What was the last movie you watched?

The Whites of West Virginia

Knives Out: 8/10

Captain America: Winter Soldier

Daughter and I are making our way back through Marvel series, in order.  Captain American: Winter Soldier had great re-watchability.

The Wailing -- 9/10 -- really good, long Korean horror film. Has kind of a quirky Twin Peaks vibe for a good chunk of it and a protagonist who grows from "comic relief" to "actually effective", but man, the pure dude never had a chance and never knew it. Only real flaw to me was that it did get a bit cute with its twists and the way it disguised them, leading to a few questions I had on why a character acted this way when he never even had to in order to get the same conclusion, but I dug this movie a lot, regardless of whether it was 2.5 hours long or not.

posted by Heretic

The Wailing -- 9/10 -- really good, long Korean horror film. Has kind of a quirky Twin Peaks vibe for a good chunk of it and a protagonist who grows from "comic relief" to "actually effective", but man, the pure dude never had a chance and never knew it. Only real flaw to me was that it did get a bit cute with its twists and the way it disguised them, leading to a few questions I had on why a character acted this way when he never even had to in order to get the same conclusion, but I dug this movie a lot, regardless of whether it was 2.5 hours long or not.

I watched this the other night.  Read an amateur review on another site that said "best horror film of the last 10 years."  

The Born Losers (1967)

First of the BILLY JACK movies.

posted by ernest_t_bass

I watched this the other night.  Read an amateur review on another site that said "best horror film of the last 10 years."  

Major-ass spoilers for anyone who hasn't seen it, but would be interested.

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It was really good, but I wouldn't go that far. Hell, I'd probably put it (at best) #2 for Korea behind Train to Busan.

The big flaw to me came from two specific scenes. First, if the shaman and Japanese devil-man are aligned, why would the shaman perform a ritual that seemingly had Japanese dude near death, when it was the main character who stopped it? Like, if the main guy and his wife didn't get freaked out by the effects the ritual was having on their possessed daughter, would the Japanese guy get hex'd to death? I mean, thinking the guy was trying to stop the devil led to the main guy trusting the shaman at the end, dooming himself and his family, but it seems like an overly-complicated way to get there.

Also, when the main guy later got a posse to kill the Japanese guy himself, in trying to escape, the Japanese guy came off as a normal guy who was terrified and, when he was hiding at the foot of the big hill the posse was on top of, he was desperately trying to hold back sobs in order to not give up his position. Considering that the dude was a powerful devil and was either completely stoic, creepy-crazy (those deer-eating scenes) or gloating (at the very end) for the entire film, that kind of felt out of place, where the only purpose was to set up the whole red herring of him being innocent and the mysterious girl being the actual evil presence.

Maybe those were miscues or maybe something there involves me knowing more about Korean folklore, but to me, they were blemishes that turned an amazingly great movie into one that was just great.

posted by Spock

The Whites of West Virginia

I thought this was mediocre.  Nothing like the original PBS "Dancing Outlaw" about Jesco.  

The last couple days I watched Avengers Infinity War and Endgame back to back. 
 

First time I have watched them since they were in the theaters. 

Definitely rewatch able. 
 

Infinity War-9/10

Endgame-8/10
 

Watching Gran Torino again. Just watched it the other night when I was drunj. I'll watch any Eastwood movie over and over.

posted by Curly J

Watching Gran Torino again. Just watched it the other night when I was drunj. I'll watch any Eastwood movie over and over.

I’d stop at Gran Torino...

posted by Laley23

I’d stop at Gran Torino...

And I would NOT start with Revenge of the Creature.

Been on a Marvel kick last few days. 
 

Iron Man 3 and Thor were not as bad as I remember. 
 

They still ruined the Mandarin as an Iron Man foe, but the movie wasn’t terrible. 5/10

Original Thor wasn’t that bad, 5/10

Thor Dark World however, was just as terrible as I remember it. 2/10, so boring of a movie even with all the “action”. Maybe “Padme” is just boring as an actress. 
 

Next will see if Avengers Age of Ultron was as bad as I remember (worst of all the team up movies, Avengers and Civil War). 

Watching Major League foe the second time today. My life sucks.

posted by jmog

Been on a Marvel kick last few days. 
 

Iron Man 3 and Thor were not as bad as I remember. 
 

They still ruined the Mandarin as an Iron Man foe, but the movie wasn’t terrible. 5/10

 

Original Thor wasn’t that bad, 5/10

 

Thor Dark World however, was just as terrible as I remember it. 2/10, so boring of a movie even with all the “action”. Maybe “Padme” is just boring as an actress. 
 

Next will see if Avengers Age of Ultron was as bad as I remember (worst of all the team up movies, Avengers and Civil War). 

lol.  Are you starting at the bottom of the tomatometer and working your way up?

posted by ernest_t_bass

lol.  Are you starting at the bottom of the tomatometer and working your way up?

Well he watched Infinity War and Wndgame back to back first, so I don’t think so.

Mud. 9/10. Love that movie, been a minute since I’ve watched it. Mcconnaghey is the man

posted by Laley23

Well he watched Infinity War and Wndgame back to back first, so I don’t think so.

Watched Ant Man and Civil War yesterday. 
 

I still liked Ant Man-7/10

Civil War was much worse than I originally remembered. Maybe I liked it originally just because everyone was in it. Originally I thought it was an 8/10 but storyline and believability wise it was no better than 5/10. 

posted by SportsAndLady

Mud. 9/10. Love that movie, been a minute since I’ve watched it. Mcconnaghey is the man

Great movie, during a great run of acting from MM.

Den of Thieves

All Day and a Night

Extraction

Watched all three of them this weekend. All were good. Zero complaints about any of them.