Movies you just recently watched

[WPTheModder]

I think I've posted quite alot but I just watched Sonic 3. (there are spoilers so I will do the blurred text thing, just letting you know)

I hate Sonic. Everything he does and says makes me wanna punch him. He thankfully doesn't do much (in my opinion) so I don't have to worry about that

His quips and stupid media jokes are the bane of my existence. Also I may be nitpicking but I just realized how weird the faces look for the models of the hedgehogs... foxes.. echidna... all of those species. Mainly just the eyes. Again, I don't have to worry about it since it's not THAT bad, but I just wanted to mention it

I also hate the humans. I wish Tom died. Sorry.

It seems as though they took more inspiration from the games for this one which is great (I've never played any of them but I can definitely kind of see it). I don't know who this Maria is and why she's important, but I really liked her role here to serve as Shadow's edgy trauma motivation for trying to kill everyone. Fun yet tragic story, too.

Shadow being Keanu Reeves sucks, too. Actually, none of their voices really fit for me in general but that's just my opinion. I'd say Tails has the best voice casting but it still doesn't really do it for me. But that's not the point.

Dr. Robotnik and his grandpa were fun. Best part of the movie, but they're both dead, so I mean... we're not getting any more of them sadly. Bald Jim Carrey is unnerving to look at anyways so I'm slightly thankful for it

Now, the post credit scene (the credits before this were actually quite short so I just sat through it) is pretty sick, actually. I do not like Amy though. Metal Sonic (i think is the name?) is sick as fuck though. Eagerly awaiting 4!

Anyways, good movie, watch it. I would say more but im afraid this would be possibly the length of an essay + my friends always basically execute me because they hate all of my takes... I feel like it would be the same here

[lyndo64]

I watched 12 Angry Men, fantastic movie, the writing was amazing and acting felt very real, don't know what else to say, just a perfect film lol.

10/10

[Hunchman801]

Same thing happened with Smile 2, I heard it was better than the first and then I guess I expected more of it.

I thought the first movie was a lot better. Sure, the second one works well and has its good share of creepy moments, but don't we eventually realize that half of the movie was simply imagined? Despite the good ending, that felt very cheap to me!

[Magelin]

I went to see Mufasa today, and it’s fine, i guess..
Look, i really wanted to see Sonic 3, but i didn’t watch the second movie so i had to go watch something else
And also, i wanted to get out for a while, and this was the only opportunity i had..
Anyway.. Let’s talk about the movie.
Now, the plot isn’t all that bad, but it’s not like mind blowing stuff either, though i have no idea why they needed to shove Timon and Pumbaa into this as well, they’re not even slightly funny in here.
The graphics are awful, all i gotta say. The animals feel kind of soulless and it’s kinda hard to tell which lion is who, since they are all so similar
And.. I just don’t feel like talking about it right now, because genuinely i don’t remember much anymore.. And my popcorn wasn’t even salty..
Well, i still had fun, and that’s all that matters, right?

[ItzalDrake]

Did someone watch the last Wallace and Gromit movie?
I did and I am not sure what to think about it

Maybe I have a very critical eye but I think The Curse of the Were-Rabbit was much better, maybe because I used to watch it a lot as a kid and I'm very fond of it.
The new movie has much fewer characters and I found the story very simple (well, it's a movie for families after all )
I always loved Wallace and Gromit, I also saw the reviews for this movie were very good so I went to watch it as soon I had the chance, maybe I have to watch it again and be less critical
It had some funny moments and a short cameo of the farmer from Shawn the Sheep and damn, the evil gnomes looked pretty scary

[Greengoop]

Did someone watch the last Wallace and Gromit movie?
I did and I am not sure what to think about it

Yes! Watched it live on TV on Christmas Day, certainly an amazing comeback, usually movies bought back for nostalgia end up sucking

[ItzalDrake]

Sadly here it is only available on Netflix sigh.
Also it's cool to have a Wallace and Gromit movie on TV during Christmas, in my country they always have Trading Places and The Grinch every damn year for Christmas

[Greengoop]

I don’t often watch movies on Christmas, since they often take up a hefty chunk of the waking day, but Wallace and Gromit is amazing and the films are usually pretty short, so my family decided to make an exception.

[ItzalDrake]

Nice!
I remember one year during the Christmas period they aired all the episodes of Wallace and Gromit and they were all dubbed in Italian, too bad that I can't find this Italian version online because I'd love to watch them again

[Greengoop]

Do you have the English capability to watch them in said language? Or can you find any other dubs online?

[ItzalDrake]

I can find the English versions for sure, I am just curious to remember how the Italian voice actor sounded and how the songs were translated

[Greengoop]

Was the Italian dub of the new one any good?

[ItzalDrake]

It is good, but Wallace's voice in the original English dub is perfect
I should say that I like more the Italian voice actor in Vengeance Most Fowl than in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit though!

[Pirez]

Went to see Mufasa myself, expecting a disaster.

And I received exactly what I wished for, albeit the disaster is pretty well disguised.

As Magelin said, Timon and Pumbaa are cramed in there and are globally unfunny, but I understand why they're there : it's because they are the crutch of a scenario that cannot bare the barest of scrutiny.

The most glaring example is when it is established very early on that Mufasa cannot swim due to an event in which he suffers a bit of PTSD, losing his parents and being attacked by crocodiles, an attack that fails because they are young and Mufasa's "new mom" is able to scare them away. But now they are forced to go swimming again and a lot more crocodiles are involved? How are Mufasa and Taka will get away from this? Who cares? we cut to Timon and Pumbaa cracking a pipi joke that literally only lasts ten seconds and when we're back to the story of Mufasa and Taka, they are both on land, unmolested by any trace of crocodiles.

Seriousness has long been a dirty word in Disney movies, breaking any kind of tension with a wisecrack, from Marvel to Star Wars and even the live action remakes of the classics. Mufasa is pushing this to an extreme. Whenever is mood crosses the line of "slightly serious", we cut to Timon and Pumbaa killing the pace of the narrative, often to mask the fact that a major plot hole is about to happen, or even that the overall setting of the story makes no goddamn sense. The screenplay is full of unearned callbacks to The Lion King, some of them happening twice for some reason, and the ending, being the culmination of two hours of scenaristic fuckups, fails to adequately explain the premice of the Lion King, as to why Mufasa would allow his malignant, obviously evil brother to be by his side. In fact, it makes even less sense after this story. Well played, Disney.

On the technical side of things, the songs are uninspired, a stable of late-Disney, but the rest of the music, with many callbacks to Hans Zimmer's score in The Lion King, is okay. Although sometimes the callbacks do not really match the point of the story within the narration. The graphics are really soulless, just as the remake of The Lion King were. The face shots while lions cubs are running are particularly hideous, but fortunately they're pretty few and far between.

So the visuals are soulless, but technically well made (for the most part), the music is not well utilized but still good and the story goes besides itself to hide its many, many flaws. It's a disaster that hides itself pretty well. But do not fool yourself : it's not mediocre, it's not merely bad, it's at points outright insulting. Avoid at any costs.

[Rsandee]

Eh, call me old-fashioned but The Lion King should've never been re-released with CGI and it should've stayed animated just like it was in 1994.

[WPTheModder]

Eh, call me old-fashioned but The Lion King should've never been re-released with CGI and it should've stayed animated just like it was in 1994.

I strongly agree.

I saw the first cgi one in theaters (unfortunately) and despite being a kid even I thought it was stupid

We deserve more traditionally animated movies in theaters. But it seems as though they're too lazy to do this so they use CGI instead... (they as in major film companies)

I'm honestly hoping that The Day The Earth Blew Up (or whatever it's called, screw my memory) changes everyone's minds on this and they start to use traditional again.

[Greengoop]

Eh, call me old-fashioned but The Lion King should've never been re-released with CGI and it should've stayed animated just like it was in 1994.

I didn’t really care what they do with the legacy of the lion king, but I don’t have any interest in watching the CGI films

[Pirez]

I just had the first hate comment on one of my Youtube videos in a while, and I can't say it was undeserved, because I went to see God Save the Tuche, the latest installment in the "beloved" french serie Les Tuches, and I was left speechless.

A comedy that has no focus, no driving force, no plot to speak of and managed the impossible by being insufferable even before starting because the main character was doing his unfunny jokes (which were impressions of people of the northern region of France) during the segments in the theater what were supposed to be introductions to the commercials. The movie is essentially "french hicks go to the UK to humiliate themselves. Please clap now."

As it turns out, the chain of cinemas that bankrolled this worthless piece of writing couldn't get enough of Jean Paul Rouve's totally unfocused and unfunny accent, so they cranked it up for everything outside the movie. I could only recommend if you had a brain hemmorage and wanted to finish it off.

Out of the 400+ jokes that are in this movie, only **1** is executed correctly, in terms of directing. And since you can see it coming from a mile away, it still falls flat.

Baffling of awfulness from beginning to end, but it resulted in me repeating myself in the review, which someone who isn't in my usual community (who definitely wasn't in support of the movie, so they say) said that the review was shallow, which is true, but it was still miles deeper than the actual movie, and it didn't cost 19.4 million €.

[Greengoop]

Not really a movie, but I just finished binging the 3 Traitors (UK) series’. Pretty entertaining and suspenseful, it’s a bit like among us in real life (but a lot better) for anyone who hasn’t heard of it. There’s also US, Australia and New Zealand versions as well.

[Pirez]

Yesterday, I went to see Disney's Snow White, the latest remake that was quickly shaping up to be a disaster... and indeed was. It is so bad, it is actually hilarious.

The producers couldn't miss the fact that it is virutally impossible to build on the 1939 classic without breaking everything, as the original story lacks any kind of depth by design. Which means that there had to be risks taken with all the characters. However, they were virutally none, but the movie still would like to feel more epic and more realistic, which leads to baffling decisions where the queen still goes along with her spell of endless sleep... But ten minutes prior she was almost brutally shot in the head by a crossbow.

The seven dwarves were clearly rushed in post, as they look like Tintin from the 2011 movie (which, may I remind you : 2011 was almost 15 years ago!!). The basics of the movie, whether it is the cinematography, the actors, (although I'd like to see Gal Gadot's performance in English because I know she can't convey emotions with her voice), are basically alrigh but it's nearly not enough to prevent the disaster. Which means that on a translation miscue in one of the new songs (which do not mix well at all with the legacy songs), I started laughing uncontrollably and then wasn't able to take the movie seriously, which is a shame because it definitely does not have the light-hearted tone of its predecessor.