Movies are second to fiction novels when I want a break from reality, but the right amount of commitment for when I'm suffering from an energy lobotomy. I've watched five movies in the last three days.
My favorite of the bunch was In the Grey. I normally don't enjoy Guy Richie's ensemble casting, time/location jumping, narration needing, music on top of dialoging, wizbanging movies, so I was happy that In the Grey lost some of those elements. It retained Richie's larger cast, action, and twisty plan that's only revealed at the end, but wasn't immediately identifiable as a Guy Richie movie. It had bank-heist-like suspense and action, but without the bore of another physical bank heist.
Nobody 2 was half as satisfying as the first, but Odenkirk plays a inexhaustible exhausted criminal better than anyone, and was worth watching for that alone. Mortal Combat 2 was simple and fun; all the fantasy of super hero movies but lacking the seen-it-before, stopped-caring-a-decade-ago, candy-covered characters and story. Fuze was weaker than I was hoping after thoroughly enjoying the new-to-me director's Relay. The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare was the kind of Guy Richie movie I had learned to avoid.
Tend to gravitate towards older or foreign movies as an escape from clown world
Something gave me the itch to rewatch Swordfish recently, fits the heist theme and then some
Godzilla Minus One, excited now for minus zero. Feels like a classic movie, I assume because Japanese have longer attention spans?
Iron Sky for the lulz and because there was some headline about mining helium 3 on the moon recently... Need to investigate the sequel
Watched war games with the kids recently, now got the itch to rewatch Hackers... Throwbacks to the Internet being mysterious and fun... Kinda applies to Swordfish too.
From now on will be harder and harder to find a good new movie.
Years ago I started to save on my NAS a large colkection of old good movies. Never know what will happen with these old movies and is a good way to watvh them even when there's no internet.
There's a just one problem there: I spend more time choosing a movie than I'm watching it. Do you strangle with it?
Lately, I decided to rewatch the movies I've already seen.
First one: What happens in Vegas
Second one: Hall pass
p.s. the older I get the more I understand that most of comedy movies isn't comedy at all, they have huge drama inside
I just watched Princess Bride with my kids. I have a love for that movie and watching it again after a decade, it didn't disappoint.
Not a movie, but I watched A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms and that was enjoyable. Lots of fun George R R Martin storytelling tricks.
I watched that new movie on Netflix with Charlize Theron recently, it was pretty good, and very unsettling. The one featuring free climbing
Edit: Apex
I watched that one too when it was released. I was not expecting the movie to go the way it did.
me neither! definitely glad I didn’t know much about it going in
Another somewhat recent one - Crime 101. I saw this one in theaters. It was pretty good. A little corny here and there, but I liked the vibe of it. I then listened to the audiobook upon which it was based, which was also decent, but a little corny. Or maybe just the guy speaking was corny
Lately, I've been watching old movies with my kids.
The most recent one was Galaxy Quest. One of my favorite comedy films. We also saw The Matrix and Men In Black a short while back.
I saw exit 8 recently, liked it :)
Back rooms was good
Psychological horror is off the menu for me right now, but I've heard good things!
I want to see the one @Car posted about recently - Obsession maybe?
oh good. I want to see it, haven’t yet though
Found these all for free on youtube. I enjoyed them all.
I am a bit of a film geek. Here are some recent films from the last month or two:
Blade (1998)
Eraser (1996)
American Grafitti (1973)
Swallowtail Butterfly
Rebels of the Neon God (1992)
Drifting through the filthy streets of Taipei in a Honda NSR 150cc, young love intertwined with East Asian family dynamics, petty theft, and cigarette smoke. Pairs well with the above.
I don't watch movies often, I prefer docus / non-fiction.
I was an extra in this one! In August of 2024, as a police officer. Might just watch it for that reason.
A timely reminder to watch these two recommendations
Contact with Jodie Foster for the sci fi fans
A Bronx tale with DeNiro for the traditionalist
Watched both back to back recently on a long flight and made the time wizz by, highly recommend
„Project Hail Mary“ and “good luck, have fun , don’t die “ really liked both
With Mortal’s journey to Immortality season 5 out this past weekend, I had to key into the donghua.
Not a movie but I thought Teach You A Lesson was enjoyable and worth the hype (and controversy)
I went back to watch some oldies