Last movie you saw.

[Hakari 282]

 

Don't Breathe

 

It's not as crazy as Evil Dead since it only has a 14A rating but it is still a great suspenseful thriller no less.

 

Really on the fence about seeing this. Is it very gory? I don't mind blood, i mean the first three saw movies are some of my favorites. But i don't really care for unnecessary gore just because. How is the story?

[Bear 1817]

I haven't seen Don't Breathe, but I have been looking forward to this film since Fede Alvarez first mentioned it years ago. Even without having seen either the film or a single clip from it I won't hesitate to call it a modern horror masterpiece. I just know it. I can feel it. A must-see for sure.

[JukaForever 758]

 

 

Really on the fence about seeing this. Is it very gory? I don't mind blood, i mean the first three saw movies are some of my favorites. But i don't really care for unnecessary gore just because. How is the story?

It's 14A so no. There is some blood as you would expect from a gunshot but not a rainfall like in Evil Dead

[YuyoDrift 1540]

Just went to go see FInal Fantasy: Kingsglaive last night and wow the animation is crazy.

 

I am now too damn hyped to play this game lol.

[Original Saku 1593]

Decided to watch Criminal last night and.... it was a lot better than I was expecting! I really enjoyed Kevin Costner in this grizzled action role honestly, I hope he explores doing roles like this more often. Oh and he's a beast in this movie, so savage and gives no fucks. Good movie night material for when you just want to watch some grizzled murder and action.

[Bear 1817]

Finally got around to watch Captain America: Civil War and it didn't disappoint at all. OK, so it's not Winter Soldier all right. This is more straight-forward popcorn-action ala The Avengers, than the thiller that is Winter Soldier. But it was a tour de force of fun from A to Å, and I wasn't bored a second. Not once did I focus on anything else than the film. Some disappointing CGI throughout the film, but a lot of the action scenes as well as humour makes up for it. There's some very un-american martial arts scenes in this film, and a few of them aren't even close to being cut to death like they usually are. Was especially impressed with Black Widow for a few scenes. Badass!

 

It doesn't have as much meat on its body as Winter Soldier, and simply lacks Winter Soldiers' depth. BUt it's all fun and entertaining. Great work!

 

I actually didn't know this was gonna be an all-star film, which was awesome, and seeing Spider-Man, Black Panther andAnt-Man was really fucking awesome And I can't wait for the next films based on these characters. Hopefully they'll do better with Spider-Man than the disappointing films we've gotten so far.

 

And I gotta admit that this was both Spider-Man and Iron Man's best films so far, which is kinda incredible as this is a Captain America film and both have several films on their own already. Neat!

 

It's good to see that Marvel have finally started to hit the spot. Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Ant-Man and Captain America: Civil War are all great and I hope they can continue keeping this level intact. I do expect them to  do so with Doctor Strange, Black Panther and Ant-Man and the Wasp. I can't wait for the next Ant-Man film. It's gonna be so good!

 

On top of that they've delivered with several series already. Agent Carter, Daredevil and Jessica Jones have been great, and my expectations towards Luke Cage, Iron Fist, The Defenders and The Punisher is extremely high. Kinda looking forward to Damage Control too, even though I am afraid it'll ned of like the disappointing Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. We'll see.

[Bear 1817]

Man vs Snake: The Long and Twisted Tale of Nibbler - This is basically The King of Kong with Nibblerbut it lacks a proper "villain" like Billy Mitchell and the memorable moments and quotes, and with less interesting drama. But it's fun, it's interesting and it's both sad and heartwarming.

 

Love me some Billy Mitchell. Shame he didn't play a bigger role in the film, though. He's so fucking awesome!

 

Anyway, recommended!

[Flame-X 441]

Dr. Strange

 

Eh, it's a 6-7/10 score range for me. The visual effects porn is an understatement. It's like Inception on steroids. The origin story was similar to Iron Man, except its paced too fast and formulaic. Like many marvel movies, villain is a weaksauce. It's a fun watch for the most part but don't expect it to be compelling.

[Karma’s Hat 3107]

Watched Hitchcock's Suspicion two days back and I was left a bit perplexed by it.

 

 In the beginning, or perhaps even almost the entire first hour, Hitchcock establishes themes and gives out visual cues that open the film to interpretation. Joan Fontaine appears staunchly reluctant at first to respond to Cary Grant's greasy approaches, but is then persuaded to give into his embraces upon hearing her parents go on about how she's doom'd to become an old spinster.  She's whipped at home and Grant debases her constantly, her exchanging ownership from one master to another under the father's portrait. Grant turns out to be a conniving lunatic with a friend who's equally strange to say the least. Fontaine's state of mind starts to be in question, is she losing her mind from her new life's uncertainties, and how should be viewer see Grant's character and his motivations? 

 

Too bad by the end of it all possible interpretations other than the bare bones of the narrative are thrown on the wayside. The ending absolutely ludicrous and reduces the entire film into a confused melodrama up to either hugely vague interpretation or absolutely none at all and the characters are just unsympathetic idiots.  Another film of his where he does this is Strangers on a Train that just abandons all ambition by the one hour mark and turns into an artless thriller by the end of it.  I want to say the first halves of these films are filmed by different directors  if this wasn't almost a trademark of his. Maybe his greatest films were ghost-written by someone...

[Flame-X 441]

Hacksaw Ridge

 

This movie blew me away. Without a doubt, it's the most graphically violent war film I've seen since Saving Private Ryan. It's shocking and unsettling at times but it truly showed the horror of what these veterans had to experience. The movie is based on an actual true story of Desmond Doss, a conscientious defector of the military during WW2. While everyone else was doing all the shooting, he's goes into battle without a single firearm as a medic. In doing so, he saves many of his wounded comrades (Not really a spoiler, you can google up this guy). The first half of the movie focuses on his civilian life where we learn about his character and what drives him to become what he is, and the persecution he faces during his boot camp training. Then when it gets to the actual war part, it's hits you suddenly like a truck outta nowhere. Soldiers getting mowed down left and right in such intense brutal fashion. It's absolutely horrific, but incredibly well done. In the midst of the brutality, Desmond Doss shows us an uplifting and courageous act that's inspirational. There's a line he said as he runs into the battlefield saving lives that really pushed the tears outta my eyes - "Please Lord, help me get one more." Hacksaw Ridge is a very heart wrenching film with multilayered themes, especially if you're someone who comes from a faith background. Say what you want about Mel Gibson, but he did an amazing job with this movie. There's a lot of well known actors here aside from Andrew Garfield. Sam Worthington, Luke Bracey, Teresa Palmer, Hugo Weaving, Rachel Griffiths and Vince Vaughn. Well acted throughout. The only criticism I can think of is the short ending, I wish they give us more of an epilogue but it is what it is.

 

I came out of the theater stunned. 2 days later, I'm still thinking about this movie, that pretty much says how good it is. Sorry Capt America Civil War, I think Hacksaw Ridge may be my favorite film of the year. I highly recommend this.

 

9.5/10

 

 

[Hakari 282]

Just saw this movie today. Absolutely stunning. Best movie all year.

[Karma’s Hat 3107]

The films I've watched in the past two days

 

Douglas Sirk's Imitation of Life and All That Heaven Allows

 

God, Sirk is just brutal. While the racial themes in Imitation of Life are a little ludicrous on the out the outset the way they've presented in the narrative, Sirk still by-passes all logic by sheer force of his directorial direction for it to come together with the films overall theme at the end in an absolutely stunning shot of the procession. The exploration of the characters lives and careers is quite interesting in retrospect, because the film does throw a curveball in the first half by dabbling in questions artistic integrity, only for Sirk to prove the smash the whole issue by the end when everything is tied together in its thematic whole. I did shed a tear during the motel scene 2 lel

 

All That Heaven doesn't savagely maul you in a similar fashion, but its irony is not much less biting. I lol'd at the fucking television set because it's such a blunt, yet profound metaphor for all the fatal boredom of bourgeoisie society horseshit. This film is astoundly beautiful in its use of color, and I wouldn't mind being Rock Hudson without the aids either

 

Fritz Lang's M

 

If Metropolis was his nazi film, then this is the one where he's a stuffy conservative. I just find it impossible to like him or find these two films intellectually stimulating, when the first one is balls deep in fascist collaborationist twaddle and in the second he is jerking off to proper procedure of da law. The latter in itself isn't so bad ( I mean, I like something like The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance that's beautiful in its American naivete ), but it's the undeniable contempt for the masses that is expressed in both these films that disgusts me. I would probably like M more had I not seen Metropolis, because it's not so bad if you consider the movie outside the rest of the director's ouvre. The lynching mentality is acutely presented, and indeed crying out for the law in Germany of 1931 is probably radical than I give it credit.

 

Wonderfully shot thou', and the narrative structure is quite ambitious. He gives the pigs and their raids quite the lashing as well. I don't dislike this film in the least, I just wouldn't name it as something that I'm particularly gung-ho for. 

 

Murnau's Song of Two Humans 

 

I HAD A HARD TIME FORGETTING THAT HE JUST TRIED TO COMMIT MURDER. YOU CAN'T JUST BRUSH THAT OFF. 

A tad black and white with the whole pure natural blond peasant woman being juxtaposed against the city's moral corruption embodied by the ciggy smelling slag with messy black hair. It is up to the MAN to choose his destiny-  I mean which one he's going to fuck.  

 

I know the attempt at MURDER wasn't supposed to be taken literally instead of a symbolic gesture, and the midsection really is beautiful with marvelous chemistry of body language by both its leads. I for one think the scenes in the city were just as long as they should have been, because I came out of it as exhausted but sentimental as the characters themselves. Janet Gaynor is a dove, incredible to look at. 

 

Faustrecht der Freiheit by Fassbinder

 

I completely marked out when the drunks lying on the streets in Helsinki were mentioned. 

 

Young working class gay man gets picked apart to the bone by snotty bourgeoisie homosexuals. That's more or less the plot of every film I'd make. 

 

Tarkovski's Mirror

 

Felt bad for not being into it. I think Andrei Rublev, Solaris and Stalker are magnificent films, some of my all time favorites actually. What this does have in common with them is that it is unrivaled and beyond sublime in its cinematography. The concept and the narrative structure is neat- that's just it for me. I thought it was a great watch, if only always out of my reach to feel it. Every other film of his, even Ivan's Childhood which is not so great, has haunted me for weeks afterwards. Now my foremost thought of it is if I was the only one who thought Margarita Terekhova was really hamming it up at the end? The way she fucking spasm'd and tried to do eleven facial expressions all at once with the subtly of silent film actor was really off putting. I understand why it was green lighted - it was a complex shot no doubt- however I have to question the decision a little bit. 

[Nagisa 131]

I watched Dr. Strange with a friend. It was pretty enjoyable, and I thought the contrast between the beginning of the film and the rest was interesting. The spiritual part of the movie was not something I was expecting in a Marvel movie. The visual effects were pretty out of this world.

[+Jeanne+ 1]

I watched 君の名は。 last weekend with my classmate. We enjoyed it!

[Tokage 5930]

Docu from 2014 called Beautiful Noise, it's about the shoegaze scene. Pretty okay at a surface level, cuz all the music that appears is totally great, but at the same time I ended up feeling sort of... disappointed. Especially considering it took 10 years to finish.. Although from what I heard, a major reason for that was because the director apparently wanted to gather funds to pay for the licensing to use all the different music in the movie lol.. Still. It felt like the movie was too entry level for people already interested in the genre, yet at the same time not entry level enough for people who know next to nothing about it. The interviews were somewhat interesting, but at the same time it felt like all the artiss involved were just presented with the same list of 5 - 10 questions and that's all. Also it might've just been my copy (piracy ayyy) but the visual quality looked like the director filmed everything using a cell phone camera or smth

 

It's still worth watching if only for the good music, and i'm happy the 'gaze scene's gettin at least SOME exposure, but... could've been so, so much better.

[Bear 1817]

Saw Rogue One: A Star Wars Story tonight and this was nothing short of brilliant. Absolutely breathtaking from start to finish. I'm one of those who really liked The Force Awakenes, but this is on a whole other level. This makes The Force Awakenes look like a cheap, fanmade Star Wars film. Holy fucking shit! I can't remember the last time I was this excited after seeing a film at the cinema. This was just too good. This film felt 100% Star Wars, unlike The Force Awakenes which had a lot of Star Trek in it. This was pure Star Wars. I'm impressed!

 

Oh, and the score is magnificent. Huge, epic, massive. It's everything you could ever want from a Star Wars score.

 

 

Edit: forgot to mention that I was very impressed by how they used Donnie Yen in this film. They've managed to play on his strenghts, and that was something I was a bit afraid they wouldn't do. We've seen it too often with asian martial arts actors in western films. But Donnie Yen gets enough freedom to play on his strenghts, and that's just too fucking cool.

Edited December 17, 2016 by Bear

[Ada Suilen 652]

On 29/11/2016 at 9:03 PM, Disposable said:

The films I've watched in the past two days

 

Douglas Sirk's Imitation of Life and All That Heaven Allows

 

God, Sirk is just brutal. While the racial themes in Imitation of Life are a little ludicrous on the out the outset the way they've presented in the narrative, Sirk still by-passes all logic by sheer force of his directorial direction for it to come together with the films overall theme at the end in an absolutely stunning shot of the procession. The exploration of the characters lives and careers is quite interesting in retrospect, because the film does throw a curveball in the first half by dabbling in questions artistic integrity, only for Sirk to prove the smash the whole issue by the end when everything is tied together in its thematic whole. I did shed a tear during the motel scene 2 lel

 

Imitation of Life is one of my favourite movies ever, and I watched it three times, everytime with more tears

 

2 hours ago, Bear said:

Saw Rogue One: A Star Wars Story tonight and this was nothing short of brilliant. Absolutely breathtaking from start to finish. I'm one of those who really liked The Force Awakenes, but this is on a whole other level. This makes The Force Awakenes look like a cheap, fanmade Star Wars film. Holy fucking shit! I can't remember the last time I was this excited after seeing a film at the cinema. This was just too good. This film felt 100% Star Wars, unlike The Force Awakenes which had a lot of Star Trek in it. This was pure Star Wars. I'm impressed!

 

Oh, and the score is magnificent. Huge, epic, massive. It's everything you could ever want from a Star Wars score.

 

 

Edit: forgot to mention that I was very impressed by how they used Donnie Yen in this film. They've managed to play on his strenghts, and that was something I was a bit afraid they wouldn't do. We've seen it too often with asian martial arts actors in western films. But Donnie Yen gets enough freedom to play on his strenghts, and that's just too fucking cool.

I think that I have to see it then

[Ada Suilen 652]

By the way here it is what I have seen recently:

-Sully (2016): The latest movie directed by Clint Eastwood, about the "Hudson Miracle", where a pilot saved the life of 155 people on 2009 and the air company had even to say something back about that; a really good movie, where Tom Hanks portrays really well the captain Sullenberger (he is pretty similiar to the real one) and the story is structured in a simple and intuitive way.

-Free State of Jones (2016): I was waiting this movie for some months, because of the presence of Matthew McConaughey and I was really impressed; the lenght and the subject could not encourage the view, but I think that it deals really well with the origins of the racial discrimination in US and even with the consequences of past actions (I won't spoil more), an historical movie like there weren't in the last years.

-Blood Father (2015): I admit that I missed to see Mel Gibson as lead character in a movie and once again it makes this action movie really entertaining and moving, with a good plot; the only bad thing was the duration I think.

-Sayonara (1957): this is the second time that I watch this movie and it smashed me more than the first one; a sublime Marlon Brando in a movie set in Japan after World War II, with a plot you couldn't expect even in a movie of this time; a must for who loves good and emotional stories.

[Jigsaw9 6783]

Spectral - Okay, I only wanted to see this cuz it was shot in Budapest (and as it later turned out, like 80% of the staff were Hungarian lol), but it actually turned out to be kinda decent. Netflix-made sci-fi/thriller movie with some neat visual imagery and effects. If you enjoy looking at futuristic equipment and stuff then this will be sci-fi military porn heaven for you, haha. Not the best or worst movie out there, but it's okay for watching once and kinda zoning out on.

[Nisshoku 14]

Watched Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children yesterday with a friend and well...I was a bit disappointed. I hoped for more but the plot was kinda loveless and I really missed the leitmotif. Sure there was one but...dunno. The movie was okay but i wouldn't want to watch it again. Maybe it's a personal issue with Tim Burton movies. Some are pretty nice, some aren't after my fancy.

 

But watched Don't Breathe either, which had pretty good critics and wow, I really liked that one. There might be room for a second part coz of the ends cliffhanger but I can't imagine a good sequel.

[Bear 1817]

Rewatched Superbad today. Still the best fucking comedy ever. Films doesn't get funnier than this. 10/10!

[MaikoMizu 167]

Saw Assassin's Creed a few days back on Saturday. It was mediocre to me.

[TODORA 18]

I´m anything but a movie person~ Like.. I watch about two movies a year or something.. xD
But as a Harry Potter fan I had to watch Fantastic Beasts, which I did some weeks ago together with my mom~
It didn´t disappoint me at all! It´s such a great movie and Eddie Redmayne is an remarkable actor.

[Bear 1817]

Rewatched the original Star Wars trilogy, the The Star Wars Holiday Special and The Force Awakens. I was a bit afraid that The Force Awakens wouldn't hold up after seeing what a new Star Wars film can actually be like in form of Rogue One, but I was not disappointed at all. Rehash of Star Wars? Sure it is, but I don't care. Still think it was the right move to be honest. Bring back the true feeling of Star Wars for the old generation, but modernize it to please new, younger minds. Still love the film! Time for a rating:

 

1. Star Wars (10/10)

2. The Empire Strikes Back (10/10)

3. Rogue One (9/10)

4. Return of the Jedi (9/10)

5. The Force Awakens (8/10)

6. The Star Wars Holiday Special (1/10, so godfuckingawful it's good)

7. The Phantom Menace (4/10)

8.  Attack of the Clones (2/10)

9.  Revenge of the Sith (2/10)

 

I thik all three prequel films are horrendous. Just godfuckingawful. The reason The Phantom Menace gets a higher score is ONLY because of the pod race which is pretty cool. But other than that I can't really find anything decent about any of these three films. Awful characters, poor story-telling, really fucking shitty CGI and so on. They're basically big lumps of bad CGI. I really hate the visual style they've gone for in these films too. Looks way too polished, pretty and artificial. Shite films, and I hate every single human being who enjoys any of these. Death to all!

Edited January 1, 2017 by Bear

[Licio123 181]

I like Episode II and love Episode III. Death to those who don't like them

 

*is alone in the world*