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

[Sketi]

Sean's top 100 of 2024 for all my Fennessey heads https://boxd.it/spJ1w

Good to see Red Rooms top 10, such an amazing and underseen movie.

 

[Frank Bunn]

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)

I didn't appreciate it first time around.

You don't get bigger stars than DiCaprio, Pitt and Robbie in the main roles and they all deliver. So many cameos such as Al Pachino, Damien Lewis, Margaret Qualley, Austin Butler, Michael Madsen, Sydney Sweeney, Timothy Olyphant, Bruce Dern. They are not there just to add their names but they have well written roles.

Tarantino expertly depicts 1969 Hollywood with a reminiscence of a golden era before that, then entwines that with a fantasised version of the Manson 'family' story. The run time is 2 hours 40 but it flies by.

8/10

 

[Beerfish]

Alien Romulus. A bunch of kids try to steal a space station that has aliens on it. Things go as you'd expect. Things from previous films get re-used for.. reasons. Weird seeing Ian Holm given he died 4 years ago. Thought the substance they'd synthesised/extracted was interesting but it seems like it only existed for one reason unless future films elaborate. Mostly crap with lots of eye rolling moments. 5/10.

 

[TheGreatBarryB]

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)

I didn't appreciate it first time around.

You don't get bigger stars than DiCaprio, Pitt and Robbie in the main roles and they all deliver. So many cameos such as Al Pachino, Damien Lewis, Margaret Qualley, Austin Butler, Michael Madsen, Sydney Sweeney, Timothy Olyphant, Bruce Dern. They are not there just to add their names but they have well written roles.

Tarantino expertly depicts 1969 Hollywood with a reminiscence of a golden era before that, then entwines that with a fantasised version of the Manson 'family' story. The run time is 2 hours 40 but it flies by.

8/10

I’m the same, loved it second time around. Probably my favourite DiCaprio performance

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)

I didn't appreciate it first time around.

You don't get bigger stars than DiCaprio, Pitt and Robbie in the main roles and they all deliver. So many cameos such as Al Pachino, Damien Lewis, Margaret Qualley, Austin Butler, Michael Madsen, Sydney Sweeney, Timothy Olyphant, Bruce Dern. They are not there just to add their names but they have well written roles.

Tarantino expertly depicts 1969 Hollywood with a reminiscence of a golden era before that, then entwines that with a fantasised version of the Manson 'family' story. The run time is 2 hours 40 but it flies by.

8/10

I loved it the first time around - husband fell asleep, on the other hand. That was the day we realised we are not very movie compatible.

 

[joey_jo_jo]

Alien Romulus. A bunch of kids try to steal a space station that has aliens on it. Things go as you'd expect. Things from previous films get re-used for.. reasons. Weird seeing Ian Holm given he died 4 years ago. Thought the substance they'd synthesised/extracted was interesting but it seems like it only existed for one reason unless future films elaborate. Mostly crap with lots of eye rolling moments. 5/10.

Yeah I was really excited for this as I like the director (he did the evil dead remake from the early 10's and Dont Breathe) so thought he would take it back to its horror roots, it started well but the fan service easter eggs were over the top and ruined the movie for me (some of the CGI was a bit hokey too.)
I guess with Fox Studios being owned by Disney now they were probably forced to have Force Awaken style gratuitous call backs/cameos. I liked Gus from Industry as the Android brother though.

On a related note, my local cinema had Alien, Romulus, Aliens all in 4K back to back to back all last Sunday. I watched Alien, then left to have a beer and dinner, then came back for Aliens. Was awesome seeing them both at the cinema for first time, it also made me more annoyed with the Romulus easter eggs as I noticed even more stuff they repeated in the new movie.

 

[troybe]

Cloud Atlas. Had absolutely no idea what was going on.

 

[Bestbird]

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)

I didn't appreciate it first time around.

You don't get bigger stars than DiCaprio, Pitt and Robbie in the main roles and they all deliver. So many cameos such as Al Pachino, Damien Lewis, Margaret Qualley, Austin Butler, Michael Madsen, Sydney Sweeney, Timothy Olyphant, Bruce Dern. They are not there just to add their names but they have well written roles.

Tarantino expertly depicts 1969 Hollywood with a reminiscence of a golden era before that, then entwines that with a fantasised version of the Manson 'family' story. The run time is 2 hours 40 but it flies by.

8/10

Loved it the first time, really helped that i had at the time recently finished a podcast on the Manson family

 

[Alberto_Magnifico]

Cloud Atlas. Had absolutely no idea what was going on.

I tried reading the book twice, haven't been able to make it past the first couple chapters

 

[Alberto_Magnifico]

Thelma (2024)
A 93-year-old grandmother loses $10k to a scammer and goes on a epic action packed adventure for vengeance.

Really sweet and enjoyable with genuine laughs. It straddles a fine line as it could have easily been exploitative or overly sentimental, but it's just good fun satire and easily my favourite comedy of the year, if not one of my favourite films of the year.
4.5/5

 

[Frank Bunn]

Thelma (2024)
A 93-year-old grandmother loses $10k to a scammer and goes on a epic action packed adventure for vengeance.

Really sweet and enjoyable with genuine laughs. It straddles a fine line as it could have easily been tone deaf and exploitative or overly sentimental and contrived, but it's just good fun and easily my favourite comedy of the year.

I might give that a go. The idea reminds me of The Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window, which is a lot of fun.

 

[Alberto_Magnifico]

I might give that a go. The idea reminds me of The Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window, which is a lot of fun.

I reckon you will enjoy it.
Essentially a comedic homage to action adventure films which is fun for movie nerds.
And the score itself is really cool and amps up the satire.

 

[AFDogs]

Alien Romulus

Pretty ****ing awesome. Exceeded my expectations.

8/10

 

[Cruyff14]

Carry On

Bloody loved it. Highly recommend it, very exciting and didn't drag at all.

4.5/5

 

[UnitedWarrior93]

Will be watching Nosferatu tomorrow at the cinemas, looking forward to it, hopefully it’s good.

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

Pulp Fiction (again). My ultimate fave.

 

[Xtreme]

Secretly "marathoned" 1-6 over the last week.

Still remains my favourite gag all these years later

Spoiler

 

[Dan Moody]

Will be watching Nosferatu tomorrow at the cinemas, looking forward to it, hopefully it’s good.

Went to see Nosferatu at Village Karingal last night, had been looking forward to seeing it since hearing about it's production.
A bit of nudity that isn't really necessary and having been a huge fan of the Murnau original, I have to say I was a bit underwhelmed. Some scary scenes but the tension wasn't there for me, Lily-Rose Depp was fairly bland and Nicholas Hoult wasn't strong enough to pull the leading man role. Skarsgard was good as Orlok and played the part as it was written.
Willem Dafoe and Ralph Ineson the best part about this movie.
6/10

 

[Gasometer]

Substance

An awesome movie undone in the last 10 minutes; that was a huge let down

 

[Gasometer]

The Substance

Its a pretty full on body horror fable which on the surface all plays pretty well and the narrative and themes are all pretty well constructed and considered.

Im not sure the final act worked for me completely. It was super gross and i think went into the comical rather than the gross, which isnt an issue in and of itself but i lost the thread a bit with it.

Demi and Margaret are great and Denis Quaid is TRULY disgusting.

Yes the final act undid what up until that point was cruising along to a great ending with the Monster reveal. Could have ended there on a high with some working of script. But it descended into farce with the fireman hose - blood

 

[AFDogs]

Will be watching Nosferatu tomorrow at the cinemas, looking forward to it, hopefully it’s good.

I haven’t seen any of the directors movies so maybe I’ll try Lighthouse and if I like it I’ll go catch Nosferatu.

 

[GreyCrow]

Something in the Dirt - Prime

What a load of pretentious wank

No-budget paranormal conspiracy hand camera film that tries to explore a hidden phenomena in a flat where one of them lives

Ultimately it ends up being a disjointed 40 minute too long exploration of the 2 guys relationship which may or may not be manipulated by one

I felt that was the better film rather than the one we got

 

[Beerfish]

The Fall Guy.

**** me.

5/10

 

[Cruyff14]

The Fall Guy.

**** me.

5/10

Really? I loved it, so much fun. Great film.

 

[Beerfish]

Really? I loved it, so much fun. Great film.

I guess we have different ideas on what fun and great mean. If it wasn't for the actual stunts it would have been a 4 from me.