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Midweek Movie Free Talk
Have you watched any movies recently you want to discuss? Any films you want to recommend or are hyped about? Feel free to discuss anything here.
Please just try to provide fair warning of spoilers if you can.
I watched The Beekeeper a couple of days ago, and it was extremely bad. I loved it!
To begin with, I was a little scared it was going to be just another shitty B-movie that took itself too seriously, but it soon turned into some of the biggest laughs I've had from a movie in a long time. It knew exactly how bad it was, and leaned in to the ridiculousness of it all. Jason Statham played it 100% straight which was so funny in the increasingly absurd story beats and set pieces. I highly recommend it! I don't know how to underscore how funny it was without spoiling everything, but trust me on this one lol, go watch it!
I spoke with a friend of mine shortly after this movie came out and he said it was one of the worst movies he ever sat through in theatres. I think you need to know what you're getting into going into it. I haven't personally seen it, but after his review I was expecting to it panned, but it's actually at a respectable critic score and an even higher audience score.
Not a movie but I have been having fun with this little movie quiz type game at https://moviegrid.io/
I've been playing Framed every day for the last couple of years now. If you want far less mainstream films check out SNAPSЖOT.
I watched "The Ballad of the Songbirds and Snakes". Hunger Games are probably only YA dystopia series I appreciate. Movie is OK, but as usual, book was better.
Ruimy made a blog post about his favorites of 2004. Which is a coincidence cause I was attempting this a few weeks ago. I was 4/5 at the time and wasn't really watching movies but from what I've seen from the year retroactively this is what I would pick:
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Million Dollar Baby
The Village
The Aviator
Sideways
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
Before Sunset
Shaun of the Dead
Collateral
13 Going on 30
A lot of great movies from that year I haven't seen including: My Summer of Love, Vera Drake, Birth, Manchurian Candidate, and Motrocycle Diaries. Unsurprisingly most of the movies I have seen from this year are children's films.
From 2004 I think Primer and Der Untergang bears mention too. With Anchorman and Layer Cake as wildcards.
I saw Layer Cake right after watching Argylle, just to see a movie where Matthew Vaughn was trying. It was pretty good.
I like Anchorman. I’m a McKay bro but I’m not as crazy about Anchorman as everyone else is. I think The Other Guys and Talladega Nights are better. Though McKay made the Anchorman sequel in 2013 so that he could get The Big Short made.