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Horrible. Ridiculous. Terrible. Everything about it is bad. I continued watching because I couldn't believe that this cheesy piece of crap got released. It's almost like a Hallmark Xmas movie mashed up with a low-budget survival-in-a-post-apocalypse-world movie, except - spoiler alert - it isn't really a post-apocalyptic world. Alicia Silverstone is supposedly an actor, but you wouldn't know it from this.

This was surprisingly good. Todd Hewitt, is a young man who was raised by two dads, on the edge of a town populated entirely by men, on an alien planet. The plot follows him meeting a young woman, who is better at most things than him, and traveling with her to a possibly better place. I would've liked more alien-type stuff - the planet is basically an Earth forest, with a couple brief scenes of alien life - but the characters made up for it. Some critics complained about the fact that the two main characters don't fall in love or something. I don't think every single movie should have a love story forced into it, so I was pretty happy with that. Sci-fi with some Western elements. If there's a sequel, I'll watch it.

Quite adequate Star Wars content if you want to have something on and can't find anything better. The characters are mostly female - and almost all coded lesbian - which is different for SW. They're all conventionally attractive, of course. There are a few characters who aren't white - does a white lesbian painted green count as a person of color? I think the action scenes met the standard expections for action scenes. I watched the last episode yesterday and I don't really remember it. I'm pretty sure there was something that the characters were trying to do - some kind of plot or something. It seems likely that there were some goth villians. And a kind of funny, round robot. Basically, it's the same thing the Star Wars assembly line churns out over and over, but with a couple soft butches.

I just watched this again after 35 years. It's better than I remembered, and I remembered it pretty good. I don't think it's possible to overstate the darkness of my generation. We were the children of the highest divorce rate in world history. Our parents essentially abandoned us without actually leaving. We were the first generation in American history who could not do better financially than our parents did, a fact that we were well aware of - it was common knowledge. Our spokesman was a clinically depressed junkie who sang about alienation and nihilism, and then killed himself. Heathers - a comedy about murder and suicide - was an early indicator of who we were. Christian Slater, the sociopath who drags Winona Ryder into his plot to murder everyone in their high school, has the best lines - "Society nods its head at any horror the American teenager can think to bring upon itself" is a gem - but Ryder gets the final say. And then Ryder, a teenager who was at least complicit in several murders, gets a happy ending. How sweet. I loved it when I was in high scool and I love it now.

Just watched Nimona with my kid (14yo), at their suggestion. They really loved it. I also really loved it - and I'm glad my kid is growing up with this kind of affirming, rowdy and funny stuff. It definitely brought up some feelings for me personally - because I didn't grow up with this kind of affirming, rowdy and funny stuff. So, I've got that to work out. This is a really fun, chaotic and touching movie for kids and adults. I might have to find out more about the source material. Addendum: I read some other reviews and some people are bothered by the LGBTQ+ content. It is very definitely and clearly there. Some characters are openly gay in a society that appears totally fine with that. It's pretty easy to read Nimona as trans. I am totally comfortable with all that. I am also a Christian - the kind that loves their neighbor as themself, not the other kind - so I saw some Christian imagery too. The rigid, bigoted Institute could be read as the mainstream church - maintaining the social order by enforcing hierarchy and scapegoating those who are different. The movie ends with a renewed society - and some clear symbols of the New Jerusalem in the Revelation - where all are valued and loved, so I was pretty happy with that.

This is what I'm looking for when I look for a drama - believable characters in an interesting situation trying to figure things out. In this case, a paranormal investigator and a widower who thinks his dead wife might be trying to communicate with him. The plot is resolved, but there is still a story that could go on - they don't wrap it all up. There are some eerie moments - the possibilty of communication from beyond the grave almost ensures that - but this is not a horror movie. There are no jumpscares. Just a good story.

Excellent exploration of how a person might respond to suddenly becoming powerful. Willi Herold deserts from the German army and puts on a Captain's uniform that he finds. At first, I was sympathetic - he was trying to survive the chaos in Germany in the final months of WWII. Things change. For a while, Herold seems to be playing the part of a Luftwaffe officer, trying to convince people he is what he appears to be. By the end, he has become a monster. Brilliantly acted. Masterful cinematography. The soundtrack is spot on.

I read this as a story about a woman having a psychotic break and was totally satisfied with it. This is what mental illness is like. Appropriately, it doesn't have a happy ending - or an ending at all, really. Mental illness just goes on and on - some days are worse than others. If you want an action-packed, sci-fi thriller, watch Independence Day or Starship Troopers. Starfish is slow, bleak, arty and not for everyone. If you want a deep meditaion about mental illness that doesn't pander to popular taste, or flinch away from how messy it is, this might be what you're looking for.

I went into this movie with some trepidation because I don't have a lot of confidence in film adaptations of classical material. In this case, I'm glad I watched it. There was some added material - Sir Gawain And The Green Knight, in its original form, is pretty short, so I wasn't surprised. The new stuff was consistent with the source, and mostly served to set up the mythical/spiritual realm that Gawain travels to in his quest. It added to the story - as opposed to distracting from it. The plot is a meditation on honor and virtue, which is increasingly rare. I found it to be thought-provoking, though I think some familiarity with the original contributed a lot to my enjoyment. The senery, costuming and dialogue were, if not perfectly accurate to the time, accurate enough to be acceptable. I'd like to see what could be done along these lines with other medieval material. Song Of Roland, perhaps.

A young boy witnesses a fatal shooting. He grows up and becomes antisocial, abuses drugs and gets imprisoned for violent crimes. He loses touch with reality, is instituionalized, commits more crimes and is fatally shot by the police. I have mental illness - primarily clinical depression, but I've also had a few psychotic episodes. I saw 12 Monkeys in a theater in 1995 and I've watched it several times since then. I'm always in tears by the end. This is a movie that gets mental illness right. James Cole (Bruce Willis) is a spot-on representation of psychosis. Jeffrey Goines (Brad Pitt) is bi-polar to a T. Kathryn Railly (Madeline Stowe) becomes co-dependently attached to Cole and adopts his reality, which is not unusual for partners of mentally ill people. It's perfect. It's also darkly hilarious, and jam-packed with internal references and Easter eggs. And it manages to use time-travel well - a very rare feat. If Terry Gilliam hadn't also directed Tideland, I would say 12 Monkeys was his best movie. (Tideland also gets it's subject matter right. I've been there, too.)