Would you recommend it to others?
The Boy and The Heron
A truly excellent movie made by Ghibli, fantastic studio with some really high quality films. Definitely recommend giving it a watch.
Same here, although I confess I wasn’t blown away by this one. I often find that while Ghibli films always crush it on the imagination front, the writing can be hit and miss. I understood the autobiographical origin of the plot, but there were several parts that felt underdeveloped or poorly explained. Overall, was good but definitely not up there with Mononoke or Spirited Away, imo
I prefer the movies of Makoto Shinkai to Hayao Miyazaki these days.
I’ll always love Spirited Away and My Neighbour Totoro, but Shinkai is so consistent.
I do agree, not their best one. Although I really like the animation in this one.
That was the second-to-last I watched. :)
Clue. 1985 Yes, Tim curry is fantastic in it.
“AND NOW! I’m going home to sleep with my wife!”
Who isn’t fantastic in that movie!?
Communism?
No, Mr. Green, Communism is just a Red Herring.
Not gonna bite on that one. I’m gonna go home and have sex with my wife!
Ah, I see somebody listens to the Blank Check podcast, the Special Features one on Patreon!
Also RIP Martin Mull.
The Life Aquatic
Wes Anderson movies are an acquired taste. But this one in particular is very accessible, and very funny. And it has a very emotional ending.
The only thing an uninitiated viewer needs to know is that the effects are intentionally low-budget. Just take them as seriously as the characters do, you’ll warm to them.
“What is scientific purpose of this mission?”
“Revenge.”
My first time watching this movie I stopped paying attention about 30 minutes in. Some time later the final act started and I was drawn back in. I have since watched it from start to finish about 5 times. Which doesn’t sound like a lot, but I’m the kind of person who doesn’t generally watch a movie more than once.
That’s my favourite Wes Anderson film! The story and design are beautiful and the writing is brilliantly clever.
the effects are intentionally low-budget
Some of them are for aesthetic reasons, but this film was actually pretty expensive to make. Famously it did a lot of damage to WA’s reputation among Hollywood execs because the studio greenlit a high budget for him and gave him a lot of creative control and the movie ended up doing really poorly at the box office. It cost 50M to make and only earned 25M in box office sales.
Right up there with Tenenbaums for me. Wasn’t as impressed with it when I saw it in theaters, but it really grew on me. Still get the feels when Queen Bitch plays at the end.
I guess I’ll be the thread’s normie:
Deadpool & Wolverine
And yes I would recommend it. (If one is a fan of the genre of course)
Same. I’d recommend it to almost anyone, especially if you liked the previous ones.
Yeah, that’s the most recent movie for me, too. I thought it was all right; I’ve been listening to a lot of Insane Clown Posse recently so a lot of the jokes weren’t as shocking/outré as I think they were trying to be. But it definitely had its moments, like the… uh… “fingers to the face” scenes and the… “skin-related incident”.
Same! Loved it. Deadpool is now one of the best Marvel and Fox comic book movie trilogies in that it manages to nail all 3 movies. Have only seen that with Captain America and Guardians (imo).
Lilo and Stitch. Of course I’d recommend it. One of the best movies of all time!
The 1st one? I saw them listed in Kodi as of recently… And I didn’t remember there were 3 movies lol, I only remember about 2…
The dark times when Disney was full tilt on direct-to-video sequels that were okay at best.
Yes the first one! The TV show is alright but they have different voice actors and artists so it’s not as good but the story line is still wholesome af.
In theater, deadpool and wolverine. Plot was silly but holy fuck the movie itself was incredible. Won’t spoil it but they’re are some great surprises for 90s kids. I felt pandered to in the best way.
At home, the mask. Girlfriend hadn’t seen it. Warned her that I remembered it being amazing when I saw it ages ago, but it might not hold up. It held up. Chick chicky boom.
Safety Not Guaranteed (2012) - Aubrey Plaza in an engaging character piece that has hints of Eagle vs Shark among others. It’s not outstanding by any means and not among Plaza’s best, but still witty and touching.
I love this movie. It’s not fantastic or anything, but I think it’s a really sweet movie
Nausicaa of the valley of the wind. A Studio Ghibli film.
Yes, would definitely recommend! A classic. It’s older at this point but still a great movie
Nausicaa is my favourite film :)! the soundtrack is so bizarre in the best way
(the last film I watched was Kiki’s delivery service, also recommend that to everyone! it’s a lot more relaxing and kid-friendly than Nausicaa though)
Nausicaa SLAYS. If you’re in the US, there are often annual “Studio Ghibli Fests” that show Ghibli movies on the big screen, btw. The manga’s amazing too, you can often find it in libraries.
Ohhhhhh I will absolutely have to check that out! Thank you!
Watched Dune pt 2. I personally didn’t like the rewrites to the story, but I enjoyed Villeneuve’s artistic style.
Regarding if I would recommend the movie, I’ll paraphrase a video review I saw: “I would recommend it to anyone who liked the first one and hasn’t read the books”.
Hmm I thought the movies don’t make enough sense to someone who didn’t read the books.
Yeah, I can see that as well. The storyline in part 2 felt very rushed imo, which might make the overall story confusing without the prior context of the books.
Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988). While not The Blob or Night of the Creeps, it’s pretty fun.
Twisters, the one that just came out.
Generic, corny, unoriginal, boring collection of green-screen effects
Turned it off after about 40 minutes
I never understand people who make comments like this, what were you expecting going into Twisters? Citizen Kane? I watched Twisters today, it was a mindlessly fun little movie, exactly as expected.
I’ve not seen this movie
Even mindless movies need a hook to pull you in. Fast & Furious has all that hokey family stuff, but the relationships between characters is the emotional core that makes you give a shit about all the garbage flying around on screen.
I’m sure this movie probably has/attempted something like that, but it doesn’t hit for everyone and they’re just left wondering why they’re watching a pointless animation for 2 hours.
I’ve been in both sides of this. X-Men: Apocalypse stands out in my mind as being just a bunch of pointless tropey CGI garbage that I was relieved to finally walk out of. But I enjoy all the F&F movies just the same, even if I wait to catch them on streaming since Paul died.
Oh believe me, I watch the utmost crap,and read trashy thriller novels by the barrow load
Twisters was so generic it was like it was written and directed by ChatGPT
I went to see it in one of those 4DX cinemas, that completely made the experience one of my favourites in the cinema for a while IMO.
Can’t imagine watching it like a normal film
That’s probably the issue
Treasure Planet for the first time… It was a ride, I liked the animation and the old Disney style actually got me thinking if it had gaming adaptations… And ofc it had them… I want to at least try one (for nostalgic reasons), but I am unsure if the PS1 or PS2 version is the right one to go.
Vesper. It is imo a good sci-fi movie, but a tough one. The lives of the characters are not easy, but the movie doesn’t tell you that, you discover it through details casually said by the characters. The movie itself is a post apocalyptic movie in a very original setting. It is about biotechnology instead mechanised or AI tech. It is worth it for this alone IMO. It was a great movie imo, but not one to cheer up.
Borderlands. Unsurprisingly, no.
Mad Max: Fury Road, it was just as good as I remember
Oops, forgot about watching Murder Mystery 2 and Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire with my parents. They were ok for a few chuckles, Ghostbusters had some fun easter eggs.
I was really disappointed with Frozen Empire; the whole plot felt very rushed.
Indeed.
spoiler
The idea that the supposed smart girl of the family would intentionally get into an untested machine (she literally asked if they had tested it on living beings yet, which they said they hadn’t), with the intent of “only temporarily killing herself,” so she could… do what? Kiss her ghost crush? when they had already explicitly said that her ghost form could interact with the physical world, so they could’ve kissed regardless? Then, take the other story arc, about the fire master, that could have been the main story arc! They could have kept some of the teenage rebellion of the two kids, while having most of the story revolve around him becoming fire master. Instead, they tried to shove 3 stories into one movie, and it just came out a garbled mess.
