What Was The Last Movie You Saw? Welcome Cinephiles.

[deathbypoem]

Dark Places.

That's all I will say.

[Gemme]

I saw this movie and was the only person at the 4pm showing. That doesn't surprise me. Kids nowadays don't know anything about the franchise and those in my age bracket will likely be disappointed with the movie.




They did some neat stuff but it's nowhere like the original. The best part of the movie was Synergy.

[homoe]

The story of Amy Winehouse in her own words, featuring unseen archival footage and unheard tracks! I enjoyed it very much but it left me feeling a bit sad!

[Allison W]

Originally Posted by Gemme

I saw this movie and was the only person at the 4pm showing. That doesn't surprise me. Kids nowadays don't know anything about the franchise and those in my age bracket will likely be disappointed with the movie.




They did some neat stuff but it's nowhere like the original. The best part of the movie was Synergy.

I did hear that the suits that got the idea to make a Jem movie butchered the source material with a rusty chainsaw. Sad to hear they never thought better of it.

Originally Posted by Gemme

I saw Goosebumps. Because I wanted to and I adore Jack Black.

Did you ever happen to play Brütal Legend? Because Jack Black stars in it and gets a lot of great lines.

[JDeere]

The Exorcist

The original one

Still scares the shit out of me

[*Anya*]

dope

This movie apparently was a break-out hit at Sundance. It also got an 88% Rotten Tomato's critic score and 85% viewer score.

I enjoyed it a lot. It is about 3 young geek friends in high school that are obsessed with 1990's hip hop (the main character wears his hair like Kid'Play did back in the day) and they get routinely beat up at school. They are growing up in Inglewood.

It breaks some stereotypes but still has others.

One of the three friend is a butch lesbian. I must admit, when I saw the three friends at first, I thought she was a boy but she was a boi. The other two friends totally accept her, which was awesome to see.

A funny scene is one in which, every Sunday, her grandmother takes her to church and they try to "pray the gay away". Meanwhile, one of the church praying circle is a hot young woman that the young butch can't keep her eyes off of. It is a funny and sweet scene.

A stereotypical theme is that of older guys that are drug dealers. The high school protagonist (Malcolm) gets involved with the dealing (not his choice, I must emphasize).

Malcolm's goal is to go to college. His HS guidance counselor puts him down when he says he wants to go to Harvard.

I was rooting for Malcom and his friends.

Good little movie.

[Allison W]

This is a television series and not a movie (if there's a better thread for it, let me know and I'll post there), but Steven Universe. It's challenging to describe, because there's so much to it, and I don't wanna write a giant ten-paragraph tl;dr dissertation. So while there are a few spoilers in it I'll let The Mary Sue give you the 101.

I know, I know. Beyond being a TV series, it's a cartoon on bloody Cartoon Network. I was all "I R ADULT I DUN WANNA WATCH NO CARTOONS" too, but then my friends got me started watching it and I'm bloody glad they did because this show, man, this show. Then I went and started getting other friends of mine watching it. And then they went and started getting, like, their friends and spouses watching it and shit. It's kind of like the corollary that completes the Maturity Paradox. Like, you know how most "mature" stuff is juvenile in the extreme? Steven Universe is kind of the opposite of that. It's a family-friendly cartoon that comes in quarter-hour episodes and yet it's easily one of the most mature shows on the telly, both in how it approaches people and relationships and how it approaches fiction. It's rich with things like foreshadowing, a contiguous narrative that welds all the details into a coherent whole instead of every episode ending in a return to the status quo, high-production-values musical numbers that are a delightful treat when an episode turns out to have one (a brilliant musical number was even the climax of the first season), a wonderfully developed and flawed cast of characters, storytelling so tightly wrapped and cleverly expressed that it can tell a meaningful story and then some inside of an 11-minute episode, and even the occasional usage of techniques normally found in adult fiction like deliberately unreliable narration.

I could ramble on and on and on and I'd love to but I'm gonna control myself, for now. Just... watch it. You'll be glad you did. (To keep it brief, like many shows, it takes a little while to really hit its stride, but where many shows don't do that until a couple seasons in, Steven Universe hits that stride fully at halfway through the first season--26 eleven-minute episodes--and has kept that stride going strong since. It's presently close to halfway through the second season, though new episodes are on holiday hiatus.)