What Movies Are You Watching Lately

[Kaplan]



worst disappointment for me would be Prometheus. I remember being really pumped that Ridley Scott was going to revisit the franchise and then i saw the trailers and somehow i convinced myself that it was going to be a Great Movie (i'd put the original Alien on an all-time list). and then the beginning is like this sweeping crystal landscape and i was saying to myself oh man this is gonna be good. and then they spend the whole movie in a cave.

Alien ('79) is on my personal top 10, and that opening scene of Prometheus was as spectacular as the rest of the thing was stupid (I even went to see it at the cinema 3 times - for the visuals and to compare the 2D to the 3D versions).

And speaking of the opposite of great, I thought I'd see if this one could be as bad as the reviews claimed:

- if anything it's worse. Bad story and characters aside, it seems like it deliberately tried to top it's own stupidity every few minutes...

Spoiler: a few examples:

Starts out with a flash-back way back to 2007, a time where people only had CRT screens and did their programming in BASIC.

It reveals that The Thing's catch phrase 'It's clobbering time!' actually was what his brother said when he beat him up as a kid(!).

You know the black kid is street-smart because he does drag racing, doesn't want to wear a lab coat and tells the other scientists to untuck their shirts.

Reed, on the other hand, is nerdy so he wears glasses and doesn't know how to fist bump.

He also takes selfies.

Halfway through something goes wrong, and the movie turns into Cronenberg like body horror. But only for a few minutes, because then we jump a year ahead, and everybody is feeling pretty good.

Somebody thought it was a good idea to have the corporate baddie chewing gum in every scene, which interferes with his line readings. Even when he's doing a big presentation to get more funding.

For some reason Doctor Doom looks like a Husk from Mass Effect, only green instead of blue.

And it ends with that obnoxious thing where the heroes have to close down a big beam of light going up into the sky, which most of the big recent sci-fi flicks seems to think is a brilliant idea for the final act (Avengers, etc).

- Thankfully, it bombed spectacularly.

 

[noob in 89]

I remember Prometheus being presented as a *deeply philosophical* film probing the origins of human life -- and then the actual movie was like this:

"Hey, I wonder where people came from."

"Oh. They came from *slightly larger people*. From outer space."


My mind was not blown.

 

[double00]

^^^

yeah. best part was when they finally meet the progenitor and ask it "why"? and he gets annoyed that his stools are trying to hold a conversation with him.

the upshot for me was it gave me a yen to sit down with Lawrence of Arabia.

 

[SixOhNine]



And speaking of the opposite of great, I thought I'd see if this one could be as bad as the reviews claimed

I did the exact same thing a while back. It truly was terrible.

 

[rossoz]

Someone earlier mentioned walking out or not walking out of movies. I have tried to watch these two and have either walked out or turned them off at least twice- REDS and RAN. I kept going back based on the reviews. I should learn to trust my first judgement of movies.

Cheers,

 

[SirReveller]

I'm with noob. Popcorn + cool dark spot, ..comfy chair. Have to be god awful to walk out.

 

[Rumpelstiltskin]

Watching right now

 

[DeSense]



Wrong ass thread, but is season 3 any good? I watched most of the first episode and it seems it largely deals with the teen chick who I have no interest in.

Yeah, I know. Thought I'd throw a curve ball in here. My take, if you stuck through two seasons already, you want to take it to the end. The TC still features here and there but it is mostly about psych battle between the leads later on. Not to spoil anything, I'd continue.

 

[double00]

I'm with noob. Popcorn + cool dark spot, ..comfy chair. Have to be god awful to walk out.

13 Ghosts (15 min)...
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (like 1:45 in)...
Chasing Mavericks (blargh! prob 20 min)

 

[DeSense]

Speaking of (13) ghosts reminded me of this one.

First seen this when I was about 10, I think. Still holds up quite well. Or maybe also a case of fond childhood memorabilia.

 

[Lionheart Biker]

I remember Prometheus being presented as a *deeply philosophical* film probing the origins of human life -- and then the actual movie was like this:

"Hey, I wonder where people came from."

"Oh. They came from *slightly larger people*. From outer space."

I love this comment. Feel like I´ve read from a few other people.

I also watched the new Fantastic 4, but gladly caught it halfway through. I knew it was trash but wanted to see how bad it was... It ended and I had no idea why that movie got made. There was nothing entertaining in it, there was nothing funny in it.

 

[SixOhNine]

Speaking of inexplicable and not entertaining movies, I also watched the new Independence Day and X-Men Apocalypse. I'd say that was five hours of my life that I ruined, but they were on long flights, so I wasn't really going to do anything productive anyway.

Nonetheless, I'm starting to feel slightly ashamed of my viewing choices. I should re-watch Casablanca or something, just as a palate cleanser...

 

[Nikos]

Careful, this could really hurt you. I still remember watching Armageddon on a flight.

 

[double00]

The Name of the Rose. 1986. Benedictine monk Sean Connery and apprentice Christian Slater sleuth a suspicious death in a medieval abbey.

i'm hoping to watch more new-to-me films from here on out and plan on mining many of the threadly suggestions.

 

[Nikos]

I had forgotten I had already watched this.
I never really liked Delon playing the super cool guy, but I enjoyed it and think I understand why this is a classic. It establishes this immersive style from the very first scene, and sticks to it until the end.
It is also very well shot.
Might watch more Melville.