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[Stafford]

The Wailing (rewatch)

The way the Koreans do these things, they just do it different than Hollywood, better! Much better! The concept isn't super original or anything but how it's done is just so good. And it kept me guessing too, isn't exactly predictable.

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

If I Had Legs I'd Kick You: D

She did a great job performing



but she played such an unlikeable cunt, that she just came off as more insufferable than charming. Same with her annoying ass kid in the movie. I did get why they did that and why the movie ended that way but I was bored out of my mind throughout. Despite my issues that I had with the film, I did liked the ending shot. Which is them finally showing what the daughter looked like

The November Man: D

Good perfromances from Pierce Bronson especially but the movie was super predicatable and the action was bland

The Materialist: C

This was more of a drama than a comedy and what comedy that was there missed the mark. It was just boring overall and kind of eye rolling when it comes to certain stuff in the film

Poison Ivy: C

Erotic thriller that was boring and predicatable. The mom was super hot though. But other than that: YAWN

 

[Svalr93]

Watched '' Perfume - Story of a Murderer '' earlier today.
Pretty good I enjoyed it, very bizarre but great performances.

 

[EternalSunshine1976]

Just saw Hamnet… Oh my goodness. This may have been the finest film I've seen in years. Bravo Chloé Zhao! Beautiful, moving and the depth of an ocean. Unbelievable and unforgettable experience. I'm sure it took tremendous dramatic license to bend time and fashion, but so did Shakespeare himself. Suspension of belief was so high here, yet the verisimilitude was also simultaneously there. It seems a contradiction, but so are the mysteries this film explores.

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

Notting Hill: B

Cheesy ass film but I really enjoyed this one. But the line "I'm just a girl in front of a boy asking them to love me" had me eye roll to the moon. I was gagging due to the cheesiness. Still enjoyed it though

 

[bender]

It's been a minute or a few decades since I've seen Demolition Man. It's way more slapstick than I remember, but then again, maybe I should have recalled as the two things I remembered best (sea shells and Taco Bell) are pretty goofy. Snipes and Bullock are pretty great and I wish there was more of Denis Leary and Bill Cobbs. The action is a bit underwhelming. Still a fun film and I might watch it again in a decade or two.

 

[Danjin44]

 

[Stafford]

Midnight (2021)

Korean thriller. This was recommended on Reddit when someone asked for great Korean horror. Breh, that dude/lady has one shitty ass taste then.

Full of plot holes, the two protagonists doing incredibly dumb shit, so bad that you legit start to root for the villain. The villain gets away with everything, incredibly dumb cops. What could've been a suspenseful thriller is just shit because of this.

I was close to 60 minutes in and just decided to close it. It just annoyed me to no end.

 

[John Marston]

Notting Hill: B

Cheesy ass film but I really enjoyed this one. But the line "I'm just a girl in front of a boy asking them to love me" had me eye roll to the moon. I was gagging by the cheesiness. Still enjoyed it though

The roommate was great

 

[JimmyRustler]

Notting Hill: B

Cheesy ass film but I really enjoyed this one. But the line "I'm just a girl in front of a boy asking them to love me" had me eye roll to the moon. I was gagging by the cheesiness. Still enjoyed it though

Hey, saw the same one a couple of day ago as well. Loved this flick back in the days. But I agree, seeing it now when you're a bit older... it's quite cheesy at times.
What I found interesting is how our perception of movie stars changed of the years. This movie portraits quite well how mystical these big stars used to be. Not much left of that since we started seeing much more of their lives thanks to social media.

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

The roommate was great

Really was, I really liked the gag of how he just ignores her during the first half of the movie without realizing that he knows her as a movie star until he comes across her in the bathroom having a soak in the bathtub

Hey, saw the same one a couple of day ago as well. Loved this flick back in the days. But I agree, seeing it now when you're a bit older... it's quite cheesy at times.
What I found interesting is how our perception of movie stars changed of the years. This movie portraits quite well how mystical these big stars used to be. Not much left of that since we started seeing much more of their lives thanks to social media.

What I also found equally as interesting is the perspective of love that movie showcases and how I feel about it. When the movie came out in 1999, I was a freshman in highschool and back than when it came to stuff like that I was obviously inexperienced. I saw parts of the movie especially that part of that line I was just complaining about and thought it wasn't cheesy as at all. Now that I watched the whole film for the first time, I felt lot of the film was super cheesy and there were some situations where I felt Julia Roberts was completely at fault. If anything she came off as kind of a bitch. Back than, I would have given this movie an A Grade due to being a sap for this type of thing but now it's a B Grade. I enjoyed it but I did have issues with the character herself

Also to comment on that movie stars mystique you made, I agree social media did a good job taking that away hence why they aren't as popular as they used to be. There's a good reason why Celeb Culture is dying and that's due to the mystique being gone due not being managed on social media. Instead YouTubers have replaced Movie Celebs. They became much more recognizable now

Also I think AI has Hollywood scared due to the fact that anyone on YouTube can make their own stuff now and there's a possibility that it might be even better than lot of modern Hollywood. Really destroys the gatekeeping that Hollywood does to people who wants to get into the movie business. I see it as a good thing though

I always found it weird how the movie industry was mostly situated in Califonia when I personally think that from the start that it should have been multiple states. I remember the directors of The Matrix wanting to open a movie studio in Chicago because the city in that movie is based off of Chicago

 

[JimmyRustler]

What I also found equally as interesting is the perspective of love that movie showcases and how I feel about it. When the movie came out in 1999, I was a freshman in highschool and back than when it came to stuff like that I was obviously inexperienced. I saw parts of the movie especially that part of that line I was just complaining about and thought it wasn't cheesy as at all. Now that I watched the whole film for the first time, I felt lot of the film was super cheesy and there were some situations where I felt Julia Roberts was completely at fault. If anything she came off as kind of a bitch. Back than, I would have given this movie an A Grade due to being a sap for this type of thing but now it's a B Grade. I enjoyed it but I did have issues with the character herself

Couldn't agree more. The cheesy romcoms (this and especially "I can't hardly wait") from the late 90s and early 00s completely screwed the imagine I had of what love and relationships should look like. Mind you, I was in my early teens at that time, a HUGE movie buff and to make things worse grew up without a father (he died when I was very young) - so basically the worst-case scenario when it comes to being influenced by that stuff. I'm convinced this subconsciously follows me to this day as I have insane troubles warming up with women if there isn't that special spark right away and I just can't shake that off (believe me, I tried). Sometimes I do wish I'd have never seen those movies in that character building period of my life. Well, it is what it is.

 

[Andyliini]

Cold Storage

I saw Liam Neeson's name on the cast list end decided to see it. And to be fair, I wouldn't have been any worse off. The film is almost completely stupid nonsense. It's been marketed as a horror comedy, but there's no horror and barely any comedy here to find. The story about man eating fungus isn't very interesting either. Actors do a fine job at least.

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

Couldn't agree more. The cheesy romcoms (this and especially "I can't hardly wait") from the late 90s and early 00s completely screwed the imagine I had of what love and relationships should look like. Mind you, I was in my early teens at that time, a HUGE movie buff and to make things worse grew up without a father (he died when I was very young) - so basically the worst-case scenario when it comes to being influenced by that stuff. I'm convinced this subconsciously follows me to this day as I have insane troubles warming up with women if there isn't that special spark right away and I just can't shake that off (believe me, I tried). Sometimes I do wish I'd have never seen those movies in that character building period of my life. Well, it is what it is.

It is what it is. As for me growing up, I used to be a huge romantic. I'm not anymore. Real Life gave me a couple of black pills during that period. There's a saying forgot who said it but it goes like this "Men pretend to be realist when they are huge romantics inside, women pretend to be romantic when they are huge realist inside". Just watching that movie and seeing how they brush over all the things she did to him that were wrong was interesting. It didn't offend me but after the first time the "broke" up, his family setting him up with those dates, I thought the last date they set him up with was actually a proper match for him. But that's just my cynicism talking

BTW I still love Can't Hardly Wait, I have to rewatch that soon since it's been a long time since I did.

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

Great Expectations: F



Should really be called Simp Expectations

The ending made me super mad

She didn't deserve him

She's a malignant cunt who friend zoned him throughout the movie and comes back to him when she's divorced, has a kid and she comes back to ask him if he could forgive her which he said yes its all in the past

End with them holding hands so not sure if that means that they are officially together

I would have ditch the bitch a long time ago

 

[SupaComputa]

The Black Phone 2

Aggressively bland, actors cannot sell anything, disappointing since I think the girl was good in the first movie. Not scary at all. The first movie had some stakes at least, now it's just magic girl fighting the dude in her dreams. Couldn't make it to the end, had to turn it off 20 minutes from the end. Garbage.

4/10

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

The Black Phone 2

Aggressively bland, actors cannot sell anything, disappointing since I think the girl was good in the first movie. Not scary at all. The first movie had some stakes at least, now it's just magic girl fighting the dude in her dreams. Couldn't make it to the end, had to turn it off 20 minutes from the end. Garbage.

4/10

That was such a disappointment compared to the original. There was no need for a sequel

 

[EviLore]

The Counselor (2013), directed by Ridley Scott
Theatrical Cut

The point, so far as I can tell, is to make you deeply uncomfortable about how little agency you genuinely have when dealing with forces beyond your control—in this case, the drug cartels. The outcomes are already decided by the time the opening credits roll.

So it's similarly fatalistic as No Country For Old Men, also written by Cormac McCarthy. But instead of honed for the strengths of the screen, it's a clunky trainwreck of characters awkwardly navel gazing at each other in between some flatly delivered murder. Watching The Counselor demonstrates just how tremendous an accomplishment No Country is, since it becomes strikingly easy to imagine a terrible version of the latter film.

I hear the extended cut might be more worthwhile.

Javier Bardem's hairdo might be enough to send you to an early grave.

Cameron Diaz also acts in a manner that would make '70s exploitation actresses blush from second hand embarrassment.

 

[Stafford]

The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers

I had rewatched Fellowship of the Ring last December. Man these movies are just timeless. I got the extended editions on BR, so it IS a long watch.

But these movies show what The Hobbit is really missing... heart! And let's not begin about the Prime show. The special effects still look great too, those orcs are vile, filthy, menacing and even frightening, just very well done. Unlike the CGI trash in The Hobbit. The orc leaders genuinely are vile, whereas Azog in The Hobbit is just....meh.

Plus it's dirty too, as in the orcs looking dirty as hell, there's blood, plenty of violence and it's just weirdly clean in TH and yeah.....that show, sigh. Also no nonsense, just likeable characters, great story and just so very well made.

 

[GreenAlien]

Society (1989)

Based on a true story, probably.

 

[Itchy.Tasty.]

The Plague (2025)
I feel like I'm a victim of second-hand bullying. That was a really tough watch, goddam.
Props to all the kids too - they acted the shit out of their characters.

Not sure what to make of the ending though. Maybe I just need more time to think about it.
Worth watching, and worth getting students to watch too.

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

Can't Hardly Wait: A

I used to rewatch this movie a lot during highschool. It's aged well and yes it does have it's cheesy moments but it's still highly enjoyable. Plus Jennifer Love Hewitt was a total babe back than. Had a good happy ending

Going back to this movie after so long when I'm much older made the movie into a new experience for me. It's still a good movie despite how I view stuff like that but it usually doesn't happen like that in RL

At the ending when they finally meet at the train station and how it said that after being there with each for five hours and when he leaves for Boston that she writes to him everyday and that they are still together is really hard to believe. Long distance relationships generally don't work. Either him or her are going to eventually cheat on each other

Not only that, watching this movie again after a long time, I noticed that after she rejected him after finding the letter he wrote and not knowing it's him. But than when she realizes it's that guy she publically humilated when flipping through that other girl yearbook to look up the name. She should have immediately went to his house the next day instead of just meeting him at the train station.



I know it's just a movie but just making a observation

Martha Marcy May Marlene: A+

This was a good surprise. It's about a woman who escapes from a cult and having to deal with the aftereffects of the trauma and how her family members deal with it. Elizabeth Olson did a great job playing the main character. The themes of paranoia were present throughout. What I love about the film is that it ends in an open ended way. The way they ended it was very effective.



Her feelings of paranoia was constant with her. Even to the point of confronting one of the guys at her sister party working the bar that he's part of the cult

One of the things the Cult would do was break into people houses and sometimes even murder the people inside

When she escapes and her sister takes her in, she starts to get paranoid about the cult breaking into her sister house. Her sister is married to rich dude. And they live nearby. She starts to see things

Another aspect of the cult is the way women are treated in it. They are basically drugged and forced into sex when they get initiated. They bear male kids and it's not said what happens to the female babies but it's more implied. The women are forced to eat once a day which is dinner time and any rules they break, they get punished

It was sad to see the aftereffects of that too when she has no boundaries when it comes to privacy. Walking in while his sister and her husband are having sex and just lying next to them and the husband freaking out was a really intense scene.

Her sister husband freaking out at times was understandable but there were times I felt he was being too much of a dick. With her sister I can understand why she eventually got tired of it

The ending was really open ended, the sister and her husband are taking her to get help for her PTSD and she notices that the car following her is similar to one of the cars in the cult she escaped from. It just ends right there and I like how it's never expanded on if she's right and not being paranoid or if it's just a regular old car

I really liked how she never tells anyone about what happened to her, I heard that cult survivors do the same thing. It's hard for them to open up due to the fear of the cult that they escaped from being able to find them



Overall a very depressing watch but is a fantastic movie

Sisu: A+

Another pleasent surprise. I would call this Finnish Rambo. It was surprinsingly gory and had some amazing action set piece.



I especially loved how he threw a land mine at a enemy soldier

How he help the enslaved women to fight back and than there's the shot of the truck they are on and the curtains in the back opening and you can just see all the freed women just shooting at all the enemy soldiers. Just the way they shot that was very beautiful. Reminded me of the scene in Apocalypse Now where the American soldiers are resting on their boat and than they start recieving gunfire from the Vietcog. It's just reminded me of that scene especially the way it's shot

Finnish Rambo dealing the final blow to the villian by attaching him to Russian missile and dropping it in the air

There are equally as crazy stuff that happen that are as nuts as those action segments I just mentioned

I loved how it just ended on Finnish Rambo going to bank to convert his gold into bills and saying it's much easier to carry



I need to watch the sequel sometime

EDIT - I had to edit some of this because last night I was super tired

 

[Biff]

Marty Supreme (2025)

It's definitely a Safdie flick. Really reminded me of Uncut Gems; especially the part where I lost interest with an hour left in the film.

Tyler the Creator was phenomenal but didn't get nearly enough screentime.

Timothee Chalamet does not have the acting chops to carry a serious film. He was great in Dune because the rest of the movie is so much more important than him. But if you are making a movie where 90% of it depends on the leading man's performance, he's not the right guy.

The fact that it's nominated in so many categories this year is an indictment of just how weak 2025 was for Hollywood. I'm hoping it was a legitimate lagged impact of the SAG-AFTRA strike rather than our first real evidence of post-COVID Hollywood ability.

 

[EviLore]

Bullitt (1968), directed by Peter Yates

Famous for its high speed San Francisco car chase. The chase delivers, but surrounding it is a realistic slow burn procedural without much wizz-bang at all.

There's a scene where Steve McQueen hits up the neighborhood grocery store after work and picks up a stack of TV dinners without even looking at which ones he's buying. A scene in a jazz bar without any dialogue, just vibing. Tailing the bad guys methodically. Dealing with paperwork and the banality of everyday corruption.

It's so cool and stoic that it remains unbothered by whether anything critical happens moment to moment. Robert Vaughn thought the script was pointless, too sparse, and had to be convinced to stay on. But that sparseness is what makes it interesting, ultimately.

 

[Mr Reasonable]

Not watch a movie in ages dude to work but caught The Long Walk on a plane. Man did this movie disappoint.

Load of folks on a walk, only a few get screen time. I wanted all of them to die. Predicable who survived.

2/5

I think you might be being generous with that score. I was really surprised that the film was being talked about positively.

 

[Mr Reasonable]

Rainman

My local cinema is showing some classic Oscar winners. I wasn't sure how I'd feel about this one - would it feel out of time?

There are some things that feel weird - Tom Cruise's character as a vehicle for an explanation to the audience, is quite clunky and insensitive to Dustin Hoffman's character initially, despite clear distress which apparently needs to explained to us.

Cruise's girlfriend is cut from 1980s female character cloth, one scene in particular sees her make a weird choice that is based purely on her character putting what she thinks a male character might want ahead of herself in a way that I am certain if the genders were swapped would not have happened.

Those things plus some other niggles aside, I think it stands up quite well. Hoffman is excellent as Raymond, his portrayal is believable, consistent and the work of an actor who is at all times working very hard. I found myself thinking about how much of a risk the film might have seemed in the mid 80s when it would have been pitched to him. Would audiences react compassionately to a character whose condition isn't really explained and definitely not well understood. Hoffman's character is initially explained simply to be autistic and later Cruise's character, Charlie, will try and find a doctor who can fix the problem.

Perhaps it was less of a worry than I might have thought as the film would be embraced by audiences and be a giant commercial success. It opened second to Schwarzenegger/Devito's Twins but would go on to be the year's highest grossing film and win best film, screenplay, director and actor (Hoffman) at the Oscars the following year.

One thing that is very much of the film's era is the score, though also Oscar nominated, I thought it was pretty awful.

I haven't seen the film in 30 years and was surprised how much of it I remembered, even outside of the most well known scenes - toothpicks, Qantas, blackjack, even in some less significant scenes I knew the dialogue before it was spoken, despite not considering myself a big fan of the film. I'm not even sure I've seen it so many times.

Nostalgia or not, ultimately, I think it's worth a watch again, glad to have caught it on the big screen.

8/10.

 

[AJUMP23]

Airborne 1993 - 3/5 A wonderful inline skating movie set in Cincy in the 90s. Plenty of familiar faces and fun characters.

 

[John Marston]

Watched Spinal Tap 2 last night.

Huge fan of the first movie, I even got a couple of T-shirts

Great fan service and cameos.
That female drummer kicked ass.

At the beginning Rob Reiner visits David St. Hubbins and he makes him listen to one of his true crime podcasts.
Reiner exclaims "Yeah people LOVE murder!".

That was so sad & uncomfortable.

 

[AJUMP23]

Ella McCay - 2/5 - Girl boss liberal dream. Perfect modern woman let down and brought down by all the men. Bland

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

Easy A: D

Emma Stone plays this "invisible" highschool girl who lies to her friend about losing her virginity and he pretends to hook up with this gay guy as favor to the guy so that he doesn't get bullied for being gay. Gossips starts to happen where if you "pay her", she will have sex with the guy she's currently dating. All the gay and nerd guys come to her due to wanting their reputation to change so that they don't get bullied. They know it's all fake due to that one gay guy she helped told them that they would help them. So no actual sex happens

My issues with the film



My issues with the film

During the whole film she came of as a pretentious attention whore who the movie wants you to be charmed by. She really just came off as insufferable

I knew that that all those lies she was spreading about herserlf would eventually bite her in the ass

With that whole Lobster Shack scene, I knew that guy was actually looking to have sex with her. It was pretty funny how I was suppose to feel bad for her, when she didn't think of how those rumors would have negative consequences. She ends up rejecting him but it was funny how it was seen as something she wasn't at fault for

I wasn't a fan of the "happy ending", she still gets the chad (Todd) and everything works out perfectly for her.

The fact that she used rumors about her to get money out of beta males and those beta males, a lot of them are portrayed as disposable in the end really rubbed me the wrong way. Not only that but the way that most of the men who are paying Olive are portrayed in the film as weak since they need a woman's validation to have value. Even though they aren't having sex with her and they know that she's doing this just to help them have a status boost

I would get more into this but I don't want to get too political



Not only that but the movie was not funny at all, I didn't laugh at all. I would say the only good thing about the movie was the way it was shot. That's all

Sliding Doors: B+

This movie follows a british women named Helen who is played by Gwyneth Paltrow. She misses the train to get back home and that's where the narrative shifts into two timelines, where she missed the train and where she didn't miss the train and what that single situation and the different outcomes cumulate to when it comes to what happens next in those two timelines



In timeline one, she misses the train and never meets the bloke James who is on that train

In timeline two, she gets on the train and the guy James next to her picks up the earring that falls from her ear and they start to chat up

Timeline two, she ends up getting home early to find her boyfriend cheating on her with another women. She proceeds to break up with them. She meets that guy James again at a bar and they start chatting up more and a romantic relationship eventually develops

Helen finds him at the hospital with another women holding hands. She gets upset with him and she confronts him. It's revealed his mom is dying and the reason why she saw him with that one women was to pretend that before his mom died that him and his ex would have to pretend to still be together

After he reveals everything to her and he manages to win her back, they reconcile and she goes outside with him but goes on the street. She ends up getting hit by a van and end up in the hospital

With Timeline One, she doesn't get to her place early to find her boyfriend cheating on her and there are instances in that timeline where it shows Jame on the train and the same places but they don't know each other. But it never shows them passing each other or interacting with each other

She eventually finds out about her boyfriend cheating and gets upset and goes down the stairs while her boyfriend is running after her. It's not shown but she ends up falling down the stairs and ends up in the hospital

Timeline One: She survives but miscarries. She ends up breaking up with her boyfriend right there

Timeline Two: She dies and miscarries too. James is with her as she dies, he ends up hugging her as she flatlines

Than it just ends on Timeline One, where she ends up getting out of the hostipal. While she taking the elevator, James is on the same elevator and her earring once again falls from her ear and he picks it up and gives to her. The movie ends with them immediately looking at each other and starting to talk to each. It was more a freeze frame



I really liked how they edited both timelines to flow with each other. And I loved the ending of this film. It was really interesting

Inventing The Abbotts: B

A coming of age romance drama. It was about two brothers trying to court three beautiful and rich siters in a town in Illinois



It's basically focuses on Jacey and Doug who are played by Billy Crudup and Joaquin Phoenix. Jacey is more of the bad boy heartbreaker. He's able to get women left and right. Joaquin Phoenix is more of the friendzoned nice guy

It's revealed that Jacey has a grudge against the father of the Abbott daughters Lloyd. He thinks that Lloyd ended up screwing his father over when it came to a patent that made the Abbotts super rich. Their father ended up dying and Lloyd was feeling guilty and would visit the mom a lot but than rumors of there being a affair starting to come up. Where Lloyd wife ends up confronting Jacey and Doug mom and despite her reassurances that she's not sleeping with her husband, Lloyd wife doesn't believe her. They end up being ostracized due to that. So Jacey wants to have sex with one of the daughters so that he could try to marry into the family to get his revenge against their dad. Jacey ends up not succeeding

With Doug, he's goes into a relationship with the youngest daughter Pamala played by Liv Tyler. They eventually break up but she never has sex with him. A couple of years pass and he's in college. They run into each other again and they plan to hang out. She comes to his dormatory drunk and he takes care of her. It's eventually revealed she had sex with Jacey. She didn't get knocked up but after that, both brothers are on bad terms with each other

The movie ends with her explaining herself to Doug and him accepting her. There's a voiceover that reveals that Doug ends up marrying Pamela. They end up having kids

I really wasn't a fan of the ending. Throughout the whole movie Jacey was just a bad boy chad who was able to get with any women he wanted to bed including the woman his brother fancied. And I felt that Doug just accepting it and deciding to marry her was BS

There was somethings I did like about this film. Jennifer Lawrence was super hot in this film. And she even went full frontal in one of the sex scenes. She brought a sexy flirty quality to her character. She did a great job acting too

Liv Taylor was good at the sister who is not really the rebellious one and not really the good one. She more in the middle of those two types if anything

Billy Crudup and Joaquin Phoenix did a great job. I especially liked how Phoenix played the little brother who basically Crudup shadow since he looked up to him earlier on but as he grew older, massive resentment started to brew towards his brother

I liked the movie despite it being aimless. There was a lack of clear direction. I felt that by the end it went nowhere

Role Models: A

This movie was a pleasant surprise. Two guys who work at a energy drink company go around with the company cars to promote the drink at schools. But when Danny girlfriend breaks up with him. He gets super emotional while at work promoting the drink at one of the schools. They leave and see their company car getting towed. Wheeler distracts the guys towing the car while Danny gets into the car and while it's attached to the truck starts to floor it. Both of the guys who were towing the car ends up getting injured

To avoid 30 days of jail time, they instead opt to be part of this program where they are friends to kids and they have to do this until they hit a certain amount of hours

I was dying with laughter at a lot of the situations that they run into. My favorite character is Augie who is played by Christopher Mintz-Plasse. He's a larper who has the tism. Just seeing their friendship develop was amazing to watch

This was a very fantastic funny film

 

[bitbydeath]

This is probably the best live action movie ever made. It's well worth watching, respects the source material and even uplifts it.

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

This is probably the best live action movie ever made. It's well worth watching, respects the source material and even uplifts it.

I don't know man, from what I heard it's a shot for shot remake of the original which I love

 

[bitbydeath]

I don't know man, from what I heard it's a shot for shot remake of the original which I love

Very minor changes but the acting is fantastic.

 

[AJUMP23]

This is probably the best live action movie ever made. It's well worth watching, respects the source material and even uplifts it.

Best live action movie ever made? Like from animation or competing against things like jaws or alien or Schindlers list?

 

[bitbydeath]

Best live action movie ever made? Like from animation or competing against things like jaws or alien or Schindlers list?

Oh, nah.
Just kids animated to live action.

 

[AJUMP23]

Oh, nah.
Just kids animated to live action.

Ok I was worried I was going to have to argue with a real idiot.

Most movies are "live action"

 

[bitbydeath]

Ok I was worried I was going to have to argue with a real idiot.

Most movies are "live action"

Most people know what the term live action refers too.

 

[Biff]

Hamnet (2025)

This was the last of the Best Picture noms for me to watch, and wow, this movie redeemed 2025 in film. It's that good. Best movie I saw in 2025 (well, technically 2026, but you know what I mean), and also the best direction of 2025. Chloe Zhao is legit.

2h05m runtime that feels like 75 minutes. Each act is better than the one before it. One of the best endings I can remember in the past decade.

Paul Mescal and Jessie Buckley are excellent. The child actor, Jacobi Jupe, gives maybe the best child acting performance I've ever seen. Or, at the minimum, a close second to Haley Joel Osmont in The Sixth Sense.

The only thing that would stop me from recommending this film is the brutally heavy subject. Read the plot before watching it. If you can handle it, you should 100% watch it.

 

[AJUMP23]

Most people know what the term live action refers too.

"most" is doing some heavy lifting here.

 

[AJUMP23]

28 Years later Bone Temple - 3/5 The ending elevates the movie. But Lord Voldemort really gets up to some crazy stuff after losing to some kids at a school.

 

[HRK69]

Limbo (2021)



Just finished this and I had a great time with it. It's a moody Hong Kong noir thriller: heavy, somber and drenched in atmosphere. I can definitely see it being hit-or-miss depending on whether you lean more glass half-full or half-empty but for me it was thoroughly entertaining by the end

Story-wise, it has some pretty obvious weaknesses but the technical team more than makes up for them. The cinematography is genuinely impressive, there are some absolutely stunning shots and locations throughout. And when the third act kicks in with that pouring-rain detective mode, it really commits. It's stylish and beautifully executed

The city itself almost feels like a character. It's less a city and more a massive garbage dump

And everything is wet. Always wet. The grime, the rain, the slick streets, it all adds to that oppressive and decaying atmosphere that makes the whole thing feel so immersive

 

[Stafford]

Avatar 3

Yeah I'm calling it that. Fuck it.

After all the negativity I was expecting trash. It's not trash, I did enjoy at least the first 90 minutes of it. Even if it isn't doing anything new or special. The fire Navi though, is just meh and her reasons for being the way she is, is just.....yeah.

But the action was fun enough and the CGI of course quite good. But It's also waaaaay too fucking long, should've ended at 2 hours tops. And while I didn't find Spider that annoying in 2, he's very annoying and cringe in this one. Almost every scene that he's in he behaves extremely cringe and just ridiculous, it's not the character it's just that the actor can't act for shit. And good God the words he sometimes says, nah man. Don't know who the fuck thought it was a great idea to cast him.....but fire that clown please.

And I realize that with these movies you shouldn't ask too many questions, but some stuff is absolutely bullshit, just ridiculous. Overall it just doesn't move much things forward much and I don't think there is any need for a fourth one, like at all.

Oh, I'm definitely not a fan of HFR in this one. It made way too many scènes look very fake, very cheap, very soap opera like. Not good at all.

 

[HRK69]

Ichi the Killer



After a Yakuza leader vanishes with a large sum of money, the gang starts turning on itself. Meanwhile, Ichi, a troubled and easily controlled killer is unleashed on them

I remember my edgy skater friends hyping this back in my teens, but I only just watched it

It's basically one ridiculous scene after another. I struggled a bit with the storytelling. The neon-lit, shadowy look is cool, the pacing is frantic and the violence is so over-the-top it almost becomes absurd

I think I liked it overall but I'm still unsure what the film was really trying to say. I don't mind extreme violence or gore, but that alone isn't enough to carry a movie for me. The storytelling felt messy, some character motivations and relationships weren't clearly developed

Fun ride nonetheless. Definitely recommended if you're not sure what to watch next

NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt you need to see some of the CGI in this one

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

Who Framed Roger Rabbit: A+

I only watched parts of this when I was a kid but the last part of Judge Doom getting steamrolled and than using a tire hose to get back to normal always freaked me out. That whole scene freaked me out even when he melts as that Toon Destruction Juice hits him. I remember it being traumatizing lol

The use of the real life combined with 2D Animation was pretty impressive for the time. I really liked how the cartoon characters interacted with real life people and objects. But I could tell it was kind of dated, plus I think that CGI could do a better job.

The film was very colorful and I laughed out loud at lot of the humor. There was some sly adult humor in it too. Patty Cake

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

Ichi the Killer



After a Yakuza leader vanishes with a large sum of money, the gang starts turning on itself. Meanwhile, Ichi, a troubled and easily controlled killer is unleashed on them

I remember my edgy skater friends hyping this back in my teens, but I only just watched it

It's basically one ridiculous scene after another. I struggled a bit with the storytelling. The neon-lit, shadowy look is cool, the pacing is frantic and the violence is so over-the-top it almost becomes absurd

I think I liked it overall but I'm still unsure what the film was really trying to say. I don't mind extreme violence or gore, but that alone isn't enough to carry a movie for me. The storytelling felt messy, some character motivations and relationships weren't clearly developed

Fun ride nonetheless. Definitely recommended if you're not sure what to watch next

NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt you need to see some of the CGI in this one

I'll eventually get to that one but I know it opens with a rather infamous scene. That's a bit too much for me to handle right now lol

 

[Billbofet]

Is This Thing On
3/5 - it was fine. Great performances with an average script/story. The biggest bummer for me was it featured stand up comedy culture, but none of the comedians or stand up bits were actually funny - which is always my favorite part in similar movies about the comedy scene.

 

[AJUMP23]

Mercy - 2/5 - It is watchable but it isn't that great. Stupid Premise, AI court. Never trust your life to a computer.

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

The Rules of Attraction: B

I read the book way back in highschool and loved it. This was a really good adaptation. Also it's connected to American Psycho. Jame Van Der Beek plays a sociopathic student at this college he goes to. He did a great job portroying a energy vampire. Had a great soundtrack with some good classics. It's a dark comedy that had some intense vibes throughout. The rest of the cast were great and story was quite good. I need to read Bret Easton Ellis other books

Synchronic: A

I'm a big fan of their previous work The Endless and the episodes they directed of Moonknight, Loki and Daredevil Born Again. So I kind of knew they would take their time with the plot. They focused on developing the characters first and both main characters I ended up getting attached to. This was a really interesting Science Fiction that's set in the same universe as The Endless. I really like the effects of them jumping to another time using the pill, especially when they come back. It has a neat ghost like effect. I really liked the ruleset they established with the Synchronic drug that can let a person jump through time

There are flaws but I love the movie despite those flaws. I think it was naive of him not to bring a weapon with him when he used those time jumps to try to find his friends missing daughter

I need to watch Spring sometime and I can't wait to see what they do with Daredevil Born Again Season 2

 

[jshackles]

Spiral 1998

The original sequel to The Ring that was so bad they scrapped it from the series canon and released an entirely different sequel the following year. Not scary. The ghost was straight up horny the whole movie. They turned the "curse" into an STD you get from banging the ghost, I guess. Would not recommend.

 

[uncreativename]

I watched the Spanish movie Alatriste, starring Viggo Mortensen, who grew up speaking Spanish (I read that he has a Latino accent, instead of the Castilian accent he should have for the movie, but not being a Spanish speaker it doesn't bug me). Apparently this was the highest budget Spanish movie ever made at the time, and it didn't do very well.

I can see why, since some parts of it just aren't that good. Some parts of it are really fun, though, and it's a beautiful film to look at.

It's got a similar vibe to the Three Musketeers, except Spanish and at least in the English translation of the books, not nearly as well written.



oh right, sidenote, if you haven't read the Three Musketeers, but are thinking of doing it, don't read the newer translation that people online praise for some reason, it's trash. People's standards for this stuff, even book review journalists who should know better, are so low. Ease of reading should always be much less important than quality of prose, so check out Richard Pevear.