What was the last movie you've seen?

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I've been watching a bunch of horror flicks lately. In the past couple months I've watched:

-Hellraiser
-Phantasm: Ravager
-Return of the Living Dead 2 & 3
-Get Out

But then last night I broke with the trend and watched Purple Rain for like the 20th time. Such a great music movie, such a ridiculous movie movie. Morris Day is the saving grace acting wise, along with Clarence Washington III.

Prince was such an amazing musician though. They took that one way too early.

[samsonlonghair]

Pacific Rim: Uprising


This movie knows what it's trying to be. It's not a great movie, but it is great fun. Minor spoilers ahead, but nothing can literally spoil this movie.

Guillermo Del Toro's first Pacific Rim was a love letter to giant monster movies. This Sequel is directed by Steven S. DeKnight (who has spent most of his career working in television). Pacific Rim: Uprising is, in turn, a love letter to sci-fi robots. That love letter certainly includes all the camp that surrounds sic-fi robots, especially the notion that the best possible pilot for a robot would naturally be a teenager.

I was there on opening night. I can say that the fans were literally giddy with delight to see a brief gundam cameo. The same fans laughed big belly laughs when Burn Gorman deduced that the Kaiju were converging on... Mt. Fuji. A few of us glanced at each other in the darkened theatre. Without saying a word, we all knew one thing for certain: Tokyo is getting destroyed today.

John Boyega and Scott Eastwood make a reasonably good comedy duo. Eastwood plays the straight man who sets up jokes for Bodega to knock down. Charlie Day really impressed me. Whereas Day spent the first movie as a manic weirdo, he spends the second film making a smooth transition to villainy. The breakout star is heretofore unknown actress Cailee Spaeny. I wouldn't be surprised to see her star rising in the future. Another young actress, Ivanna Sakhno, reminds me of a miniaturized Scarlett Johansson.

The plot... um... the plot exists...mostly to serve the action scenes and the character beats. Let's be honest; we don't watch Pacific Rim for the plot.

Overall, Pacific Rim Uprising is not a masterpiece, but it is a heck of a lot of fun. I smiled from the beginning of this movie to the end.

[Segata]

^ LOVE the first film. Think I will wait on this one till it comes to streaming.

I just watched Terminator 3 and not seen it in years. I feel like I'm sure many do that T2 is where this series should have ended. Perfect ending. That said even if T3 was a really good film I feel people would have been really harsh on it as you just cannot live up to T2 at all. This films problem is it tries to be T2 again. It's PG-13 but not post 2004 PG-13 so there is still some good gore..not much but there is some. The female terminator feels like a step back from T-1000. I also feel this film lacked a role like Linda Hamiltons. It has too much wacky humor where T2 only used humor very sparingly to give the viewer a break. It's not a terrible film but it is a B movie. The one real highlight is the giant crane chase scene. That is still one of the best action sequences in the series. I don't hate the film but we would lose nothing if it was never made.


The Lost Boys. It's as good as ever. It does have some glaring flaws like lack of character development for Star, she does nothing other than a weak plot device. There is something that is not explained very well but I can forgive it. There is one thing I found weird and it's nothing major. In Corey Haim's room in the film, he has a homoerotic poster of a guy. He seemed to like girls but then again it's a Joel Schumacher film so he had to sneak something in there. Also kind of sad how many people in this film is dead. The actor who played Max is dead. Grandpa is dead. The actor who played Paul is dead he was the one who in the film gets pushed in the tub and melts and of course, Corey Haim is dead. Also the song Little Sister is still great.

[Kuruwin]

Don't really care much about the Return Of The King animated film (the whip song is great) but the animated Rankin Bass version of Hobbit is great. It's a crime that it doesn't have proper release.

[REPO Man]

It's been so long since I've watched this that I think I actually forgot how incredible it is, and that's even with about an hour's worth of footage that was taken out or not even shot.

I must see this on Broadway, preferably with Tarja Tururen (sic?) as Blind Mag, either Anthony Rapp or Matthew Morrison as Nathan, and Ruby Rose as Graverobber, who IMHO doesn't need to be any particular gender since the character is mostly a narrator/Greek chorus. Albeit one who also bangs an heiress so she can get free drugs.

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The Ritual.

That is the most creative monster design in ages in a film. Not since maybe the original Alien has a design been so unique. In fact, it seriously just looks like something from Bloodborne or Dark Souls. Go watch it on Netflix. It's a long build up. Or skip to the last 20 minutes if you wish but look at that thing! HOLY SHIT! It's awesome!

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Just watched The Babysitter (2017) on Netflix. It’s a horror-comedy where the annoying, stupid teenagers are the villains. It is directed by the same guy who directed the Charlie’s Angels movies in the ‘00s, and it shows. Those movies were stupid and fun, and this one is too. It reverse a lot of slasher film tropes - like the “final girl”trope - and doesn’t take itself seriously at all, which is kind of a breath of fresh air for modern horror films.

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Is that McGee? He did We Are Marshall which us really good.

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Is that McGee? He did We Are Marshall which us really good.

That’s him. The Babysitter is a lot more like Charlie’s Angels than We Are Marshall, though...

[REPO Man]

Rewatched RENT: Filmed Live on Broadway last night.

Beautiful.

THANK YOU, JONATHAN LARSON!