My wife wanted to turn the first one off after 20 mins and is now the biggest wick fan and can’t wait until #4
I saw The Raid 2 popped up on Netflix recently. It’s the sequel to The Raid: Redemption. It’s my favorite action movie/sequel of the 2010s. If you haven’t seen either, make it a priority imo.
Just rewatched The Sting, best picture winner from '73. It has held up really well and is still a great film. See it if you never have, Redford and Newman are great ...
I watched The Menu and enjoyed it. If you can't enjoy Ralph Fiennes in that role then you need to check yourself. Hoult was fantastic too. The pancake scene killed me. I think I've already posted this before but I'm not going back to check.
I went in knowing absolutely nothing about the movie and really enjoyed it. I thought all of the cast did great.
Speaking of, that Boston guy facing art fraud who murdered is wife is pretty close to the plot of Confess, Fletch
Finally getting around to watching these this week. Solidly entertaining, but such an odd mood in those movies. Keanu Reeves doing cartwheels to shoot a guy point blank in the skull one minute then staring blankly at some other character saying "Truly a pleasure to see you again, Meester Wick" the next.
Finally saw Avatar and really enjoyed it. Yeah it was long but looked great and story was good enough to not make it drag too much. I imagine the edible and 2 small caps I ate greatly influenced my review of it. Also the amount of "bros" made me giggle quite a bit.
The franchise has become a meme but I saw it on a fucking gigantic IMAX screen at universal citywalk while buzzed and it was amazing, probably will not hold up on subsequent watches at home but it was a great experience
I felt similarly, it looked incredible and I will pony up to see every single one of these movies in IMAX 3D until the series ends. The part that absolutely slayed me when I was under the influence was this moment with the whale:
Without looking it up, I know she's done: Suspiria X Pearl Infinity Pool Maxxxine (upcoming) and Nymphomaniac. So yes. Actually, add the Anya Taylor-Joy version of Emma to that list too.
Watched A Triangle of Sadness tonight. Not sure exactly what I just watched and didn’t find it particularly enjoyable to be honest
I won’t go into spoilers, but the movie rocks. I don’t think I loved the ending, but the setup and cinematography are both killer. At the very least, you should watch in theaters. This movie plays very well in theaters and has some insanely funny moments
I think it’s the worst of Ostlund’s films. The third act is great but everything beforehand is very on the nose.
Saw this last night and agree. Id also recommend going in blind if you can - I just watched the trailer and think it shows too much. Love Mia Goth.
It's arguably my favorite film of 2022 (After Yang, EEAO, and NOPE are in the mix). What didn't you like about it?
I watched White Noise last night and was left pretty disappointed. At certain points, it hits National Lampoons. But I feel like it ran 40 minutes too long and Driver/Gerwig had zero chemistry.
It was undeservedly too long, too on the nose in its criticisms, picked easy targets to satirize (easy to see why it won at Cannes), it was overall not an enjoyable watch (I don’t care what anyone says, 15 minutes of people sloshing around in throw up and shit is not enjoyable) and while the last act on the island with Abigail was the best part it ran so long. Other than that, it was fine.
I see a movie a week on average and very rarely walk out of movies, which stands out even more these days since i have been Regal Unlimited member since its inception and had moveipass for about a year before that so don't really care about the cost of a normal ticket and see a lot of random stuff... And I was very close to walking out of White Noise on multiple occasions, it was pretty disappointing and totally agree about the lack of chemistry.
It just wasn't my kind of weird I guess and whenever I thought it found a rhythm it would pivot to something else. I loved Marriage Story, but this just didn't work for me.
Currently watching the last hour of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood on TV and I am laughing my ass off. Brad Pitt's Oscar was well deserved. I think I was so on edge watching it the first time at the movies that I didn't properly appreciate the humour at the time.
The book is even better. First one Tarantino has written and hope he does another one. It’s like the complete directors cut. Loved all the old Hollywood stuff and the book lays out a lot more of Cliff
Watched Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. Pretty good comic book flick was a combo of Black Panther and Avatar 2. One thing made me laugh hard: the underwater people greeted folks with a double hand gesture that simulated an open clam. Same gesture that Larry and Jeff used on Curb Your Enthusiasm to describe a woman with a huge vagina (who they accused of smuggling a valuable baseball out of a room) ...
Book was awesome. I read he wants to write one about Reservoir Dogs. And go in depth on the actual bank robbery
as someone who read the novel, I prefer its story / ending to the one adapted by M. Night. But that's just me.