What movie did you watch last night? (17 Viewers)

[Cormcolash]

Heard it was shite, might watch it today haha

 

[GO]

escape From New York . Great

 

[ann post]

Have lined up Soul (based on above posts) and Starship Troupers (Us politics thread) for this evening.

 

[Cormcolash]

Starship Troopers actually says some amazing things that are fuckin spot on, oul Heinlein came out with some good shit when he wasn't being fucking mental, too bad being fucking mental was about 75% of shit he did

 

[Cormcolash]

Saw the new Matrix today - it was actually alright. It's not great, but it's not total bollocks either. Actually I think the first ca. 40 minutes are very good, it just goes downhill a bit from there as things 'develop'.
It definitely suffers from its 'own success' - basically, it has to be an action film, so it has to look 'cooler' than the old Matrix, etc etc., so you get loads of messy action with 5000000 things happening on the screen at once and like I find that all a bit meh (it's the exact same problem most shitty Marvel films suffer from (even the great new Spiderman film has the same issue with a lot of the fights)).
Aside from the action, the new Morpheus is cool and ya know the new Agent Smith is actually really good but unfortunately you're just never gonna get better than Hugo Weaving for that shit. Keanu is Keanu, and Carrie-Anne Moss still looks fuckin class really - and actually if anything is cooler in this than in the original films.
Basically I'd say it's probably the second best Matrix film, or at the very least on a par with the Matrix 2, because I would say that 2 is far from great whereas lets face it, 3 is total fucking bollocks.

There's an amusing thing happens at the end of the film, for the credits they launch into this nu-metal kind of rock track thing, and it sounds fucking hilariously dated haha, like it would have sounded old 15 years ago fuck sake.

 

[pete]

Saw the new Matrix today - it was actually alright. It's not great, but it's not total bollocks either. Actually I think the first ca. 40 minutes are very good, it just goes downhill a bit from there as things 'develop'.
It definitely suffers from its 'own success' - basically, it has to be an action film, so it has to look 'cooler' than the old Matrix, etc etc., so you get loads of messy action with 5000000 things happening on the screen at once and like I find that all a bit meh (it's the exact same problem most shitty Marvel films suffer from (even the great new Spiderman film has the same issue with a lot of the fights)).
Aside from the action, the new Morpheus is cool and ya know the new Agent Smith is actually really good but unfortunately you're just never gonna get better than Hugo Weaving for that shit. Keanu is Keanu, and Carrie-Anne Moss still looks fuckin class really - and actually if anything is cooler in this than in the original films.
Basically I'd say it's probably the second best Matrix film, or at the very least on a par with the Matrix 2, because I would say that 2 is far from great whereas lets face it, 3 is total fucking bollocks.

There's an amusing thing happens at the end of the film, for the credits they launch into this nu-metal kind of rock track thing, and it sounds fucking hilariously dated haha, like it would have sounded old 15 years ago fuck sake.

Brass Against covering Wake Up, the same RATM song used at the end of The Matrix.

I thought Carrie-Ann Moss was a bit wasted in it to be honest.

 

[Cormcolash]

I actually was wondering if it was Brass Against, but I couldn't tell because they weren't pissing all over my face

 

[ann post]

Starship Troopers actually says some amazing things that are fuckin spot on, oul Heinlein came out with some good shit when he wasn't being fucking mental, too bad being fucking mental was about 75% of shit he did

It's wonderfully overkill, there was one bit where they were supposed to blow up one thing, literally everything on screen exploded. Amazing.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

First Reformed rewatch. One of my favourite films of the last decade.

 

[Unicron]

First Reformed rewatch. One of my favourite films of the last decade.

Loved that. Intense.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Don’t Look Up. Really poor. 99% of the jokes fall flat. Di Caprio is miscast. J Lawrence is the best thing in it

 

[magicbastarder]

RTE2 have lined up 'what lies beneath' followed by 'fargo' tonight. very seasonal.

 

[David Kronenbourg]

Don’t Look Up. Really poor. 99% of the jokes fall flat. Di Caprio is miscast. J Lawrence is the best thing in it

Actually this came together in the second half and Leo got some good scenes

 

[Cormcolash]

The Mark Rylance BezoMusk character was very funny in fairness

 

[David Kronenbourg]

The Mark Rylance BezoMusk character was very funny in fairness

Oh fuck that was Rylance. Yeah he was good. As was Leo’s on air meltdown

 

[pete]

Home Sweet Home Alone - not sure why this is getting such poor reviews. Sure some of the acting is a bit hammy in places but It’s no worse than any other kids film, and I thought it was pretty funny. The kids got a good laugh out of it anyway. It’s certainly a much nicer movie than Home Alone, that’s for sure.

No Time To Die - yeah grand a perfectly serviceable Bond movie. Thought It was a bit weird only having Ana de Armas’ character in it for such a short bit of the film. Now that I think of it, Rami Malek’s bad guy was a bit underdeveloped/underwhelming.

Ron’s Gone Wrong - only gotten about half way through this one so far, but funny enough.

 

[Cornu Ammonis]

Dredd - which has now become our traditional Christmas movie.

 

[magicbastarder]

John wick 3. Not sure why they bothered with the pretence of a plot. Just get Keanu reeves to shoot people over and over and over.

 

[pete]

John wick 3. Not sure why they bothered with the pretence of a plot. Just get Keanu reeves to shoot people over and over and over.

It’s great isn’t it. The fourth ones been delayed until 2023 now.

 

[ann post]

Don't look up.

Good fun. Bet all the critics slating it are republicans.