What is The Last Movie You Watched?

[Stavros]

I went to the movies for the first time in a long time to see Mission Impossible: Whatever yesterday. It cost thirtyfive bucks; sixteen for the movie, sixteen for the medium popcorn and coke, and three bucks for the candy I smuggled in. I walked two blocks to avoid the eight dollar parking fee. It was a good summer movie.

Blimey, guv. I went to my local cinema, a five minute walk away, and it cost me £5.99 or $7.7. I don't waste money on rubbish like popcorn.

[Stavros]

Isle of Dogs (Wes Anderson, 201

Taking Fantastic Mr Fox to a new level, this is a wonderful example of the elaborate fantasy Anderson does so well, one is inclined to call it a 'shaggy dog' story but it is much more than that, and on a technical level may be superior to the techno-wizardy of Spielberg in Ready Player One. This is a triumph of film-making, and a joy to watch.

[josehip]

cont
177 Near Dark 1987 Directed by Kathryn Bigelow 2/5
178 The Rider 2017 Directed by Chloé Zhao 5/5
179 To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before 2018 Directed by Susan Johnson 4/5
180 Jaws 1975 Directed by Steven Spielberg 3/5
181 Adrift 2018 Directed by Baltasar Kormákur 3/5
182 American Animals 2018 Directed by Bart Layton 4/5
183 The Breaking Point 1950 Directed by Michael Curtiz 4/5
184 AWOL 2016 Directed by Deb Shoval 4/5
185 Free the Nipple 2014 Directed by Lina Esco 4/5
186 Ocean’s Eight 2018 Directed by Gary Ross
187 Hereditary 2018 Directed by Ari Aster 4/5
188 Tully 2018 Directed by Jason Reitman 4/5

cont

189 Always Shine 2016 Directed by Sophia Takal 4/5
190 First Reformed 2017 Directed by Paul Schrader 4/5
191 Other People 2016 Directed by Chris Kelly 4/5
192 SuperFly 2018 Directed by Director X 3/5
193 The Hunt for Red October 1990 Directed by John McTiernan 4/5
194 Patriot Games 1992 Directed by Phillip Noyce 3/5
195 Transwomen who loves Ciswomen: Sexual Orientation X Gender Identity 2018 Directed by Rosa Luz 5/5
196 ‎Support the Girls (201 directed by Andrew Bujalski 4/5
197 Comedy Central Roast of Bruce Willis 2018 Director: Joel Gallen 3/5
198 A Bigger Splash 2015 Directed by Luca Guadagnino 3/5
199 The Matrix 1999 Directed by Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski 4/5

[vivid]

199 The Matrix 1999 Directed by Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski 4/5

Am I reading this right; you haven't seen The Matrix until now?!

[Stavros]

The American actor Burton Reynolds has died at the age of 82. He has over 180 credits in the IMDB but many are the tv appearances he made before he became more regularly cast in feature films. Although he showed a lot or promise in films like The Mean Machine (1974) and probably his finest dramatic role, Deliverance (1972) he preferred to specialise in light comedies or Hero films like Smokey and the Bandit (1977), Hooper (197, Gator (1976) and many others. They were not my kind of films but successful at the box office. They are for the most part films in which the mythical pioneer of early America re-appears as a marginal but morally sound figure in a corrupt world. I think he wanted to be revered as a 'serious actor' and claimed to love the UK because the sense of humour has a self-deprecating irony most Americans seem unable to comprehend. Whatever the judgement, he made many entertaining films and a few great ones, and that is something to be proud of.

[Stavros]

Does anyone know how to write the digit eight without it appearing as an emoji?

[josehip]

Am I reading this right; you haven't seen The Matrix until now?!

Nah, breh. Just a rewatch after I read an essay (about THE MATRIX AND FIGHT CLUB) on how stupid homophobic bros love those movies YET got everything wrong about it.
THE MATRIX: about the struggles of coming out written by two trans women. Plus, Agent Smith spends the entire movie refusing to refer to Neo by his preferred name. Morpheus and "The Red Pill" = the same colour as estrogen pills back in the day.

When I watched The Matrix back in 2000 I was just a kid who had no ideia about trans, gay, gender, race, non binary and other stuff. Plus I had no intelligence to deal with multiple layers of meaning.

FIGHT CLUB: about a critique of toxic masculinity written by a gay man.

[slave2u]

acts of violence - a so so 'serious' action movie dealing (sort of) with human trafficing. features an extended cameo from bruce willis, probably the only thing that made me watch it.

i am omega - another trip to the richard matheson "i am legend". not entirely successful and very much a waste of mark dacasos who may not be the greatest, but i've always enjoyed him when i've seen him.

killing gunther - not as funny as it thinks it is, but has the distinction of being one of the better of arnie's second half movie career.

[Stavros]

The Village (M. Night Shyamalan, 2014)

So, even Utopia has its problems.
The problem with M Night Shyamalan's films is that you know you are being set up in the first half of the film with a pivotal reveal to conclude the film that should have you gasping at his skill. It means you are constantly looking for clues and I guess once I worked out what the function of the monsters was, the rest fell into place, though the temporal shift at the end was not expected and well done if not sensational. The film is carried by a wonderful perfrmance from Bryce Dallas Howard, though what, in a manner of speaking, she sees in Joaquin Phoenix, a morose, dreary man we shall never know or care.

[Stavros]

Nocturnal Animals (Tom Ford, 2016)

It is night, and the animals are roaming free. In a fictional night, it means intiimidation, rape and murder. In the real world it means Amy Adams c40 years old, weaing a body hugging designer dress with an open cleavage, seated at the table of a Japanese restaurant waiting for her her ex-husband -the author of the fictional film-within-the-film to arrive for their dinner date. At various times she has the most lustrous red hair, cascading down one side of her lovely face, designed to appeal. And does she appeal!

And that's about it, as pretty much everything that happens is boring and predictable. It gets a rating of 7.5 starts on IMDB which doesn't make sense, while the DVD cost me £5 in the shop, which doesn't make sense either as I bought The Village for £2 and it is a better film.