# Movies You’ve Only Just Watched **URL:** \ **Category:** Off-Topic\ **Created:** [December 25, 2020, 3:44pm UTC](https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/movies-you-ve-only-just-watched/402 "2020-12-25T15:44:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 67
**Author:** ![TheChicken](https://www.hitmanforum.com/user_avatar/www.hitmanforum.com/thechicken/32/105735_2.png) [@TheChicken](https://www.hitmanforum.com/u/TheChicken)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2024, 3:58am UTC](https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/movies-you-ve-only-just-watched/402/1415 "2024-12-16T03:58:35Z")
Last night I saw the 1980s cult hit **The Evil Dead** for the first time! Boy, I’ve only got cursory knowledge of this based on pop culture references, and this first movie feels like a whole other spooky beast than what I’d heard! There were a few moments I seemed to recognize, but it all seems like a darker first draft of what it has become in the cultural zeitgeist. ✋⛓🪚 A book with a face, low-panning camera shots, creepy yet campy ghouls and demons and a striking shot of a chainsaw are all the “Evil Dead” you get in this entry! (Ash doesn’t even use the chainsaw on anything in this! It’s such a tease!) It starts out pretty campy, and in typical classic horror movie setup as 5 college friends go to a cabin in the woods for summer break. Some very silly “hey look it’s a shotgun! _points at best friend’s face for a joke_” kind of stuff happens. Also “let’s steal this weird stuff in this spooky basement, and also this freakish looking book” kinda of dumb decisions… And then… things get freaky. Demons get summoned, a girl feels like she’s being watched from outside, so she goes out into the woods in her nightgown all “I know you’re out there! Show yourself!” She then I guess gets raped by a tree?? That was freakish on a whole other level. And finally, I’d say about halfway through the 90 minute film, things start getting pretty freakin bloody. People get possessed, their faces turning to rotten flesh and blood pouring out of lesions… people get stabbed with all manner of objects, Ash gets thrown into a bookcase (like 3 seperate times I think! which was funny) and man, this first one is definitely more of a horror with surreal/campy moments. I definitely think Bruce Campbell did a great dramatic performance, as he both felt extremely saddened and on the brink of going crazy at times, with how much he was trapped in this cabin with the possessed bodies of his friends (and also everyone suffering some gruesome injuries and stuff too.) Gonna be really interesting to get to the sequel someday, since it shifts to full-on horror-comedy. Most of Evil Dead 1 seems to be played totally straight and serious no matter if it’s a little eccentric. * * * Aaand I watched The Evil Dead because I had to prep myself before seeing **Evil Dead: The Musical** today!! My cousin highly recommends it, and yeah, it was a really fun show. It’s got song, it’s got dance, it’s got gore and blood (lots of it). It’s like half of Evil Dead 1 mixed with half of Evil Dead 2 – story mostly starts out same as the first film, but halfway through Act 1 they introduce new characters I knew nothing about – I checked wikipedia during the intermission and yeah they’re from the sequel. It’s also a very campy production. Scotty is played up to be a total complete tool, for instance. Annie has multiple moments where she rips up her own costume (for that corny 80s sex appeal parody) claiming "oh nooo… you ripped the cuff of my shirt… [_rips off own sleve]_ etc… It was a really fun time, and especially for the first 5 rows I’m sure. I sat in the front of the balcony, but that meant I got a good look at people down below. Because this show has an Audience Splash Zone of Blood!! Near the middle of Act 2, the performers start squirting their blood packets onto the audience (who paid extra and were provided ponchos – or not for the truly daring) and it’s quite entertaining. You also discover that near the lighting fixture, they’ve also assembled _a sprinkler system of fake blood_ which they activate at the end of about 3 musical numbers near the end of the show. Rains down upon the audience below, hope they enjoyed hahaha 😆 It tours around North America very regularly and for a long time now apparently, so if you’re a fan, go look it up. [![](https://hitmanforum-v6-s3-uploads.s3.dualstack.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/original/3X/5/5/55dee17dc92440e6b13d350e76aea3ae8cec1cbc.jpeg " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUldrWn8XJk) [![](https://hitmanforum-v6-s3-uploads.s3.dualstack.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/original/3X/8/c/8ccf4be9ddf929ee4dd159b0ec35345f0087ada5.jpeg "Evil Dead: The Musical") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ex4QYEMssKU) ---
**Author:** ![magicdave94](https://www.hitmanforum.com/user_avatar/www.hitmanforum.com/magicdave94/32/118360_2.png) [@magicdave94](https://www.hitmanforum.com/u/magicdave94)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2024, 7:24am UTC](https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/movies-you-ve-only-just-watched/402/1416 "2024-12-16T07:24:27Z")
> [@TheChicken](#): > > There were a few moments I seemed to recognize, but it all seems like a darker first draft of what it has become in the cultural zeitgeist. Yeah when most people think of ‘Evil Dead’, they really think Evil Dead II. Though it’s essentially the same plot. > [@TheChicken](#): > > Most of Evil Dead 1 seems to be played totally straight and serious no matter if it’s a little eccentric. I think they were earnestly trying to make a real horror movie with the first one but just on a shoestring budget. The second leans much more heavily into the comedic side. The third is a medieval swashbuckling adventure-comedy… I love Evil Dead (though I actually have not seen this musical so may have to now), so I recommend you watch the rest of the franchise. The _best_ Evil Dead is the Ash Vs Evil Dead TV show, closely followed by II. The newer films are decent enough horrors, but not really Evil Dead films to me, feeling more like high budget fan films, as they forego the comedy and campiness that became so integral in II. ---
**Author:** ![Heisenberg](https://www.hitmanforum.com/user_avatar/www.hitmanforum.com/heisenberg/32/143140_2.png) [@Heisenberg](https://www.hitmanforum.com/u/Heisenberg)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 12:12am UTC](https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/movies-you-ve-only-just-watched/402/1417 "2024-12-23T00:12:55Z")
Watched two movies for the first time last night on streaming. The first, my wife and I watched together. The second, my wife ducked out after ten minutes. The first was _Beetlejuice Beetlejuice_. We both concluded that it was a worthy sequel that has a reason to exist, insofar as anything in the _Beetlejuice_ franchise has a reason to exist. Michael Keaton plays his signature character as if he just finished acting in the first film a week ago. The character hasn’t lost a touch. The other characters, the few who return, are a bit changed with thirty years of time, but in a way that is understandable and expected, so nobody seems wildly different. The fact that there are three other villains aside from Beetlejuice, and he and the main cast all team up to stop them for mutual benefit is fun, although I think the character of Delores was built up too much for how little a role she actually played. For a sequel to a movie so weird it never felt like it needed one, and to be made thirty years later to boot, it succeeds where so many sequels fall short. The second movie was _My Dinner With Andre’_. If you want a movie that’s different from any other you’ve seen, that’s more about thinking and imagining the moment rather than actually seeing it, this is a movie everyone should see just once. The premise is the easiest to describe in the history of cinema: two men sit in a restaurant and talk. That’s it. Like, no bullshit, that’s the entire damn movie. There’s a two minute period of the first character arriving at the restaurant while his voice-over explains the situation, and another two minute period at the end as he leaves the restaurant and his voice-over describes his feelings at the end of the evening following the dinner, but the rest of it is just listening to these two guys talk, and watching their facial expressions as they each listen to what the other has to say. But what they talk about, and how they describe it in such a way that you cannot help but visualize for yourself the events they reminisce about, is an examination of human nature and the philosophy of who we are as beings in a modern society full of mediocrity and enslaved to capitalistic fascism. Think of it as attending a lecture in a philosophy class, only instead of a professor addressing a class, it’s two professors addressing each other and the class is just watching and listening. It may be dull to the minds of some (my wife just couldn’t stand the concepts being discussed because human nature annoys her already), but to those with an inquisitive mind, or if you just like to listen to people, watch this one. ---
**Author:** ![Tetrafish\_21](https://www.hitmanforum.com/user_avatar/www.hitmanforum.com/tetrafish_21/32/89259_2.png) [@Tetrafish\_21](https://www.hitmanforum.com/u/Tetrafish_21)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2024, 3:41am UTC](https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/movies-you-ve-only-just-watched/402/1418 "2024-12-23T03:41:31Z")
On the recommendation of a coworker, I watched ‘In Broad Daylight’ (on YT). Not going to get into a lot of the details other than he’s the town bully (to put it lightly), a real, not A-Grade, but S-Grade asshole, if he’s not threatening to shoot you he’s threatening to burn your house down. 😂 From out of the gate you’ll hate this guy, and by the “end”… Let’s just say that I LOL’ed and said “Hell Yeah!” when it happened. Now, I’ll have at least one other question to ask the coworker who recommended it. 🤔 ---
**Author:** ![Heisenberg](https://www.hitmanforum.com/user_avatar/www.hitmanforum.com/heisenberg/32/143140_2.png) [@Heisenberg](https://www.hitmanforum.com/u/Heisenberg)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2024, 1:43pm UTC](https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/movies-you-ve-only-just-watched/402/1419 "2024-12-26T13:43:03Z")
Watched Joker: Folie a’ Deux the other day, and it’s not as bad as people say at all, but it’s also nowhere near as good as the first movie. This is mainly due to two reasons. First, too many songs. The musical concept is fun and it fits with the whole theme set up by the first movie that Arthur Fleck is living a delusional fantasy life half the time, so it creates an in-universe explanation for all the singing and dancing to music that comes out of nowhere. But, while the songs are good, and the performances are good, it just happens too frequently, especially in the second half of the movie where you’re trying to pay attention to the courtroom drama. It could have been better if they’d cut four or five songs from the back half. Second, the first movie works because it shows the steady decline of Arthur’s sanity, and the steady rise into his image of the Joker. This second movie, he’s already there, and it’s more about how he doesn’t know what to do with it now. He’s dealing with Arkham guards, Lee, the press, his fan ~~atic~~ s, and his slowly encroaching guilt and the idea that maybe he’s not as crazy as he thought. The movie doesn’t really seem to know what path it wants to take Arthur down. And then, a lot of that, and other head scratchers set up by the first movie, such as Arthur’s extreme age relative to Bruce Wayne being an obstacle to any meaningful future misadventures with their two alternate personas, it all gets explained in a twist they pulled straight from the _Gotham_ tv show with the reveal that Arthur is not _The_ Joker, just his inspiration, as the young man who will become the _actual_ Joker murders Arthur at the end and takes his title from him. I hate that whole legacy concept in comic book characters. With the exception of Spider-Man and The Flash, who were really more like expanding a movement than a legacy attempt, no comic character has ever been able to do this successfully, because fans don’t give a fuck about the new people who takes over the roles, they care about the characters they’ve come to love. Why they felt the need to do this with Joker, other than to ensure that this is the only sequel, is mystifying. ---
**Author:** ![lukefsje](https://www.hitmanforum.com/user_avatar/www.hitmanforum.com/lukefsje/32/53370_2.png) [@lukefsje](https://www.hitmanforum.com/u/lukefsje)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2024, 2:38pm UTC](https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/movies-you-ve-only-just-watched/402/1420 "2024-12-26T14:38:14Z")
My biggest issue with the movie is that it’s a jukebox musical. Regular musicals with unique composed songs can be an excellent way to emphasize a character’s emotions, thought process, or how they interact with other characters. However with a jukebox musical they’re taking songs which were written for totally different contexts and trying to cram and make them fit into the story they’re trying to tell. ---
**Author:** ![Heisenberg](https://www.hitmanforum.com/user_avatar/www.hitmanforum.com/heisenberg/32/143140_2.png) [@Heisenberg](https://www.hitmanforum.com/u/Heisenberg)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2024, 3:15pm UTC](https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/movies-you-ve-only-just-watched/402/1421 "2024-12-26T15:15:17Z")
I don’t mind that. Like I said, the songs were good and fit with what they were trying to present as the shared madness between Arthur and Lee. It was just too excessive by the second half. ---
**Author:** ![Watson](https://www.hitmanforum.com/user_avatar/www.hitmanforum.com/watson/32/43_2.png) [@Watson](https://www.hitmanforum.com/u/Watson)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2024, 3:55pm UTC](https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/movies-you-ve-only-just-watched/402/1422 "2024-12-26T15:55:22Z")
I’ve been anticipating A Real Pain for a while, and it didn’t disappoint. Expertly balances humour with deeper, contemplative themes. Culkin is cast perfectly. [![](https://hitmanforum-v6-s3-uploads.s3.dualstack.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/original/3X/3/2/32bad64d364f5c2226fd62909acf9f2051a84e1a.jpeg "A REAL PAIN | Official Trailer | Searchlight Pictures") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2et8Vpu7Ls) ---
**Author:** ![TheChicken](https://www.hitmanforum.com/user_avatar/www.hitmanforum.com/thechicken/32/105735_2.png) [@TheChicken](https://www.hitmanforum.com/u/TheChicken)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2024, 4:04am UTC](https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/movies-you-ve-only-just-watched/402/1423 "2024-12-27T04:04:05Z")
Today I went to see the animated movie **Flow**. It’s been getting a lot of good buzz the past few months, about how gorgeous it is and is highly in the running for a potential Oscar win. And yeah! It’s really good! I think it’s primarily a Latvian movie, as the director is from there, but you wouldn’t know that because there is no dialogue throughout the entire film. [![](https://hitmanforum-v6-s3-uploads.s3.dualstack.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/original/3X/7/e/7e2fc4cfed109682f82d9c07582e22cbf356bc71.jpeg "Flow - Official Trailer") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82WW9dVbglI) The movie follows a group of 5 animals who’ve come together by chance after an apocalyptic flood, and must learn to work together, tolerate each other, and survive… This movie has something for any animal lover. Or animation lover really. Cat, Dog, Capybara, Lemur, Bird, Fish, Ancient Dino-looking fish, Ancient Ruins, Nature’s Wrath… Though, warning, it does feature a lot of tense AF animal peril… Gosh, but it’s really well-done. The environments are gorgeous, the animals move so life-like and are incredibly expressive for feral puppets basically. You can distinctly learn their behaviours throughout the film without any word spoken or seen… the Cat is curious but cautious of everyone. The Dog is adorably stupid, and really wants a friend. The Capybara is eternally chill and honestly just wants a nap. The Lemur is a kind-of smart kleptomaniac, but gets obsessed with its hobby. And the Bird – my favourite of the bunch – is a gorgeous, towering maternal figure, seeking to protect the smaller animals beneath its gaze. A lot of the heavy lifting in the film is done by the visuals and music. The main “hook” that builds up over the course of the movie are the animals’ quest to find higher, safer ground, and using these mountainous stalagmites that jut from the ocean floor, always in view, always providing a guiding point. And whenever these spires appear, droning, ominous music can be _felt_. As mysterious as they are spooky. All in all, its a great watch, and with plenty of interpretations on what/why these flood events take place by the end, that I’m sure I’ll look up interviews with the director to find more. It’s very smart for a film that can basically transcend all language barriers, since it has none. Go watch it please. 10/10. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Kills98](https://www.hitmanforum.com/user_avatar/www.hitmanforum.com/accidental_kills98/32/155797_2.png) [@Accidental\_Kills98](https://www.hitmanforum.com/u/Accidental_Kills98)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2024, 4:09am UTC](https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/movies-you-ve-only-just-watched/402/1424 "2024-12-27T04:09:01Z")
> [@TheChicken](#): > > potential Oscar win You mean their “Most likely to be beaten by Disney” category? ---
**Author:** ![TheChicken](https://www.hitmanforum.com/user_avatar/www.hitmanforum.com/thechicken/32/105735_2.png) [@TheChicken](https://www.hitmanforum.com/u/TheChicken)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2024, 4:13am UTC](https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/movies-you-ve-only-just-watched/402/1425 "2024-12-27T04:13:56Z")
Hey, we’re currently 2 years into a non-Disney Streak! The likes of which we haven’t seen since 2006-7 with Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the WereRabbit, and Happy Feet. It could get even _less_ Disney this year, who knows! ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Kills98](https://www.hitmanforum.com/user_avatar/www.hitmanforum.com/accidental_kills98/32/155797_2.png) [@Accidental\_Kills98](https://www.hitmanforum.com/u/Accidental_Kills98)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2024, 4:29am UTC](https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/movies-you-ve-only-just-watched/402/1426 "2024-12-27T04:29:35Z")
> [@TheChicken](#): > > It could get even _less_ Disney this year, who knows! Well Inside Out 2 grossed so much, is a sequel to a film that won in its own year and was so widely viewed that I am going to say there is no way it won’t win. Still I would like a smaller studio to win. _Pinocchio_ I think was the first true small studio win and even then the Netflix deal sort of muddies those waters a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Silvereyes](https://www.hitmanforum.com/user_avatar/www.hitmanforum.com/silvereyes/32/110977_2.png) [@Silvereyes](https://www.hitmanforum.com/u/Silvereyes)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2024, 8:52am UTC](https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/movies-you-ve-only-just-watched/402/1427 "2024-12-27T08:52:41Z")
Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl is out on BBC iPlayer in the UK, and worldwide on Netflix on January 3rd. Not much to say really, just that’s great and charming and I highly recommend it when it becomes widely available. ---
**Author:** ![magicdave94](https://www.hitmanforum.com/user_avatar/www.hitmanforum.com/magicdave94/32/118360_2.png) [@magicdave94](https://www.hitmanforum.com/u/magicdave94)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2024, 9:25am UTC](https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/movies-you-ve-only-just-watched/402/1428 "2024-12-27T09:25:55Z")
Watched that yesterday, very enjoyable and I would say a little more poignant than past instalments. I think Ben Whitehead did a great job taking over in full from Peter Sallis. But then he’s been involved with Aardman and worked with Sallis for quite a while, and voiced Wallace for years in the games. ---
**Author:** ![Axwage](https://www.hitmanforum.com/user_avatar/www.hitmanforum.com/axwage/32/36619_2.png) [@Axwage](https://www.hitmanforum.com/u/Axwage)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2024, 8:12pm UTC](https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/movies-you-ve-only-just-watched/402/1429 "2024-12-27T20:12:52Z")
We went to see Nosferatu last night. It was really cool. It’s very much a love letter to classic horror movies including its namesake. Robert Eggers is a gifted director with a vision; I have loved everything I’ve seen of his. The movie has striking imagery and cinematography, and expertly plays with light and shadow. It’s also restrained in its shots, with a tight aspect ratio and practiced blocking that doesn’t waste an inch of space. Maybe ten minutes too long, but otherwise really really loved it. And we also watched Carry-On on Netflix the night before. Straight up 90s B-movie silliness. Better than it has any right to be. Not “so bad it’s good”, but actually “good in all the right, self-aware dumb ways”. ---
**Author:** ![TheChicken](https://www.hitmanforum.com/user_avatar/www.hitmanforum.com/thechicken/32/105735_2.png) [@TheChicken](https://www.hitmanforum.com/u/TheChicken)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 4:09pm UTC](https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/movies-you-ve-only-just-watched/402/1430 "2025-01-01T16:09:59Z")
Last night work friends and I went to go see the new Wicked WOW, oh MAN it’s like really good. Cynthia and Ariana do fantastic jobs. Galinda is super hateable yet cute/silly, and Elphaba is tragically resilient and wonderfully performed. I’ve seen the stage musical and also think it’s really good, and obviously have some favourite songs in it, and since the movie is 2h40m long, it really takes its time with the pacing – especially since this is just Act 1! But gosh I just kept expecting “man when are we going to get to X song?? aaaa” but not to say I didn’t enjoy the anticipation to get there. The set design is really really cool and full of whimsical architecture and technology. The music and backing track is stunning. (The Oz Dust Dance was really well done, and nearly made me cry with an impressively long sequence of Elphaba dancing on her own as everyone else laughs at her, nearly breaking down until Galinda joins in unexpectedly) Even had a few surprising performances as Michelle Yeoh has a small singing bit in an early song she does pretty well, and even Jeff Goldblum, in all his kooky Goldblum-ness, has a surprisingly good singing voice in “I’m A Sentimental Man” I think this movie has a similar emotional “issue” that the Matilda Musical Movie adaptation had — in that, the Main Character’s plight they face is Hate from their family/those around them, which is played up and exaggerated on-stage probably to better sell and communicate that to the audience. Because in Matilda 🎵 the family’s extreme neglectfulness and abuse felt extremely horrible and way-too-real. And in Wicked here I was shaking my head at the screen every 2 minutes, because _nearly literally everyone_ mistreats Elphaba with bad glances or always running away from her. Maybe that’s just the “real-ness” of movie magic though. Makes it seem all the more believable and horribly heartbreaking. The movie does have quite a bit of additions and minor changes from the Stage version, and notably I really liked how they expanded the cast of sentient animal creatures in the film which builds up and strengthens Elphaba’s connection to and need to help these creatures. _And GOSH Dulcibear the Midwife is SUCH a cute and soothing vibe, she was a wonderful inclusion at the start of the film, raising young Elphie_ ☺ (Unfortunately Universal has still not released an official image of her character, but yeah she was cool) > **[‘Wicked’ Breakdown: 65 Easter Eggs, Changes and References Explained](https://variety.com/lists/wicked-movie-changes-musical-references/universal-logo/)** > > Here is a breakdown of "Wicked's" biggest easter eggs, cameos, references to “The Wizard of Oz” and changes from the beloved Broadway musical. The movie only covers Act 1 (and damn it DOES have a banger climax and final number that sets up the beginning of the Witch’s rise to power in Oz) so when it ends with credits it’s like… I KNOW there’s more after I NEED MORE. (And thankfully from what I read, they filmed them at the same time, so if editing goes to plan, we’ll get Part 2 in November of _this year_ ~~next year~~ ) 🤩 ---
**Author:** ![TheChicken](https://www.hitmanforum.com/user_avatar/www.hitmanforum.com/thechicken/32/105735_2.png) [@TheChicken](https://www.hitmanforum.com/u/TheChicken)\ **Post date:** [January 13, 2025, 3:56am UTC](https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/movies-you-ve-only-just-watched/402/1431 "2025-01-13T03:56:04Z")
OOOOHHHHHH Tonight I went to go see Sonic 3 and GOSH it’s really, really, really fun. It was both **very** hilarious and super cool, IMO. Like, take Jim Carrey acting against himself?! As two delusional geniuses (one of whom is even older and more delusional?) Excellent! He had tons of great jokes and GOD the posing and expressions and visual humour. He was so fun² I adored any and all screen time he had, I love his goofy villainous antics. And here he’s double the goofy… 🤣 And also, Keanu Reeves himself as Shadow the Hedgehog… DAMN he was really badass… The Rule of Cool is like the guiding point for his character in most of the film, and DAAAAMN, they really sell it. For instance, in his first fight with Sonic: Getting on his little motorcycle, then getting a gun, with that damn cool _voice_, only to later **boost UP a skyscraper while ALSO doing an Akira Slide… WTF DUDE 🤯** Plus, I really enjoyed how they had more moments for Agent Stone’s infatuation for Robotnik. Like, it’s practically canon that he’s super gay for that Egg Man. Lee Majdoub (his actor) makes references to it a lot and I think even retweets fanart depicting it? All the other characters and actors were enjoyable, yeah, and I quite liked the dramatic tone of the story with Shadow’s backstory. But honestly 2 Wacky Eggmen, Shadow, and the raw _fun_ of it all with cool action and creative setpieces make this movie a really enjoyable time! I don’t know a lot of Sonic Lore other than popular memes and material that constantly gets thrown around, so it was cool to see stuff with Maria & Shadow as I know that’s a big dramatic thing in the game(s) or even a Chao Garden themed restaurant, complete with adorable mascot costumes and a live performance – gosh I wish for the fans that becomes a real thing – well, that, _and_ a Chao Garden Game, dangit! I’d watch it again for sure, and I think it’s probably my favourite of the series so far. (Okay, well, in terms of a few negatives, I found that some of the lip-synching on the Sonic Crew was a little off at times, and I particularly felt that Ben Schwartz’s many one-liners near the start of the film had strange audio mixing – or maybe it was my theater. But him, his performance and reactions felt a little disconnected from what was going on-screen. It did improve a lot later though, so, IDK…) > **Super Big Credits Tease spoilers!!** > > Oh gosh and you can tell they had a bigger budget for this one, since in the end credits scene they _also_ had a mini action scene, and _even_ had _another_ tiny post-credits scene with Shadow reappearing… > Pretty excited for whatever Metal Sonic might have in store for 4 (also Amy! 2 characters in one tease, woo!) – because despite how much I love Eggman and his larger-than-life performance, I think they _do_ need to take a break from him, at least for one film… ---
**Author:** ![LandirtHome](https://www.hitmanforum.com/user_avatar/www.hitmanforum.com/landirthome/32/40646_2.png) [@LandirtHome](https://www.hitmanforum.com/u/LandirtHome)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 7:54pm UTC](https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/movies-you-ve-only-just-watched/402/1432 "2025-02-02T19:54:04Z")
Watched _Conclave_ yesterday. I think I already announced my love for huis clos movies in the topic. So a movie about _the_ huis clos… It was good. Always like a multilanguage movie, discussion heavy movie, and they set the tone quickly with the sound mixing. It’s dialogue centred and of the kind you would expect for the setting, and then the movie will bring everything back to material reality. Example from the opening: the pope dies, everyone is gathered around him in his bed, everything is heavy, respectful, with a lot of traditional obligations to go through. And then interjected with the sealing of the room with wax, EMTs take the body away with the most mundane procedure and mechanical noises. Ending kinda falls flat. But still falls well for what was build before it. And it might be the point. * * * ![873162192-conclave_0.jpg.jpg](https://hitmanforum-v6-s3-uploads.s3.dualstack.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/original/3X/4/5/45cf48816ea267b9bf7672e8d5006cc5e8d9b706.webp) ---
**Author:** ![Watson](https://www.hitmanforum.com/user_avatar/www.hitmanforum.com/watson/32/43_2.png) [@Watson](https://www.hitmanforum.com/u/Watson)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2025, 11:25am UTC](https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/movies-you-ve-only-just-watched/402/1433 "2025-02-04T11:25:34Z")
One of the best docos I’ve seen. [![](https://hitmanforum-v6-s3-uploads.s3.dualstack.us-west-1.amazonaws.com/original/3X/a/8/a86eaa1da1d4795066724a99fa2410b0206bcf3b.jpeg "The Remarkable Life of Ibelin | Official Trailer | Netflix") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM_hkJ0Rl-c) ---
**Author:** ![Heisenberg](https://www.hitmanforum.com/user_avatar/www.hitmanforum.com/heisenberg/32/143140_2.png) [@Heisenberg](https://www.hitmanforum.com/u/Heisenberg)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 11:41pm UTC](https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/movies-you-ve-only-just-watched/402/1434 "2025-02-10T23:41:30Z")
Finally just watched _John Wick: Chapter 4_. I’ve felt since the announcement of there being a part 4 that the first movie in the series was sort of its version of _The Hobbit_, and the three that follow were its _The Lord of the Rings_. The first one introduces the world and has its own contained story. The three that follow introduce more of the wider world the first inhabits, and shows the true forces at work, and how the events of the first story triggered a series of events that cause the three following installments to happen, having their own story not beholden to the first, but set in motion by it, and in the case of the _Wick_ series, this one is definitely worthy of being _The Return of the King._ While I still prefer the simplicity and purity of the first film, this one is definitely my favorite of the trilogy that follows it. It ups the action, which I didn’t think was possible after the third film, but unlike the third film, which dragged the admittedly awesome fight scenes on for no real reason, this one never felt tedious to me in the constant waves of attackers and violence. It always felt like a clock was ticking and the fights felt like they had a point, even when they objectively didn’t. And I love the new characters introduced. While some were really just rehash of characters from the past movies, the interactions between them all felt more exciting than the previous two. I especially loved the three-way conflict between John, Caine, and the Tracker/Nobody. The music at the end before the final showdown even gave away that it was tapping into _The Good, The Bad and The Ugly_ with those three. My only complaints are how unceremoniously Charon was treated (RIP to actor Lance Reddick), and that there was _still_ no follow-up with Aurelio. John should have at least asked Winston to tell Aurelio that he could keep the car or something. I liked it, and although it doesn’t need one, I can see how they _might_ be able to pull off a fifth film, if they decide to go through with it. Not sure whether I hope they do or not, but I’m keeping my mind open for that one. [Previous page](https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/movies-you-ve-only-just-watched/402.md?page=66) [Next page](https://www.hitmanforum.com/t/movies-you-ve-only-just-watched/402.md?page=68)