Last movie watched...

[Dandontdare]

We are of one mind!  Not much of a mind, mind, but definitely singular.

my mind to your mind
my thoughts to your thoughts...

[TordelBack]

Damnit Dan, I'm a pedant not a comedian!

[Dandontdare]

Your mother is so obese, she outweighs the needs of the many

[JamesC]

I dunno, I thought it was the most Star Trek-y of all three: it's actually about space exploration, strange new worlds, the characters' purpose and what happens to warriors when war is over. The Beastie Boys stuff is overdone, but it's still a fun sequence with great visuals. I love that the utterly crazy starbase elicits the same sense of wonder from my jaded eyes as Spacedock did in ST:III.

I'm a fan.

It certainly had Star Trekky elements and the cast were still good.
It just didn't feel like Star Trek to me.

It's like when you get an English breakfast in a Greek hotel. You get the elements but the scrambled eggs taste strangely sweet, the bacon is wafer thin with little boney bits in the middle and the sausages are like hot dog weiners.

One thing I particularly dislike about most modern Trek is the tendency to make the ship combat like air combat - it's all dog fights and high speed chases like something from Star Wars or Independence Day.
I like my Star Trek combat to feel more Naval. 

Just look at this scene. You've basically got McCoy flying a fucking X-Wing. It's shite.

https://youtu.be/HYctFVhe2Rc

[Professor Bear]

It was a pretty underwhelming movie story so I agree it wasn't Star Trek, but it was Captain Kirk - for probably the first time in the whole reboot.  The reboot movies are aggressively stupid by design, so they only have these thin caricatures instead of actual characters, and Kirk was the absolute worst, reduced to some sort of smug walking erection that kept getting into fistfights which he then lost.  There's an inescapable reading of his actions that sees them as exacerbating bad situations rather than resolving them, but Kirk in Beyond was clever, introspective and compassionate - basically what he was in the old show rather than the frat boy of the previous two movies.  He was almost a rebuttal of what had went before, and for that alone I was quite grateful to the film.

Beastie Boys stuff was definitely cringe, tho.  It was the kind of thing you'd expect to see in The Orville.

[JamesC]

My last movie watched was Demolition Man.

I don't think I'd seen this since the 90s so it all felt pretty fresh to me.
It's a really fun film which I very much enjoyed. Stallone puts his best foot forward with the affable tough guy routine and Sandra Bullock is an absolute joy - loveable and vulnerable but also smart and capable. I really liked her character.
Wesley Snipes is great fun as a pantomine-esque super-psycho villain. He looks like he's having great fun. And then you've got (bizarrely) Nigel Hawthorne chewing a bit of scenery.
The whole package is much better than I'd remembered with a pretty witty script and a great balance of action and humour. It's possibly 15 minutes too long and the subterranean underclass bit didn't quite come off - still a solid effort though.

It's obviously impossible to watch without comparing it to Judge Dredd. Demolition Man is by far the better film - Stallone seems more comfortable and they even manage to keep Rob Schneider on a leash.

[pictsy]

Liquid Sky

Gah!  It's not good.

It is an mangled mess of a incompetent production with stilted and unconvincing acting.  A mean spirited exercise in pretentious pointlessness that felt the need to have three rape scenes.  A confused narrative with terrible pacing and a plethora of redundancies.  The soundtrack is abrasive and awful.  A wretched assault on the ears that sounds like a child playing with a Casio keyboard and finding the most obnoxious settings possible.  I feel those that made it thought they were saying something, yet ended up being as vacuous and empty as the scene they were "commentating" on.  Saying it is not good is a kindness. 

[Colin YNWA]

Taking the boy through the Jurassic Park films (as we're playing Lego Jurassic World and its perked his interest) and the first one remains a bit of a masterpiece, if a little of its time. As the boy child pointed out 'So was seeing dinosaurs like this really special when you saw this.' and the answer is of course yes. Much of the early part of the  film was carried by the joy we see in Alan Grant being in part at least shared by the audience. It still works for me, but the boy thought it dragged at the beginning - he's 8.

He loved it when it 'Gets scary'

Anyway that's not why I'm here we watched 'The Lost World' today and man its ... well actually better than I remember. Not a patch on the first but it was better than I remember... until that ending. Man that ending is bad. I've become a bit obsessed with what happened on the crew of the ship that takes the T-Rex to San Deigo. I've read lots of theorys from raptors off screen, to the T-Rex (this seems to be what the film wants to go with with the crew member (or someone) explaining the whole downer and upper things the poor chap had been through. Maybe in its drug enthused frenzy it was able to repair the damage it must have done to the ship?) To my now favourite John Hammond hired some mercenaries to kill the crew and frame the... dinosaurs who may or may not have been on the ship.

All of that is such good fun. All utter nonsense. But what a massive shame that a film maker with the skill of Steven Spielberg can leave one of cinema's great clangers (surely) there for all to see. I mean I'm over it now and the rest of the film is okay BUT of course the boy things it was cool as it had more dinosaur actions.

I've got to stop showing him less good follow ups he loves them!

[Jim_Campbell]

Knives Out

It's fair to say I'm not much of a Rian Johnson fan — Looper annoyed the living shit out of me because it was not only incredibly stupid but it thought it was incredibly clever, and although I appreciated the intent of Last Jedi, it was a fucking terrible movie.

Knives Out, however, was terrific. Smartly subversive of the whodunnit format whilst somehow still managing to be love letter to it, beautifully shot, and with a magnificent cast. I'm sorry I passed on it at the cinema.

[pictsy]

Knives Out was certainly a very engrossing, entertaining and satisfying film.  I was left delighted with its wonderful conclusion and I would like the live in a world where this is the first film of a classic trilogy of films.

[Hawkmumbler]

Wrong thread pals, this is the LAST movies thread. Porns down the hall.

Please DO NOT reference the spam. That way posts like this won't seem odd!

[Rately]

Taking the boy through the Jurassic Park films (as we're playing Lego Jurassic World and its perked his interest) and the first one remains a bit of a masterpiece, if a little of its time. As the boy child pointed out 'So was seeing dinosaurs like this really special when you saw this.' and the answer is of course yes. Much of the early part of the  film was carried by the joy we see in Alan Grant being in part at least shared by the audience. It still works for me, but the boy thought it dragged at the beginning - he's 8.

He loved it when it 'Gets scary'

Anyway that's not why I'm here we watched 'The Lost World' today and man its ... well actually better than I remember. Not a patch on the first but it was better than I remember... until that ending. Man that ending is bad. I've become a bit obsessed with what happened on the crew of the ship that takes the T-Rex to San Deigo. I've read lots of theorys from raptors off screen, to the T-Rex (this seems to be what the film wants to go with with the crew member (or someone) explaining the whole downer and upper things the poor chap had been through. Maybe in its drug enthused frenzy it was able to repair the damage it must have done to the ship?) To my now favourite John Hammond hired some mercenaries to kill the crew and frame the... dinosaurs who may or may not have been on the ship.

All of that is such good fun. All utter nonsense. But what a massive shame that a film maker with the skill of Steven Spielberg can leave one of cinema's great clangers (surely) there for all to see. I mean I'm over it now and the rest of the film is okay BUT of course the boy things it was cool as it had more dinosaur actions.

I've got to stop showing him less good follow ups he loves them!

That John Williams score is something else. Great movie.

It's a memory of mine that I was in secondary school, and when they started previewing Jurassic Park on the morning breakfast shows, it was seismic due to the effects involved. They really were, and still are, breath-taking at times.

[pictsy]

Heathers

Been many years since I last watched this and it is still enjoyable.  It is a very cynical film and would be in very bad taste now we live in an era of recurring American high school massacres.  I am slightly curious how they have made a series from this film... probably not enough to watch it, though.

As for Jurassic Park, that was one of the most important films to me as a kid, but as I have got older I don't hold it in such high regard.  It's still a good and fun watch (and definitely the best of franchise), but does come across as a little... I dunno... hokey.  A little B-Movie, perhaps.  Nevertheless, Rately is right, the score is amazing and is hands down the best thing about that film.  The main theme is one of John Williams best compositions ever.  It's the music that makes me feel like a 10 year old again.

[Keef Monkey]

I like Heathers, and think of it every time I hear the Mogwai track 'I Love You, I'm Going To Blow Up Your School' because I imagine that title must have come from a Heathers viewing.

Was time to rewatch Star Trek: Into Darkness, and I honestly still really enjoyed it. It does get messier and noisier as it goes on, but just about holds it together and as far as sci-fi action thrills go it's a real blast in places. I totally see why people aren't keen but while I can see the cracks I can't say they bother me that much. Pending a rewatch of Beyond to see how that holds up I do agree that Into Darkness is easily the weakest of the three mind you, I just still find plenty to enjoy with it.

[Keef Monkey]

Me again, Free Solo. I didn't realize how tense I was until the film finished and I noticed my palms were literally dripping with sweat and a bit tired from clenching. Some very NO WAY WHAT THE HELL shots in that film, especially for someone like me who gets dizzy up a small ladder.