Last movie you watched and rating (1-10)

The 1st Star Trek in the most recent trilogy. Probably my 4th time and I enjoyed it every time.

Never was much of a Trekkie when I was young and I thought the earlier movies (the few that I saw) with Picard sucked, but this one caught my eye when it came out because of the resemblances of the cast to the actors in the original TV show. I really enjoyed all 3 with this cast.

I've got Django Unchained queued up for later today, figured it's about time I give it a watch.
 
Rex Racer said:
The 1st Star Trek in the most recent trilogy. Probably my 4th time and I enjoyed it every time.

Never was much of a Trekkie when I was young and I thought the earlier movies (the few that I saw) with Picard sucked, but this one caught my eye when it came out because of the resemblances of the cast to the actors in the original TV show. I really enjoyed all 3 with this cast.

I've got Django Unchained queued up for later today, figured it's about time I give it a watch.
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Kelvin Trek is not worth the time to watch. Absolutely horrible.

Django is a movie I have never been able to get into. I have only seen it twice, and Q movies usually require multiple views to truly appreciate, but this one just never enticed me.
 
calsnowskier said:
Kelvin Trek is not worth the time to watch. Absolutely horrible.

Django is a movie I have never been able to get into. I have only seen it twice, and Q movies usually require multiple views to truly appreciate, but this one just never enticed me.
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I don't know what Kelvin Trek is, but so far the only 3 Star Trek movies I've watched in full and enjoyed are last 3 with Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and my next wife Zoe Saldana :nod:

I finally watched Django last Sunday, I watched the first 1/2 in the morning and found it to be dragging so I bailed out for a while to watch football. Finished it after the 4 0'clock games were done before tuning in to the GB/Lions game.

It was typical Tarantino film, it ran 40 minutes longer than it need to and it featured about 5,000 gallons of blood and guts. As ridiculous as many parts of it were I liked it enough to give a 6.5/10. Once again Christoph Waltz did some fine work as did Leo, Samuel L and Don Johnson. I might have given a 7, but the score was cringe inducing. Good grief.
 
Rex Racer said:
I don't know what Kelvin Trek is, but so far the only 3 Star Trek movies I've watched in full and enjoyed are last 3 with Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto and my next wife Zoe Saldana :nod:
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Those are the Kelvin Trek movies.

Horrible.
 
calsnowskier said:
Those are the Kelvin Trek movies.

Horrible.
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They're the only ones I like
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Not a movie but rewatching the Battlestar Galactica reboot series. Out of 10 I give it a

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Ok. Heard a pod this week about the original Halloween in 1978. It was done by guys in their 50s who lived through this when it was phenomena.

I grew up a little later so it was all the lore and seeing it on TV. Overall I never really cared for it. So I gave it a watch again today.

It still doesn’t rank up near the top for me, but I can appreciate some more aspects of it now. It was extremely low budget. But, they went ahead and spent around half the budget on Panavision cameras. This means nothing on boxy 80s TVs. But it makes a difference now when you can watch it on widescreen. Much better viewing.

Some of the same gripes are there. I don’t think the acting is good, not even for the period. But, the acting not being great was part of the camp of the genre that younger me didn’t get.

As the genre goes, being a little younger I missed the part where this was a film that started so much of the horror genre that I grew up in. No one had done a horror movie quite this way, and it was that ground breaking that led to Jason Voorhees and Freddy Krueger, and later to the mocking tributes of movies like Scream.

While I never loved this movie my gripes were never with Michael Myers, who is a solid horror character. The backstory, the mask (a William Shatner mask they widened the eyes on and painted bluish white). They literally threw the mask away after the film and were never able to create it the same again. Crazy.

Finally, what made this movie, and led the way for horror going forward, was the music. Such simple, but great music used to build up tension as the movie goes on. My kids have never watched the original Halloween’s, but even they know the music.

Young me would have given this 4.5 out of 10
Older me with more backstory and appreciation gives it 7 out 10.

And now I can say ive done something for Halloween.
 
Orlando_Eagles said:
Ok. Heard a pod this week about the original Halloween in 1978. It was done by guys in their 50s who lived through this when it was phenomena.

I grew up a little later so it was all the lore and seeing it on TV. Overall I never really cared for it. So I gave it a watch again today.

It still doesn’t rank up near the top for me, but I can appreciate some more aspects of it now. It was extremely low budget. But, they went ahead and spent around half the budget on Panavision cameras. This means nothing on boxy 80s TVs. But it makes a difference now when you can watch it on widescreen. Much better viewing.

Some of the same gripes are there. I don’t think the acting is good, not even for the period. But, the acting not being great was part of the camp of the genre that younger me didn’t get.

As the genre goes, being a little younger I missed the part where this was a film that started so much of the horror genre that I grew up in. No one had done a horror movie quite this way, and it was that ground breaking that led to Jason Voorhees and Freddy Krueger, and later to the mocking tributes of movies like Scream.

While I never loved this movie my gripes were never with Michael Myers, who is a solid horror character. The backstory, the mask (a William Shatner mask they widened the eyes on and painted bluish white). They literally threw the mask away after the film and were never able to create it the same again. Crazy.

Finally, what made this movie, and led the way for horror going forward, was the music. Such simple, but great music used to build up tension as the movie goes on. My kids have never watched the original Halloween’s, but even they know the music.

Young me would have given this 4.5 out of 10
Older me with more backstory and appreciation gives it 7 out 10.

And now I can say ive done something for Halloween.
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John Carpenter doesn't get near enough credit as a composer. Some brilliant shit.
 
Orlando_Eagles said:
Ok. Heard a pod this week about the original Halloween in 1978. It was done by guys in their 50s who lived through this when it was phenomena.

I grew up a little later so it was all the lore and seeing it on TV. Overall I never really cared for it. So I gave it a watch again today.

It still doesn’t rank up near the top for me, but I can appreciate some more aspects of it now. It was extremely low budget. But, they went ahead and spent around half the budget on Panavision cameras. This means nothing on boxy 80s TVs. But it makes a difference now when you can watch it on widescreen. Much better viewing.

Some of the same gripes are there. I don’t think the acting is good, not even for the period. But, the acting not being great was part of the camp of the genre that younger me didn’t get.

As the genre goes, being a little younger I missed the part where this was a film that started so much of the horror genre that I grew up in. No one had done a horror movie quite this way, and it was that ground breaking that led to Jason Voorhees and Freddy Krueger, and later to the mocking tributes of movies like Scream.

While I never loved this movie my gripes were never with Michael Myers, who is a solid horror character. The backstory, the mask (a William Shatner mask they widened the eyes on and painted bluish white). They literally threw the mask away after the film and were never able to create it the same again. Crazy.

Finally, what made this movie, and led the way for horror going forward, was the music. Such simple, but great music used to build up tension as the movie goes on. My kids have never watched the original Halloween’s, but even they know the music.

Young me would have given this 4.5 out of 10
Older me with more backstory and appreciation gives it 7 out 10.

And now I can say ive done something for Halloween.
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There's a "The Movies That Made Us" Netflix special on the original "Halloween". (And "Friday the 13th". And "Nightmare on Elm Street".)
 
Orlando_Eagles said:
Ok. Heard a pod this week about the original Halloween in 1978. It was done by guys in their 50s who lived through this when it was phenomena.

I grew up a little later so it was all the lore and seeing it on TV. Overall I never really cared for it. So I gave it a watch again today.

It still doesn’t rank up near the top for me, but I can appreciate some more aspects of it now. It was extremely low budget. But, they went ahead and spent around half the budget on Panavision cameras. This means nothing on boxy 80s TVs. But it makes a difference now when you can watch it on widescreen. Much better viewing.

Some of the same gripes are there. I don’t think the acting is good, not even for the period. But, the acting not being great was part of the camp of the genre that younger me didn’t get.

As the genre goes, being a little younger I missed the part where this was a film that started so much of the horror genre that I grew up in. No one had done a horror movie quite this way, and it was that ground breaking that led to Jason Voorhees and Freddy Krueger, and later to the mocking tributes of movies like Scream.

While I never loved this movie my gripes were never with Michael Myers, who is a solid horror character. The backstory, the mask (a William Shatner mask they widened the eyes on and painted bluish white). They literally threw the mask away after the film and were never able to create it the same again. Crazy.

Finally, what made this movie, and led the way for horror going forward, was the music. Such simple, but great music used to build up tension as the movie goes on. My kids have never watched the original Halloween’s, but even they know the music.

Young me would have given this 4.5 out of 10
Older me with more backstory and appreciation gives it 7 out 10.

And now I can say ive done something for Halloween.
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This story is better than the movie. Totally avoid horror/slasher movies.

I do watch comedic takes though. Young Frankenstein, Scream, Abbott and Costello Meet (whoever). Too much Svengooli I guess.
 
Cottage Country- Canadian Rom-Com Horror- 6.5/10- Definitely worth the watch. McMurray from Letterkenny is in it! LOL
 
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Just watched Nicholas Cage in Pig.

It's a .99 rental on iTunes Store this week and I recommend it pretty highly. It's only 90 mins (including credits) and might be a little overdone in places but the story is simple and it's easy watching.

On a 1-10 scale I'm going to go about 7.25

I consider movies of 7.5 to be very good and this isn't quite that but for .99 and 90 mins of my time last night? Thoroughly enjoyed it.

If you want to watch a purely cinematic film, this is certainly that.
 
The Zen Diaries of Gary Shandling. 4 hours of goodness.
 
The Trip, new on Netflix. Norwegian black comedy/horror flick with Noomi Rapace. 6/10. Had it moments.
Short synposis: Couple goes on a weekend trip, husband plans to kill wife, wife finds out then tries to kill husband, three escaped convicts show up, chaos ensues. You can watch it dubbed, but original Nowrwegian with subtitles is better.

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Watched Bent last week.Bent (2018) - IMDb

Decent flick 6/10
 
Watched The Old Guard on Netflix. Charlize Theron is always worth watching. Although is was based on a comic book and billed as a superhero movie, I saw it more a near future sci-fi movie. Lot off parallels to Boat of a Million Years by Poul Anderson. The action scenes were excellent and overall look of the movie worked..

6.5 out of 10

There is a sequel in the works. I will watch it.
 
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