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

[Seanny One Ball]

The scariest part would be waking up and seeing a calendar and your own withered legs

[ron the dial]

Originally Posted by Seanny One Ball Is it good? It looked pretty high value for Clive Barker. I just liked the term “Midian” because I bet that’s where the wrestler nicked it from.

i dunno if i'd class it as good, but i certainly had a fun time with it when i watched it a few years back. if you're looking for something "fucking mental," i think it fits the bill.

[Helmsphere]

Originally Posted by Seanny One Ball Ben Foster has an incredible bit-part in 30 Days Of Night and it was that performance which made me think that some day he’d win an Oscar.

He was so great in that.

Also loved his character in the movie Hostage as well.

[Seanny One Ball]

He was always a great character actor, everybody forgets he was in The Punisher playing a weedy goth type… the guy is probably the best working actor with the worst agent in Hollywood.

Look at the shit he churns out between prestige projects…he clearly cannot distinguish quality from crap. Making a slavery film with Will Smith recently is particularly egregious, and I thought his box-to-the-death concentration camp film was rough going…

[slik]

Knock at the Cabin - 7/10

Batista really is the best wrestler turned actor. Movie was fine. Nothing incredible, nothing terrible. Well-paced and enjoyable.

[Lock Jaw]

In honour of Frank Drebin's return (or because I was browsing Crave and saw it was leaving soon)

Pitch Perfect - 8/10

Enjoyed it. Wasn't "ready" to see Max from Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist again, and wooing another braud...... I guess this was like a decade before that it stil.... TOO SOON. Wish that show would come back.....

[Destor]

The 1st pitch was excellent.

[Frank Drebin]

Destor's gonna miss Drebin when he's gone.

[Destor]

Reference aside which one of us is leaving

[M-A-G]

Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania - 2 and 3/4 stars out of 4

I mean, you're getting what they advertise: Ant-Man, Wasp, and their family in an adventure in the Quantum Realm. What saves it from being an absolute drag, and it does drag at times, is that these actors can do these roles in their sleep and they remain likeable and interesting, even though it feels like some of them are somehow given LESS to do. You could chalk it up to all the things they need to cram in, setting up what's to come in this phase. It starts off with a similar problem that Captain Marvel had in that you're being asked to care about too much, too quickly. Seriously, it wastes almost no time kicking off the ride. How enjoyable the ride is depends on how much you feel from these characters and the visuals coming from these set pieces, because there is a lot to point out as fun and creative, even if the story isn't particularly gripping. Kang is no Thanos, in my opinion, despite his intricacies here, so it'll be interesting to see how much intrigue he draws. I do appreciate it not being the joke-fest the previous two entries were, even though there are a couple of good ones. I don't think it's the kick off Phase 5 needed, but I can think of much worse ways to waste two hours.

Stick around for two post-credits scenes, which do raise some questions and are enough to get me curious about what's in store.

[Destor]

I didn't read your reasoning for fear of spoilers but if MAG goes below 3 stars it might be a turd

[M-A-G]

I always try writing without giving a lot away with these. I don't think I gave away any major plot twists. Most of what's really juicy is in the post-credit scenes.

[Destor]

Im spoiler sensitive. It wasnt a dig at you. Once i read the title im just glancing at the score and thats it. No upside in risking it

[Lock Jaw]

Pitch Perfect 2 - 7/10

Wasn't much in the way of a character arc/story in this one, but I guess I was still entertained.

[Destor]

Pitch 1 is really good. They get worse with each iteration. 2 is shclock but the music is mostly ok with a gag or 2 that lands. 3 is abysmally unfunny and the music is forgettable to ok

[Destor]

Pitch 1 though is a classic 80s teen love story through a pop musical filter

[Destor]

Antman 3 - 6/10


I had a good time. Its very flawed but its still a good time. Dunno how much energy i have for my take but I'll give it a shot:

Comedicly most the jokes dont land or will land the 1st time and fall flat on the call backs. 1 out of 5 bits get a chuckle. Doesnt ruin the film though. They move on the gags at a brisk pace so if the joke doesnt land there's always another one around the corner.

Narratively i like it conceptionally but there are subplots that arent worth getting invested in. They spend their time well enough that the audience knows they dont need to care on these subplots so it can def make the film feel long at parts when the subplots are getting attention because you know its all irrelevant.

The core 6 cast members are all mostly good. Scott Lang, Cassie and the antagonist all come off really well. With Jan, Hope and Hank being solid enough. And they do carry the film.

I found the villain to be the most compelling Marvel villain not named Thanosor Loki by a wide margin. I was really invested in how they were building him up and its mostly good. Not perfect but itll do.

There are some inconsistencies that irk me but theyre mostly the same one that were in antman 2. Contradicting how the powers were established in antman 1 etc.

All in all i would say its fun and fine. Its the most enjoyable marvel film since doctor strange 2

[XL]

Yeah I found myself constantly asking how the powers are working the way they were but then they ignored the rules they established pretty much from the get-go.

[Lock Jaw]

Ant-Man and The Wasp: Quantumania - 7/10

Another perfectly enjoyable product of the Disney Marvel Industrial Complex that I will never watch again.

[Destor]

Carlito's Way (1993) - 5/10

Far and away the most uninspired work ive seen from DePalma. There really isnt any piece of this film that isnt unispired save for Sean Penn and a single scene with Vigo Mortensen. The writing, the cinematography, the score, hell the casting. Its all safe. Challenging no one in the production or the audience at any level.

Now that said none of it is bad. I cant point to anything and say its done poorly. It isnt egregious or anything. Its just paint by numbers and generic. Maybe even lazy. But not poor.

[Destor]

Leguizamo was ok. He believed himself atleast. Thats not much of a compliment. He was interesting when he was on screen atleast and thats something i cant say for most the film

[Destor]

Sometimes there were nice tits on the screen

[Destor]

Id have been embarrassed to release this film 3 years after Goodfellas.

[M-A-G]

My only significant memory regarding Carlito's Way is on our way back home from No Mercy 2005, we saw Eddie Guerrero in a limo next to us on particular stretch and he had the movie playing.

[Destor]

Heat (1995) - 7/10

I think the thing the makes this work as well as it does is the theming. At a first glance we have a Gentleman Theif story and thats all well and good but the throughline is at its core dealing with a man's devotion to work and the sacrifices that are made for excellence.

Each of the principle cast that get development, more on that point later, all have a female shadow that theyre trying to reconcile with. All hinging on their lack of devotion. The men all at one point or another chose their work over their women, who symbolically represent their personal life vs their work life. This inability to balance the two leads to disaster for all. The one thing i think the narrative needed was 1 character who had found a healthy balance or perhaps sacrificed work for personal so we could have explored what a better alternative could possibly look like...but perhaps that characters absence is a point unto itself.

The opening action sequence stands out as the best shot sequence of the picture and its mostly due to the writting. A man goes to get a refill of coffee. While waiting a semi pulls the the curb. He abandons the coffee and hops into the semi. Cut to paramedics. Cut back the semi. After a short exchange the semi driver asks the former coffee enthusiast to stop talking. Tension between the two clearly hightened. Cut back to the paramedics.the dawn hockey masks. Cut back to the semi. They do the same.

This short sequence is a really good example of how to establish a world and how a story reveals itself. We the audience enter the film knowing nothing. We dont know these people or what the stakes are. Each sequence is initially confusing, deliberately. Every step in this scene is on its face bizarre but we're learning second by second about the characters and their alignments in the world. Good men dont often wear hockey masks on a highway for example.if when they all wear them we know theyre a unit.

The film has a host of flaws though. Two bothered me more than others. First its Al Pacino. He shouldnt be in this film. Now obviously this film exists to specifically pit Pacino against DeNiro. Not the characters but the actors. Thats the draw in 95. But nothing in the script is for Pacino. The character feels black more than anything and its a terrible case misscasting. The character is overly physical for an actor who isnt physically imposing and the dialog feels completely inorganic safe the diner scene with he and DeNiro where Pacino is finally not portraying a spastic black man in white face.

And the performance he gives doesnt justify the casting either. Its 3 hours of melodramatic overacting that would only be toleratable if one or both of us were incredibly stoned. If it were him it would calm him down and it if were me atleast i could laugh.

The other major issue is its a 3 hour pitcure, which is fine, that has about 15 principle characters, which is fine, but only 2-4 get any substantial screen time, which is not fine.

Danny Trajo is a core member of the primary 4 robbers. Hes in about 7 or so scenes, speaks in maybe 3 of them, and gets about 5 words in each.

The getaway driver is another. He gets 3 scenes. Hes fully tied into the theming inside these 3 scenes shown to be freshly out. Trying to stay clean for his woman only to choose the life (i.e. work) over her and fies for his choice. But it is im giving him this full back story contained in very small scenes that makes it all the more odd. In a 3 hour film a total of maybe 5 min is all the time we have for this subplot?

And all the cast suffers from this. Kilmer especially. For a film this long to have such little time is a paradox i cant grasp. I imagine there's an entire reel worth of material that didnt make it.

The theming is incredibly strong though and makes its message very clear. All in all i think its pretty good.

[Lock Jaw]

Pitch Perfect 3 - 6.5/10

Was still vaguely entertained.... the music was not as good as the second, but the story at least had more of a "story".... however, that story does go off the deep end of taking what started as a grounded "realistic" universe and "jumping the shark"....

[drave]

Originally Posted by Destor Heat (1995) - 7/10 I think the thing the makes this work as well as it does is the theming. At a first glance we have a Gentleman Theif story and thats all well and good but the throughline is at its core dealing with a man's devotion to work and the sacrifices that are made for excellence. Each of the principle cast that get development, more on that point later, all have a female shadow that theyre trying to reconcile with. All hinging on their lack of devotion. The men all at one point or another chose their work over their women, who symbolically represent their personal life vs their work life. This inability to balance the two leads to disaster for all. The one thing i think the narrative needed was 1 character who had found a healthy balance or perhaps sacrificed work for personal so we could have explored what a better alternative could possibly look like...but perhaps that characters absence is a point unto itself. The opening action sequence stands out as the best shot sequence of the picture and its mostly due to the writting. A man goes to get a refill of coffee. While waiting a semi pulls the the curb. He abandons the coffee and hops into the semi. Cut to paramedics. Cut back the semi. After a short exchange the semi driver asks the former coffee enthusiast to stop talking. Tension between the two clearly hightened. Cut back to the paramedics.the dawn hockey masks. Cut back to the semi. They do the same. This short sequence is a really good example of how to establish a world and how a story reveals itself. We the audience enter the film knowing nothing. We dont know these people or what the stakes are. Each sequence is initially confusing, deliberately. Every step in this scene is on its face bizarre but we're learning second by second about the characters and their alignments in the world. Good men dont often wear hockey masks on a highway for example.if when they all wear them we know theyre a unit. The film has a host of flaws though. Two bothered me more than others. First its Al Pacino. He shouldnt be in this film. Now obviously this film exists to specifically pit Pacino against DeNiro. Not the characters but the actors. Thats the draw in 95. But nothing in the script is for Pacino. The character feels black more than anything and its a terrible case misscasting. The character is overly physical for an actor who isnt physically imposing and the dialog feels completely inorganic safe the diner scene with he and DeNiro where Pacino is finally not portraying a spastic black man in white face. And the performance he gives doesnt justify the casting either. Its 3 hours of melodramatic overacting that would only be toleratable if one or both of us were incredibly stoned. If it were him it would calm him down and it if were me atleast i could laugh. The other major issue is its a 3 hour pitcure, which is fine, that has about 15 principle characters, which is fine, but only 2-4 get any substantial screen time, which is not fine. Danny Trajo is a core member of the primary 4 robbers. Hes in about 7 or so scenes, speaks in maybe 3 of them, and gets about 5 words in each. The getaway driver is another. He gets 3 scenes. Hes fully tied into the theming inside these 3 scenes shown to be freshly out. Trying to stay clean for his woman only to choose the life (i.e. work) over her and fies for his choice. But it is im giving him this full back story contained in very small scenes that makes it all the more odd. In a 3 hour film a total of maybe 5 min is all the time we have for this subplot? And all the cast suffers from this. Kilmer especially. For a film this long to have such little time is a paradox i cant grasp. I imagine there's an entire reel worth of material that didnt make it. The theming is incredibly strong though and makes its message very clear. All in all i think its pretty good.

But WHERE'S THE FUCKING VAN?!!?

[Seanny One Ball]

There’s a weird totally random bit in HEAT where one of the crew kills a hooker and they imply that he’s a serial killer.
It seems totally out of place.

[Destor]

On the surface its pointless. Totally self contained scene that goes nowhere; however each main characters are paired against a woman. The women are symbolically the same thing. Perhaps with him his killing of them implies a man who's thrown away the notion of balancing the two worlds all together. In that scene she seems to anathema to him. More over he fails to function in either world. He's rejected professionally and he rejects the prostitutes affection...but like in all cases in this film it is the man rejecting the woman/personal life.

I didnt give him much thought but that is really interesting. He rejects her more emphatically and has less outside of the work than anyone else and still fails the hardest of all. He isnt presented with an inability to balance the two. Maybe thats the message there. You do have to try. To be a complete actualization of the self.

Juxtapose that over DeNiro's character who has this great line "Im alone; im not lonely." Which is a total lie. So while this possible serial killer truly rejects finding the balance DeNiro internally has yearned for it but not pursued it. Deprived himself of it.

Dunno. Very interesting

[Seanny One Ball]

The guy that plays the hooker killer isn’t Ted Levine, but Ted Levine is in it as a detective or something.
He should have been the killer.

Goodbye Whoreses

[Destor]

They look so much alike you could tell me he played both rolls and id buy it

[Emperor Smeat]

Star Beast: Alien Grindhoused - 4.5 out of 5

Its a Grindhouse style campy remake of the original Alien film that is mostly the same film but with a bunch of changes here in there that are subtle in some cases and major in others.

[Seanny One Ball]

Does it use the O’Bannon script?

[Seanny One Ball]

Oh what… it’s a fan edit.

[Destor]

Pokemón: Detective Pikachu- 6/10

Look its fun and fine. When its cute its super cute and it does pretty good job at being cute. It respects the world. What it doesnt do is respect its audiences intelligence though.

i take special offense when kids entertainment treats their viewers like theyre dumb. I think its the biggest crime kids entertainment can do. They are as dumb as you allow them to be. Literally the 2nd scene gives the villain away and in a detective story that is criminal. Here's a protip: if youre writting a whodunnit your casting economy cant be 1:∞

[drave]

I'd like to introduce you to:


/r/kidsarefuckingstupid

[Blonde Moment]

Originally Posted by Emperor Smeat Star Beast: Alien Grindhoused - 4.5 out of 5 Its a Grindhouse style campy remake of the original Alien film that is mostly the same film but with a bunch of changes here in there that are subtle in some cases and major in others.

where can you find it?

[Vastardikai]

Cocaine Bear: 9/10. Some excellent use of CGI. The design actually hints at a surprise near the end. Gory at moments, but funny as shit. Ray Liotta's last movie.

[Emperor Smeat]

Originally Posted by Blonde Moment where can you find it?

I saw the film on Baked (former /wooo) but the person who streamed it said they found it at some random website but didn't mention where.

Seems the person who made the fan edit didn't release it for public download at least based on a quick google search.

[Destor]

Closer (2004) - 8/10