froghawk on 6/7/2020 at 12:55
Gave in and watched Westworld s3. I shouldn't have. It was more of hollywood pretending to have some radical, profound message while saying absolutely nothing. Zero actual substance.
Sulphur on 6/7/2020 at 14:13
At least they left it for the audience to say this time. Come on, say it with me:
'Doesn't look like anything to me.'
SubJeff on 7/7/2020 at 09:54
Lol
Westworld S02 was enough for me. Boy did the end drag.
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I've watched
Dear White People the movie when it came out... I haven't checked out the TV show, as I thought the movie did a great job at telling its story and at the time, the idea of making it a series felt like milking it for TV... (Which I fully admit might be unfair.)
Never saw the film (would like to) but the first season of the tv series was pretty good imho.
I saw Gemini Man.
It was pretty bad.
Also Ozark S03. Great stuff.
Renault on 7/7/2020 at 18:58
Yeah, my wife and I just finished Ozark. It's a great show, in the same vein as Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul. Glad to see it was just renewed.
We've now moved on to Yellowstone, which I'd heard so much about, but am not really all that impressed with, 5 episodes in. It's a lot of redneck, mountain man BS, and its seems like they're trying to be badass like the series mentioned above, but they can't quite pull it off. So far at least.
SubJeff on 7/7/2020 at 21:39
Never heard of it. Is it on Netflix?
Re: Orzark. I thought the first series was quite a slow burn, and I got why some people didn't like it so much. S2 and 3 were much more... complicated. Whilst I liked them I hope they reign it in a bit.
Also, Ruth is ace.
t850terminator on 8/7/2020 at 06:32
Watching Knives Out right now.
Holy shit its good, got me on the edge of my seat.
t850terminator on 8/7/2020 at 07:18
Oh fuck me, that was some good shit. When I think it will zig, it zags.
Should have watched this movie earlier!
SubJeff on 8/7/2020 at 15:17
It really isn't
henke on 8/7/2020 at 16:45
I've been watching...
Eurovision Song Contest: The Story of Fire Saga - I enjoy the actual Eurovision and Will Ferrell movies probably more than they deserve, so I was really expecting to like this. But, eh, it fell pretty flat for me. All the jokes just seemed really obvious and lazy. Maybe it's more fun for people who are only vaguely aware of the Eurovision, but all the things they're lampooning here were funnier the first time around, when they really happened.
The Shape of Water - I remember this one getting a lot of flak so I was surprised at how good it turned out to be. But then again, this always happens when a just "pretty good" movie wins the Best Picture Oscar. (it's not that good) Anyway, it's like a weird little love story set in the periphery of one of del Toro's big-budget monster movies.
Ad Astra - Most of the scenarios this sci-fi story depicts are a bit more out there and silly than Gravity or Interstellar, but it still takes itself very seriously, which makes it a bit tonally weird. It's still entertaining tho.
King of the Hill (first two and a half seasons) - I'll tell you hwat, I didn't really like this show when it came on the air in the late 90's. As a teenager I loved Beavis and Butthead of course and kinda felt like ol' Mike Judge had lost it when he started making this show centered on a boring, adult, propane salesman. Now that I myself am a boring adult, I love it.
Spiderman: Far From Home - Ahhhh it's good! Particularly loved the mid-movie twist. Did not see that coming.
Dragged Across Concrete - S. Craig Zahler's latest is surprisingly less intense in its graphic violence than his earlier films(Bone Tomahawk, Brawl in Cellblock 99), but it's an uncomfortable watch for other reasons. Mainly because it stars Mel Gibson as a racist policeofficer who gets suspended when cellphone footage emerges of him stepping on the neck of a latino suspect. After his suspension he wrangles his partner (Vince Vaughn) into doing a heist, because he feels like after a lifetime of serving the law he's not getting what he deserves. The movie alternates between following the 2 cops and following a couple younger, black criminals. Henry (Tory Kittles) gets out of prison at the start of the movie, but finds no other options than to resort to crime, so along with his friend Biscuit (Michael Jai White) he starts getting involved with some bad dudes planning a heist of their own. It's an uncomfortable, tense, and very engrossing movie. Zahler has Tarantino-levels of skill at combining the mundane and the extreme in his characters dialogue. He also kinda fits in the same camp as Lars Von Trier for me where, yeah his movies are good, but I wouldn't exactly recommend you watch them. Unless you're some sorta masochist.
Starker on 10/7/2020 at 12:10
So there's this video series on the Screen Rant channel where a screen writer pitches all kinds of crazy movies to a producer and I've been binging on those. They are pretty awesome, if you're a movie nerd. Just a few examples:
[video=youtube;t3jAcrLjaOA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3jAcrLjaOA[/video]
[video=youtube;i52RjCNnp2I]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i52RjCNnp2I[/video]
[video=youtube;_GlZn2fEC10]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GlZn2fEC10[/video]