Official Rate The Last Movie You Saw Thread

[andvari7]

Wait, They Live has a Criterion release?

[Steinmetzify]

Made You Look 6/10

I’d been waiting on this one.

A look at the Knoedler Gallery being taken by a con artist peddling ‘lost’ works of some of the AbEx guys from the 50s/60s; I remember when this happened, wish they’d gone a little more in depth but it was decent.

[Steinmetzify]

"In & of Itself" 9/10 if not 10/10. I'll have to watch it again to confirm my high rating.

It's not a movie more than it is a stage performance of, I guess, a magician. But it goes way beyond that.

Just finished this. I’d go 10/10.

The end was deep. When he got to that one guy I cried. Thanks for recommending it.

[JiveTurkey]

Boss Level. Otherwise what would be a throwaway Hulu turd that turns it around and makes the best use of Frank Grillo I have ever seen. Familiar concept with great (action movie) dialog and a good sense of heart to boot. Great cast for the task at hand as well.

[Steinmetzify]

Boss Level. Otherwise what would be a throwaway Hulu turd that turns it around and makes the best use of Frank Grillo I have ever seen. Familiar concept with great (action movie) dialog and a good sense of heart to boot. Great cast for the task at hand as well.

Saw it last night but didn’t watch, did just now based on your rec. Grillo was fuckin great in this lol

[nightflameauto]

Coming to America (1988) - decided to rewatch it before watching the new one. Product of its time for sure. No way somebody's making that story take a full two hours to tell these days. That said, it still has its funny moments and is still fun if a bit on-the-nose with the parallel between his family and hers.

"YES! FUCK YOU TOO!" still cracks me up. Her boyfriend at the start of the movie plays the perfect scumbag pretty boy. Some good lines here or there, but overall not the funniest comedy to ever hit the screen.

[JiveTurkey]

Boss Level. Otherwise what would be a throwaway Hulu turd that turns it around and makes the best use of Frank Grillo I have ever seen. Familiar concept with great (action movie) dialog and a good sense of heart to boot. Great cast for the task at hand as well.

Saw it last night but didn’t watch, did just now based on your rec. Grillo was fuckin great in this lol

Yeah he was perfect. For obvious reasons; I always think he did a turn as the Punisher but he hasn't. I think he would kill in that role. I know he's done some other marvel character in the Captain America stuff? It's funny because I think(?) the first time I saw him in something was the Grey with Liam Neeson and he talks about how Neeson is a fake tough guy

Coming to America (1988) - decided to rewatch it before watching the new one. Product of its time for sure. No way somebody's making that story take a full two hours to tell these days. That said, it still has its funny moments and is still fun if a bit on-the-nose with the parallel between his family and hers.

"YES! FUCK YOU TOO!" still cracks me up. Her boyfriend at the start of the movie plays the perfect scumbag pretty boy. Some good lines here or there, but overall not the funniest comedy to ever hit the screen.

Watched the sequel over the weekend. Um, eh. It was ooooooooooooooooook I guess. If I think Ghostbusters gal was one of the funnier things in the movie when it has Tracy Morgan and Eddie in it; there's a problem. The original I need to revisit. I LOVED it at the time. The sequel definitely did that thing that Dumb and Dumber To (and hopefully never Stepbrothers II, etc etc) do which is copy paste the same events over into the new film. I get it; but it's lazy writing.

[Bonano]

"In & of Itself" 9/10 if not 10/10. I'll have to watch it again to confirm my high rating.

It's not a movie more than it is a stage performance of, I guess, a magician. But it goes way beyond that.

Just finished this. I’d go 10/10.

The end was deep. When he got to that one guy I cried. Thanks for recommending it.

Which guy?

Did you notice Bill Gates?

My chest was shaking and my eyeballs sweating when he got to his mom.

I'm still curious who the woman was he whispered to.

Anyway, I saw it again with my wife over the weekend. Yeah, it's up there: 9-10/10

[Steinmetzify]

"In & of Itself" 9/10 if not 10/10. I'll have to watch it again to confirm my high rating.

It's not a movie more than it is a stage performance of, I guess, a magician. But it goes way beyond that.

Just finished this. I’d go 10/10.

The end was deep. When he got to that one guy I cried. Thanks for recommending it.

Which guy?

Did you notice Bill Gates?

My chest was shaking and my eyeballs sweating when he got to his mom.

I'm still curious who the woman was he whispered to.

Anyway, I saw it again with my wife over the weekend. Yeah, it's up there: 9-10/10

The one that labeled himself ‘nobody’. That shit was sad and shook me.

Yeah I saw Gates, did you see David Blaine? Thought that was cool.

[Elessar [Sly]]

Coming 2 America 6/10. I remeber the original and how good that used to be (maybe I should re-watch now). This one had some really funny moments and it worked. Sequels made a long time after the original always struggle to recapture the magic.

[JiveTurkey]

Watched The Block Island Sound. Slow moving in a good way horror flick on Netflix. Good creepy setup and filming locale. Plays into the recent-ish wave (lol) of "horror on the water that's not in the JAWS genre thing". Methodical and might strike the viewer as corny if they were not in the mood for it (aka dad with the weird looking rubberized face). But I thought it was great. Good moodiness and has the slow-burn thing down without bragging about how slow burn it is or campaigning in front of the A24 production company and begging for them to distribute it. You might hate it, Pepi. And I would understand completely. But I dug it quite a bit.

[nightflameauto]

Coming 2 America 6/10. I remeber the original and how good that used to be (maybe I should re-watch now). This one had some really funny moments and it worked. Sequels made a long time after the original always struggle to recapture the magic.

Wife and I watched the original last weekend and the sequel this weekend. I'd say 6/10 for this one is about right, maybe a little lower, while the original gets 8/10 or a little more. Maybe it's nostalgia, but they seemed to have a real point to make about individuality and being your own person in the first one, while the new one seems tone deaf to the current age and turning Akeem into the oppressive dad was sorta hard to swallow when he went through what he went through.

That said, I've rarely seen Snipes be so funny. That halfway sideways prance he had in and out of the room was hilarious. Some truly funny moments and a little cringe that still was funny. Leslie Jones' is as grating as she is funny, just like always, but now with super, uber clothing and jewelry. Watching the wife go full queens trash talk was hilarious, but lead to one of the worst moments of the film with Akeem telling her to learn her place. "Uppity bitch say what?"

"What?"



It was fun, and funny, and worth a watch, though it definitely does NOT have that classic vibe the original has.

[_ej_]

Watch the Snyder Cut. I have to say, it was refreshing to see a version of the film with a cohesive plot, consistent tone and consistent visual style.

That said, the movie is a bloated, self-indulgent mess with zero subtext. Everything is exactly as it appears on the surface. Every question is instantly be explained by a voice over monologue. I think if Snyder had done a cut with studio guard rails a solid movie. In this state I'd say its better than the Weadon cut but WAY too bloated to be good. Lots of exposition and slow-mo, there's easily a hour he could have cut out without removing any story beats.

I will say, for some dumb reason I absolutely love the Joker shit at the end. It's the most over the top thing in the movie. Its feels like an old serial drama, like some Flash Gordon level silly. I would watch a whole movie of future Batman and the Joker getting up to shit

6/10. Great as a background movie, there's enough exposition that its basically a radio drama with action scenes.

Also Gal Gadot is such a bad actress. She moves great but as soon as she is so wooden when she speaks and she has a few monologues in this cut that are hard to listen too. There are a lot of good actors doing silly things in this movie and selling it. Idk why they keep giving her movies.

[Steinmetzify]

Watch the Snyder Cut. I have to say, it was refreshing to see a version of the film with a cohesive plot, consistent tone and consistent visual style.

That said, the movie is a bloated, self-indulgent mess with zero subtext. Everything is exactly as it appears on the surface. Every question is instantly be explained by a voice over monologue. I think if Snyder had done a cut with studio guard rails a solid movie. In this state I'd say its better than the Weadon cut but WAY too bloated to be good. Lots of exposition and slow-mo, there's easily a hour he could have cut out without removing any story beats.

I will say, for some dumb reason I absolutely love the Joker shit at the end. It's the most over the top thing in the movie. Its feels like an old serial drama, like some Flash Gordon level silly. I would watch a whole movie of future Batman and the Joker getting up to shit

6/10. Great as a background movie, there's enough exposition that its basically a radio drama with action scenes.

Also Gal Gadot is such a bad actress. She moves great but as soon as she is so wooden when she speaks and she has a few monologues in this cut that are hard to listen too. There are a lot of good actors doing silly things in this movie and selling it. Idk why they keep giving her movies.

I started it last night but there was no way I could finish it then. I’ll wrap it up tonight, and I thought pretty much the same. Nice to have shit explained. I’m a huge comic nerd and the original cut was fine but P was astonished how much more clear the story was not being a comic fan. She couldn’t believe all the extra shit. She got way more of an explanation of how extensive Cyborg’s powers are, and how fast the Flash actually is. I’ve been trying to explain that shit since we watched the Flash tv series but she didn’t get it. That scene with Iris and the car accident drove it home way better than I could explain it.

That said this is some ‘Stephen King The Stand’ bullshit, there’s no fuckin reason this had to be 4 hours lol

[_ej_]

Yeah Steiny, it was an actual relief how clear the plot was. That flash scene was like the only 'show don't tell' bit in the movie, it was really well done.

Its like I said, its a great background movie. I put it on in the back ground while I was working, sort of tuned in and out. It was great

I don't think I could handle a focused continuous viewing

[nightflameauto]

Gal Godot does fine in comedy movies. I think the second she gets a whiff of serious she clams up like a kid scared of their first day at school.

That said, I just can't when it comes to DC movies. I'll wait until there's a consensus they've put out a string of more than 1 fair to good movies in a row before I go down that path again. I did watch Joker simply because it looked completely out-three cray-cray, and it was fine, but it seems like the rest of the properties are bound to the eternal pit of clusterfuck production and shitty writing and editing.

[Yarbicus]

Watch the Snyder Cut. I have to say, it was refreshing to see a version of the film with a cohesive plot, consistent tone and consistent visual style.

That said, the movie is a bloated, self-indulgent mess with zero subtext. Everything is exactly as it appears on the surface. Every question is instantly be explained by a voice over monologue. I think if Snyder had done a cut with studio guard rails a solid movie. In this state I'd say its better than the Weadon cut but WAY too bloated to be good. Lots of exposition and slow-mo, there's easily a hour he could have cut out without removing any story beats.

I will say, for some dumb reason I absolutely love the Joker shit at the end. It's the most over the top thing in the movie. Its feels like an old serial drama, like some Flash Gordon level silly. I would watch a whole movie of future Batman and the Joker getting up to shit

6/10. Great as a background movie, there's enough exposition that its basically a radio drama with action scenes.

Also Gal Gadot is such a bad actress. She moves great but as soon as she is so wooden when she speaks and she has a few monologues in this cut that are hard to listen too. There are a lot of good actors doing silly things in this movie and selling it. Idk why they keep giving her movies.

The original was so drab and stupid. Just a joyless chore to watch. I can't imagine that a 4 hour version will improve things but I will have it on in the background while grading final assignments today.

I don't mind Gadot so much. I think that she has been the victim of some terrible scripts and sub-par directing.

[Steinmetzify]

Becky skip/10

What a piece of shit. I had high hopes for Kevin James to pull this out of the mud but nahhhhhh

[greatmutah]

I’ll probably watch the Snyder cut soon.

Older movie the other night. Fallen with Denzel Washington, John Goodman and Donald Sutherland. Cool movie. Starts as a usual detective following copycat murders but gets into some supernatural shit, both of which I enjoy. Denzel is on point as always. John Goodman was a solid partner for him too. 7/10. Not the best movie but not awful by any means. Worth a watch.

[Marc G]

looked at The Snyder Cut this weekend..... 6/10

definite improvement over the theatrical release for sure, the CGI was better, the story made more sense.... but god damn you can tell this was Synder's wet dream of a how it should have been.... so much slow motion, so much unnecessary scenes that did nothing more than show off his cinematography skills, they could have easily cut that movie down to 3 hours and it would have been great..... the entire 30 minute Epilogue was unnecessary......

[Bonano]

I just finished the four-hour Justice League . . .

Was it supposed to be about an 80% retelling of past stories with some minor changes and additions? And are those minor changes because moving at light-speed changes time a bit?

And the ending . . . Why?

I knew it was a dream sequence, and therefore weird, but it seemed so random. It didn't seem to contribute anything.

Who's this Martian Manhunter? And the dude with the eye patch? I'm hoping the almost random appearance of these new characters go beyond "Oh, after suffering the audience for over three hours with something they already paid to see in the past, let's throw something in that'll suggest . . . [Oprah]SEQUEL![/Oprah]" I'm hoping my lack of appreciation comes from not really being a fan. But I did watch all the previous movies with varying degrees of attention and focus.

The only things that made the four hour movie tolerable were the breaks between the parts. They allowed me to pause for bathroom and snack breaks.

I dunno . . . to me, it's kinda like, "Hold on, there's more money to squeeze out of this, so let's retell the whole story but this time leave holes at the end to justify sequels."

And the 4:3 format? This is 2021, right?

Anyway, I'm sure a lot of my confusions would be justified if I were a fan.

[fretless]

Speed Racer 7/10

very well done , great cast and they nailed the old story line . Would have been a 10 if there was more Ricci . Fact Monkeys are always funny , even if they are about to kill you

[Pepi]

Watched The Block Island Sound. Slow moving in a good way horror flick on Netflix. Good creepy setup and filming locale. Plays into the recent-ish wave (lol) of "horror on the water that's not in the JAWS genre thing". Methodical and might strike the viewer as corny if they were not in the mood for it (aka dad with the weird looking rubberized face). But I thought it was great. Good moodiness and has the slow-burn thing down without bragging about how slow burn it is or campaigning in front of the A24 production company and begging for them to distribute it. You might hate it, Pepi. And I would understand completely. But I dug it quite a bit.

I really got into it until the end. It smacked me in the face and left

[nightflameauto]

Speed Racer 7/10

very well done , great cast and they nailed the old story line . Would have been a 10 if there was more Ricci . Fact Monkeys are always funny , even if they are about to kill you

People really shit on this movie, but I freakin' loved it. Went to it twice in the theater and watch it again every couple years. Those race scenes were fantastically well played, and even though I'm not the world's biggest Speed Racer fan, I loved what they retained from the original story, and the updates they did to the characters to make them seem slightly more grounded.

[fretless]

yeah it was right on , it's been so many years to sit through a show but the movie made a lot of sense . Hey can we get a G Force movie , and not with rats .