What film did you watch last night?

Oppenheimer - 8.5 / 10

Fantastically intense biopic from Nolan with stellar performances from RDJ and CM. I thought the actual moment of the first explosion was extremely understated to the point of being underwhelming, but I felt he then cleverly used audio and visual effects to depict the intensity in later scenes when Oppenheimer was being overwhelmed in situations.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Mutant Mayhem - 6.5 / 10

Enjoyable animated romp in the TMNT 'reboot'? The story was run of the mill but enjoyable enough, it had a touch of the Spiderman : Across the Spiderverse manic quality to the action, which I wonder is appealing to todays ADHD generation :p but I just loved the animation style, which seemed a blend of old school cell drawing, claymation but using modern 3D effects.
 
The Godfather: Part 3

Or rather, the 2020 slight re-edit. Which has the official title… The Godfather Coda: The Death of Michael Corleone :confused: :p

From what I gather, this rename is to distance the film from the previous 2 and make it seem more like an epilogue. Whatever, it’s the third film in the series. Godfather 3 it is.

It’s s’alright. I think Vincent’s role is great. Al Pacino seems a little more animated than he was in the previous films, but fine. Sophia delivers those lines sooooo flat which comes across as stiff / amateur and therefore bemusing… but it doesn’t wreck the film as some might suggest.

Again, the main ‘business plot’ is a little convoluted and it’s not entirely clear how it was intended as a ‘swindle’. This time the Apple TV film lacked English subtitles… what the heck! So maybe that’s my lack of attention shining through again.

Worth watching to complete the saga but I’m not really sure the re-edit made much of a difference. It’s substantially the same film.

6/10
 
Been catching up on movies this week as the family are at the coast which gives me some peice and quiet fora change.

The Hurt Locker (2008)

For me personally I thought this was average at best, I enjoyed it, but no desire to watch that again and even though I literally watched it last night I already forgotten half of what happened, it didn't really go anywhere either or have a story. Maybe it went over my head.

5/10


Dune (2021)

I quite like this movie, style was different, almost like Star Wars but not. My gripe with it, is that it was 2 and a half hours long and I feel could have been edited down a bit, actually a lot, they could have packed this down into say an hour and a half package with a bit more pace. They also spent too much time explaining everything, I prefer it when you have to fill in the gaps yourself. I will give the second one a go at some point.

6/10


Moonfall (2022)

You know parts of me wanted to really like this movie, at points I was enjoying it, the story was quite unique and I liked how it ended. But it was soooooo far fetched, unbelievably far fetched and the movie took itself too seriously to carry it. I don't mind things being unrealistic if the movie is more fantasty or wacky, whatever, but you need to pick one or the other. Like they need a space shuttle so they just find one in a museum and the next day its ready to go, whilst in space they are getting hit with asteroids and its just taking it. The physics are so far out, on everything, that the thing starts to become like a comedy, but not. Meh. I reckon this movie would be awesome if you were 10 years old maybe.

5/10



...as a side note although we have had Amazon for a while my kid gets it on some stupid cheap discount, I never really looked through it but there are tons of movies on there, much better selection then Netflix imo.
 
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