Me and my wife is preparing for our wedding in a month by watching wedding movies. We have watched Made of Honor and Bridesmaids and we are now watching My Best Friend’s Wedding.
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I love horror movies but have never done the October horror movie marathon. Will try this year I have so many on my watchlist.
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I hope you don’t get any ideas from them, or you’ll end up having a very crazy wedding 
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Yay maybe we should have a thread just for Spooky Season Movie Fest.
I have ticked off most of the classics and famous ones so it’s going to be a bit more niche this year but it’s a lot of fun.
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Good idea. I’ve got some odd, strange & maybe more obscure ones on my watchlist.
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Yes, please! I would like to see that.
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We have some friends staying and they wanted to watch Puss in Boots: The Last Wish.
I must admit I’m a bit of a snob when it comes to animated movies and tend to only really like Disney/Pixar, I really think the vast majority of other animation studios add way too much silly slapstick comedy, and use big star names to get bums on seats for stories that lack imagination, plot, and heart.
Shrek is a bit of an outlier here, but the endless sequels made me lose all hope of anything good coming out of Dreamworks again.
So I was totally gobsmacked when I realised that this film is utterly brilliant. It was genuinely one of the best movies I’ve seen in a long time!
I highly recommend it. It’s action-packed, laugh-a-minute, has an amazing and unique animation style during the fight scenes, and is full of heart - I cried!
Also there is a much better review than I could ever write, by this guy called @MrColdStream j wonder who that is 
: ‘Puss in Boots: The Last Wish’ review by Theo Kallström • Letterboxd
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(I talk about spooky season and then follow up with Puss in Boots lol, don’t worry, spooky starts soon) 
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Oh yes, Last Wish is excellent. We actually saw it in the cinema and really enjoyed it.
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Yup, The Last Wish is a fantastic film! I’m happy you liked it! It’s one of those animated movies that managed to go above and beyoned basic animated film tropes and emerge as a marvellous piece of filmmaking in its own right! And it’s a sequel/spinoff, which makes it even more impressive!
And thanks for sharing my review, it’s one I’m pretty fond of myself actually 
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Puss in Boots in genuinely incredible
Seems to me people have started to pick up a bit on the Spiderverse style of animation which is genuinely beautiful, and now we’re getting more and more things inspired by it, genuinely cannot wait to see more like that.
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Also on the topic of recent films with incredible stories and art styles, everyone, if you haven’t already, do yourself a favour and go watch Nimona
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We watched The Dig today. A very sweet and sad film, about digging in the dirt
I mostly wanted to see more of Carey Mulligan, after her appearance in Doctor Who’s Blink, but also Sutton Hoo (what this film is about) is really close to where I live and I’ve visited it a few times, so this brings the place to life even more.
I’d say it’s not something I’d watch again, but it definitely hit me in the feels.
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Did a double bill of Beetlejuice and then Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice…
SHIT - what did I just do?!!
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Right, got him eaten by a sandworm and now I can carry on.
Is it just me or is the first Beetlej… (for gods sake don’t say it) a bit, well, not brilliant? It’s a very disjointed film and has lots of scenes which just happen and the narrative flow is all over the place. There are some great bits - the Day-O scene, the design of the underworld, the special effects, Baldwin and Davis, Catherine O’Hara, Ryder but as a hole it doesn’t really work very well.
The sequel is actually marginally better in terms of story and uses the titular troublesome ghost much more than the original. But it still has a bunch of storylines which are just sort of there with no real connection or interaction - especially the whole bit with Monica Belluci as BJ’s ex-wife, which goes absolutely nowhere and the weird dream sequence at the end.
I just don’t really get the tone of either film though - some of the horror is quirky and cheesy and then other bits are properly disgusting and pushing the 12A certificate to it’s limits.
Not the worst films ever but definitely an acquired taste.
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I quite enjoy the original Beetlejuice, but then again, I am a huge Tim Burton fan, so that might be part of the reason. I’ve yet to see the sequel, but reading your thoughts on it makes me belive that I will enjoy it as well.
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Never made it all the way through the first one.
A friend of mine kept recommending it to me repeatedly so my expectations were a bit on the high side. I just couldn’t see the appeal of it and switched off after about 45 minutes I think - and I sat through the whole of the “Morbius” movie…
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It’s very disjointed as characters appear with fairly scant explanation as to who they are in the dialogue and I constantly felt like I was playing catch up in that first 45 minutes. BJ is also hardly in the thing.
The sequel is better narratively, just, but still feels like various vignettes stitched together.
Oh and it has Burn ‘Torchwood’ Gorman in a small but signficant role, so he’s obviously trying to break the US - I’ve seen him in a couple of other US things.
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I swear I’ll see him in something, get super surprised, and then just when I forget that he was in it and that he does movie work, BAM, there he is again
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