list/discuss/rate - your recently watched movies

BunBun wrote: The Color of Magic - I am a pretty big Terry Pratchett fan and have read a few of his books thus far. I first came across the discworld series when I stumbled on Going Postal, another 2 part mini series based on a discworld book. Anyways, the cgi is nothing special but it is throroughly fun and hilarious in some spots. I really enjoyed it. Le Diner de Cons (The Dinner Game) - Absolutely hilarious film. It is a french film so be prepared to read subtitles but i loved my ass off during this film. The pace never lets up and it is clever and smart from start to finish.

Magnum Vaeltaja wrote: BunBun wrote: The Color of Magic - I am a pretty big Terry Pratchett fan and have read a few of his books thus far. I first came across the discworld series when I stumbled on Going Postal, another 2 part mini series based on a discworld book. Anyways, the cgi is nothing special but it is throroughly fun and hilarious in some spots. I really enjoyed it. Le Diner de Cons (The Dinner Game) - Absolutely hilarious film. It is a french film so be prepared to read subtitles but i loved my ass off during this film. The pace never lets up and it is clever and smart from start to finish. I LOVE Diner de Cons. One of my favourite comedies, actually.

Yep, it is now one of mine as well :)

Watching The Conjuring 2 now. Halfway thru.

^ Besides ID4 was basically a remake of War of the Worlds

Café Society

A gravel-voiced Woody Allen narrates his 2016 entry which follows a young man to 1930s L.A. where he falls for his boss's secretary.   Classic Woody, nothing special but light and lively and romantic and funny in the manner of Radio Days or even Annie Hall.

A few more movies i have watched over the past few weeks.

On Guard (Le Bossu) - A French Swashbuckling film that came out in 1997. Overall, it was a fun film, nothing great though. The swordfighting was a lot of fun and the story overall reminded me of Alexandre Dumas' stories like the Count of Monte Cristo, but the love story in the second half seemed a bit forced.

F for Fake - A fabulous documentary by Orson Welles that takes a look at how artists trick their audience and at who exactly decides the value of art. Why some pieces of art are worth so much while others are worth nothing at all. Very fun watch and while it is a documentary, it seems to be one in a very loose sense of the term.

L'Emmerdeur (A Pain in the Ass) - A 1973 french film starring Lino Ventura and Jacques Brel. A very funny movie I stumbled upon. It is probably more of a black comedy. Anyways, Ventura is a hired hitman who checks into a hotel to kill an important witness that day. Brel also checks into the same hotel and ends up being Ventura's neighbor and things go from bad to worse because Brel is suicidal, which threatens Ventura's assignment because if the police come over to take Brel away, Ventura won't be able to complete his assignment. A very fun movie.

Kiss Me Kate - Honestly, I didn't even finish this movie. I used to be a big fan of musicals but I find that more and more often, I have a hard to watching them. I still have a few favorites like Band Wagon and My Fair Lady, but this one was just average. However, I really did enjoy some of the choreography in some of the numbers.

So I watched a zero-budget 80's sci-fi/horror film called `Time Walker', which sort of had a group of archeology students digging up the sarcophagus of a long buried mummy. It had these rare jewels on it which some of the students steal, only to discover that the mummy reawakens to hunt them down and get them back....oh, and it turns out that the mummy is actually an alien, and these five jewels are all nescessary to power his sarcophagus, which is actually his spaceship or something. Also, for an alien mummy killer, he's actually kind of a decent guy, because he's leaves anyone alone who simply gives him back the jewel they took. Pretty reasonable of him, really!

I won't lie, I'm convinced it might be the greatest movie ever made. EVER.

Oh, Dr. Strange was a real pleasure. I saw it in IMAX 3D. His origin story from the comics was always pretty simple and straightforward. No doubt the sequels will have more complicated plots, I expect. They are clearly interested in integrating him into the rest of the Marvel movie world, I'm happy to say. I won't reveal why I say that for the sake of those who haven't seen it. I'm always a sucker for fantasy magic, and Dr. Strange was the last comic book I continued collecting (until an unacceptable change in the creative team). I really do recommend the movie though, even if one hadn't shared my nerdy history.

Dark Star:H.R. Giger's World - So I just finished watching it. I was looking after my neighbor's dog so I was browsing through netflix to see if anything interested me and stumbled upon this one. His artwork is fascinating and so detailed that I was just in awe of his works. His work is dark and completely other-worldly. The documentary itself was okay but not particularly immersive. The good news is that you get to look all of his weird works over the years. Overall, an interesting one-time watch for anyone interested in his work.

Jason Bourne

Formulaic and unimaginative, the new Jason Bourne entry is a disappointment, especially compared to the Jeremy Renner 2012 paraquel which put things back on track nicely (though highly altered from the book and not featuring the main character).   If all we wanted from a Bourne picture is him chased around the streets of Europe we'd probably have stopped watching after the first one; I mean Audis and Ducatis whizzing down cobblestoned alleyways with horrified couples and fruit vendors looking on as our cooler-than-cool hero gracefully avoids the raindrops is always fun but it's not enough.   A good script is never forfeitable, and here both the characters and actors ~ including a clearly bored Tommy Lee Jones ~ are wasted on one redundant scene after another scooped up from the writers' reject pile.   Pitty.