What Did You Watch Today?

[Benji]

Ice Age 3: Dawn of the Dinosaurs was decent for what it was.

[Benjamin]

Akira (1988) is fucking bonkers and it is awesome.

Also saw The Past (2013), which is the second Asghar Farhadi film I've seen. Considering I love A Separation and consider it one of the best films I've ever seen, had high expectations for this, and it almost met it. Still, a very solid, very hard look at the broken family dynamic, but I found it absolutely captivating to watch.

[Benji]

I don't know whether it was because I went into the film with low expectations considering the flawed concept, but I didn't really enjoy Lucy. ScarJo is great and does her character well, but the plot is just totally uninteresting.

[Summers]

Half way through it just goes batshit crazy and made no sense.

[Roster Depth Sicko No. 2]

Archer Season 6 is still just as fantastic, thank you Canadian Netflix!

[Jimmy]

Akira (1988) is fucking bonkers and it is awesome.

Also saw The Past (2013), which is the second Asghar Farhadi film I've seen. Considering I love A Separation and consider it one of the best films I've ever seen, had high expectations for this, and it almost met it. Still, a very solid, very hard look at the broken family dynamic, but I found it absolutely captivating to watch.

The Past just didn't know how to settle on a satisfying end. Or I think that's how I remember feeling. I thought it was incredible for the first half or so, and felt it slightly dipped in quality, but still ended up being a really good film.

[Benjamin]

Akira (1988) is fucking bonkers and it is awesome.

Also saw The Past (2013), which is the second Asghar Farhadi film I've seen. Considering I love A Separation and consider it one of the best films I've ever seen, had high expectations for this, and it almost met it. Still, a very solid, very hard look at the broken family dynamic, but I found it absolutely captivating to watch.

The Past just didn't know how to settle on a satisfying end. Or I think that's how I remember feeling. I thought it was incredible for the first half or so, and felt it slightly dipped in quality, but still ended up being a really good film.

I didn't like that it became a sort of mystery in regard to the e-mails in the second half, the shift in focus from Ahmad to Samir felt a little out of left field to me. To me, the more interesting aspect was between the four of them, less to do with Samir and his wife.

[Monkey D. Lars]

The Terminal (2004), Tom Hanks, the supporting cast.

[Sousa]

Oh my god y'all go see Inside Out.

[michgcs]

Oh my god y'all go see Inside Out.

The Pixar film or this gem starring Triple H?

[Sousa]

The one that might be my favorite movie of the last five years. I'll let you figure it out.

[Benjamin]

Danny Collins was great. Enjoyed it immensely.

[michgcs]

The one that might be my favorite movie of the last five years. I'll let you figure it out.

The Triple H movie it is, then.

Seriously, though, was it better than the trailer? I remember watching the trailer and feeling a bit underwhelmed...

[Benjamin]

It's a Pixar movie, unless it involves talking cars you really don't have a reason to doubt their ability to make a good movie :/

[Colly]

I liked Cars and Cars 2. Fuck the haters.

[MalaCloudy Black]

I feel like the first Cars movie wasn't as bad as it's made out to be, just not as good as other Pixar films. Like, it wasn't Toy Story caliber but it also wasn't the steaming sack of shit that was, say, half of Dreamworks Animation's catalogue.

[Colly]

It didn't have a clever wider message like most Pixar films (outside maybe the romance of Route 66), but as a funny cartoon film about cars it works for me. Cars 2 just felt fun.

[Sousa]

Cars is a very specific kind of nostalgia flick ("remember this one particular type of consumerism from a while ago?") so its appeal isn't universal like Toy Story's is, but it's okay. Inside Out is wonderful, though, that rare movie where I really have nothing bad to say. Even thematically, it's very clever.

[Jimmy]

I never got the hate for the first Cars, either. Although I wasn't interested in the sequel at all, and I still haven't seen it. Very excited for the new Pixar film, haven't loved one for a while.

[LL!]

Up is still king of Pixar films for me and Inside Out was not good enough to break into the top 3 for me, but that's not a bad thing at all and it's still really good. I'd possibly give it 4th best.