What movies have you seen recently?

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My family and I have seen this before and this was a great movie in our eyes in unison.

We also agreed that stop-motion animation should be appreciated more.

Magic Mike

Pacific Rim

Basically Voltrons vs Godzillas.

Rabbit-Proof Fence

The Hunger.

Slow but interesting 1983 vampire flick with David Bowie.

Cold Pursuit - Remake of the much better Scandinavian crime thriller In Order of Disappearance. Liam Neeson wasn't so bad, but the other actors? Amateurs at best.

Beauty & the Beast - Czechoslovakian version from 1978. Pretty good film if a bit darker than other versions.

Central Station - Brazilian film about an older letter writer from Rio who helps a newly orphaned boy try to find his father in a rural town. Essentially, it's a road trip movie through super-religious poor villages. That, in itself, was interesting.

The Cleansing Hour - Horror exorcism film with bad acting. Waste of time.

Come To Daddy - Elijah Wood drama/crime/horror film. They tried to blend a lot of genres but it didn't always work.

Contagion - Film about a deadly flu outbreak that originated in China and spread around the world. I'd known about this film for years but wasn't interested because I knew what I would see onscreen. I only acquired it because of the Coronavirus going around now. Interestingly, the movie almost a harbinger of things to come.

The Crimes That Bind - Korean crime thriller. There was a good, twisty story in there somewhere, but the overwhelming sappy background music and over-reliance on sobbing characters ruined an otherwise good film.

The Crimson Rivers - French crime thriller. Finally, we have a winner! Starring two of France's most famous actors (Jean Reno and Vincent Cassel), it's about two lawmen tasked with finding a brutal killer somehow linked to a prestigious secretive college in the gorgeous French Alps. Recommended.

Good to know

That is a good one.

And timely, especially in regards to the ongoing racial tensions in the US and Trump wanting his wall built which IMO, is the US counterpart to Australia's fence.

Kenneth Branagh gave a great performance (under the brilliant direction of Phillip Noyce) as a Trump-like character who wanted Australia to be nothing more than a white utopia.

Peter Gabriel's score is also wonderful and easily fits into the context of the film.

What is your opinion?

Color Out Of Space.

Based on the story by H.P. Lovecraft of the same name, a meteor glowing with an indescribable color lands one night on an isolated farm, where the plants, animals, and even the family undergo a monstrous transformation. Great movie about humans facing the existential threat of cosmic horror. Nicholas Cage wonderfully overacts in the starring role.

Terminator: Dark Fate

To Have and Have Not

A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

Agreed.

Birds of Prey (also mentioned earlier in the thread).

Honestly nowhere near as bad as I though it was going to be, although admittedly that was coming off the back of Suicide Squad. Actually pretty watchable. If you didn't know going in that Black Canary had a superpower, that part would be kind of weird, and there were plenty of cliches thrown around (and plenty more made fun of or subverted, so it wasn't either po-faced or trying to be too HEY HEY SUPER WACKY). Plus it kind of got semi-awkwardly bent around bits of DC canon that really didn't need to be included at all and had nothing to do with the story other than to provide background wallpaper. And the 'encoded in the diamond's atomic structure' bit had me rolling my eyes. Just say it was microscopically etched onto it; it's not like anyone needed to go on a quest to find an atomic structure decoder at any point.

But, y'know, overall... when it comes to action movies, I've seen a lot worse. Robbie really did pull off a character which blended both the psychotic, damaged Harley with the educated psychologist Dr Quinzel - not a split personality per se, but knowledge that Harley was able to pull on as comfortably as picking up a giant hammer.

Speaking of qualifications, this version of Harley isn't made out as a waif-fu master or dependent on gimmicks when it comes to close-quarters combat. Her preferred style might be acrobatic, but she's definitely presented as having some solid physical muscle in her own right and an affinity for shotguns. She's not just a ditz with a mental break; she knows what she's doing when it comes to handing out pain. I'm damn sure that her scene of casually storming the police station single-handed is a deliberate homage to the original Terminator movie, for instance.

What are your opinions, Sister Ashley?

Terminator was better than the last two, at least.

Tom Hanks as Mister Rogers? If I didn't know Hanks voice so well, I'd swear he was the real thing.

And classic Bogie.