Official Rate the last movie you watched thread

[palitoy]

Blood & Flesh: The Reel Life & Ghastly Death of Al Adamson (2019) 8/10

I've been looking forward to this documentary about one of my favourite Drive-In directors for a year now, so much so that i rented it on YouTube just to finally see it. It's very well done and I did learn a great deal that i didn't know.

My only quibble would be a large majority of his work is not mentioned so the film can focus on his murder, I get it, it's fascinating if you don't know the tale but I guess I was more into celebrating his life than his undeserved, tragic end.

Hopefully there is more on the Bluray (oh yeah i'm buying this).

[Hedji]

Humanoid (1979)

This was my favorite discovery of 2020 so far. I'd seen Star Crash and Message From Space, so I've begun to mine the lower depths for Star Wars Ripoffs. I don't want to oversell it, but it was as if they'd used the old "Star World" Case from Tara for concept art. I was delighted.



If Star Crash and Message from Space are a 10, I'd give this a solid 9. I was never bored.

[Iron Mego]

...but the description made it sound like John Travolta's Blowout movie from years ago...

That sounds more like 8MM to me.

[Mikey]

"You Can't Kill Stephen King"

Regardless of the high reviews, imo this movie sukks azz

If you watch, you have been warned

[TrekStar]

The Supercops (1974) typical 70's action cop type drama, but I liked it. I believe this movie was the basis for
Starsky and Hutch tv show.

[Nostalgiabuff]

really? I thought Super 8 was a lot of fun

[Mikey]

Super 8

Didn't know anything about the movie but the description made it sound like John Travolta's Blowout movie from years ago... Was in the mood for a nice mystery and wound up getting Goonies meet ET … I didn't like it.

[Confessional]

The Last Black Man in San Francisco… refreshingly excellent movie about many things in so many ways: 9/10

More proof that if you let talented artists/storytellers make movies, you get much better outcomes than the Hollywood $machine$.

[Nostalgiabuff]

Doctor Sleep - I'd give it a solid 9 out of 10. doesn't follow the book all that closely but then it is meant to be a sequel to Kubrics movie of the shining. Which had not followed the book all that closely either. but as a sequel to that movie it was really good. some very tense moments. they recreated some of the classic moments from The Shining with new actors filling in for those roles.

[YoungOnce]

I just recently rewatched The Black Hole again too. Despite the couple of cute robot scenes, it really is a dark movie. The music really drives that home. That main theme is dark and haunting. The color palette is shadowy. I doubt that the overall mixed tone was an intentional direction but maybe the byproduct of Disney not knowing what it wanted this movie to be. Either way, it ended up being a unique creation.

[Random Axe]

Damn Random, it's like you're raiding my peak direct to video years!

Those were some great and formative years. Just missing the cut but still good is Bloodsport and just about any ninja movie with Sho Kosugi.

[Hedji]

I just wish the fact Maximillian was Kate's father was explored

I'm okay with it just being fodder for sandbox discussion. There's so much implied regarding Kate, that really isn't fully cultivated... the ESP being the big one. They were really swinging for the fences with that. Could she only mind link with robots? Was she part A.I.?

I love the questions it dares not to answer.

Such as why was Reinhardt's hair so wild when he's floating in the void?

[hedrap]

I had a double feature of 80s action. Most of the films in that era annoy me but these two stand out.

Best of the Best - James Earl Jones is putting together a martial arts team to take on Korea. Tons of 80s clichés but it works. There is some pretty cool action and a decent human element. Eric (I cry in every movie) Roberts stars. 9/10

I Come in Peace - This was renamed overseas as Dark Angel. This has Dolph Lundgren and Bran Benben as the typical love/hate relationship buddy cop/FBI stuff. The effects in this are really, really good for a lower budget. The alien villain in this is cool and funny even though he doesn't really speak except to say "I come in peace." 9/10

Damn Random, it's like you're raiding my peak direct to video years!

[Mikey]

I think The Black Hole's biggest problem was it was marketed to kids.

"20,000 Leagues Under the Sea meets Star Wars" it is not.

It's an adult melodrama set in outer space sprinkled with child appealing robots.

The ending is weird but Disney is known for inserting Hell and or the Devil in it's animated catalog.

I just wish the fact Maximillian was Kate's father was explored

[Bruce Banner]

Agreed! I absolutely love The Black Hole.