Last Movie You Saw, Name & Review Movie • Page 143

As ApplePie said Voyage Home concludes the 3 part arc that starts in II. Wrath Of Khan, Search For Spock, and Voyage Home are their own contained continuing trilogy. The Motion Picture and Final Frontier are more strictly standalone. Then Undiscovered Country is the culmination of Kirk's personal arc that started in Khan.

If you marathon II, III, IV, and VI you'd get the full story they are trying to tell with that cast during that era. You dont really need to watch I or V to get the full story.

 

I don't do rankings, but I will say as much as I like Wrath Of Khan I personally put First Contact and Undiscovered Country above it. Those are my two favorite Star Trek films.

I love Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country because it was the first time Roddenberry's strict vision of how he wanted this world to be portrayed was subverted. In that it was the first time that elements of the Federation were shown to actually be flawed and contained a veiled imperialism that went against Roddenberry's purely utopian vision. He actually stormed out of the room within 5 minutes of the first script meeting.

Also there is there is that much of the tone, concepts, and ideas presented in VI eventually got transferred over to Deep Space Nine, arguably the absolute best Star Trek series ever made.

 

Plus Klingons quoting Shakespeare!

 

The Witches of Eastwick - 6.5/10

The hornier, unhinged cousin of Hocus Pocus

 

Maniac Cop - 8/10

I mean, realistically speaking: it’s not an 8 but I enjoyed it so much that I’m giving it an 8. very fun movie

 

It's an 8!

 

The Pizzagate Massacre - 5/10

Vile - 2.5/10

Somedays, you just feel like watching garbage

 

Last few days:

Miss March was absolutely fucking awful. A very rare 2/10. Just abysmal in every way.

Sex Drive was charming. The use of homophobia to make the brother a dickhead was annoying in 2023 but they did pay it off well. There was a lot more that worked than didn't. James Marsden really was game.

Revenge of the Nerds is a sex comedy that fires on all cylinders, and is also so cancel-able on so many levels. Genuinely funny, and genuinely reveals some of the more revolting standards of 1984, too.

EuroTrip was pretty stupid but I laughed more than I didn't. "Scotty Doesn't Know" is hilarious.

The Flame and the Arrow was a ton of swashbuckling fun. They could have cast some villains with more presence to not get dwarfed by Burt Lancaster, but c'est la vie. Burt is just magnetic for the whole movie, making great use of his acrobat training. Gorgeous technicolor too.

The Dawn Patrol is a tremendous achievement. Howard Hawks hit the sound era fully formed and it's unreal that he could make a movie like that just 2-3 years after sound was invented. Some of the aerial shots are breathtaking and the story is terrific.

Educating Rita was wonderful and (I thought) pretty damn profound. Has so much to say about academia, literature, teaching in its gentle, quippy way. It's easily one of my favorite Michael Caine performances.

The Ghost Breakers was spooky B-movie fun. I find early Bob Hope really funny, but much-maligned Willie Best steals the whole movie. Granted, he does speak stereotypically and lean into the "black characters being easily scared" trope, but he's THE hero of the movie, does constant toe-to-toe comedy team schtick with Hope, and gets almost as many laughs. I get people who don't want to give actors like Best credit, but he was working within an insanely racist system and doing the best with his talent that the world would let him.

The Invisible Menace was garbage. Was hoping Karloff and an Academy Award nominated director would make it pulpy B-movie fun given that title. But instead it was cheap crap. Waste of 55 minutes.

 

V/H/S/99 - 7/10
I still remember being made fun of on the old site for posting about movies like this. Glad things have changed. This is a step down from '94, but the Ozzy's Dungeon segment is an all-timer.

Strange Brew - 8/10
Peak Canadian comfort comedy. Reminds me of my dad.

 

The Meg - 3/10, Whew some of the worst ADR/dialogue I've seen in a film, only mildly redeemed by the fact I still like Statham's schtick.

 

It Follows - 9/10
Very close to perfect. A modern classic.

 

love this one. haven't watched it in awhile though

 

I was in the same boat. Recommend revisiting!

 

I've got it on bluray in a box somewhere in my house

always wanted to pick up the soundtrack on vinyl too but the variant I want was always a little expensive

 

I actually rewatched It Follows last month and it was still very strong. There is something so unsettling about that empty way the various forms of the creature walks.

 

I'm waiting for my 4K copy to come in before revisiting It Follows, very excited.

 

I think I've seen it follows but honestly don't remember!

 

it forgets

 

I still need to catch up to that one, but I liked the director's other two movies quite a bit. The Myth of the American Sleepover is crazy underrated, imo.

 

Under the Silver Lake fucks so hard.

 

Sounds like you're due for a (re)watch!

 

They Cloned Tyrone - 9/10
I laughed out loud a bunch at this. One of my favorites of the year so far.

 

Gone Baby Gone - 7/10 I think

good performances all around except for Amy Ryan who somehow got nominated for an Oscar???

Ed Harris is capital-g Great in this

cannot say why or how but I assumed this movie was like, a 50s noir thriller?

 

Amy Ryan was great what the hell josh.

 

It felt like her office character doing a bit!