Recently Watched Movies 2024

[ZooCougar]

Deadpool & Wolverine. Finally streaming for free on Disney+. This is mostly what you expect. Over the top, vulgar, crude and really quite funny. Reynolds has this down now. Many digs at 20th Century Fox. Jackman is still a great Wolverine. Some of the sex jokes just miss the mark, but there were laugh out loud moments as well. The dog, oh my God, the dog. Loads of cameos, I won't spoil them. Reynolds put his whole family in Deadpool outfits, even the kids (and Blake Lively definitely rocked that costume). Very cool that Paul Mullins was added as WelshPool. Look, they obviously had a blast doing this and it shows. It's just silly fun, doesn't take itself at all seriously.

I'm hoping it was the absurd end of this awful multiverse direction they went in and this is just them making fun of themselves.

 

[Waquoit]

Would you include "Jaws: The Revenge" when summing up highlights of Michael Caine's career?

I swear whenever I read or seen a feature on Caine's career over the years, they always mention Jaws: The Revenge.

 

[HuskyHawk]

I'm hoping it was the absurd end of this awful multiverse direction they went in and this is just them making fun of themselves.

They were clearly not taking it seriously in this one. But Disney can be counted on to do the wrong thing. They are the Jim Cramer of entertainment.

 

[CL82]

They were clearly not taking it seriously in this one. But Disney can be counted on to do the wrong thing. They are the Jim Cramer of entertainment.

They don't seem to understand the power of the vehicles they buy up. Thus they run them into the ground.

Disney seems to mostly be about vertical integration and exploiting intellectual property that they already own, rather than optimizing the product they are putting out there. On the other hand, I'm sure we can all look forward to "Deadpool and Wolverine: The Ride" to open up in Orlando.

 

[HuskyHawk]

They don't seem to understand the power of the vehicles they buy up. Thus they run them into the ground.

Disney seems to mostly be about vertical integration and exploiting intellectual property that they already own, rather than optimizing the product they are putting out there. On the other hand, I'm sure we can all look forward to "Deadpool and Wolverine: The Ride" to open up in Orlando.

Not going to go too much into the why, as it would get the thread locked. But we've seen frequent brand mistakes (including very recently) from brands trying to expand to new audiences in a way that drives the old customers away. That's what Disney has done far too often. They also tend to try to put cute robots or other things in stories to sell toys/rides etc. Note that Rogue One didn't have any of that, nor did Andor, the two best things Disney did with Star Wars. So far they've been a huge negative for Pixar, Star Wars and Marvel.

 

[storrsroars]

Between adults debating whether Deadpool and Wolverine is peak Marvel/Disney, and adults moaning over a live action remake of How to Train Your Dragon, is it any wonder why so many believe America is in steep decline?

Maybe y'all should ask Santa for an adult coloring book for Christmas to relieve your stress.

 

[CL82]

Between adults debating whether Deadpool and Wolverine is peak Marvel/Disney, and adults moaning over a live action remake of How to Train Your Dragon, is it any wonder why so many believe America is in steep decline?

If you're not offended by the lack of actual dragons in How to Train your Dragon remake, I don't know what to say to you.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Between adults debating whether Deadpool and Wolverine is peak Marvel/Disney, and adults moaning over a live action remake of How to Train Your Dragon, is it any wonder why so many believe America is in steep decline?

Maybe y'all should ask Santa for an adult coloring book for Christmas to relieve your stress.

When they make a serious drama that isn't dreary, preachy and condescending, I'll watch it. Oppenheimer qualifies as did All Quiet on the Western Front. Dune and Belfast the year before. 2021 was terrible. But so many of the serious films are just warmed over dreck. The medium was always about entertainment, hence why musicals once dominated (as Wicked is doing now). Nobody wants to spend 2.5 hours watching dreary, depressing millennial angst on film. Give us a story.

The Hobbit was for kids. Harry Potter was for kids. Star Wars was for kids. They're still great stories. We were all kids once so movies kids can watch are all ages movies. I find The Sandlot always holds up as does Stand By Me. Up was truly moving.

 

[storrsroars]

When they make a serious drama that isn't dreary, preachy and condescending, I'll watch it. Oppenheimer qualifies as did All Quiet on the Western Front. Dune and Belfast the year before. 2021 was terrible. But so many of the serious films are just warmed over dreck. The medium was always about entertainment, hence why musicals once dominated (as Wicked is doing now). Nobody wants to spend 2.5 hours watching dreary, depressing millennial angst on film. Give us a story.

The Hobbit was for kids. Harry Potter was for kids. Star Wars was for kids. They're still great stories. We were all kids once so movies kids can watch are all ages movies. I find The Sandlot always holds up as does Stand By Me. Up was truly moving.

IIRC, there was this small problem during 2021 that derailed filming and post-production.

With so many great shows streaming, who needs dumb movies?

I'll assume you watched Top Gun Maverick. Did you happen to catch Prey, Navalny, Emily the Criminal, The Menu, Glass Onion, Bullet Train, Nope, Killers of the Flower Moon, Air, The Holdovers, or Poor Things? We may not share the same tastes, but I found each of those pretty good for adults.

Btw, Stand By Me ain't a kids film. Steven King, remember?

 

[HuskyHawk]

IIRC, there was this small problem during 2021 that derailed filming and post-production.

With so many great shows streaming, who needs dumb movies?

I'll assume you watched Top Gun Maverick. Did you happen to catch Prey, Navalny, Emily the Criminal, The Menu, Glass Onion, Bullet Train, Nope, Killers of the Flower Moon, Air, The Holdovers, or Poor Things? We may not share the same tastes, but I found each of those pretty good for adults.

Btw, Stand By Me ain't a kids film. Steven King, remember?

Prey was decent. Navalny was good. Didn't like The Menu. Liked Glass Onion, loved Bullet Train. Holdovers was good if slow. Not a fan of Poor things. But there are others I liked, 1917, Ford vs Ferrari, Jojo Rabbit, The Joker, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. I just think some of the Marvel movies like Captain America - Civil War were definitely adult themed. Others like Thor Ragnarok were silly.

 

[nomar]

I saw Gladiator II

It's worth watching if you loved the first one, if only for Denzel. They definitely did the "let's just run that back again" thing, the only real difference being Denzel's character, which started out like Oliver Reed's but ended up in a much different place.

It was entertaining but it was also super corny.

The CGI was terrible and there were at least 2 moments in the film that made half the theater burst out in laughter: (1) the bust looking exactly like Paul Mescal and (2) Pedro Pascal's servant slinking away backwards like she was in a meme.

 

[White Dwarf]

Christmas on Mars. Official holiday kickoff for me.

 

[nwhoopfan]

The CGI was terrible

That seems to be par for the course these days. CGI is getting worse recently, not better.

 

[HuskyHawk]

That seems to be par for the course these days. CGI is getting worse recently, not better.

The CGI in Alien Romulus is spectacular. The key is in not relying on it too much.

 

[CL82]

The CGI in Alien Romulus is spectacular. The key is in not relying on it too much.

I never thought about that until you mentioned it, which probably is the best testament that it was good. I'm not sure how much of it were CGI and how much were practical effects, which, again, means that it was done pretty well.

 

[HuskyHawk]

I never thought about that until you mentioned it, which probably is the best testament that it was good. I'm not sure how much of it were CGI and how much were practical effects, which, again, means that it was done pretty well.

Exactly. Never felt like "I'm watching CGI" like you do with some Marvel stuff or Avatar etc. Yet the space ship stuff and space had to be right?

 

[nwhoopfan]

"Widow Clicquot" is on Netflix. Based on real events. During Napoleon's reign in France, in the Champagne region. Haley Bennett stars as a widow trying to keep a winery afloat, with many things stacked against her. It's fairly slow paced, but interesting enough. A lot of flashbacks, constantly back and forth between time frames. Also with Sam Riley, not sure if he does anything other than period pieces.