Recently watched movies 2025

[HuskyHawk]

Frankenstein. Netflix. Guillermo del Toro directs, so visually fairly stunning. It’s a reimagining of the classic tale and is well done. I’m not really an Oscar Isaac fan, who plays Victor Frankenstein. Jordi Elordi is great as the creature. Mia Goth is potentially a perfect bride if Frankenstein and yet…that isn’t used. The story is good, it’s not perfect, maybe a bit slow at times, but ultimately this is quite good.

 

[Dove]

"Train Dreams" was briefly in theaters a few weeks ago, now on Netflix. I'd read a bit about it, got really good reviews. Just watched it. Huh. It's different than anything I've seen before. Contemplative is probably the word I would use to describe it. Stars Joel Edgerton and Felicity Jones.

I liked this movie a lot. Surprised that I did, too.

Not an Edgerton fan thanks in part to the crappiness of "They Came at Night."

Here, a loner loggerman making a living, finds love. "Marries", builds a house, has a daughter and...tragedy."

Lives the rest of his life living, waiting.

 

[Bomber36]

I liked this movie a lot. Surprised that I did, too.

Not an Edgerton fan thanks in part to the crappiness of "They Came at Night."

Here, a loner loggerman making a living, finds love. "Marries", builds a house, has a daughter and...tragedy."

Lives the rest of his life living, waiting.

I enjoyed this. Definitely makes you think about life. It’s deep and contemplative. A good movie to watch by yourself. I found this line in a review of the movie to be especially descriptive of what the movie is trying to achieve. It’s about “The things we lose, the things we gain, some of it important, some of it not at all, some laced with love, happiness, pain, grief. The bitterest of sweets, the sweetest of bitters, life.”

 

[HuskyHawk]

Weapons. Stars Julie Garner as a somewhat quirky elementary school teacher named Justine in suburban PA. Josh Brolin is a dad of a kid in her class. It’s starts off narrated by a young boy. Explaining what happened in town, 17 kids all got up at 2:17 AM ran out the door and were not seen again. They were all from Justine’s class, which now had only one boy show up, Alex. There is some gore here, and a mystery to be solved. It maintains suspense for quite a while then the intensity increases. I thought it was good.

 

[ZooCougar]

Weapons. Stars Julie Garner as a somewhat quirky elementary school teacher named Justine in suburban PA. Josh Brolin is a dad of a kid in her class. It’s starts off narrated by a young boy. Explaining what happened in town, 17 kids all got up at 2:17 AM ran out the door and were not seen again. They were all from Justine’s class, which now had only one boy show up, Alex. There is some gore here, and a mystery to be solved. It maintains suspense for quite a while then the intensity increases. I thought it was good.

I don't really like horror movies. I find them really boring. But this is one of the best movies I have seen in a long time.

 

[HuskyHawk]

I don't really like horror movies. I find them really boring. But this is one of the best movies I have seen in a long time.

Spoiler: Spoiler

I think old school Baba Yaga style witchcraft is underutilized in these films. Serpent and the Rainbow is fantastic because the leap to believe in voodoo or witchcraft is a smaller leap

 

[HuskyHawk]

Watch the Skies. Swedish movie, dubbed into English using "artist friendly, SAG approved" AI. It kind of works, sometimes better than others. Stars Inez Dahl Torhaug as Denise, who's father founded a UFO society. He disappears when she's very young sometime in the 80s. Fast forward to the late 1990s and she's 18 or so and living with foster parents and often in trouble (and quite smart). Some stuff happens and she tracks down UFO Sweden, who her dad more or less betrayed before his disappearance (was it aliens or just winter in the mountains?). She convinces the motley, aging UFO Sweden team to help her find the truth. It's a bit of a throwback sci fi adventure movie and is pretty good and has some feel good moments and some villains.