Last movie you watched......

The Peanuts movie is one of the rare ones I can watch more than once.

Speaking of, just finished All the President's Men. Can't really add anything that hasn't been said before, but damn, just damn...Hoffman is da bomb. And Meredith Baxter (sans Birney)'s cameo as Sloan's wife had me thinking for a split second, "look how young Ali McGraw is." Ooops.

 

"Brooklyn" with Saoirse Ronan. Nice film, if you like BBC-like period dramas with no explosions (like I do).

"Love the Coopers," Diane Keaton, John Goodman, Alan Arkin, et al. Meh. Some funny moments (like the little girl parroting her mother, periodically answer innocent questions with "YOU'RE SUCH A DICK!") And, oh... Olivia Wilde. Rawr.

 

"Creed"; really well done and most realist fight scenes I can remember; didn't feel like a sequel

 

Can't argue with any of those. "From Russia With Love" gets bonus points for having Quint from "Jaws" (Robert Shaw) as the bad guy.

I'd also throw "The Spy Who Loved Me" into honorable mention, mainly for Barbara Bach. And Carly Simon's great theme song.

 

BvS better than the bad reviews. Slow at times and definitely a prequel rather than a stand alone movie. But I liked it. Looking forward to WW.

Damn she was the best part of the movie.

 

Finally saw Concussion tonight. I really enjoyed it, though the inaccuracies bothered me once I thought about the movie after it was over.

 

"Me and Earl and the Dying Girl" - Pretty good movie that would be a nice companion piece to "Perks of Being a Wallflower." Second half gets a little draggy and the finale left my wife in tears. Some really funny moments, though.

 

Went and saw My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2, and enjoyed it for the light, easy movie that it was. It was better than a couple of second-hand reviews I'd heard of it by other family members.

 

False.

I saw it over the weekend. It was a steaming pile of shit. An actively unenjoyable experience all around. What parts of the movie DID make sense were way too heavy-handed.

And, if I had to sit through one more superhero crisis of confidence and the resulting emoting, or one more "dream sequence," I was going to throw myself off the roof of the theater.

 

It seems like the movie in tone, look and content was much more for the hard-core comics fans who like the darker stuff. Not so much for the general audience.

 

Maybe it's just me, but I didn't think it was "dark" at all. It was bad melodrama, followed by muddled fight scenes that look they were done by the CGI intern.

 

It was literally dark. As in scenes shot with little light. Maybe that was just to overcome the bad CGI.

I do think there were some cool scenes, though. But overall, Superman is boring. And a conflicted Superman is exasperatingly boring.