Have you watched any good movies lately?
 

Metro, you weren't planning on creating your own thread, were you? If so, feel free to delete this one.

I am positive that I went to the movies about a month ago, for the first time since "Christopher Robin," but I do not have any idea what I watched!

I took a lovely young woman that I wish that I could see more.

Movies in the theaters in Mesa, Arizona: "Captain Marvel" is already out? I have not even seen trailers for it!
"How to Train Your Dragon III" I should take my brother. I have watched the prequels.
Another "Madea" movie, with the fourth-highest opening weekend. How many movies have they made?
Who has watched "Alita?" I looked into it, but wondered if that was the absolute best eye CGI they could do.

So, it has a plot and stuff? :)

"The Lego Movie, the Second Part." My brother-in-law told me that I needed to watch the original, but I had mixed feelings. I love Legos, Lego games, and the "Lego Batman" movie, though.
I plan on taking my brother to watch "Spiderman: Into the Spiderverse."
I understand that "Bohemian Rhapsody" has some pretty good music. :)
Isn't "Glass" a "Broken" sequel? I heard it was underwhelming.
I hear that women enjoy "Aquaman" for some reason. Was it good like "Wonderwoman" or terrible like every other recent D.C. movie?
"Mary Poppins' Revenge." I am not interested in most Disney remakes.

I skipped a couple dozen. I do not know anything about any of those, but as you can tell, I usually watch kid-friendly movies.

Have you watched any of these? Have you watched any other recent movies that I did not mention?

We were supposed to have about two feet of snow, I would not be able to see any of my clients, and I just did not see any reason to stay in-town, so we spent several days in the valley, where Mom was unable to watch Hallmark 24/7.

I watched "Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs 2" and "Antman and the Wasp." The former builds on water having DNA and Terry Crews impersonated Mr. T. I kept wondering about the anatomy of sentient fruits and vegetables. "Antman and the Wasp" was awesome, but I watched it with a different woman, she said it was "Very boring," and I do not want to play with her anymore.

Have you eaten any good books lately? Well, create your own thread! :D

No I have not

As I said in the other thread, I watched Ben Hur again while ill.

Here's some of my favorites in no particular order:

Witness for the Prosecution
Rob Roy
The Count of Monte Christo
Star Wars IV, V, VI
Moon
The Shawshank Redemption
Frailty
Cool Hand Luke
Matrix
Batman The Dark Knight
The Wizard of Oz
The Godfather

For some reason I find The Fifth Element to be extremely rewatchable even though it's not a great movie.

Newer movies tend to be garbage; relying on special effects rather than substance of story or character development or acting. Part of my bias is that the good classics have been curated over a much longer timespan than a couple years, but I still feel that the quality of movies has gone downhill. I go to the theater about once every other year now; when a new Star Wars movie comes out. The new ones aren't great, so I don't know why I bother except I still get excited.

I do not believe that I have heard of "Witness for the Prosecution." I will need to look it up.
All that I remember from "The Count of Monte Cristo" was my friend telling me how much better the book was and everyone else wanting to get their $2 worth. It seemed good, though. :)
Moon and Frailty are others that I have not heard of. I will add them to my "To Google" list! :)
How have I still not watched "Cool Hand Luke?" :)
I loved the original "Matrix," but I got lost with the sequels. How did he have superpowers in the real world? Was Neo the one, Mr. Smith, or Neville?
You preferred the sequel to "Batman Begins?"
I used "The Wizard of Oz" to help explain irony to a client.
I enjoyed Episodes 8 and 9 and "Rogue One," but heard that the movie about red disposable cups was mediocre.

Sir, are you classified as human?

Got my Roman numerals wrong... and have fixed it. Good catch.

I won't get into spoilers on the Matrix.

The Dark Knight is objectively the superior Batman movie, and holds its own among the greatest movies of all time. The philosophy in the movie is so rich, and the character motivations so believable and human. Granted, I went into the movie with extremely low expectations because I was perfectly content with Jack Nicholson's Joker and hate movie remakes. My low expectations probably contributed to being thoroughly impressed with the film.

I've enjoyed the new Star Wars films too, but only because they are identical to the old ones. Hated the one where they went to the gambling planet for no reason, wasted their time, nearly got killed, and made a political point about wealthy people and freeing animals. What, are we supposed to release Justify into the wild because he'll supposedly be happier, and teach these wealthy people a lesson in misery?

Dang. I came here to start a thread. I was going to use Best Movie Ever. Fight Me.

You could have made that your subject. :)

That part of "Rogue One" was indeed weird. PETA in Spaaaaaaace!

I felt the Star War movies were too similar to the originals. I know there are supposed to be recurring themes, although I think they are trying to show how Kylo Ren is different from his grandfather.

Star Wars is dead to me. I took my son to see A New Hope with two of his friends and we rode bicycles home in the dark with them weaving back and forth going 'pew-pew-pew'.

I pulled Lawn Dogs from the top of some list somewhere. It's a Bildungsroman. I looked up the spelling and found a list for the 20th century on Wikipedia. It includes Harry Potter and Ender's Game. But not the [generally considered] greatest novel of the 20th century, Nabakov's Lolita. ???

One of the things I like about Lawn Dogs is the trailer. No, not that trailer. This one:

https://66.media.tumblr.com/10b802b7...v19o1_1280.jpg
https://66.media.tumblr.com/10b802b7...v19o1_1280.jpg

And goes along being this one movie and then turns into something completely, hyper-realitically, different at the end.

Ever since Moon, I've been a Sam Rockwell fan. I realize he's been in movies prior to that, but it was the first one where I noticed his talent.

... Tim Roth plays the perfect despicable villain in Rob Roy (played by Liam Neeson). There's no reason the film isn't higher rated. It's clearly better than Braveheart (which is fantastic), and it came out in the same year and similar setting and time period. In my view, the character has more depth than Braveheart. The movie transcends themes of freedom and revenge. Freedom has no value without the context of responsibility. I'd even argue freedom has negative value without responsibility and obligation.

Those that are either incapable of the burden of responsibility or unwilling to accept it are not served well by liberty.

... I'm a fan of good sci fi, which is very uncommon. Hate Brazil. Either I'm too dumb to get why the movie is good, or it's just an awful waste of time.

I hear Mischa Barton has done films since. :)

For me it doesn't have to be sci-fi as long as there's flying machines. Cowboys and Aliens. John Carter of Mars. Mortal Engines has the Jenny Haniver, but the idea of the City of London careening around the landscape without teacups sliding off tables all over town is inescapable.

The Hindenburg, Baron von Munchhausen, Master of the World.... I'm probably leaving some out.

For whole movies, French Sci-fi comedies. Barbarella, ICQ*, Valerian Et Laureline...
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* I'll have to withdraw that one at least temporarily. Searching on I and C and Q takes you down a rabbithole. Perhaps I've misremembered the title, it was about a guy filming a movie like Barbarella and how the movie and his life become indistinguishable. :confused:

But I looked at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catego..._fiction_films and was reminded of Chidren of Men.

I find Mr Plinket Reviews more exciting than the actual movies

The new Star Wars movies are fun, but they aren't good because they haven't expanded the universe or explored new concepts or themes. I'm still wondering what the the "I am your father" scene will be, but afraid I won't be surprised.

I love the "How it Should Have Ended" channel on YouTube and I want to see parts of it replace "Batman versus Superman," although I fear that would not work at all.

I found a list of 100 all-time best sci-fi movies, but it did not have anything like what you remember of "ICQ" or whatever you remember.

I just remember a chatting app by that name.

Let us know if you figure it out!

Honestly, I don't remamber the last time I sat in front a TV ans watched a entire film or even 30 minutes of some TV program. I developed aversion to HD digital broadcast, which combined with aversion for LCD (LED backlight too) screens turned me quite fobic to digital home video technology.
I only watch clips on PC and not in full screen. Maybe I accept it cause I was used to days before high speed internet, to accept poorer things from web. But I refuse to accept this actual "quality" from TV broadcast, digital artifacts of video compression and LCD screen countless dowsides.

I watched clips from Star Wars last episode and I discovered some interesting things.

-There is a new Force, not the dark side or the light side, but one even fast to learn, the black side of the force, when a afro man turn a jedi faster than anyone.

-They wasted a lot of lives trying to destroy the Death Star, when a single ship junging to light speed in front of Death Star could have destroyed it or damaged up to let it unfunctional.

-Luke Skywalker abandon his advanced cybernetic hand with natural skin finish to build a new one using pieces from his garage.

-Wookies almost don't get old or gray hair.

-They are using botox and facelift in other galaxies.

-Jedis are supposed proud of their scars from duels, but for other side try to hide it with tatoons cause their dermatology in their galaxy are so crap and wastfull as ours in terms of remove scars.

-The red "guards" with helmets usualy waits to be killed by jedis if the silly coreography of fight said it so.

The guy from "Attack the Block" survived. I cannot say much more for his mastery of light saber dueling, except that I would have been able to block, parry, or anything else.
The Hyperspace Attack was a mistake. Why aren't there hyperspace missiles--or torpedoes?
Who said Luke lost his hand? What if he just lost the natural skin finish? What if the cybernetic hand was damaged beyond repair and the best that he could do was scavenge parts from his garage?
Wookiees are supposed to for centuries, and while Chewbacca was kind of treated like a pet, not awarded a medal in "Return of the Jedi," and Leia ignored him to hug Rey.
Unless you are not referring to space bears from Kashyyyk and are talking about something else.
J.J. Abrams admitted the hug scene was probably a mistake.
Do you expect people in the middle of a war to have time to worry about scars? I spent twelve months in Afghanistan. Personnel just worried about healing.
"Boot to the Head" proved that groups of bad guys rarely gang up on individual protagonists--they attack one or two at a time, while the others dance menacingly.

Had Finn and Rey learned the force so fast because the film must prove that women and afro descendants are better than everyone.

Just lost of skin finish would not result and so robust metal structure in Luke's hand. If you put skin over such thing if would be much larger than a normal hand.

If he don't care about scar, why did he made a tatoo over it?

At least the Galatic Empire is like me, they prefer CRT over LCD :

https://www.theforce.net/swtc/Pix/dvd/ep5/pit-e7.jpg

https://www.theforce.net/swtc/Pix/dvd/ep5/pit-e4.jpg

I watched this on a black and white TV on acid. How the TV got on acid I'll never know.

Did someone say light saber?

https://youtu.be/ZJcqhvadbkI?t=59

I think that explains 2001 also, but raises more questions, like how does a movie get on acid?

The big battle is Alita: Battle Angel vs Captain Marvel. Alita has reached the $350 million dollar mark ($75 million domestic), $400 million are needed to guarantee the sequel.They like it in China, but I haven't heard about Japan.

Meanwhile the projected domestic box office is down from $180 million to $80-100 million for Captain Marvell, and there are people advocating going to see Alita again on the day Captain Marvel debuts.

Nerdrotic has an analysis up on Youtube called Disney Ending Marvel Comics? Captain Marvel & Friends Destroyed The Comic Industry (79,671 views)

'Nuff said.

I pretty much only go to the theatre to see "spectacle" movies. (EG. recent Star Wars prequel/sequel/spin-offs.) Amaze my eyes & ears, please.

Same. A good looking movie does not make a good movie in itself, but seeing it on the big screen is entertaining. I'll try to make Alita while it's still showing. Maybe it's worth seeing in 3D? ... just looked and found out Northern Lights pub theater also shows 3D movies for $7. They are second run though, so I'll have to wait.

YouTube keeps suggesting some video about Captain Marvel costing Disney $100M and it suggests it is the end of Marvel.

I have followed comic books for twenty-five years. The Guardians of the Galaxy were pretty unknown, but have been wildly successful. I do not see Disney messing up now.

I haven't followed comics since 1997. Luftwaffe 1946 Or 1991. Dave Steven's Rocketeer Is there anything new long those lines?

I don't see enough new movies to keep up, but I notice that there are remix versions of Fritz Lang's Metropolis:

Metropolis (1927) Fritz Lang - Original score rescored by The New Pollutants.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fCDQzGTBA3E

Metropolis (1927) Giorgio Moroder's Edition. Colorized with new contemporary soundtrack with poorly scynched English speech.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPbjefBqRPE

then there's Metropolis (1927) w/ Dialogue and SFX - Full Movie HD (MetropolisRemix)
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Better or worse than Rintaro's Metropolis?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj9ruL8B310

@freebeard: I quite liked that Japanes take on Metropolis. Not the best anime movie I've ever watched, but certainly pretty good.

I have a copy of the original Lang... have got to get around to watching it someday. Thanks for the links to the others.

It's absolute trash. Paper thin plot. One-dimensional characters. Excuses to see bewbs. Awkward stubs of scenes that just randomly occur. And plot points that come from nowhere and go nowhere.

I absolutely adore it.

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The problem with the new Star Wars movies is that "The Force Awakens" is an absolutely pixel-perfect rehash of "A New Hope" with different characters.

"The Last Jedi", on the other hand, tries to recreate "The Empire Strikes Back". Only it enrages the fanboys because "Mary Sue", and "That's not my Luke", and "Star Wars is supposed to be about Skywalkers!" and all manner of bro-flake bull**** (but worth watching in the theaters just to see/hear that last reaction and chortle with joy at the nerdrage). Still, many problems. The Casino Planet portion was inane, the space chase scene is hair-pulling idiocy for anyone with even a slight interest in space flight and battle tactics, and the final battle was a train wreck. On the bright side, the Kylon Ren - Luke - Rey storyline is very well done, and the Throne Room fight is the best saber battle I've watched in any of the movies. Yes, that's including Rey Parks' climactic battle in "The Phantom Menace".

Both are deeply flawed movies, but a million times better than watching the droll political maneuvering and the inexcusably wooden acting of the prequel trilogy.

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If it's still showing, catch "Into the Spiderverse", seriously. Probably, hands down, the best superhero movie I've ever watched. Great characters, great story arcs, great action and production design so good that you could print out screen shots, stitch them together, and sell it as a plus-priced hardbound graphic novel.

It genuinely feels like an 80's or 90's comic brought to life. The writing is top-notch and the art is ugh... argh... wow... I am considering buying a BluRay simply to take screenshots for my wallpapers.

Also like how it subverts the Spiderman mythology while staying absolutely true to it. Highly recommended over "I'm 100% better now because my new robot body has bewbs" and "We did this prequel to hype people up for the next Avengers movie and to piss off men-boys".

Some parts of Episode Eight were stupid, but I liked the rest of it very much. I saw endless rants about things that did not seem important at all, almost like people feel the need to be offended by as many things as possible.

That sounds exhausting.

Weren't different people in charge of Episode Nine, so the story changed horses mid-stream?

I saw a post yesterday that the new "Star Trek" movies fixed everything wrong with the franchise.

How nice people in sanitariums have Internet access! :)

Manboy fanboys who are incensed that 'Rey', the supposed hero of the new movies, is a 'Mary Sue'... who has powers and abilities far beyond what she should have. Because of the Force, of course. And that the movie severed all ties with the original Jedi and Sith orders, and because Mark Hamill finally came back, only to kick the bucket in the end.

Apparently, because George Lucas lavished three entire movies on the origins of Darth Vader, every single Star Wars movie going forward has to link back to Vader and the Skywalker clan. And Luke is supposed to be a Big Goddamn Hero for some reason, even if his character arc plays out an awful lot like Obi Wan's or Yoda's, and is a realistic one, given what we know of the Jedi. Also, charges of 'Mary Sue' are laughable, considering both Anakin and Luke Skywalker were 'Mary Sues' as well.

To which they retort: "But everything is explained in the novelizations and extended universe and..." blah blah blah... if it's not on screen, it doesn't exist for 99.9% of the people who watch the movie.

So, yeah... movies were flawed, but watchable popcorn fare. I don't expect Star Wars to be anything else or anything deeper. But then again, I didn't spend forty years of my life collecting Star Wars Extended Universe novels, so I'm not as deeply down the rabbit hole as those guys

I like Rey's character and performance.

I've tried watching Solo 3 times now and have fallen asleep each time. I'll make it through one of these times.

I watch YouTube at double speed. Is there any way to speed up television and movies? :)

I watched "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon" at double speed, but that worked because it had subtitles. The fight scenes were cool, but it seemed the movie was 90% dialogue!

(I watched the fight scenes at normal speed)

Well, where is uncle Jordan to put dow Metropolis, calling it a leftwing movie or comunist movie ??? :D

Or could Metropolis workers be compared to some chinese workers today?

Metropolis was finally restored almost to complete form, even after the 2001 restoration, since years later they found a nearly complete print, despite be a horrible 16mm scratch print with scratchs printed in the image. They reincerted the missing scenes into the 2001 restoration.

What about the way Star Trek producers found, during the production of Enterprise to explaing the human look of Klingon's forehead during original series, compared to the modern Klingons rom the movies and following series ?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0xqaLLydlc

Had smooth forehead Klingons suffered prejudice and was sent to the front, where there was conflict with the federation during original series ?
Anyway, why they didn't tried cranial reconstruction as the klingon in this clip suggested?

Hey, I found Sarah Brightman (famous singer of original Phantom of The Opera musical) is a Star Trek fan and that was the reason she was planning (no longer today) to do a space trip to international space station. She was even during trainning at Russia space camp few yeras ago.

https://spacenews.com/wp-content/upl...ng-879x485.jpg

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015...0411232739.jpg

https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img...man-288797.jpg

In an interview she said something like "I was training to go to the International Space Station, as one does..."

Who hasn't trained to go to the ISS?!

The question is who would had paid for her voyage, if she hadn't quit. Each kg to put on space cost a small forture.
If she wasn't diposed to pay some millions by herself, who would pay?

The reason she quit the space travel it's also a mistery. My bet is that she would pay by herself but in the end decided that was too much.

Why would he do that. He'd be more likely to compare it to Pinnochio or the Book of Genesis. :)

Not just the Chinese? The message of the movie at it's core is that the heart must mediate between the hands and head. It's a timeless message.

I'll make my own interpretation of the movie. Haven't seen it in probably 20 years. Now I've got it on Plex.

ELSE you can see the English audio version right here in this thread. Think what you will, that message is lifted/paraphrased directly from the final title card.

Someone should add a CGI fast'n furious road race scene between Tropfenwagens on those elevated freeways.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k85mRPqvMbE

She's aged really well!

Whatever and whoever paid for the ride on the 'vomit comet' got their return in publicity. That may have been the full intent.

Or compare Pinocchio to The Book of Genesis. Why not? But Pinnochio it's not a scary movie/tale as The Genesis. Geppetto wasn't a freak.

Yeah, it says basically that we must remamber each one are humans and humanism it's important to keep society united.
I did some comments to try to irk or dirupt people, since the dispute in this decade, lefwing X rightwing, maybe lead many people to forget to think with heart and reason combined.

But... had Metropolis predicted the moral decadence of contemporany society today, when we see scenes of Tje Gardens of Pleasure and Yoshiware parties ?
And would the idea of the robot Maria (created initially to replace/bring back Rotwang's old passion) today would be the start of replacement of true person for digital relations, pets, digital entertainment ?

I think Matrix was very wrong... Script follows the old silly thing of humans as good trying to fight evil machines, humans as heros, opressed. Someone should remake it changing everything. I would made it showing machines as neutrals in start, and humanity after destroy a lot of the world, but not entirelly, prefering to live by own decision in a simulated world of vanity and edonism, and the machines would not have all controll but would fight to manage convince or bring humans back to reality.

I got interested in Sara Brightman's work after many performances of her I have being saw last months on web.
She looks kind, sharming, beautifull, sensual, sweet and powerfull in singing translating such characteristic to the music. It's like something quite missing in women today.
Sarah Brightone... Sarah Brighteyes...

I agree she aged very well until a year ago, since someone (greed doctor) filled her too much or conduct her into excessive treatments. Not sure if it was just filler, or fat graft (intra cutaneous of own fat tissue to give volume to face) or even cheek implants too. She would be better withou these last procedures.

The script said nothing about who is right or wrong, or who is good and evil. If you felt those things, you've projected them onto what you were watching.

I'd say the movie was perfect and brought up endless amounts of philosophy. What's to say that choosing the red pill actually woke the person up to "reality"? Perhaps the red pill was another layer within the Matrix to prevent people from experiencing reality.

Did you actually watch the last movie to the end?

The problem with every conceivable philosophy being considered equally valid is that it isn't useful. What's to say that humans destroy the earth? There's no inherent definition of what destruction is vs improvement.

Never heard of her. That wasn't my point.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phantom_of_the_Paradise

I didn't watched much of the third. Just watched the entire first film.

I watched a resume of the animatrix series, and in this particular series the machines was the victms in the start. But this is not mentioned in the 3 films (unles I missed something).

I presume when neural interfaces became reality, a lot of people will prefer to live fake/virtual lifes instead of real lifes.

Today not just relationsships are eroded or altered, but also friendships.