The Last Movie You Watched Thread

Trainwreck - it's one of those weird romcom movies where the main actor/actress is actually playing themselves and they try to make everything seem super realistic, like every day conversations actual people have. I've seen a couple of these lately (Simon Hedberg did one which was way worse than this film) and while there are a couple of laughs, it's usually nothing to call home about. 5/10

She wrote it about her own life experiences, so of course everything is going to be realistic. I thought it was pretty funny for the first half and then started to conform to a standard romcom. Lots of funny one-liners, LeBron James cameo's were really good. John Cena playing her boyfriend at the start was brilliant. I see he's got a part in a Amy Poehler/Tina Fey comedy film coming up. Supporting parts in comedy films seem to be his calling.

I watched Get Hard. 

with Will Farrell and Kevin Hart. 

I was going into it excepting to rate it a 1/10 but i actually got quite a few laughs during the movie...  the plot is whatever it's a typical were nothing alike but then we become best friends because of what we go through type of comedy.

Movie has a lot of racist and homophobic jokes which i found a little with so many of them going by in the first 25 minutes of the movie... eventually i was like whatever its not like i've never seen these type of jokes in the movies before.... anyways it's ok if you just need a comedy to pass an hour and a half.

5/10 but watchable.

I watched Get Hard yesterday. It started off really slow and I almost turned it off but luckily I didn't because it ended up being quite funny.  6/10

Straight Outta Compton - great cast for this film. Picking Ice Cube's son to play him was a genius move in my opinion. Paul Giamatti delivered as always, he's one of the most underrated actors around. The film was pretty good. Performances all around were good.  And the Eazy-E HIV scenes were powerful and emotional. 8/10

What? people didn't like Spectre? it looks so good though... i felt like from the trailers its a movie for true bond fans... seemed to have a lot of call backs to the older movies.

I did not like Quantum of Solace at all... its probably in my bottom 3 Bond movies. if not number 1. I'm going to see the new movie with an open mind and just decide for myself if its worthy or not... i think it will be good though. and i think i'm going to agree with you on this one when its over and i've seen it Ben.

Last movie i watched was Jurassic World. i thought it was ok... i didn't even mind the raptor riding the t-rex in the movie. was it the best movie ever? no haha. but it was pretty good for a dinosaur movie.. and probably the second best JP movie of the series after the first movie.

7/10

Star Wars The Force Awakens: Has its flaws but is still a great movie. I'd say it's between this and Empire as to which is the best Star Wars. 9/10

The Revenant: Great film with awesome performances from all the main cast especially DiCaprio. 9/10

My favorite thing about the Force Awakens was the minimal CGI. The movie just looked great and proves that you don't need a crap ton of special effects to make a movie look good. Really added to the movie.

You're Next - 6/10. Cheesy, vaguely The Strangers-esque horror flick that's smart enough to shine a light on horror tropes and make you shout at the screen, but also knows when to go the opposite route - it's pretty well done. Nothing overly original but well made and has some legit funny moments when playing too into or surprisingly against type.

Descendants - 5/10. Cutesy, typically hetero-normative Disney flick that's likely meant more for tweens but anyways... it's cute and colorful enough, with okay acting as far as a Disney Channel TV movie goes. The concept is cool - defeated villains' offspring get shipped off to a preppy school for hero kids... but the actual end product was too bland to be anything more than "colorful / neat". I think they made an animated show or movie out of this, which seems like a smart move. I actually play the cell phone game once in a while.

Pixels - 4/10. Cool idea, but not new and I liked it better when Futurama did it, frankly. Sandler somehow doesn't even manage to play himself - he has no charisma here, he seems checked out. Peter Dinklage went to major waste here, and Josh Gad was just uncomfortable to watch in most of his scenes. Kevin James as the US president? This would've likely gotten no laughs from me anyways, but they actually played it straight - no joke, just... Kevin James as the president. Just a paycheck for James, basically. This is also one of the those movies where the opening 5 minute flashback gives us something that would've made for a more interesting movie than what we got. Skip it.

Brave - 6/10 - I'm not gonna go into this one too much. Basically, the setting looks gorgeous, there's some good humor and it's all likeable enough - but it feels rushed, awkward and seems to float away before you can get a hold on it - much like the will-o'-the-wisps themselves. Fun, but it's no Tangled or Frozen.

I also re-watched Bad Santa for the first time in years a few weeks ago and was in tears laughing. Damn funny movie. So dark.

Finally, I re-introduced myself to But I'm a Cheerleader for the first time since I got outed in high school - funny and endearing LGBT-relevant flick that satirizes those pray-the-gay-away sort of places that were so common back then. Good cast, cute, funny, emotional and sooo '90s.

I've got Lazer Team on my IMDb watchlist - will be checking it out soon, I need a new comedy flick to sit back, turn my brain off and chuckle to.

Watched Deadpool last night. Hilarious. Seriously was funny and was a perfect Deadpool film. Even the after credits scene was funny.

Straight outta Compton.

I liked it.. but it was long as fuck the directors cut was 2 hours and 45 mins.

Because i thought it dragged a bit with the time... 6/10

EDIT: i actually rewatched this and paid close attention and was far more awake... it's a fantastic movie. my rating is new now.  9/10

Crimson Peak - wasn't what I expected it to be. The trailer makes it look like it'll be a scary ghost story, but it's hell of a lot more story driven than a standard ghost story. I enjoyed it, but probably would have enjoyed it more if I wasn't expecting it to be a different kind of film. If I watched it a second time I'm sure I'd love it as it was a very good story. A very, very misleading trailer for this film though.

I was talking about Civil War with my brother the other night. I preferred The Winter Soldier to Civil War. Not doubting it's a good film, but I couldn't see why so many people online were saying that it's the best comic book film of all time. It was very good, but not he best imo. The Winter Soldier was better for a start.

MCU wise top 3 is Avengers, Winter Soldier, Iron Man.

Deadpool was fucking awesome though. Even funnier when you realise that he kills a load of people looking for Francis (screaming at them "where is Francis?"), but it's mentioned when he's first shown that no one working with/for him knows that his name is Francis. So he's killed people who genuinely don't know who Francis is 😅