What was the last movie you saw?

CUBE Zero .. the 3rd in the series of 'people trapped in rooms in a Rubik's cube building' movies... and the ghastly demises they meet.
It was geometrically better/worse/the same as the first two, which were not bad/not terribly great.
 
Dbl post. Hmmm what else have I seen lately...*
Nothing, just a bunch of the 'Everything Wrong With' series of youTube hacks at popular movies.
 
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Theatre of Fear (2014) aka "The Midnight Horror Show" (original title) - Underachieving piece of British low/no budget horror that makes Richard Driscol'ls movies look fast paced and interesting . A piece of sh*t I can recommend crossing the road to avoid. Ah well, another quid wasted in Poundland.
 
Hand Of Death, yep, it's really worth a look. Picture the Thing, from the Fantastic Four, except he's black and even puffier... and he runs amok, in black and white... check it out, a forgotten goodun.

Guardians Of The Galaxy - well, fun. Space Raccoons and tree-men... enjoyed it. I - am - Groot!
 
The Rocky Horror Picture Show. In the Cinema. With Mrs JunkMonkey, our 13 year old daughter, and her High School French teacher (long story) - Mrs JM and Daughter did the whole newspapers, rice, toast-throwing, etc. routine much to the bemusement of the rest of the audience. First time out gender identity obsessed daughter had seen it and first time Mrs JM had done the dressing up Shadow Cast thing. (another one off both their bucket lists). Great fun.
 
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47 Ronin - colour me less than impressed. It starts with Keanu Reeves grossly miscast and looking completely out of place. And then there's the non-sensical make ups. Look I may be a pedant but if you're going to go with an oriental theme of monsters, try to stick to them! And then there's the ending. No idea at all why KR has to commit sepuku. He wasn't a samurai to begin with let alone a masterless one who disobeyed the emperor's order not to seek vengeance. It's sort of like he thought everyone else was doing it so why not?!

Cheers, Greg.
 
Ha. Yep, the weak link in the chain (Reeves) strikes again. How does this loser keep getting gigs. Sigh.
 
Brand new - Infini. Spoilage>>>
They 'slipstream, these soldiers do - to other parts of the galaxy. Then they come back a minute or two later, after spending a day or two out in space on a mission.
Anyway, there is a bad planet out there, it turns out... and everyone is of course dead there - kilt by a lifeform resembling gooey stuff, that makes up the entire planet like one living organism. Of course, its the perfect organism and can duplicate humans, given a bit of time.
Our heros go crazy once this goop touches them, and a bloodbath ensues, but our MC has to make it back to pregnant wife, so he hangs on and thats enough spoilage, it's worth a watch if you don't mind a lot of cussin' and blood.
 
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I don't know that I'd blame Keanu for the failure. He did his wooden best. I'd blame whoever cast him in that role. Brainfreeze?! I mean come on, there are oodles of great Japanese or at least Asian actors who could have taken the role on and been convincing. But in every scene of the movie I'd see this white guy sticking out like a sore thumb and my first thought was - is he lost? Did the airlines lose him instead of his luggage in the middle of feudal Japan?

But he's far from the only huge casting mistake Hollywood has ever made. Anyone else remember asking themselves why a captain with a huge Scots accent was commanding a Russian sub in October? Or a midget was trying to play a hulking six and a half foot Reacher?

It's like the casting people see the name and simply ignore everything else.

Cheers, Greg.
 
Zathura. A good one for the kids. Two young boys play a strange SF board game and their house flies off into outer space. From there, every move of the game changes reality, and they end up saving astronauts and battling Zorgons.
 
It's like the casting people see the name and simply ignore everything else.

It's like Hollywood realizes that a large fraction of the audience goes to see a movie because of the actors, and not because of the story. That's why a popular actor can demand tens of millions of dollars for a few weeks' work; they put hundreds of millions of dollars worth of bums on seats.

When I worked on indie movies, one of the common pieces of advice was to put all your budget into hiring a known actor, and put the cost of the movie on your credit cards. Don't know if it always worked, but it certainly worked for some.

Keanu Reeves, I gather, is extremely easy to work with, so directors and producers like him even if he can't really act. A single tantrum on set can easily cost thousands of dollars.
 
The Phoenix Incident - based on the 1997 sightings, this new flick is action-based, worth a watch.
Up next: - Army of Frankensteins (!) How can it not be great? It can't be as good as its title, but I have hope....*
 
There was UFOs to burn... a gioant one apparently.... but in this movie they engage the airforce, one UFO gets shot down, monsters swarm, our happy-go-lucky dunebuggy guys get involved, and havoc ensues.
Army. Of. Frankensteins. spoilage >>>> It starts a bit slow... and stupid... then gets ridiculous. There's lots gore, bad science, annoying kid who knows everything... a whole bunch of wacky goings-on... anyone who will watch this movie... will watch this movie. Civil war sets, very cheaply done... two lovely nurses who... nevermind, if you are going to watch it you will watch it. Army. Of. Frankensteins. Hoo boy.
 
More new stuff - Area 51 2015. Well-deserved spoilage>>>>>
Yup, that Area 51. Well, some likely types decide to break into, actually sneak into Area 51. So they do, in a very unlikely and unbelievable way.
Then they poke about... there's a girl who's Dad worked there... and they have a security badge and can pick locks etc. ...and they sneak around in a building, then an alarm goes off and they run into the basement... where there's tunnels... and Alien skins, and Aliens, apparently. They end up caught or running away and then an Alien ship, apparently, takes umbrance, and they are grabbed or taken up or something... The End.
 

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