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What's The Last Movie You’ve Seen?

LogGrad98 said:
I am a Donnie Yen fan, even before the Ip Man movies on Netflix. Which, by the way, all 3 of his Ip Man movies are on Netflix, in Chinese with subs mostly. I actually started following him on the martial arts competition circuit. The dude is fully legit, mixed street fighter-esque with real-world fighting experience. Awesome to watch his bouts. Even as he is getting older I bet he would absolutely kill in MMA.
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I haven't seen the Ip Man films, admittedly that's not really my genre (haven't seen Ong Bak neither), but I did enjoy Donnie in this one, he has kinda unique character.
 
Just watched nocturnal animals. Loved it except for the end, which I hated.

Michael Shannon is one of my favorite actors of all time.
 
fishonjazz said:
Just watched nocturnal animals. Loved it except for the end, which I hated.

Michael Shannon is one of my favorite actors of all time.
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I really want to see this. I'm gonna have to take a day in March or so and On Demand that and some other stuff.
 
Has anybody here watched Spike's new flick? Chi-Raq I think it's called. Some friends are getting together to watch it this weekend, wondering if I want to make the effort to watch with (will have to switch shifts).
 
Finally watched Rogue One. I thought it was great but I am guessing most non hardcore fans feel meh about it. This the most Star Wars easter eggs ever. Tied in some Clone Wars and Rebels and gave some interest to where Rebels will go.
 
Can Star Wars get any worse? I almost fell asleep three times during Rogue One. I'm amazed this degenerating franchise that once was a classic can still generate box office sales. The only reason I saw it was free tickets and a be polite with people occasion.
 
franklin said:
Can Star Wars get any worse? I almost fell asleep three times during Rogue One. I'm amazed this degenerating franchise that once was a classic can still generate box office sales. The only reason I saw it was free tickets and a be polite with people occasion.
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Really? I thought it was pretty good. Lots of interesting and likeable characters, good story, well told. It kept the spirit of the original trilogy and was miles better than Episodes I-III. Held my attention the whole way.



Out of interest what are your favourite movies in general?
 
ONE LOVE said:
Really? I thought it was pretty good. Lots of interesting and likeable characters, good story, well told. It kept the spirit of the original trilogy and was miles better than Episodes I-III. Held my attention the whole way.



Out of interest what are your favourite movies in general?
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Being better than I-III is not an achievement.

And it wasn't very good at all. Characters were shallow as well. So who were the temple guardians? Donnie Yen was cool, OK but what motivations does he have? I hardly noticed Baze(?) was there till he was "One with the force". So Cassian was a bad guy because we saw him kill an informant once and went through a lot because he said so. That's just bad storytelling.

Saw Gerrera's only purpose in the movie was to relay Galen's message. Felicity Jones played that part great, though.

Jyn's motivations were all in conflict and she didn't act like it. There wouldn't be a villain and we wouldn't have noticed at all.

Lots of good material dropped off to tell a story too linear. It feels as if it was directly transferred from the script with no touches when taking scenes.
 
Hekate said:
Being better than I-III is not an achievement.

And it wasn't very good at all. Characters were shallow as well. So who were the temple guardians? Donnie Yen was cool, OK but what motivations does he have? I hardly noticed Baze(?) was there till he was "One with the force". So Cassian was a bad guy because we saw him kill an informant once and went through a lot because he said so. That's just bad storytelling.

Saw Gerrera's only purpose in the movie was to relay Galen's message. Felicity Jones played that part great, though.

Jyn's motivations were all in conflict and she didn't act like it. There wouldn't be a villain and we wouldn't have noticed at all.

Lots of good material dropped off to tell a story too linear. It feels as if it was directly transferred from the script with no touches when taking scenes.
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Characters were shallow? It's a 2 and a half hour movie, there was plenty of back story on Jyn and her dad, etc, if they had to retell the story of every single characters it would be a 5 hour movie. So of course with the time restriction the story had to be more 'linear' than your typical star wars movie.


I think your expectation needs to be tempered a bit because of that. If they do everything you'd ask for above they'd need to split it into 3 parts (which wouldn't be all that bad, tbh). But what they wanted to do was keep it concise so they could do other stories later (I'd heard they're gonna do the backstory for Han Solo, etc).
 
Hekate said:
Being better than I-III is not an achievement.

And it wasn't very good at all. Characters were shallow as well. So who were the temple guardians? Donnie Yen was cool, OK but what motivations does he have? I hardly noticed Baze(?) was there till he was "One with the force". So Cassian was a bad guy because we saw him kill an informant once and went through a lot because he said so. That's just bad storytelling.

Saw Gerrera's only purpose in the movie was to relay Galen's message. Felicity Jones played that part great, though.

Jyn's motivations were all in conflict and she didn't act like it. There wouldn't be a villain and we wouldn't have noticed at all.

Lots of good material dropped off to tell a story too linear. It feels as if it was directly transferred from the script with no touches when taking scenes.
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That is the main complaint I'm hearing. Star Wars is Star Wars because of classic memorable characters, not people who are just likable or average.
 
^ I said that after The Force Awakens, maybe even before it.

No way the films would touch 4-6. Harrison Ford is an iconic movie star who brought adventure, charisma and humor to episodes 4-6. Without him, these movies will struggle feeling flat-out awesome. They may be decent/solid but won't be on another plane. That said, I am holding out hope and have been for a couple years that episode 8 will kick *** simply because Johnson, who did an underrated flick called Brick and the awesome Looper, directed.
 
ONE LOVE said:
Really? I thought it was pretty good. Lots of interesting and likeable characters, good story, well told. It kept the spirit of the original trilogy and was miles better than Episodes I-III. Held my attention the whole way.



Out of interest what are your favourite movies in general?
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TBH, I threw in "get any worse" because the critical reception to I-III were pretty bad. I actually enjoyed I quite a bit despite what seemed to me at the time as hard-core fan criticism. I don't repeat watch movies often but I wouldn't mind watching that with the kids. Maybe tonight.

This one was straight boring. It had a similar feel to the 2009 Star Trek film, only that one actually had some entertaining throwback points with Spock.
 
Finally saw The Witch. Didn't really care for it. The first two acts were pretty good. Disturbing and dreary. But it didn't matter since the third act was pure crap (except for the possession scene, which was awesome if you forget the twins existed).
 
Cunning Linguist said:
^ I said that after The Force Awakens, maybe even before it.

No way the films would touch 4-6. Harrison Ford is an iconic movie star who brought adventure, charisma and humor to episodes 4-6. Without him, these movies will struggle feeling flat-out awesome. They may be decent/solid but won't be on another plane. That said, I am holding out hope and have been for a couple years that episode 8 will kick *** simply because Johnson, who did an underrated flick called Brick and the awesome Looper, directed.
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He also directed what I consider to be the best episode of Breaking Bad.

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