What was the last movie you've seen?
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Saw Sonic 3 this afternoon. Great movie, and if you're a Sonic Adventure 2 fan, you'll definitely like it.
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I didn't post all year in the movie threads, but I did want to post my list of movies watched for the year. It's shorter than it has been. Frankly, I haven't really felt like watching movies pretty much since getting into the production side of the industry. It's definitely changed how I watch movies and what I pay attention to. But at the same time, I don't want it to kill my love of cinema, so I keep going.
So, here is my list. It's in reverse chronology of when I watched them, from the most recently watched to what I started the year in. There are no rankings for my opinion or view of quality. Every film I watched in 2024:
Boss Level
Black Lotus
Signs
Conclave
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
The Conjuring
Arcadian
A Quiet Place: Day One
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
Homefront
Civil War
The Beekeeper
St. Elmo's Fire
In a Violent Nature
Alien: Romulus
Werewolves Within
The Swarm
Howling Village
Feast
Don't Look Away
Isolation
The Strangers
The Forever Purge
Haunt
Smile
Deadpool & Wolverine
Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America
Twisters
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
Armored Car Robbery
Godzilla × Kong: The New Empire
The Falcon in Mexico
CODA
The Fall Guy
Upgrade
Dune: Part Two
Mr. Baseball
Mannequin
Meg 2: The Trench
So, here is my list. It's in reverse chronology of when I watched them, from the most recently watched to what I started the year in. There are no rankings for my opinion or view of quality. Every film I watched in 2024:
Boss Level
Black Lotus
Signs
Conclave
Planes, Trains and Automobiles
The Conjuring
Arcadian
A Quiet Place: Day One
The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare
Homefront
Civil War
The Beekeeper
St. Elmo's Fire
In a Violent Nature
Alien: Romulus
Werewolves Within
The Swarm
Howling Village
Feast
Don't Look Away
Isolation
The Strangers
The Forever Purge
Haunt
Smile
Deadpool & Wolverine
Fatal Contact: Bird Flu in America
Twisters
Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom
Armored Car Robbery
Godzilla × Kong: The New Empire
The Falcon in Mexico
CODA
The Fall Guy
Upgrade
Dune: Part Two
Mr. Baseball
Mannequin
Meg 2: The Trench
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I finally got around to watching Stephen King's The Shining. Not Kubrick's 1980 film, but the TV mini series from 1997.
Kubrick did his own thing, and really only used the book as a basis. King famously hated the Kubrick's movie, which led him to eventually doing the TV mini series. I'm a big fan of Kubrick's movie, but I'm also a fan of the book. The mini series comes up from time to time in various YouTube Shining videos, and it's not really favored. But I was curious to watch it, being that it stays true to the book.
I went in fully expecting the quality of a made for TV movie from the 90s, so I can't say I was unexpectedly disappointed in any way. It's full of lines that are either poorly written, poorly acted, or both. It just has the TV feeling to it. Somehow conversations just feel unnatural. And the first shot of each character as they're introduced for the first time to the audience was all really bad (which is something you don't think about unless they're really bad). Also, there's just no competing with Kubrick's film in the way it was shot, camera angles and whatnot. Kubrick's Shining is a masterpiece. Stephen King's The Shining looks like a TV movie from the 90s.
Which is an interesting point. King wanted to stay as true to the book as possible, which is great. They apparently shot it in the same hotel that inspired King to write the book, and that's kinda cool. However, Kubrick's hotel just pisses all over the real one in terms of how cinematic they are. And this point is sorta intertwined with the way it was shot. Kubrick's hotel is full of huge rooms like the Colorado Lounge and the Gold Room ballroom. King's hotel has a comparatively small lounge and ballroom. In fact, it's not even a ballroom really. Kubrick's hotel is sinister and foreboding, and it's shot wonderfully. King's hotel is small and claustrophobic, and shot like a 90's TV movie.
That said, Stephen King's The Shining also isn't that bad. I mean, it's not very good. But it's not so bad that it's unwatchable. It's at least a really faithful movie adaptation to the book. So it was neat to watch for that aspect alone. But it certainly wasn't good enough that I'll be aching to re-watch it any time soon. I'd rather just read the book again.
Kubrick did his own thing, and really only used the book as a basis. King famously hated the Kubrick's movie, which led him to eventually doing the TV mini series. I'm a big fan of Kubrick's movie, but I'm also a fan of the book. The mini series comes up from time to time in various YouTube Shining videos, and it's not really favored. But I was curious to watch it, being that it stays true to the book.
I went in fully expecting the quality of a made for TV movie from the 90s, so I can't say I was unexpectedly disappointed in any way. It's full of lines that are either poorly written, poorly acted, or both. It just has the TV feeling to it. Somehow conversations just feel unnatural. And the first shot of each character as they're introduced for the first time to the audience was all really bad (which is something you don't think about unless they're really bad). Also, there's just no competing with Kubrick's film in the way it was shot, camera angles and whatnot. Kubrick's Shining is a masterpiece. Stephen King's The Shining looks like a TV movie from the 90s.
Which is an interesting point. King wanted to stay as true to the book as possible, which is great. They apparently shot it in the same hotel that inspired King to write the book, and that's kinda cool. However, Kubrick's hotel just pisses all over the real one in terms of how cinematic they are. And this point is sorta intertwined with the way it was shot. Kubrick's hotel is full of huge rooms like the Colorado Lounge and the Gold Room ballroom. King's hotel has a comparatively small lounge and ballroom. In fact, it's not even a ballroom really. Kubrick's hotel is sinister and foreboding, and it's shot wonderfully. King's hotel is small and claustrophobic, and shot like a 90's TV movie.
That said, Stephen King's The Shining also isn't that bad. I mean, it's not very good. But it's not so bad that it's unwatchable. It's at least a really faithful movie adaptation to the book. So it was neat to watch for that aspect alone. But it certainly wasn't good enough that I'll be aching to re-watch it any time soon. I'd rather just read the book again.
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First film of 2025
Absolute brilliance!
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Definitely a must-watch.
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Back in 2020, I came across the trailer for Palm Springs and it always stuck with me. I have always enjoyed time traveling/time loop movies like Groundhog Day and Back to the Future, so I was very curious in it. It was released only on Hulu, so I watched the trailer several times and then I kind of forgot about it. Until tonight, when I pulled up the trailer on Youtube only to find the full movie right below it.
I am glad that I watched it, but I don't know if I would ever watch it again. There is montage where they use the time loop for enjoyment, but for the rest of the movie, it is rather serious and a bit dull. Its really kind of negative and sad and has this feeling of nothing really matters, which is kind of intense for a movie that came out in 2020. So, its not exactly a fun movie to watch.
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We took the kiddo to see Dog Man on Sunday. He had a blast, and honestly, I kinda liked it. Not some great art film or blockbuster, but definitely solidly humorous, some character warmth, and the art style was very interesting. I think I'd call the writers and animators largely successful.
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Two nights ago, I put on "The Bob's Burgers Movie". I almost went with streaming The Simpsons Movie on Disney+, but I've seen it so many times and this ended up being my third time watching "The Bob's Burgers Movie". Still wish I had the 4K. Maybe when the season kicks in, I'll be able to splurge on the 4K, which iirc is STILL only available from an Australian electronics store that hopefully ships to the US without having to shell out fat stacks for shipping.
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As a kid, I remember watching the Wizard at least once, maybe even twice. I knew it wasn't great, but the Nintendo placement was still really cool in my mind. Well, after all these many years, I had been feeling rather nostalgic for the movie, so I decided to purchase a DVD copy of my own and I rewatched it today after so many years.
Going in, I knew that it was a 90 minute cinematic commercial for Nintendo and that wasn't exactly a bad thing. Seeing all of the NES games in the movie or the Arcade games was a real treat. The story is basically a children's version of Rain Man, but it was also surprisingly emotional. The backstory of Jimmy and what he was going through really hit deep and makes him much more believable. It was a really interesting story and one that was enjoyable to go through. Also, the soundtrack is absolutely fantastic and showed some great tunes.
As long as you know what you are getting when you are watching it, the movie is actually not that bad.
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Last night, I threw on "The Return of Jafar", the first of two straight-to-video Aladdin sequels from the '90s. More or less a glorified pilot for the animated series, this relic from my childhood was in steady rotation after receiving it on VHS. Back then, it was on par with its big-screen predecessor in the eyes of 8yo yours truly. But looking back, there was NO WAY this could hold a candle with its much-lauded predecessor. For one, it shows how much this was never intended for theatrical release. The quality is at best a step above the animated series and at worst on par with it. Also, as a kid I failed to notice that the late, great Robin Williams didn't return to the role of The Genie. Due to a clash with Disney, Williams refused to return to the role for The Return of Jafar and necessitated Disney putting in Dan Castellaneta. The Genie sounding more like Homer Simpson is much more apparent to my adult ears than those of 8yo me. Also, don't expect the prodigious talent of Alan Menkin to make a triumphant return here.
But I do have to give credit to the late, great Gilbert Gottfried and his talent and skill at stealing scenes and chewing scenery like a real-life parrot might do to a pile of crackers.
I honestly think there was a LOT of potential for this story, which sees Jafar escaping his fate from the previous film. After being tricked into being transformed into an all-powerful genie at the end of the first film, his parrot sidekick Iago manages to escape the lamp and drag it to the surface of the desert sands above. But after deciding to fly solo, Iago drops the lamp into a nearby well and heads back to Agrabah. The lamp is found by Jason Alexander's Abis Mal, a bumbling joke of an antagonist with the villain equivalent of main character syndrome in spades that gets swiftly put in his place by Aladdin in the first scene. After wasting his first two wishes, first to have a legendary sunken ship and second to return to the desert after Jafar teleports Abis Mal to the depths of the ocean, the two conspire revenge upon Aladdin. The blind can see that Abis Mal may technically Jafar's master but it's Jafar who truly pulls the strings.
After a failed attempt by The Genie to stop Jafar, which leads to probably the only decent musical number in this trainwreck that serves at the metaphorical prison of a great plot, Jafar soon plots his own freedom and Aladdin's death.
To be honest, the crossover episode of Hercules that pairs Jafar with the Greek god of the underworld is a much better post-Aladdin Jafar story.
Perhaps, if we do get a sequel to the unjustly maligned live-action Aladdin remake, we could get an infinitely superior version of The Return of Jafar. Until then, all we have is this excellent story trapped in a piece of straight-to-video dreck, the first of many, many woeful inadequate straight-to-video sequels to great Disney films.
But I do have to give credit to the late, great Gilbert Gottfried and his talent and skill at stealing scenes and chewing scenery like a real-life parrot might do to a pile of crackers.
I honestly think there was a LOT of potential for this story, which sees Jafar escaping his fate from the previous film. After being tricked into being transformed into an all-powerful genie at the end of the first film, his parrot sidekick Iago manages to escape the lamp and drag it to the surface of the desert sands above. But after deciding to fly solo, Iago drops the lamp into a nearby well and heads back to Agrabah. The lamp is found by Jason Alexander's Abis Mal, a bumbling joke of an antagonist with the villain equivalent of main character syndrome in spades that gets swiftly put in his place by Aladdin in the first scene. After wasting his first two wishes, first to have a legendary sunken ship and second to return to the desert after Jafar teleports Abis Mal to the depths of the ocean, the two conspire revenge upon Aladdin. The blind can see that Abis Mal may technically Jafar's master but it's Jafar who truly pulls the strings.
After a failed attempt by The Genie to stop Jafar, which leads to probably the only decent musical number in this trainwreck that serves at the metaphorical prison of a great plot, Jafar soon plots his own freedom and Aladdin's death.
To be honest, the crossover episode of Hercules that pairs Jafar with the Greek god of the underworld is a much better post-Aladdin Jafar story.
Perhaps, if we do get a sequel to the unjustly maligned live-action Aladdin remake, we could get an infinitely superior version of The Return of Jafar. Until then, all we have is this excellent story trapped in a piece of straight-to-video dreck, the first of many, many woeful inadequate straight-to-video sequels to great Disney films.