Rate The Last Movie You Saw.

[Tommy]

I watched it last night and I can't stop thinking about it.

One of my favorite films of the year. It's also enhanced by a second viewing.

So how many times have you seen it now? And did you write a review on here for it, I'd like to read it (and anyone else's) if you did.

I've seen it twice, but when I wrote the mini-review below, I had only seen it once:


The Power of the Dog

Director Jane Campion has crafted a methodically brilliant film about toxic male masculinity. Power of the Dog features some of the most beautiful cinematography I've seen in years. You can put some of the wide landscape shots up against any we've ever seen in the Western genre.

Benedict Cumberbatch gives one of the best performances of the year as a truly loathsome person. The mental abuse he unleashes is sometimes hard to watch. Despite his hard exterior, there's something else lurking beneath.

Perhaps the standout of the film is Kodi Smit-McPhee, who gives a very measured performance as a gentle young man, but like Cumberbatch's character, there's more than meets the eye here.

The cast is rounded out by real-life married couple Jesse Plemons and Kirsten Dunst. The Power of the Dog is the kind of film that begs to be viewed twice.

Thanks for the re-post. I do plan on watching it again but it was such a bitter and cruel experience for me I've been putting it off.

[Merlin1958]

Watch Kimi on HBO Max, everyone. It’s the first great movie of 2022! A very Hitchcockian techno-thriller. Loved it! No way it gets remembered for next awards season, but it totally should be.

Really? That’s a huge no for me. It’s not that good. Cookie cutter. Predictably sillly. 4/10

Sigh, I watch way too much TV. lol

[Merlin1958]

Watch Kimi on HBO Max, everyone. It’s the first great movie of 2022! A very Hitchcockian techno-thriller. Loved it! No way it gets remembered for next awards season, but it totally should be.

Really? That’s a huge no for me. It’s not that good. Cookie cutter. Predictably sillly. 4/10

Sigh, I watch way too much TV. lol

Liked "Reacher" on Amazon though!! lol

[webstar1000]

Uncharted. Yes it’s what you would expect.. 100%. Doesn’t mean we didn’t have fun. And Tom Holland has to one of my favourite actors. I can watch him on screen any day. He is so charismatic!!! The next Tom
Cruise of this generation. 7.5/10. I would be a little
Higher but some of the comedy fell flat. I blame Mark W for that though… not my boy Tom! Haha it’s a fun popcorn movie with a lot of Indiana Jones vibes. It’s no Indy though…


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[Mattrick]

I watched The Battle of Algiers for school last week and it was excellent.

[Tommy]

One of the best!

[Still Servant]

Uncharted. Yes it’s what you would expect.. 100%. Doesn’t mean we didn’t have fun. And Tom Holland has to one of my favourite actors. I can watch him on screen any day. He is so charismatic!!! The next Tom
Cruise of this generation. 7.5/10. I would be a little
Higher but some of the comedy fell flat. I blame Mark W for that though… not my boy Tom! Haha it’s a fun popcorn movie with a lot of Indiana Jones vibes. It’s no Indy though…


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Uncharted was fun, it's just not even close to being as good as the games. Love Holland, but he's just not Nathan Drake.

[webstar1000]

Uncharted. Yes it’s what you would expect.. 100%. Doesn’t mean we didn’t have fun. And Tom Holland has to one of my favourite actors. I can watch him on screen any day. He is so charismatic!!! The next Tom
Cruise of this generation. 7.5/10. I would be a little
Higher but some of the comedy fell flat. I blame Mark W for that though… not my boy Tom! Haha it’s a fun popcorn movie with a lot of Indiana Jones vibes. It’s no Indy though…


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Uncharted was fun, it's just not even close to being as good as the games. Love Holland, but he's just not Nathan Drake.

Never played the games. I don’t play any to be honest. Used to but stopped like 25 years ago. lol


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[Still Servant]

Uncharted. Yes it’s what you would expect.. 100%. Doesn’t mean we didn’t have fun. And Tom Holland has to one of my favourite actors. I can watch him on screen any day. He is so charismatic!!! The next Tom
Cruise of this generation. 7.5/10. I would be a little
Higher but some of the comedy fell flat. I blame Mark W for that though… not my boy Tom! Haha it’s a fun popcorn movie with a lot of Indiana Jones vibes. It’s no Indy though…


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Uncharted was fun, it's just not even close to being as good as the games. Love Holland, but he's just not Nathan Drake.

Never played the games. I don’t play any to be honest. Used to but stopped like 25 years ago. lol


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The games are like playing an action film. They're phenomenal.

[Merlin1958]

Check out, "Game of their lives..." on HBO (HBOMAX?) pretty good film starring, Gerard Butler. The "Miracle on Grass"!! lol

It's about the U.S. soccer team in 1950. They pulled off a victory reminds you of the U.S. victory over Russia in 1980. Speaking of which, Disney+ has a new feature regarding that game from the Russian POV. Pretty freaking interesting all of what went on around that game from the Russians and their government.

[Tommy]

I watched it last night and I can't stop thinking about it.

One of my favorite films of the year. It's also enhanced by a second viewing.

So how many times have you seen it now? And did you write a review on here for it, I'd like to read it (and anyone else's) if you did.

I've seen it twice, but when I wrote the mini-review below, I had only seen it once:


The Power of the Dog

Director Jane Campion has crafted a methodically brilliant film about toxic male masculinity. Power of the Dog features some of the most beautiful cinematography I've seen in years. You can put some of the wide landscape shots up against any we've ever seen in the Western genre.

Benedict Cumberbatch gives one of the best performances of the year as a truly loathsome person. The mental abuse he unleashes is sometimes hard to watch. Despite his hard exterior, there's something else lurking beneath.

Perhaps the standout of the film is Kodi Smit-McPhee, who gives a very measured performance as a gentle young man, but like Cumberbatch's character, there's more than meets the eye here.

The cast is rounded out by real-life married couple Jesse Plemons and Kirsten Dunst. The Power of the Dog is the kind of film that begs to be viewed twice.

Thanks for the re-post. I do plan on watching it again but it was such a bitter and cruel experience for me I've been putting it off.

So on the re-watch I think I understand my feelings a bit more.

MAJOR SPOILERS

I have been Phil at times in my life. The closet case that has to assert toxic masculinity as a mask for safety and self preservation. Yes, he is a detestable bastard but think how it must have been for a highly educated queer man at that time. Knowing exactly what you are and NEVER getting to be yourself for fear of death. Peter figures it out and uses it as a noose to strangle Phil to death with and it just seems so cruel even up against what Phil's cruelty was doing. I don't even think Peter is queer but that doesn't matter. He seduces by zeroing in on that weakness and goes for the killshot. I question the death of Peter's father as being a suicide. After what Peter tells Phil about his father and the brief narration at the beginning, we know this is a young man willing to do anything to protect his mother, including murder. Did the people around Phil deserve his torment, no but did Phil deserve to be murdered? It's a tough question. I'm probably the only person that watched it and felt sorry for Phil and hell that may not have even been Campion's intention but it is how I felt. Did Phil leave the rope behind for Peter as a way of saying I know what you did or was he fulfilling his promise about finishing the rope before Peter went back to school as a thank you for putting Phil out of his misery? And I get the idea that the traditional roles of masculinity are played with here and all that but still, this film bothers me but I cannot deny it's Power.

Also, Kodi Smit-McPhee is excellent here. He suffers from an autoimmune illness called Ankylosing spondylitis (the singer of Imagine Dragons has the same condition) that causes the vertebrae to fuse together coupled with severe inflammatory arthritis. As a result he is blind in his left eye. Everyone probably already knows this but I am just realizing it now. Looking at his film and TV credits, I've seen a lot of his work but this was the first time I was really paying attention to him. I love seeing the differently-abled among us succeed in life.

And one last meaningless aside, my BF took slight issue with the passage because of course the Catholic Bible has it translated as...
"Deliver my soul from the sword, my life from the grip of the dog"
...but he is damn near a biblical scholar at this point so that's to be expected, lol.

[webstar1000]

Batman. Have you all seen the reviews??? Wow: I’m so excited!

[mae]

Batman. Have you all seen the reviews??? Wow: I’m so excited!

Going to see it tonight. I need something light and fun after the week this world has had.

[webstar1000]

Batman. Have you all seen the reviews??? Wow: I’m so excited!

Going to see it tonight. I need something light and fun after the week this world has had.

Light and fun? Lol

[Still Servant]

I watched it last night and I can't stop thinking about it.

One of my favorite films of the year. It's also enhanced by a second viewing.

So how many times have you seen it now? And did you write a review on here for it, I'd like to read it (and anyone else's) if you did.

I've seen it twice, but when I wrote the mini-review below, I had only seen it once:


The Power of the Dog

Director Jane Campion has crafted a methodically brilliant film about toxic male masculinity. Power of the Dog features some of the most beautiful cinematography I've seen in years. You can put some of the wide landscape shots up against any we've ever seen in the Western genre.

Benedict Cumberbatch gives one of the best performances of the year as a truly loathsome person. The mental abuse he unleashes is sometimes hard to watch. Despite his hard exterior, there's something else lurking beneath.

Perhaps the standout of the film is Kodi Smit-McPhee, who gives a very measured performance as a gentle young man, but like Cumberbatch's character, there's more than meets the eye here.

The cast is rounded out by real-life married couple Jesse Plemons and Kirsten Dunst. The Power of the Dog is the kind of film that begs to be viewed twice.

Thanks for the re-post. I do plan on watching it again but it was such a bitter and cruel experience for me I've been putting it off.

So on the re-watch I think I understand my feelings a bit more.

MAJOR SPOILERS

I have been Phil at times in my life. The closet case that has to assert toxic masculinity as a mask for safety and self preservation. Yes, he is a detestable bastard but think how it must have been for a highly educated queer man at that time. Knowing exactly what you are and NEVER getting to be yourself for fear of death. Peter figures it out and uses it as a noose to strangle Phil to death with and it just seems so cruel even up against what Phil's cruelty was doing. I don't even think Peter is queer but that doesn't matter. He seduces by zeroing in on that weakness and goes for the killshot. I question the death of Peter's father as being a suicide. After what Peter tells Phil about his father and the brief narration at the beginning, we know this is a young man willing to do anything to protect his mother, including murder. Did the people around Phil deserve his torment, no but did Phil deserve to be murdered? It's a tough question. I'm probably the only person that watched it and felt sorry for Phil and hell that may not have even been Campion's intention but it is how I felt. Did Phil leave the rope behind for Peter as a way of saying I know what you did or was he fulfilling his promise about finishing the rope before Peter went back to school as a thank you for putting Phil out of his misery? And I get the idea that the traditional roles of masculinity are played with here and all that but still, this film bothers me but I cannot deny it's Power.

Also, Kodi Smit-McPhee is excellent here. He suffers from an autoimmune illness called Ankylosing spondylitis (the singer of Imagine Dragons has the same condition) that causes the vertebrae to fuse together coupled with severe inflammatory arthritis. As a result he is blind in his left eye. Everyone probably already knows this but I am just realizing it now. Looking at his film and TV credits, I've seen a lot of his work but this was the first time I was really paying attention to him. I love seeing the differently-abled among us succeed in life.

And one last meaningless aside, my BF took slight issue with the passage because of course the Catholic Bible has it translated as...
"Deliver my soul from the sword, my life from the grip of the dog"
...but he is damn near a biblical scholar at this point so that's to be expected, lol.

Love the insight here. I'm glad you watched it again. There's definitely a lot going on in that film. There's a ton of subtext.

Spoiler:

I think Phil at the end was desperate to be somebody's mentor. I think he saw himself in Peter. I feel that's why he left the rope for him. He truly wanted to be Bronco Henry to him.

[webstar1000]

Omg. Wow. Nolan… it’s time to
Say goodbye. Wow.
Batman? 10/10


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[Still Servant]

Omg. Wow. Nolan… it’s time to
Say goodbye. Wow.
Batman? 10/10


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Calm down!

[webstar1000]

Omg. Wow. Nolan… it’s time to
Say goodbye. Wow.
Batman? 10/10


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Calm down!

You stop.
Go see
This. Then say those
Words!!!!


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[Still Servant]

Omg. Wow. Nolan… it’s time to
Say goodbye. Wow.
Batman? 10/10


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Calm down!

You stop.
Go see
This. Then say those
Words!!!!


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I can't wait for Feev to see your post. He considers The Dark Knight one of the best films of the decade.

[mae]

Saw The Batman last night as well at the early fan screening in IMAX. Wasn’t blown away, but it was very good. At times brilliant and right off the pages of a gritty Gotham comic like Gotham Central or something. Very bleak. Super dark. Much darker than Nolan, very much Fincher and Seven levels.

[fernandito]

I can't wait for Feev to see your post. He considers The Dark Knight one of the best films of the decade.

It is one of the best films of the decade!!

Most of what I've read about The Batman seems to be positive. I'm checking it out on Saturday night.

It'll take a lot for it to dethrone TDK, but if it comes close I'll be seriously impressed. Glad to hear Battison is a worthy successor to the cape & cowl.

[webstar1000]

I am booking another viewing for Monday night. One of the best comic book movies I’ve ever seen. Definitely in my top 10… maybe even top 5 movies of all time.


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[OldCrow88]

Saw The Batman last night as well at the early fan screening in IMAX. Wasn’t blown away, but it was very good. At times brilliant and right off the pages of a gritty Gotham comic like Gotham Central or something. Very bleak. Super dark. Much darker than Nolan, very much Fincher and Seven levels.

Great, now I've got "What's in the Bat-box?!?" ringing in my head...

[OldCrow88]

I am booking another viewing for Monday night. One of the best comic book movies I’ve ever seen. Definitely in my top 10… maybe even top 5 movies of all time.


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Damn, sounds like it made a strong impression. I'm going Sunday.

[webstar1000]

I am booking another viewing for Monday night. One of the best comic book movies I’ve ever seen. Definitely in my top 10… maybe even top 5 movies of all time.


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Damn, sounds like it made a strong impression. I'm going Sunday.

This is so good. Seven vibes mixed with the best Batman on screen yet. It’s a detective noir film with the darkness we have been missing in the movies till now. This is gold. I’d love to see Phoenix go up against this Batman. I’m praying.