I would not recommend Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse, The plot is a mess and gets highly meta about its own stereotypical script along with having various spider persons acting very heroic and downright villainous.It also drags only really giving two teen characters much run time and most of that is them in their regular lives. The art is interesting and diverse. In fact art is the only thing Across the Spider-verse has going for it, like 2/12.

I would recommend Heart of Stone a special agent type movie with a female super agent. Well crafted, thoughtful, goes beyond just action thought it has that as well and no corny cat petting villains with their silly plots. 10/12

"The Exorcist" (1973).
Since this classic celebrates its 50th anniversary this year, our local cinema killed two birds with one stone, by holding an "one-time-only" Halloween screening, yesterday night.
Seeing it on the big screen, instead of the TV at home, made it a whole new experience.

good film

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Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom - I had a great time with it, but if you hate everything about modern superhero movies this won't change your mind. Although I'd argue it's more a sci-fi/fantasy adventure in the vein of Star Wars, a sort of modern day Flash Gordon flick. It has a good cast, the visuals are, for the most part, really good, I like the colorful and creative designs of pretty much every fantastical thing in the movie, and the effects are by and large way, waaaaay better than the bad CGI most Marvel and DC films had in recent years. It has a lot of stuff that is just plane fun, good action and good old sci-fi nonsense like John Rhys-Davies as the king of giant crab-people (reminds me a lot of Brian Blessed in the Flash Gordon film). But it's also full of cliches, stuff that's been done in the Thor sequels, and Black Panther (even if I feel it's way better here), and at least one scene that's basically Jabba the Fish and his Underwater Palace, to the point where I really have to question where an homage ends and a rip-off begins.

If, like me, you're a sucker for a lot of these cliches and just going to the movies to have some dumb fun with stuff that looks great on the big screen, you'll probably like it. If none of that appeals to you in the slightest... well, you probably stopped reading after the first sentence.

The last movie I watched was The Muppets Christmas Carol. It's still my favorite christmas movie and it is a tradition to watch it every year around christmas :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dIFCIArJrCc
Tři oříšky pro Popelku
Three Wishes for Cinderella
Drei Haselnüsse für Aschenbrödel

A nice movie from 1973 that has been a long standing tradition in Norway around Christmas, every year since 1996 in fact (and sporadically from 1975) on NRK. It's what you can expect; simple, sweet, romantic, and at times really goofy. A 'magical' movie which seems to be a lost art these days as Hollywood has abandoned escapism.

That intro-song is absolutely beautiful, and my wife and I watch the movie almost every year.

What impresses me is the tricks they used when the nuts opened into some new clothes and they did this without any cgi (reminds me how creative effect-makers really were before the age of cgi). They also went all in for creating the costumes in that pompous baroque style and the contrast to the filthy worn ones for the more poor ones. For a semi-amateur movie it's way better than the later Disney movies, in every way (especially Snow White from the looks of it), from the more likable characters and actors, chemistry between them, and to the clothes.

From A Ghost Story for Christmas BBC series :

Number 13 ( 2006 )
The Tractate Middoth ( 2013 )
The Mezzotint ( 2021 )
Count Magnus ( 2022 )

Finally watched 'They Live' from start to finish, it was on my movie backlog for a long time. I know the game Flashback borrowed from Total Recall, Blade Runner, and Running Man, but I was surprised by just how much They Live had inspired the game as well. And there was Duke's line he used in Duke 3D. The film itself was okay, but doesn't do as much as it could with such a concept.

The Beekeeper

I'm honestly not sure how to describe it. It's really, really dumb. Statham plays pretty much the same role he always does, maybe just (even) more stone-faced than usual, Jeremy Irons is always a delight to listen to, but it's obvious he's just collecting an good easy paycheck, and everyone else is just sort of... there. The action scenes are uneven - there's a couple of really good fights, especially the one at the end, impactful and well done, but a lot of it is just Statham plowing effortlessly through mobs of goons who kind of just let him kill them one by one.

But much like Jason Statham in the lead role, the movie just... struts with such absolute, boundless, effortless confidence in it's own bullshit it becomes kind of fascinating. It starts out pretty standard, almost boring, and then the plot and the characters just get more and more ridiculous, but never quite in the kind of over the top way like, say, Kingsman. It's more like if someone tried to take the script for Shwarzenegger's Commando but film it like it's First Blood, though even that I don't think quite nails it.

I can't really recommend rushing to the theatre for it, but I don't regret seeing it either.

Lift - by Kevin Hart - is not a movie to be taken seriously. Expect nothing and just enjoy the ride.

Forbidden Planet (1956)

Robbie the Robot was my favorite part of the movie and the special effects still hold up for the most part.

Otherwise it reminds me of other old sci-fi movies with their usual flaws.

Dad was describing it to Mom once (it's one of his favorites) and I showed her my Lego rancor as visual aid for what the invisible monster looked like.

They Live was a 1950's sience fiction movie shot in the late 80's.
Reminded me very much of Invasion of the Bodysnatchers with it's cold war paranoia.

I like it but I consider it one of Carpenters above avarage efforts, in the same league as In the Mouth of Madness and Escape from New York but below The Thing and Big Trouble in Little China.

You're kidding me, right? In the Mouth of Madness is probably his best film. It's so much better than Big Trouble in Little China it's not even funny.

Different people different tastes, I didn't say it's bad I even like They Live and In the Mouth of Madness but I like Big Trouble In Little China more.