NOW CLOSED ; List some movies you've watched recently. Theatre, rental, TV... and give a */10

[JEDI]

I strongly disagree with anyone who thinks EPVII TFA was tolerable. It was garbage. Total dumpster fire.

watch the fan edited version of eps VII.
it was much better than the theater release!
things explained, plot holes filled, better flow of story...

here's my review of it:
forums.anandtech.com/threads/list-some-movies-youve-watched-recently-theatre-rental-tv-and-give-a-10.2178406/page-651#post-39358780

(you can download that version for free)

 

[DigDog]

I strongly disagree with anyone who thinks EPVII TFA was tolerable. It was garbage. Total dumpster fire.

as compared to what?
because if you want to say it's a bad film, i'm totally on your side, but if you're gonna tell me that E789 are in any way worse than E123, then save it.

Yeah they are bad films. But so are many films which most viewers today think are great; i can accept some nearsightedness when it comes to modern products - we always like things which are NOW, but over the years tend to reevaluate them, but frankly none of the MCU films are any better than, say, Dude Where's My Car. Just an example, ok?

So the point isn't if they are bad, but how bad are they, and why are they bad. And E123 take the crown as worst films ever made in the history of film, no discussion, none at all. Not only are they terrible in everything, they also damage the great original SW films which came before them; E789 do not do this, if you exclude the backtracking on the Emperor's death. No midicholrians, no Jedi Concil members dressed in Tatooine clothing, no kids training with solder visors, and that's just the damage, not to mention the horrible EVERYTHING in the films - but i'm pretty sure Plinkett covered this enough.

 

[shortylickens]

I think dumbass is exaggerating or just brainwashed.

Episode 7 was not even close to a dumpster fire. It was actually decent, and much better than all three prequel films combined.
It set up a lot of great potential, the story kinda made sense even though it was not 100 percent original.
The problem here is episode 8 WAS total garbage that not only sucked donkey dick as a standalone movie, but also ruined the possibilities set up by the previous film and probably ruined the whole franchise as well.

In no other movie have I ever seen 4 characters with so much potential be completely wasted. And you cant just blame it all on Kathleen Kennedy. It was a combination of many things not the least of which Disney is much better at making nostalgia than original ideas. All of their successful work is nostalgia-based.
Look at their original film: Snow White.
Based on old fairy tales. And so were most of their early movies. Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Robin Hood, Beauty and the Beast, Hercules.
Toy Story was genuinely original but apparently the idea didnt come from Disney, it started elsewhere and Disney co-opted it and made a movie with their new computer animation studio, which also was not their original creation but someone elses.

The only reason they bought up the Star Wars franchise was to milk the nostalgia tit to death. Not because they wanted to create original stories and start something fresh. Ironically because they dont know what the fuck they are doing, theres a very real possibility they will murder the franchise and not recoup their 4 billion dollar investment.

 

[shortylickens]

Low effort horror film

Death House (2017) - IMDb

Death House - Gefangen in der Hölle (2017) Reference View

www.imdb.com

0/10

Not even good as a Bad Film.

 

[DigDog]

just a FYI, i'm watching right now as we type, that masterpiece which is UHF. - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098546/

that's right, before he was a cool guy, Weird Al had a fucking film to his name. A proper, 90-minute, in theat=ers distribution film

What can i say; a perfect film by any standard, it may not be culturally important (for now), but, it has Fran Drescher(not nude, unfortunately), Michael Richards in hi all-time best role as Stanley Spadowsky, Kevin McCarthy as Kevin McCarthy (he's only got one role), Dire Straits, and an assortment of unforgettable jokes and puns, such as Wheel Of Fish, Spatula City, Ghandi 2, and .. well, just watch the f* film already.

7.5/10 - because life is like a mop

RLM !!

 

[A Casual Fitz]

Watched UHF last night for the first time in over a decade, then the re:View.

I love Weird Al. I wish Mike was in the re:View. 10/10

 

[mikeymikec]

The Greatest Showman (2017)

If you like safe-for-children musicals where the music could have come straight out of a Disney or reality TV "audition"-type programme, then you might like this.

 

[CZroe]

I think dumbass is exaggerating or just brainwashed.

Episode 7 was not even close to a dumpster fire. It was actually decent, and much better than all three prequel films combined.
It set up a lot of great potential, the story kinda made sense even though it was not 100 percent original.
The problem here is episode 8 WAS total garbage that not only sucked donkey dick as a standalone movie, but also ruined the possibilities set up by the previous film and probably ruined the whole franchise as well.

In no other movie have I ever seen 4 characters with so much potential be completely wasted. And you cant just blame it all on Kathleen Kennedy. It was a combination of many things not the least of which Disney is much better at making nostalgia than original ideas. All of their successful work is nostalgia-based.
Look at their original film: Snow White.
Based on old fairy tales. And so were most of their early movies. Sleeping Beauty, Cinderella, Robin Hood, Beauty and the Beast, Hercules.
Toy Story was genuinely original but apparently the idea didnt come from Disney, it started elsewhere and Disney co-opted it and made a movie with their new computer animation studio, which also was not their original creation but someone elses.

The only reason they bought up the Star Wars franchise was to milk the nostalgia tit to death. Not because they wanted to create original stories and start something fresh. Ironically because they dont know what the fuck they are doing, theres a very real possibility they will murder the franchise and not recoup their 4 billion dollar investment.

Episode 7 was a "film by comittee" dumpster fire every step of the way, from the very notion that Rey was more entitled to BB8 than the other salvage people to the idea that a mask filter can distinguish between toxic particles and smoke and the "ashes of the Empire" are somehow more formidable (and successfull!) at oppressing the galaxy than ever before... and they didn't even have to fool the galaxy into giving them power and armies. They just dusted off an army from those ashes and started work on Starkiller.

Speaking of "Starkiller" ...they somehow use their weapon to blow up unsuspecting planets at distances that require the destructive wave to travel FTL distances to other solar systems and yet they can stand there and witness it happen in real time from some other planet. Yeah, that makes total sense.

Plenty of people were confused by the crashed tie fighter sinking and exploding for seemingly no reason, but it's OK because they mentioned earlier that sand to the north sinks. Gotta leave that part in because... "Ooooh! Sinking sand. How EXOTIC and science-fictiony!"

...and all that setup explaining that the Stormtrooper mask wouldn't protect them to set up a gas scene that doesn't even happen. More useless dialog in a movie that was already too long. Useless AND creates a plothole.

Don't even get me started on her finding Luke's lightsaber. They completely changed that so many times in editing only to end up with something that was still this ridiculous and nonsensical only shows they didn't even know where they were going with this. Just "Rey needs Luke's saber" and they were just willing to accept anything... didn't need to be compelling, interesting, believable, etc.

I could go on and on because this movie was absolute noise and nonsense the whole way through. Episode I The Phantom Menace was terrible but at least Lucas cared enough to answer questions before pushing the plot forward (namely, "Why [X]?").

Anyway, Disney famously promoted The Lion King as their first original story in their primary Masterpiece Collection though it turned out that they ripped much of it from Kimba the White Lion. Before that they embraced the idea that their primary line of movies were already classics and weren't original. The originality of Toy Story was even less to their credit, since Pixar had a hard sell. Woody was originally supposed to be way more nasty and Disney had cold feet about the plot. Disney didn't buy Pixar until after Cars and Ratatouille but even their other internal studios don't get that kind of credit, like the International Disney animators that made A Goofy Movie... which probably deserved to be considered an original "Masterpiece" but doesn't count.

 

[Denly]

Charlie's Angels 2019

4.5/10 - It is like a Homeless - badly execute low budget poorly edited - MI, the first 10min was promising, mid part of the movie was just bad and the last 30min is serviceable. Ella B was the solo bright spot.

 

[quikah]

Dark
TV-MA | 1h | Crime, Drama, Mystery | TV Series (2017–2020)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5753856/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dark_(TV_series)

Final season 3, 8 episodes from Netflix.

Just finished it. The ending has me a bit conflicted. I want to say it is a tired trope

Spoiler

similar to it was all a dream

but it does work thinking back on everything. I suspect some will be turned off by it. Overall I would give it a 9/10. The performances are great. I watched it in German with subtitles, the little bit of the dub I sampled left me unimpressed.

Love the title sequence (never skipped it) and music in the whole series.

I still don't quite get what the point of the child abductions were.

 

[Mai72]

Watched Gladiator. 10/10

That movie is still amazing. I must had seen it about 50x so far. An instant classic. I wish I was a Gladiator.

Watched Night of the Living Dead (Remake, 1990): 9/10

My favorite living dead w/ Tony Todd playing Ben. It's a very creepy movie. Impending doom. So many mistakes made that IRL could happen.

 

[Aharami]

Just finished it. The ending has me a bit conflicted. I want to say it is a tired trope

Spoiler

similar to it was all a dream

but it does work thinking back on everything. I suspect some will be turned off by it. Overall I would give it a 9/10. The performances are great. I watched it in German with subtitles, the little bit of the dub I sampled left me unimpressed.

Love the title sequence (never skipped it) and music in the whole series.

I still don't quite get what the point of the child abductions were.

Loved Dark and the ending was satisfactory. But I liked S1& S2 better than S3. There's a lot to unpack with this show!

 

[zinfamous]

I strongly disagree with anyone who thinks EPVII TFA was tolerable. It was garbage. Total dumpster fire.

Episode VII was fricking Raging Bull compared to Episodes I and II.

Compared to Episode V...more like T3. Not great, not necessarily needed or wanted, but it has its moments and is certainly way better than everything that came after.

 

[CZroe]

Episode VII was fricking Raging Bull compared to Episodes I and II.

Compared to Episode V...more like T3. Not great, not necessarily needed or wanted, but it has its moments and is certainly way better than everything that came after.

...which is why I didn't watch any after EPVII:TFA. If that's the best of them and it's this much of a stinker, the rest definitely aren't worth the time of day.

I didn't even think it had its moments. I probably even groaned out loud during the movie when I watched the midnight premier. I did not enjoy it.

 

[A Casual Fitz]

...which is why I didn't watch any after EPVII:TFA. If that's the best of them and it's this much of a stinker, the rest definitely aren't worth the time of day.

I didn't even think it had its moments. I probably even groaned out loud during the movie when I watched the midnight premier. I did not enjoy it.

You picked a great place to stop if you were concerned about the quality of VII.

 

[Mayne]

Once upon a time in America. I went into this tarantino hesitantly...put off watching it for the longest time.

The movie had me anxious and stressed out the whole time. But it was worth it for the performance of Pitt and Dicaprio. Really really good movie.

 

[shortylickens]

For the first time in a LONG time I watched Do The Right Thing again and its messages are just as true today as they were 31 years ago. Actually its kinda sad American society seems to have made little progress in 3 decades but whatever.

Even though its technically inferior to Spike Lees later work, its still excellent cinema and I'm gonna have to give it 9/10. (Some of his camera tricks arent cool, they're just weird and distracting.)

Shout out to Sammy Jackson for having a kick ass role before he did Goodfellas or Patriot games.

 

[Ichinisan]

Once upon a time in America. I went into this tarantino hesitantly...put off watching it for the longest time.

The movie had me anxious and stressed out the whole time. But it was worth it for the performance of Pitt and Dicaprio. Really really good movie.

The title is "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood"

I loved it

 

[JEDI]

Laputa: Castle in the Sky: 8/10

Japanese animated film by Studio Ghibli.
(English subtitles)

the beginning was meh. (the pirates were used as dumb slapstick comedy at first.)
it got MUCH better by the 1/3 point.

a boy who wanted to reach the mythical castle in the sky called Laputa that his father took a picture of but no one could find.
a mysterious girl with a link to the castle.

pirates who wanted it's treasure.
the military who wanted it's power.
steampunk airships, oh my...

(for those keeping count, this is the 6th Studio Ghibli movie i've reviewed since the Covid-19 pandemic.)

 

[DigDog]

Once upon a time in America. I went into this tarantino hesitantly...put off watching it for the longest time.

The movie had me anxious and stressed out the whole time. But it was worth it for the performance of Pitt and Dicaprio. Really really good movie.

wut?

 

[CZroe]

Laputa: Castle in the Sky: 8/10

Japanese animated film by Studio Ghibli.
(English subtitles)

the beginning was meh. (the pirates were used as dumb slapstick comedy at first.)
it got MUCH better by the 1/3 point.

a boy who wanted to reach the mythical castle in the sky called Laputa that his father took a picture of but no one could find.
a mysterious girl with a link to the castle.

pirates who wanted it's treasure.
the military who wanted it's power.
steampunk airships, oh my...

(for those keeping count, this is the 6th Studio Ghibli movie i've reviewed since the Covid-19 pandemic.)

Maybe check out Katsuhiro Otomo's "Steamboy" next. Not my favorite from Katauhiro (that would be "Memories") but still impressive. It's maximum steampunk.

 

[mikeymikec]

Once upon a time in America. I went into this tarantino hesitantly...

Ichi is correct, and the title you mentioned is a film by Sergio Leone.

Es war einmal in Amerika (1984) ⭐ 8.3 | Crime, Drama

3h 49m | 18

www.imdb.com

 

[JEDI]

Porco Rosso: 7.5/10

Japanese animated film by Studio Ghibli.
(English subtitles)

Porco is a post WWI fighter ace chasing air pirates and he's a pig.
(Hey, it's a Flying Pig! I miss his witty posts. Everyone knows this. <Inside joke for old timers>)

Much like Ghibli's Totoro and 'Kiki's Delivery Service', this film is geared towards kids.
Not as good as Totoro but much better than Kiki's.

 

[zinfamous]

Once upon a time in America. I went into this tarantino hesitantly...put off watching it for the longest time.

The movie had me anxious and stressed out the whole time. But it was worth it for the performance of Pitt and Dicaprio. Really really good movie.

Once Upon a Time in America is a very different movie from Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

 

[DigDog]

PSA:

It's Not JIB