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Movies Rate and Discuss the Last Movie You Saw v.16

Elevation

3/10 and that’s being generous from someone who likes that genre.

Predictable. Boring. Terrible acting and dialogue. Didn’t care about any of the characters. It’s basically take everything you’ve seen from any movie about monsters trying to eliminate humans and mash it all into one stereotype movie.

Would not recommend
 
koquerelle said:
Wild Robot
10/10
It's a great movie for kids and an amazing movie for adults. They had a $78M budget, so they couldn't go for Pixar levels of textures and details. They went for style instead and it works. The framings are simply masterful. You could often pause the movie and you could have a poster to put on a wall. The story and acting are great. What a beautiful movie.
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seems like Dreamworks is making a comeback in a big way recently. while not completely abandoning their established (& frankly, hideous) animation style + character design formula (see: Trolls, Kung Fu Panda, etc), they have shown a willingness to deviate & experiment more w/ the art design on some recent projects (The Wild Robot & Puss in Boots: The Last Wish being the obvious standouts). Dreamworks has also shifted away from animating their films entirely in-house since the release of The Wild Robot. hopefully this means Dreamworks will continue this recent trend of stepping outside their visual comfort zone.

the Spider-Verse movies changed the game & studios are noticing.
 
Just saw this: an oldie, but a goodie : Mansion of the Doomed aka The Terror of Dr. Chaney; also known as Massacre Mansion, Eyes, Eyes of Dr. Chaney and House of Blood :):):)
This might have been made in good 'ol '76, but it is a masterpiece in its own right. The story was twisted enuff, lighting and photography superb,70s style. Richard Basehart of VTTBOTS fame is a great actor and so is Grahame as Katherine. Ahead of it's time for gore n guts, but at the same time it's unexpectedly well-made. 10 outta 10 for me
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TheNinja said:
Elevation

3/10 and that’s being generous from someone who likes that genre.

Predictable. Boring. Terrible acting and dialogue. Didn’t care about any of the characters. It’s basically take everything you’ve seen from any movie about monsters trying to eliminate humans and mash it all into one stereotype movie.

Would not recommend
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A Stephen King movie had the same title !!!!!
 
The brutalist (2024)
9/10

this movie hits on everything. It’s got a deep and meaningful story, it’s artistic with great performances and it’s also very entertaining.

It’s the story of a Jewish man who escapes from post ww2 Europe where he lived through concentration camp confinement as he escapes to America. He is a highly decorated and brilliant architect. He struggles with inner demons including drug abuse and the struggle to find acceptance in the world as a Jew as well as financial struggles trying to start life over in America and trying to reunite with his wife who he was separated from in the holocaust. I don’t want to go into much detail about the story but it made me think about how people need to strive for purpose in spite of obstacles. The movie ends with the message that life is not about the journey but the destination.

I need to stew some more on it but this is right there with the the substance and Anora for my favorites of the best movie nominations for the Oscars. 7 movies down and 3 to go.
 
In A Violent Nature (2024). 7/10. I was really surprised to see audiences didn't like this. It was a great little slasher movie with some great gore. The twist makes the movie.

The performances from the supporting cast definitely dragged it down. It could have used a tighter script and it was longer that it needed to be, even at 90 minutes.

Overall worth it just because it's so different.
 
watched Fracture tonight with anthony hopkins and ryan gosling.

i started off hating the film, i mean right off the bat. something about glass marbles going down metal runners over and over again drives me crazy, idk what it is. it just feels so corny and cliche. add on to it that it was playing stupid "murder mystery movie" music for 7 minutes straight at the start drove me nuts too. actually the music in this film was too much. i also hate how the film is shot.

BUT, anthony hopkins character made the movie so interesting once he got into court. i quickly became invested in the story and it was great. it was building up so nicely. how cunning he was, i hated him lol. but this is also a flaw in the film i feel, because the resolution of the film doesnt fit into the reality that the film sets up. hopkins character wouldn't have overlooked these certain details. so the pay off kind of fell short for me after such a nice build up. gosling's character came out on top by luck (the two phones being switched and him having his AHA moment because of it) and hopkins missing details regarding his wife's death somehow. i didnt like that.

so idk, it was alright. hated the beginning, loved the middle, disappointed by the finale lol.
 
In A Violent Nature (2024)
Really didn't get the hype with this. I was expecting something really unique but it was just a pretty generic slasher movie. The killer was just a Michael Myers ripoff - slow, ponderous trudging about in silence. In fact, most of the movie seemed to be following him from behind as he trudges his way through woodland. Some decent/gory death scenes (one absolutely ridiculous one) but a bang average slasher movie.
4/10

Cuckoo (2024)
I'm not exactly sure what I expected of this film, but it certainly wasn't what it ended up being. Human cuckoos essentially. Surreal borderline horror movie I would call it, weird vibe to it but it just didn't hit home for me.
5/10

The Monkey (2025)
Cinema visit for this on the weekend, was looking forward to it. It delivered. It's not a serious movie, which can be expected considering its about a cursed/killer toy monkey. There's only so much you can do with such a limited source material, but Osgood Perkins somehow managed to do a decent job with it. Its actually very, very funny. Very dry/low key humour but I laughed out loud several times. Some cool / gory death scenes, in a very 'Final Destination' manner of chain reactions and coincidence. Didn't outstay its welcome either, decent little movie.
8/10
 
ColemanwastheGOAT said:
In A Violent Nature (2024). 7/10. I was really surprised to see audiences didn't like this. It was a great little slasher movie with some great gore. The twist makes the movie.

The performances from the supporting cast definitely dragged it down. It could have used a tighter script and it was longer that it needed to be, even at 90 minutes.

Overall worth it just because it's so different.
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This movie definitely had some great gore scenes so props for that. But I think what bothered me the most about it was the fact that it tried to be more artsy and smarter than your typical slasher film. It required you to be more patient as a viewer as there are a bunch of long cuts and slow tension building. I can get on board with all of that if not for the fact that the victims were a 10/10 on the stupidity scale of slasher movies. I mean yeah let’s make it seem like a smart movie but then proceed to have the characters make a run for being the dumbest humans making the dumbest decisions possible in horror film history which is a pretty low bar lol. That took me out of the film. At least with most slasher films that are meant to be popcorn entertainment you can laugh at the characters, but this one was not trying to be funny which just made it irritating
 
The Monkey 7/10

Thought about going higher to an 8 but settled at 7. If you didn't enjoy this then you probably will hate it. It's very over the top and gets more wacky into the final act. The theater I went to had people laughing out loud and a few scenes had some laughing for extended periods of time.

The gore, the quick snappy pace, the comedic quick cuts, it worked nicely. The first hour (movie is about an hour 30) was very good, where it lost me was how cartoony at certain character got in the final act. Also the fate of a certain character had other characters acting and speaking very unnatural at what they just saw. I get it, very wacky over the top and why should it matter but it made the heavy theme they were going for feel pushed aside in the end just to get another laugh or 2. I would like to rewatch this, it was so crazy that it was soaking in what I could at such a quick pace.
 
Kardashians said:
watched Fracture tonight with anthony hopkins and ryan gosling.

i started off hating the film, i mean right off the bat. something about glass marbles going down metal runners over and over again drives me crazy, idk what it is. it just feels so corny and cliche. add on to it that it was playing stupid "murder mystery movie" music for 7 minutes straight at the start drove me nuts too. actually the music in this film was too much. i also hate how the film is shot.

BUT, anthony hopkins character made the movie so interesting once he got into court. i quickly became invested in the story and it was great. it was building up so nicely. how cunning he was, i hated him lol. but this is also a flaw in the film i feel, because the resolution of the film doesnt fit into the reality that the film sets up. hopkins character wouldn't have overlooked these certain details. so the pay off kind of fell short for me after such a nice build up. gosling's character came out on top by luck (the two phones being switched and him having his AHA moment because of it) and hopkins missing details regarding his wife's death somehow. i didnt like that.

so idk, it was alright. hated the beginning, loved the middle, disappointed by the finale lol.
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Have you seen The Ides of March? Good under rated Ryan Gosling movie which is really just an excuse to have P Hoff and Paul Giamatti act circles around everyone.
 
llperez22 said:
This movie definitely had some great gore scenes so props for that. But I think what bothered me the most about it was the fact that it tried to be more artsy and smarter than your typical slasher film. It required you to be more patient as a viewer as there are a bunch of long cuts and slow tension building. I can get on board with all of that if not for the fact that the victims were a 10/10 on the stupidity scale of slasher movies. I mean yeah let’s make it seem like a smart movie but then proceed to have the characters make a run for being the dumbest humans making the dumbest decisions possible in horror film history which is a pretty low bar lol. That took me out of the film. At least with most slasher films that are meant to be popcorn entertainment you can laugh at the characters, but this one was not trying to be funny which just made it irritating
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Yeah that's a lot of the criticism I've seen. Didn't get that whole 'art house' thing at all. It was just a slasher movie. It was no more art house than something like Just Before Dawn which was full of beautiful landscapes but is generally just considered a good slasher nowadays.
 
ColemanwastheGOAT said:
In A Violent Nature (2024). 7/10. I was really surprised to see audiences didn't like this. It was a great little slasher movie with some great gore. The twist makes the movie.

The performances from the supporting cast definitely dragged it down. It could have used a tighter script and it was longer that it needed to be, even at 90 minutes.

Overall worth it just because it's so different.
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I just watched that recently also, I really enjoyed the use of sound. At times it would just linger on a scene and the sound really elevated. It helped certain scenes as well, when he took his mask off and sat there with the camera on him and then directly hits his unmasked face, that was surprising.

Not something I would rewatch but the kills were creative, a good idea on paper but very tough to execute. I did see they reshot the entire movie so props for them really trying to put out the best product they could with the budget they had.
 
Ham on Rye (USA 2019) Directed by Tyler Taormina. (This is not an adaptation of the Charles Bukowski book with the same title) An off kilter coming of age film. The movie takes place over the course of one day in small town suburbia. All the teens make their way to Monty's, a local delicatessen, where they take part in a ritual that will determine if they escape suburbia or will be forever trapped in their hometown. The movie is best described as "haunting and hard-to-pigeonhole... a work of gentle, genuine American surrealism". A solid 4/5.


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ColemanwastheGOAT said:
Have you seen The Ides of March? Good under rated Ryan Gosling movie which is really just an excuse to have P Hoff and Paul Giamatti act circles around everyone.
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Lol I actually have that already open in a tab ready to go, likely for tonight.
 
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