I've watched a few movies since this!Kong Wen wrote:I just watched The Hateful Eight
I re-watched Creed with Mrs. Kong. I enjoyed it just as much as I did in cinema, but this borrowed version didn't play well with my speaker system. Not sure what was going on there. 8.8/10
I watched a movie on Netflix called Last Knights. It's a fantasy-medieval (fictional setting) action-revenge movie based loosely on the 47 Ronin story, starring Clive Owen and Morgan Freeman. Good movie, but there's a lot of weird stuff going on. It's fairly clear that it's about samurai but it's really trying not to be about samurai, and this results in an interesting Euro-Asian fusion setting that pretty much works. Solid 7/10
Mrs. Kong and I also watched Jesus Camp, which is generally a documentary about child abuse perpetrated by a fundamentalist cult, and specifically about the rise of the marriage between evangelical religion and political agenda & action. 5.9/10 - It loses some points, not because I didn't like the exposé slant, but because it felt like it slightly lost its direction. It's anchored by a sort-of unsympathetic radio host who's supposed to be the voice of reason, but I didn't really buy it. And it's split down the middle between following three kids at cult-camp on one hand and the political issue on the other. I feel like it could have drilled down into this a little bit more, so it left me a little unsatisfied. Still a worthy topic, and a worthy watch.
Finally, last night I watched Ip Man. I have a lot to say about this movie, but I don't want to spoil anything. I know Drauks has seen it, based on his comment in the chat. I was expecting a historically-situated, well-choreographed martial arts action movie. It was that, but I feel like it did a little bit more than that. It's better than I thought it would be, even though I think one of the bonus things it tried to do worked and one didn't work as well. Anyway, Donnie Yen is great. 8.69/10