Film What did you watch last night???

[Veum]

 12/19

Yes it is a Christmas movie!  🎄 

 

https://youtu.be/WYFCl9qJGSQ

 

Edited December 20, 2021 by Veum

[Veum]

Dark Shadows actors doing A Christmas Carol reading live on YouTube!  🎄 

 

https://youtu.be/AWUmihz0F6M

 

Edited December 20, 2021 by Veum

[Mutantsmiley]

If you can commit to this one,  it's probably the greatest documentary ever made ~  Quentin Tarantino

 

 

Edited December 20, 2021 by Mutantsmiley

[Veum]

🎄 watched episode…

 

 

Season 3 Disc 3 Ep 10 - To Save Us All from satan’s power…

 

Tony finds himself singing the Christmas blues as the holidays approach. He and Furio retaliate against the Russian who beat Janice. Memories of Big stop using inappropriate language haunt Tony, Silvio, and Paulie as they try to find a new Santa Claus for the neighborhood children. Tony smacks Jackie, Jr. around after he catches him cheating on Meadow and carrying a gun.

[Basil]

well as covid was in force could not get to the cinema to see this film, which was a shame.

anyway the steel turned up the weekend. enjoyed soo much i watched a second time with the wife.

any how throw this out there i personally think this is best bond film of all time and the bond film they should have always made, love the pace drive storyline of the film, stunts are superb.

if a premium of this comes out i WILL have to own it.

sure others will disagree with have written but they are wrong  

 

 

basil 

[Veum]

 📺 Prime Video Watching…

 

Daughter of the Wolf 🐺 

 

Ex-military specialist Clair Hamilton returns home from her tour in the Middle East due to her father's passing and to claim her inheritance. Her son is then kidnapped and held for ransom by a gang led by a mysterious figure known only as "Father".

 

 

Conclusion: don’t bother IMHO 👎 

Edited December 26, 2021 by Veum

[Reagh]

Titane

 

A tale as old as time. A young girl gets into terrible car accident. Grows up, becomes a model / exotic dancer / serial killer. She has a passionate one night stand with a car and becomes pregnant. 
 

 

I loved this movie. It’s not for everyone, it’s uncomfortable and hard to watch at times. I guess that’s the way I like them. 

[Basil]

19 minutes ago, Reagh said:

Titane

 

A tale as old as time. A young girl gets into terrible car accident. Grows up, becomes a model / exotic dancer / serial killer. She has a passionate one night stand with a car and becomes pregnant. 
 

 

I loved this movie. It’s not for everyone, it’s uncomfortable and hard to watch at times. I guess that’s the way I like them. 

not watched your trailer but i say this she has a nice ass

 

basil  

[Veum]

9 hours ago, Basil said:

not watched your trailer but i say this she has a nice ass

 

basil  

 

[javi]

The one and only true CHRISTMAS movie:

 

Edited December 27, 2021 by javi

[extantsrevenge]

I went to the cinema yesterday to see Matrix Resurrections... I guess "Matrix Rehash" (if you want to go with an R), "Matrix Dead on Arrival" or "Matrix Biggest Movie Disappointment of the Year" would be more appropriate.

 

Honestly WHY did they have to make this movie 😭

 

To prepare for this event I watched The Matrix again on the 25th and it proved again why it was such a game changer back in 1999. An absolute Masterpiece that got everything right from start to finish. Fantastic mind bending story, with amazing cast and characters, awesome effects and design and some of the greatest and most innovative action sequences ever created. No wonder it is in my Top 10 favorite movies and stands among the higest voted movies everywhere. I remember very well how blown away I was back in 1999 when I went to the first showing and I still am when watching again.

 

Sure the sequels could not live up to the first one, but 2 still delivered a great action movie, unfortunately 3 already had plenty of not so good stuff in it, but is still watchable and at least wrapped up the story even when it was in a rather disappointing way.

 

And then we get to the new one 😱. OMG how bad can it get..... I have the answer for you REALLY BAD. From the first second I knew something is wrong with this movie and really soon you simply hope that it will end soon, which it doesn't because it is running for 2 and a half hours 🙄. From start to finish they give you one bad thing after another. The new characters are all horrible, the old ones feel out of place or are changed in a way that simply makes it silly. The Story if you can even call it that is a revision of things that came before but in the worst possible way imaginable. The Action is an absolute let down, most action is thrown at you at random intervals only to have some action in the movie and it is so lame you want to scream at the screen. Really no wow moment at all. Also the movie is so BORING it starts to hurt.

 

In the original every scene had a purpose and brought the story forward, no waisted dialogue in that one, but in the new movie you could skip almost everything as it does not add much at all.

 

The acting was also not good with Neil Patrick Harris delivering one of the worst performances you could think of and that new Smith 😱 not even 1% of the charisma of Hugo Weaving. Even Keanu felt like he only came to Set for the paycheck.

 

It is very sad to see Studios return to their greatest hits and only do a sequel because they want to make more money, clearly that will not pay off with this one as the box office numbers already show.

 

Really not sure on what trip Wachowski was when coming up with this mess of a movie but it must have been a bad one.

 

Anyway I could continue my rant for a long time but what is the point in that. Compared to the original I would give this one 1 Point as it is basically not worth watching, if I put my anger aside a little and objectively rate it I guess you could give it 5 points (which I did and which would mean 1 time watch and never again).

 

3 days ago when the Steelbooks for this movie went live I ordered all 3 different Steelbooks, but I certainly don't feel like I need to own any of them. I think I will cancel 2 and only keep 1 4K Steelbook, to put in somewhere in the back of a shelf. I don't have the need for any Premiums of this garbage and I just hope the Retailer I collect don't do it.

 

Sorry to write such a downer review maybe I should have written one about Spider-Man: No Way Home which really showed how a good movie is being made and absolutely deserves the title of Best Movie of the year.

[Squeegie McGee]

18 hours ago, javi said:

The one and only true CHRISTMAS movie:

 

Nope. Not a Christmas movie... I'll stand by that 🤔😑

[Noir21]

1 hour ago, extantsrevenge said:

Ayer fui al cine para ver Matrix Resurrections ... Supongo que "Matrix Rehash" (si quieres ir con una R), "Matrix Dead on Arrival" o "Matrix Biggest Movie Disappointment of the Year" sería más apropiado .

 

Honestamente, ¿POR QUÉ tuvieron que hacer esta película? 😭

 

Para prepararme para este evento, vi The Matrix nuevamente el día 25 y demostró nuevamente por qué fue un cambio de juego en 1999. Una obra maestra absoluta que hizo todo bien de principio a fin. Fantástica historia alucinante, con un elenco y personajes increíbles, efectos y diseño asombrosos y algunas de las secuencias de acción más grandes e innovadoras jamás creadas. No es de extrañar que esté en mis 10 películas favoritas y se encuentre entre las películas más votadas en todo el mundo. Recuerdo muy bien lo asombrado que estaba en 1999 cuando fui a la primera presentación y todavía lo estoy viendo de nuevo.

 

Claro que las secuelas no pudieron estar a la altura de la primera, pero 2 aún entregaron una gran película de acción, desafortunadamente 3 ya tenían muchas cosas no tan buenas, pero aún se puede ver y al menos concluyó la historia incluso cuando estaba en de una manera bastante decepcionante.

 

Y luego llegamos al nuevo 😱 . Dios mío, lo mal que se puede poner ... Tengo la respuesta MUY MALA para ti. Desde el primer segundo supe que algo andaba mal con esta película y muy pronto simplemente esperas que termine pronto, lo cual no es así porque dura 2 horas y media 🙄. De principio a fin te dan una cosa mala tras otra. Los nuevos personajes son todos horribles, los viejos se sienten fuera de lugar o han cambiado de una manera que simplemente lo hace tonto. La Historia, si es que se puede llamar así, es una revisión de cosas que vinieron antes, pero de la peor manera imaginable. La acción es una decepción absoluta, la mayor parte de la acción se te lanza a intervalos aleatorios solo para tener algo de acción en la película y es tan poco convincente que quieres gritarle a la pantalla. Realmente no hay un momento asombroso en absoluto. Además, la película es tan ABURRIDA que empieza a doler.

 

En la original, cada escena tenía un propósito y avanzaba la historia, no había diálogos a la cintura en esa, pero en la nueva película se podía omitir casi todo, ya que no agrega mucho.

 

La actuación tampoco fue buena con Neil Patrick Harris entrega de una de las peores actuaciones que usted podría pensar y que la nueva Smith 😱 ni siquiera el 1% del carisma de Hugo Weaving. Incluso Keanu sintió que solo venía a Set por el cheque de pago.

 

Es muy triste ver a Studios regresar a sus grandes éxitos y solo hacer una secuela porque quieren ganar más dinero, claramente eso no dará sus frutos con este como ya muestran los números de taquilla.

 

Realmente no estoy seguro de qué viaje fue Wachowski cuando se le ocurrió este desastre de película, pero debe haber sido malo.

 

De todos modos podría continuar mi perorata durante mucho tiempo, pero cuál es el punto en eso. En comparación con el original, le daría 1 punto a este, ya que básicamente no vale la pena verlo, si dejo un poco mi enojo a un lado y lo califico objetivamente, supongo que podrías darle 5 puntos (lo cual hice y lo que significaría 1 reloj y nunca más).

 

Hace 3 días, cuando se lanzaron los Steelbooks de esta película, pedí los 3 Steelbooks diferentes, pero ciertamente no siento que necesite tener ninguno de ellos. Creo que cancelaré 2 y solo me quedaré 1 Steelbook 4K, para poner en algún lugar en la parte posterior de un estante. No necesito ninguna prima de esta basura y solo espero que el minorista que recojo no lo haga.

 

Lamento escribir una crítica tan deprimente, tal vez debería haber escrito una sobre Spider-Man: No Way Home, que realmente mostró cómo se está haciendo una buena película y merece absolutamente el título de Mejor Película del año.

You just confirmed all my suspicions about the movie. In that case, I guess I'll never see her. I want to try to keep the good memory of the original intact.

 

I'm sorry you had to go through that bad drink at the movie theater.😔

[Fortis93]

59 minutes ago, Squeegie McGee said:

Nope. Not a Christmas movie... I'll stand by that 🤔😑

 

[hal56]

Am 27.12.2021 um 05:53 schrieb Reagh:

Titane

 

A tale as old as time. A young girl gets into terrible car accident. Grows up, becomes a model / exotic dancer / serial killer. She has a passionate one night stand with a car and becomes pregnant. 
 

 

I loved this movie. It’s not for everyone, it’s uncomfortable and hard to watch at times. I guess that’s the way I like them. 

I enjoyed that one too. Like a lovechild between Cronenberg bodyhorror and the bizarre world of a Lynch movie. Exactly my kind of stuff.

German Steelbook is preorderd...

[Basil]

4 hours ago, extantsrevenge said:

I went to the cinema yesterday to see Matrix Resurrections... I guess "Matrix Rehash" (if you want to go with an R), "Matrix Dead on Arrival" or "Matrix Biggest Movie Disappointment of the Year" would be more appropriate.

 

Honestly WHY did they have to make this movie 😭

 

To prepare for this event I watched The Matrix again on the 25th and it proved again why it was such a game changer back in 1999. An absolute Masterpiece that got everything right from start to finish. Fantastic mind bending story, with amazing cast and characters, awesome effects and design and some of the greatest and most innovative action sequences ever created. No wonder it is in my Top 10 favorite movies and stands among the higest voted movies everywhere. I remember very well how blown away I was back in 1999 when I went to the first showing and I still am when watching again.

 

Sure the sequels could not live up to the first one, but 2 still delivered a great action movie, unfortunately 3 already had plenty of not so good stuff in it, but is still watchable and at least wrapped up the story even when it was in a rather disappointing way.

 

And then we get to the new one 😱. OMG how bad can it get..... I have the answer for you REALLY BAD. From the first second I knew something is wrong with this movie and really soon you simply hope that it will end soon, which it doesn't because it is running for 2 and a half hours 🙄. From start to finish they give you one bad thing after another. The new characters are all horrible, the old ones feel out of place or are changed in a way that simply makes it silly. The Story if you can even call it that is a revision of things that came before but in the worst possible way imaginable. The Action is an absolute let down, most action is thrown at you at random intervals only to have some action in the movie and it is so lame you want to scream at the screen. Really no wow moment at all. Also the movie is so BORING it starts to hurt.

 

In the original every scene had a purpose and brought the story forward, no waisted dialogue in that one, but in the new movie you could skip almost everything as it does not add much at all.

 

The acting was also not good with Neil Patrick Harris delivering one of the worst performances you could think of and that new Smith 😱 not even 1% of the charisma of Hugo Weaving. Even Keanu felt like he only came to Set for the paycheck.

 

It is very sad to see Studios return to their greatest hits and only do a sequel because they want to make more money, clearly that will not pay off with this one as the box office numbers already show.

 

Really not sure on what trip Wachowski was when coming up with this mess of a movie but it must have been a bad one.

 

Anyway I could continue my rant for a long time but what is the point in that. Compared to the original I would give this one 1 Point as it is basically not worth watching, if I put my anger aside a little and objectively rate it I guess you could give it 5 points (which I did and which would mean 1 time watch and never again).

 

3 days ago when the Steelbooks for this movie went live I ordered all 3 different Steelbooks, but I certainly don't feel like I need to own any of them. I think I will cancel 2 and only keep 1 4K Steelbook, to put in somewhere in the back of a shelf. I don't have the need for any Premiums of this garbage and I just hope the Retailer I collect don't do it.

 

Sorry to write such a downer review maybe I should have written one about Spider-Man: No Way Home which really showed how a good movie is being made and absolutely deserves the title of Best Movie of the year.

 

@extantsrevenge nils thank you for writing such an honest and frank review, i would always rather have the truth.

from what i read around on a few forums every person said the first half hour was sort of ok if you could call it that and then no one could work out where the story went from there and these where from all steelbook collectors.

people are always honest where critics i never fully trust, they can get it so wrong sometimes.

so for me your review means im now off to get rid of my pre-order and i thank you for that.

what a shame its turned out to be the hot mess everyone is talking about.

i always thought not having laurence fishburne and hugo was a huge mistake and bringing in new alternatives was stupid everyone ages if neo does so does everyone else think it was about them saving money and a suicidal mistake.

and also part of me wonders hom much of the script and actors where changed by the studio, we all know how warner loves to interfere with things.

 

@Scary Hair ann read up girl im off to cancel ☝️

 

basil 

[Reagh]

2 minutes ago, hal56 said:

I enjoyed that one too. Like a lovechild between Cronenberg bodyhorror and the bizarre world of a Lynch movie. Exactly my kind of stuff.

German Steelbook is preorderd...

Thanks for the heads up on the German Steelbook. I didn’t know there was one. I just ordered that as well. Thanks for tip @hal56 🙏🏻  
 

best of 2021 

1. Licorice Pizza

2. Titane 

3. Last night In Soho 

[hal56]

vor 39 Minuten schrieb Reagh:

Thanks for the heads up on the German Steelbook. I didn’t know there was one. I just ordered that as well. Thanks for tip @hal56 🙏🏻  
 

best of 2021 

1. Licorice Pizza

2. Titane 

3. Last night In Soho 

You are very welcome.

 

Cant commit to three and havent seen Licorice Pizza yet. With that said my Top 5 are:

1.  Dune

2. Palm Springs

3. The Green Knight

4. Titane

5. Promising Young Woman 

[Ryan]

Still need to see.

Spencer, nightmare alley, licorice pizza, and last night in Soho. But I gotta say that I just watched power of the dog like two weeks ago and it is easily going to make top five for me along with the night house, the last duel, and old henry. But if you haven't seen power of the dog you should check it out, I think it will win best picture.

[Veum]

7 hours ago, extantsrevenge said:

I went to the cinema yesterday to see Matrix Resurrections... I guess "Matrix Rehash" (if you want to go with an R), "Matrix Dead on Arrival" or "Matrix Biggest Movie Disappointment of the Year" would be more appropriate.

 

Honestly WHY did they have to make this movie 😭

 

To prepare for this event I watched The Matrix again on the 25th and it proved again why it was such a game changer back in 1999. An absolute Masterpiece that got everything right from start to finish. Fantastic mind bending story, with amazing cast and characters, awesome effects and design and some of the greatest and most innovative action sequences ever created. No wonder it is in my Top 10 favorite movies and stands among the higest voted movies everywhere. I remember very well how blown away I was back in 1999 when I went to the first showing and I still am when watching again.

 

Sure the sequels could not live up to the first one, but 2 still delivered a great action movie, unfortunately 3 already had plenty of not so good stuff in it, but is still watchable and at least wrapped up the story even when it was in a rather disappointing way.

 

And then we get to the new one 😱. OMG how bad can it get..... I have the answer for you REALLY BAD. From the first second I knew something is wrong with this movie and really soon you simply hope that it will end soon, which it doesn't because it is running for 2 and a half hours 🙄. From start to finish they give you one bad thing after another. The new characters are all horrible, the old ones feel out of place or are changed in a way that simply makes it silly. The Story if you can even call it that is a revision of things that came before but in the worst possible way imaginable. The Action is an absolute let down, most action is thrown at you at random intervals only to have some action in the movie and it is so lame you want to scream at the screen. Really no wow moment at all. Also the movie is so BORING it starts to hurt.

 

In the original every scene had a purpose and brought the story forward, no waisted dialogue in that one, but in the new movie you could skip almost everything as it does not add much at all.

 

The acting was also not good with Neil Patrick Harris delivering one of the worst performances you could think of and that new Smith 😱 not even 1% of the charisma of Hugo Weaving. Even Keanu felt like he only came to Set for the paycheck.

 

It is very sad to see Studios return to their greatest hits and only do a sequel because they want to make more money, clearly that will not pay off with this one as the box office numbers already show.

 

Really not sure on what trip Wachowski was when coming up with this mess of a movie but it must have been a bad one.

 

Anyway I could continue my rant for a long time but what is the point in that. Compared to the original I would give this one 1 Point as it is basically not worth watching, if I put my anger aside a little and objectively rate it I guess you could give it 5 points (which I did and which would mean 1 time watch and never again).

 

3 days ago when the Steelbooks for this movie went live I ordered all 3 different Steelbooks, but I certainly don't feel like I need to own any of them. I think I will cancel 2 and only keep 1 4K Steelbook, to put in somewhere in the back of a shelf. I don't have the need for any Premiums of this garbage and I just hope the Retailer I collect don't do it.

 

Sorry to write such a downer review maybe I should have written one about Spider-Man: No Way Home which really showed how a good movie is being made and absolutely deserves the title of Best Movie of the year.

 

🥤🤠 Nils I enjoyed your thorough review, however one of my fav guys on letterboxed gave  4 ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ ⭐️ So I’ll need to see this for myself! 🎥 

 

His words resonated with me here:

 

Quote

The 2021 film, The Matrix Resurrections, which brings the lead franchise players, Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss, back to the fold in the hands of Lana Wachowski, is another lesser installment that lacks the dynamic grab of the iconic 1999 original, but it does deliver a flash of brilliance simply by way of a self-aware acknowledgment that the revolution started by that first movie is now a tyranny. I like the idea that the artificial intelligence machine creators of the titular “matrix”, a computer simulation virtual environment intended to coddle humans into unknowing subservience, have actually incorporated the story of Neo and Trinity, played respectively by Reeves and Moss, into their program. This new movie beats critics to the punch by examining, in a meta sense, the drab monotony of cash-grab sequels.

Like its predecessors, this film poses more questions than it answers, doing nothing to demystify its cloyingly nebulous astrology horoscope mythology of “The One.” To its credit, however, it rightfully resigns itself to the notion that machines and artificial intelligence are here to stay in real life, and that we should find solace in working together with them. Even with the ever-present technology around us, we as individuals still hold the power to better our world and paint the sky with rainbows. This one may lack the revolutionary spark of the classic first movie, instead falling in line with the subsequent clones, but it at least manages to bring a trace of subversiveness to the table. A matrix steak still has the flavor of a real steak from time to time.

 

[javi]

vor 9 Stunden schrieb Squeegie McGee:

Nope. Not a Christmas movie... I'll stand by that 🤔😑

[Squeegie McGee]

3 hours ago, javi said:

[Casiusco]

On 12/27/2021 at 5:53 AM, Reagh said:

Titane

 

A tale as old as time. A young girl gets into terrible car accident. Grows up, becomes a model / exotic dancer / serial killer. She has a passionate one night stand with a car and becomes pregnant. 
 

 

I loved this movie. It’s not for everyone, it’s uncomfortable and hard to watch at times. I guess that’s the way I like them. 

 

On 12/28/2021 at 1:43 PM, hal56 said:

I enjoyed that one too. Like a lovechild between Cronenberg bodyhorror and the bizarre world of a Lynch movie. Exactly my kind of stuff.

German Steelbook is preorderd...

 

It's certainly shocking, uncomfortable, not for all audiences, but, at the same time, interesting.

 

I watched it in the cinema thinking that it was going to be more like "Raw", the previous Ducournau film, but obviously I was wrong.

 

Of those movies that sometimes unsettle you, others make you hate it, but in the end, it always intrigues you.

 

For me, seeing a film like this is always interesting. 

 

PD: I'm also waiting to see "Licorice Pizza" here in January.  

[Casiusco]

 

A good night at the movies yesterday.

 

I really liked the movie, I found it very entertaining, and really well done.

 

In a way, it reminded me "The Irishman", by Scorsese, telling a true generational story, with competition, betrayals, crimes, family, and, above all, masterful performances; but at a much more pop rhythm, less solemn, in a fresher Scott style.

 

The performances of Lady Gaga and Adam Driver are impressive; Al Pacino shines as he knows how to take care of small details like a jeweler; and Jared Leto does a brilliant performance and characterization.

 

The staging, and even the reflection of what those years in Milan and New York were like; the music, the light, the script. Everything is very careful.

 

It shows precisely what they announce in the first scene: people who don't fight for land, or for another things, but for their own skin. 

 

For me is a very good movie. I enjoyed it a lot. 

[Reagh]

Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch 

 

 

Not my favorite Wes Anderson effort, but it does have its moments of comedic genius. As always Wes pulls great performances from his cast. The film is split into 3 chapters, the first segment with Benicio Del Toro is the clear winner in my opinion. Over all it was enjoyable, but I couldn’t shake the feeling that it was just a extension of The Grand Budapest Hotel. Maybe it was the odd aspect ratio, or just the tone of the the film. 
 

My top 3 Wes Anderson picks

1. The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
2. The Fantastic Mr. Fox

3. Moonrise Kingdom