Last Movie You Watched (2017)

Just watched a movie on Netflix called The Secret Life of Pets. It was OK, but I really like the comic Louis C.K. who voices the main dog Max. There were some funny parts that actually made me laugh, but some of it was also a bunch of overused plot devices.
 
Not long back from seeing Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. Great big widescreen stuff, a bit light on plot but visually stunning and funnier than I was expecting. Worth seeing in 3D. Stay right until the very end of the credits!

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And once again the Uk gets entertainment before the rest of the world (its not just SFF books that get released in the UK before us...) it opens in North America next weekend but the theatre will be so packed It will be a few extra days before I go to a discount senior matinée (on Tuesdays there is Free pop corn if your over 65 :D)
 
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2. - vastly disappointed. And there was lots of fidgeting in the audience during some of the (too frequent) pauses in the explosions while everyone in the cast has their contractual 'acting moment' for their showreels.

I don't think the following contains any spoilers: but, just in case anyone hasn't seen a dumb American movie before....

Marvel Studios make ANOTHER over-long violent film about a dysfunctional father/son relationship that ends in two white men having a fist fight during a Big Dumb Light Show (during which all the major characters get to discover the' true meaning of family' by robbing lots of others of the opportunity of finding it - by killing them).

Sorry to say bored to tears by the end of it - but scored major kudos points with my kids by recognising and naming the character, clunkingly set up during the end credits, who will appear in the next one before he was named on screen.

Karen Gillan's bum was nice.
 
GotG 2...ugh...huge disappointment. First five minutes were great - the rest, not so much. I have a threshold for the plot making sense, and if you are just over it, I can enjoy the action, charm and humor -- like the original GotG. But this movie has much less of a plot. The humor is great in spots, and falls really flat in others. Much smaller issue for me -- they oddly changed some stuff, such as eliminating Drax's "Mr. Literal" thing.
 
I will dissent!

Guardians 2 was fantastic. Better than the first. Surprisingly intelligent while also being visually awesome and hilarious. Packs in my character than pretty much any movie of its ilk. Go see it.
 
The Lost City of Z
I believed because of previews and plot most of the movie would be in the Amazon.
9/10
It is a great adventure drama movie.
The Panther and snake in the Jungle plus other animals all look utterly real so I'm guessing they used animatronics or practical effects.

It's in multiple locations all of which are spectacular including the Amazon jungle, the building where he talks about his discoveries, a Mansion, etc.

Decent acting with 3 dimensional believable characters including Percy Fawcett the protagonist.
It has great messages including why the saying War is Hell is true , accept persons that are different from you, etc.

Realistic action, great drama, and while changes were made including not all expeditions to the Amazon with Percy is reduced for the movie a valid reason since other scenes get used that likely would not have if it's mostly all his expeditions to the Amazon.
A believable ending for the movie based on the non fiction book of the same name.
 
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VictorK said:
I will dissent!

Guardians 2 was fantastic. Better than the first. Surprisingly intelligent while also being visually awesome and hilarious. Packs in my character than pretty much any movie of its ilk. Go see it.
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erm... this is 'Guardians of the Galaxy 2' were talking about? Not sure how 'surprisingly intelligent' fits with the movie I watched. The movie in which:

a character builds a bomb with a big red button that will immediately explode the bomb - right next to the identical big red button that will explode the button in five minutes for no other reason than.... erm.... the film wanted to make a lame joke about duct tape? Oh come on!
 
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a character builds a bomb with a big red button that will immediately explode the bomb - right next to the identical big red button that will explode the button in five minutes for no other reason than.... erm.... the film wanted to make a lame joke about duct tape? Oh come on!
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I don't get why this is stupid. I don't recall that Rocket built the bomb for Groot, he had the bomb. It makes sense that maybe you'd want to build a bomb that could be immediately detonated. The only problem with the design is that the circumstances require that the bomb be operated by a child. As for the humor, well, comedy is to each their own. I was amused. But I felt the movie over all was pretty intelligent for a big adventure movie.
 
Although I was disappointed by GotG2, in fairness JunkMonkey's views should likely be discounted, because it sounds like (could be wrong) he did not see and would not have liked GotG1. I did think GotG2 was much dumber than 1, but neither movie tries to be remotely "tight" from a plotting or sci-fi perspective, and the bomb design thing didn't bother me at all. The Echo fight did pass my threshold for offensively dumb, as did certain other parts, but my main objection was that it just didn't have as much plot coherence as the first one.
 
You're right, ArtNJ, I didn't and now don't feel the need to.

Having said that, GOTG2 was better than Jupiter Ascending which I watched last night. And Jupiter Ascending was funnier (well, I laughed more while watching it than I did GOTG2). Daughter Number One and I will be doing Eddie Redmayne's "I'm being evil now" voice at each other for days...

Victor,
Yes, there is no reason to make a bomb with an EXPLODE NOW button. No reason at all - if you were planning to be a suicide bomber. But there is no way the raccoon character would have contemplated blowing himself up for any cause whatsoever. Dumb movie set-up-a-gag plotting.
 
Jupiter Ascending was quite bad yeah - made John Carter look good by comparison. GotG1 isn't tight or anything, but it holds together with charm, much like Iron Man 1 and DeadPool. Maybe those two are more tightly plotted and make more sense, but there was a similar vibe for me.
 
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Hah! Just worked out what was so annoyingly familiar about Redmayne's performance in Jupiter Ascending:
 
ArtNJ said:
Jupiter Ascending was quite bad yeah - made John Carter look good by comparison. GotG1 isn't tight or anything, but it holds together with charm, much like Iron Man 1 and DeadPool. Maybe those two are more tightly plotted and make more sense, but there was a similar vibe for me.
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I have quite enjoyed Cloud Atlas and then when I have rad that the sisters would be playing with a space opera I thought they had come back to their creativity peak ( after the horrendous Speed racer ) but then Jupiter Ascending is even worse. Complete waste of time IMO.
 
I said I loved GoTG 1 and 2. I was not expecting much when my family and I went to see the first film but it has captivated me since them. One of the purposes of watching movies is entertainment which the movie has provided somehow for me. I am not quite happy with the humorous content of Marvel films because they seem to be there to captivate a more wide range of viewers but GoTG 1 and 2 simply use humor well enough.

In the 70s Marvel had two types of stories: mainstream comics and their b-sides which were largely authored by Jim Starlin. Although I got to admit I love X-Men or Byrne's F4 my favorite Marvel stories were these cosmic crazy science fiction operas Starlin authored like Warlock or Captain Marvel. Of course one had to switch off scientific plausibility filters to enjoy them but that is not say the stories were incoherent or bad IMO. GoTG is an obvious product of that "golden time".
 
Don't like comics adaptations and was skeptical about Guardians of Galaxy 2 but the movie turned out to be very fun. Even the acting was good. And you have to love Rocket and Groot.
 
GotG 2 didn't give me the wow factor of 1, BUT that was because I went into 1 not knowing what I was going to get and into 2 trusting Gunn to perform ;).

There was yelling at the screen, there was over the top acting, there was bad science, and there was everything I wanted in it.
 
Guardians of the galaxy 2
9/10
It's greater than the first movie.
The Sequel after a great 1st movie didn't use a notorious mistake of changing it's style.
Funny parts and lines during dramatic serious scenes, great music, large explosions,great action scenes, chemistry with the characters, and a super villain that is a powerhouse but this time greater power than Ronan the accuser, etc.

This movie proves movies can still have terrific soundtracks so it's embarrassing that for several years most movies have bad, or terrible soundtracks.


Ego the Living Planet is a believable 3 dimensional character like humans he wants to find a purpose otherwise a long life is very boring, and better than Ronan because of a connection to Peter, plus being the closest thing MCU has to Galactus defeating him is harder.


A astounding very high stakes climax with the Guardians of the galaxy fighting Ego the Living Planet, information revealed about Peter's biological family mom and dad including how she got cancer, why Nebula has hostility to her sister Gamora, and to value what we have before it's to late specifically family.
4 extra scenes interrupting end credits, and 1 scene after credits.
1 is closure of a brief scene, the other 4 shows information for a sequel including possibly to be in the 3rd movie the character Adam Warlock.
With the infinity gauntlet movie it would not be surprising if Magus appears the evil Adam Warlock.
 
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