[Abyss]

QuickTidal, on 20 January 2025 - 04:33 PM, said:

Abyss, on 20 January 2025 - 02:58 PM, said:

QuickTidal, on 20 January 2025 - 02:40 PM, said:

Took the kids to SONIC 3...great flick! ... Shadow doing the "Akira Slide" on the Side of a building.

No one w me understood why i was laughing so hard at that.

There was a joke that is escaping me right now that I laughed at hard and no one else did becuase they were all younger than me and didn't get it...
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There were a few of these, i thought more than once this movie respected the adults 'stuck' watching this. Tho honestly as kids movies go this was a blast. Carrey looked like he was having a great time. Maybe he's just selling it but i like to think he was.

[Tiste Simeon]

I recently watched Weird: The Al Yankovic Story and my word what a gloriously unhinged and hilarious film it was!

It starts off playing it quite straight like an inspirational biopic normally is (though the fact that the kids are all obsessed with polka gave me a good chuckle) but once Dr Demento comes in it just goes off the wall.

I loved it so much and as a fan of his work the random references and song lyrics gave me a good laugh, as did Weird Al himself being in it as a stuffy music executive.

Daniel Radcliffe puts in a great performance as Al, and Rachel Evan Wood as a psychotic Madonna is also very funny.

It's dumb but also clever if that makes sense. Don't take it too seriously!

[Mezla PigDog]

Alien Romulus. Mr PD tried to get me to see it at the movies but I ain't paying money to be disappointed by an Aliens film. Aliens is in my top 3 favourite movies. So we watched it on Disney+ yesterday.

Didn't like it. It's watchable but you could see stuff coming a mile off. The only thing that was good for an Alien movie was the sheer number of face huggers running around. I was squirming in my seat.

Otherwise - girl wakes up in her grey vest and knickers, girl has a very bad xenomorph filled day, girl gets back into her vest and knickers and goes into cryo sleep. The end.

[QuickTidal]

It’s my second fave movie of the last year! lol!

Different strokes

[worry]

The Wild Robot -- this was really good. Dealt with some big feelings, with both coming-of-age and parenthood side of things. And a few cool surprises in the plot as the story progressed. Dreamworks Animation is so all over the place compared to Pixar or even Disney, but this is one of their all-time best imo.

Didi -- this looks like it flew under the radar a bit last year, but I thought it was great. It's very much in the vein of Eighth Grade (which I loved), but the main kid is a teenage boy during the summer before high school. It's a little more teen testosterone-y than Eighth Grade, naturally, but still very slice of life, very sharp about the insecurities of that age, and even when it gets dramatic it still hits realistic notes. He's Taiwanese-American so there's a racial component to the social navigation he's doing too. It takes place in that spot when Myspace was winding down and Facebook was 'cool', lots of AIM convos, etc. Joan Chen plays his mom (and is the only big name screen presence, though there's a couple cute voice cameos from Spike Jonze and Stephanie Hsu). Anyway, she's absolutely fantastic, and so's the main kid.

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