What's the best movie you've seen this month?
What's the best movie you've seen this month?
I'll go first. For me, it's Across The Spider-Verse. The excellent score and soundtrack is just a bonus.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I just shared it with my kids. But we're godly seeing across the spiderverse tonight, so that might change.
This is my all-time favorite. One of my favorite memories of this movie was — when I showed it to a way less idealistic friend of mine, he felt so sad when the last of the memories is being removed. I did not expect him to do that let alone like the movie.
We had our 19 year old nephew watch that this last weekend, a beautiful masterpiece still.
This tread has been a moment of personal discovery. In trying to imagine what movie I've seen this month I realized I haven't seen a movie yet this year - unless you count standup specials which live in the movie section of Plex. I'm like 80% sure the last movie I watched was the Bob's Burgers Movie. What happened to me?!
Edge of tomorrow. Really hoping for a sequel including Emily Blunt.
Isn't it too late for a sequel?
Why? Top gun got a sequel after nearly forty years.
Definitely Spiderverse. It was almost too fast moving at times, but fantastic story telling and, of course, art design.
Across the Spidervetse was incredible
Ikr?!
Dune. While there's no way to perfectly capture the magic of the intricate machinations of (Frank) Herbert's universe, the movie gets about as close as anyone could, I think. The only thing in its league is Jackson's LOTR trilogy, and I think Dune is at least as good if not slightly better. Can't wait for the second (and hopefully third!) one!
I loved the movie, but I feel like they didn't include enough Dr. Yueh. I also feel like they could have ended the movie a few scenes earlier.
Asteroid City was surprisingly good. Eccentric, but in the best way.
Very Wes Anderson-y in a good way.
Usually not my cup of tea, I watched an Indian movie, two of them actually: Bahubali and Bahubali 2. Yes, it's cliché and cheesy but all in a very fun and spectacular way.
It's basically life-action anime but with more musical and dancing bits.
New movie: Across the Spiderverse without a doubt. Gave it a 9/10. I think i like the first more but it's a beautiful movie.
Old and overall: i rewatched Toy Story 2. It's a 10/10 from me.
Do the final two episodes of Star Trek: TNG count? If so, that.
For a series with its ups and downs, they really nailed everything that's great about Star Trek in the final two episodes with none of the lows. Relevant social commentary, intelligent dialog, an intriguing science fictional mystery, some action, and a superbly dramatic Picard! Not just Picard either. Almost everyone in the cast gets a chance to shine across the three time periods. Brent Spiner especially gets a nod for the subtle changes to old Data's character.
Extraction 2, but there wasn't much competition because I only saw 2 movies this month.
the action is absolutely insane, just like extraction 1. the 20+ minute "one take" shot near the beginning had me picking up my jaw from the floor afterwards.
Emily the criminal was pretty decent. Good acting, the story is okay, but nothing special. Enjoyable. Then I watched Oh Lucy! With Josh Hartnet. That was a downer of a movie somehow. It's about a japanese lady who is kinda unsatisfied with her life, tries to change things up, opens up a bit, but it's not as successful as one expects. Not bad, rather weird movie!
Upgrade. I freaking love that movie even for how dark it is.
Hadn't heard of this before so just watched the trailer, this is going on the watch list immediately, thanks!
It's not a new one, but I rewatched the 1998 film Dark City (IMDB/RT) 2 weeks ago and totally forgot how atmospheric it was. Whilst it takes it self seriously there's some pretty bizarre moments, I totally cracked up at a scene where one of the 'strangers' exclaims "HE CAN TUNE!" which is followed by a shot of a child stranger smiling and chattering their teeth (YouTube clip)
Happy Gilmore. I’ve seen it before, but not for a long time. Don’t think I’ll ever get tired of it.
'The Wandering Moon' directed by Lee Sang-il and based on the novel by Yuu Nagira. The story contains some controversial themes but it's beautifully shot and put together with a lot of care and love. At two and a half hours it's a really nice length to just sit back and allow yourself to get fully immersed in the visual experience. It has that sort of slow, melancholic beauty that appears in a lot of modern Japanese art. If you've ever read a Murakami novel you'll know what I mean.
I really enjoyed Elemental! My boyfriend slept through most of it though haha. It seems to be one of those polarizing movies.
The animation of Fire and Water was so beautiful and the story did resonate with me as a kinda/sorta immigrant.
I... have not seen any movies this month actually. Definitely want to check out Spiderman though and Asteroid City looks like it might be fun too.
Asteroid city looks awesome, let us know how it is of you catch it
I recently watched Beau if a Afraid, I wouldn’t say it’s my favorite but it definitely made me feel things, mainly anxiety lol
Blackberry was awesome. Funny, good moments of tension, totally worth a watch.
Blackberry was fun, but at times it felt like a poor man's The Social Network. At least for me.
I think I’d agree with that. Blackberry is a really good movie, The Social Network is an all-timer.
The Mario movie was way better than I expected tbh
Absolutely, by necessity. Can't really take it for granted that being a lurker won't overall impact the site. Unfortunately, my usual subs that I participate in haven't yet made the leap of faith, so its hard to provide quality contribution until that improves
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Definitely Across the spider verse, 9/10 best movie of the year so far, but can't wait to watch Past Lives
man across the spiderverse is the only movie i've watched this month
I marathoned The Godfather trilogy a couple of weeks ago. 1 is still one of my favourite movies
I enjoyed Fool's Paradise. Wasn't perfect but I feel privileged to watch Charlie Day's creative mind at work. Also the cast was great, if not utilized to the fullest extent. Satire of the film industry is always a favorite of mine.
The critics gave it a really hard time though.
I'd say The Covenant but BlackBerry was a close second
I haven't watched any movies this month, but I've been staring at John Wick 4 in my queue for weeks. Does that count?
Apocalypse Now. Watched it in an airplane so wasn't as good of an experience as it should have been, but it was an incredible movie regardless. My favorite Vietnam movie definitely
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946). I knew nothing going in and just enjoyed. It was modern and thought-provoking about war and what we owe our veterans. The coolest part is that it asks the tough questions about a war that few of us question as being necessary (World War II).
Across the Spiderverse was absolutely amazing too but I expected that and it surpassed my expectations.
"The Space Between Us"
It's not normally the type of movie I'd watch, but it was a random suggestion that came up and my thoughts were "Well, at the moment I don't have anything better to do" - I really enjoyed it, even if the ending was easily guessable.
I haven't really watched any movies aside from that this month and its definitely not a new movie like Spiderman but I'd still recommend it if you're just looking to unwind/relax.
"The perks of being a wallflower."
I'm an introvert. And I relate to almost every scene in the film.
We watched Extraction 2 (and #1 before that). I had zero expectations, but was surprised that they both were quite good! Avoided some tropes, leaned into others, action was innovative without going full John Wick. Not bad, Netflix!
Ice Planet (2001) because of Starhunter Redux. They lost $5 million trying to make a TV show out of the movie.