What film did you watch last night?

The Matrix Resurrections (2021) - 3/10

It starts off well as it explores the challenge of how you make a sequel to a closed franchise, keeping enough the same for familiarity but having enough different so it is fresh and exciting, but ends up being a compilation of the first 2 movies with little originality and none of the ‘wow’ factor.

The film was mostly boring, being too long, too serious and jumping between plot nonsense and pointless fight scenes.

The action scenes (and clothing range) are in the typical ‘Matrix’ style and are stylish enough, but although it has the same style and imagery as before, it’s sense of identity was somewhat lacking.
 
Just pointing these reviews out to my brother as him and his g/f say they quite enjoyed it, but the pacing was more like an older movie. These days movies need to do more in the early parts to grab people in... (shown by the giving up in 40 minutes perhaps?)
 
The Matrix 4. Brings back old memories of the old ones. Not sure what direction they were trying to achieve (felt like it was trying to throw the whole remake film industry under the bus). If your are hardcore fan of this franchise, watch it light heartedly.
 
Don't Look Up - 7.5 / 10

Directed by Adam McKay of The Big Short and Vice fame, a contemporary dry satire about the ability of mankind to ignore existential threats exacerbated by the ability of social media and corrupt politicians to convince people to ignore their eyes and ears and believe in alternative facts.
 
Solo: A Star Wars Story : 8/10

I'm not sure why I felt this had negative reception when it came out. Had avoided this but watched it on Disney+ and actually enjoyed it. Pacing is good, some comedy, fun action. Bloke who plays Solo was decent and backed up with Woody worked.

Star Wars: The Clone Wars 2008 movie : 6/10

I've never properly watched the series. Tried this. Voice acting was fine. Animations felt dated. The chosen arc seemed a little inconsequential in the grand scheme of things. Considering they have so much lore to pick from, to dedicate a whole movie on this seemed excessive. Dragged on. Not sure I could watch the hundreds of clone war episodes based on this.
 
Syore said:
The Matrix 4. Brings back old memories of the old ones. Not sure what direction they were trying to achieve (felt like it was trying to throw the whole remake film industry under the bus). If your are hardcore fan of this franchise, watch it light heartedly.
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Were cinemas open yesterday? ;)
 
Solomon Kane (2009) - 7/10

Good acting with a simple plot and a good mix of the mystical and the mundane in its style and atmospheric setting.

Kane is well portrayed in all of his guises and the action is frequent, exciting and violent.

The ending was a bit of a letdown and the plot beats are predictable, but it was enjoyable and entertaining.
 
Subzero85 said:
the last duel, quite enjoyed this, if you like your medeivel history, sword fighting etc, quite a long run time off 2 and a half hours but flew in pretty quicky, 7/10
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I enjoyed it too although the story structure didn’t quite work for me in terms of repetitiveness. However, still enjoyable overall.
 
The Unforgivable. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11233960/

After a false start the other day, I managed to finish watching this and I'm glad I did.

It obviously held my attention this time so it did something right.

I haven't seen many Sandra Bullock films but this is one I can recommend.

Quite a strong degree of emotion at various points in the movie.
 
The Many Saints of Newark: 6/10

Decent performances in this Sopranos prequel. Not much of a coherent story, more like bits and pieces and some nice snippets stuck together.

Definitely feels like a setup for at least one or two others.

It was weird seeing Moley Russell's Wart just confess to Dickie when it was completely unnecessary. She wasn't under any suspicion, and he had just basicially bank-rolled her ambition.
Noob-move Moley.
 
Spiderman: No Way Home - 6/10 - Messy but I liked it. I think the reason it's doing so well is that we've been fed such utter crap for so long that, as soon as something thats just "good" comes along, it gets over-praised for being better than it really is. I found it still had the same problem that these "multiple villain" films have in that you don't get to spend enough time with each one, although it was slightly mitigated in this case IF you'd watched the other 5 spiderman films to have a bit more backstory. I did enjoy the multi-spidey "riffing" though, I thought that worked well.

Cinema Experience - Minus 1,000,000,000,000,000,000/10 - This cinema trip made me want to "sail the high sea's" from now on rather than risk going back to a cinema as, out of the 70-ish customers, about 3 families combined of about 15 people absolutely destroyed this film for me. The arrogance of each family in deciding "I want to see the film so screw everyone of the 70 other people who've paid their money, I'm bringing my screaming baby (3x prams!), 2/3x 5yo kids who are uncontrollable little gits and I'll just keep answering my mobile all through-out the film even after the staff ask me not to twice". Scum like these are a big reason (but not the biggest) why piracy exists. If I could have seen this in the comfort of my own home via streaming (or "other") I would never go to a cinema again unless it's the midnight Sunday showing with just me there.
 
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