The thread for movies that aren't going to get their own thread but are still in theaters

Kablooie wrote:

We recently watched Mortal Engines.
Rotten Tomatoes really panned it with a 28% fresh.

We enjoyed the hell out of it. Yes, it's derivative, but the special effects were awesome,
acting very good, pronounced character arcs, etc.

I must also admit I'm partial to Steampunk (or Steampunk-ish) fare.

It's going on the Christmas list!

yea with ya with all that except the acting. it was very bad...

ranalin wrote:
Kablooie wrote:

We recently watched Mortal Engines.
Rotten Tomatoes really panned it with a 28% fresh.

We enjoyed the hell out of it. Yes, it's derivative, but the special effects were awesome,
acting very good, pronounced character arcs, etc.

I must also admit I'm partial to Steampunk (or Steampunk-ish) fare.

It's going on the Christmas list!

yea with ya with all that except the acting. it was very bad...

I strongly suggest you don't watch the movie Zombeavers, then

Friday nights is our "Incredibly Bad B Movie Night" (Moves like Sharknado are often featured, as well as Mockbusters). We like to throw popcorn at the TV

Zombeavers is so awesomely terrible (including the acting) it almost warps Space & Time and destroys entire neighborhoods .

Ego Man wrote:

I thought John Wick 3 was the worst of the trilogy, but it was still really fun. I’d go see it again

Y'know, I wouldn't argue against that. I only saw the second in theaters, and as I said I wasn't in the right headspace to really appreciate it at the time.

Kablooie wrote:

I strongly suggest you don't watch the movie Zombeavers, then

Friday nights is our "Incredibly Bad B Movie Night" (Moves like Sharknado are often featured, as well as Mockbusters). We like to throw popcorn at the TV

Zombeavers is so awesomely terrible (including the acting) it almost warps Space & Time and destroys entire neighborhoods .

I think husband and son watched that at a bad movie night. At least I’ve seen the trailer for it and it looked wonderfully dreadful! I think there’s also a snow shark movie out there in the same vein (ha).

I really enjoyed the new Godzilla movie.

In regards to Ghidorah

Spoiler:

He's always been an alien

karmajay wrote:

I really enjoyed the new Godzilla movie.

In regards to Ghidorah

Spoiler:

He's always been an alien

Spoiler:

Hopefully people stay to the very end.

karmajay wrote:

I really enjoyed the new Godzilla movie.

In regards to Ghidorah

Spoiler:

He's always been an alien

Fair enough, but the way that information was presented to the audience and discovered by the characters was hilariously bad.

ClockworkHouse wrote:
karmajay wrote:

I really enjoyed the new Godzilla movie.

In regards to Ghidorah

Spoiler:

He's always been an alien

Fair enough, but the way that information was presented to the audience and discovered by the characters was hilariously bad.

Ha..hav.. Have you seen the original Godzilla movies?

My daughter and I enjoyed Godzilla too. I'm glad we saw some bad reviews first so our expectations were tempered a bit, though we thought some of the reviews were unfairly harsh (Empire really rinsed it, for example). The script was quite clunky, and it needed some more work. But you're there for the monsters and it did deliver there, and was really satisfying batsh*t insane.

I still thought the script was better than that of Pacific Rim (which I really hated in the cinema and only grew to appreciate later).

DudleySmith wrote:

My daughter and I enjoyed Godzilla too. I'm glad we saw some bad reviews first so our expectations were tempered a bit, though we thought some of the reviews were unfairly harsh (Empire really rinsed it, for example). The script was quite clunky, and it needed some more work. But you're there for the monsters and it did deliver there, and was really satisfying batsh*t insane.

I still thought the script was better than that of Pacific Rim (which I really hated in the cinema and only grew to appreciate later).

I'd like to know how we became a world where after hearing the word 'Godzilla' the expectation of good reviews was expected?

ClockworkHouse wrote:
karmajay wrote:

I really enjoyed the new Godzilla movie.

In regards to Ghidorah

Spoiler:

He's always been an alien

Fair enough, but the way that information was presented to the audience and discovered by the characters was hilariously bad.

They all seemed

Spoiler:

deeply and personally offended that Ghidorah was a "false king." They really take the royal succession seriously. But then they did name the organization, "Monarch."

And remember: oxygen destroyers are bad; nuclear weapons are good. To help you remember, I'm naming our base, "Castle Bravo."

Fighting with my Family was pretty good. I don't watch wrestling anymore but I do watch Total Divas which Page was on until she got kicked off for doing drugs. I think I might have liked it even if I didn't know about Page. No idea how true to life it was but I liked it.

ClockworkHouse wrote:

Godzilla was about as good as I expected it to be, but which I mean that it was fun but not necessarily good. It's a lot more cheesy than the Edwards film it's following but not as outright weird as Shin Gojira, although some of the directions the plot actually _does_ go are hilariously bizarre. As with most kaiju films, it spends way more time on the people on the ground than I want, but I'll also cop to pretty much wanting kaiju films to be Wrestlemania with big-ass monsters.

My biggest knock against King of the Monsters was that it spent an inordinate amount of time trying to setup Godzilla vs King Kong. Yes, we get it. You don't have to mention Skull Island in literally every scene.

Spoiler:

But... Aliens? Atlantis? Really?

I mean, it's got nothing on larval, limbless Gojira wriggling around Tokyo and being defeated by coagulant, but it gets close.

I enjoyed it more than I anticipated but also wanted more monster mayhem. I got the allusions to Skull Island but it didn't feel overzealous to me. EMMV.

Spoiler:

I dig the alien/Atlantis stuff. Reminded me of the Netflix animated movie series for Godzilla that is bonkers.

Baron Of Hell wrote:

Fighting with my Family was pretty good. I don't watch wrestling anymore but I do watch Total Divas which Page was on until she got kicked off for doing drugs. I think I might have liked it even if I didn't know about Page. No idea how true to life it was but I liked it.

My wife and I, neither of whom are wrestling fans, at all, loved this film. It was a lot of fun, and surprisingly inspirational. We both left the theater feeling really, really good. We even watched a bit a wrestling on TV after because our interested was piqued.

Saw Godzilla today. It was alright. Too many scenes with humans. Too many locations. I started to lose track of whether the same people captaining the helicarrier was the same person who was piloting the chopper. They basically invented wormwholes as a way to account for the fast travel in the game movie.

On the upside a movie that takes Mothra seriously gives me hope for my favorite childhood kaiju.

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Saw John Wick 3 today. Enjoyed it, but I feel like it's following some other franchises that get too deep into their own mythology eventually, to the point it begins to weigh down the fun with too much weird stuff. There's a fine balance when you have to add new stuff to not go to far with it. Wick went right up to the edge.

(Think TV's Alias as to an example of what I'm referring to above. The longer it went, the weirder the mythology got in the way of what the show was really good at.)

Fighting is still good. Felt a little less "real" this time. I think it felt more like a video game at times, with enemies waiting around in line at times, waiting for their turns. The first couple of movies felt more raw in the combat...more centered in real world skills.

Like I said at the top, I really liked it. Liked how they used the dogs this time. Crazy knife fight was crazy. Overall, fun stuff.

DSGamer wrote:

Saw Godzilla today. It was alright. Too many scenes with humans. Too many locations. I started to lose track of whether the same people captaining the helicarrier was the same person who was piloting the chopper. They basically invented wormwholes as a way to account for the fast travel in the game movie.

On the upside a movie that takes Mothra seriously gives me hope for my favorite childhood kaiju.

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Had the very same hope.

As to the number of frames dedicated to humans, I feel like they’re walking a thin line between oversaturating the monster action and not enough. I thought they did a good job; I’d rather want for more than be bored of what there was.

We really enjoyed Rocketman. It was a biopic, but I kind of dug that it was more abstract than a strict retelling of the subject's story a la Bohemian Rhapsody. Also, Taron Egerton was outstanding.

Godzilla 2 was entertaining, but every scene with humans was usually plain ol' stupid. Just start with Ken saying "Let them fight!" and roll with it.

slazev wrote:

Godzilla 2 was entertaining, but every scene with humans was usually plain ol' stupid. Just start with Ken saying "Let them fight!" and roll with it.

Right!? It's the perfect Godzilla sequel! You always fast forward the dumb human plots to get to the rubber suit match!

My 5-year-old daughter and I both enjoyed the live action Aladdin. They made a very self conscious effort to clean up the racism and to give Jasmine a good amount of agency. Downsides are that Jafar is still coded as queer, and there's a quick "girl with a beard" joke.

Toy Story 4 Is a Heartwarming, Boundary-Pushing Addition to the Beloved Franchise

The first three Toy Story films are about as perfect as a trilogy gets. They’re legendary, landmark films that changed the animation art form as we know it. So, the mere notion of a Toy Story 4 felt superfluous. A foolhardy, insurmountable task to continue and build upon that wonderful story. Could it be done? Should it be done? Turns out, the answer is abso-freakin-lutely.

Man, I did not care for Godzilla 2 at all. Granted, it's not a Transformers level nightmare, because it's seems to be made by people who're giddy to play in that sandbox instead of hating everything, but that doesn't mean the human element isn't sub-Emmerich level melodrama, and the action is a murky slog.

On the other hand, Long Shot is a pretty pleasant time. There's a the fantasy element in the political area that I have to give the side eye given how nightmarish the current situation is, but it's funny and has actors that can carry the movie, which is mostly what a romantic comedy needs to work.

Booksmart is so f*cking good I want to burst into Amy and Molly's compliment routine on it.

It made me so happy.

Alien Love Gardener wrote:

Booksmart is so f*cking good I want to burst into Amy and Molly's compliment routine on it.

It made me so happy.

It was really good. I also think Long Shot was excellent as well. Godzilla 2 probably made more money than both combined, sadly.

I saw Booksmart last week and also really enjoyed it. My only complaint is that it's very WASP but doesn't seem as aware of that as it is of other issues. Really funny, though, and I liked how they explored so many of the tropes of raunchy high school boy comedies in really unexpected ways.

Watched Brightburn and thought it was ok. The movie doesn't go beyond the trailer. They didn't explore anything interesting besides evil superman. They didn't hit the evil superman correctly. The movie was filled with horror tropes. Superman doesn't need to use horror tropes. He can just walk up to people and kill them. They didn't know how to handle a guy with god like powers.

The movie did have some pretty good kills. If you like body horror you might dig this movie.

Watched Midsommar today with the girlfriend, a pagan. This is a disturbing movie about a pagan festival in Sweden by the director of the excellent Hereditary. There are actually a few funny parts before everything gets batsh*t crazy. Lots of male & female full frontal nudity, if that's a consideration. It's sort of like The Wicker Man (the original, not the dumbo Nick Cage remake) cranked up to 11.

ClockworkHouse wrote:

My 5-year-old daughter and I both enjoyed the live action Aladdin. They made a very self conscious effort to clean up the racism and to give Jasmine a good amount of agency. Downsides are that Jafar is still coded as queer, and there's a quick "girl with a beard" joke.

I missed Aladdin as a kid and had zero interest in it as an adult, but my wife worships the original so I got wrangled into seeing it. It was more fun than I expected.

Just saw The Dead Don't Die. It basically plays out as a Night of the Living Dead on quaaludes. It was weird, and in the end it was more of a long form joke than a comedy.