Official last movie you saw thread

The Eternaut 2025 miniseries. It felt like a long movie. As a fan of the graphic novel I have mixed feelings. I think that is a recommended watch for the scope of the production alone, and I'm really interested in what other cultures may get from this very argentinian story. I certainly hope this brings more people to the source material.

Thunderbolts* (2025)

American superhero film. It's about a group of antiheroes are caught in a deadly trap and forced to work together on a dangerous mission. Just watched this at the cinema. This literally just came out, so everything even close to being plot-related will be spoiler-tagged. Be warned, these are massive spoilers.
So, of course the asterisk is there because it's not the actual name of our ragtag group of heroes, even if the Red Guardian wants it to be. No, as is revealed at the end of the movie, this new group is called the New Avengers. I'm not that familiar with the lore and the comics and everything, but I know that multiple groups have had that name and here it's these people: Yelena Belova (Black Widow's adopted sister), Bucky Barnes, John Walker (the ex Captain America (for like 2 seconds, like the other characters mention)), Ava Starr aka Ghost, Robert Reynolds aka Bob aka Sentry/Void (who much of this movie is about) and Alexei Shostakov aka Red Guardian (who's also Yelena's (and Black Widow's adopted father). I was very impressed with Lewis Pullman (Bill Pullman's son) as Bob/Sentry/Void (who, weirdly enough, also played a character called Bob in Top Gun: Maverick (2022)). But yeah, he ruled. As the fish-out-of-water Bob when these clearly very capable supersoldiers find him in Valentina Allegra de Fontaine's secret complex, as the godlike, but still doubtful superhero Sentry and as the depressed, self-doubting supervillain Void. I can't wait to see more of Bob/Sentry/Void again. What a fascinating character. From what I've written this might seem like it's just an origin story of this new team of superheroes, but it's also more than that. It's about loneliness, which is how Bob can be this god Sentry but also the Void. It's about family and togetherness. It's the last movie of the MCU's Phase Five and definitely among the better ones. The MCU has needed a movie like this. Something that makes you excited for what's to come. And speaking of "what's to come", there's the question of the post-credits scene. They're sitting together, discussing an ongoing problem in outer space when they receive a distress signal from space and satellite footage reveals an enormous spacecraft with a large 4 on it. So yeah, the Fantastic Four. Can't wait for that. The next MCU movie that's being released is The Fantastic Four: First Steps (2025) at the end of July. I don't think they meet in that one already, because that's gonna be the introduction of those "new" characters of the Fantastic Four. But in some movie in the future the New Avengers and the Fantastic Four will meet.
I just watched this because I like to watch something that's just stupid and entertaining from time to time, but this definitely surprised me, so yeah, I can actually recommend this.

Inheritance/Spadek (2024)

Polish black comedy mystery film. It's about a family who gathers to inherit an eccentric inventor's fortune after his death, only to find out that he had prepared a last game to test their reconciliation and teamwork. It's a fun little whodunnit, but nothing outstanding in its genre. Overall I do think it's decent entertainment, though. So I can recommend it.

Reacher (S03) 👍🏻

Sicario (2015) 👍🏻

The Guardian (2006) 👍🏻

Day Shift (2022)

American action comedy horror film. It's about a blue-collar father whose pool-cleaning job is a front for his work as a vampire hunter. Rewatched this yesterday and it's still good and very entertaining. Can recommend.

The Land Beyond the Sunset (1912)

American silent drama short film. It's about a young boy, oppressed by his grandmother, who goes on an outing in the country with a social welfare group. It's very whimsical and magical but it has a powerful, haunting final scene that gives you a chill when you watch it, where (and I don't believe I have to spoilertag something about a 113 year old movie, but out of principle I will) the boy is seen from afar, drifting out to sea in the oarless boat he got into in the previous scene, holding his storybook against his chest, which most likely means he's gonna die out at sea and it really is heartbreaking. Overall I think this was really good and well worth the watch, even at just 12 minutes. Highly recommended.

Chain Reaction (1996) 👍🏻

The Terminator (1984)

American science fiction action film. It's about a cybernetic assassin who's sent back in time to assassinate a woman whose unborn son will one day save mankind from extinction by a hostile artificial intelligence in a post-apocalyptic future. So for a few years I've specifically tried to watch movies I know I'll enjoy on my birthday. Stuff like Seven Samurai (1954), Cinema Paradiso (1988), Oldboy (2003), Alien (1979) (which resulted in me watching the rest of that franchise in the days afterwards too) but also Planet of the Apes (2001) last year because at the end of that week I was going to watch the newest one at the cinema and I hadn't yet watched anything beyond the original pentalogy so technically I failed the "watch something I know will be great" thingy because the 2001 Planet of the Apes just isn't good. But back to the present, I decided pretty soon after my birthday last year that it's gonna be the Terminator movies this time around. Another big blind spot of mine that I knew I had to fix at some point. So yeah, this is probably Arnie at his best. And the movie itself is so iconic (I think it's rightfully considered to be one of the greatest 80s movies ever made and that's saying something) that several quotes quotes are maybe even more famous than the movie itself. Quotes like "Come with me if you want to live." and the ever-famous "I'll be back!" are just amazing. What else is there to say about the movie that hasn't already been said? Anyway, I thought this was great. Highly recommended.

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991)

American science fiction action film. It's about a malevolent artificial intelligence that sends a highly advanced killing machine back in time to 1995 to kill the future leader of the human resistance when he is a child but the resistance sends back a less advanced, reprogrammed cyborg to protect him and ensure the future of humanity. This is a masterpiece. It improves on the original in every department, has incredible visual effects, a great story (basically the villain coming back, or at least that's what it looks like for us until we get to know better, and then teaming up with the character the first movie was technically about, even though we didn't see him then (as he obviously wasn't born yet), the one-liners are even more iconic, the acting (Robert Patrick is incredible, Edward Furlong is at his best in this debut of his, Arnold Schwarzenegger is perfect in this one, even better than in the original imho, Linda Hamilton was great, Joe Morton (who I've first known from the great science fiction show Eureka and have since seen in so many movies I didn't expect him to (and some I did)) was very good as well), the soundtrack is iconic... I'm not really the biggest action movie fan but if I had to pick this would have to be my absolute favourite action movie (and I rarely if ever deal in absolutes), there's not a thing about it that I dislike. Like I said, I consider this an instant masterpiece. If you haven't seen this yet I can absolutely recommend it! And if you have, just rewatch it.

And yes, I know that it will only go downhill from this point on, but I wouldn't expect any Terminator movie to be better than this anyway.

Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines (2003)

American-German-British science fiction action film. It's about a malevolent artificial intelligence who sends a highly advanced killing machine back in time to ensure the rise of machines by killing top members of the future human resistance as the future leader of the human resistance's location is unknown but the resistance sends back a less advanced, reprogrammed cyborg to protect him and his future wife and ensure the future of humanity. This is, surprisingly, not as bad as I expected. It's definitely very hard to follow up a masterpiece like Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), but this one does follow it up with a story that makes sense. Sure, there's nothing it's as good at as its predecessor, but I didn't expect it to be. The VFX are still good for example, albeit not as groundbreaking as in the previous movie. This is also the first Terminator movie I was aware of, growing up. I definitely remember seeing that poster at the cinema back when it came out. Overall this was worth the watch but don't expect another Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991). Can recommend.

Terminator Salvation (2009)

American military science fiction action film. It's about the war between Skynet's machine network and humanity, as the remnants of the world's militaries have united to form the Resistance to fight against Skynet. This doesn't even feel like a Terminator movie. Might be because, apart from a short digital cameo, Arnold Schwarzenegger doesn't appear at all. It also sounds pretty generic, at some points early in the movie I literally thought this was a Transformers movie. I wouldn't even call this a Terminator movie. Maybe something like Skynet Salvation would make more sense. One thing I found interesting was a scene where a character finds out they're actually not human (as they believed) but cyborg. But overall I didn't really enjoy this. Good cast, though (Christian Bale, Sam Worthington, Bryce Dallas Howard, Anton Yelchin, Common, Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Ironside and more). Still, can't really recommend.

Terminator Genisys (2015)

American cyberpunk action film. It's about a soldier in a post-apocalyptic war against an evil artificial intelligence, who is sent from 2029 to 1984 to prevent the death of the resistance leader's mother, but when he arrives in the past, he discovers that the timeline has been altered and that she has been raised by a reprogrammed Terminator sent to protect her. I didn't really like this. It's a reboot and ignores everything after the original. There are a few good things about this, for example that, instead of de-aging Arnie, they wrote into the screenplay that the living human tissue on the cyborgs ages. Another thing I liked is that they cast Lee Byung-hun as a T-1000, which I feel like is spot on. Beyond that this movie is mostly not good at all. So I can't recommend it.

Terminator: Dark Fate (2019)

American science fiction action film. It's about a cybernetic assassin who's sent back in time to assassinate a woman who will one day save mankind from extinction by a hostile artificial intelligence in a post-apocalyptic future. So this is a sequel to the original only and completely ignores all of the sequels. It was nice to see Linda Hamilton and Arnold Schwarzenegger again, but they are kinda underutilized. And the story is not new at all. Just this time the woman that needs to be protected isn't the mother of the future resistance leader, but she's gonna be the resistance leader herself. I liked Gabriel Luna as the Rev-9. Apart from those few things, I didn't really like this movie at all. So yeah, can't recommend this one.

Now that I've seen this franchise for the first time, I can say that the first two are essential (with T2 being even better than the original), the third one is still a good watch and that's it. Maybe I'll check out The Sarah Connor Chronicles tv show at some point, maybe the animated Terminator show, too. But as for the movies, I hope they don't make another one. And with how the last one bombed at the box office I'm pretty sure that's not in anyone's plans right now.

Black Mirror: Bandersnatch (2018)

British interactive science fiction thriller drama film. Rewatched this yesterday and it was still good. It's a shame that Netflix are removing not only something from their own exclusive catalogue but something you couldn't watch anywhere else even if you wanted to. Sure, Bandersnatch might not be perfect and not everyone might enjoy the experience but just getting rid of all of your interactive content is not the way to go. Why not at least put it on Steam for a few bucks? At least then it wouldn't be completely gone.

The Getaway (1994) 🤙🏻

The Four Seasons (1981)

American romantic comedy film. It's about the relationships between three middle-aged married couples during several vacations together and what happens after one of the guys divorces his wife and falls for a much younger woman. Over this last week I watched the new Netflix miniseries The Four Seasons and when Alan Alda had a short cameo that seemed like it was weirdly intentional (I don't know how to describe it better than that) I checked Google and found out he was in this movie that the series is based on. So as soon as I was finished with the Terminator franchise I had to watch this, so the series is still relatively fresh in my mind and I can compare the two. And I gotta say, I like them both a lot. But since this is about the movie, I'll talk about it some more. Great cast (Alan Alda, Carol Burnett, Len Cariou, Sandy Dennis, Jack Weston, Rita Moreno, Bess Armstrong and more). It's just a fun slice-of-life story about some friends. Sure, the new series was definitely more modern and might appeal more to a modern viewer for that reason, but I can still recommend checking out this movie, too. Very enjoyable watch. Can recommend.

Anora. Super overrated (won 5 oscars) but it was decent. Do NOT watch it with your parents or siblings

Bank of Dave (2023)

British biographical comedy drama film. It's about a Burnley self-made millionaire who struggles to set up a community bank to help the town's local businesses to thrive and to do so, he must battle London's elite financial institutions and compete for the first banking licence in more than 150 years. I just love this type of movie. These small British indie films about ordinary people doing extraordinary things, very often based on actual events, as is the case with this one, too. Very good cast (Rory Kinnear, Joel Fry, Jo Hartley, Paul Kaye, Cathy Tyson, Hugh Bonneville and more) and some nice cameos, for example of then Burnley FC manager Sean Dyche and the band Def Leppard, who weren't actually involved in the real thing (they play a concert to help the main character raise the money he needs to be able to register his bank and you'd be forgiven to think they did it in the movie because they did it in real life) but they heard about it afterwards and just wanted to be part of a movie that celebrates community spirit and helping others. So yeah, if you're in the mood for a feel-good comfort movie like this I can very much recommend this.

Mr. Harrigan's Phone (2022), didn't know it existed. It was mediocre. But how many Stephen King adaptations do we need? All of them?

Bank of Dave 2: The Loan Ranger (2025)

British biographical comedy-drama film. It's about a self-made millionaire, businessman and owner of a community bank who's taking on the pay day loan companies. Again based on Dave Fishwick's real life. Again with a very good cast (Rory Kinnear, Hugh Bonneville, Jo Hartley, Chrissy Metz, Rob Delaney, Amit Shah, Leila Farzad, Dan Fogler and more). Again with Def Leppard (if you like the band you'll probably enjoy them just for them being in both of them). Overall not quite as good as the first one, but still entertaining. So I can recommend this one, too.

The West Point Story (1950)

American musical comedy film. It's about an unemployed Broadway musical director who ends up at a military academy to stage a show, dealing with military life, romance, and some cadet hijinks. Still reading that James Cagney autobiography and he wrote that he rarely rewatched his old movies but if he does it's usually one of his musicals, so that got me in the mood to watch one of those today. And this one is very good. Cagney, Doris Day, Virginia Mayo, Alan Hale Jr. and more shine in this delightful musical comedy and I'm not surprised an aging James Cagney would've preferred his lighter-hearted movies to those hardened gangster pictures when it came to rewatching. And yeah, I enjoyed it too, so I can recommend it.

Unfrosted (2024)

American satirical biographical comedy film. It's about the creation of Pop-Tarts toaster pastries. Of course it's just loosely based on what actually happened and most of what you see in this movie is really over the top and just silly. Interesting cast (Jerry Seinfeld, Amy Schumer, Sarah Cooper, Hugh Grant, Max Greenfield, Jim Gaffigan, Melissa McCarthy, James Marsden, Bill Burr, Christian Slater, Peter Dinklage, Daniel Levy, Jon Hamm, Jack McBrayer, Patrick Warburton, Maria Bakalova, John Slattery, Bobby Moynihan, Fred Armisen, Tony Hale, Cedric The Entertainer, Dean Norris, Cedric Yarbrough, Adrian Martinez and more). But yeah, it's not good. I'd describe it as one of those "so bad it's good" movies and after watching this I'm sure that's what they were going for intentionally. Of course that makes it a bit worse compared to movies that unintentionally turned out "so bad it's good" but still, if you want to shut your brain off and watch something farcical, I can recommend this.

The Servant (1963)

British psychological drama film. It's about an upper class guy who hires a manservant after moving into his new house but soon their relationship begins to shift. This is really good. Amazing cinematography with great long takes and fascinating mirror shots and the like. The acting is also great with James Fox as the young upper class gentleman and Dirk Bogarde as the butler. Both at the top of their game. I stumbled across this because David F. Sandberg (the director of movies like Lights Out (2016), the Shazam movies (2019 & 2023) and most recently Until Dawn (2025), which is in cinemas right now) made a great video about it recently. Check it out (and the rest of his channel too, he gives great insights into filmmaking and stuff). So, back to this movie. I can highly recommend it!

Daylight's End (2016) 🤙🏻