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What Movie(s) Did You Watch Today?

Oh and the dude who played Lex was good but IMHO way too young-looking for that role. Guess I’m an old grump now.
 
Superman is the official cinematic relaunch of the DC Universe (DCU) now released by the separate DC Studios branch of Warner Bros. It is run by James Gunn and Peter Safran. Henry Cavill is an unfortunate casualty of the last version of DC films. I thought the movie on the whole was solid. Not perfect but good. The new actor did a fantastic job imo.
 
Saw Weapons this weekend we loved it. Like an unholy hybrid mash up of Hereditary (creepy Pagan horror) and Magnolia (multi character perspective/chapter storytelling that eventually all ties together). Not for the squeamish but outstanding modern horror flick IMO with even some bits of humor here and there. Lot's of theories online as to the overall metaphor and some background chat from the director that both confirms and denies a lot of it. Interesting to read all the different take aways people had from the film. I know mine are still forming may need to see this one more then once to decide what it's really all about.

As an aside... I am a big fan of movies in general that do a good job of masking more profound underlying themes. The process of decoding/deciphering is always interesting and engaging for me as a viewer. For some reason the horror genre seems to be doing this much better then others lately.
 
Enjoyed the new Predator movie. It had some campy humor moments maybe more then I would have liked but it didn't ruin the movie for me. Plenty of Predator and Alien homage moments to previous films and a nice continuation/progression of the tie ins between the two franchises. Happy to see anything that keeps these franchises alive with this degree of effort like this and the Alien Earth Hulu series I enjoyed both.

 
Next up on our theatrical movie theater list if we can get to all these before they leave circulation...

1. Bugonia
2. Keeper
3. Sisu: Road to Revenge
4. Tron: Ares

Next up on demand...

5. Anemone

Also watched the new Del Toro Frankenstein on Netflix. It was beautifully filmed with great performances all around. It just didn't seem to offer much if anything new to this classic story. Not that there is anything wrong with retelling a great story. I was just hoping for something more, new or different maybe. Del Toro's style was all over it which is a good thing it just didn't break any new ground IMO.
 
Hot Monkey said:
Enjoyed the new Predator movie. It had some campy humor moments maybe more then I would have liked but it didn't ruin the movie for me. Plenty of Predator and Alien homage moments to previous films and a nice continuation/progression of the tie ins between the two franchises. Happy to see anything that keeps these franchises alive with this degree of effort like this and the Alien Earth Hulu series I enjoyed both.

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Should I see the previous Alien/Predator mashups before this?
Somehow I've seen none of them.
 
^ it’s not necessary. I haven’t seen them either and apparently they suck anyway. I believe with all the new Alien and Predator content that the AvP movies aren’t even considered canon but I could be mistaken.
 
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