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What Was The Last Movie You Watched and Rate it!

Cardinal said:
Lion - 4/4 stars. A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. Think "An American Tail" without adorable, singing mice.

If you are not crying at the end, update your empathy software to make sure it's the latest version number.

John Wick 2 - 4/4 stars. An assassin kills a lot of people. Buttloads of fun.

Kong: Skull Island - 2/4 stars. King Kong meets Pacific Rim meets The Mist. Bad cinematography creates for a frustrating viewing experience, soulless narrative, unsatisfying wrapup. Samuel L Jackson can't save this emotionless reboot. Will have you yearning nostalgically for the 1976 Jeff Bridges/Jessica Lange version.
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I should clear up the record and state that I was not crying at the end of Lion. The fact is I was having an allergy attack.
 
Zookeeper's Wife: 2/5. Tries to be Schindler's List. Is not Schindler's List.

Split: 4.5/5. Shyamalan reins himself in and puts out a product worthy of his earlier stuff.

Logan: 4.5/5. Rating for fillmmaking merit; I didn't like the story very much.

Hidden Figures: 3/5. Had everything I wanted - period piece, untold story, 1960s NASA - should have been a home run. Enjoyable. But it couldn't really decide exactly which story it was telling.
 
The latest Pirates of the Caribbean movie 5 out of 10. Entertaining, but no where as good as the original. Just milking the series

Despicable Me 3. Quite good actually. Enough adult references to keep adults entertained and very good for kids
 
Dunkirk (2017) - IMDb

PROS:
- Tom Hardy
- great pacing
- aerial scenes

CONS:
- novelty, simplistic plot
- predictable

While it was definitely well made and the best Nolan film since the Dark Knight, its pretty shallow beyond the events of what happened in the evacuation. Not really re-watchable imo. Definitely worth watching, but worth keeping? I'm not sure about that. 8/10
 
OKJA (2017) 9/10
Director: Joon-ho Bong
Starring: Tilda Swinton, Paul Dano, Jake Glynnenhal

Over-the-top madness that makes a serious point while being deeply moving. A delight!
 
Atomic Blonde... 9/10.. brilliant spy thriller with great action.
 
I watch movies all the time, just re-watched John Wick a couple of days ago. My video collection is absurdly huge.
 
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (2017) - IMDb
I didnt like the first movie, so I didnt bother to watch it in the theater and waited until it came out on streaming. All in all, its a slight improvement over the first movie, but I still didnt like the mix of saccharine cute music videos combined with space opera action. It lurches between being too serious and then all of a sudden pulls it right back into comedy. I dont like being manipulated like that. 6/10

Planet of the Vampires (1965) - IMDb
An old b-movie made in Italy on a shoestring budget. Two spaceships and their crew land on a strange alien planet where things arent what they seem. Its a cross between Forbidden Planet and schlock horror. The curious thing about this is the beginning of the movie is very close to Alien- which came out decades later. You cant help but smile when the similarities in plot when the scenes come up. All in all, its somewhat dated, slow and yet still passable. 5/10

 


6 Days (2017) - IMDb
A dramatization of the Iranian Embassy hostage crisis in London and the SAS attack that followed. The movie is only 90 minutes long so it glosses over a lot of details and the characters are paper-thin, they just arent given any time to develop- I barely remember anyone in it except for Jamie Bell's character. A longer movie with more details would have been better. The action sequences are historically accurate. 5/10

England Is Mine (2017) - IMDb
The story of Morrissey, the lead singer of one of my favorite bands The Smiths. What should have been an interesting biography ends up being dreary and repetitive in detailing just how lousy his life was before he became famous. The worst part is the ending, because the movie finishes just as the band is about to be formed! What was the point of even watching this if the ultimate triumph is not even included? 3/10
 
PeteEU said:
Atomic Blonde... 9/10.. brilliant spy thriller with great action.
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Yeah, my wife and I really enjoyed it. Loved the music, too. Listening to something like HEALTH's cover of Blue Monday when the bullets were flying was a nice rush.

 
Blade Runner 2049 (2017) - IMDb

PROS:
-Complex, intelligent plot
-Excellent star performances
-Easter eggs from the first movie

CONS:
-minimal soundtrack, more on ambient sound then the moody original film

Quite simply the best film I've seen in a long long time. The movie is faithful not just to the original Bladerunner film, but it also touches on the central theme of Philip K Dick's original vision on the perception of reality and what it means to be human. Even though there are action sequences, its not a shoot 'em up. Instead its a very good detective story with deep characterizations. Brilliant. 9.5/10
 
victoria and abdul
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/victoria_and_abdul/

my wife loved it
i enjoyed it - but not like she
excellent cinematography and costumes
judi dench was quite good
tended to be a bit slow at times
positive commentary about muslim culture
 
Cult of Chucky - 7/10. The last two Chucky sequels have been the best since the original, which is extremely rare in a horror series.
 
Alien Covenant. Picked it out of the Red Box just 2 days ago and watched it.

Nothing comes close to the original. Even from 1979 I still say one of the best science fiction movies I have ever seen.

I'd give Covenant 5 out of 10 better than the last couple of things in that franchise but not quite better than alien and aliens.

It's worth buying and watching again.
 
Just watched The Day After (Made-for-TV movie about a nuclear attack with Russia) online. Very depressing.

The morals of this movie:
1. In War, when it comes right down to it, NOBODY wins
2. Humans are stupid.
 
Blade Runner 2049. I'd give it a "Fresh" 90% on the Tomatometer, although I needed clarification on a couple of things and read a synopsis of the move after I saw it. (No spoilers here.)

Another movie I liked was Kingsman: The Golden Circle. It's a bit campy like the original, but also fun, and I'd also give it a 90. The first movie was worth the price of admission just watching Sofia Boutella, the French-Algerian actress/model who played Gazelle (as well as Princess Ahmanet in the latest Mummy incantation and Delphine Lasalle in Atomic Blonde), slash her way across Europe.



 
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The Dark Tower. The producers said, "Hey, what if we took the original book, which everybody loved, set it on fire, and then had a bunch of people who'd never read a Stephen King book in their lives rewrite the whole story.

That movie would be the Dark Tower.
 
Ahlevah said:
Blade Runner 2049. I'd give it a "Fresh" 90% on the Tomatometer, although I needed clarification on a couple of things and read a synopsis of the move after I saw it.
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I've seen Blade Runner several times, but would a rewatch before seeing 2049 help at all?
 
Kobie said:
I've seen Blade Runner several times, but would a rewatch before seeing 2049 help at all?
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I don't think it's necessary, as the sequel seems to have been written with the assumption that the viewer is new to the story. After all, it's been thirty-five years since the original came out. But I suppose it wouldn't hurt. I'd never seen the original Kingsman, but went ahead and saw it before seeing the sequel. I think it helped me gain a better appreciation of the story behind Eggsy and his love for the Kingsman organization and the people in it. I hope Mark Strong's "Merlin" is in the next one, if there is a next one. I don't think anyone can do that character better than he did.
 
Ahlevah said:
I don't think it's necessary, as the sequel seems to have been written with the assumption that the viewer is new to the story. After all, it's been thirty-five years since the original came out. But I suppose it wouldn't hurt. I'd never seen the original Kingsman, but went ahead and saw it before seeing the sequel. I think it helped me gain a better appreciation of the story behind Eggsy and his love for the Kingsman organization and the people in it. I hope Mark Strong's "Merlin" is in the next one, if there is a next one. I don't think anyone can do that character better than he did.
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Having not seen Leonard Parts 1-5, I was lost watching the great Bill Cosby opus Leonard Part 6.

I'll watch Blade Runner before I go see 2049 anyway, just because Blade Runner is ****ing awesome.
 
Kobie said:
I'll watch Blade Runner before I go see 2049 anyway, just because Blade Runner is ****ing awesome.
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Yes, it is. 2049 got good audience and critical reviews and my wife and I enjoyed it, but for some inexplicable reason it hasn't performed in theaters as well as expected. Apparently it bombed in China. It's a shame. Overall I'd say Ridley Scott hasn't made too many clinkers. I remember seeing the original Alien in a theater when it came out in 1979. I'd never seen anything like it before, and haven't since. And Gladiator is also one of my favorite movies.
 
Ahlevah said:
Yes, it is. 2049 got good audience and critical reviews and my wife and I enjoyed it, but for some inexplicable reason it hasn't performed in theaters as well as expected. Apparently it bombed in China. It's a shame. Overall I'd say Ridley Scott hasn't made too many clinkers. I remember seeing the original Alien in a theater when it came out in 1979. I'd never seen anything like it before, and haven't since. And Gladiator is also one of my favorite movies.
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Prometheus was hot poop.
 
Ahlevah said:
Yes, it is. 2049 got good audience and critical reviews and my wife and I enjoyed it, but for some inexplicable reason it hasn't performed in theaters as well as expected. Apparently it bombed in China. It's a shame. Overall I'd say Ridley Scott hasn't made too many clinkers. I remember seeing the original Alien in a theater when it came out in 1979. I'd never seen anything like it before, and haven't since. And Gladiator is also one of my favorite movies.
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BR 2049 was too smart for its own good. Most audience goers are dummies- they want simplistic plots with lots of action. Also the movie is nearly 3 hours long, but I never lost interest in it as opposed to this one:

Baby Driver (2017) - IMDb
The critics loved this movie, but I thought this was crap. Kevin Spacey (yes, him) is in this one, along with John Hamm and Jamie Foxx about a young man who is a getaway driver who listens to music. Nothing original was developed and even the action sequences are lame. 3/10.
 
Kobie said:
Prometheus was hot poop.
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Perhaps, but I never saw it and here's an example of a movie that would have helped me better understand what was going on in Alien: Covenant. The whole thing about the city being destroyed from above made no sense to me, so that affected my enjoyment of the movie.
 
PoS said:
BR 2049 was too smart for its own good. Most audience goers are dummies- they want simplistic plots with lots of action. Also the movie is nearly 3 hours long, but I never lost interest in it as opposed to this one:

Baby Driver (2017) - IMDb
The critics loved this movie, but I thought this was crap. Kevin Spacey (yes, him) is in this one, along with John Hamm and Jamie Foxx about a young man who is a getaway driver who listens to music. Nothing original was developed and even the action sequences are lame. 3/10.
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Yeah, I thought 2049 flowed well. The time passed quickly. And actually we enjoyed Baby Driver, too. I mean, yeah, it was kind of anti-cerebral, but it had its fun moments, too, such as the opening scene which included The Jon Spencer Blues Explosion's Bellbottoms.

 
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