What is the best recent movie you’ve seen.

[Doc Holliday]

Drop (2025)
Stars Meghann Fahy in a suspense/thriller which i really enjoyed & would watch again! The movie occurs mostly inside a restaurant while she’s on a blind date with a very attractive photographer who happens to also work for the city mayor when she starts receiving unanimous texts on her phone threatening her & her young son who’s being babysat at home by her sister. She suspects that the person sending her the texts is also inside the same restaurant & she tries to outwit the person terrorizing her who also seems to be one step ahead of her. At one point she suspects it could be her own date! By the way i found the gay waiter absolutely hillarious! I recommend this movie & rate it 7/10 stars.

 

[Robert 21]

Amazon Prime Video
Into the Forest
2016 R 102 mins
Suspense
Ellen Page (Elliot Page)
Evan Rachel Wood




https://m.imdb.com/title/tt2625810/

WTF - The Movie just ends… SMH
I did not like how this Movie ended!






***CAN I GET A REFUND?***

 

[Meta not Meta]

Sinners ... a truly unique cinematic gumbo that really gets the importance of the blues idiom in the development of American music & politics.

One part historical drama, one part vampire film (!) ... which sounds like it shouldn't work but somehow it does.

But that's partly the point, that America has always been a melding of disparate elements, people & marginalized sub-cultures that form something greater together ... the current real-life horror show notwithstanding.

I haven't seen Coogler's other films but this is by far the best Hollywood movie I've seen this year.

 

[Doc Holliday]

Sinners ... a truly unique cinematic gumbo that really gets the importance of the blues idiom in the development of American music & politics.

I started watching it Saturday night & have about 90 minites left to go. Hopefully it’s as good as you said!

 

[EagerBeaver]

I started watching it Saturday night & have about 90 minites left to go. Hopefully it’s as good as you said!

Did you guys watch the new Mission Impossible movie yet? It's pulled in $204 million in 3 days. This despite almost 3 hours runtime!

 

[Meta not Meta]

Did you guys watch the new Mission Impossible movie yet? It's pulled in $204 million in 3 days. This despite almost 3 hours runtime!

Not yet ... word is it's a little bloated, not unlike the most recent Bond films, and trying oh so hard to tie together the continuity.

Gotta credit Cruise for his unfailing belief in the theatrical experience. But the new one probably needs to hit one billion just to break even. The cost was crazy.

As of writing this, Fallout is the best for me. Or my favourite, I should say.

PS ... 'no matter how good you are at something there's probably always going to be some Asian guy out there who's better at it than you' ... haha.

 

[EagerBeaver]

I watched Alien Romulus on Hulu today. Although it checked all the boxes for an Alien genre film, the relentless ripping off of the original was a bit too much for me. Not one, but two Alien birth scenes to try and top the classic shock birth scene of the original. The cargo hold scene at the end was essentially a re-enactment of the final scene of the original. Last but not least, they used CGI of the deceased Ian Holm to rip off his classic AI dialogue from the original. I have no idea whether or not they negotiated something with Ian's Estate and heirs (if they didn't they should be sued), but I found this to be tacky, disrespectful and worst of all blatantly unoriginal. The movie is an unabashed money grab off of younger audiences who never saw the original that did all these things for the first time.

I will say the actors were very good, particularly Cailee Spaeny and David Jonsson in the lead roles.

On another note, we are seeing the replacement of the archetypal Russian thug bad guy with AI run amok as the new bad guy in mainstream films. Except, it's not the "new" bad guy, as anyone who saw 1968's "2001: A Space Odyssey" knows. We are doing lots of recycling in modern film.

 

[MasterPat]

I watched Alien Romulus on Hulu today. Although it checked all the boxes for an Alien genre film, the relentless ripping off of the original was a bit too much for me. Not one, but two Alien birth scenes to try and top the classic shock birth scene of the original. The cargo hold scene at the end was essentially a re-enactment of the final scene of the original. Last but not least, they used CGI of the deceased Ian Holm to rip off his classic AI dialogue from the original. I have no idea whether or not they negotiated something with Ian's Estate and heirs (if they didn't they should be sued), but I found this to be tacky, disrespectful and worst of all blatantly unoriginal. The movie is an unabashed money grab off of younger audiences who never saw the original that did all these things for the first time.

I will say the actors were very good, particularly Cailee Spaeny and David Jonsson in the lead roles.

On another note, we are seeing the replacement of the archetypal Russian thug bad guy with AI run amok as the new bad guy in mainstream films. Except, it's not the "new" bad guy, as anyone who saw 1968's "2001: A Space Odyssey" knows. We are doing lots of recycling in modern film.

Funny, I'm watching the OG Alien right. My, the actors all look so young, how time passes…

 

[EagerBeaver]

Arcadian (2024)

I watched this joint production of the U.S., Canada and Ireland on Hulu tonight. It's a creepy, post-apocalyptic horror film starring Nicholas Cage as the father of two teenage sons who are all fighting to survive in a new world in which they can roam freely during the day, but must lock down their farmhouse at night and fend off relentless and persistent nighttime attacks by monsters trying to break into the house (it's similar to Night of the Living Dead, but substitute monsters for zombies as the attacking creatures). The creatures are incredibly sensitive to daylight and must retreat at sunrise.

I liked this movie a lot more than the last Cage horror film I saw, Longlegs (2024), in which Cage has a small but over the top role. Although Arcadian was very similar to another horror film I saw around 7 years ago, more in the zombie genre, in which a virus is being spread by the attacking creatures.

The monsters in this film are notable in that they have absolutely incredible jaw snapping power, that would make any alligator and Godzilla himself envious. They are vicious and aggressive, but many are killed by the defending humans during the course of the film, which has a higher body count for the monsters than the humans.

 

[EagerBeaver]

Funny, I'm watching the OG Alien right. My, the actors all look so young, how time passes…

The original Alien came out in 1979 when I was in high school. It was a low budget film released with very little fanfare but became an instant critical and commercial success and all time classic of the science fiction/horror genre. If you proceed directly to watching Alien Romulus tomorrow night, you will see that it mercilessly rips off the original, although it does have some redeeming qualities- good young actors, good action scenes. It's essentially a remake of the original with many of the same plot elements kept in place.

 

[Meta not Meta]

The original Alien came out in 1979 when I was in high school. It was a low budget film released with very little fanfare but became an instant critical and commercial success and all time classic of the science fiction/horror genre. If you proceed directly to watching Alien Romulus tomorrow night, you will see it mercilessly rips off the original, although it does have some redeeming qualities- good young actors, good action scenes. It's essentially a remake of the original with many of the same plot elements kept in place.

OK, time to geek out a little ...

Yeah, it's true, HAL9000 is early AI. Built by a certain "Mr. Langley," I may note for enthusiasts of the Deep State.

Something the plots of both 2001 & Alien share is that the human crews in both films are deemed to be "expendable" in favour of their greater missions. "Mother" in Alien is also a kind of AI, though not as sentient as "Hal."

There's a much lesser known movie from just a couple of years after 2001 that quite accurately anticipates contemporary apocalyptic fears about AI run amok called Colossus: The Forbin Project. Two super computers from the US and USSR start communicating with each other and end up enslaving humanity by the end of that particular movie. Well worth seeing if you can track it down.

I'd argue that Alien itself is, and is not, completely "original."

Everything you say about it I completely agree with, especially in relation to Romulus, which I too enjoyed but may never rewatch. Whereas the original is something I could watch again every year.

But, however brilliant in execution, it is, at its base level, a highly sophisticated reworking of such 1950s era sci-fi/horror films as The Thing From Another World: ie. the scary space alien; the eerie isolated & claustrophobic setting; etc. Almost a haunted house movie of old.

Except, Alien is an older-style B-movie story made with A-level talent, budget, vision, craftsmanship, script, acting & design, and enhanced by a greater degree of aesthetic realism and the then latest developments in special effects.

Spielberg & Lucas were doing much the same at around the same time with Star Wars, Raiders, Close Encounters & Jaws.That is, the basic story lines were all the stuff of the Saturday serials & genre movies they loved as kids.

 

[Capitaine Pussycat]

Saw Mickey 17 recently. Initially, Duncan Jones' film Moon comes to mind. But as it progresses, seemed more reminiscent of a Terry Gilliam Sci-fi satire with a sprinkle of The Three Stooges. Thought it was pretty funny, though felt like it ran just a hair too long.

 

[Meta not Meta]

Saw Mickey 17 recently. Initially, Duncan Jones' film Moon comes to mind. But as it progresses, seemed more reminiscent of a Terry Gilliam Sci-fi satire with a sprinkle of The Three Stooges. Thought it was pretty funny, though felt like it ran just a hair too long.
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I really wanted to like it. Love the guy's other movies. Admire his ambition and the conceptual scope of the film. But it just felt like it got away from him.

Snowpiercer plowed much the same territory, but it's a better film for me. Some day I'll give this one another chance.

The Gilliam comparison is spot on, but that can be a criticism too ....

'Moon' I loved, deserves to better known.

 

[EagerBeaver]

Barbarian (2022)

I really enjoyed this horror film on Netflix. It's not the first AirBnB horror film (the Rental in 2020 was a very good one, but it was more focused on the characters being spied on). The Barbarian is more focused on a dark secret lurking within the AirBnb, one that haunts the renters and the owner until it is fully exposed.

Very creepy, unconventional horror film which made $45 million off a $4 million budget. I recommend it.

 

[Doc Holliday]

Did you guys watch the new Mission Impossible movie yet? It's pulled in $204 million in 3 days. This despite almost 3 hours runtime!

Not yet. I may wait until it’s available for streaming since I don’t really feel like being stuck in a movie theatre for three hours. I liked them all but my favorite is the first one which i’ve seen many times.

Lately i’ve been re- watching old classic favorites of mine. The other day i watched ‘High Plains Drifter’ which i still enjoy watching once in a while & consider one of the great western movies ever made. Right now i’m watching ‘The Last of Sheila’ again & within the next few days i plan to watch ‘Apocalypse Now’ & ‘The Deer Hunter’ again. I watch them every couple of years or so.

The other night i watched ‘Sinners’ which i enjoyed but wouldn’t say it’s the best movie i’ve seen this year. The next day i watched the horror movie ‘Until Dawn’ which i really liked. I read afterwards that the movie is based on a popular video game which i had never heard of.

But these past couple of weeks my evenings have been spent watching a very popular crime/murder mystery tv series from Iceland called ‘Trapped’. It’s two seasons of 10 one-hour episodes each. I just finished watching the entire series earlier tonight & i’m not surprised why it was so popular on a global scale. Tomorrow i’m hoping to begin watching the sequel called ‘Entrapped’ which is available on Netflix.

 

[charmer_]

Did you guys watch the new Mission Impossible movie yet? It's pulled in $204 million in 3 days. This despite almost 3 hours runtime!

I'm a huge Mission: Impossible fan. So watching it in theatres ASAP was a no-brainer for me (IMAX).

I liked it...but I found it a bit disappointing. Especially since I loved the film before it (i.e. Dead Reckoning), and I felt it didn't live up to it. Great stunts as always, but it does run a bit long and it's not as focused, imho.

If I had to rank it, I'd probably put it 2nd to last to M:I 2. Hopefully it isn't the last M:I for Cruise, despite him saying/hinting that it is.

 

[charmer_]

As of writing this, Fallout is the best for me. Or my favourite, I should say.

Fallout is pretty good...but it's also in good company with Ghost Protocol and Rogue Nation. Really tough call between the three as to the best.

That bathroom fight scene though....holy shit. One of the best brawl scenes ever (in huge part because of Cavill).

 

[Zero_Six]

I watched The Whale a few days ago. I'm still recovering.

 

[Doc Holliday]

The Last of Sheila (1973)
Great mystery thriller starring an ensemble cast including James Coburn, James Mason, Richard Benjamin, Racquel Welch, Ian McShane, Joan Hacket & Dyann Cannon. This is the movie which was the inspiration for both Knives Out movies. I’ve seen it several times & i still find it an amazing & very entertaining classic thriller! What’s amazing is that it was co-written by legendary actor Anthony Perkins. The story is about a millionaire movie producer (Coburn) who decides to invite 6 of his showbusiness friends for a cruise on his yacht to the french riviera in order to play a murder/mystery game that he organized in order to try to find who was behind the hit & run murder of his wife a uear earlier. I rate it 5 out of 5 stars & will likely watch it again in a year or two. Highly recommended!

 

[Halloween Mike]

Ballerina tomorow yeeeahhh can't wait !!!

Si c'est 50% aussi badass que John Wick ca va etre malade!!