The Official Last Movie You Saw Thread (Part 2)

[Joneslab]

10 Cloverfield Lane.

This was reviewed above, but I was disappointed with it. I read a lot of thrillers that are way more twisty, and there are so many missed opportunities in this. The last movement is pure silliness, and the early scenes, while extremely well-made, didn't produce as much heat as something like Don't Breathe.

This has all the hallmarks of a good thriller. John Goodman is, as always, very good. But it's a sort of strange hybrid that loses itself in the last fifteen minutes or so. It should've stayed in its lane, but Hollywood is usually loathe to make a straight-faced thriller. They go for SFX and the big budget whenever they can.

Skip.

[Owllycat]

My Girl and My Girl 2

I found to be interesting to watch. Funny in some spots, sad in other parts.

[KCKUKFan]

I made a list of movies that my wife has never seen that I feel like she needed to see. Here's what we've watched together over the last two months:

A Clockwork Orange
Taxi Driver
Beverly Hills Cop
Beverly Hills Cop 2
Room
Trading Places
City Of God
Chinatown
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
Dog Day Afternoon
Apocalypse Now
Full Metal Jacket
Top Gun
The Fly
Say Anything...
The Conversation
Glengarry Glen Ross
Bull Durham
Raiders Of The Lost Ark
Heat
Dazed and Confused
The Thing
Fatal Attraction


She has enjoyed them all (except Top Gun, which I also found to be pretty awful upon rewatch). She still has about 90 movies left on her list, and if she finishes it before she has our child in March, I told her I'd never make her watch an older movie ever again.

[Spiritof96]

I made a list of movies that my wife has never seen that I feel like she needed to see. Here's what we've watched together over the last two months:

A Clockwork Orange
Taxi Driver
Beverly Hills Cop
Beverly Hills Cop 2
Room
Chinatown
One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest
The Godfather
The Godfather Part II
Dog Day Afternoon
Apocalypse Now
Full Metal Jacket
Top Gun
The Fly
Say Anything...
The Conversation
Glengarry Glen Ross
Bull Durham
Raiders Of The Lost Ark
Heat
Dazed and Confused
The Thing
Fatal Attraction


She has enjoyed them all (except Top Gun, which I also found to be pretty awful upon rewatch). She still has about 90 movies left on her list, and if she finishes it before she has our child in March, I told her I'd never make her watch an older movie ever again.

Glengarry Glen Ross.... LOL!

1st prize is a Cadillac Eldorado...
2nd prize is a set of steak knives
3rd prize is you're fired.

[Owllycat]

Talladega NIghts: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

[Joneslab]

Amanda Knox.

This is the new Netflix documentary, and if you go in expecting Making a Murderer you're going to be disappointed. Because there's just not that much here. The first five minutes, with Knox talking directly into the camera about the ordeal, is interesting in that for me it flips the Nancy Grace dynamic on its head and for once gives the accused a chance to speak. Then it sort of loosely--and uninterestingly--goes through the crime Knox was accused of, bringing in peripheral characters to flesh out the story. By far the most interesting of these is a British journalist who was living in Italy, and he's granted very close access to the investigation. The mischievous glint in his eyes is almost worth watching this for on its own.

But the movie falls well short of most of the great true crime that's come out in the Serial era. Knox herself cuts a strange, almost ethereal figure, but there's not that much of her in this. Basically it's a regurgitation of facts we've already seen a million times.

Skip.

[TrueblueCATfan]

Deepwater Horizon......I am a sucker for any movie with Mark Wahlburg.....but this one is really good.....it is a miracle that only 11 people died as this was the worst oil rig disatser in US history

[Owllycat]

Big Momma's House

[KCKUKFan]

Swiss Army Man (or Harry Potter's Farting Corpse) - This was one strange movie... sort of a ninety minute fever dream. Paul Dano is alone on an island and is aided by a farting corpse (Daniel Radcliffe) that washed up on shore. I can't say I loved it, but I was intrigued and was never bored. Recommended to folks who like their movies a little bit strange.

The Infiltrator - Pedestrian script raised above the fray by a great lead turn by Bryan Cranston as an undercover agent investigating Pablo Escobar. Recommended.

Blood Father - Mel Gibson gets back to his simple, pulpy roots as a reformed convict who returns to a life of violence to protect his estranged daughter. Mel has been all but blacklisted by the Hollywood mainstream (and deservedly), but if he continues to make solid little action movies like this, he'll continue to have a fan base. Good, under-the-radar, flick.

[Joneslab]

In honor of October, the ten greatest shots in the history of horror:

http://oneperfectshotdb.com/news/watch-one-perfect-shot-presents-the-top-10-shots-in-horror/

[KevinHall]

In honor of October, the ten greatest shots in the history of horror:

http://oneperfectshotdb.com/news/wat...ots-in-horror/

The music they played in that video is still the most chilling music that has ever been in a movie.

[Owllycat]

Pitch Perfect and Pitch Perfect 2.Great films if you like A Capella time films.

[TrueblueCATfan]

Pitch Perfect and Pitch Perfect 2.Great films if you like A Capella time films.

Love both of them.....can't wait for Pitch Perfect 3 to come out

[Blue Heaven]

Pop Star: Never Stop Never Stopping- Former Boy Band member Connor4Real finds life on the solo front hard. This is a hilarious movie that pokes fun at the music industry. What makes it so good is that actual musicians make fun of themselves. Tons of cameos in this movie that plays out like a documentary or a Behind the Scenes show. I laughed a ton at this. There are some raunchy parts in here that definitely isn't for kids so keep that in mind. Worth a watch and a laugh or a hundred.

[Joneslab]

The Girl on the Train.

Based on the excellent novel by Paula Hawkins, this movie holds tight to the book (except that it moves its London setting to the Metro North line in upstate New York, a train I've ridden many times), and therefore demands your full attention, as it sifts through characters and storylines and past events in quick succession in its highly literary first 30 minutes. The middle lags, but then it gathers steam and settles in for a grisly--but oddly emotionless, as if the characters are performing in a stage play--last act.

This isn't Fincher's Gone Girl, which becomes a near-masterpiece by its ultra-violent last movement. This movie is more dreamlike, more slippery, but it's an interesting movie if you like thrillers. But because of that flat middle act and for the sometimes odd restraint of the movie, it's a far cry from a masterpiece.

Recommended for a rental.