I’ll go first. For me, it’s Across The Spider-Verse. The excellent score and soundtrack is just a bonus.
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This tread has been a moment of personal discovery. In trying to imagine what movie I’ve seen this month I realized I haven’t seen a movie yet this year - unless you count standup specials which live in the movie section of Plex. I’m like 80% sure the last movie I watched was the Bob’s Burgers Movie. What happened to me?!
Dune. While there’s no way to perfectly capture the magic of the intricate machinations of (Frank) Herbert’s universe, the movie gets about as close as anyone could, I think. The only thing in its league is Jackson’s LOTR trilogy, and I think Dune is at least as good if not slightly better. Can’t wait for the second (and hopefully third!) one!
I loved the movie, but I feel like they didn’t include enough Dr. Yueh. I also feel like they could have ended the movie a few scenes earlier.
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I just shared it with my kids. But we’re godly seeing across the spiderverse tonight, so that might change.
This is my all-time favorite. One of my favorite memories of this movie was — when I showed it to a way less idealistic friend of mine, he felt so sad when the last of the memories is being removed. I did not expect him to do that let alone like the movie.
Extraction 2, but there wasn’t much competition because I only saw 2 movies this month.
the action is absolutely insane, just like extraction 1. the 20+ minute “one take” shot near the beginning had me picking up my jaw from the floor afterwards.
Across the Spidervetse was incredible
Ikr?!
man across the spiderverse is the only movie i’ve watched this month
Definitely Spiderverse. It was almost too fast moving at times, but fantastic story telling and, of course, art design.
Definitely Across the spider verse, 9/10 best movie of the year so far, but can’t wait to watch Past Lives
We watched Extraction 2 (and #1 before that). I had zero expectations, but was surprised that they both were quite good! Avoided some tropes, leaned into others, action was innovative without going full John Wick. Not bad, Netflix!
Do the final two episodes of Star Trek: TNG count? If so, that.
For a series with its ups and downs, they really nailed everything that’s great about Star Trek in the final two episodes with none of the lows. Relevant social commentary, intelligent dialog, an intriguing science fictional mystery, some action, and a superbly dramatic Picard! Not just Picard either. Almost everyone in the cast gets a chance to shine across the three time periods. Brent Spiner especially gets a nod for the subtle changes to old Data’s character.
Absolutely, by necessity. Can’t really take it for granted that being a lurker won’t overall impact the site. Unfortunately, my usual subs that I participate in haven’t yet made the leap of faith, so its hard to provide quality contribution until that improves
You seen to have posted to the wrong asklemmy post. The one you’re looking for was about being more active.
“The Space Between Us”
It’s not normally the type of movie I’d watch, but it was a random suggestion that came up and my thoughts were “Well, at the moment I don’t have anything better to do” - I really enjoyed it, even if the ending was easily guessable.
I haven’t really watched any movies aside from that this month and its definitely not a new movie like Spiderman but I’d still recommend it if you’re just looking to unwind/relax.
Edge of tomorrow. Really hoping for a sequel including Emily Blunt.
Isn’t it too late for a sequel?
Why? Top gun got a sequel after nearly forty years.
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946). I knew nothing going in and just enjoyed. It was modern and thought-provoking about war and what we owe our veterans. The coolest part is that it asks the tough questions about a war that few of us question as being necessary (World War II).
Across the Spiderverse was absolutely amazing too but I expected that and it surpassed my expectations.
I marathoned The Godfather trilogy a couple of weeks ago. 1 is still one of my favourite movies
