Movies you just recently watched

[neo]

I think the most recent movie I watched was Guardians of the Galaxy 3, at Hoodcom's place. However, sadly I had bronchitis at the time. Horrible horrible.

[Curionone]

Sinners: An very fun and interesting take of the vampire movie horror genre, though not scary at all. More like a bit off-putting or creepy at times. Definitely the best movie I watched this weekend, terrific acting and the time and setting is perfect. 4.5/5.

Until Dawn: I guess this movie is kinda nice but it could've been much more. I like some parts of the movie like: the witch, the tainted drinking water and the last day but I was also incredibly disappointed by other parts of the movie (the way they kill each other to skip to the next day and that we don't see the majority of their time in the loop). Not scary, nice visuals sometimes but it seems there is build-up to something that never gets delivered (the fog, the giant outside in the rain, the transformation into a wendigo). 3/5.

Bring her back: This movie really gets under your skin, it triggered me a lot concerning the foster mom. Very interesting movie but again it seems to build up to something that doesn't really get delivered. It's more of an emotional ride than a horror movie, also not that creepy but it can get kind of gory at times. 4/5, definitely worth it.

I agree all of this post %100.

The Woman in Black: Very good atmospheric horror movie, it stars Daniel Radcliffe and for once he is acting pretty decently outside of the Harry Potter movies. I've only seen him in one or two other movies and he was by far the worst part of those movies so the fact that he doesn't feel out of place or influence the movie in any way is pretty impressive to me somehow. I liked the time and setting of the movie (1800s England). Usually this era is overly romanticized but in this specific movie we see a random English village instead of a Victorian English city. We see some sort of clash between the rich and the impoverished, especially in their way of thinking with regard to the supernatural. The horror aspect of the movie was perfect, the pacing was exactly what I was looking for. It was a nice, slow buildup with original, creative and non-over-the-top jump scares that actually felt like they belonged in the movie and weren't out of place. A horror movie that respects the viewer and their ability to pay attention without being saturated by distractions. 9/10.

The Night House: Another great atmospheric horror movie that functions in more or less the same manner as the last. It features a modern setting and some great analogies regarding marital issues and mental health. Without giving any spoilers, I will just say that this movie rarely employs exposition, but when it does it feels natural and deserved. There are some scenes that are shot in a hauntingly beautiful way, this movie plays with perception and camera angles and it likes to subvert your expectations a little bit. I am guessing the director took into account that horror movie watchers like to come up with tons of theories of what's going on throughout the story, I guess they found a way to subvert these expectations while still having these theory breadcrumbs make sense in the grand context. I will warn you though: it's a dark movie. Not in terms of lighting obviously, but in it's tone and outlook on life (or at least the main characters life). It's sad and bleak, and it rarely offers comfort. 8.5/10.

When Evil Lurks: This movie surprised me a lot! I am normally a fan of atmospheric horror movies that haunt the viewer, rather than violent horror movies that feature a less than spectral supernatural threat. I'll give away that this movie features demonic possession, but in a new and refreshing way that builds up over the course of the movie. This movie also respects the viewer, it doesn't give away its answers to your questions immediately, it makes you stop and look for yourself first what might be going on. It is rare that I find an action/horror movie that functions like this, as I'm quick to judge these movies as total slop. It's an Argentinian movie so the entire movie is shot in Spanish, I had trouble understanding the main characters at first but luckily the rest of the cast has a more relaxed and clear pronunciation in Spanish. It was refreshing, fun and incredibly entertaining. It was less scary to me, owing to its genre, but nevertheless very intriguing. This movie manages to be even more bleak and dark than the last though, don't look for a happy ending here. 9.5/10.

Another post that I agree totally. You watched the same movies as me Good taste!

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[Rsandee]

What a coinkydink but you just double posted, you shouldn't do that! Edit your post if you want to say more please

[Cairnie]

I sure like the weird juxtapositions of any films I go and see, these are what I saw this month.

[Rsandee]

I saw The Thing yesterday and I get why it's a horror classic!

[dr_st]

Watched "The Naked Gun" in the cinema the other day. It was as hilarious as I remember the old movies (and I don't remember them very well).

[Elite Piranha]

I don't know if this counts, but I often rewatch Small Soldiers and The Fifth Element.

[lyndo64]

Watched Misery. To be honest I was a little underwhelmed, it felt almost a little bit campy at points, and some of the moments which I think were supposed to be scary did nothing for me at all. Despite all this, Kathy Bates gives and amazing performance, and the film was definitely suspenseful at certain moments, however at the end of day it just feels like a worse version of The Shining. (7/10)

[Hunchman801]

I ended up watching Barbie as it was on TV when I stayed at the family house. There were a few funny scenes, but overall I found it pretty boring, with way too much talking and not much really happening. It was quite sappy too but I suppose that's what people are looking for when watching such movies. Not gonna rate it as I'm obviously not the intended public here.

I also stumbled upon Mercy Falls when looking for a horror movie to watch, and I had to apologize for my choice. Despite the decent premise and an amazing setting, the movie fails to deliver in pretty much every way possible. There's a lot of stupid things happening, but the survivors talking for five minutes about devising a plan to ambush the killer they know is coming only to get drunk and fuck and get surprised like the dumbest of idiots really pushed it to another level. The special effects at the end were the icing on the cake. 2/10, nothing but a waste of time.

And then I watched The Autopsy of Jane Doe again, as I remembered quite liking it the first time. It's still a good horror movie, even though the ending feels a bit rushed (that part where the dad offers himself as a sacrifice kinda came out of the blue, I'm sure they could have found something better). 7.5/10, not a top-tier horror movie but still a very enjoyable one.

I watched the entire Beverly Hills Cop trilogy + 2024 sequel within the past month. Very enjoyable light comedy + action.

Makes me want to do the same thing now!

Finally saw Weird: The Al Yankovic Story!

I'm curious to watch this one, as someone who very much enjoys his dumb parodies. I'll add it to my list!

Until Dawn

I had no idea they made a movie out of it! I loved the game and played it quite a few times with friends. I have a feeling I'm going to be disappointed, but I'll give it a try nonetheless.

Bring her back

Not bad, I watched it at the cinema last summer and found it interesting, though not particularly memorable. 5/10.

The Woman in Black

I should probably watch this one again, I know I watched it but I don't really remember a thing.

As Above, So Below - 4/5 The catacombs movie, and a more psychological kind of hell. The pacing drags a bit in the middle.

I watched this one again recently, there's definitely some interesting elements. It feels a bit messy at times, but still worth watching. 7/10 for me.

Grave Encounters - 3.5/5 Watchable if you want some time killing moments but not that much recommended.

It's actually one of my favorite movies in this genre. Sure, there's a lot that could be improved, but then again, I'm yet to watch a great found footage movie. I really liked the atmosphere, maybe I have a thing for horror movies set in creepy haunted hospitals? 7.5/10.

I saw The Thing yesterday and I get why it's a horror classic!

A classic indeed! 9.5/10!

[Pirez]

I had the opportunity to see the F1 movie that came out in June.

I knew ahead of time that the director made Tron Legacy beforehand, but I would have been able to guess it if I didn't. It seems the guy was born to direct exciting vehicle action (he made Top Gun Maverick as well)

The story is a bit derivative and reductive of the intricacies of Formula 1 but it's a cute story with good visuals. 7/10.

[WPTheModder]

Finished S1 and S2 of Dexter recently, really good! Gonna get to S3 later, but I just don't have time to yet

I've also got to get back to Futurama soon... but that can wait.

Also putting Smurfs (2025) and The Bad Guys 2 on my watchlist. Not too excited for The Smurfs, I've been meaning to watch it for months but I genuinely couldn't bring myself to watch such foul drivel. Oh well, I watched The A Minecraft Movie atleast...

[Hunchman801]

Until Dawn

I had no idea they made a movie out of it! I loved the game and played it quite a few times with friends. I have a feeling I'm going to be disappointed, but I'll give it a try nonetheless.

Yeah, I was indeed disappointed. Not because it's a bad horror movie (it's just very average), but because there is no connection to the video game besides a few references there and there. The plot is entirely unrelated, the characters are different, even the setting has nothing to do with the original. And man, the Wendigo... they are nothing like those from the game, just your regular running zombie as found in hundreds of movies nowadays. I'm also not too sure how they all randomly found the exit at the end after killing the bad guy. Add the missed opportunities Rsandee already mentioned, and that leaves a lot to be desired. But it's still decent enough to entertain you for an hour and a half. 5/10.

[Reese Riverson]

I recently picked up Jurassic World: Rebirth, since a co-worker said he liked it. So that's going to be on my watch list. I'm not sure if I wanna go ahead and re-watch the first Jurassic World or not first.

Any of you guys seen Jurassic World: Rebirth?

[RayGamer99]

I've seen Jurassic World: Rebirth, and I thought it was pretty good. Not really outstanding in my opinion, but still a pretty good film. From what I know, you don't need to have watched the previous Jurassic World trilogy to have an idea of what's going on here - I don't think they made that many nods to those movies anyhow, as they focused most of the references on the original Jurassic Park.

Very minor spoiler warning: you might not want to eat Snickers while watching the movie. You'll understand why about 5 or 10 minutes in

Enjoy the movie, whenever you watch it!

[dougkane]

I recently watched the Vinland Saga. I wonder if anyone here likes to watch anime and knows the movie? Personally, I found it really powerful — the mix of history and emotional storytelling was intense, and Thorfinn’s journey felt both brutal and inspiring.

[Pirez]

So... Tron Ares.

For those of you who do not know, Tron is my favorite movie of all time. The design is so unique, so groundbreaking, it stayed with me forever. I recently got two tattoos of the franchise on me, that's how much I love it. The sequel, Tron Legacy, I also loved, mostly for its sleek, modern yet still unique, style, which still inspire to this day.

I don't think either movies are perfect, though. God no : the writing is barely average on the first one (cookie cutter adventure flick with a 2nd degree of reading for fans) and fairly bad in the second. The two movies are carried by their style, their visuals and their soundtrack. Even the animated series Tron Uprising has a animation style I've never seen anywhere. By the way, I encourage you to look it up despite it habing been cancelled after one season. Tron Uprising is very good.

But now comes Ares, which comes with the new era Disney of soulless cashgrabs in the form of bland to god-awful rushed remakes and bland messes in the form of Marvel and Star Wars. Tron itself got some treatment lately in the form of two videogames. A visual novel without a plot and an action adventure without a distinct core mechanic, both of them meandering in the style of Tron Legacy but with a darker, more serious edge. Don't bother picking them up, both of them are terrible. Neat ideas for lore, but nothing more to be saved.

Ares, on the other hand, wanted itself to be a dark counterpart to the happy-go-lucky two movies. Cyber-fantasy becoming Cyberpunk. Like the two games did. It was not promising.

What I got in the end was... a movie with good design, correct soundtrack and passable story. I enjoyed some of it, but it's watered down Tron for sure.

The movie deals with an AI taking life and moving into our world. However, without wishing to spoil, something is missing from him, and he will stop at nothing to acquire it.

So right away, the setup is ripe for AI related questions that are the bread and butter of Cyberpunk. Long story short, it's not very well explored. More insulting though is right at the end the movie opens two additional questions that could be posed about IA but since the movie is over, the thinking is pretty much up to you, I guess...

On a direction level, the movie wants to uphold a legacy (no pun intended), wants to ask questions about AI and also wants to add the level of Cyberpunk dread of an AI that stops at nothing for its objective. It basically wants to be Tron, Matrix and Terminator, but the direction is so watered down it ends up being none of them. The movie takes no artistic risks. Shots are good, but set no atmosphere and evoke no particular feelings, with the notable exception of the introduction which blew my mind away, but then fell into the curious trap of being mostly set into the real world which has that particular downside of having to follow rules of reality instead of full-on computer imagination. Which is a shame because there was room to make an artistic statement about the fact that our world always-connected should look no different than the inside of a computer, and some place like Times Square, New York of the center of Tokyo are already halfway there, but most certainly not the location this was filmed in.

Not to worry about the world of Tron though, these sequences are there too and one in particular is absolutely gorgeous.

Some of the dialogue is absolutely awful which could be excused, honestly. The main character being an IA, it should be normal that he sometimes speaks like ChatGPT. However, the progression is not subtle and the clichés are still there by the end.

Joachim Roachand was also the director Pirates of the Caribbean 6 and Maleficent 2, two Disney projects that had a design document of "do more of the same, just make it marketable". It shows. Where Tron Legacy was created almost entirely by fans through the lens of a first time director who only made advertisement before that (and also after, see : the F1 movie), with Ares you see the prompt : "do it as safe as possible". As a result, the movie lacks a soul. Quite fitting for a movie about an IA, but unfortunately there also are some humans in it who suffer.

Cast is good though : Jared Leto is a bit over the top but not too much, Greta Lee is really good and there are good performances by Evan Peters, Gillian Anderson and... Hasan Minhaj of all people.

So it's a good pasttime, but nothing great. It probably won't move people out of their seats and that's a shame because, of course, the movie teases a fucking sequel, which I predict it won't get.

[Master]

Ok, I have watched Ares, and visually I liked it. But hell if I could tell you what the plot was outside of the fundamentals. I don't have much attachment to Tron I'll admit, but I'd say your conclusion is pretty much on the mark. I enjoyed it as a movie, but I wouldn't class it as standout.

(Also as someone who really liked the visuals of Legacy, while I thought Ares looked ok, I kinda wish they did do some throwbacks to Legacy's aesthetic...)

That being said, watching Ares has made me want to go back and watch Legacy again, it's been a long time since I've seen it. I also have never seen the original, and I don't tend to have much inclination towards 80s stuff, but perhaps I ought to give it a try at some point.

[lyndo64]

Watched 12 Feet Deep.

It was pretty dumb and stupid and bad which sucks because the concept is super intriguing. (3/10)

[Greengoop]

Looked up the plot and it seems very exciting indeed. It’s unfortunate that it didn’t turn out as good as they had the power to make it.

[dr_st]

Watched Fahrenheit 451 (the 2018 film) on a flight today since there was nothing better to do. OK, probably staring at the floor would have been better. I mean, if I had learned that this movie was the final project on someone's B.A. in cinematography, and got a "C", I would not have been surprised.