Rate the last movie you saw

[letgocavs]

Yes people don’t make grand claims like “I need to know that I’ve done one thing right in my life” in conversation. it was good, not great though

 

[David.]

Creed 3 - c

Spoiler: Spoiler

it's a balancing act with Dame and I don't like how it's pulled off. He ends up too heel to like at the end. They don't flip him enough back the other way a la Warrior to make it what it could have been.

The dudes skill also is not developed in a believable way. He's a guy who's never won except a fluke fight and he's supposed to beat Creed. Ya I know he's past his prime. This is just some bum who sucked during sparring and showed nothing, and is suddenly a powerhouse.

The weight classes are just all fucked.

Michael b is not a good actor.

You do not get that jacked in prison. Lol.

There wasnt a resolution to his daughters dilemma - when to fight and when talking it out is the answer - which was really interesting when it was presented. Missed opportunity.

Cutting the crowd during the fight was a miss.

Dukes appeal to emotion to inspire rather than keep it logical could have been written much better. "Creed, you know how to fight. Fuck, you don't need me to tell you that. You need to go out there and beat this bitches fucking ass man."

The person I went with..sides with the antagonist. Creed was not a hero, he left the dude, the dude had his back. Creed was wrong. Creed left him to rot in prison. His heel turn eventually did have some bite to it, but the start of it - where he just worked the guys busted shoulder - was supposed to have done all the work. Cheap.

 

[KI4MVP]

I'm pretty surprised Everything Everywhere All At Once dominated the oscars. I thought the movie was pretty flawed when it went into the absurd in a few places.

Of the ones I watched I thought The Fabelmans would win best picture and best director.

 

[DJTJ]

Creed 3 - c

Spoiler: Spoiler

it's a balancing act with Dame and I don't like how it's pulled off. He ends up too heel to like at the end. They don't flip him enough back the other way a la Warrior to make it what it could have been.

The dudes skill also is not developed in a believable way. He's a guy who's never won except a fluke fight and he's supposed to beat Creed. Ya I know he's past his prime. This is just some bum who sucked during sparring and showed nothing, and is suddenly a powerhouse.

The weight classes are just all fucked.

Michael b is not a good actor.

You do not get that jacked in prison. Lol.

There wasnt a resolution to his daughters dilemma - when to fight and when talking it out is the answer - which was really interesting when it was presented. Missed opportunity.

Cutting the crowd during the fight was a miss.

Dukes appeal to emotion to inspire rather than keep it logical could have been written much better. "Creed, you know how to fight. Fuck, you don't need me to tell you that. You need to go out there and beat this bitches fucking ass man."

The person I went with..sides with the antagonist. Creed was not a hero, he left the dude, the dude had his back. Creed was wrong. Creed left him to rot in prison. His heel turn eventually did have some bite to it, but the start of it - where he just worked the guys busted shoulder - was supposed to have done all the work. Cheap.

No spoilers here, but it was the first time in the boxing genre where I felt the good guy was the bad guy.

Thought it had the best potential outcome because of how good of a character Dame was, and the final fight was arguably the worst fight in any three of the Creed movies. Brutally bad.

 

[inliner311]

I'm pretty surprised Everything Everywhere All At Once dominated the oscars. I thought the movie was pretty flawed when it went into the absurd in a few places.

Of the ones I watched I thought The Fabelmans would win best picture and best director.

There is a lot of courting and campaigning with Oscars and a lot of the awards shows. Alot of times academy members don't watch all the movies. They just get swayed to vote for a person or movie.

Everything Everywhere all at once just had actors with good stories involved with it. I believe that it won Best picture and best director because they rode the momentum of Ke Huy Quan's story then Jamie Lee Curtis being nominated and well liked in Hollywood. Mitchell Yeoh barely had any competition for best actress. If a movie has 3 actors that gain that kind of momentum to win their categories then best director and best picture just become default votes for the movie. Best director and best picture tend to go hand in hand, I think in this case best picture was probably the logical choice first then people just gave them best director too.

 

[inliner311]

Of the ones I watched I thought The Fabelmans would win best picture and best director.

I watched the Fabelmans and thought it was a good movie. The problem I had with it is that it's a bio pic of Steve Spielberg but he renames the characters and some the greatness of the story is really that it's a story about Spielberg. If you go in blind without knowing who Spielberg is or that the story is about him, a lot of the charm of the story just really isn't there.

The feel of the movie is like the Wonder Years. The story is also oddly close to the tv show the Goldbergs, way more serious but I do wonder how many directors in Hollywood grew up in the same way. It just may not be that unique of a story.

Also you got to factor in when talking about the Oscar is how does this stack up against the director's resume of films. The academy doesn't like to give a director or a movie best picture if the movie isn't the one of the director's best movies. If you start counting Spielberg movies that you like over the Fabelmans, the less likely academy members are going to vote for it.

 

[inliner311]

Some movies I’ve seen recently

Avatar 2: A- I really enjoyed the first one and thought this one was great. Yes it is long. Yes the story I’m sure has a ton of holes in it but I had a good time at the movies and it felt like an experience that you should have in the theater. The visuals are a 10/10 for me. I definitely enjoyed going back to Pandora.

Banshees if Ilshirin: D I did not like this movie. Sure the acting was great but the story and mood just didn’t do it for me. Slow and pointless.

Elvis. C+ Great job by the lead actor but overall I thought it was a weak popcorn movie and Tom Hanks as the Col was just not working for me.

Black Panther 2: B- it was a good sequel considering the main dude died in real life. This felt longer than Avatar 2. It accomplished what a Marvel needs to do. But I’m looking forward to Ant Man more.

The Whale: C Ok I don’t mean to fat shame, but I felt disgusted in a lot of parts of this. It actually is an Ok movie and Fraser definitely deserves the Oscar praise he is receiving but just not for me.

Banshees of inisherin is actually suppose to be pointless and a head scratching storyline. The movie is basically a parallel for the Irish civil war and basically the tensions between two side even after the civil war was done.

 

[inliner311]

I don't want it to seem like I hated the whale. I was thoroughly engaged. But it was really flawed.

Arnofksy writes conversation in a completely unrealistic way. A lot was way too on the nose.

I actually think this is part of the movie.

Spoiler: Spoiler

The main character is writing professor trying to teach his daughter and his students to write what they want to write. To take ownership of their writing. The ending especially is on the nose but I question if it is reality at all. I think the moment he hovers with the light bathing him, you have to question if the whole sequence is a hallucination as he dies. He has set this up for how he wants to die but I do question if this is actually how he dies. His daughters essay even hints to this too. I think at some point he starts hallucinating his perfect way to die and we as the audience go along with that with him instead of the reality of how he dies. He basically has multiple moments from the very start of the movie on when he could have died from a heart attack. Even the very first moment of the movie could have been where he actually dies but he envision his storybook ending to his death.

 

[David.]

I actually think this is part of the movie.

Spoiler: Spoiler

The main character is writing professor trying to teach his daughter and his students to write what they want to write. To take ownership of their writing. The ending especially is on the nose but I question if it is reality at all. I think the moment he hovers with the light bathing him, you have to question if the whole sequence is a hallucination as he dies. He has set this up for how he wants to die but I do question if this is actually how he dies. His daughters essay even hints to this too. I think at some point he starts hallucinating his perfect way to die and we as the audience go along with that with him instead of the reality of how he dies. He basically has multiple moments from the very start of the movie on when he could have died from a heart attack. Even the very first moment of the movie could have been where he actually dies but he envision his storybook ending to his death.

Sure maybe. But why? Why do that? Does that tie anything up in a meaningful or impactful way?

 

[inliner311]

Sure maybe. But why? Why do that? Does that tie anything up in a meaningful or impactful way?

Spoiler: Spoiler

I think everyone wants to go out on their own term but also have their loose ends tied up in a nice little package when they die. In reality, death comes suddenly and everything isn't all wrapped up. In the whale, I think he wants this storybook ending to his life but in reality he would have died in after the first scene or one of these random scenes throughout the movie where he almost died.

Truly, I would think of this alternative view of the movie if they didn't make him a writing professor and he wasn't harping his daughter and students to make compelling and meaningful writing. Is it any less meaningful or impactful if its a real event or fiction.

 

[Jack Brickman]

Watching Creed III. Jonathan Majors is a spectacular asshole, which might have been a more impressive performance if not for the recent news that he's probably actually a spectacular asshole in real life.

 

[FiveThous]

Watching Creed III. Jonathan Majors is a spectacular asshole, which might have been a more impressive performance if not for the recent news that he's probably actually a spectacular asshole in real life.

Hasn’t it already come out that they were fake allegations?

 

[Jack Brickman]

Hasn’t it already come out that they were fake allegations?

He posted some text messages from the girl he beat up where she apologizes, but it seems like classic abusive relationship based on what I read.

 

[KI4MVP]

We watched Jack Lemon's the Out of Towners (1970) last night and it's pretty funny. I think it was on Paramount +.

 

[FiveThous]

Wrath of Man

5.5/10, good one time watch with some decent action scenes.