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[Andyliini]

The Son of Revenge - The Story of Kalevala

First time in theater this year, I went to see this filmation of a story from Finnish national epoch, Kalevala. It's a dark fantasy movie centered around a tragic story of Kullervo who gets orphaned as a child and is raised by his uncle, who also killed Kullervo's father. If the story sounds familiar, it's because Tolkien based one of his characters, Turin Turambar, on Kullervo.

The film is well shot, and has gorgeous vistas, but a bit confusing editing, which makes the story somewhat difficult to follow. Some dialoque is also hard to understand, even if the language os modern and they only use a little of the old dialect. I had good time with it, so check it out if you can. I hope this films succeeds, so the director can make more of these, as he planned to do.

 

[ForAcademicPurposes]

★★★☆☆ / Bro got ragdolled

 

[Malak]

Excellent film, even more so if accompanied by reading The Great Controversy.

 

[HRK69]

The premise is completely unhinged and the movie is very aware of it. Yorgos leans hard into the absurdity and its unmistakably a Yorgos film from the first frame to the last

I had a great time with it. Really smart, really weird and definitely worth a watch

 

[EverydayBeast]

I don't know how they made this film so quickly but it looks like they'll be a few more, too good of content, you got this new blonde crew, the doctor, the infected just a good 8/10 film.

 

[bender]

The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. I thought this was my second new movie of the year, but I've watched the beginning of it somewhere before. I was bored throughout and struggled to finish it. I also hate the character designs, animation and the dull color palette often used in the movie. Kind of afraid to watch Belle now.

 

[ForAcademicPurposes]

★★★★☆ / Fox News tachyons

 

[Andyliini]

War of the Worlds (2005)

The word masterpiece shouldn't be used too ofter. Even I don't want to call every film I like that, even if I deeply love one. But this film truly is a masterpiece. I expect Cruise to be a supersoldier like he often is, biy he makes a surprising role a vulnerable father who is trying to keep his kids safe during alien invasion. I was sucked in the story completely and felt the suspense all the way through, even if I knew how the story would end. This film surprised me on how good it was, and how well it was made. Also for the fact that I have been able to avoid a film this good for so long. Absolutely stunning.

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

War of the Worlds (2005)

The word masterpiece shouldn't be used too ofter. Even I don't want to call every film I like that, even if I deeply love one. But this film truly is a masterpiece. I expect Cruise to be a supersoldier like he often is, biy he makes a surprising role a vulnerable father who is trying to keep his kids safe during alien invasion. I was sucked in the story completely and felt the suspense all the way through, even if I knew how the story would end. This film surprised me on how good it was, and how well it was made. Also for the fact that I have been able to avoid a film this good for so long. Absolutely stunning.

Spielberg had another Sci Fi banger around that time with Minority Report. I love most of his Sci Fi stuff and I hope his upcoming movie Disclosure Day is up there in quality when it comes to comparing it to his other Sci Fi movies

 

[Andyliini]

Spielberg had another Sci Fi banger around that time with Minority Report. I love most of his Sci Fi stuff and I hope his upcoming movie Disclosure Day is up there in quality when it comes to comparing it to his other Sci Fi movies

I'm looking forward to Disclosure Day myself. The first teaser looked very intriguing.

 

[ForAcademicPurposes]

★★☆☆☆ / It's like wiper fluid

 

[Bombolone]

Just finished Blade Runner (1982) - The Final Cut

I have seen this movie many times over the span of my life. Always holds my attention.
I am sure many of you are more than familiar with this classic.

5/5
Rachel (Sean Young) is still the hottest thing I have ever laid my eyes on in Cinema. Many beautiful women in the world, but her look in this movie is breathtaking.
Ridley Scott, herself and the crew really nailed the casting and wardrobe for a character that represents Tyrells' masterpiece.

 

[EviLore]

Just finished Blade Runner (1982) - The Final Cut

I have seen this movie many times over the span of my life. Always holds my attention.
I am sure many of you are more than familiar with this classic.

5/5
Rachel (Sean Young) is still the hottest thing I have ever laid my eyes on in Cinema. Many beautiful women in the world, but her look in this movie is breathtaking.
Ridley Scott, herself and the crew really nailed the casting and wardrobe for a character that represents Tyrells' masterpiece.

A good reason to prefer Lynch's Dune over Villeneuve's, too…

 

[Bombolone]

A good reason to prefer Lynch's Dune over Villeneuve's, too…

I will have to add them both to my watch list for next weekend.

 

[DragoonKain]

The Rip:

An enjoyable heist genre type movie that has some cool action scenes and some cool twists and turns. I think the plot wraps up a tad too conveniently to where you roll your eyes a bit and devolves into some typical genre tropes, but overall it's worth the watch and has a good cast. One thing gave one of the surprises away.

Spoiler

I knew that Kyle Chandler would be crooked because he's too big name of an actor and he was barely in the movie for like the first 3/4ths of the movie so I knew at some point he was going to have to play a big role so I knew he'd end up being crooked and one of the bad guys.

 

[Cfh123]

Beautifully filmed. Remarkable supporting cast - Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Daniel Day Lewis etc. (yes that is the supporting cast).

 

[falconhoof]

Conquest (1983) Dir. Lucio Fulci

I went in expecting to see Italian Star Wars given the movie poster, but this was far from that. What we have instead is fantastical art movie. I call it art as it lacks in story and seemingly a budget you'd normally expect from a movie. There are few characters, little dialogue, and a thin plot structure. But despite all that it kinda makes up for it in strange and fantastical scenes of other worldly events. Fulci manages to keep things interesting enough, helped by some creative use of effects, a heck of a lot of smoke and Goblin's Claudio Simonetti going to town on his synth. Though the camera work can be frustratingly constrained, giving flashes of amazing shots and vistas so infrequently, but some how enough to build out this strange world.

It's not a great movie, and far from an easy recommendation, perhaps aside from those who love this time period of fantasy movies: Hawk the Slayer, Lady Hawke, Krull, you may find something in it.

Still, I did find it quite captivating, perhaps because it never revealed much about its world other than flashes through a strung together sequence of vignettes, all with a slow enough pace that gave my imagination time to get creative with the blanks.

 

[Cyberpunkd]

A good reason to prefer Lynch's Dune over Villeneuve's, too…

New Dune is good, but the Lynch's one is truly epic.

 

[Baemono]

The Matrix, for the 74th time

The Prime Video version is more color-accurate (rather than the very greenish tone), which is nice to see

 

[GeekyDad]

City of Lies

Didn't know anything about the movie before going in, but it was recommended on Prime. I never thought I would take any interest in the subject matter, but it was surprisingly interesting. Was actually researching names and such afterward, as well as the accuracy of the story. Aside from some seemingly studio-required drama at the end, it seemed like a pretty accurate telling of events.

 

[ForAcademicPurposes]

★★★★★ / No more six fingered people

 

[AJUMP23]

Zootopia 2 - I am not sure what the message of this film is trying to portray. 3/5 - good animation and cast.

 

[Billbofet]

Predator Badlands
Did not enjoy this at all. It ended up as a big mess of noise and fluff. I felt nothing.

 

[kruis]

Beautifully filmed. Remarkable supporting cast - Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Daniel Day Lewis etc. (yes that is the supporting cast).

Go watch Howard's End next. I liked that one even better.

 

[AJUMP23]

Wicked for good - 2/5 - I have seen the play and the 3rd act in the play is not very good, this is much worse. I hate this story because it makes the witch not wicked, but a victim of "bullies". Music sucks in part 2 as well.

 

[ForAcademicPurposes]

★★★★☆ / Welcome to country

 

[AJUMP23]

Silent Running - 4/5 - Really laid back sci-fi movies with cool music and a message about the importance of trees. Robots in this movie are great.

 

[EviLore]

All You Need Is Kill (2025), directed by Kenichiro Akamoto

This is the worst anime movie I've ever seen. Infinitely worse than the great Doug Liman / Tom Cruise adaptation of the story. Stilted 3DCG masquerading as cel animation. Extremely dull female protagonist and pathetic otaku love interest with negative forced chemistry (role swapped—the guy is supposed to be the protagonist). Poorly directed action and everything else. At least half the run time is close up shots of the female lead's ugly face, then a first person view of what she sees. Ad nauseum. Talentless direction. Repetitive, uninteresting use of the time loop. 80 minutes felt like four hours.

 

[kruis]

I was surprised by the unappealing art style/gender swap/ugly protagonist, but then I read that although this was a Japanese anime it was produced by Warner Bros Japan. My guess is they pushed those changes to make the anime "geared towards a modern audience" when wokeness ruled the world (or at least, when it did in California/Hollywood).

 

[kpopSuperstar]

★★★★★ / No more six fingered people

I just can't take Ethan Hawke seriously in anything, he is good in Dead Poets Society, but everything else he ruins for me.

He reminds me of Paul Dano.

 

[kpopSuperstar]

Wicked for good - 2/5 - I have seen the play and the 3rd act in the play is not very good, this is much worse. I hate this story because it makes the witch not wicked, but a victim of "bullies". Music sucks in part 2 as well.

 

[AJUMP23]

Staring into my soul. They look healthier in the movie than they have in any promos.

 

[John Marston]

She looks like the creature from the black lagoon or Lou Gossett Jr. In Enemy Mine.

 

[ForAcademicPurposes]

★★★★☆ / Gotta tell my wife to role-play this

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

Sugar Baby: C

Not the actual title of the film, this is originally a Russian film that got released in North America. The original title of the film is Why Do You?

What I liked about it

The female lead was very pretty and bared it all whenever anything involving sex came up. Other than the sex scenes, I really liked the ending

What I didn't like about it

Predicatable plot with boring characters. Main female lead was kind of annoying too

Sleeping Beauty: B

This was more of a slow burn and another film that had a high amount of sexual content. I really enjoyed it but this was a more depressing watch than I expected

Angus: B+

This was a good surprise, a film I never heard of that came out in 1995. Had a good soundtrack with a lot of 90s rock. Had an charming pair who had to navigate getting bullied. Angus being able to fight back was interesting, he would punch the bully back. The villain/bully being played by that guy from Dawson Creek was an interesting choice too. He did a good job. Highly reccomanded

 

[bitbydeath]

 

[AJUMP23]

Look out for this banger.

 

[HRK69]

 

[HRK69]

Predator: Badlands

I liked this a lot. I'd happily watch another film with Dek and friends.

 

[AJUMP23]

Spinal Tap 2: the end Continues - 3/5 - this is pretty great. A lot of great bits that are delivered earnestly. Good Cameos. Sucks that Reiner was killed. Credits worth watching.

 

[DragoonKain]

Predator Badlands:

I'm so torn on this movie because I thought this was a very entertaining movie that I enjoyed a heck of a lot.....


...that also kind of ruined the mystique of the predators for me. Trying to humanize them and all. It will hurt how I view them in any future predator movie where they're a villain again. So I really don't know how I feel about it, but I had fun with the movie.

 

[John Marston]

Magic (1978).

I first saw it in the early 80's on late night TV so I did not mind a rewatch on tubi with ads

Anthony Hopkins is great as a magician who has a special relationship with his ventriloquist dummy.

It did not suffer from aging and I enjoyed it a lot.

 

[Mr Reasonable]

28 years later the bone temple - good 4/5

The Housemaid - bad 1/5.

 

[HRK69]

The Running Man (2025)

Man, I don't know. It started off great, those first 25 minutes, right before he sets off were genuinely fun. But after that it nosedives hard

It could have been great but it ends up extremely mediocre. I really thought this was going to be a banger, yet I found myself rolling my eyes more times than I can count

 

[kpopSuperstar]

Mad Max Fury Road

I wonder what George Miller thought of Dan Hardy in this. Hardy is good when he is running around and doing stuff, but when he talks he is pretty bad. I think the role was written as a new version of Max but also inspired by Gibson, but Hardy just didn't know how to do it.

The action scenes are so fucking wild though that it doesn't matter. Fucking crazy what they managed to do.

But I think the mid part of the film is so-so, but when it goes hard it goes insanely hard. 9 out of 10 for the spectacle.

 

[falconhoof]

Mad Max Fury Road

I wonder what George Miller thought of Dan Hardy in this. Hardy is good when he is running around and doing stuff, but when he talks he is pretty bad. I think the role was written as a new version of Max but also inspired by Gibson, but Hardy just didn't know how to do it.

The action scenes are so fucking wild though that it doesn't matter. Fucking crazy what they managed to do.

But I think the mid part of the film is so-so, but when it goes hard it goes insanely hard. 9 out of 10 for the spectacle.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Hardy ? Or Tom Hardy

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

The Running Man: D

Glen Powell shouts a lot

Original Sin: B

Had a decent amount of sex scenes. Thomas Jane once again steals the show with his role as the villain. Beautiful Cinematography. Both Antonie Banderas and Angelina Jolie did a great job as the two mains

Cashback: A

This was a good surprise. It's a coming of age comedy set during a guy college years. He gets a job working at a grocery store and due to his insomnia develops an overacting imagination. He starts to develop a relationship with one of the cashiers. There was a lot of moments in this movie where I was dying with laughter. Highly recommended (And yes it has a lot of sexual content)

 

[Ozzie666]

I'm not sure why, but I recently watched Battlestar Galactica the theatrical cut from the original series. I remember seeing it as a kid in theatres. It does not hold up very well. The story behind the theatrical cut is interesting, the TV show was expensive they re-cut it for a movie and made 40M. It did not age well, buth Vipers next get old.

Mayber Buck Rogers theatrical cut next .. I remember seing that in cinemas too.

 

[bitbydeath]

Accepted - 10/10

It's been a long time since I've watched a really good comedy. It's an older one (2006) that somehow went under the radar.

 

[ForAcademicPurposes]

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