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Last Movie You Saw...

Deadpool.
Celebrating my birthday with my cousin, little brother, and drinks.
Responsibility and adult stresses were left at the door. We even dug out Cody's Xbox and played call of duty right after while we were wasted.

Look out marvel fans, Deadpool says its a Romance Horror movie pretty early on.

Tip? Watch it with like four people. It felt like a "more the merrier" kind-of setup.
 
Sisters 3.5/5

How to be single 2/5 (I'm rating this as a comedy. I was yawning the entire time. You can't just throw in Rebel Wilson and expect her to do all the comedy, she needs other funny people with her. But I'll say this, this movie explained relationships and being single better than anything I've seen)

Pretty in Pink 2/5 (I just have a low tolerance for cheesyness I suppose >,< I watched it for my man Spader, and he is talent <3 )

Daddy's Home 3.5/5

Due Date 3/5

@Mitsu: Good Will Hunting was one of those movies that leave you thinking about life and success. I like movies like that :)
 
Cheesiness was a 'thing' in the 80s. Overall, it's not my thing. Won't catch me watching much of that put out nowadays. But the 80s made it an art form. As such, there are certain flicks that just have impact. Plus, most of the 'cheese' I watched when I was 13 and younger. Thus it sort of got compartmentalized into a specific place and now holds heaps of nostalgia for an era of my youth.

Damn! I'm long winded as fuck!
 
I don't blame you, DA. I know I'd have liked all those cheesy movies if I'd seen them as a kid. Its exactly how I feel about cheesy shows I grew up watching like Full House and Home Alone. Nostalgia gets me >,<

The Usual Suspects 4.5/5

X-Men: Apocalypse 3.5/5
 
Stargate 3.5/5 - I really enjoyed this one. And I'm someone who typically doesn't enjoy sci-fi lol

Taxi Driver 3.5/5 - Was a good watch. My dad recommended this classic :)
 
Life of Pi - 4.5/5
Just because of the cinematography. Absolutely stunning visuals, and it wasn't a bad book-to-movie adaptation either.
 
Just got finished watching Event Horizon. What a blast from the past! Filled with very hollow and stilted acting by Laurence Fishburne, of all people! However, the biggest surprise was a young and dashing Shawn Pertwee! Hehe! :D Alfred Pennyworth from the Gotham tv series never looked so good in strained peas, clingy army shirts! Yowza!

That being said, that was literally the only thing I liked about the movie, getting to watch him play out the aggressive male archetype. Everything else was horrible. Fishburne acted like he didn't even want to be there. Everybody else was a stock character from Alien franchise. The only one with any really good acting was Sam Neill and...he really doesn't fit as the meta human psychopath in the end. The entire thing was like an uneven stacked tower, with no real plot connections that made any sense and the ending was severely underwhelming, especially when they squeeze in one last cheap scare using the worst makeup design of the entire thing. During most of it, with the "ship" reacting to the new crew arrival the way that it did, I kept on expecting an Amityville Horror style "Get ooooout!" deep voice over the intercom. Then when it was clear that their attempts to leave were being thwarted at every turn, I expected the same thing except "No wait...staaaay!" XD

And it gets real Hellraiser at the end, with the visions Neill shares with Fishburne about what they find beyond the universe through the black hole and it's...regular torture porn with barbed wire, dismemberment, and spiked protrusions coming out of people's orifices. I just let out a big yawn that this is the big existential crisis that "Baby Bear" went through earlier - it had him comatose when they pull him from the core, then he wakes up, making a beeline for the airlock, attempting suicide through pressure release or whatever. Really, man? Like, off the top of my head, I can come up with depravity much more sinister and all-consuming than that. Darkness inside you? Very vanilla; I think you can live through exposure to that, honestly. FFS.

1997. They were adorable, yeah?
 
Last one I saw was an old favorite, The Talented Mr Ripley. It's in my top 20 films of all time. Fabulous cast, plot twists, acting. Not a bum note anywhere. The push and pull of our anti-hero's charm is so skillful, it's a masterpiece. Matt Damon is mesmerizing....till the late, great Phillip Seymour Hoffman zooms in and takes a relatively small part and elevates it to the highest art. Oh, and it's perfectly directed/paced too.

Go watch it again. And if you've never seen it, STOP WHATEVER YOU'RE DOING AND WATCH IT NOW!!!!!! :)
 
Just saw Red Sands and...what a let down! I was super excited after watching the trailer and especially after learning that Alex Turner directed. I loved Dead Birds so much, it's tied with Wes Craven's They for my favorite horror movie of all time. Red Sands was made 5 years after Dead Birds and it feels like it should have been the other way around. Seriously, amateur hour. And the worst part, it wasn't even "bad horror movie" so there wasn't the usual overacting or exaggerations or bad CGI that you could make fun of. The entire thing was a snore-fest.

I get the impression that there was the attempt to build up tension and that was maybe why it felt like everything was being viewed through smoked glass. But because of the tepid pulse right from the beginning and throughout, whenever anything happened, like people unexpectedly died or monsters flashed on the screen, it was less "jump scare" and more "oh. Hey. Lookit. Thing happened." I am absolutely baffled because there was the potential to be semi-decent if it just amped up the excitement a little bit. Instead, came off incredibly sleepy and ho-hum.

We won't even talk about the special effects neither. Because Dead Birds scared the crap out of me with their monster creation AND, even when they used computer graphics, sent chills up my spine. Red Sands has 1990's Reboot beating it out for believable computer animation. I swear to God, I've never been more embarrassed for the people involved in making this than when I saw their wilty dog poop monster come shambling out of the darkness like Gumby hit rock bottom.
 
Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs 2. It was lovely and poignant. I still have an annoyance as regards to the company of the antagonist. I cannot believe such a high-tech corporation that can be akin to Apple, Inc. has a main product of... food bars. I mean, that's lame.
 
John Wick (2014) 4.5/5 - This movie has some sweet gun fighting, and to be honest this is Keanu Reeves' Best performance since Bill and Ted.
 
Ladyhawke

One of my absolute favorites. This was one of the first live action films I ever saw as a child and I think the storytelling elements within the film influenced a lot of my story and writing choices I make now. The soundtrack dates it, especially the long title sequence with 80's music playing amidst a shifting night and day time view of the sun and moon, with a hawk occasionally flapping in. I'm smitten by the love story of Navarre and Isabeau, the protags all coming across as likeable with well-developed scenes showing just enough interaction that you get a sense of depth and who they are. Not terribly bothered by Broderick's fading in and out of accent, his acting is stellar otherwise. So many great scenes, full of impact and emotion.
 
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