What movies have you seen recently?

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Belle.
Tom Wilkinson was terrific in this. In fact the entire cast was great.

The Great Dictator. Charlie Chaplin's first talkie.

Bullet to the Head (2012)

Another modern Stallone action movie, this time directed by Walter Hill (The Warriors). Nothing amazing but better than most modern action films. (Michael Bay should take notes from people like Hill.) Jason Momoa is surprisingly terrific.

Blacula (1972)
Scream Blacula Scream (1973)

Cheap blaxploitation flicks that are far better than their silly titles would have you believe, thanks mostly to great performances from William Marshall and better than average writing.

Unleashed (2005)

I had been told by more than one person that this was Jet Li's best English-language film. These people were right. Loved it.

Riddick (2013)

It's not surprising that this movie is far better than The Chronicles of Riddick, but I wasn't expecting it to be the best film in the series. As much as I like Pitch Black, this one has it beat. It's the most pleasant cinematic surprise I've had in a while.

Dracula 3D (2012)

Dracula turns into a giant praying mantis, and there are more bare breasts than a Cinemax softcore porn. I really shouldn't have to say anything more about this ridiculous schlock from Dario Argento (Suspiria). Thank god he's got Thomas Kretschmann in the lead role to make it watchable.

RoboCop (2014)

It sucks! It's awful! It's a disgrace to the original!

Just kidding. It's actually pretty good. Easily the second-best RoboCop film. Not that that's saying much, but it's closer in quality to RoboCop than RoboCop 2.

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)
Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)
Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides (2011)

Death Race 2000 (1975)
Death Race (2008)
Death Race 2 (2010)
Death Race 3: Inferno (2012)

Two film franchises with four entries each, none of which I had ever seen before, until recently when I blew through them all pretty quickly.

I enjoyed all of the Pirates films to some degree, though none of them are great. I can't imagine sitting through such long and bloated movies in a theatre, but they work well on home video, watching an hour here and an hour there, more like a TV series than a single film. Even at their worst, they're so light and charming and just trying so hard to entertain you that you can't hate them. The music is beyond excellent.

Death Race 2000 is great. It's a violent satire done 12 years before RoboCop but very similar. Cheap and schlocky as hell but extremely entertaining. Death Race is also terrific, one of the better remakes I've seen, though it has practically nothing in common with the original. The two straight-to-video sequels are entertaining and well-done but probably nothing I'll ever have a strong desire to see again.

The Conjuring

Rio Bravo

John Wayne plays a small-town sheriff, who with the aid of a drunk, a man with a bad leg, and a young gunfighter, seek to a hold-off the villian from getting his brother out of jail.

Dumb and Dumber

Clint Eastwood's Jersey Boys

Dark House.

So-so horror film about a twenty three year old man who has the curse of being able to tell when some people will die horribly. To make matters worst, he and his friends search for a house he had inherited in order to find the identity of his father - something he should never have gone looking for.

Wings

Epic silent movie about two young men who fight for the affection of a woman and become WWI fighter pilots.

We Were Soldiers.
Starring Mel Gibson

The Lego Movie

Taking place in a Lego world, a regular man becomes the prophesied 'The Special', who will save the Lego universe from the tyrannical Lord Business and his plans to glue everything in place.

Godzilla, King of the Monsters!

The first American Godzilla made in 1956 in which he attacks Tokyo.

300: Rise of an Empire

A Greek General leads the battle against the Persian Empire which serves as a Midequel and the Sequel to 300.

I'm also about to watch 300: Rise of An Empire. Funny cuz this threads op's started with 300.

Rewatched The Lego Movie.

Currently watching Spanish horror film called Darkness, involving people living in a haunted house. Stars Anna Paquin.