Movie What's the last movie you saw? (8)

[squashface]

American Gangster

Denzel might just be the coolest man on Earth

 

[Beerfish]

Greenland

Comet world ending movie with the race to an airbase for people deemed essential

Gerard Butler stars as a structural engineer deemed to be one of those - his wife and son are also given access

There are irrational choices made ( which drive the movie I guess ) and a few loose connections - but overall a fairly tense movie as they find themselves fighting survival

Greenland 2

Which I guess is some kind of spoiler this wasnt as good . Lot more holes in this one and lot less believable .

Spoiler: My concerns

Given they were protected by the military and in a military base for 5+ years their astounding lack of survival skills ie street smarts was concerning - again I assume this drove the movie - but just simple things like not stopping for a picnic in the middle of a war zone - actually entering that war zone - and the various street gangs , insurgents and just people looking to extort them that they failed to process.

While it finished on its inevitable conclusion the ending was telegraphed about an hour in - all in all ok but as a stand alone movie I didnt think it worked

Spoiler: 1 more thing terrible about this

Given the premise of the 1st movie was about the kids insulin and how this had them rejected at the air force base leading to a longer adventure - only once was this mentioned in the 2nd movie and his insulin supply seemed endless. It just felt like they didnt know how to write it in so they forgot it

Spoiler: This nearly made me chuck my drink at the tv

Continuing the lack of survival smarts and logical thinking - they escape by using one of those orange life rafts and the fuel runs out . '' ok looks like we have to drift and we only have 2 days of food left ''

Ok abandoned life raft you would think is stripped

But they land up against a building and the hero pulls down an oar from the roof - right above their heads and pushes them off - hands another oar to someone and they row through Liverpool

ARE YOU ****ING KIDDING ME - VIKINGS ROWED FROM SCANDINAVIA AND THEY COULDNT BE ARSED USING OARS ON A BOAT - REALLY

I nearly turned it off then

Yeah we watched 2 last weekend. It was dog shit. Thank **** it was only 90 something minutes.

 

[Mayestro]

Lake George- very low key crime thriller that has some black comedy elements. An ok movie, with perhaps the main drawcard spending time with two of my favourite actors- Shea Whigham and Carrie Coon. 7/10.

 

[Frank Bunn]

Greenland

Comet world ending movie with the race to an airbase for people deemed essential

Gerard Butler stars as a structural engineer deemed to be one of those - his wife and son are also given access

There are irrational choices made ( which drive the movie I guess ) and a few loose connections - but overall a fairly tense movie as they find themselves fighting survival

Greenland 2

Which I guess is some kind of spoiler this wasnt as good . Lot more holes in this one and lot less believable .

Spoiler: My concerns

Given they were protected by the military and in a military base for 5+ years their astounding lack of survival skills ie street smarts was concerning - again I assume this drove the movie - but just simple things like not stopping for a picnic in the middle of a war zone - actually entering that war zone - and the various street gangs , insurgents and just people looking to extort them that they failed to process.

While it finished on its inevitable conclusion the ending was telegraphed about an hour in - all in all ok but as a stand alone movie I didnt think it worked

Spoiler: 1 more thing terrible about this

Given the premise of the 1st movie was about the kids insulin and how this had them rejected at the air force base leading to a longer adventure - only once was this mentioned in the 2nd movie and his insulin supply seemed endless. It just felt like they didnt know how to write it in so they forgot it

Spoiler: This nearly made me chuck my drink at the tv

Continuing the lack of survival smarts and logical thinking - they escape by using one of those orange life rafts and the fuel runs out . '' ok looks like we have to drift and we only have 2 days of food left ''

Ok abandoned life raft you would think is stripped

But they land up against a building and the hero pulls down an oar from the roof - right above their heads and pushes them off - hands another oar to someone and they row through Liverpool

ARE YOU ****ING KIDDING ME - VIKINGS ROWED FROM SCANDINAVIA AND THEY COULDNT BE ARSED USING OARS ON A BOAT - REALLY

I nearly turned it off then

The plot in the first movie revolved around the boy's need for insulin. It would have been boring to do it again.

Spoiler

Viking long boats had sails and up to 50 rowers. Gerard and co only paddled the lifeboat a couple of hundred metres.

They could have come up with a better title. They only spent about half an hour in Greenland over the course of the two movies. I guess Armageddon was taken.

Spoiler

The French girl didn't seem very upset to be leaving her parents.

 

[GreyCrow]

Afterburn - Prime

A post apocalyptic world where a treasure hunter is sent to find works of art and various other things

Dave Bautista is starting to build a resume of similar movies ie actioners based around his ability to be big mean and resourceful

The movie doesnt pretend to be anything else than it is - its not Shakespeare nor even Tarantino - its just blowing shit up and punching blokes out while being driven forward by a plot device

I enjoyed it for what it was

 

[UltraEgo]

MORTAL KOMBAT II

Empty your mind and embrace your inner retro gamer in this fun action packed movie full of beautiful blood and guts and gratuitous violence because there are only FLAWLESS VICTORY FATALITIES!

Josh Lawson steals this movie and Jessica McNamee is just DAYUMMMMMMMM!!!

Adeline Rudolph though

 

[spinynorman]

Thief (1981) - Michael Mann's first feature film, starring James Caan as a safecracker looking for one last big job before he goes straight. Mann emerges as a director fully formed, with this already being pretty top tier in his work and a pretty great exploration of his key themes. It even has a diner scene of its own, dare I say more impactful than the classic one in Heat. Caan was never better than here, with an all timer of a performance, and the Tangerine Dream score is perfect for the vibes too. Anyone who loves Heat owes it to themselves to see this one too, and with it currently being on the "Leaving Soon" tab on Amazon Prime, now's as good a time as any.

Onibaba (1964) - two women in 14th century Japan live amongst a field of tall, thick reeds, near the battlefields of warring clans. They kill soldiers lost in their fields, loot them, and then dump their bodies in a deep hole in the middle of their field. This is referred to as a horror movie, and I felt the disappointment from a lot of the audience in the cinema I was in who were there to see it in that light. It is R-rated (astonishingly, for a film from 1964!) and there are horror scenes, particularly towards the end, but above all else this movie is horny as all out. It's an incredibly beautiful looking film, the cinematography is top notch and captures the wind in the reeds ten years before Malick started making his movies. The Japanese were really throwing out classic after classic through the 1950s and 1960s.

 

[Financialpanther]

Black Phone 2 - not as good as the first one but it wasn't bad at all. I did like the extended focus on the sister who carried it well.

 

[dumb]

preacherman (1971)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067606/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0_tt_7_nm_1_in_0_q_preacherman

a kind of, hicksploitation religious satire meets farmer's daughter softcore. fake preacher travels around seducing ladies and extorting under the guise of religion. i say satire, because there's references to the preacherman being wanted for statutory rape. there's also implied chicken-romancing which predates pink flamingos.
there is somehow a sequel but i have no idea how i will ever watch it.

 

[MrsEddieBetts]

A Fish Called Wanda

Another from the iconic movies project. This had it's moments but I didn't LOVE it. Kevin Kline steals every scene he's in.

 

[HirdyLannister]

The Railway Man

A POW has PTSD and confronts his captors decades after the war.

7/10