What was the last movie you watched ....

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  1. Mushroom

    Mushroom De-powered to come back better than before.

    Love the original film. The live squid scene.....
     
  2. Dead_pool

    Dead_pool Spes mea in nihil Deus MAP 2017 Moi Award

    Ive just watched the princess bride, for the very first time, and it was everything I had hoped it would be.........................
     
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  3. Ben Gash CLF

    Ben Gash CLF Valued Member

    Inconceivable!
     
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  4. Dead_pool

    Dead_pool Spes mea in nihil Deus MAP 2017 Moi Award

    This word, I do not think it means, what you think it means......

    :)
     
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  5. philosoraptor

    philosoraptor carnivore in a top hat Supporter

    ...Seriously?

    Now go watch Robin Hood Men in Tights!
     
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  6. Dead_pool

    Dead_pool Spes mea in nihil Deus MAP 2017 Moi Award

    And I only recently watched spaceballs.....
     
  7. Mushroom

    Mushroom De-powered to come back better than before.

    Andy Lau film.
    Shock Wave.

    Andy is a bomb desposal expert for the Hong Kong Police, who is also a target for revenge. Pretty decent budget and starts off as a thriller and then into carnage.
     
  8. aikiMac

    aikiMac aikido + boxing = very good Moderator Supporter

    You need to add the first "Die Hard" to your list. :)

    I recently re-watched #4 (the computer hacker one, with Maggie Q). I think it's my favorite. Like, the consensus is that "Empire" is better than the original "Star Wars" even thought the original is fully excellent. In the same way, I think I like Die Hard #4 best even though the original is fully excellent. :)
     
  9. Dead_pool

    Dead_pool Spes mea in nihil Deus MAP 2017 Moi Award

    Die hard is my favourite Christmas movie, it's sums up the holiday spirit like no other!
     
  10. hewho

    hewho Valued Member

    In a spirit of utter macho-ness, I went with my dear mummy to see Victoria and Abdul. How much of it is true I don't really know, but it was a good film. Funny, moving, and without a single punch up!
     
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  11. Chimpcheng

    Chimpcheng Yup... Giant cow head... Supporter

    Watched 'Birdman' starring Michael Keaton, amongst others. It wasn't what I thought it was going to be, and, for me, it was more interesting (with an ambiguous ending) than good.

    However, Keaton is fantastic, and I can honestly see him as Batman (again) in something like 'Dark Knight Returns'. Make it so Hollywood, make it so...
     
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  12. Latikos

    Latikos Valued Member

    So, it's not only here that this movie runs in TV during Christmas :D
     
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  13. Travess

    Travess The Welsh MAPper Supporter

    Just sat thru most of Jackie Chan's Kung Fu Yoga on Netfilx (will watch the rest later) - It was in essence a Chinese/Indian hybrid Indianna Jones-esque light hearted actioner, which I actually found myself thoroughly enjoying.

    Travess
     
  14. aikiMac

    aikiMac aikido + boxing = very good Moderator Supporter

    "Miami Vice" -- with Collin Farrell and Jamie Foxx

    I watched the tv show every Friday in the 80s, and then again on reruns in the late 90s (I think it was on USA Network), and I later bought the dvd set. Obviously I'm a fan. This movie had very much the same feel of the show -- the intense stress of going undercover, the emotional stress of so many dead bodies, the characters being married to the job and having no outside life, the pain of loss when one of their own gets hurt, and so on. And the dismal feeling, the great "downer" emotional drain, when it ends, was there. It captured the tv show, for sure.

    But yet, the movie just never grabbed me. I actually got bored in the middle of it and considered pressing the "eject" button on the dvd player, but I didn't. This version of Crocket was good, but he wasn't quite the real Crockett. And this Tubbs -- no. Jamie Foxx is not Tubbs. I think that was the biggest problem -- they weren't cavalier enough. In the tv show, they're cavalier. They're "anything goes, I'll do the paperwork later" guys. Crockett is almost a burned-out hippie who uncharacteristically drives a Ferrari, what with him living on a boat with a pet alligator. But these movie guys were intense 24/7 non-stop, never a relaxing moment even when drinking a mojito with a pretty girl, and I think that's what made it boring. You're supposed to relax when you drink a mojito with a pretty girl.
     
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  15. Latikos

    Latikos Valued Member

    For the first (second actually, now that I think of it) time in years I watched a German movie.

    The name of the movie is "Nebel im August", which translates to "Fog in August"
    Click here for a second link about the movie.

    It's a movie based on a true story: In Nazi Germany a young boy, Ernst Lossa, is sent to psychic hospital.
    During that time it was not unusual to euthanize people with mental illnesses, physically disabled or special.
    Same at this "clinic": Kids get fed with poisoned raspberry juice or people die of malnutrition - and that's not only legal, but wanted.
    The boy discovers that and starts to help the patients, for what in the end he gets killed himself.

    Sounds like a major spoiler, I know, but it's pretty much clear from the beginning; any other end wouldn't have made sense, no matter if you know of the real Ernst Lossa or not.


    I don't think I like the ending (not entirely sure yet, but the trend says no) and apparently there are some things made... nicer, than they were, but it's still a good movie, actually.
    I think at some point I will get the book by Robert Domes to see how it differs from the movie.

    Not sure if it any of it is actually available in English.
    So why am I mentioning it anyway?
    The person of Ernst Lossa was real.
    So at the very least people can read about him; because I think it's really worth it, to have at least heard about him.
    And because of the way, the Nazis treated not only physical disabilities but also mental health, who couldn't work, were mentally retarded and similar.
    And after I read here essentially how the Germans were smart to have voted for the Nazis... well, let's just say, that made it even more important to mention that!
     
  16. 19thlohan

    19thlohan Beast and the Broadsword

    The Golden Cane Warrior

    My first Indonesian martial arts flick. Found on Netflix. Not bad. The typical evil student vs good student premise with most of the action centering around staff fighting. A little short on action but what there is is good. The final lengthy showdown between the good student and her new ally and the two evil students is full of great sequences. Worth a watch but is only available in Indonesian audio.
     
  17. axelb

    axelb Master of Office Chair Fu

    Watched the Lego batman movie today with the family.
    Very much the same style of script as the Lego movie, good fun to watch and plenty of a mix of jokes for kids and adults.
     
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  18. Travess

    Travess The Welsh MAPper Supporter

    Never really got on with any of the Lego movies, but then, having just 2 daughters, I've never really had to - The downside being that I find myself singing songs from films like 'Trolls' whilst I am at work... :oops:

    Travess
     
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  19. axelb

    axelb Master of Office Chair Fu

    haha, yes, it's inevitable that you'll watch all those movies; i usually manage to fall asleep through most of them.
     
  20. philosoraptor

    philosoraptor carnivore in a top hat Supporter

    Just saw Wonder Woman and despite all the good press, I really didn't enjoy it. On one hand, I think to some extent I'm just tired of superhero movies. Wonder Woman stands head and shoulders above Batman vs Superman or Man of Steel, but it seemed plagued by the same genre cliches and conventions to the point of being formulaic. When I first saw the picture of Wonder Woman in BvS my immediate thought was "They're going to do a Captain America movie for Wonder Woman," and sure enough, that's essentially what they did. All of it was competently enough executed, but it just felt so damn repetitive. Switching out a male super soldier for a female one just wasn't interesting enough to carry the entire movie for me. I thought the costumery was cool, the action pieces were fun, even if they were a little CGI heavy. Just a thought here, but I think there's some virtue to hiding your hero's face in these movies; the CGI in Iron Man or Spiderman, heck even Hulk. Some uncanny valley thing. I liked the characterization of Wonder Woman, and her ability to simultaneously engage in fish out of water comedy, while also being a powerful and formidable person who was able to keep up with everyone on screen. Even in that power, she depended on other characters without ever becoming a damsel in distress. Cool, cool, cool. The more significant problems I had with the plot were the inconsistencies and undercutting of emotional payoff in the film.

    First the minor nitpicks: spoilers from here on out!
    Chris Pine's character had no reason to commit suicide. He knew how to fly planes, and the rest of his team was perfectly happy blowing up the remaining gas bombs on the ground. There was no reason that Pine couldn't simply stop the plane and blow it up on the ground. Everyone on Themyscira had Gal Gadot's accent, and I wondered if it was a decision made simply because Gadot couldn't manage to speak in any other manner. I liked that the actor playing Aries was older, but he felt like a stand in for the guy who played Tywin Lannister. With that said, as soon as he appeared on screen I figured he was a German sympathizer - formulaic villain, at least in my eyes. He had absolutely no reason to engage in combat with Wonder Woman and probably should have just said "screw this," and walked away from the conflict. WW1 would be prolonged due to the incursion over the front lines, the assassination of Germany's generals and high command, and the destruction of the airfield and weapon plant, no need for the gas. I think it also robbed the movie of some of its complexity to have Diana first contemplate the enormity of WW1 being caused simply by the actions and desires of men, to have Aries suddenly swoop in and say "Ah ha, well sure, they did it, but I helped them along!" I think overall, he should have been left out, but if he simply must be in, well I kept hoping that he would say something along the lines of "Diana, war is different now, civilized. It no longer depends upon the strength of heroes with swords but the mass of artillery, planes, tanks and the machine gun." Some Hemingway, Remarque stuff that emphasized the importance of the setting, but no, we needed our big finale that played out like every other superhero finale and felt largely like a videogame.

    A lot of this is just spitballing, but I think that the movie was initially set during WW2 and the decision to set it during WW1 obliterated any importance of Wonder Woman's arc or her victory. I don't know this, I wasn't there, I haven't read the screenplay, so this is guesswork on my part. The central dilemma of Diana's character is reconciling the tangled knot of humanity's capacity for greatness and the depths of its violence. The movie features crazed Germans who are willing to do anything to win the war. The movie includes human experimentation, the development of secret weapons, bombed out French villages, camps surrounded by barbed wire and guard towers. It features a manipulative god of war who gives humanity tips on how to build ever more destructive weapons, now a bomb that will literally destroy a city if dropped. All of these dots kind of make me think that they intended to set it during WW2, but pulled back at the last moment - my guess is because the accusation that a fictional god caused the Germans to involuntarily commit the holocaust would have been radically offensive. By the same token, the themes of the movie and its end are better emphasized by setting the movie during WW2. Killing Aries did literally nothing to prevent an even larger conflict from breaking out, with greater atrocities, and still more destructive weapons of impossible power. To be honest, I'm not even sure that the sort of creation stories and deities in this movie can successfully cohabit with the 'realistic' approach that DC keeps yearning to move towards. It just feels incoherent. Wonder Woman's quest was in the end futile, her emotional struggle is incomplete and can only be considered in light of the fact that she has not even begun to see the depths that humanity can sink to. Maybe that's their plan for a sequel, who knows, but if that's the case she'll literally have to go through the same emotional journey all over again. All I can say is that I won't be watching. Shoot, maybe I'm just getting old and cranky.
     
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