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

[joey_jo_jo]

My man, watched this the other day for free on Tubi!

Black Christmas (1974)

Sorority sisters are as good as dead when they're stalked by a psychopathic stranger over the Christmas holiday in this influential slasher.

tubitv.com

Their horror selection is pretty bonkers (but kinda hard to navigate). Might watch Silent Night Deadly Night on there soon, Black Christmas was great.

Haha yeah Tubi definitely is hard to navigate, watched both jack frost and silent night, deadly night on it but completely missed black christmas. Next time the wife is out I will be firing that up!

I saw on Tubi there's another Christmas horror called Ginger-dead man starring Gary Busey as a homicidal ginger bread man. Might give it a skip though as it sounds as bad as Jack Frost in that it's not even "so bad it's good", it's just really cheap and crap.

 

[Frank Bunn]

Spoiler

You’ve never seen someone get to gate with bags they should have checked but can’t? I’ve seen it a stack of times.

It may have been flagged as oversized at the gate AFTER he’d already checked in. It’s really not as big a pilot point as you’re making out here.

I would honestly have to watch the movie again to double check the name thing but two screening it in quite sure there was whole “we didn’t clock get the first time cause she’s travelling under her maiden name and thus on a different flight”. Wiki seems to indicate it was DC so perhaps the NYC flight thing was a red herring to throw the authorities off the target (which is a pretty standard thriller plot device see the jackal and even die hard etc).

I'm happy to overlook contrivances like being able to park directly outside airports.

Spoiler

You're getting muddled with the carry on bag. It was you who said he switched the bomb into a tagged case so they could track it when it got scanned. So it didn't get tagged as oversized at the gate. The case was checked-in at the front desk and tagged, that's why it's under the airport. Like I said, a checked-in bag being taken on board would be a major security breach. Allowing for a cabin crew member being a moron, the bag is already tagged so there's no reason to scan it before putting it in the hold. Which means the good guy can't track it. It's a plot hole compounded by a plot hole.

Maybe the NYC flight was a red herring or the DC flight a backup plan. But why not just detonate the bomb inside the airport, before all the security checks? And like I said, if the bad guy was able to access the secure areas of the airport and board a plane equipped with a bomb, a gun and a parachute then why did he go to all that trouble to get a patsy past the scanners and TSA agents? It unnecessarily risks everything.

There are small plot holes then there are holes that render the whole plot a nonsense.

 

[Roobs321]

We watched the Patriot in the movie theatre.
When heath ledger character killed the baddee all these old ladies clapped and yelled out whooooooo.
.......

wrong way round, the baddie killed Ledger (imagining some based old ladies rn)

 

[spinynorman]

Rumours - Cate Blanchett plays the German Chancellor, hosting a G7 summit in the Bavarian countryside, when things are disrupted by…I dunno, maybe a zombie apocalypse? This is quite funny at points with some enjoyable characters - the American President, played by Charles Dance, who inexplicably has a British accent, is an old man who falls asleep during the meeting in a “gee I wonder who this is meant to be”, the Italian Prime Minister is in over his head and eager to please, the Canadian Prime Minister an ageing playboy who’s dealing with a corruption scandal that could ruin him back home and the affairs he’s having with the two women of the group, the German Chancellor and the British Prime Minister. It’s an odd movie though in that it seems at times to almost steer away from making a strong satirical point, and so while often funny, it’s not really clear to what, if any, purpose.

Ghost Cat Anzu - anime film, wherein an 11 year old girl is dropped with her grandfather by her debt-riddled father. The grandfather lives at a temple in the countryside, which also houses Anzu, a human-sized, seemingly immortal cat who walks and talks as though a person. There are some imaginative flights of fantasy throughout and I loved the animating style, but it was an oddly structured, somewhat episodic film.

 

[Sketi]

Haha yeah Tubi definitely is hard to navigate, watched both jack frost and silent night, deadly night on it but completely missed black christmas. Next time the wife is out I will be firing that up!

I saw on Tubi there's another Christmas horror called Ginger-dead man starring Gary Busey as a homicidal ginger bread man. Might give it a skip though as it sounds as bad as Jack Frost in that it's not even "so bad it's good", it's just really cheap and crap.

Yeah Tubi is weird, you look at the horror section and it's pretty short and doesn't include Black Christmas, but it's there if you search for it. And they have a whole 70s Italian Horror section which looks wild haha.

 

[Sketi]

Black Christmas (1974) and Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984) make an awesome Christmas-slasher double bill. Celebrating their 50th and 40th anniversaries respectively.

Black Christmas - takes a little while to get going but by the end I could see why it is highly regarded. Properly fleshed out characters and relationships which probably sets it apart from many others in the genre, and a gripping third act.

SNDN - hits you with the traumatic backstory of the killer straight away, and barely lets its foot off the accelerator for its 80 odd minute run time. Don't let the low imdb rating sway you, this nasty little slasher about a killer santa claus is a riot.

 

[spinynorman]

Black Christmas (1974) and Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984) make an awesome Christmas-slasher double bill. Celebrating their 50th and 40th anniversaries respectively.

Black Christmas - takes a little while to get going but by the end I could see why it is highly regarded. Properly fleshed out characters and relationships which probably sets it apart from many others in the genre, and a gripping third act.

SNDN - hits you with the traumatic backstory of the killer straight away, and barely lets its foot off the accelerator for its 80 odd minute run time. Don't let the low imdb rating sway you, this nasty little slasher about a killer santa claus is a riot.

While Silent Night Deadly Night 2 has the iconic “Garbage day!” scene, the third one is actually directed by Monte Hellman, who made Two Lane Blacktop and was a producer on Reservoir Dogs.

 

[joey_jo_jo]

Black Christmas (1974) and Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984) make an awesome Christmas-slasher double bill. Celebrating their 50th and 40th anniversaries respectively.

Black Christmas - takes a little while to get going but by the end I could see why it is highly regarded. Properly fleshed out characters and relationships which probably sets it apart from many others in the genre, and a gripping third act.

SNDN - hits you with the traumatic backstory of the killer straight away, and barely lets its foot off the accelerator for its 80 odd minute run time. Don't let the low imdb rating sway you, this nasty little slasher about a killer santa claus is a riot.

I got into an online rabbit hole about SNDN after watching it.
It got released the same weekend as Nightmare on Elm Street and smashed it in box office in first week before PTA groups across America pushed cinemas to axe it.
They were worried kids would think it was a normal santa movie and be scarred for life ...ignoring the fact it was an R-rated movie

 

[brutus76]

VIOLENT NIGHT is my new favourite Christmas Movie - absolute gold

 

[phantom13]

I'm happy to overlook contrivances like being able to park directly outside airports.

Spoiler

You're getting muddled with the carry on bag. It was you who said he switched the bomb into a tagged case so they could track it when it got scanned. So it didn't get tagged as oversized at the gate. The case was checked-in at the front desk and tagged, that's why it's under the airport. Like I said, a checked-in bag being taken on board would be a major security breach. Allowing for a cabin crew member being a moron, the bag is already tagged so there's no reason to scan it before putting it in the hold. Which means the good guy can't track it. It's a plot hole compounded by a plot hole.

Maybe the NYC flight was a red herring or the DC flight a backup plan. But why not just detonate the bomb inside the airport, before all the security checks? And like I said, if the bad guy was able to access the secure areas of the airport and board a plane equipped with a bomb, a gun and a parachute then why did he go to all that trouble to get a patsy past the scanners and TSA agents? It unnecessarily risks everything.

There are small plot holes then there are holes that render the whole plot a nonsense.

No you’ve completely misunderstood my point but no matter.

You’re picky about the film, that’s fine.

 

[Billy ray]

i must revisit tubi... i watched fugget about it when i first stumbled on this app

Fugget About It (TV Series 2012–2021) ⭐ 6.9 | Animation, Comedy, Crime

22m | TV-14

www.imdb.com

 

[joey_jo_jo]

i must revisit tubi... i watched fugget about it when i first stumbled on this app

Fugget About It (TV Series 2012–2021) ⭐ 6.9 | Animation, Comedy, Crime

22m | TV-14

www.imdb.com

its pretty good for 80s/90s horror and action. Looks like a lot of the lesser JVCD movies are on it.

 

[Sketi]

VIOLENT NIGHT is my new favourite Christmas Movie - absolute gold

This could round out my recent run of bloody Christmas movies nicely.

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

This could round out my recent run of bloody Christmas movies nicely.

One of my colleagues is obsessed with Christmas movies and Violent Night was her top pick for 2023.

 

[Xtreme]

VIOLENT NIGHT is my new favourite Christmas Movie - absolute gold

Black Christmas (1974) and Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984) make an awesome Christmas-slasher double bill. Celebrating their 50th and 40th anniversaries respectively.

Black Christmas - takes a little while to get going but by the end I could see why it is highly regarded. Properly fleshed out characters and relationships which probably sets it apart from many others in the genre, and a gripping third act.

SNDN - hits you with the traumatic backstory of the killer straight away, and barely lets its foot off the accelerator for its 80 odd minute run time. Don't let the low imdb rating sway you, this nasty little slasher about a killer santa claus is a riot.

This is the content I come here for, I can watch Die Hard and Gremlins etc as Christmas movies..... but horror Christmas movies is an untapped market (as long as I don't have nightmares after lol)

 

[GreyCrow]

This is the content I come here for, I can watch Die Hard and Gremlins etc as Christmas movies..... but horror Christmas movies is an untapped market (as long as I don't have nightmares after lol)

When I watched Violent Night last year I described it as Home Alone for adults

 

[Xtreme]

When I watched Violent Night last year I described it as Home Alone for adults

$10 on iTunes (4K and all) - Purchased

 

[Frank Bunn]

One Life (2023)

Anthony Hopkins and Johnny Flynn play Nicholas Winton at different stages of his life. Winton helped to save hundreds of Czech children's lives at the start of WWII then much later became famous when his endeavours were highlighted on a popular British TV show.

It's ok without being anything spesh. The story is competently told. Hopkins can play this role in his sleep. But it really glosses over the experience of the children. They were put on trains, not knowing if they would see their parents again - most of them didn't. The movie also neglects to mention that 'Kindertransport' was not just about Nicholas Winton in Czechoslovakia. The United Kingdom took in nearly 10,000 children from a few different countries.

5/10

 

[GreyCrow]

My man, watched this the other day for free on Tubi!

Black Christmas (1974)

Sorority sisters are as good as dead when they're stalked by a psychopathic stranger over the Christmas holiday in this influential slasher.

tubitv.com

Their horror selection is pretty bonkers (but kinda hard to navigate). Might watch Silent Night Deadly Night on there soon, Black Christmas was great.

Watched both and agree with the comment that Black Christmas is the better movie . Some standard horror tropes but as its an old movie maybe they started them

I did like how it ended

Silent Night Deadly Night - the acting was terrible just terrible but there were boobs

I thought National Lampoons Vacation ripped off the opening scene but I think its the other way around with the timing

I also liked the ending of this

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

I need a comfort watch recommendation please… something that will make me feel like less of an arseh*le. Alternatively, something that will lean into my foul mood. Either or!

 

[Billy ray]

I need a comfort watch recommendation please… something that will make me feel like less of an arseh*le. Alternatively, something that will lean into my foul mood. Either or!

planes trains ....

 

[phantom13]

Gladiator 2

Finally managed to get the kids looked after to go watch this and lemme tell ya, it is a movie. That much is for sure.

Mescal isn’t Crowe, the twins aren’t Phoenix and Connie Nielsen can’t carry a scene. Pedro is good and Denzel is having a ball but it’s just a pale imitation. Even the collegium battles don’t have the same scope and theater.

It’s fine but it’s JUST fine.

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

planes trains ....

Not sure that’s my style Billy boy!

 

[TheGreatBarryB]

I need a comfort watch recommendation please… something that will make me feel like less of an arseh*le. Alternatively, something that will lean into my foul mood. Either or!

Highly recommend Sideways, great funny road movie with two excellent leads

 

[Frank Bunn]

Utopia (2024)

It's genuinely a 'so bad it's good' movie. Some of the worst acting you will ever see. They should have taken the next step and made a full-on Westworld parody.

2/10.