Rate the latest movie you've seen.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Your clues?

[Nobody]

Just finished The Godson, with Rodney Dangerfield, Dom DeLuise and some other guys and gals.
Loosely based on (you guessed it!) The Godfather.
Quite a funny movie, a laugh a minute!

[Hydra009]

Your clues?

1) Corso is thoroughly amoral - not evil, but not good.  He's very much out for himself - not friends, not family, not even a work acquaintance.  He doesn't seem particularly broken up about any deaths, just glad it's not him.  The closest we see him come to heroism is trying to save the telfer woman from being murdered.

He's polite but devious and willing to cheat, yet paradoxically, is thoroughly a man of his word.  A devilish sort of adherence to oath/law, yet no scruples at all.

2) Despite saying "my god!" when surprised, he's thoroughly irreligious.  No devotion to any sort of higher power - and unlike Balkan, no devotion to any infernal power, either.  He believes only in himself, very much in line with a modern conception of satanism.

3) This should be obvious, but Corso's personal journey matches the illustrations, and the book is wrtitten by LCF - Lucifer.  The book connection writes itself (he's literally the author of his own story, which also matches the no higher power requirement)

4) "I'm the only devil you'll see tonight." - Corso to Balkan.  It almost makes it too obvious.

5) An obsession with knowledge, especially forbidden knowledge.  He's consumed by his need to solve the puzzle of the books, even when there's no obvious reward.  A normal person would've called the cops three murders ago and chucked the cursed book in the fireplace and washed their hands of the whole thing.  Not him.

Extra credit - his frequent smoking, which requires "lighting up".  That's symbolic.

[Nobody]

"Do as thou wilt shall be the whole of the law."
Aleister Crowley (also known as "The Beast")

[Cassia]

Jurassic World Rebirth.... 6 out of 10 if I'm in a good mood because well, I like dinos.

Minor spoilers ahead.

Decent acting, story plot was predictable. Rehashes scenes from Jaws and from the original JP. The Distortus Rex had a stupid looking beluga whale head. Added a "redundant family" side plot complete with social commentary on Gen Z. The main characters were enough.

Seems to be a common issue these days. Movies with many characters. Just tells me the makers are afraid the main actors can't carry the film, or the plot is thin.

[Cassia]

Jurassic World Rebirth.... 6 out of 10 if I'm in a good mood because well, I like dinos.

Minor spoilers ahead.

Decent acting, story plot was predictable. Rehashes scenes from Jaws and from the original JP. The Distortus Rex had a stupid looking beluga whale head. Added a "redundant family" side plot complete with social commentary on Gen Z. The main characters were enough.

Seems to be a common issue these days. Movies with many characters. Just tells me the makers are afraid the main actors can't carry the film, or the plot is thin.

Haha...I just read that "Scarjoe's" salary for the JP Rebirth movie was more than her character was offered to facilitate curing heart disease.

[Cassia]

Has anyone tried to watch the "Cats" movie from several years ago? It popped up on my feed, and I didn't even want to look at those things for more a few seconds. How the fvck did anybody think that movies was gonna fly. I think James Corden is a pretty funny comedian, so too bad for him.

So, I looked into the making of that crap and learned that the CGI fur somehow ended up looking like the cats had lady bits and assholes. Someone had to go through the whole movie and remove all the CGI generated assholes by hand, LOL.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I watched the Broadway cast version I don't know how many times, and maybe five minutes of the more recent one.

Is felinophile a word? AI says yes. Who knew. Won't fit on a license plate.

[Nobody]

I saw the 1976 version of King Kong last night, the one with Jeff Bridges and Jessica Lange It was marginally better than the original, but mainly because of Jessica Lange. What a beautiful lady! 😍

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Your average highlands gorilla has a 3" penis. By extrapolation Kong's penis would be 36", or just shy of a meter long. Diameter projections came out silly, so I won't post them.

[Nobody]

Yeah, Kong's dong was never shown, I don't know why.

[Gawdzilla Sama]

Yeah, Kong's dong was never shown, I don't know why.

You said "1976" upstream.

[Nobody]

Just finished Wrong is Right, 1982, with Sean Connery, John Saxon, Leslie Nielsen, Robert Conrad, Dean Stockwell, and others.
Not bad, kept me guessing the whole way through. It was billed as a thriller/comedy, but there weren't very many funny bits.

[Paleophyte]

I watched The Wild Robot the other night. It was disappointing after the fashion of movies that seem full of potential but never quite deliver. The premise had promise, and the visuals were striking at times, but the storyline was as predictable as the rising sun. The film leans on familiar emotional beats and stock character arcs, offering a few good one-liners but little genuine surprise or depth.

[Nobody]

Watched another Leslie Nielsen movie last night, this one was called 2001: A Space Tragedy.
Extremely silly, as is to be expected from a movie with Leslie Nielsen. Almost too silly, but still a lot of fun to watch.