• B0NK3RS@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    10 days ago

    Superman (2025)

    I wasn’t planning on watching it at all really but it’s better than I expected.

    Mission Impossible Final Reckoning

    It was alright but not as good as I was hoping for. I will say it has a tense feeling throughout the whole movie I just think the ending was the letdown.

    • makeshiftreaper@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      8 days ago

      I feel like the whole Gabriel thing really distracts from the plot. I compare it to the Illusive Man in Mass Effect. Why did you add a side antagonist when your primary antagonist is threatening total extinction? Were the stakes not high enough? Did you need a human face for your threat? I don’t understand what this smug asshole adds to the story besides being someone we can be happy that they exploded

  • klu9@piefed.socialEnglish
    5·
    9 days ago

    Mostly a bunch of watch parties (synchronized viewing among people across the internet, with viewers posting comments live on Mastodon or in-built chat window). A mini “Kurt Russell season” this week.

    • makeshiftreaper@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      8 days ago

      Escape is a super fun movie, it walks the 80s doomerism attitude and gritty action hero line very well

      The whole “man above the high table” thing from John Wick 3/4 is really weird, seems to actively detract from the plot, and has almost immediately, zero impact on the plot. I really don’t understand how that was supposed to fit in with the rest of the series

      • klu9@piefed.socialEnglish
        1·
        8 days ago

        I remember an article saying John Wick was in the fantasy tradition of parallel worlds (not multiverse, but another world alongside and only partly visible to the normal world).

  • makeshiftreaper@lemmy.worldEnglish
    4·
    8 days ago

    Weapons 4.5/5: I love the trend of comedy writers moving into horror. It’s very deliberate and really well made. Not quite as good as Barbarian but I’m looking forward to more

    Together 3/5: It’s pretty entertaining but it really marks a lot of time. More eldritch horror and less plodding would get this movie where it needs to be

    The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 3.5/5: Honesty until the 4th teen dies I was on Leatherface’s side. You’re in bum fuck nowhere Texas in the 70s, you ignore a creepy old guy saying “you shouldn’t be here”, you get stabbed by a drifter, then you break into obviously a hunter’s house. What the fuck did you think would happen besides you getting murdered?

    Flow 4.5/5: Beautiful. This is what cinema is about, beautiful stories that can universally deliver. Congrats Latvia, you earned this

  • memfree@piefed.socialEnglish
    4·
    10 days ago
    • Priscilla (2023): How Priscilla met Elvis and how it all evolved from her POV. This is a reflective movie about her rather than a tribute to The King (which is a good thing).
    • Freaky Tales (2025): I’m guessing this would be a lot of fun to watch while stoned, but since I saw it straight, I wasn’t that engaged. Kudos to set/props/wardrobe for throwing the most stereotypically 80s stuff everywhere.
    • Down to Earth (1947): Rita Hayworth is stunning. That’s the only thing I liked about this musical. I watched it thinking I was going to watch a bunch of movies related to “Here Comes Mr. Jordon”, (Heaven Can Wait, Down to Earth w/ Chris Rock, and less related, A Guy Named Joe, and my favorite: A Matter of Life and Death) but it became a James Gleason week, instead.
    • The Meanest Gal in Town (1934): Cute old timey comedy. Barber won’t marry the gal he loves until he can get a second chair for his shop. Her business is going well, but not his – until he hires a hotty to manicure the men who want to make time with her. Chaos ensues. Oh, and James Gleason is in it.

    ** “Hildegarde Withers” series of whodunit murder/comedies (there were 6, but I only saw 5) **

    • The Penguin Pool Murder (1932): Edna May Oliver stars as a prim and sharp tongued teacher who sees a body land in the penguin pool at the Aquarium. James Gleason is the hard boiled NYC cop who has to deal with her smarts. Cute penguin.
    • Murder on the Blackboard (1934): Same stars as same characters investigate a murder at Hildegarde’s school. Still entertaining watching the the two interplay.
    • Murder on a Honeymoon (1935): Same stars/characters but this time outside NYC. Weaker film. The sharp criticisms are fun at the start, but the film drags in the middle. I liked the resolution despite a silly ending.
    • skipped: Murder on a Bridle Path (1936)
    • The Plot Thickens (1936): Galling because they replaced Edna May Oliver with Zasu Pitts (who played the love interest in The Meanest Gal in Town), but as a movie, it is probably a shade better than ‘Honeymoon’. There was no reason to keep the Hildegarde Withers character because not only did they change actresses, they changed her personality. They should have let Inspector Piper deal with a new dame.
    • Forty Naughty Girls (1937): Well, at least we get to see the two going out together. I still think it’d have been better with Edna May Oliver, but I don’t know if even she could have saved it. There’s funny bits, but in both this and the previous flick, Zasu Pitts is too cute and slightly… meek? demure? compared to be the original Hildegarde Withers.
  • shplane@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    10 days ago

    Saw the new fantastic four movie and really enjoyed it. Had old timey comic book movie vibes