What's the last movie you've seen?
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The last movie I saw in theaters was Eternals. Maybe the last one I saw at home was either a Harry Potter marathon movie or maybe Dune. Next one I'm looking forward to is the newest Spiderman coming out December 17th!
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into oblivion and unto death!
In a cinema: Jumanji, for my birthday when it first came out
At home: twilight. Me and my partner have been binging twilight because its so bad its like a car crash you cant look away from. Were onto the final movie now, breaking dawn part two. I think I accidentally got him invested in it too :')
At home: twilight. Me and my partner have been binging twilight because its so bad its like a car crash you cant look away from. Were onto the final movie now, breaking dawn part two. I think I accidentally got him invested in it too :')
ChocoPie22
🍫Choco from Chiokera🍫
In theatres: Eternals
At home: The Woman in the Window
At home: The Woman in the Window
Orius
The People's Champion
Eternals (2021) ★★★★½
So, after much hesitation from hearing all the negative and mixed thoughts, I finally dragged myself to check out "Eternals". And oh boy... the naysayers were wrong. What a surprise, an entire generation of audience fed on "safe" and predictable MCU action comedy fare getting turned off by this philosophical musing that literally opened with Pink Floyd's "Time". Yeah.
Needless to say, I couldn't have watched this grand adventure sooner. Is it a masterpiece? Not even remotely close. The filmmakers should have pushed harder against the Marvel executives about squeezing in more action scenes in fear of their audience falling asleep from all the philosophical moral debates the characters have among each other, but no, we get sometimes pointless scenes that serve little purpose other than keeping our ADD minds occupied.
And yet, on the other hand, sometimes they talk too much. Film is a visual medium; "show, don't tell" applies here even more than the book medium. Should have shown us the "beauty of humanity" Ajak talked about so much; should've shown us what's going on in Thena's head through a David Lynch/Sam Raimi-esque horror vision to let us learn how messed up her psychotic visions really are. But nope, we get dialogue and descriptions only.
And YET, I'm someone who believes that intent matters to a certain extent when it comes to filmmaking. The fact that MARVEL and the MCU even allowed such a complicated and bizarre source material to be greenlit, translated, and almost dumbed down for mainstream audiences is an impressive feat in itself. We're talking about literal gods with god-like values regarding the rights and wrongs of grooming an entire species (us) into a species of both beauty and violence. Not human values like money trouble (Falcon & Winter Soldier) or depression (Wandavision), but god-like values about the pains of being an immortal witnessing Hiroshima itself nuked into dust partially because of the main characters. So yeah, definitely a wild and ballsy take by Marvel there that's definitely worth commemorated in every way, no matter how mediocre some of the scenes turned out to be.
And that's why I find it so hard to give it a low score because a lot of the scenes, even though they could use more polish, are such a breath of fresh air compared to everything we've seen before from the generic action comedies that made up of the MCU. Sure, there's jokes here and there in Eternals too, but about 70% of the movie is just contemplation of the human condition and the meaning of their own existence - IN A MARVEL MOVIE. Disney/Marvel. Wrap your head around the movie studio releasing something like that. Even Pixar's Soul couldn't match the complexity of the themes presented here, folks (resorting to the kind of generic kiddish humor commonly found in the MCU instead).
9/10. I have no regrets at all. This was a hit and a swing, and it's a shame lots of people couldn't give this film the support it much needed, so instead, Marvel got a knee-jerk reaction and went for the pandering instead. "Quick! Release some fanservice in the Far From Home trailer!" Yeah. I'm still looking forward to Tobey showing up, but let's just call it what it is: fanservice. I would rather get Eternals 2 any day over Far From Over Spider-Man.
So, after much hesitation from hearing all the negative and mixed thoughts, I finally dragged myself to check out "Eternals". And oh boy... the naysayers were wrong. What a surprise, an entire generation of audience fed on "safe" and predictable MCU action comedy fare getting turned off by this philosophical musing that literally opened with Pink Floyd's "Time". Yeah.
Needless to say, I couldn't have watched this grand adventure sooner. Is it a masterpiece? Not even remotely close. The filmmakers should have pushed harder against the Marvel executives about squeezing in more action scenes in fear of their audience falling asleep from all the philosophical moral debates the characters have among each other, but no, we get sometimes pointless scenes that serve little purpose other than keeping our ADD minds occupied.
And yet, on the other hand, sometimes they talk too much. Film is a visual medium; "show, don't tell" applies here even more than the book medium. Should have shown us the "beauty of humanity" Ajak talked about so much; should've shown us what's going on in Thena's head through a David Lynch/Sam Raimi-esque horror vision to let us learn how messed up her psychotic visions really are. But nope, we get dialogue and descriptions only.
And YET, I'm someone who believes that intent matters to a certain extent when it comes to filmmaking. The fact that MARVEL and the MCU even allowed such a complicated and bizarre source material to be greenlit, translated, and almost dumbed down for mainstream audiences is an impressive feat in itself. We're talking about literal gods with god-like values regarding the rights and wrongs of grooming an entire species (us) into a species of both beauty and violence. Not human values like money trouble (Falcon & Winter Soldier) or depression (Wandavision), but god-like values about the pains of being an immortal witnessing Hiroshima itself nuked into dust partially because of the main characters. So yeah, definitely a wild and ballsy take by Marvel there that's definitely worth commemorated in every way, no matter how mediocre some of the scenes turned out to be.
And that's why I find it so hard to give it a low score because a lot of the scenes, even though they could use more polish, are such a breath of fresh air compared to everything we've seen before from the generic action comedies that made up of the MCU. Sure, there's jokes here and there in Eternals too, but about 70% of the movie is just contemplation of the human condition and the meaning of their own existence - IN A MARVEL MOVIE. Disney/Marvel. Wrap your head around the movie studio releasing something like that. Even Pixar's Soul couldn't match the complexity of the themes presented here, folks (resorting to the kind of generic kiddish humor commonly found in the MCU instead).
9/10. I have no regrets at all. This was a hit and a swing, and it's a shame lots of people couldn't give this film the support it much needed, so instead, Marvel got a knee-jerk reaction and went for the pandering instead. "Quick! Release some fanservice in the Far From Home trailer!" Yeah. I'm still looking forward to Tobey showing up, but let's just call it what it is: fanservice. I would rather get Eternals 2 any day over Far From Over Spider-Man.
Some documentary about Mikis Theodorakis. Really interesting and not overly polished like a lot can be, but on the other hand he's rather special person so it'd probably take a lot to mess it up, lol.
I think the English title is Mikis Theodorakis. Composer but since they localize titles a lot here I could be off.
I think the English title is Mikis Theodorakis. Composer but since they localize titles a lot here I could be off.
I saw Shang Chi and I thought it was alright. I’m sort of growing out of Marvel movies I think. I can’t get really into the stories or focus as well as I used to. I’m still hoping Disney will do the X-Men justice eventually though.
DarkDesertFox
Your Typical Trickster
I re-watched Tangled! One of my favorite Disney movies for sure and Rapunzel is my favorite Disney princess.
Orius
The People's Champion
Spider-Man: No Way Home (2021) ★★★
It's a popcorn movie.
3/5
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Wong's Voice: "What, you wanted more?"
Okay, so the first-half of the movie is just as bad as I had expected, your typical Disney Channel type of teen "awkward" humor. Most of the lame jokes you see in the trailer ("No, what's your REAL name, Doc Ock?") are actually in the movie. They were just as lame the first time I heard them, and I cringed hard when I heard them again in the movie, self-referential crap that isn't remotely clever, period.
It's just exhausting, really, this type of modern filmmaking that isn't really telling a story, but more to pander to fans in the sense of "Hey, remember this! Haha, remember how silly it was? Let's poke fun of it." It's not even filmmaking; it's just making a profit.
But then there's the glorious second-half. Honestly though, the first-half was so bad I dropped my score from 3.5 stars to 3 stars, but the second-half is kinda worth it.
I'm someone who never liked Tom Holland's Spider-Man. It got to a point where I just gave up and accepted that this is a new generation of Spider-Man, and I'm just an out-of-touch old fart who should be just satisfied with my version of Spider-Man. But then, the second-half of the film brought back all the magic about Spidey that made me love him: the deaths, the heavy responsibility and burden Peter has to carry even though he's just a kid, the altruism that's all about saving lives over the big picture, the self-independence that comes with his "new home," and best of all... oh, I won't spoil it, but you'll like what they did with the costume at the very end. So good. It's like a return to classic. It's like a fresh start that feels so much like Kevin Feige finally starting the version of Spider-Man he wants to tell, as if Kevin Feige has finally managed to wrangle the creative rights from Avi Arad's grubby little hands. And yet they were still forced to worship Arad's egoistical arse by saying in the end credits, "We're grateful to Avi Arad for all that he has done..." Yeah, all that he has done to ruin Spider-Man 3 and the Amazing movies by wanting to sell toys over a good story, you mean. Yeah, real good job there, Avi.
So yeah, much like Endgame, there's a lot of fanservice here. All your "theories" about fanservice stuff that might or might not happen... yeah, they'll happen. Wink. Freaking. Wink. I liked the fanservice, but man, this is just such a poor way of making a film. I want a good film and a good story, not fanservice. I didn't want my childhood to be a merchandise that's pandering to me as if I'm some seven year old child who needs candies; I want my childhood to be done justice in a tale well-told. But that's the reality of Hollywood movies, unfortunately.
They didn't bother to do enough with Otto and Norman. They tried, and they did some good stuff, but it still feels overstuffed even in a 2 hour and 28 minutes movie.
Oh, and the Matt Murdock's "cameo" sucks.
Sigh. Maybe the future will be better for MCU's Spidey, now that he seems to have a "Brand New Day" makeover, a fresh start with hopefully better and more dramatic stories, not Disney Channel level of humor and stakes.
It's a popcorn movie.
3/5
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Wong's Voice: "What, you wanted more?"
Okay, so the first-half of the movie is just as bad as I had expected, your typical Disney Channel type of teen "awkward" humor. Most of the lame jokes you see in the trailer ("No, what's your REAL name, Doc Ock?") are actually in the movie. They were just as lame the first time I heard them, and I cringed hard when I heard them again in the movie, self-referential crap that isn't remotely clever, period.
It's just exhausting, really, this type of modern filmmaking that isn't really telling a story, but more to pander to fans in the sense of "Hey, remember this! Haha, remember how silly it was? Let's poke fun of it." It's not even filmmaking; it's just making a profit.
But then there's the glorious second-half. Honestly though, the first-half was so bad I dropped my score from 3.5 stars to 3 stars, but the second-half is kinda worth it.
I'm someone who never liked Tom Holland's Spider-Man. It got to a point where I just gave up and accepted that this is a new generation of Spider-Man, and I'm just an out-of-touch old fart who should be just satisfied with my version of Spider-Man. But then, the second-half of the film brought back all the magic about Spidey that made me love him: the deaths, the heavy responsibility and burden Peter has to carry even though he's just a kid, the altruism that's all about saving lives over the big picture, the self-independence that comes with his "new home," and best of all... oh, I won't spoil it, but you'll like what they did with the costume at the very end. So good. It's like a return to classic. It's like a fresh start that feels so much like Kevin Feige finally starting the version of Spider-Man he wants to tell, as if Kevin Feige has finally managed to wrangle the creative rights from Avi Arad's grubby little hands. And yet they were still forced to worship Arad's egoistical arse by saying in the end credits, "We're grateful to Avi Arad for all that he has done..." Yeah, all that he has done to ruin Spider-Man 3 and the Amazing movies by wanting to sell toys over a good story, you mean. Yeah, real good job there, Avi.
So yeah, much like Endgame, there's a lot of fanservice here. All your "theories" about fanservice stuff that might or might not happen... yeah, they'll happen. Wink. Freaking. Wink. I liked the fanservice, but man, this is just such a poor way of making a film. I want a good film and a good story, not fanservice. I didn't want my childhood to be a merchandise that's pandering to me as if I'm some seven year old child who needs candies; I want my childhood to be done justice in a tale well-told. But that's the reality of Hollywood movies, unfortunately.
They didn't bother to do enough with Otto and Norman. They tried, and they did some good stuff, but it still feels overstuffed even in a 2 hour and 28 minutes movie.
Oh, and the Matt Murdock's "cameo" sucks.
Sigh. Maybe the future will be better for MCU's Spidey, now that he seems to have a "Brand New Day" makeover, a fresh start with hopefully better and more dramatic stories, not Disney Channel level of humor and stakes.
zissou
partially-obscured meteorite
In theaters: House of Gucci
A potentially hilarious black comedy that could have been SO GOOD if it just decided to be funny throughout instead of occasionally. (Adam Driver, commit to the program, please). Ran out of steam halfway through its bloated runtime and then just started hitting points in the Wikipedia article out of obligation before sputtering to a stop.
At home: The Humans
Claustrophobic. Grim. It surprised me, even though I should have seen the ending coming. Nothing groundbreaking, but it was different, and I had a good time.
A potentially hilarious black comedy that could have been SO GOOD if it just decided to be funny throughout instead of occasionally. (Adam Driver, commit to the program, please). Ran out of steam halfway through its bloated runtime and then just started hitting points in the Wikipedia article out of obligation before sputtering to a stop.
At home: The Humans
Claustrophobic. Grim. It surprised me, even though I should have seen the ending coming. Nothing groundbreaking, but it was different, and I had a good time.
nightglow
Little can stop the sun and moon from thier dance.
We watched The Shack for the first time. I was impressed with it. It is very good imo. I feel like it explains things very well. I recommend if that interests you. I'm gonna have to watch it again sometime or get ahold of the book and read it.
the invisible man (2020)
i have this intense dislike of elisabeth moss for no apparent reason, but i liked both the movie and her part in it. there are some great scenes that are basically still images of interiors that feel haunting because you project your fears unto them
i have this intense dislike of elisabeth moss for no apparent reason, but i liked both the movie and her part in it. there are some great scenes that are basically still images of interiors that feel haunting because you project your fears unto them
zissou
partially-obscured meteorite
Awake.
A film about a wealthy young man who is undergoing open-heart surgery... and doesn't fall asleep under the general anesthesia... fully awake as he is operated on.
In addition to the horror of being able to feel everything that's being done to him, he can hear what his operating team is talking about... and it ain't good.
Not exactly a good movie, but I enjoyed the premise and it did its job of keeping me awake while I worked on papers.
Recommend if you want a silly thriller and don't mind some (medical) gore.
A film about a wealthy young man who is undergoing open-heart surgery... and doesn't fall asleep under the general anesthesia... fully awake as he is operated on.
In addition to the horror of being able to feel everything that's being done to him, he can hear what his operating team is talking about... and it ain't good.
Not exactly a good movie, but I enjoyed the premise and it did its job of keeping me awake while I worked on papers.
Recommend if you want a silly thriller and don't mind some (medical) gore.
VanitasFan26
I'm just a ghost.
Home Alone. Everytime when its December this is the movie I always put on.
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