Topic: Movie thread.

@seinfeldfanatic Oh, I love the Rocketeer! I got it for my birthday when I was like 9, never watched it until I was 13 though! 🤣 Really fun movie!

saw the new Naked Gun movie at the theater yesterday. it was alright

Saw both Bad Guys movies over the weekend and really liked them both. Between the two I'd give the edge to the second one purely because I liked the villain a bit more

@Megas75 ooh I am excited for BG2! Not sure when I'll get around to it, but it's been on my radar for a good bit. Love the OG!

Yeah, it's not the classic that the originals were, but amusing enough, and the tickets are pretty cheap (no IMAX screens, which we tend to fill up regularly).

I can see some people saying WTF to the snowman bit, for example, but we found it hysterical. It does noticeably lose a lot of steam once it gets to the arena though.

Came home and immediately came across a Variety article in my feed entitled:

"Pamela Anderson and Liam Neeson’s Steamy Snowman Threesome: Inside the Best Bit From ‘The Naked Gun’ "
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/pamela-anderson-liam-neeson-snowman-threesome-naked-gun-1236477447/

It was an amusing article, a good little snack to enjoy after seeing the film.

Just watched Weapons, and it was a pretty interesting watch. It is probably one of the best shot movies I've seen, the cinematography and camera work were so stylish and deliberate, I absolutely dug it. The editing was hit and miss for me though. I could tell what it was going for but the some of the jarring scene transitions didn't work for me at all. The performances are stellar across the board, especially the lead child actor performance, they all really helped the characters come to life and made me care about them. The story keeps pretty good momentum, but the pacing lost me a little bit near the end unfortunately. But overall, despite a couple hiccups, I thought it was extremely enjoyable, unnerving, and unique. Number scores are dumb, but I'd give it an 8/10. Definitely worth the watch if it sounds interesting.

been watching The Guyver on Tubi earlier today. been a long time since i saw it. last time i saw the movie was when it was on TMC or my sister had rented it one time back then in the 1990s

My family and I watched K-Pop Demon Hunters on Netflix tonight. I liked the songs, and the story was pretty good as well. I give it a 10/10 and highly recommend it to anyone who has a Netflix subscription right now.

Was hanging with my sis last night, and we finally got around to watching Midsummar. It was...interesting? Very pretty to look at movie, with some nice cinematography. I liked the slow burn first half, where things gradually start to get creepier. There were multiple instances where thinking of myself in that situation, I would've gotten the hell out of there, but our characters choose to stay. And then things go completely off the rails in the last act, and it becomes one of most unintentionally hilarious horror films I've seen. I'm glad I had someone to watch it with as we were both howling. I will say this, I don't think it was a good movie, but it certainly stays with you after watching it haha.

My brother and I went to see F4 yesterday! It was such a a fun time, and we both loved it.
I really liked the dynamic between every member of the family. The actors captured the emotions really well every time, from finding out Sue is pregnant to the fear in possibly having to give up Franklin to the joy of the ending scene!
General Story Beats I really liked Johnny and Shalla-Bal, their dynamic was very nice even tho she wasn't on the film much. Her sacrifice at the end was really nice, and the confrontation scene was SUPER well done. I also loved Johnny's rant to his family about "Oh, I see. You think, Johnny loves girls, Johnny loves space, now there's a literal naked space woman, and Johnny loves her." Very funny.
Final Battle Galactus was really neat. I think they did well in making him intimidating and powerful without being so strong that the victory felt like it could only happen in a movie. I also liked Sue's fakeout death, one of the few times bringing back a character didn't annoy me or feel obvious. I really did think, "Wait, are they going to kill her?" I especially thought so when they had Shalla-Bal sacrifice herself in Johnny's place, since by keeping him alive it would lessen the pain of killing Sue off. Personally, I am glad they kept her around, though!
Credits The midcredits scene was a nice tease for Dr. Doom, and I can't wait to see what they do with him. Hopefully his being played by RDJ won't take away from my personal favorite death in all media (Tony Stark in Endgame, if that wasn't obvious).

Been ages since I posted in here.

Anyhow here are the movies I watched last weekend.

Dirty Harry (4K UHD Blu-Ray) - Never watched it before, but since it's a pretty famous film I wanted to give it a shot & it was a great watch. Clint Eastwood stars as Harry Callahan, a rule-breaking cop who will stop at nothing in order to stop the "Scorpio" serial killer, even if it means his job. There's some great shots too (like the panorama view of the San Francisco skyline when Harry is atop a skyscraper looking for a sniper's position at the film's opening).

Dragon Ball Z: Resurrection F (Blu-Ray) - It's been 10 years since this released (it's hard to believe, anything with Beerus feels fresh & new gen to me), but it's still a very fun watch. There are some narrative moments that make me roll my eyes, but it's a blast for anyone who's a fan of the franchise.

Dunkirk (4K UHD Blu-Ray) - First time watch for me, and it's an absolute masterpiece of filmmaking. They may not be full of fancy tricks, but the dogfighting scenes may be the most intense & gorgeous aereal shots I've seen in a movie. The tension of the soldiers on the beach trying to survive & find a way home is intense even though you never see an enemy soldier up close. Absolute stunner on 4K disc too.

Jurassic Park III (4K UHD Blu-Ray) - I know it doesn't have as good a reputation as the first two (and of course none of these can really stand up to the first), but as the first one I saw in theatres I have a soft spot for this one. It's pretty much just a straight up monster movie without much in the way of the deeper themes the first two touched on, but the dino action is still fun & with a brisk runtime it doesn't overstay it's welcome.

Watched First Blood (YouTube Movies) earlier this morning.

I’ve heard of the Rambo movies before, but I never watched them or really knew too much about them. I wanted to watch this because I recently finished up watching all episodes of Happy Tree Friends (at least, I think I did) on YouTube and I really liked the characters in that show, so I read some fun trivia on a few of them. When I read trivia on my number 1 favorite character on that show, I found out that the creators based his character and personality off of Rambo. I got sort of curious about the movies after reading that fact, and when I was scrolling through YouTube’s free movies, they coincidentally had this (and two of the sequels) free to watch so I gave it a go.

The film is about a returning Vietnam War veteran who wanders to a small town in search of a war comrade and food but is treated poorly by the town’s sheriff and police force, who are under the assumption that he’s a drifter. After being arrested and abused further when they attempt to shave him, he escapes into the woods after getting flashbacks from the time he was a prisoner of war, triggering a small war between him and the police.

The action and the stunts in this are perfect and extremely energetic, but the film is also full of a great ton of thrilling moments and survivalist elements alongside the action that heightened my excitement and tension over what was going to happen next. The thriller aspects are especially present in a scene where Rambo subdues and wounds the police officers one by one with camouflage and handmade traps and during a confrontation with the National Guard in an abandoned mine. The thriller elements were a nice breath of fresh air, since most other action movies I’ve seen before are almost never action thrillers and rarely have suspenseful moments.

Something I especially liked was that this film kind of subverts the expectations people might have about action movies. When you think about action films, maybe you imagine it being filled with lots of explosions, violence, death, constant fighting, and the main character killing enemies left and right. While First Blood does have some of that, it subverts expectations because almost no one dies in the film, and the only casualties are Galt and a few of the police’s Doberman dogs that are killed offscreen, and despite being an action film, it refrains from being extremely violent and gory and only has mild to severe levels of violence and blood. Relating to that aspect of the film, Rambo doesn’t want to kill anyone; in fact, for a lot of the film’s runtime, he’s hiding from the police and trying to survive in the wild by utilizing his military skills. And when he does come face to face with them, he usually just slightly wounds his pursuers in non-lethal ways or warns them. It’s nice to see an action film that tries to avoid being like all the others by using more suspense and survivalist elements, having somewhat minimal violence and blood, and a main character who doesn’t seek to kill anyone and wants to be left alone. Speaking of that, the characters are probably the best part of this film.

The characters were so memorable, both the main character but also the antagonists, who were somewhat threatening and wouldn’t stop at anything to arrest and stop Rambo. But Rambo is my most favorite character in this film from how he’s written. He’s just an emotionally damaged veteran who’s simply trying to readjust to civilian life but is misunderstood and badly treated by society despite risking his own life fighting in the Vietnam War and how the deaths of his comrades and the torture he endured as a prisoner of war haunts him. And then, when I think about it more, he ran away from the police more for his own safety and out of fear because the way the police restrained and tried to shave him reminded him of his pain, and less than simply just defying them. But, the final speech he has in the end where he talks to his former mentor, Colonel Trautman and finally lets out all his emotions and frustrations with war, the hate he and other soldiers received from protesters when returning home and the nightmares he gets from an incident that resulted in one of his comrades dying in front of him is very heartbreaking, and it truly shows how badly war and mistreatment can affect veterans mentally and make them feel unappreciated. That scene in particular is so well acted and sad, and I felt my eyes actually getting a bit watery.

A fantastic film, and I can definitely see why it’s so iconic and well known. I might watch the sequels, but I heard they aren’t too good compared to this one, but it’s important I form my own opinion on them.

Rewatched Zootopia and Infinity War and both are still as great as they were when I first watched them. Zootopia is probably my favorite Disney movie in the last 10 years and probably the funniest. Infinity War meanwhile was an event when it came out, but even now the story and ending still sticks with me

Watched, The Monkey last night. I'm more of an old school horror guy, so I've been trying to watch more modern stuff as of late. Anyway, the movie was hilarious. It had the same kind of manic energy as Evil Dead 2, with the ridiculous, comical level of gore on display. It almost felt like an R rated episode of Goosebumps, which I think was definitely intentional. In addition to the offbeat humour, there were some genuinely creepy moments, the titular monkey itself is quite well done. I would recommend as a fun movie to watch around Halloween times.

Continued with the Rambo films and watched Rambo: First Blood Part II.

Set a few years after the first, Rambo is currently in jail performing labor work. One day, he’s visited by his former mentor Colonel Trautman, who tells him that he’s tasked with returning to Vietnam to document the existence of American POWs there in exchange for a presidential pardon, but is instructed not rescue them. When he goes against his orders, he takes matters into his own hands and has to fend for himself against his enemies using his military skills and rescue the POWs.

So before I watched this (or any of the Rambo films), a lot of people said this and the sequels that followed were worse than the first and not worth watching. In my opinion, this sequel is not close to abysmal or so terrible, but it’s less well done than the first film, but I’ll start positively.

Compared to First Blood, which was an action film with survivalist and suspense elements and a minimal amount of violence and bloodshed, Part II lacks those elements and is instead a full on action-flick with significantly more brutal violence, explosions, and death. The action is fun to watch, still exciting like as it was in the first film, and it’s kind of something you can turn your brain off to. There is a small bit of corniness, some of the action is silly (in a good way), the story in this is okay, and I liked the jungle setting used for a majority of the film, as it sort of reminded me of the woods setting used in most of in First Blood. But, I feel like Part II exchanged all the depth, uniqueness, and great writing from the first for far more violence and explosions, which is my main criticism for this one.

The characters aren’t as well-written as they were in the first film and some characters come off as one note and somewhat insignificant to the plot, which is how I felt with Co Bao. While we do get to know a bit about her and why she’s chosen to help Rambo document the POWs, she isn’t written well and sort of doesn’t really do a lot for most of the film until she comes to help Rambo escape from the enemy camp after he’s captured and brutally tortured. After they escape, there’s a small, SMALL bit of romantic chemistry between the two and this talk about how she wants to go to America with Rambo…which ends almost immediately when she gets shot and killed by the enemy captain who’s name I don’t even know. I unfortunately feel like she didn’t get a ton of screentime or character development, the romance between her and Rambo felt somewhat pointless and only lasted for a bit, and her getting swiftly killed off with little fanfare didn’t help at all. While Rambo still manages to be cool like he was in the first, he’s instead now a typical action hero who’s almost always invincible, less vulnerable, and loses all of his compelling nature and depth from the first. Originally in First Blood, he’s a stoic veteran who hurts deep down inside from the pain he experienced in the army and upon returning home, and despite being the target of a manhunt and nearly getting killed by his enemies a few times, he doesn’t want to kill anyone and avoids doing so for most of that film, on top of him being vulnerable and susceptible to attacks and wounds. Here, the film sort of forgets that and he comes off as a bit less well-written and in my opinion, slightly generic. There still are cool moments with Rambo and Sylvester Stallone, in my opinion, still acts the part well (one of the final scenes with Rambo and Murdock especially), but he’s less interesting here from how they changed his portrayal. The antagonists in this one are less memorable than the police officers from First Blood and not as threatening, and I can’t even remember their names at all from how minor they sort of were in this.

Not an entirely bad sequel, and it has exciting action, situations, and explosions and some cheesiness that makes it a fun watch, but it has mediocre writing and a cast mostly full of sort of forgettable characters, sans the protagonist who isn’t as well-written as he was in the previous installment. Now I have the third film to watch now, hopefully it at least tries to have better writing than this one…

@Pastellioli yeah First Blood is definitely the best Rambo movie imo. While the sequels are decent action films, they don't make as strong a statement as the original does in regards to the treatment of veterans after the Vietnam war, and the lingering effects of ptsd.

I went and saw Superman yesterday and overall I enjoyed it. I liked the fact that it wasn't another origin story those have been done.to death IMO. I also enjoyed what they are doing by setting things up for future movies. The action was good and the plot was interesting. I liked Lex Luthor's performance and I wont lie that I got a little choked up when I heard that iconic Superman March theme.

Overall I felt I got my money's worth and it was a good movie. Now it will just be interesting to see where Warner Bros goes with this.

@Tasuki I was also pleasantly surprised with Superman, and think James Gunn did a pretty good job here. Initially I thought that dumping Cavill was a big mistake, but David C gives an outstanding performance. In fact, all 3 of the 'main' leads do very well with the assignment.

I sometimes wish that James Gunn could just tone himself down a little bit though, maybe cut back on some of the humour and focus more on the serious/relational elements of the story. I actually thought the best scene was the back-and-forth between Louis and Clark during the 'interview' - really well acted.

@Tasuki @CJD87 I really loved the tone of the movie. Yes, it would have been nice to have some more chill, serious buts, but I really liked that it wasn't afraid to be bright and colorful and funny. So many movies lately (especially in the Superhero genre!) feel the need to have dark gritty realism, but this one had a bright, saturated color palette, and I loved that. The colors and the script together made this one of the most "fun" supermovies I have seen, and I am down for more! 🦸🏻

@OldManHermit Although I’ve only seen the second film so far, a lot of elements and themes that made the original so perfect are gone. While I did enjoy the action in Part II, I feel like it was done at the expense of the themes of First Blood about the poor treatment of war veterans, as well as changing Rambo’s character.

In fact, it feels like the writers in charge of Part II forgot about how Rambo was in the first film, being a PTSD-ridden veteran who’s been through a lot, mistreated and unappreciated, just wants the police to leave him alone and instead of killing his pursuers, he instead simply harms them to deter them. Seeing them doing away with his compelling nature and his attempts to not kill anyone and instead having him be a typical action hero and act in ways he probably wouldn’t was one of my main issues with Part II, aside from the film kind of sort of being a mindless action film with no real statement or theme compared to First Blood. I feel like if the writers had remembered how his character was and him having PTSD (which it feels like the writers completely forgot), then Rambo would have probably been a bit hesitant to take on the task of returning to Vietnam to document the POWs, and his character I think would have still been interesting if they didn’t change him up significantly. Part II does a good job at being action-packed and fun to see, but does a mediocre job at being on the same levels of good as First Blood.