@Tooky: oh, thanks for clearing that up. i don't think i ever knew the difference. and i'll probably look into some alfred hitchcock, then. 🙂

@Feather: also Gaslight falls under that same category. I like the 1944 version with Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer.

@ela: :reads about it: oh, i might have to watch that one. 😀

So I just saw Inside Out (on Monday, if I remember correctly). I liked it, and I aaaaaaalmost enjoyed it a lot. The problem was that it was a little close to home and I couldn't help but growl (silently), "Oh, you think you've got it hard?? You have a HOUSE. But that broccoli pizza? Aww, I'm so sorry for you. I know it's rough to be able to order your food in YOUR NATIVE LANGUAGE."
But...
...otherwise I thought it was pretty good. I probably would have loved it if I hadn't just moved, myself.

Aw. *hugs Hobbit* I have another friend who took it kind of hard too because it brought up difficult childhood memories for him.

I saw Inside Out when I was still trying to deal with moving to my grandmother's elder community and just missing my church and friends and everything. So I sat there in the theater and sobbed at the end.

*hugs Hobbit*

I just got back from Hidden Figures. Loved it! And I'd recommend it to anyone really, but for mild swearing if one takes issue with that. 🙂

Oh really? How was it? (you can PM me.) I've been really curious about it and not sure if I wanted to see it or not.

seriously thinking about suicide squad.
anybody got anything to say about it?

@Pev: My siblings watched it and thought it wasn't a very good movie. Weak plot, little character development. They both love superhero stuff, but thought this one was lacking.

@Ela: Thanks for the info.

What about X-men?

I saw a stream of comments on Suicide Squad on a YouTube video yesterday, a number of them from DC fans, I'm sure. Most of what I saw was negative, even down to, "I NEVER leave a movie, but I left Suicide Squad about an hour in!" Plus, between PluggedIn, a secular reviewer I follow, and that video I watched... it's pretty much in no way worth it, from what I gather.

Personally, stay away from X-Men. They're a slightly less extreme waste of time (as individual films, but considering there are... 9 now, if you include the upcoming Logan... anyway). I watched the first one because one of my college profs bashed it several times, I had to see if it was as bad as he said. It was. And then I watched the second one and most of the third one to see if it got any better. Nope, not at all. I tried First Class and it's the only one I sorta enjoyed, but it's got parts I really didn't like (and still wasn't a great movie). Days of Future Past looked sooooo promising, but failed spectacularly. And even die-hard, nostalgia-driven fans are largely negative on Apocalypse. Everyone hates Origins: Wolverine. What I saw of The Wolverine (separate film) bored and annoyed me. The stories, no matter how interesting they may sound, are poorly executed (though I'll grant that some plots are better than others). The characters are largely... eh.... And don't get me started on the fact that the first film tried to give equal character arcs to no less than three characters. Ugh. That's what I hated most about that one.... I'm of the belief that the hype is from nostalgic comic book fans who are willing to overlook a good deal (with some exceptions) just so they can see these characters onscreen. X-Men is a good chunk of the reason why I had extremely little hope for any superhero movie to be really, actually good until Captain America: Winter Soldier proved that superhero movies can actually have depth and mean something (note that I've not seen all superhero movies; I'm told the Dark Knight trilogy is more along the lines of what I'm looking for).

*gets off her soapbox* 😳

Hehe! @Ariel: thanks! That means a lot. 😛

I have a few movies NOT to watch.

You're welcome. 🙂

Hopefully this doesn't sound contradictory, (it's not the intent at all), but I liked X-Men: Days of Future Past and the concept of Hope.* (This is from a person not into comics and never watched a full X-men movie.) However I say that with the Cavet that it it's rated PG-13 and also there are some things that I skip. But I would say I feel like it's a movie for Older Viewers. You can look for other reviews/Have your parents look for reviews to know if its something that will be okay for you or your family.

I haven't seen any of the others to give a review.

*This is not a recommendation. Please take the appropriate cautions/(Have your Parents Preview) as you would with any movie.

@Lil: Oh cool.
Currently, the only thing about rating I care about is if it is R or not. 🙂 I have watched so many PG13 and all, that it is just another normal thing.
And I cannot say the last time I watched a "family" movie was, really. I do most of my watching with myself.

Okay, I won't take it as a suggestion. Appropriate cautions to me is just looking at ratings to see if it is a waste of time.
And just for the record, most marvel movies have some stuff that I wouldn't mind skipping whatsoever. That is sadly too expected in this society. 🙁

All I am trying to do is figure out what is worth watching for superhero movies. I expect a scene I might skip, I expect slight language. I just don't want to see something cheesy like superman again.

And just because I now noticed, I wanted to Compliment Lil here on a great Sig. Not the picture, but the fact that the picture is above a Switchfoot quote. 😉

I have a soft spot for the first two X-Men, but it's in great parts also: 1) nostalgia for the realisation that I could enjoy this sort of blockbuster-y film; 2) nostalgia for the joy of finding an actor I like in the background; 3) Hugh Jackman, which got old with the overuse of Wolverine in the later films; 4) Patrick Stewart & Ian McKellen (that sort of acting chops thankfully never gets old).
I haven't re-watched them in quite some time, is what it boils down to. Back when it was new to me, it was amazing, but since then, I've found things that hit the same chords and suit me even better. (Various things hitting various chords, true, but they all do it better, at least for me, than the X-Men movies actually do.)
First Class annoyed me. It was trying hard to be Cool and Stylish and Fun and Exciting and whatnot, and overall I just felt it was... vapid? It didn't work for me as a film, in huge part, I think, because I found none of the characters likeable / relatable / sympathetic, for whatever reason. (The confusion about the characters' ages versus the historical dates didn't help my impression of the movie, either...)

I liked the Marvel movies, and then also slowly lost interest, in great part because of an excellent fic writer finding some damnable faults with The Avengers (to do with mass characterisation, more or less) that I hadn't noticed in my first excitement. That sort of thing sours the experience. Captain America: The Winter Soldier is the high point after which I fear it can only go downwards, and so I think that's more or less where I stopped.
That said, The Winter Soldier really is a high point. See above about finding things that hit the same chords... It really helps that Steve Rogers is a genuine likeable hero, for one thing. The story is very character-driven yet not mired in the characters' personal problems inserted for the sake of it. It really benefits from treating its superheroes as people and showing why these people are heroes, rather than just taking the route of showing how these superheroes are people, if you see what I mean. It managed, more or less, to do a bit of what the aforementioned fic writer does a lot of. (Coneycat, in case you're curious.)