What movies are you watching?

[LoathedVermin72]

Wow, surprising reactions. Respect.

[dimejinky99]

Over the past week I watched:

RED
Kingsman: The Golden Circle
The Fate of the Furious
Captain Marvel
Justice League
Bohemian Rhapsody
Last Man
Darkest Hour

I'm afraid to ask, but how'd you like The Golden Circle and Fate?

The Golden Circle surprised the hell out of me. I haven't seen the first one (never had much desire too, really), so I'm sure I missed some cool elements and references. But I liked it a lot. Fun characters. Wonderfully absurd action. Dug the fight choreography. Mark Strong is awesome. Julianne Moore (I didn't know/remember she was even in it) was fantastic. Pedro Pascal should be in everything.

Fate was good, too (though I probably, ultimately, liked it slightly less than TGC). Again, I've never seen any of the other films in the franchise, so I felt behind on the characters and wanted more explained/connected. As a result it felt very plot heavy without enough character grounding. But that's my own fault. I'm sure if I'd seen the others, I wouldn't have felt that way. The set pieces are fucking STUNNING. The action is tight and gripping and so much fun to watch. Theron and Statham are the standouts (performance wise). It actually made me want to go back and watch some of the other films in the series.

I like that both movies have super high stakes but manage to maintain a real sense of fun (and sometimes flat out absurdity) without ever veering into parody or disrespect of their genre.

You have to see the first kingsman film. It’s so much more fun than the sequel.

[LoathedVermin72]

Over the past week I watched:

RED
Kingsman: The Golden Circle
The Fate of the Furious
Captain Marvel
Justice League
Bohemian Rhapsody
Last Man
Darkest Hour

I'm afraid to ask, but how'd you like The Golden Circle and Fate?

The Golden Circle surprised the hell out of me. I haven't seen the first one (never had much desire too, really), so I'm sure I missed some cool elements and references. But I liked it a lot. Fun characters. Wonderfully absurd action. Dug the fight choreography. Mark Strong is awesome. Julianne Moore (I didn't know/remember she was even in it) was fantastic. Pedro Pascal should be in everything.

Fate was good, too (though I probably, ultimately, liked it slightly less than TGC). Again, I've never seen any of the other films in the franchise, so I felt behind on the characters and wanted more explained/connected. As a result it felt very plot heavy without enough character grounding. But that's my own fault. I'm sure if I'd seen the others, I wouldn't have felt that way. The set pieces are fucking STUNNING. The action is tight and gripping and so much fun to watch. Theron and Statham are the standouts (performance wise). It actually made me want to go back and watch some of the other films in the series.

I like that both movies have super high stakes but manage to maintain a real sense of fun (and sometimes flat out absurdity) without ever veering into parody or disrespect of their genre.

You have to see the first kingsman film. It’s so much more fun than the sequel.

Disagree extremely strongly. The first is mediocre, the second is great.

[dimejinky99]

Just felt the heart wasn’t there in the second and it wandered too far into lampooning the genre whereas the first kinda just winked at it.

They’re making a prequel apparently. Let’s see what that does.

[E.H. Ruddock]

If the prequel doesn't include Egerton, and I don't know why it would, then I'm not interested. He makes those movies for me.

[VinylGuy]

Fate was good, very fun. Theron is so cool.

[dimejinky99]

If the prequel doesn't include Egerton, and I don't know why it would, then I'm not interested. He makes those movies for me.

He’s nit as far as I know.

It’s goibg back to the 60s or 1800s I can’t remember which

[bune]

Over the past week I watched:

RED
Kingsman: The Golden Circle
The Fate of the Furious
Captain Marvel
Justice League
Bohemian Rhapsody
Last Man
Darkest Hour

I'm afraid to ask, but how'd you like The Golden Circle and Fate?

The Golden Circle surprised the hell out of me. I haven't seen the first one (never had much desire too, really), so I'm sure I missed some cool elements and references. But I liked it a lot. Fun characters. Wonderfully absurd action. Dug the fight choreography. Mark Strong is awesome. Julianne Moore (I didn't know/remember she was even in it) was fantastic. Pedro Pascal should be in everything.

Fate was good, too (though I probably, ultimately, liked it slightly less than TGC). Again, I've never seen any of the other films in the franchise, so I felt behind on the characters and wanted more explained/connected. As a result it felt very plot heavy without enough character grounding. But that's my own fault. I'm sure if I'd seen the others, I wouldn't have felt that way. The set pieces are fucking STUNNING. The action is tight and gripping and so much fun to watch. Theron and Statham are the standouts (performance wise). It actually made me want to go back and watch some of the other films in the series.

I like that both movies have super high stakes but manage to maintain a real sense of fun (and sometimes flat out absurdity) without ever veering into parody or disrespect of their genre.

The fight scene in the church is one of the best of the genre. I'll give you that there are times you can almost hear the "1 and 2 and 3" from the choreographer but it's still amazing.

If the prequel doesn't include Egerton, and I don't know why it would, then I'm not interested. He makes those movies for me.

As dime said - in his own way - he's not in the film as it's a prequel. I feel the same was as you and have no interest in it at this point, though a good trailer or two would sway me.

I wonder if his being in that Elton John movie is why they went prequel?

[LoathedVermin72]

The fight scene in the church is disgusting, and my least favorite part of either movie.

[epilogue]

The church fight in Golden Circle?

[LoathedVermin72]

The church fight in Golden Circle?

No, the first one

[epilogue]

The church fight in Golden Circle?

No, the first one

Ok, cool. I was totally confused because I didn't remember a church fight in TGC or in F8.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

i remember hating that church scene too, but have no recollection of why

[LoathedVermin72]

Going to see Climax tonight

[Anders]

In the past month I've seen:

Shadowlands
Heavenly Creatures
Much Ado About Nothing
Beautiful Thing *
Kung Fu Panda *
Naked
Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
Exotica
Searching for Bobby Fischer
Local Hero
The Double Life of Véronique *
The City Of Lost Children
Delicatessen
Man Bites Dog
Manon of the Spring
Priest
Trust
Dawn Of The Dead
Sanjuro *
Somewhere In Time
Cabaret *
The Tale of Zatoichi
Andrei Rublev
Heathers
Sierra Burgess Is a Loser
A Star Is Born
Neighbors *
White House Down
Isn't It Romantic
The Spiderwick Chronicles
Rampage

[lennytheweedwhacker]

i caught half of exotica on cable when i was like 15...somehow i still remember certain details

[doug rr]

anders, did you like searching for bobby fischer?

[LoathedVermin72]

Going to see Climax tonight

This was very frustrating

[Anders]

anders, did you like searching for bobby fischer?

Like is an adequate word. I think it did what it set out to do. I got a little bored at times, but it was an adequate movie.

I put a star next the movies I liked best.

[VinylGuy]

Going to see Climax tonight

This was very frustrating

You never reached it?