What Is The Last Film You Watched? (Newer Films)

[A24 4,348]

Your time is that precious that you can't spend 2 hours to find out for yourself?

[Wojo 2,453]

If the oven is on, and I know it's hot, and I can see that the burner is orange, why do you want me to touch it anyways? What do you get out of it?

St. Peter is not going to grill me at the Pearly Gates because I elected to ignore the last two Matrix movies.

[A24 4,348]

Film is not an oven, Wojo.

[BloodBoal 7,538]

Indeed. Film is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get.

[Glóin the Dark 1,223]

Your time is that precious that you can't spend 2 hours to find out for yourself?

Around two hours for any particular film, but when you apply that argument to other films the hours quickly build up!

I haven't seen any of the sequels to The Matrix either. I saw it once on DVD about twelve years ago; I didn't have anything against it, but never felt any compulsion to seek out the sequels.

[Wojo 2,453]

I never saw the last two Hobbity movies. You gonna twist my arm over them too? Again, what do you get out of having other people watch crappy movies? You saw them with a fresh mind, was let down, and I'm cheating life by not paying my dues? That's baloney.

[Jay 37,379]

There's probably 20 movies Wojo has never seen that we would collectively agree he should see before the Matrix sequels. This line of discussion is ridiculous.

[Wojo 2,453]

Name them, Mister "I've not seen all the Star Trek movies but I lovesz me my JJ Abramses."

And any line of discussion that doesn't mention The Hobbit or Michael Giacchino is not ridiculous.

Though I'm sure you'd put Hobbit 2&3 on that list.

[Jay 37,379]

Oh I have no idea off the top of my head. Name some movies everyone's talked about that you haven't seen

[Wojo 2,453]

Fifty Shades of Grey.

[Jay 37,379]

Name some older ones than that

[Wojo 2,453]

The burden of proof is not on me. You picked 20. I'm clearly happy.

[Glóin the Dark 1,223]

Could you just post a list of all the films you've ever seen?

[Wojo 2,453]

Tonight. Promise.

[Glóin the Dark 1,223]

See that you do!

In the meantime, I think we could put together a list of twenty from this post, outdated though it is...

[Jay 37,379]

Thank you - I knew there was something like that out there. That's exactly what I was talking about. Lots of stuff here that should be watched before the Matrix sequels. I don't understand why anyone would give him a hard time about not seeing those.

I have never seen The Godfather, Part III.

The most of a James Bond movie that I have seen beginning to end was years ago when NBC aired them on Sunday nights, but being on TV, they failed to hold my attention. Someday, maybe, but not anytime soon.

I have never watched a Narnia or Twilight movie.

I never saw THX-1138, and only watched most of American Graffiti.

I only saw Lethal Weapon 1 in its entirety; most of 2; none of 3 or 4; and also not enough of Die Hard 4 to remember much.

I have never watched Schindler's List. Neither have I seen Sugarland, Duel, Purple, Always, Amistad, Munich, War Horse, Tintin, nor Minority Report.

I've never watched the Matrix sequels or Animatrix; nor Citizen Kane.

The only Oliver Stone I've ever watched is Platoon, and I detested it.

The only Tarantino I've watched completely is Pulp Fiction. The only Kubricks I have watched (in their entirety) are 2001, Full Metal Jacket, and Eyes Wide Shut, and I feel that of those, only Full Metal Jacket is worth rewatching.

The only Ridley Scotts I have seen are Alien, Blade Runner (once), Gladiator, and Hannibal.

I have seen two of the three big David Lean historical epics; Doctor Zhivago remains unseen.

I never saw the second Conan film, and don't even think about the reboot.

The only Cameron I haven't seen is The Abyss, and whatever Piranha flick his name's on.

I've never seen Rocky Horror Picture Show.

I only saw The Hunt for Red October so for me, Alec Baldwin is Jack Ryan.

I never saw any Nerds, Porkys, Leprechaun, Jason, Freddy, Scream, I Know What You Did, Species, or Michael Myers movie in their entirety.

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this post

I've never seen anything Star Trek related.

The good ol' days...

[Glóin the Dark 1,223]

I've never seen The Lord Of The Rings or Game Of Thrones.

[Jay 37,379]

From that list, 20 films Wojo should see before the Matrix sequels:

Schindler's List

Minority Report

Duel

Munich

The Adventures of Tintin

JFK

The Shining

Dr. Strangelove

A Clockwork Orange

Casino Royale

Skyfall

Goldeneye

Tomorrow Never Dies

Reservoir Dogs

Jackie Brown

Kill Bill 1

Kill Bill 2

Inglorious Basterds

Django Unchained

The Abyss

[BloodBoal 7,538]

I've never seen The Lord Of The Rings or Game Of Thrones.

Ah, yes... Well, you know...

[gkgyver 1,646]

The first Matrix film is great, I'd watch it again any time. The sequels were kinda rubbish, weren't they?

I wouldn't say that. They are just way too long. I believe "bloated" is the hip word for that these days. It feels like you could cut huge chunks without losing anything. And the dialogue that doesn't pertain to the mythology is complete clichéd rubbish.

Also, the first film was brilliant visually. In the sequels, it couldn't be more boring visually.

There is also the thing about treating characters from spin-off stuff like the entire audience knows who they are.

The Matrix feels like a completely different film than the sequels. And I'm not even buying the Neo/Trinity love story in that one.

[Jay 37,379]

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Jupiter Ascending

 

A flawed, yet not atrocious film by any means. The first and third acts are actually quite good, it's the middle act where the ship almost completely derails before righting itself again.

 

The first act is clearly the best. We're introduced to Jupiter Jones, played by the beautiful Mila Kunis, a cleaning lady in Chicago who works for the rich, and lives with her large extended family. She yearns to own a $4,000 classic telescope for some reason, and agrees to sell her eggs to a clinic through a deal her cousin sets up. While there she is attacked by the kind of classic "abduction" aliens from the 50s, only to be saved by a Mawg played by Channing Tatum. From here the world opens up, and we learn that Earth is one of thousands of inhabited planets, all of which contains humanoid creatures due to "seeding" done by the Abrasax family, a wealthy intergalactic family. Basically: They killed the dinosaurs to make room for humans on earth. The reasons why they seed so many planets is not revealed until later, so I won't spoil it (I doubt it will come as much of a surprise, though). As Jupiter gets closer to the mawg and the three Abrasax siblings, the story is all interesting.

 

But then things really far apart for a while. I don't know if this is due to bad writing, or due to extreme post-production editing/trimming, but a lot of the middle act doesn't make a lot of sense. Jupiter essentially inherits the Earth, because she is a genetic match for the Abrasax siblings' mother, however she first is abducted by the Abrasax sister, and then let go for... reasons, and then she agrees to marry one of the brothers for... reasons. This is all kinda awkwardly handled and makes it hard to root for Jupiter or anyone, as there's a case to be made for all sides of the storyline here.

 

The third act is more or less an extended action sequence, however it's handled better than the recent Marvel Movie Third Act, and I liked the denouement as well. Overall, I'd guess I'd rate it like a B-. I think a longer director's cut could improve things, but who knows.

 

In addition to the middle act, the other biggest problem is the acting. Tatum and Sean Bean are fine, but most of the others hit wrong notes. The problem with Jupiter Jones is that Mila Kunis plays her almost one way for the entire movie: She always has a scowl on her face, and takes in a subdued tone. This is fine for the early part when she's a downtrodden cleaning lady who cannot find love, but once she starts going into space, hopping from planet to planet, gets called a Queen by everyone, becomes rich and famous, etc - why wouldn't she crack a smile and show some joy sometimes? Why isn't there any sense of awe that she's in OUTER FREAKING SPACE meeting ALIEN RACE AFTER ALIEN RACE? Interstellar kind of had the same problem.

 

The other actor I'll mention is Eddie Redmayne as the main villain and oldest Abrasax sibling. Frankly, he was awful! I had read this ahead of time, yet was expecting to find him to be not that bad, and his bad performance to be over-hyped. BUt it wasn't, he was actually bad. He delivered all his lines in one of two ways: With a pained, almost-crying expression on his face in an almost whisper, or SHOUTING AT THE TOP OF HIS LUNGS LIKE GARY OLDMAN IN LEON. He was bad.

 

Everything else was good - the production design, the sets, the special effects, the score.

 

Speaking of the score, if you hadn't read ahead of time that most of the music was recorded before filming and edited to picture later, you wouldn't know it. It doesn't feel like it was scored any different than any other film while watching. There are themes that represent different characters and various variations of all of them. Only a few times does a little bit of music repeat itself, but that happens in other movies too.

 

I'd watch it again, especially if a longer cut comes out, but it's nothing ground breaking.

[Uni 306]

The first Matrix is like Alien: No fat and beautiful in its simplicity.

I love the inherent genius of this statement.

I've only seen the first Matrix movie. As long as I don't watch the sequels, I can pretend they don't exist.

Yes you can, and no harm done.

[Jay 37,379]

Weird thing about my theatrical experience of Jupiter Ascending today: There was a birthday party there. As I was approaching the ticket-taker, I saw this massive group of middle-schoolers all going down the hall, and some adults saying something about being with the party. I gave the dude my ticket and he told me which theater to go in, and it was the same one. I was like "oh no....."

 

I walk in and it's a packed house! For Jupiter freaking Ascending in it's third weekend! Granted, it was probably a 200 person theater, not one of the 400 or 500 ones they have tehre, but still. THe birthday party must have been like 40-50 of that party, I think.

 

Who knew todays early teenagers were interested in this movie? Luckily, they didn't yap during the movie like I was expecting. They did start making interesting noises when Jupiter's friend is walking around in her underwear, and groaned when Jupiter and Mawg finally kissed, which was funny. Also saw a lot of them getting antsy during some of the longer dialogue scenes.

 

I wonder if this film will find a second life on home video? I heard one kid say when it was over "best movie ever!!"

[Wojo 2,453]

Excellent rediscovery of a post that took me a long time to consider.

Since then I've seen Tintin once and half of Dr Strangelove, but it was yanked from Netflix before I finished it.

[Matt C 455]

Still Alice

Julianne Moore earned her Oscar for this, not simply a reward for previous snubs. She always puts in quality work, and she absolutely sells the character's journey and grasp of her own mortality through early onset of Alzheimer's. Absolutely heartwrenching and spellbinding at the same time, while Kristen Stewart ably holds her own as the daughter. Alec Baldwin wasn't bad, but didn't disappear into his role the way Moore and Stewart did. Ilan Eshkeri's minimalist score beautifully underscores the drama without calling attention to itself.

[Koray Savas 2,251]

Weird thing about my theatrical experience of Jupiter Ascending today: There was a birthday party there. As I was approaching the ticket-taker, I saw this massive group of middle-schoolers all going down the hall, and some adults saying something about being with the party. I gave the dude my ticket and he told me which theater to go in, and it was the same one. I was like "oh no....."

I walk in and it's a packed house! For Jupiter freaking Ascending in it's third weekend! Granted, it was probably a 200 person theater, not one of the 400 or 500 ones they have tehre, but still. THe birthday party must have been like 40-50 of that party, I think.

Who knew todays early teenagers were interested in this movie? Luckily, they didn't yap during the movie like I was expecting. They did start making interesting noises when Jupiter's friend is walking around in her underwear, and groaned when Jupiter and Mawg finally kissed, which was funny. Also saw a lot of them getting antsy during some of hte longer dialogue scenes.

I wonder if this film will find a second life on home video? I heard one kid say when it was over "best movie ever!!"

A family sitting behind me gave it huge applause when the credits rolled and cheered. I guess it has its fans lol

[Quintus 5,399]

The first Matrix film is great, I'd watch it again any time. The sequels were kinda rubbish, weren't they?

I wouldn't say that. They are just way too long. I believe "bloated" is the hip word for that these days. It feels like you could cut huge chunks without losing anything. And the dialogue that doesn't pertain to the mythology is complete clichéd rubbish.

Also, the first film was brilliant visually. In the sequels, it couldn't be more boring visually.

So what you're saying is they are rubbish then.

The first Matrix is like Alien: No fat and beautiful in its simplicity.

I love the inherent genius of this statement.

Lol, really? Do you believe athletes can be geniuses?

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Chris Akabusi!

[KK 3,307]

Still Alice

Julianne Moore earned her Oscar for this, not simply a reward for previous snubs. She always puts in quality work, and she absolutely sells the character's journey and grasp of her own mortality through early onset of Alzheimer's. Absolutely heartwrenching and spellbinding at the same time, while Kristen Stewart ably holds her own as the daughter. Alec Baldwin wasn't bad, but didn't disappear into his role the way Moore and Stewart did. Ilan Eshkeri's minimalist score beautifully underscores the drama without calling attention to itself.

It's a touching film. Moore nailed it.

[A24 4,348]

Sounds like typical Oscar bait!

[#SnowyVernalSpringsEternal 10,265]

Hollywood star playing sick/dying person?

Yeah....

[Dixon Hill 4,234]

The Tree of Life > The Fountain > Cloud Atlas >>>>> Boyhood

[Sweeping Strings 2,365]

Saw Kingsman again, still tremendous fun. There's apparently been some whining about the ending, but I just saw it as a cheeky (pun absolutely intended) 15-certificate twist on how almost every Bond movie from Dr No to Die Another Day ends.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

Saw Kingsman again, still tremendous fun. There's apparently been some whining about the ending, but I just saw it as a cheeky (pun absolutely intended) 15-certificate twist on how almost every Bond movie from Dr No to Die Another Day ends.

The ending was horribly sexist and requires a trigger warning.

[Wojo 2,453]

The first Matrix is like Alien: No fat and beautiful in its simplicity.

No, The Matrix has a huge piece of fat. Unchewable gristle, more accurately.

Every time Morpheus and friends go into the Matrix, one of the two brothers watches them and what they're doing, to get them an exit.

Who puts Cypher into the Matrix so he can eat steak and sell them out to their mortal enemy?

Saw Kingsman again, still tremendous fun. There's apparently been some whining about the ending, but I just saw it as a cheeky (pun absolutely intended) 15-certificate twist on how almost every Bond movie from Dr No to Die Another Day ends.  

The ending was horribly sexist and requires a trigger warning.

I really hope you achieve your goal of pointing out the sexism in every single thread today.

[BloodBoal 7,538]

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

Saw Kingsman again, still tremendous fun. There's apparently been some whining about the ending, but I just saw it as a cheeky (pun absolutely intended) 15-certificate twist on how almost every Bond movie from Dr No to Die Another Day ends.

The ending was horribly sexist and requires a trigger warning.

I really hope you achieve your goal of pointing out the sexism in every single thread today.

Misogynist!

[Jay 37,379]

What did you like about it BB?

[crocodile 8,020]

And, most important if all, how come?

Karol

[Koray Savas 2,251]

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out Of Water

I have no shame in loving SpongeBob. The first 3 and a half seasons or so are brilliant, but the show reached a point where it turned from genuine comedy and adult humor to purely a kids show. The first theatrical film falls into the former category, while this one falls into the latter. There are a handful of funny moments, but on the whole it's pretty worthless. Antonio Banderas is funny though just because it's so ridiculous that he's in this. The animation is excellent in itself; and John Debney's score, while heavy on the mickey-mousing towards the end, has some awesome swashbuckling moments.

[Not Mr. Big 4,643]

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out Of Water

I have no shame in loving SpongeBob. The first 3 and a half seasons or so are brilliant, but the show reached a point where it turned from genuine comedy and adult humor to purely a kids show.

I wouldn't say the latter seasons are completely for kids. There's some gnarly stuff in there. The splinter episode is the worst offender.

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[Dixon Hill 4,234]

You are clearly a pretentious twat who didn't understand how bad it was!

[BloodBoal 7,538]

[Dixon Hill 4,234]

But so am I, so I'm gonna watch it again tonight!

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[Koray Savas 2,251]

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out Of Water

I have no shame in loving SpongeBob. The first 3 and a half seasons or so are brilliant, but the show reached a point where it turned from genuine comedy and adult humor to purely a kids show.

I wouldn't say the latter seasons are completely for kids. There's some gnarly stuff in there. The splinter episode is the worst offender.

Well I haven't watched a new episode in years so I can't accurately comment. It lost its charm somewhere down the line. Season 4 is where I remember it losing its way. This film was made by the original creators though, so I don't know what happened.

[KK 3,307]

Sounds like typical Oscar bait!

Maybe. Feels a lot more genuine thn stuff like "The Theory of Everything" though.mworth watching for performance alone at least.

Birdman (or The Unexpected Virtue Of Ignorance) - Alejandro González Iñárritu (2014)

Wow is me.

9/10

Finally!!

[A24 4,348]

The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge Out Of Water

I have no shame in loving SpongeBob. The first 3 and a half seasons or so are brilliant, but the show reached a point where it turned from genuine comedy and adult humor to purely a kids show.

I wouldn't say the latter seasons are completely for kids. There's some gnarly stuff in there. The splinter episode is the worst offender.

From wikipedia:

"Most of its programming (Nickelodeon) is aimed at children and adolescents ages 8–16, while its weekday morning edutainment programs are targeted at younger children ages 2–8."

Having said that, when my kid was watching SpongeBob, I too laughed a lot.

Could you just post a list of all the films you've ever seen?

Why would you care?