What's the last movie you saw and rate it...

[6793026]

Originally Posted by donk.

Leave the world behind 8/10 but the ending 0/10
Underwater (2019) 10/10
Deepwater horizon 9/10
Glass 10/10

Solid selection esp. Deepwater was based on a true story?
Glass is M. Night Shyamalan so it's decent.
Didn't think Deepwater was rated that high back in the day esp with Kristen Stewart leading... maybe it's time to rewatch. Only good underwater movie, classic of all time is 1989's The Abyss

[donk.]

Deepwater is BPs biggest global disaster, i remember watching it on the news

If you have seen Glass then i guess you have seen Split too

[winson604]

Originally Posted by 6793026

Solid selection esp. Deepwater was based on a true story?
Glass is M. Night Shyamalan so it's decent.
Didn't think Deepwater was rated that high back in the day esp with Kristen Stewart leading... maybe it's time to rewatch. Only good underwater movie, classic of all time is 1989's The Abyss

Guilty pleasure how about "Deep Blue Sea" lol. Samuel L Jackson and the shark alone make it watch worthy

[underscore]

Carry-On [2024] - 7/10
It was better than I expected, still a little hokey but the plot was fairly solid. Probably the most unrealistic part was LAX looking all nice and shiny

Man On Fire [2004] - 8/10
It was a little bit Hollywood'd but a great story with great acting and action. It's a remake of a movie that's based on a book, so I'd like to check both of those out sometime too.

Passenger 57 [1992] - 5/10
The plot was terrible and there was a lot of painfully bad acting but Wesley Snipes fighting people wasn't the worst way to spend an hour and a half.

[6793026]

Not really sure why there was such a huge hype on this.
Karla Sofía Gascón - well yeah, first transgender person to be huge in hollywood. I thought it was a very good story with tons of potential. I just didn't think it was needed for it to be a musical. Zoe Saldaña did well as well. I thought she looked like a monkey (her role) as she was a min. wage lawyer with nothing to show for. Selena Gomez, well let's just say I listened to her music way back in the day but now the fact she's 32, she's no longer the 18 yr old hot chick no more.

I went into the movie with no idea what the movie was about, I really enjoyed the story and what it was trying to do, just didn't quite like the musical.

Not going to ruin the story for anyone cause I found it WTF... and it kept me wanting to watch so that was good.

Not a movie i could really recommend as 90% of the movie was in spanish + musical which made it hard. Can't comment to say if it will win any oscars as i feel there are better ones in the mix.

[6793026]

wow, what a trip. I saw the preview months ago and thought.. oh, the facebook guy (the social network / now you see me) with harry potter dude (turns out.. nope, it was just a normal actor)... until I saw the credits. NO wonder he looked so familiar - Kieran Culkin, he was the brother (real brother who played Home Alone 1/2). I have not watched Succession so I didn't know Kieran C existed.

Plot - just two cousins traveling back to grandma's town in Poland. Some bromance shit. Fine, i'll watch it. Man it was SUCH a treat.

What made it really cool and all these little things creeping up.
1) Classical musical during entire movie. Now I'm not a musical expert, i barely played the recorder in school. It wasn't until the ending scene where the cousins arrives at Chopin Airport (Warsaw, Poland) that I realized the entire score was from the famous Chopin Polish composer. Very nice touch.

2) The dynamic of two cousins, one has normal life and the other seems like who only smokes pot and a bum. Yet the personalities are so vastly different. The dynamic, the way how it touches, agitates, and even pushes each other's boundaries was so nice to follow along during the entire movie.

3) Jesse Eisenberg is not a great C class actor by any means but he does have his ways with words and acting on long monologues drawing you in. It's so weird yet so captivating despite his emotionless acting on his face. Now you won't find that in Now Yyou See me 1,2 and 3 (releasing this year), but I did remember him in The Social Network.

What was the true kicker... the movie was all Jesse Eisenberg. He wrote, direct, and starred in the movie.

Don't worry, there were no onions being cut but somehow there were some ah-ha moments on how family / bromance aspect that makes your heart sad yet happy at the same time.

Wife and I just didn't want to stop watching - jam packed script, casual and refreshing on how relatives are so weird with a love hate relationship at time.

Very low straight to DVD movie which I thought was a great gem. Two acting styles, two opposite personalities, the love hate relationship - man.... there were two specific lines that resonated.
a) "Just stop for a moment and be real" scene when he yells at the tour guide on not being real during a tour - and at the end the guy just said 'you're the first guy who actually gave real feedback'
b) "you don't know how great of charisma you've got walking into a room but once you enter, you shit all over it."

PS - apparently Jesse also wrote When You Finish Saving the World - (2 yrs ago) whom he wrote and directed so that's good to see him progressing.

[sonick]

Originally Posted by 6793026

Very low straight to DVD movie which I thought was a great gem.

Lol what? It got nominated for best picture at the Golden Globes and best screenplay at the Oscars.

Hardly a "straight to dvd" hidden gem.

For someone who watches so many movies and is obviously a fan of cinema, it's surprising to see how out of the loop you are on some basic things but knowledgable in other much more obscure things lol

[6793026]

LOL - fair enough. ^ despite it was nominated, it really did not get distributed in the theatres well. It was in a butt F no where theatre 200km away and one theatre in downtown GTA.
cast wasn't the greatest and I just didn't generate much advertising. It went straight to streamline.

[6793026]

been waiting on this for SUCH a long time. To see Hugh Grant coming back from Notting Hill to then aged well to then play this. It's really rare to see a movie with religion, church, Mormons etc. I was so looking forward to this and it did not disappoint.

It touches a bit on religion so the dialogue, explanations, and the way the pave the dynamic between the two was really witty. By the way, I watched the trailer because of the hype on this and I didn't feel it ruined the movie. The title does mean a person believing in or practicing religious heresy so it stand true by its title.

Definitely a horror thriller, but it doesn't go into Texas chainsaw massacre type scenes. I really appreciated the setup and then the deciphering on how the ending plays out.

This is not a jason friday 14, freddy cougar type murder, but a banter of religion and proving a point - don't want to really ruin the movie but I thought it was great ride.

PS - movie was filmed in Vancouver / squamish - Literally the 1st second of the movie, I said that's The Chief at Squamish.. and I was spot on 100%. Everything was filmed on set at Pitt Meadows over 7 weeks.

PPS - film was filmed in chorological order - didn't really mean much but guess it's diff if you care for that sort of thing.

[Mikoyan]

Originally Posted by underscore

Passenger 57 [1992] - 5/10
The plot was terrible and there was a lot of painfully bad acting but Wesley Snipes fighting people wasn't the worst way to spend an hour and a half.

So, always bet on black...actors?

[6793026]

About time to watch a HK movie cop legit movie. Directed by Donnie + him being the lead. Start by telling you the plot - it's typical HK movie. It is based loosely on a true story. Cop turn lawyer / gov't prosecutor trying to bring justice on a case - teen 'lends' his address to someone for $200 CDN but caught due to shipment of drugs.

What's interesting:
- he partnered with the same producer who did Yip Man - and the producer's son was the one who did the script.
- there were 4-5 old 60+ people who played minor roles but were just fabulous.
-Spent 200k on making a 3 cart HK train replica, put it on motion platform and film the last action scene.
- Donnie wasn't going to take the movie esp with the recent success of law / court movie from last year in HK (by Dayo Wong - A Guilty Conscience); so when they changed up from cop to prosecutor change, he took on the role.
-rumors was that Donnie was getting old and hired his japanese bff to do stunts for him... (duhhhh, i don't know why that's an issue.. even Jacky Chan had doubles..)
- The antagonist - Chi Lam - is always the good looking pilot, the good looking cop, this time he plays a bad legal executive.. he did really well.
- There was a scene that doesn't freaking make sense - why would some lawyer wanted to start a fight... wth... oh well, what do I know, Donnie is a director.
- As per above, Donnie did push the envelope which was from behind the scene - "I want the audience to have a wtf moment" "People are watching a movie, why would you want to watch boring real court scene, let's throw in some banter to create wtf reactions"
It went well cause my wife and I had a few wth....
-He is no longer just a action director, from the behind the scene interviews - he's learning how to control musical scores, keeping the tension high, he's demanding no boring cut scenes.
- The stunt man fell on a car ... pauses... and rolls off car stylishly, did 86 takes. Donnie demanded stylish... and stuntman says.. he agrees and respects him because he's pieceing action with directing.
b) Donnie learns to pause to create tension (eg// guy who fell on top of a car - pauses... for a solid 1 sec) and rolls off a car. "Give an audience to take a breathe with a wtf moment and then continue" We can't do 90s mentality bam bam bam bam action no more, let's push the envelope"
-He's yelling at other supportive directors... I blocked off the streets of HK so you can film the streets, wth are you doing close up shots, if I wanted that I could just film it inside a a factory. You can constantly see him pushing the industry.
-"It's ok to waste film & money if it's worth it. What's shitty if it's spent on stuff that'll get cut away".
- Donnie casted a new kid / singer and also gave him a specific scene / fighting sequence (originally was for Donnie) so it's great to bring in a spark and past on a baton.
- Donnie casted his dad to play his own dad in the movie.

Shut off your brain, watch a good action movie... call it a day. Support local HK movie. I respect him much more being a director now.