What movies have you seen lately? Now with reviews!Movies 

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Last weekend I watched I am Frankelda, the first Mexican stop motion animation full lenght movie. It's crude compared with the films of Laika and the like, but that adds to its charm, and seriously it has one of the best soundtracks ever, animated or not.
If you are curious, there is a 5-chapter series of it available through HBO Max: Frankelda Book of Spooks.
 
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So yeah, I watched Guillermo del Toro's Frankenstein (Netflix) on Sunday, and it was quite good. But IMO it's not his peak.

His 2001-2013 period, starting with The Devil's Backbone, through Pacific Rim is his strongest in my view, and then from The Shape of Water through Pinocchio and this. Crimson Peak is somewhat of a misfire (but glorious to watch), and would you believe I have totally ignored Nightmare Alley (well, most of the world did, pandemic-era movie).

Anyways, 4.0 Blüchers out of 5, because making the creature immortal (and self-regenerating) makes the polar chase somewhat unnecessary, they could have fought and settled their score anywhere.

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Watched this Sunday night.
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Norway film. Similar frustrations to doom movies, but this was inspired by real situations.
Me and my wife enjoyed it, but again, with frustrating characters that do the thing they shouldn't have done.
Nothing spectacular, but filmed really well. Several character arcs were carried throughout the film to completion. Easy to watch.
 
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Straight get into it movie. Not much drama stirring like Into the Storm. All actors played their roles convincingly. Good to watch.
 
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Straight get into it movie. Not much drama stirring like Into the Storm. All actors played their roles convincingly. Good to watch.
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Stumbled across that one a few months ago. I was very impressed with it, especially with it being a based on a true story movies.
 
After having watched Predator Badlands recently (7/10, surprisingly good) I finally watched Prey yesterday. Had been on my watchlist since its release in 2022.

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Naru is a straight badass. Not only is she the only one realizing that there's something out there in the woods. She also single handedly takes down a huge operation of für hunters all while keeping the patriarchy from keeping her down.

She is to Prey what Arnie is to Predator (with tomahawk rather than Gatling gun).

8/10 for me. A very good action movie.

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Predator: Killer of Killers is next.



Today I watched the Roses. A good movie overall. Could have been a master piece if the warring part wouldn't have been so over top. If they had kept this believable it could have been a 9 but now it is only a 7/10. Some of the deliberately awkward moments especially with their friend are rather forced and over the top as well. The movie doesn't really need them

The serious parts of the movie hit pretty hard though. Especially if you have ended a very long term relationship like theirs before and/or struggle with being a progressive liberal man. Being masculine yet emotionally available. Being confident and decisive yet understanding and ready to compromise. All such things. The movie treats these topics really seriously without being awkward or lecturing anyone.

Being a toxic alpha with a submissive partner is definitely a simpler life.

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After having watched Predator Badlands recently (7/10, surprisingly good) I finally watched Prey yesterday. Had been on my watchlist since its release in 2022.

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Naru is a straight badass. Not only is she the only one realizing that there's something out there in the woods. She also single handedly takes down a huge operation of für hunters all while keeping the patriarchy from keeping her down.

She is to Prey what Arnie is to Predator (with tomahawk rather than Gatling gun).

8/10 for me. A very good action movie.

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Predator: Killer of Killers is next.



Today I watched the Roses. A good movie overall. Could have been a master piece if the warring part wouldn't have been so over top. If they had kept this believable it could have been a 9 but now it is only a 7/10. Some of the deliberately awkward moments especially with their friend are rather forced and over the top as well. The movie doesn't really need them

The serious parts of the movie hit pretty hard though. Especially if you have ended a very long term relationship like theirs before and/or struggle with being a progressive liberal man. Being masculine yet emotionally available. Being confident and decisive yet understanding and ready to compromise. All such things. The movie treats these topics really seriously without being awkward or lecturing anyone.

Being a toxic alpha with a submissive partner is definitely a simpler life.

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Coincidentally I watched The Roses yesterday and I agree with most of your takes, the parts where the marriage starts to crumble are heartfelt, and well-acted and scripted, but the abrupt tonal shifts undermine the overall effort. The slapstick violence at the end mimics the original War of the Roses movie (it's not a remake though) and the final scenes feels to me like a cop-out: It can be interpreted that they die a horrific death, but it can be open ended too. I would have preferred a later closing scene where both are laying in the emergency room, comically bandaged, but alive and holding hands, thus subverting the ending of War of the Roses. The ending also leaves their kids hanging. Curiously, their custody is never in play in the divorce negotiations, and mercifully they were only used passively-agressively by Theo against Ivy, but that doesn't poison their relationships with their mum.

Lastly, if I were to assign blame on the relationship, Theo 70% and Ivy 30% because: It was his hubris that sunk his career and then brough the worst out of Ivy. Ivy in turn should have set limits when she threw him the lifesaver of building the house.

Anyways, a 7/10 movie.
 
Very interesting to hear your reasoning on the 70-30 blame. When she said
But I paid for the house
I knew she was the devil. Her worst was orders of magnitudes worse than his worst.

Edit: how do you do the blurry spoiler text here?
 
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Very interesting to hear your reasoning on the 70-30 blame. When she said
But I paid for the house
I knew she was the devil. Her worst was orders of magnitudes worse than his worst.

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I agree to disagree, but she
could have divorced him instead of giving him the chance of building the house when he was unemployable and that could have been his comeback and redemption, but instead it played to his dark and egotistical traits as person and architect.
 
Yesterday we watched In the Line of Fire (Clint Eastwood, John Malkovich, Renee Russo), a very entertaining action thriller made right after his best film (The Unforgiven, of course), and that was rightly nominated to the Oscar for supporting actor/editing and has great direction and cinematography all-around, courtesy of Wolfgang Petersen.

I prefer it to Absolute Power, which Eastwood later directed/acted.
 

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