The original post: /r/movies by /u/DarkBehindTheStars on 2025-01-03 22:41:38.

Octavio The Clown in Scarface comes to mind right away. Even though I feel bad for him, the way the scene plays out is still hilarious in a macabre sort of way. The two hitmen are so hilariously incompetant with how they're out to kill Tony but clearly kill the wrong person.

The original post: /r/movies by /u/BunyipPouch on 2025-01-03 20:18:18.

The original post: /r/movies by /u/LiteraryBoner on 2025-01-03 20:09:51.

New Theatrical Releases

A Complete Unknown

The Fire Inside

Nosferatu

Babygirl

Streaming Releases

Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl

Nightbitch

The Order on VOD

Juror #2 on MAX

Still in Theaters

Sonic the Hedgehog 3

Mufasa: The Lion King

Wicked: Part 1

Moana 2

Gladiator II

Kraven the Hunter

The Lord of the Rings: The War of Rohirrim

The original post: /r/movies by /u/LiteraryBoner on 2025-01-03 20:08:09.

Poll

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Summary:

Gromit's concerned that Wallace has become over-dependent on his inventions, which proves justified when Wallace invents a "smart gnome" that seems to develop a mind of its own.

Director:

Merlin Crossingham, Nick Park

Writers:

Mark Burton, Nick Park

Cast:

• Ben Whitehead as Wallace
• Peter Kay as Chief Inspector Mackintosh
• Lauren Patel as PC Mukherjee
• Reece Shearsmith as Norbot
• Diane Morgan as Onya Doorstep
• Adjoa Andoh as Judge
• Muzz Khan as Anton Deck

Rotten Tomatoes: 100%

Metacritic: 83

VOD: Netflix

The original post: /r/movies by /u/ialsodreamofsushi on 2025-01-03 19:06:52.

Police Academy 4 , possibly the worst of all the police Academy movies,, is on TV and I noticed it has both David Spade and Sharon Stone, plus an unknown skateboarder named Tony Hawk.

There has to be a bunch of other bad movies that have a better than expected cast, if you look back through a modern lens.

The original post: /r/movies by /u/MarvelsGrantMan136 on 2025-01-03 18:15:33.

The original post: /r/movies by /u/Jubmania on 2025-01-03 17:24:10.

I had heard of this movie before but I never looked into it. I saw it pop up as a recommendation on Prime, saw the rating and several actors that I recognized, and decided to give it a go. Part way into the movie I stopped even trying to figure out the guilty party and just got lost in the fun story.

The movie was done and the credits were rolling and only then did I discover that there are two more movies! Before I knew it I had finished all 3 and started looking into if there will be a fourth (seems so but I don't think production has started).

These were some fun and intriguing movies. If you haven't watch them and you enjoy murder mysteries then I highly recommend them!

The original post: /r/movies by /u/slashdotnot on 2025-01-03 23:23:35.

I understand Robbie Williams isn't a global attraction, but it feels like this biopic release has been absolutely butchered with it barely playing anywhere and no-one bar a few low subscribe YouTubers reviewing it.

It's such a shame because it genuinely feels like a film with artistic risk that at least critically has paid off, but it's not going to a be a commercial success, and thus Hollywood will retreat to safe biopics again.

The original post: /r/movies by /u/Ok_Establishment419 on 2025-01-03 21:31:32.

When we invest our time and emotions in watching a movie, we expect it to provide us with a complete experience, where the ending is the ultimate prize that leaves us satisfied or surprised. But there are movies that, despite their exciting beginning and suspenseful events, ended with an ending that spoiled everything. Let's talk about this disappointing feeling and how it affects our overall experience.

For example, the movie "I Am Legend", was an amazing journey with a great performance from Will Smith, and a tense script. However, the original ending of the movie, which chose sacrifice and self-sacrifice, felt less impactful compared to the alternative ending that was more profound and connected to the movie's idea of humanity.

Also, the movie "The Mist", which presented a shocking and unexpected ending. While some praised the boldness of the ending, others felt that it caused tremendous emotional frustration, as it could have been less harsh and left a little hope for the audience.

Then we have movies like Game of Thrones (despite being a TV series), where the ending was a disappointment to an audience who invested years of their lives in a complex plot and amazing characters, only for the ending to fall short of expectations.

Can a movie ending change your mind completely? Some may argue that the ending doesn’t detract from the quality of the movie as a whole, while others see it as the main factor in the success of the experience.

What do you think? What movies did you feel were great but ruined everything in the ending? Share your thoughts and experiences with us!

The original post: /r/movies by /u/BosChac2 on 2025-01-03 20:23:23.

I just watched Interstellar for maybe the 4th time. It's on Netflix now.

Yes it came out 11 years ago, but out of respect for those who have somehow managed to miss it, I'm cover spoilers below.

Feel free to call me stupid, but I think/thought I understood the movie...but that ending got me all turned all upside down like a baseball field on a planet orbiting Saturn.

Here are some questions I have. Please indicate if your response is your opinion/interpretation, or if it was verified by Nolan, etc.

1. When Cooper is in the 'behind the bookshelves fifth dimension' he's talking to TARS, but how? I guess I'll easily accept that he was in space and ended up back in time, in a 5th dimension in his daughter's room, but I don't understand how he's talking to the TARS robot like they're still sitting in their shuttle. Is it supposed to be that he was semi-conscious and never left the shuttle or something?
2. There are references from the NASA team about a "they" sort of alien or some other force that helped the humans find things or know what do do, etc. I feel like that went over my head. Was it really just the humans and their interstellar space travel bending time and space, etc or is it clear to you from the story that there really is some other alien force at hand?
3. How did Murph age beyond the age of her father Cooper? Is it because throughout her life she simply existed on planets with stronger time dilation and gravitational forces at play? I know they tell Coop he's 100-something years old, but he clear looks to be in his 40s. How is it that Murph looks 95? She obviously traveled through space too.

Thank you!

The original post: /r/movies by /u/indiewire on 2025-01-03 20:04:30.

The original post: /r/movies by /u/hhikk077 on 2025-01-03 20:01:52.

I really hope that this is the right subreddit for this but I feel like I need to share this In the movie it shows a title card saying that Kevin was stuck in that house for 572 days and the movie can be interpreted as watching your family struggle while at a young age and as you’re very young and just supposed to be obedient, you take what you see at face value and as everyone around you is a role model you copy what you see The confusion, the fright, the despair of seeing who you’re supposed to look up to and who’s supposed to be protecting you be out of energy and depressed brings nothing else other than confusion since you’ve never seen it before, and at a young age like that, confusion is absolutely terrifying You’re forced to take a back seat while watching this movie as everything unfolds because that’s how movies work, you can’t do anything. And it’s the same as being so young as nobody really wants to listen to you about their problems, not even that you have anything to say because you don’t have experience with this. Not only are you so confused and new to this, but you can’t do anything, literally nothing.

Kevin had to deal with that for 572 days, stuck in that house, dealing with confusion and change

My mom died when I was little, I was 572 days old, seeing that title card saying that absolutely destroyed me

The original post: /r/movies by /u/thslightofmine on 2025-01-03 19:29:20.

Hi! I’m in search for movies that have/show a lot New York City apartments in it. I realize I’m getting hooked up in movies that has such vibe, such as The Intern (2015), The Devil Wears Prada (2006), Soul (2020), The Secret Life of Pets (2016 & 2019), and The Pursuit of Happyness (2006).

I’ve searched on Google regarding recommendations on the said themed movies, but a lot of them only show the New York City itself rather than the apartments. I’m not too picky, though I’d like it very much more if it’s a light-hearted, slice-of-life movie. And no horror, please. I’d like to know you guys’ recommendations. Cheers!

The original post: /r/movies by /u/Foamrocket66 on 2025-01-03 19:17:06.

So I just watched The Da Vinci Code again after many years and the central plot of the movie is that two sides have battled for ages over the descendants of Jesus

The core of this battle, is that Jesus fathering a child takes away his divinity and makes him human. The church wants to kill the descendants to keep this hidden, and not reveal to the world that Jesus was not divine, but a mere man.

My question is, how/why does him having a child, take away his godliness? The movie doesnt explain this. I mean, Jesus dying of a wound, like any other human would, seems more non-godly like, than having a child with Maria Magdalene? It doesnt really make sense to me.

Am I missing something?

The original post: /r/movies by /u/IceDogg23 on 2025-01-03 18:05:51.

With Honors; whereas, I have seen this movie before (several times), I have just watched it again and again floored! Who has not seen this movie? If you haven't it's totally worth a watch even as a background movie while you work on something.

SPOILER: It will draw you in to the humanity of it all.

The original post: /r/movies by /u/sukh345 on 2025-01-03 17:43:46.

Just watched this movie & it is very simple but amazing movie with no bad actors ✅

Story is not complex 😉✌️

Action is Raw , doesn't look fake 🤥

Inclusion of Hinduism is also Good, directors played safe with sensitive topics.

Half of movie is in Hindi originally 🤘

However, it's not released in India due to some religious problems.

I'm also an Indian and i see no controversial things in this movie not even one, everything is acceptable.

It's what i think about it , there are many good things about this movie but can't explain because I don't know how to explain 🤣🤣

The original post: /r/movies by /u/MichaeltheSpikester on 2025-01-03 16:53:36.

With Hollywood lacking so much originality nowadays being just sequels, remakes and reboots just as it seems to be the same for this year as well. I wanted to ask everyone for any recommendations for Indie films from last year?

The only Indie films I watched was Frogman and In a Violent Nature. But curious of any others from 2024 that would be worth a watch?

The original post: /r/movies by /u/Additional_Event_986 on 2025-01-03 16:38:34.

Hey everyone, I put this this question/recommendation out to the r/MovieSuggestions subreddit and while I was getting recommended movies, the moderators took down my post because they don’t allow people to ask for broad movies, only specific genres.

I hope to make it work here and I want to see if you guys can recommend me some more movies. YOU CAN RECOMMEND LITERALLY ANYTHING, ANY TYPE OF MOVIE, GENRE, YEAR, ETC ALL IS OKAY!!! I want to hear your voices and I want to see everything there is to offer.

I have the entirety of January planned out and most of February but obviously I need the rest of the year. So by the end of the year, I’ll have 365 movies watched or more, as I need at least one per day.

Thank you guys for your recommendations, I appreciate all of them.

The original post: /r/movies by /u/Hog_enthusiast on 2025-01-03 15:34:55.

I watched Glass Onion again last night because it had finally been long enough for me to forget the plot. I remembered not liking it, and I didn’t like it on the second watch either. I really enjoyed the first Knives Out, and Glass Onion gets mostly positive reviews, so why do I hate it so much?

There’s a few things that detract from the movie that are obvious up front. The aesthetic is worse. The characters aren’t believable and contradict themselves repeatedly. Blanc wins the record for quickest flanderization of a character in human history. The constant jokes about Covid and NFTs are dated and stale already. But that’s not enough to make me hate a movie. I can excuse dumb character decisions, or ugly costumes, or bad accents, or factual mistakes and inconsistencies.

The thing that absolutely kills this movie is twofold. For one thing, the cardinal sin in a mystery is to have a twist that the audience couldn’t ever figure out. There need to be hints. “Actually, Andy is dead and this has been her sister the whole time”? Terrible twist. The audience had no hint, no subtle costume detail, no strange line or moment that is later explained by that twist. Now this wouldn’t be enough to kill the movie. But because of that twist we get the real issue:

The whole movie is an attempt to figure out if Miles killed Andy, or if someone killed Andy on behalf of Miles.

Who cares?

Seriously, who cares? What difference does it make? Either way she is dead, she was screwed over by her friends, and Miles is responsible. The movie builds to nothing, it’s in pursuit of nothing. And maybe I could excuse that, if there were some fun or interesting scenes or characters. That isn’t the case. The dialogue is boring and hamfisted. The characters have no chemistry. It says a lot that I saw this movie two years ago, and couldn’t remember any characters or plot points or scenes.

To be forgettable is one thing, to be stupid is another. To be forgettable and stupid is unforgivable.

The original post: /r/movies by /u/screenplaywise on 2025-01-03 15:04:50.

The original post: /r/movies by /u/Evening-Grocery-9150 on 2025-01-03 14:52:19.

George Lucas gets a lot of criticism particularly post the 2000s, but American Graffiti and THX show, in my opinion, that he is much more than a one trick wonder. He had a real stroke of genius in him. Even if we keep his directorial work aside, it would be hard to imagine anyone who has had as profound and as deep of an impact on the art of movie making than he has - both in terms of how his intellectual properties like Indiana Jones and Star Wars have shaped popular culture; and how his technical endeavours like Industrial Light and Magic have transformed what was possible to put on the big screen. His big fluke in the prequels, particularly The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones was what I believe to be the work of a man who had been told for two decades how much a genius he was and had nobody above him to question his creative choices. He had complete control on every aspect of the films, which made them much less coherent and cohesive. He's certainly not the best writer of dialogue and not the most artsy of directors - he himself admits that he is not too fond of directing films of such scale as Star Wars. Even so, you see him respond to criticism and roll back many of his over the top directorial and creative tendencies for Revenge of the Sith. I think he gets far less credit than he actually deserves - beyond merely being a rebellious director from the 70s, his creative genius is what gave us Star Wars and Indiana Jones. He is a technical maestro without whom the achievements of visual effects, sound design and digital filmography in modern filmmaking could not have been possible. It's unfortunate that he pretty much retired after the Clone Wars. I would have loved to see the 'small, personal stories' Lucas had said he would direct after Revenge of the Sith.

The original post: /r/movies by /u/artpayne on 2025-01-03 13:40:02.

Everyone who's seen the original Die Hard loves it, knows it's the best of the franchise, and ranks it first.

Now, the third one, with a Vengeance, is terrific too. It comes real close to the first one and should easily be the second-best of the franchise. But some people rank it above the first one—and that's okay.

Apparently, there's a fifth one, whose existence nobody wants to talk about or even think about.

BUT...

The real question is...

Die Hard 2: Die Harder vs. Live Free or Die Hard—which one takes third place? You could make a case for either, honestly.

Personally, I like them both, but I'm gonna settle on Die Hard 2 for third place. I mean, do you really think it's okay to rank a rated-R action movie from the '90s below a PG-13 one from the mid-2000s? Nah, come on.

The original post: /r/movies by /u/Task_Force-191 on 2025-01-03 12:04:30.

The original post: /r/movies by /u/Neat_Desk3063 on 2025-01-03 10:47:50.

Now I watched the movie and I've seen many people criticize it for whatever reason. But hear me out. I was thinking about the movie and the message that Haneke wanted to send (Critizing the people who watch violence in movies). And I though, wouldn't it be better if:

They show the psychopaths in a charismatich way, and make us root for them (maybe in a Joe Goldberg type of way?) Then they start hurting them (not necessarily showing it on screen) and then all of the sudden we see Anna or George come to the screen and break the 4th wall, telling us desperately to help them or asking why are we not doing anything.

I feel that this would've made a greater impact (at least for me) and that I would actually feel called out (and prob feel bad) and I think the message would have been understood.

What do y'all think?

The original post: /r/movies by /u/violetgrrlie on 2025-01-03 03:36:59.

I am always looking to watch more scary movies, but I tend to get disappointed with underdeveloped plots, or reliance on cliche’s or shock factor things like gore and jump scares. What movies would you recommend for having a well-written and interesting plot, that are also gripping and dark or spooky/scary?