Last Movie You Watched...

10 Cloverfield Lane. I liked it! John Goodman remains my favorite actor.

Free Willy 2 was on tv last night.

The Prestige

Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol 2... great fun! Up there with the best Marvel movies, though need to watch it a few more times to see if I really like it more than the first

Criminal. It was interesting to see Kevin Costner in the main role and equally as interesting to see Tommy Lee Jones play the good guy here. KC did well but throughout the movie I was thinking there must have been someone who would have played the role better. TLJ was, I thought, lovable almost. Over all it was good though and I would probably watch it again.

The Accountant: despite a few issues that might raise objections re autism and the cavalier attitude toward shooting people dead, I really liked this movie.

NicoleScripting said:

10 Cloverfield Lane. I liked it! John Goodman remains my favorite actor.

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That movie was well done. I liked it too.

Mifune: The Last Samurai

Netflix dvd: The Point of No Return. love that movie. Bridget Fonda is the perfect bad (shut your mouth)...LOL

Moonlight Mile. Susan Sarandon is as good as there is. GREAT here.

Passengers



Jennifer Lawrence...Lawrence Fishburne...Pratt

Passengers on a colonization trip wake up years too early and have to eek out an existence and face perils.
Liked it because it took almost no left turns.
Nothing happened. No aliens, crazy ship computer...mutating hidden passenger....etc...

Plain sci-fi. A few physics gags, but overall some good sci-fi..

Evolution (2015)....
a french film/subbed in english. it was too confusing to me as to what the deal was with the characters in that town. near the end was a complete wtf moment, but then it felt like it was dropped with no explanation. however, the setting was quite beautiful....when they were outside...LOL

Deadpool. Loved it.

Wyatt Earp the one with Kurt Russel...."l'll be your huckle-berry"

Jan74 said:

Wyatt Earp the one with Kurt Russel...."l'll be your huckle-berry"

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You mean Tombstone? That's a classic. There is also another movie called Wyatt Earp with Kevin Costner which I would not call a classic or even good.

KennySkylin said:

You mean Tombstone? That's a classic. There is also another movie called Wyatt Earp with Kevin Costner which I would not call a classic or even good.

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lol funny....but the SyFy channel has a series called Wynonna Earp.

The Last Action Hero with Schwarzenegger. Watched it a few times as a kid and was surprised that it was still pretty good now.

"Men in Black." It was the first time I'd watched it since it came out in theatres. As a kid, I thought, I am going to be Will Smith's character when I grow up. As an adult, I think this is one of the most underappreciated movies of all time. What a brilliant social commentary! I wish I could someday write something this well-cast, tight, well-plotted and use casting and characters that way.

Finally managed to watch Rogue One on DVD. (I have a Lucas canon die-hard sibling; it's very difficult to even mention Disney era stuff in her presence...) It's less derivative than The Force Awakens, opening up the universe beyond the Skywalker clan (which, really, is one of the Force's great galactic mistakes, all things considered), though it took a bit for me to get into the story; heavy accents didn't help. The FX were very impressive, and the sets had more of a Star Wars feel than some of FA did (though, once again, it was missing the Lucas-era critters in the corners to make the alien worlds really seem alive.) The ending, while it added weight to A New Hope's victory, was rather a gut-slug/downer; I'm not sure how people subjected themselves to that multiple times in theaters, TBH... On the down side, I found some of the tie-ins and callbacks to the original movie a little heavy-handed... and, especially after seeing The Expanse, much of the cast outside the main crew looked awfully white and male. I'm also not sure how well it would stand up on its own - if nothing else, it'd be rather bleak if one didn't know where things went from here. (On the plus side, we're guaranteed this one won't be a trilogy...)

I'd call it good-to-very-good, though for some reason I'd been expecting very-good-to-great.

Might have a different opinion on rewatch. The Lucas-loving relative got wind that I'd rented it, and has decided she might want to see it... will probably get to that Monday or Tuesday. Eh, well - it's a cheap per-night rate...

I watched The Comedian. They might have been going for tragic, there is that element to the story, and to be fair, the De Niro character was not supposed to be the funniest man on the planet, since his fame came by way of a sitcom he starred in, but when the MC was on stage, or when he was just quipping in his personal life, to me, it just wasn't funny. Harvey Keitel was good, so were Edie Falco and Danny Devito, but the standout was Leslie Mann, whom I've never seen bad in anything.

Swiss Army Man. One of the oddest flicks I've ever seen. I got the premise, not bad, well acted, but overall, just...odd.

The Hurt Locker (FINALLY)

It was all right, although maybe its a cultural thing but I didn't get all the hullabaloo about it. I don't see how it won an Oscar (then again, I don't remember what movies it went against other than Avatar but that didn't deserve the Best Picture Oscar either) considering the pace is all over the place and eventually it becomes very formulaic and predictable.

I wasn't bored by it, by any means. But its... rather forgettable, I guess. Still, I don't regret watching it.

Independence Day 2.

It was okay, but not how I would have written it. Felt the scale was too big to relate, not helped by nonsensical physics. Not sure it earned a second viewing.