Last movie watched...

[abelardsnazz]

Isle of Dogs. Finally got round to this after what seems like a year since first seeing the trailer. Visually stunning, with lots of stuff going on in the corners of the screen I'm sure I missed. However, despite my love for Wes Anderson's last film The Grand Budapest Hotel, I thought this was just a bit too quirky for its own good. Still glad I saw it though.

[Smith]

Godzilla Planet of Monsters.Its a mashup uf Macross and Godzilla basicly.Its not bad,thou the much-talked-about twist at the end is pretty easy to guess.

[The Legendary Shark]

Damnation Alley (1977). Piffle. Probably only of any interest to The Cursed Earth fans - and even then it's still piffle.

[Professor Bear]

It had George Peppard playing himself, what more do you want?

Red Sparrow - remake of some mid-80s tv movie I vaguely recall about Russkie hotties taught to shag for the motherland, featuring mid-80s politics to boot.  I am so old I can remember when people said The Hunt For Red October was the last movie of the Cold War (okay I actually read it on a Tom Clancy wiki page), but here we are in 2018 doing the same old Black Widow schtick instead of a more accurate depiction of Russian vs American politics where a bunch of bored office workers paid to fake English language social media accounts spam Twitter with stories about Hillary Clinton running a pizzeria that serves child sex instead of hot mozzarella, and then run stories about Trump being pissed on by underage hookers because I don't know the whole thing is very Russian.  The current geopolitical arena is far more interesting than this rather binary story about girl spy meets boy spy and then does a double cross - OR DOES HE/SHE? - so it's a good thing it's so well-made and performed otherwise there'd be naff all to pique your interest - unless you're willing to pay the admission price to look at Jlaw's baps or something, but we have the internet for that.
Nicely-crafted, but uninteresting.

[Pyroxian]

Damnation Alley (1977). Piffle. Probably only of any interest to The Cursed Earth fans - and even then it's still piffle.

Also: Giant Scorpions

[Mardroid]

Guardians of the Galaxy volume 2

I enjoyed it a lot. I think I prefer the songs in the first one. This one is less comedic and light hearted, but being an emotional exploration of family, this wasn't a bad thing. It's still pretty funny in places.

[abelardsnazz]

Avengers Infinity War. No spoilers but suffice to say this delivers on plot, character, action and humour. Going before I say any more.

[TordelBack]

Valerian etc. I... liked it?  It married a very retro tone with some lovely visuals, and delivered a non-universe-threatening plot that I actually cared about seeing resolved.  I thought the leads were enjoyably different from the norm, and while Delavingne (sp?) clearly isn't the greatest actress ever, her extravagant eyebrows successfully distracted from her shortcomings - plus Laureline herself was an interesting enough character, in a 1960s Agent 99 way.

It's major flaw was the Rhianna diversion.  Personally I like a bit of Rhianna, but this whole sequence was either way too long or way too short: it could have been neatly snipped out of the movie with little change (just give the shapeshifting ability to a gadget), or it could have been expanded to make Bubble more integrated with the story: as it was, it just slowed everything down, and the whole sex-district thing was awkward (Jessica Rabbit cosplay included) in what was otherwise a kids' film.

But yeah, I'd have watched another of these, sad that I never will.

[Tiplodocus]

THE ISLAND
I thought I'd catch up with this slice of Bayhem from 2005 and somehow still managed to be surprised at how terrible it is. I don't want to tread on Prof Bear's ground but it climaxes with what looks like a British Airways ad having just established that Ewen McGregor's character (with a mental age of thirty) porked Scarlett Johansen who has a mental age of 15 and then carries a small pistol up her chuff for half a day while buying ice cream for kids and playing on a swing. And I haven't even got to the heavy handed slavery and gas chamber imagery yet.

And I have no ducking idea how Ewen McGregor got his memories.

The Island? More like The Shitland.

[Tiplodocus]

Yeah, Valerian was much better than I thought with some very inventive stuff in it. Luc Besson is infuriating. For Me, Subway remains his masterpiece.

[Professor Bear]

and the whole sex-district thing was awkward (Jessica Rabbit cosplay included) in what was otherwise a kids' film.

I would argue so was Valerian's serial sexual harassment of co-workers, for which he is ultimately rewarded.

[TordelBack]

and the whole sex-district thing was awkward (Jessica Rabbit cosplay included) in what was otherwise a kids' film.

I would argue so was Valerian's serial sexual harassment of co-workers, for which he is ultimately rewarded.

True, but like I said, very retro tone, of which this is a large part. 

[abelardsnazz]

Beast. Intense psychological drama that tips just that bit too far into melodrama for my liking. Great performances from the cast though.

[Apestrife]

Iron Man 3. Not seen in years. Not sure why. Still brilliant to this day. Tightly written big fun action with a big heart and something actual to say. Love everything from Stark's battle with panic attacks and PDST (why isn't this happening to more super heroes??) to the twist [spoiler]fun enough on it's own, even more so knowing people actually think the Mandarin is an actually cool villain before the reveal [/spoiler]. Not to mention each character had a place in the film and delivers snappy dialogue without it sounding overwritten or rehearsed to death.

Next up. Winter soldier, followed by Thor: Ragnarök.

[TordelBack]

Yeah, I'm not sure I like the third act too much, but the main twist is really superb, and many of the performances are terrific.  Here, do we know if [spoiler]Pepper still has her Extremis[/spoiler] superpowers as of Avengers 3?