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[–] DesTeufelsAvocado@feddit.de 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Massive Talent - I loved it!

[–] _pete_@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

That was also mine, didn’t really have a clue about what it was going in (other than it had Nick Cage in) and enjoyed it pretty much all the way through, great movie!

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[–] EveryMuffinIsNowEncrypted@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] calhoon2005@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)
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[–] TheButtonJustSpins@infosec.pub 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Across the Spiderverse. So good. Highly recommend.

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[–] ram@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Donnie Darko. It was cool tho I had to ask my partner to explain what happened at the ending lol

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[–] Zal@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago

Hot Fuzz, very comedic and got intense in the last moments

[–] Oldslewfoot@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

The Banshee of Inisherin, I really enjoyed it. Very odd and funny in an uncomfortable, uneasy way. I especially enjoyed Kerry Condon as SiobhΓ‘n, her performance was a great emotional counter point to the dead pan comedy between Colm and PΓ‘draic.

Across the Spiderverse. I really like Mile's story... But I was a little disappointed by how slow paced the story seemed to be imo. Nothing got resolved. The whole movie was a lead up for the ending. Really disappointed with how the studio overworked artists (although that's par for the course these days) and how shitty the audio was before they finally fixed it. Music didn't live up to the first movie. The first movie has music that works great as stand-alone songs, but the second movie's soundtrack just sounds like a soundtrack.

I still enjoyed it though. I'd give the first movie a 9/10 and the second a 7/10.

[–] smartwater0897@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

John wick surprised me in being an actual good movie. No brains whatsoever but nice action.

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[–] Kribensis@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

John Wick 4. Seemed like 2 uninterrupted hours of people shooting one-another in the face. I only made it 30 minutes.

[–] ShoePaste@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Isn't that the appeal of the series though?

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[–] drifty@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Spiderman ATSV

It was fuckin incredible, this trilogy is going to be one of those once in a lifetime trilogies, like the Matrix Trilogy or the Dark Knight Trilogy, you mark my words.

Can't wait for BTSV

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[–] ralino@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago

Watched John Wick 4 last night with my wife. Keanu Reeves is a legend.

[–] Cargon@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Network (1976).

A prescient film that is just as relevant today as it was almost 50 years ago. A little monologue-y at times, but that's just the style.

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[–] Lemvi@lemmy.sdf.org 7 points 1 year ago

Guardians of the Galaxy 3, pretty good.

[–] CalamariSafari@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The latest Dungeons and Dragons film. I've never played the game and know nothing of the lore but found it to be pretty enjoyable.

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[–] countsickness@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Barbarian

Sadly it does not stick the landing but everything up to that point is great. Love how it plays with the fact that the audience already expects Bill SkarsgΓ₯rd to be creepy.

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[–] Elegia@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

I watched Tokyo Drift and Fast X back to back. Finished Tokyo Drift and loved it, felt like an actual movie with 3 acts. I made it a bit over an hour into Fast X before quitting, I honestly don't know what I was expecting after the 9th one.

[–] rm_dash_r_star@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

Last one I really liked was Valerian. Kind of a hokey sci-fi, but good story and engaging. I actually liked the lead characters a lot.

Last one I can't believe I watched was John Wick 4. I mean I knew what it was going to be like. Was almost three hours long with thirty minutes of actual story, the rest just shooting and fighting, but I had to see it, just like the three before it.

One thing that was really cool about John Wick 4 is there's a set of scenes where he's driving a 1971 Plymouth 'Cuda. I had that exact car with all the performance options except the Hemi engine (had a 440 six pack engine). It's by far the favorite of all cars I've owned. I found it in the mid 80's wasting away in a garage and restored it. To this day I think I should have kept it, found a way to store it properly. The whole time I was thinking don't you dare destroy that car, but it looks like they CG'd all the crashes. I'm sure the owner would never let them damage that priceless car.

[–] perviouslyiner@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Asteroid City. It was... more meta than expected. Not so much breaking the forth wall as featuring the forth wall!

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[–] PotjiePig@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Mulholland Drive

A strange masterpiece and artwork. Been thinking about it for a few days now.

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[–] tigaente@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago (3 children)

28 weeks later. Was recommend by Disney plus in the what to watch tonight section and I just went with it.

Overall it was an OK movie. A bit too constructed maybe. Would watch it again in a year or so.

[–] Gatsby@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The first one (28 days later) is significantly better than the sequel you watched

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[–] calhoon2005@aussie.zone 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just a great great first scene though!

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[–] AceFuzzLord@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My dad had on Starship Troopers earlier and it was definitely much scarier to me a decade ago. I cannot say it's the best sci-fi film I've ever seen, but it's pretty decent.

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[–] bstix@feddit.dk 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The platform (2019) https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_platform

Its worth a watch if you like movies where people have to survive in crazy games like Cube, Squid game, Circle or similar.

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[–] timappel@nlemmy.nl 6 points 1 year ago

The terminal; always a good movie! I watched it multiple times now, but this one never gets old.

[–] LnLcFlx@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Marcel the Shell with Shoes on

A refreshing, slow paced and very touching "fictional-documentary" about the little microcosm of a shell with shoes and how he discovers what's beyond. Its based on three YouTube short films from 2010-2012 made by the director. Highly recommend both the short and the feature.

Fittingly, it also touches on the feeling many of us had when first discovering the Internet. For me, that's also what's happening right now on Lemmy again (a tiny bit).

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[–] TheImpressiveX@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

The last one I saw in theaters was Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. It was gorgeously animated and detailed, and I'm excited for Beyond the Spider-Verse.

Last night I torrented a camrip of The Flash. It wasn't terrible, but the ending kinda dissappointed me. (I'm not sure how to put spoiler tags on Lemmy, so for now I'll just leave this comment as it is.)

[–] MaxEU@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Fall (2022). The concept is pretty simple: Two women climb a TV tower and are stuck at the top. Before watching it I thought: How are they going to make a movie out of that? Well, they did and it was better than I would have expected. If you like those movies with a limited cast and set and without much action, I can definitely recommend it.

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[–] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 5 points 1 year ago

Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3.

I liked it, and it seemed like a good way to show characters changing without actual growth.

[–] Geostorm@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

"You Hurt My Feelings" I loved David Cross.

[–] Underwaterbob@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Underwater. 2020 horror movie that takes place - you guessed it - underwater. It wasn't bad, just kinda mediocre. It was pretty action packed, and the effects weren't bad, but I never really felt for any of the characters, and I thought the monster(s) were underdeveloped and poorly utilized. Still, not a bad way to waste an hour-and-a-half.

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[–] ContentSpy@lemmy.fmhy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Good Time I liked it the end was pretty sad

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[–] SirGolan@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

My girlfriend and I recently decided to watch every Arnold Schwarzenegger movie in order. We saw Hercules in New York this weekend. It was pretty amusing. They clearly shot all the mt Olympus scenes in central park because you can hear the traffic in the background and the occasional crying baby or what not.

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[–] jmsw22@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Flash, mildly funny, awful awful CG, the most interesting bit was spoiled in the trailer, I’ll never watch it again. 2/5

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[–] Sowatee@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

Avatar: The Way of Water

I liked it. Not much happens story wise but I love exploring the lore and stuff of Pandora.

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[–] baconeater@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Decided to re-watch the hobbit trilogy to see if they were as bad as I remember them being. Whilst there were some scenes I thought were well done (Bilbo's conversation with smaug for example) the films just aren't good in the way the Lord of the Rings movies are. The LOTR movies feel properly epic and the hobbit movies just feel so "Hollywood" for lack of a better term. All the fight scenes are stupid with excessive cgi but the worst part I feel is the acrobatics of them all with characters leaping off scenery and twirling around whilst slicing up enemies. None of the battles feel "real" or realistic in the way they do in LOTR. The dialogue in the hobbit movies also suffers from what feels like Joss Whedon-esque script writing with tons of witty quips and "humorous" observations on the situation.

[–] TeaHands@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Have you seen any of the fan edits? They're limited by the source material obviously but you can do a lot with just cutting out all the unnecessary nonsense.

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[–] SnowBunting@beehaw.org 4 points 1 year ago

Evil dead. It was entertaining.

[–] Gatsby@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Charlie Day's new movie Fools Paradise!

If you like always sunny you'll have a good time spotting cameos from like, everyone.

I really enjoyed the film, but my family wasn't digging it and I could definitely see why.

[–] pseudozero@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

To Leslie

Loved it. The lead actress was fantastic and it’s no surprise that she was nominated for an Academy Award.

[–] CCatMan@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Just watched Monsters, Inc. It's great, the ending is really sweet too. I miss old Pixar ;(

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[–] erre@feddit.win 4 points 1 year ago

Fast X. It's gone off the rails.

I went into it expecting it to be over the top, with a weak story, crazy twists.. but holy shit.

[–] CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 4 points 1 year ago

Ice Age 6(?) with my daughter watching on repeat. I couldn't help but immediately notice that the voice actors were discount versions of the original actors (no shade to them considering what they had to work with). 1/10 would highly recommend this masterpiece.

[–] Esjee@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

12 angry men. The 1957 version. It was an amazing watch and I can definitely see why it's one of the highest rated movies of all times.

Not sure whether I should watch the remake though. Not sure about some things that it decided to go with.

[–] simple@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Extraction 2 was a lot of fun. The story was kind of a predictable action movie but man, the camerawork and stuntwork was superb.

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[–] hawkwind@lemmy.management 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Knock at the Cabin

Not M. Night's best work. I'm not a particular fan anyway, but here's my micro-review. The love story was touching, but didn't wrestle a tear out of me. You can tell from the flashbacks that the writers spent a lot of time thinking about the main characters, but there's not enough screen time dedicated to developing them.

Most of the screen time is spent highlighting two or three perdictable jump scares, and many minutes of bad attempts to build suspense. The religious dogma is boring. If you're going to include that as the premise of your thriller, then at least get creative.

Bautista is the best part and that's saying something.

EDIT: The twist, if you can call it that, is more of a mild tale of morality about how things aren't always what they seem. Blair Witch 2 had a better "twist" and it was one of the worst movies I've ever had to suffer through.

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