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

[JackOutback]

I watched the original Beetlejuice last week. While it has some fun moments, it really is an odd movie. Keaton wasnt really even in it much. The only real stand out scene in the film was the dance number at the dinner party. I plan on seeing the 2nd one soon.

I watched this too recently. I noted the same thing about Keaton, he's actually only in it for 15-20 minutes. I'm hoping he doesn't dominate the sequel simply because he's the most memorable part of the first film. I quite enjoyed the original, it's quirky, it's funny, I like that they got a very Tim Burton-like performance out of Baldwin and Davis, who wouldn't traditionally be seen as Burton-like actors. To be honest, I thought Catherine O'Hara was the star of the film, her scenes were always memorable.

 

[sandeano]

Rashomon is my fave by the way.

I distinctly remember you saying you hated that film.

 

[Roobs321]

I distinctly remember you saying you hated that film.

You must have me confused with someone else, or with my hating another film.

 

[sandeano]

You must have me confused with someone else, or with my hating another film.

It was a bad attempt at a Rashomon joke.

 

[Roobs321]

It was a bad attempt at a Rashomon joke.

Brilliant, I wasn’t equal to it

 

[Warsaw]

Reprise - The first of Joachim Trier’s Oslo series, but the last I’ve seen. Centres around two young writers and their careers which take divergent paths. It's Trier's debut feature as well and so there's a very punk, freewheeling, unreliable narrators, edge to it all which I loved. Also reminded me how much I like Anders Danielsen Lie as an actor who often plays the hopelessly in love, depressive sad sack but guy you still root for. 8/10

Speak No Evil - Mildly annoyed at this an American remake of a very good 2022 Danish film (which was also mostly in English). Yet, the film does mostly justify it's existence despite there it not even coming close to the awkward tension of the original, and the final act which differs considerably. Yet McAvoy is cooking here, and the relationship between Scott McNairy and Mackenzie Davis is more fleshed out (also a nice little Halt and Catch fire reunion). 6.5/10

 

[adelaidecrows]

I watched this too recently. I noted the same thing about Keaton, he's actually only in it for 15-20 minutes. I'm hoping he doesn't dominate the sequel simply because he's the most memorable part of the first film. I quite enjoyed the original, it's quirky, it's funny, I like that they got a very Tim Burton-like performance out of Baldwin and Davis, who wouldn't traditionally be seen as Burton-like actors. To be honest, I thought Catherine O'Hara was the star of the film, her scenes were always memorable.

Hate to say it, i thought Keatons role was the most forgettable. I agree with O'Hara she was great. It really just seems Keaton was a comic relief to add some cheap laughs.

 

[AFDogs]

I tried watching Mission Impossible 1 last night because I want to watch the newer movies.

Is this movie a pile of shit or was I just too tired?

 

[Jatz]

Mystic River

Boy was that a gut punch. Incredibly sad flick.

Again, fantastic cast, great story. Sean Penn, Kevin Bacon, Tim Robins and Laurence Fishburne.

Really engaging watch but not a pleasant story. From the outset, right through.

8/10

 

[TheGreatBarryB]

Spider (2002) - psychodrama by Cronenberg. This is dark, bleak in everyway from the London settings to use of dark colours. Set in London 80s but looks more like post war London. Fiennes rarely speaks and mumbles his way through playing a mentally ill man released after decades in mental home. He flicks between halfway house he's staying at and back to when he was a kid and difficult relationship with his parents. Gabriel Byrne plays his Dad and Miranda Richardson excellent playing his mum and a prostitute.

Many wouldn't like it and my wife found it too grim but days later i'm still thinking about it. Fiennes was mesmerising, you could really feel his pain and how consumed character was with his psychosis, jotting down illegible thoughts in his little diary. Shows just how it can distort reality for a person with this type of illness. And feel quite sorry for him. Best movie i've seen conveying that mental pain ...far better than Beautiful Mind IMO. - 8/10

 

[juzza316]

Speak No Evil (2024) - I found this to be more enjoyable than I thought it would based on most of the general reviews I have read - 8/10

 

[phantom13]

Salems Lot (2024)

Pretty middling b movie horror film remake. Lewis Pullman is in front of the camera and not much else talent is doing a lot on either side of the lens.

 

[Catfish Alley]

Succubus (2024)
Pretty low budget and b-grade but it's entertaining and kept my attention for it's short run time. Rachel Cook might have had something to do with that. Had the guts to try a few unexpected things. Not bad. I'll give it a 5/10.

 

[phantom13]

Beekeeper

It’s nothing groundbreaking or clever, in fact, it’s downright dumb but the action is pretty crisp and it’s way more violent than expected. I had a good time.