What film did you watch last night?

The Matrix Resurrections - 1/10

What the heck is this. I could put up with the original sequels being “meh” but this was downright offensive to the memory of the first film. Calling out WB for forcing them to make it? Basing it on a “game” called the Matrix? Horrendous. The original characters in old makeup was awful, dialogue awful, acting awful. Ugh.
 
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Nobody has commented immediately recently but I’m surprised to see all the heavy dislike for the Thor: Love and Thunder film.

It was just like almost every Marvel film. Some action, some humour, some looming ‘great threat’ that gets defeated every time…

Gets a 6.5/10 from me - watchable but no desire to rewatch. More of the same. Never intensely bad, rarely fresh or doing something special.

Are people just finally catching on and getting bored of these now? :p
 
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Barbarian (3/10)

Went in with slightly higher expectations due to a decent score on IMDB. But ended up being a silly story and characters blindly walking into danger when there are alarm bells going off left right and center.
 
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TriedandTested said:
Watched The Empty Man again this week. Really like this movie. The first 20 minutes opening scenes are just brilliant. 7/10 for me - just one of those films that hits the spot.
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I'd give it 5/10 - most of that score for the opening 20 minutes which is excellent - the rest is a contrived mess of a story that doesn't do a whole lot and the payoff is quite lacklustre.
 
IvanDobskey said:
If you think sharknado is bad, go watch birdemic :D

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Birdemic: Shock and Terror (2010) ⭐ 1.7 | Horror, Thriller

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I did, and it makes Sharknado look halfway decent.

Birdemic: Shock and Terror (2010) - 1/10

An amateur independent film escalated to fame just by how bad it is, and it really is utter garbage. The first half, which depicts a romance between 2 characters through terrible, wooden acting, awful dialogue and nonsense scenes, has multiple technical failings in the audio and camera with atrocious quality. The second half, when the birds finally show up, contains the worst CGI birds and special effects I have ever seen with seemingly no attempt to make them blend in with the live footage. You know it’s not going to get any better, but you keep watching out of morbid curiosity, intrigued by what travesty will occur next.

The environmental message adds a moral point, but is delivered in such a heavy, ham-fisted way it can’t be taken seriously. The terrible audio issues such as background traffic being louder than the actors, the awful dialogue delivered in broken English, the choice in background music, no attempt at balancing lighting, editing, eliminating background noises, or audio levels shows incompetence in every respect. How this ever got released is beyond comprehension.

Afterwards, I watched a documentary on the making of the movie which was far more interesting as it showed the sincerity, incompetence and delusions of the creator. Whether those involved in its promotion should have enabled him to make this (and more) movies in the name of (bad) entertainment is worthy of a moral debate.
 
Nitefly said:
Nobody has commented immediately recently but I’m surprised to see all the heavy dislike for the Thor: Love and Thunder film.

It was just like almost every Marvel film. Some action, some humour, some looming ‘great threat’ that gets defeated every time…

Gets a 6.5/10 from me - watchable but no desire to rewatch. More of the same. Never intensely bad, rarely fresh or doing something special.

Are people just finally catching on and getting bored of these now? :p
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It was pretty mediocre but the same can be said for pretty much everything since Avengers Endgame/Spider-Man: Homecoming, as someone else mentioned earlier in this thread. Almost all of phase 4 has been totally forgettable, and definitely not something on my 'to buy' list (I have all the movies from phases 1 - 3 and will definitely watch them all again).
 
sbweightman said:
I did, and it makes Sharknado look halfway decent.

Birdemic: Shock and Terror (2010) - 1/10

An amateur independent film escalated to fame just by how bad it is, and it really is utter garbage. The first half, which depicts a romance between 2 characters through terrible, wooden acting, awful dialogue and nonsense scenes, has multiple technical failings in the audio and camera with atrocious quality. The second half, when the birds finally show up, contains the worst CGI birds and special effects I have ever seen with seemingly no attempt to make them blend in with the live footage. You know it’s not going to get any better, but you keep watching out of morbid curiosity, intrigued by what travesty will occur next.

The environmental message adds a moral point, but is delivered in such a heavy, ham-fisted way it can’t be taken seriously. The terrible audio issues such as background traffic being louder than the actors, the awful dialogue delivered in broken English, the choice in background music, no attempt at balancing lighting, editing, eliminating background noises, or audio levels shows incompetence in every respect. How this ever got released is beyond comprehension.

Afterwards, I watched a documentary on the making of the movie which was far more interesting as it showed the sincerity, incompetence and delusions of the creator. Whether those involved in its promotion should have enabled him to make this (and more) movies in the name of (bad) entertainment is worthy of a moral debate.
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Haha, great review :)

We were determined to get through it, but only made it half an hour in. The acting is so stilted and wooden, it's just unbearable. And the not so special effects look like they were done on a vic20 :p
 
Nitefly said:
Nobody has commented immediately recently but I’m surprised to see all the heavy dislike for the Thor: Love and Thunder film.

It was just like almost every Marvel film. Some action, some humour, some looming ‘great threat’ that gets defeated every time…

Gets a 6.5/10 from me - watchable but no desire to rewatch. More of the same. Never intensely bad, rarely fresh or doing something special.

Are people just finally catching on and getting bored of these now? :p
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Tbf, I preferred Eternals to this, which screams volumes.

I still enjoy super hero films, Shang Chi and No Way Home were both cool imo.
 
krooton said:
Tbf, I preferred Eternals to this, which screams volumes.

I still enjoy super hero films, Shang Chi and No Way Home were both cool imo.
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I've watched all the MCU films, non of the TV shows and a couple of shorts. All of the film's up to End game twice.

For me, Eternals is the worst of them all, so far, probably followed by Captain Marvel.

Maybe controversially? I'd say Black Panther after those two. We actually turned off BP, the first time we watched it (turns out we were nearly at the end.) I watched it alone when I re-watched the lot before End Game. My option didn't change after a second viewing.
 
M*A*S*H (1970) What a terrific film. 8/10 maybe better. Found it on D+ last night and the decision made itself. It's not quite a coherent film in some aspects but makes up for it overall with great cast, acting, humour and emotion.
 
barmyllama said:
I've watched all the MCU films, non of the TV shows and a couple of shorts. All of the film's up to End game twice.

For me, Eternals is the worst of them all, so far, probably followed by Captain Marvel.

Maybe controversially? I'd say Black Panther after those two. We actually turned off BP, the first time we watched it (turns out we were nearly at the end.) I watched it alone when I re-watched the lot before End Game. My option didn't change after a second viewing.
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Black Panther was completely overhyped and overrated as far as I'm concerned. It wasn't an awful film, but it wasn't anywhere near as good as everyone would have you believe. Eternals was dull as dishwater. I quite liked Captain Marvel though, which seems to upset people; the same people that hated Iron Man 3 probably, that I also liked :)
 
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