what was the last movie you saw?

[AndrewG]

Onward (2020)
Effortless Pixar craftsmanship from every perspective.
Utterly beautiful and perfect story telling.
9/10

[AndrewG]

Spiderman: Far From Home (2019)

The worst Spiderman movie in the last 20 years.
So patronisingly bad. All characters behave like idiots.

Makes a mockery of the events in Infinity War. Horrible.
2/10

[AndrewG]

The Invisible Man (2020)

Utterly atrocious.

1 / 10

Watch Paul Verhoeven's far superior Hollow Man, instead of this utterly frustrating tripe.
Worst movie I've seen this year. Worse than Tenet if that was even possible.
Christopher Nolan and Jason Blum should merge Syncopy with Blumhouse productions. It will probably create a paradox of awfulness in the entertainment industry and perhaps cause a ripple effect that will make all awful movies in the history of the movie business to magically disappear.

Again like Tenet, this movie takes itself so serious. It forgets to entertain. A terrible lead actress was chosen. Terrible plot points. A mountain of plot holes and mostly just vague carry on that is never convincing or makes you feel anything.

Made for people who have no emotions I think. Maybe a dead fish will like it.

Whoever made this has no idea that a movie such as Terminator exists: the bad guy actually has a motivation to stalk, there is some fun in the absurdity of the situation, the effects are subtle, the menace comes from the intrigue, actors, situations and suspension of disbelief. This movie does everything in the total opposite way, it all feels very repetitive, it is far too long and the movie thus fails miserably.
A movie about the apparently teleporting dog that was in this storyline would have been more interesting.

[duke knooby]

The Conjuring... still a great film

The conjuring 2... still an enjoyable film, though not as scary as the first.

Poltergeist... still well worth watching.

[Adje]

Originally Posted by duke knooby

Poltergeist... still well worth watching.

Original or remake (please say original...)

For me
Halloween Kills (2021)
It's a dumb slasherfilm, plotholes you might expect, dumb people doing all the wrong things and thus get killed...

I LOVED IT!!!
Great transistion movie. A clear middle movie in a trilogy and I can't wait for the conclusion next year. Michael Myers was freaking brutal in this one.

Don't expect award winning performances (although the flashback to 1978 is actually brilliant) and accept it for what it is. Then you will have a good time!

[duke knooby]

of course it was the original Adje :)

Last I saw was the latter half of The Exorcist...

turns out it's a bit of a comedy classic

[AndrewG]

West Side Story
Excellent re-work of the musical. Perfect soundtrack, great cast, great visuals and cinematography. Far more satisfying than the original dated movie.
Probably one my favourite Spielberg movies since Jurassic Park / Schindler's List. A whopping 28 years with quite a bit of claptrap in between.
Shame the cinemas were empty for this. I thought it was superb.
Spielberg should have done more musicals. Especially something like Les Mis or Phantom which have poor movie versions.
8.5/10


Spider-Man: No Way Home.
To me it seems overhyped.
I enjoyed it but is pretty dumb in places and has inconsistent pacing.
Spoiler below:

Apparently the worst part of of Spiderman's identity reveal is the 3 main characters not ending up in MIT. This is pretty ridiculously dumb. No one seems to be critical that this is the main catalyst for all the hectic carry on. Just as stupid as a rat freeing Ant Man from the Quantum Realm.
Why didn't they do something like Ned gets beat up / ends up in hospital or MJ gets harassed or something (not for 10 seconds which we saw, but something like an uncomfortable scene where she is all alone and there is no escape because Spider Man is saving someone else? This enforces the predicament as in that he cannot always be there for her and thus needs to be resolved surely? I probably would have done both at least. Happy goes to prison and Aunt May loses her job. This seems like an easy fix no? Spend 10 minutes on that and you have a movie that earns its story more.
Something really dark here would have made Peter Parker's trip to the wizard more believable.
Not ending up in MIT? Help me Dr Strange! ~~~~ off, film.

I enjoyed the movie but it doesn't come close to Infinity War, which to me is still the best Marvel movie in which I think the stakes are raised and there is real threat. I mostly prefer DC over the other dumb Marvel stuff. The likes of the Black Widow movie was terrible. At least No Way Home is not as bad.
7/10