What Emmanuelle Movie Did You Just Watch?

[Timothy225]

SHANG-CHI.

Really, really liked this. Wife liked it too. Interesting characters and great fight scenes. The finale gets a little CGI heavy but is also fairly beautiful to watch, resulting in one of the better third acts that I can remember in a MCU film.

Jen and I saw this last night as well and we totally agree. The fight choreography was terrific, Tony Leung shows why he's a legend again, as does Michelle Yeoh, and Simu Liu and Akwafina were solid in their performances. Can't wait to see those two in a couple of sequels as their chemistry was terrific and funny, just like best friends should be.

The CGI use was heavy, but worth it watching that third act kick in. Like Matt said, it's beautiful and downright elegant in parts and meshed nicely with all the martial arts going on around it.

This is easily one of the artier and "+1 fun = one more funner" entries into the MCU, and definitely a must watch in a theater as opposed to streaming if you can. That being said, I'd love seeing Iron Fist get a similar treatment (Iron Fist's story and villains would've meshed well with the plot of this film, as Shang Chi was more of a spy comic with martial arts back in the day), and a Shang Chi/Iron Fist film would be astonishing to watch.

[B_Metal]

TIM I'M NOT GOING TO A THEATER MY BODY MY CHOICE!!!! :-)

[Timothy225]

It's OK, Josh! IT'S OK!!!!! Wait a month or so and watch it on Disney+, lil' buckaroo!

[Abraham Smashington]

Yeah. Theaters are a no go. Especially for this.

[Abraham Smashington]

Watched a bunch of flicks this weekend.

First Blood in 4k - Still my favorite Stallone movie. Still wish they would have kept the book ending. fucking Brian Dennehy.

Gods of Egypt 4k - Still so goddamn stupid, silly, and terrible BUT I LOVE IT. So fucking watchable. Even Lesley got into it this go around (she's stated many times out loud how stupid she thinks this is anytime I'd be watching it)

Predators 4k - picked up all 4 Predator flicks in 4k last weekend on sale. Had a hankering for this entry. Adrian Brody is awesome in this still. Larry Fishburne is silly but we needed more of him dammit. Poor Trejo.

Cruella - eh. This was for Lesley. Emma Stone is attractive and all that but this movie didn't need to exist. Some good looking visual style though. I did like how it ended though.

[Matt]

GODS OF EGYPT is a blast. It's pure Egyptian mythology translated literally into cinematic form.

[Abraham Smashington]

GODS OF EGYPT is a blast. It's pure Egyptian mythology translated literally into cinematic form.

All of that and a terrible Chadwick Boseman performance too!

I still think Geoffrey Rush is my favorite part in the movie that isn't the main guy's wife's breasts. His Ra is great. This should be a goddamn video game dammit.

[Martin]

Very cool.

[Abraham Smashington]

Vacation Friends on Hulu. Cena was pretty fucking hilarious in this. Perfect movie for streaming. Mid level comedy that had more laughs than duds but will be forgotten in a few days. I only checked it out because I heard they already greenlit a sequel with the full cast which made me think it was a bit better than the trailer let on. It was a bit better but again your mileage may vary.

[Matt]

BEETLEJUICE

I discovered to my delight that my wife had never seen this before. Although it wasn't as uproariously funny as I recalled it being, it was still a very enjoyable romp and the wife liked it quite a bit. We're going to Halloween Horror Nights this year and there's a BEETLEJUICE house there as the headliner...now my wife is excited to see it.

[B_Metal]

Watched Worth on netflix only because it had Michael Keaton and Stanley Tucci. I've avoided any/all 9-11 movies as they all feel like emotional torture porn but this was different as it wasn't really dealing directly with 9-11 but more so the aftermath. Keaton and Tucci are worth the viewing alone even if the movie feels like it glosses over quite a bit to get to the ending.

[BillyG]

Kate

Mary Elizabeth Winstead is an assassin in Japan that gets radioactive poisoning, and seeks revenge in the one day before it kills her. Woody Harrelson is her handler. It's every single assassin betrayal cliche you've seen a million times but there's way worse ways to spend the evening. The fight scenes are overall pretty dope, the whole movie is stylish as hell (the shot of her walking into the office lobby with a cigarette hanging off her lip, sunglasses on, bloody as fuck, and then the Yakuza squad popping up over her shoulder would make an amazing Mondo poster), and I just really like MEW and don't think I see her in enough. It's on Netflix.

Malignant

It's on HBO. New James Wan flick. Honestly was gonna skip it because aside from The Conjuring I don't like his other horror movies. I saw so many people on twitter talking about how crazy it was, so we felt like we needed to find out. So spoiler free first...it really is fucking crazy. It completely changes course like 5 times, and when it does it has HUGE "end of episode" energy capped off with a fucking weird electronic remix of Where Is My Mind? Like....what the fuck are the musical cues in this whole movie? He wanted to go for Fincher and NIN opening credits in Seven, but got Justice making video game menu music. And it's not just crazy, it's also fucking STUPID. Now, it could be good or bad stupid. Honestly do not know if I hate this movie or love this movie. I know Wan is a fucking genius to grift the studio into the cash for making this. Like, has he just made enough money to get checks without question now? Because he made a VERY campy movie with bad acting, cliched as fuck characters (seriously the black lady cop is kind of offensive), and some shocking moments. It's like he wanted to make a Troma movie, but spent too much money and never grasped what makes Troma movies charming. Nothing is truly played for laughs, even though we were cracking up the whole time. This is a Canadian paranormal cop procedural miniseries that got an extra $2m from the CBC and told to turn it into an even movie. It's feels cheap in a lot of ways. The acting isn't great. The plot makes no fucking sense. But it has some moments that mean you won't forget it. Probably worth seeing just to experience it.

  Spoiler: SPOILERS FOR MALIGNANT 

SERIOUSLY HOW FUCKING STUPID IS THIS MOVIE. The "ghost" moves in and out of the house at the beginning. It's like yeah ok it's a scary ghost. Then we find out it's a corporeal being. And never does ANY ghost poof gone shit like with the shitty husband at the beginning. What the hell!?

Thirty minutes in it's so fucking obvious he is making Basket Case WAN STYLE. Sarah and I both had it click at the exact same moment. THEN HE MAKES IT JOHN WICK BASKET CASE. The whole villain is so fucking dumb and great but also terrible. The backwards arms and shit. And how the lead lady, whose acting I hope was very on purpose because jesus it was bad, can pop her arms back the other way and be fine? So much of this movie is beyond turning off your brain and enjoying it because every 15-20 minutes it becomes a NEW movie, with a whole other set of rules and the tone completely shifts.

And the fact that the whole thing kicks off because of the most TRASH ass abusive fucking husband ever cracking her fucking skull open, then she crawls into bed to bleed to death? Jesus. Wan wanted to make an exploitation movie, super obvious with the black cop and the WHOLE cast in the jail cell fight, but he doesn't actually get exploitation movies. He just made a bunch of stupid/offensive shit instead of capturing the tone of exploitation.

Final thing. When the sister went to the old hospital, and it was the most Hammer Horror SPOOKY CASTLE then she drove the car right to the edge of the cliff and slammed on her brakes I was fucking cackling. Then the BANG BANG SCARY NOISE while she's reading the files...and nothing happens! Wan is just fucking with everyone that ever decides to watch this. And for that I tip my cap.

[Abraham Smashington]

Malignant sucked. Hard. I don't nt need any more words to say that. I refuse to be on the side that gives Wan credit for this nonsense.

[Abraham Smashington]

Gimme Kuato anyday.

[BillyG]

Here I figured you'd be loving it. ROB HATES FUN!

After sitting on it yesterday, yeah I fucking hate this movie.