Last Movie You Watched Part II, Electric Bugaloo

[DanMad1977]

DEATH ON THE NILE (2022)
dir. Kenneth Branagh
My thoughts here are pretty much the same as Murder on the Orient Express (2017); visually it’s beautiful, I like Branagh’s Poirot, I like the additions to his character backstory, I like the updating of the characters (RE: diversity) BUT… they messed with the structure and it spoiled the mystery. Agatha Christie structures her stories, her pacing, her reveals so methodically. YOU DO NOT MESS WITH THAT!!! It was done for a reason and if you take any part away, or restructure it… it falls apart as a great mystery. Which is exactly what happened here (my husband guessed who the killer was, and how they did it within minutes of it happening… that shouldn’t happen).
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Exactly that. I told my wife who the murder was and why and whatnot, right after the first 5 minutes. And I tell you I am not a detective, with movies I tend to not guess or try to figure out things, I just let it run and enjoy how it unfolds itself. I still enjoyed it, to some extend.

At least my wife thought I was the next Sherlock Holmes

[Indian Ink]

Diamonds Are Forever

Re-watching all the bond movies in order. Now up to this one. It's odd every time I watch these things I come out with a slightly different opinion of them. This time it seemed to be a Keystone cop of a film. Light hearted nonsense after the previous OHMSS. Large parts make for no logic at all. Bond breaks into a secret high tech complex enters underground, five floors down. Gets discovered, while on the run breaks into (of all things) a fake moon landing set, where for some reason the fake astronauts stay in character and move in slow motion to try and catch him. Which of course they can't. Bond jumps into a type of moon buggy drives straight at, and through, a fake moon cliff wall and suddenly he's outside in the Las Vegas Mojave desert. BUT HE WAS FIVE FLOORS UNDERGROUND. This sort of thing seems typical within the film. For example a girl from the casino turns up dead in a pool with no explanation at all.
The film is mostly fun and Sean Connery seems to have regained a bit of life from his You Only Live Twice where he seemed tired of the role. He is noticeably older however. With hindsight perhaps now is when they should have swapped Sean out for Roger Moore.

[Kirby101]

I think DAF is the worse Bond film. There is so much that is just dumb.

[Starter Set]

Re-watched Deadpool 2.

I didn't remember the "it's a little hard to hear you" joke, i laughed for like 2 minutes straight. A damn funny movie.

[Kieran_Frost]

DEATH ON THE NILE (2022)
dir. Kenneth Branagh
My thoughts here are pretty much the same as Murder on the Orient Express (2017); visually it’s beautiful, I like Branagh’s Poirot, I like the additions to his character backstory, I like the updating of the characters (RE: diversity) BUT… they messed with the structure and it spoiled the mystery. Agatha Christie structures her stories, her pacing, her reveals so methodically. YOU DO NOT MESS WITH THAT!!! It was done for a reason and if you take any part away, or restructure it… it falls apart as a great mystery. Which is exactly what happened here (my husband guessed who the killer was, and how they did it within minutes of it happening… that shouldn’t happen).
⭐️ ⭐️

Exactly that. I told my wife who the murder was and why and whatnot, right after the first 5 minutes. And I tell you I am not a detective, with movies I tend to not guess or try to figure out things, I just let it run and enjoy how it unfolds itself. I still enjoyed it, to some extend.

At least my wife thought I was the next Sherlock Holmes

HA! I love that; your wife now will bring you mysteries to solve But yes, glad it's not just my experience with the film that spoiled the mystery. I just don't know why they gave no-one else motivation till AFTER the murder??? It made the suspect list... nonexistent, frankly.

Diamonds Are Forever

Re-watching all the bond movies in order. Now up to this one. It's odd every time I watch these things I come out with a slightly different opinion of them. This time it seemed to be a Keystone cop of a film. Light hearted nonsense after the previous OHMSS. Large parts make for no logic at all. Bond breaks into a secret high tech complex enters underground, five floors down. Gets discovered, while on the run breaks into (of all things) a fake moon landing set, where for some reason the fake astronauts stay in character and move in slow motion to try and catch him. Which of course they can't. Bond jumps into a type of moon buggy drives straight at, and through, a fake moon cliff wall and suddenly he's outside in the Las Vegas Mojave desert. BUT HE WAS FIVE FLOORS UNDERGROUND. This sort of thing seems typical within the film. For example a girl from the casino turns up dead in a pool with no explanation at all.
The film is mostly fun and Sean Connery seems to have regained a bit of life from his You Only Live Twice where he seemed tired of the role. He is noticeably older however. With hindsight perhaps now is when they should have swapped Sean out for Roger Moore.

It's been a long time since I've seen it. I'd need to rewatch it. I don't remember it being one I particularly enjoyed. Except maybe the gay assassins, there was something disturbing about them that walked the line between camp and sinister beautifully. Also, is that the one where Blofeld dresses up in drag??

[Timothy Hunter]

The Unberable Weight of Massive Talent

Nicolas Cage gives his all and his on screen chemistry with Pedro Pascal is magnetic.

I want to love a movie where Nicolas Cage plays himself but the filmmakers went about it in the most pedestrian way possible.

(SPOILERS)

Nicolas Cage's core internal conflict in the movie is that he has to work with the CIA to incriminate his best friend Pedro Pascal who's a cartel boss. Cage having to decide whether rat out the person who has rekindled his love for movies or let an innocent girl die makes for great drama. But all of this is undone in a totally unnecessary plot twist where it's revealed that Pedro's brother/cousin is the true head of the cartel and the person who kidnapped the girl, basically absolving Pedro's character of any wrongdoing. I guess he's supposed to be a GOOD cartel member, a concept that's seems a smidge offensive.

I liked Tiffany Haddish and Ike Barinholtz, the two CIA characters have some funny lines and a good sense of chemistry. Unfortunately, these two characters are poorly utilized, appearing sporadically to move the plot forward until they are unceremoniously killed off. The only scenes where they are given the opportunity to shine is when they are introduced and when first interacting with Nicolas Cage.

The ex-wife and daughter subplot you've seen in a hundred other movies. These two characters bring nothing to the table and perhaps would have made the movie stronger if they were removed altogether.

[Indian Ink]

It's been a long time since I've seen it. I'd need to rewatch it. I don't remember it being one I particularly enjoyed. Except maybe the gay assassins, there was something disturbing about them that walked the line between camp and sinister beautifully. Also, is that the one where Blofeld dresses up in drag??

Diamonds Are Forever is Sean Connery's worst Bond film. (Though not his fault I'll add.) They flubbed an action car stunt. Bond puts his car on its two right wheels to get through a narrow alley, but comes out the other side on its two left wheels. The gay assassins now seem to be the highlight I think. Though the writers having them try to get rid of a knocked out Bond by placing him inside a to be buried steel services pipe seems highly risible. What if Bond woke up? What if the workers noticed him inside? As it was, he just used a services hatch after the pipe construction. It would have been much more chilling if they took him out in the desert to put two in his head, but 007 wakes up and takes them out, or at least escapes. What they did just seemed silly. Yes, this is the one where Blofeld dresses in drag to escape Vas Vegas.

[Starter Set]

New Mutants.

I quite enjoyed it. The whole "can't pass that bareer thing" is a bit silly i'll admit and yes, it's a small casting (though considering the setting it's best that way i guess), but i had a good time.

[Starter Set]

Well, to finish my list of super heroes movies i had yet to watch : 1) Eternals and 2) X-men: Dark Phoenix.

I kinda wished for the Celestial to win for being honest, i found Sersi to be super annoying. But except for her, the rest of the movie was kinda cool.

I REALLY could have done without the boring documentaries scenes of the valet though. (what a freaking stupid idea)

Dark phoenix now...well, First Class is actually my second favorite super heroes movie of all time, just behind Raimi's Spider-man 2, so it pains me a bit but damn that was weak.

And come on, that story line has nothing in common with the one from the comics. Like nothing. I don't mind some changes, it's an adaptation after all not a 1:1 copy, but nothing at all?

I don't know, i don't understand that. Anyway, i'm all up to date now.

[Deathstroke]

I saw Uncharted today. While I have no knowledge of the video game it is based on, I have to say that I rather enjoyed the movie. Sure, it's big, dumb and utterly preposterous. But it was FUN! And the back and forth between Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg was pretty funny at times.

[CliffHanger2]

The Devil you know-Omar Epps-pretty good family drama/crime flick.

Ambulance- Really silly overly romanticized movie about 2 guys running,robbing and shooting driving an ambulance. I'm a fan of Bay films. But stay away from the heart strings bro. You're not that guy.

The Batman- saw this a few weeks ago. Actualy pretty good. Twilight brought some humanity to the role. Kinda show-cased batman's ineffectiveness tho. Haven't rewatched, kinda long.

[Kieran_Frost]

Diamonds Are Forever is Sean Connery's worst Bond film. (Though not his fault I'll add.) They flubbed an action car stunt. Bond puts his car on its two right wheels to get through a narrow alley, but comes out the other side on its two left wheels. The gay assassins now seem to be the highlight I think. Though the writers having them try to get rid of a knocked out Bond by placing him inside a to be buried steel services pipe seems highly risible. What if Bond woke up? What if the workers noticed him inside? As it was, he just used a services hatch after the pipe construction. It would have been much more chilling if they took him out in the desert to put two in his head, but 007 wakes up and takes them out, or at least escapes. What they did just seemed silly. Yes, this is the one where Blofeld dresses in drag to escape Vas Vegas.

Can't disagree with anything you've said; it's really his worst. BUT... I mean... he has so many great ones; it's a very high bar. Ignoring Diamonds Are Forever (1971); I'm not sure which other I could comfortable say is his 'worst'. His worst is still... pretty darn great. Mayyyyybe I'd rank Thunderball (1965) as his next 'least successful' because I don't like the main villain? But it's still a crackin' good film.

[Deathstroke]

I saw the Michael B. Jordan movie Without Remorse. It was okay. Typical action flick stuff that looks good but I have to say that at times it felt like the screenplay skipped over stuff so I didn't feel like you got the whole story or something.

[DanMad1977]

Alexander

Great cast, big epic movie. Wasn't bored, but I also wasn't excited.

The King (Netflix)

That one was boring, I didnt get through it. And if the rumor is for real that Timothy Chalamet is set for playing He-Man in the Masters of the Universe franchise, we fans are doomed.

Old: I love the movies of M Night. This is no exception. Well done.

Avenging Force (Night Hunter in my country) And old Michael Dudikoff movie. I had fun with it, whilst knowing that it was a cheese Produkt of the 80ís.

[Captain Craig]

Morbius: B-

I don't know how reaction to this was. I've not been closely following movie news like I once did. I'm curious to go look up its current box office take later though.

The movies plot felt very straightforward. It was fairly easy to figure out that Milo was going to be his foil.
I find it to be a disconnect that he wants to protect and/or prevent himself and Milo from harming others....yet takes a call from Adrian Toombs/Vulture (Michael Keaton).
Regardless if there is a Spider-man on his world he would be able to quickly know Toombs has a shaky past, relocated to this Earth or not, right?
So Martine survives as a vampire and it would be interesting to see if her theatrical side follows her comic inspiration in some way. Although I admit I'm foggy on specifics of the character, just she also becomes vampire-adjacent like Morbius or Blade.


I liked it, I'd be curious to a follow-up.