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[shortylickens]

According to internet lore John Cusack and Matthew Broderick were both asked to portray Walter White. They each turned down the role and eventually it went to Bryan Cranston.

 

[ondma]

Saw the new Chris Hemsworth movie on Netflix-- Extraction. It was pretty much a John Wick clone, would give it 7/10.
Even well done fight/shoot-out scenes get boring after a while.

 

[mikeymikec]

Ghost in the Shell: SAC 2045

Netflix series. I had hoped that the previous series plus movie (GITS Arise) was just a crap phase (in terms of content), but my god... They've decided to go for entirely 3D rendered graphics, and the graphics quality is what I'd expect from a computer game maybe around the turn of the century, put utterly to shame by modern games. It's like watching an episode of Paw Patrol, with maybe room for 4 different facial expressions.

Admittedly I had a bad feeling when I watched the trailer (though I thought the animation changed from Paw Patrol to something better partway through? probably wrong), but when watching the start of the first episode I noticed they had reduced the size of the Major's rack and thought, "maybe they've grown up a bit?", but then I noticed that they've given her the face of a 12 year old. Also, during a scene where she's driving 50-60mph in an open-top vehicle her hair is moving as if affected by a gentle breeze.

Ok, so that was all about the visuals. 25 minute episode, introduced a fairly generic kind of post apocalyptic setting, and stopped at a "oh, that was a cliffhanger? Sorry, you haven't inspired me to give a fuck yet" moment. Picking that moment was like having an advert break a third of a way through an episode.

I've loved GITS (movies 1 & 2, and SAC season 1 & 2) for ages, but I think I'm going to have to accept that this franchise has gone to the dogs like so many others. I found myself wanting to switch this episode off halfway though (and wanting to "give it a chance"), it was that bad IMO. For me to want to give the series any more of a chance would be an act of masochism.

continued review here

 

[purbeast0]

Saw the new Chris Hemsworth movie on Netflix-- Extraction. It was pretty much a John Wick clone, would give it 7/10.
Even well done fight/shoot-out scenes get boring after a while.

Watched this last night and would give it the same grade. I did find the scene that starts with a chase and ends up in the apartments a REALLY awesome scene. It was long and was probably my favorite scene in the movie and it was just really well done cinematography wise. It was super over the top and fake but was entertaining.

 

[JEDI]

Ghost in the Shell: SAC 2045

Netflix series. I had hoped that the previous series plus movie (GITS Arise) was just a crap phase (in terms of content), but my god... They've decided to go for entirely 3D rendered graphics, and the graphics quality is what I'd expect from a computer game maybe around the turn of the century, put utterly to shame by modern games. It's like watching an episode of Paw Patrol, with maybe room for 4 different facial expressions.

Admittedly I had a bad feeling when I watched the trailer (though I thought the animation changed from Paw Patrol to something better partway through? probably wrong), but when watching the start of the first episode I noticed they had reduced the size of the Major's rack and thought, "maybe they've grown up a bit?", but then I noticed that they've given her the face of a 12 year old. Also, during a scene where she's driving 50-60mph in an open-top vehicle her hair is moving as if affected by a gentle breeze.

Ok, so that was all about the visuals. 25 minute episode, introduced a fairly generic kind of post apocalyptic setting, and stopped at a "oh, that was a cliffhanger? Sorry, you haven't inspired me to give a fuck yet" moment. Picking that moment was like having an advert break a third of a way through an episode.

I've loved GITS (movies 1 & 2, and SAC season 1 & 2) for ages, but I think I'm going to have to accept that this franchise has gone to the dogs like so many others. I found myself wanting to switch this episode off halfway though (and wanting to "give it a chance"), it was that bad IMO. For me to want to give the series any more of a chance would be an act of masochism.

thx for saving me from watching it.

 

[dasherHampton]

I watched Extraction last night (because everyones else here did). I enjoyed it; it's been a while since I've seen a solid body count action movie. 7 is too low, 8 might be a bit too high but its definitely closer to 8 than seven so I'm giving my first ever ".75" fractional score: 7.75/10.

Chris Hemsworth is a solid action star. I want to see more of him in roles like this. He has that physical presence an actor needs to pull this stuff off.

One minor complaint - the filmmakers AGAIN had the perfect ending shot and blew past it with a silly epilogue. Why? I've seen this often lately, it seems.

 

[purbeast0]

One minor complaint - the filmmakers AGAIN had the perfect ending shot and blew past it with a silly epilogue. Why? I've seen this often lately, it seems.

Haha I do somewhat agree with that and am pretty sure I know what you mean. Although I did search today about the ending of this to see what the VERY last scene was supposed to mean, and it was kind of a lame explanation. It would have been better without any of that extra stuff.

 

[dasherHampton]

Haha I do somewhat agree with that and am pretty sure I know what you mean. Although I did search today about the ending of this to see what the VERY last scene was supposed to mean, and it was kind of a lame explanation. It would have been better without any of that extra stuff.

The shot where the camera pans over the side of the bridge and shows the water below was imo the IDEAL ending shot. Very poignant.

The cynical side of me thinks the add-on was inserted later at someone else's request, maybe because they felt that target audiences needed "justice"?

Just spitballing here - Chris Hemsworth as Jack Reacher? I can totally see it after this movie.

 

[OccamsToothbrush]

Season 8 of Homeland. 9/10

That show was maddening, at its best it rivaled the top work ever done on TV (Season 1 especially) and at its worst it was unwatchable melodramatic garbage that would have been too juvenile to appear on a daytime soap opera (Brody's family, Carrie getting strapped down for more electroshock). It pulled its act together and the final season was the strongest since the first. It went out on a high note.

 

[JEDI]

The shot where the camera pans over the side of the bridge and shows the water below was imo the IDEAL ending shot. Very poignant.

yeah, end the movie there at that point on the bridge!

of course the current ending leaves open the possibility of a sequel.
and if that happens, i bet there will be another sequel set years in the future where the kid inherits his dad's $ and somehow crosses paths with Thor again

 

[shortylickens]

I slogged thru The Assistant.
It was absolutely terrible. I should have been suspicious when I saw it on Rotten Tomatoes.
90 percent fresh from the critics, 20 percent fresh from the laymen.

In theory its supposed to be about a woman who's getting sexually harassed at work (obviously inspired by Weinstein) but nothing ever happens and its a poor showcase of harassment from an alleged feminist director/writer.

When I say "nothing happens" I dont mean like Quentin Tarantino having people sit around making interesting conversation. I mean NOTHING happens. You watch a woman go through her work day and in theory she's being threatened by men and by women who work for men, but at no point is that ever made clear.

0/10. if it were really bad like a cheap shitty straight to video flick then I could at least give it a 1 or a 2. But its boring bad which is the worst type.

 

[shortylickens]

I have no interest in watching Gravity, but this photo struck me as amusing.

Actually I might watch it, when finished with Breaking Bad.

 

[snoopy7548]

I have no interest in watching Gravity, but this photo struck me as amusing.

Actually I might watch it, when finished with Breaking Bad.

Admit it, you dressed like that in high school!

 

[dasherHampton]

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[purbeast0]

Spoiler

So now I'm reading that people are saying that a character from Extraction is standing in the background in one of the final scenes, suggesting they survived.

I didn't notice. I think my mind had shut down at that point.

Not sure how you could have missed that lol. And nice spoiler.

 

[dasherHampton]

Not sure how you could have missed that lol. And nice spoiler.

I didn't name the character. But I deleted it anyway.

 

[shortylickens]

2nd season of Breaking Bad was delightful. Added a whole bunch of new people for future fun.
Shame we wont be seeing you-know-who again. I rather liked that character.
I assume season 3 will be just as good, based on the Rotten Tomato ratings.

 

[CZroe]

2nd season of Breaking Bad was delightful. Added a whole bunch of new people for future fun.
Shame we wont be seeing you-know-who again. I rather liked that character.
I assume season 3 will be just as good, based on the Rotten Tomato ratings.

This show is all about pacing. Every time it seems to climax you get a little reprieve before the pace resumes, going further than you ever dreamed.

Perfect.

Season 2 was a little weird because it's the only one they wrote as a whole season with a meticulously-planned story and a narrative through-line until the culmination/finale, as evidenced by the increasingly-bizarre flash-forwards you get throughout the season. It was mesmerizing, artistic, and great, but it actually gets better when they stop doing that.

 

[purbeast0]

There really is only one thing bad about the entire Breaking Bad series.

The fucking fly.

 

[Mai72]

Just watched The Terminator for the MILLIONITH time.

10/10.

 

[shortylickens]

OK, so, now I know where that giant pizza on the roof came from.
The scene was not funny at all. Why did people make eight hundred thousand memes from it?

 

[DigDog]

i watched Vin Diesel' Bloodshot - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1634106/

The first thought on my mind was that you occasionally get bad films that get a good rating, because they appeal to the masses, but rarely if ever you get a film that has a bad rating (currently 5.7 on IMDb) but that is actually good. When something's bad, people will let you know.

And then, here's Bloodshot.

Vin Diesel is a US Marines soldier, fresh off of a raid in Mombaza where he killed an important terrorist; in retailiation, he and his wife and abducted and both killed.

He later wakes up in a high-tech facility, where he's been rebuilt. He now possesses a bloodstream made of nanomachines that render him superstrong and immortal. He then sets forth to avenge his wife.
Along the way he meets your typical "we're B class" sidekicks in the facility, and evil professor, a genius hacker, there is betrayal, lots and lots of fighting that's in the style of Man Of Steel, but more on the believable side and less on the cataclysmic side, lots of Marvel-style action, reeeeally cool CGI (never thought i'd say that), and even some decent acting from Diesel.

I had lots of fun. The plot is trite and you'll see the spoiler coming from miles away - around middle of the film i would have said 6/10 - but the grand finale more than make up for it.

Nice big bash o' fun. 7/10

 

[CZroe]

OK, so, now I know where that giant pizza on the roof came from.
The scene was not funny at all. Why did people make eight hundred thousand memes from it?

It was just awkward/weird and memorable.

FYI, there is a call-back in Better Call Saul where someone ordering pizza has to specify "sliced."

Not really a spoiler since it's just an Easter Egg (not a plot point).

 

[shortylickens]

It was just awkward/weird and memorable.

FYI, there is a call-back in Better Call Saul where someone ordering pizza has to specify "sliced."

Not really a spoiler since it's just an Easter Egg (not a plot point).

yeah I read about it on the internet. there was a later episode of Breaking Bad where somebody ordered a bunch of pizzas from the same place. they arrived unsliced, some dude said "they save money on slicing and pass the savings to you".

Also, it seems assholes travel all across the country to throw pizzas on that same house years later. The owners are very sorry they ever allowed an episode, much less that one, to be filmed on their private property.

 

[dasherHampton]

Lighthearted TV moment of the day. I had never heard this before.

Made me laugh pretty hard.