 seems generous based on your comments. I could not give more than a 1 to something I can't make it through.

the film doesnt just have to be bad, it has to actively damage the world around you. Like the prequels.
the same way that a film needs to really make the world better to get anything over 8/10. like Pulp Fiction, or The Matrix.

if a film is incredibly bad, but you can simply turn it off and it's gone, the lowest i'll go is 4/10.

.. but Indiana Jones .. the atomic fridge scene .. it will never go away.

it can never be un-made.

 

[DigDog]

i watched

Gladiator 2 - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9218128/reference/

and, you know, this wasn't by any means the worst film i've ever seen.

I need to preface that i wasn't a big fan of the original to begin with. Maybe because i was (am) a big fan of the roman empire and was hoping for some kind of a historical recreation, but then when i see the opening scene and fucking EXPLOSIONS during a battle in cisalpine gaul, i immediately tuned out.

And i went into G2 knowing that they would make no attempt at realism; that it would be an "artists' vision" of what Rome was like.

So when i see everyone dressed in gold and blue, i'm just like meh, it's hollywood.

In the same way, i excuse the comically-evil twin emperors, and everything else which is ridiculous from a perspective of realism (frikkin' SHARKS in the colosseum??), and instead enjoy it as a spectacle. So, for example, i quite liked the fight-on-a-rhino scene.

I also liked .. uh .. pretty much all of the acting. Pascal's character is too much of whiny bitch for being a roman general, but at least he was convincing in his part. And, Mescal's character doesn't need to be such a hard-ass, but i guess the plot wouldn't work without it (actual gladiators were closer to football stars than slaves).

Denzel Washington is just fucking awesome.

so, even though it's tripe, i didn't suffer. which is almost a miracle in 2025.

6/10

 

[DigDog]

by the way i should mention that as of this day, i still don't know which pill does what in The Matrix.

 

[DigDog]

i watched

The Beastmaster - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083630/reference/

Apparently, somewhat of a cult film.
1982 schlock that came out the same year as Conan, and which i was expecting to be funny, in a horrid way. But, i found it just boring. Maybe, not bad enough ??
Compare it to some real masterpieces like Yor's World, any of a number of David Carradine films, etc, they are all far more creative in script, and yeah that is also their downfall because you can't do a great script with no money, but it's the thought that counts, and you get a good laugh out of it anyway.

wouldn't recommend it, YMMV.
5/10

 

[DigDog]

Werewolf By Night - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15318872/reference/

excellent artistic neo-gothic short, starring the okaish Gael Garcia Bernal and the excellent Harriet Samson Harris (yeah no, i don't know them either), part of the MCU and only 35min in length, so you should watch this tonight.

7/10

 

[igor_kavinski]

Juror #2 - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27403986/reference/

5.5/10-ish? idk, ymmv.

Weirdly, it didn't feel like a two hour long movie so I guess that was good. But yeah, the score is about right. Nothing special.

 

[DAPUNISHER]

i watched

The Beastmaster - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083630/reference/

Apparently, somewhat of a cult film.
1982 schlock that came out the same year as Conan, and which i was expecting to be funny, in a horrid way. But, i found it just boring. Maybe, not bad enough ??
Compare it to some real masterpieces like Yor's World, any of a number of David Carradine films, etc, they are all far more creative in script, and yeah that is also their downfall because you can't do a great script with no money, but it's the thought that counts, and you get a good laugh out of it anyway.

wouldn't recommend it, YMMV.
5/10

Tonya Roberts RIP was hawt in that flick. I saw it the year it came out, I was in High School. By that time I had read all of the Conan stories, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser books, Tarl Cabot Gor series, World of Tiers series, Elric of Melnibone books, John Carter series, LoTR, and every other Sword and Sorcery books I could find in my next door neighbor's new and used bookstore. They allowed trade-ins, which let a punk kid like me afford to read much more than I otherwise would have, without a long bike ride to the public library.

I recorded the movie, but not because it was good, wink wink nudge nudge. It was a bad movie by every metric. I found out later they killed one of the tigers with toxic dye. That only added to the reasons to hate it. I was learning Chinese broadsword from this gung fu sifu that ran a class at our dojo a couple nights a week. So the fight choreography was excruciating to watch.

 

[Dr. Detroit]

I Saw The TV Glow - 3/10 (now streaming on HBO)

IndieWire listed this as the #2 horror movie of 2024 and so went into this totally blind. I was tempted more than a few times to turn it off, figured it was an A24 flic so it would heat up. It did not.

So I clearly "did not get it" and went to the internet to understand it and learned

Spoiler

I was not the target audience and did not understand the allegory/symbolism and the quirky characters were trans, struggling with acceptance and finding themselves.

 

[DigDog]

all of the Conan stories, Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser books, Tarl Cabot Gor series, World of Tiers series, Elric of Melnibone books, John Carter series, LoTR, and every other Sword and Sorcery books I could find

blimey! good thing you didn't get into D&D ..

 

[purbeast0]

i watched

Gladiator 2 - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9218128/reference/

and, you know, this wasn't by any means the worst film i've ever seen.

I need to preface that i wasn't a big fan of the original to begin with. Maybe because i was (am) a big fan of the roman empire and was hoping for some kind of a historical recreation, but then when i see the opening scene and fucking EXPLOSIONS during a battle in cisalpine gaul, i immediately tuned out.

And i went into G2 knowing that they would make no attempt at realism; that it would be an "artists' vision" of what Rome was like.

So when i see everyone dressed in gold and blue, i'm just like meh, it's hollywood.

In the same way, i excuse the comically-evil twin emperors, and everything else which is ridiculous from a perspective of realism (frikkin' SHARKS in the colosseum??), and instead enjoy it as a spectacle. So, for example, i quite liked the fight-on-a-rhino scene.

I also liked .. uh .. pretty much all of the acting. Pascal's character is too much of whiny bitch for being a roman general, but at least he was convincing in his part. And, Mescal's character doesn't need to be such a hard-ass, but i guess the plot wouldn't work without it (actual gladiators were closer to football stars than slaves).

Denzel Washington is just fucking awesome.

so, even though it's tripe, i didn't suffer. which is almost a miracle in 2025.

6/10

I thought Denzel was terrible in Gladiator 2 as was his character. His whole character arc was just so lame and out there.

His casting was just a bad pick. Like his acting was fine and dandy but I mean he's just playing Denzel in this movie. I was waiting for him to do something from Training Day or Man on Fire at any moment.

 

[DigDog]

Like his acting was fine and dandy but I mean he's just playing Denzel in this movie. I was waiting for him to do something from Training Day or Man on Fire at any moment.

dude it's gladiator 2, what were you expecting.