Rate the last movie you've seen

I've finished it. Not bad, but not as good as the more recent version. In addition to the fictional sub-plot, there was scattered made up dialogue and characters, all unnecessary as far as I can tell. 7/10

 

Finished watching Batman: Mask of the Phantasm, a follow-up to Batman the Animated Series, and the first film in the DCAU (aka the DC Animated Universe). I liked it, but not as much as many other Batman fans.

The most distinctive thing about it is that it presented a different spin of how Bruce Wayne evolved into becoming Batman.

7.5/10

 

Have you seen this one yet?

 

Ariel Phenomenon
Ariel Phenomenon (2022) - IMDb
A look at the Ariel school UFO event. I'd read a couple of the mainstream descriptions but interviews of the children by Harvard psychiatrist Mack were interesting.
They were done just after the event, he did not lead but allowed them to describe what they thought and saw.
One child described how an alien moved:
'Like the astronauts on the moon, although they were used to heavier gravity'.
And the sound of the craft:
'like a bee buzzing or electrical humming'.
And the appearance of the craft:
'Water poured on a surface, not like shiny metal'

 

It's on Disney+, which is part of my Hulu package. I've begun watching. It'll take me a while, as usual. So far, very good special effects. I'm up to Doctor Strange's first encounter with Wanda.

I'm also watching the dubbed version of Ip Man, which is on Tubi. Gorgeous, historic setting. (Will also take me a while.)

 

Carrying on from previous discussions about modern westerns, I watched this little effort last night and can say that it wasn't too bad at all for a B-picture [aka, cheapie!] ... as I said, it was obviously low-budget despite the fact that it had several middle-old-age superstars that are only slightly 'over-the-hill for the big movie roles that they so often turned down yesterday'... ie Richard Dreyfuss and Gabriel Byrne ... It is a moderately paced movie that tried , and almost succeeded to emulate the Spaghetti-Leone-style westerns from the 1960's [but without the essential mouth twisting dubbing and the searing Morricone soundtrack.
It benefitted from also having a bit of a genre crossover with the classic 'whodunit-movies' [a' la 1968's 5 Card Stud].
Not a classic by any standards, but good enough to quench a couple of hours of boredom anyway. ... The only real qualm that I could envisage a classic western fan having is that there was a meagre attempt to appease the new overlords of public cognisance by means of having the two oldest 'closet-gay-cowboys' on celluloid as a peripheral-side-story... but that didn't really spoil it for me anyway. ... As I said, I would recommend it to fellow western fans and would advise to watch it with no great expectations and think that you might agree that it is worthy of a 8/10 on a otherwise spiritless gogglebox time.



Cheers.

Hi NSG, hope you're well matey. ... I Watched this documentary last week , i'd been looking forward to it since it was announced that it was to be made. I liked it well enough to give it a solid 7-8/10 , and if that seems a little stingy then it's because that the Ruwa Incident is one that i've been familiar [and impressed with] for years and would rank it as being the equal to the Westall case that preceded it by 28 years for a genuine authentic case of the ETH. ... so the reason for the score being no higher was that I learned nothing new. ... but had I been new to the case then, it would have probably blown my mind and received a 11/10 rating. lol

Cheers Buddy.

 

Agree, the editing was a bit all over but for me the actual words used by the children gave a lot of information.

From the subtitle file:

358
00:19:06,730 --> 00:19:10,358
We saw two of them, one was
standing in front of the ship

359
00:19:10,358 --> 00:19:12,945
and then the other one had,
um, long hair.

360
00:19:13,445 --> 00:19:15,322
But the one was standing
in front

361
00:19:15,322 --> 00:19:17,115
didn’t have any hair at all.

362
00:19:17,115 --> 00:19:19,200
Show me with your hands
how big the eyes were.

363
00:19:19,242 --> 00:19:21,495
They were shaped
like something like that.

364
00:19:21,495 --> 00:19:25,082
Big head and big black eyes

365
00:19:25,082 --> 00:19:27,167
and was dressed
in a black body suit.

366
00:19:27,167 --> 00:19:30,003
What did you think it was?
I don’t know.

367
00:19:30,003 --> 00:19:32,297
I just thought it was
some type of alien

368
00:19:32,297 --> 00:19:34,048
from a different planet.

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650
00:35:14,947 --> 00:35:18,575
And you said that, uh,
you saw two, um,

651
00:35:19,243 --> 00:35:20,995
what would you call them?
Um...

652
00:35:21,037 --> 00:35:22,872
Aliens.
Aliens, you call them.

653
00:35:24,332 --> 00:35:29,170
And, and where the aliens
in relation to the to the craft?

654
00:35:29,170 --> 00:35:30,838
I saw one over here.

655
00:35:30,838 --> 00:35:36,010
And I saw one, one of these
men by, by the spaceship.

656
00:35:36,010 --> 00:35:38,930
It looks like it was guarding
by the big spaceship.

657
00:35:39,513 --> 00:35:43,935
And there was another one
running, running in the grass.

658
00:35:43,935 --> 00:35:47,188
And how did he run compared to
the, say, a way a kid would run?

659
00:35:47,188 --> 00:35:50,190
He ran normally like us
but bouncy

660
00:35:50,190 --> 00:35:52,067
as if a human
would run on the moon.

661
00:35:52,943 --> 00:35:56,030
As there were less gravity
and it seemed light. Is that...?

662
00:35:56,072 --> 00:36:00,075
Yes. But not, not as much
as a human on the moon.

663
00:36:00,075 --> 00:36:03,537
Not that extreme.
When he ran his distance,

664
00:36:03,537 --> 00:36:05,790
he stopped and he looked
at us at for a while

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1127
01:00:30,712 --> 01:00:35,298
No. And did, how did
those thoughts come to you?

1128
01:00:35,298 --> 01:00:39,803
Did they come to you
from the craft or from...

1129
01:00:40,430 --> 01:00:42,015
From the man.
The man.

1130
01:00:42,807 --> 01:00:46,060
And the man, did the man say
those things to you?

1131
01:00:46,935 --> 01:00:49,105
How did he get that
across to you?

1132
01:00:50,482 --> 01:00:52,567
Well, he never said anything.

1133
01:00:52,567 --> 01:00:54,985
It’s just that
the face, his, the eyes.

1134
01:00:55,987 --> 01:00:57,655
Fungai, what do you imagine

1135
01:00:57,655 --> 01:00:59,282
is his reason for
visiting earth?

1136
01:01:00,533 --> 01:01:02,618
I think it’s about something
that’s going to happen.

1137
01:01:02,660 --> 01:01:03,995
Something that’s
going to happen?

1138
01:01:03,995 --> 01:01:05,747
Yes.
Like what?

1139
01:01:05,747 --> 01:01:08,165
Um, it’s pollution
or something.

1140
01:01:08,165 --> 01:01:10,083
Pollution?
Yes.

1141
01:01:10,083 --> 01:01:13,838
And how did he get that idea
of pollution across to you?

1142
01:01:13,838 --> 01:01:16,798
Um, the way he was staring.
The way he was staring?

1143
01:01:16,798 --> 01:01:18,133
Yes.

1144
01:01:18,133 --> 01:01:20,387
Somehow there was a message
about pollution

1145
01:01:20,387 --> 01:01:21,762
from the way he was staring?

1146
01:01:21,762 --> 01:01:23,013
Yes.

1147
01:01:23,013 --> 01:01:28,937
I think they want, um,
people to know

1148
01:01:28,937 --> 01:01:32,190
that we’re actually making harm
on this world

1149
01:01:32,190 --> 01:01:34,275
and we mustn’t get
too technologed.

1150
01:01:34,900 --> 01:01:36,860
How did that get
communicated to you?

1151
01:01:36,902 --> 01:01:38,112
I don’t know.

1152
01:01:38,112 --> 01:01:39,322
But somehow it did?

1153
01:01:39,363 --> 01:01:41,240
Yeah. It came through my head.

1154
01:01:41,240 --> 01:01:42,492
Through your head?

1155
01:01:42,533 --> 01:01:44,952
Did it talk, like,
through words or...?

1156
01:01:44,952 --> 01:01:46,370
My conscience, I think.
Your what?

1157
01:01:46,370 --> 01:01:47,788
My conscience told me.

1158
01:01:47,788 --> 01:01:49,207
It came to you through your,
your conscience told you.

1159
01:01:49,207 --> 01:01:50,542
Yeah.

1160
01:01:50,542 --> 01:01:52,585
You mean while you were
in contact with the being,

1161
01:01:52,585 --> 01:01:53,837
you mean or what?

1162
01:01:53,837 --> 01:01:56,213
While I was... While the being
was looking at me.

1163
01:01:56,213 --> 01:01:57,757
While it was looking at you.

1164
01:01:58,507 --> 01:02:00,843
It was like this lake
of calmness in his eyes.

1165
01:02:01,468 --> 01:02:03,053
I was compelled to look at him.

1166
01:02:03,053 --> 01:02:06,515
It wasn’t like I,
I wanted to look away from him.

1167
01:02:07,267 --> 01:02:11,353
Time became very still
and very bizarre.

1168
01:02:12,105 --> 01:02:14,190
In my mind, technology...

1169
01:02:14,232 --> 01:02:17,485
{\an3}and, and not, not good feelings
about technology either.

1170
01:02:17,485 --> 01:02:20,362
{\an3}It was like technology
was a bad, dirty word.

1171
01:02:21,030 --> 01:02:24,367
I think that he was saying
to me, beware of the technology.

1172
01:02:24,367 --> 01:02:25,785
Don’t go into it too heavy

1173
01:02:25,785 --> 01:02:28,162
{\an3}because it’s, it’s not going
to be good for you.

1174
01:02:29,038 --> 01:02:31,457
{\an3}It was only when I was
looking at him and his face

1175
01:02:31,498 --> 01:02:34,168
{\an3}and his eyes that I got that.

1176
01:02:34,168 --> 01:02:35,587
As soon as I looked
away from him,

1177
01:02:35,587 --> 01:02:37,588
that’s when all of reality and,

1178
01:02:37,588 --> 01:02:40,340
and everything
that was happening came back to.

1179
01:02:40,340 --> 01:02:44,095
And that’s when I realized
that something really strange

1180
01:02:44,137 --> 01:02:46,055
is happening here.

1181
01:02:46,055 --> 01:02:47,682
It's fascinating.

1182
01:02:48,307 --> 01:02:53,187
This was imagery coming through
from them communication,

1183
01:02:53,228 --> 01:02:55,898
but it’s done through,
right in your brain.

1184
01:02:58,358 --> 01:03:00,820
You, you were saying
that you thought that they maybe

1185
01:03:00,820 --> 01:03:03,907
were trying to tell us something
like, uh, about the future.

1186
01:03:03,907 --> 01:03:07,285
Can you say more of what your
thought is? What was it like?

1187
01:03:07,285 --> 01:03:11,330
It was like on the world,
all the trees will just go down

1188
01:03:11,330 --> 01:03:12,915
and,

1189
01:03:13,540 --> 01:03:16,252
and there were will be no air
and people will be dying.

1190
01:03:16,835 --> 01:03:22,383
I think that in space there’s
no love and down here there is.

1191
01:03:22,425 --> 01:03:23,843
There is love?
Yes.

1192
01:03:23,843 --> 01:03:24,843
Mm hmm.

1193
01:03:27,638 --> 01:03:29,807
Is there anything
we can do with that love,

1194
01:03:29,807 --> 01:03:31,642
as far as taking care
of the earth?

1195
01:03:31,642 --> 01:03:35,353
You talked about the,
that they, their message,

1196
01:03:35,353 --> 01:03:37,190
that we don’t take
care of the earth.

1197
01:03:38,148 --> 01:03:40,067
No.
Why not?

1198
01:03:40,735 --> 01:03:42,195
Several of them talked
about, uh,

1199
01:03:42,237 --> 01:03:44,988
a message being transmitted
through the eyes,

1200
01:03:44,988 --> 01:03:47,617
that the beings were trying
to tell us something.

1201
01:03:47,617 --> 01:03:50,537
What gave that
a certain edge of sincerity

1202
01:03:50,537 --> 01:03:52,622
was they weren’t offering
solutions,

1203
01:03:52,622 --> 01:03:54,165
like we’ve got to become
environmentally conscious

1204
01:03:54,165 --> 01:03:55,583
and, you know,
do something about the earth.

1205
01:03:55,583 --> 01:03:57,000
So I’d say, "Well, what
are we supposed to do?"

1206
01:03:57,000 --> 01:03:58,460
And they would say, "Well, no.

1207
01:03:58,460 --> 01:04:01,088
That’s not what they were doing,
what they were conveying.

1208
01:04:01,088 --> 01:04:04,342
They, they were simply telling
us that this is what’s going on

1209
01:04:04,342 --> 01:04:06,177
and they felt very upset
about it."

1210
01:04:06,177 --> 01:04:08,930
But it wasn’t like a,
you know, ecological,