Last Movie You Saw, Name & Review Movie • Page 251

Should I make the longest post in this thread to date y/n

I will refrain if it's annoying lol

 

10,000 words on your Barry Lyndon viewing with an apology for not watching sooner

 

I have 50 movies to log and none of them are Barry Lyndon. BUT, it's finally on my shortlist if that's any consolation

 

Kinds of Kindness - 7/10

 

Is Aaron going to post or what?

If youre not posting because youre watching BL I apologise profusely

 

Arcadian - 8/10

one of the best Shudder movies I've seen

 

Sinners - 6/10
Well made and entertaining. Happy people are seeing it. Music scenes were the highlight, shoutout Marvin Gaye & Camp Lo & Lil B the Based God. Lives in the shadow of the much more fun (and superior) From Dusk Til Dawn. Thematic weight/message means more, but I don’t think it makes for the better film.

 

great question. everyone keeps asking me this

 

Sinners (2025, Ryan Coogler)
Damn seeing them brothers in the suits makes me want to revisit the worst Outkast album. HYB vibes carry the film up to the musical climax, which stands far and away as the best part of the movie. A mesmerising depiction of how culture connects us throughout change and evolution and is worth watching for that alone. Afterwards it falls into some genre problems. Vampire rules are inherently goofy; you gotta create interesting ways to handle or change them. It starts well but to get through the action we run into some unfortunate chiches and plot contrivances. Theres an unnecessary amount of cgi. It's not that hard to put a rattlesnake on a truck bed, not sure why but the landscape/car scenes looked fake. Generally not a fan of the same actor playing 2 characters, it's mostly done well here but it's always more enjoyable to just cast 2 actors and let them have scenes together with real chemistry. In Adaptation Cage plays twins but they are spiritually disconnected so instead of fighting against the shots it adds to the theme, Sinners has shots that feel like watching a work around.
Loved the ending, a very cool move to switch back from the fantasy and hit an Inglorious homage. I'm glad they pulled out from the cigarette finish because cigarettes are gross.

 

enjoyed The Phoenician Scheme. i've only seen a handful of Wes Anderson movies, and probably not the ones widely considered his best. I don't particularly like or dislike any of the ones i've seen more than any of the others.

 

The Day After Tomorrow - such a great disaster film. Some amazing set-pieces, doesn't get too melodramatic, and decent acting. 8/10.

 

A classic

 

Movie I watched the night before, 2002's Solaris, starring George Clooney. Really good sci-fi film; I always liked the concept of a planet somehow interfering with the realities of people near it. The futuristic clothing and set-design were great touches, the music was very fitting to the mood and style, and story well-constructed. 9/10 for me.

 

I like that movie quite a bit, have been meaning to watch the original

 

Fuck it, fisrt half of Mission Impossible reviews so I can make a dent in my 50+ unlogged films:

Mission: Impossible - 8.5/10
I remembered thinking this was dry as a kid, but as an adult, it's easy to see DePalma's fingerprints all over it (complimentary). He really took a long-running TV series and turned it completely on its head within the first 20 minutes of the movie. And so many dutch angles! Just a great introduction to a universe that would evolve into something else entirely. Much more suspense-driven than its sequels and as much as I love those movies, this one holds a special place in my heart. Relatively understated if you can ignore a helicopter being flown through a tunnel and coming within inches of ending Ethan Hunt's life.

Mission: Impossible 2 - 6.5/10
I'm not going to be snarky enough to call John Woo a downgrade from DePalma, because come on - Woo's got the juice. As others have mentioned, however, I'm not sure his version of Bond is a good fit for a Mission: Impossible film. It runs a bit long in the tooth with a relatively straightforward premise and makes an unfortunate waste of both the Team and supporting actor Anthony Hopkins. Still, it's hard for me to get over the nostalgia of growing up with this one - we love some slow-motion motorcycle jousting, and of course, the doves. It may be the weakest of the bunch, but there's something novel about watching this franchise work itself out.

Mission: Impossible III - 8.5/10
My personal favorite Mission: Impossible, partially because of how much I watched it growing up and partially because of Phillip Seymour Hoffman's absolutely diabolical portrayal of villain Owen Davian. Say what you will about Abrams -- he's had hits and misses -- but he really walked this franchise towards something bigger in every sense of the word, and Davien's no-bullshit approach to violence makes the stakes feel more real than ever. In addition to an obviously game Cruise (and Ving Rhames), we get an introduction to Benji and Michelle Monaghan, who adds a much-needed brightness to the film anytime she's on screen. Do not trust anyone with this in their bottom three.

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol - 8/10
Finally, the film that takes its first tangible step towards what Mission: Impossible is now. First-time live-action director Brad Bird delivers on Cruise's unhinged action sequences (the Burj Khalifa climb in particular). The biggest thing that knocks Ghost Protocol down a peg (for me) is its lack of memorable villain. I love the idea of Ethan and co. going up against eco-terrorists and having to stop a nuclear weapon, but Nyqvist's antagonist Kurt Hendricks lacks both the screen-time and intimidation factor to round out the rest of the film's strengths. (Additionally, Rhames' absence is felt, and Renner isn't exactly the best replacement.) Still, it's a new formula that will be refined (and nearly perfected) in subsequent entries.

 

I googled "dutch angle" and this is how Google displays the screen, haha

 

that rules lol

 

Semi-related, the little easter egg when you review a Mission Impossible movie on Letterboxd right now is awesome lol. I don't know that I'm gonna wanna sit through it eight times, but super fun

 

I'm in the middle of my mission impossible rewatch and I too like 1 and 3 about equally and 2 not as much

Love Michelle Monaghan, Thandiwe Newton, and the little bit we see of Maggie Q and Keri Russell. Even when they're kidnapped or killed off in service of male main character development the women in this franchise are fantastic

 

Knives Out just now. Soooooooo good. Just the perfect who donut film. Great pacing, Craig having a blast, great acting, and so very funny. 10/10

 

Stop watching Easter eggs and post the other 42 reviews and watch Barry Lydon and post the review

 

Drop your LB and I’ll find a blind spot for you to watch. How about 1989’s The Resurrection of Michael Myers Part 2?

 

I dont have LB, I only post here. I will watch that next though, currently watching J'accuse for the history thread.

 

Beyond the Law (1993)
Charlie Sheen giving himself an Apocalypse Now heart attack, smashing mirrors in his undies with a mullet.

 

J’accuse (1919, Abel Gance)
War is bad and pacifism doesn't work. Over 100 years later and we are still all guilty, and left with the sinking feeling that we are never going to change. On the positive side at least that means if our species survives another 100 years we will still be living interesting lives and creating great art about it. By the midpoint J’accuse has you fooled, its looking like trench war is a good old time, the heros get a chance to prove themselves and the freaks have to go off and make friends and not harass their wifes. No, the women get raped, the freak friends die and the heros go crazy. Sitting at home watching? Living in comfort while children get bombed, strange you haven't been having nightmares about it. No dialogue the surreal ending is some cinematic magic. A great start to the history thread. Next up Birth of a Nation


Theif or Reality (2001, Antoinetta Angelidi)
Screened as part of Vivid festivals theme of Dream Logic. We were told before it screened that it was a woman experiencing 3 different versions of reality and now afterwards the Imdb is telling me the 4th character was the thief that ties them together. That sounds very cool but I did not get any of that from watching the film. It watches a fever dream on grief, death and motherhood with poetry playing a major part in the second half.

"Whatever I spent, I had
Whatever I saved, I lost
Whatever I donated, I still have."

If you want a chance of understanding the very loose non narrative I recommend watching this scene before watching, it functions as the thesis but it's pretty close to the end. I would also say its not a film that needs understanding, you can just watch and feel it.

The Resurrection of Michael Myers Part 2 (1989, Richard Holm, Henrik Wadling)
Had to stop watching this on the train after the scissor kill, didnt want to freak out the women next to me, finished it at lunch though. The makeup and effects on this are going hard, and I like the post kill high fives. Didnt get any subtitles so I wasn't sure what Mr Myers had to do with it. Disappointed the dancing janitor died, I liked his moves.