Last Movie You Saw

**T.B.** · 03.23.25, 12:02 AM

Originally Posted by Number 47

Wicked 2024

Premiers on Peacock tomorrow 3/21/25

Finally get to see what all the hubbub is about.

I watched it tonight and think it’s one of the worst, most soulless big budget movies I’ve ever seen. Being a musical puts it at a disadvantage for me right off the bat as I hate the genre although I like a few classics like the original Wizard of Oz, West Side Story and a very small number of others. This movie just blows - unlikeable characters, bizarre plot contrivances, weird tonal shifts, over the top pc/woke culture (there are no dwarf munchkins) and ham fisted metaphors for persecution of anyone or anything different. The whole production looks like it was filmed in a giant empty green screened warehouse with everything CGI’d to fill out the screen.

“Elphaba” is born green looking like one of Shreks kids thanks to her mommy screwing around behind her husbands back (it’s intimidated she’s drugged to forget the sex). She develops telekinetic powers like a junior X-Man and along with her sister, wind up at Hogwarts-type school populated by incredibly obnoxious students with ol’ Crouching Tiger Michelle Yeoh as headmistress. Goats teach history, shallowness is celebrated, monkeys horrifically learn to fly and vapid song and dance commence with extreme prejudice at the drop of a broomstick.

I’m watching Tropic Thunder right now to cleanse my pallet.

**Number 47** · 03.23.25, 12:53 AM

I watched the first half. Like you I find it soulless, paired with an odd color pallet that seems hazy and whitewashed... so no true color ever really pops. "Ga" Linda being an uptight snobby bitch does not help matters.

**billy007** · 03.23.25, 06:44 AM

"Piece By Piece". The Pharrell Williams story acted out with Legos animation. Not my type of music but still interesting to learn - who knew that Virginia Beach had a music scene? Sad to hear that he and his musical partner Chad are now on lawyer terms (not part of the movie - just learned through extended reading)

**jimmy812** · 03.23.25, 11:54 AM

Originally Posted by Little Intruder

MF, yep it's a classic but I think I like the sequel better. The one with Julianne Moore as Clarice. I've always had a thing for gingers. And Anthony Hopkins was awesome as usual!

Wow. I thought the sequel was forgettable. Certainly nowhere close to the first, IMO.

**jimmy812** · 03.23.25, 12:01 PM

A Real Pain

I enjoyed this film written and directed by Jesse Eisenberg. A though-provoking family journey with filming taking place in actual historical locations in Poland. All this in a nice tidy 89 minutes--we don't get that very often. Recommended.
I'm not a big fan of Kieran Culkin, but he did a good job in this (not sure it was Oscar-worth, however).

**Little Intruder** · 03.23.25, 09:13 PM

Originally Posted by jimmy812

Wow. I thought the sequel was forgettable. Certainly nowhere close to the first, IMO.

Well Jim, as I said before I've always had a thing for redheads and Julianne Moore fit the bill perfectly. Plus, I liked Gary Oldman. He sure gave John Hurt as the Elephant Man a run for his money!

**Raldo** · 03.25.25, 01:24 AM

The Last Champion

Cole Hauser plays a disgraced ex-amateur wrestler. This was good movie.

**Simon Ribeiro** · 03.25.25, 04:11 AM

The Hunted (2003).

Never saw this 01 before. I thought it was funny to know that Johnny Cash stars this movie as The Narrator, though he's not credited.

**ziggysmalls** · 03.25.25, 04:46 AM

Snow White 2025

Just kidding.....

**Simon Ribeiro** · 03.25.25, 05:46 AM

Originally Posted by jimmy812

Wow. I thought the sequel was forgettable. Certainly nowhere close to the first, IMO.

I enjoy Hannibal as well, Jimmy. It's not that great as the 1st one (The Silence of the Lambs - O Silêncio dos Inocentes in portuguese), but it has its moments.

The scene inspector Renaldo Pazzi has his lower abdomen cut open and his intestines exposed and falling out is well done and does justice to his 'family background'.

**rocknblues81** · 03.25.25, 07:34 AM

Originally Posted by Little Intruder

Well Jim, as I said before I've always had a thing for redheads and Julianne Moore fit the bill perfectly. Plus, I liked Gary Oldman. He sure gave John Hurt as the Elephant Man a run for his money!

I've always thought Moore was a bland actress.

**rocknblues81** · 03.25.25, 07:37 AM

Originally Posted by ziggysmalls

Snow White 2025

Just kidding.....

It bombed badly.

There are certainly blockbuster movies that can still exist, but I think Hollywood needs to trend back to the pre Star Wars days where you make smaller budgeted movies that appeal to different people rather than trying to spend 100's of millions of dollars on all of these movies.

**Little Intruder** · 03.25.25, 01:11 PM

SR, what I liked about Hannibal is that they showed what a true monster Lecter was. Audiences were shocked by his depravity and rightly so. The first movie was all about Buffalo Bill. This was pure Lecter horror!

**Little Intruder** · 03.25.25, 09:54 PM

Speaking of Lecter, was it too over the top seeing him with that little boy? Nope. Real-life serial killers are very charming when they want to be. Bundy, Berkowitz, Gacy, Dahmer, Ridgway, and many others were able to fool people like crazy. That's how they got away with murder for so long.

**Daisy Hill** · 03.28.25, 07:01 AM

It took me three attempts to completely get thru Anora. This Oscar winning film and the Oscar winning lead actress performance are going to go down as the most over rated winners ever.

It took 2 hours and 20 minutes for the plot " Anorra works in a strip club where she is introduced to a Russian billionaires son requests a Russian speaking girl. He pays her to be his exclusively for a couple of weeks and they end up marrying in Vegas. Since he is a big man baby, his family has handlers assigned to him and when they find out about the marriage the furious parents fly in from Russia to force an annulment. Anorra insists they are truly in love but man baby caves". 139 minutes! In contrast, the much more moving and well told story " A Real Pain" was 90 minutes. Super economical storytelling. No reason this one couldn't have been the same.

Acting the role of Anorra, from the opening scene on, Mikey Madison shows off ALL her assets repeatedly. Her performance explores the gamut of emotions from A to B. I just don't freakin get the love for this film. It is a good film, although far far to long especially in the scenes where they are searching for the missing man baby Vanya. But this is not a great film and this is not a great performance. Demi Moore got ROBBED