Last Movie You Saw, Name & Review Movie • Page 185

sorry Jacob’s ladder. Once upon a time made my top 20 list.

 

You should definitely check it out and report back! Wish it was more conveniently streaming (used to be on Prime), but it is 100% worth the rent (or purchase if you're bold - I think the blu-ray is only $10 on Amazon).

 

according to the just watch app it’s on paramount+ and showtime

 

The 1990 one? Weird, I can't remember if I checked the browser site or Letterboxed but it must not have been updated. Good stuff!

 

Monkey Man is not fucking around. Holy shit that was incredible.

 

@Aaron Mook did you watch Heat yet what's going on?

 

Lol, soon! As per my OUATIH review, I had some extenuating circumstances this weekend and needed something low-conflict that wasn't going to jack my anxiety up. So I went with the cozy three-hour Tarantino rewatch instead. But it is on my shortlist, probably Saturday

 

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love Jacob’s Ladder

did you play the original Silent Hill trilogy? the team that made those games were so great and they’ve spoken about being influenced by JL and also Lynch. it’s great.

 

I haven't played them in full, but I'm dabbled/seen/read enough to know about the influence, which is definitely apparent and awesome.

 

Mitski agrees

 

Wicked Little Letters was a lot of fun and Olivia Colman and Jessie Buckley deliver. If you think you might like it, you probably will.

 

10 to Midnight - 7.5/10
I cannot in confidence call this a good movie, but it approaches being a great one in how bizarre it is and the way it shifts from unintentional humor to somewhat shocking brutality. I'm not very familiar with Charles Bronson, so I don't know how common this is, but every line written for him was accidentally very funny and every line read he gave was even funnier. Likewise, the amount of nudity in this is already a choice, but the decision to make the killer constantly nude is even bolder. It's all very strange and messy in a way that could be frustrating if it wasn't so intensely watchable. The number one word used to describe this slasher-crime thriller hybrid is "sleazy," and honestly, that's accurate; it's morally dubious and totally ridiculous, but a hell of a fun time.

 

Everest (2015)

good disaster / survival flick. Lovely visuals. Brolin ruled. Need to catch that imax documentary about the climb now

 

I also need to watch jacobs ladder

 

What’s is this, the guys named Jake who haven’t seen jacobs ladder thread

 

Me convincing everyone to watch Jacob's Ladder: Ha Ha Ha... Yes...

 

it’s definitely overlooked and under appreciated

definitely qualifies as a cult classic tho. and it’s one of the greats

 

About 45 minutes into Heat, won't be able to finish it tonight but will definitely report back on Sunday

 

Henry Rollins jump scare lmao

 

Army of Darkness!

what a blast. I was a little drunk and probably need to rewatch. Wasn’t prepared for it to be so funny / slapstick. Like what an outlier in the Evil Dead universe. I guess the only thing left is for me to watch the Starz show.

 

The Starz show is great, too.

 

Civil War - 7/10, Interesting companion piece to a movie like Zero Dark Thirty, wish it went a little bit harder on the world building but I understand why Garland wanted to keep it vague. When this thing cooks, it's fucking cooking, incredible sound design and boy, does that Plemons scene deliver.

 

The Toxic Avenger - 7/10
Once again, if you want to talk about movies that wouldn't get made today, look to Troma. The Toxic Avenger is filled with over-the-top on-screen child and animal death, slurs, and stereotype-driven jokes, and it still manages to be a mostly likable and well-casted cult classic. The edgelord schtick gets a little old 40 years later (think Mell Brooks directing a slime movie but worse), but The Toxic Avenger earns its charming reputation when it simply oscillates between being mercilessly stupid and genuinely funny (see: inventive use of gym equipment for murder, the way he switches on a smooth baritone between growls and groans, etc).

Splinter - 7.5/10
This has been on my radar since Ibread about it in an old edition of Alternative Press (lol), and I'm finally getting to it probably 15 years later. I was honestly shocked by how good this was, especially considering I almost turned it off about 15 minutes in. It's definitely an amateur production, but it moves fast at under 80 minutes, and once this possession/creature-feature picks up its Evil Dead charm, it really doesn't let up. Shea Whigham turns in a great performance here. Is the camera way too shaky anytime a creature is on-screen? Sure. Is the final escape ripped directly from Tremors 2? Absolutely. Fortunately for everyone involved, I really like Tremors 2.

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire - 6.5/10
Alternate Title: Hollow Planet of the Apes

The Monsterverse films are the definition of three-ish star films, and I was truly skeptical of this one based on the trailer, but Godzilla x Kong feels like the franchise finally finding its fooding as something over-the-top and unrelentingly stupid in the best possible way. Ghostbusters: Frozen Empire failed by emulating and worshipping at the altar of legacy films that are much, much better. Godzilla x Kong almost gives the vibe that Wingard and crew caught wind of Godzilla Minus One and said, "Why bother?" By leaning into how ludicrous these films can be, they not only succeed in shedding most expectations and delivering something fun, but also inadvertently pay tribute to some of the goofier Showa-era Godzilla films in the process. New monsters fight (although Godzilla and Kong's rematch in Egypt is the clear highlight), the human characters are fun to spend time with (witheveryone but Rebecca Hall being completely insubstantial), and despite some video game goopiness in Suko (Baby Kong) and the Hollow Earth sequences, all of the crystals and prisms and temple stuff looks genuinely beautiful and fun in a Universal Studios ride kind of way. At nearly two hours, the film could use some light trimming, but by lowering the bar, Godzilla x Kong actually manages to succeed with flying colors. I know that sounds backhanded, but it's a fun film and a stylistic high for the franchise.