What MOVIE(s) have you been....seeing? watching?

Black Barney wrote: You have NO TASTE

Or SOUL.

SaMoKo wrote: Watched Eighth Grade because it was a dollar rental on iTunes.

Trash.

Nothing happened. I was hoping it was a build up to the girl being murdered like some messed up found footage film where they pull her out of a trash compactor. Just to see something, ANYTHING, happen.

I have to ask, though--
You picked up a low-budget, independent film by a first-time director starring a first-time teenage actress, titled "Eighth Grade."
What were you expecting? Car chases and alien invasions?

Gregarius wrote:

SaMoKo wrote: Watched Eighth Grade because it was a dollar rental on iTunes.

Trash.

Nothing happened. I was hoping it was a build up to the girl being murdered like some messed up found footage film where they pull her out of a trash compactor. Just to see something, ANYTHING, happen.

I have to ask, though--
You picked up a low-budget, independent film by a first-time director starring a first-time teenage actress, titled "Eighth Grade."
What were you expecting? Car chases and alien invasions?

It was listed as a comedy so I expected a comedy lol

SaMoKo wrote: It was listed as a comedy so I expected a comedy lol

Yikes. I retract my snark. There's no way I would describe that as a comedy.

Gregarius wrote:

SaMoKo wrote: It was listed as a comedy so I expected a comedy lol

Yikes. I retract my snark. There's no way I would describe that as a comedy.

Ya, if it was listed as a drama and I felt like that sort of movie, I may have enjoyed it. But the genre seemed to make sense with the blurb of the misadventures of an awkward 8th grader, and it was reviewed well, so lol.

Renter beware!

Can you ever forgive me? weak 7, can't remember much of it the next morning (but then this may be biased by the fact that I was in the back row of the cinema with my girlfriend and I wasn't paying much attention to the screen).

The Battery only had a $6,000 budget, but it's an award-winning zombie movie with indie movie sensibilities. The final 30 minutes are tense and claustrophobic. The soundtrack includes several good songs:

I really like Ethan Hawke, so last night I decided to watch First Reformed on Amazon. He plays a very ill Reverend of a small church. He happens to meet a troubled environmentalist, gets wrapped up in the cause, rails against corporate greed, etc.

I'll say 2 nice things. Ethan Hawke does a fine job. He always does, though, so that's not noteworthy. Second, the movie goes in a direction you will not expect. Always appreciated.

Unfortunately, neither of those things save this movie from being heavy-handed and fairly drab.

In short, don't watch this film. Do something else with your 2 hours.

hotseatgames wrote: I really like Ethan Hawke,

Have you seen Predestination? Love that movie.

Blood Simple remains a classic. The Coen Brothers really did a great job with their first movie. Noir dark and darkly funny at times, with some great plot twists and overall interesting story. Dim rednecks trying to outwit each other, with lethal consequences.

WadeMonnig wrote:

hotseatgames wrote: I really like Ethan Hawke,

Have you seen Predestination? Love that movie.

Yes, that might be the best time travel movie I have seen.

I'd recommend First Reformed, but it's a bit of a niche thing.

Finally(?) did see Minding the Gap on Hulu after having missed it when it came around this summer. I'd been initially reluctant because of the ostensible skater content, which is of no particular interest to me, and the largely genuine impression that the movie was about teen/early adult aimlessness, which I'm treated to enough of in real life, but the documentary transcends these matters and coalesces about halfway through into a tough experience worth sharing with the subjects and director.

It's probably excessive to call Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse transformative, but it certainly breathes some new life and pumps some fresh air into the increasingly weighty and weighted down superhero genre and makes me wonder whether this stuff shouldn't all be animated.

I hear the 3D for Spiderman is amazing. Did you see it in 3D? I think I've only enjoyed 3D ONCE in my entire movie-going life (Coraline), so I'm intrigued but skeptical.

I saw AVENGERS: INFINITY WAR. You're welcome, everyone. I think I was the last one. It was fine.

I started ANNIHILATION as well. I am digging it. The book is very weird, and that is my bag. This is what I think an alien interaction would be like, honestly. I can't believe we would have enough in common to communicate in any kind of way other than occupying the same physical space from time to time.

I’m the last one that hasn’t seen Infinity War.

#hipster