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2 hours ago, The Original said:

Crazy Rich Asians

 

This is one of the most disappointingly super boring movies I've ever had the nerve to slog through. The TV ad made it look as though the main girl (who was gorgeous) would be in a constant cultural struggle with her boyfriend's snooty wealthy family with some dramatic effect, which it does a tiny bit I guess, but instead it spends most of its bloated runtime reveling in its mega glam gee-wiz excess with parties and holiday outings. Skip it.

I completely disagree. I thought it was one facinating film. It was gorgeous to look at. It was funny, touching, and I enjoyed Tyler's contribution. The ending was outstanding.

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10 minutes ago, JoeinAR said:

I completely disagree. I thought it was one facinating film. It was gorgeous to look at. It was funny, touching, and I enjoyed Tyler's contribution. The ending was outstanding.

 

I didn't think it was funny at all. Were there any jokes? And overall it felt more like a big budget, feature length tourism ad than an actual movie. I had no idea it was Brian Tyler until the end credits, it's how anonymous it was. Michelle Yeoh was good as usual though.

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17 minutes ago, Dieter Stark said:

Crazy Rich Asians is the best movie since Black Panther. Better than Jaws, Titanic and even Always.

 

*Thwack*

 

That is for blasphemy.

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There's another comedy with Asians on Netflix which isn't funny at all. Gave up on it after 20 minutes.

 

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Am I a racist now?

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19 minutes ago, Alexcremers said:

There's another comedy with Asians on Netflix which isn't funny at all. Gave up on it after 20 minutes.

 

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Am I a racist now?

 

A comedy about Kim Jong-un dating a curtain? Interesting...

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Spider-Man.

 

Well, that was interesting. I watched this movie a few years ago and didn't like it at all, especially because Tobey Maguire really annoyed me, but now I thought he was rather good. Kirsten Dunst was really sweet too, although aunt May was terribly bland most of the time and I still think Willem Dafoe is a really bad villain: he's supposed to scare you, but it's so overdone and theatrical it's just comical (what's with that ridiculous laugh?) The way Norman talks to himself is very original, but it doesn't work because the alter ego is too amusing. (Did he just say 'it's time to die?') The public also fall in love with Spider-Man way too quickly. How does he keep finding thieves and burglars like that anyway? Harry is stupid as well and Willem Dafoe's final scene with Peter is just cringeworthy. They're trying to make me watch the sequel now, but I just don't feel like it. Not yet anyway.

The emotional side of the score is quite brilliant and Uncle Ben's death is scored just perfectly, but there's hardly anything memorable about any of the music and a lot is scored in that typical Danny Elfman way I just hate: as if everything is one big, perverse joke.

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Curse II: The Bite

 

Even for a DTV 1989 B-movie, this is pure shit. There's some decent gore, but the plotting makes no sense. Even the internal logic is idiotic. Why would the lead character's arm turn into a giant snake head, wouldn't it be more logical if he turned into a giant snake instead? Jill Schoelen was pretty cute though.

 

The Order

 

The movie has an interesting story hook (sin eating) but it tries to be several things -- and it does none of them well. It tries to be a religious thriller, sexy melodrama, and horror film -- and by the ending I was confused on what I was seeing unfold. (And the less said about David Torn's score, the better.) Maybe Brian Helgeland should've turned it into a television show instead. Heath Ledger was wasted here, considering his final years' work.

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17 minutes ago, The Original said:

In 2002, they hadn't yet perfected the technology to make superhero films more realistic and disturbing.

 

It's like a product of another time. As though a certain event hadn't occured yet. What am I thinking of?

 

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5 hours ago, The Original said:

In 2002, they hadn't yet perfected the technology to make superhero films more realistic and disturbing.

That might be the case, but does that have anything to do with Norman being a stupid villain purely on an auditory level?

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Yeah, in Spiderman they still couldn't find a way to overcome the inherent silliness of the superhero genre: in that sense, its a slightly overrated movie, but its earnstness goes a long way, especially nowadays.

 

Spiderman 2 does a much better job in that regard, though. Toby Maguire's still ho-hum in it, I thought.

 

6 hours ago, Dieter Stark said:

It's like a product of another time. As though a certain event hadn't occured yet. What am I thinking of?

 

9/11 wasn't the impetus of films getting grimmer. You can trace that back to the mid-to-late 90s. It was the summation of a gradual process of maturation of the artform, moving away from the lightheartedness of many of the first blockbusters of the 80s and late 70s.

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28 minutes ago, bollemanneke said:

That might be the case, but does that have anything to do with Norman being a stupid villain purely on an auditory level?

 

You agree that in the early 2000s, Hollywood didn't yet have the technology to write a more dark and disturbing and realistic and relatable superhero film?

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1 hour ago, Chen G. said:

9/11 wasn't the impetus of films getting grimmer. You can trace that back to the mid-to-late 90s. It was the summation of a gradual process of maturation of the artform, moving away from the lightheartedness of many of the first blockbusters of the 80s and late 70s.


Well ... it was cited by Barbara Broccoli as one of the reasons why Casino Royale/the Craig Bonds in general couldn't have the same 'breeziness' as before, and in a similar vein Jim Cameron said that it would be impossible to make a sequel to True Lies because there was no way post-9/11 to make a 'light' spy action movie with a Middle Eastern bad guy,   

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Lumière!

 

A fantastic collection of 108 vintage Cinematograph shorts, well scored, well narrated and perfectly assembled. Engaging, entertaining and beautifully restored window through which you look back a 120 years in time.

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17 hours ago, bollemanneke said:

Spider-Man.

 

there's hardly anything memorable about any of the music

 

It's funny you say that because now I have the rising fanfare part of the theme stuck in my head. But how can that be if it's not memorable? I have not listened to the soundtrack for at least a year, but it's still in my head. Do I 'member it? No, I must be making up my own head gibberish that I only think is Spiderman music. Clearly. Okay, I'm glad we sorted that out. 

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4 hours ago, Stefancos said:

Fuckin' A!

 

 

 

14 minutes ago, Jurassic Shark said:

 

That's not a movie.

 

 

I've been thinking about reading that. Is it good?

I've never read it. I've read THHGTTG (all of them) and THE MEANING OF LIFF.

 

 

 

 

22 hours ago, Alexcremers said:

There's another comedy with Asians on Netflix which isn't funny at all. Gave up on it after 20 minutes.

 

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Am I a racist now?

No. Why should you be expected to like a film, just because it has "non-white" actors?

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15 minutes ago, Jurassic Shark said:

I've been thinking about reading that. Is it good?

 

The cover image above is of the video game, not of the book. Both are based on an idea from The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, but the game was made under the direction of Douglas Adams, while the novel was written by Terry Jones, based on Adams' outline and game concept ("novel and parrot by Terry Jones"). It's a good idea and reasonably entertaining story, as far as I remember (I've only read it once, ages ago, and unfortunately in the German translation), but probably not essential Douglas Adams.

 

That Doctor Who Christmas special was clearly based on it as well, though.

8 minutes ago, Richard said:

Fuckin' A!

 

Allons-y, Alonso!

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9 hours ago, Sweeping Strings said:


Well ... it was cited by Barbara Broccoli as one of the reasons why Casino Royale/the Craig Bonds in general couldn't have the same 'breeziness' as before, and in a similar vein Jim Cameron said that it would be impossible to make a sequel to True Lies because there was no way post-9/11 to make a 'light' spy action movie with a Middle Eastern bad guy,   

 

I can see where Cameron was coming from back then, but I think enough time has passed for it to be okay again now. Audiences have gotten over 9/11. In fact, comedy lovers had already gotten over it many years ago, when they lapped up amusing terrorist stereotypes in silly flicks like Team America.

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Bad words.

 

Um, okay... I had expected more from Jason Bateman, who was much better in Zootopia. I was also going to say Kathryn Hahn was good (and she does have one brilliant moment), but then I watched my weirdest sex scene to date, which leads me to my whole problem with this movie: the relationships between the three protagonists are so incredibly weird and Bateman's dirty tricks are out of order to such an extent that I'm not sure whether I hate or love his character. Still... it's all good fun most of the time, though the finale should have been shorter.

The score is quite good, if a little too light-hearted at the very end.

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30 minutes ago, Quintus said:

 

I can see where Cameron was coming from back then, but I think enough time has passed for it to be okay again now. Audiences have gotten over 9/11. In fact, comedy lovers had already gotten over it many years ago, when they lapped up amusing terrorist stereotypes in silly flicks like Team America.

 

He's busy making 850 Avatar movies.

 

As for the long-lasting effects of 9/11 on movies? Eh, I don't know.

 

The push for a more dark, gritty "realistic" tone and over the top violence seems to be the biggie. There is a lot of grisly violence in movies these days and I can't understand if audiences and critics are just blase about it or what. I remember bits of the Rogue One movie with ridiculously over the top violence. A crying baby caught in crossfire, guys just getting blown the fuck away. Spielberg did that in Saving Private Ryan pre-9/11, but the violence there was shocking and R-rated. Your average flick these days seems to be more casually violent than Private Ryan.

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Saving Private Ryan and The Bourne Identity were the catalysts for all those "gritty" try-hards though, they all want to emulate that visceral sensation of being there, being involved in the action.

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The Spider-Man trilogy was immune to that whole dark gritty realistic shtick. Just a perfect balance of superhero action, whimsy, zany humor and great human drama.

 

Unfortunately, while this was happening, Christopher Nolan was making his dark and disturbing realistic and relatable Batman movies.

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Are Nolan's Batmans really realistic and relatable, though?  Or are they the post-911 environment's idea of engaging entertainment?

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18 hours ago, Dieter Stark said:

Realistic and relatable Batman movies.

"Realistic and relatable"?!

Oh, dear :lol:. Thanks for that; I almost snorted coffee down my shirt! :lol:

Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha - (stops to draw breath) ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, (etc., etc.).

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