Me, too. I’ve watched it several times over the years. Haven’t had an interest in seeing any of the others again, for any reason.
Yeah, I don’t think Shakespeare in Love as the winner in that category is especially outrageous.
CoF was pretty thin. They changed some of the American runners’ behavior to make them seem less “worthy.” The guy who was the model for the aristocratic British runner refused them permission to use his name, because it would besmirch his family name or something. When the movie was a big success, he wanted his name in it. Twat.
The Other Guys, Will Farrell and Marky Mark. I really detest Farrell’s man-child schtick, but this was actually pretty amusing, mainly because he dialed that bit to “off”.
Project Wolf Hunting
Kind of a Korean Jerry Bruckheimer/Michael Bay action movie, but much more violent. Sadly, not much better than what Bruckheimeimer-Bay can pull off. Really not much here other than a bunch of prisoners breaking loose on a ship and attacking, very violently, a bunch of people.
I was disappointed. Sometimes there is more than meets the eye in a movie. For this one, there was less. Just a over-the-top violent movie with not much to offer.
Watched Vengeance, the BJ Novak movie. I didn’t really care for it until about halfway through, when things started coming together. By the end, I liked it. I don’t want to say more about it as it would give away plot points.
Color Out of Space (2019), directed by Richard Stanley and mentioned a few times upthread. I’ve seen good and lukewarm online reviews of this film, but what I haven’t seen is the end, because I gave up a little over halfway in. I didn’t care for the lack of follow-through. Too many things shown just to creep us out without proportional relevance to the story or even coherent treatment (the consequences of the kitchen accident, for example). It’s not the first acclaimed Nick Cage film that’s left me unsatisfied.
Watched SMILE on streaming last night.
We enjoyed it. Not perfect, not a fan of Sophie Bacon, but still had some good scares and was able to create a sense of dread while keeping up the pace.
Saw M3gan in the theater late last night with my daughter. It was less a horror movie and more a mocking of corporate and consumer culture, but I enjoyed it either way. 66/100.
Old Henry on Showtime. Stars Tim Blake Nelson in a drama role, which is different for him. Good movie with a surprise near the end.
Another AMatW Quantumania viewer here, concurring with previously expressed views that the movie, though draggy in parts, was much more engaging to watch than most of the reviews make it sound.
Hardly worth while thinking about an MCU movie in terms of stuff like three-dimensional character development, subtle shades of meaning, etc., but to my surprise I found myself kind of digging Quantumania on that level. When considering Janet’s refusal to tell her family after their reunion about the ultra-QuantumRealm alternative dimension or whatever the hell that place was which obviously had physically macroscopic stuff in it, for example, I thought it actually made sense because she still felt on one level that she had betrayed them by choosing to sabotage Kang’s mission instead of seizing the chance to come back to them.
I thought, “Wow, not since the Captain America films (and Falcoln and the Winter Soldier) have an MCU character’s actions struck me as being this fundamentally plausible from the point of view of motivations that an actual human person, although still a somewhat larger-than-life cartoonified one, might have.”
That was aided by the dialogue and performances, which likewise seemed to have been undertaken with the intention of portraying more-or-less realistic human beings. Kang in particular, the least “normal human”-ish of the characters if you don’t count MODOK and the QR folks, was terrific in terms of suggesting psychological and cognitive complexity. I was resolving to go watch some other stuff that this Jonathan Majors guy is in before his first big scene was halfway over.
I haven’t seen this movie yet, but I really hated Majors’ performance as Kang in the Loki TV show. I hope he has refined his characterization/is directed differently. (Most others here enjoyed his turn on Loki, but not me). That said, I am looking forward to seeing this at some point.
Saw it today. Same-ish? He’s more clearly a bad guy in this one. But same-ish performance.
Huh, interesting. I did in fact see Majors as Kang in Loki, but his performance didn’t make anywhere near such an impression on me (and also, it seemed to me (an ignoramus about Marvel comics and their canon(s)) (can I use more parentheses in this parenthesis? (yes)) that the character came out of left field somewhat. Oh, this whole multiversal-reality-destroying time destabilization is about the personal megalomania of one normal-sized bad guy? Again? Oh, okay then).
Maybe I just appreciated his acting more on the big screen, or something.
Minor spoiler for Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania; you’ve got this enormously powerful superhero capable of amazing feats facing off against a villain capable of traversing various universes and their epic battle is merely a fist fight.
This was one of my big complaints about Civil War - the big “Everybody line up and punch each other” battle looked cool but was phenomenally stupid.
Not a fictionalized movie, but a documentary: David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet (2020)
I’ve been a fan of naturalist Sir David Attenborough for as long as I can remember. His nature documentaries are always top-notch and engaging. A Life on Our Planet is Attenborough’s witness statement at age 93 (he’s now 96), and it is excellent.
This is a testament to the destruction of wild planet Earth throughout Attenborough’s lifetime (which began long before, when humans began farming). It is very depressing to watch, showing clearly and in terms everyone can understand, just how and why we are fast entering our planet’s 6th mass-extinction event. Bottom line: we have been lousy caretakers.
But, Attenborough gives us a glimmer of hope and explains that it doesn’t have to play out like that, if we all work together to re-wild Earth, making it sustainable once again and putting a halt to the deleterious cascading effects of global warming. It’s doable, but won’t be easy. With, or without us, nature will reclaim Earth. If we want to be with it, we had better do more to heal it now.
David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet should be required viewing for every human on Earth, and shown weekly to world leaders.
Wait, I thought you said it was doable. 
Good point. I forgot we are talking about humans, the stupidest intelligent species on Earth.
Argentinean remake of M reworks some of its plot and character threads to give the familiar story a (slightly) fresh look. The nominal protagonist is a singer in a seedy nightclub whose young daughter is predictably menaced. As the perv, Nathán Pinzón is no Peter Lorre, but he sweats a lot, runs around in sewers (shot on location) and is plenty creepy. Beautifully lit and stylishly directed in spots – if a bit heavy on the musical cues - the film lacks nuances found in the original, but also avoids the caricatured dramatics of the 1951 remake.
Wait, there’s a US M remake?
When the police hunt for a child killer cramps their style, the criminal underworld tries to track him down.
Well, that’s a hell of a logline.