Donnie Darko. It was cool tho I had to ask my partner to explain what happened at the ending lol
Was it the Director’s Cut version? When the movie came out, a lot of arguably necessary content was accessible on the website. A few years later the DC version added title cards to provide some of the additional content you couldn’t go online to find anymore. One of my favorite moves.
Ye it was the DC. My partner’d seen it before and I asked her if I should do the DC or not. She sorta shrugged her shoulders and was like “I guess probably?”
Across the Spiderverse. So good. Highly recommend.
Agreed. I’ve only gone to the movies twice in the last 2-3 years and I am soo very glad I managed to drag the wife out for spiderman.
It was fantastic. Recency bias completely but I really do think it’s better than the first.
I just wish it felt more like a complete story and not just a part one of two.
Fucking masterpiece is what it is.
I love the dancing in that film!
It was the first time I saw that film. So amazing!
There’s a sequel. Blues Brothers 2000. It’s not even close story wise, but the music is just as good. John Goodman is a great singer. Worth a watch.
Yeah I noticed that upon checking out Wikipedia article I linked above. Not really the same though without Belushi…
Massive Talent - I loved it!
Guardians of the Galaxy 3, pretty good.
Spiderman ATSV
It was fuckin incredible, this trilogy is going to be one of those once in a lifetime trilogies, like the Matrix Trilogy or the Dark Knight Trilogy, you mark my words.
Can’t wait for BTSV
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Isn’t that the appeal of the series though?
I watched the whole, but spoiler alert, you didn’t miss much
It was probably a bit minimal in the story department, but I thought the cinematography was outstanding, especially in the last hour or so. That one-shot sequence in the building was probably one of my favourite sections in any movie I’ve seen recently.
I had another experience. The power of the first John wick movie was the very simple story of a man loosing his dog and his car, to an orgasmic vengeance bullet bukkake.
Four is the other way around. The story is so complicated and, too be honest, weak, that all the fantastic fight choreography in the world can’t offset it. It gets boring as you’re not even remotely emotionally engaged.
I will treat the wick saga like I did with the matrix. There is only one, shame they didn’t shoot a sequel.
Last one I really liked was Valerian. Kind of a hokey sci-fi, but good story and engaging. I actually liked the lead characters a lot.
Last one I can’t believe I watched was John Wick 4. I mean I knew what it was going to be like. Was almost three hours long with thirty minutes of actual story, the rest just shooting and fighting, but I had to see it, just like the three before it.
One thing that was really cool about John Wick 4 is there’s a set of scenes where he’s driving a 1971 Plymouth 'Cuda. I had that exact car with all the performance options except the Hemi engine (had a 440 six pack engine). It’s by far the favorite of all cars I’ve owned. I found it in the mid 80’s wasting away in a garage and restored it. To this day I think I should have kept it, found a way to store it properly. The whole time I was thinking don’t you dare destroy that car, but it looks like they CG’d all the crashes. I’m sure the owner would never let them damage that priceless car.
Fall (2022). The concept is pretty simple: Two women climb a TV tower and are stuck at the top. Before watching it I thought: How are they going to make a movie out of that? Well, they did and it was better than I would have expected. If you like those movies with a limited cast and set and without much action, I can definitely recommend it.
Shorter is not necessarily better: “THE Fall” from the early 2000s was a much better value-per-minute movie. :P
As a former climber that film made me angry
John wick surprised me in being an actual good movie. No brains whatsoever but nice action.
I just watched it too. Really enjoyed it over the second and third.
I felt they did a better job of setting the mood and scene than the previous ones.
Are you talking about the first one or the 4th? After I watched the third I gave up on the franchise, it was so bloody awful in every way. The first one was a good film and it had been going downhill since
I hated two and three also but the new one is actually good.
Barbarian
Sadly it does not stick the landing but everything up to that point is great. Love how it plays with the fact that the audience already expects Bill Skarsgård to be creepy.
The terminal; always a good movie! I watched it multiple times now, but this one never gets old.
My dad had on Starship Troopers earlier and it was definitely much scarier to me a decade ago. I cannot say it’s the best sci-fi film I’ve ever seen, but it’s pretty decent.
It’s a pretty smart film in the context of when it was made and the political situation in the U.S. I remember when it was released a lot of people were pissed at it, it performed pretty poorly.
Marcel the Shell with Shoes on
A refreshing, slow paced and very touching “fictional-documentary” about the little microcosm of a shell with shoes and how he discovers what’s beyond. Its based on three YouTube short films from 2010-2012 made by the director. Highly recommend both the short and the feature.
Fittingly, it also touches on the feeling many of us had when first discovering the Internet. For me, that’s also what’s happening right now on Lemmy again (a tiny bit).
Coincidentally, I just went down the rabbit hole of the A24 production company. Very cool film-makers behind some of my most recent favourite flicks, including Marcel the Shell with Shoes on!
Ice Age 6(?) with my daughter watching on repeat. I couldn’t help but immediately notice that the voice actors were discount versions of the original actors (no shade to them considering what they had to work with). 1/10 would highly recommend this masterpiece.
