Rate the Last Movie You Saw

[Sock Monkey]

Wang is the new boobs. Everything has wang in it these days.

This is so true. The amount of male full frontal I've seen in films over the last three to five years seems to have grown exponentially (no pun intended).

[dannyboy121070]

What!? I hadn't heard of full frontal in this movie. Seems like no one needed vampire wang.

Wang is the new boobs. Everything has wang in it these days. We were watching A DIFFERENT MAN on Max last week, and all of a sudden the camera pulled back to include a lingering shot of Sebastian Stan's little Winter Soldier. At least the Nosferatu wang was a prosthetic.

[Ben Staad]

What!? I hadn't heard of full frontal in this movie. Seems like no one needed vampire wang.

Probably more vampire penis!

[Ben Staad]

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes.

I greatly disliked this movie. 1 out of 5.

The original series of movies I enjoyed enough but this prequel was disjointed, confusing, and made very little sense. No chemistry between anyone, no depth to the characters, and they seemingly crammed another movie into the last hour of this thing. If this would have ended at the end of act 2 I would have given this a 2.5 out of 5 and thought it was a decent stopping point.

I was stunned how poorly this movie was put together.

[Sock Monkey]

I hope not, lol. I read that there is already an extended cut available on-demand, and it was only 4 minutes longer. Probably more vampire penis!

LOL!

[dannyboy121070]

Talking about Nosferatu, I heard there's a three hour cut out there. Wonder if that's ever going to see the light of day.

I hope not, lol. I read that there is already an extended cut available on-demand, and it was only 4 minutes longer. Probably more vampire penis!

[Sock Monkey]

Talking about Nosferatu, I heard there's a three hour cut out there. Wonder if that's ever going to see the light of day.

[dannyboy121070]

dannyboy121070 brlesh

Thanks for the replies. It's not likely I will get to see this in the theater (Bummer) but will check this out once it's on something I already pay for.

It'll probably hit Peacock by March. They already have a making-of doc on there.

[Ben Staad]

dannyboy121070 brlesh

Thanks for the replies. It's not likely I will get to see this in the theater (Bummer) but will check this out once it's on something I already pay for.

[brlesh]

Listed runtime is a little over 2 hours. Did the movie feel long at all?

Not at all.

With the 20 - 30 minute pre-movie trailers & commercials, I tend to start getting antsy around the 2 hour mark, or earlier if I’m bored with the movie.

I actually never once thought about the time during Nosferatu.

B

[dannyboy121070]

Listed runtime is a little over 2 hours. Did the movie feel long at all?

I saw it Christmas week, and I remember it as being closer to two and a half hours. Great-looking film, but I think I finally hit Dracula fatigue, or at least fatigue of the traditional Dracula retelling. I was bored a lot of the time, and while Skarsgard delivers a great, totally unrecognizable performance, the look of Count Orlock, which was kept top-secret, proved to be a huge letdown, and reminded me a lot of a major vampire character from early on in Mike Mignola's HELLBOY series. I was hoping for a more faithful update of the silent-film version. My filmmaking-school son loved it, but...I guess I've seen too much, am too jaded? Been there and done that. Everyone else seems to love it, though. I did think it was worth seeing for the performances. Willem Dafoe was great, as always.

[Ben Staad]

Listed runtime is a little over 2 hours. Did the movie feel long at all?

Saw Nosferatu the other night and really enjoyed it.

I thought it definitely lived up to the hype.

The cinematography was incredible, probably the best looking movie I’ve seen in years.

Well acted: I’ve never seen Lily Rose Depp in anything else, but thought she was very good as the vampire’s object of desire through the ages.

Skarsgard was very good as the lead villain.

Dafoe was borderline on over acting / hamming it up, but it worked for his crazy Van Helsing inspired character.

The dialogue was almost Shakespearian, but once again, it fit the story.

Gory enough to remind you that it is a horror movie, but never over the top.

My only complaint was I found the ending to be a little anticlimactic.

But, all in all, well worth the trip to the movie theater.

B

[sholloman81]

Saw Nosferatu the other night and really enjoyed it.

I thought it definitely lived up to the hype.

The cinematography was incredible, probably the best looking movie I’ve seen in years.

Well acted: I’ve never seen Lily Rose Depp in anything else, but thought she was very good as the vampire’s object of desire through the ages.

Skarsgard was very good as the lead villain.

Dafoe was borderline on over acting / hamming it up, but it worked for his crazy Van Helsing inspired character.

The dialogue was almost Shakespearian, but once again, it fit the story.

Gory enough to remind you that it is a horror movie, but never over the top.

My only complaint was I found the ending to be a little anticlimactic.

But, all in all, well worth the trip to the movie theater.

B

Glad to hear that this ended up being good. I've been on the fence as to seeing it at the theater. Pretty much love all of Eggers movies so far but am not the biggest Nicholas Hoult fan. I'll catch it at some point I'm sure!

[brlesh]

Saw Nosferatu the other night and really enjoyed it.

I thought it definitely lived up to the hype.

The cinematography was incredible, probably the best looking movie I’ve seen in years.

Well acted: I’ve never seen Lily Rose Depp in anything else, but thought she was very good as the vampire’s object of desire through the ages.

Skarsgard was very good as the lead villain.

Dafoe was borderline on over acting / hamming it up, but it worked for his crazy Van Helsing inspired character.

The dialogue was almost Shakespearian, but once again, it fit the story.

Gory enough to remind you that it is a horror movie, but never over the top.

My only complaint was I found the ending to be a little anticlimactic.

But, all in all, well worth the trip to the movie theater.

B

[Sock Monkey]

Year-End Wrap Part 3 (of 3):

The Family Man (2000):

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Listen, sometimes you love a movie even though you know that it has flaws and doesn't quite work, and The Family Man is one of those movies for me. I'm not quite sure why I watched this movie in the first place as I'm not a fan of Nic Cage, Tea Leoni, or director Brett Ratner, though I have a sneaking suspicion it's due to Don Cheadle, who I've been a fan of since his days on Picket Fences (anyone remember that show?). Yet there is something about this Christmas mash-up of A Christmas Carol and It's a Wonderful LIfe with a Nic Cage playing a cutthroat businessman who gets a "glimpse" into what his life would have been like if he had stayed with his college sweetheart, played by Tea Leoni. The movie falls apart in its finale, but there's something about the chemistry between Nic Cage and Tea Leoni (this has to be her best performance ever, playing straight man to Cage's--albeit, toned down--weirdness), the adorableness of his daughter Annie, and just the sincerity that the film plays out that just makes it work for me. Truly it comes down to the cast being stacked with great character actors like Jeremy Piven, Harve Presnell, Josef Sommer, and Saul Rubinek. Everyone is on board and the world that Nic Cage finds himself feels both heightened in the way that the best Christmas movies do, but also lived in. I didn't know if it would hold up since I hadn't seen it in five or so years, but it absolutely did. Grade: Not going to rate this one, but I love it.

Rebel Ridge (2024):

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...And this is the problem with Netflix. I'm a HUGE Jeremy Saulnier fan, counting Green Room in my Top 5 movies, period. I even carved out a very limited spot during Fantastic Fest one year to catch Hold the Dark on the big screen, knowing that it would be on Netflix a few days later. I should've been watching this on the first day it was released, yet I had no idea that it was available to stream until three months after it came out. Man, Netflix is lucky that they were the first to this streaming game because if they entered the race now with the marketing they have, I have serious doubts they would survive.

Anyways, while not as nerve-wracking as Green Room, Saulnier still delivers an incredibly tense action movie centered around one man's battle against a local police department over the civil forfeiture of the money he was going to use to bail his cousin out of jail. Aaron Pierre gives a star-making performance and holds his own against the equally fantastic Don Johnson.

Quick aside, later-career Don Johnson has become one of my favorite actors. If you haven't done so already, please go watch Cold in July; it's about as perfect of a Lansdale adaptation as we'll ever get.

While I wish there was just a little bit more to the ending, I truly enjoyed this film and highly recommend it. I will say, don't watch the trailer as it gives away one of the film's best lines. Grade: A

Intermission (2003):

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There was this brief moment in the mid-to-late 90s and early 2000s where we would get these movies with sprawling casts and multiple intermingled storylines. I think this all came to a head with 2004's Crash, but one of the ones that I always found interesting was Intermission. Supposedly it contains 43 characters over 11 storylines, but too be honest, I didn't count. I will say that there is a lot going on in the film and it takes about 20-30 minutes to get settled in as the film jumps from one seemingly unconnected story to the next. The film's littered with actors that are either pretty darn famous--Colin Farrell, Cillian Murphy--or faces you'll recognize--Colm Meaney, Shirley Henderson, Kerry Condon. I think I really picked this up because of Kelly MacDonald, who I've always enjoyed since first catching her in Trainspotting. It'd be futile to try to detail the plot, but suffice to say, it follows all these storylines and characters as they cross path, engaging equally in petty crime and attempts in finding love. To be honest, even at only 105 minutes, the film feels a little long by the end and doesn't quite know how to end, but the journey is rather fun and the characters, even when unlikeable, are pretty darn likeable. It was decidedly not my wife's vibe, so your mileage may vary, but if this type of film was in your wheelhouse, then you might find this to be neat little treat. Grade: B-