Essential Coli-members what's the last thing you watched?

[TheGodling]

It has been a couple years since I first saw it so I rewatched Merantau, the debut film of Iko Uwais and Yayan Ruhian by Garth Evans. Even now it's still obvious that Evans borrowed a lot from Ong Bak and The Protector, and although the movie never reaches those heights, it's still a good action flick. After all these years my biggest takeway of the film is still that Evans took some very unconventional risks here. The movie opens very slow, almost cerebral, and it's easy to see how people could give up on it before it even gets going. It also is notoriously downbeat for a martial arts film:

Spoiler

The girl he tries to save from sex traffickers is raped before he can do so, and he receives a fatal blow by the main villain after showing him mercy.

It at least shows that Evans has never been a conventional storyteller, but whether that proves to be a good thing or not is what we will see in his upcoming English-language debut this year.

 

[Ribbs]

A 1L Monster drink of sugary garbage.

 

[The G.O.D II]

-I like Bill Hader and supposedly this is Amy Schumer best movie. Still sucked. Schumer is just such an abnoxious and unlikable person. Her and Dunham are this generations roseanne and O’Donnell. Apatow’s rom com formula is stale af now. Literally the best parts were done by the support cast(Lebron, Cena, Marc Albert)

Great movie that deserved all the praise and accolades.

Garbage. I even saw the extended directors cut. Long sluggish tripe. Nowhere near the level of goodfellas, godfather. Hell its not even on the second tier of mob flicks like mean streets, Casino, etc. People try to heap praise on this because it’s Leone last film, the studio hack his original air time, he has such goodwill from the Eastwood westerns, etc. fukk that. Plot was silly. Woods was completely miscast. Deniro was sleep walking. Some scenes are just mind numbing. The ending was just awful. Thumbs down

 

[Zero]

Really felt like there was more to the story but they were pressed for time so a lot of parts were rushed. This is the first time Lynch's dreamy storytelling did nothing for me and hearing the characters thoughts were far less beneficial than I thought it would be. All they did was restate the obvious. Meh.

 

[kej718]

8/10

8.5/10
WTF did I just watch?

7.5/10

 

[Zero]

:loldenzel2:

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

Really felt like there was more to the story but they were pressed for time so a lot of parts were rushed. This is the first time Lynch's dreamy storytelling did nothing for me and hearing the characters thoughts were far less beneficial than I thought it would be. All they did was restate the obvious. Meh.

shyt, didn't know it was given the Alan Smithee treatment?

 

[Danie84]

...once upon a time Cameron Diaz was smokin

 

[sjankis630]

Trainwreck was OK. It should have been about 20 minutes shorter though.
Now Snatched and I Feel Pretty.......
Straight up
I think one more dud and she will be back on TV and doing roasts if she doesn't watch out.

 

[TheGodling]

Winner of the audience award at both Sundance and IFFR, this Danish thriller is a new entry in the "closed environment" cinema. In an emergency dispatch center, a street cop is sitting out his final day of probation after an incident. When he receives an emergency call from a woman who is taken against her will, he acts beyond the professional boundaries of his job to try and save her life. The result is a movie that mostly consists of phone calls, to his colleagues, to the victim, her children, etc. And although it's well-acted and well-directed, the film is perhaps to narrative driven. There are a lot of not so subtly crafted developments to try and keep you on the edge of your seat, but instead make the movie feel more artificial, and basically kill all of the movie's replay value once you get to the end. It probably could've achieved more by making it more of a character study like Locke instead of a thrill ride like Buried (also a movie were suspense of disbelief vaporizes at alarming rates). I can understand why festival audiences loved this movie (especially since most of the festival crowd are plebians who do not fully embrace arthouse), but it's only a solid flick if you look deeper than the sensation it's trying hard to give you.

 

[Zero]

I set my expectations way too high for this. A Stephen King adaptation with David Cronenberg directing and Christopher Walken starring in it and....that was the best y'all could do.


I avoid doing more than the bare minimum when looking up most films to avoid spoilers but that might need to change.

 

[Zero]

 

[Straw Hat Luffy]

 

[Lefty Gunz]

Ready Player One. Enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would

 

[The G.O.D II]

Better then the previous two. The last fights sequence kind of got ridiculous. But solid movie. Pratt still sucks and is the most generic cac actor today. I’ve heard nothing but negative things about the sequel but I’ll still cop it