Last movie you saw?

Man I've been looking for this off/on since I saw the trailer. It looks good but I want to pay no more than $1.99 for a Jason Statham rental. These are the instrusive thoughts that haunt me.

 

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire. My sister's 10 yr. old wanted to see it and I volunteered to take him. The kid loved it. As for myself, it was live action Hanna-Barbera. It was really fun but, damn, it was stupid.

 

I re-watched some Mel Brooks classic comedies with my girlfriend, who had never seen any comedies like that not being from the West and loved them. Saw Young Frankenstein, The Producers, and Blazing Saddles. I didn't think The Producers has aged as well as the others, but Young Frankenstein is still one of the best comedies of all time.

 

Tenet

Unlike some people I didn't find the time travel stuff hard to understand. My problem with Tenet was that when you set the time travel gimmicks aside with the inversions and temporal pincer movements, it's actually just a generic and quite boring spy movie that lacks memorable characters and action scenes. The bad guy is an evil rich Russian guy with a yacht who is basically every 007 villain ever. The main character doesn't even have a name. He's just called "the protagonist." And yeah the time travel stuff is absolutely goofy. The future trying to destroy the present is a dumb premise. The writing is even somewhat self aware of how dumb it is because they talk about the grandfather paradox. I feel like Nolan got very lazy with the writing on this one. Easily his worst film.

 

I've been to the theater 4 times in the past several weeks, which is so strange because I rarely go out to see a movie these days. I prefer waiting to watch it at home. However, three of the movies were ones I was excited for, and the 4th was for my daughter. The 4 movies I saw:

1) Demon Slayer Infinity Castle - If you are a fan of the show, its a must watch. If you have never seen the show, it will be hard to follow. This is one of the most technically impressive animated movies I have ever seen. At times, it is stunning.

2) Tron Ares - I really really wanted it to be good, but had low expectations. It was pretty middle of the road. The atmosphere and soundtrack were fantastic, but the plot was just fine, and the acting was horrific. Surprisingly, Jared Leto was actually not bad in this movie, but the cast around him were terrible. Particularly, the CEO of Encom girl boss has some of the worst dialogue I have ever heard in a movie. Do not recommend paying to see it, but might be worth it on a rainy day on a streaming service you already have.

3) Chainsaw Man - This was a complete surprise. I like show, but don't love it. However, this film was fantastic. Its a self contained story with new characters, a plot that holds your attention hostage for the entire run time, and the animation was really strong. It hits a variety of emotions as well. Some scenes were genuinely hilarious, while others are horrific and shocking. It definitely earned its R rating. Highly recommended.

4) K-Pop Demon Hunters - We had already seen it on Netflix, but my daughter loves the movie and they released it again in the theater as a sing-a-long, so I took her as a surprise. Sitting in a packed theater with about 50 young kids dancing and singing songs at the top of their lungs is a surreal and absurd experience that I couldn't help but laugh at the entire time. It was also surreal because this was the first movie I have been to in probably a decade where every seat was full. For anyone who has never seen the movie, its dumb but fun. Also the songs are very catchy. But it is definitely a film for children.

 

I went to see the first 28 years later. It was decent but too much zombie dick

 

I didn't enjoy it as there was not enough zombie dick.

For my last film, I rewatched the first MK reboot as I will probably go and watch the second one just because its something to do and I get 2 cinema tickets for £9. It still wasn't great, it hasn't gotten any better since the last time I watched it, which was disappointing.

 

I didn’t rate 28 years later much, heard the sequel is better but not really got the enthusiasm to see it.

Saw the film Greenland the other day - disaster movie but pretty by the numbers. Not bad as a background flick but nothing more.

 

Greenland was a fun movie, but Greenland 2 was not needed. Good example why you don't make sequels to those planetary disaster movies.

MK reboot was extremely disappointing. The sequel came out so much better. Confirmed that Cage is the main character in the sequel and that new cole character they brought in the first is not. That basically fixed all of the problems.

 

I was mildly interested in Masters of the Universe, until I heard Skeletor's new deep voice. Missed opportunity by them to do the voice right.

 

Masters of the Universe

Reminds me of John Carter: very old IP with an unknown actor in the lead. It flopped at the box office, but I actually thought it was pretty good. Once it gets out of its own way it's a lot like the He-Man Saturday morning cartoons from the 1980s.

 

I watched Citizen Vigilante with some digital credits I'd accumulated from choosing slower Amazon Prime deliveries. It's written and directed by Uwe Boll, who made those notoriously awful video game movies back in the day. To my surprise, this was decent in quality, although the topic matter has Reddit mods going into convulsions trying to censor everything possible despite being unquestionably tamer politically than something like The Boys went in the opposite partisan direction, which would parody specific people, events, and quotes. Armie Hammer is quite good in the lead role, and this is apparently considered to be somewhat of a comeback role after some major personal scandals a few years ago. I watched it more out of curiosity regarding the movie itself and perhaps even more the public's reaction to it.

https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/citizen_vigilante

Tomatometer ("critics"/ rabid activists): 6%

Popcornmeter (general population audience): 93%

What a surprise.