NEW: List some movies you've watched recently. Theatre, rental, TV... and give a */10

igor_kavinski · May 29, 2025

sdifox said:
Plenty of living actors, why are you fixated on a dead one?

Same reason Rogue One had to have Peter Cushing digitally recreated.

Breaks continuity and makes people scratch their heads in vain. Saves millions of unnecessary head scratching.

sdifox · May 29, 2025

igor_kavinski said:
Same reason Rogue One had to have Peter Cushing digitally recreated.

Breaks continuity and makes people scratch their heads in vain. Saves millions of unnecessary head scratching.

who actually remembers the 2008 pile of crap?

igor_kavinski · May 29, 2025

sdifox said:
who actually remembers the 2008 pile of crap?

Norton wasn't THAT bad.

sdifox · May 29, 2025

igor_kavinski said:
Norton wasn't THAT bad.

The script sucked. You care about continuity of a supporting actor but not the protagonist?

igor_kavinski · May 29, 2025

sdifox said:
The script sucked. You care about continuity of a supporting actor but not the protagonist?

That couldn't be avoided. You know Marvel/Disney refuse to negotiate with ~~terrorists~~ actors

ch33zw1z · May 29, 2025

Dreamscape: Höllische Träume (1984) ⭐ 6.3 | Action, Adventure, Horror

1h 39m | 16

m.imdb.com

Watched this one, interesting. 6/10

MrSquished · May 29, 2025

Also watched Swiss army man the other week. It was quite good though the ending was average and that brought the rating down. But Radcliffe is a treasure man. He got that fuck you Harry Potter money and now he does some fascinating roles. He played a farting and awkwardly reanimated corpse amazingly well.

soulcougher73 · May 29, 2025

MrSquished said:
Also watched Swiss army man the other week. It was quite good though the ending was average and that brought the rating down. But Radcliffe is a treasure man. He got that fuck you Harry Potter money and now he does some fascinating roles. He played a farting and awkwardly reanimated corpse amazingly well.

I enjoy his movies as well. Guns Akimbo was great.

DAPUNISHER · May 30, 2025

CA: Brave New World- 3/10

It's a bad chatgpt prompt.

Dr. Detroit · May 30, 2025

Contraband (2012) - 4.5/10 - Now streaming on Starz

A Mark Wahlberg heist film with Kate Beckinsale & Giovanni Ribisi & JK Simmons.

This film made $70M in the USA and I have no idea why would anyone would pay to see this. It's just not a good movie, the writing is trash, the acting is pretty shit, and the cinematography is mediocre. An unbelievable plot and way too many Hollywood tropes. AA meetings and a relapse, nope never seen that one before.

Save yourself from this one!

DAPUNISHER · May 30, 2025

ch33zw1z said:
Dreamscape: Höllische Träume (1984) ⭐ 6.3 | Action, Adventure, Horror

1h 39m | 16

m.imdb.com

Watched this one, interesting. 6/10

Loved this movie when I was a punk kid.

DAPUNISHER · May 30, 2025

balloonshark said:
Mickey 17 https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/mickey_17

I kept interested throughout this movie despite it being a bit repetitive. The antagonist (Mark Ruffalo) seems to be a cross between musk and trump. I would say this movie is worth watching at least once. I may buy it if it goes on sale.

I almost watched that last night. Shiny vampire kid turned out to be an excellent actor. Enjoyed the last 3 films I've seen him in - Batman, The Rover, High Life. I'll catch it this weekend. Dark comedy rules.

DigDog · May 30, 2025

i watched

Ghostbusters 1984 - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087332/reference/

Good god i was NUTS about this film when i was .. eleven. And consider that i was watching a pretty-bad dub, too - the only line that got improved from the US original was Murray's with Weaver, to "i never possess the possessed".
I had the t-shirts, the glow-in-the-dark stickers, the soundtrack, and a VHS that i wore out, must have watched it 15 times at least. I mean, nothing compared to The Blues Brothers, but still a decent run.

It's just so well paced, it never lets up the momentum. It helps if it's the 80s and it's still vaguely reasonable to believe in ghosts. And if you're eleven.

Some of the jokes are very mild .. MOST of the jokes are very mild. The stupid faces of the actors are the funniest bit, and i cannot believe how much i missed in the dub, because they couldn't reproduce the voice of Annie Potts, the secretary.

There's a few nitpicks that clearly come from the age of the film; the sound is not great, some of the voice overdubs for Weaver, Zuul are pretty damn horrendous, and i remember noticing this even back when i was a kid. The special effects are very 1984, but i guess you can't really hold that against them .. when you're a Dune 1984 fan.

man, 1984 was WILD. Ghostbuster, Terminator (2), Indiana Jones (2), Spinal Tap, Amadeus, Gremlins, Karate Kid, Once Upon A Time In America, Beverly Hills Cop, Neverending Story, Top Secret, Last Starfighter, Dune, Company of Wolves, Police Academy, Conan (2), and these are like *the best*, there's at least another 10 good films that could go on this list.

Idk, it's such a deeply-ingrained film in our culture. Who hasn't imagined of having a proton pack, an unlicensed nuclear accelerator, on their back. (Egon moves away .. in an elevator)

8.5/10 - if you asked me back when i was eleven, i would have said 10/10

Indus · May 30, 2025

MrSquished said:
Andor Season 2 was a masterpiece, besides just one small 30 second scene. I liked the pacing and buildup of the overall season - it's just a grand universe with great characters and a fantastic lush story - looks gorgeous, well-acted, gritty stuff.

Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy - excellent movie with Gary Oldman and some other well-known names, including a young Tom Hardy and Benedict Cumberbatch. Moody noir interpretation of a Le Carre spy novel and it works very well. This and A Most Wanted Man are two excellent spy thriller movies.

Cassian is our generation's Obi-Wan..

If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine!

Strangely enough though the most important part of the Rebel Alliance is Luthen.. his words really hit hard in the context of a revolution..

"I burn my life to make a sunrise that I know I'll never see."

Kaido · May 30, 2025

DAPUNISHER said:
CA: Brave New World- 3/10

It's a bad chatgpt prompt.

Hate to say it, but needed steroids lol

Kaido · May 30, 2025

Kaido · May 30, 2025

Indus said:
Cassian is our generation's Obi-Wan..

If you strike me down, I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine!

Strangely enough though the most important part of the Rebel Alliance is Luthen.. his words really hit hard in the context of a revolution..

"I burn my life to make a sunrise that I know I'll never see."

Cassian was great because he was a regular, flawed human being who stepped up instead of quitting. No magic powers, just an imperfect history, but a persistent attitude.

I rewatched Rogue One after Andor S2 & it easily doubled my rating of Rogue One because now everything made sense lol. The ending was so much more powerful knowing how far he had to go to get there & what he had to sacrifice.

I would watch a whole TV series of K-2SO haha

igor_kavinski · May 30, 2025

Kaido said:
I rewatched Rogue One after Andor S2 & it easily doubled my rating of Rogue One

So 20/10?

Indus · May 30, 2025

igor_kavinski said:
So 20/10?

23/10. Andor S2 is easily a 11.5/10 already!

Kaido · May 30, 2025

igor_kavinski said:
So 20/10?

Kaido · May 30, 2025

Indus said:
23/10. Andor S2 is easily a 11.5/10 already!

DigDog · May 31, 2025

I watched

Alphaville - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058898/reference/

1965, B&W "noir" film, by Jean-Luc Godard. In french, with subs.

I had to read the Wikipedia page because otherwise i would have missed some things that are fairly important. The film is supposedly a SciFi, at least, the plot is. Quasi-Humphrey-Bogart hard-boiled detective "Lemmy Caution" is in Paris for a undercover mission - to hook up with the daughter of the creator of Alpha 60, a supercomputer now ruling (Paris) "Alphaville", and to destroy said computer.

The "important" bits is that the film in 1965 showcased some fairly modern-for-the-times architecture as its sets, because otherwise there is nothing SciFi about the film. And, if you like me were *not* born in the early 50s, you too would miss that these are supposed to be "wonderous pieces of architecture" because they are just vaguely-modernist buildings from the 60s. Even stuff like standing desks and staircases are supposedly "SciFi" but again, you've seen far better.

So, the film has aged horribly, from that perspective, to the point where a normal viewer today will likely miss *all* the major content.

Eddie Constantine (?who?) as the lead isn't particularly charismatic, and the leading lady is overshadowed by her supportings.

Because the plot is SciFi, but there is nothing visually SciFi about it, it comes across more as abstract than straightforward SciFi; you'll be wondering why these people dressed in 1950s clothing and using payphones are talking about making a intergalaxy telephone call, or why an interrogation room full of futuristic equipment looks to us more like a Fallout scene dressing. There is a ridiculous, vaguely-distorted voice-over that, again, i had to read on Wikipedia is meant to represent the voice of Alpha 60.

And ... it's all in black and white.

I mean, it's certainly - for some - a part of cinema history; but consider that 2001 Space Odyssey was shot 3 years later, and still today looks shockingly real.

I would give it a reasonable 6/10 for the few bits of history of bygone Paris that it *doesn't* hide, for the handful of good looking women (playing "Third Level Seductresses"), but really, to enjoy this, you would need to be born French, and in the 40s. American films in this period were just completely ahead in every respect.

DigDog · May 31, 2025

Into The Lost Lands - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4419684/reference/

Horrendous piece of shit by the world's most disappointing director, Paul WS Anderson. Milla Jovovic and Dave Bautista star in this quasi-videogame piece of shit that is interesting for one only thing - to run it and use Digital Color Meter / Just Color Picker and check for yourself just how limited the color palette is in this film.

Idk, something about Milla being a witch that uses her anime powers to kill some releigious zealots in a postapocalyptic clone of Mad Max's world.

4.5/10 - remember when people used to say, 20 years ago, that Gears Of War was bland, boring and brown? this film takes that to the 10th level.

DigDog · May 31, 2025

Sinners - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31193180/reference/

A surprisingly-decent vampire film that takes FUCKING FOREVER to get to the good part, but when it does you'll forget that you just sat through half hour of a snoozefest.

6.5/10

igor_kavinski · May 31, 2025

DigDog said:
A surprisingly-decent vampire film that takes FUCKING FOREVER to get to the good part, but when it does you'll forget that you just sat through half hour of a snoozefest.

Seems like a must watch, from the director of Black Panther.

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