Rate the last movie that you saw for the first time.

[Black Widow]

Palmer.

Good movie like 7/10.

Tom & Jerry.

Expected worse but not superbad.

[Supreme Olajuwon]

Superbad 100%

[OssMan]

Originally Posted by OssMan Superbad Pretty funny. Not as raunchy as I thought. Good old Michael Cera. Better than Project X

[rez]

Coming 2 America...not Oscar worthy obvi but pretty nostalgic and funny.

[Damian Rey 2.0]

Coming 2 America-6/10

Drags in places and lost my attention at some points but was still funny even if it can't live up to its predecessor and has a bit of a recycled plot.

[M-A-G]

Raya and the Last Dragon - 4 out of 4 stars. Fun, gorgeously animated, very well told, and a pretty neat world. Anything bad is just little nit-picky stuff but I got through it just fine. It's a conundrum because you wouldn't expect this to demand a sequel or any kind of continuation, and it doesn't need one, but the world they created is really something to the point that I would want to see more. Yeah, it's a steep fee of 30 bucks but I usually pay that much when I go to the movies anyway.

[Blonde Moment]

Final Girl 7/10

Happy Death Day 7/10

[Fignuts]

Color out of space 6/10

Nick Cage at his maximum Nick Cagiest, combined with a pretty good build, and some great disturbing monsters.

[Seanny One Ball]

Watch "Willy's Wonderland" please.

[Damian Rey 2.0]

Zack Snyder’s Justice League 7/10

The basic story of the movie is the same. Steppenwolf comes to Earth looking to unite the mother boxes and Batman is trying to get the known meta humans together to fight him.

But beyond just the basic premise, this version is completely different in tone and style. It’s also, IMO, a much better, more entertaining and better realized story. The first thing that is painfully noticeable is how badly Cyborg was jobbed out in the WB mandated Whedon cut. In this new version, he’s the heart and soul of the movie, integral to the team’s ability to defeat Steppenwolf and making victory and Superman’s return impossible without him. Silas Stone was also an important character in this cut after being made to not matter at all in the original release.

To a lesser extent, but still noticeable, Barry Allen was also changed in the Whedon reshoots. He’s still a dork, but he’s far more endearing here, he’s already a hero, and while being vocal about having some fear about what they’re up against, he doesn’t hesitate to act, he isn’t caught off guard and in need of a Batman pep talk to push him into jumping into the action. He too is integral to the team’s success and actually bails them out despite the team initially failing. There’s also no dumb rambling about brunch or being generally goofy and awe struck at everything. He still has quips and says silly things, but nowhere near the level out annoyance of the theatrical

The team in general operates better in this version. Bruce Wayne isn’t hell bent on bringing Superman back, and the idea isn’t even brought up until past half the halfway mark after cyborg explains what the mother boxes are capable of doing. And even with a resurrected Superman, Bruce is still planning and creating a game plan to try and win. While he’s hoping he will help, Bruce’s plan isn’t contingent on Superman showing up. It hinges on buying cyborg and flash time to do their thing to disable the boxes.

And that’s another big character change. Batman is much more of a tactical, sound leader here. I actually liked this version compared to the maniac we got in BVS. Unfortunately we don’t get anything close resembling the warehouse fight scene. But this Batman felt much more like the animated series version.

Steppenwolf too is also better here. Much more menacing. Much more brutal. And he actually has motives and a little bit of a backstory to explain why he’s doing what he’s doing behind simply being a bad guy trying to get 3 evil boxes.

This version isn’t perfect tho. The run time is egregious. I decided to watch it a second time to actually take it in as my first viewing was strictly to sit back and enjoy myself. I’ve criticized Snyder before for thinking he’s more artsy and profound than he really is. He’s Michael Bay trying to be Chris Nolan. That’s on full display here. Yes, the run time does allow for the plot and characters to breath and for the story to play out in a way that isn’t rushed and actually makes sense. But it didn’t need to be 4 hours. I’m halfway convinced the run time was done partly to jerk himself and his ego off and partly as a middle finger to WB for initially and soundly rejecting his original rough cut and intervening with the production afterwards, eventually leaving him to walk away.

The movie could have easily been cut into 3-3.5 hours. I think 3 hours would’ve been pushing it, but it could get close. There are scenes that linger for far too long where the lingering doesn’t add anything to what we’re seeing. For instance, after Aquaman initially rejects Bruce’s offer to join the fight, a group of women villagers sing what I could only assume is some sort of tribute song. They start while Bruce is there watching Arthur leave, then Bruce walks away but we stay watching them sing this song we can’t understand for what felt like an eternity. It was fine to include the song, but once Bruce walks away, the scene is over. But Snyder kept the viewer there. For no reason.

Another example is the new Knightmare scene they filmed. Other than a dumb groping line by the Joker, the conversation between him and Batman was actually pretty good. But Christ is it long. Snyder holds SEVERAL out of focus shots of the Joker for no reason. It just drags out and brings down an otherwise good scene.

When the team is entering star labs and infiltrating the Superman ship, I think they were shown going thru several doors. It felt like they were shown walking thru the entire facility. When really they only needed to be shown getting the truck in, with Barry posing as a military agent, and them getting to the lab that leads to the ship, where cyborg and his dad have a nice little moment.

Shit like that adds up. Add in that every fight sequence had ridiculous and unneeded amounts of slow motion added, and you can see how this movie is basically dragged to the 4 hour mark. Again, I do think it needed a long run time. You had 3 new heroes and a new villain that all needed time to be established. But there’s a lot in the film that’s just excess that could’ve easily been cut that in no way would’ve hurt the integrity of the story.

There’s also some weird pacing issues. Namely with Lois Lame. I wouldn’t have cut her scenes, but I would’ve grouped them all together. We see that she’s mourning, then don’t see her for a long while, before finally seeing her talk to Ma Kent, only for her to fuck off for a while before she’s back to finally signal she’s going to move on just before Superman comes back. All good scenes. Especially the convo with Ma Kent (which is completely ruined shortly after it happened). But they’re randomly inserted throughout the timeline of the movie in a way that adds nothing to what’s going on around them and would’ve been better used as a segment of the movie leading up to Lois witnessing Superman’s return.

Speaking of that ruined scene and a waste in general, what a completely useless and senseless addition of the

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Martian Manhunter

. Didn’t add anything to the movie. Didn’t make since why they were on the sidelines for YEARS watching Metropolis and Gotham getting wrecked in the previous 2 movies, and ruined that nice moment between Martha and Lois. Completely unneeded. IF they had held off and revealed them at the end, keeping that scene the same but having them say they’ve fought these battles before and came to Earth due to the mother boxes firing off, great. That works. But that fishy happen. We got a shoehorned scene that actually made an otherwise good scene pointless.

Another positive note. I liked how they used Darkseid. He’s there, but he’s mostly in the background. But he looked good and his history lesson scene was good.

Overall, I do like this version. It’s easily Snyder’s best DC outing despite the ego stroking run time. I do think that its popularity is going to spurn sequel chances for Snyder to finish his story. And I 100% believe this was HBO Max’s intention. They are going to want subscribers and after the year is up and they lose the gimmick of being able to debut brand new films on their service, they’re going to need more content to grab and keep eyeballs. I’m all for it. I want to see where the story goes. Maybe in a mini series that gets broken up into 2 hour chapters or whatever. But I’d like to see it finished, and I’d be surprised if this is the past we see of the Snyder Justice League.

[Lock Jaw]

No way it gets continued live-action. I could see them MAYBE doing an animated thing.

[Damian Rey 2.0]

I don’t think they’ll go animated. Who would even want to see that? Getting the band back together and letting Snyder finish would only create more buzz for the service.

[Lock Jaw]

That would also be prohibitively expensive and probably be confusing as the DCEU moves in different directions. Not to mention Ray Fisher is probably done forever with Warner Bros.

Animated they could do, they dont even need to get the same actors to do the voices, and it will be what it is, just a way to finish the story while not spending an exorbitant amount.

[Damian Rey 2.0]

I don’t think Snyder would do animated and the current WB head honcho has said they believe fans are ready and able to process multiple universes where the same characters exist simultaneously. They green lit a Flash movie that’ll have the Keaton and Affleck Batman in the same movie all while the Matt Reeves Batman is happening in its own world. They’ve also said the Snyder cut isn’t canon and that’s fine. Didn’t need to be. It could be his own little world.

Fisher not being around does raise problems. But who knows. They fire enough people and give him the chance to work for Snyder with HBO execs running the show maybe he comes back.

We’ve seen Disney+ pump out Star Wars and Avengers themed TV shoes that have been cgi heavy. HBO can pull it off if they want to. And I think there’sa chance it could happen. People are buzzing about the movie and Snyder is back in people’s good graces. I don’t think it’s unrealistic that he’ll get the chance. I’d honestly be stunned if this was it for Snyder’s take.

[Damian Rey 2.0]

Also lock is I love you and thank you so much for all the discussion your last few days about this movie

[Seanny One Ball]

Ray Fissure

[owenbunny]

Video Man - 9/10

Had to deduct a point because of lack of Bad Bunny

[Destor]

Originally Posted by Lock Jaw That would also be prohibitively expensive and probably be confusing as the DCEU moves in different directions. Not to mention Ray Fisher is probably done forever with Warner Bros. Animated they could do, they dont even need to get the same actors to do the voices, and it will be what it is, just a way to finish the story while not spending an exorbitant amount.

i dunno. they have 2 jokers as is from clearly different worlds. might not be too outlandish.


the major issue is warner is not giving snyder a huge budget ever again.

[Seanny One Ball]

Originally Posted by owenbunny Video Man - 9/10 Had to deduct a point because of lack of Bad Bunny

Swedish film about an alcoholic VHS collector?
That's a wonderful film. It touched me because it was me.

[Damian Rey 2.0]

Originally Posted by Destor i dunno. they have 2 jokers as is from clearly different worlds. might not be too outlandish. the major issue is warner is not giving snyder a huge budget ever again.

The entire knightmare scene at the end was newly filmed footage, meaning Fisher came back to shoot that scene. I think if Snyder was given the chance to make more films Fisher prob comes back.

[owenbunny]

Originally Posted by Seanny One Ball Swedish film about an alcoholic VHS collector? That's a wonderful film. It touched me because it was me.

You are a man of complex nature, you are not a dumb puta like some here

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Copycat 8/10

An enjoyable (if that is the right word to use) serial-killer thriller, with two strong performances by Sigourney Weaver and Holly Hunter.

I've definitely seen parts of the film in the past, but I think this was my first time seeing it all the way through.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

The Year of Living Dangerously 8/10

A rookie journalist (Mel Gibson) is assigned to Jakarta in 1965, in the days preceding the Indonesian Communist Purge, and is befriended/used by a male Indonesian photographer (played by Linda Hunt). Amidst rising civil strife, Gibson's character begins a love affair with a British military attache (Sigourney Weaver), whom warns him of an imminent coup attempt by the communist party.

Though Gibson and Weaver are the headliners, it is Linda Hunt that steals the film (and I believe won an Oscar for her performance). If you are looking for a good story, check this film out.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Blackhat 6/10

Convicted hacker (Chris Hemsworth) is tasked by a joint American-Chinese taskforce to take down a cybercrime network.

It is watchable, but dull; overly concerned with being moody, rather than creating any form of suspense.

[GD]

That's a horrible movie.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

I just tried watching Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, but I couldn't get past the first 10-15 mins. I just wasn't feeling it.

[GD]

Dude, that movie somewhat brought RDJ back to the dance. Also, Michelle Monaghan.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

I'm all for RDJ; I just wasn't feeling it.

[GD]

That's alright. Do give it a fair shot once you have the time.

[GD]

Really interested in watching "Minari" and "Sound of Metal"

[Seanny One Ball]

Originally Posted by El Vaquero de Infierno I just tried watching Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, but I couldn't get past the first 10-15 mins. I just wasn't feeling it.

Chook Chutney

A fucking masterpiece.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Natural Born Killers 7.5/10

Bonkers and entertaining, though the visual work comes off as somewhat dated.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

The Mosquito Coast 8/10

An arrogant, know-it-all inventor (Harrison Ford) with a desire to get away from the "American way of life" decides to uproot his family and start a new community in the South American jungle, whereupon his arrogance turns to tyranny and then madness, which eventually leads to his ruin.

I found it captivating to watch and Ford makes a thoroughly unlikeable individual watchable; Helen Mirren as "mother" is given very little to do.

A good film for those looking for a story, rather than action or suspense.

[Damian Rey 2.0]

Godzilla v Kong-7/10

Fun movie with action scenes focused on the monsters instead of people running away from the chaos they’re causing.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Beverly Hills Cop 7/10

I think previously I had only ever seen parts of the sequels, never the original. It was entertaining enough; I think I mostly watched it for Lisa Eilbacher than anything else. I might watch the second film tomorrow.

Heat and Dust 7/10

A Merchant Ivory production, which has two intertwining stories in two timeframes: one set in the 1920s and the other in the 1980s. The 1920s story is about a newly married English woman, Olivia, who joins her husband in India, and eventually has an affair with the local nawab and runs off with him. The 1980s story revolves around the great-niece of Olivia, who is retracing the steps of her great-aunt to find out what became of her.

I could have done without the 1980s story, which I think takes away from the other part of the film and doesn't really add anything. Overall, it is not up there with Howards End and The Remains of the Day, but it is still a solid outing.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Gran Torino 8.5/10

Clint Eastwood owning it like a motherfucker.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Beverly Hills Cop II 7.2/10

Marginally better than the first film.

[joshwoodsrohfandm]

Red Sonja 9/10

It's considered as the "other conan the barbarian" film just under a different name for whatever reason. Kalidor is basically Conan without the name title and he does what conan does played by Arnold who plays Conan. Story is fun and enjoyable but just really short film. I noticed Ernie Reyes Jr (Keno from TMNT2). Really cool to see Ernie in such a unique role. I didn't even notice at first but i eventually noticed; really awesome stuff. All I could think of whenever he left the scene ("Later Keno Dude"---hence TMNT 2)

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

The Mule 7/10
Clint Eastwood holding a film together that doesn't do much; Eastwood's screen presence (even at his old age) makes it watchable and more than it is.

Shutter Island 8/10
I should have seen the ending coming from a mile away, but it snuck past me.

[El Vaquero de Infierno]

Silent Hill 5/10

A bit naff.