Last movie you watched......

Had no idea. Thanks.
Watched Goalie about Terry Sawchuk a couple a weeks ago. The scene on the lawn in which Sawchuk falls on Ron Stewart's knee was historically accurate from everything I've read.

 

Saw Bullet Train last night. Going in, I was weirdly unsure of how to react to it. This is the first action thriller I've seen in the theaters for about two years that wasn't a sequel or part of a franchise or a comic book movie. (Not since Tenet.)

It's weird how sonething that was such a staple of the out-in-the-world cinema can just go straight to the margins. Too bad this was just kind of... mediocre. Not funny enough, in a tongue-in-cheel way, and the action itself was clunky.

 

You answered your own questions. It's just a good, easy, entertaining movie that's fun to watch. Movies don't always have to be dark, or sophisticated,or deeply message-y or some great artistic endeavor in order to be a good movie. And, as Dan Oregon said, it has enough emotion and humanity, and enough of a story, in it to make it relatable and something to root for, too.

It's something you could go see again and again, and still like it.

 

Yeah but Billy Madison and Tommy Boy were also highly entertaining. Nobody would call them “great.” They were effective at what they set out to do.

 

I was the only movie-goer to see Vengeance a couple of nights ago. The description and trailer didn't really do it justice, but I enjoyed it. B.J. Novak wrote, directed and starred, and Ashton Kutcher was great in his role.

 

"Prey" on Hulu. This is hands down the best Predator movie since the first film. Earlier, slightly more primitively armed Predator against early 1700's era Comanches, who are all played by actual First Nations actors. It's original, suspenseful, and highly effective. Damn good watch. Other than being part of an existing IP (so the viewer knows the potential of the Predator and some of his weapons) this is a film you have not seen before instead of the usual Hollywood remix.

Good stuff.

 

Totally agree. Wife and boy loved it. I enjoyed it as well. Very unique experience.

 

Uncharted. I laughed, out loud, several times, in the last 20 minutes. Which is what I think you're supposed to do. It's not believable on any level. You could read a book for the first 90 minutes and more or less end up where you need to by the time the laughs roll around.

Thirteen Lives. Rescue story of the soccer players in a Thailand cave. Very thorough. Handsomely staged. Perhaps an hour too long.

Licorice Pizza. For a second time. It's one film up through the Bradley Cooper sequence and it really should end soon after that, and it doesn't, and then it gets a little annoying.

 

Thirteen Lives ; what a story. Well done. Man that’s man at his/her best. Amazing what we can do when we set aside idiocy.

 

Watched Lightyear last night. Felt rushed. I think it needed more character development.

 

"Red Riding Hood" available on Netflix. I had forgotten this movie ever existed. Pretty bad flick for the Twilight crowd....but it does contain one awesome element----Gary Oldman going to 11 in every scene as a crazed Quint-like werewolf hunter.

 

Love & Death: the last of woody Allen’s line of slapstick films, and I haven’t seen all the way through since the early 1990s. Found on Prime last night, and thought, “why not, I enjoyed this movie as a teen.”

The Good: there are several deftly done battle scenes that compare favorably to more serious war movies. It makes me wonder if Allen had help on them or if he just winged it, but they were shot from interesting angles and showed some real prowess.

Diane Keaton is fantastic. It’s easy to forget how great her comic timing was and how she could use facial expressions expertly.

the Bad: even at his best, Allen’s films of the era drag at some points and this was no different. There are about 20 minutes where they plot to kill Napoleon that the movies just feels flat,

the revolting: there is a scene where an old man says the best things in life are 12-year-old blondes that in light of what later came out, made me feel really nauseous.