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Re: Movies you have watched thread.
Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2026 5:19 pm
by gaetano dimita
enframed wrote: Sat Jan 17, 2026 5:33 pm
Train Dreams is surpisingly good, if stylisticly not very unique.
Thank you for the recommendation. Indeed, it was splendid, and both Joel Edgerton Felicity Jones's performances were mesmerizing. Grazie, enframed!
Re: Movies you have watched thread.
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2026 10:20 am
by cakes
65 with Adam Driver. He's an awesome actor and he's pretty good in this, but even he can't save this film. It's not that it's bad, it's that it's amateurish, from the CGI to the story. It made me think of the movie Monsters, which had a similar amateurish layer, but was a better monster story. The sub plot of his daughter is just too ham fisted. He can do whatever the hell he wants, he's a big movie star. It feels like a movie he did because he made friends with someone on Star Wars and wanted to work with them or help them out, or something like that. I hope that's the case, because that would make him even more likable. The other actor is the girl who played the daughter in Barbie. She's also pretty good for her part. Either way, not a movie worth watching.
The plot is only mildly interesting, and kind of genre mashing. A pilot has to take a 2 year job flying a space craft full of passengers across space (it's not clear how much space) to earn enough credits to get his daughter medical help for a condition she has. His ship gets stuck in an asteroid field and crash lands on an earth-like planet. When this happens, the movie immediately reveals that the the planet is in fact earth, 65 million years ago. It becomes apparent immediately that the asteroid that wipes out the dinosaurs is imminent, like within hours. Driver's character believes he's the lone survivor, until he finds a little girl still alive in a cryo chamber. They fight off dinosaurs to try to make it to the top of a mountain where the last escape pod landed after the ship was torn in half. During the perilous journey, we learn that his daughter died. The little girl's parents were also on the ship, but died. So, he's trying to save this orphan as a way to save his daughter.
Every scene in this movie is predictable, the dinosaurs are re-imagined and not really authentic, the GCI is a hair above The Next Generation quality, the story is boring, and the sub plot is hammy.
The other problem with this movie is the time-bending. Human-like aliens land on earth, the one speaks english (ok, that's fine, it's a movie), the other speaks some other language that is made up for the movie. All measurements are in Kilometers. You get the idea. The language around everything is just odd because of the placement of time and location, which actually are not that important to the movie at all. It's just an "interesting" idea that wasn't played with at all other than to have the aliens be dinosaurs.
By the way, they escape in the end. Now you don't have to see it.
Re: Movies you have watched thread.
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2026 11:41 am
by iembalm
cakes wrote: Tue Jan 20, 2026 10:20 am
65 with Adam Driver. He's an awesome actor and he's pretty good in this, but even he can't save this film. It's not that it's bad, it's that it's amateurish, from the CGI to the story. It made me think of the movie Monsters, which had a similar amateurish layer, but was a better monster story. The sub plot of his daughter is just too ham fisted. He can do whatever the hell he wants, he's a big movie star. It feels like a movie he did because he made friends with someone on Star Wars and wanted to work with them or help them out, or something like that. I hope that's the case, because that would make him even more likable. The other actor is the girl who played the daughter in Barbie. She's also pretty good for her part. Either way, not a movie worth watching.
The plot is only mildly interesting, and kind of genre mashing. A pilot has to take a 2 year job flying a space craft full of passengers across space (it's not clear how much space) to earn enough credits to get his daughter medical help for a condition she has. His ship gets stuck in an asteroid field and crash lands on an earth-like planet. When this happens, the movie immediately reveals that the the planet is in fact earth, 65 million years ago. It becomes apparent immediately that the asteroid that wipes out the dinosaurs is imminent, like within hours. Driver's character believes he's the lone survivor, until he finds a little girl still alive in a cryo chamber. They fight off dinosaurs to try to make it to the top of a mountain where the last escape pod landed after the ship was torn in half. During the perilous journey, we learn that his daughter died. The little girl's parents were also on the ship, but died. So, he's trying to save this orphan as a way to save his daughter.
Every scene in this movie is predictable, the dinosaurs are re-imagined and not really authentic, the GCI is a hair above The Next Generation quality, the story is boring, and the sub plot is hammy.
The other problem with this movie is the time-bending. Human-like aliens land on earth, the one speaks english (ok, that's fine, it's a movie), the other speaks some other language that is made up for the movie. All measurements are in Kilometers. You get the idea. The language around everything is just odd because of the placement of time and location, which actually are not that important to the movie at all. It's just an "interesting" idea that wasn't played with at all other than to have the aliens be dinosaurs.
By the way, they escape in the end. Now you don't have to see it.
I didn't really like this movie, but Driver does an exceptional job of making you believe that his character is feeling every nick, scratch, bludgeoning, and broken bone he gets as he fights the dinos.
Re: Movies you have watched thread.
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2026 5:31 pm
by ChudFusk
I just watched 28 Years Later, and was enjoying it just fine until the Swede got there and then they're picnicking in an open field in broad daylight on a zombie-infested landscape and it just lost all the momentum and gravity that the story had built up to that point.
Re: Movies you have watched thread.
Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2026 8:45 pm
by brephophagist
Sentimental Value: very good. If you are a child of divorce, get a tissue handy. Contains the funniest possible birthday gift for an 8yo child, to boot.
Re: Movies you have watched thread.
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2026 7:14 am
by Bernardo
been seeing a lot of movies
28 Years later + Bone Temple, within a couple of days. I thought they were ok. First (well, third) one is pretty much a family / coming of age story (ugh), but with zombies. They are not horror films, they are films with horrible things happening in them at points. The second one is more diverse.
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You was really good. It's one of those anxiety films (a la Safdie Brothers, Beau is Afraid), but it's actually about something, as opposed to being about the ride (which is how I feel about Good Time and Uncut Gems). Very funny in parts. Do make a point of seeing it in a movie theather, the sound design / mix is very very effective and contributes greatly.
Saw a few Truffaut films, after had only watched Jules and Jim aeons ago, but was not that into this batch: Farenheit 451, The Wild Child, The Bride Wore Black. Enjoyed them, but didn't love any of those.
Saw Chato's Land, it was decent. As a bonus, when reading about the film later I got wind of what a piece of shit director Michael Winner apparently was.
Re-watched Tenebre after not getting it many years ago, still on the Suspiria / Inferno high. Did enjoy it this time. Became a fan of this era of italian cinema over the years.
Saw Hitch Hike, also italian, really misanthropic. After I spent the first few minutes with the male protagonist I thought "and then there is going to be a villain ON TOP of that?". It was good. If you think you have to empathize with movie characters to get something out of them, don't see it.
Saw Boorman's Point Blank, it's amazing. Really wish I get to see a screening of it at some point.
Finally finished Dreyer's Vampyr. It's really cool and hallucinatory.
Been catching up on Mario Bava: Five Dollls..., The Whip and The Body, Rabid Dogs, Blood and Black Lace. Enjoyed them all in different degrees, none became a big favorite.
Saw Weapons again, still think it's great.
Saw Godard's Contempt, enjoyed it very much. It was interesting seeing Jack Palance in this and Chato's Land within the same month.
Saw Fassbinder's World on a Wire. It is so great. See it. Long, but meant to be treated as a double film. I saw it in one sitting, but it would have definitely have worked as two regular sized pictures in different days.
There was a lot more.
Re: Movies you have watched thread.
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2026 7:55 am
by Isaac
brephophagist wrote: Tue Jan 20, 2026 8:45 pm
Sentimental Value: very good. If you are a child of divorce, get a tissue handy. Contains the funniest possible birthday gift for an 8yo child, to boot.
I really, really liked that one a lot. That scene, too. Superb!
I had a snow day yesterday so caved and watched THE RIP.
Likely the worst film I've ever seen.
Re: Movies you have watched thread.
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2026 8:50 am
by zircona1
Bernardo wrote: Wed Jan 21, 2026 7:14 am
Saw Fassbinder's World on a Wire.
I bought this from my local library for a buck a long time ago, but I haven't watched it yet. I bought it because Criterion.
Re: Movies you have watched thread.
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2026 9:21 am
by Bernardo
zircona1 wrote: Wed Jan 21, 2026 8:50 am
Bernardo wrote: Wed Jan 21, 2026 7:14 am
Saw Fassbinder's World on a Wire.
I bought this from my local library for a buck a long time ago, but I haven't watched it yet. I bought it because Criterion.
That was great luck. I don't think you'll be disappointed.
Re: Movies you have watched thread.
Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2026 3:50 pm
by rsmurphy
Watched The Running Man (2025) at the behest of the dude I live with, and you know what? I liked it. Never saw the original. Don't need to.