Rate the last movie you watched

[MyOneAndOnly]

The only superhero films this good are the last Batman trilogy

[MyOneAndOnly]

My rating of the Dark Knight Trilogy:

Batman Begins - B+
The Dark Knight - A+
The Dark Knight Rises - A-

For context my ratings of other Marvel films I think we're top shelf:

Ironman - A-
Captain America - B+
Spiderman (2002) - A-
Avengers (the 1st one) - A-

[MyOneAndOnly]

Goddammit if they fuck up Captain Marvel

[MyOneAndOnly]

Originally Posted by TuralyonW3

Raw - A-

Beautiful French hot college girl cannibal film

This

[MyOneAndOnly]

Did I post my Logan review?

A+

Just watch it. Brilliant.

[noyen]

gaspar noé's 'love' - a+ one of the most depressing and "real" movies I've ever seen with amazing camera trik(+_+)(+_+)s and boobies and really some dark shit.

[teh b0lly!!1]

i liked it too noyen. wouldn't say it's A+ tbh, but it really is very, very real account of life and very well shot and presented. it found it flawed in some ways though. not sure if i posted a review about it

ALSO BTW BRO U KNOW THE FUCKING WERE REAL RIGHT? I HAVE SCREENSHOTS SAVED ON MY HD (HARD DICK LOL)

[teh b0lly!!1]

Originally Posted by scottytheoneand

Did I post my Logan review?

A+

Just watch it. Brilliant.

fantastic review, you are a true wordsmith

[buzzard]

"JUST WATCH IT. BRILLIANT."
- The Guardian

[teh b0lly!!1]

"this movie had me totally errect"

-New Yorker Times

[buzzard]

"This will be a classic for a generation of girls."
- AskMen.com

[Cool As Ice Cream]

"They absolutely nailed it."

- The New England Courant

[Cool As Ice Cream]

"It actually brings a tear of joy to my eye."

- The Boston Globe

[teh b0lly!!1]

" ***post gifs*** "

- Flaming Globe

[Cool As Ice Cream]

"lemonparty.org"

- The New Jersey Journal

[FlamingGlobes]

Originally Posted by teh b0lly!!1

" ***post gifs*** "

- Flaming Globe

[LaBelle]

Oh man, gonna only post reviews as blurbs from now on.

[LaBelle]

"TOTALLY meh"

[LaBelle]

"Soul crushingly awkward"

[FlamingGlobes]

"A Fun, Hip, Roller-Coaster Ride!"

- Shawn Edwards, every VHS box in the '90s

[Elvis The Fat Years]

Trainspotting 2. I liked it. I thought it had a good balance of being it's own movie and nostalgia.

[teh b0lly!!1]

Originally Posted by LaBelle

"Soul crushingly awkward"

"completely, utterly covfefe"

[noyen]

Betting on Zero - totally depressing. would totally insert into my ass.

[MyOneAndOnly]

Firefly

B

This is a spanish language film shot in Columbia. It tells the store of two women who bond over a the unexpected death of a handsome young guy. The first is the dead man's sister, the other is his fiance. Of course, sharing their grief leads to them becoming lovers.

This is streaming now on Amazon Prime

[FoolofaTook]

Ghost World. B+

Cool film.

[FlamingGlobes]

Originally Posted by FoolofaTook

Ghost World. B+

Cool film.

That movie is A+ just for the scene where Steve Buscemi rages in his car at the family crossing the street.

[FoolofaTook]

The Holy Mountain A+++

Watched this shit on 100 mgs of thc. Whallah!

[Disco King]

Originally Posted by FoolofaTook

Ghost World. B+

Cool film.

I love Ghost World. It seems like it's going to be another teen movie about the cynical sarcastic misfit underdog who you're supposed to root for because her character and integrity make her a better person than all the "plastic popular kids" or whatever, but then it deconstructs that trope by showing how much it would actually stunt one's development to hide one's insecurities behind those sorts of shields. It's a nice depiction of that aspect of growing up where you just kind of drift away from longtime friends you thought you'd know forever because your lives start diverging at that transitional point. Johansson's character emotionally matures from her "teen angst" stage, leaving Birch's character behind.

It's a great adaptation of the comic. It's one of those adaptations where you don't resent the changes made from the source material, because they are good in their own right, and now you have two different enjoyable stories, rather than one good story told in two media.

Speaking of comic-book adaptations that make a lot of changes to the source material that end up working for the film-- I just saw Wonder Woman, and damn, I wasn't expecting to like it as much as I did. Especially when every other DCEU film so far has been shit. And the fact that the movie has so many credited writers that you know it went through 167 rewrites and suspect it was written by committee.

The film doesn't feel like that at all. It feels like a much more singular vision than any of the Snyder DCEU films, which don't really seem to understand cohesive narrative and think that a series of slick-looking sequences makes for a good movie. Every scene is actually doing some work in contributing to the themes and the arc, and there's no dumb Hawkman cameo that's only there to advertise the next film. Snyder's fingerprints can be seen in the fight choreography (which is one of the few things he does competently) and the colour grading, but everything else is so different that you know this was Jenkin's baby, unlike those cookie-cutter Marvel Studios films, in which the directors and screenwriters are more like Subway "sandwich artists" than anything.

SPOILERS

I liked how the film played with the idea that the world isn't so simple that killing the bad guy will make every problem go away, but I also feel that it then it undercuts that by having Wonder Woman kill Aries, after which World War I goes away. Would have served the theme better if the war continued, leaving us with the thought that even though the world wasn't saved, something good was accomplished, and in the real world, that's the best one can hope for. Kind of that "you can't save all the starfish" parable. Would have also been worthwhile to hint at the fact that the sanctions the Allies imposed on Germany after the war weren't exactly a positive thing.

Though this isn't the most realistic war movie, it did portray it a lot more earnestly than you'd expect from the genre, touching on the horrors of modern war (mustard gas being central to the plot), imagery of war injury, PTSD, and civilian casualties. I was expecting that this was going to be a riff off of that Captain America movie, but it was far superior. I was hopeful that using WWI instead of WWII would make the conflict less clear-cut, and not a case of "Allied Heroes vs. Nazi Villains." But even though they tried to do that a little bit, in the end, it pretty much was "Allied Heroes vs. German Villains."

Doctor Poison is a villain that I've always thought has a very interesting look and premise, but she's not actually in very many interesting stories in the comics. This film's interpretation of her was great, though. Even though she was a secondary villain, she was far more terrifying than the main one.

The changes to the Wonder Woman lore also suited the film. The whole thing about "Aries killing the gods because he hates mankind and Wonder Woman being created as a weapon against him" isn't quite how it is in the comics, but it works better in this film than a more faithful origin would. I'm all for faithfulness to the source material, but the number one goal is to make a good movie. And if the movie is better served by playing loose with some of the mythology, go right ahead, I say.

Even though I love superhero comics, very few superhero films are what I'd think of as "good films." Something like Iron Man, it's certainly not a bad film and it's a satisfying watch, but it's nothing to write home about. Something like Man of Steel is just a bad film. But Wonder Woman joins Nolan's first two Batman films, Spider-Man 2, and the Donner Superman movies as films that I'd say aren't just "good superhero films," but "good films."

[Disco King]

Double post

[Disco King]

Little things that bothered me, though:

• 8-year-old Diana- Western Anglo accent
• 12-year-old and adult Diana- Israeli accent
• Diana's mom- Western Anglo accent
• Diana's aunt- Israeli accent (actor's Dainish, but it sounds like she was trying to match Gadot's accent; maybe I just suck at placing accents, though)

The fuck?

Also, when they are training with swords... real swords... isn't there the very real possibility that one could kill the other? Seems like training should be non-lethal preparation for lethal predicaments. Unless they were holding back and weren't trying very hard to kill each other. In which case, what was the purpose of training if they were doing it half-assed? That's not much of preparation for... anything.

Swords are weird in this movie in general. I could swear that when the Germans were storming Themyscira, they clearly showed the Amazons attacking them with swords, but nobody ever got cut. Swords are just blunt batons in this universe, unless you're made of CGI. I understand that this is a PG-13 movie and I don't expect to see entrails and decapitated heads, but you'd think if they wanted to keep blood to a minimum while still doing sword stuff, they'd just pull the camera away every time somebody was slashed or stabbed. No, they still show it, but people just fall down for some reason.

Also, Angryman vs. Sadman: Yawn of Justice seemed to imply that Wonder Woman had given up on humanity. The beginning of Wonder Woman seemed to imply the same. This would explain why nobody's heard of her since WWI and she didn't show up when aliens destroyed a city.

But the film doesn't end with her being like "so after that, I gave up on humanity and went home and watched Netflix. Got a call saying that there's now a SECOND world war, can you fucking believe these guys? Told the dude IDGF I live on a magic island." It ends with her being all "I will continue to be a superhero and fight for my ideals etc." So, uh, how does that fit.