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Recently Watched Movie Thread 2017

Jaker said:
just saw "fantastic beasts: the crimes of grindelwald" couldn't understand a single thing that was going on in the movie and it was LONG.
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About a month back I finally saw Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. It was enjoyable enough, but did not draw me in to the Wizarding World like the first Potter movie did. I will surely watch the next four, but I am not expecting greatness.
 
storrsroars said:
I distinctly remember when the bar for movie excellence was "Citizen Kane", and later "The Godfather" and "2001".

Murica. Yeah.
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I can’t use a scale for the same genre of movies?
 
Husky25 said:
About a month back I finally saw Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them. It was enjoyable enough, but did not draw me in to the Wizarding World like the first Potter movie did. I will surely watch the next four, but I am not expecting greatness.
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I thought it was entertaining enough. There's something about Eddie Redmayne, he just seems like a weird guy and creeps me out a bit. I enjoyed the supporting cast more, Dan Fogler and Alison Sudol were both really charming I thought. That and I want a pet nifler (the kleptomanianc platypus type thing), I wonder where you can get one of those? Haven't seen the sequel yet.
 
Mano said:
Not that you asked but...

Mano's Animated Movie Primer!
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Every Christmas my wife and I go to visit my Dad in Pennsylvania, where a good chunk of my family will gather as well. I usually bring several movies for possible viewing, as does my brother in law. This time around my brother in law had "Spirited Away" with him. When he told me he had it with him, I was quite eager to see it.

Imagine that, a Japanese film that was the second winner of the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature (yes, the American rights to it had the backing of Disney, but it was hardly their production). We found it to be an excellent meandering fantasy tale that we enjoyed tremendously. Having now seen "Spirited Away", at some point I will be checking out some of Studio Ghibli's other works as well.
 
dbmill said:
Every Christmas my wife and I go to visit my Dad in Pennsylvania, where a good chunk of my family will gather as well. I usually bring several movies for possible viewing, as does my brother in law. This time around my brother in law had "Spirited Away" with him. When he told me he had it with him, I was quite eager to see it.

Imagine that, a Japanese film that was the second winner of the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature (yes, the American rights to it had the backing of Disney, but it was hardly their production). We found it to be an excellent meandering fantasy tale that we enjoyed tremendously. Having now seen "Spirited Away", at some point I will be checking out some of Studio Ghibli's other works as well.
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You won’t be disappointed. I’m so glad you dug it. Their movies are quite unlike anything Disney could produce. Far more adult in theme and subject matter. I would go to Princess Mononoke from there. They are right at the top of Ghibli’s output. Enjoy!
 
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Rampage.

This one didn’t aspire to much, but it’s really one of the worst movies ever made.
 
Fishy said:
Rampage.

This one didn’t aspire to much, but it’s really one of the worst movies ever made.
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Maybe that is what it was aspiring to? I sometimes wonder if someone sets out to make a bad movie.

I glanced at some reviews for the new Will Ferrell/John C. Reilly flick Watson and Holmes. It's getting brutalized. Might give Rampage a run for its money for worst ever.
 
nwhoopfan said:
Maybe that is what it was aspiring to? I sometimes wonder if someone sets out to make a bad movie.

I glanced at some reviews for the new Will Ferrell/John C. Reilly flick Watson and Holmes. It's getting brutalized. Might give Rampage a run for its money for worst ever.
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Rampage is generically-bad in a “this is a Rock movie, so who cares” sort of way up until the last five minutes.

The last five minutes will have you wondering why some adult in the room didn’t stand up and yell, no, we can’t end a movie with a giant monkey faking its own death and then making a finger in the hole joke.

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I went ahead and read the spoiler, because I decided based on the previews that was a movie I was going to skip. Skipping the Rock's jumping off a huge crane onto a skyscraper movie too. I think maybe I'm approaching saturation level for the Rock.
 
Fishy said:
Rampage.

This one didn’t aspire to much, but it’s really one of the worst movies ever made.
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Only because it’s on HBO did I give it a go. I made it about halfway and fell asleep because it was so laughably absurd that it lost my attention.

Why do they have to try and make the dumbest videogames into movies?
 
the Q said:
Saw black panther.

Ridiculously overrated. It’s not a bad movie, but it’s not even better than iron man 1.

It’s just another solid comic book movie.

It’s certainly no Man of Steel
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I thought Black Panther sucked. Stupid plot, terrible premise.
 
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Holmes and Watson. So pissed I spent actual money on this.

I don’t know how you make a bad movie with Ferrell and Reilly but someone did it.
 
nwhoopfan said:
I went ahead and read the spoiler, because I decided based on the previews that was a movie I was going to skip. Skipping the Rock's jumping off a huge crane onto a skyscraper movie too. I think maybe I'm approaching saturation level for the Rock.
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He played the tooth fairy. He's been over the cliff for almost a decade.
 
ZooCougar said:
Holmes and Watson. So pissed I spent actual money on this.

I don’t know how you make a bad movie with Ferrell and Reilly but someone did it.
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Wow, what were you thinking? I might sometimes still take a chance on a movie whose RottenTomatoes percentage is in the 50’s or worse, but that ones sitting around 7%.
 
Kids were with the grandparents for a few days so the wife and I saw a few movies.
  • Alien: Covenant - it's older, I know. I had high hopes. They were dashed by copy & paste clips of monsters popping out of chests. I thought they were going in a really cool direction but they always revert back to the same schtick.
  • Aquaman - Apparently DC has a hard time finding actors. There's some entertainment value if you like(d) comic books, but everything that involved Manta was cringeworthy.
  • Bumblebee - Special effects were great - CGI-human integration was some of the best I can recall. It's a transformers movie, but it delivers enough action and storyline to entertain. Better than WaterGuy, at least.
 
Mission: Impossible - Fallout - Watch Tom Cruise’s little legs take him as fast as he can go in this direction and that! So much running as is his usual.

I’m a sucker for spy/espionage flicks and this is as quality as they come. It’s pace was relentless and exhilarating and the set pieces and fight scenes were tremendous. All of it filmed in a really eye-catching manner.
 
EdTV

Was on TV while I cooked and stuff. Was kinda funny.
 
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Mano said:
Wow, what were you thinking? I might sometimes still take a chance on a movie whose RottenTomatoes percentage is in the 50’s or worse, but that ones sitting around 7%.
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Not my choice. Ugh.
 
Mano said:
Mission: Impossible - Fallout - Watch Tom Cruise’s little legs take him as fast as he can go in this direction and that! So much running as is his usual.

I’m a sucker for spy/espionage flicks and this is as quality as they come. It’s pace was relentless and exhilarating and the set pieces and fight scenes were tremendous. All of it filmed in a really eye-catching manner.
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LOL. But it was good.
 
storrsroars said:
I distinctly remember when the bar for movie excellence was "Citizen Kane", and later "The Godfather" and "2001".

Murica. Yeah.
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It’s relative. No comic book movies are in that sphere. Well, maybe The Dark Knight. But not really.
 
The Green Book. - Entertaining. The family of the real pianist the movie is based on supposedly hated it because it’s not accurate. That’s their problem.

The Favourite. Very Soft core at its finest. I’m neutral. My wife hated it. Queen Anne did love her ladies in waiting . .my post flick research shows the film to be relatively true to the real Queen Anne.
 
ZooCougar said:
It’s relative. No comic book movies are in that sphere. Well, maybe The Dark Knight. But not really.
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Exactly. It’s not fair to put comic movies to the same standard.
 
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ZooCougar said:
It’s relative. No comic book movies are in that sphere. Well, maybe The Dark Knight. But not really.
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Ledger's Joker is a top 5 all-time villain IMO, but the genre as a whole does pretty much nothing for me as comics weren't my thing growing up. Unfortunately, it does boffo box office for Hollywood, so we keep getting new ones, even reboots of stuff that's still pretty recent, while "more adult" movies are marginalized. But don't mind me, I'm just a cranky old guy who likes plot, character development, actual dialogue instead of money quotes, and far less CGI and crap blowing up.
 
8893 said:
Saw Mary Poppins Returns last night. Better than I expected it to be, in large part due to Emily Blunt.
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Emily Blunt makes anything she is in 10% better. That said. I probably won't see it until it comes to cable, Netflix, or Hulu.
 
We just caught At Eternity's Gate, a Van Gogh biopic. Willem Dafoe was first-rate. I liked it, nice visuals. But movies with nice visuals can be boring and that was the verdict of my partner.
 
Husky25 said:
Emily Blunt makes anything she is in 10% better. That said. I probably won't see it until it comes to cable, Netflix, or Hulu.
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Yeah we saw it on DVD; I would not have gone to the theater for it. My brother is in the producers guild so he gets screeners. That’s how we saw Vice the other night too.
 
Saw "Mary Poppins" with family on Christmas. I'm not really a fan of musicals generally speaking, I get frustrated and wish they would stop singing and get on with the movie usually. That said I enjoyed it. Agree with above, mostly because of Emily Blunt. I thought Emily Mortimer was charming as well.

I've never done a double feature at a theater before, but after that we watched "Bumblebee." Entertaining, a bit different than all the Bayformer flicks. I'm a fan of Hailee Steinfeld, so it had that going for it.
 
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