mxleader on 27/7/2022 at 01:57
Alternate timelines always seem to throw me off and I have trouble suspending disbelief. I'm not quite finished with the first episode of the new season so we'll see if it holds my interest.
Harvester on 27/7/2022 at 07:42
X is a pretty good, suitably gruesome slasher movie. The premise is that a small crew is shooting a low-budget porn flick on an old farm, but the farm owners have other things in mind for the cast and crew. The movie does a good job of capturing the 70's atmosphere, and the suspense and special effects were also good, with a dash of humor thrown in and a lot of cool classic 70's songs. I had to turn the volume down during the sex scenes (I had the balcony doors in my living room open to cool down the room) lest the neighborhood think I was watching porn. :erm:
Tocky on 27/7/2022 at 12:33
Ha! It depends how many times you rewatched that scene whether or not it was porn. I'll have to check that one out though I'm more of a psychological horror or monster guy than slasher.
I just finished Stranger Things recently and it didn't disappoint. I'm just amazed at this point that they keep expanding on the original story line so well. This last one has been my favorite. They even managed to work in the D&D scare that went around in the eighties. That was a real thing. D&D is the debil!!!!! And they gave a nod to heavy metal with Metallica's Master of Puppets. I have to say, even though I knew how my emotions were being manipulated at every step, I still managed to fall for it at times. The Eddie scene had me saying HELL YEAH!
Spoilers here so...
[video=youtube_share;yXnk3n-qNrI]https://youtu.be/yXnk3n-qNrI[/video]
henke on 5/8/2022 at 19:57
I watched the new Predator movie that just came out today. After you get over the cool premise, it's a fairly straightforward but solid action-thriller. The way she killed the predator at the end was a tad contrived, but besides that, yeah, it was a good time! The callbacks to the original felt surprisingly organic as well.
Azaran on 5/8/2022 at 20:14
Started Six Feet Under a few weeks ago, long overdue. Just finished season 1, and it's becoming one of my all time favourite shows
mxleader on 6/8/2022 at 04:01
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Started Six Feet Under a few weeks ago, long overdue. Just finished season 1, and it's becoming one of my all time favourite shows
It's a pretty decent series. I haven't watched in a long so maybe I'll go through it again.
henke on 29/8/2022 at 09:38
Watched The Sandman. The comics were better! But it's fine. Highpoint is probably the middle-eps with Death/Hob and the diner-episode. That diner-bit is like 3-4 pages in the comics iirc, but here it's stretched out to an entire episode, and not as fucked up as the original, but still pretty fucked up. And good. David Thewlis is great in it. Perhaps the standout performance of the show. The cast overall is fiiiiiine. Didn't like Patton Oswalt as the Matthew the raven tho. Oswalt is probably my fave stand-up comedian, and a fine actor, but this was one instance where I simply could not see past the actor and actually see the character underneath. A human voice coming out of a raven is bound to be weird to start with, but it's also a very recognizable voice, and Oswalt doesn't mask it in anyway, it's just straight up his voice, AND Matthew doesn't have much of a personality anyway, he's mostly just an exposition dump.
Also finished Neon Genesis Evangelion. WILD STUFF! Honestly the last couple episodes were too abstract for me. I can see why some people get really into this tho. Highpoints for me was probably the first 2 eps(amazing start), the sync-up episode I linked to earlier (ep9?), and around eps 18-22 when things get really dark and messed up and the plot thickens. Great show overall! Perhaps even dethrones Cowboy Bebop as my fave anime show.
Thirith on 29/8/2022 at 11:12
@henke: Since Matthew was human before he became Dream's raven, perhaps they should've just gone with that and renamed him Patton. "Starring Patton Oswalt as Himself, Just As A Bird."
Kinda late to the party, but Severance is probably my favourite new series this year. It's also one of the rare ones these days where I don't wonder if they should've just left it at one season. As far as series I've only started watching this year are concerned, it's tied with Barry. We're about halfway through the second season of that one, and hoo boy! For me, comedy's always tricky, but this one manages to be funny, dark, poignant, shout-out-loud bizarre and tremendously well-written, -acted and -directed.
Nicker on 31/8/2022 at 16:31
OK - It's here. You can stop watching YouTube now.
[video=youtube;mrq3iZcvHAw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mrq3iZcvHAw[/video]
mxleader on 1/9/2022 at 06:08
Quote Posted by henke
Watched
The Sandman. The comics were better! But it's fine. Highpoint is probably the middle-eps with Death/Hob and the diner-episode. That diner-bit is like 3-4 pages in the comics iirc, but here it's stretched out to an entire episode, and not
as fucked up as the original, but still pretty fucked up. And good. David Thewlis is great in it. Perhaps the standout performance of the show. The cast overall is fiiiiiine. Didn't like Patton Oswalt as the Matthew the raven tho. Oswalt is probably my fave stand-up comedian, and a fine actor, but this was one instance where I simply could not see past the actor and actually see the character underneath. A human voice coming out of a raven is bound to be weird to start with, but it's also a very recognizable voice, and Oswalt doesn't mask it in anyway, it's just straight up
his voice, AND Matthew doesn't have much of a personality anyway, he's mostly just an exposition dump.
I started watching this series even though I didn't think it'd be one that I would like. I just finished watching the diner episode and so far I'm liking this series. I can't help seeing David Thewlis as Knox Harrington for some reason. Somehow Gwendoline Christie fits as Lucifer Morningstar though.