Last movie you watched 2025

[Hobbit]

With a pull quote like that, I'm sold!

It's not too subtle a movie.....

 

[Raf]

It's not too subtle a movie.....

No, it is not , lol. Not sure where the fun part is either. It's grim, dark and kind of weird.

 

[Westy]

It's grim, dark and kind of weird.

I thought it was great!

 

[Ubergeek]

THE FRENCH CONNECTION ( d. William Freidkin )

One of my top 10 favourite films of all time . Felt a re-watch was necessary following Hackman's recent tragic death. My eyes were watering during the final credits.

 

[AtramentousFlux]

Watched Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope for Star Wars day. It still holds up.

 

[Westy]

Watched Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope for Star Wars day. It still holds up.

Same! Also Empire Strikes Back - even better!

 

[theYode]

Dark Skies with Keri Russell (and a short appearance by J.K. Simmons). Decent acting, appropriate levels of creeping horror weirdly interspersed with superfluous family drama. Not related to the late 90s tv show.

 

[Ubergeek]

FINAL DESTINATION BLOODLINES ( At cinema )

Great fun , possibly the best in the series .
Fantastic set piece at the beginning .


THE LIVING DEAD AT MANCHESTER MORGUE ( Jorge Grau )

On UK TPTV CHANNEL


My first viewing of this cult movie and an extremely rare broadcast on UK freeview .

 

[Ubergeek]

WOLF MAN ( Leigh Whanell ) on bluray .

Brought to us by the same team behind 2020's excellent The Invisible Man .

Unfortunately , this one doesn't quite hit the mark . I had hoped for a large scale murderous rampage as Wolfman runs amok. But instead we get a story revolving around a family with a father who is effectively cursed . Not bad but could have been so much better if the producers had taken some risks .

 

[Raule]

Last movie we watched was The Long Kiss Goodnight, a 90s thriller with Samuel L. Jackson and Geena Davis. Fun movie.

 

[Prairie_Dog]

Today I watched The Gorge on AppleTV+. It’s certainly mildly entertaining, and has a decent premise. There’s some things that are all too predictable, but I figured these were something I could overlook.

The idea here is that the east and the west each send a major league operative to a remote location where there is the titular gorge. Each stays on their side and maintains the defenses that they learn are to keep things in the gorge. They break the rules and begin communicating with each other, and become attracted to each other. Eventually, they will learn the dark secrets, and try to survive the experience.

So, not a great film, but not bad either. Quite watchable, and has lots of action and special effects when things eventually go down. Somewhat of a slow start getting to that point…

 

[Raf]

Watched "Flight Risk" with Mark Wahlberg. First time I've seen him play a bad guy. And he was a really twisted villain. Basically, he has been contracted to kill a perp that has been captured in Alaska by the US Marshal's Service. He kills a bush pilot, takes his place and takes the plane that has been contracted to move the perp and the Marshal to Seattle.

In air edge of your seat thriller from start to finish. Good show.

 

[Hobbit]

Watched this, but in the three-hour version. Don't remember a lot about this from when I first watched it, other than it was 'a wet version of Mad Max.' It got really, really panned when it first came out 30 years ago!!

Dennis Hopper chews up the scenery, although his deranged obsession with having dry land for golf courses made me think of someone current, oddly enough.

This longer version seems more nuanced, with the plot given more chance to breathe. Really liked it; looks great in 4K. It'll never be one of my best movies ever, but it certainly doesn't deserve the nastiness it got.

Worth a watch.

 

[Ubergeek]

A Stallone double bill . Recorded from UK freeview channels.

JUDGE DREDD

He takes his helmet off on - screen !
In the 2000AD comics he may have taken his helmet off , but always out of frame ?
Enjoyed the garish , overblown comic strip aesthetic but in the context of a crime ridden ultra violent societal breakdown policed by extremists seemed quite jarring

The 2nd DREDD film d . Alec Garland has a very different tone . Rumours of a TV series from Amazon studios I believe .



DEMOLITION MAN

I'd forgotten how much this was played for laughs .

 

[Hobbit]

I'd forgotten how much this was played for laughs .

"Murder, death, kill", right?

 

[Ubergeek]

HERETIC d Scott Beck & Bryan Woods .

On Prime UK

Breaking news........... Hugh Grant can act .

 

[Raf]

Re-watched "Jupiter Ascending" last Sunday. Decent scifi flick.
Mila Kunis is way too cute for her own good, as always.

 

[Raf]

Re-watched "Hell or High Water" again. Superb drama starring Chris Pine, Jeff Bridges, Ben Foster and Gil Birmingham.

Then we watched "The Accountant 2". A much craggier Ben Affleck and Jon Bernthal ham it up in a really good second iteration of the storyline. Good fun.

 

[ArtNJ]

. Somewhat of a slow start getting to that point…

I liked it a bit as well, but I thought the slow start was the best part. Bizarre to find a legit well done romance in such strange circumstances welded onto as you said and I agree, a somewhat predictable horror movie. The romance is better than the horror movie.

 

[Prairie_Dog]

Today I watched Mickey 17 on Max, and found it pretty disappointing. It tries to be science fiction humor, which is a hard target to hit. While some of the situational humor early in the movie was good, it began to fall down somewhere in the middle. It went too over the top. Which brings up another point, this movie is too long. It is about two hours and twenty minutes, and probably should have been less than two hours.

On the positive side, the special effects were pretty good. The lived-in look of the spaceships and equipment seemed realistic. The creepers were well done, and were a delightfully different life form, while still being adorable and scary at the same time. The movie ends well, in spite of a potentially negative false ending.