[Movies] Last Movie You Saw and What You Would Rate it Out of 10

[Fencers]

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle 7/10

A very surprisingly well-written and actually funny film. Success on the strength of it's casting and the fabulously funny and sincere performances given by the entire cast. The themes and metaphors used throughout are consistent and drawn to their logical conclusion; every character has a full arc of development as well.

Even the cinematography is good- great use color, contrasting shots, punchy wides. Production design is on point and gives a interesting feel of artifice without being cheesy or overt in the presentation of a 'virtual world'.

This was great! My kids loved it a lot.

I, Tonya 6/10

Too obvious. Tried way to hard and ultimately wasn't about anything. It had funny moments but there is no pathos, weight or profundity to the film. It just sort of winks at you and says, 'Ironic, right?'

The film even opens with a title card that announces it's literal intent to present an ironic take on the Harding/Kerrigan events in figure skating.

However, the performances are in fact rather good and the last act is well written. I couldn't help but think the film was just wasting my time for the first two acts.

[Zelk]

Bright: 4/10
The concept is interesting, but that's where the good stuff ends. Nothing good happens in this film, it's just a bland police movie in a fantasy world which doesn't change anything at all. Boring.
The Hobbit: Battle of the five armies: 3/10
The plot of this movie could be told in about 20 minutes, but the film is about 2 hours long, most of it really ugly battle scenes. I don't know who did the cgi for this film but it's worse than most. That bloom effect they forced on the whole trilogy is probably at it's worst in this film too. A film where nothing really happens, and is just downright bad to look at.
The Meyerowitz Stories. 8/10
Great script and a great performance from Adam Sandler. No idea where that came from. This film was like a Woody Allen one but without most of the creepiness. This film shows how much of a shame it is that Adam Sandler insists on making 90 minute adverts for coca cola and casinos instead of proper films free of irritating gimmicks. This is the best netflix film yet imo.
The Wailing 9/10
This film was a really fresh horror. It's probably a bit longer than I'd like but it never really slowed down throughout. An intriguing mystery in the beginning and the shaman that pops up halfway through is great. I thought this film mixed Korean culture with Christianity in a really captivating way. The final scene with the priests assistant and the demon was a standout, as was the shamans attempts at exorcism.

[Daws001]

Bright - 3/10

I was intrigued at first but then it felt repetitive and they didn't push the plot enough. I could see this working better as a tv series where they have more time to work the story out.

[logintime]

Last Jedi - 4/10
I am not a Star Wars fanboi, and this is not outraged nerdism. I just wanted a decently entertaining diversion. Nothing more. But man, did it fail. The film was oddly pointless (very little actually happens to change the stakes, despite so much happening), it was far too long with a side plot that goes nowhere, and various people act out of character throughout the film. Add in some very questionable directing choices (the constant CGI animals, poorly timed jokes, odd close-up camera shots, and one very distracting floating Leia), and this really is something of a dumpster fire. I honestly am not sure what the point of this movie was, other than to fill up a calendar year so Disney can keep pumping out a Star Wars movie every December for the next decade to come.

I, Tonya - 9/10
I usually hate biopics, but I loved this film, in no small part because it makes no bones about the fact that it is presenting only one version of the truth, which we may never know for sure. It's a movie all about the difficulty of truth, and how judgement can be dealt whether it is or is not deserved. Some people might not have liked the 4th-Wall breaking, but I thought it worked perfectly for the film. And also, Margot Robbie was fully committed to the performance. She might have used stunt doubles for the more complex skating scenes, but what she does do on camera is still plenty difficult for anyone.

Molly's Game - 8/10
Fast paced, fun, and plenty smart. But like a lot of Aaron Sorkin productions, it can sometimes feel like a lecture rather than a cinematic experience, which is a problem when nearly half of the movie is narration from Jessica Chastain. She is a good actor and her narration was entertaining, but seriously, there's only so much voice-over a non-documentary film can have before it becomes detrimental. That's really all that holds this film back, because otherwise it was great. Good acting, fascinating story, interesting characters. If only they'd cut back on the voice-overs and done more showing rather than telling.

[Arrowstormen]

Cars 3 (2017) - 6/10

An okay movie. Better than Cars 2 at least, but it falls short of the other 16-17 Pixar movies. I mostly watched it to be completionist.

[Crillam]

Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens - 7/10

Entertaining, nice effects, awesome fight scene with the red guys, terrible plot drive. You need to heavily suspend your disbelief...

Grandma doing space walk without suit??
Bombs falling in space??
Luke evaporates into thin air??
That turtle chase scene (18 hours until they run out of gas instead of just blow them up right there??)
Also Kylo doing tantrums in the end...

1. The force...
2. So you also have a problem that The Death Star and all other things in Star Wars explode while in space? Or that you can hear the sound from spacecrafts while they are in space?
3. Soooo you haven't seen A new hope? Obi-Wan does kinda the same.... And Yoda in Jedi, nothing new there.
4. C'mon they did explain why they could now blow up the ship.
5. You got a point, but we did get to see him shirtless

[frogger237]

The Last Jedi- This one is hard to rate, I was with a group of people ranging from those who saw every film in the series to some that had never seen a single star wars film.

When we came out of the theater 90% of the talk was about things we didn't like or plotholes/silly, and most of us actually talked more about the Jurassic World 2 preview and Jeff Goldblum.

None of us hated the film but when asked if we thought it was a good film we kinda skirted around it and the best thing we could say was that it was an entertaining film and didn't seem like it was over two hours.

[callipygoustp]

Groundhog Day (1993) - 10/10

Haven't seen this movie in .... at least a decade. Watched it tonight and.... I can't find any faults with it. Solid comedy.

[Fencers]

All the Money In the World 6/10

Good performances and decent script. Too long and lacking punch though. There is no real drive here other than the set-up and no exploration into being mega-rich. People just talk about being rich a lot. But it means nothing in the context of the film.

[Shadowferal]

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle[ 8/10
I went in with low expectations, and thinking this would be pretty much low brow comedy. (I tend to avoid comedies as a rule)
What a surprise! There was some actual depth here.
After the foursome characters were "transformed," we were constantly reminded that despite the adult exteriors, we had four teens playing the game. Two particular were especially obvious to me, Dwayne Johnson, and Jack Black (who it seemed channeled his inner teenage...girl). Johnson was more of a surprise...had anyone connected the word "nuance" to his role, I would have been very skeptical. He always played the same role to me; the big tough dude full of action. Here we see an awkward phobic nerdy teen trying hard and it shows...Hmm..just in case, It made a lot of sense towards the end when he hesitated about leaving the game...when it was obvious he was going back to being that awkward nerdy phobic teen.
...and penis jokes never got much of a rise out of me...but yep! It was funny here when our teen girl had to figure out how to pee, as well as the spontaneous reaction a guy tries to control when turned on. ([i]"That's just crazy!"[/i] Kudos to Jack Black.
There were a couple of surprisingly poignant scenes, namely involving the fifth character of the game that had been trapped in it for 20 years.
This was a good movie that I plan on seeing again.

[RobertoCarlos]

Ive heard from a few people that the new jumanji isnt hot garbage. After watching the trailer im frankly amazed it isnt dog shit.

[Shadowferal]

Ive heard from a few people that the new jumanji isnt hot garbage. After watching the trailer im frankly amazed it isnt dog shit.

It was surprisingly well-written. And the actors deliver hitting some notes that I was surprised. The trailers don't really show the fifth character (played by Nick Jonas). And resolving the character's end was kinda poignant.

[Arrowstormen]

Had myself an interesting double feature, pushed forward by certain top 10 lists.

The Killing of a Sacred Deer (2017) - 8/10

I don't really know how much I actually like it yet, I will have to settle on it a bit. I was not a big fan of The Lobster, it was interesting in some ways, but the "idiosyncratic-ness", aka. the intentionally cold, distant and awkward dialogue (and narration, god) kind of threw me off it, and the last part of the movie I found kinda dull. This movie is by the same director, and it features, even more prominently, intentionally cold, distant and awkward dialogue, which had me laughing in a way I'm not sure I was supposed to in the first act. Although some people call it partially a comedy, so maybe?

Kubrick's name comes up a lot in reviews and talk of this movie, and I can see why, but I've never really loved or been super engaged by Kubrick's work, and I feel sort of the same with this movie: I like aspects of it and find it intriguing and "different", but it never manages to truly grab me and immerse me. I'm also a bit stumped on the message being conveyed by the movie, partially because the supernatural element drives so much of the movie that it gives me a creeping feeling of a "fantastic aesop". Also, it feels a bit cheap that just because the movie is idiosyncratic it doesn't feel the need to explain the "how" of the supernatural element, which I suspect will be a big transgression for some.

Also I read somebody saying they felt it was a proper horror, although I felt myself it was a thriller at best.

Mother! (2017) - 8/10

Again a bit unsure. Both movies hang somewhere between a 7 and 8. However, I was surprised how much I liked this movie, the controversial and infamous mixed reactions made me think the movie would be super strange and artsy and hard to interpret, but I didn't think it was? This movie teaches two important things:

1) Never host house parties.

2) Don't hang out with poets.
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EDIT: Making both 8/10's. After sleeping on it, and reading around a bit, I'm satisfied there is some non-fantastic aesops to be found in Sacred Deer. Mother(!) is sorta like playdough, it might seem a bit off putting at first, but it is easy to form/interpret and play with, and there are many ways to do it. I don't thiiiink either are going to end up as one of my ten favorite movies of the year, but they are fun to think about.

[RobertoCarlos]

Master and commander the far side of the world - 9.5/10

Been awhile since I had seen this (Was forced to watch it at school) now many years later thought I would revisit the classic.

Pretty much a flawless film in all aspects. The captain/doctor dialogue is fantastic the subject matter like mutiny, early exploration and discovery and all those great subject matters were handled tastefully without being a trope. The trickery and creativity of sea warfare.

Russel Crowe in his peak. Defiantly a must watch

[Trifle]

Get Out - 8/10

Good movie, main reason I marked it down is because it's basically a 2 hour version of the Basement Jaxx - Where's Your Head At music video, which was imo even creepier

[Mteq]

Dunkirk

9/10 - it's hard to explain why this is so good. it just feels very fresh - the way it's directed and shot just like something ive never seen before. feels very arthousy (that a word?)

[vitor210]

Jumamji 8/10

Really good movie, awesome cast of talented actors. One of those movies that you don't mind watching over and over again. And glad they made some references to the original Jumanji movie from '96

[shaunika123]

Star Wars: The Last Jedi 6/10

some good ideas and good performances, but the story becomes a muddled mess with no resolution and the characters get lost in the sea of subplots

[Milchshake]

The Last Jedi: 8.5/10
The best directed and written of the Star Wars movies. It struggled a bit in the first 2 Acts in trying to juggle 4 or 5 different narratives. The director did quite well with inheriting the scattered story lines and empty mysteries of TFA. Reducing the story to an elemental struggle between Rey and Kylo made it a stronger story. It became a story about characters, not some dumb exposition on politics, trade disputes, or half-baked philosophy. I didnt get the subplot on the casino world until the end. When I realized it was a microcosm for the entire movie, and reinforced the idea that freedom and hope are things that are fragile and fleeting.

Bright: 5/10
What a mess. Basically told myself it was one of those movies I'd wait to see until it was on Netflix. David Ayers basically repeats all the same dumb mistakes in most of his other movies. The shot framing is uneven and disjointed.... which hilights how bad the dialogues are. Characters waste time explaining something, then immediately undercut the dialog with contrary actions. Which Ayers did a lot in Suicide Squad. Joker to Harley, "You're the most crazy and fearless person." 20 seconds later Harley starts screaming in terror as Joker drives off a bridge.
And fuck Peter Jackson and Legolas in their fucking elf ears. Ever since then, Hollywood can't imagine a more interesting elf trope other than speedy-crayeyes-super-ninjas with the emotions of rocks.
Basically it's Ayer's ripping off Walter Hill's The Warriors. A small band has to survive a journey beset by rival gangs. He somehow manages to make Orcs, Elves, and the Magic FBI less interesting than the Baseball Furies and Gramercy Riffs.

Predestination: 7/10
Nifty little scifi flick from the same guys that did Daylighters. Sara Snoke performance is so heartbreaking and moving. A fun exploration of time traveling paradox. It was driven by the characters and their emotional struggles. Not by trying to over explain the time travel macguffin.

Which seems to be a common problem with nerd culture movies. They get captured by complicated origin stories and world building. Too many rules that the characters will eventually have to break or ignore in order to resolve the plot in 89 minutes.
Just burn down the stupid DM rulebook and let the characters playout.

[Deleted]

Bright 7/10

A solid film. Good story, good acting, good visuals.

A film that resists teh temptation to make everything apocalytic, and instead keeps the action and focus at teh character scale, and thats great. Really sets up a great setting for future projects.

Very enjoyable watch. Much more so than a lot of massively hyped mainstream releases lately.