Last Movie You Watched Part II, Electric Bugaloo

[Kieran_Frost]

Well, it's your opinion and I'm going to assume you mean the best TNG movie.

No. I meant of all 13 Trek films, Star Trek: First Contact is the best. It has the best acting, a fantastic score, a TIGHT story that still gets to be very creative and informative (AND playing on the classic sci-fi theme of man vs machine). A fantastic villain, a satisfying showdown and a great amount of comedy dispersed in between all the drama. It's just brilliant.

Those all blur together for me and I could not give a plot summary for any of them. The obvious greatest movie trilogy is THE WRATH OF KHAN, THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK and THE VOYAGE HOME. Extra points for those movie titles, because they are the plot summary--so it's the easiest thing to remember what they're about.

a) the Wrath of Khan... actually isn't that great, upon rewatching it. Some of the acting is just bad, and far less awesome than I remembered from a child
b) the Search for Spock has serious problems in it
c) LOVE the Voyage Home.

For me the order goes:
1. First Contact
2. the Undiscovered Country
3. the Voyage Home
4. Star Trek
5. Generations
6. the Wrath of Khan
7. the Search for Spoke
8. Nemesis
9. Into the Darkness
10. Insurrection
11. the Final Frontier
12. the Original Movie
13. Beyond

My complaint about all the Trek movies is that they are set up for failure, because they're hamstrung with giving enough screen time to each crew member. Where the TV episodes never did that. How boring would Trek on TV have been if each episode had to give sufficient screen time to each character, regardless of how important they were to a given plot. For that reason, the best movies can never be as good as the best TV episodes.

Well yes and no. It's not like any of the movies try to give everyone an even share of the pie; even the more balanced films still have the three leads. Nor is giving 7 characters screen time an impossible task. I think the problems the films come across is making something that is a film, rather than a two-part episode from the series (Insurrection had this problem).

BUT... oh my goodness, a West Wing style Star Trek series??? YES, I'm here for it!

[Midnighter]

No. I meant of all 13 Trek films, Star Trek: First Contact is the best. It has the best acting, a fantastic score, a TIGHT story that still gets to be very creative and informative (AND playing on the classic sci-fi theme of man vs machine). A fantastic villain, a satisfying showdown and a great amount of comedy dispersed in between all the drama. It's just brilliant.


a) the Wrath of Khan... actually isn't that great, upon rewatching it. Some of the acting is just bad, and far less awesome than I remembered from a child
b) the Search for Spock has serious problems in it
c) LOVE the Voyage Home.

Strongly agree with all of this!

[DanMad1977]

Bad Boys for Life

I knew what I was getting into, so I have no issues with a simple action movie with some humor in it. If you liked the first two you will like this one as well, but its more of the same.

[Kieran_Frost]

On the "Dollars Trilogy":
2. For A Few Dollars More (1965). Still not seen it, you've actually reminded me I need to watch it. I'll try and do that tonight or tomorrow.

Well this is embarrassing... I watched it yesterday and it was only in the last 30 minutes I realised I've seen it before. NOT JUST SEEN IT... I reviewed it on my "100 Greatest Films" thread. HAHAHAH! Idiot Frost! Though it my defence: that was 6 years ago!

https://community.cbr.com/showthread...est-Films-quot
FOR A FEW DOLLARS MORE (1965)
writer & director. Sergio Leone
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Lee vanCleef, Gian Maria Volonté and Klaus Kinski

ONE SENTENCE SYNOPSIS: two bounty-hunters, working separately, track the vicious leader of a ruthless gang, who has set his sights on the most impregnable of bank in El Paso.

THOUGHTS: Lee vanCleef is almost as fun a hero as he is a villain. The three leads are perfect, each one distinct and colourful in their own way; much like in the Good, the Bad and the Ugly. The score by Leone regular Ennio Morricone is one of my favourites, esp. the tune played by "the Colonel" and "the Indian"'s wrist watches. Much like Once Upon A Time in the West (1968), it's a haunting tune that is integral to the plot of the film. The film is a tad long. After the bank job it should have merrily skipped to the climax, instead it lethargically plays out unnecessarily. It also triggers one of my 'pet peeves' where the numerous villains get whittled down NOT by the hero, but by their own treachery of one another. I get the whole "honour among thieves", but unless it's the Ladykillers (1955), it doesn't work for me.

OVERALL
A wonderfully entertaining, though slightly drawn out, western; where the three leads crackle on screen, and a powerful score that heightens the films tenses scenes. It doesn't have the underlying social commentary of the Good, the Bad and the Ugly, but it's delightfully fun nonetheless.
~ rating: 4 out of 5 [grade: A-]

Strongly agree with all of this!

[Arfguy]

Most recent watch: The Half of It on Netflix

A pretty good movie. Unfortunately, I lost what was being said in some of the dialogue and some of the on-screen text messages went by too fast for me to read. Still, it is a recommended watch.

[Jim Kelly]

Most recent watch: The Half of It on Netflix

A pretty good movie. Unfortunately, I lost what was being said in some of the dialogue and some of the on-screen text messages went by too fast for me to read. Still, it is a recommended watch.

I already said on here that I think THE HALF OF IT is a perfect movie. However, I should say that when I realized there would be some Mandarin spoken, I turned on the closed captions that translated the Mandarin (although in hindsight, there's not really that much and it's not really that important to understanding the movie)--but since I had the closed captions on the whole time, I never missed any of the dialogue or text.

[Arfguy]

I already said on here that I think THE HALF OF IT is a perfect movie. However, I should say that when I realized there would be some Mandarin spoken, I turned on the closed captions that translated the Mandarin (although in hindsight, there's not really that much and it's not really that important to understanding the movie)--but since I had the closed captions on the whole time, I never missed any of the dialogue or text.

Sorry boss...didn't see you post about The Half of It beforehand. It's a great movie.

I actually didn't miss any of the dialogue when it came to the Mandarin, because the subtitles were there. I actually missed some of the stuff being said back and forth in English. For instance, when Ellie gets out of the car in a huff, what exactly does Paul say to keep her from walking away? He says a lot and I missed a substantial amount of what he said.

I also missed some of the back and forth texts between Aster and Ellie, as well as the stuff in between Paul and Ellie.

[Jim Kelly]

I have this peculiar issue with Netflix movies and TV series on my computer that I don't get subtitles for foreign languages--and the only way to get the English translation is to turn on the closed captions.

[Scott Taylor]

Watched the theatrical production of Cats yesterday as part of The Show Must Go On. Concluded it would have been better with alcohol and even better with the TV turned off.

The Wrong Missy was my next set of self-torture. It had its moments, but was too crude for me overall. And the ending was super cliche.

[batnbreakfast]

Bong Joon Ho's Memories of Murder 02/10
I had zero experience with Korea movies and this one is from the director of Parasite. I gave it a watch and found the humor ill placed it was not the True Detective/Zodiac/Black dahlia experience I would have liked

[From The Shadows]

Re: Star Trek. I grew up on the TOS reruns and that crews films before TNG even debuted and that series ended up replacing TOS as my favorite Trek but I still think TOS had the better films, the above mentioned TWOK, TSFS and TVH. First Contact was good but to me it wasn't better than those TOS films and especially not TWAK. I would place it just behind those three. *dodges tomatoes*

[Kieran_Frost]

Re: Star Trek. I grew up on the TOS reruns and that crews films before TNG even debuted and that series ended up replacing TOS as my favorite Trek but I still think TOS had the better films, the above mentioned TWOK, TSFS and TVH. First Contact was good but to me it wasn't better than those TOS films and especially not TWAK. I would place it just behind those three. *dodges tomatoes*

You don't think some of the acting in Wrath of Khan felt... kinda bad? I mean "Khhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnn" isn't parodied so much because it's emotionally powerful

[Kieran_Frost]

VIDEODROME (1983)
dir. David Cronenberg
A cult erotic horror classic from the 80s featuring James Woods... ohhhhh boy. On one level I applaud this (very out there) concept; that did actually have a decent amount to say about violence and porn leading to a corrupt society. And the makeup and special effects, for the time period, were excellent. I think if I tried to pinpoint the moment I knew this wasn’t a movie me: when the literal vagina in his chest... stay with me... is penetrated by the guy’s fist, and the vagina turns said fist into a stick of dynamite... still there... and he stumbles back coated in juices and explodes. Metaphorically subtle, it was not. Blondie’s Debbie Harry was surprisingly good as the femme fatale; and I liked all the performances. It’s just... not a Frost film, shall we say.
★★★☆☆

[DanMad1977]

I have to see Videodrome.

Black Hat: Good cyber thriller with Chris Hemsworth

Fast and the Furious 8: Please...I don't know why I watch every part of that franchise. Its so bad that I get amused and entertained.

[Speed Force League Unlimited]

Yesterday I watched Batman v Dracula for the 1st time and it was way better than I expected. Good recommendation

Excellent.

She looks too much like Alice.