Quote from: NecronomIV on Oct 02, 2022, 07:00:14 AMDon't look up (2021)
Brutal satire, a mirror for our times, and ended the only way it could.
I thoroughly enjoyed that, but the way it was both absolutely hilarious and completely terrifying really threw me for six.
My mate and I were both home alone over the weekend so we got together to relive our university years by eating junk and watching movies all day.
The Suicide Squad (the good one)
I never bothered with the first but Johnny was adamant I needed to see this. Loved it. Irreverent, hilarious, gratuitous and just plain good fun. Great to see Idris finally get a worthwhile role in a Hollywood blockbuster. And while I like John Cena as a bloke, I've always considered him utterly useless as an actor, so it was a nice surprise to see just how spot-on he was in this.
AmbulanceHow the hell is this Michael Bay's second highest-rated movie on IMDb? Consensus from both of us was that it's crap. It couldn't decide what tone it was going for, was overly long and drawn-out, featured editing that was often downright nauseating, Jake Gyllenhaal was so ludicrously unhinged it actually became more annoying than entertaining, and overall it was just surprisingly forgettable. In fact the only thing I can remember with any clarity was the bit where
Spoiler
they spray the ambulance fluorescent green (for some reason), doing a really crap job of it so all the ambulance markings are still very obviously showing through, then drive it right past a huge crowd of cops that fail to notice it.
Don't get me wrong, the moment was absolutely f**king hilarious... I just don't think it was meant to be.
The Long Kiss GoodnightOne of my picks as Johnny had never watched it. I've seen it a bunch of times but it still managed to be better than I remembered. Some proper vintage Shane Black screenwriting in it. It's not the greatest movie Samuel L. Jackson has ever made, but this is without question my all-time favourite role of his. "I'm always frank and earnest with women - in New York I'm Frank and in Chicago I'm Earnest." And that hat!
Also in 2022 it's kinda nice to see an action film that feels this big whilst still clocking in at under two hours.
Serenity (not the
Firefly one)
Another one Johnny insisted I see. WTF?!
Hurt slightly by my jokingly calling the insane twist in advance, but it's still a wonderful slice of what-the-f**k-were-they-thinking cinema featuring big-name stars giving their all to a project that was obviously off its rocker from the start.