What was the last movie you saw?

Spectral

Despite there being a touch of an A Team vibe halfway through this was an enjoyable romp with some well thought out creatures.
 
The Black Room (2016)

TV-MA!! This one deserved to be Adults Only. NOT as advertised!!

The only excuse to have made this movie was, apparently, to make a soft porn. Ridiculous, half-seen monsters, poor acting by pretty actresses (upstaged by an even prettier actor), and a storyline that got the movie started off right (sort of) - then seemed to disappear all together.

WHY ARE THERE SO MANY TRULY ROTTEN HORROR FLICKS OUT THERE!!??
 
AND crapola 'action' flicks, like Armed Response, ech. Worse, some pretend to be SF.
Secret Agent Fireball, 1965 otoh, issss.... well, the Bond character is named Fleming so how bad can it be?
 
The Good Neighbor (2016)

I'm not even sure what category this belongs in. Netflix has it in the Horror section, but it wasn't particularly frightening. It might be called a Thriller, I suppose.

What it really was, was a great Character Study! James Caan plays the odd, next door neighbor to a tech-savvy teen. That teen and his friend proceed to try to "haunt" the old man, to video document his reactions.

While this story plays out, the viewer begins to learn two other stories - that of the tech-savvy teen, and of the old man. So slyly is this done - especially in the case of the old man - one barely realizes there are three stories in this movie, until the very surprising ending.

A wonderful (if dark) movie, that has instilled a little faith back in me for the Industry.
 
Rogue 2007, a giant Saltie (Aussie croc) mangles and kills some tourists, but it is only 21 feet long, so believable. Worth watching for some great Strine scenery, Norn Straylier is awsome, BUT: The dog issue appears again, and it distracted me. It's a real nice Sheltie-type dog, and it belongs to the girl piloting the tour boat, and, once the cast is trapped and being targeted by the Croc, well the dog gets a lot of dialogue. But then, horror! - they have to try and distract Croco with a giant fish hook, but have no bait, ysee... At this point we see a couple shots of the dog, and it's owner going no, no, nooo! But then a guy finds some fish for bait and the dog is off the hook(*<heh) ... but, of course, Rover's owner is grabbed by the Croc, and taken away, presumably dinner, but no, the Croc is full of tourist, so it just stashes her, and who but her dog could find her? Doggie leads our hero to her in a cave deep in the swamp and you bet he saves her and kills the rogue croc. BUT: after he finds her, Doggie gets a couple more lines, then runs off out of sight and the Croc gets the heroic pooch after all. Why? WhyWhyWhy kill arf the good, smart, heroic dog, yet again? Anyway. The dog "Kevin' is played by Patch the Wonder Dog, in his only movie role, s'fars I can tell.
 
Minnie and Moskowitz (1971)

Would you believe that John Cassavetes, best known for bleak dramas like Faces and Husbands and A Woman Under the Influence wrote and directed a romantic comedy? You might be more inclined to accept that fact when you see some of its darker content. When people argue, they argue fiercely; when they fight, they fight seriously, and blood flows. But there's also a lot of funny stuff, and a happy ending. To some extent Cassavetes seems to be parodying the genre. The plot is familiar. Two lonely misfits (Gena Rowlands and Seymour Cassel) come together despite having nothing in common. It's like a more serious version of an early Woody Allen film. (Both characters even go to see old Humphrey Bogart movies.) When parking lot attendant Seymour Moskowitz, best described as a "dude," with his bushy mustache and ponytail, says to museum curator Minnie Moore "I think about you so much I forget to go to the bathroom" it's not just a wisecrack, but an insight into the character. A lot of time is spent establishing the characters, who don't even meet until a half hour into the film, when Seymour has to rescue Minnie from the world's worst blind date (a sequence which is both hilarious and terrifying.) Lots of the director's family acts in the movie, and Cassavetes himself shows up uncredited as the married man with whom Minnie is having an affair. (More unfunny stuff. He hits her really hard during a fight, and his wife makes a suicide attempt.) The director's mother steals the movie as Seymour's mother, and Rowlands' own mother plays Minnie's mother.
 
Baby Driver

A film i saw only because Edgar Wright is one of my fav directors in the world, who i expect action comedies, weird little movies but i didnt expect him to make truly great, one of the best hardcoire,noir heist film i have ever seen. I have seen tons of them as fan of noir books about robbers like this.

Baby was great geteway driver, it reminded me of Bullit/MacQueen, because it had several long great car chase scenes. The use of music, the crisp dialouge, the many strong actors who all played hard bad guys. This film deserve all the 5 stars reviews i saw, should get many directing,writing,music awards.
 
No dogs in The Good Neighbour, but it could have used one. Going back to Rogue for a sec - how I would have handled it: Doggie finds his master, bleeding and unconscious in the deep swamp, and leads hero-guy to her. The croc appears, and instead of munching on Rover, he attacks the guy and the brave canine attacks back, grabbing the croc's tail and distracting it, then being flung 50 feet acrost the cave and smashing into the wall, just like happens to our hero; then rising, bloody but unbowed and barking, and chewing at the monster's tail until master manages to do it in. Then, at the end, we see doggo's owner being airlifted out, in a stretcher, bleeding from numarous croc bites, and next to her is the wonder dog, in a little dog stretcher, bandaged but still able to blink cutely as they are whisked off to safety.
The Hole (le Trou) 1960 Black and white, francais movie about five guys digging a hole in their cell. It's artistical and the ending is depressing, wattayawant. Good crime movies don't exist anymore. Stylish rubbish with crappy music is what to expect. * )
 
Space Battleship Yamato (2010) Japanese with English subtitles.
Overly melodramatic, mediocre acting, so-so effects and a fairly standard plot...but...it's got an uber-cool space battleship.

What more does a Sci-Fi geek need? :)
 
To be fair isn't that film trying to condense a huge long running manga/anime into a single film. Nearly every time that happens you get a rushed feeling film with flat acting because you have SOO much to cram in.


As for me Pacific Rim - more than ever I feel like this film should have been made at the end of a long running TV/comic/something series. It's got all the hallmarks of a great story leading up to it. Lots of fun and what I consider to be a good action flick with giant robots and monsters. Really wish it would get a sequel
 
To me its an uncomplicated action flick and isn't trying to be anything more than that. It's weakness is that every character is established so you don't get a huge amount of character time or introduction; but at the same time it doesn't try the impossible. It's not trying to squash everything into a tiny window; which means that what we do get is well paced for the most part.
 
Competent Rockford Files type thriller with PI Corbett attempting to break a big league blackmailing organization. It's possible the final action scene was exactly the way Fuller wanted it but nonprofessional that I am I felt it could have been put together just a little more, I don't know, slickness I guess. Look what Peckinpah did just a few years earlier with The Wild Bunch. Still worth a watch.
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Dark City (1998) Although it came out a year earlier, it's a shame that this movie got lost under the avalanche of Matrix hype. I still prefer this one to its much better known rival.
 
Last Shift (2014)

Of all possible endings, this movie had the absolute worst. An inane ending with no logic.

It wasn't a bad horror flick, really. A rookie officer is given the duty of watching a closing police station, on the last night it will hold anything. She soon discovers the real reason it's being shut down. The movie did get a bit over the top near the end, but it held my interest most of the way through - which is better than most of the horror flicks I've watched recently. And then that screwy ending. Seems the writer couldn't think of a proper way to end it. My advice? Watch it, but shut it down about 45 seconds before the end and imagine your own ending. (Yeah; in that small space of time, they destroy an otherwise fine film.)
 
Alien Covenant
This seemed to draw heavily from the first two movies -- which made it an absorbing thriller but not much in the way of covering new ground.
As a sequel to Prometheus, this was about as satisfying as the sequel to Aliens. Both Newt and Dr. Shaw deserved better fates.
 
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