What is the last movie you've seen? Part 2

[Elwher]

Dr. Strangelove again

[Tumnia]

Quantum of Solace

[The Two Jerseys]

Battle of Britain again, because how else does one observe Battle of Britain Day

[Chess Socialism]

A Minecraft Movie way back when in April 2025, at least the last time I've gone to a theater.

[Retro Caliland]

Quantum of Solace

What’d you think?

I personally didn’t like it. I’m not a fan of the Craig era of Bond films to begin with, and QoS is definitely one of the worst films of his run as Bond.

[Yorsa II]

Quantum of Solace

What’d you think?

I personally didn’t like it. I’m not a fan of the Craig era of Bond films to begin with, and QoS is definitely one of the worst films of his run as Bond.

That's one of my top 5 favorite 007 films. I like Casino Royale and No Time to Die, but Skyfall is meh and Spectre is terrible. He's is a n excellent James Bond, but my favorite is still Timothy Dalton. I'd say The Living Daylights is the best 007 film

[Cannot think of a name]

Hope, Korean monster movie. Turns out I burned a genie wish without know it, but to know what one is a complete spoiler. Like not a light spoiler, a 'will fundamentally ruin your experience of the movie' spoiler. Do not click lightly.

An alien invasion movie from a completely inconsequential part of it. And you don't realize that until the very end that looks like its ending on a cliffhanger but it's just the reveal that the characters we've been following have just been surviving a small part of a much bigger story that was happening without their knowledge.

But it starts as a regular ass monster movie, but this time they're being cagey about the look of the monster not to delay the cool reveal but the reveal is a layer. A giant humanoid that goes a-smashin'. So then it's just the sheer terror of a ten foot tall nearly indestructible monster tearing up a largely older small community on the border between North and South Korea.

But...was the monster crying? Find out from a gross out funny/scary story that their are more monsters but also...some local dipshit shot a juvenile version of the monster...holy shit, she was looking for her child! And there's more of them! Uh oh...but now we find out that they're not just mountain creatures, they're aliens. And while they're naked and skittering around they're strategizing.

Then, wait, are they talking?

No time to figure it out, they can shape shift (into one other form) and our heroes have to run for their lives! Except suddenly from the trailer, their mothership comes crashing down for reasons we'll never learn. Focus shifts to our pursuing aliens, now getting subtitles and...there's a whole rash of shit that's been going down for them that had fuckall to do with our heroes.

And our heroes kinda suck, like the main way the main character stays alive is by not being there in time.

Anyway, interesting movie.

[Retro Caliland]

What’d you think?

I personally didn’t like it. I’m not a fan of the Craig era of Bond films to begin with, and QoS is definitely one of the worst films of his run as Bond.

That's one of my top 5 favorite 007 films. I like Casino Royale and No Time to Die, but Skyfall is meh and Spectre is terrible. He's is a n excellent James Bond, but my favorite is still Timothy Dalton. I'd say The Living Daylights is the best 007 film

Casino Royale is pretty good. I agree that Skyfall is overrated, but god damn it do I love the cinematography in that film (Roger Deakins is the goat). Spectre is definitely terrible, and I’m meh on No Time To Die.

Dalton was a good James Bond, and apparently his performance was the closest to the books. Living Daylights is a top 5 Bond film for me, but my favorite will always be Goldeneye. Pierce Brosnan is and always will be my favorite Bond actor (there’s not many hills I’m willing to die on but Brosnan being the best Bond is one of them).

Anyways, last movie I saw was Anchorman. Not my first time watching it, but it’s always funny.

[Yorsa II]

That's one of my top 5 favorite 007 films. I like Casino Royale and No Time to Die, but Skyfall is meh and Spectre is terrible. He's is a n excellent James Bond, but my favorite is still Timothy Dalton. I'd say The Living Daylights is the best 007 film

Casino Royale is pretty good. I agree that Skyfall is overrated, but god damn it do I love the cinematography in that film (Roger Deakins is the goat). Spectre is definitely terrible, and I’m meh on No Time To Die.

Dalton was a good James Bond, and apparently his performance was the closest to the books. Living Daylights is a top 5 Bond film for me, but my favorite will always be Goldeneye. Pierce Brosnan is and always will be my favorite Bond actor (there’s not many hills I’m willing to die on but Brosnan being the best Bond is one of them).

Anyways, last movie I saw was Anchorman. Not my first time watching it, but it’s always funny.

Pierce Brosnan is the best bond with the worst track record. Goldeneye is great and its diminishing returns from there until we get to Die Another Day.......enough said. He deserved much better films.

I wish there was a general movie thread to talk about cinema/film topics in general, because I watch a lot of movies.
This week I watched the nearly 3 hour extended cut of The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly with a friend who had never seen it and she was blown away. Modern films just can't compete with the power of the spaghetti western. The scene where the violinist stops playing, gets yelled at, and is instructed to keep playing while a beating is happening in the background is top tier cinema. Still one of the GOATS

I picked another film out at random from the library called Babette's Feast [1987] and was utterly blown away. Best I can summarize is that a Woman who used to live in a small fishing village in 1800's Denmark leaves for France, later returns, and requests to cook a real French dinner for the 100th Centennial (12 people in attendance). They are hesitant about the idea, because they have taken a vow against sensation and see fancy cooking/wine/cuisine as temptation. The entire village agrees, but vows to never speak of the dishes, the flavor, or mention the meal the entire time. It was one of the best movies I have seen in a long time. I may be explaining it wrong, but it was really good.

I attempted to watch Le Beau Serge [1958] but I wasn't in the right mood for it. Black and White, French, New-Wave cinema takes a lot of patience to watch

[Democratic Crocuta]

Buddy.

It's better than you think. Buddy, a Barney-like unicorn mascot, gets more sinister as things progress. He's actually like some sort of eldrich horror with some level of control over space and time.

[Cannot think of a name]

Resident Evil

While it isn't any of the characters from the game per se, it is perhaps the most video game-y movie I've ever seen. The director, the guy from Barbarian and Weapons, talked about how he structured the film like a video game (and a serial it turns out) so that you're going from one set piece to the next and slowly upgrading your weapons etc.

What I liked about it is the dude is completely normal. No hidden skills that come in handy, not a natural at anything. Personifies 'people don't know they're in a movie' thing, makes mistakes while panicking. Panics. Does movie things that don't really pan out. Manages to mix being organically funny and tense.

[Elwher]

Majoe Dundee

[Yorsa II]

Daimajin (1966) A giant god statue comes to life to punish an evil warlord. That was so violent for 1966 and I loved it, that movie was really good

[Lusitanic]

Dr. Strangelove again

I don’t get dr strange love, it’s not that I don’t like it, I think it’s funny and the plot is pretty good. but I can’t appreciate it like other classics, I just don’t get what’s so innovative about it.

[Elwher]

Dr. Strangelove again

I don’t get dr strange love, it’s not that I don’t like it, I think it’s funny and the plot is pretty good. but I can’t appreciate it like other classics, I just don’t get what’s so innovative about it.

For today, it would not be innovative. For 1964, when movies about the armed forces were almost exclusively honoring their heroics, this was a welcome change.

[Cannot think of a name]

Three in a row:

Avengers Endgame Encore, not really worth it for the new ending bits, not an extended edition or anything. Maybe if the audience was more amped to try and revisit initial reactions but we were just kinda...well, its a movie most of us have already watched a few times.

Myth of Man finally on a streaming service I have. Writer director is also the composer which is confounding because the score really lets the otherwise visually stunning movie down. Also terrible for a home release because as it contains no dialog it is demanding of attention and at home there's too much pulling that.

Primetime Focus' on Hansen's crusader self image with a suggestion that it had more to do with career ambition and jealousy of Stone Phillips. Wasn't quite as focused on the notion of performative justice and sensationalist media. Like it doesn't get to how most of the people arrested on the show ended up getting their cases dismissed because of the numerous violations by Dateline and Perverted Justice. Does a decent job of demonstrating that sort of internal corruptibility where someone creates an outsized vision of themselves as a hero.

[Retro Caliland]

Primetime Focus' on Hansen's crusader self image with a suggestion that it had more to do with career ambition and jealousy of Stone Phillips. Wasn't quite as focused on the notion of performative justice and sensationalist media. Like it doesn't get to how most of the people arrested on the show ended up getting their cases dismissed because of the numerous violations by Dateline and Perverted Justice. Does a decent job of demonstrating that sort of internal corruptibility where someone creates an outsized vision of themselves as a hero.

Interestingly, among many of my peers, Primetime introduced them to who Chris Hansen is (I myself previously only knew him from that one South Park episode he was in) so I can finally break out my Chris Hansen impression. True it was underwhelming, but goddammnit does Pattinson nail the voice.

[Cannot think of a name]

Primetime Focus' on Hansen's crusader self image with a suggestion that it had more to do with career ambition and jealousy of Stone Phillips. Wasn't quite as focused on the notion of performative justice and sensationalist media. Like it doesn't get to how most of the people arrested on the show ended up getting their cases dismissed because of the numerous violations by Dateline and Perverted Justice. Does a decent job of demonstrating that sort of internal corruptibility where someone creates an outsized vision of themselves as a hero.

Interestingly, among many of my peers, Primetime introduced them to who Chris Hansen is (I myself previously only knew him from that one South Park episode he was in) so I can finally break out my Chris Hansen impression. True it was underwhelming, but goddammnit does Pattinson nail the voice.

I lived through the "To Catch a Predator" era, so I knew a lot going in. I actually didn't know the incident that it's centered on because I just considered it 'yellow journalism' and didn't pay that much attention. Sort of prelude to now, my interaction with the show was via everyone else's reaction to the show. I've seen more parody of it than I've seen actual episodes. I don't know that I watched any actual episodes, I may have only seen 20/20 segments but I can't be sure.

This isn't the place to go into it but I had already started to feel people randomly bringing up those issues generally speaking had agendas that had little to do with the kids and a lot more to do with either needing a 'safe' outlet for their own violent fantasies or were using it to demonize unrelated groups. I would later learn that the people who do the actual, real, tangible work to stop this kind of thing hate shit like this.

Predictably, Chris Hansen is not pleased with his portrayal. Didn't stop him from shilling his streaming channel before the movie.

Pattinson did great.

[Yorsa II]

I watched the Dateline NBC reports as they aired so I really want to see this To Catch a Predator movie (That show was insane back in the day. The bush cop is a notoriously hilarious moment)

I saw a of movies recently, but the last 2 were The Raid collection. These are 2 of the most violent and gory martial arts films I have ever seen. I saw the Raid 1 in theaters opening day but I didn't get to see 2. The Raid is one of the most insane martial arts films ever made. The fight choreography is legendary.

Raid 1: Cops go into an apartment high-rise that's gang controlled. Simple

Raid 2: nearly 3 hour sprawling crime story with martial arts. A M A Z I N G

[Westralia]

Most recent movie would have been The Hot Chick. Pretty funny

[Elwher]

Swashbuckler