I wouldn't say that, my ex wife was a big fan of...
Well, maybe you have a point.
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I wouldn't say that, my ex wife was a big fan of...
Well, maybe you have a point.
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Originally Posted by Rumpy
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Originally Posted by kedawa
The general concept of the show made a lot of sense, and the portrayal of the women in the club life fit. What’s borderline retarded was writing every other woman, including what should have been some pretty bad ass women who are agents and doctors like a piny cat fighting teenagers across the board. Women that worked their ass off to get roles like these tend to not all be sex obsessed, petty hoes. Women in this series are basically all the same: victims in their husband’s avenge story arch. That’s cheeseball white knight porn writing.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rumpy
Hey, those men were married to the club before they were married to their wives! Priorities!
I didn't watch this (yet), but it looks amazing
I just started watching High Score on Netflix. I’m at chapter 3 of a 6 part series.
I'm always hesitant to watch shows like that. I already know way too much about the industry and it's history and I just sit there being mad at the omissions and errors that, inevitability, pop up.
It’s more of an appreciation movie. It talks about DOOM, a kid winning the Nintendo World Championships, the creation of SFII/Mortal Kombat, Ultima, Tom Kalinski’s (he’s in there) plans for the Genesis, Space Invaders Championship (I would have kicked all of their asses), the creation of Star Fox and countless interviews with all the people behind these projects.
It’s not too facts heavy and I found it to be quite entertaining.
When I emigrated from HK to USA in December of 1983, I remember that there was a trailer of a really cool Kung Fu/Fantasy film. 37 years later, I finally watched Zu Warriors from the Magic Mountain, and some things are better left as happy memories. The story makes little sense or flow, it is just one sfx shot after another.
It looks cool, I can see why any kid would want to see that.
Don't watch it now, it is stupid.
Bill & Ted Face the Movie lived up to the first two movies. I was impressed.
The narrator sounds like the James Earl Jones impersonator from Colony Wars.Quote:
Originally Posted by kingoffighters
Haha, that is true!
I watched Young Guns I & II again. I've always loved those movies. II motivated me to read Alias Billy the Kid, which was super interesting. I'm a believer that Brushy Bill Roberts was Billy the Kid now.
I need to watch Bill & Ted. Might do that tonight.
They have a cool film festival in Hico, Texas, where supposedly Billy the Kid hid out until death. I had my movie in the first festival and they just had their second.
I just watched Snatch. It's still a fun movie with a crazy plot, but no real story.
Cool! What's the movie called?
Brad Pitt did an outstanding job with his character in Snatch. It's one crazy movie though.
Wife and I just completed a watch of Star Trek TNG. (Rewatch for me.) She'd only caught a couple of episodes over the years. I don't care for TOS/DS9/Voyager/etc, so she's going to go watch those on her own. She also hasn't seen the movies so I'll prob rewatch the TNG ones with her. And then Picard after all that.
Forgot how Wesley's story ended in the show. I also completely forgot the plot of the series finale somehow. But even if the first couple seasons are rough and the sfx don't look so great on modern TVs, it still holds up.
What do you think about Enterprise? I started watching season 1, and while it's hit or miss, I did enjoy the the final 2 seasons of the show when I'd watched it during its run.Quote:
Originally Posted by Calliander
I thought Enterprise started to get good in season 2, but season 3 kind of faltered. I think it would have gotten better if they hadn't rushed to wrap everything up. I liked the episodes with Shran the most.
Haven't watched that one at all, so we'll have to see. I think I need a break from outer space since I rewatched The Expanse prior to TNG.Quote:
Originally Posted by gamevet
Manos: the hands of fuck
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3LBZLA0V3k
I’ve been watching Discovery. Season 1 was pretty rough but my brother told me season 2 gets good w the (re) introduction of Captain Pike. He was right and I’ve been enjoying it ever since.Quote:
Originally Posted by kedawa
Other good shit I've watched recently.
- Watchmen: I'm up to 3 rewatches now... I think I may like it as much as (if not more than) Six Feet Under. Unbelievably phenomenal writing. Plus, Lube Man.
- Kim's Convenience: Nice and light-hearted, funny, but well written.
- Schitt's Creek: Just an all around great show. Deserves all the praise it gets.
- Ted Lasso: Huge surprise at how good this show was.
- The Tick: Amazon's version. Serafinowicz rules and the second season was really good.
- Insecure: Another all around great show. Really funny, awesome soundtrack.
Wayne - is a YouTube Premium series bought by Prime. It’s really fantastic! It has the dark fatalism of 30’s WB crime movies and 40’s film noir, but with 80’s cavalry and wanton violence. The Mayhem guy’s in it too and a lot of shitty Boston accents.
I watched Sonic the Hedgehog on Prime this week and it was really good. Like, shockingly good. Fun, inventive, I like the subtle references, and the SFX are all fantastic.
I took the kids to watch this when it first hit theaters. The kids loved it. I had pretty low expectations, but it was very enjoyable!Quote:
Originally Posted by Rumpy
If you have Amazon Prime, I highly recommend Lost Soul: The Doomed Journey of Richard Stanley's Island of Dr. Moreau.
This is the funniest goddamn thing I’ve seen in a while. Utter pandemonium! Something about squandering millions just lights me up.
Here’s the short version, but give yourself a treat and watch the whole doc!
The movie certainly looks as strange as I’d thought it would be. I never did watch The Island of Dr. Merely.
It’s shitty, but my cousin and I watched it several times as teens because of the spectacle.
Poldark (Amazon) - really enjoyed this period piece. 5 seasons of binge-worthy masterpiece theater goodness.
For All Mankind (Apple + ) - highly recommend this take on how things might've progressed had we lost the lunar race to the U.S.S.R. Cool alternate history.
I saw Wrath of Man last Thursday... it is so fucking awful that it is mind blowing... I can't stop thinking about how bad it was and almost want to go see it again.
The World’s End and John Wick
Both are great action films, but I loved The World’s End more because the action comes out of left field so hard it gives you whiplash. Plus, I really like Nick Frost as an action hero. It’s just amazing!
Jay and Silent Bob Reboot
Val Kilmer is in this.
The first 30 minutes are cheap, quick, and lazy. But, the final 30 are big budget with surprising cameos and the turns in the plot are fun, if ridiculous and fan service. The whole thing is cringeworthy start to stop, but it’s just wild to see all these people come back together for it. And it openly mocks itself. I think it’s a great bad comedy.
I think I like John Wick 2 better than 1. It was cool to see Laurence Fishburne come in.
Spiral was the first movie I saw in a theater in like 15-16 months. That was weird.
I really liked Chris Rock as a detective, but torture movies like this that are a one note sadistic beat down until the end are just too much or too little for me. The end was eye rolling. But I liked Chris Rock playing a detective.
It looked like it might be a good film. Disappointed to hear that it dropped the ball.
It could save it if Chris Rock (Zeke) gets revenge in part 2, but I’m not counting on it.
It’s based on the Saw movies, right? If that’s so, he’ll probably be the 1st to die, if there’s a sequel.
They were talking about this movie on the radio today. It seems like a pretty strange concept for a movie.
I heard they couldn’t get Liam Neeson, so they changed the daughter to a pig and got Cage.
That's exactly what I was thinking. I'm a chef. I have a very special set of skills. You can either return my pig, or I will find you.
Watched The Leftovers from start to finish - I liked it, but I didn't love it. The (rightly) damaged characters are hard to develop sympathy for and I don't know if that's the writing or the acting or both.
Started Mosquito Coast and it's pretty interesting through episode 3. Didn't realize the Dad was the same guy that starred in The Leftovers lol.
I checked out Pig last week. It was a fairly depressing movie.
I also watched 8-Bit Christmas. It was pretty damned funny!
New spiderman... neat!
New matrix... awful!
So, don’t waste my time with the new Matrix?
You almost can't not watch it. It's a matrix movie...right?
It is so poorly executed, on every level; it's embarrassing.
I also watched Mehtrix. There is a few lines within the movie that basically tells you the Wachowski don't want to do this movie but kinda had to. The setup is meta-whatever, I actually think the idea is good but the execution is kinda meh. The action scenes are uniformly terrible, in fact it is probably the worst out of all 4 films. They didn't include a lot of the mumble jumble which is good, but then they overload it with meta-crap. The new characters are all boring as well. The ending was also garbage. I wish Keanu/Carrie-Ann skipped this movie but paychecks.
I had no interest in another Matrix, but that trailer was fucking awesome. Great to hear they fucked it up.
In other news, What We Do In The Shadows is amazing. It's It's Always Sunny and The Office ...with monsters!
Bless Colin Robinson.
I couldn't get all the way through the Matrix.
If you have Hulu, check out Mandibles, a farce about two criminals who steal a car and discover a giant dog-sized housefly in the trunk and decide to try to train it to commit crimes for them. Completely stupid and hilarious movie.
Matrix 4 was a lot like Matrix 3 in that it just wasn't good.
It wasn't some horrible atrocity, but it wasn't well executed in any way. Mediocre acting. Fight scenes don't live up to the first 2 movies. Didn't pull off the story it wanted to tell in a way that was engaging. Just, not fun to watch and not memorable.
I just repeat what everyone says. It was a waste of an interesting world they built.
Red Rocket 9/10
Go see it!
Here are the rankings of movies I saw this year.
https://boxd.it/dCs3w