Would you recommend it to others?
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.
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.
Clue. 1985 Yes, Tim curry is fantastic in it.
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!
“AND NOW! I’m going home to sleep 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.
Brother Bear 🐻
My wife and I were staying in Bologna for 2 nights, and there was a big free open-air cinema on the largest public square that showed Italian film classics with English subtitles. We watched “La Dolce Vita” by Fellini on the first night and a satirical comedy called “Divorce Italian type” the second night. La dolce vita is great but not an easy watch since it deals with typical topics of early modernity in the 50s. It’s kinda like the books from that time about existence and hedonism and the complexity of life. The other movie is about a guy who wants to murder his Wife so he can date his 16-year old cousin and is way funnier than the premise would suggest.
Killer Klowns from Outer Space (1988). While not The Blob or Night of the Creeps, it’s pretty fun.
Heat (1995)
Absolute must-watch
This is blasphemy, but I prefer Ronin for my fix of a 90s crime movie with grounded, high planning gunfights.
Heat has fantastic gunfights. The the opening hit on the armored truck and the bank heist shootout is top notch, but I literally can’t remember the rest of the movie.
Ronin’s plot and quiet moments are as engaging as the shootouts.
Hard agree my friend
That movie is for sure in my Top 100 Movies of All Time. Definitely in my Top 15 Heist Movies of All Time.
Ronin begs for Ghost Dog: way of the samurai (c1999: another telling of a Ronin sorry)
Alien Romulus; caught the second showing at a local theater today.
It’s definitely one of the better Alien films; it’s not as great as the first 2, definitely better than the 3rd though.
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.
I wouldn’t recommend it to cis people, but maybe to some trans folks.
Bone Tomahawk was alright. Kurt Russell played a solid frontier law man. There’s a pretty spicy gore scene in there too.
95% gritty western, 5% “Rob Zombie remakes Texas Chainsaw Massacre”.
Absolutely a fair assessment.
It seems that opinions on the movie are quite…split down the middle.
I’m smelling what you’re stepping in, you devious bastard😏
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…
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.
The dark times when Disney was full tilt on direct-to-video sequels that were okay at best.
Operation Mincemeat. Love me some bickering British spies.
Thor 1. i thought it was great. very shakespearian
