What was the last Movie you saw... Part III

[KiloDeltaCharlie]

I saw Birds of Prey this weekend, the new comic book film in the DC Extended Universe starring Margot Robbie as Harley Quinn. Ewan MacGregor is the baddy but few of the other cast members were known to me. The plot revolves around a missing diamond and the attempts to recover it. The film is colourful and tries to be anarchic in keeping with Robbie's character.

The film has good reviews and a good audience rating but has underperformed at the Box Office this weekend. I was not enamoured by the trailers but I went anyway and I thought it was a solid film but nothing special. Robbie is obviously having fun and MacGregor is solid as a sadistic gangland boss. It didn't quite have the panache of an MCU film or even the Nolan Batman efforts. 6.5/10

[AnnoMundi]

@ Typhon, I can supply you with the YouTube link if you’d like, you can watch the entire movie on there.

I can find that link, but I may purchase Dark Places because I have a collection of Lee's films anyways.

I have to say I enjoyed watching it, it has the beautiful Joan Collins in it, some pretty good actors from the era too.

[Typhon]

A man with the ability to enter people's memories takes on the case of a brilliant, troubled sixteen-year-old girl to determine whether she is a sociopath or a victim of trauma. 7/10

[Thelemech]

Like the other Dirty Harry movies this still resonates and offers a glimpse at the beginnings of the modern action movie. Clint will always be one of the more versatile of the actions movie stars, with great wit and a natural charm while kicking ass and taking names. 8.5/10 

[Typhon]

^^^^^^
#16 on my Top 50.   

[Typhon]

A frustrated war correspondent, unable to find the war he's been asked to cover, takes the risky path of coopting the identity of a dead arms dealer acquaintance.  Fairly uninteresting movie from 1975. 6/10

[Thelemech]

^^^^^^
#16 on my Top 50.   

   such a classic!!!

[Charger]

BAD BOYS FOR LIFE

Funny but tough guy detectives Mike Lowrey and Marcus Burnett are back for one more time facing a threat that strikes close and personal.

The action is top notch and the humor is fantastic. Both Will Smith and Martin Lawrence shine once again in the roles that made them both stars. You wouldn't believe it's been 17 (!!!!) years since the last movie. Their chemistry is still there as strong as ever and it is just pure joy watching these guys share the screen. It's just like Gibson and Glover, or Nolte and Murphy..sometimes two actors just work incredibly well togther and Smith and Lawrence do.

The balance between the (sometimes quite brilliantly brutal) action and the laugh out loud comedy is great. Everytime you're on the edge of the seat in excitement you nearly fall to the floor laughing.

The support cast does a great job too eventhough most of them are just in the background but three stand out Kate Del Castillo who plays a wife of a dead cartel leader out for revenge does a great job, Joe Pantoliano as Captain Howard is once again stellar and as a real surprise Vanessa Hudgens as one of the new team members is actual great in the role, which was something I had not expected...quite the opposite in fact given her history. It is great to see below average actors rise up occationally.

All in all a 100% entertaining film just like the first two. Sure the movie is Smith and Lawrence but they are actors that can more than carry a movie like this. Throw in some bad guys and guns and action and we got a full package of fun. And that's what it's all about.


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[Thelemech]

This was ten times better than I expected it to be. Everyone involved genuinely seemed to be enjoying their roles
Not as good as the original simply because of the lack of Robin Williams, this was still a very enjoyable blockbuster movie. 7.5/10

[Thelemech]

RAMBO - The Last Blood

John J. Rambo has been living a quiet life on his father's old farm with the care taker of his father and her grand daughter Gabrielle for the past 10 years trying to cope with his demons. He has grown to love them like they'd be his own family which he never had. Then Garbrielle wants to find her father who lives in Mexico, and against Rambo's wishes she goes only to be captured by members of a vicious human trafficer drug cartel. Rambo goes to her rescue which doesn't quite go as planned.

After facing a tragedy that touches him closer than anything before Rambo must one last time unleash the beast within and this time the war comes to his home, which he will defend the only way that he can. With the utmost brutality and passion.

This is the most dramatic and touching out of all the Rambo movies. This time it is personal.
Sylvester Stallone portrays the agony that Rambo endures here more touchingly than ever before. The undertone of this movie is not action but sadness and pain. You can sense and feel the profound sadness and loss in every single shot of Sly's face. And it makes you feel it too.

There is no mindless action here, there is only actions brought out of loss and pain. Rambo morphs from a perfect soldier to an angel of vengeance. Showing the vicious drug cartel what true justified revenge looks like...and it's not pretty.

After the bigger flashier and grander scale of war in movies 2-4 this bring things back to more close quarter combat with Rambo doing what he does best...close and personal (in both meanings of the word) gorilla warfare which was present in the first movie.

The violence here is extreme, but even in all of it's goriness it all serves a purpose once again. Fighting pure evil you must be part evil yourself. You can't help but smile at all the ingenious booby traps and ways Rambo finds to kill off the bad guys one by one while blasting The Doors' Five To One on his stereo system. That whole scene is pure violence art there is no other way around it.

A perfect ending to a near perfect movie series. The ultimate swan song to one of the greatest action icons and anti-heroes of all time, Rambo CAN be a monster if he is pushed into it. But he NEVER draws first blood...but he will be the one who will draw the last blood.


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Necropost!!

I must say I agree with your review of this incredible movie. I think that the brutality and violence is dealt out with the precision of a factory machine in overdrive. Parts of the film actually disturbed me and that has not happened to me while watching a mainstream action movie for quite some time.

The only real problem I had with it was that it was too short!!

It inspired me to purchase a 4 disk set of the other four Rambo movies. I really hate the third one to be honest but I do truly enjoy the other films I will always have a soft spot for the original and it was filmed in British Columbia and Alberta. I have been to the main town that is featured in the movie called Hope. Nice little Canadian town.

[Charger]

^^^

Glad to hear you enjoyed it as well!

I have to say I have heard very few bad things about that movie from actual viewers (critics are another breed ofcourse)...It has probably gotten more praise than any other Rambo film part from the first one. And rightfully so.

And agreed that it was short...I would have loved to see little bit more of Rambo building those booby traps...

[Typhon]

Next month is the 45th anniversary of this film.  So yesterday I saw a special screening at a venue in neighboring Providence Rhode Island.  It was special because after the film Mr. John Cleese himself came out on stage with his daughter to entertain the crowd.  He told jokes, talked about the other Pythons, and related many funny true stories about his career.  It was a great thrill for me, and was the first time I saw any of the Pythons in person.  Mr. Cleese is now 80 years old.

[Thelemech]

John Cleese is a one of a kind comedian and intellectual. The best TV show of all time, that being Fawlty Towers shows what a comedic genius he really was. Add him to the stellar talents of the Monty Python family and truly wonderful things occur.

[Charger]

Wow Typhon that's awesome!

Very special indeed! Would love to have been there!

John Cleese is a great fellow. Been too long since I've seen the Holy Grail anyways...gosh...20+ years in fact.

[Zzzptm]

Watched Tarkovsky's film Stalker last weekend. 2 hours and 41 minutes of moody, psychological, philosophical, psychedelic discussions. You have to be in the right mood to watch it, it's definitely not a party/action/teen exploitation movie.