Weekly thread - What movies have you watched this week? 29/07/2026

A Quiet Place

Hilariously I saw A Quiet Place Day One and then A Quiet Place II before I watched A Quiet Place. This was a good monster movie. The set up was interesting and the movie had some incredible moments. It is rare that a movie has the balls to kill the little kid!

The Long Walk.

Stephen King Adaptations are such a roll of the dice. For every decent/good one there four or five shit ones. This movie was pretty good.

It is clearly an allegory for the draft, and it lays that on pretty thick. The actors were great and man the futility of the walk and the desperation of the characters really shined through. The actors collectively really pulled it off. Mark Hamill was great as The Major. The stand out for me was a guy named David Jonsson. He was phenomenal in this movie. I hope to see more of him.

Watched the new Masters of the Universe and was entirely let down.

Seven Samurai 3.5/5 - Look, I know that sounds crazy. The last hour of this really is incredible and I’m not opposed to a long or old movie. However before the intermission there’s a lot of retreading ground and hammering the premise into you. It doesn’t help I found several of the samurai annoying along with the constant whining of the villagers

There Will be Blood 4/5 - This is one of the most American movies I’ve ever seen. Daniel almost immediately identifies Eli as being just as ruthless and craven as he is. They are constantly trying to exploit the other at the expense of everyone around them while both ultimately end up miserable and alone

Tour de Pharmacy 4.5/5 - Short, hilarious, and everyone is totally fine taking the piss out of bicycling. The old/young versions being separate actors has some very funny payoffs

A Few Good Men 4/5 - Sorkin is at his best when he’s writing and not writing/directing which is admittedly a pretty lukewarm take. I like the build up to give the court case the punch it needs to close the movie. I would personally move the “code red” scene to the beginning of the movie, it feels out of place as an unlabeled flashback

M3GAN 3.5/5 - It’s good horror/comedy and does a better job at modernizing Child’s Play than Child’s Play does. I’m excited to see what SOULM8TE does in a few days

The Matrix Revolutions 4/5 - I would love to sit down and really talk about this with someone. Neo descending to hell to confront the Merovingian (who may be a previous iteration of The One), the dual filming of both movies, where the messiah allegory stops/ends, the INCREDIBLE highway fight scene. There’s so much that’s just so interesting going into this it’s just a shame Reloaded and later Resurrections don’t quite land

One Night Only 3/5 - Even ignoring the batshit premise of the film it still is held together by insane coincidences that it doesn’t really have the narrative strength to justify. It is funny for most of it, but it’s also surprisingly chaste for being an R rated movie about every single person in the country fucking for 12 hours. I think I saw a single woman’s nipple in the whole thing and neither of the main characters gets seriously nude in the entire thing

Mad Max Fury Road. He’s seeing flashbacks, from the Mel Gibson movies I assume? It was a little confusing to keep seeing them.

The action is incredibly, of course.

Next Goal Wins (2023)

The story of the infamously terrible American Samoa soccer team

I wasn’t expecting much but It’s a really fun watch and all the characters are great.