What was the last movie you watched?

[thebridge15]

from the past week:

unbreakable

really enjoyed it. thought it was paced perfectly - even though you kind of knew what was coming, it was pretty gripping the whole time

what we do in the shadows

laugh out loud funny at times, at worst it's a casual and fun mockumentary watch

10 cloverfield lane

agree with what was said here about the odd pacing. thought the ending was almost satisfying to me but if anything could have gotten cut a little shorter

rain man

some sequences are extremely dated but a pretty solid performance from cruise (and obviously hoffman, but I feel like it's been referenced / parodied too much for me to be seeing it truly "for the first time")

[Benny003]

Originally Posted by thebridge15

from the past week:

unbreakable

really enjoyed it. thought it was paced perfectly - even though you kind of knew what was coming, it was pretty gripping the whole time

what we do in the shadows

laugh out loud funny at times, at worst it's a casual and fun mockumentary watch

10 cloverfield lane

agree with what was said here about the odd pacing. thought the ending was almost satisfying to me but if anything could have gotten cut a little shorter

rain man

some sequences are extremely dated but a pretty solid performance from cruise (and obviously hoffman, but I feel like it's been referenced / parodied too much for me to be seeing it truly "for the first time")

Wait, you just watched Rain Man for the first time? That's great (finally), but wow. Glad you watched What We Do in the Shadows. I watched that last week and really enjoyed it.

[thebridge15]

yeah had never seen it. didn't really appeal to me for whatever reason

I agreed with basically your whole post on what we do in the shadows so didn't really elaborate definitely worth a watch

[BotheLaneFan]

Rain Man es muy terrible.

[thebridge15]

it was at least 20-25 minutes too long

[HeyBrother]

I'm sick today, so I'm watching Braveheart. Such a ridiculous yet entertaining movie. Wallace's girl is way too hot to be living in Scotland in 1290 A.D. lol. Not that I care.

[mthawk07]

Originally Posted by HeyBrother

I'm sick today, so I'm watching Braveheart. Such a ridiculous yet entertaining movie. Wallace's girl is way too hot to be living in Scotland in 1290 A.D. lol. Not that I care.

Yeah she would have been frumpy, chubby, hairy, and missing some teeth. But damn if she ain't hot as shit in Hollywood form.

[HeyBrother]

Originally Posted by mthawk07

Yeah she would have been frumpy, chubby, hairy, and missing some teeth. But damn if she ain't hot as shit in Hollywood form.

Haha, her pearly whites are what get me. I'm watching The Road now, which I have never seen. Pretty epic and dank so far.

[dmb9howell]

Braveheart is my favorite movie of all time.

Just finished Gold. Almost shut it off 3/4 of the way through. It sucked pretty bad.

[HeyBrother]

Just watched Amelie for the first time in at least 8 years. What a great one.

[scrock25]

The Prestige, never seen it. Pretty friggen good.

[BTCS_JTR]

Independence Day: Resurgence

Just watched it for the first time. I enjoyed it. Should've shown a picture of Russell Casse instead of Hiller, but you know, whatever.

[BotheLaneFan]

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2: 8/10.

Too much Peter Quill and Gamora, not enough Drax, Rocket, and Groot. Still really damn good. I hope Stallone sticks around.

[defcon]

Soylent Green.

In this early 70s sort of post-apocalyptic Sci-Fi thriller,

"Soylent Green is PEOPLE!!!"

Click the "Show Spoiler" Button to reveal hidden text.

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Staring Charlton Heston, who seems to love raiding the pantries and homes of wherever he investigates or goes for luxuries, as well as bedding every woman he comes across with little fanfare, pretense, or foreplay. He just hops into bed with them. This has a good plot but is just a ton of nothing really happening by today's standards.

The plot is simple. It's the mid-21st century and mankind has destroyed the environment to such a point that nobody can be outside for too long for fear of being cooked by the sun's rays, plants can't grow due to the absence of any real water or nutrient, animals can't feed on plants that can't grow, and with the exception of a few greenhouses, there's very little plant or animals to go around. The government, under the guise of harvesting plankton from the ocean and processing it into little tablets of food, is actually serving a fare of a different variety.

Overall, this has cheesy 70s sci-fi written all over it, and for the most part, that's what it is. Has a great dream/death sequence near the end just after the climax and before the denouement. which is probably the highlight of the film

7/10.

[junior94]

I think I might've just seen (or more accurately, heard) a first. I just happened to be standing nearby when my mom was watching an episode of one of her umpteen NCIS shows, but the music being used in the moment was from a movie. A piece of a feature film's original score. It was from the first Lord of the Rings movie, after Gandalf first falls away in the Mines of Moria, that really slow, beautiful piece of music. And it hit me, I don't think I've ever seen that done before. yea, I've seen a piece of original score for a movie go and be used in the trailer for another movie, or even in the preview for an upcoming TV show, but never as part of the soundtrack for the series episode itself.

Has anyone else ever noticed that happening?

[kydmb99]

Why the hell are they remaking The Mummy?

[TwoStep2888]

when you've got movies like Tom Cruise in them you can't lose!

[TheLastPig]

Watched Bucket List for the first time since it came out yesterday. Better than I remember.

[AlpineValley804]

Originally Posted by junior94

I think I might've just seen (or more accurately, heard) a first. I just happened to be standing nearby when my mom was watching an episode of one of her umpteen NCIS shows, but the music being used in the moment was from a movie. A piece of a feature film's original score. It was from the first Lord of the Rings movie, after Gandalf first falls away in the Mines of Moria, that really slow, beautiful piece of music. And it hit me, I don't think I've ever seen that done before. yea, I've seen a piece of original score for a movie go and be used in the trailer for another movie, or even in the preview for an upcoming TV show, but never as part of the soundtrack for the series episode itself.

Has anyone else ever noticed that happening?

I have seen it done before, but I don't remember the specific instance. Good chance though that it was NCIS - my dad watches that show religiously.

[DMBstandUP1984]

anyone watch The Circle or Phoenix Forgotten

[BotheLaneFan]

Originally Posted by kydmb99

Why the hell are they remaking The Mummy?

They're remaking all of their Universal monster movies. I've got faith in The Mummy, solely because Tom Cruise has made like two bad movies since he became a star.

[HeyBrother]

Originally Posted by DMBstandUP1984

anyone watch The Circle or Phoenix Forgotten

Not yet, but I was curious about it. It is getting some horrible reviews.

[jayman414]

The Prestige. I still think this is one of Nolan's finest works and it reminded me how badly I want him and Bale to work together again. Now that Hugh Jackman is done being Wolverine, I wouldn't mind him working with Nolan again either. Overall, I think this is easily an 8/10 film and one of the very few films I think gets better every time you watch it and is miles ahead of the book.

[TwoStep2888]

new Blade Runner trailer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCcx85zbxz4

[scrock25]

Grudge Match on saturday noght, it was really bad

[Arby]

Originally Posted by jayman414

The Prestige. I still think this is one of Nolan's finest works and it reminded me how badly I want him and Bale to work together again. Now that Hugh Jackman is done being Wolverine, I wouldn't mind him working with Nolan again either. Overall, I think this is easily an 8/10 film and one of the very few films I think gets better every time you watch it and is miles ahead of the book.

Yea The Prestige is so ridiculously good. Very underrated but I think it and Memento will age the best, and be considered as all time classics

[scrock25]

As I said above in my post after watching it I thought The Prestige was good - it just pissed me off that Bale got away with it.

[junior94]

Originally Posted by BotheU2Fan

They're remaking all of their Universal monster movies. I've got faith in The Mummy, solely because Tom Cruise has made like two bad movies since he became a star.

literally immediately off the top of my head, at the very least MI:2 and Knight & Day.

anything else?

[DMBstandUP1984]

Originally Posted by junior94

literally immediately off the top of my head, at the very least MI:2 and Knight & Day.

anything else?

War of the worlds, oblivion, the last samurai, rock of ages, knight and day, vanilla sky,

I might argue he made his best movies from the 80s to the mid 90s

[HeyBrother]

The characters Tom Cruise plays are so much more sane and rational than Tom Cruise himself.