Outside of what I mentioned here, I think the stylistic choices in character design were good. We've got tons of animal movies, so I liked that this one set itself apart. They had the animals use all four legs sometimes, and they made it so that all the creatures were sentient, including ones like bugs. It's a little weird if you think about it too much, I guess, but that helps give it a distinct feel imo.
I don't watch a lot of movies these days, but that's because I've been busy with a hobby of mines. Regardless though, I'm going to recommend a few movies I watched last year that people may not have heard of before and think people would enjoy! Who doesn't like to watch a good movie one hasn't seen before, huh?
A Chump at Oxford (1940): This is a must see! It is a film that later on in its storyline, becomes super funny and out of nowhere. That’s all I will say when it comes to the movie itself, other than the fact that the storyline in the film is about Laurel and Hardy who fly to Oxford University for their education, but after arriving become tricked and exploited by the jovial students’ antics. The mean students themselves only care about playing planks, and Laurel and Hardy do as they say and don’t even know they are walking in their intended plans or are causing trouble. 😆 Trust me, go and watch it and tell me what you think of the movie after you are done with it.
The film also stars Peter Cushing as one of the students. 🙂 This was even before he made a name for himself back in the day. I heard Christopher Lee is in the film too, actually, according to Lee, but I haven’t seen anyone that looks like him, and he’s not credited unlike Cushing. I’m sure if I observed the film more I would be able to see him in the picture.
The Moon Spinners (1965): I watched this movie because I was curious about a certain child Disney-star after seeing her portray little girl characters in the company's pictures, and wondering if she still played characters I liked after becoming an older teenager in the studio's acting roles. The actress' name is Hayley Mills, and you may have seen her before in Pollyanna and the Parent Trap, both films she is best known for and are household names to a lot of people. I have only watched the former and another less popular film she did after PT when it comes to what films I watched her as a young child. Anyway, this film indeed casts her as an older teen, and the actress herself plays a nice character and has a loving personality towards one character she cares for and hopes takes an interest in her. What she plays doesn't mismatch what she has played before, while having an overall distinct character compared to past roles and not being tight-casted, and containing some of the pleasantness she has from other Disney movies.
The movie itself is a mystery and thriller about a teenage boy that attempts to obtain something deep into the sea and a man who wants to stop him from doing so. I know I sound a little vague, but the plot is shrouded in mystery and is the kind of mystery that's more appreciated after viewing its climax, rather than being fascinated discovering breadcrumbs after breadcrumbs.
Aside from the movie's genre, I really like the relationship between Hayley's character and the boy. She cares so much for him, AKA. has so much love for him, yet no matter what happens in the story, she can't stop thinking about him and wanting to help. He cares for her a lot too, but has more of a wrong idea of that by not wanting her to get involved with trying to help him from the man that's seeking to murder him, and doesn't want her to get hurt because of that.
The whole picture as a matter of fact was shot in Greece! And it is a beautiful film to look at due to the natural locations they picked, the festive wedding celebration in and out of a town at the beginning of the movie, and decorations and inside of certain places.
It’s Great to be Young (1956): This is a delightful musical! It’s a film that’s bound to make you happy because of its happy and upbeat music. The movie stars a music teacher of a school (played by John Mills,) that gets concerned about the removal of his band, because of a new principal that joins who wants to cut costs and only have the students focus on the main studies of the school. The music teacher and his band of teenage musicians work together to try to raise money to keep their orchestra. What makes the film have its merits is the scene where the band plays to raise money, and the situations where music starts to play out of nowhere in parts of the story and that are relevant to the story too.
It’s another film that’s family friendly, aside from two A words used. Not sure why that is, though maybe it’s because it’s a British movie and people working on it have different standards? Whatever the case, you should definitely watch it out.
@D-Star92, interested in watching the latter two movies I mentioned?
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Saw Send Help the other night. It was, okay? Kind of tonally inconsistent.
I think the script needed more time in the oven. The "heel turn" isn't a surprise since we the audience knew for over an hour that she didn't want off the island and hid from a boat. We also saw her go up on the mountain with the 2 rescuers, so it wasn't much of a surprise later. There should have been a huge "reveal" at the end, with her avoiding boats, with her murdering the couple. It should have been hidden better as the plot went along, instead, the ending didn't have any impact. I think they were hoping for a Keyser Söze sort of a thing, but they botched it.
@PeterTomlan86 Thanks for telling me about them, I'll have to give those movies a watch sometime. That third one you mentioned sounds like it would be a fun watch!
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@D-Star92 Sure thing! I love sharing movies with others and seeing what they think of them afterwards. So I think it would be awesome, if you want to of course, tell me what you think of those films after watching them. Have any planned dates on watching them?
Are you also familiar with Hayley and John Mills in any movies?
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It's footage of performances from his '70s Vegas residency, and rehearsals, and audio interviews. I'm not a big Elvis fan, but it was edited together very briskly so the 90 minutes never dragged. They would usually show just 1 verse and 1 chorus from a song before whisking away on something else.
Running Man (2025) Yeah this was pretty bad. The original wasn’t a brilliant movie by any stretch but it was a dumb fun action flick with a simple premise. It balanced it’s bombastic action and social commentary perfectly. The remake over complicates a story that never needed to be complicated. There’s a lot of potential for a Running Man remake as themes like, the gap between rich and poor, reality tv, social media, propaganda, and technology overtaking our lives are all very relevant. The movie just fell flat for me. The action wasn’t anything I haven’t seen before, it looked ugly visually, and the main lead is the most generic white guy actor I’ve ever seen. Ain’t no Ahnold that’s for sure.
Bugonia (2025) First off, this movie is absolutely gorgeous, especially coming off of Running Man. They used some kind of crazy wide angle lens for nearly every frame, this is a director that understands the beauty of a static wide shot, which I think is sorely missed in a lot of modern hollywood movies. As a painter, I loved the use of colour in this movie, everything is tinged with this strange over saturated green. The camera work, coupled with the story and musical choices, give the film a very Hitchcockian feel. Great performances too, Jesse Plemons is a master at playing creepy weirdos, Emma Stone was also quite good. I enjoyed the movie overall, but I will say I did not like the ending. I could see it coming, and it was a bit silly in comparison to the rest of the film. Still totally worth checking out for it’s visuals alone.
I have watched HOPPERS for five times at my local cinema XXI.
It was surprisingly good Pixar movie in this year after the disappointment from Disney & Pixar movies last year.
In term of storyline, it was pretty good idea about saving the animal habitat from human ambition.
The music choices was surprisingly quite good by made the Work That Shell very 80's aerobic music, the 80's rock music by Loverboy. But the other musics was not impressed me that much.
The suspense and the action was quite thrilling almost at the end of story.
Overall, I gave the score 8 from 10. And to see Mayor Jerry from very ambitious and pompous people, being portrayed as the antagonist from beginning then suddenly he dropped his ego to rebuilt the Beavertown Glade as nature preserve after experiencing with the chaos from Hoppers and animal ambush, it was a surprise plot twist to see human can change from bad became good.
@Anti-Matter wow, 5 times? I guess people really do like Hoppers. I went to go see it, but honestly it was very disappointing for me. Spoilers ahead.... I really didn't like Mabel's character. She hurt people and stole stuff, but it was all OK because "she had good reasons." And the humor was mostly very boring, basic jokes. I did like the lizard, Tom, though. Titus was a fun twist villain, but he never got a redemption, which is fine except a big part of the movie was "everyone is good deep down."
I don't watch anything Disney these days. Their approach for storytelling's not my thing. I personally would rather watch something else that just has a good simple story and/or has humor that matches my own tastes.
The "everyone is good deep down" message is everywhere these days. Not that I think it ruins story when it's not the theme of it, but it's obvious in history there were some terrible people that showed no signs of righteous in them. What's there not to figure out?
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Five times is the accumulation of my watching times at cinema within 2 weeks since 7 March 2026. And I will rewatch again HOPPERS as many times before watching Mario Galaxy and Bible movie with my name DAVID on next two weeks.
If I compared HOPPERS with previous Pixar movie like ELIO, HOPPERS had way much better storyline and song choice.
Before that, I was very skeptical with HOPPERS considering ELIO from last year was really disappointing for me until when the 80's style song played, I got impressed and to see more dangerous actions from HOPPERS, it was pretty thrilling to see what happened next.
Btw, about Mabel Tanaka.
When I saw her looking for the first time, her design was like human version of Mabel Hedgehog from Animal Crossing with tomboish personality.
Also, she was 19 years old, still not mature enough to take decision wisely and oftenly take decision by anger or panic as you can she from whole movie even when she was a beaver. She got changed and become more mature after getting along with Mayor Jerry.
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I kinda like with "Everyone is good deep down" idea, which not every antagonist are really evil characters.
Some antagonist characters might be take a wrong way and realized their mistake.
It's called redemption to attone their sin.
It's also from Miitopia storyline, when you choose to save the malicious soul after beating The Darkest Lord, it shown that your main character have a great kindness and the reborn malicious soul as human again realized their mistake. It's a great storyline choice.
Also, thank goodness the Missy Elliott rap songs didn't include in the HOPPERS movie.
It just only for the promotional song.
Even I didn't see that Missy Elliot song from credit roll.
I personally don't like rap songs especially by this era standard so glad that rap song didn't even include during storyline.
@Anti-Matter I agree with you, no doubt. It's just that when that message is used every time in a franchise, it's kind of ridiculous, at least to me, because it projects a unrealistic view on humanity. Plus it makes a franchise more predictable, and plots should have some level of surprise to keep viewers interested. But whatever the case, as long as there's good story next to those kinds of characters in it, it's fine.
Unrelated to what I'm talking about, but even if there are villains in the plot that have goals that don't make any sense, then that's alright too, as long as there's good-guy characters that I like.
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