What was the last movie you saw?

[J Riff]

No, it's Pterrible... really. A bad idea, a pseudo-comedic bloodbath, to be avoided, I just watch all these sort of movies because god knows why.

 

[WaylanderToo]

Live and Let Die - love it

 

[JunkMonkey]

Eagle vs Shark - apparently this was a romantic comedy and apparently it was only 86 minutes long. It felt like hours. Hours spent in the company of the sort of people you avoid sitting near on the bus. I haven't actively disliked a movie so much in ages. (I spent the last quarter of it just wishing it would stop. "Just stop. Just stop now. Please. Stop! It's been three hours already... STOP!"). Which is a pity because my wife thinks it's wonderful and didn't take too kindly to me calling it "a piece of sh*t". (Guess who's not getting any tonight.)

The only good thought I had about it was that it makes Wes Anderson's movies look even more wonderful by comparison.

 

[Joe Grech]

Have you seen what we do in the shadows? Taika Waiti has refined his dark humour since his first movie.

 

[JunkMonkey]

Seriously I think I would go out of my way NOT to watch any more of his movies. Thanks for the warning.

And after suffering the first 30 minutes of Diagnosis: Death a while back - I had the courage to ask my wife if she thought it was as crap as I did, and she did - I suspect I will avoiding anything with Jemaine Clement in it too.

 

[2DaveWixon]

The only good thought I had about it was that it makes Wes Anderson's movies look even more wonderful by comparison.

Oh, that is a TERRIBLE thing to say!

 

[JunkMonkey]

You don't like Wes Anderson's films? or you liked Eagle vs Shark?

 

[Hilarious Joke]

Oh man I love What We Do in the Shadows and Jermaine Clement! Maybe it's a southern hemisphere thing.

 

[JunkMonkey]

Oh man I love What We Do in the Shadows and Jermaine Clement! Maybe it's a southern hemisphere thing.

Humour is subject to the Coriolis effect?

 

[Hilarious Joke]

Humour is subject to the Coriolis effect?

Ha! Possibly, though I feel Australian humour has too much in common with British humour for that to be true.

 

[J Riff]

The people in Terrordorktyl are offensive enough to ruin the dinosaurs, by being dimmer and ruder than them/

 

[2DaveWixon]

You don't like Wes Anderson's films? or you liked Eagle vs Shark?

NO, and No! (That is, I have not and likely will not see the latter...)

 

[JunkMonkey]

NO, and No! (That is, I have not and likely will not see the latter...)

I think you are missing out. (Though the The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou was a little disappointing.)

 

[2DaveWixon]

I think you are missing out. (Though the The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou was a little disappointing.)

Well, in face of your recommendation, maybe I'll withdraw my previous statement...

Thanks, then.

 

[J Riff]

Well, Independence Day the Something-or-other, part 2. Same crew 'cept for Wilsmith, and lot of battles. No spoilers. Kick some serious alien ass, that's a good line to watch for. It's... an invasion movie, with real advanced nasty aliens and smart Earthlings who beat down on 'em by the end. If the aliens won there couldn't really be a sequel, so...*

 

[JunkMonkey]

Russ Meyer's Motorpsycho! (1965) Three hudlums rape, kill, and get their comeuppance in a barren desert landscape.

You could almost hear the slap of Meyer's palm face as he realised the obvious. He almost instantly reworked the story for his next film but instead of three scrawny bike-riding male creeps as the desperadoes he had three large-breasted lesbian killers at the centre of the action. And Faster, Pussycat Kill! Kill! was born.

Motorpsycho! made shedloads of money on its release; Faster, Pussycat didn't. Nowadays Pussycat is probably Meyer's most famous film (and generally considered one of his best) and Motopsycho! is a footnote.

Isn't art strange?

 

[TheWhompusKitty]

Personally I love What We Do In The Shadows. Doc-style comedy that is funnier every time I watch it. Like The Office meets The Cornetto Trilogy. I couldn't force myself to watch Eagle Vs. Shark. Maybe I'm missing out but it looked crazy-boring to me.

I wish advertisements were made by people who liked the type of movie they're promoting, instead of just trying to sell at whatever cost.

Last movie I watched was Hotel Transylvania 2. I didn't see the first one, so I'm not sure how much was building from there. Great vocal acting, lots of action, some very funny bits. It's a kids' movie, so if you don't like one joke, there's another right on its heels. Perfect for my short attention span, and it actually ended up being quite sweet at heart. Not high art by any means, and I probably won't rewatch it, but a fine one-off viewing.

Movie before that was Predator. "Get to da choppa!"

 

[Alex The G and T]

Flash Gordon 1980. Campy would be an understatement. Hideously cheesy would be more accurate. Terribly archaic FX, probable deliberate; thus true to the source material.

A terrible, terrible movie and, yet, I could not help but watch the entire execrence right up until the absurd ending.

 

[TheWhompusKitty]

Flash Gordon is certainly campy but OMG do I love that movie. Timothy Dalton as a Peter Pan lookalike? Soundtrack by Queen? Plus the costumes and sets are to die for. You have to love it when people try that hard on something that cheesy. I kept waiting for everyone to break into song and dance. They should make it into a stage musical.

 

[J Riff]

Execrence. Can't find it in the dictionary, but: execrate-the word derives from exsecratus, the past participle of the Latin verb exsecrari, meaning "to put under a curse."
Watched 'Curse of a B-movie Addict' ... *