Movie What's the last movie you saw? (6)

[Chief]

Continued in Part 7:

Movie - What's the last movie you saw? (7)

Continued from Part 6: https://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threads/whats-the-last-movie-you-saw-6.1287849/ I've retained Asgardian as the OP. Rest in peace, mate. ================ Starting this up for the mods. Watched Judgment in Berlin, a simple tale of a hijacking from Poland to West Berlin...

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[Sketi]

Boogie Nights (1997, Stan) -
About the pr0n industry in 1970's/80's LA.
Disappointed by this one tbh. Yes it's masterfully directed and decently entertaining but personally found the comedy more miss than hit. Instead this was a mostly depressing experience. Thought the 4.5hr rewatchables love letter podcast would have me come around but I still didn't connect with most of the humour. Still had some incredible highs though like the opening scene at the nightclub and the New Years Party. Both would be in the conversation for most skillful directed scene ever. 7/10.

Updated PTA film rankings-
Magnolia 10/10
The Master 9/10
Punch Drunk Love 8/10
There Will Be Blood 8/10
Boogie Nights 7/10
Inherent Vice 7/10
Phantom Thread 6/10

The Reader (2008, Netflix) -
A high school student has a romance with a woman who turns out to be a former Nazi.
Speaking of disappointing. This was a mess. About the nature of guilt and accepting that ordinary people can do horrific things. Didn't click for me although Kate Winslet did the best she could with it. 4/10.

Yeah I didn't love Boogie Nights enough to saddle up for a 4.5 hour podcast about it. Starts with a bang but the second half is grim viewing. I see it as early career PTA where he hasn't quite honed his voice yet.

I'll go:

There Will Be Blood 9.5/10
The Master 9/10
Phantom Thread 8/10
Licorice Pizza 8/10
Magnolia 8/10
Punch Drunk Love 8/10
Boogie Nights 7/10
Inherent Vice 6.5/10
Hard Eight 6/10

 

[phantom13]

I ****ing love Boogie Nights, the pod talks about how all but about 15 minutes is just totally rewatchable and I completely agree.

Watched Vanilla Sky on Friday for the first time in years.

It’s well worth a rewatch if like me you first saw it fairly young. A lot of the pop culture stuff and concepts were well beyond my teen mind and it’s really really good.

 

[Sinjin Smith]

Still ploughing through MCU movies I haven't seen yet so sat down for Eternals on Saturday night. Looked stylish and.....um........that's about it. Boring storyline that jumped all over the place, acting was atrocious even Richard Madden. Actually felt for the deviants in this one, they were sent to wipe out earths apex predators so they did (you know mankind) and end up on the death list by a bunch of superpowered assassins (the eternals).

And then there's the mention of "the blip", well where the **** were they when Thanos went on his rampage?? They weren't supposed to interfere with human conflict but were banned from taking part in interstellar wars?? Give me a spell.

Think MCU neds to take a breather, there's not much left and the Eternals plot was just crap.

3/10.

 

[edgie]

Caught the Edward Norton Hulk on telly the other night, actually thought it was alright.

 

[HeathySure]

I find all PTA movies get better after rewatching. Inherent Vice is probably the worst of them but i would rate all the rest at least 9s. I do need to watch Licorice Pizza again though. Magnolia is easily the most depressing and the one i have watched the least from the others.

 

[juss]

Still ploughing through MCU movies I haven't seen yet so sat down for Eternals on Saturday night. Looked stylish and.....um........that's about it. Boring storyline that jumped all over the place, acting was atrocious even Richard Madden. Actually felt for the deviants in this one, they were sent to wipe out earths apex predators so they did (you know mankind) and end up on the death list by a bunch of superpowered assassins (the eternals).

And then there's the mention of "the blip", well where the * were they when Thanos went on his rampage?? They weren't supposed to interfere with human conflict but were banned from taking part in interstellar wars?? Give me a spell.

Think MCU neds to take a breather, there's not much left and the Eternals plot was just crap.

3/10.

Agree they need to scale it back a bit. With the TV series content it is overload to the max and way too saturated. The films are pretty frequent these days too.

I am holding hope for Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, Guardians of the Galaxy: Vol 3 and Antman and the Wasp: Quantamania.
3 popular sub franchises within the greater franchise.

If they stuff those up, they're in trouble,

 

[jabba5114]

Rewatched stuck on you on Disney. Very enjoyable silly movie.

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[kickazz]

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2017)

This is a good movie with some nice performances. What I liked best is that all the characters were both likeable and dislikable at the same time - they all had some pretty duplicitous morality.

Martin McDonagh (In Bruges, Seven Psychopaths) sure does interesting movies, and he sure loves to use the word campaigner in them, which many people will enjoy.

Some of it was a bit open to interpretation, and

Spoiler

whilst aspects of the plot hint at that dodgy guy at the bar NOT being the one who murdered her daughter, looking a bit closer makes me think he definitely did do it. That blow-in cop (dude from The Wire) never produced any DNA evidence, he just mentioned it, along with the fact the guy from the bar had some influential friends. Interestingly, as for the ending - whilst I now think the guy deserved to be killed, I'm thinking they didn't go through with it. Something about an earlier conversation about letting go of anger made me think that.

4 stars

 

[kickazz]

Tick Tick Boom (2021)

Seems like a pretty candid assessment of this guy, really portrayed his passion and yearning well I thought. At times I thought he was a bit of a phoney - did he really love the art or was he just dazzled by the prospect of living the high life in Manhattan. As the movie goes on, it seems he is confronted with this question and ultimately one has to agree that he loved his art.

Any movie that does show Manhattan before it went fully, soullessly, gentrified gets a tick from me though. I think there is a whole culture vanishing before our eyes in that part of the world. The scene of them walking with big bags through the snow to a laundromat a wonderfully simple reality check on life as it really is (or was) in a city with a reputation for wealth and extravagance.

3 stars

 

[kickazz]

The Sixth Sense (1999)

Probably only the second or third time I have seen this, first time in a very long time.

For those that have not seen this ever, see it. (Not sure there are many of you left though!)

For those that have seen it once a long time ago like me - I do recommend another viewing. I think it still really stands up today, and it most definitely is not a one trick pony. There are some genuinely chilling scenes, the movie has a real atmosphere to it, and Toni Collette is absolutely superb as a struggling single mother with a troubled child. That scene of the two of them in the car together near the end - so good.

4.5 stars.

 

[Marlo]

The Black Phone

WHAT A PIECE OF SHITE!

I just can't believe how stupid and pointless it was. I usually love creepy horror movies, a lot that are low budget, with rotten tomato audience scores from 40-50% a lot of the time. So I am absolutely bemused at the positive reviews for this lame, lazy POS. Haha I'm actually angry. It was so dumb.

 

[phantom13]

The Sixth Sense (1999)

Probably only the second or third time I have seen this, first time in a very long time.

For those that have not seen this ever, see it. (Not sure there are many of you left though!)

For those that have seen it once a long time ago like me - I do recommend another viewing. I think it still really stands up today, and it most definitely is not a one trick pony. There are some genuinely chilling scenes, the movie has a real atmosphere to it, and Toni Collette is absolutely superb as a struggling single mother with a troubled child. That scene of the two of them in the car together near the end - so good.

4.5 stars.

Same goes for unbreakable which is (imo) still M.Nights best film.

 

[JackOutback]

Uncharted... it wanted to be Indiana Jones or National Treasure, but ended up more like the Da Vince Code. Tom Holland was good, but it could have been Peter Parker on a mission, Mark Wahlberg was not good, the villains were decent, the scenery good, the CGI not so much. Overall, it moves fast enough to be mildly entertaining but largely inconsequential. 6/10

 

[Cruyff14]

Collateral

Sick film. Tom Cruise does not miss. Jamie Foxx is great too.

 

[jabba5114]

The Black Phone

WHAT A PIECE OF SHITE!

I just can't believe how stupid and pointless it was. I usually love creepy horror movies, a lot that are low budget, with rotten tomato audience scores from 40-50% a lot of the time. So I am absolutely bemused at the positive reviews for this lame, lazy POS. Haha I'm actually angry. It was so dumb.

Is that the one where the kid gets kidnapped?

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[Marlo]

Is that the one where the kid gets kidnapped?

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Yeah and his sister has magical powers, and 12-13 year olds run the town as there's no other older teenagers around

 

[jabba5114]

Yeah and his sister has magical powers, and 12-13 year olds run the town as there's no other older teenagers around

Ahhhh ok was on the fence from the trailer. I'll give it a miss then

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[kickazz]

The Black Phone

WHAT A PIECE OF SHITE!

I just can't believe how stupid and pointless it was. I usually love creepy horror movies, a lot that are low budget, with rotten tomato audience scores from 40-50% a lot of the time. So I am absolutely bemused at the positive reviews for this lame, lazy POS. Haha I'm actually angry. It was so dumb.

I didn't mind it but yeah it really was lazy and lame you are spot on there. I liked the way parts of it were filmed and a couple of the ideas in it - but lazy sums it up well. Some good ideas not really taken anywhere special.

 

[Kong]

Same goes for unbreakable which is (imo) still M.Nights best film.

For me it’s Signs.

I don’t think it’s a masterpiece and I’d never try to convince anyone to like it, but I saw it as a teenager and I still enjoy it as I watch every 4-5 years.

 

[phantom13]

For me it’s Signs.

I don’t think it’s a masterpiece and I’d never try to convince anyone to like it, but I saw it as a teenager and I still enjoy it as I watch every 4-5 years.

I like Signs, gets a bad wrap but i enjoyed it.

The Village and Lady in the Water are his proper stinkers.

 

[Financialpanther]

I like Signs, gets a bad wrap but i enjoyed it.

The Village and Lady in the Water are his proper stinkers.

Didn't mind the Village - the issue for M Night is since Unbreakable, he has delivered incomplete movies. I don't know whether he was sold into being the 'king of the reveal' or something like that but he masters tension very very well but fails in the payoff. The Village was let down by a terrible ending.

 

[phantom13]

Didn't mind the Village - the issue for M Night is since Unbreakable, he has delivered incomplete movies. I don't know whether he was sold into being the 'king of the reveal' or something like that but he masters tension very very well but fails in the payoff. The Village was let down by a terrible ending.

I think the village had alot more issues than just the ending (FWIW i think the ending is actually one of the few bits that works even if it is somewhat underwhelming).

I listened to a pod regarding his career a while back and he certainly got painted into being the "twist" guy (and Sixth Sense, Unbreakable and Signs) do that really well in that they bring it all together at the end well.

He almost rallied against that typing of him with The Happening (in which absolutely nothing happens).

Its funny he has some top shelf (Sixth, Unbreakable, The Visit, Split) some just okay (Devil, Signs, Glass) and some real stinkers (Village, Lady, Happening, After Earth)

 

[Gralin]

I think the village had alot more issues than just the ending (FWIW i think the ending is actually one of the few bits that works even if it is somewhat underwhelming).

I listened to a pod regarding his career a while back and he certainly got painted into being the "twist" guy (and Sixth Sense, Unbreakable and Signs) do that really well in that they bring it all together at the end well.

He almost rallied against that typing of him with The Happening (in which absolutely nothing happens).

Its funny he has some top shelf (Sixth, Unbreakable, The Visit, Split) some just okay (Devil, Signs, Glass) and some real stinkers (Village, Lady, Happening, After Earth)

The biggest mystery/twist of his career

 

[Sinjin Smith]

For me it’s Signs.

I don’t think it’s a masterpiece and I’d never try to convince anyone to like it, but I saw it as a teenager and I still enjoy it as I watch every 4-5 years.

Yep Signs wins hands down. Watch it once a year, unpopular opinion but its in my top 20 of all time. Love the build up. The atmosphere and tension is brilliant. Mel and Phoenix are great. Upon re-watching you pick up little "signs" you missed, well I did.

 

[Alberto_Magnifico]

The biggest mystery/twist of his career

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